MTR Surface Mine — Accidents

Total: 35 accidents | Fatalities: 1

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
08/28/2008 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While hitting a bearing with a hammer, EE was struck in finger by a foreign object.
09/24/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 130d lost Employee was climbing up onto a Mack rollback, when he slipped and fell into a low block wall, striking his side and back. Employee fractured L2 and L3. Employee was released from hospital with a back...
02/21/2007 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Dozer was pushing mateiral down a slope for reclamation. When he ran over a rock causing dozer to loose traction and slide sideways. Dozer then turned over.
01/16/2006 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 85d lost Employee was tramming an excavator up a hill and was turning onto a road when the cat slid down the hill and the excavator turned onto it's side. Causing the employee to hit his right shoulder on the...
12/22/2005 ELECTRICAL NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Battery exploded and a piece of it hit employee in forehead, required stitches.
09/13/2004 ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None On Sept 13, 2004 due to an occupational illness as substantiated by medical records and reports, ee became unable to work because of the ailments described in the medical reports. This was not duw to...
09/08/2004 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 191d lost Employee was climbing down off dozer when he slipped and fell aprox. 6' to the ground hurting left shoulder and neck.
06/22/2004 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None Employee was traming a 690 drill up a bench road when he noticed the machine loosing power. He looked in his right side mirror and saw flames coming out of the right engine compartment. He shut down t...
06/17/2004 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 80d lost Employee was operating an articulating rock truck. A rock had fallen off of the truck. When employee was backing up to turn truck he ran over rock causing a jarring motion in cab. Employee experienced...
06/06/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 256d lost Employee was working on the pad of the Highwall miner. A car was placed on the pad and the employee and another pad man coupled up the cat heads on the car. The employee went back to pull the slack ba...
05/07/2004 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 255d lost Employee was traveling into work when he encountered a fuel truck in a narrow part of the road impacting the left front bumper. Employee was complaining of pain in his chest area.
04/15/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 101d lost Employee was unloading a deck bushing for a drill from a pickup truck to the mechanics drop when he dropped the part. When he bent over to pick up part he felt a pain in his lower back.
02/16/2004 NO VALUE FOUND DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 290d lost Employee was operating an 992-G loader in the outside of a shot. Employee was going into shot to get a bucket load when the loader bucket struck a rock causing the loader to twist and stop, resulting...
08/04/2003 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT NO VALUE FOUND None MECHANIC WAS DISMOUNTING DRILL, HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
03/26/2003 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 57d lost CHANGING BRAKE CALIPER ON SERVICE TRUCK. TRUCK WAS HELD UP WITH A FORKLIFT. TRUCK SLIPPED OFF FORKS, CATCHING HIS RIGHT HEEL WITH STUD BOLT THAT HELD CALIPER ON.
02/28/2003 NO VALUE FOUND NO VALUE FOUND None EE WAS DRIVING TRUCK ALONG PIT ROAD. A ROCK DISLODGED FROM THE SPOIL AREA STRIKING VEHICLE . DRIVER WAS TRANSPORTED TO E.M. XRAYS WERE NEGATIVE EE WAS TREATED WITH PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION AND RELEASED
02/19/2003 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 196d lost ADJUSTING PULL DOWN CABLES ON DRILL. WHILE GETTING DOWN HIS FOOT SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH RT ARM. PAIN IN RIGHT ARM AND SHOULDER.
02/05/2003 NO VALUE FOUND DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 353d lost INSTALLING AXLE IN R90 TRUCK, HOLDING PRESSURE AGAINST AXLE TO LINE SPLINES UP. AXLE KICKED BACK, SPRAINED LEFT SHOULDER.
08/31/2002 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost EE WAS GRINDING ON 850C DOZER BLADE WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING IN HIS RT. EYE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES AND HOOD.
05/30/2002 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING TRANSMISSION FROM A DM800 MACK TRUCK WITH ANOTHER MECHANIC. WHEN JACK WAS LET DOWN ENGINE SHIFTED CATCHING EE'S L INDEX FINGER. LACERATION & SMALL BREAK TO EN D OF FI...
03/25/2002 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 44d lost EMPLOYEE HAD GOTTEN OFF ROCK TRUCK FOR LUNCH. WAS CLIMBING BACK UP LADDER WHEH HE STRUCK KNEE ON HAND RAIL, FELT KNEE GIVE WAY FELL BACK TO GROUND, LEFT KNEE TISSUE DAMAGE.
