Buckingham Mine — Accidents

Total: 108 accidents | Fatalities: 1

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
10/07/2014 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The Employee stated he was replacing the suction hose on a roof bolter. The Employee was cutting the hose to the correct length and accidentally cut his right pinky finger lacerating it. The Employee...
08/07/2014 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None The employee was Fire bossing the mine and found a roof fall in the track entry on the 1st East submain @ spad 12+90. The fall was dangered off, the fall was 24 feet long x 30 feet wide.
07/22/2014 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The Employee stated that he was installing a roof bolt and a piece of coal fell out of the roof and hit him in the upper lip causing a laceration.
07/15/2014 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was struck by or walked into something (he is not sure which) causing a laceration on the right side of his head which required 2 staples. He was released to go back to regular duty.
05/08/2014 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting a piece of belt with a utility knife. The knife slipped and the employee cut his right thigh with the knife. (stitches required)
03/21/2014 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 598d lost The Employee was operating an off standard center drive shuttle car, after being loaded by the continuous miner, the employee swung around to the inby seat with out setting his parking brake. When the...
01/26/2014 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None workers in the area found the fall. The fall started in the belt entry #5 entry and fell approximately 12 feet past #6 entry. The fall is approximately 18 feet wide and 70 feet long it fell on approxi...
01/07/2014 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 3d restricted The Employee stated he was traveling through a door underground and the door closed on his left arm.
12/23/2013 ELECTRICAL DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted The Employee stated he was unplugging the receptacle for the scoop battery and it arced in his right hand.
12/20/2013 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Employee was walking the air courses and found a roof fall at 21+50 in the #2 entry in the return. The roof fall was in a four way intersection. the Fall was 17 feet by 15 feet and measured 4 to 6 fee...
11/25/2013 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting belt when the blade broke and his hand glazed over top of the blade resulting in a deep cut to his right little finger. Four stitches were required, Employee returned to work on h...
10/30/2013 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was pulling new belt onto structure with 3/8 inch cable, as the cable was sliding thru his left hand a burr lacerated his left little finger.
09/12/2013 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None EE went into the intake to look at the tracking and communication equipment and found a roof fall. EE called out to another ee called in the roof fall to the hot line. The roof fall was in the intake...
08/28/2013 POWERED HAULAGE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 4d lost, 35d restricted The Employee stated that he was scooping an entry and caught a roof strap, the strap came around and hit the employee in the ear cutting his right ear.
08/17/2013 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted The Employee stated that he loaded a shuttle car, the shuttle car operator went to leave and over steered bumping him on his left side.
07/09/2013 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None We had a roof fall 7' to 8' high, 18' wide and 22' long in a 4 way intersection on c-panel in # 1 entry @ spad # 4+20. This is the belt entry for the c1-panel.
07/01/2013 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Underground at mine #6 Buckingham Coal. Installing cutter boom pins. Struck the pin with a hammer and a piece of pin chipped off and lodged in the left cheek.
06/19/2013 MACHINERY PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 2d lost, 50d restricted Employee stated that he aligned his screen on the roof, his steel was started on a strand of the screen. When he rotated the drill steel to drill his hole it wrapped the screen around the tip of his f...
04/19/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 41d restricted Employee stated he was walking by the lamp house and tripped he tried to catch himself and his knee gave out.
04/12/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 28d lost, 144d restricted The Employee stated that he stepped in a hole firebossing the roadways on unit 006. When he stepped in the hole he felt his back twist.
03/03/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 15d lost, 178d restricted employee thought he had the safety pin in the boom of the fletcher bolter. he started loosening the fitting to the feed jack and the boom dropped on his right arm.
02/07/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 24d restricted The Employee stated that he stepped out of the scoop and his leg bent backwards twisting his right knee.
01/16/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 4d lost, 65d restricted Employee stated that he he was tripped by a trailing cable and twisted his knee.
01/15/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was lifting a rock off of a shuttle car. The rock slipped and pinched the employee's left hand lacerating the left pinky the employee received 9 stitches in his left pinky.
