All MSHA-reportable accidents at Catenary Coal Company LLC operations in 2010. Fatalities appear first.
Service Technician was standing along side his service truck. At a distance of aprox. 30 feet another crew was installing a track on a Hitachi EX600-6, using the prescribed method when a piece of metal flew across the 30 feet and struck the employee in the neck.
Employee stated he twisted his left knee while stepping from truck.
Employee was pushing the rubber basket in the pre-cleaner housing on a D11R when his left hand slipped and he struck his left wrist on the adjacent bolt.
As employee was walking around truck, his feet slipped on ice and he fell to the ground onto his back.
Injured employee was handling a sixty inch long, 6 1/2 inch diameter piece of drill steel used to anchor the highwall miner when he slipped and fell. The end of the employee's left pinky finger was mashed between the steel he was handling and the steel structure of the highwall miner.