HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Name: HANDLING OF MATERIALS at Highland Mining Company LLC
Start: 04/09/2009

220091000034 · 04/09/2009 · Highland Mining Company LLC

Details

Degree of injury: DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Classification: HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type: Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Occupation: Beltman, Conveyor man, Conveyor belt worker, Mobile bridge carrierman, Feeder operator, Conveyor rider
Activity: Machine maintenance
Injury source: BELT CONVEYORS
Nature of injury: CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part: FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost: 16
Mine experience: 3.04 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Patriot Coal Corporation
Operator: Highland Mining Company LLC
Mine: 1502709

Narrative

Employee reported. Making repairs to a belt tail peice frame. Using a come a long lifting a impact roller to placed in th ethroat of the tailpiece. the roller became stuck. He was pushing on the roller to move it over. It came loose and moved sideways suddenly. His right thumb was caught between the roller and the frame of the tailroller resulting in a laceration fracture only

Source

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