HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Name: HANDLING OF MATERIALS at AMFIRE Mining Company LLC
Start: 12/27/2007

220073620016 · 12/27/2007 · AMFIRE Mining Company LLC

Details

Degree of injury: NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification: HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type: Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Occupation: Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
Activity: Machine maintenance
Injury source: METAL COVERS & GUARDS
Nature of injury: FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part: FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost: 0
Mine experience: 4.79 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
Operator: AMFIRE Mining Company LLC
Mine: 3609005

Narrative

Employee and co-workers were attempting to raise the belt drive spill-board into place. The piece of heavy metal was too heavy to hold and started to slip from the worker's grasp. The injured worker had his hand caught between the spill-board and the belt rope causing a laceration and a fracture to the finger tip of his right hand.

Source

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