Accident type, without injuries
Found an unintentional roof fall on the #9 belt. Fall was 40' x 20' x 5'H.
Leeco, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2010
All MSHA-reportable accidents at Leeco, Inc. operations in 2010. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2010
- 1
- Total incidents
- 21
- Year
- 2010
Top incident classifications
- 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS6 incidents
- 02POWERED HAULAGE4 incidents
- 03HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)4 incidents
- 04FALL OF ROOF OR BACK2 incidents
- 05MACHINERY2 incidents
All incidents in 2010
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee got caught between the continuous miner and the coal rib suffering fatal injuries.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
He was taking a rub rail off of the miner and caught his right middle finger between the rub rail and lolo structure. Finger was amputated to the 1st joint.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Got out of mantrip car, stepped up and twisted knee. Started missing work 11-16-2010.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EE caught his left ankle between the rib and a rail motor and fractured ankle. Started missing work 10/2/10.
Fall onto or against objects
EE stood up in rail motor and accidentally hit the tram switch which caused him to fall down against the top of the equipment. Started missing work 9-9-2010.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE stepped off rail motor and twisted his right knee. Started missing work 8-13-2010.
Struck by powered moving object
EE was standing beside the mine track at the portal and the rockduster wrecked off the track and caught his left leg. Fractured leg. Started missing 5-5-2010 and RTW 8-23-10 (75 days lost). EE started missing again due to complications on 11-1-2010.
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Lifting jack kicked out and put pressure on arm and jerked jack bar out of hand - hurt shoulder. Started missing work 11-29-2010.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Scoop was tramming through a break and pushed a piece of 4"" waterline into employee's ankle. Fracture ankle. Started missing work 1/22/2010.
Over-exertion in lifting objects
He was loading belt structure and had a pain in his groin area. Diagnosed with a hernia. Had surgery on 1/15/2010.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Beating a race into wheel and pin slipped and cut finger. 2 sutures required.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE was cutting belt, knife slipped and he cut his left hand. 4 sutures required.
Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE stood up and something in his foot popped. Diagnosed with a simple hairline fracture.
Struck against stationary object
EE was tramming scoop and hit his hand on a rock and fractured his left index finger.
Struck by falling object
EE was using a lifting jack and it fell over and hit his right middle finger. Fractured finger.
Struck against stationary object
EE was setting timbers and cut his right thumb on a sharp rock.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Letting bolter cable down and cable hook caught his right hand between the thumb and index finger cutting his hand. Sutures were required - no lost time.
Struck by falling object
He dropped a lifting jack on his right thumb. Thumb was fractured. Co just found out 6/4/2010 by medical records.
Struck against a moving object
EE was driving a buggy in the return and ran over a rock and caused the steering wheel to hit his arm.