Mining Incidents

South Fork Coal Company, LLCMining Incidents in 2017

All MSHA-reportable accidents at South Fork Coal Company, LLC operations in 2017. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2017
0
Total incidents
1
Year
2017

Top incident classifications

  1. 01POWERED HAULAGE1 incident

All incidents in 2017

Struck by falling object

Victim was operating assigned loader. It had been raining a substantial amount. A rock fell from the highwall and struck the windshield of the loader causing dust, dirt & glass to get in EE's eyes. EMT's flushed and bandaged EE's eyes. At the hospital no foreign material was found in EE's eyes but there was minor scratches. Ointment was applied and EE was released.

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 Fork Coal Company, LLC's numeric MSHA operator ID.