Mining Incidents

Mine #2Coal

Bremen, Cullman County, AL · Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 0103117
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2003–2007
Latest incident
Oct 2007

Fatalities at this mine

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

Employee was getting back on dozer to move for a shot. A co-worker was backing beside the dozer. He struck employee, and ran over him with pickup truck. Employee suffered trauma to his head and chest.

Reportable incidents

10 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2007 · 3 incidents

Fall onto or against objects

Employee was getting off his dozer; he slipped and as he fell his left leg got caught between the push arm and the track. The employee broke both bones in his lower leg.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Walking on bench, he stepped in a hole.

Struck by falling object

Employee was operating a trackhoe, clearing in advance of the mining. He was working in an area of trees; he moved his machine and a limb broke and came into the cab striking him in the left shoulder.

2006 · 3 incidents

Fall from machine

EE was fueling his dozer at the end of his shift, when he slipped and fell from the dozer, to the ground.

Struck against a moving object

The employee was leveling up on the highwall when he backed his dozer over the edge. The dozer went down the 40' wall backwards turning slightly to the right. The dozer appears to have hit on the right track at the back of the machine, then laid over on its side. During this fall the employee's head hit something on the inside of the cab. He had to have 7 stitches.

Accident type, without injuries

PC1800 was digging on a hard place in the pit. The bucket came in contact with an unfired booster and set it off. The bucket was on top of the primer. No damage just a few rocks sprayed in the immediate area. Also a loud bang.

2005 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

He was lifting a piece of steel. He place a chain on the plate and on a loader bucket. When he lifted the plate he reached under the plate to move a cross tie; then the chain slipped off the loader bucket. The plate dropped and caught his right thumb and index finger.

2004 · 2 incidents

Struck by flying object

EE WAS PULLING PIN THAT HOLDS TOOTH (CAT LOADER). PIECE OF METAL WENT IN UPPER RIGHT THIGH - LODGED IN MUSCLE.

Contact with heat

Very hot weather conditions, working put pipe in and dehydrated.

2003 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

1 1/2 CHAIN BROKE - PIECE OF CHAIN HIT EMPLOYEE IN RIGHT WRIST.