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Case study · MSHA Record #219952710053
Maintenance Man fatality
September 11, 1995 at 10:50 AM
Dotiki Mine
· Webster County Coal Corp
· Webster County, KY
Investigator narrative
AT APPROX. 10:45 AM THE LOADOUT "TRAIN" WAS STARTED. EMPLOYEES WERE EACH TO PUSH COAL TO THE LOADOUT CHUTES. AT APPROX. 10:50 AM AN EMPLOYEE NOTICED SMOKE COMING FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE TUBE. WHEN HE INVESTIGATED HE FOUND DOZER IN THEHOLE. HE REQUESTED LOADOUT TO STOP. COAL COVERED DOZER. AT APPROX. 12:30PM DOZER PULLED OUT. VICTIM IN SEAT W/ BELT ON. RESUSCITATION FAILED.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
- Activity at time
- Bulldozer
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Source of injury
- OXYGEN DEFICIENT ATMOSPHR
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Total mining experience
- 12 years
- Experience at this mine
- 12 years
- Experience in this job
- 1 year
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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