Mining Incidents

Catenary Coal Company LLCMining Incidents in 2009

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Catenary Coal Company LLC operations in 2009. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2009
1
Total incidents
7
Year
2009

Top incident classifications

  1. 01POWERED HAULAGE2 incidents
  2. 02HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 incidents
  3. 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
  4. 04HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident
  5. 05DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)1 incident

All incidents in 2009

Drowning

Employee was driving a loaded hauler when he backed the hauler into a pond with no hesitation.

Struck against a moving object

It started snowing fast, employee was going down hill when his truck started sliding. He turned a 180 and turned over on its side. He got out himself.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking from his personal vehicle to the rock truck he was going to operate when his feet slipped out from him and he fell landing on his right leg.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was carrying tool tray onto D11R dozer, right elbow popped and started burning.

Struck by falling object

Employee was handing employee a string of insulators. They slipped out of his hand and hit injured in mouth damaging his 2 front teeth.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE was removing a bolt that was holding the oil cooler adapter plate. Bolt was extremely tight and he was using both hands. While pulling, felt pain in right elbow.

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

7.98% Permanent Partial Disability Award for Hearing Loss.

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 Catenary Coal Company LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.