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Case study · MSHA Record #219942000001
Outside Foreman fatality
July 7, 1994 at 3:45 PM
Hamilton Strip
· Al Hamilton Contracting Company Inc
· Clearfield County, PA
Investigator narrative
HE WAS WALKING FROM A HAUL ROAD, IN A WHEAT FIELD, TOWARD A D-3 DOZER. HE WAS ABOUT 30 FEET FROMTHE THE DOZER WHEN LIGHTNING STRUCK IN THE VICINITY (NOT KNOWN WHERE IT ACTUALLY STRUCK) CAUSING FATAL CARDIAC ARHYTHMIA, DUE TO ELECTRIC SHOCK, DUE TO THE LIGHTNING.
Record details
- Classification
- OTHER
- Accident type
- Contact with electrical current
- Activity at time
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- MISCELLANEOUS,NEC
- Nature of injury
- ELECT SHOCK,ELECTROCUTION
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Total mining experience
- 38 years
- Experience at this mine
- 27 years
- Experience in this job
- 20 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Coal
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