RIVER VIEW MINE — Accidents

Total: 805 accidents | Fatalities: 2

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
02/19/2025 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 45d lost While exiting the scoop the scoop operator twisted their left knee. Started missing work on 02/20/2025.
02/12/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 70d lost Roof bolter strained EE's lower back loading pin boards onto the bolter. Started missing work on 02/25/2025.
02/04/2025 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 40d lost Roof bolter was trying to connect two steels together. The steels were touching each other with a little boom pressure and when EE pulled on the one in the chuck, they popped together hitting the righ...
01/31/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The roof bolter was attempting to cut a suction hose with a belt knife. Holding the hose in EE's left hand and cutting with the right, the knife came out of the hose and cut the left hand. Received 6...
01/30/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While preparing the belt for a belt lay the belt mechanic was cutting the belt, when the knife slipped out of the belt and cut right leg just below the knee. Causing the belt mechanic to receive 10 st...
01/23/2025 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 74d lost Miner operator was starting to load a car when the face fell in leaving a pile of rock just inby the last row of bolts. A rock then fell out just inby the last row of bolts landing on the pile of rock...
01/23/2025 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While setting in between the air doors the outby set was closing, forcing air/debris up under the inby set causing irritation to the right eye. The employee did not miss any work.
01/15/2025 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 22d lost While the opposite operator had EE's hand on the T-bar, the operator was spotting a pin outby, dropped EE's boom hitting the ATRS pinching the opposite operator's hand between the pad and T-bar. This...
12/19/2024 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 90d lost Opposite operator roof bolter was drilling a hole for a roof bolt when the operator pinched right index finger between a board and the drill pot. Started missing work on 12/20/2024.
12/18/2024 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Mechanic was cutting the outer jacket on the miner cable to make a splice, slipped and cut the index finger on EE's left hand. The cut required 6 stitches. No work was missed.
12/11/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 6d lost While walking to the opposite operator boom to install a roof bolt, the employee slipped and fell on a rock. The employee caught their body with their left hand spraining wrist. Started missing work o...
12/02/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 35d lost Mechanic exited a ride, stepped over a berm in the road and rolled their right ankle. Started missing work on 12/03/2024. Update: Started missing work again for the same injury on 4/1/25.
11/27/2024 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The miner operator was cutting some hard coal and a piece of steel off of the miner bit hit them in the neck. This required 4 sutures and no work was missed.
11/22/2024 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While using a cut off wheel on a grinder to cut a lock on a golf cart, the grinder kicked back and cut the mechanic on the top of EE's left hand, requiring sutures.
11/21/2024 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 28d lost While installing a roof bolt the operator had left hand on the top of the board and smashed their middle finger upon contact with the roof. Started missing work on 11/22/2024.
11/14/2024 OTHER NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee got a foreign object in left eye. The eye doctor flushed it out and employee received medicated eye drops, employee did not miss any work.
11/08/2024 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 108d lost Employee was riding in the passenger seat of a diesel jake. At idle speed the driver swerved to miss something in the road and the passenger fell off of the ride, causing pain in right shoulder. Start...
11/01/2024 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None A grinder was dropped by a belt mechanic while the blade was engaged, hitting a two man diesel ride, it bounced off of the jake and hit the index finger on the right hand of a spectator causing three...
10/23/2024 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Operator dropped the boom when hitting the pin that was made up to put in the roof, the board that was on the premade roof bolt slid over and the boom caught the board which hit the operator in the ri...
10/17/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was cleaning rocks off of the top of the miner when they felt a strain in their lower back on the right side. The employee started physical therapy on 11/04/2024. No work was missed.
10/03/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 122d lost The employee was loading the pin tray with roof bolts and felt a sharp pain in lower back. Started missing work on 10/08/2024
10/02/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 64d lost The employee had reached across body to pick up a wheel and tire, as employee picked it up to install it onto the golf cart employee's left shoulder popped. Started missing work on 10/04/2024.
10/01/2024 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While trimming a piece of metal off of a scoop with a cutting torch a piece of hot metal bounced up getting behind the cutting glasses burning the left eye.
09/30/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was helping put a spool of leaky feeder cable on a spool cart and pinched right index finger between the spool bar and cradle. Employee received 4 sutures.
09/25/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 92d lost Employee was climbing a bank out of the dust hole and slipped falling onto the side of a dust wagon landing on EE's right side under EE's right arm resulting in two fractured ribs.
