Accident type, without injuries
ROOF FALL MEASURING APPROX 45'LONG, 9'WIDE IN THE MIDDLE AND TAPERING TO A 2' AT END AND ABOUT 8' TO 10' THICK CAUSED BY NATURAL SLIP IN ROOF.
Mine No 2Coal
Papaw Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by Mark S Wooten
Clinchco, Dickenson County, VA · Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4406891
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 7
- Years on record
- 2000
- Latest incident
- Dec 2000
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
7 on file2000 · 7 incidents
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE STATED HE WAS DRILLING THE ROOF OF THE MINE WITH DRILL STEEL WHEN THE DRILL STEEL LODGED IN THE ROOF. WHEN THE EE ATTEMPTED TO DISLODGE, THE DRILL STEEL, HIS LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TH E DRILL HEAD AND THE MINE ROOF CAUSING INJURY TOTHE LEFT THUMB AND LEFT INDEX FINGER. THE THUMB AND FINGER WAS BROKEN BUT WAS BRUISED.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
MINER ALLEGES HE WAS PUTTING A BEARING IN A 94L AND TAPPED THE BEARING WITH A HAMMER WHICH HIT HIS LEFT THUMB.
Over-exertion in lifting objects
SETTING ROOF DRILL TIRE UP SAYS HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK INFLAMED NERVE.
Over-exertion in lifting objects
HE WAS LIFTING UP A ROLL OF BELT AND COMPLAINED OF HIS BACK HURTING.
Struck against stationary object
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAVELING #4 ENTRY TO THE SURFACE ON 3-WHEELER. HE WAS LOOKING AT A POWER CURTAIN HE WAS PASSING BY AND CAUGHT HIS HEAD ON THE ROOF HURTING HIS NECK.