US mining fatalities in 1984

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A BELT UTILITY VECHICLE DOWN NO. 10 SLOPE IN OUR UNDERGROUND OPERATION. THE DRIVER WAS APPARENTLY DISTRACTED AND THE VEHICLE STRUCK THE PILLAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLOPE. ALTHOUGH THE TOXICOLOGY REPORTS HAVE NOT BEEN FINALIZED, WE HAVE RECEIVED VERBAL INFORMATION FROM THE STATE MEDICAL INVESTIGATOR OFFICE THAT THIS INDIVIDUAL MAY BEVE BEEN UNDER THE I NFLUENCED

EMPLOYEE WAS A PASSENGER IN NO. 332 BELT UNTILITY VECHICLE WHICH WAS PROCEEDING DOWN NO. 10 SLOPE IN OUR UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS. THE DRIVER WAS APPARENTLY DISTRACTED AND THE VEHICLE STRUCK THE PILLAR AT BOTTOM OF THE SLOPE. ALTHOUGH THE TOXICOLOGY REPORTS HAVE NOT BEEN FINALIZED, WE HAVE RECEIVED VERBAL INFORMATION FROM THE STATE MEDICAL INVESTIGATOR OFFICE THAT THE DRIVER MAY HAVE

I NAME EITHER WAS TAKING OFF MANWAY COVER OR REPLACING BOLTS ON MANWAY COVER WITH IX COLUMN STILL UNDER PRESSURE AND INLET AND OUTLET VALVES STILL OPEN. MANWAY COVER BLEW OFF AND STRUCK HIM ON FRONT RIGHT SIDE OF SKULL.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO A MEASURE A DISCHARGE PIPE ON THE DREDGE HE WAS STANDING ON THE OPERATOR CONTROL TOWER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL.

THE NORTH OVERHEAD VENTILATION ON THE IMMEDIATE BOTTOM MALFUNCTIONED AND CAME DOWN CATCHING VICTIM BETWEEN BOTTOM OF DOOR AND PERSONEL CARRIER HE WAS DRIVING

VICTIM HAD COMPLETED BOX CUT WHICH HOLED THROUGH HE WALKED INTO BOX CUT TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH TOP COAL NEED TO BE TRIMMED DOWN A PIECE OF COAL BROW BROKE LOOSE AND FELL ON VICTIM

TRAVELING THROUGH VENTILATION CURTAIN AT THE SAME TIME AS THE AR4 SCOOP WAS THE CURTAIN CAUGHT ON THE SCOOP BUCKET AND CAUSED THE VICTIM TO FALL UNDER THE WHEELS

DUE TO THE FACE THAT THERE WERE NO WITNESSES, WE THEREFOIRM ASSUME THAT I NAME HAD GONE TO THER REAR OF HIS TRUCK FOR ONE OR MORE REASONS AND AT THE TIME HE ARRIVED AND OR WAS LEAVING THE LOCA TION, THE STOCKPILE BEHIND HIS TRUCK SLOUGED OFF KNOCKING HIM DOWN AND COVERED I NAME WITH MINUS 1 1/2 INCH MATERIALS.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO REPLACE A BEARING ON THE TAKE-UP PULLEY ON CONVEYOR ELEVEN. HE FELL APPROX 45\ TO THE GROUND FROM THE CATWALK SIDE OF THE CONVEYOR. NO ONE ACTUALLY SAW HIM FALL UNTIL T HEY HEARD HIM YELL ON THE WAY DOWN. THE MIDDLE HANDRAIL WELD WAS BROKEN

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE AT OR NEAR THE 5TH BELTR DRIVE FOR LONGWALL THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL SECTION BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUSGASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POSONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR RHE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASE

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR 5TH RIGHT BELT DRIVE FOR LONGWALL THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVER COME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POSONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVER COME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WA SOVER COME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE 5TH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT DRIVE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR 5TH RIGHT BELT DRIVE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR 5TH LONGALL ELT DRIVE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR THE KTH RIGHT LONGWALL BELT LINE THE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

FIRE BROKE OUT AT OR NEAR LONGWALL BELT DRIVE VICTIM WAS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS GASES

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING BATTERY MOTOR ON 5400 LEVEL MAINDRIFT WHEN HE RAN INTO PARKED JUMBO MACHINE CAUSING FATAL INJURIES.

