HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Name: HANDLING OF MATERIALS at Mettiki Coal WV, LLC
Start: 02/16/2012

220120520051 · 02/16/2012 · Mettiki Coal WV, 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: Utility man, Errand boy, Service truck operator
Activity: Machine maintenance
Injury source: METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
Nature of injury: CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part: FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost: 62
Mine experience: 0.37 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Alliance Resource Partners LP
Operator: Mettiki Coal WV, LLC
Mine: 4609028

Narrative

Employee was in the process of reinstalling the relay bar retaining pin that had worked loose on shield #121. The pin became wedged and as it was being worked back and forth to free up the employees left thumb was pinched between the pin and the relay bar avulsing the tip of the thumb.

Source

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