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Case study · MSHA Record #219832310031
Assistant Mine Foreman fatality
August 11, 1983 at 11:15 PM
Emilie No 4 Mine
· Keystone Coal Mining Corp
· Armstrong County, PA
Investigator narrative
THE VICTIM WAS CRAWLING INBY IN #2 ROOM TOWARD THE CROSSCUT #2-#1. A SHUTTLE CAR CAME FROM THE CROSSCUT #2-#3 INTO THE INTERSECTION. THE VICTIM WAS CRUSHED AGAINST THE OUTBY LEFT RIB ACORNER OF THE INTERSECTION BY THE SHUTTLE CAR. THE VICTIM WAS NOT SEEN BY THE SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Crawling, Kneeling
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INTERSECTION
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 15 years
- Experience at this mine
- 5 years
- Experience in this job
- 11 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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