Fatality · MSHA Record #220190520004
Transit Man, Surveyor/Transit Worker
January 14, 2019 at 11:00 AM
Operator: TENNCO INC. (Jack Stump; Michael Runyon)
Bell County, KY
ClassificationPOWERED HAULAGE
TypeStruck by powered moving object
Investigator narrative
While the surveyor was setting up the instrument in #4 belt entry, the other surveyor was getting height measurements down #3 entry. A shuttle car loaded with coal coming from #2 entry tramming to the feeder struck and killed the surveyor near spad 24.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Other, Nec
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Accident type
- Struck by powered moving object
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Total mining experience
- 30 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0.12 years
- Experience in this job
- 15 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220190520004 · Mine ID 1519844Trainer view →