Gatliff Tipple — Accidents

Total: 17 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
03/01/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 75d lost A contractor from Kone Cranes was hired to inspect the crane/hoist on the 3rd floor of the prep plant. The contractor stated that they were climbing a ladder to access the crane when the contractor fe...
06/03/2022 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None An employee was cutting out some old pipe in prep plant using a hand-held grinder with a cutting blade. When the piece of pipe EE was cutting started to fall, EE reached to catch it and EE's left inde...
10/17/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was loosening a hydraulic line on the skid steer. When the line broke loose employee hit their hands on an oil barrel that had been cut down for draining oil. The sharp edge of the barrel cut...
09/23/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was checking the oil in the Komatsu 500 loader as part of the pre-shift inspection and the access door fell on EE's right hand smashing EE's right middle finger tip resulting in a fractur...
10/03/2018 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 33d lost, 41d restricted The employee was attempting to unclog a clogged pipe using an air hose. When the pressure was turned on to the air hose the line whipped around wildly and toggle fitting cut arm.
02/07/2018 OTHER INJURIES DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES None The truck driver was delivering stoker coal to the load-out to be loaded on rail cars. EE's truck rolled forward into the truck in front of EE. When the truck driver of the truck in front of EE went t...
12/06/2017 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 260d lost Equipment operator hurt neck and back when operator hit a pothole while operating a front end loader.
05/10/2017 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 145d lost, 132d restricted Employee was descending steps of truck dump when the 2nd to the bottom step broke causing them to hurt their ankle.
01/24/2017 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The injured employee was assisting in moving a mechanism on the 5th floor of the prep plant when leg was caught between the mechanism and the handrail and broke fibula of left leg.
07/17/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 15d lost Employee was putting fuel in rock truck when he removed the fuel nozzle from tank on the truck, the nozzle and fuel hose slipped out of his hand striking employee in the nose, breaking his nose.
08/02/2013 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Injured was holding wrench and was removing a fitting on a hose when wrench slipped striking his index finger on Lt hand causing cut to finger.
06/10/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Injured was disconnecting a water hose that has Cm644 chemical, which is a coal soap. When injured disconnect the hose the soap splashed into his face getting into his eyes. Employee finished shift an...
03/04/2013 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Employee was operating 740B Caterpillar Truck. The truck engine started to regening, so the operator went to lunch in the building, when he came back from lunch the truck engine was on fire. the fire...
05/03/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 23d lost, 10d restricted Employee was cleaning the raw coal belt and was going to get a water hose when he slipped and fell hurting his ribs and elbow.
10/30/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 25d lost Employee was preparing to change vorsive basket, while removing lid on basket employee lost his footing which caused him to drop the lid mashing his fingers on right hand.
10/10/2001 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO MANEUVER THE ATV UP A STEEP BACKFILL SLOPE WHEN HE ENCOUNTERED A ROUGH ROCKY AREA CAUSING THE ATV TO OVERTURN. INJURED RECEIVED STITCHES IN HEAD.
10/13/2000 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None WHILE REPLACING TOP ROLLER AT TAILPIECE, INJURED WAS PRYING ROLLER UNDER TOP OF BELT AND CAUGHT THUMB BETWEEN ROLLER AND BELT STRUCTURE.