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Case study · MSHA Record #219831010219
Maintenance Man fatality
April 1, 1983 at 2:55 PM
Mathel Mine
· Brownies Creek Collieries Inc
· Bell County, KY
Investigator narrative
OPERATING DRILL BY RAISING MAST TO ACCOMMODATEFOR REPAIRS TO LEAKING HYDRAULIC CYLINDER LOCATED IN MAST.MAST WAS IN 80 DEG. RAISE POSITION WHEN BODY FOUND.ONE LINE WAS BROKEN AND LIE ON GROUND ONE TELEPHONE LINE STILL IN CONTACT WITH MAST.VICTIM WAS (HAD BEEN) STANDING ON GROUND AND OPERATING CONTROLS.
Record details
- Classification
- ELECTRICAL
- Accident type
- Contact with electrical current
- Activity at time
- Surface Equipment, Nec
- Subunit / location
- SURFACE AT UNDERGROUND
- Source of injury
- CONDCTR,ELCT,CBL,TROL POL
- Nature of injury
- ELECT SHOCK,ELECTROCUTION
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Experience in this job
- 8 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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