Mining Incidents

BRC Alabama No. 4 LLCCoal

Controlled by Steve Rickmeier
Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County, AL · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103362
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2008–2011
Latest incident
Dec 2011
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2011 · 3 incidents

Fall onto or against objects

Employee was getting in jon boat, was walking to the rear of the boat to operate the boat motor, employee tried to step on the metal seat to get to the back of boat, when he stepped on the metal seat he slipped, hitting the left side of his torso on the seat/bottom of the boat.

Contact with electrical current

Employee was working to rewire VFD control box for electric booster station pump. Employee reached inside the VFD circuit box to check the wiring and must have hit a bare wire causing an ignition or spark to occur that caused him to have burns to his face/head/neck/arms.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Climbing onto equipment.

2010 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was assisting with maintenance on a pump, he was trying to clean around the pump to make it more accessible for other EE's working on pump. Pushed shovel to dig and when it stopped against surrounding material, his weight shifted against shovel and lost balance. His body weight shifted, felt pull in his leg. Trouble with leg due to prior injury not related to work.

2009 · 4 incidents

Fall to the walkway or working surface

The john boat floor was slippery as water had accumulated in the bottom at one side of the boat.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was examining the air cylinder in the float cell. When he started to come down the ladder, he took a misstep on the ladder which turned his foot sideways causing his knee to pop.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Cold weather made the pipe more brittle than normal. Typically the pipe can be cut to a certain point then the pipe can be broken with the equipment to finish the break. Under normal conditions the pipe could have been broken this way. Due to the cold weather making the pipe brittle the amount that was cut was not strong enough to keep from breaking on its own.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Cold weather made the pipe more brittle than normal. Typically the pipe can be cut to a certain point then the pipe can be broken with the equipment to finish the break. Under normal conditions the pipe could have been broken this way. Due to the cold weather making the pipe brittle the amount that was cut was not strong enough to keep from breaking on its own.

2008 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was working a come-along overhead at the end of his reach.