Fatality · MSHA Record #219920060149

Maintenance Man fatality at Spring Creek Mine (Spring Creek Coal Company), MT, December 26, 1991

at 10:01 PM

On December 26, 1991, a maintenance man was fatally injured in a fire accident at Spring Creek Mine (Spring Creek Coal Company), MT.

Spring Creek Mine · Surface · Coal

Operator: Spring Creek Coal Company (MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company)

Big Horn County, MT

Classification FIRE

Type Contact with hot objects or substances

Investigator narrative

EE WAS WORKING SWING SHIFT (3:PM TO 11:30PM) PERFORMING MAITENANCE WORK ON THE DRAG SCRAPER LOCATED ON THE 4TH FLOOR OF THE TRUCK DUMP. AT 9:58PM, HE NOTICED SOME SMOLDERING COAL. AT 10:01 P M WITH WATER HOSE IN HAND HE STARTED HOSING DOWN WITH WATER THE SMOLDERING COAL. CAUSING A FLASH BACK. RESULTING IN FIRST AND SECOND DEGREE BURNS TO HIS RIGHT HAND AND FOREARM.

Record details

Activity at time of incident: Handling Supplies Or Material
Subunit / location: STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
Accident type: Contact with hot objects or substances
Source of injury: FLAME,FIRE,SMOKE,(Not Elsewhere Classified)
Nature of injury: BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
Body part affected: UPPER EXTREMITIES, MULTIPLE
Total mining experience: 11 years
Experience at this mine: 11 years
Experience in this job: 11 years
Degree of injury: FATALITY

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