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Case study · MSHA Record #219973030056
Coal Sampler fatality
October 16, 1997 at 10:40 AM
Log Creek Loadout Facility
· Kindill Mining Inc
· Pike County, IN
Investigator narrative
VITIM WAS EMPLOYED BY FOXFIRE ENVIRONMENTAL INC CONTRACTED BY KINDILL MINING TO PICK UP WATER SAMPLES AT REMOTE SAMPLING SITES. A 4-WHEELER ATV USED BY THE VICTIM OVERTURNED ALONG A REMOTE DRA INAGE DITCH AND LANDED ON TOP OF HIM. IT APPEARED THAT THE VICTIM ATTEMPTED TO STEER AROUND A BUSH AND OVERTURNED ON THE SIDE OF A DRAINAGE DITCH BERM. THE ATV LOOKED LIKE IT ROLLED ONCE AND
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Surface Equipment, Nec
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- VEHICLES,NEC
- Nature of injury
- SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Mine type
- Facility
- Sector
- Coal
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