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October 25, 2017 OH · Coal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator POWERED HAULAGE
Steuben Coal - Anthony Mining, Ltd. · Struck against a moving object

According to driver, got loaded in the pit and started pulling ramp up out of pit got about halfway up the ramp and broke traction and started sliding backwards and went sideways and upset. It had been raining off and on all morning

November 19, 1999 OH · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Schiappa Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

ROCK TRKS WERE BACK STACKING OLD RAMP. EE DECIDED TO PULL DOWN RAMP INSTEAD BCKING DOWN RAMP HE THOUGHT HE COULD STOP HALFWAY DOWN RAMP WHEN HE WENT OVER THE CREST OF THE RAMP, HE DECIDEDA HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO STOP THE LOADED TRUCK HE TREID TO STOP THE TRUCK BY PUTTING IT IN REVERSE THIS CAUSED THE TRUCK TO STALL WITH THE TRUCK STALLED THE DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AS IT

September 5, 1990 OH · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Schiappa Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

THE DRIVER WAS RUNNING A PAN, HE HIT A LARGE ROCK WHICH CAUSED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK TO GO OUT OF PLACE.

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