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Case study · MSHA Record #219840110001
Scoop Car Operator fatality
January 4, 1984 at 3:30 PM
Stinson No 7
· National Mines Corp
· Knott County, KY
Investigator narrative
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING COAL WITH A SCOOP OUT OF THE RIGHT BREAK IN #6 ENTRY AT #7 MINE. WHEN HE STARTED TO MAKE THE LAST CLEAN UP RUN ON THE INBY SIDE OF THE RIGHT BREAK, HE BACKED UP THINKING T HAT HE WAS GOING INTO THE LEFT BREAK. WHEN HE HIT THE INBY CORNER OF THE LEFT BREAK IN THE #6 HEADING, HIS HEAD HIT THE RIB AND WAS FORCED INTO THE FRAME OF THE SCOOP. THE COAL HEIGHT IN THIS
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Load-Haul-Dump (Ug)
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INTERSECTION
- Mining method
- Conventional Stoping
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 9 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 6 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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