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Case study · MSHA Record #219850700068
Motorman fatality
February 27, 1985 at 7:30 PM
Somerset Portal Eighty Four Complex
· Beth Energy Mines Inc
· Washington County, PA
Investigator narrative
I.NAME HOOKED UP THE EMPTY MINE CARS TO HIS BUDDYS MOTOR TOOK THE BRAKES OFF AND REMOVED A SKID HE THEN GOT CLEAR IN A BREAKTHROUGH AND SIGNALED TO HIS BUDDY WITH HIS LIGHT TO PULL AWAY HIS BU DDY MOVED APPROX 23 CAR LENGTHS WHEN THE TRIP JERKED HE WALKED BACK AND FOUND I.NAME CAUGHT BETWEEN A DERAILED EMPTY MINE CAR AND THE RIB ON THE WIDE SIDE TRAUMA INTERNAL INJURIES PELVIC AND
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Observe Operations
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INTERSECTION
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- NARO G RAIL CR,MTR-UG EQP
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- TRUNK, MULTIPLE PARTS
- Total mining experience
- 10 years
- Experience at this mine
- 8 years
- Experience in this job
- 6 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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