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Case study · MSHA Record #220090500012
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
February 17, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Prairie Eagle-Underground
· Knight Hawk Coal, LLC
· Perry County, IL
Investigator narrative
A truck driver was delivering a load of lumber to the mine site. While the fork truck operator was unloading the truck, the truck driver walked around the other side of the truck when the fork truck operator accidentally pushed over a bundle of lumber, crushing the truck driver fatally.
Record details
- Classification
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Activity at time
- Handling Supplies Or Material
- Subunit / location
- SURFACE AT UNDERGROUND
- Source of injury
- WOOD ITEMS,NEC
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Experience in this job
- 5 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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