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Case study · MSHA Record #219845550002
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
August 9, 1984 at 2:30 PM
Huscoal No 6
· Huscoal Inc
· Breathitt County, KY
Investigator narrative
VICTIM WAS OPERATING A BM600 MAC TRUCK LOADED WITH APPROX 25 TONS OF COAL WHEN FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK TRUCK TRAVELED OVER AN EMBANKMENT CRUSHING THE VICTIM THER WERE NO EYEWITNESSES TO THE ACCIDENT VICTIM WAS NOT FOUND UNTIL 08 10 84 AT 700 AM AT THIS TIME THE CAUSE OF ACCIDNET CANNOT BE DETERMINED
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Struck against a moving object
- Activity at time
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Coal
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