AN ACCIDENT RESULTING IN DEATH OF AN EMPLOYEE OCCURRED WHILE HE WAS HELPING INSTALL PERMANENT ROOF SUPPORTS AS THE BOOM OF ROOFBOLT MACHINE WAS RAISED AGAINST THE ROOF TO INSTALL A BOLT THE V VICTIMS HEAD BECAME ACCIDENTLY CAUGHT BETWEEN BOOM AND MINE ROOF NO OTHER PERSONS OR EQUIPMENT WAS INVOLVED THE AREA WAS BELOW NORMAL WALKING HEIGHTH

EMPLOYEE DROVE HAUL TRUCK 15989 INTO BACK OF TRUCK 15988 WHICH HAD STOPPED TO YIELD TO TRUCK 15993 APPROACHING FROM LEFT.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE 52 LOCOMOTIVE AND HAD LEFT THE 23 SHOVEL LOCATED AT 4600 AMERICAN MOUNTA. THE TRAIN WAS LOADED WITH WASTE AND EVENTUALLY WORKED HIS WAY TO THE 4500 DISPATCH HILL WHI CH IS THE MAIN LINE. WHILE ON THIS TRCK THE CABOOSE DERAILED AND TRAVELED APPROX. 9 CAR LENGTHS. THE EMPLOYEE EITHER ATTEMPTED TO JUMP, OR WAS THROWN OFF THE CABOOSE. THE EMPLOYEE WAS FOUND B

EMPLOYEE FAILED TO SECURE THE UPRIGHT PORTION OF STEEL STRUCTURE AND POSITIONED HIMSELF IN UNSAFE WORKING FASHION

MULTIPLE ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON 001 SECTION AT APPROXIMATELY 130PM TRAPPING TWO BRIDGE OPERATORS FALL WAS 0-6FT THICK 55FT WIDE & 65FT LONG VICTIMS DIED INSTANTLY FROM FATAL INJURIES CAUSE OF A CCIDENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED

MULTIPLE ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON 001 SECTION AT APPROX 130PM TRAPPING TWO BRIDGE OPERATORS FALL WAS 0-6FTTHICK 55FT WIDE & 65FT LONG VICTIMS DIED INSTANTLY FROM FATAL INJURIES CAUSE OF ACCIDENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED

EMPL INSTALLING BLW-RAM REFRACTORY.LARGE LUMP OF BUILDUP MATERIAL DISLODGED FROM PREHEATER AND STRCUK SCAFFOLD HE WAS SITTING ON.PRELIM MED REPORT SHOWS INJURED HAS A BROKEN PELVIS,SHOULDER IN JURY,TORN RIGHT LUNG,TORN SPLEENAND RUPTURED ARTERY.

EMPL INTENTIONALLY INHALED NITROUS OXIDE CAUSING ASPHYXIA AND DEATH.

A PIECE OF RIB ROCK FELL FROM NEAR THE ROOF RESULTING IN A FATAL ACCIDENT

INJURED APPARENTLY FELL FROM A PARKED HAULAGE TRUCK TO GROUND LEVEL AS HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN OVER THE TRUCK SUPERSTRUCTURE. AT SOME POINT IN HIS DECENT HE FELL AND STRUCK THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS H EAD AND LEFT SHOULDER AGAINST A FLAT SURFACE HE WAS FOUND APPROX. 6 FT IN FRONT O THE PARKED TRUCK, LYING ON HIS BACK, WITH ARMS FOLDED OVER HIS CHEST. HIS HARD HAT SOME 4 FT AWAY.

VICTIM WAS WALKING ALONG SIDE BOLT MACHINE WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIM CAUSING FRACTURES OF SEVERAL RIBS & LEG & A PUNCTURED LUNG

VICTIM WAS STANDING BY THE CRUSHER OPERATOR. VICTIM TURNED AND WALKED AWAY FROM THE CRUSHER OPERATOR. THE CRUSHER OPERATOR NOTICED THE MATERIAL WAS NOT MOVING AND WENT TO THE DISCHARGE END TO FIND OUT WHY. THE CRUSHER OPERATOR DISCOVERD THE VICTIM S ARM WAS CAUGHT IN THE RETURN IDLER OF THE PORTABLE CRUSHING UNIT. IT IS UNKNOWN WHY THE VICTIM WAS AT THE CRUSHING UNIT.

