HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Name: HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) at James River Coal Service Company
Start: 12/18/2009

220093560013 · 12/18/2009 · James River Coal Service Company

Details

Degree of injury: NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification: HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Accident type: Struck by flying object
Occupation: Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
Activity: Observe operations
Injury source: METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
Nature of injury: CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part: LOWER LEG/TIBIA/FIBULA
Days lost: 0
Mine experience: 0.77 years

Operator

Controller (parent): James River Coal Company
Operator: James River Coal Service Company
Mine: 1519206

Narrative

Employee was standing about ten ft. away from the loader bucket, where they were replacing a tooth on the bucket. When they hit the keeper with a hammer, a piece of the keeper shattered hitting the employee below the left knee, required stiches.

Source

Authoritative: MSHA Open Government Data
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown