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Case study · MSHA Record #219870890001
Superintendent fatality
March 16, 1987 at 2:00 PM
Miracle Mine
· Miracle Mining Company Inc
· Hopkins County, KY
Investigator narrative
EE WAS INSPECTI3G WATER SPRAYS ON FEEDER. WHILE LEANING OVER EE INADVERTANTLY HIT BOOM LEVER ON PICK/BREAKER WITH LEG CAUSING THE PICK/BREAKER TO RAISE. EES HEAD WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN PICK/BREAK ER ASSEMBLY & R2OF OF MINE. EE WAS GIVEN 1ST AID BY AN E.M.T. & TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL. EE DIED 3-25-87 FROM INJURIES RECEIVED 3-16-87.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Inspect Equipment Or Mine
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- LAST OPEN CROSSCUT
- Mining method
- Conventional Stoping
- Source of injury
- CONVEYORS,NEC
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 16 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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