CHM 1 — Accidents

Total: 8 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
04/01/2024 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 11d restricted The generator overheated so the employee released the pressure then as EE took off the radiator cap the antifreeze spewed up causing burns to EE's face, neck, right shoulder and right arm.
07/09/2019 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee stepped off of the miner and turned around striking EE's elbow on the miner machine. The employee later received medical attention at the Pikeville Medical Center on 7/11/2019. EE was dia...
09/14/2017 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 196d lost Was pulling a rubber ring off of #1 horizontal auger, when lower back and hip popped.
01/29/2013 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was using a hand held grinder when he let it slip and the grinding dish struck his left wrist.
10/06/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 16d lost The forklift pushed the cutter head up to the miner to be hooked up when the fork pulled out he didn't realize his toes were under the head which fell down a couple of inches resulting in mashing all...
06/11/2008 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost We were in the process of tearing down miner to move to another job. The strap holding the hoses & cables to the reel broke causing the cables & hoses to fall off of reel scraping down victim's back c...
12/26/2007 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 115d lost Ground person instructed highwall miner operator to push beam forward. Ground person reached to remove debris (dirt) as the beam was approaching the cutting head to be latched together. The ground per...
12/08/2006 ENTRAPMENT ACCIDENT ONLY None We were mining 630' under the mountain there was a rock fall ont he head when we tried to drill it out the latches brase on beam lowering 18 beams and the mines heard 63rth undergound.