Looks like soft earth on the side the Shovel fell over. I've never seen this footage before, kind of wonder how something like this could happen.

I saw the aerial view of this first, the tracks looked small next to the machine, it's really hard to grasp the size of these things without actually seeing them it in person. Thanks

A really bad day for everyone associated with this machine. I just hope no one was hurt when this tipped over on its side like this.

How did you find this footage?

wow the crawler assy. stayed put and pulled right out of their housing

How did this happen?

I'd think they would have had professionals plan & prepare much better, when moving such an expensive & (basically) irreplaceable mining shovel as this one. If this shovel was repaired, I imagine the repair process would have taken weeks or months, & would have been quite expensive.

I'd l Iove to know the story behind this...please keep putting these vids up I grew up around this stuff and coal minin is thick in my blood...

@TL64329

5 жыл бұрын

The story I heard was they were moving the shovel to another pit and stopped it for a while and it was too close to the water. The right side slowly started sinking and before anyone could do anything it was over on it's side.

@harryhearn3667

11 ай бұрын

i was working for another coal company in the next county when this happened. when i saw the photo in the newspaper it was easy the see why this happened. the haul road was built over swamp land and what i remember someone made the decision to not shut down the coal truck haul and had the shovel to move to one side to do this.just too much weight on the one side caused it to turn over. had it been in center of haulroad most likely everything would have been ok. just too close to the edge. one other thing i will add, it was told it took 45 minutes to turn over.

Whatever became of this machine? The only thing I could find online was a later picture, date unknown.

@trashpanda314

11 ай бұрын

Scrapped in place.

@pressureworks

11 ай бұрын

@@trashpanda314 thank you.

@trashpanda314

11 ай бұрын

@@pressureworks no problem. Google “Marion 5761 shovel accident Central City KY” and there’s a few articles about it.

@TomokosEnterprize

5 ай бұрын

@@trashpanda314 AWE, Really ?

@trashpanda314

5 ай бұрын

@@TomokosEnterprize according to the book “Power Shovels” - "Originally shipped in April 1968, it was the 12th out of the 15 Marion 5761 shovels to be built. Sadly, in February 1984 the Gibraltar 5761 was lost in a freak accident at the mine, when the shovel tipped over as it was being moved to a new pit location." The shovel was salvaged where it landed. Much speculation that the incident was no accident, as there was an existing hard road they usually used, but instead chose to go the swamp route that day. Apparently, the shovel was insured by Lloyd's of London.

Was anyone killed in this mishap?

@MiningPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

No sir.

Always heard it was an insurance job, they knew the ground was swampy and TVA was slowing on coal consumption

@littlewazz

2 жыл бұрын

I came across a bunch of posts saying the same thing, even the operator said he could get the machine unstuck & out before it fell over and was told no by upper management of Peabody

@littlewazz

2 жыл бұрын

I came across some posts just recently and they say the same thing. The operator said he could get the machine unstuck and out before it fell over and the upper management told him no let it go

@ahole1971

7 ай бұрын

They bought a new dragline with the claim money.

Woman 👩 operator?

@bobdelano6746

3 ай бұрын

FAF😂 Why dont most women wear a wrist watch ?? 🤔 Now adays theres a clock on every stove 🤪