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Case study · MSHA Record #219841700020
Front-End Loader fatality
June 8, 1984 at 12:00 PM
Panther Point Mine
· Hammill Construction Company Inc
· Rowan County, NC
Investigator narrative
I,NAME WAS STARTING TO UNLOAD ON THE STOCK PILE, HE STARTED BOUNCING IN HIS SEAT FROM EXCESSIVE SPEED, AND ROUGHNESS OF THE GROUND FROM A PREVIOUS LOAD. THIS IS THE OPINING OF THE TWO WITNESSE S, ALSO THEY SAID THAT JEFF WAS STILL ACCELERATING AND GOING TOO FAST, FASTER THAN HE HAD BEEN GOING EARLIER. HE WAS BOUNCED OFF THE SCRAPER AND RUN OVER BY THE TIRES.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Scraper, Pan Scraper
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 0 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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