Mining Incidents

TimbertreeCoal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Cumberland, Harlan County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518603
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
2003–2006
Latest incident
Sep 2006
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2006 · 1 incident

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was dismounting his dozer when he stepped on dust that had become slippery due to the steam ginny spraying out his radiator. The employee fell, landing on his left foot.

2004 · 2 incidents

Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A COME-ALONG ON A D 11 DOZER WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL OFF ONTO THE TRACKS OF THE DOZER.

Struck against a moving object

EE WAS PUSHING FILL WITH A D11 DOZER, HE CALLED FOR THE FOREMAN TO COME GET HIM. EE STATED THAT HE COULD NOT STAND THE BUMPING OF THE DOZER. HE STATED THAT THE PAIN WAS FROM A PREVIOUS INJURY FROM A PREVIOUS EMPLOYER. EE WOULDN'T GO TO THE DOCTOR, BUT HE DID GO HOME.

2003 · 5 incidents

No Value Found

EE WAS BACKING UP DOZER ON A NORMAL RUN WHEN HE RAN OVER A LARGE ROCK THAT HE HAD FAILED TO SEE AND WHEN THE DOZER FILLED IT JARRED HIM THUS HURTING NECK AND LEFT SHOULDER.

No Value Found

EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING UP A DOZER, HE RAN OVER A BIG ROCK AND WHEN THE DOZER FELL OFF THE ROCK, IT JARRED THE EMPLOYEE'S BACK CAUSING PAIN.

No Value Found

EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING UP IN A 980 LOADER LOOKING OVER HIS LEFT SHOULDER WHEN HE CAUGHT THE RIGHT BUMPER AGAINST THE BANK, JERKING THE EMPLOYEE.

Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS WALKING FROM A FRONT END LOADER TO ANOTHER FRONT END LOADER WHEN HE STEPPED IN A RUT AND FELL BENDING HIS HAND UNDER HIM.