Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
While cleaning a railroad car for loading, employee slipped and injured his left knee.
Tuscarora BreakerCoal
Kuperavage Ent Inc. / Tuscarora Coal · Facility
Controlled by David B Kuperavage
Middleport, Schuylkill County, PA · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3606428
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 8
- Years on record
- 2000–2015
- Latest incident
- Mar 2015
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
8 on file2015 · 2 incidents
Over-exertion in lifting objects
While charging the heavy media sump, the miner tore the tendon in the left bicep when he lifted a bag of magnetite.
2013 · 2 incidents
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Standing next to bin loading a truck with slate and something flew in to his eye
Struck by falling object
While replacing a return idler on the raw coal feed conveyor, the new idler slipped off the mounting bolts and struck the left forearm.
2008 · 1 incident
Over-exertion in lifting objects
EE and another EE were moving 50lb bags of magnatite. He said he felt a twist, thought he must have pulled his back. Worked a full day and did not report until following day.
2003 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EE WAS SORTING ROCK FROM COAL WHEN RIGHT HAND BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO ROCKS, INJURING THUMB & RIGHT HAND.
2000 · 2 incidents
Fall from machine
EE WAS LOOSENING BOLT ON ENGINE REMOVAL ON D9 DOZER.. TOOL SLIPPED OFF NUT, EE LOST HIS BALANCE, FALLING TO GROUND. PAIN ON RIGHT SIDE--RIB AND SHOULDER BRUISED.
Struck by flying object
EMPLOYEE WAS LODDING MUD FROM MUD DAM USING A GRADE ALL. WHIEL DUMPIN BUCKET OF MUD, IT SPLASHED BACK INTO WIDNOW SPLASHING HIM IN THE EYES WITH MUD. ADMINISTERED FIRST AID ON JOB SITE. WEN T TO EMERGENCY ROOM AT GOOD SAMARITON HOSPITAL FOR FURTHER CLEANING. WAS SENT TO DR. FOR FURTHER EXAMINATION.