03/25/2002 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 39d lost EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING 7 7/8' DRILL INTO PICK UP WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN STOMACH, SMALL KNOT AROUND NAVEL AREA.
01/10/2002 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 7d lost EE WAS PUSHING BRUSH AROUND SIDE OF HILL, HILL WAS WET AND MUDDY DUE TO RECENT RAIN, DOZER SLIDDOWN HILL HITTING TREE STUMP, TURNING DOZER OVERON RT. SIDE, CAUSING PAIN IN BACK AND NECK.
01/07/2002 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 37d lost EE WAS OPEATING A R-85 ROCK TRUCK HAULING ROCK TO DUMP AREA WHEN HE HIT A HOLE CAUSING HIM TO HIT ROOF OF CAB WITH TOP OF HEAD, CAUSING PAIN IN HIS NECK
12/10/2001 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost EE WAS MOUNTING A ROCK TRUCK, FIRST STEP WAS A CABLE STEP, EE PLACED RT. FOOT ON STEP THEN PUT HIS WEIGHT ON THE STEP. WHEN DOING SO THE STEP SWUNG CAUSING PAIN IN RT. KNEE.
11/26/2001 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted EE AND ANOTHER EE AT SURFACE SHOP PICKING UP A PARTS SHELF WHILE DOING, INJURED TRIPPED OVER A CRIB BLOCK AND THE RESULTING MOTION CAUSED A SPRAIN TO LEFT KNEE. ON 11-27-01 INJURED SAW A DR. AN ORTHOP...
08/21/2001 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 213d lost EE WAS OPERATING A CAT D9L DOZER RECLAIMING THE OUTSLOPE ON THE MTR MINE. HE WAS PUSHING DIRT & ROCK UP THE SLOPE AND AS HE BACKED DOWN THE SLOPE HE RAN OVER SOME ROCKS. SHORTLY THEREAFTER HE STARTED...
07/19/2001 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 237d lost EE STARTED HIS SHIFT ON AN L85 ROCK TRUCK AT 0600. LATER IN THE SHIFT HE STATED THAT HIS SEAT WAS LOOSE CAUSING HIS BACK TO HURT. A NEW SEAT WAS ORDERED. AT 1000HE PARKED THE ROCK TRUCK, STATE D HIS B...
04/04/2001 POWERED HAULAGE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 11d lost, 35d restricted CO WORKER RAISED BED OF 777 HAUL TRUCK SMASHING FINGER BETWEEN BED AND HOIST CYLINDER.
01/19/2001 FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS INJURIES INVOLVNG NONEMPLOYEES None VICTIM WAS A PASSENGER IN A PICKUP TRUCK ON THE HAULAGE ROAD. A ROCK APPROX. 31/2 SQUARE FOOT CAME OFF THE HIGHWASS & STRUCK THE TOP OF THE CAB (PASSENGER SIDE) RESULTING IN SERIOUS INJURIES T O VICTI...
10/26/2000 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 208d lost EE WAS PULLING FIBERLOCK OF SLURRY PIPE IN ORDER TO COUPLE PIPES TOGETHER WHEN HE PULLED TOO HARD STRAINING THE MUSCLE. HE DIDN'T MISS ANY WORK UNTIL ON 11/1/00 HE ONCE AGAIN WAS INJURED. HE W AS REMO...
07/13/2000 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 17d lost EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF MOUNTING THE OPERATOR'S CAB OF GREASE TRUCK. HE PLACED HIS LEFT FOOT ON A STEP AND HIS RIGHT HAND ON A GRAB RAIL AND AS HE BEGAN HIS CLIMB HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED AND HE R...
06/19/2000 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 10d lost EE HAD SURGERY TO CORRECT CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME ON HIS RIGHT HAND. THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT REFLECTS THE BEGGINING OF THE DISABILITY.
05/24/2000 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL FATALITY Fatal THE DECEASED WAS OPERATING A FRONT END LOADER MOVING COAL FROM A STACKER CONVEYER BELT WHEN A PORTION OF HIGHWALL FAILED AND STRUCK THE LOADER. ONLY A FEW SECONDS OF WARNING WAS GIVEN PRIOR TO THE FAI...
03/21/2000 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 47d lost EE WAS DESCENDING FROM COAL LOADER WHEN HE STATED HE STEPPED ON A LUMP OF COAL ON THE STEP RESULTING IN A FALL.