09/25/2024 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was a passenger in a mantrip when the operator of the mantrip hit a rough spot in the road causing the injured employee to hit their lower back on the edge of the seat. Started missing work o...
09/24/2024 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost The employee was standing on the opposite side of the bolter and the operator repositioned the bolter running over the toes on the right foot of the opposite operator causing a fracture to the big toe...
09/19/2024 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 120d lost While setting in the shuttle car at the feeder the corner of the rib rolled off and some of the coal fell into the cab pinching the skin on the back of the right arm causing two small lacerations. 3 s...
09/18/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall occurred in the 4th south west sub mains, number 1 entry between xc 159 and xc 160 at spad 108+80 and 109+55. The fall measured approximately 65'x19'x8'. The fall will not be loaded out an...
09/06/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee knelt beside the tool slide doing inventory, when a rock fell out and struck EE in the top of the head and then the right knee. 3 staples were required in the cut on the head. no work mis...
09/04/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 23d lost While installing the outside roof bolt, a rock fell out hitting the canopy of the bolter. The rock then fell off of the canopy hitting the operator in the right ankle. Taken off work on 09/05/2024 wit...
08/30/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee exited the shuttle car and tripped over a piece of coal. Falling to the ground employee's rib cage on the left side landed on a chunk of coal that had fallen out of the rib, resulting in...
08/15/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 121d lost The employee was changing a 72"" bottom roller, when the employee picked the roller up to put it in the stand employee felt a burning pain in lower back. The employee was taken off work on 8/21/2024.
08/14/2024 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was drilling the second steel up. The second steel broke and a piece of the steel hit the rib and then hit EE in the back causing a 1"" cut that required 5 sutures. No work was missed.
08/08/2024 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 70d lost The employee was walking through a curtain while the mine roof was lower on the other side hitting EE's head on a low hanging damaged roof bolt. Jamming neck causing pain in EE's neck and shoulders. S...
08/05/2024 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was in the front passenger seat of a mantrip that was traveling the supply road to bottom when it drove through a clear curtain and struck the bucket of a diesel scoop that was backing into a...
08/05/2024 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was stripping the wires for a light on a roof bolter when the knife EE was using slipped causing EE to cut left pinky finger resulting in the employee receiving 4 sutures.
08/01/2024 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was pulling a trailer off the cage with a diesel tractor, the employee had hand resting on the bump stop in the pivot point of the diesel tractor. As EE made a turn, the ends of the tractor c...
07/29/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was drilling a hole in the mine roof and a donut shaped rock slid down the drill steel and flew off striking the employee just above employee's top lip causing a laceration resulting in t...
07/16/2024 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While setting bits on the miner, hitting a bit with a hammer a piece of metal 1/4inch long from the hammer imbedded in EE's right forearm causing infection.
07/15/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was loading pin plates onto the bolter. Employee swung around to place some more plates on the bolter and hit right elbow on the plates causing a laceration receiving eight sutures.
07/03/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was pulling a yield prop across the belt when it dropped of the belt and onto the belt framing causing a laceration to EE's left middle finger requiring sutures.
06/20/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 120d lost Employee was picking up crib block out of a scoop bucket and strained lower back.
06/20/2024 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 62d lost Employee was loading gob with a continuous miner and a rock that was on top of the miner slid down the tail of the miner and onto the shuttle car and then slid off the car onto the employee's left foo...
06/20/2024 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While driving a golf cart, the front tire hit a rock causing the steering wheel to spin out of control and stopping the cart. The steering wheel caught EE's right hand dislocating EE's ring finger.
06/14/2024 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 9d lost The roof bolter operator was cleaning the dust box on the opposite side of the bolter. While squatting down a rock struck the roof bolter operator on top of the head causing a headache. The rock fell...
06/14/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 6d lost The employee was eating a sandwich when a thin rock 12 inch circle fell out hitting the employee's right middle finger causing a cut that required 6 sutures. The finger became infected. The employee s...
06/12/2024 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 66d lost Employee was putting EE's drill steels together when moving the boom up to start drilling in the bolting process, the steels popped together with EE's hand close enough to the steels hitting EE in the...
06/12/2024 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 122d lost With very little space between the grader and tractor the grader went to back up as the employee proceeded to move between the two pieces of equipment. The grader turned around to look behind and acce...
06/10/2024 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 17d lost Employee was putting steels together in the bolting process when they did not match up causing it to pop EE's right hand. The steels hit the webbing of EE's hand between the thumb and index finger res...