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Case study · MSHA Record #220023570001
Roof Bolter fatality
December 13, 2002 at 9:20 PM
PE 2 Underground
· American Mining & Manufacturing Corporation
· Pike County, KY
Investigator narrative
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL BOLTS IN THE ROOF, EMPLOYER HIT THE UP LEVER ON THE BOLT MACHINE. HIS HEAD WAS OVER TOP OF THE POT & IT CRUSHED HIS HEAD AGAINST THE CANOPY.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Roof Bolter, Inserting Bolt
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- FACE
- Source of injury
- UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 12 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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