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Case study · MSHA Record #219850070002
Front-End Loader fatality
November 5, 1984 at 4:00 PM
No 1 Strip Mine
· Hard Rock Coal Company Inc
· Whitley County, KY
Investigator narrative
I.NAME WAS LOADING COAL IN PIT WITH HIS LOADER WHEN AN ELECTRICAL STORM CAME UP SUDDENLY LIGHTENING SET SHOT OFF ABOVE WHERE I.NAME WAS WORKING COVERING HIM & HIS LOADER WITH SEVERAL FEET OF D IRT
Record details
- Classification
- EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Activity at time
- Front-End Loader
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 18 years
- Experience at this mine
- 3 years
- Experience in this job
- 15 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Coal
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