Over-exertion in lifting objects
Employee installing starter in drill, which was on the side of the road. EE couldn't get access to crane and had to lift and install starter by hand. EE pulled a muscle in lower left back area.
Pegs BranchCoal
DALCO CORPORATION · Surface
Controlled by Stephen F Carey
Belfry, Pike County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519711
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2014–2017
- Latest incident
- Nov 2017
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2017 · 3 incidents
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
miner was attempting to insert a steel pin in the shank of the auger steel, when the carriage moved just slightly, catching employee's right thumb, resulting in the miner having surgery to put metal pins in employee's thumb, and employee returned from the hospital on the same. day.
Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
Auger operator was handling auger steel and the middle finger of EE's left hand was caught between two pieces of steel, resulting in the miner losing one inch off the end of middle finger.
2014 · 1 incident
Struck against a moving object
On 6/12/14 employee called in & said his back was hurting & couldn't work. He thought it was a pre existing injury of his sciatic nerve from 2008, he called back on 6/23/14 & said he wanted an accident report filled out due to jarring in a rock truck. He was off several days before reporting that he was injured at work.