While bolting a rock fell out between bolts striking employee in back.
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
- 01FALL OF ROOF OR BACK4 incidents
- 02HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)4 incidents
- 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents
- 04HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 incidents
All incidents in 2014
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.
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.
While waking to the scoop employee stepped in a hole twisting his ankle.
While hanging face curtain Employee got his finger hung on a nail. Required 5 stitches
Employee is a contract laborer, he was taking down high voltage cable when he got a cable hanger in his left hand.
Tool got hung on canopy of roof bolter and bent left thumb backwards while hitting drill steel with a tool,
Contractor who works for Jones Hydroblast was clearing a chute and his pry bar struck him on the jaw.
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.