EMPLOYEE WAS ROLLING ROCKS OFF STEEP EMBANKMENT ADN STRAINED BACK MUSCLE.
No 1 Surface: 9 reportable incidents Coal
MSHA record for No 1 Surface (mine ID 1515396). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 9
- Years on record
- 1988–1991
- Latest incident
- Oct 1991
- Elkhorn Construction Company Inc 1985 to 1988
- Liberty Coal Company Inc 1988 to 1989
- Crown Royal Mining Inc 1989 to 1990
- Crown Royal Mining Inc 1990 to present
No 1 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
9 on file1991 · 2 incidents
EMPL STEPPED OFF DOZER CAB ONTO TRACKS THEN ONTO PUSH ARM OF BLADE ON D9H DOZER. BACK GAVE OUT & FELL TO GROUND ON STOMACH. BACK WAS PREVIOUSLY INJ WHILE WORKING FOR ANOTHER CO.
1990 · 3 incidents
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF ROCK TRUCK AND STEPPED ON ROCK LAYING ON GROUND AND TWISTED ANKLE ON RIGHT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE HAD OIL LEAD ON D9H DOZER AND TRAMMED IT TO WHERE MECHANIC COULD WORK ON IT. EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF DOZER, STEPPED ON TRACK AND SLIPPED BECAUSE APPARENTLY HAD OIL ON SHOE. EMPLOYE E FELL ON LOWER BACK AND RIGHT LEG.
HAD 3/4 RATCHET ON BOLT IN FINAL DRIVE ON D9H DOZER. STEPPED ON TRACK TO GET MORE LEVERAGE RATCHET SLIPPED OFF BOLT & SHOULDER RIGHT HIT STEP TO GET INTO DOZER.
1989 · 2 incidents
HE WAS OPERATING A DOZER WHEN THE DOZER SLID ON A ROCK CAUSING HIM TO BE JARRED.
MANUAL OPERATION OF THE TILT ADJUSTMENT- HURT RIGHT SHOULDER.
1988 · 2 incidents
EMPL WAS ROLLING A BIG ROCK OVER THE HILL WITHOUT THE USE OF MACHINERY PAIN WAS NOT EXPERIENCED UNTIL OFF WORK WHEN SORENESS OF PAIN SET IN
EMP. SAID HE HAD PULLED OVER TO LET A COAL TRUCK PASS, THE ENGINE STALLED . THE EMP. SAID THAT HE PANICKED. THE TRUCK ROLLED BACKWARD DOWN THRE SLOPE INTO A DITCH. THE TRUCK WAS NOT HURT. I.NAME SAID THAT HE WAS OK EXCEPT HIS HEAD HURT. SO BOSS PUT HIM INTO HIS TRUCK AND TOOK HIM TO AR HOSPITAL AT WILLIAMSON. IT WAS RAINING HARD AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.