EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO OPEN THE PELLET MILL DOOR. WHILE DOING THIS TASK HE HURT HIS BACK. HE STATED HE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO OPEN THE DOOR, THE BAR SLIPPED AND HE STUMBLED FORWARD BUT DID NOT FALL.
Carbon #1Coal
Carbon Operations Of Kentucky, LLC · Facility
Controlled by Douglas E Miller
Central City, Muhlenberg County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518073
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2002–2003
- Latest incident
- Jun 2003
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2003 · 2 incidents
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Fall onto or against objects
EMPLOYEES WERE REPLACING A BELT WIPER. WHILE REMOVING THE WIPER IT BECAME STUCK. A PRY BAR WAS USED TO DISLODGE STUCK PART. THE PRY BAR BEING USED BY A SECOND EMPLOYEE SLIPPED CAUSING THIS EMP LOYEE TO STUMBLE. HE FELL INTO THE INJURED EMPLOYEE CAUSING HIM TO FALL INTO BELT STRUCTIRE, INJURING HIS HEAD.
2002 · 2 incidents
Struck against stationary object
CONVEYER BELT WAS FROZEN TO SKIRT RUBBER. EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING CHUTE AND HIT HIS HAND ON CATWALK. EMPLOYEE COMPLETED SHIFT AND WENT TO DOCTOR NEXT DAY. X-RAY TAKEN OF HAND, NO FRACTURE NOR A BNORMALITY TO BONES.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE PARKED THE WATER TRUCK AND WAS EXITING THE EQUIPMENT. EE STATED THAT WHEN HIS LEFT FOOT TOUCHED THE GROUND HE FELT A PAIN IN LOWER LEFT SIDE OF HIS BACK. EE FINISHED SHIFT AND WENT TO DOCTO R NEXT DAY.