Fall to the walkway or working surface
Employee was removing drag rope from drag drum. The bottom loop slid from drag drum and the cable hit his heel. As a result, the employee fell back and twisted his knee.
The North American Coal CorpMining Incidents in 2005
All MSHA-reportable accidents at The North American Coal Corp operations in 2005. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities in 2005
- 0
- Total incidents
- 6
- Year
- 2005
Top incident classifications
- 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS3 incidents
- 02HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 incidents
- 03SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
All incidents in 2005
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was opening hood on service truck and felt left groin strain. Employee reported incident at 2:00 am 5/21 and was transported to Hospital for examination and returned to work to completed his shift. Employee returned to work until June 24th when he complained of pain and could not perform his normal duties. He was sent home on that date.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was going to change a quick connection off a welding cable. The screw driver he had would not fit in the hole. He started cutting it wih a knife, the knife slipped and cut through his glove. It cut his left hand.
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
While adjusting brake on Marion 8050 dragline, employee directed assistant to open brake. While he was removing his hands from Brake wheel, he passed by the pinch point. The Brake assembly opened and caught his index finger.
Struck by flying object
Employee was using a hammer to loosen a tooth point on Loader when the hammer struck the hardened surface of the4 tooth, a piece of the tooth flew off and lodge in his leg.
Struck against stationary object
While trying to dislodge the hold down pin on boom, hand slipped and hit the bracket for the pin. Pin was bent and would not slide out of bracket, Using just hand force.