Oak Hill Tipple Coal

A D-ii operator noticed smoke under the cab of the D-11 operator working beside him. The operator of the D-11 that was smoking shut the machine down and with the help of the foreman tried to extinguish the smoke after about ten minutes the fire department was called because they could not get the fire out. The pit was evacuated at this time.

The truck driver went against company policy by climbing on his trailer to check for loose coal, as he was coming down the steps he lost his footing on the bottom step, he fell on the fender of the truck and then fell about 3 foot to the ground landing on his right hip.

Shop mechanic was using a hammer, he swung the hammer to strike the awe he was using, he missed the awe and hit his hand causing a small laceration on his left hand.

The water pumper stood on the tire of the water pump to check the fuel level and slipped off the tire and landed on his left elbow, bruising the elbow. He did not report the incident until 01/24/2011.

Worker was attempting to place a belly pan back on a Cat D-11 dozer, the pan was secured with chains on both sides, one chain shifted letting the pan shift backwards cutting the worker on the left ear lobe. Worker was taken for treatment which required 10-15 stitches and was released.

EE was working with a chain on the ground, when the EE's finger became caught, tearing skin from his finger tip. The EE's finger had gotten pinched between the chain hook and object he was attaching chain to.

Employee was located at the bottom of a highwall moving hose when a rock came loose and hit his finger.

EE's were setting new Ibeam support in plant. Ibeam was being supported by come-a-long and strap at top and was caught at bottom by 1/2" plate. Ibeam stopped at top by another Ibeam, EE attempted to dislodge it by lifting on it in a crouched position and threw out his back. EE complained of pain and layed on floor. EE was placed on backboard and taken to hospital.

The employee was attempting to break tire bead on the right front tire of the front end loader with a porta-power cylinder positioned between the frame of the loader & the tire bead when the cylinder slipped out under pressure & struck the EE in the forehead.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING ON THE FINE COAL DRAG CHAIN AND RECEIVED AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK WHILE WELDING ON PINS OF 678 CHAIN. THE CAUSE OF THE ELECTRICAL SHOCK IS UNKNOWN. THERE WAS NOTHING EVIDENT WH ICH WOULD HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE.

EE WAS DRIVING DOWN A HILL AT MEAD ZIMM PIT WHEN HE LOST CONTROL AND LANDED IN A DITCH. EXCESSIVE SPEED WAS THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT.

EE WAS OPENING THE TOP ROLLS ON GUNDLACH CRUSHERWHEN THE 1" STEEL ROD (32" LONG) SLIPPED & CAME OUT CAUSING HIS BODY WEIGHT TO SHIFT WHICH CAUSED HIS RIGHT ANKLE TO TWIST, BREAKING IT.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS SUSING HIS CELL PHONE WHEN HE DROVE HIS PICKUP OVER A 30' HIGHWALL. EE HAD SMALL CUTS ON THE FACE, A LACERATION ON THE FOREHEAD AND A RUPTURED BLOOD VESSEL IN THE UPPER L EFT INNER THIGH.

EMPLOYEE HIT A BUMP IN THE HAUL ROAD EXITING THE PIT RAMP, WHICH HAD BEEN RECENTLY BACK DRUG FOLLOWING A RAIN EVENT. HE BOUNCED UP & HIT HIS HEAD ON THE ROOF OF THE CAB AND HIT HIS KNEE ON TH E WINDOW CRANK. HE DIDN'T REPORT THE ACCIDENT TO HIS SUPERVISOR UNTIL 8/25/00; HE STATED THAT EVERY DAY AFTER THE ACCIDENT, THE JARRING OF THE TRUCK MADE HIS BACK HURT MORE, & HE REPORTED THE

DRIVER HIT A BIG POT HOLE IN THE ROAD, WHICH JARRED HIM, CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS HEAD ON THE ROOF OF THE CAB OF THE TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING. WHEN HIS HEAD HIT THE ROOF, IT ALSO JAMMED HIS NECK WIT H PRESSURE FROM THE HIT.

TWO CAT LOADERS WERE IN A #4A COAL PIT AT THE MEAD/ZINN NORTH PIT OF THE BOWMAN STRIP OPERATION LOADING COAL. IT HAD RAINED HARD THE NIGHT BEFORE AND HAD RAINED EARLIER IN THIS SHIFT. A SECTIO N OF THE HIGHWALL FELL AND HIT ONE OF THE LOADERS BELOW, THE ROCK HIT MAINLY THE LEGFT SIDE AND FRONT OF THE LOADER--SOME OF THE ROCK CAME THROUGH THE FRONT WINDESHIELD, HITTING THE OPERATOR.

