Employee was cutting rubber belting & utility knife slipped & cut rt thigh.
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
- 01SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents
- 02MACHINERY2 incidents
- 03HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident
- 04NO VALUE FOUND1 incident
- 05HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
All incidents in 2004
GETTING OUT OF DOZER & SLIPPED OFF TRACK. HE FELL HITTING LT ELBOW ON HEAER & RT SHOLDER & BACK ON DOOR FRAME.
THIS EMP. & OTHERS WERE INSTALLING BOOM ON 285 DEMAG. GRINDING/WELDING/BURNING WAS TAKING PLACE - METAL SLIVER GOT INTO RT EYE.
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.
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.
USING SLEDGE HAMMER TO DRIVE WEDGE OUT OF HOIST ROPE SOCKET.
One employee shut car door on this ee's hand.