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Mine No 5 Coal

Lost Creek Coal Company Inc · Surface

Controlled by Brown Barry L

Prospect, Walker County, AL · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 0102858

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 1992–1993
Latest incident: Jan 1993

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

March 6, 1992 AL · Coal superintendent Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Lost Creek Coal Company Inc · Struck by powered moving object

ON MARCH 6 1992 AT APPROX 2:00PM A FATAL ACCIDENT OCCURED AT THE LOST CREEK COAL CO PIT #5 SETTLING POND CONSTRUCTION STIE ID #0102853 ACCIDENT OCCURED WHEN A LOADED CONCRETE TRUCK SUDDENLY MO VED FORWARD TO REPOSITION STRIKING I NAME SUPERINTENDENT OF A&A POOL CO WHO WAS KNEELING IN FRONT OF THE RT WHEEL A&A POOL CO HAD CONTRACTED TO CONSTRUCT A SPILLWAY FOR THE PROPOSED SEDTTLING

Reportable incidents

1 on file (excluding fatalities above)

1993 · 1 incident

January 9, 1993 AL · Coal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler MACHINERY

Lost Creek Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS OILING AND CLEANING DARGLINE. DRAGLINE ALTERNATOR GRABBED CLOTH HE WA CLEANING WITH AND CARRIED FINGER INTO ALTERNATOR FAN. FAN CHEWED END OF FINGER (INDEX) ON RIGHT HAND. FIRST JOINT OF FINGER HAD TO BE SURGICALLY REMOVED.