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Spruce Run Surface Mine Coal

Nix Mining Company · Surface

Controlled by Costain Group PLC

Summersville, Nicholas County, WV · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4606992

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 4
Years on record: 1990–1991
Latest incident: Feb 1991

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

1991 · 1 incident

February 23, 1991 WV · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY

Nix Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

LOGGING CREW WAS INT EH PROCESS OF WRENCHING A FALLEN TREE WHEN THE CABLE SLIPPED OFF TREE AND STRUCK INJURED IN BACK OF HEAD.

1990 · 3 incidents

October 27, 1990 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Nix Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

GOING INTO SHOT AND HIT SOMETHING SOLID WITH BUCKET RESULTING IN A SLIGHTLY PINCHED NERVE IN NECK AND SOME STIFFNESS OF NECK.

October 16, 1990 WV · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Nix Mining Company · Struck by falling object

BATTERY BOX TOP SLIPPED OUT STRUCK HIM O N TOP OF FOOT

July 26, 1990 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY

Nix Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A HYDRAULIC HOSE BURST FROM THE REAR RIPPER JACK, KNOCKING OUT THE REAR GLASS PANEL OF HIS DOZER. HE WAS BACKING UP LOOKING TO HIS RIGHT SIDE AT THIS TIME, CAUSING BROKEN GLASS TO ENTER HIS RI GHT SHOULDER AND HYDRAULIC FLUID IN HIS RIGHT EYE.