Mining Incidents

Pawpaw Gap #9 Coal

Controlled by Pittston Company
Prater, Buchanan County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4406646

MSHA record for Pawpaw Gap #9 (mine ID 4406646). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
1992–1994
Latest incident
Apr 1994
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

1994 · 1 incident

April 10, 1994 VA · Coal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor MACHINERY
Motivation Coal Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING WINDSHIELD WIPER AND ATTEMPTING TO PLACE WIPER ARM ON MOTOR WHEN THE WIPERS ACTIVATED, CATCHING HIS HAND BETWEEN SHEET METAL AND WIPER MOTOR ARM.

1993 · 2 incidents

September 12, 1993 VA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver OTHER
Motivation Coal Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING LADDER TO ENTER HAULER WHEN DUST BLEW INTO HIS EYE. EMPLOYEE DID NOT WANT TO GO TO DOCTOR AT THAT TIME. ON 9/13/93 EMPLOYEE STATED HIS EYE WAS STILL HURTING & HE WAS TAKE N ATO THE DOCTOR. A SMALL GRAIN OF SAN WAS IN THE CORNEA & WAS REMOVED WITH A NEEDLE.

January 4, 1993 VA · Coal drill operator POWERED HAULAGE
Motivation Coal Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIAVING FUEL TRUCK TO DRILL WHEN AIR PRESSURE DROPPED ON FUEL TRUCK & T RUCK STRUCK AN EMBANKMENT CAUSING LACERATION TO EMPLOYEES NOSE WHICH REQUIRED STITCHES

1992 · 1 incident

June 1, 1992 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
Motivation Coal Company · Unclassified, insufficient data

EMPLOYEE CALLED HIS FOREMAN ON 6-2-92 AND STATED THAT SOMETHING HAD ENTERED HIS EYE SOMETIME DURING HIS SHIFT AND 6-1-92 AND NEEDED TO SEE A DOCTOR. EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT THE INCIDENT ON 6-1 -92 AND DID NOT KNOW AT WHAT TIME HIS EYE BECAME IRRITATED. EMPLOYEE WAS GIVEN EYE DROPS AND RELEASED FOR WORK.

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