New Elk Mine Coal

Roof fall due to kettle bottoms, mud stone and water saturation.

Employee was removing a tilt cylinder from a TRS on a roofbolter. He removed the pin from cylinder and cylinder fell pinching the right index finger resulting in a laceration and slight fracture.

Injured person was shoveling on the slope belt near the tailpiece. The belt was running. Some rocks became caught between the top belt and the hold down roller, he tried removing the rocks with his shovel and got close to the running belt. His arm got caught between roller and belt.

The employee was examining the belt line and heard a noisy roller. He bent down to look at the roller and a piece of material ( coal or rock) came off of the belt hitting the employee in the left side of face, causing bruising and possible concussion.

Employee was jacklegging and when raising leg it stopped and suddenly raised upward striking employee in mouth and right side of face. This resulted in complex right lower lip laceration, right cheek laceration, depressed fracture anterior wall right Maxillary Sinus, fractured teeth

Building Stop Blocking. Air tugger fell causing a laceration to the front of leg down to ankle and impacted his foot.

Washed truck, was getting in truck and slipped grabbing door with right arm.

Moving Swamp Pump

Cleaning under belt frame

Moving a pump because it was out of water did not want the pump to seize as employee moved it over out of #1 he slipped & fell. Employee felt a slight pull he ignored it because it didn't bother him until he got home around 8:30-9:00am.

Damage to the upright guide that keeps the cable from touching the ground was pulled loose and caused the cable to jump the bull wheel.

Employee was roof bolting. While pushing bolt up into the hole, the employee held onto the bolt and pinched his hand between the bolt and plate.

Unloading rock dust, hanging ventilation tubing - stepped on a rock and twisted left knee

THERE WAS NO EVENT THEREFORE THIS IS NOT WORK RELATED.

Employee was roof bolting and twisted right knee

Working in mine water and got Dermatitis

The employee was jack legging, the leg buckeled knocking the employee down and he hit his head causing a cut.

The hoist had an electrical problem and would not operate.

Employee was carrying oil cans from hoist car to the roof bolter. All of a sudden his knee started hurting.

A roof fall occurred between 1 and 2 entry at crosscut #5. The fall was from 6 to 8 feet high. The fall was approximately 30 feet in length. The roof had been bolted with six foot fully grouted roof bolts.

Person came in contact with high voltage electrical source.

Electrical problem with the hoist. It was determined we could not fix it within the allowed time. Called the MSHA hotline number to report the accident (downtime) of hoist. Had all miners come out of mine. Repairs to hoist was made within a few hours. Hoist put back into service.

Employee lost balance, fell backwards and put his right hand back to catch himself. He ended up falling on his right wrist and he heard a pop sound.

The hoist gears were stripped to nothing when lowering a scoop and slack in the rope tightens it puts alot of tension on the gears of the hoist.

A cable was being used to help pull a piece of equipment. The cable broke hitting employee across both knees.

The plantary went out.

Mopping bath house floor with mop - buckets and nozzle for hose in the new bath house, could not carry hot water to and from, used sink in the bath house to get water, went over floor again with towel felt back pulled muscle.

Mopping bath house floor with mop - bucket and nozzle for hose in the new bath house. Could not carry hot water to and from. Used sink in bath house to get water, went over floor again with towel felt back pull muscle.

Air jumping the fuel trailer with the Eimco. The hose was not hooked up. When the air was turned on, fuel sprayed into worker's eyes.

Employee was moving Angle Iron into warehouse, piece slipped out of his hands and bounced off his leg. Even though this occurred on 10/6/10 he did not report that he needed to go to the doctor till 10/14/10. The injury occured on the last day of his scheduled 7 day rotation. He did not seek medical attention for this until the last day of his 7 off 10/14/10.

EE was holding steel aligning it with jackleg and jackleg jumped smashing his hand into the roof.