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Case study · MSHA Record #219841980159
Cutting Machine Operator fatality
March 1, 1984 at 7:30 PM
No 1
· Old Mc Donald Coal Company
· Johnson County, KY
Investigator narrative
THE HAULAGE BELT HAD GONE DOWN SO PRODUCTION WAS STOPPED AND ALL EMPLOYEES WERE PULLED FROM THE MINE, EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SHAFT TO THE OUTSIDE WHEN HE SUFFERED A CORONA RY THROMBOSIS, RESULTING IN DEATH AT 3:00 A.M. ON MARCH 2, 1984
Record details
- Classification
- OTHER
- Accident type
- Unclassified, insufficient data
- Activity at time
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- SLOPE/INCLINED SHAFT
- Source of injury
- MISCELLANEOUS,NEC
- Nature of injury
- HEART ATTACK
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Experience at this mine
- 2 years
- Experience in this job
- 2 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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