Mining Incidents

Mine #3 Coal

Bare Mining Inc · Underground
Controlled by Turner Fran E
Eolia, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1516366

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

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1988 · 3 incidents

November 9, 1988 KY · Coal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider STRIKING OR BUMPING
Bare Mining Inc · Struck against stationary object

EMPL SHOVELING LOOSE COAL AT SECTION BELT TAILPIECE.AS HE ATTEMPTED TO GET UP FROM KNEELING POSITION,STRUCK HEAD ON MINE ROOF FORCING NECK TO ONE SIDE.BLOW RESULTED IN NECK SORENESS -INABILITT Y TO TURN HEAD TO LEFT.

October 5, 1988 KY · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bare Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMP INJ RING FINGER OF R. HAND WHILE CHECKING OIL IN PERS. VEHICLE THE INJ OCC WHEN EMP FINGERTIP WAS CAUGHT BY FALLING HOOD A(D RESULTED IN BROKEN FINERTIP AND LOSS OF NAIL.

October 4, 1988 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
Bare Mining Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A ROOF BOLTER IN 38 INCH COAL WHILE ATTEMPTING TO WALK IN A SQUATTING POSITION HE SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIS BODY WEIGHT ON HIS RIGHT KNEE THE RESULTING INJURY CONSISTED OF SORENESS AND STIFFNESS OF THE KNEE JOINT REQUIRING MEDICAL ATTENTION.