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Case study · MSHA Record #219951170001
Maintenance Man fatality
April 18, 1995 at 2:10 AM
Belt Mine
· Daniels Branch Coal Company Inc
· Mingo County, WV
Investigator narrative
EMPLOYEE WHILE REPAIRING A CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE WAS POSITIONED IN THE BOOM OF SAID MACHINE,THE CONVEYOR CHAIN CAME ON DRAGGING HIM INTO THE TOP OR CONVEYOR FLIGHT RESULTING IN A SKULL FRA CTURE.
Record details
- Classification
- MACHINERY
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Machine Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INTERSECTION
- Mining method
- Conventional Stoping
- Source of injury
- UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- Nature of injury
- FRACTURE,CHIP
- Body part affected
- HEAD, MULTIPLE PARTS
- Total mining experience
- 19 years
- Experience at this mine
- 5 years
- Experience in this job
- 5 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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