Mining Incidents

Newsome Branch Mine #1 Coal

Controlled by Donn A Chickering
Virgie, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517249

MSHA record for Newsome Branch Mine #1 (mine ID 1517249). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1994
Latest incident
Jan 1994
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1994 · 1 incident

January 7, 1994 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Branham & Baker Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING R-85 ROCK TRUCK LOADING UNDER 992 LOADER IN PIT LOALDER OPERATOR PICKED UP LARGE ROCK & WAS ATTEMPTING TO PLACE ROCK IN TRUCK BED THE ROCK SLIPPED OF LOADER BUCKET & FEL L SOME DISTANCE TO THE TRUCK BED THE ROCK LANDING IN THE TRUCK BED CAUSED THE TRUCK OPERATOR TO BE THROWN UPWARD FROM HIS SEAT HE EXPERIENCED SOME DISCOMFORT BUT DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL AT TENTI

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