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SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

220020280098 · 01/21/2002 · Pine Ridge Coal Company LLC

Details

Degree of injury
DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Classification
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Accident type
Fall onto or against objects
Occupation
Scoop car/Scooptram operator, Load/Haul/Dump (LHD) operator, Teletram operator
Activity
Electrical maintenance
Injury source
MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
Nature of injury
SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
Body part
LOWER EXTREMITIES, MULTIPLE PARTS
Days lost
7
Mine experience
9.44 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
Peabody Energy Corporation
Operator
Pine Ridge Coal Company LLC
Mine
4607908

Narrative

EE STATED THAT HE WAS CHANGING BATTERIES ON THE NO. 13 SCOOP. HE STATED THAT HE HAD UNJOOKED THE JUMPER CABLES AND INSEERTED THE SCOOP POWER CABLE INTO THE CHARGED BATTERY RECEPTACLE, WHEN HE HEARD AN ARC FROM THE SCOOP CABLE. AS HE ATTEMPTED TO UNPLUG THE CABLE FROM THE BATTERY HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT LEG AGAINST THE FRAME OF THE SCOOP AND SPRAINING HIS LEFT ANKLE.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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