Trainer view
Print or save as PDF from your browser (⌘P / Ctrl+P).
← Standard view
Case study · MSHA Record #220150300055
Continuous Miner Operator fatality
January 28, 2015 at 6:30 PM
Brubaker Mine
· LCT Energy, LP
· Somerset County, PA
Investigator narrative
Miner Operator was tramming into cut. When he positioned the miner onto sights, the mining machine was on a knuckle on the bottom causing it to swing in his direction, pinning him against the rib with the tail of the mining machine.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Continuous Miner
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- FACE
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 10 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 8 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Coal
Similar incidents in MSHA records
· same classification: MACHINERY
-
July 1, 2026 · Warrior Met Coal BC, LLC · AL · Electrician
Employee was discovered at shield 74. The employee was found caught between the shield resulting in a head crushing injury. Employee was transported to the surface and EMS performed CPR until time of death was called.
-
May 20, 2026 · Pine Branch Mining LLC · KY · Maintenance Man
EE and another employee were pulling the engine and removing nose cone on the radiator. EE was on the bottom under the 992g wheel loader. The other employee was on top of the machine. EE was taking the radiator nose off, accidentally took bolts out of counter weights and it fell on EE. Resulting in a fatality.
-
March 12, 2026 · Kennecott Utah Copper LLC · UT · Maintenance Man
At approximately 05.12am on the 12th March 2026, a mechanic was struck by a drill boom in a surface workshop, causing fatal injuries.