HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Name: HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) at Gibson County Coal LLC
Start: 06/23/2011

220111780032 · 06/23/2011 · Gibson County Coal LLC

Details

Degree of injury: NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification: HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Accident type: Struck by flying object
Occupation: Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
Activity: Hand tools (not powered)
Injury source: METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
Nature of injury: CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part: FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost: 0
Mine experience: 5.5 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Alliance Resource Partners LP
Operator: Gibson County Coal LLC
Mine: 1202215

Narrative

Employee was changing bits on a continuous miner. As he was doing so, a piece of the hammer he was using broke off and struck him, and stuck in his little finger on his left hand. It had to be removed at the local ER and sutured.

Source

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