Darmac #1 Coal

DRILLING HOLE & CAUGHT FINGER BETWEE HEAD OF BOLTER & DRILL STEEL

SPOTTING STRUCTURE AND SCOOP CLIMBED ON ROCK AND PUSHED SCOOP AGAINST ROOF.BRUSHED HEAD AGAINST ROOF AND FRAME OF SCOOP.

EMPL ROOF BOLTING & PIECE OF ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS & STRUCK EMPL ON UPPER PORTION OF BACK. EMPL WENT OFF WORK ON 11/16/90.

EMPLOYEE POSITIONED MINER TO TAKE CUT OF COAL FROM FACE OF #2, AFTER HANGING VENTILATION CURTAIN, EMPLOYEE GETTING INTO SEAT OF MINER AND A SMALLPIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS AND STRUC K HIM ON RIGHT LOWER LEG.

EMPLOYEE SHOVELING AT BELT-TAIL, SHOVEL CAUGHT ON SPLICE JAMMED EMPLOYEE'S LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN SHOVEL AND BELT FRAME.

EMPL CHANGING SPEED REDUCER ON CONTINUOUS MINER & WHILE SHIFTING BROKEN UNIT CHAIN BROKE & CHAIN BLOCK HANDLE STRUCK EMPL IN RT FOREARM.

EMPL PULLING CABLE ,FELT PAIN IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE PULLING LARGE ROCK OFF OF C MINER AND FELT PAIN IN GROIN.

AREA AT STA #1462 IN NO 2 ENTRY FELL APPROX 60FT WIDTH OF ENTRY 4-6FT HIGH MOVING EQUIPMENT & BELT & GOING TO DRIVE MAIN TO LEFT OF BAD ROOF AREA

AREA IN NUMBER #3 ENTRY 2XCUTS INBY STA 1460 A FALL OCCURRED APPROX 65 FT LONG WIDTH OF ENTRY 20FT APPROX 4-6 FT HIGH AREA POSTED OFF BOLTED TO FALL & FALL CLEANED UP RESUPPORTED

EMPLOYEE BOLTING FACE SMALL PIECE OF ROCK BROKE AWAY FROM ROOF AND SLID ALONG DRILL STEEL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN FACE.

EMPLOYEE GOT OFF OF JEEP WHILE CRAWLING TO DOOR AT STOPPING JEEP DRIFTED CATCHING EMPLOYEES RIGHT FOOT

TURNING X-CUT #3-#4 ROOM AND WHILE CUTTING APPROACH WE ENCOUNTERED A STEEL CASING. MEN IMMEDIATELY REMOVED FROM MINE. FEDERAL AND STATE NOTIFIED, METHANE OF 5.1 % BEING LIBERATED. AREA VENTILA TED TO REMOVE GAS. PLUG REMOVED FROM WELL RELIEVING PRESSURE. READING 6" FROM PIPE SHOWED 0.0 CH4, AT OPENING .25 X 1.5", 0.04 CH4. AREA CLOSED BY ORDER MSHA. CORRECTIVE ACTION BEING TAKEN BY

EMPLOYEE CRAWLING ON KNEES IN PERFORMANCE OF JOB AND KNEE BECAME IRRITATED AND SWELLED.

PRYING ON PADDL9 OF ROCK DUSTER TO GET NAIL THAT WEDGED IN UNIT WITH ROOF BOLT & FELT PAIN IN LOWER RIGHT BACK.

