# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220143160088` · 10/28/2014 · Lafarge West, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Struck against a moving object
- **Occupation:** Clerk, Timekeeper, Office worker, Director of sales
- **Activity:** Front-end loader
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** CONCUSSION-BRAIN,CEREBRAL
- **Body part:** BRAIN
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 7.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Lafarge S A
- **Operator:** Lafarge West, Inc.
- **Mine:** [1601364](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1601364)
## Narrative

Scale clerk was operating the 980G loader.  While navigating a decline, the loader began to pick up speed.  The operator panicked & could not locate brake pedal. While attempting to steer thru a curve, the operator steered too far to the right which deflected the loader to the left. Left front tire hit a soft low spot overturning loader into a settlement pond.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*