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Case study · MSHA Record #219860490132
Lw Propman fatality
February 11, 1986 at 8:25 PM
Virginia Pocahontas 3
· Island Creek Coal Company
· Buchanan County, VA
Investigator narrative
MAN WAS CLEANIN1 AT BOTTOM OF REFUSE AREA LOADING SITE WHEN HE STEPPED IN FRONT OF AN AERIAL TRAM CAR THIS CAR ROLLED VICTIM BETWEEN A VERTICAL SUPPORT BEAM AND THE CAR THE VICTIM SUSTAINED CU CRUSHING INJ6RIES TO THE CHEST WHICH PROVED TO BE FATAL
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Hand Load, Hand Shoveling
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 13 years
- Experience at this mine
- 11 years
- Experience in this job
- 10 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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