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Case study · MSHA Record #219892200104
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
August 1, 1989 at 3:20 AM
Gatliff # 1
· Gatliff Coal Company Inc
· Whitley County, KY
Investigator narrative
FOR UNKNOWN REASONS THE VICTIM'S TRUCK ROLLED APPROX. 75 FEET DOWN AN ELEVATED HAUL ROAD FROM IT'S DUMPING POINT WHERE IT THEN CROSSED THE ROAD BERM AND OVERTURNED DOWN THE APPROX. 55 FOOT HIG H SPOIL SLOPE AND CAME TO REST ON THE HAUL ROAD BELOW. THE VICTIM WHO WAS NOT WEARING SEAT BELTS WAS THROWN FROM THE TRUCK WHEN IT REACHED BOTTOM OF THE SLOPE.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Fall from machine
- Activity at time
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 10 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 2 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Coal
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