MSHA record for Horse Creek Mine (mine ID 1102835). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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KNIFE JUNCTION BOX LOCATED 1800' FROM EAST END OF PIT HOLDS ELECTRICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN L-6 POWER DIST SYSTEM & 5761 SHOVEL. VICTIM WAS TO RECONNECT CABLE TO JUNCTION BOX. POWER WAS APPLIED TO THIS BOX & DISCONNECT KNIVES WERE IN CLOSED POSITION. VICTIM OPENED DOOR TO JUNCTION BOX REMOVED HOT STICK REACHED INTO BOX TO INSERT PHASE PIN INTO POSICLAMP. AT THIS TIME VICTIM CONTACTED
VICTIM SETTING 8URVEY STAKES.HE BROKE THROUGH SURFACE AND FELL ABOUT 8' INTO HOLE 15'DIAMETER.LARGE PIECE OF CLAY 3' X 2' X 2' FELL ON BACK AND HEAD.VICTIM LYING FACE DOWN AND COULDNT BE RESCU ED BEFORE SUFFO7ATING.WAS WALKING THROUGH BLASTED AREA VERTICALLY DRILLED 1 WEEK BEFORE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE FLOOR OF DRAGLINE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS LEFT KNEE. ACCDENT CLASSIFICATION: SLIP AND FALL OF PERSON.
EE WAS BREAKING DRAIN PLUG LOOSE ON SKIDDER PLANETARY WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE FELL AGAINST WHEEL STRIKING HIS RIB CAGE.
TOW CABLE WAS BEING HOOKED TO DRAW BAR ON DOZER. WHILE TYRING TO REMOVE TWIST IN CASLE IT CAME OFF DRAW BAR AND HIT EE IN SHOULDER.
WHILE CHANGING A LIGHT ON DRAGLINE, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED & TWISTED HIS KNEE. EMPL DID NOT START MISSING TIME UNTIL JULY 1. ALL EMPLOYEES ON STRIKE AS OF JULY 13,1993.
EE WAS REMOVING SKIRT BOARD FROM WHEEL LADDER BELT HE STEPPED ON PIECE OF ANGLE IRON HYPEREXTENDING HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPL HELPING CHANGE HYDRAULIC LEVELING PUMP ON 5761 SHOVEL IN LOWER FRAME AND STRAINED LEFT SHOULDER WHEN HANGING COME-ALONG ABOVE STAIRWAY TO USE TO LIFT PUMP.
WHILE STRIPPING #7 ROCK, EMPLOYEE BACKED OVER LARGE ROCK WITH DOZER, JARRING LEFT LEG AND HIP.
EMP WAS ATTEMTPTING TO SWING SMALL OVERHEAD HOIST AROUND IN HOUSE OF SHOVEL WHEN CABLE GOT CAUGHT ON SOMETHING, CAUSING STOP TO RAISE AND ALLOWING HOIST AND TROLLEY TO FALL FROM TRACK, STRIKIN G EMP ON LEFT LEG.
EE WAS DEADHEADING DOZER INTO HIGH SPIL WHEN THE DOZER WENT OVER A LARGE ROCK IN THE ROAD BED CAUSING THE DOZER TO SHIFT QUICKLY.
EMPLOYEE DID NOT NOTICE ANYTHING UNUSUAL AT WORK. AT HOME HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN RECTAL AREA AND CONSULTED DOCTOR. DR. STATED CONDITION MAY BE DUE TO REPEATED TRAUMA FROM LIFTING AND ENGAGING IN HEAVY MANUAL LABOR OVER A PERIOD OF SEVERAL DAYS.
HELPING INSTALL BOARDS ON WHEEL SLIPPED OFF PINCHING FINGER BETWEEN ANOTHER PC OF STUD
EMP WAS ATTACHING WHEEL LADDER BELT SKID TO GRADER WITH CABLE EMP HAD TO LIFT END OF BELT TO GAIN EXCESS TO CABLE H OOK & STRAINED BACK
LIFTING PIN FOR FORKLIFT OPER TO GET THE FORKS UNDER AND STRAINED LOWER BACK
EMPL WAS REMOVING TEETH FROM 5560 WHEEL BUCKET WITH HAMMER. PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF & STRUCK EMPL ON CALF OF RIGHT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS LEANING OVER SHOE OF 8200 DRAGLINE TO GET HOT GLOVES. WHEN HE STOOD UP HE FELL ON HIS BACK CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER LEFT RIB AREA.