DRIVER WAS OPERATING THE TRACTOR TAILER AT A SPEED TO FAST TO SAFELY NEGOTIATE A CURVE ON THE PERMITTED TOWNSHIP ROAD, THEREFORE THE TRUCK/TRAILER TURNED OVER ONTO THE PASSENGER SIDE. THE JARR ING OF THE BODY INSIDE THE TRUCK RESULTED IN PAIN IN BACK, ANKLE, LEG, ARM BRUISES AND BUMPS.

EE WAS OPERATING CO. NO. 520 D7 DOZER, ANOTHER EE WORKING WITH HIM CALLED THE SUPERVISOR AND REPORTED THE HE WAS SICK. EE COMPLAINED THAT HIS SHOULDER, NECK AND RIGHT ARM FELT NUMBNESS IN THEM ; HE STATED HE FELT LIKE HE WAS GOING TO FAINT. DR. AT HOSPITAL RAN TESTS AND XRAYS, NO PROBLEMS WERE DIAGNOSED, BUT EE IS TO RETURN TO DR. HE NORMALLY USES 3-2-2000.

EE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE CAB OF THE #371 992C FRONT-END LOADER AND ONTO THE WALKWAY WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL. HE COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER AND LEFT HIP. THE WALKWAY WAS WET. EE WAS EXITING LOADER AFTER HE PARKED IT AS HE WAS GOING TO OPERATE ANOTHER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT.

EE WAS SETTING A POST IN THE GROUND FOR AN ELECTRIC BOX TO BE INSTALLED, USING THE BUCKET OF THE IT-28 LOADER TO TAMP THE POST INTO THE GROUND. WHEN THE BUCKET WAS SET UPON THE POST IT CAME LO OSE AND THE BUCKET STRUCK EE. THE BUCKET HAD A QUICK-ATTACH BUCKET WHICH WAS NOT SECURED PROPERLY CAUSING IT TO FALL.

DRIVER WAS DUMPING A LOAD OF COAL AT THE OAK HILL PREPARATION PLANT WHEN ONE SIDE OF THE LOAD STUCK IN THE TRAILER CAUSING THE TRAILER AND TRACTOR TO UPSET OVER ONTO THE PASSENGER SIDE.

MACHANIC AND HIS HELPER HAD JUST REPLACE DRILL STEEL. THE BOOM WAS AT A 30 DEGREE ANGLE TO THE GROUND. MECHANIC AND HELPER WERE CAUSING THREADS TO CONNECT SUB STEEL WHEN THE STEEL CAME UUNSC REWED. THE STEEL CAME DOWN HITTING THE MECHANIC HELPER ON HIS LEFT HAND AND TRAPPING HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE STEEL AND THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS MAKING A HYDRAULIC HOSE & WAS USING A POCKET KNIFE TO PRY THE O-RING OFFWHEN THE KNIFE HALF CLOSED CAUSING IT TO SLIP & CUT THE EMPLOYEES FOREFINGER OF HIS RT HAND MAKING AN APPRO XIMATE 1/2IN LONG LACERATION WHICH WAS CUT DEEPLALMOST TO THE BONE

INJURED WAS CHANGING THE TEETH ON THE WA800 LOADER, WHILE STRIKING ONE OF THE TEETH TO LOOSEN IT A PIECE OF METAL BROKE LOOSE SMALL CHIP FRAGMENT AND FLEW OFF HITTING HIM IN HIS LEFT LEG ABOUT 6-7" ABOVE THE KNEE AND BECAME EMBEDDED.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MAKE A WATER HOSE CONNECTION. WHEN CUTTING THE HOSE TO MAKE A SPLICE WITH A UTILITY KNIFE, THE KNIFE SLIPED AND SLIT THE LEFT INNER ARM. HE WAS IMMEDIATELY TAKEN TO OAK HI LL MEDICAL CENTER NEARBY WHERE HE RECEIVED SEVENSTITCHES.

