All MSHA-reportable accidents at Oxford Mining Co.LLC operations in 2016. Fatalities appear first.
Machine was parked at 1:45am the morning of the 28th and the operator went home, at 3:00am that night a miner that was still there noticed that the equipment was on fire and called 911. No one was around the equipment for over an hour so the origination of the fire is unknown.
Unloading the truck, twisted knee (worked full duty up till 9/1/16)
Operator said ee hurt back when ee hit a bump in the road. Upon new evidence this has become reportable.
Employee was operating a D-6 dozer and was backing up at a 2 to 1 slope and went to shift into forward and the transmission did not catch causing the dozer to free wheel. The operator dropped the blade and this caused EE to lunge forward and rotate from the waist hitting head on the window frame. Operator was wearing seatbelt. Operator received stitches.