Mining Incidents

Narley Mine Coal

Dora, Jefferson County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103285

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2008–2022
Latest incident
Dec 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
154
citations
56
significant & substantial
$57,017
proposed penalties
$57,017
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q1 38,164 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 40,822 3 0 73.5
2022 Q3 30,916 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 847 1 0 1180.6
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 987 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,770 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,822 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2022 · 1 incident

December 5, 2022 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Best Coal Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

A Field Technician was stemming holes with a hand shovel and experienced pain in lower back.

2020 · 2 incidents

November 23, 2020 AL · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Best Coal Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was starting to climb the ladder up on to the end loader when with left leg on the ladder and right foot still on the ground they felt a pop, (pain) in right knee while pushing their weight upon the ladder.

January 24, 2020 AL · Coal FIRE
Best Coal Inc · Accident type, without injuries

While moving the Cat bulldozer off of the spoil to have maintenance work preformed, a fire was discovered under the operators cab floor board. The operator immediately shut down the equipment and fire extinguishers were used to try and extinguish the fire. fire department was called to finish putting out the fire.

2019 · 1 incident

April 10, 2019 AL · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Best Coal Inc · Fall from machine

Employee was mounting the ladder of the PC2000 excavator, when EE's foot slipped off the bottom rung and EE landed on EE's right foot at a bad angle causing a strain or sprain.

2018 · 1 incident

October 11, 2018 AL · Coal master mechanic, foreman, supervisor HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Best Coal Inc · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS ON SPARE BOOM PART TRYING TO REMOVE A METAL TUBE WHEN THE TOOL BROKE/SLIPPED. EMPLOYEE LOST BALANCE/FOOTING AND FELL A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 4-6 FEET DOWN TO THE GROUND, LANDING ON LEFT ANKLE. ER X-RAY RESULTS OF A BROKE BONE ABOVE THE ANKLE, AND SOME SMALLER FRAGMENTS ALSO.

2012 · 1 incident

May 14, 2012 AL · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Best Coal Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Dismounting from machine operator placed left hand on the step instead of handrail, his ring hung as he made contact to ground with his feet, ring cut into backside of ring finger.

2010 · 1 incident

February 8, 2010 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Best Coal Inc · Fall from machine

Employee was preparing to service dozer. He climbed up the dozer tracks from the outside and then started climbing down the inside of the tracks when he lost his footing and fell a distance of aprox.2.5 feet.His body landed on his right hand and arm area. The trauma from hitting this area with his body caused his right hand/wrist/lower arm to swell and became painful.

2008 · 2 incidents

June 20, 2008 AL · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver OTHER
Best Coal Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Truck Driver started complaining about chest pains and numbness in his left arm and shoulder. Taken to the emergency room at Walker Baptist Hospital in Jasper, Alabama. He had possibly suffered a heart attack, kept overnight for test, transferred to Baptist Princeton hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, he is to undergo by-pass heart surgery on 06/23/08.

March 10, 2008 AL · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Best Coal Inc · Struck against a moving object

Employee was operating track-hoe excavator on a pad of coal, prying rock off coal and loading rock trucks. Track of excavator got off pad, causing excavator to fall off pad (drop of aprox. 8 feet) and over onto its side. Employee was in cab (selt belt on) when excavator hit the ground, causing injury to his neck and bruising to his head, right elbow, and buttock areas.