MSHA record for Horizon Strip-Strasburg (mine ID 3302765). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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95149ED WAS ON LOADER LADDER GETTING TICKET AND JUMPED OFF OF LOADER CATCHING RING ON LOADER STEP CUTTING HIS RING FINGER.
INJURED WAS DESCENDING FROM LOADER AFTER GETTING TICKETS AND CAUGHT HIS RING FINGER CUTTING IT BADLY WHEN HE CAUGHT IT ON THE LOADER LADDER.
I WAS CARRYING A 3 GALLON OIL CONTAINER DOWN A 5FT HIGH BELT LINE WHEN I STUMBLED & LOST MY BALANCE & FELL AGAINST WALL IN COAL SILO I HIT MY HEAD & TWISTED MY NECK WHEN I HIT THE WALL
I WAS CARRYING A BOX FULL OF SODA BRIQUETTES DOWN A SMALL HILL, WHEN MY FEET SLIPPED IN SOME MUD AND CAUSED ME TO FALL BACKWARDS. WHEN I HIT THE GROUND I FELT A PAIN IN MY LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS PERFOMRING REAPIR WORK ON A WATER PUMP.AS HE WAS WORKING ON THE PUMP HIS LEFT AHND STRUCK THE PUMP IMPELLER CAUSING A LACERATION.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING ONTO BULLDOZER, WHEN HIS ONE FOOT SLIPPED WHEN STEPPING ONTO THE PUSHBEAM AND AS HE FELL DOWN TO THE GROUND, HIS RIGHT ELBOW HIT ON THE TRACK OF THE DOZER. HE NOTICED IMMEDIATE PAIN AND SWELLING OF HIS ELBOW.
A BULLDOZER OPERATOR WAS STRIPPING AND RIPPING ALONG SIDE OF HIGHWALL. HE WAS APPROX. 1/ FEET FROM THE WALL PREFORMING A RIPPING OPERATION WHEN A PORTION OF WALL APPROX 8 FEET SQUARE AND THE HEIGHT OF THE HIGHWALL, SLOUGHED OFF BEGINNING AT THE BOTTOM, THE TOPPING AND HITTING THE DOZER ON THE ROPS, SPLITTING THE ROCK WHICH THEN LANDED ON THE ENGINE.
WHILE REPLACING3DE-WATERING SCREENS A PORTION OF THE FLOORING HAD TO BE REMOVED TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE REMOVE AND INSTALL THE AFOREMENTIONED. HE REACHED TO PICK UP A PENCIL AND LOST HIS BALANC E CAUSING HIM T2 FALL ONTO THE RAILS OF THE DE-WATERING SCREENS. APPROX. 3-4 FEET.
I.NAME WAS INFO9MED BY MINE MGR TO TAKE MOTOR GRADER (MODEL8T) TO CLEAN A PIT OF COAL UPON REACHING PIT HE COULD NOT STOP GRADER DUE TO A LACK OF BRAKES IN ORDER TO STOP GRADER HE RAN INTO AN EMBANKEMENT CAU8ING HIS THORACIC & A BDOMEN AREA JARR ED AGAINST STEERING WHEEL
OPERTAOR WAS SERVICING HIS MACHINE BEFORE SHIFTR CHANGE HE PROCEEDED TO GET A GALLON OF MOTOR OIL AND ATTEMPTED TO MOUNT MACHINE USING HAND RAIL HE SLIPPED (DUE TO OIL ON SOLES OF HIS SHOES) CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS RT LEG AGAINST THE STEEL EDGE OF THE MACHINE