HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Name: HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) at Pocahontas Coal Company LLC
Start: 08/15/2017

220172300014 · 08/15/2017 · Pocahontas Coal Company LLC

Details

Degree of injury: NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification: HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Accident type: Struck by... NEC
Occupation: Electrician, Lineman
Activity: Machine maintenance
Injury source: CROWBAR,PRY BAR
Nature of injury: CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part: HEAD,NEC
Days lost: 0
Mine experience: 0.77 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Metinvest B V
Operator: Pocahontas Coal Company LLC
Mine: 4608878

Narrative

Employee was changing shear pins in the feeder using a bar to foul the outer hub so ee could line up the holes and as ee proceeded to turn the coupling the bar slipped out striking the employee in the fore head. The employee was taken to Raleigh General Hospital where ee received 5 sutures.

Source

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