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Case study · MSHA Record #219852140001
Superintendent fatality
June 21, 1985 at 2:30 PM
Lykens #6 Mine
· Kintzel Coal Company
· Schuylkill County, PA
Investigator narrative
UNCHARTED WORKINGS WHICH WERE FLOODED WITH WATER BROKE INTO #12 CHUTE THIS CARRIED ITS VICTIM APPROX 250 FT DOWN THE CHUTEB WITH MINE TIMBER ROCKS COAL AND DEBRIS VERY MUCH FORCE THEN IT WASH ED HIM APPROX 100 FT OUT THE GANGWAY TO WHERE HIS BODY WAS FOUND THE GANGWAY HAD APPROX 120 ONS TO COAL ROCK ETC WASHED INTO IT
Record details
- Classification
- INUNDATION
- Accident type
- Struck against stationary object
- Activity at time
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- SLOPE/INCLINED SHAFT
- Source of injury
- WATER
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 22 years
- Experience at this mine
- 15 years
- Experience in this job
- 11 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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