Trainer view
Print or save as PDF from your browser (⌘P / Ctrl+P).
← Standard view
Case study · MSHA Record #219833000001
Bulldozer Operator fatality
October 19, 1983 at 3:45 PM
No 2 Surface
· Freeman Branch Mining
· Logan County, WV
Investigator narrative
VICTIM WAS OPERATING D8K BULLDOZER WHILE DOING SLOPE & BENCH WORK IN A VALLEY FILL AREA, THE AREA WAS APPAROXIMATELY A 2:1 RATIO. BEGINNINGT ON EITHER THE FACE OF THE SLOPE OR THE BENCH AR EA ITSELF, THE DOZER BEGAN TO TRAVEL IN A REVERSE MOTION CONTINUING OVER THE EDGE OF THE BENCH AND DOWN THE SLOPE FOR A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 400 FT. TO THE VALLEY FLOOR. AS THE DOZER WE
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Escaping A Hazard
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 10 years
- Experience at this mine
- 10 years
- Experience in this job
- 6 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Coal
Similar incidents in MSHA records
· same classification: MACHINERY
-
May 20, 2026 · Pine Branch Mining LLC · KY · Maintenance Man
EE and another employee were pulling the engine and removing nose cone on the radiator. EE was on the bottom under the 992g wheel loader. The other employee was on top of the machine. EE was taking the radiator nose off, accidentally took bolts out of counter weights and it fell on EE. Resulting in a fatality.
-
March 12, 2026 · Kennecott Utah Copper LLC · UT · Maintenance Man
At approximately 05.12am on the 12th March 2026, a mechanic was struck by a drill boom in a surface workshop, causing fatal injuries.
-
March 5, 2026 · Patton Mining LLC · IL · Continuous Miner Operator
The IE was moving the miner to the face in entry #3 when we found the IE pinned between the miner tail and the solid rib.