Pocahontas Highwall Mine — Accidents

Total: 22 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
09/01/2022 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While drilling out a broken bolt with a magnet drill on a D7 roller frame, EE was running the drill while magnetized to the frame. As the bit finished drilling through the broken bolt it bound up caus...
02/23/2022 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL ACCIDENT ONLY None At approximately 11:30AM on February 23 there was a wall failure at the Pocahontas Surface Mine. The wall fell onto the 52 HWM covering the miner back to the launch pad. There were NO injuries to any...
01/09/2020 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 116d lost Repairing a hydraulic leak on the 1200 Hitachi excavator. EE was on the second rung of the ladder. When EE broke loose a bolt, EE lost footing, which led to EE falling off the ladder to the ground....
10/02/2019 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Lying beside roller frame using oxy/ace torch to cut broken bolts from frame - torch popped and slag went into left ear causing a thermal burn.
02/11/2018 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None I received a call from security had notified the mantrip bus was on fire. The security guard had stopped near the bus to eat lunch when ee noticed flames come out from under the hood. The job was idl...
08/07/2013 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Lowering belly pan on A40D truck and it fell on his foot & broke ankle
09/07/2012 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee was cutting a tree. When the tree began to fall a limb fell and hit employee knocking him to the ground breaking his leg.
02/28/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Employee was cutting a tree. Tree fell on his foot.
01/15/2012 FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 83d lost EE positioned his left leg under the cutter drum of the #53 Highwall Miner in an attempt to remove bolts from the cutterhead auger. Inadequate blocking material allowed the cutterdrum to strike his lo...
05/04/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted EE and another ee was moving a pallet of materials. EE picked his side up by hand so another ee picked his side up also by hand. EE went to take a step and relized his back was hurting so they set the...
08/10/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 81d lost Foot slipped on step and EE fell to the ground and his foot twisted.
11/16/2009 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While tramming his Komatsu PC-220 excavator around the Highwall Miner the operator opened his window and reached out to pull his mirror in and caught his left hand between the mirror and the highwall...
03/10/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted Employee using right side handrail to pull up on truck, pulled muscle in right upper arm.
01/17/2009 POWERED HAULAGE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 2d lost, 2d restricted Employee was riding bus (mantrip) and when it approached his piece of equipment he stood up as the bus operator braked and he fell and stuck his head on the header above the windshield. He was diagnoi...
12/31/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted Employee was changing bits on a miner head when a rock slid out about 3 or 4 feet and struck his right hand and cut his pinky finger.
05/29/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Mechanic was welding on a truck and when he finished he started rolling up the stinger lead and it become tangled with the ground clamp lead. He pulled on the stinger lead and the ground clamp came of...
01/31/2007 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The mechainc was using a screw driver to pry on a cover on a cat 345 excavator when the screw driver broke and struck him on his upper lip lacerating it. The wound required (7) sutures to repair it. N...
12/26/2006 POWERED HAULAGE DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 42d lost, 26d restricted Operator was in an A40 D Volvo truck while being loaded by a 988F Cat Loader. While the loader operator was preparing to dump the first bucket of rock in the truck bed a rock slipped out and struck th...
10/04/2006 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Foreign body in left eye, cut eyelid.
09/23/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost The HWM electrician developed pain in his lower back after his right foot slipped as he stepped into the power head area of the Superior High Wall Miner. He finished his shift and started off on 09/24...
01/25/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While changing bits on the highwall miner cutter head, the foreman struck the distal end of his left little finger with a 4-lb hammer fracturing it. This is to report medical treatment only.
11/09/2005 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While dumping load to construct barm, the truck lost power and backed over a 10' ledge. The operator struck his left knee against the dashboard resulting in a laceration.