WHILE WALKING FROM BACK LOT TO SHOP IN DARK EMPLOYEE STEPPED INTO A HOLE & SPREAINED HIS RT ANKLE HE STAYED AT WORK THAT DAY & RETURNED THE NEXT HE DIDNT MISS TIME UNTIL THE 30 DAY
DURING A REPAIR JOB ON SHOVEL EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS HEAD AROUND THE DOORWAY IN LOWER FRAME WHILE SCRAP METAL WAS BEING TOSSED OUT.EMPLOYEE DID NOT HEAD WARNING OF ALL CLEAR.4 STITCHES REQUIRED.
WHILE WORKING ON A PUMP HOUSE EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING FLASHLIGHT IN HIS MOUTH.HIS WELDING HOOD CAME DOWN ON THE LIGHT AND CHIPPED HIS TOOTH.
EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING PUMPERS TRUCK ON 6-6 LATERAL ROAD. HEW AS TURNED LOOKING THROUGH REAR WINDOW OF TRUCK WHEN TRUCK HIT A HOLE IN ROAD, JARRING EMPLOYEE AND INJURING HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A CABLE SLING WHEN HE FELL ON SLICK ROAD.AS HE FELL THE METAL END OF THE SLING HIT HIM ON HIS LEFT RING FINGER.
PUMPER WAS PULLING HOSE W/ROPE & IT BROKE ON HIGHWALL HE T HEN PULLED HIS DOZER OVER TO HIGHWALL & GOT OUT AS HE WAS REACHING FOR ROPE A ROCK SLID DOWN & ONTO HIS LEG
EMPL USING 1 1/2" DRIVE AIR IMPACT WRENCH TO TIGHTEN BOLT ON HAUL TRUCK WHOLE ON KNEES LAID WRENCH ON THIGH TO CHECK ROTATION.SOCKET RETAINER PIN PROTRUDED AND WHEN HE TURNED IT ON IT CUT INTO THIGH.
NO NEW INJURY. LOST TIME DUE TO ORIGINAL INJURY. ORIGINAL ACCIDENT DATE WAS 2-8-90. ORIGINAL LTA WAS 3-28-90 TO 4-11-90. THIS REPORT COVERS LOST TIME FROM 9-14-90 TO -19-90.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING TEETH ON BUCKET, DRIVING OUT KEEPERS WITH HAMMER, WHEN A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF, WENT THROUGH HIS GLOVE AND IMBEDDED IN HIS HAND. HE RETURNED TO WORK NEXT DAY. ON 7/16/ 90, HIS HAND BEGAN TO SWELL. ACTURED LOST TIME BEGAN 7/17/90.
ON DATE OF ACCIDENT, EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING BATHOUSE SHOWER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL, INJURING HIS LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE CONTINUED WORKING THROUGH MARCH 27. ON MARCH 29, HE NOTIFIED COMPANY THAT HE WOULD NOT START LOSING TIME DUE TO THE INJURY.
WHILE DIGGING WITH SPADE, VICTIM WAS STRUCK AND CAUGHT BY A ROCK THAT RELL AGAINST SHOVEL LEVELING JACK CYLINDER.
VICTIM WAS BACKING UP DOZER WHEN IT DROPPED OFF INTO HOLE CAUSING JAR.
VICTIM WAS RETRIEVING A STEEL TOW CABLE FROM MUDDY AREA AT SPOIL RECLAMATION.WHILE PHYSICALLY PULLING END OF CABLE IT FREED ITSELF FROM THE MUD AND END OF CABLE STRUCK VICTIM IN THE MOUTH.
PERFORMING HOUSEKEEPING DUTIES SPECIFICALLY-BEGAN TO REMOVE PIECE OF BELT FROM MACHINE WHEN HE PULLED MUSCLE WHILE LIFTING BELT.
VICTIM WAS CLEANING ROOF OF HOUSE OF BUCKET WHEEL EXCAVATOR WITH SHOVEL DURING COURSE OF REMOVING CLODS VICTIM LIFTED CLODS W/SHOVEL & TWISTED LOWER BACK
ROCK SLIPPED FROM HIGHWALL ONTO COAL. VICTIM WAS PUSHING COAL TO THE LOADER WHEN HE BACKED TRACTOR OVER FALLEN ROCK.
CUTTING CONVEYOR BELT WITH RAZOR KNIFE.USED STEEL STRAIGHT EDGE FOR GUIDE BUT HELD TO BELT WITH LEFT HAND RATHER THAN CLAMP.WHEN PULLING KNIFE PAST POINT WHERE HAND WAS ON STRAIGHT EDGE HE CUT END OF LEFT THUMB.
