Golden Eagle Mine — Accidents

Total: 11 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
01/13/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 11d lost I.E. was cleaning mud, snow, and ice off of highwall miner beams. They stepped wrong and lost their balance falling down. When they fell they felt a sharp pain in their right foot. Doctors restricti...
06/19/2024 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None I.E. was troubleshooting air conditioner on production drill. While looking and listening to the unit, they repositioned themselves. Their hand slipped and came in contact with the condenser fans....
05/05/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 41d lost I.E. was extending the boom out on a service truck crane. As they were manually pulling out the boom, it slid all the way out of the frame. The top section of the boom fell and struck the I.E. on the...
09/30/2021 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None A hot spot was observed on the raw coal storage pile. No one was injured. The material has been being moved by a loader onto trucks to be hauled away.
06/15/2021 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 143d lost I.E. was replacing a piece of metal on a catwalk. After cutting the piece of metal and attempting to lift it up, they felt pain in their left pictorial and shoulder. I.E. has continued to work until b...
02/11/2020 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost While backing down spoil to get another push with dozer, I.E. ran over rock that employee did not see come from a wind row of the previous push. Dozer jerked after hitting rock jarring the employee's...
11/20/2019 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Smoke was observed coming from the North side coal pile storage area. Actions were taken to treat and remove the affected material.
11/18/2019 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Smoke was observed coming from the North side coal pile storage area. Actions were taken to treat and remove the affected material.
11/04/2019 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Smoke was observed coming from the North side coal pile storage area. Actions were taken to treat and remove the affected material.
03/27/2019 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 314d lost Truck stopped after being loaded and end loader bumped into back of trailer. Truck driver struck forehead on door frame of truck.
11/28/2018 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 39d lost After starting DOZ 128, EE stepped back out of the cab and missed the step. EE fell to the push arm and strained right knee. EE continued working until EE had surgery on 12-20-18.