Trainer view
Print or save as PDF from your browser (⌘P / Ctrl+P).
← Standard view
Case study · MSHA Record #219852350002
Front-End Loader fatality
August 6, 1985 at 3:25 PM
Bark Camp Strip
· Glen Irvan Corp
· Clearfield County, PA
Investigator narrative
A ROCK OF APPROXIMATELY 5 TONS BROKE LOOSE FROM THE WLL AND PINNED THE OPERATOR AGAINST THE LOADER WHILE HE WAS GREASING THE MACHINE
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 10 years
- Experience at this mine
- 10 years
- Experience in this job
- 10 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Coal
Similar incidents in MSHA records
· same classification: FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
-
March 3, 2026 · North American Silica Sand, LLC · TX · Cement Worker
A contractor died after a concrete retaining wall collapsed into the excavated trench below crushing EE.
-
March 3, 2026 · North American Silica Sand, LLC · TX · Cement Worker
Unsure of what conditions contributed to the death
-
January 19, 2026 · Vermont Quarries Corp. · VT · Ledgeman/Hand
Nobody saw the accident and we have not been able to interview the EE