Mining Incidents

Mountainside Wash PlantCoal

Controlled by Damian Caldwell
Barbourville, Knox County, KY · NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 1519324
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2011–2016
Latest incident
May 2016
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2016 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

The lab employee was lifting a coal sample bag and pulled or strained their right bicep

2015 · 3 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stepped up onto the push arm of the D65PX-17 Dozer and his muddy boot slipped off of the step and since he was holding onto the grab iron, (handhold), it spun him around straining his back

Fall to the walkway or working surface

At approximately 2:30 a.m. on 06/04/2015, employee drove the vehicle to the upper plant gate and as he was locking the gate, he noticed that the vehicle was rolling and as he ran to catch it, he fell injuring his neck and lacerating his forehead.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The packing slip had been removed from a palletized box and in order to ascertain the contents of the box, EE slid the box around and strained his lower back

2014 · 1 incident

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

The injured laborer was stabilizing a top perlin across the basket of the man lift which was being operated by another contractor and his arm became trapped between the new building structure and the man lift basket resulting in broken Radius and Ulna bones of the lower left forearm.

2011 · 1 incident

Struck against stationary object

Employee was prying on a block of coal in the hopper, employees hand slipped off of the pry bar hitting the corner of the hopper resulting in lacerating his right finger, where he received four stitches.