Mining Incidents

Three Mile Reclamation Work #1Coal

Shelby Gap, Pike County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518748
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2005–2006
Latest incident
Oct 2006
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2006 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Pulling chocker cable to drill, ground was muddy, ee slipped. He kept on working, did not report being hurt, ran dozer rest of day. Did not call in or report for work 10-23, 10-24-06. Called at 3:45 pm on 10-24-06 and said he had hurt his back.

2005 · 3 incidents

Struck by flying object

Employee was driving a pin into a bucket tooth when a piece of metal chipped off of the pin and became embedded in his right forearm.

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

EE had parked his service truck in order to work on a grease truck. Although the park brake had been set, the service truck began to roll backwards. He was caught between the driver's door of the service truck and the front bumper of the grease truck.

Struck by falling object

EE stated that he was lying on the ground changing a fuel filter on a chevrolet pick up when 2 foreign body fell into his right eye. He said he flashed it out with eyewash and continued working. Two days later his eye become painful and felt like something was in it.