Mining Incidents

Coal Valley East MineCoal

Townley, Walker County, AL · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103462
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2015–2018
Latest incident
Jul 2018
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2018 · 1 incident

Drowning

Employee was unclogging drain pipe at sediment pond 41E, while removing the pond floating boom from inlet of pipe, employee must have became engulfed in the draining water pulling ee into the drain pipe.

2015 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

Teammate was assembling a 18.00R33 tire on front wheel of 769 cat rock truck. Teammate was using the boom and a hammer to install the bead seat band on the wheel and was swinging the hammer, when the handle broke off of the head of the hammer and struck the teammates finger creating a fracture to left index finger. He continued to work and finished the job.