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No 8 Tsm Mine Coal

Cyprus Kanawha Corp · Surface

Controlled by Cyprus Amax Minerals Company

Powellton, Fayette County, WV · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4607386

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 11
Years on record: 1988–1989
Latest incident: May 1989

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

August 5, 1988 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech Fatality · MACHINERY

Hawks Nest Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

CHANGING TIRE ON PRO R-50 EUCLID-INSTALLING NEW TIRE-TIRE APPARENTLY FAIL ON TO VICTIM WHICH CAUSED VICTIM TO FALL AGAINST CONTGROLS OF BOOM RESULTING IN BOOM KNUCKLING DOWN WHICH CAUSED DAMAG E TO UPPER BACK OF VICTIM.

Reportable incidents

10 on file (excluding fatalities above)

1989 · 3 incidents

May 31, 1989 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE

Cyprus Kanawha Corp · Struck against a moving object

DRIVER CAME TO SWITCHBACK AFTER BACKING TO ENTER SWITCH BACK AND PUT TRUCK IN WRONG GEAR I NAME THEN TRIED TO PUT TRUCK IN LOWER GEAR AND COULD NOT I ANME PANICKED AND PUT TRUCK IN DITCH TURNI NG IT OVER

May 16, 1989 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Cyprus Kanawha Corp · Struck by falling object

REMOVING A PIN FROM LOADER, PIN FELL CAUGHT FINGER.

February 28, 1989 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Hawks Nest Mining Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE CLIMBED ONTO POWDER HAULAGE TO GET A TAPE MEASURE,SLIPPED FROM TRUCK AND SPRAINED RIGHT FOOT.

1988 · 7 incidents

December 14, 1988 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Hawks Nest Mining Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM #201 MICHIGAN LOADER FELL FROM TOP STEP TO THE GROUND

November 10, 1988 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE

Hawks Nest Mining Company · Fall from machine

WHILE TRAVELING THE HAUL ROAD FROM THE HAWK'S NEST TSM MINE THE BRAKES MALFURCTIONED ON THE COAL HAULAGE VEHICLE, THE TRUCK TRAVELED ABOUT 1,000 FT, I,NAME JUMPED FROM THE TRUCK PRIOR TO THE T RUCK GOING INTO THE DITCH AND SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN.

August 16, 1988 WV · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Hawks Nest Mining Company · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE FELL FROM TOP OF WATER TRUCK AND LANDED ON AN AIR CLEANER OF THE TRUCK.

August 3, 1988 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY

Hawks Nest Mining Company · Fall from machine

ENGINE STALLED ON DOZER EMPLOYEE STATED THA THE BRAKES WOULD NOT HOLD AND HE JUMPED FROM DOZER AND INJURED HIS KNEE

August 1, 1988 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Hawks Nest Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

DOOR WAS OPENED ON ROCK TRUCK AND WHILE REACHING FOR SEAT BELT DOOR CLOSED ON FINGER.

July 26, 1988 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Hawks Nest Mining Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO START A WATER PUMP, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL FOR NO APPARENT CAUSE AND CLAIMS HE SUFFERED A LUMBOSACRAL STRAIN.

March 10, 1988 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT

Hawks Nest Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

VICTIM STEPPED OUT OF COAL TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING ON TO A ROCK THAT TURNED OVER AND HE SPRAINED HIS LEFT ANKLE.