Struck against stationary object
Employee was taking a coal sample from a moving belt. Shovel struck in belt causing right hand to strike metal tunnel cover.
Riverside Synfuel PlantCoal
Riverside Synfuel, LLC · Facility
Controlled by Progress Energy Inc
Ceredo, Wayne County, WV · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4608971
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2005–2006
- Latest incident
- May 2006
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2006 · 1 incident
2005 · 1 incident
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee had just replaced a return roller on the Riverside Crusher Feed Belt. While replacing the guard by the tail roller his left pinkie finger was caught between a hole in the expanded metal guard and another guard resulting in a fracture and laceration of this finger.