HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Name: HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) at James River Coal Service Company
Start: 04/13/2007

220071150051 · 04/13/2007 · James River Coal Service Company

Details

Degree of injury: NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification: HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Accident type: Struck by... NEC
Occupation: Electrician, Lineman
Activity: Electrical maintenance
Injury source: CROWBAR,PRY BAR
Nature of injury: FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part: CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
Days lost: 0
Mine experience: 0.46 years

Operator

Controller (parent): James River Coal Company
Operator: James River Coal Service Company
Mine: 1518978

Narrative

While changing a PTM cradle location, a pry bar was used to keep the cradle from moving. When they leveled the highwall miner, the bar dislodged and struck EE in the back - As a result, he was diagnosed as having a cracked rib.

Source

Authoritative: MSHA Open Government Data
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown