# POWERED HAULAGE
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220160750020` · 03/08/2016 · Staker & Parson Companies
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Drowning
- **Occupation:** Scoop tram operator, Load/Haul/Dump operator
- **Activity:** Haulage or Dump truck
- **Injury source:** WATER
- **Nature of injury:** SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 0.35 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CRH PLC
- **Operator:** Staker & Parson Companies
- **Mine:** [4200410](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4200410)
## Narrative

Employee was driving a 70 ton CAT 775E haul truck equipped with reverse sonar. Evidence shows the employee backed through a berm approx. 4 ft high and down a slope that was 70 ft. high.  The truck came to rest in an area of water spprox. 15 ft. deep. Employee was pronounced deceased on scene by medical emergency personnel. 

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