EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVIGN ROCK TRUCK WHEN ALLEGELY HIT A HUMP I THE ROAD AND STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A WINDOW. THIS ALLEGED INJURY WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 4 DAYS AFTER THE EMPLOYEE WS TERMINATED.
Cedar Creek No 2 Surface: 12 reportable incidents Coal
MSHA record for Cedar Creek No 2 Surface (mine ID 1515364). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 12
- Years on record
- 1987–1995
- Latest incident
- May 1995
- Clark Elkhorn Coal Company Inc 1985 to 1987
- Clark Elkhorn Coal Company 1987 to 1992
- Clark Elkhorn Coal Company 1992 to present
Cedar Creek No 2 Surface sits in Pike County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 5.1% 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
12 on file1995 · 1 incident
1992 · 2 incidents
1. SHOOTING TO AN OPEN FACE. 2. SOFT STRATA IN ROCK.
UELECTRIC CABLEMOVE WAS IN PROGRESS THE CABLEWAS HANGING FROM STAND ON 31/2DRUM INTO #2 PIT ACROSS THE ROAD TO ANOTHER STAND CRANE WAS LIFTING CABLE BETWEEN THE 2 STAND TO GET IT OUT OF ROAD C ABLE WAS XXBEHIND A ROCK EE WAS GOING TO UNFOLD CABLE IT WAS DARK & HE DIDNT REALIZE HOW MUCH TENSION WAS ON CABLE UNTIL HE SAW ROCK START TO MOVE HE BEGAN TO RETRIEVE FROM ABLE BUT IT CAME L
1991 · 6 incidents
WHILE HE WAS INSTALLING A DOZER TRACK PAD ON D8N DOZER, HE DROPPED THE PAD ON HIS FOOT. PAD WEIGHS APPROX. 40 LBS AND PAD FELL AN APPROX. DISTANCE OF 3 FT.
REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP GRINDER PAIN MOVED THROUGH WRIST .LOWER UPPER ARM BAKC OF HEAD SETTING IN L NECK MUSCLE
REPLACING PIN IN D9 DOZER WITH HAMMER WHEN PIECE OF METAL ENTERED INTO LEG. EMPL DID NOT MISS & WORK & DID NOT SEE DR TILL TALER PART OF MAY & WE RECEIVED DRS REPORT OF REMOVING SMALL PIECE OF METAL FROM LEG. NO LOST TIME.
120 TON CAT ROCK TRUCK CAUGHT ON FIRE AND OPERATOR PROCEEDED TO DISMOUNT TRUCK WHEN HE STEPPED TO THE GROUND. THE TRUCK WAS MOVING AND THE FRONT WHEELS RAN OVER HIS RIGHT FOOT.
UPON LADDER REPLACING PIN IN 120 WABCO ROCK TRUCK WHEN LADDER SLIPPED FROM UNDER HIM LETTING INDIVIDUAL FALL ON GROUND THEN THE PIN HE WAS PUTTING IN FELL ON ARM
DISMOUNTING FROM D-8 DOZER WHEN HE PULLED OR STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS LEG.
1989 · 1 incident
CHECKING OIL LEVEL IN HYD OIL TANK AN SLIPPED AN FELL OFF DOZER. AT TIME OF ACCIDENT IT WAS RAINING. THE DECK OF DOZER WAS WET CAUSING I,NAME TO FALL FROM TO THE GROUND. THE DECK IS APP. 8 FT HIGH.
1988 · 1 incident
UNLOADING A OIL COOLER FROM THE BED OF A PICK-UP TRUCK. ONE OF THE MEN HELPING TO UNLOAD THE COOLER LET GO OF IT TOO QUICKLY, CAUSING IT TO FALL ON HIS FINGERS.
1987 · 1 incident
WHILE LIFTING A330" DRAIN PIPE WITH A CHAIN HOOK IN BOTH ENDS, ONE HOOK BROKE AND STRUCK I,NAME IN THE LOWER STOMACH AREA, CAUSING A SLIGHT BRUISE, AND LATER A HERNIA.