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Case study · MSHA Record #219840520048
Apprentice fatality
February 10, 1984 at 11:35 AM
Tall Timber Mine
· Tall Timber Coal Company
· Pike County, KY
Investigator narrative
TWO MAINTENANCE MEN WERE TRAMMING A 14-BCM JOY MINER FROM NO 1 ENTRY TO NO 4 ENTRY TO SERVICE THE MINER. UPON REACHING THE CROSSCUT BETWEEN NO 3 & 4 ENTRIES THE MAN OPERATING THE MINER LOOKED BACK AND SAW HIS BUDDY LYING ON THE MINE FLOOR. HE HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE BOOM OF THE MINER. IT COULD NOT BE DETERMINED IF HE HAD BEEN CAUGHT AGAINST THE COAL RIB
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Struck by... NEC
- Activity at time
- Continuous Miner
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- FACE
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 1 year
- Experience at this mine
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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