EMPLOYEE TRAMMI3G MBC FROM FACE OF #2 ENTRY WHILE TRAMMING MACHINE RAN CRAWLER TRACK OVER TOES OF RIGHT FOOT THIS CAUSED SEVERE CRUSHING OF TOES RESULTING IN AMPUTATION IN HOSPITAL

EMPLOYEE HANGIN1 LINE BRATTICE AND TANGLED HIS FOOT IN THE BRATTICE AND CABLE WHEN HE WENT TO MOVE HE TWISTED KNEE

EMPLOYEE WORKIN1 ON MBC AND RECEIVED FLASH BURNS TO LEFT EYE WHILE WELDING THEN ON 8-17-87 EMPLOYEE DROPPED TOOL AND DIRT SPLASHED IN LEFT EYE CAUSING DISCOMFORT

EMPLOYEE CRAWLI3G DURING WORK PERFORMANCE FROM ONE ENTRY TO ANOTHER AND FELT PAIN IN KNEE IT BEGAN TO SWELL AND PAIN WENT DOWN LEG

EMPLOYEE WORKIN1 AS MINER HELPER AND WHILE CRAWLING ALONG ENTRY FELT PAIN IN KNEE WHICH GOT PROGRESSIVELY WORSE DURING SHIFT.

EMPLOYEE PREPAR3NG TO MOVE MINER CABLE AND WHILE HOOKING CABLE ON TRACTOR GOT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN RIB AND JEEP.

EMPLOYEE CRAWLI3G DURING SHIFT AND FELT PAIN IN KNEE PAIN BECAME PROGRESSIVELY WORSE WITH SOME SWELLING.

CHANGING GATHER3NG HEAD MOTOR ON C MINER AND FELT SOMETHING IN ABCK. GAVE NO PROBLEM AT TIME BUT PAIN STARTED AND GOT PROGRESSIVELY WORSE.

OPERATOR WAS MI3ING BOX CUT OF #5 ENTRY AND HAD MINED APPROX.15 FEET WHEN WATER WAS ENCOUNTERED.ALL MEN IMMEDIATELY LEFT AREA.POWER TO MINE WAS THROWN.SUPT.,SAFETY DIRECTOR,MASTER MECHANIC AND ENGINEER CALLE8 AND INVESTIGATED OCCURANCE AND IMMEDIATELY CALLED FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICIALS ONCE PROBLEM WAS CONFIRMED.

EMPLOYEE BUILDI3G STOPPING & WHILE BREAKING CEMENT BLOCK, A SMALL PIECE OF STEEL SPALLED FROM HIS HAMMER, STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE IN THE THUMB.

EE WENT TO CROS8 OVER MINER CABLE & WHILE DOING SO PULLED RIGTH KNEE.

EMPLOYEE BOLTIN1 FACE OF ENTRY & WHILE TIGHTENING BOLT GLOVE CAUGHT IN DRILL STEEL DISLOCATING LITTLE FINGER

EE BOLTING X-CU7 4-5 WHIEL GETTING POSITIONED FOR NEXT BOLT. AREA STARTED PEELING SO HE WAS BARRING LOOSE MATERIAL & A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM IN-BETWEEN THE BOLTS & STRUCK HIM ON HIS ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE TIGHTE3ING DRIVE CHAIN ON LEE NORSE AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE ROOF B2LTING AND WHILE POSITIONING MACHINE TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

EMPL BUILDING U3DERCAST AND SOLID BLOCK FELL STRIKING RING FINGER AND MIDDLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE HELPIN1 TO UNLOAD 7200 CABLE AND STRUCK KNEE AGAINST SKID

EMPLOYEE WTOPPED IN FRONT OF POWER CENTER, FAILED TO DISENGAGE THE PANIC BAR, AND AS HE PROCEEDED TO WALK AWAY FROM THE LONG AIRDOX THREE WHEELER, IT COASTED FORWARD STRIKING HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CRAWLING BESIDE THE HEAD OF THE MINER AND STRUCK HIS ELBOW WITH A GLANCING BLOW ON ONE OF THE BIT.

EE WAS CRAWLING THRU AN INTERSECTION WHEN HE STRUCK A DAMAGED ROOF BOLT BEARING PLATE WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY HIT BY THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE C/M. THIS BEARING PLATE HAD A SHARP PIECE OF METAL PRO TRUDING & LACERATED THE EES SHOULDER.