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Case study · MSHA Record #220131490017
Mucking Machine Operator fatality
May 17, 2013 at 1:30 AM
Questa Mine & Mill
· Chevron Mining Inc
· Taos County, NM
Investigator narrative
Around 1:30 in the morning a miner was found pinned between two rail cars on the haulage level.
Record details
- Classification
- POWERED HAULAGE
- Accident type
- Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- Activity at time
- Rerail Equipment, Sprag
- Subunit / location
- UNDERGROUND
- Underground location
- LAST OPEN CROSSCUT
- Mining method
- Caving
- Source of injury
- NARO G RAIL CR,MTR-UG EQP
- Nature of injury
- MULTIPLE INJURIES
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Total mining experience
- 0 years
- Experience at this mine
- 0 years
- Experience in this job
- 0 years
- Mine type
- Underground
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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