Mining Incidents

Cardinal MineCoal

Spurgeon IN, Pike County, IN · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1202446
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2012–2014
Latest incident
Jul 2014
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2014 · 2 incidents

Struck against a moving object

The miner was traveling on a downhill slope and lost control of tractor and collided into berm at the bottom of the slope resulting in his head striking the air conditioner vent inside the cab.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While installing equalizer bar pin in dozer with a hydraulic porta-power the victim hit pin with sledge hammer dislodging porta-power which struck victim in face.

2012 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Preparing to unload drill steels from truck when peg came out causing one side of drill steel to fall off truck onto steel toe of boot and roll back onto foot causing broken tip of big toe and laceration on bottom of foot due to pressure of steel on foot.