Mining Incidents

Reading Anthracite CompanyMining Incidents in 2004

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Reading Anthracite Company operations in 2004. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2004
0
Total incidents
7
Year
2004

Top incident classifications

  1. 01SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents
  2. 02MACHINERY2 incidents
  3. 03HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident
  4. 04NO VALUE FOUND1 incident
  5. 05HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident

All incidents in 2004

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting rubber belting & utility knife slipped & cut rt thigh.

Fall onto or against objects

GETTING OUT OF DOZER & SLIPPED OFF TRACK. HE FELL HITTING LT ELBOW ON HEAER & RT SHOLDER & BACK ON DOOR FRAME.

Struck by flying object

THIS EMP. & OTHERS WERE INSTALLING BOOM ON 285 DEMAG. GRINDING/WELDING/BURNING WAS TAKING PLACE - METAL SLIVER GOT INTO RT EYE.

Fall from machine

EE FELL TO GROUND WHEN CLIMBING LADDER TO GET ON DRAGLINE. EE WORKED UP UNTIL 4/12/04 AND HAD SURGERY ON 4/13/04.

Struck against a moving object

While operating dozer, building a roadway, the operator went over large rocks & bounced violently in the cab of dozer causing a neck sprain. EE worked thru 3/12/04 & his first day of lost time was 3/15/04.

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

One employee shut car door on this ee's hand.

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 Reading Anthracite Company's numeric MSHA operator ID.