Mining Incidents

KIMBLE #1Coal

Controlled by Keith B Kimble
Dover, Tuscarawas County, OH · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3304109
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
15
Years on record
2000–2014
Latest incident
Apr 2014
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

15 on file

2014 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

Driver backed to the berm of the dump site and did not stop. 85 ton rock truck he was driving pushed through the berm. Truck rolled down the embankment and the driver jumped from the truck.

2011 · 2 incidents

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

Employee was cleaning auger hole and some piece of top was going up conveyor. He went to the conveyor to throw the pieces off. A piece rolled down and hit his finger between a rock and the paddle on the conveyor.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Was loading hoses and water pump into bucket of excavator, when the bucket moved and struck employee in the chest.

2007 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

Was spray painting numbers on wall. Was facing highwall when some rocks fell off the wall landing on ee-a couple heads higher than ee-rocks did not fall from top.

2005 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CLEANING TRACKS ON DOZER - CHUNK OF ICE / MUD HIT FINGER.

Struck by falling object

PULLED UP TO DOZER TO FUEL - HE STEPPED OUT OF TRUCK & WALKED BACK TO GET FUEL HOSE - PART WAY BACK A ROCK HIT HIM IN THE CALF.

2004 · 1 incident

Fall from machine

Stepped out of machine and fell. No medical treatment, Physician gave him three days off. Had a contusion to the left stomach wall.

2003 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

WAS TRYING TO MOVE A 3"" WATER PUMP BY HIMSELF. WHEN HE PULLED UP TO LIFT, INJURED BACK.

2002 · 1 incident

Struck by flying object

ROCK FLEW OUT FROM UNDER TIRE OF 150 TON TRUCK AND HIT LT. LEG IN CALF.

2001 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS POWER WASHING A BULLDOZER. TURNED AND SLIPPED AND HURT HIS SHOULDER (LEFT) WHEN HE SLIPPED.

2000 · 5 incidents

Struck against stationary object

MINER WAS CLIMBING UP ON MACHINE AND HIT HIS HEAD ON MIRROR BRACKET LACERATION AND BRUISING SPRAIN NECK.

Fall from machine

TRIPPED WHEN SECURING BASLES OF STRAW TO BE USED RECLAIMING MINE LAND. FELL FROM TRUCK BED ON TO GRAVEL PARKING LOT.

Fall from machine

OPERATOR FELL OFF LOADER WHILE CLIMBING & STRUCKHIS BACK ON LOADER TIRE.

Struck against a moving object

LOST CONTROL OF 45 MACK ROCK TRUCK- STEERING FAILURE. OPERATOR HAD SEAT BELT ON. TRUCK WENT INTO CORN FIELD. OPERATOR HURT LOWER BACK AND LEG. TRUCK WAS BEING TRANSPORTED FROM PIT TO PIT ON CO UNTY ROAD.

Struck against a moving object

TWO DOUBLE ENGINED SCRAPERS WERE PILING DIRT. ONE RAN TOO CLOSE TO EDGE AND ROLLED SCRAPER. OPERATOR'S SEAT BELT WAS ON.