I.NAME WAS LOADING COAL IN PIT WITH HIS LOADER WHEN AN ELECTRICAL STORM CAME UP SUDDENLY LIGHTENING SET SHOT OFF ABOVE WHERE I.NAME WAS WORKING COVERING HIM & HIS LOADER WITH SEVERAL FEET OF D IRT

CONDITIONS ARE BEING INVESTIGATED BY MSHA MULTIPLE INJURIES

WHILE THE DREDGING OF SETTLED PRODUCTS AT THE COMPANY S SETTLING/TAILING POND WAS BEING CONDUCTED, TWO DREDGE OPERATORS BECAME INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT WHEN THE DREDGE OVERTURNED. THE DREDGE WA S A FLOATING DREDGE AND WAS 8X28 FT LONG. DURING THE NIGHT SHIFT THERE HAD BEEN PROBLEMS WITH THE CABLE AND THE BOAT GENERALLY LEFT AT THE DREDGE HAD BEEN TAKEN BACK TO SHORE BY THE MAINTENAN

THE VICTIM WAS CLEANING OUT THE SPILL FROM BENEATH THE CONVEYOR BELTS. HE WAS USING A 1976 FORD FARM TRACTOR WITH A BLADE ATTACHED TO THE BACK OF IT. WHILE CLEANING THE SPILL, HE BACKED THE TR ACTOR UNDER A TRAILER FRAME WHICH WAS HOUSING THE CANICA IMPACT CRUSHER WHICH CAUSED HIM TO BE HIT BY THE I BEAM. THE IMPACT THREW THE VICTIM OVER THE TRACTOR AND CAUSED HIM TO BECOME WEDGED

I.NAME WAS SCRAPING LOOSE COAL FROM THE MINE FLOOR AT THE WORKING FACE INBY PERMANET ROOF SUPPORT WHEN ROOF FELL RESULTING IN DEATH

GUS WAS DRILLING AT THE TOP OF A 45 FT FACE HE APPARENTLY FELL OVER THE EDGE TO HIS DEATH AT THE BOTTOM. HE WAS NOT USING A SAFETY ROPE.

TWO MOTORS HAULING EMPTY TRAILERS RAN TOGETHER-ONE SUPPLY CAR WENT ONTO THE TOP OF ONE MOTOR

I.NAME WAS OPERATING A TTACTOR AND PUSHING MATERIAL INTO A LAKE DURING A RECLAMATION OPERATION MATERIAL NEAR THE LAKE COLLAPSED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE TRACTOR AND THE TRACTOR SLID INTO LAKE I N 12 TO 15FT OF WATER

TRACTOR A STUCK IN MUD TRACTOR B WAS PULLING ON TRACOTOR A WHEN PULL PIN BROKE, CAUSING CABLE WITH CLEVIS TO STRIKE OPERATOR OF TRACTOR B IN HEAD.

NO KNOWN REASON VICTIM WAS RUN OVER BY SHUTTLE CAR (FATALITY)

EMPL CHECKING MOTION SWITCHES STEPPED FROM LADDER INTO HOT DUST CAUSING BURNS TO FEET,LEGS,ONE HAND.

VICTIM CAUGHT BETWEEN A CAR RETORDEX & A COAL CAR AT THE 5-NORTH TIPPLE

I NAME ENTERED A WINZE JOING FROM THE 200 FT LEVEL TO THE B25 VIR A CHAIN LADDER. AFTER THE DECENT HE STARTED BACK UP AND WAS EXSPERCING SOME FSOR OF DEFFICULTY HE APPARENTLY PASSED OUT PRIOR TO REACHING TO TOP OF THE LADDER AND FELL BACKWARDS ABOUT 13 FT SUPPEQENT RESCUE EFFORT FOUND KIM DEAD AND DID NOT RETUR THE BODY.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING INSIDE OF AMMONIUM NITRATE STORAGE BUILDING TRYING TO IMPROVE THE FLOW OF MATERIAL THAT WAS BEING REMOVED BY A SCREW CONVEYOR AT THE FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. APP THE EMPLOYE E WAS STANDING ON BRIDGED MATERIAL WHEN IT COLLAPSED CAUSING HIS FEET TO BECOME CAUGHT IN THE SCREW AND TOTALLY ENGULFING HIS BODY AND HEAD IN AMMONIUM NITRATE. IT IS BELIEVED HE WAS STANDING

VICTIM WAS RESTING AGAINST BOOM OF HIS PINNER WHEN A LOADED SHUTTLE CAR HUNG INTO PINNER CABLE (HUNG ON CROSS OVERS) DAMAGING CABLE TO EXTENT THAT ALL THREE CONDUCTORS & C ROUNDS WERE SEVERED A PHASE CONTACTED A GROUND TO FRAME OF PINNER ENERGISEING

