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Case study · MSHA Record #220131930031
Continuous Miner Operator fatality
July 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Wildcat Hills Mine-Underground
· Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC
· Saline County, IL
Investigator narrative
Employee was fatally injured when he was struck by a battery powered coal hauler in Unit 2.It is believed that the employee walked through the last open crosscut to #4 entry and sat down near the inby corner of #4 entry to eat his lunch. A coal hauler rounded the corner and pinned the employee to the rib.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Idle
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- FACE
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 11 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 7 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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