Fall from ladders
Employee was standing on a ladder using a sledge beating a pin out of a hoe bucket when the pin came out and knocked the ladder out from under him. He fell on his side hurting his ribs.
Crosscreek MineCoal
Oxford Mining Co LLC · Surface
Controlled by Westmoreland Coal Company
Colliers, Brooke County, WV · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609067
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2007–2012
- Latest incident
- Mar 2012
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2012 · 2 incidents
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee was using an air wrench to tighten bolts in the floor board of his dozer and pinched his finger. Had stitches put in.
2007 · 2 incidents
Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Rainy, wet, muddy. Employee was climbing the ladder on his lube truck when his foot slipped off of the ladder causing all his weight to be on his right arm. IT shot a pain down his arm.
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Was backing up to the edge of end dump fill and ran his right side tires off edge, causing end dump to roll over onto its top. His metal lunch box flew and hit him in the back of the head, causing a gash in head, requiring stiching.