OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14481915
OHIO POWER CO MITCHELL PLANT
MOUNDSVILLE, WV—
Event description
EMPLOYEE FELL BENEATH AND WAS RUN OVER BY TRAIN
Investigation abstract
A brakeman and a train engineer were moving coal cars to a thawing facility at a cars thirteen through eighteen ran over him. He was pronounced dead at the scene . The train was traveling about 5 to 7 kilometers per hour at the time of the ac cident. The temperature was about 1 degree Celsius under partly sunny skies. The re was a ground cover of thawing snow and ice. The accident took place in the po wer plant coal yard. n electric power generation plant. The train consisted of eighteen fully loaded coal cars plus a locomotive. The usual procedure was to move all eighteen cars n orth on the middle of three tracks until the front twelve cars were beyond a tra ck switch, unhook the rear six cars, then move the front twelve cars into the th awing facility. The brakeman was supposed to board the moving train at the rear of the twelfth car, and then radio the engineer to halt the train at the point w here the twelfth car had reached the track switch. The brakeman fell beneath the train at the rear of the twelfth car and was dragged a distance of about 78 as
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 825
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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