Mining Incidents

Fleetwood Mine No 1Coal

Controlled by Allegiance Coal LTD
Peterson, Tuscaloosa County, AL · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103179
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2000–2014
Latest incident
Jun 2014
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2014 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was climbing into a dozer. He felt a pull and snap in his right shoulder but didn't report the injury to the office at that time. The injury got worse and he reported it on 8/12/14 after going to the doctor.

Struck against stationary object

The employee was shutting off a heat valve on a tractor. His right thumb was caught on the valve.

2006 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

Employee was dumping rock from his 773B rock truck (#63W1910) when truck overturned landing upside down, causing damage to the rock truck and sending him (via ambulance) to the hospital with a back injury.

2005 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was climbing 3 ft. hill when he lost his balance and fell.

2003 · 2 incidents

Flash burns (welding)

EE WAS WELDING FOR ABOUT THIRTY MINUTES. WORKED ENTIRE SHIFT NO PROBLEMS, RIGHT EYE START BURNING ABOUT 2:00 AM NEXT MORNING 10-25-03. STILL DOESN'T KNOW WHAT CAUSED EYE BURN.

Accident type, without injuries

HITACHI EXCAVATOR WAS REMOVING OVERBURDEN ON COAL SEAM WHEN IT STRUCK A LOADED DRILL HOLE, CAUSING SAID HOLE TO DETONATE, CAUSING DAMAGE TO DOZER NEARBY. NO INJURIES WERE CAUSED TO OPERATORS.

2002 · 3 incidents

Fall from machine

OPERATOR WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF OF HIS MACHINE AND FELL TO THE GROUND.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE WAS OPERATING HIS DOZER PUSHING ROCK. A ROCK WENT OVER EDGE OF BLADE AND GOT CAUGHT IN TILT CYLINDER AND LINES. HE PULLED UP TO TOP OF A HILL AND TRIED TO REMOVE ROCK HIMSELF. IN DOING THI S, HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

Struck against a moving object

EE WAS HAVING THE ROCK TRUCK HE WAS OPERATING LOADED WITH COAL BY A FRONT END LOADER. A ROCK FELL OUT OF THE LOADER BUCKET AND HIT THE ROCK TRUCK, JARRING THE ROCK TRUCK AND EE CONTACTED THE FOREMAN AND INFORMED HIM THAT HIS BACK WAS HURTING AND THE FOREMAN TOOK EE TO E.R. TO HAVE HIS BACK EXAMINED.

2001 · 1 incident

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

EE WAS WORKING ON THE CHAIN OF A ROTARY DRILL WHEN THE CHAIN UNEXPECTEDLY MOVED, CAUGHT HIS RIGHT HAND AND ROLLED IT WHICH RESULTD IN THE SMALL FINGER BEING FRACTURED.

2000 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

EE WAS DISCONNECTING THE PUMP HOSE FROM THE WATER TRK AFTER FILLING TRK W/WATER TO SPRAY ROAD. AS HE REMOVED THE HOSE, DUE TO THE WATER HAVING WET EVERYTHING THE HOSE WAS FALLING FROM HIS GRI P.AS HE JERKED HIS HAND OUT OF THE WAY OF THE HOSE CONNECTOR HE HIT HIS HAND ON A B3OLT ON THE PRAY BAR WHICH RESULTED IN HIS HAND BEING SLICED BETWEEN THUMB & INDEX FINGER REQUIRING SEVERAL S