DRIVER WAS TRYING TO REMOVE A CHUNK OF COAL STUCK BETWEEN THE REAR DUAL TIRES OF HIS TRAILER. WHILE HITTING THE CHUNK OF COAL WITH A 1/2# HAMMER, THE INNER TIRE BLEW OUT CAUSING THE COAL TO SH ATTER AND INTO THE FACE OF THE DRIVER. DRIVER WAS ATTENDED TO IMMEDIATELY BY EMS AND THE DRIVER TAKEN TO OAK HILL MEDICAL CENTER TO BE CHECKED. INJURY NOT SERIOUS/MEDICATION. DRIVER W/GLASSES

INJURED WAS HAULING & DUMPING SPOIL OVER EMBANKMENT TO BACKFILL HIGHWALL. WHEN DUMPING HE BACKED UP TO CLOSE TO EMBANKMENT'S EDGE & WHEN RAISING TRUCK BED THE TRUCK OVERTURNED INTO A ROLLOVER SITUATION ENDING UP NOSE FIRST IN THE OPEN PIT BELOW. HE WAS WEARING HIS SEATBELT & WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE OAK HILL MEDICAL CENTER IMMEDIATELY AFDTER THE ACCIDENT TO BE CHECKED OUT.

HE WAS STANDING ABOUT 8 FEET AWAY OBSERVING A MECHANIC DRIVING OUT AN OLD PIN WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER FROM A TOOTH ON A 992 FRONT END LOADER BUCKET. A CHIP OF METAL FLEW FROM THE SLEDGEHAMMER (ABO UT 1/4" IN SIZE) AND STRUCK HIM IN THE STOMACH. AT THAT TIME HE WASN'T AWARE THE CHIP OF METAL HAD GONE INTO HIS STOMACH. FIRST AID WAS APPLIED TO THE WOUND AND HE RETURNED TO WORK. AT 5:30 P

55061S OPERATING A DOZER WHEN HE PARKED AND DEPARTED FROM THE DOZER AND WHILE CLIMBING DOWN OFF THE DOZER HE TWSITED HIS ANKLE WHEN STEPPING ONTO THE GROUND HE WENT TO THE DR HAD IT EXAMINED A 54038E ANKLE WAS WRAPED AND HE WAS TOLD TO STAY OFF THE ANKLE FOR AT LEAST A WEEK BEFORE RETURNING TO WORK DUTY.

DRILLING CLAY FELL FROM HIGHWALL ON L ARM

I.NAME OPERATING D-10 BULLDOZER LEVELING OFF #5 COAL BENCH,BACKED DOZER OFF THE FACE OF BENCH ROLLING DOZER OVER ONCE AND LANDING ON ITS TRACKS THEN HE TRAMMED DOZER BACK TOWARDS PARKING AREA ,MET BY PERSONNEL TAKEN TO MEDICAL CENTER.D-10 WAS NOT DAMAGED AND WAS PLACED BACK INTO OPERATION.

EE WAS OPERATING D-10 CAT EXCAVATING OVERBURDEN TFOR DRILL BENCH WHEN A FIRE BROKE OUT FROM UNDER THE CAB AREA. FIRE CAUSED FLAMES TO RISE AROUND THE CAB AREA AND AT FIRST SITE BY THE OPERATOR THE OPERATOR EXITED THE DOZER IMMEDICATELY AND THE LOCAL FIRE DEPT WAS NOTIFIED AND RESPONDED TO THE SCEEN. FIRE WAS OUT TWO HOURS AFTER IT INITALY STARTED.

STEPPED ON COAL TWISTING R ANKLE FRACT IT

OCCURRED PREP PLANT. INJURED WAS CHANGING BOTTOM ROLLERS ONCRUSHER. WHEN POSITIONING THE NEW ROLLERS, HE SLIPPED, LOST HIS BALANCE AND GRABBED THE EDGE OF THE CHUTE OF THE HOPPER WHICH WAS SH ARP WHICH INFLICTED THE LACERATION OF HIS LEFT HAND.

I.NAME DOING REPAIRS TO BROKEN PULL DOWN CHAIN TO REED OVERBURDEN DRILL ROTARY HEAD WHEN HEAD MOVED AND I.NAME -GLOVE TO RIGHT HAND-GOT CAUGHT IN CHAIN & SPROCKET AREA SMASHING AND CUTTING 3 F INGERS ON RIGHT HAND,WHEN DRILL OPERATOR STOPPED & REVERSED DRILL HEAD TO FREE I.NAME FINGERS FREE.

EE WAS ADJUSTING THE BRAKES ON A TRUCK. HE LAID THE AIR WRENCH WHICH HE WAS USING ON TOP OF THE TRUCK TIRE WHILE GOING UNDER THE TRUCK TO ADJUST THE BRAKES. WHEN HE CAME OUT FROM UNDER THE TRU CK, HE GRABBED THE TRUCK TIRE CAUSING THE TIRE TO ROTATE AND THE AIR WRENCH FELL TO THE GROUND STRIKING HIS RIGHT TOP OF HAND WHILE THE WRENCH WAS FALLING.

