A road grader descended down a haul road backwards and landed against the hillside in a ditch. The operator was found under the ripper at the rear of the machine.
Slate BranchCoal
CAM MINING LLC · Surface
Controlled by Rhino Resource Partners LP
Freeburn, Pike County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518915
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 6
- Years on record
- 2005–2008
- Latest incident
- Oct 2008
Fatalities at this mine
1 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Reportable incidents
5 on file (excluding fatalities above)2008 · 1 incident
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was removing a fuel injuector line while lying on his back and stretching & twisting to reach the clamps on the line. He felt a popping in his back. Employee did not seek treatment until 11/12/2008.
2006 · 3 incidents
Fall from machine
Employee was turning around on the bumper of his service truck and he fell off the bumper onto a driveline.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was guiding fan shroud that was being lifted with a boom truck when lifting eye broke allowing fan to strike employee cutting his left forearm.
Accident type, without injuries
Contract brushing crew cracked a fitting on a 2"" Equitable Gas line. No injury. Equitable contractors repaired line.
2005 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Attempting to put the roll over onto a endloader when he got his finger between the frame of the endloader and the rollover and it moved pinching his finger.