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Case study · MSHA Record #219843120048
Bulldozer Operator fatality
October 30, 1984 at 1:40 PM
Pike No. 2 Mine
· Old Ben Coal Company
· Pike County, IN
Investigator narrative
I.NAME WAS OPERATING A TTACTOR AND PUSHING MATERIAL INTO A LAKE DURING A RECLAMATION OPERATION MATERIAL NEAR THE LAKE COLLAPSED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE TRACTOR AND THE TRACTOR SLID INTO LAKE I N 12 TO 15FT OF WATER
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Drowning
- Activity at time
- Bulldozer
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- WATER
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Total mining experience
- 9 years
- Experience at this mine
- 8 years
- Experience in this job
- 7 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Coal
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