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Case study · MSHA Record #220010080023
Truck Driver fatality
December 19, 2000 at 1:30 PM
Shade Creek Plant
· PBS Coals, Inc.
· Somerset County, PA
Investigator narrative
TWO MERCURY OWNED TRUCKS ENTERED PROPERTY TO DELIVER COAL. THE TWO TRUCKERS WERE INSTRUCTED TO AREA TO DUMP BY SCALE MASTER THEN BY THE HI-LIFT OPERATOR. THE TRUCKS BACKED PARALLEL TO EACH OTH ER TO THE LEFT (CAB AREA). AS THE 1ST TRUCK BEGAN TO RAISE AND DUMP THE COAL IT HIT THE TOP POSITION, THE COAL CAUSED BED TO FALL ON SECOND CAB.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- 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
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 2 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Coal
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