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POWERED HAULAGE

220021350004 · 05/06/2002 · Mettiki Coal LLC

Details

Degree of injury
PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
Classification
POWERED HAULAGE
Accident type
Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects
Occupation
Beltman, Conveyor man, Conveyor belt worker, Mobile bridge carrierman, Feeder operator, Conveyor rider
Activity
Hand load, Hand shoveling
Injury source
BELT CONVEYORS
Nature of injury
AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
Body part
LOWER LEG/TIBIA/FIBULA
Days lost
129
Mine experience
12.23 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
Alliance Resource Partners LP
Operator
Mettiki Coal LLC
Mine
1800621

Narrative

TWO EE'S WERE SHOVELING SPILLAGE AWAY FROM BELT AT GRIZZLY AFTER BELT GOBBED OUT. THEY HAD SHOVELED FOR ABOUT 30 MINUTES. THE BELT BEGAN TO CREEP AND SUDDENLY THE BELT LUNGED AND PULLED BOTH MEN DOWN INTO THE ROLLER. THE MEN WERE PULLED DOWN INTO THE SPILLAGE UNTIL BELT WAS CUT BY ANOTHER EE. INJURED WAS PULLED INTO THE ROLLER FAR ENOUGH TO WRAP HIS RT. LEG AROUND ROLLER.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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