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Case study · MSHA Record #219860730001
Motorman fatality
March 6, 1986 at 6:15 AM
Railroad
· Tennessee Chemical Company
· Polk County, TN
Investigator narrative
I.NAME WAS APPA9ENTLY STRUCK BY OR PARTIALLY RUN OVER BY A RAILWAY CAR WHERE HE APPARENTLY WAS STANDING EITHER ON THE CAR OR BETWEEN THE CARS DURING TRAIN MOVEMENT. HE WAS FOUND LYING ACROSS A RAIL UNDERNEAT2 THE RAILWAY CAR.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Struck by powered moving object
- Activity at time
- Idle
- Subunit / location
- INDEPENDENT SHOPS OR YARDS
- Source of injury
- STD G RAIL CR,MTR-SURF EQ
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 33 years
- Experience at this mine
- 33 years
- Experience in this job
- 25 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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