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Case study · MSHA Record #219981740001
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver fatality
May 28, 1998 at
PRIHODA GRAVEL CO.
· Prihoda Gravel Co.
· Colorado County, TX
Investigator narrative
THE DRIVER OF A 1975 PETERBILT FAILED TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE CRASHING INTO THE BACK OF ANOTHER TRUCK CRUSHING THE DRIVER BETWEEN THE TWO TRUCKS.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Idle
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- HIPS (PELVIS/ORGANS/KIDNEYS/BUTTOCKS)
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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