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Case study · MSHA Record #219931550001
Bulldozer Operator fatality
April 9, 1993 at 11:15 AM
Virginia Pocahontas 6
· Garden Creek Pocahontas Company
· Buchanan County, VA
Investigator narrative
WORKING AT VENTILATION WELL 192-B, EE WAS ASSISTING WITH THE RIG UP OF WIRELINE SERVICE EQUIPMENT TO PERFORM PLUGGING OPERATIONS ON THE WELL. THE POWER LINES OVER HEAD WERE REPEATEDLY SAID TO HAVE BEEN DEENERGIZED BY ISLAND CREEK PERSONEL ON THE MORNING OF THE ACCIDENT WHEN RAISING THE PORTABLE MAST ABOVE THE WELL HEAD, CONTACT WAS MADE WITH ONE POWER LINE THAT WAS STILL ENERGIZED.
Record details
- Classification
- ELECTRICAL
- Accident type
- Contact with electrical current
- Activity at time
- Surface Equipment, Nec
- Subunit / location
- SURFACE AT UNDERGROUND
- Source of injury
- CONDCTR,ELCT,CBL,TROL POL
- Nature of injury
- ELECT SHOCK,ELECTROCUTION
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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