Dominion No 6 Coal

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A TIMBER, SAW SLIPPED CUTTING EMPLOYEE'S HAND BETWEEN HIS THUMB & INDEX FINGER.

ROCK FALL 20 FT WIDE 20 FT LONG & LEFT THICK 210 FT INBY SPAD NO. 287.

EE BUMPED HIS BACK AGAINST TOP WHILE RIDING SCOOP BUCKET AT THE INTERSECTION OF SPADE NUMBER 503.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED ABOVE THE ANCHOR ZONE IN THE #5 HEADING RETURN APPROX. 4,000' OUTBY THE FACE IN AN AREA OF FAULTED MINE ROOF. THIS AREA HAD BEEN CRIBBED OFF AND DANGERED OFF PRIOR TO IT F ALLING. THE FALL WAS IN THE REUTRN ENTRY BYT WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP AND IS NOT BLOCKING AIR MOVEMENT. NO MINERS OR EQUIPMENT WERE INVOLVED.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING, HOLDING AND MOVING HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE WHEN HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS CHEST. THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT UNTIL 12/17/93. THE EMP LOYEE WAS SENT TO THE DOCTOR FROM WORK ON 12/17/93. THE DOCTOR DIAGNOSED THE EMPLOYEE AS HAVING A STRAINED CHEST WALL MUSCLE.

EE WAS IN PROCESS OF STACKING TIMBERS AGAINST COAL RIB WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS BACK ON THE 6/7/93 WHILE MOVING A SECTION OF CONTINUOUS MINIER CABLE OUT OF THE HAUL ROAD IN THE NO. 7 HEADING. THE EMPLOYEE CONTINUED TO PERFORM HIS NORMAL DUTIES UNTIL 7/7/93 WHEN HE BEGAN RECEIVING CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT AND WAS PLACE ON RESTRICTED WORK ACTIVITY.

THIS AREA HDA ADVERSE ROOF CONDITIONS WHEN DEVELOPED AND 48" POINT ANCHOR BOLTS WERE INSTALLED, CONDITIONS EVIDENTLY WORSENED AND THE FALL OCCURRED.

EMPLOYEE HAD KNOCKED OUT A BRATTICE ON PILLAR SECTION & WAS LOADING CINDER BLOCKS IN TO THE SCOOP BUCKET HE PICKED UP TWO CINDER BLOCKS (1 IN EACH HAND) & AS HE TURNED TO THROW THEM IN THE BUC KET HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT GO TO A DOC UNTIL 09-15-92 AFTER HIS WORK SHIFT & BEGAN RESTRICTED WORK DUTY ON 09-16-92

THE CREW HAD DOUBLED BACK TO TAKE OUT SOME BELT LINE AND WHILE LOADING CONVEYOR BELT IN TO THE RAIL CAR HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

10966F FALL OCCURRED IN THE LAST OPEN CROSSCUT OF THE NO. 6 HEADING AS THE 1 ST CUT WAS BEING TAKEN OUT OF THE HEADING AND CAUGHT THE CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE. THE FALL MEASURED 6HX30LX18W AN 40955OLVED ONLY THE INTERSECTION THE FALL HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY BOLTED WITH 48 INCH POINT ANCHOR BOLTS ALL EE WERE EVACUATED PRIOR TO THE FALL.

54736YEE WAS LAYING ON HIS SIDE WHEN THE MANTRIP THEY WERE RIDING IN STOPPED. HE RAISED HIS HEAD TO SEE WHY WHEN THE 3RD SHIFT MANTRIP RAN INTO THEM FROM THE OTHER DIRECTION. THE EMPLOEE'S SH 64345R WAS JAMMED INTO THE UPPER COMAPRTMENT OF THE MAN BUS. BOTH CREWS HAD TURNED THE RED LIGHT ON FOR THE RIGHT OF WAY AT THE SAME TIME.

38509NJURED EMPLOYEE TRAMMED THE SCOOP TO #4 HEADING BACKING IT UP TO A TRACK CAR SO HE COULD WATER THE BATTERIES IN HIGH TOP. DURING THE PROCESS OF WATERING THE BATTERIES, THE BATTERY LID FEL 30253WEEN REAR OF SCOOP AND TRACK CAR. AS THE INJURED AND WITNESS WERE LIFTING THE LID, THE INJURED EMPLOYEE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE WORKED UNTIL 8-5-92 WHEN HE WENT TO

RF FALL 1 1/2 BREAKS INBY FELL FROM ABOVE ANCHORAGE ZONE

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON THE PILLAR LINE ON THE 002-0 SECTION AND ENTRAPPED THE CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE AND A SHUTTLE CAR. THE FALL OCCURRED IN THE NO.3 HEADING, ONE BREAK INBY SURVEY STATION NO.762, AND MEASURED APPROX. 150' LONG X 8-10' HIGH X 20' WIDE. NO ONE WAS INJURED AND THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO THE EQUIPMENT.

