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Case study · MSHA Record #220031880004
Maintenance Man fatality
June 23, 2003 at 12:45 PM
Craney Mine
· Solar Sources Mining LLC
· Daviess County, IN
Investigator narrative
EE & CO-WORKER WERE GOING TO MOVE A LARGE PIECE OF METAL TO BLOCK UP A LOADER. COWORKER WAS IN THE LOADER AND THE BUCKET WAS IN THE AIR. EE DIRECTED COWORKER IN THE LOADER AND SIGNALED HIM TO STOP. COWORKER SAID HE STOPPED AND WAITED FOR EE TO ATTACH THE CHAIN. EE DID NOT RETURN. COWORKER GOT OFF LOADER & SAW EE WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN LOADER BUCKET & METAL. SUFFERED FATAL HEAD INJURIE
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 25 years
- Experience at this mine
- 2 years
- Experience in this job
- 21 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Coal
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