VICTIM WAS MOVING A CONTINUOUS MINER FROM 2 LEFT ENTRY THRU FACE X-CUTS TO CUT COAL IN NO 1 RT ENTRY CONTINUOUS MINER WAS LOCATED IN X-CUT BETWEEN NO 1 RT & NO 2 RT WHEN VICTIM WAS CAUGHT BETW EEN CONTINUOUS MINER & RIB

EMPLOYEE PERFORMING ROUTINE MAINT ELECTRICAL WORK ON A CEILING LIGHT. HE WAS WORKING FROM A BASKET ATTACHED TO THE FORK OF FORKLIFT THE PARK BRAKE WAS SET AND THE MACHINE WAS NOT RUNNING MACHI NE ON VERY SLIGHT GHRADE WITH NO OPERATOR PRESENT WHEELS NOT BLOCKED AND FORKLIFT DRIFTED A SHORT DISTANCE THROUGH A DOORWAY WITH THE RAISED MAST STAYING INSIDE THE BUILDING EMPLOYEE APPARENT

I NAME WAS EMPLOYED AS A LOADER OPERATOR AT OUR CRUSHER PLANT. THE ROLLS HAD DIRT IN THEM I NAME OUR JAW OPERATOR SHUT THE ROLLS TO REVERSE ROTATION WHICH THROWS DIRT OUT HE FOR NO REASON WAS ON TOP OF ROLLS. WHEN THEY WERE REVERSED HE WAS PULLED IN.

CONTINUOUS MINER WAS CUTTING IN #1 ENTRY & HAD SET OVER TO BEGIN LEFT RUN I.NAME HAD JUST WALKED UP TO THE MINER & WAS STANDING BESIDE THE DECK A PC OF DRAW ROCK APPROX 6IN THICK 3FT WIDE & 10FT LONG FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS & RT RIB THIS PC OF ROCK STRUCK I.NAME CRUSHED HIS UPPER CHEST & RESULTED IN HIS DEATH

EMPLOYEE WAS APPARENTLY ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE LEADS IN A CUTLER HAMMER DISCONNECT BOX WITH THE BOX ENERGIZED

FRONT-END LOADER OPERATOR GOT IN TO BUCKET WHILE LOADER WAS PARKED NEXT TO THE HIGHWALL.

A LARGE ROOF FALL APPROX 6FT THICK 12FT WIDE & 20FT LONG FELL CAUSING DEATH TO A MINER WHO WAS IN AREA TO FREE A CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE TRAILING CABLE AREA HAD BEEN BOLTED BUT THE BOLTS FA ILED

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING THE TRUCK AND WAS RELEASING THE HYDROGEN IN SUSPENSION SHOCK ABSORBEWR TO FIT ON A LOBOY TRAILER WABCO TRUCK FELL IN O NE SWIFT MOTION TRAPPING EMPLOYEE BY SHOULDER CASUIN INSTANT DEATH BY A BROKEN NECK

THE ROCK TRUCK WAS BROKE DOWN AT TIME OF ACCIDENT GENE WAS REPAIRING TRANSMISSION AND HE WAS UP UNDER IT TAKING OUT BOLT WHEN THE TRUCK JUMPED 18 INCHES KILLING THE VICTIM IT WASS SETTING ON A LEVEL GRADE WITH THE BED RAISED WITH HALF LOAD OF COAL IN IT

THE INJURED MAN WAS REPAIRING BUCKETS ON THE BUCKET ELEVATOR WHEN THE MILL OPERATOR STARTED THE BUCKET ELEVATOR. THE MILL OPERATOR WAS NOT AWARE OF THE WORK BEING DONE ON THIS ELEVATOR DUE TO A LACK OF COMMUNICATION AND THE EQUIPMENT WAS NOT LOCKED OUT OR TAGGED AS REQUIRED.

IN REPAIR OF 48 X 60 IN. JAW CRUSHER-TOGGLE SEATS.MOVEABLE TOGGLE CAME LOOSE STERIKING EMPL ON RIGHT SIDE CAUSING CRUSHED CHEST.

