The operator of the 775 haul truck left the pit loaded with coal and started up the ramp when EE felt the truck lost traction or bogged down on the hill. The truck backed down the ramp and into the highwall causing a whiplash like accident causing injury to the operator's neck and shoulder.
Flat Top MineCoal
Iron Eagle Land Rehabilitation, LLC · Surface
Controlled by David Michael Jamison; Petri E Koivula
Jasper, Jefferson County, AL · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0100627
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2016–2021
- Latest incident
- Jul 2021
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2021 · 2 incidents
Struck against a moving object
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was working on a rock truck in a sitting position, when they stood up they lost balance. Employee did not fall but when they caught themselves they pulled a muscle in right bicep.
2018 · 1 incident
Accident type, without injuries
Employee was driving a rock truck returning back to the North Pratt washer via Flat Top mine entrance road. While traveling back, on the right-hand side of the road, employee veered off to the left-hand side of the road, running the truck off into a hollow along the mine entrance.
2016 · 1 incident
Fall onto or against objects
Employee standing on top of oil tote changing pump out from one tote to the other, when EE slipped and mashed thumb between the pump and the oil tote.