Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver

About 3:15 pm., employee went to a storage building to get some planks. He climbed a stack of loaded pallets to get to the planks that were near the rafters and fell approximately 8 feet to the floor below and was found dead the next morning at approximately 6:02 am.

On August 25, 2014, Glenn F. Dibble, Truck Driver, age 54, was killed when he fell approximately 8 feet from loaded stacked pallets. He was attempting to retrieve wooden planks from the rafters in a bag storage building. The accident occurred due to management’s failure to establish and implement procedures for persons to safely access materials stored in the bag storage building. Additionally, Dibble did not receive task training addressing safe work procedures for accessing overhead areas and the potential hazards associated with the task.

1. Management failed to provide a safe means of access for miners retrieving stored materials from the overhead rafters in the bag storage building.

   Corrective action: All materials were removed from the overhead rafters and stored in a safe manner. In addition, management established written policies and safe work procedures, including the use of ladders for any work being performed overhead. Miners were trained in the new policies and procedures.

2. Management failed to provide the victim, an over-the-road truck driver, sufficient task training addressing safe access and safe work procedures while performing additional duties at the mine.

   Corrective action: Management has revised their Part 46 training plan to include task training for over-the-road truckers who may perform additional duties at the mine. All truck drivers were trained in accordance with the revised plan.

Findings from MSHA's final investigation report, which supersedes the preliminary narrative above.

Activity at time of incident

Climb In Piled Material

Subunit / location

STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT

Accident type

Fall from piled material

Source of injury

FLOOR,WALKING SURF-NOT UG

Nature of injury

MULTIPLE INJURIES

Body part affected

MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)

Total mining experience

1 year

Experience at this mine

1 year

Experience in this job

16 years

Degree of injury

FATALITY