Mining Incidents

No. 1Coal

Oak Ridge Energy Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Charles E Walker
Burning Fork Road, Meta, KY, Pike County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1516211
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2002–2004
Latest incident
Nov 2004
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2004 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was inserting a roof bolt into the mine roof using the roof bolter to push the bolt into the hole. He was using his left hand to guide the bolt into the hole and got his middle finger pinched between the mine roof and the bolting machine.

No Value Found

EMPLOYEE BUMPED ROOF WITH SCOOP, CAUSING A ROCK 1 1/2 X 18 X 24 INCHES TO FALL STRIKING HIS FACE AREA. COAL HEIGHT 28 TO 30 INCHES.

2003 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS ON THE OFFSIDE OF THE TAILPIECE WHEN THE SCOOP CAME IN TO DUMP COAL HITTING THE TAILPIECE PUSHING IT OVER ON HIS RIGHT LEG BRUISING THE RIGHT KNEE. HE WAS ASKED IF HE WANTED TO GO TO HO SPITAL BUT HE REFUSED.

No Value Found

DRIVING PERSONNEL CAR, RAN INTO A CURTAIN BOARD WITH THE CURTAIN ON IT. THIS IN TURN PUSHED HIS HEAD ONTO HIS NECK AND CRUSHED HIS VERTEBRAE.

2002 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WAS MOVING THE BOLTER MACHINE & THE BOLTER DECK CAUGHT HIS RT KNEE & PINNED IT AGAINST THE RIB. CAUSED A BRUISED INJURY TO RT KNEE.

Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

HE UNPLUGGED THE BATTERIES ON THE PERSONNEL CAR #2 BEFORE TURNING THE CHARGER OFF IN WHICH IT, THE PLUG IN, CAUSED A SPARK. GAS FROM A 6 VOLT BATTERY ARCHED BLOWING DIRT & DEBRIS IN HIS LEFT E YE.