Mining Incidents

Brookside LoadoutCoal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Ages, Harlan County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517880
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Feb 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2007 · 1 incident

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

At 08:40 am this morning, Employee was found slumped over in a dozer by another employee. He was pronounced dead by the emergency room Doctor from a massive heart attack at the Harlan A R Hospital.

2005 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was helping beat a bushing off a gear when a piece of metal broke off, striking the employee in the left forearm on the ulna side.

2003 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

EE WAS PICKING UP SOME WIRE WHEN A PIECE OF COAL FELL FROM A CONVEYOR STRIKING HIS LITTLE FINGER.

2001 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE NOTIFIED EMPLOYER ON 3/1 OF AN ALLEGED BACK INJURY ON 2/15/01. EE ALLEGES HE HURT HIS BACK WHILE SHOVELING WET COAL FROM UNDER A BELTLINE. AS OF THIS DATE THERE HAS BEEN NO TREATMENT FOR BACK INJURY.

2000 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WASMOVING A PIECE OF 8 INCH BY 10 INCH PIECE OF CHANNEL, WHEN HE TWISTED TO LAY IT DOWN, HE FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK.