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after drawing out feeder chute and running it dry, ee locked out belt and feeder and crawled up into chute to investigate a potential obstruction. After poking around with a pry bar, material from the overhead stockpile sluffed off and engulfed ee in the chute. EE was extracted and is recovering at home (lacerations and contusions)

Employee working in HSI hopper. EE was trying to unjam a rock with pry bar that clogged hopper & was pinned between wear plates & rock. Pressure of rock pinned & trapped them in hopper. Called 911. Employee removed by Fire Dept. Employee rushed to Odessa MCH ER. At ER, discovered employee had minimal internal bleeding. Surgery to stitch first layer of colon to stop bleeding.

Miner dug out area between chute and belt. Miner looked into that area and a mass of material broke loose in chute and entrapped miner.

The condition contributing was a highwall failure. Employee was extracted out of right window of the piece of equipment. Employee had used their right arm and shoulder trying to break the window causing an injury.

Shift started 6AM: 9:30AM Incident: Walking at sand pit which was saturated from weather. Stepped into a section that was deeper than anticipated, unable to extricate foot & second foot became entrapped. The greater the struggle, the more the whole body sunk (quick sand effect). Was in the ambulance by 11:30AM.

Miners were working to clear the jammed primary gyratory crusher. 2 miners were working to remove stone from the bowl, one miner was working farther down in the bowl using an air hammer to break up a large rock when suddenly another rock became dislodged and pinned the miner's feet down, several rocks and finer material slid down as well entrapping the employee below the knees.

While attempting to change skirting on conveyor, employee entered the dozer trap to remove bolts, equipment operator pushed material into the hopper and buried employee with material.

A general laborer fell into the surge pile while cleaning materials from the feeder opening and became trapped.

At approximately 8:00 a.m. a work crew had rigged & was lifting a steel platform from top of a shaft when platform tipped & knocked an employee into the shaft. Employee fell approx 35 feet to the water level in the shaft and was entrapped approx 30 minutes. Employee was thrown a line & was lifted out with an excavator & truck. No injury and no lost time resulted from incident.

A dozer was drawn into a void over one of the feed points on the raw coal pile, trapping the operator for approximately 55 minutes.

On June 28, 2008 Truck #390 was leaving the #518 shovel from a drop cut when a void opened up underneath the left rear tires causing the front of the truck to rise up in the air. We called the 1800-746-1553 @ 9:30 am to inform MSHA that the employee was okay and that we were taking special precautions to secure the truck before removing the employee by using a man-lift.

AS A RESULT OF A ROOF FALL 2 MINERS WERE TRAPPED UNDER A ROOF FALL FOR A PERIOD OF MORE THAN 30 MINUTES. ONE MINER WAS TRAPPED IN THE CAB OF A SHUTTLE CAR & THE OTHER WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN THE S HUTTLE CAR & THE RIB. NEITHER MINER WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED.

EE WAS EXTRACTING RAW MATERIAL FROM THE NORTH WALL OF THE [PIT AND LOADING THE RAW MATERIAL ONTO THE TRUCK THAT COWORKER OPERATED. EE POSITIONED THE EXCAVATOR PARALLEL W/ THE NORTH WALL. AT ~1 415 COWRKER RETURNED FROM THE STOCKPILE AREA TO THE PIT AREA & NOTCIED THAT THE NORTH WALL HAD COLLAPSED & FALLEN IN ON THE EXCAVATOR. CALLED 911 & WENT TO RESCUE EE. EE WAS RESCUED & TAKEN T

EE WAS BACKING UNDER SHOVEL AS BUCKET FILLED WITH DIRT WAS SWINGING AROUND. THE TRUCK BOX AND SHOVEL BUCKET COLLIDED BRINGING THE TRUCK TO A SUDDEN STOP.

