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Sandy Valley Loading Facility Coal

Falls Creek Energy Company Inc · Facility

Controlled by Tammy L Kijowski; Frank S Schall

Falls Creek, Clearfield County, PA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 3606935

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 4
Years on record: 1984–1993
Latest incident: Oct 1993

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

1993 · 1 incident

October 19, 1993 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER

D S B Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE (LOADER OPERATOR) WAS FOUND SITTING IN A CHAIR IN THE SCALE HOUSE @ 8:15 A.M. SUFFERING FROM AN APPARENT HEART ATTACK. HE WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO DUBOIS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. AND AUTOPSY IS BEING PERFORMED. (AUTOPSY REPORT- HEART ATTACK).

1989 · 1 incident

September 18, 1989 PA · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

D S B Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

LARGE LUMPS OF COAL WERE BRIDGED ABOVE CRUSHER ROLLS IN CHUTE. OPERATOR TRYED TO BREAK THEM WITH TAMPING BAR. BAR WENT BETWEEN LUMPS, STRUCK CRUSHER ROLL, AND KICKED BACK SRIKING HIM ON SIDE OF HEAD NEAR LEFT EYE. HE RECEIVED A 1/2" CUT CORNER OF EYE AND BRUISE.

1986 · 1 incident

March 31, 1986 PA · Coal SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

D S B Company · Fall from machine

SLIPPED AND FEL5 WHILE DESCENDING FROM FRONT END LOADER

1984 · 1 incident

February 27, 1984 PA · Coal SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

D S B Company · Fall on save level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJ SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE TRYING TO CLOSE HOPPER DOORS ON RAILROAD CAR USING A PRY BAR