Fatality · MSHA Record #219870050162

Welder (Shop) fatality at Beckville Strip (Luminant Mining Company LLC), TX, December 23, 1986

at 7:15 AM

On December 23, 1986, a welder (shop) was fatally injured in a falling/sliding/rolling materials accident at Beckville Strip (Luminant Mining Company LLC), TX.

Beckville Strip · Surface · Coal

Operator: Luminant Mining Company LLC (Vistra Energy)

Contractor on site: DB3

Panola County, TX

Classification FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS

Type Struck by falling object

Investigator narrative

WORK WAS UNDER 4AY TO REPAIR A SPREADER BAR THAT HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM A DRAGLINE BUCKET THE BAR CONSISTING OF A TWO 8 INCH DIAMETER SCHEDULE 80 PIPES AND STEEL BLOCK AT EACH END WAS ABOUT 3 30-35 FT LONG I7 HAD DEFORMED IN THE SHAPE OF A 1 SUCH THAT THE BLOCKS WERE NOW 15 FT APART BAR WAS BEING HELD UPRIGHT BY A FORKLIFT A WELDER HAD CUT ONE OF THE , IN PIPES NEAR ONE OF THE BLO

Record details

Activity at time of incident: Handling Supplies Or Material
Subunit / location: MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
Accident type: Struck by falling object
Source of injury: METAL,(Not Elsewhere Classified)(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
Nature of injury: CRUSHING
Body part affected: HEAD,NEC
Total mining experience: 2 years
Experience at this mine: 2 years
Experience in this job: 2 years
Degree of injury: FATALITY

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