THE EMPLOYEE AND THE WITNESS WERE TRYING TO DISLODGE A DIGGING ARM ON A CONTINUOUS MINER AND AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING A MASONERY HAMMER, THE WITNESS WAS STRIKING IT WITH A BALL PEEN HAMMER, A PIECE OF THE MASONERY HAMMER CHIPPED OFF AND WENT IN THE INJURED'S HAND. ON 12-11-90, THE INJURED WENT TO A DOCTOR AND HAD TO HAVE THE PIECE OF METAL REMOVED SURGICALLY.

CRUSHER/BEEDER ON 001 SECTION WAS SET IN AREA APPROX 46"-48" HIGH & POSITIONED NEARLY AGAINST OFFSIDE RIB. INJ EMPL WAS TO HOOK UP GREASE HOSE UNDERNEATH OFFSIDE TOP LID. HE REMOVED LID & APPA RENTLY STRAINED HIMSELF WHILE PUTTING LID BACK ON. EMPL WAS NOT DIANOSED AS HAVING RUPTURE UNTIL 5/7/91.

EMPL HAD DRILLED 24" HOLE & WAS IN PROCESS OF CHANGING SINGLE PIECE OF 24" STEEL TO 2 PIECES OF 24" STEEL. FINISHER STEEL COULD NOT BE SLID INTO HOLE BY HAND SO EMPL PUSHED IT INTO HOLE WITH B OLTER HEAD. AFTER DOING SO HE LOWERED BOLTER HEAD SLIGHTLY & GRABBED STEEL WITH LEFT HAND. HAND WAS TYHEN PUSHED AGAINST MINE ROOF WITH BOLTER HEAD.

A ROOF FALL WAS FOUND AT APPROXIMATELY 11:15PM DURING THE PRE-SHIFT EXAMINATION IN THE INTERSECTION OF THE LAST OPEN CROSSCUT OF THE NO 3 HEADING AT SURVEY STATION NO 451.THE FALL MEASURED APP ROXIMATELY 18' WIDE X4'-7' THICK BY ? LENGTH(LENGTH UNDETERMINED AT THIS TIME).

AT APPROXIMATELY 2:30 P.M. ON 7-19-90, A ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED 14 BREAKS OUTBY THE FACE OF THE #2 ENTRY ON THE 002-0 SECTION. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 20'W X 30' L X 5.5' H. 48" POINT AN CHOR BOTLS HAD BEEN INSTALLED IN THE AREA. THE FALL WAS TIMBERED OFF AND WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP.

EE WAS TAKING THE 1ST CUT OUT OF THE LEFT BREAK OFF OF THE 3 HEADING WHEN A ROCK MEASURING 51X42X00-8 IN THICKNESS FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIM IN THE NECK AND SHOULDER AREA.

INJURED INFORMED HIS FOREMAN THAT THE CONTINUOUS MINER BOUNCED HIM AROUND IN THE DECK WHILE HE WAS CUTTING NO 5 HEADING & THAT HE WAS HAVING PAINS IN HIS RT TESTICLE & GROIN AREA EMPLOYEE REFU SED TO BE TREATED &CONTINUED TO WORK ON 02-28 THE EMPLOYEES WIFE CALLED MINE MANAGEMENT STATING EMPLOYEE WOULD NOT BE OUT TO WORK DUE TO HIS BACK HURTING HIM ON 03-01-90 EMPLOYEE INFORMED HIS

EMPLOYEE'S FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROTATING HEAD ARM AND THE ATRS ARM ON THE FLETCHER ROOF BOLTER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN OUT DUST COLLECTING HOSE WITH THE MACHINE RUNNING.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES TO HAVE CONTRACTED COAL WORKERS PNEUMOCONIOSIS WHILE WORKING AT DOMINION COAL CORPORATION.NOTE THIS CLAIM WAS SETTLED ON 05-22-90.

WHEN THE BOLTER WAS MOVED FROM THE 5TH BOLT OF THE 3RD ROW TO THE 1ST BOLT OF THE 5TH ROW GOB DRAGGED THE SHORT HOSE LOOSE FROM THE DRILL POT.AS EMPLOYEE LIFTED THE HEAD OF THE BOLTER TO FREE THE HOSE HIS FINGERS WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROTATING HEAD ARM AND THE ATRS JACK SHORT ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS BEARING ON A ROPE DOG IN PREPARATION OF TYING THE BELT OFF TO BEGIN A BELT MOVE AS HE WAS BEATING ON THE ROPE DOG A PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO THE PALM OF HIS LEFT HAND NEAR THE THU MB EMPLOYEE WENT TO A DOC ON 102189 TO HAVE THE METAL REMOVED

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON THE 001-0 SECTION BEGINNING IN THE LAST OPEN CROSSCUT OF THE NO. 5 & 6 HEADINGS AND FALLING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION OF THE NO. 6 HEADING. THE FALL WAS LOCATED 2 BREAKS INBY SURVEY STATION NO. 118 AND MEASURED APPROX 80' LONG BY 3'-5' THICK BY 16'-18' WIDE. THE FALL COVERED THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE LOCATED IN THE NO. 6 INTERSECTION.