Coal Mine Safety and Health Report of Investigation: Surface Coal Mine Fatal Machinery Accident, October 6, 2013, Jim Bridger Mine, Bridger Coal Company, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Mine ID No. 48-00677.

摘要

In the early morning hours of October 6, 2013, Mark C. Stassinos was fatally injured while operating a Catepillar D-11R track bulldozer. The bulldozer had been refueled at 2:35 a.m. At some time after 2:35 a.m., the bulldozer traveled through a berm at the top of a 163 foot highwall, located at ramp 56 drill bench at the Jim Bridger Mine. The bulldozer overturned one and a quarter times before coming to rest with the bulldozer blade stuck vertical into the spoil at the bottom of the highwall. The victim had been partially ejected out the rear window of the bulldozer before it came to rest.