Mining Incidents

Conaway Creek Deep MineCoal

Controlled by Metinvest B V
GRUNDY, Buchanan County, VA · Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4406868
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
2008–2020
Latest incident
Feb 2020
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2020 · 2 incidents

Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was setting pump in water. As they turned after setting pump, they twisted lower back resulting in a strained muscle.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee picked up a belt rail to remove it from around the feeder dump area and pulled muscles in left shoulder.

2019 · 1 incident

Accident type, without injuries

First intersection inby intake portal fell approx. 8 ft. high, 16 ft. wide, 23 ft. long. Fall did not affect ventilation, all employees were immediately evacuated from the mine. No injuries resulted from this event.

2014 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Roof bolter operator was swinging drill head to install a roof bolt when he caught his finger between the boom arm and drill pot of roof bolter.

Accident type, without injuries

Roof fall out-by, neutral entry , aprox 32 breaks out-by face area. Ventilation was not disrupted. Fall occurred during idle weekend.

2013 · 1 incident

Accident type, without injuries

Sometime during Christmas break a rock fall occurred in the left return at just inby SS# 2577. The fall was dangered off, timbered off and the travelway was re-routed around the fall. The fall was approx. 80' long, 20' wide, and 7' high.

2008 · 2 incidents

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was going from feeder to miner. He put his hand under the shuttle car while moving.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE said he picked rock up and strained back.