Fall from machine
After loading a coal truck I brought the end loader over by the shop and started to exit the machine. I got my feet tangled up and fell from top step to the ground.
All MSHA-reportable accidents at Dags Branch Coal Company Inc operations in 2014. Fatalities appear first.
After loading a coal truck I brought the end loader over by the shop and started to exit the machine. I got my feet tangled up and fell from top step to the ground.
Subject was attempting to crush a piece of rock that was lodged in the Belt Feeder. He said, he was busting the rock with a sledge hammer and he went to move it with his left hand, the rock broke crushing his left hand.
Employee and two co-workers were changing a 220V Surface Pond Pump when he slipped and twisted back.