Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
HIT IN MOUTH WITH A 2"" WATERLINBE COUPLING ON THE END OF WATERLINE. TWO MEN WERE GOING TO PICK UP THE LINE AND ONE WAS IT BY IT.
No 3Coal
Papaw Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by Mark S Wooten
Wise, Dickenson County, VA · Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4406984
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2000–2001
- Latest incident
- Mar 2001
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2001 · 3 incidents
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
WHILE CUTTING A PIECE OF BELT WITH A UTILITY KNIFE TO USE AS A SKIRT FOR #3 94L, HE CUT THE MIDDLE OF HIS LEFT THUMB. THE FOREMAN BELIEVED IT WAS CUT TO THE BONE.
Accident type, without injuries
ROOF FALL LOCATED AT #5 HEADING FAN ENTRANCE MEASURING ABOUT 25' LONG INBY SPAD #8. FALL ABOUT 5TO 6' HIGH & 18 TO 20' WIDE. APPROXIMATELY 1800 TO 2000' GONE FROM FACE.
2000 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
RAISED MINER BOOM UP, HE HAD FINGER PLACED WERE BOOM MASHED SKIN ON LITTLE FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN MINE BOOM AND #1946 BRIDGE.