Mining Incidents

Leach MountainCoal

Controlled by Damian Caldwell
Clairfield, Claiborne County, TN · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003122
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Mar 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2007 · 1 incident

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

Struck against a moving object

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

2002 · 1 incident

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

Fall from machine

WHILE CLIMBING OFF D9N DOZER EE FELL FROM ARM ON BLADE TWISTING LEFT KNEE.

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.

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

Struck against a moving object

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

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

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

Over-exertion in lifting objects

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

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