Mining Incidents

Colowyo Coal Company L PMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Colowyo Coal Company L P operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
0
Total incidents
2
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01ELECTRICAL1 incident
  2. 02HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident

All incidents in 2018

Accident type, without injuries

A brush fire started on the evening of 9/9/18. The fire was most likely caused by lightning as there are no mining activities near the point of ignition. This brush fire is being reported as it took longer than 30 minutes to extinguish the fire from the time it was reported. No one was injured while extinguishing the fire.

Struck by flying object

Northwest Tool Employee injured while attempting to connect an airline to a valve. The Valve failed causing fragments to stick into employee's left arm. Medical treatment required to remove small particles and released same day to full duty.

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 Colowyo Coal Company L P's numeric MSHA operator ID.