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Marine Coal Mine #22 Coal

Tau Coal Company Inc · Surface

Controlled by B W McDonald

Phelps, Pike County, KY · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 1517394

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 1994
Latest incident: Dec 1994

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1994 · 2 incidents

December 9, 1994 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Tau Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING DOWN THE THE D9H DOZER, WHICH HE HAD BEEN RUNNING. AS HE REACHED THE GROUND HE TURNE DHIS ANKLE. HE STEPPED FROM THE PUSH BEAM, (ON SIDE OF DOZER), TOT HE GROUND HE STEPPED ON UNEVEN GROUND AND HURT HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

December 6, 1994 KY · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Tau Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED WAS INSTALLING LIFT JACK ON D-9 DOZER, USING A 992 LOADER TO SUPPORT THE JACK. HE REACHED DONW TO ALING BEARING AND END OF JACK THE JACK SLIPPED INTO PLACE SUDDENLY WHEN THIS HAPPENED IT CAUGHT THE END OF HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.