Fall from machine
Employee fell backwards from a height of approx. 4' off of a lowboy trailer deck to ground level, causing a non-separation fracture to left hip and L-1 vertebra compression fracture.
Black Butte Coal CompanyMining Incidents in 2020
All MSHA-reportable accidents at Black Butte Coal Company operations in 2020. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2020
- 0
- Total incidents
- 3
- Year
- 2020
Top incident classifications
- 01SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
- 02MACHINERY1 incident
- 03HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
All incidents in 2020
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Environmental engineer suffered lacerated pinky finger (right hand) while operating a cordless drill in order to retrieve water samples from a well.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee received laceration to lip when a wooden cribbing block struck EE in the face. Company physician administered two stitches to the laceration.