Operator was digging drainage ditch and was attempting to remove a rock, rock slipped out of excavator bucket and caused machine to whiplash operator from side to side. Operator complained of pain in lower neck and back.
F-3 Bear ForkCoal
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 13
- Years on record
- 2004–2010
- Latest incident
- Oct 2010
Reportable incidents
13 on file2010 · 2 incidents
Loading boulders, tripped/fell, cut thumb on something - stitches.
2006 · 3 incidents
Tramming miner down hill, track began to pop and skip. He was watching track to make sure it didn't come off when it popped again amd something flew from the track and struck him in the right eye.
EE was refueling 4"" honda gasoline water pump with a metal spring loaded gasoline can when the gasoline ignited.
Working on undercarriage, trying to get top roller off using a hammer, a piece of metal came off the roller and was embedded in the right little finger.
2004 · 8 incidents
OPERATOR OF D11 DOZER(CO#D12) WAS CLEANING WINDOWS DURING LUNCH BREAK. EE STEPPED BACK AND STEPPED OFF THE CATWALK FALLING TO THE TRACK THEN FALLING AND HITTING PUSH ARM THEN TO THE GROUND.
18-DEGREE-WEATHER HOSE BLEW ON CUTTER HEAD. EE RAISED LID TO REPLACE THE HOSE. LID FELL ON EE'S LEFT HAND, CUTTING HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER ON THE RT. SIDE OF THE HIGHWALL MINER WHEN HE SLIPPED STRIKING HIS RT. ARM ON THE FRAME. HE WORKED UNTIL 6 PM & WENT HOME. WHEN HE GOT UP TO COME TO WORK ON 10/27/04 HIS SHOULDER WAS SORE & HE WENT TO THE DR.
Operator was loading a rock truck, on his second pass to load his bucket he came out of the seat hitting his face on the windshield
HE WAS PUTTING CORNER BIT ON DOZER BLADE AND STRAP SLIPPED THAT WAS HOLDING THE BIT UP AND IT FELL HITTING HIS FOOT.
EE GOT THE DOZER STUCK OVER THE OUT SLOPE, IT WAS REAL STEEP. WHEN HE GOT OUT OF THE CAB HE SLIPPED AND FELL. HE SLID DOWN THE TRACK AND STRUCK THE BLADE OF THE DOZER.
PUTTING A LINE-UP PIN IN AN INGERSOLL RAND DM45 DRILL TRACK USING A SLEDGE HAMMER. HE HIT THE PIN AND A PIECE OF METAL HIT HIM IN HIS LOWER RIGHT ARM AND EMBEDDED.
EE COMPLAINED WEEK BEFORE WITH HIS BACK. HE HAD BEEN LIFTING AT HOME. WHEN HE GOT ON DOZER HE SAID HE BACKED OVER A SMALL RIDGE OF DIRT & IT JOLTED HIM SOME & THAT'S WHEN SHARP PAIN HIT HIM & HE YELLED FOR HELP.