Mining Incidents

Mettiki Coal LLCMining Incidents in 2015

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Mettiki Coal LLC operations in 2015. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2015
0
Total incidents
8
Year
2015

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS4 incidents
  2. 02POWERED HAULAGE2 incidents
  3. 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
  4. 04STRIKING OR BUMPING1 incident

All incidents in 2015

Fall from machine

Driver was getting out of truck to use bathroom at wide spot top of 10 on private road. As he was exiting truck missed bottom step & fell to ground pull hid groin muscle.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee found a wood board stuck in belt chute. The employee jerked on the board in an attempt to remove from the belt chute and felt a pop in his left shoulder. Employee continue to work from date of accident until January 25, 2016 when he went off work for surgery to repair left rotator cuff injury.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Snagged pant leg on a piece of metal plate in the shop and tripped while carrying a piece of 1/2""x8""x48"" flat bar and fell to the floor landing/catching himself on/with his right hand. Per phone call he twisted/sprained his hand.

Struck against a moving object

Driver was inbound loaded with coal came around turn #4 on private haul road. Lost control of trailer & tractor sliding into ditch and over turned truck & trailer.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

He said that he was shoveling dirt off of the floor and something got into his eye. He thinks it was something from the other guys that were working behind him at the time.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Crawling between the top and bottom belts on V-98 train 10 about conveyor to remove 2 (berthold) ash analyzers that were not in service anymore and twisted his neck wrong in the process of removing them.

Struck against a moving object

Driver was coming out on private road and when coming our at log landing and dozed off lost control of truck ran off left side of road

Struck against stationary object

He was coming down the steep incline of the catwalk from the twin silos sliding his hand down the hand railing and caught a piece of metal between his pinky and ring finger on his right hand, The metal did not cut him, it spread his knuckles apart between his fingers.

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 Mettiki Coal LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.