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Case study · MSHA Record #220063130056
Shuttle Car Operator fatality
October 30, 2006 at 7:05 AM
No 65
· Double Bonus Coal Company
· Wyoming County, WV
Investigator narrative
Employee was observing the mechanic working on a shuttle car. It was revealed during the accident investigation, that the mechanic pressed the tram pedal, causing the shuttle car to inadvertently move. The shuttle car crushed the employee between the shuttle car and the rib.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Observe Operations
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INTERSECTION
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 2 years
- Experience at this mine
- 2 years
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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