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January 14, 2019 KY · Coal transit man, surveyor/transit worker Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
TENNCO INC. · Struck by powered moving object

While the surveyor was setting up the instrument in #4 belt entry, the other surveyor was getting height measurements down #3 entry. A shuttle car loaded with coal coming from #2 entry tramming to the feeder struck and killed the surveyor near spad 24.

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