Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
MOVING A CRIB BLOCK THAT WAS SLIPPERY W/MUD BLOCKED SLIPPED CATCHING LEFT THUMB BETWEEN BLOCK & SCRAPPER FRAME
Mine 21Coal
White Buck Coal Company · Underground
Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
Summersville, Nicholas County, WV · Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4608482
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2000
- Latest incident
- Nov 2000
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2000 · 2 incidents
Fall from machine
CLIMBING UP LADDER OF CINDER TRUCK. FEET SLIPPED AND HE CAUGHT HIMSELF BY HIS HANDS ON THE RUNG OF THE LADDER. HE HUNG BY HIS ARMS AND THEN LET HIMSELF DOWN TO THE GROUND.