Accident type, without injuries
Area worked for awhile and then fell, approx 12' high and 100' long in #3 belt entry at spad #6840. No equipment was involved and no interruption in ventilation.
Carter Roag Coal CompanyMining Incidents in 2010
All MSHA-reportable accidents at Carter Roag Coal Company operations in 2010. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2010
- 0
- Total incidents
- 14
- Year
- 2010
Top incident classifications
- 01FALL OF ROOF OR BACK7 incidents
- 02SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents
- 03POWERED HAULAGE2 incidents
- 04MACHINERY1 incident
- 05HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
All incidents in 2010
Accident type, without injuries
Shift foreman was riding down intake and found fall on old belt line. No equipment was involved and no ventilation was interrupted. Area was timbered and dangered off. Fall was 1 block inby spad 5523.
Accident type, without injuries
A roof fall was discovered by Mine Foreman while re-routing life-line.
Accident type, without injuries
A roof fall was discovered by Mine Foreman and shift foreman while traveling Intake. No interuption in ventilation and no equipment involved.
Accident type, without injuries
A fall was discovered by certified airway examiner in old worked out area. Area was cribbed and dangered off. There was no equipment involved and no interruption in ventilation. This is not a required aircourse.
Accident type, without injuries
A roof fall was discovered by airway examiner. Fall was timbered and dangered off. There was no equipment involved and no ventilation interruption.
Accident type, without injuries
Two roof falls were discovered by airway examiner. Falls were timbered and dangered off. There was no equipment involved and no interruption in ventilation. A plan is being put together to clean fall.
Fall to the walkway or working surface
EE was walking to mantrip on down hill grade and slipped on pavement and fell on his rear-end.
Flash burns (welding)
Injured was lying under bridge and was trying to get the welder to arc and didn't have shield in place and got flash burn from welder.
Fall from machine
Was crossing bridges and fell striking knee on pavement. Injured on 6-7-10 and returned to work 6-8-10 and worked until 7-28-10. Now he will be off until after surgery.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Was pulling a rock off side of miner and rock smashed tip of finger between rock and frame of miner.
Struck by falling object
EE was standing beside belt and a piece of top structure came loose from belt and struck him on the left hand.
Fall onto or against objects
EE was shoveling gob out from behind ram of the scoop. EE slipped hitting his ribs on the ram of the scoop.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Was lifting up and pushing fork on fork lift and felt pain in left arm. Needed surgery to repair damaged ligaments, received 3 stitches.