At approximately 8:35pm the miner operator was fatally injured when he caught himself between the tail of the miner and the coal rib.
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Knight Hawk Coal LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
February 17, 2009
IL · Coal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
Fatality · HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Knight Hawk Coal, LLC · Struck by falling object
A truck driver was delivering a load of lumber to the mine site. While the fork truck operator was unloading the truck, the truck driver walked around the other side of the truck when the fork truck operator accidentally pushed over a bundle of lumber, crushing the truck driver fatally.
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