Foidel Creek Mine — Accidents

Total: 595 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
11/30/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee was loading a training roller into the back of a mantrip. When roller got stuck IE lifted roller heard and felt a pop in their right arm
10/02/2025 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee was loading a shield into a shield trailer when the push rams activated smashing both feet
09/15/2025 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Air hose blew off barbed end of quick connect striking employee in left elbow causing a laceration
08/31/2025 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While checking the tightness of the belt on the skid steer, IE had ahold of the belt when other employee tried starting the skid steer, it pulled their right index finger into the pully and pinched it...
07/22/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was pulling cutting motor on longwall with chain and come-along and the hook accidentally broke causing the hook to accidentally strike employee in the shoulder causing injury
07/10/2025 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost IE Grabbed a rotating drill steel causing their glove to get wrapped around drill steel, jamming their fingers into their wrist
05/07/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 42d lost Placed ladder on uneven surface, climbed ladder with a 3"" pipe on shoulder, ladder shifted causing employee to fall striking ladder and ground.
03/30/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IE stated that IE was trying to unplug a chute in the prep plant screen building using a scaling bar. IE was attempting to bust up material from the chute working upwards. The debris came loose fallin...
03/23/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee states that employee was dragging ventilation tubing and tripped landing on knee. Employee says that the knee landed on a rock or chunk of coal.
03/10/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 9d lost IE was installing a roof bolt. While holding the bolt in the drilled hole, the bolt inadvertently moved, bending the bolt causing EE's hand to get caught between the drill chuck and the drill guide. T...
02/18/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 89d lost Employee's left heel was caught between the relay bar clevis pin and the headgate debris plate, causing an avulsion to the heel requiring surgery.
01/29/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 91d lost Twisted Knee changing filter on scoop
11/09/2024 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IE went to the tailgate side of shear, opened the cabinet door to run the tailgate cowl off the valve bank While operating the cowl, the cabinet door closed striking their right forearm. IE was diagno...
10/05/2024 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 95d lost, 27d restricted IE installed a washdown pump in the wash plant. IE stated they had opened the valve for the incoming water to the pump when impeller housing broke apart. The 4"" inlet pipe came towards the employee s...
06/26/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was unthreading a water hose from the wet dust truck while the hose was stretched. When the hose was undone the water hose sprung back striking the employee in the cheekbone causing a contusi...
04/08/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted Two bolter operators had finished bolting the mine roof, backed the roof bolter up and started to hang a section of exhaust tubing. A large piece of rock fell out from the rib striking one employee on...
12/13/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 65d lost IE was moving steel pipe on a metal pallet that needed to be rearranged to a smaller length pipe. The stack gave way. Subsequently, the IE's hand was caught in a pinch point resulting in their left t...
11/10/2023 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IE had right hand placed on top of the miner, when a piece of cap rock came down from the top and stuck the IE on the right hand, causing a laceration and fractured bone.
10/05/2023 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost Smashed middle finger right hand with sledge hammer
09/24/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 85d lost, 21d restricted IE was working on a belt splice. As EE was pushing on the end of the belt, EE started to slip. EE grabbed the belt chain to prevent a fall. EE felt arm pop.
08/30/2023 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 52d restricted Cluttered walkway on bolter.
08/05/2023 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A non-injury accident occurred. An unplanned roof fall occurred at the 6 East belt 26+01 crosscut, #1 entry intersection. A breaker row of timbers were set inby and outby the roof fall in # 1 entry. A...
07/28/2023 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 72d lost While bolting in 3 entry on 406 bolter the bolter helper was setting the ATRS when the left side bolter operator boomed in and smashed the helper's finger between the frame over the levers and the bol...
07/01/2023 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 21d restricted IE was bolting on the right hand station. IE was bolting in the roof on a corner at an angle. IE had the drill box all the way up. On the way back down IE had the left foot below the drill box. Once I...
04/13/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 18d restricted Crew was loading a techseal bag (4000lb) on to the teachseal platform. Two of the upper straps broke. The crew was repositioning to use the lower straps. A strap pinched the right pinky finger of the...
03/12/2023 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 42d lost, 155d restricted Grating had been removed from a floor drain. The IE could not see the drain that was full of water and had stepped into it causing a sprain/strain to their left knee.
02/13/2023 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 14d lost, 17d restricted A fitting failed in a valve block causing hose to blow off.