OPERATOR WAS CLEANING OUT CRUSHER OPERATOR HAD INSPECTED AREA & LOCKED OUT CRUSHER BY STARTING MATERIAL WAS TRAPPED UP ABOVE IN FEED SHOOT & COULD NOT BE SEEN. MATERIAL FELL THRU SHOOT & TRAP PED OPERATOR PARTWAY IN OPERATOR HAD TO BE DUG OUT

WORKER CLIMBED INTO FIELD HOPPER FEEDING 620 CONVEYER LOADER OPERATOR WAS UNAWARE OF HIS SPRESCENCE IN HOPPER & DUMPED MATERIAL INTO HOPPER ENTRAPPING WORKER FOR APPROX 70 MINS.

ROCK SLIDE ONTO BACKHOE PINNED OPERATOR IN THE CAB FOR AN HOUR.

AN UNPLANNED ROOF FALL OCCURED IN THE LEFT FACE OF THE TOP HEADING. THE FALL WAS APPROX 25 FT IN LENGTH AND RANGED IN THICKNESS FROM 5 FT TO 3 FT. THE ROOF FALL BRIDGED ACROSS THE OPERATOR CAN OPY ENTRAPPING THE OPERATOR 25 TO 30 MIN. THE EEWAS REMOVED, NO APPARENT INJURY.

EE OPENED UP THE ANFO TRAILER, AT WHICH TIME 10 EACH OF 50 LB BAGS OF ANFO FELL OUT, FIVE OF WHICH FELL ON AND ENTRAPPED EE.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE BIN CLEANING OFF THE FEADER.AFTER CLEANING THE FEEDER HE WAS ABOUT TO GET OFF WHEN PARTLY FROZEN COAL SLIPPED OFF THE WALLS OF THE BIN AND COVERED HIM TO HIS NECK.

THE EE WAS WALKING OUT OF 46-186 STOPE WHEN AN UNPLANNED ROCK BURST OCCURRED ENTRAPPING AND INJURING HIM.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE LOADING ORE CARS OFF THE #6 TRANSFER RAISE IN PANEL 28, THAT AS HE STARTED TO LOAD THE 5TH CAR SOME REAL WET MUCK CAME DOWN AND FLOODED THE DRIFT BELOW AND BUILT UP ON TO PONY SET THUS TRAPPING HIM UP ON PONY SET. EMPLOYEE WAS RESCUED AT APPROX. 2:45 AM 5-21-98.

EE WENT INTO STORAGE BIN TO CLEAN FROM THE TOP. HE WAS SUCKED INTO THE BOTTOM OF THE BIN AND COVERED WITH 2 FEET OF SAND. 2 PEOPLE CLIMBED INTO THE BIN 3 PEOPLE ON THE BOTTOM DUG EE OUT.

AFTER 3 TRUCKS OF MUCK WERE PULLED FROM THE STOPE, THE MINER WAS STANDING ON THE EDGE OF THE MUCK PILE WHEN IT GAVE WAY TAKING HIM WITH IT. THE MUCK SLIDE ENTRAPPED THE MINER UP TO HIS SHOULDE RS.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON PLATFORM BETWEEN DISCHARGE TUBES OF RAW MATERIAL SILO WHEN A LARGE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL (CRUSHED LIMESTONE) DISLODGED. THIS CAUSED SIDE OF WEAKENED STEEL DISCHARGE TUBE T O RUPTURE AND PINNED EMPLOYEE FROM ABOUT MID-CALF TO HIS FEET AGAINST HOPPER BELOW OTHER DISCHARGE TUBE. HIS FEET & CLAVES WERE ENTRAPPED BY CRUSHED LIMESTONE. LIGHT DUTY 8/21/97 (ATTACHMENT)

EMPLOYEE STEPPED FROM A PICK UP TRUCK INTO A NINE INCH IN DIAMETER VERTICAL TEST DRILL HOLE. THE DRILL HOLE WAS LOCATED ON A DRILL BENCHHH INTENDED FOR SURFACE MINE OVERBURDEN BLASTING. THE E MPLOYEE WAS UNSBLE TO FREE HIMSELF,THUS MANUAL &MECAHNICAL ASSISTANCE WAS REQUIRED TO FREE HIM.

WE HAD A MASSIVE ROCK FALL ON A PILLAR SECTION RESULTING IN TRAPPING TWO MEN.

A HYDRAULIC LINE BROKE WHILE ENGINE WAS TURNED OFF, CAUSING CONVEYOR TO SCISSOR BACK TO FOLD UP POSITION. DAMAGES: HYDRAULIC LINE AND BENT HEADPULLEY GUARD.

WE WERE JUST SPRAYING WATER INTO THE FEEDER & A LITTLE ROCK & MUD CAME OUT & THEN IT ALL STARTED COMING OUT. I HEARD THE 2 CO-WORKERS YELLING TO HURRY UP & THEN THE MUD CAUGHT ME & PUT ME AGAI NST THE CONVEYOR & MUD CAME UP TO MY WAIST & SLAMMED ME INTO A ROCK.

TRAPPED BY MUD FLOW IN TUNNER. MUD ROSE TO WAIST LEVEL & PUT PRESSURE ON KNEE.

CHUTE FOR SKIP POCKET WAS PLUGGED, WATER HAD BEEN ADDED FROM ABOVE THE NIGHT BEFORE. WHEN EE WAS USING THE GRATE TO FACE THE JAM, IT GAVE WAY AND HE WAS COVERED UP TO THE WAIST IN MUD. THE DOO R TO THE AREA WAS ALSO JAMMED WITH MUD AND IT TOOK ABOUT AN HOUR TO CUT THROUGH THE DOOR TO ALLOW EE TO GET OUT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET A SAMPLE FROM THE TOP OF THE PILE OF FRESHLY MADE SAND FROM THE PLANT. THE PILE CAVED IN ON HIM, TRAPPING HIS LEGS. HE SPRAINED BOTH ANKLES TRYING TO GET HIMSE LF FREE. OTHER EMPLOYEES ASSISTED AND FRONT END LOADER FINALLY DUG HIM FREE.

INJURED WAS DRIVING EAST ON HAULROAD COMING FROM THE CORNELIUS PIT. INJURED SAW A SCRAPER COMING OUT OF THE CUT, SAID HE SWERVED BECAUSE THE BACK END OF THE SCRAPER WAS SLIDING. HE LOOKED BACK OVER HIS LEFT SHOULDER AT THE SCRAPER AND PROC EEDED DOWN THE HAULROAD AND DROVE OFF THE ROAD INTO A 4 FOOT DITCH. HE WAS TRAPPED IN HIS VEHICLE FOR APPROX. 40-45 MIN HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO GR

OPERATOR SHOVELING BRIDGED UP MATERIAL FROM SIDES OF SURGE PILE WHEN IT SUDDENLY SLID DOWN PINNING OPERATORS LEGS

THE EE WAS REPLACING WORN OUT SIDE LINERS IN THEDROP BOX AT THE CR-1 CRUSHER, ON THE 72" PICKING BELT. MATERIAL CAME LOOSE IN THE ORE SURGE BIN ABOVE & FELL ONTO THE PICKING BELT & CASCADED UP THE BELT & COVERED THE EMPLOYEES LEGS UP TO HISWAIST.

MINER TRAPPED IN MINE LOCATED 02-04-95 APPROX 530B PER MINE RESCUR ATTEMPTS AND EFFORTS.

CLEANING OUT THE INSIDE OF A COAL TRAIN CAR. APPARENTLY AIR SUPPLY TO THE DOORS WAS TURNED OFF, BUT WHEN MOST OF THE COAL WAS EMPTIED THE DOORS CLOSED TRAPPING EE ANKLE. HE WAS TRAPPED FOR APP ROX. 25 MIN. HIS ANKLE IS NOT BROKEN BUT HE MAY THAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE SURROUNDING SKIN DUE TO THE DURATION OF THE COMPRESSION.

UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME

EE WAS NEAR A PILE OF CONCENTRATE, TOO NEAR THE FACE WHEN MATERIAL FELL, COVERING EE. EE WAS TRAPPED FOR TWENTY MINUTES TOTAL, SUFFERED LACERATION UNDER R ARM & MINOR BRUISES. TAKEN TO HOSP. F OR TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON POWDER IN THE TANK THE MATERIAL SLID & THE EMPLOYEES LOWER BODY WAS CAUGHT IN THE POWDER HE WAS IN MATERIAL 4 HOURS

JAMES WAS PUSHING COAL ON #1 CLEAN COAL PILE WHEN D9N DOZER BACKED UP AND FELL IN FEEDER HOLE, ENTRAPING DOZER AND OPERATOR FOR ONE HOUR.

THE ELEVATOR SHAFT FILL WITH WASTE GAS FROM THE KILM THROUGH AN EMERGENCY BY PASS VALVE. THE ELEVATOR HAD STOPPED BETWEEN FLOORS. HE HAD TO EXCAPE THROUGH THE TOP. HE VOMITED, HAD TROUBLE BREA THING, SOME PAIN WHILE BREATHING, HEADACHE & COUGHING.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A 2" PVC WATER LINE IN A TRENCH THAT AS 36" SIDE, 7' DEEP, 30' LONG. WHILE HE WAS INSTALLING THE WATER PIPE (PVC), APPROXIMATELY 1 TON OF MATERIAL BROKE AWAY FROM THE S IDE WALL OF THE TRENCH, PINNING HIM WASTE DEEP IN THE TRENCH.

EMP. WAS CLEARING OUT HOPPER WHILE STANDINE ON TOP OF BRIDSED OVER MATERIAL. EMP. WAS NOT WEARING FALL HARNESS AS PROVIDED. MATERIAL CAVED IN AND EMP. WAS BURIED TO WRIST FOR 5 MINUTES. OTHER EMPLOYEES DUE HIM OUT. TOTAL TIME INSTAPPED WAS ESTIMATED TO BE 20 MIN.

21520CAVED IN ON BARGE AND BOAT PINNNING EMPLOYE EBETWEEN LADDER OF DREDGE AND BOAT, TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE.

INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN OUT PAN FEEDER WITH CRUSHER OPERATOR. VICITM THOUGHT THAT IT WAS REQUIRED TO CLEAN OUT BIN AND CRAWLED UP PARTIALLY INTO BING FROM PAN FEEDER TO CLEAN OUT BUILD UP OF WET F INE MATERIAL IN BIN.

INSPECTING BUILD-UP IN TIPPLE BIN TOOK MAN ELEVATOR UP AND WHEN COMING DOWN IT STOPPED AND WOULD NOT MOVE UP OR DOWM.RANG ALARM BUTTON FOR ONE HOUR,NO ONE HEARD IT.NO2 WAS GETTING BAD,WAS YELL ING FOR HELP AND BEATING ON WALL.FINALLY KICKED OUT PART OF SIDING AND STARTED YELLING FOR HELP AND BREATHING FRESH AIR.FOREAMN HEARD HIM AND GOT HIM DOWN.

BIG BIN EMPLOYEE ENTERED BIN TO BREAK DOWN FROZEN COAL ON SIDE OF BIN. HE BECAME ENTRAPPED WHEN COAL FELL IN ON HIM.

MATERIAL COLLAPSED IN BIN CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL AND BECOME TRAPPED IN MATERIAL.NO DAMAGE OR IMPAIRMENT TO EMPLOYEE.EMPLOYEE HAD ENTERED BIN/HOPPER TO LOOSEN FROZEN MATERIAL TO ENABLE MATERI AL FLOW FROM HOPPER TO CONVEYOR.

ASSIGNED TO PUSH IN COAL AT THE PIT STORAGE HE WAS TRYING TO TURN DOZER AROUND NEDAR EDGE WHEN COAL SPOUGH OFF DOZER SLID BACK WARDS WHERE COAL WAS BEING RUN TO CONVEY BELT . MAN STAYED INDSID E DOZER CAB UNTIL SAFEMANS TO GAIN EXIT OUT OF CAB . REPORT IS PER INSTRU OF MSHA.