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Case study · MSHA Record #219913470001
Laborer fatality
December 4, 1991 at 12:45 PM
Mill Creek Prep Plant
· Kentucky Criterion Coal Company
· Letcher County, KY
Investigator narrative
SUPERVISOR & TWO EMPLS WERE PREPARING TO MOUNT PIN ON BUCKET TO BOOM ALREADY LOWERED OF DIGGER DERRICK TRUCK. AS SUPERVISOR ATTEMPTED TO POSITION 1 TON FLATBED TRUCK CARRYING PIN ON BUCKET INJ EMPL WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TIP OF BOOM & FLATBED TRUCK WHEN HE SUSTAINED SEVERE INTERNAL ABDOMINAL INJ. INJ EMPL SUCCUMED IN OPERATING ROOM OF HOSPITAL.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Handling Supplies Or Material
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- PASS CARS,PICKUP TRUCKS
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- ABDOMEN/INTERNAL ORGANS
- Total mining experience
- 1 year
- Experience at this mine
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Coal
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