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Case study · MSHA Record #219872330001
Bulldozer Operator fatality
August 12, 1987 at 3:15 PM
Short Creek 8750
· Drummond Company, Inc.
· Jefferson County, AL
Investigator narrative
EMPLOYEE WAS PU8HING MATERIAL FROM AN OLD WASHER FINES POND. THE POND HAD BEEN DRAINED AND ALLOWED TO DRY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. HE WAS PUSHING THE MATERIAL OVER THE HIGHWALL WHEN A SECTION BEHIN D HIM BROKE LOO8E ENGULFING THE DOZER TO WINDOW LEVEL AND PUSHED THE DOZER OVER THE HIGHWALL.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Struck against a moving object
- Activity at time
- Bulldozer
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 30 years
- Experience at this mine
- 5 years
- Experience in this job
- 4 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Coal
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