(Not Elsewhere Classified)
Sitting in tractor & trailer waiting to get loaded and (2) employees found driver unresponsive in the truck. Ambulance was called and the individual was transported to Somerset Hospital and pronounced dead at hospital.
Mountaineer #1Coal
Mountaineer Mining Corporation · Surface
Controlled by Robert George Koval
Shanksville, Somerset County, PA · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3608501
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2016–2017
- Latest incident
- Mar 2017
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2017 · 1 incident
2016 · 1 incident
Struck by flying object
Driving track pin with sledge hammer, sliver of metal from pin entered knee joint