Coal Mine Safety and Health Report of Investigation: Underground Coal Mine, Fatal Machinery Accident, February 21, 2014, Mine No, 30, Dominion Coal Corporation, Jewell Ridge, Buchanan County, Virginia. ID No. 44-60748

摘要

At approximately 3:37 p.m., on Friday, February 21, 2014, Arthur D. Gelentser III, age 24, a continuous mining machine operator with 5.5 years of mining experience was fatally injured. The victim was pinned between the boom of a remotely controlled continuous mining machine and the coal rib. The victim was located in a pinch point created by the machine and the coal rib while tramming the continuous mining machine.