FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

Name: FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL at Elk Run Coal Company, LLC
Start: 08/07/2015

220152260098 · 08/07/2015 · Elk Run Coal Company, LLC

Details

Degree of injury: DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Classification: FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
Accident type: Struck by rolling or sliding object
Occupation: Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
Activity: Move power cable
Injury source: CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
Nature of injury: CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
Body part: ANKLE
Days lost: 60
Mine experience: 2.15 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
Operator: Elk Run Coal Company, LLC
Mine: 4609293

Narrative

Employee was setting up to take 1st lift out of block. Injured bent over to throw miner slack (cable) next to rib, when without warning, Rib Rolled off and struck him on the lower left leg and ankle pinning him between the miner and the rock. went to hospital and received X-rays RX.

Source

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