Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Accident type, without injuries
73 Highwall Miner inadvertently cut into an abandoned underground mine causing the HWM #73 Miner pit to become floooded
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March 7, 2018
KY · Coal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
MACHINERY
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Struck by flying object
Crew was attempting to tram the Highwall Miner while victim in fork loader observed the trailing cable. From the confines of the loader 25 feet away a piece of metal from the Highwall Miner track flew through the slightly opened side glass of the loader striking the employee and causing employee to lose vision in left eye.
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface
Employee was attempting to tighten bolts on a cutterhead module of a Highwall Miner when the wrench slipped and employee fell to the ground breaking right leg.
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EE was attempting to install anchor pin and pin moved and mashed left pinkie finger between anchor pin and the Highwall Mine removing it at the first joint.
Commonwealth Mining LLC · Fall from machine
While exiting the rear of a pick up truck the employee's left foot slipped off the rear bumper of the vehicle causing him to fall to the ground.
October 7, 2014
WV · Coal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
Commonwealth Mining LLC
· Struck by falling object
Employee apparently entered into highwall miner hole in an attempt to retrieve a cutter chain. While at the chain, the employee was struck by rock from roof.
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Struck by flying object
Holding roller chain with hammer while another employee was attempting to knock out a connecting link with a hammer and a sliver of metal struck employee under his safety glasses
November 18, 2013
KY · Coal
driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
While knocking pins out of the Right Angle Conveyor of the Pasco Highwall Miner with a slate bar the the pins came out causing the slate bar to strike the employee in the hand and face.
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