Mining Incidents

Mettiki Coal LLCMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Mettiki Coal LLC operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
0
Total incidents
6
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS4 incidents
  2. 02MACHINERY1 incident
  3. 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident

All incidents in 2018

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

Employee was cutting a piece of 1/2"" thick ceramic tile when the tile became wedged between the tile saw blade and the base.

Fall down stairs

Employee hurt left wrist/hand when the employee slipped and fell while carrying a sample bag of coal down a flight of steps at the Analyzer Building.

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

Employee was taking down some scaffolding and when lifting up to separate the two sections they smashed the right pinky between the scaffolding and unit 92 belt structure.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee said that EE was picking up a piece of concrete the size of a softball and right shoulder dislocated. EE was able to put it back into place by self.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Driver was hooking toe strap back to D ring on back of Dozer and sprained left wrist.

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

Assisting a co-worker turn 80-c cross flow and got hand caught between cross flow and beam.

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.