Coal Mine Safety and Health Report of Investigation: Surface Coal Mine Fatal Fall of Highwall Accident, December 7, 2011, Fairbanks No. 4, Fairbanks Coal Company, Inc., Appalachia, Wise County, Virginia. ID No. 44-07256.

摘要

On Wednesday, December 7, 2011, at 7:33 a.m., Richard N. Yonts, a 49-year-old excavator operator with 20 years of mining experience, was fatally injured while loading haul trucks in a strip pit. The victim was operating a Komatsu PC 400 excavator, loading shot material from the active pit into a Komatsu 785 haul truck. A portion of the highwall collapsed onto the operators compartment of the excavator, resulting in fatal injuries.