Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver
At approx 5:20 pm a 40 ton articulating truck was traveling along a haulage road impacting a 63" high berm. The truck traveled across the berm and fell 72 feet to the mine floor below. The victim was extracted from the truck by EMS and airlifted to the Hospital.
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The operator of the truck failed to maintain control of the truck, while traveling to the underground mine's coal stockpile.
Corrective action: All employees of Dewey's Super Transport, Inc. were required to be retrained on the safe operation of the Volvo A40D Articulating Trucks. The retraining included special emphasis on control of the truck when in motion.
Findings from MSHA's final investigation report, which supersedes the preliminary narrative above.
- Activity at time of incident
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- SURFACE AT UNDERGROUND
- 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
- 0 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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