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Case study · MSHA Record #220022890001
Truck Driver fatality
September 23, 2002 at 2:20 PM
Claiborne County Quarry
· RAJA Stone, Inc
· Claiborne County, TN
Investigator narrative
BELT CONVEYOR HAD STOPPED DUE TO SPILLAGE, EE WAS WORKING TO CLEAR SPILLAGE, EE REACHED AROUND GUARD & ARM WAS CAUGHT IN TAIL PULLEY WHEN CONVEYOR ROLLED BACK.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
- Activity at time
- Handling Coal, Rock, Ore
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- BELT CONVEYORS
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- ARM,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 1 year
- Experience at this mine
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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