I.NAME WAS WELDING NEAR THE HOPPER AREA WHICH IS LOCATED BEHIND THE COAL WASH PLANT UNDER A RAMPWAY HAULAGE ROAD WHEN COALS IS DUMPED. THE LOADER OPERATOR HAD LOADED HIS BUCKET WITH RAW COAL A ND COMENCED ONTO THE RAMPWAY AREA TO MAKE A DUMP WHEN HE REALIZED THAT I.NAME WAS UNDER THE AREA OF THE RAMPWAY WELDING AND CAME TO A SUDDEN STOP CAUSING PART OF HIS LOAD TO SLIDE FREE FROM T

LIMESTONE ROCK JAMMED ON CONVEYOR SYSTEM LINE WHEN EMPL TRIED TO FREE ROCK IT GAVE WAY & SMASHED THUMB BREAKING IT.

HE WA TRYING TO REMOVE A VALVE FROM A 55 GALLON DRUM. THE VALVE WAS STRIPPED AND HE PRECEEDED TO TACK WELD THE VALVE TO DRUM LID SO IT COULD BE UNSCREWED. THE WELDING ARC CAUSED THE DRUM TO EXPLODE CAUSING THE LID TO BLOW OFF STRIKING HIM IN THE FACE WELDIGN SHIELD. HE LANDED ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR. THE DRUM HAD FUEL OIL FUMES ACCUMILATED IN IT AT THE TIME CAUSING THE EXPLOSION.

DRIVER CLIMBED INTO BED OF TRUCK TO BREAK COAL FREE FROM TRUCK BED DUE TO FREEZING.DRIVER USED SLEDGEHAMMER TO BUST COAL FROM BED WHEN SLEDGE BOUNCED BACK STRIKING DRIVER ON FOREHEAD.

DRIVER CLIMBED TO TRAILER USING STEPS TO PLACE SALT IN TRAILER BED SLIPPED OFF FELL TO GROUND. DRIVER FAILED TO USE TARPING . CLOUDY SNOVED RECENTLY FROZEN GOUND CONDITIONS

WORKING ON DOZER HELPING MECHANICS.GRINDING METAL WHICH PIECE WENT INTO HIS EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON TRUCK BED IN THE SHOP. WHILE HE WAS CLIMBING ON THE TRUCK, HE FELL THROUGH A HOLE IN THE BED OF THE TRUCK THAT HE HAD CUT OUT. WHEN THE EMPLOYEE FELL THROUGH THE HOLE , HE BRUISED HIS RIBS.

EMPL WAS CLIMBING FROM DOZER AND STEPPED ON ROCK THE ROCK SLIPPED FROM UNDER THE EMPLS FOOT CAUSING KNEE TO TWIST NOTE THIS INJURY WAS NOT REPORTED TO WATERLOO COAL FOREMAN UNTIL 10/30/89

WHILE DUMPING A LOAD OF STONE FROM THE TRUCK WHILE SITTING IN THE CAB, THE SCOPE WHICH LIFTS THE BED TO DUMP, CAME LOOSE CAUSING THE BED TO FALL AND HIT THE FRAME AND QUICKLY JARRING THE CAB C AUSING INJURY TO THE DRIVER.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A TORCH TO CUT THE TOP FROM A 55 GALLON DRUM TO MAKE A TRASH BARREL. WHEN THE CUTTING TORCH CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE OPEN BUN HOLE IN THE DRUM, THE MATERIAL IN THE DRUM IGNI TED. FLAMES SHOT OUT OF THE BUNG HOLE BURNING THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS FACE, CHEST AND ARM. ALL BURNS WERE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE EMPLOYEE.

SITTING INSIDE OF CAT BOLCER FELL FROM HIGHWALL FACE STRUCK TIRE LOADER CAUSING IT TO SHIFT INSIDE THE CAB WITH JERK NOTED A STIFF HURTING FEELING IN NECK AND BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING MATERIAL FROM FLOOR IN SHOP. AFTER IFTING HEAVY SHAFTS, EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN COMING FROM HIS BACK BUT THOUGHT IT WAS KIDNEY STONE PAIN. EMPLOYEE WENT TO HOSPITAL ON 03-03-8 9. IT WAS NOT LEARNED UNTIL THE WEEK OF 03-06-89 THAT IT WAS A RUPTURED DISC.

