Employee was operating a DM45 Highwall Drill on a drill bench. Employee was traveling parallel to the edge and the outside edge gave way. The drill slid off the bench and landed 25 feet below.
CCU Sexton StripCoal
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 12
- Years on record
- 2008–2025
- Latest incident
- Feb 2025
Fatalities at this mine
1 recordedReportable incidents
11 on file (excluding fatalities above)2022 · 2 incidents
Employee was walking across parking lot and slipped on the ice landing on their shoulder. Continued to work until 2/24/22 when EE informed me of the accident and that it was not getting any better. I instructed EE to go to hospital and they found that EE had a cracked shoulder bone.
Employee was walking in parking lot and slipped on the ice. Employee fell on arm, continued to work until 3/16, elbow was not healing so they put employee on Restrictive duty.
2019 · 2 incidents
EE was climbing down a step ladder and turned to put EE's foot on ground and felt EE's knee pop.
Employee was hooking up a suction hose to water pump and slipped in the mud causing employee to twist knee.
2014 · 2 incidents
Employee was using a cutting torch in tight quarters and a spark caught his pants on fire, caused a small burn on leg.
Employee was stepping down off a tractor and missed the step causing him to slip and twist his ankle.
2012 · 2 incidents
Employee was trying to remove a brass bushing from a shaft and when the first half came out the second half spun down around and caught his finger. Had 4 stitches
EE was checking the resistance of a rotor of a drive motor and pinched his fingers between the rotor and Brake caliper fracturing the tips of 2 fingers.
2009 · 2 incidents
EE was working on a brake caliper that was locked in his vice and it slipped out and hit his hand. Had 3 stitches put in hand.
EE was running a 992 Cat front-end loader and was loading rock trucks. He was backing away from a truck with his boom in the air, he had not noticed that the keeper had come out of pin housing, which let the boom pin come out. The boom dropped and it shook the operator. Took two days off for soreness.
2008 · 1 incident
EE was operating a Blast Hole Drill when a drill steel came lose from the carrousel at the top of drill mast. He and the Mechanic was trying to set it back into the rack when the steel shifted and pinched his wrist between two drill steels. Took him to Hospital where they took xrays and found he had a hairline crack in his wrist.