Fatality · MSHA Record #219922020002

Electrician fatality at Sanborn Creek Mine (Somerset Mining Company), CO, July 14, 1992

at 3:10 PM

On July 14, 1992, an electrician was fatally injured in an electrical accident at Sanborn Creek Mine (Somerset Mining Company), CO.

Sanborn Creek Mine · Underground · Coal

Operator: Somerset Mining Company (Oxbow Carbon LLC)

Gunnison County, CO

Classification ELECTRICAL

Type Contact with electrical current

Investigator narrative

EE WAS WORKING ON 12CM5 MINER INSIDE THE CONTROL BOX CHANGING AN OVERLOAD WHEN HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH HIGH VOLTAGE.

Record details

Activity at time of incident: Electrical Maintenance
Subunit / location: UNDERGROUND
Underground location: INBY PERMANENT SUPPORT
Accident type: Contact with electrical current
Source of injury: ELECTRICAL APPARATUS,(Not Elsewhere Classified)
Nature of injury: ELECT SHOCK,ELECTROCUTION
Body part affected: BODY SYSTEMS
Total mining experience: 25 years
Experience at this mine: 1 year
Experience in this job: 1 year
Degree of injury: FATALITY

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