Mining Incidents

Hickory GroveCoal

Controlled by NACCO Industries Inc
Poplar Springs, Winston County, AL · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0102639
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2000–2005
Latest incident
Oct 2005
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2005 · 2 incidents

Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee was running dozer, while ripping hard rock. The retainer holding the pin in the ripper tooth broke. He was unaware the tooth was hot; he attempted to drive the pin back into the ripper tooth and when his hand came in contact with the tooth, he burned his left hand.

Struck against a moving object

HIT HEAD ON TOP OF CAB OF DOZER.

2003 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO HOLD A 3-1/4"" NUT WITH A WRENCH WHEN THE NUT TURNED CUTTING HIS LEFT THUMB.

2002 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS ADJUSTING CONVEYOR BELT ON COAL CRUSHER USING A PAIR OF COMEALONGS TO PULL BELT TOGETHER. WHEN HE STARTED TO RELEASE THE COMEALONGS HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF THE HANDLE. THE HANDLE HIT EE AB OVE RT EYE REQUIRING 7 STITCHES.

2001 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

HE WAS LOADING AN IDLER FROM THE P&H DRAGLINE ONTO A TRUCK; THE IDLER SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER UNDER IT.

2000 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE A BEARING WITH A HAMMER AND CHISEL. HE MISSED THE CHISEL WITH THE HAMMER AND HIT HIS LEFT HAND.