Mining Incidents

C.W. Mining Co.Mining Incidents in 2007

All MSHA-reportable accidents at C.W. Mining Co. operations in 2007. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2007
1
Total incidents
5
Year
2007

Top incident classifications

  1. 01POWERED HAULAGE2 incidents
  2. 02SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
  3. 03MACHINERY1 incident
  4. 04HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident

All incidents in 2007

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

A truck got stuck. The loader backed up to the truck to pull it out. The loader operator and the truck operator both got out to hook the chain up. The loader rolled back and crushed the truck operator between the truck and loader. THIS PERSON IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF OURS, WE DO NOT HAVE HIS INFORMATION. The loader impacted the loader operator in the back, he moved out of the way.

Struck by powered moving object

A truck got stuck. The loader backed up to the truck to pull it out. The loader operator and the truck operator both got out to hook the chain up. The loader rolled back and crushed the truck operator between the truck and loader. THIS PERSON IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF OURS, WE DO NOT HAVE HIS INFORMATION. The loader impacted the loader operator in the back, he moved out of the way.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE was pulling cable down & he fell & twisted his knee.

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Continuous miner was tramming and turned into a crosscut without realizing roof bolter operator was there and pinned him between miner tail and roof bolter.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

He was tightening a pipe, the pipe wrench slipped and hit him in the ribs.

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 C.W. Mining Co.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.