Struck against stationary object
Employee was putting up a roof bolt that he had bent, as he reached up to straighten the bolt back out the plate on the bolt cut his left forearm.
Lige HollowCoal
KNOTT COUNTY COAL LLC · Underground
Controlled by American Resources Corporation
Pippa Passes, Knott County, KY · Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1519497
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2011–2012
- Latest incident
- May 2012
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2012 · 2 incidents
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was making a cable splice on a Shuttle Car when knife slipped and cut top of middle finger on left hand.
2011 · 2 incidents
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Principal was bolting when letting canopy down it struck him knocking him down he complained with back hurting. He continued to work and started missing work on 11-23-2011.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
He and another repairman was lifting a metal cover on the continuous miner, when he slipped and the metal cover pinned his arm against the continuous miner frame. This resulted in a fracture of the small bone in his right foreman.