Fatality · MSHA Record #220211580022
Section Foreman
June 3, 2021
at 9:00 AM
Raleigh County, WV
Classification
POWERED HAULAGE
Type
Struck by powered moving object
Investigator narrative
Employee was crossing intersection and was struck by the left center shuttle car resulting in fatal injuries.
Final MSHA investigation
On Thursday, June 3, 2021, at approximately 9:00 a.m., Nicholas Adkins, a 42-year-old section foreman, died after a shuttle car struck him. The shuttle car operator was tramming the shuttle car to the belt conveyor feeder (feeder). The accident occurred because the mine operator did not have adequate policies, procedures, and controls to protect miners in haulageways from being contacted by mobile face equipment.
Root causes
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The accident occurred because the mine operator did not have adequate policies, procedures, and controls to protect miners in haulageways from being contacted by mobile face equipment.
Findings from MSHA's final investigation report, which supersedes the preliminary narrative above.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Supervise
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- FACE
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Accident type
- Struck by powered moving object
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 16 years
- Experience at this mine
- 14 years
- Experience in this job
- 9 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220211580022 · Mine ID 4609091
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