MACHINERY

Name: MACHINERY at McElroy Coal Company
Start: 10/21/2013

220133040041 · 10/21/2013 · McElroy Coal Company

Details

Degree of injury: DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Classification: MACHINERY
Accident type: Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Occupation: Longwall operator, Chock operator, Shear operator, Plow operator
Activity: Machine maintenance
Injury source: LONGWALL SUPT,JKS & CHOCK
Nature of injury: CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part: FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost: 59
Mine experience: 0.69 years

Operator

Controller (parent): CONSOL Energy Inc
Operator: McElroy Coal Company
Mine: 4601437

Narrative

He was placing a vertical pin on a longwall shield. He asked another employee to activate the relay bar to drop the pin into the hole. When the relay bar moved, it caught his left index finger between the pin and the panline causing a laceration which required 21 sutures.

Source

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