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Case study · MSHA Record #219830680017
Gathering Arm Loader Operator fatality
February 26, 1983 at 7:10 AM
Middle Tennessee Mine
· Jersey Miniere Zinc Company
· Smith County, TN
Investigator narrative
THIS LOADER OPERATOR RAN OVER SPILLED MUCK ALONG THE RIGHT RIB IN A TRACK HAULAGE DRIFT, AND THE MAN WAS STRUCK BY THE CHUTE OPPOSITE THE SPILLAGE. THE LOADER THEN RAN INTO THE COMPRESSED AIR LINE ALONG THE RIGHT RIB CAUSING THE AIR LINE TO BLOW APART BEFORE THE LOADER CAME TO A STOP WITH THE BUCKET AGAINST THE RIGHT RIB. THE LOADER WAS FOUND IN SECOND GEAR APPROX. SEVENTY FEET FR
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Struck against stationary object
- Activity at time
- Load-Haul-Dump (Ug)
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- LAST OPEN CROSSCUT
- Mining method
- Conventional Stoping
- Source of injury
- CHUTE & SLIDE-CONVYR HOPR
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 6 years
- Experience at this mine
- 6 years
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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