Mining Incidents

Bridger Coal CompanyMining Incidents in 2022

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Bridger Coal Company operations in 2022. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2022
0
Total incidents
3
Year
2022

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 incidents
  2. 02DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)1 incident

All incidents in 2022

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was opening the back doors of the dragline and placed hand on the lower rail of the door. When the door swung open, EE's left hand was located in a pinch point between the door and the back house fan.

Fall from machine

Employee was working on 308 drill outside the shop. EE was standing on the mast loosening a hydraulic hose, after they broke the hose loose, they stepped down with right foot, left foot was caught under another hydraulic hose and right foot landed on uneven footing causing them to roll the ankle. Resulting in a small fracture to the right foot.

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was doing audio test on 2-17-2022 and has showed employee had sustained a STS in left ear. Employee was scheduled to re test on the 2/23/22 and it confirmed that the employee has sustained a permanent STS in left ear, from the baseline in 2017.

Other years on record

Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) accident records, kept current weekly. Operator identity is MSHA's operator_id on the accident record; records are scoped to Bridger Coal Company's numeric MSHA operator ID.