Mining Incidents

Leach Mountain Coal

Controlled by Damian Caldwell
Clairfield, Claiborne County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003122

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Mar 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
100
citations
20
significant & substantial
$8,737
proposed penalties
$8,256
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 213 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,693 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 23,338 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 23,283 2 0 85.9
2005 Q4 47,137 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 19,822 7 1 353.1
2005 Q2 39,902 7 0 175.4
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2007 · 1 incident

March 7, 2007 TN · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was walking up the slope and dropped his water bottle. As he bent over to pick the water bottle up, a stick from the trees he was carrying went up his nose, puncturing the skin inside his nose causing it to bleed.

2005 · 1 incident

January 17, 2005 TN · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS OPERATING 992C LOADER WHEN EE BUMPED LEFT ELBOW, RESULTING IN SWELLING

2002 · 1 incident

September 12, 2002 TN · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS HYDROSEEDING, C HOSE GOT HUNG OVER ROCK, WENT TO PULL HOSE OVER ROCK, JUMPED OFF BANK, LEFT KNEE TWISTED & POPPED.

2001 · 3 incidents

January 24, 2001 TN · Coal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

AFTER SHOT WAS PUT OFF DRILL MAN MANUALLY LIFTED AND MOVED ROCK APPROX. 15 FT. AFTERWORD LOWER BACK AND GROIN BEGAN HURTING. CONTINUED TO GET WORSE BUT EE WORKED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. UNABLE TO WORK MONDAY 1-29-01.

January 2, 2001 TN · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Fall from machine

WHILE REMOVING ENGINE FROM 992C #M96 EMPLOYEE'S WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO GROUND, NO APPARENT INJURY, FEW DAYS LATER EMPLOYEE NOTICED NUMBNESS IN BOTH HANDS, BEGAN GETTING WORSE MISSED WORK 2-14 TO 2-19 RETURNED 2-20. DR TO SEND TO SPECIALIST.

2000 · 4 incidents

November 20, 2000 TN · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING UP THE DOZER AND RAN OVER A ROCK.

July 10, 2000 TN · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE REMOVING A LINE ON A DOZER HAND WAS PRESSED INTO ANOTHER LINE, REQUIRED 4 STITCHES.

June 27, 2000 TN · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

AFTER REMOVING SEAT FROM TD25G EE LIFTED AND TURNED AROUND PULLING A MUSCLE IN BACK.

April 18, 2000 TN · Coal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EE CLAIMS SMOKE BEING BLOWN BACK IN FACE WHILE WELDING BUCKET ON 992C WAS INHALED & MADE HIM SICK. EE NOTIFIED CO. 4-24 THAT HE WENT TO DR. 4-22& SAID DR. WOULD NOT KNOW CAUSE UNTIL 4-28. UPON RETURN WAS TOLD TEST NOT BACK YET & WAS UNSURE OF CAUSE BUT RELEASED EE TO RETURN 5-1. CLAIMS ADJUSTED PHONE 5- & SAID HE & DR. HAD DECIDED SMOKE INHALATION. EE STILL OUT FOR UNRELATED REASON