Employee was unclogging drain pipe at sediment pond 41E, while removing the pond floating boom from inlet of pipe, employee must have became engulfed in the draining water pulling ee into the drain pipe.
Coal Valley East Mine Coal
Iron Eagle Land Rehabilitation, LLC
· Surface
Controlled by
David Michael Jamison; Petri E Koivula
Townley,
Walker County,
AL
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103462
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2015–2018
- Latest incident
- Jul 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
13
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,764
proposed penalties
$1,764
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 Q3 | 1,982 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q2 | 4,539 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q3 | 15,756 | 1 | 0 | 63.5 |
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2018 · 1 incident
Cedar Lake Mining, Inc. · Drowning
2015 · 1 incident
August 15, 2015
AL · Coal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cedar Lake Mining, Inc. · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects
Teammate was assembling a 18.00R33 tire on front wheel of 769 cat rock truck. Teammate was using the boom and a hammer to install the bead seat band on the wheel and was swinging the hammer, when the handle broke off of the head of the hammer and struck the teammates finger creating a fracture to left index finger. He continued to work and finished the job.