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Case study · MSHA Record #219872360273
Beltman fatality
August 17, 1987 at 5:00 PM
Rosebud #3
· Rosebud Mining Company
· Armstrong County, PA
Investigator narrative
THE FATAL INJUR3ES WHERE ENCURRED WHILE THE MAN WAS TRAMMING THE MOBILE BRIDGE CONVEYOR BEHIND THE MINER. THE MAN WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN THE MACHINE AND THE RIB.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Conveyor Belt
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INTERSECTION
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- BELT CONVEYORS
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- Total mining experience
- 30 years
- Experience at this mine
- 4 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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