Tilley Coal

An employee was attempting to free a stuck airlock door that had been damaged. While pulling back on the door, employee fell backwards on to left ankle resulting in a broken left leg.

The employee was in the process of hanging the continuous miner cable and waterline on the section. Employee felt a strain in right arm pit as employee lifted the cable and waterline.

NOTE: This is being filed under protest. The operator maintains that the employee did not sustain an injury that would prevent the employee from performing the employee's normal work activities. The employee alleged that the employee felt a sharp pain in right shoulder while preparing roof bolts for installation.

The contracted employee slipped while weed eating on an inclined bank. The slip resulted in a fall down the incline of approximately 4 Feet. The contracted employee stated that EE strained EE's back.

A group of employees was attempting to remove a broken continuous miner conveyor torque shaft with a chain ratchet. The hook of the chain ratchet came loose from the torque shaft striking an employee on the left hand middle knuckle. The strike resulted in a fractured knuckle.

Note: The employee did not immediately seek medical treatment. The first day of restricted work activity was 5/8/19. The employee was changing the left rear tire on a personnel carrier. As they removed the tire to be replaced, they felt a twinge in the lower back.

The employee was attempting to splice two pieces of soft waterline together with a hose mender. EE felt a "pop" in right shoulder as EE was pushing one end of the waterline up onto the hose mender. EE worked with this condition until treatment was needed on 12/20/2018.

The employee was pulling conveyor belt with a scoop and a wire rope. The wire rope ripped through the conveyor belt striking the employee above the right eye.

An employee strained back while pulling the section scoop charger cable to the power center.

The employee was scooping in the #1 heading. The employee placed left hand on top of the scoop panel while operating the scoop with right hand. A piece of draw rock fell on left hand causing lacerations to third, fourth, and fifth fingers.

A piece of draw rock fell on the continuous miner operator while in the #4 heading on the active section.

Employee was removing a piece of rock from shuttle car when employee dropped it onto feeder causing lacerations to 3 fingers on both hands.