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Case study · MSHA Record #219860830042
Longwall Operator fatality
March 12, 1986 at 10:30 PM
Meigs #2 Mine
· Southern Ohio Coal Company
· Meigs County, OH
Investigator narrative
A RAM JACK BEIN1 TRANSPORTED ON THE FACE CONVEYOR CAUGHT THE SHEAR THEN THE MOVING FACE CONVEYOR PUSHING SHEAR OFF THE PANLINE AND INTO I.NAME CRUSHING HIM BETWEEN THE SHEAR DRUM AND THE TOP
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
- FACE
- Mining method
- Longwall
- Source of injury
- UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- TRUNK, MULTIPLE PARTS
- Total mining experience
- 8 years
- Experience at this mine
- 8 years
- Experience in this job
- 2 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Coal
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