02/11/2023 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Responsible Person (RP) was conducting a pre-shift examination. RP was traveling into 7E - 2E- XC 39+75. When the RP noticed a substantial roof fall above anchorage. RP immediately called managemen...
12/05/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee was walking on the second floor of the train load out to trace out a strip of heat tape for the load out waterline. The employee tripped over a used motor and pump that was out of service sit...
09/16/2019 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Injured Employee (I.E.) was tramming a 12CM12 continuous miner (company #317) into the face and positioned on the right side. I.E. was found pinned between the continuous miner tail and the rib. Curre...
06/18/2019 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 129d lost EE was walking through Surface Weld Shop when they slipped in a puddle, catching themselves with right arm. EE did not experience any pain as a result of the fall until next morning when they began to...
05/02/2019 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 32d lost Employee rolled EE's ankle on a piece of coal but finished EE's shift. Sought treatment on 5/8 after walking on it for a week, was released but was referred to orthopedic for closed fracture of fibula...
11/24/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 41d lost IW was assisting in installing a draw bar on the pump monorail. IW was helping hold the drawbar in place as the trolley was pushed into position. IW had hand on the monorail for balance when the troll...
11/13/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 21d lost IE was setting up to do an alignment on a motor to pump coupling on 5mn xc 25. as ee was walking around the pump skid ee stepped off the pump skid rail, rolling foot outward. IE sustained a fracture t...
11/12/2018 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 74d lost Employee was diagnosed with bilateral carpal tunnel and had surgery on 11/12/18. Surgeons work related determination was not received by the company until January 7th, 2019. It was at this time that w...
11/01/2018 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Fire Boss bumped IE's head on a pipe; later in the shift began to experience vision issues, i.e. spots/floaters. IE had a broken blood vessel in the eye which in turn caused a torn retina. It appeared...
10/25/2018 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 78d lost Employee reported ongoing shoulder pain in August, but has no specific event or incident. IE had surgery on 10/25/18 for repair of the bicep tendon, rotator cuff and labrum. Clinical findings were bic...
10/17/2018 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 83d lost IE caught left hand (second and third finger) in fan area of roof bolt machine.
10/13/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 24d lost Injured worker was involved with a slip, trip and fall incident in which the IW fell striking EE's head on the mine floor. IW was taken to the emergency room and immediately released to full duty. IW...
10/12/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IE was cutting a hole in belt to put rope through to pull belt. EE was cutting right to left. Left hand was on the belt, knife was in the right. The left hand was cut on top of the hand when right han...
10/11/2018 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall occurred in the #1 entry, 8 East section, at crosscut 31+25 extending approximately 70 feet outby. Approximate dimensions were 70 ft long by 22 feet wide by 6 feet high. The area was bolt...
09/11/2018 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 121d lost Contract miner was injured while cutting rib mesh away from a bolt. The employee was outby the stageloader on the off-walkway side. Miner was struck in the arm and hand by a piece of rock that had fal...
08/01/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IE was climbing down from belt structure during the section belt move. IE had both hands on the structure chain & stepped off the structure. The IE contacted 2nd chain & hook caught on the inner seam...
06/13/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IE was hanging cable with two drill steels. One came apart IE in mouth chipping one tooth and knocking one out.
06/10/2018 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost IE was bolting in face. As IE was drilling IE's drill bit would not make a hold due to angle and was just spinning off of desired mark in a downward direction. As IE did IE's drill wrench came loose...
05/21/2018 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IW was roof bolting. IW was holding the bolt with the plate above hand and just above the stationary portion of the jaw assembly. As the IW fed the bolt into the hole, the bolt caught on a ledge in th...
05/20/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 20d lost A plant operator was helping lift a piece of HDPE pipe to reconnect the bent sieve circuit. Another employee was lifting the pipe but was having difficulty getting it into place. The IE employee stepp...
05/02/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IE was installing roll pins in the flights in the feeder. IE was driving them in with a hammer and missed striking IE's left thumb, which was holding the pin with the hammer. The blow caused the thumb...
04/21/2018 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None IE attempted to catch the drill steel with right hand and the drill steel struck 4th digit finger. IE informed supervisor. Once IE arrived home after shift, IE removed first aid gauze and sought medi...
03/21/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 12d lost, 4d restricted Employee went in to collect seal samples that needed to be tested. EE drove in to 9 East as far as ee could, then lifted the box & carried it to truck. EE didn't seek medical attention until June & w...