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Case study · MSHA Record #219835550004
Motorman fatality
October 14, 1983 at 12:30 PM
No 1 Underground Mine
· M & W Coal Company Inc
· Marion County, TN
Investigator narrative
VICTIM WAS TRAMMING BATTERY-POWERED TRACTOR PULLING 4 LOADED CARS FROM WORKING FACE TO SURFACE.FOUND LYING BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD CARS 1 MI FROM FACE.VICTIMS CAP-LAMP CORD WAS BROKEN AND APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BY WHEEL OF 1ST LOADED CAR PULLING HIM FROM OPERATOR COMPARTMENTBENEATH WHEEL OL LOADED CAR.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Locomotive
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INBY PERMANENT SUPPORT
- Source of injury
- NARO G RAIL CR,MTR-UG EQP
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 2 years
- Experience at this mine
- 2 years
- Experience in this job
- 2 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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