Mining Incidents

Old Smith Gap Surface Mine Coal

Controlled by Pittston Company
Dante, Dickenson County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4406327

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
1988–1990
Latest incident
Feb 1990
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

1990 · 1 incident

February 22, 1990 VA · Coal drill operator DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Clinchfield Coal Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

COMPENSATION FOR HEARING LOSS.

1989 · 6 incidents

June 6, 1989 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Clinchfield Coal Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOLYEE WAS SERVICING TRUCK HE BEGAN CLIMBING LADDER ON REAR OF TRUCK LOST HIS GRIP & FELL BACK AGAINST PUSH BEAM OF DOZER

April 18, 1989 VA · Coal outside foreman, leadman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Clinchfield Coal Company · Fall from machine

DISMOUNTING DOZER STEPPED DOWN ON STEP FT SLIPPED DOWN BETWEEN PUSHBEAM AND TRACK L FT WENT ALL WAY TO GROUND ALONG SIDE OF DOZER PULLING R FT BACK OUT FORM BETWEEN PUSHBEAM AND TRACK AND BRUI SING R SHIN BACK STRAIN NOT NOTIC. TIL 4-21-89

April 4, 1989 VA · Coal drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Clinchfield Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TRYING TO ADJUST SEAT IN TRUCK LEVER WIRE WAS BROKEN EMP PULLING ON WIRE TRYING TO RELEASE SEAT LATCH WIRE SLIPPED HIS HAND AND CUT FINGER.

February 21, 1989 VA · Coal SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Clinchfield Coal Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS GREASING JOINTS ON LODER BOOM. HE HAD CLIMBED UP APPROX. TWO FEET FROM THE GROUND TO REACH TOP GREASE JOINTS. EMPLOYEE FINISHED GREASING JOINTS AND JUMPED FLAT FOOTED THE TWO FE ET BACK TO THE GROUND, LANDING IN LOOSE MATERIAL IN THE COAL PIT CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND MOST OF WEIGHT SHIFTED TO HIS LEFT KNEE AND HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

January 16, 1989 VA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Clinchfield Coal Company · Struck against a moving object

RIDING IN BACK OF BLAZER USED TO TRANSOPRT EMP OT JOB SITE VECHICLE PULLED OUT IT STRUCK ROCK VEH STOPPED SUDDENLY CAUSING EMP TO MOVE FORWAR D AND STRUCK FOREHEAD ONT OP OF C B SEAT BELT NOT DRAWN TIGHT.

1988 · 1 incident

July 9, 1988 VA · Coal drill operator MACHINERY
Clinchfield Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS USING THE PROPER TOOL AND METHOD TO UNCOU PLE JAMMED STEEL SED FOR DRILLING A WIRE CABLE WITH HOOKS IS USED TO FASTEN THE DRILL STEEL AND HYDRAULIC PRESSURE IS APPLIED TO BREAK LOOSE JAMMED DRILL STEEL A BUR ON THE CABLE PUNCTURED THE LEFT HAND OF THE EMPLOYEE