Struck against a moving object
While excavating coal pit, equipment operator worked himself into a position that when he attempted to correct resulted in overturning excavator on its top, crushing the cab area and the operator.
Feds Creek SurfaceCoal
Surface Minerals Company · Surface
Controlled by Metinvest B V
Fedscreek, Pike County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518940
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 5
- Years on record
- 2007–2013
- Latest incident
- May 2013
Fatalities at this mine
1 recordedReportable incidents
4 on file (excluding fatalities above)2013 · 1 incident
Fall onto or against objects
Employee went to get on the push arm of a D10R dozer and his foot slipped causing him to fall and hit the push arm with his left rib cage causing cracks to two ribs. He returned to full duty the next shift. His regular job duty is an excavator.
2010 · 2 incidents
Fall to the walkway or working surface
Employee was walking from a dozer to a hauler and tripped over a small berm created by the dozer pushing, he fell to the ground. He caught his fall with his right arm and stoved it up. He continued to work and started missing work on 9-7-2010 due to complications.
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee entered the cab of the drill and mashed his thumb when he shut the door on it. He had to have sutures to close the wound on his thumb. Tip of bone was cracked. He missed no scheduled work.
2008 · 1 incident
Struck against a moving object
988F backed into foremans F-150 pickup truck. The foreman was backing up while talking on c.b. and backed into the path of the 988f loader. Damage was to the right rear door of F-150