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HANDLING OF MATERIALS

220160360052 · 02/02/2016 · M-Class Mining LLC

Details

Degree of injury
NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Occupation
Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
Activity
Handling supplies or material
Injury source
BELT CONVEYORS
Nature of injury
CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part
FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost
0
Mine experience
0.38 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
Coalfield Transport Inc; Foresight Energy/ Murray Energy
Operator
M-Class Mining LLC
Mine
1103189

Narrative

Employee was pulling on 60"" belt with 5/8 steel braided cable and shive wheels. While they were pulling, a double molly became lodged. They then let the pressure off from the scoop side to unlodge the cable. When it became unlodged the tail end of the molly caught employee's glove and pulled EE's thumb into the shive wheel causing a laceration to EE's left thumb.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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