# POWERED HAULAGE
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220040540061` · 02/10/2004 · Colony Bay Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Drowning
- **Occupation:** Haul/Off road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber tire truck driver, Transportation truck driver
- **Activity:** Utility truck, Water trucks
- **Injury source:** WATER
- **Nature of injury:** SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 17.85 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Colony Bay Coal Company
- **Mine:** [4606272](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/4606272)
## Narrative

Employee was driving a service truck down the Colony Bay access road. Just past CP-4, employee stated he lost his brakes and was the road clear. The truck apparently hit the bank at the padded pond and went along the pond road. The truck slid into the pond. Employee was under water about 2-3 minutes. He died 2/26/04.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*