Fatality · MSHA Record #220010080023
Truck Driver
December 19, 2000
at 1:30 PM
Operator:
PBS Coals, Inc.
(Severstal Resources)
Somerset County, PA
Classification
POWERED HAULAGE
Type
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Investigator narrative
TWO MERCURY OWNED TRUCKS ENTERED PROPERTY TO DELIVER COAL. THE TWO TRUCKERS WERE INSTRUCTED TO AREA TO DUMP BY SCALE MASTER THEN BY THE HI-LIFT OPERATOR. THE TRUCKS BACKED PARALLEL TO EACH OTH ER TO THE LEFT (CAB AREA). AS THE 1ST TRUCK BEGAN TO RAISE AND DUMP THE COAL IT HIT THE TOP POSITION, THE COAL CAUSED BED TO FALL ON SECOND CAB.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Haulage Or Dump Truck
- Subunit / location
- MILL OPERATION/PREPARATION PLANT
- Underground location
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Mining method
- NO VALUE FOUND
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Source of injury
- HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Total mining experience
- 2 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 2 years
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220010080023 · Mine ID 3603329
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