Mining Incidents

New Elk MineCoal

Controlled by Allegiance Coal LTD
Weston, Las Animas County, CO · Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 0500296
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
33
Years on record
2010–2013
Latest incident
Jan 2013
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

33 on file

2013 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Ice caused the slope car to derail. Employee was jacking the car up when he was struck by the jack handle. He received a cut to the right side of his face just below the right eye brow. The cut required five stitches and the employee was released to full duty.

Accident type, without injuries

XC-1 East Mains saturated top of roof fill above anchorage zone. This is due to Geological conditions.

2012 · 6 incidents

Accident type, without injuries

Roof fall due to kettle bottoms, mud stone and water saturation.

Struck by falling object

Employee was removing a tilt cylinder from a TRS on a roofbolter. He removed the pin from cylinder and cylinder fell pinching the right index finger resulting in a laceration and slight fracture.

Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Injured person was shoveling on the slope belt near the tailpiece. The belt was running. Some rocks became caught between the top belt and the hold down roller, he tried removing the rocks with his shovel and got close to the running belt. His arm got caught between roller and belt.

Struck by falling object

The employee was examining the belt line and heard a noisy roller. He bent down to look at the roller and a piece of material ( coal or rock) came off of the belt hitting the employee in the left side of face, causing bruising and possible concussion.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was jacklegging and when raising leg it stopped and suddenly raised upward striking employee in mouth and right side of face. This resulted in complex right lower lip laceration, right cheek laceration, depressed fracture anterior wall right Maxillary Sinus, fractured teeth

Struck by falling object

Building Stop Blocking. Air tugger fell causing a laceration to the front of leg down to ankle and impacted his foot.

2011 · 22 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Washed truck, was getting in truck and slipped grabbing door with right arm.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Moving Swamp Pump

Struck against stationary object

Cleaning under belt frame

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Moving a pump because it was out of water did not want the pump to seize as employee moved it over out of #1 he slipped & fell. Employee felt a slight pull he ignored it because it didn't bother him until he got home around 8:30-9:00am.

Accident type, without injuries

Damage to the upright guide that keeps the cable from touching the ground was pulled loose and caused the cable to jump the bull wheel.

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

Employee was roof bolting. While pushing bolt up into the hole, the employee held onto the bolt and pinched his hand between the bolt and plate.

Struck against stationary object

Unloading rock dust, hanging ventilation tubing - stepped on a rock and twisted left knee

Over-exertion in lifting objects

THERE WAS NO EVENT THEREFORE THIS IS NOT WORK RELATED.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was roof bolting and twisted right knee

Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Working in mine water and got Dermatitis

Fall onto or against objects

The employee was jack legging, the leg buckeled knocking the employee down and he hit his head causing a cut.

Accident type, without injuries

The hoist had an electrical problem and would not operate.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was carrying oil cans from hoist car to the roof bolter. All of a sudden his knee started hurting.

Accident type, without injuries

A roof fall occurred between 1 and 2 entry at crosscut #5. The fall was from 6 to 8 feet high. The fall was approximately 30 feet in length. The roof had been bolted with six foot fully grouted roof bolts.

Contact with electrical current

Person came in contact with high voltage electrical source.

Accident type, without injuries

Electrical problem with the hoist. It was determined we could not fix it within the allowed time. Called the MSHA hotline number to report the accident (downtime) of hoist. Had all miners come out of mine. Repairs to hoist was made within a few hours. Hoist put back into service.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee lost balance, fell backwards and put his right hand back to catch himself. He ended up falling on his right wrist and he heard a pop sound.

Accident type, without injuries

The hoist gears were stripped to nothing when lowering a scoop and slack in the rope tightens it puts alot of tension on the gears of the hoist.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A cable was being used to help pull a piece of equipment. The cable broke hitting employee across both knees.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Mopping bath house floor with mop - buckets and nozzle for hose in the new bath house, could not carry hot water to and from, used sink in the bath house to get water, went over floor again with towel felt back pulled muscle.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Mopping bath house floor with mop - bucket and nozzle for hose in the new bath house. Could not carry hot water to and from. Used sink in bath house to get water, went over floor again with towel felt back pull muscle.

2010 · 3 incidents

Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Air jumping the fuel trailer with the Eimco. The hose was not hooked up. When the air was turned on, fuel sprayed into worker's eyes.

Struck by falling object

Employee was moving Angle Iron into warehouse, piece slipped out of his hands and bounced off his leg. Even though this occurred on 10/6/10 he did not report that he needed to go to the doctor till 10/14/10. The injury occured on the last day of his scheduled 7 day rotation. He did not seek medical attention for this until the last day of his 7 off 10/14/10.

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

EE was holding steel aligning it with jackleg and jackleg jumped smashing his hand into the roof.