Poplar Springs — Accidents

Total: 19 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
12/23/2014 EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS ACCIDENT ONLY None While digging overburden, the 6030 excavator struck a blasting cap and or booster. This caused the blasting cap and or booster to detonate. The windshield on the 6030 was cracked by fly rock.
08/09/2014 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 134d lost While descending a set of steps attached to the front of a fuel tank on fuel truck (MACK) PS37676, employees foot slipped. Employee tried to hold on and regain his footing. Employee fell to the ground...
07/31/2013 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting a water with a utility knife and the knife slipped and cut his right forearm.
02/26/2013 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Strain to the left arm and neck.
02/09/2013 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a hammer to hit the metal bucket of the dozer, he was replacing the dozers bucket tip and a piece of metal chipped off and hit his left forearm.
07/25/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None He was stepping out of his service truck heard pop under right foot
07/18/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Coupling hose from an emulsion truck tanker was being detached, the driver did not allow time for the air to release from the hose when he uncoupled the connection thus being under pressure the coupli...
04/23/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was climbing off of a dozer and slipped on the track and grabbed a handle to keep from falling and pulled his left shoulder.
03/07/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee had just finished setting a water pump and was walking up a hill and felt something in his knee popped.
03/05/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was loading and unloading water pumps and hoses and pulled the muscle in his lower back.
01/28/2012 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was shoveling coal from conveyer belt and slipped hitting the crusher, resulting in a contusion to the left chest wall.
01/14/2012 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 38d lost Contract Mechanic was changing the track on a D-11 dozer and the track flipped over mashing his left index finger.
01/11/2012 EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS ACCIDENT ONLY None While loading blasting agent onto the blast hole the blasting agent caught fire, detonated and caused the detonation of additional primers that had been placed around the blast hole area. Fire was cau...
08/07/2011 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was backing over a rock with the bulldozer and the dozer caught on the rock pulling, jerked the emplyee pulling his left shoulder.
03/07/2011 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 35d lost Employee was preparing to weld a C-clamp, he sat the clap on a table to measure it and the clamp slipped mashing his right finger.
11/01/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Employee was sliding a 4x8 screen and lifted up on it and pulled a muscle in his chest wall.
06/26/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None He was driving an equalizer pin into an equalizer bar; a piece of the pin chipped off and went into the thumb on his left hand. He had to have the chipped piece removed from his finger.
09/16/2008 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 196d lost Rock truck operator backed 100 ton rock truck off dump, over-turned rock truck, was flown to University of Alabama Hospital where he was treated and released with a hairline crack in L1 vertebrate.
10/16/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 21d lost Employee was lifting 5 gallon can of antifreeze.