HWM #73 — Accidents
Total: 6 accidents | Fatalities: 0
| Date | Classification | Injury | Days Lost | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/14/2025 | HANDLING OF MATERIALS | DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY | 4d restricted | EE attempted to lift DEF fluid and experienced severe lower back pain. EE requested to be taken to Hospital. MSHA Inspector interviewed EE and recommend this to be a reportable accident. EE also spoke... |
| 03/16/2018 | INUNDATION | ACCIDENT ONLY | None | 73 Highwall Miner inadvertently cut into an abandoned underground mine causing the HWM #73 Miner pit to become floooded |
| 02/03/2018 | SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 37d lost | Employee was attempting to tighten bolts on a cutterhead module of a Highwall Miner when the wrench slipped and employee fell to the ground breaking right leg. |
| 09/07/2016 | MACHINERY | PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY | None | EE was attempting to install anchor pin and pin moved and mashed left pinkie finger between anchor pin and the Highwall Mine removing it at the first joint. |
| 11/21/2013 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 3d lost | Holding roller chain with hammer while another employee was attempting to knock out a connecting link with a hammer and a sliver of metal struck employee under his safety glasses |
| 11/18/2013 | HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) | DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY | 3d lost | While knocking pins out of the Right Angle Conveyor of the Pasco Highwall Miner with a slate bar the the pins came out causing the slate bar to strike the employee in the hand and face. |