Mining Incidents

Johnson-Floyd Coal Company LLC Job 1Coal

Collista, Johnson County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518701
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2006–2008
Latest incident
Aug 2008
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2008 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

Heavy rain when the operator was climbling onto the loader. WHen his foot slipped causing him to fall 6ft to the ground breaking his left leg.

2007 · 2 incidents

Fall from ladders

While standing on a 5' step ladder, ladder tilted to the right causing employee to strike the ground with his right shoulder.

Contact with hot objects or substances

A 14' camper trailer used as a guard shack. Employee was using a propane cook stove to prepare a meal and apparently fell asleep. The trailer caught fire. He escaped trailer but suffered severe burns to hands, arms and neck and minor burns to his face.

2006 · 2 incidents

Fall onto or against objects

Operator was mounting rear of front end loader when he lost his grip and fell about 2 1/2 feet onto his lunch bucket breaking his left collar bone and 3 ribs.

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Contractor did not adequately block the rock truck bed from motion.The bed had been blocked with two crib blocks on top of each other on 4 corners. The blocks were installed parallel with the front and back of the bed. On the 2nd swing of the sledge hamer, the bed fell 6"" off the top crib blocks, injuring the contractor installing the bushing.