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Surface Mine No 4 Coal

Ridgeway Coals Inc · Surface

Controlled by United Company

Kimper, Pike County, KY · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 1513303

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 5
Years on record: 1984–1986
Latest incident: Nov 1986

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

1986 · 4 incidents

November 26, 1986 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Ridgeway Coals Inc · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS GR9ASING DOZER, HE SLIPPED FROM DOZER PUSH ARM, STRIKING HIS LEFT KNEE AGAINST THE GROUND.

June 6, 1986 KY · Coal outside foreman, leadman FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS

Ridgeway Coals Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

I.NAME WAS INSP9CTING BROKEN DRIVE LINE ON POWDER TK IT HAD THROWN A U-JOINT & WAS ON A HILL TRUCK HAD FOULED AGAINST BOOSTER BRAKE CHAMBER WHEN I.NAME & ANOTHER EMPLOYEE INSPECTED THE T K TO SEE WHAT WAS WR2NG WITH IT I.NAME MOVED THE DRIVE LINE & THE TRUCK BEGAN TO ROLL BRUSHING HIS LEFT SHOULDER & RUNNING OVER LEFT LEG

April 9, 1986 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Ridgeway Coals Inc · Struck against stationary object

HE HIT HIS FORE2EAD ON MIRROR CAUSING PAIN TO BACK OF NECK & HURTING BETWEEN SHOULDERS.

April 3, 1986 KY · Coal drill operator MACHINERY

Ridgeway Coals Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS STEAM CL9ANING A 98C LOADER WHEN CLEANING WAND HIT HIM WITH HOT STEAM & WATER STRIKING HIM ON THE LOWER RIGHT LEG

1984 · 1 incident

February 17, 1984 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY

Ridgeway Coal Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS CUTTING TREES IN HOLLOW FILL CHAIN SAW KICKED OUT OF TREE HITTING HIM IN THE INSIDE PART OF HIS RIGHT KNEE.