Mining Incidents

Big BranchCoal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Stoney Fork, Harlan County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518247
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
14
Years on record
2000–2016
Latest incident
Jun 2016
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

14 on file

2016 · 3 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was dismounting dozer when EE stepped off track onto push arm, slipped and sprained left ankle.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was helping foreman set a pump near a pond when EE twisted their right ankle, went to Mary Breckingridge Hospital ER and they said it was a sprained ankle.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee originally got hurt 5/23/14. EE reported to safety that ee had back problems 1/5/16 and that it stemmed for the earlier injury

2014 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking drill bench marking holes to be drilled when he slipped and fell hurting his lower back.

2013 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was changing oil on a 993 loader, he was down on left knee, when he raised up his knee popped.

2012 · 4 incidents

Struck by flying object

Employee was helping change air filter in loader when the wind blew dust in his left eye.

Struck against stationary object

Employee stepped between rocks in spillway when he twisted his right knee area. Employee is just now having surgery on knee (9/30/2014) expected to be off work 4 to 6 weeks.

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

Employee was getting out of pickup truck when he shut his hand up in the door injuring his right thumb.

Unclassified, insufficient data

Employee told Foreman that he hurt his back, When asked by the Foreman, did he hurt it at work, the employee stated that he did not hurt it at work and he had turned it in on his health insurance. We later received a letter from a lawyer stating that the employee hurt his back at work.

2006 · 1 incident

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

Employee was operating a dozer when he got a limb caught between the blade and the nose piece. The operator was trying to remove the limb when the limb slipped catching his hand between the limb and a guard on the back of the blade. The guard made a laceration on the employees hand.

2005 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

Employee was tramming dozer towards parking lot when he was blinded by the sun. The dozer dropped over a hump, hitting the blade and causing the dozer to stop abruptly. EE hit his head on cab of dozer (11 stitches to forehead.)

2001 · 2 incidents

Struck against stationary object

EE WAS GETTING OFF 777D TRUCK WHEN HE BUMPED HIS KNEE ON THE CORNER OF THE STEP.

Struck against a moving object

EE WAS DRIVING HIS PICKUP TOWARDS THE FUEL TANKS WHEN HE LOST CONTROL IN A CURVE WITH LOOSE GRAVELS. THE TRUCK SKIDDED INTO A DITCH INJURING THE EE'S LITTLE FINGER.

2000 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

EE WAS DRIVING THE MECHANICS TRUCK FROM PETERS KNOB TO ST CREEK WHEN HE HIT A BUMP AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.