Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality at Freelandville Underground (Triad Underground Mining, L.L.C.), IN, August 31, 2010

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.

1. 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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