VICTIM WAS DRIVING RAILROAD SPIKE INTO COAL RIB WHEN SPIKE KICKED OUT WHEN STRUCK BY HAMMER. SPIKE STRUCK VICTIM ON FRONT OF LOWER RIGHT LEG. (SHIN).
VICTIM, A MECHANIC, WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE NUT FROM BOLT WITH CHISEL AND HAMMER WHEN HE STRUCK LEFT HAND (NEAR THUMB) WITH HAMMER.
DESCENDING STAIRWAY ONTO LOWER FRAME OF 5761 STRIPPING SHOVEL WHEN STRUCK BACK OF HEAD OF STEEL FRAMEWORK. SHORT TIME WHEN STRUCK BACK OF HEAD ON STEEL FRAMEWORK. SHORT TIME LATER VICTIM COMPL AINED OF PAIN IN HEAD. PAIN WORSENED UNTIL AMBULANCE WAS FINALLY CALLED FOR TRANSPORT TO HOSPITAL.
WHILE TRAMMING THE 5560 BUCKET WHEEL EXCAVATOR THE VICTIM STRUCK HEAD ON CUTTING SCREW.
BACKING UP DOZER RAN OVER BIG ROCK WAS WEARING SEAT BELT INJURED 4-26 WORKED ALL WEEK OFF ON 5-2- AND 5-3
GRINDING TOOTH BASE ON 65YD BOCKET BEING REBUILT. STEPPED NEAR EDGE OF SCAFFOLDIG LOSING BALANCE JERKING HAND GRINDER INTO LEFT MIDDLE FINGER. GRINDER WHEEL LACERATION LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.
PERFORMING PM CHECK ON HAUL TRUCK AT BEGINING OF SHIFT OUTDOORS IN DARKNESS MOUNTED TRUCK NEAR CAB WHERE RT EYE WAS STRUCK BY END OF RADIO ANTENNA THAT WAS PROTRUDING IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION
EMPL REMOVING HYDRAULIC HOSE FROM SCRAPER.DIFFICULT TO REACH CAUSING HIM TO HANG UPSIDE DOWN TO REMOVE.WHILE IN THIS POSITION,HE PULLED ON WRENCH TWISTING BACK SIMULTANEOUSLY.
EMP WAS INSTALLING EXHAUST PIPE ON RIMPULL HAUL TRUCK BY STANDING UPON AXLE ASSEMBLY, WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE, HE FELL TO T HE SHOP FLOOR CATCHING HIS LEG IN THE TIE ROD WHILE DOING SO. T THIS CAUSED HIS KNEE TO EXTEND AND TWIST AT SAME TIME
WHILE REMOVING 8TEEL WEAR PLATE FROM 5761 SJHOVEL BUCKET THE WEAR PLATE BECAME DISLODGED WHILE IN THE HANDS OF THE INJURED & FELL ONTO FLOOR OF THE BUCKET BEFORE INJURED HAD TIME TO PULL HANDS CLEAR 3
STEEL SHAFT ROL5ED OFF FORKLIFT ONTO EMPLOYEES FINGER
THE HOIST ROPE 2N A MARION SHOVEL PULLED LOOSE FROM ITS ANCHOR. AS THE SHOVEL BUCKET FELL THE LARGE STEEL ROPE, 2 9/16" DIAMETER, WAS PULLED FROM AROUND THE DRUM. THE LOOSE END OF THE ROPE STR UCK A GREASE SH3ELD ABOUT 5' X 5' X 1/8" AND KNOCKED IT FROM ITS BRACKET. THE SHIELD STRUCK THE VICTIM IN THE BACK CAUSING CONTUSIONS TO THE UPPER TORSE
VICTIM WAS ASSI8TING IN RESCUE ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE FROM WHO HAD FALLEN INTO A HOLE IN THE DRILL FIELD. WHILE IN THE 8 FOOT DEEP HOLE HE WAS OVERCOME BY UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE IN ATM OSPHERE 3
VICTIM WAS ASSI8TING RESCUE ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WHO HAD FALLEN INTO A HOLE IN THE DRILL FIELD. WHILE IN THE 8 FOOT DEEP HOLE HE WAS OVERCOME BY AN UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE IN THE ATM OSPHERE 3
EMPLOYEE WAS CU7TING STEEL WITH CHISEL. THE CHISEL FLEW OFF OF THE MATERIAL BEING CUT AND STRUCK VICTIM IN LEFT THIGH.
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