Mining Incidents

Access EnergyCoal

Bluegrass Resources · Underground
Deane, Letcher County, KY · Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1519532
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
15
Years on record
2012–2018
Latest incident
Jul 2018
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

15 on file

2018 · 4 incidents

Struck by falling object

Employee was working on a Joy 14-9 continuous miner with the top lid opened when the lid fell down on middle finger on the right hand. This action fractured the tip of the middle finger on right hand. Employee took self to the doctor after the shift and returned to work the next day with no time lost.

Rubbed or abraded

Crawling, not lifting properly. *Employee did not notify mine management of any injury.

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Hearing loss. *Employee did not notify any person from mine management of any injury.

Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Not wearing respirator, not following ventilation plans. *Employee did not notify mine management of any injury.

2014 · 4 incidents

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was installing a section of 6 inch water line. He reached across belt structure to pick the water line up and felt pain in his groin and abdomen area.

Struck against stationary object

Workman was standing on the #7 head drive pulling on motor leads when he lost his footing and fell into a H beam on the head drive. He strained his right shoulder and lower back.

Struck against stationary object

Employee was shoveling the #2 overland belt when he struck his hand against a metal trough. The metal sliced through the glove he was wearing and lacerated his right little finer. Two stitches were required to close the wound.

Struck against stationary object

The employee was making up roof bolts and plates to bolt a cut when he slipped and his arm struck a roof bolt causing a laceration that required 7 stitches to close the wound.

2013 · 4 incidents

Struck by flying object

Employee was applying rockdust in the #8 Head Drive Area when the waterline ruptured and a piece of the plastic struck him in the left side of the head causing a laceration that required stitches. On 6/11/13 we received information in the form of a work excuse taking ee off work beginning 6/10/13.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was hanging cable around the tailpiece when the waterline blew apart at the head drive. The waterline pushed forward and the water manifold at the tailpiece struck EE in the back and fractured a rib.

Struck against stationary object

He was dragging ventilation curtain from #6 entry to the #5 entry and as he turned the corner of the #5 entry he came in contact with a roof bolt plate.

Accident type, without injuries

During retreat mining we had a pillar fall occur that extended from the area where pillars had been mined in the normal cycle of retreat mining and extended outby where the continuous miner was cutting coal out of a pillar while performing retreat mining.

2012 · 3 incidents

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

Employee was trouble shooting a hydraulic problem in the valve chest on the continuous miner. A valve stuck and the bumper on the miner sat down on his left foot. Employee sustained 3 fractured toes and a laceration requiring stitches.

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

EE was helping lift the arm on a head drive when the arm swung around and his finger was caught in a pinch point. EE sustained a laceration requiring stitches.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was using a slate bar to move the track when the bar slipped and came back hitting him in the side of the face causing a fracture of the zeugmatic arch.