Contact with heat
Hot, Hazy, Humid, over 90 degrees, for 3rd day in a row. Employee was overcome with dizziness, nausea, profuse sweating while working on installing auger cab.
Airport StripCoal
Valley Mining, Inc, · Surface
Controlled by Mary J Brown
Follansbee, Brooke County, WV · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609071
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 6
- Years on record
- 2005–2008
- Latest incident
- Jun 2008
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
6 on file2008 · 1 incident
2006 · 2 incidents
Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
Employee states that he was running rock truck started to get headache, nausea & vomiting.
Fall from machine
ee was getting down off loader, his foot slipped on top platform which he had only his left hand on handrail.Couldn't get right hand on guard rail in time. The fall while holding onto the handrail with one hand caused him to swing into platform hitting rib cage against platform. He then lost grip and fell to the ground.
2005 · 3 incidents
Fall onto or against objects
Employee had just finished fueling up equipment and while getting down from the fuel tank he slipped and hit his knee on the top step. The area was muddy where he was working.
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE was shutting the door on his rocktruck and shut it on his left hand, the end of this ring finger.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A BEARING & WHEN HE WAS SWINGING THE SLEDGE HAMMER, IT CAUGHT ON HIS UPPER LEG CAUSING THE HAMMER TO MISS THE BEARING & HIT HIS LT. HAND. HE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL & IT WAS DETERMINED THAT NOTHING WAS BROKEN BUT THE HAND DID HURT & WAS BRUISED & SWOLLEN.