Blue Creek Mine No. 1 — Accidents

Total: 25 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
02/11/2026 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee had just finished servicing a location and was moving to the next location. In between downtime employee went to drink and have a snack. During this time a piece of 1-inch-thick dry rock fell...
12/20/2025 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee was bolting in #2R and went to hang pink reflector on next to last row of bolts. Stepped up on the ATRS, as they were hanging the reflector, the bolting partner lowered the eye of the ATRS an...
11/21/2025 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee was moving scoop and while moving was trying to push air line out of the way without exiting the scoop and during this was struck on EE's right hand middle finger between the canopy of the sc...
10/29/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 50d restricted EE was working at mine site, and the weather had been raining. EE was walking to their truck in the wet red clay when left foot slid forward causing them to fall backwards. During the fall, the EE's r...
10/16/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Approximately 11PM on October 16, 2025 worker was on a ladder about 2 feet off of the ground. EE was removing a 50-60lb chain fall. Had excess chain sitting on EE's upper back. Once the chain fall was...
08/29/2025 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 56d lost, 5d restricted Employee was loosening a concrete pipe coupler to clear a plugged concrete pipe. When the IE pulled the latch on the concrete line coupler the pressure build up caused the coupler to unexpectedly blow...
08/28/2025 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 107d lost Employee to restore suction to the left side of the roof bolter that was damaged. A loose piece of middleman (4'longX20""wideX10""thick) broke loose between the boom and last rib pin, hitting the dril...
07/23/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a 3lb hammer to drive a grounding rod when they struck their left index finger after missing the grounding rod and striking their finger with the hammer. They received 2 stitches to...
03/24/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted Employee was connecting a beam, one side was hung on a column. As employee started to bolt one end of the beam the other end freed up pinching employee's hand with the beam. The employee received a la...
03/08/2025 ELECTRICAL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee is the continuous miner sections electrician and was called to the miner for an error code of ""MCT Top' code. When the employee arrived at the miner, employee knocked the breaker panel & the...
02/20/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 44d lost Employee slipped off ladder scraping upper thigh between the 2nd and 3rd step of the ladder. Came to work to be seen by initial doctor visit on scrape and was sent to ER due to picking at their skin a...
02/19/2025 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 42d lost Was walking outby the section to de-trash the HG section. While walking person tripped on a rock in travelway and twisted their ankle. Continued working whole shift and asked to be taken to the doctor...
11/29/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working on installing a belt feeder. EE accidentally got their finger caught between the wear plate of the feeder and the scaffolding rail causing injury.
08/19/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was in the process of unstacking wall girts when the incident occurred. As EE was lifting one off the stack, EE rolled it over and the sharp edge of the girt lacerated EE's right arm, 4 i...
07/08/2024 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee was bolting up a cyclone. Employee was prying with a bar, the bar slipped and employee stumbled causing knee to twist.
05/09/2024 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 106d restricted An employee suffered an injury to left hand while replacing a damaged steel set along the slope. The walker was working with employees attempting to remove bolts from the steel set leg. The scoop oper...
03/18/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was working on a vertical wall hanging rebar in an elevated position. EE was using a full body harness, two self-retracting lifelines & a positioning chain for fall protection. When the EE needed t...
03/01/2024 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None employee was climbing off of roof bolter, when they placed their left hand on Boom mast. Bolter operator didn't realize their hand was there as they lowered the drill pot, which resulted in their hand...
01/10/2024 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 15d lost While backfilling a 500' deep ground well in a substation with grout, employee lit a cigarette and caused an ignition, burning their left hand.
12/19/2023 MACHINERY PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 14d lost, 101d restricted Bolter helper was installing a 6' bolt in the mine roof. As the helper was raising the blot using the Cobra drill, the bolt slid off the chuck causing the chuck to shoot upwards towards the mine roof...
09/09/2023 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 14d restricted Employee was operating mucker, EE just sent full bucket out and was aligning other bucket, As EE was going around other bucket, EE went to turn left and pinched self against bucket.
08/06/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was on a ladder hanging wire on brow, when a rock fell and struck employee on their thumb, smashing against ladder.
05/27/2023 FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 52d lost, 144d restricted An employee was injured when a hammer fell through the collar doors as they opened. The employee was on the work deck cleaning up after a concrete pour. The hammer struck the employee on the right sho...
12/03/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was loading jackleg into drill basket and got finger in between jackleg and basket.
09/23/2022 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was in the process of getting onto work deck, when EE slipped and fell onto floor grating, causing laceration to knee