Fall onto or against objects
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP ON A ROCK TO GET INTO HIS LOADER WHEN THE ROCK ROLLED ON HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND LAND ON THE ROCK BRUISING HIS RIBS.
Strip #2Coal
Valley Mining, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Mary J Brown
Newcomerstown, Guernsey County, OH · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3303708
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2000–2004
- Latest incident
- May 2004
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2004 · 1 incident
2000 · 1 incident
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
WAS DOWN ON GROUND NEXT TO SPOIL PILE LOOKING OVER A PILE OF GALVANIZED PIPE WHEN HE SAW A ROCK COME ROLLING OFF THE SPOIL PILE. HE GOT OUT OF THE WAY OF THE ROCK BUT THE ROCK HIT THE PIPE AND THE PIPE HIT HIM IN THE KNEE AND LEG.