HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Name: HANDLING OF MATERIALS at Kanawha River Terminals LLC
Start: 11/26/2012

220123330017 · 11/26/2012 · Kanawha River Terminals 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: Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
Activity: Machine maintenance
Injury source: PUMPS,FANS,COMP,ENG,NEC
Nature of injury: FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part: FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost: 6
Mine experience: 15 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Traxys North America LLC; Pegasus Capital Advisors LP
Operator: Kanawha River Terminals LLC
Mine: 1516749

Narrative

Employee was performing pre-operational inspection of Loader and saw that A/C vent housing above his head in the cab was loose on one side. Employee attempted to snap vent housing back in place and shoved hand through the vent approx. 5 inches and made contact with fan blades resulting in lacerated and broken ring finger on left hand.

Source

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