EE WAS SCOOPING IN #2 ENTRY WHEN HE GOT HIS HEAD CAUGHT BETWEEN BACK OF SCOOP AND TOP.
Search the record
Every injury and fatality MSHA has on file. Filter by state, year, sector, classification, experience, or any keyword from the investigator's narrative.
- Total incidents
- 739,488
- Of which fatal
- 3,112
- Years on record
- 1983–2026
- Classifications
- 20
Alert me on this search
Email me when a new incident matches these filters. One confirmation email; unsubscribe anytime.
106 matching records
Showing 50 of 106WHILE TRAVELING ROADWAY UNDERGROUND EE SAID HE HIT A ROCK OR HOLE IN THE ROADWAY WHICH THREW HIM UP AND CAME BACK DOWN AND HIT HIS LOWER PART OF HIS BACK ON THE BACK OF SCOOP DECK.
3 WHEEL BUGGY WAS BACKING UP THEN OTHER WENT FORWARD CAUSIGN VICTIM TO HIT HIS HEAD DRIVING IT DOWN INTO HIS SHOULERS. THERE WAS A LOW PLACE IN THAT AREA.
MYRON WAS RIDING MANTRIP IN WHEN IT WENT THROUGH WATER HOLE EE RAISSED UP AND CAUGHT BACK ON ROOF BOLT AN DIT BENT HIM DOUBLE.
STANLEY WAS TRAMMING LOADED SHUTTLE CAR TO FEEDER WHEN HE HIT A STRAP HANGING FROM TOP WITH CANOPY CAUSING A PIECE OF COAL TO FLY IN HIS LEFT EYE.
WHILE TRAMMING SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST THE CANOPY, WHICH BRUISED THE BACK OF NECK AND LEFT SHOULDER.
BUGGEY OPERATOR CAME AROUND CORNER AND RAN INTO RIB.
EMP WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR. TRAVELED AT RATE OF SPEED TOO HIGH FOR THE CONDITIONS. HIT A BUMPCAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS HEAD ON THE CAB. RESULT WAS A STRAIN TO THE NECK AND LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES INJURY OCCURRED WHILE LOADING COAL. ACCIDENT NOT REPORTED UNTIL AUGUST 30,1996WHEN EMPLOYEE WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM COMPLAININGOF BACK PAIN.
EE SAID HE HURT HIS BACK WHILE OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR HE SAID HE HIT HOLE IN ROADWAY.
WHILE HAULING COAL TO DUMP WITH #2 SHUTTLE CAR, EE WENT AROUND CORNER AT SPAD #1834 IN #6 ENTRY,GOT HIS RIGHT ARM CAUGHT BETWEEN CORNER OF RIB &OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT SCRAPED, PULLED MUSCLES & LIGMENTS OF RIGHT ARM.
WAGNER SCOOP WAS PULLING SHUTTLE CAR. SHUTTLE CAR BUMPER HIT A LOOSE CRIB BLOCK AND TIMBER PINNING THE EE LEG.
EE WAS RIDING ON THE CONTACTOR BOX, DOWN THE #3 ENTRY, WHEN THE SCOOP TURNED THROUGH A BREAK TO THE #4 ENTRY. HIS FOOT WAS HANGING DOWN BETWEEN THE SWIVEL PART OF THE SCOOP AND WHEN THE SCOOP TURNED, IT CAUGHT HIS FOOT.
THE GU CREW WERE BUILDING A BRATTICE AND WERE STACKING THE TOP WHEN THEY NEEDED THE BUCKET RAISED A RING WAS BROKEN DUE TO BLOCKS FALLING OFF SCOOP ON FITTINGS CAUSING BUCKET TO DROP MAKING EM PLOYEE FALL FORWARD KNOCKING HIS CAP OFF AND THE BLOCK HIT HIM ON THE HEAD.
EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT UNTIL NEXT DAY. EE WAS DRIVING MANTRIP RAN OVER ROCK IN ROADWAY AND STEERING WHEEL JERKED & HE LET GO OF STEERING WHEEL, STRIKING HIM ON LEFT HAND.
REPAIRMAN TOOK THE BOLTS OUT OF THE RUB RAIL ON THE MINER. THEY TOLD THE OPERATOR TO MOVE THE MINER. WHEN MINER MOVED, THE RUB RAIL FELL AND HIT THE REPAIRMAN ON THE RIGHT HAND, NO VISIBLE DAM AGE.
PARKED CAR TO USE BATH ROOM. STARTED TO GO OVER TO ANCHOR, HEARD CAR BEHIND HIM, TRIED TO JUMP OUT OF WAY. CAR HIT LEFT LEG, MASHED MUSCLE. NO BROKEN BONES OR BROKEN SKIN.
BELT WAS BEING PULLED TOGETHER USING A SCOOP THE CHAIN BROKE AND A PIECE OF CHAIN STRUCK THE EE IN THE FACE.
BOUNCED OFF SEAT OF TRIP ON RIDE OUT OF MINE AT THE END OF SHIFT. MANTRIP POSSBLY TRAVELING TOO FAST FOR ROADWAY CONDITION.
UNEVEN BOTTOM CONDITIONS CAUSED ROUGH ROADWAY EMPLOYEE PROCEDED AT TOO HIGH OF SPEED THROUGH ROUGH AREA CONTRIBUTING FACTOR WAS THE EMPLOYEE TWISTING WHEN HE HIT THE ROUGH SPOT
MAN WAS TRAMMING SCOOP OUT OF OLD PART OF MINE, RAN OVER SOMETHING THAT CAME UP FROM UNDER SCOOP DECK STRIKING HIM ON HIS BACK. THEY WERE WALKING BESIDE OF SCOOP. NEITHER ONE SAW IT. WHEN THEY STOPPED A PIECE OF 4" PLASTIC WATER LINE WAS LAYING UNDER SCOOP.
THE SCOOP OPER. WAS PUSHING UP GOB WHICH HAD A PIECE OF 2 IN PLASTIC WATER LINE IN IT. RATHER THAN GETTING OFF SCOOP TO MOVE WATER LINE, HE KEPT TRYING TO PUSH IT WITH THE SCOOP. THE WATER LIN E SPRANG BACK OVER SCOOP AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE.
HAD 2 MEN TAKING IN A POWER BOX & THE SCOOP WOULDN'T PULL IT UP THE HILL, THEY WENT OUT & GOT A TRACTOR & TRIED TO PUSH IT WITH THE DECK END CAUSING THE POWER BOX TO COME UP & OVER THE DRIVER HURTING HIS BACK & RIBS.
EE WAS LOWERING SHUTTLE CAR WITH WAGNER SCOOP. A ROOF BOLT STEEL WAS LEANING AGAINST SHUTTLE CAR AND SPRUNG OUT STRIKING EE IN THE HEAD.
HE SAID HE WAS RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR AND IT HIT A HOLE AND JARRED HIM BAD IN THE BACK SAID IT MADE HIM HURT ALL OVER.
PERSON DRIVING BUGGY AROUND CORNER HAD SMALL DROP OFF CLOSE TO RIB. HE GOT TOO CLOSE TO THE RIB AND DROVE OFF THE DROP OFF. HE HIT HIS HEAD ON THE CAB.
EE DRIVING MANTRIP RAN OVER ROCK IN ROAD STEERING KNOB CAME OFF STEERING WHEEL LEAVING A BOLT THAT TORE INTO EE LEG FROM STRIKING ROCK WHICH JERKED STEERING WHEEL FROM HIS HAND.
DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR HIT A BUMP.
