EMPL WAS ADJUSTING ROLLER BELT ON SCREENING PLANT & ROCK FELL OFF HITTING HIM IN HEAD & CUTTING HIM.
Briceton Mine: 8 reportable incidents Coal
MSHA record for Briceton Mine (mine ID 0102648). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 8
- Years on record
- 1990
- Latest incident
- Dec 1990
- Black Warrior Minerals Inc 1985 to present
Briceton Mine sits in Walker County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 3.3% of county employment.
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County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.Reportable incidents
8 on file1990 · 8 incidents
EMPL REACHED DOWN TO MOVE AUTOMATIC FEEDER WHICH HOLDS 40 LBS OF WELDING WIRE & FET PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EMPL BENT OVER TO PICK UP ROCK TO MOVE IT OUT OF HIS WAY CAUSING PAIN TO LOWER BACK & LEFT HIP.
EMPL APPLIED BRAKE INSTEAD OF PARKING BRAKES ON POWDER TRUCK. EMPL WALKED IN FRON OF PICKUP TRUCK & POWDER TRUCK ROLLED DOWN HILL & PINNED HIM BETWEEN POWDER TRUCK & PICKUP TRUCK.
EMPL WAS CLEANING SCREENING PLANT WHILE STANDING ON BACK OF LOADER. EMPL STEPPED BACKWARD & STEPPED OFF LOADER FALLING TO GROUND.
EMPL WAS DISMOUNTING FROM ROCK TRUCK & FELL FROM CATWALK AROUND TO GROUND. HE DID NOT GET FOOT PROPERLY PLACED IN FIRST STEP.
EMPL WAS DIGGING ON ROCK & BLADE SLIPPED & THREW HIM AGAINST WINDOW FRAME CUTTING FOREHEAD ABOVE LEFT EYEBROW.
EMPL WAS SHOVELING GRAVEL FROM TRUCK INTO BORE HOLE IN BLAST PATTERN WHEN FOOT SLIPPED ON MUDDY SURFACES CAUSING HIM TO FALL & CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER PART OF BACK.