Employee was working on surface at Preparation Plant cutting a 3"" valve out of a water pipe when the pipe fell hitting employee on top of foot. Employee has been working since date of accident and did not start losing time until 4/8/16 due to first doctor visit showing fracture to toes and hematoma to foot.
Jim Walter Resources IncMining Incidents in 2016
All MSHA-reportable accidents at Jim Walter Resources Inc operations in 2016. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2016
- 0
- Total incidents
- 5
- Year
- 2016
Top incident classifications
- 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 incidents
- 02HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 incidents
- 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
All incidents in 2016
Employee was walking off the face when EE stepped in a hole between Shield #2 and #3 causing EE to fall spraining EE's ankle.
REPORTABLE ONLY DUE TO SUTURES Employee was bent over to set a track tie under the rail as another employee was using track hammer to clip the latches on another track tie. During the downswing, the track hammer struck the bent over employee on back side of hard hat causing small laceration to scalp, requiring sutures.
REPORTABLE ONLY - Employee had been using a pry bar to remove the vertical screen off the trash box. EE layed the bar on top of the trash box and continued to work on the screen, the bar fell striking employee in mouth/teeth chipping two teeth.
REPORTABLE ONLY - Employee was using a hammer, driving a pin out of a shield right above EE's head when the hammer slipped out of EE's hand hitting EE in the mouth chipping a tooth.