HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Name: HANDLING OF MATERIALS at Fox Knob Coal Company Inc
Start: 07/12/2013

220131980015 · 07/12/2013 · Fox Knob Coal Company Inc

Details

Degree of injury: DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
Classification: HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type: Struck by falling object
Occupation: Electrician, Lineman
Activity: Machine maintenance
Injury source: BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
Nature of injury: FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part: BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
Days lost: 45
Mine experience: 0.77 years

Operator

Controller (parent): U S Coal Corporation
Operator: Fox Knob Coal Company Inc
Mine: 1514728

Narrative

Employee was changing bit on the Highwall miner head and a rock became dislodged from the wall and hit the employee and knocked him into the miner head. The employee received a fractured right wrist and two fractured vertebrate.

Source

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