Safety Alert – Seat Belt Use on Mobile Equipment – was issued after determining that 20 miners who died in mobile equipment accidents since 2005 would have survived if they had been using their seat belt. MSHA says dozer operators wearing seat belts have ridden their machines over benches and off highwalls and walked away; truck drivers have overturned vehicles and exited the cab unharmed. In the most recent incident, wet ground collapsed beneath a haul truck, sending the truck and driver 120 feet down a steep embankment. The truck driver was still buckled in when rescuers reached him, so he suffered only a bump on the head. However, there are still some operators who don’t buckle up every time they get in a machine. (Source: – Aggregates Manager)
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