Mining Incidents

Flint Ridge MineCoal

ICG Hazard, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Arch Resources Inc
Clayhole, Breathitt County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518623
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
13
Years on record
2003–2007
Latest incident
Aug 2007
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

13 on file

2007 · 5 incidents

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was coming down off of a loader. The bottom step was bent backwards and he was unaware of this. When he put his foot where the step was he missed it and it was a long step to the ground and he felt pain in his right side.

Struck against a moving object

EE was dumping a load of material and when the material came out of the bed of the truck it jarred him hurting his back. We did not get this report until 4/3/07 which was the date He started missing work.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was in the process of moving a rock out of the roadway of the powder truck when something snapped in his back causing severe lower back pain. He started missing work on 3/2/07.

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Drill operator had gotten off his drill. When he stepped on the bottom step to get back on the drill, the steps moved underneath the catwalk causing him to pull something in the groin area.

Struck against a moving object

Drill operator stated he was tramming his drill on a drill bench when he crossed a hump and his drill rocked forward. The forward motion of the machine was stated to have caused pain in his back.

2006 · 5 incidents

Struck against a moving object

EE was operating his dozer on layers of rock when one of the upper layers broke causing his dozer to drop sudden resulting in a neck and back injury. This injury occurred on 12/2/06 and he started missing work on 12/20/06.

Struck against a moving object

EE stated that he raised the bed of his rock truck and it jerked his back due to slack in the bed. Another ee ran the truck the remainder of the shift and he stated that there did not seem to be any problem with the truck.

Struck by falling object

Employee was putting a lift jack on a 992-G loader when the straps holding the jack broke causing the jack to fall and strike him on the right foot.

Struck against a moving object

EE was ripping rock with a dozer and jerked his head and this caused an injury to neck.

Struck against a moving object

EE was operating a loader when he ran into a hole and it jerked his back causing lower back pain. EE did not start missing work until May 15,2006.

2005 · 1 incident

Contact with hot objects or substances

EMPLOYEE WAS DISCONNECTING A DISCHARGE HOSE FROM A 6"" WATER PUMP. THE PUMP HAD BEEN RUNNING BUT NOT PUMPING & HAD BECOME VERY HOT, THE HOSE WAS FULL OF STEAM. WHEN THE LINE CAME LOOSE IT HIT THE EMPLOYEE CAUSING BURNS TO HIS RT. ARM & LEG.

2004 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

OPERATOR OF ROCK TRUCK WAS BACKING UP TO DUMP LOAD AND OVERTURNED. OPERATOR RECEIVED A HEAD WOUND REQUIRING 10 STITCHES. THE TRUCK HAD DAMAGE TO HEAD BOARD.

2003 · 1 incident

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE DISMOUNTING POWDER TRUCK STEPPED IN HOLE BROKE BONE IN RIGHT ANKLE.