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Case study · MSHA Record #219883620164
Shuttle Car Operator fatality
December 14, 1988 at 2:05 PM
Dotiki Mine
· Webster County Coal Corp
· Webster County, KY
Investigator narrative
I NAME PARKED HIS CAR IN THE LAST OPEN X CUT INTERSECTION OF 2 ENTRY WHILE WAITING FOR THE LOADER TO CHANGE X CUT HE WAS ASSUMED TO BE OUTSIDE HIS EAR CLEANING THE OPERATORS COMPARTMENT THE B WAS RETURNING FROM THE FEEDER DID NOT SEE HIM OR HIS CAR DUE TO THE COAL SEAM HEIGHT AND THE CAR CANOPY THE B CAR DRIVERS FIELD OF VIEW WAS DOWN THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS EAR AS HE TRAMMED AHEAD
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Handling Supplies Or Material
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INTERSECTION
- Mining method
- Conventional Stoping
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- LEG, NEC
- Total mining experience
- 16 years
- Experience at this mine
- 16 years
- Experience in this job
- 7 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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