Mining Incidents

BRC Alabama No. 5 LLCCoal

Controlled by Steve Rickmeier
Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County, AL · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103365
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2008
Latest incident
Jul 2008
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2008 · 5 incidents

Contact with heat

The employee was installing metal sheeting on the prep plant roof when he became ill from the heat - mild heat exhaustion was eventually diagnosed.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was sitting on structural steel, reached down below the floor level to lift a chain hoist.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was walking/running across the construction site of a preparation plant - when he twisted his left knee on uneven ground/mud.

Accident type, without injuries

A fire developed on the upper most elevation of the preparation plant being constructed in Brookwood, AL for Covol Engineered Fuels. It is assumed that slag from a cutting torch unknowingly fell inside a polyethylene pipe, allowing it to smolder and eventually catch fire from the inside of the pipe(s). MSHA's 800 number was called - report # 1-52227611.

Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee was working under overhead personnel - hot slag/sparks fell through grating floors - striking employee in the right ear.