Mining Incidents

#3Coal

LA Energy LLC · Underground
Controlled by Vhonda Dotson
Langley, Knott County, KY · Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1518659
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2007–2009
Latest incident
Jul 2009
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2009 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

Employee was busting rock at section loading point with a sledge hammer. He swung the hammer and his hand hit the feeder and broke the bone at the end of his finger.

2008 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee reached over top of scoop while scoop was still energized. When he sat back down in the operator's deck, his body caught the steering lever causing scoop to steer itself under low roof, catching employee's body between roof and the scoop.

Rubbed or abraded

EE was crawling back to ATRS controls on bolter and twisted his left knee.

2007 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Employee was drilling a hole in roof to install a roof bolt when a small piece of rock broke loose from roof and fell on his hand and drill pot of bolter breaking the middle finger on his left hand.