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Case study · MSHA Record #219873410001
Driver fatality
December 1, 1987 at 5:45 AM
Canfield #1
· Westerman Coal Company Inc
· Knox County, KY
Investigator narrative
TRACTOR DRIVER 4AS MOVING TRACTOR FROM HIGH TOP INTO LOW TOP APPARENTLY DID NOT PUT HIS HEAD DOWN LOW ENOUGH WHEN TRACTOR MOVED INTO LOW TOP HEAD WAS PINNED BETWEEN LOW TOP AND FENDER ON TRAC TOR 3
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Underground Equipment, Nec
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- LAST OPEN CROSSCUT
- Mining method
- Conventional Stoping
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- FRACTURE,CHIP
- Body part affected
- SKULL
- Total mining experience
- 11 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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