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Case study · MSHA Record #219980350001
Laborer fatality
January 23, 1998 at 6:38 PM
Upper Big Branch Mine-South
· Performance Coal Company
· Raleigh County, WV
Investigator narrative
EE WAS CRUSHED WHEN THE UNDERCAST HE WAS CONSTRUCTING COLLAPSED.
Record details
- Classification
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Activity at time
- Timbering, Build Cribs
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- INTERSECTION
- Mining method
- Longwall
- Source of injury
- STEEL RAIL (ALL KINDS)
- Nature of injury
- CRUSHING
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 11 years
- Experience at this mine
- 2 years
- Experience in this job
- 11 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Coal
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