Mining Incidents

Blessinger Mine Coal

United Minerals Inc · Surface
Controlled by Greg Olinger
Loogootee, Monroe County, IN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1201971

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1987–1988
Latest incident
Oct 1988
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1988 · 1 incident

October 17, 1988 IN · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
United Minerals Inc · Struck by falling object

HOOKING A DRAINAGE PIPE TO LOADER BUCKET WITH LIFTING CHAIN SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO FOOT.

1987 · 2 incidents

December 15, 1987 IN · Coal loader head operator, roscoe operator OTHER
United Minerals Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

STRONG WIND BLO4ING OPERATOR WAS UNABLE TO HOLD DOOR WHEN MACHINE DOOR BLEW CLOSED ON HIS HAND.