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September 9, 2007 KY · Coal security guard, watchman FIRE
Johnson-Floyd Coal Company LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances

A 14' camper trailer used as a guard shack. Employee was using a propane cook stove to prepare a meal and apparently fell asleep. The trailer caught fire. He escaped trailer but suffered severe burns to hands, arms and neck and minor burns to his face.

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