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MACHINERY

220081360032 · 05/12/2008 · Ohio County Coal Company LLC

Details

Degree of injury
PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
Classification
MACHINERY
Accident type
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Occupation
Roof bolter, Rock bolter, Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
Activity
Roof bolter, Drilling
Injury source
UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
Nature of injury
AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
Body part
FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost
Mine experience
0.07 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
Patriot Coal Corporation
Operator
Ohio County Coal Company LLC
Mine
1517587

Narrative

Employee was in the process of helping get a pin steel out of the pinner pot. Another operator was helping him. The operator did not know where he was because he was concentrating on the pin a nd chuck. For some unknown reason EE put his hand on the boom, the same time the other operator was raising the boom and caught his hand between the boom and short arm on the bolter.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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