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Case study · MSHA Record #219911820002
Welder fatality
June 17, 1991 at 5:50 PM
Bronzite III
· Eastern Mingo Coal Company
· Mingo County, WV
Investigator narrative
AN ON GOING CO INVESTIGATION IS BEING CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY THE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT PRELIMINARY FINDINGS INDICATE THAT THE ACCIDENT RESULT FROM A SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED RELEASE OF SLURRED MATERIAL FROM THE TUBE 60 INCH 300 FT BORHOLE INTO THE CHUTE AND BIN BELOW.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between NEC
- Activity at time
- Enter/Work In Bins, Silos
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INTERSECTION
- Mining method
- Continuous Mining
- Source of injury
- CHUTE & SLIDE-CONVYR HOPR
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 11 years
- Experience at this mine
- 11 years
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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