EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON FUEL PUMP TO GET IT STARTED AND HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS NECK.
Big Branch MineCoal
Locust Grove Inc · Surface
Controlled by Edward L Clemons Estate
Amburgy, Knott County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518352
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 9
- Years on record
- 2001–2003
- Latest incident
- Apr 2003
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
9 on file2003 · 5 incidents
Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
Struck by flying object
DUST BLEW IN EMPLOYEE'S LEFT EYE. INITIALLY NOT REPORTABLE - EMPLOYEE SOUGHT TREATMENT LATER.
Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects
EE WAS SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER AND PULLED MUSCLES IN HIS BACK.
Fall from machine
EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING GREASE TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL INJURING HIS HEAD AND BRUISING HIS BACK.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE WAS FILLING UP AN OIL TANK ON A TRUCK. A PLASTIC CAP OFF OF AN AIR PUMP BLEW OFF AND HIT EE IN LEFT EYE.
2002 · 1 incident
2001 · 3 incidents
Struck by falling object
EE WAS DRIVING HIS ROCK TRUCK WHEN THE WINDOW FELL ON HIS LEFT PINKY. EE WAS X RAYED TREATED AND RELEASED TO RETURN TO WORK.
Fall from machine
EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF GREASING EQUIPMENT WHEN HE STEPPED BACKWARDS OUT OF HIS TRUCK SLIPPED AND FELL BACKWARDS AND HIT HIS HEAD ON A ROCK
Struck against a moving object
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A D11 DOZER WHEN IT SLIPPED BACKWARD INTO A HIGHWALL CAUSING INJURY TO HIS RIGHT LEG AND BACK.