Mining Incidents

No 2Coal

Cavalier Mineral Inc · Underground
Controlled by Gary Dotson
Phyllis, Pike County, KY · Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1517194
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2000–2008
Latest incident
Aug 2008
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2008 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee lifted a case of bottled water - lower back pain.

2007 · 1 incident

Accident type, without injuries

Was loading clean up car and rock fell on miner.

2006 · 1 incident

Accident type, without injuries

Substation on surface caught fire could not be extinguished. Internal comments of the substation were destroyed by fire.

2003 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS MAKING SPLICE IN BELT. EMPLOYEE #2 PASSED OVER A NAIL BOARD WHICH HIT EMPLOYEE #1 ON LEFT HAND, INDEX FINGER. EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK AND FINISHED SHIFT.

2002 · 2 incidents

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

EE WAS LOWERING A RAILROAD JACK WHEN THE JACK FELL AND MASHED HIS LEFT RING FINGER, PINCHING IT.TWELVE STITCHES REQUIRED TO CLOSE THE WOUND.

Struck by falling object

EE WAS CRAWLING ON HANDS & KNEES WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK 18"" X 8"" X 1"" FELL ON HIS HAND. THE HEIGHT WAS 48"".

2001 · 3 incidents

Contact with heat

EE WAS SHOVELING LOOSE COAL WHEN HE BECAME WEAK FROM HEAT.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS LIFTING A 50 LB BAG OF ROCKDUST WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK ON THE RIGHT SIDE.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS INSTALLING RESIN GROUTED BOLT. HE BENT TO BOLT TO INSERT IN HOLE AND WHEN HE WAS PUSING BOLT WITH DRILL BOOM THE ROOF BOLT PLATE SMASH HIS LITTLE FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

2000 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON EMPLYEE'S HAND.