Employee was changing scoop batteries. An individual cell grounded against the battery tray causing the battery to produce smoke. The inured inhaled an unknown amount of smoke.
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March 23, 2020
WV · Coal
lw propman, propman helper, move crew if lw, move-up man, jacksetter, advanceman lw helper
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Bluestone Oil Corporation · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
Justice Highwall Mining, Inc. · Flash burns (electric)
Employee received second degree burns to the left arm and back from an arc flash.
Nufac Mining Company, Inc · Contact with electrical current
EE was tramming the scoop, the bucket of the scoop hooked the pump cable that was hung damaging the cable. EE got out of scoop to hang the cable and when EE grabbed the cable EE got an electrical shock.
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