Mining Incidents

Wallins StripCoal

Controlled by Joseph T Bennett
Grays Knob, Harlan County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518292
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2000–2003
Latest incident
Jan 2003
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2003 · 1 incident

No Value Found

ON SAT 1-25-03 EE WAS HELPING TO INSTALL A STABLIZER ARM ON A DOZIER. THIS IS VERY HEAVY AND TAKES FOUR MEN. WHILE DOING THIS HEAVY LIFT IS WHEN THE INJURY OCCURED BUT EE DID NOT KNOW IT AT TH E TIME AFTER A PERIOD OF MISTREATMENT, MRI WAS DONE THAT SHOWED THE DISK PROTRUSION. HE HAS BEEN INT HE CAR OF DR SINCE THAT TIME.

2002 · 1 incident

Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS GETTING OFF END LOADER. WHILE COMING DOWN LADDER, HE SLIPPED & HIT HIS LEG AGAINST BATTERY BOX. INITIAL TREATMENT WAS FIRST AID. HE CAME TO WORK ON 5-8 WITH NO LOST TIME. WENT TO DR ON 5-13, POSSIBLE BLOOD CLOT, WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL.

2000 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE STEPPED ON BULLDOZER TRACKS TO RETREIVE A GREASE GUN, SLIPPED & FELL TO THE GROUND