Mining Incidents

Mill BranchCoal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Closplint, Harlan County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517821
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
34
Years on record
2000–2011
Latest incident
Nov 2011

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
Struck against a moving object

Employee was reclaiming highwall with dozer when the dozer flipped and rolled several times landing in the road. Employee was unconscious with labored breathing when they got to him.

Reportable incidents

33 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2011 · 8 incidents

Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee pulled hose up steep hill, and was coming back down when his feet slipped and he fell 15 ft down and then tumbled another 15 ft down.

Struck against a moving object

Employee was working on road with a d-9 dozer when a rock rolled out of a berm and he backed over it jarring his lower back. Employee didn't go to doctor until 9/27/2011

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was putting batteries into a 993k loader when he twisted his knee the wrong way causing his knee to swell and cause pain when he bends it. He didn't go to the doctor until 08/15/2011

Struck against a moving object

Employee was loading a rock truck with a 993 loader when the bucket of the loader dropped hard on a rock and jarred his middle back.

Struck by falling object

Employee was removing a final drive to the ground when the chain came loose and hit employee in the mouth.

Struck against stationary object

Employee was working underneath 993 loader when he inadvertently raised up and cut his head on the bottom of the loader.

Struck against stationary object

Employee was using a pry bar to remove a transmission out of a 777 truck when his hand slipped off the pry bar and his struck the 777 truck.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was walking down catwalk of excavator when the catwalk slipped down about 5 inches, jarring the employees knee. Employee did not go to the doctor until 4/7/2011 when his foreman made him due to severe pain.

2010 · 3 incidents

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was pulling hydroseeder hose when his feet slipped and he landed on his back.

Struck against stationary object

Employee was riding with dayshift foreman when they stopped to look over into a hollowfill. Employee stepped onto a berm to look at the hollowfill. As the employee was stepping down the berm, he stepped onto a rock, causing him to lose his footing.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was climbing ladder to get on grader when his right knee gave out.

2009 · 2 incidents

Fall onto or against objects

Employee was checking grade on a ditch when he fell on a rock striking his side. Employee was taken to the hospital and recieved 2 or 3 stitches.

Struck against a moving object

Employees was pushing spoil with a dozer. The employee went forward over the pile of dirt and when the dozer fell over the dirt the blade hit the ground, jarring the employee.

2008 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was removing a portable antenna from the top of the dozer when he felt a sharp pain in his lower back.

2007 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

Employee was going down hill when his brakes failed to hold and turned the truck over.

2005 · 2 incidents

Struck against a moving object

Employee was descending down a coal haul road when he lost control of his coal truck and went over an embankment.

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

Employee was changing a bogie on a D11 roller frame. Employee started to get up when the other mechanic moved the bogie, catching the employee's fingers between the bogie and the frame.

2004 · 4 incidents

Struck by falling object

Employee was cutting a tree down with a chain saw, when a limb flew back and hit him above the left eye. Four stitches to close laceration.

Struck by flying object

EE WAS HITTING A PIN ON HIS EXCAVATOR WHEN A PIECE OF THE PIN BROKE OFF STRIKING THE EE ABOVE THE RIGHT EYEBROW. EE RECEIVED 3 STITCHES ABOVE HIS EYEBROW.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was getting off front end loader when he felt pain in his back.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS LIFTING BATTERIES UP ONTO A WATER TRUCK WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK AND LOWER NECK AREA.

2002 · 7 incidents

Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE ASSEMBLING TRACK, HE LIFTED LINK AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE POWDER TRUCK WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED, WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS WEIGHT WITH HIS HAND HOLDING THE HANDRAIL IT PULLED HIS SHOULDER.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS GETTING ONTO AN EXCAVATOR WHEN HE FELT A BURNING IN HIS RIGHT LOWER ABDOMEN AREA. EE NOW HAS A KNOT ON HIS LOWER ABDOMEN. NOTE: EE WOULDN'T GO TO THE DOCTOR UNTIL 09-17-02.

Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING RUDD MECHANIC WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE TRACK STRIKING HIS SIDE AND FALLING ONTO THE GROUND ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD AND NECK.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS BEATING ON A PIN ON AN EXCAVATER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF AND HIT THE EE IN THE JAW-2 STITCHES.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE WAS TIGHTNING LUG NUTS ON COAL TRUCK WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

Fall onto or against objects

EE STEPPED ON DOZER PUSH ARM, RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING SHIN BONE STRIKE PUSH ARM.

2001 · 3 incidents

Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING A HUB OFF A 777C HAULBACK WHEN THE BEARING POPPED OFF STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE IN THE ABDOMEN REGION CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO FALL BACKWARDS OVER THE BOOM TRUCK'S OUTRIGGER HIT TING HIS BACK.

Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS CHECKING THE FLUID LEVELS ON THE ENGINE OF A MACK COAL TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL, HURTING THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS BODY. (HIP, LEG AND SIDE)

Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EE WAS REMOVING BOOSTER CABLES FROM A 773 CAT HAULBACK TRUCK WHEN THE BATTERY BLEW UP IN HIS FACE.

2000 · 2 incidents

Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS BREAKING COAL WITH AN END LOADER WHEN THE BUCKET OF THE LOADER WENT THROUGH THE COAL, STRIKING THE BOTTOM AND HURTING EMPLOYEE'SBACK.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING IN A 5 GALLON BUCKET WHEN HE DEVELOPED A RUPTURE.