EMPL OPERATING ROOF BOLTER AND CAUGHT LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN DRILL POT AND DRILL STEEL WHEN PRESUURE WAS APPLIED TO TOP.
#1: 13 reportable incidents Coal
MSHA record for #1 (mine ID 1514271). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 13
- Years on record
- 1984
- Latest incident
- Nov 1984
- Oakley Coal Company Inc 1983 to 1985
- Big Shiner Coal Company Inc 1985 to present
#1 sits in Breathitt County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 2.3% of county employment.
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County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.Reportable incidents
13 on file1984 · 13 incidents
EMPL OPERATING MINER WHEN PIECE OF ROCK SLACKED OUT BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS HITTING EMPL ON ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE SAID HE WAS LIFTING TIMBERS TO BE SET AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
WAS OPERATING MOBILE BRIDGE, WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK SLACKED OUT BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS.
PULLING ON 4160 CABLE
FRONT-END LOADER LOADING ROCK TRUCK WHICH I.NAMEWAS DRIVING BUCKET OF LOADER BUMPED BED OF TRUCK CAUSING SLIGHT MOVEMENT OF ROCK TRUCK
SETTING TIMBER ON PACK ON MINER WHEN PRESSURE WAS PUT TOP, A LOOSE ROCK SLIPPED OUT BETWEEN PINS AND HIT MINER HELPER.
WHILE OPERATING MINER A PIECE OF ROCK SCALED OUT OF THE TOP BESIDE OF HIM HE MOVED QUIKCLY TO AVOID IF HITTING HIM AND TWIST THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK.
PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON OPERATOR WHILE BOLTING TOP.
OPERATING SCOOP, STOPPED SCOOP TO REMOVE PIECE OF ROCK FROM THE WHEEL WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL 3 THICH 4 WIDE FELL. OPERATOR FELL ACROSS SCOOP WHILE GETTING OUT OF THE WAY INJURYED LEFT RIB.
STEPPED OFF OF BRIDGE & SAID HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE, NOTE: THIS MAN WAS COMING OUT TO WORK LATE, THERE WAS NO WITNESSES TO THIS ACCIDENT, WE DONT KNOW IF HE WAS HURT ON THE JOB O R OFF
SETTING SMALL PUMP SLIPPED AND TWISTED KNEE HE WAS SETTING THE PUMP INSIDE THE MINE
OPERATING SCOOP LEFT WHEEL RAN OVER LUMP OF COAL WHICH IN TURN RAISED OPERATORS HEAD INTO THE MINE ROOF STOVED HEAD & NECK REGION.