Coal Mine Safety and Health Report of Investigation: Underground Coal Mine, Fatal Slip/Fall of Person Accident, May 15, 2012, Frontier-Kemper Constructors Inc. (A01), Evansville, IN at Gibson South, Gibson County Coal, LLC, Owensville, Gibson County, Indi

摘要

On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at approximately 10:45 p.m., James Palmer, a laborer for Frontier-Kemper Constructors, was injured when he was knocked to the floor of the work platform suspended in the shaft. The fall resulted in a broken bone in his left leg. Palmer and two other employees were handling an eight-inch diameter hose attached to the bottom of a hopper that was suspended beneath a six-cubic yard concrete bucket in the shaft. The hose was being used to direct concrete from the bucket into the forms lining the shaft wall. The hose was overloaded as concrete came out of the hopper too fast, which caused the hose to surge. This sudden movement of the hose knocked the victim and his coworkers off their feet. The victim was removed from the shaft and taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released. On May 24, 2012, the victim died at his home in Marion, Illinois, from complications from his injury.