EE WAS OPERATING SCOOP HE RAN THE SCOOP OVER A ROCK IN THE ROADWAY. THE SCOOP BOUNCED OFF OF THE ROCK THROWING THE EE INTO THE CANOPY. THE EE SAID HE WAS FEELING PAIN IN HIS NECK AND LOWER BAC K. THE EE WAS CHECK OUT AT THE MINES. THE COMPLETED HIS SHIFT AND THEN DROVE HOME. HE THEN WENT TO HIS FAMILY DR.
HE WAS JUMPING THE BATTERIES ON MANTRIP AND THE BATTERY POST ARKED AND EITHER GOT ACID OR A PIECE OF LEAD IN HIS RIGHT EYE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.
DOOR ON SC CAME UNLATCHED WHILE TRAMMIN GAND HIT THAM ON RIGHT HAND.
MAN WAS MOVING MANTRIP & DIDNT GET IT PUT IN PARK & ROLLED & HIT IN LEFT ARM
HE WAS RIDING THE EIMCO OPEN MANTRIP INTO THE MINE TO START THE SHIFT. HE SAT UP AS THE MANTRIP PASSED UNDER A LOW SPOT AND BUMPED HIS HEAD ON THE ROOF.
WAS DRIVING MANTRIP WENT CLOSE TO RIB FRONT TIRE HIT RIB & JERKED STEERING WHEEL INTO LEFT HAND
MAN WAS RUNNING S.C. HIT A BUMP & JARRED LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING BRATTICE BLOCKS ON INACTIVE BELTLINE TO BUILD A STOPPING AT BACK OF #3 DTAILPIECE WHEN BOTTOM ROLLER CAUGHT CANOPY SWINGING BACK HITTING HIM IN FACE.
SCOOP WAS BACKING WHEN SHUTTLE CAR CAME THROUGH BREAK AND STRUCK SCOOP.
3 WHEELER BATTERIES WAS LOW CHARGED. EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO GO UP A HILL AND GOT OFF TO PUSH. 3 WHEELER ROLLED BACK AND HIT LEG.
TRAMMING SCOOP DOWN #1 ENTRY, HE SAW A OIL CAN, LAYING ON THE RIB. HE SLOWED DOWN TO PICK UP THE CAN AND WHEN HE GRABBED IT, THE CAN CAUGHT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCOOP AND PULLED HIS ARM BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RECOVER HIS SHOVEL WHEN HANDLE HIT HIM ON THE CHEEK.
MAN WAS TRAMMING SCOOP TO OUTSIDE. HE RAN OVER A ROCK BOUNCING HIM UP & WHEN HE CAME DOWN HE STRUCK HIS BACK.
SHUTTLE CAR HIT BACK OF MINER AND PUSHED OPERATOR INTO TOP.
INJURED WAS TRAVELING DOWN THE BELT LINE & A BAR HE WAS HAULING ON THE 3 WHEELER CAUGHT ON A TIMBER & [SPINNED] AROUND & HIT HIM IN THE RIBS.
RIGHT DRIVE SHUTTLE CAR IOPERATOR WAS HAULING COAL WHEN HE WAS STRUCK IN FOREHEAD BY STRAP HANGING DOWN FROM ROOF
SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR WAS HAULING COAL TO FEEDER, CABLE THAT WAS HUNG CAME DOWN AND CAUGHT HIM ON NECK.
MAN FELL OFF MANTRIP AND HIT HIS RIGHT KNEE.
I WSA SHOVLEING #5 BELT 1 BREAK INBY #% HEAD WHEN SHOVEL CAUGHT IN ROLLER AND PULLED ARM INTO BELT BRUISED LEFT ARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS ON A BUGGY TRAVELING THROUGH MUD AND WATER IN MINE THE STEERING SPUN AROUND STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE'S HAND.
DURING TRANSPORTING UNDERGROUND EE ATTEPTED TO MOVE SLATE BAR BAR ACCENDTLY HIT MINE ROOF.
RIDING OUTSIDE ON MANTRIP WHEN MANTRIP RAN INTO RIB AND EE FELL OFF OF MATRIP AND HURT HIP.