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HANDLING OF MATERIALS

220141060008 · 03/09/2014 · El Segundo Coal Company, LLC

Details

Degree of injury
DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
Classification
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type
Struck by... NEC
Occupation
Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
Activity
Machine maintenance
Injury source
CHAIN,ROPE,CABLE-NT CONVY
Nature of injury
FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part
KNEE/PATELLA
Days lost
0
Mine experience
2 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
Peabody Energy Corporation
Operator
El Segundo Coal Company, LLC
Mine
2902257

Narrative

Team was replacing power cable at shovel. 30' of cable was spooled off cable reel. Cable reel operator backed up and spooled more cable off reel. Unknown to operator cable had backlashed on reel. Cable was being reeled back onto reel. Cable tight-lined, movement of cable struck IE on left leg. 4/9/2014 a brace was prescribed to support leg, IE was placed on Light Duty.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
JSON-LD · Markdown