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Case study · MSHA Record #220230930011
Transit Man fatality
March 22, 2023 at 8:50 AM
Longview Mine
· Allegheny Metallurgical, LLC
· Barbour County, WV
Investigator narrative
A miner sustained fatal injuries when the personnel carrier on which the miner was a passenger overturned. Another miner riding on the personnel carrier accidentally actuated the emergency stop causing the personnel carrier to drift backwards down a grade.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Mantrip
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- LAST OPEN CROSSCUT
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 17 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 17 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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