New Elk Mine — Accidents

Total: 33 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
01/14/2013 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Ice caused the slope car to derail. Employee was jacking the car up when he was struck by the jack handle. He received a cut to the right side of his face just below the right eye brow. The cut requ...
01/06/2013 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None XC-1 East Mains saturated top of roof fill above anchorage zone. This is due to Geological conditions.
07/18/2012 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Roof fall due to kettle bottoms, mud stone and water saturation.
05/19/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was removing a tilt cylinder from a TRS on a roofbolter. He removed the pin from cylinder and cylinder fell pinching the right index finger resulting in a laceration and slight fracture.
05/11/2012 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Injured person was shoveling on the slope belt near the tailpiece. The belt was running. Some rocks became caught between the top belt and the hold down roller, he tried removing the rocks with his sh...
04/08/2012 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 33d lost The employee was examining the belt line and heard a noisy roller. He bent down to look at the roller and a piece of material ( coal or rock) came off of the belt hitting the employee in the left side...
03/07/2012 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee was jacklegging and when raising leg it stopped and suddenly raised upward striking employee in mouth and right side of face. This resulted in complex right lower lip laceration, right cheek...
03/04/2012 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Building Stop Blocking. Air tugger fell causing a laceration to the front of leg down to ankle and impacted his foot.
12/28/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 125d lost Washed truck, was getting in truck and slipped grabbing door with right arm.
12/17/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Moving Swamp Pump
12/15/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 134d lost Cleaning under belt frame
12/08/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Moving a pump because it was out of water did not want the pump to seize as employee moved it over out of #1 he slipped & fell. Employee felt a slight pull he ignored it because it didn't bother him u...
11/19/2011 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Damage to the upright guide that keeps the cable from touching the ground was pulled loose and caused the cable to jump the bull wheel.
10/24/2011 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was roof bolting. While pushing bolt up into the hole, the employee held onto the bolt and pinched his hand between the bolt and plate.
09/05/2011 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 203d lost Unloading rock dust, hanging ventilation tubing - stepped on a rock and twisted left knee
09/04/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 203d lost THERE WAS NO EVENT THEREFORE THIS IS NOT WORK RELATED.
08/31/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 38d lost Employee was roof bolting and twisted right knee
08/12/2011 OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASES OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 1d lost Working in mine water and got Dermatitis
07/11/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was jack legging, the leg buckeled knocking the employee down and he hit his head causing a cut.
07/04/2011 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The hoist had an electrical problem and would not operate.
06/30/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 136d lost Employee was carrying oil cans from hoist car to the roof bolter. All of a sudden his knee started hurting.
06/21/2011 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall occurred between 1 and 2 entry at crosscut #5. The fall was from 6 to 8 feet high. The fall was approximately 30 feet in length. The roof had been bolted with six foot fully grouted roof b...
06/15/2011 ELECTRICAL DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 82d lost, 23d restricted Person came in contact with high voltage electrical source.
04/29/2011 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Electrical problem with the hoist. It was determined we could not fix it within the allowed time. Called the MSHA hotline number to report the accident (downtime) of hoist. Had all miners come out...
04/15/2011 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 17d lost, 21d restricted Employee lost balance, fell backwards and put his right hand back to catch himself. He ended up falling on his right wrist and he heard a pop sound.
04/04/2011 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The hoist gears were stripped to nothing when lowering a scoop and slack in the rope tightens it puts alot of tension on the gears of the hoist.
03/04/2011 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 13d lost, 34d restricted A cable was being used to help pull a piece of equipment. The cable broke hitting employee across both knees.
03/03/2011 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The plantary went out.
02/07/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Mopping bath house floor with mop - buckets and nozzle for hose in the new bath house, could not carry hot water to and from, used sink in the bath house to get water, went over floor again with towel...
01/06/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Mopping bath house floor with mop - bucket and nozzle for hose in the new bath house. Could not carry hot water to and from. Used sink in bath house to get water, went over floor again with towel felt...
10/24/2010 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Air jumping the fuel trailer with the Eimco. The hose was not hooked up. When the air was turned on, fuel sprayed into worker's eyes.
10/06/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 7d lost, 7d restricted Employee was moving Angle Iron into warehouse, piece slipped out of his hands and bounced off his leg. Even though this occurred on 10/6/10 he did not report that he needed to go to the doctor till 10...
05/07/2010 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 16d lost EE was holding steel aligning it with jackleg and jackleg jumped smashing his hand into the roof.