Mining Incidents

Colliers CreekCoal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Partridge, Letcher County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518216
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
17
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Jun 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

17 on file

2007 · 2 incidents

Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stated that his back and hip were hurting causing his left leg and hip to hurt. Employee stated that shifting his weight to his right leg caused his knee to swell. Employee was admitted to Harlan ARH hospital to drain the fluid off the knee.

Struck by falling object

Employee was removing the belly pan when it fell striking his leg. Took employee to doctor and released him to go back to work. Infection got into the leg and employee had to have the leg lanced and the infection cleaned out. He had the surgery on 04/26/07.

2006 · 2 incidents

Struck against stationary object

Employee was getting off dozer, when he stepped on a rock and slipped and broke his foot.

Fall from machine

Employee was loading coal when the loader he was operating caught on fire. The employee jumped from the loader and when he landed, broke both legs. Employee jumped approximately 8 feet to the ground.

2005 · 6 incidents

Struck by falling object

Employee was helping lift a saddle off a 992G when the saddle came off the pin falling on his right foot. Employee's foot was between the saddle and the outrigger of the boom truck.

Struck by flying object

Employee was helping mechanic beat a pin out of a 777D truck strut when a piece of metal broke off the hammer striking the employee in the thigh.

Fall from machine

Employee claimed that he hurt his knee on Saturday 07/23/05 but didn't tell his foreman until Monday 07/25/05.

Fall from machine

Employee was on the top of the powder truck when he slipped and fell causing employee to sprain his ankle.

Struck against a moving object

Employee was pushing rock with a dozer when the dozer lost traction and slipped back. When the dozer caught traction, it jerked the employee's back.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was pulling impact wrench from beneath a D11 dozer when the coupling came loose allowing the air hose and coupling to strike the EE in the nose and right eyebrow area.

2004 · 4 incidents

Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING ONTO A 777C TRUCK WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING THE EE TO FALL, LANDING ON HIS BACK.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF HIS DOZER WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK. THE ROCK ROLLED CAUSING THE EE TO INJURE HIS ANKLE.

Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING LOADED WHEN A SECTION OF THE HIGHWALL FELL STRIKING THE BED AND CAUSING THE CAB TO BE LIFTED INTO THE AIR. EE DID NOT GO TO THE DR. THAT NIGHT. THE EE CAME TO WORK ON 10/13/04 AT 6 PM. AFTER DRIVING THE TRUCK FOR AWHILE, EE COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN & SORENESS.

Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING DOZER WHEN THE TRACK SLIPPED. WHEN THE TRACK CAUGHT, IT JERKED THE EMPLOYEE CAUSING PAIN IN NECK AND BACK AREA.

2001 · 2 incidents

Struck against a moving object

EE WAS DRIVING TRUCK TOWARD LOAD AREA WHEN HE DROVE THE TRUCK INTO A DITCH (FILLED WITH SOUPY MUD), THE SUDDEN JERK THREWEE'S RIGHT SHOULDER INTO THE WINDOW POST.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS THROWING A PIECE OF METAL AWAY WHEN THE EDGE OF THE METAL CUT HIS LEFT HAND RESULTING IN FIVE STITCHES.

2000 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

EE WAS TRAMMING GRADER UPHILL, THE GRADER LOST POWER AND STARTED BACKWARD AND COLLIDED WITH PARKED DRILL.