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Case study · MSHA Record #219841920086
Electrician fatality
June 27, 1984 at 11:25 PM
No. 68
· United States Steel Mining Company Inc
· Boone County, WV
Investigator narrative
INJURED WAS OBSERVING THE DISCHARGE CHAIN SPROCKET ON THE RECEIVING END OF 21 S/C BY PLACING HIS HEAD BETWEEN THE BUMPER AND TRAM MOTOR WHEN THE S/C SUDDENLY MOVED, CATCHING HIS HEAD BETWEEN T HE S/CAR AND MINE FLOOR
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INTERSECTION
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- HEAD, MULTIPLE PARTS
- Total mining experience
- 3 years
- Experience at this mine
- 3 years
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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