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Case study · MSHA Record #219910840001
Shuttle Car Operator fatality
March 15, 1991 at 8:35 PM
New Era Mine
· Kerr-Mc Gee Coal Corp
· Saline County, IL
Investigator narrative
THE EE AND HIS CREW WERE ATTEMPTING TO FREE THE CONTINUOUS MINER FROM THE MUD AT THE FACE. A RAMCAR WHICH BROUGHT IN TIMBERS TO BE CUT AND PLACED UNDER THE CONTINUOUS MINER WAS MOVED APPROX. 8 5 FT UPHILL FROM THE CONTINUOUS MINER. THE RAMCAR 6 MIN LATER STARTED ROLLING BACK DOWN THE HILL TOWARD THE CONTINUOUS MINER. THE EE ATTEMPTED TO RUN TOWARD THE CONTINUOUS MINER TAIL BUT WAS
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Escaping A Hazard
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- FACE
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 25 years
- Experience at this mine
- 2 years
- Experience in this job
- 2 years
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Coal
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