Pleasant Hill Mine — Accidents

Total: 183 accidents | Fatalities: 2

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
05/29/2019 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee received 4.63% P/D award for hearing loss.
03/11/2019 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None EE received 7.7% PPD award for hearing loss
02/01/2019 DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee received an additional 5% of award. Worked at Pleasant Hill Mine and went out on LOA on 5/16/2016. This mine is closed down.
01/04/2019 DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee received an additional 10% award for OP. Employee received employee's original 30% award for OP in 2013. Employee just received another 10% (total 40%). *This mine is closed down.
01/06/2018 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The bearings came out of the shive wheel at the bottom of the elevator on the rope brake. It was causing a drag on the rope brake causing the brake to set. Lake Shore was called and they sent the pa...
01/02/2018 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None We had an unexpected roof fall above the anchorage point. We had 6' torque tension bolts and 10' cable bolts installed. All entries have been cribbed off and dangered off. The fall was located on #9 b...
12/28/2017 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None We had an unexpected roof fall above the anchorage point. There were 5' resin bolts installed. We are in non producing status. All entries to the fall have been dangered and timbered off. The lifeline...
12/15/2017 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 6d lost, 78d restricted Employee was at 5 drive removing lights from the roof and tripped over cable lying on the floor. Employee twisted right knee.
11/28/2017 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The elevator was taken out of service at 11:45AM. Schindler Elevator Co. came to inspect the elevator and stated that the rope gripper pads are not worn in and the rope gripper trigger was broken and...
10/31/2017 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The elevator went down at 9:55 PM, The elevator had just been checked by Lake Shore approximately an hour before. The problem was E-stop button on top of the elevator our guys changed the E-stop swit...
09/06/2017 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None On 3-6-2017 injured employee awarded 3.48% PPD for hearing loss.
08/25/2017 POWERED HAULAGE FATALITY Fatal The employee was found unresponsive at approximately 2:05 PM on the offside of the #1 belt at the portal entrance of the surface mine. Preliminary findings has determined the employee received fatal i...
08/15/2017 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 82d lost Employee just finished mining in the #3 entry and turned to walk outby and a piece of 8 1/2' x 28"" x 14"" fell between the right side bolts and rib striking employee on the back of head, right should...
07/24/2017 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 24d lost Employee had just finished scaling top and had returned to the drill station to start bolting, as EE reached for a bolt a piece of rock 14""x19""x1 1/2"" fell and hit the top of EE's right hand. EE wa...
07/23/2017 POWERED HAULAGE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 3d lost, 16d restricted Employee walked between 2 mantrips when the operator of the mantrip in front engaged tram switch and the mantrip took off pinning employee between the 2 mantrips.
07/22/2017 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was mining in #7 entry when a piece of draw rock fell and hit ee on the head. Employees left knee had soreness so the doctor had ee off for 2 days. EE returned to regular job 2 days later.
07/15/2017 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None The roof fall was found by our fire boss on #18 belt in #5 entry, #3 x-cut, in the secondary escapeway. The measurements of fall were as follows: 20' in length and 35' in width and the cavity is appr...
06/16/2017 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Employee found the roof fall on the #2 section in the #8 entry at 25 block in the LOB. The fall was found at 9:00AM. The specific location was 1 block inby spad 2782. The measurements are as follow...
05/30/2017 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The elevator went down at 4:45 PM. The elevator brake coil over heated or was weak. The brake coil was changed and all safety inspections and safety functions were conducted before the elevator was...
05/21/2017 ENTRAPMENT ACCIDENT ONLY None The elevator went down at 5:00 PM. There was one employee on the elevator when it went down, the employee was conducting the elevator inspection during this time. The rope brake was locking up, to c...
05/21/2017 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 47d lost While riding out on Damascus ride #352, employee had their foot on top of the fire extinguisher guard and as the ride went through the dip on 11 belt, 12 1/2 block, the employee's left foot struck a r...
05/08/2017 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Employee was setting bolt and spinned the torque tension bolt backwards and snapped head off the bolt. The plate flew off and hit employee in the forehead above the left eye
04/28/2017 ENTRAPMENT ACCIDENT ONLY None The elevator went down at 1:07am, there were 12 people on the elevator when it went down, the issue was the over travel switch and short circuit in the e-stop. There were no injuries that occurred.
04/19/2017 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was walking through curtain carrying tank of oxygen, as EE went through curtain EE smashed right pinky finger against rib.
04/03/2017 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Elevator got hit by forklift on the bottom and bent the bracket that tells the plc that the elevator has landed at its position so the doors wouldn't open because the plc wasn't seeing it being in the...
