Inundation

A water inundation occurred on the No. 1 Section in the No. 1 Face near spad 1717. Resulted in a Fatal injury. Rescue crews located the fatally injured person on 11/13/2025.

Mantrip was passing the loadout and they observed a wall of water and debris coming towards them. They began backing up and hit the berm. EE was the first to exit the mantrip. They were on high ground with water flowing on both sides of them when EE stepped into the stream on the east side of them when EE was swept away. EE's body was found 6 miles downstream.

A haul unit was being loaded by a track hoe and a slush pond dam broke and the slush came down on top of them burying them.

A track hoe was loading a haul unit with gravel to take to wash plant and the dam on a slush pond broke and covered up both the tack hoe and the haul unit with the workers in them.

IN AN ATTEMPT TO EMPTY AN OLD(UPPER) SUMP INTO A NEW LOWER SUMP THE FACE GAVE WAY RELEASING APPROX 100,000 GALLONS OF WATER,AND IT IS BELIEVED HE WAS SWEPT AWAY IN THE ONRUSH THAT TOOK OUT TIM BERS AND CRIBBING.HE WAS FOUND ON 08-23-91 AT APPROX 10:30PM.

DEATH BY HEART ATTCK(NATURAL CAUSE) NOT MINE OR JOB RELATED

UNCHARTED WORKINGS WHICH WERE FLOODED WITH WATER BROKE INTO #12 CHUTE THIS CARRIED ITS VICTIM APPROX 250 FT DOWN THE CHUTEB WITH MINE TIMBER ROCKS COAL AND DEBRIS VERY MUCH FORCE THEN IT WASH ED HIM APPROX 100 FT OUT THE GANGWAY TO WHERE HIS BODY WAS FOUND THE GANGWAY HAD APPROX 120 ONS TO COAL ROCK ETC WASHED INTO IT

I NAME ENTERED A WINZE JOING FROM THE 200 FT LEVEL TO THE B25 VIR A CHAIN LADDER. AFTER THE DECENT HE STARTED BACK UP AND WAS EXSPERCING SOME FSOR OF DEFFICULTY HE APPARENTLY PASSED OUT PRIOR TO REACHING TO TOP OF THE LADDER AND FELL BACKWARDS ABOUT 13 FT SUPPEQENT RESCUE EFFORT FOUND KIM DEAD AND DID NOT RETUR THE BODY.