No. 4 Coal

RECEIVED NOTIFICATION FROM ATTORNEY THAT MINER WAS FILING CLAIM FOR BLACK LUNG. DID NOT OCCUR AT THIS MINE LOCATION.

ROOFBOLTER CAUGHT LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE STEEL WHILE DRILLING HOLE.

EE CRAWLED BEHIND THE MESCHER TRACTOR THAT WAS CLEANING RIB BETWEEN NO. 10 & NO. 11 HEADING AND DID NOT SIGNAL THE JEEP OPERATOR.

EE WAS OPERATING TRACTOR LOADING COAL AT FACE. WHEN WHOULDER STRUCK ROOF BOLT HEAD. SEAM HEIGHT IS 24". ROOF BOLT PLATE WAS FIRMLY AGAINST ROOF. EE WAS LAYING ON HIS SIDE.

EE WAS ENGAGED IN DRILLING THE FACE WHEN A PREMATUR DETONATION OF A STEMMED HOLE OCCURRED.

EE WAS LOADING HOLES TO BE SHOT WHEN PREMATURE DETONATION OF A STEMMED HOLE OCCURRED.

EE WAS OPERATING ROOF BNOLTER. EE WAS BENDING ROOF BOLT TO INSTALL IN MINE ROOF. HIS GLOVE BECAME ENTANGLED WITH BOLT CATCVHING HAND BETWEEN SCISSOR FRAME & FRAM OF ROOF BOLTER BREAKING LEFT F OREFINGER.

EE WAS ABSENT FROM WORK MONDAY 1/19/98 ARRIVED AT MINE TUESDAY 1/20/98 INFORMED MINE SUPT. THAT HE HAD "POPPED HIS KNEE" SATURDAY 1/17/98 WHILE DRILLING A ROOM. HE HAD BEEN TO DR BERNARD MOSES OFFICE ON MONDAY. EXACT NATURE OF INJURY WAS NOT DETERMINED.

EE WERE CHANGING REAR END IN MESCHER TRACTOR. ELECTRIC HOIST FAILED WITH TRACTOR SUSPENDED APPROX. 30". USING LOADER TO REMOVE TRACTOR FROM HOIST WHEN CHAIN SLIPPED CAUSING TRACTOR TO FALL STR IKING VICTIM ON FOOT.

VICTIM WAS SETTING SPAD. LEFT X-CUT #3 ENTRY WAS SETTING SPAD. LEFT X-CUT #3 ENTRY WAS SHOT COAL AND PARTIALLY BLOCKED THE ENTRY. VICTIM BECAME DIZZY AND ATTEMPTED TO RETURN TO FRESH AIR. COAL SCAM HEIGHT WAS APPROX 25" VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO SURFACE ADN ADMINSTERED 02 UNTIL AMBULANCE ARRIVED.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING TRACTOR TO SURFACE AT EN DOF SHIFT. WHIEL TRAMMING, NDER A PUMP DISCHARGE LINE, HIS HAND BECAME CAUGHT IN THE LINE AS HE WAS LIFTING IT FOR ADDITIONAL CLEARANCE WEDGING HIS WRIST AND ELBOW BETWEEN THE MINE ROOF AND TRACTOR FRAME. SEAM HEIGHT OF THIS MINE IS 24".

THUNDERSTORM. 2" OF RAIN FELL IN 30 MINUTES CAUSING DIVERSION DITCH ABOVE HI-WALL TO OVERFLOW ALLOWING WATER TO RUN INTO MINE PIT. 3-6" PUMPS COULD NOT KEEP WATER FROM FLOWING INTO MINE.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING MESCHER TRACTOR WITH HAND LAYING ON TOP OF POST ON TIMBER KNOCKER. OEPRATOR RAN OVER A ROCK IN ROADWAY CAUSING SCOOP TO BOUNCE CATCHIN GHAND & FINGER BETWEEN POST & MIN E ROOF, CUTTING 2ND FINGER ON RIGHT HAND. COAL SEAM HT. 24".

EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING A BRATTICE TWISTED KNEE WHILE BIULDING BRATTICE EMPLOYEE WORKED MONDAY 09-2 5-95 CAME TO WORK TUESDAY BUT DID NOT GO UNDERGROUND STATING HIS KNEE WAS SAFE EMPLOYEE WAS CA LLED AT HOME WED MORNING HE STATED HE HAD WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM THEEMR DOCTOR SUSPECTED A TORN CARTLIDGE

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN A SCOOP BUCKET AT THE END OF SHIFT. OPERATOR MADE A WRONG TURN AND RAN INTO THE TAILPIECE CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO STRIKE HEAD AGAINST BACK OF SCOOP BUCKET. EMPLOYEE CAME TO WORK THE FOLLOWING MORNING COMPLAINING OF STIFFNESS AND SORENESS IN NECK AND HEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS CRAWLING BESIDE BOLTING MACHINE AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

VICTIM WAS HELPING ON CUTTING MACHINE. THEY WERE COMING OUT OF THE FACE WHEN VICTIM TURNED AROUND & SLUNG HIS FOOT UNDER CUTTING MACHINE BREAKING BIG TOE ON LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LEAVING THE FACE AREA WITH LOAD OF COAL. RAN OVER A BLOCK OF COAL BOUNCING THE MESCHER TRACTOR INTO THE ROOF. STEERING WHEEL STRUCK A METAL STRAP, JERKING IT FROM OPERATORS HAND WHERE THE HANDLE STRUCK THE BACK OF HIS HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING BOLTING DRILL STEEL. CAUGHT THUMB BETWEEN JOINT OF PUSHER STEEL AND EXTENSION. EMPLOYEE WAS NEW, RECEIVED NEWLY HIRED EXPERIENCED MINER TRAINING ON 4-12-94; RECEIVED TASK TRAINING 4-13-94.