Mining Incidents

Small Mine Development, LLCMining Incidents in 2012

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Small Mine Development, LLC operations in 2012. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2012
0
Total incidents
5
Year
2012

Top incident classifications

  1. 01SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents
  2. 02FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 incident
  3. 03HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident
  4. 04MACHINERY1 incident

All incidents in 2012

Accident type, without injuries

Shot face and ground fell back into bolts

Fall from machine

Employee was working on a set of multi media filter that were on a utility trailer. He was standing on the piping that connected the filters together, slipped and fell hurting his right knee, neck and back.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Worker was pulling liner when the built in handles ripped and employee fell backwards landing on left arm

Over-exertion in lifting objects

While unloading supplies he pulled on bundle of rock bolts and felt a pop in his left arm. He had surgery to repair a bicep ligament separation at the elbow.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Removing jammed bolt from bolter when the bolt plate slid down the bolt striking his right hand requiring sutures.

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 Small Mine Development, LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.