Mining Incidents

No 23Coal

Eagle Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by James H Booth
Van Lear, Johnson County, KY · Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1519100
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
2007–2008
Latest incident
Sep 2008
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2008 · 7 incidents

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee came in early to work and was loading belt structure in scoop bucket and pulled a muscle in his stomach.

Accident type, without injuries

Roof fall at 3 crosscuts outby Spad 151 between #5 and #6 entries. The fall is approximately 1800 ft underground and 1500 ft from the face. Fall was 16' high, 18' wide and 20' long. The mine was idle. Employees were doing utility work. Fall will not be cleaned up. Fall will be dangered off and supported as per roof control plan.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was roof bolting he was putting in pin steel and pulled wrong lever and boom came down and hit his right hand bruising it.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

He was unloading supplies when he felt pain in lower back, pulled muscle.

Struck by falling object

He was bolting roof When he was changing drill steel. When the steel fell out an hit his hand cutting his right thumb. He received 16 stitches. No lost time.

Struck against stationary object

He was helping to move mine. He was walking with his headto one side. When his left ear hit a roof bolt and cut it. He received 5 stitches in his left ear. Came back to work on ""No lost time"".

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Using a utility knife, working on the phone line when the knife slipped and cut his middle finger on his left hand. EE received 3 stitches at the ER and returned to work and finished his shift. No time lost.

2007 · 1 incident

Accident type, without injuries

2nd shift 220 feet in mining hit auger hole. Mines pre law. No accurate mine maps are available. Inundation of water.