Mining Incidents

CHM 1Coal

Williamsburg, Whitley County, KY · Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1518765
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
2006–2024
Latest incident
Apr 2024
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2024 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

The generator overheated so the employee released the pressure then as EE took off the radiator cap the antifreeze spewed up causing burns to EE's face, neck, right shoulder and right arm.

2019 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

The employee stepped off of the miner and turned around striking EE's elbow on the miner machine. The employee later received medical attention at the Pikeville Medical Center on 7/11/2019. EE was diagnosed with a fractured bone.

2017 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Was pulling a rubber ring off of #1 horizontal auger, when lower back and hip popped.

2013 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was using a hand held grinder when he let it slip and the grinding dish struck his left wrist.

2011 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

The forklift pushed the cutter head up to the miner to be hooked up when the fork pulled out he didn't realize his toes were under the head which fell down a couple of inches resulting in mashing all 5 toes. No bones were broken just mashed.

2008 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

We were in the process of tearing down miner to move to another job. The strap holding the hoses & cables to the reel broke causing the cables & hoses to fall off of reel scraping down victim's back causing scratching & bruising.

2007 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Ground person instructed highwall miner operator to push beam forward. Ground person reached to remove debris (dirt) as the beam was approaching the cutting head to be latched together. The ground person reached in before operator could stop forward motion and retracted.

2006 · 1 incident

Accident type, without injuries

We were mining 630' under the mountain there was a rock fall ont he head when we tried to drill it out the latches brase on beam lowering 18 beams and the mines heard 63rth undergound.