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Polly SurfaceCoal

Controlled by Kenneth L Stacy
Thornton, Letcher County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518308
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2002–2003
Latest incident
Sep 2003
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2003 · 3 incidents

Sapphire Mining Inc
Over-exertion in lifting objects

WORKING ON A DRILL HURT HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING.

Sapphire Mining Inc
Fall onto or against objects

SLIPPED AND FELL ON PUSH ARM OF DOZER.

Sapphire Mining Inc
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HOLDING PIN WITH PLIERS WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS HITTING PIN WITH HAMMER. CO-WORKER MISSED PIN & HIT EE'S RIGHT WRIST (EE WENT BACK TO WORK SAME DAY, DR SAID WRIST BRUISED.) HIS WRIST KEPT H URTING AND ON 3-17-03 TOOK BACK TO DR AND WRIST WAS FRACTURED.

2002 · 1 incident

Sapphire Mining Inc
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS GOING DOWN THE STEPS OF THE MINE OFFICE AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.