Fatality · MSHA Record #219852340055

Fatal incident at Big Brown Strip (Luminant Mining Company LLC), TX, August 19, 1985

at 5:50 PM

On August 19, 1985, a worker was fatally injured in a machinery accident at Big Brown Strip (Luminant Mining Company LLC), TX.

Big Brown Strip · Surface · Coal

Operator: Luminant Mining Company LLC (Vistra Energy)

Contractor on site: BR8

Freestone County, TX

Classification MACHINERY

Type Fall from machine

Investigator narrative

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON BOOM SECTION OF SPREDER WHEN BOOM JOLTED UP CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL TO GROUND HE SUSTAINED FATAL HEAD INJURIES

Record details

Activity at time of incident: Machine Maintenance
Subunit / location: STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
Accident type: Fall from machine
Source of injury: GROUND
Nature of injury: MULTIPLE INJURIES
Body part affected: HEAD,NEC
Experience at this mine: 0 years
Degree of injury: FATALITY

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