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March 22, 2023 WV · Coal transit man, surveyor/transit worker Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Allegheny Metallurgical, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A miner sustained fatal injuries when the personnel carrier on which the miner was a passenger overturned. Another miner riding on the personnel carrier accidentally actuated the emergency stop causing the personnel carrier to drift backwards down a grade.

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