Continuous Miner Helper, Coal Mole Helper, Bridgeman

Employee received fatal injuries from a shuttle car that struck him while hanging a check curtain on the #6 unit, #7 entry, #11 seam. His body was discovered by the car operator upon returning from the feeder. (AN MSHA, STATE AND COMPANY INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.)

Activity at time of incident

Set Or Remove Brattice

Subunit / location

UNDERGROUND

Accident type

Struck by powered moving object

Source of injury

MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY

Nature of injury

MULTIPLE INJURIES

Total mining experience

4.62 years

Experience at this mine

0.19 years

Degree of injury

FATALITY