Preliminary Report - Fatality #40 - July 1, 2010

At 8:37 a.m., a sixty-year old section electrician with 35 years of mining experience was ran over by a shuttle car in the No. 2 entry on MMU 005/006. The victim was last seen leaving the connecting crosscut between the No. 1 and No. 2 entries, one break out by the continuous mining machine as it was taking a cut in the face. As the No. 2 shuttle car was leaving the continuous mining machine with a load, the miner operator noticed that the victim was beneath the shuttle car.