PARKED HAUL TRUCK AND PROCEEDED TO CLIMB OFF THE TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED FROM LADDER DUE TO WET MUDDY SURFACE AND FELL TO GROUND ON RIGHT ARM, BREAKING BONE IN UPPER PART OF RIGHT ARM.

EMPL WAS FLIPPING SHEET OF STEEL OVER. SHEET OF STEEL FELL AWAY QUICKLY FROM EMPL. EMPL TRIED TO HOLD ONTO STEEL WHICH RESULTED IN T WISTING EMPL BACK. EMPL DID NOT FEEL ANY PROBLEMS AT TIM E OF ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING OFF LADDER ON DEISTER TABLE LADDER SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEE FELL 8-10FT.TO FLOOR EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO EMERGENCY ROOM AT OAK HILL H OSPITAL HE RECEIVED FIV E STITCHES TO HIS HEAD & FIVE STITCHES TO HIS KNEE

A METAL STRIP HOLDING THE RUBBER CROSSING ONTO THE SCALES FOR TRUCK CROSSING WAS LOOSE AND STICKING UP WHILE WALKING BACK TO SCALE THAT TOES WENT UNDER METAL STRIPPING CAUSING TRIPPING AND FAL LING ONTO SCALES.

OPERATOR HAD PARKED DUMP TRUCK AND BEGAN TO CHECK OIL IN ENGINE. HE CLIMBED ON TO HOOD OF TRUCK TOW ALK AROUND ON HOOD AREA TO CHECK OIL WHEN HE LOST BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND APPROS 10 FT. TRUCK WAS AT INCLINE AND HAND RAILS WERE IN GOOD CONDITION FOR USE. HE STRUCK THE GROUND HITTING HEAD AND LANDING ON KNEES AND ELBOWS

EMPL. WAS STRICKEN ON HEAD BY FROZEN DIRT CLOD ABOUT 2 FT. IN DIAMETER. THIS HAPPENED WHILE EMPL. WAS WELDING ON LIP OF CATTERPILLAR 992 FRONT END LOADER BUCKET. BUCKET WAS IN AIR TILTED D OWNDWARD EMPTYING SO EMPL. COULD HAVE EASY ACCESS TO WORKING AREA. BUCKET WAS FREE OF ALL MATERIAL EXCEPT IN ONE SPOT IN UPPER LEFT CORNER OF BUCKET ABOVE EMPL. WORK AREA. MATERIAL WAS FROZE

EMPLOYEE WAS STRIKEN ON THE FACE AND FOOT BY A FROZEN DIRT CLOD OF ABOUT 2 FT IN DIAMETER THIS HAPPEN WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS H ELPING WELDER BY HOLDING A PIECE OF STEEL WHICH WAS BEING WELDED ON T HE LIP OF A 992 FRONT END LOADER BUCKET. THE BUCKET WAS ELEVATED AND IN A DOWNARD EMPTYING POSITION SO EMPLOYEE COULD HAVE EASY ACCESS TO THE WORKING AREA. THE DIRT CLOD WAS FROZEN IN UPPER L

GUARD WAS REMOV9D FROM PULLY/BELT RUNNING AREA. EMPLOYEE REACHED IN TO TURN PULLY BY GABBING BELT WITH HANDS AND TRYING TO GET PULLY FREE FOR MOVEMENT. PULLY WAS FROZEN UP AND WOULDN'T TURN. A T THE TIME A CR5NE HAD A CHAIN ATTACHED TO IT HOOK AROUND THE CONVEYOR TO PUT TENSION ON THE BELT. THE TENSION GAVE AND EMPLOYEES HANDS FEED THROUGH PULLY AREA ONE REVOLUTION . CRANE OR CHAIN

EMPLOYEE WAS AN3ASSISTANT ON THE DAVEY ROTARY AIR EXPLORATORY DRILL HIS DUTY WAS TO LIFT DRILL STEELS 15 FT IN LENGTH APPROX 150 LB ON ONE END TO CONNECT CABLE FROM HOIST SO IT COULD BE SWUNG INTO PLACE THE3DRILL STILL WILL LIE AT A 70 DEG ANGLE AND HOISTED INTO THE DRILL HEAD HE LIFTED UP THE END OF THE STEEL TO PLACE INTO THE HEAD WHEN INJURED

CAUSE UNKNOWN LOADER BURNED EXTENSIVELY