Mining Incidents

#3 Strip Coal

Controlled by Dan Chambers
Pineville, Bell County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1515270

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1986
Latest incident
Jun 1986
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1986 · 1 incident

June 28, 1986 KY · Coal auger helper MACHINERY
Wash Ridge Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

I NAME WAS FUEL3NG THE AUGER MACHINE AT THE END OF THE SHIFT. AND THE OPERATOR LOWERED THE MACHINE TO SET MARKS. I NAME HAD HIS RIGHT FOOT UNDER THE AUGER MACHINE WHEN IT3WAS LOWERED. PINNING HIS FOOT UNDER THE MACHINE. THE FIRST AND THRD TOES ON HIS RIGHT FOOT WERE SMASHED. AND THE SECOND TOE WAS AMPUTATED HIS RIGHT FOOT WAS BRUISED AND LACERAT