Coal Mine Safety and Health Report of Investigation: Underground Coal Mine Fatal Powered-Haulage Accident, November 30, 2012, Pocahontas Mine, White Buck Coal Company, Rupert, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. I.D. No. 46-09154.

摘要

On Friday, November 30, 2012, at approximately 1:20 a.m., a 27-year-old electrician, Steven A. ODell (victim), was fatally injured on the developing No. 2 Section when he was caught between a maintenance scoop and the continuous mining machine. ODell was positioned beside the cutting head of the continuous mining machine cleaning bolt holes in preparation for the replacement of the offside cutter drum when the maintenance scoop pinned him against the machine. When the accident occurred, the scoop was traveling battery end first, through the second connecting crosscut outby the face between the No. 6 and 7 entries.