Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
An R-35 Euclid Haul truck and a rail car collided.
- Classification
- NONPOWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects
- Activity at time
- Spot Rail Cars, Trip Riding
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- STD G RAIL CR,MTR-SURF EQ
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- LOWER EXTREMITIES, MULTIPLE PARTS
- Total mining experience
- 16 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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