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Case study · MSHA Record #219953250001
Bulldozer Operator fatality
November 10, 1995 at 12:45 PM
No 5 Mine
· Jim Walter Resources Inc
· Tuscaloosa County, AL
Investigator narrative
THE EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING ROCK AT THE SURFACE ROCK BIN BUT IT WAS NOT YET READY TO LOAD HE PULLED PAST THE BIN UNTIL IT WAS READY TO BE DUMPED HE THEN BACKED BACK UNDER THE BIN THE BIN FELL CRU SHING THE CAB OF THE ROCK TRUCK CAUSING DEATH TOTHE EMPLOYEE NOTE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BEFORWARDED
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- SURFACE AT UNDERGROUND
- Source of injury
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 18 years
- Experience at this mine
- 18 years
- Experience in this job
- 12 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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