Mining Incidents

No. 9 MineCoal

Harlan, Harlan County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519568
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2013
Latest incident
May 2013
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2013 · 4 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was in the conveyor of the shuttle car, cleaning some loose coal from the side of the operators compartment, and when he stepped out onto the bottom, he twisted his left ankle. (Fracture)

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

The employee was located at the off-side rear of the Fletcher roof bolting machine, and a roof bolt and plate had fallen off the machine. The employee bent down to pick it up and the operator began tramming the machine at this time and backed the machine up onto the employee's right foot.

Struck against stationary object

The employee was removing a brattice, in a worked out area of the mine, to create a common travel way. While loading the excess brattice block into the scoop bucket, the employee stumbled and fell, striking his left little finger on a rock lying on the bottom, causing a laceration.

Struck by flying object

Employee was standing in the left crosscut of the #4 entry, on the 001 section. The continuous miner set in to shear the inby left corner of the crosscut, and a rock flew from the ripper head, striking the employee on the right knee.