Mining Incidents

Knight Hawk Coal, LLCMining Incidents in 2014

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Knight Hawk Coal, LLC operations in 2014. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2014
0
Total incidents
12
Year
2014

Top incident classifications

  1. 01FALL OF ROOF OR BACK4 incidents
  2. 02HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)4 incidents
  3. 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents
  4. 04HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 incidents

All incidents in 2014

Struck by falling object

While bolting a rock fell out between bolts striking employee in back.

Struck by falling object

Hit on the head with a rock.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was using a four way lug wrench to tighten lug bolts on wheel, as he leaned to put his weight on wrench his right ankle buckled as he twisted his body. Conditions were dry and daylight.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking in the #5 portal. He slipped on ice and fell on his left shoulder. He started missing work on 4-21-14.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While waking to the scoop employee stepped in a hole twisting his ankle.

Struck against stationary object

While hanging face curtain Employee got his finger hung on a nail. Required 5 stitches

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee is a contract laborer, he was taking down high voltage cable when he got a cable hanger in his left hand.

Struck by falling object

Hit by small rock.

Struck by falling object

Employee was hit by rock that required 5 staples

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Tool got hung on canopy of roof bolter and bent left thumb backwards while hitting drill steel with a tool,

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Contractor who works for Jones Hydroblast was clearing a chute and his pry bar struck him on the jaw.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Cleaning pan and caught his finger between the pan wall and scraper. The reason for delay in reporting was delay in x-rays and results.

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 Knight Hawk Coal, LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.