Contact with hot objects or substances
Employee was cleaning an area around #1 dodge coupling with starting fluid. Mechanic was cutting lid off with a torch. Fumes ignited and blew back on employees right hand and right side of face.
SHM #53 MinerCoal
Pocahontas Coal Company · Surface
Controlled by Metinvest B V
Mill Creek, Raleigh County, WV · NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 4407327
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 5
- Years on record
- 2015–2018
- Latest incident
- Jan 2018
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file2018 · 1 incident
2016 · 1 incident
Fall to the walkway or working surface
Employee was using a slate bar to pry a pin out of the right angle on the highwall miner. The bar kicked back bowing up employee's arms and throwing employee backwards. Fractured left elbow.
2015 · 3 incidents
Struck by flying object
While in the process of tramming the Highwall Miner to a new pit, the track popped and a piece of metal flew off striking employee on the left wrist.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Caught finger in the side door of the generator. injury to left middle finger.
Struck by flying object
Employee was standing nearby watching another employee put in a bit ring (insert) when a piece of metal sheared off striking employee in the left leg