04/03/2017 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 16d restricted On the #1 section, roof bolter was in # 7 entry. A piece of rock fell from 10 feet high. The rock was 3' long by 2' wide tapering to 4-5 inches thick. Rock fell at the front edge of ATRS. Employee...
03/28/2017 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The elevator went down at 6:25 AM. The safety dogs were catching at 416 feet. Adjustments were made to correct the issue.
03/08/2017 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The elevator went down at 1:00 PM. Lake Shore was called to come help fix the issue. They had to back the guide wheels loose and re-align all guide wheels on cage.
03/03/2017 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None 03-03-2017 our elevator would not go past 240' we called FK Lakeshore to look at it. They made adjustments to the safety dogs and ran the elevator to make sure it was ok. This happened at 12:12 pm and...
02/28/2017 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Injured was bolting roof on offside of machine, while ee was drilling a piece of rock 2 1/2"" thick x 30"" long x 20"" wide fell sriking ee on head and shoulder.
02/06/2017 POWERED HAULAGE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 184d lost, 27d restricted The bottom was laying sideways. The mantrip went into a dip. When the mantrip came out of dip, spare tire caught cable bolt tearing spare tire loose and it rolled over top of employee striking leg, c...
01/26/2017 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 99d lost, 22d restricted While working on the feeder, ee stepped off of the feeder and heard a popping in knee. EE had immediate pain after ee heard the pop.
01/20/2017 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Elevator went down at 12:20 AM. The elevator was on the bottom and would not come to top. The fault screen showed motor overload. To fix the problem took a slate bar an pryed out a piece of sheet m...
01/02/2017 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None This was an idle shift, and there was no one underground. Our examiner was performing the elevator check and when ee pushed the button for over travel the elevator went to the bottom and brought it b...
12/14/2016 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The bolt wrench fell from the bolt head and bounced off of the drill pot and struck ee in the mouth, Busting upper lip and chipped a tooth
12/01/2016 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None At 2:25 AM it was reported that our elevator was down. No one was trapped or injured. The problem was that a resistor for the drum brake had blown. The resistor was replaced and this corrected the...
10/31/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 56d lost Employee had set the CM up in #6 entry. EE was turning EE's body around to get better positioning, as EE turned EE tripped over a lump of coal and fell to the ground. this resulted in a fracture to...
09/14/2016 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Brakes wouldn't release, so attempted to adjust the brakes and that did not correct the issue, so they de-rated the weight capacity to correct the issue.
09/11/2016 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The network switch was bad. Corrected the issue by replacing switch. There were no injuries that occurred, and the lifeline at the bottom was switched around to exit mines on P-Hill side. The lifel...
09/11/2016 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Cage safety dog switch wire broke in trailing cable, plugged into spare in trailing cable to correct issue.
09/11/2016 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The elevator went down at 11:10 PM. Changed the cab door switch to correct issue.
09/07/2016 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None Elevator went down at 5:00PM. Wire broke in control cable going from PLC to the cage, for cage e-stop. The mechanical brakes were glazed. FK Lakeshore cleaned brake drum and tensioned the mechanica...
09/06/2016 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None The elevator would not drop automatically. The elevator was fixed by replacing a contactor.
07/22/2016 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 59d lost Changing jack on left side bolter, the long arm on the bolter broke free and hit left arm. This resulted in a broken bone 4"" back from the thumb.
07/12/2016 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was installing first row of 5 foot roof bolts in the #8 face / heading. Employees reached into the air to tart steel and a piece of draw rock fell and smashed EE's hand on roof bolter. Resul...
06/29/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost On June 29, 2016 at approximately 10:10 PM a foreman reported that they saw an ignition in the crusher area of the Cogar Feeder/Crusher Serial #10-035 located on 1 Section at the tailpiece of #16 belt...
05/19/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was hanging Shuttle Car cable to a cable hanger suspended to the roof and felt a pain in groin/back. Employee was transported to hospital. X-rays were negative but was placed off work until...
05/18/2016 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL ACCIDENT ONLY None At 12:50 AM it was called out to dispatcher that our highwall at Pleasant Hill #5 entry had a rock slide down on top of the canopy. It was not impeding the air and was sitting on the cribs. It was f...
05/17/2016 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None It was reported that the elevator was stuck on bottom with the doors open. Nobody was trapped or injured. The cable holding the counterweight for the outside door had broken. The cable was replaced...
05/02/2016 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 408d lost EE was operating a Fairchild Scoop. While entering the #7 entry LOC on 1 Section the EE used left hand to move the line curtain away from the scoop deck. EE's foot then slipped off of the brake pedal...