Mining Incidents

Mine No. 42Coal

XMV, Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Cleveland-Cliffs Inc
Keystone, Mcdowell County, WV · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609378
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
17
Years on record
2012–2018
Latest incident
Apr 2018
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

17 on file

2018 · 5 incidents

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was riding a rubber tired man trip across the section when ee went under a low place and was caught between the ride and the top.

Fall onto or against objects

Employee was traveling up the fuel tank steps, when they lost balance, foot and hand slipped, body then twisted and impacted the truck bed and they fell to the ground. During the fall employee scraped their right side on the truck bed.

Struck by falling object

EE was setting a timber and another timber nearby fell, that was not wedged tight and struck EE on the right shoulder and chest area.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting a belt with a razor knife that slipped cutting the left hand, stitches were required to close the wound. Employee brought Dr report on 1/15/18 showing stitches were required to close the wound.

Contact with electrical current

EE tried to reset power breaker at the conveyor belt drive two, to three times when the breaker failed.

2016 · 2 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting open a splice on the miner cable when the knife slipped cutting employee's left forearm.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee stated that while bending a roof bolt, felt something pop in shoulder. Employee returned to work on 3/30/16 and worked until 4/4/16.

2015 · 6 incidents

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was tramming a shuttle car when the metal cover over the pump motor came in contact with a roof bolt causing the cover to become dislodged and striking the employee

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was installing a roof bolt when he caught his thumb between the roof bolt plate and the mine roof.

Struck by falling object

Employee was unloading 60 pound rail, one rail slipped off truck, striking right foot

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was assisting a co-worker in making a belt splice. As the co-worker was swinging a hammer to secure the splice the injured employee turned toward him causing the co-worker to strike him with the hammer.

Struck by falling object

EE was changing a chuck in drill pot of roof bolting machine. While leaning over drill head, a piece of draw rock fell striking him in back of head. This pushed his head down onto drill head of roof bolter causing 2 teeth to be loosened. (The EE had a pending appointment to have his upper teeth extracted and replaced with dentures. The EE elected to have the loose teeth removed).

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was making a splice on a high voltage cable and while cutting the cable the knife slipped causing him to cut his left hand.

2014 · 2 incidents

Struck against stationary object

Employee was getting on personnel carrier when he slipped and struck his lower leg against the frame of the ride.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was moving a piece of metal when it slipped and struck his right index finger.

2013 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was operating roof bolter, he was setting canopy and pinched left hand requiring 2 stitches.

2012 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was removing the panel lid off a 21 SC Shuttle Car and the lid fell down and caught the EE's finger between the panel and the mine floor.