The employee was installing metal sheeting on the prep plant roof when he became ill from the heat - mild heat exhaustion was eventually diagnosed.
BRC Alabama No. 5 LLCCoal
BRC Alabama No. 5 LLC · Surface
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 file2008 · 5 incidents
Contact with heat
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.