Mining Incidents

No 6 Coal

Cougar Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by James H Booth
Van Lear, Johnson County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1517788

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1996
Latest incident
Sep 1996
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1996 · 2 incidents

September 10, 1996 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Cougar Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE & COWORKER WERE HELPING TO SUPPORT MINER PLANETARY ON SCOOP TO SLIDE IT IN THE SCOOP; WHEN ANOTHER EE RAISED SCOOP BUCKET, EE TWISTED HIS BACK.

August 10, 1996 KY · Coal electrician, lineman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cougar Coal Company Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

THE EE WAS CHANGING MOTOR ON LEE NORRIS ROOF BOLTER AND THE PRYING BAR HE WAS USING SLIPPED AND THIS CAUSED HIM TO FALL INJURING HIS BACK, ARM, AND RT SHOULDER.