Mining Incidents

Wellmore Coal CorporationMining Incidents in 2018

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Wellmore Coal Corporation operations in 2018. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2018
0
Total incidents
2
Year
2018

Top incident classifications

  1. 01SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 incident
  2. 02HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident

All incidents in 2018

Fall down stairs

An employee lost footing while going down the set of steps from the 3rd floor MCC room to the 3rd floor of the plant. The fall resulted in a strained left shoulder that required surgery on 11/22/19.

Struck by falling object

The employee was moving a section of screen deck with a series of chains. One of the chains slipped causing a corner of the screen deck to drop on the employee's left foot. Employee broke left big toe.

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 Wellmore Coal Corporation's numeric MSHA operator ID.