Mining Incidents

Flag RidgeCoal

Controlled by Damian Caldwell
Barbourville, Knox County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519627
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2012–2014
Latest incident
Apr 2014
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2014 · 2 incidents

Fall to the walkway or working surface

The employee was watching another employee hydroseeding with the hose when the other employee lost his footing & stumbled & employee ran to assist the other employee, fell and rolled down the slope, pulling the muscles in his neck.

Struck against a moving object

The Dozer operator was tramming backward in a shot when the track slipped off of a boulder and injured his left side soft tissue in the rib area

2012 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee turned the A/C unit on and an unidentified object flew into the employees eye.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was exiting the excavator, as he stepped down on the track he lost his balance due to the track being wet and twisted his left knee.