Mining Incidents

South Central Coal Company, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2014

All MSHA-reportable accidents at South Central Coal Company, Inc. operations in 2014. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2014
0
Total incidents
4
Year
2014

Top incident classifications

  1. 01FALL OF ROOF OR BACK2 incidents
  2. 02POWERED HAULAGE1 incident
  3. 03HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 incident

All incidents in 2014

Struck against stationary object

employee had his foot hanging out of mantrip and when traveling outside at end of shift, his foot hit a pallet of material and twisted his foot, causing a fracture.

Struck by falling object

Employee was roof bolting on offside at #2 face, he put up outside bolt was swinging over to put up 2nd bolt when rock fell from top and landed on his foot. Employee was wearing rubber steel toed boot. Jagged point of rock punctured through the upper portion of boot and punctured his foot.

Struck by falling object

Rock fell on to hand while putting wire mesh on to t-bar on roof bolter

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

hand pinched by motor

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 South Central Coal Company, Inc.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.