DOZER OP WAS HIGHWALLING HE ADVISED HE NEEDED SOME TREES CUT IN FRONT OF HIM. SUBJECT GOT CHAIN SAW & WENT TO CUT TREES. SMALL TREE WAS LEANING OVER & DOZER OP WAS CUTTING IT W/HATCHET. CHAIN SAW OP SAID HE WOULD FINISH CUTTING TREE DOZER OP ADVISED HIM NOT TO STAND ON E DGE OF HIGHWALL BECAUSE IT WOULD NOT HOLD HIM BUT HE WENT ON ANYWAY. GROUND BROKE FROM UNDER HIM & HE SLID DOWN
No 1 Surface Coal
N A L R Coal Corp
· Surface
Controlled by
Raschella Alfred W
Nelse,
Pike County,
KY
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1515221
MSHA record for No 1 Surface (mine ID 1515221). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 1985
- Latest incident
- Aug 1985
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file1985 · 1 incident
August 27, 1985
KY · Coal
laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
N A L R Coal Corp · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)
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