Mining Incidents

Poplar Springs Coal

Controlled by NACCO Industries Inc
Navoo, Winston County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103321

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
19
Years on record
2006–2014
Latest incident
Dec 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
164
citations
58
significant & substantial
$144,445
proposed penalties
$140,766
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
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 10,317 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 23,255 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 31,487 1 0 31.8
2012 Q2 39,339 7 1 177.9
2012 Q1 50,021 3 2 60.0
2011 Q4 58,450 4 1 68.4
2010 Q2 44,467 13 6 292.4
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

19 on file

2014 · 2 incidents

December 23, 2014 AL · Coal EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Centennial Natural Resources LLC · Accident type, without injuries

While digging overburden, the 6030 excavator struck a blasting cap and or booster. This caused the blasting cap and or booster to detonate. The windshield on the 6030 was cracked by fly rock.

August 9, 2014 AL · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Reed Minerals, Inc. · Fall from machine

While descending a set of steps attached to the front of a fuel tank on fuel truck (MACK) PS37676, employees foot slipped. Employee tried to hold on and regain his footing. Employee fell to the ground. Fall resulted in a shoulder injury.

2013 · 3 incidents

July 31, 2013 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting a water with a utility knife and the knife slipped and cut his right forearm.

February 9, 2013 AL · Coal pumper HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Struck by flying object

Employee was using a hammer to hit the metal bucket of the dozer, he was replacing the dozers bucket tip and a piece of metal chipped off and hit his left forearm.

2012 · 8 incidents

July 25, 2012 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

He was stepping out of his service truck heard pop under right foot

July 18, 2012 AL · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Coupling hose from an emulsion truck tanker was being detached, the driver did not allow time for the air to release from the hose when he uncoupled the connection thus being under pressure the coupling struck the driver in the side of the head, as a result the driver sustained a concussion.

April 23, 2012 AL · Coal pumper SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was climbing off of a dozer and slipped on the track and grabbed a handle to keep from falling and pulled his left shoulder.

March 5, 2012 AL · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was loading and unloading water pumps and hoses and pulled the muscle in his lower back.

January 28, 2012 AL · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was shoveling coal from conveyer belt and slipped hitting the crusher, resulting in a contusion to the left chest wall.

January 14, 2012 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Contract Mechanic was changing the track on a D-11 dozer and the track flipped over mashing his left index finger.

January 11, 2012 AL · Coal EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Accident type, without injuries

While loading blasting agent onto the blast hole the blasting agent caught fire, detonated and caused the detonation of additional primers that had been placed around the blast hole area. Fire was caused by Blaster smoking near blast hole. See attached MSHA Citation #8521062.

2011 · 2 incidents

August 7, 2011 AL · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Struck against a moving object

Employee was backing over a rock with the bulldozer and the dozer caught on the rock pulling, jerked the emplyee pulling his left shoulder.

March 7, 2011 AL · Coal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was preparing to weld a C-clamp, he sat the clap on a table to measure it and the clamp slipped mashing his right finger.

2010 · 2 incidents

November 1, 2010 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was sliding a 4x8 screen and lifted up on it and pulled a muscle in his chest wall.

June 26, 2010 AL · Coal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Struck by flying object

He was driving an equalizer pin into an equalizer bar; a piece of the pin chipped off and went into the thumb on his left hand. He had to have the chipped piece removed from his finger.

2008 · 1 incident

September 16, 2008 AL · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
National Coal of Alabama Inc · Struck against a moving object

Rock truck operator backed 100 ton rock truck off dump, over-turned rock truck, was flown to University of Alabama Hospital where he was treated and released with a hairline crack in L1 vertebrate.

2006 · 1 incident