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Case study · MSHA Record #219890950054
Laborer fatality
March 20, 1989 at 2:30 PM
Lancashire Coal Company Prep Plant
· Lancashire Coal Company
· Cambria County, PA
Investigator narrative
EMPL & SOME OTHERS WERE TEARING DOWN SILO AT ABANDONED SITE AND IT COLLAPSED.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
- Activity at time
- Handling Supplies Or Material
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Coal
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