11/16/2012 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee stated that he placed his drill steel in the chuck of the drill pot on a Fletcher bolter, when he went to use his up pressure the steel popped out of the chuck and hit him between his lef...
07/12/2012 MACHINERY PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 7d lost, 38d restricted Employee was exiting the operators deck when his feet hit the tram pedal and lever, sliding the operators canopy of the roof bolter into rib. Employee's fingers were between canopy and rib resulting i...
05/07/2012 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 60d restricted The employee was going to move two shuttle car tires from a intersection with a scoop. While tramming the scoop to the intersection there was a metal belt rail in the mud that the scoop operator did n...
04/14/2012 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Roof fall was in the old works in #5 and 5-6. Spad # 57+50 The fall was 18'x 60'long in #5 entry and wrapped around 5-6. The fall was reported to MSHA at 12:05P.M.
04/02/2012 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 8d restricted A loose piece of rock fell from the roof striking employees right thumb, causing a laceration and a fracture.
02/14/2012 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee stated he was striping a ground wire and the knife slipped and cut his left thumb. The employee received 4 stitches.
01/25/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee picked up a coupler pin that had a sharp edge on it and it lacerated his right middle finger. the employee received eight stitches.
11/03/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was unhooking a flat car, he pinched his finger between the pin and the tongue of the trailer when he pulled the pin, he received 4 stitches in his left index finger.
11/03/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was building an intake stopping part of a block fell and hit him in the right side of his face the block cut his face and he received 8 stitches.
06/28/2011 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was drilling a hole with a piece of drill steel, the drill steel broke and a piece of the drill steel come back and hit him in the left shoulder causing a laceration.
06/27/2011 ELECTRICAL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was trouble shooting a conveyor motor, he tried to start the conveyor motor and the lead tree blew up causing an arc.
05/03/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was cutting a piece of cable open that had copper foil in the cable, a piece of copper cut EE's left hand and he recieved four stitches.
04/06/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was stacking steel beams, one of the I beams rolled over on his left index finger.
10/11/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 79d restricted Employee was replacing a roller and his feet were in mud. When the employee turned he allegedly twisted back area.
06/24/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted Piece of cap rock and head coal hit employee in lower back.
03/17/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was installing roof bolts when a small rock fell from roof and struck employees right middle finger against drill pod. Employee was wearing metacarpel gloves, however, the end of the finger...
02/03/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee slipped and fell, receiving slight fracture to his fibula.
12/14/2009 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 19d lost, 14d restricted Continuous miner operator was tramming the miner from place to place when the miner left track started to spin and kicked the conveyor boom against the miner operator. The operator received 3 broken...
06/30/2009 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting a cable with a razor knife. The knife slipped and cut his left hand. Employee received 5 stiches.
05/02/2009 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 29d restricted Employee was picking up cable and his foot fell between a wooden bridge and the coal rib and he twisted his knee. The employee continued work until July 7, 2009, and received surgery on July 8 2009.
04/28/2009 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None A small piece of coal fell from the mine roof and bounced off the roof bolting machine and struck employee in the nose.
04/14/2009 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None There was a roof abnormality in the cross cut 2 to 1 that may have contributed to the failure. There was additional support installed in this area before the failure.
03/03/2009 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost The employee was advancing line curtain in the face area with the use of a step ladder, when a rock fell from the roof, striking the employee and knocking him from the ladder. The employee received a...
02/23/2009 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost The operator was tramming the shuttle car and hit a hole in the haul road and hit his head on the shuttle car canopy. The operator sustained a bulged disc in his neck area.
11/15/2008 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 6d lost, 19d restricted Injury was drilling the roof when I needed to change to the 2nd still. the first fell out from the roof striking my finger on the chuck of the roof bolter. This injury did not involve any aspect of co...
11/07/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 4d lost, 55d restricted EE and another EE were lifting a shuttle car tire off of a scoop, when EE felt a ""pop"" in his lower back and it caused severe pain. This was not a result of horseplay and did not involve any aspect...