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Case study · MSHA Record #220253650012
Master Mechanic fatality
December 18, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Lower War Eagle
· Greenbrier Minerals, LLC
· Wyoming County, WV
Investigator narrative
The employee stepped out of manhole and onto the slope and was struck by a slope tractor traveling down the slope.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Struck by powered moving object
- Activity at time
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- SLOPE/INCLINED SHAFT
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 41 years
- Experience at this mine
- 10 years
- Experience in this job
- 3 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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