Centralia Mining Company · Struck by flying object
AN EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN THE WELD SHOP RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES TO AN EMPLOYEE. CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE SOURCE HAVE YET TO BE DETERMINED.
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December 26, 1991
MT · Coal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
Fatality · FIRE
Spring Creek Coal Company · Contact with hot objects or substances
EE WAS WORKING SWING SHIFT (3:PM TO 11:30PM) PERFORMING MAITENANCE WORK ON THE DRAG SCRAPER LOCATED ON THE 4TH FLOOR OF THE TRUCK DUMP. AT 9:58PM, HE NOTICED SOME SMOLDERING COAL. AT 10:01 P M WITH WATER HOSE IN HAND HE STARTED HOSING DOWN WITH WATER THE SMOLDERING COAL. CAUSING A FLASH BACK. RESULTING IN FIRST AND SECOND DEGREE BURNS TO HIS RIGHT HAND AND FOREARM.
January 16, 1991
MT · Coal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Spring Creek Coal Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)
WHILE LOWERING PORTABLE WHEEL MOUNTED WATER PUMP IN NO 2 DRAGLINE PIT INJ WORKING NEAR EDGE OF HIGHWALL SLIPPED AND FELL TO BOTTOM ABOUT 160 FT. WATER PUMP USING 3 WIRE ROPES ATTACHED TO FR ONT END LOADER AND 2 SCRAPERS PUMP BEEN LOWEREDNEARLY TO BOTTOM OF PIT WHEN ACCIDENT OCC
August 4, 1986
UT · Coal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
Fatality · MACHINERY
Energy West Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
TRUCK DRIVER FA7ALLY INJURED AS RESULT OF BEING STRUCK BY ROAD GRADER.I.NAME HAD BEEN OPERATING TRACTOR PULLING WATER WAGON.STOPPED TO ADJUST WATER SPRAYS AT REAR OF WATER WAGON.I.NAME OPERATI NG GRADER,DIDNT3SEE I.NAME.FRONT END OF GRADER STRUCK I.NAME PINNING HIM AGAINST REAR END OF WATER WAGON.
June 4, 1986
UT · Coal
assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management
Fatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Utah Power & Light Company-Mining Division · Struck by falling object
MAN WAS DETERMI3G IF ROOF FALL WAS REPORTABLE TO MSHA - LARGE BOUNCE HIT AREA AND KNOCKED 2 FT. OF SHALE DOWN ON HIM
April 15, 1986
WA · Coal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Centralia Mining Company · Struck against a moving object
SCRAPER WENT OF0 MAIN HAUL ROAD & DOWN 25' EMBANKMENT OVERTURNING ON OPERATOR
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