Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver
Truck haulage accident involving two 100 ton rear dump trucks. It appears the victim did not observe the stopped truck and struck it in the rear.
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The accident occurred because mine management failed to have a program in place to monitor and supervise employee work activity on a routine basis and to assure that employee work was being conducted in a safe manner. As a result, the operator of the dump truck failed to react and control the truck he was driving to avoid an obstacle in the haul road. Drowsiness from the effects of a prescription narcotic drug the truck driver used, and a change in the work routine and staging location of the trucks, are contributing factors.
Corrective action: The operator developed and implemented a written program that included:
Findings from MSHA's final investigation report, which supersedes the preliminary narrative above.
- Activity at time of incident
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Accident type
- Struck against a moving object
- Source of injury
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 2 years
- Experience at this mine
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 2 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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