Mining Incidents

# 2Coal

Bitco Resources Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Kevin R Yonts
Pikeville, Pike County, KY · Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1519422
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2011–2012
Latest incident
Jul 2012
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2012 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was positioning waterline to haul UG. A joint had unknowingly got into a bind & when he moved it, it sprang back & hit him in head creating a cut that required stitches.

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

One employee was throwing cinder blocks through a mandoor to the victim. Through a lack of communication, victim started to pick up a block as another one was being thrown resulting in a pinched finger. Right ring finger required stitches and bandaging.

2011 · 2 incidents

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Three men were lifting cable in order to hang it from the top. After hanging the cable 1.5 hours later EE said that he thought he had hurt his leg. He worked the rest of the shift and went home, called that night and went to the doctor the next morning.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Men were in the process of hanging cable so shuttle car could haul under it. EE's where holding up cable while another ee twisted wire around it in order to hold it up. He then left section and told another ee that he had strained his groin & that he was going home.