DECEASED WAS PREPARING TO DRILL HEADING.HE WAS ON JUMBO DECK WITH PARTNER.BAULK GROUND FELL FROM BACK DIRECTLY OVER THEM STRIKING BOTH MEN.I.NAME RECEIVED SKULL FRACTURE WITH MASSIVE INJ OF PO STERIOR PARIETAL-OCCIPITAL REGION CAUSING HIS DADEATH.

MAN PARTIALLY BURIED IN A ROCK BURST WHILE REPAIRING IN A RAISE ON THE 4300\ LEVEL.

EMPLOYEE MISTAKENLY REMOVED A HYDRAULIC HOSE WITHOUT FIRST RELIEVING PRESSURE FROM HOSE AS INSTRUCTED CRITICAL INJURY RESULTED WHEN HOSE STRUCK VICTIMS FOREHEAD

BURNT LANYARD WITH TORCH AND FELL 97 FEET

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL

I NAME AND I N AME ROOF BOLTERS WERE GOING TO INSTALL A SPOT BOLT PRIOR TO PINNING THE CUT TWO SAFETY JACKS WERE SET I NAME WAS INSTALLING A THIRD JACK WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK 7X7X4 FELL ST STRIKING HIM IN THE HEAD AND SHOULDER RESULTING IN SERIOUS HEAD INJURIES

I.NAME HOISTING RAIL TRUCK LOADED WITH USED DRILL STEEL,PIPE OTHER MISC.SEVERAL LONGER PIECES OF STEEL WERE ALSO PLACED UNSECURED AT AN ANGLE IN THE CAGE.APPARENTLY ONE OF THESE LONG PIECES SL IPPED AND BECAME CAUGHT IN SIDE OF SHAFT AS CAGE WAS MOVING UPWARD.THE MOVEMENT CAUSED STEEL AND CAGE GATE TO BECOME ENTANGLED AND TORN AWAY.I.ANME FATALLY INJURED WHEN HE FELL OR WAS THROWN

WATER TRUCK DRIVER PROCEEDING DOWN UPPER HAUL ROAD APPX 1/4 MI FROM BOTTOM HE HIT INSIDE BANK AND OVERTURNED.

ROOF FALL FELL ON MAN FATALITY INJURING HIM

EMPL WORKING AROUND DE-ENERGIZED EQUIP AT SUB-STATION AND COME IN CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED TERMINATORS ELECTROCUTING EMPL.THEN FELL ONTO TOP-ROOF-OF TRANSFORMER CAUSING HEAD INJURY.EMPL EXPIRED DUE TO ABOVE INJURIES.

LOW COAL AND HUMAN ERROR AND CAUSED FATALITY

HAD BEEN TESTING TOP AND PULLING DOWN LOOSE ROCK PRIOR TO STARTING THE BOLTING CYCLE AND ROCK EITHER FELL ON HIM OR HE PULLED IT DOWN ON HIMSELF

EMPL JACKHAMMERING REFRACTORY BRICK FROM INTERIOR OF KILN WHEN BRICK SLID DOWN RELEASING BRICK FROM CEILING-FALL OF MATERIAL.

EMPLOYEE WENT UP BESIDE THE BOLTER TO FREE BOLTER CABLE AND BOLTER OPERATOR MOVED MACHINE CATCHING THE EMPLOYEE BETWEEN OPERATOR CAB AND RIB.

VICTIM WAS OPERATING A BM600 MAC TRUCK LOADED WITH APPROX 25 TONS OF COAL WHEN FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK TRUCK TRAVELED OVER AN EMBANKMENT CRUSHING THE VICTIM THER WERE NO EYEWITNESSES TO THE ACCIDENT VICTIM WAS NOT FOUND UNTIL 08 10 84 AT 700 AM AT THIS TIME THE CAUSE OF ACCIDNET CANNOT BE DETERMINED

DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF WATER TRUCK CRASHING INTO ROADWAY BANK.

THROWED A BUNDLE OF PINS UPON PINNER. STEPPED IN AHOLE FELL INTO SHARP CORNER OF PINNER. JABBING SELF IN NAVAL AREA.

THIS MAN PINNED BENEATH TRACTOR ON WHICH HE WAS RIDING AFTER TRACTOR TURNED OVER WHEN OPERATOR COULDNT GET VEHICLE INTO LOWER GEAR BEFORE STRIKING RIB ON A RAMP.OPERATOR AND ANOTHER MAN SUSTAI NED MINOR BRUISING INJURIES IN THE ACCIDENT.

EMPL REACHING FOR LIGHT BULB STORED IN ELECTRIC BOX IN CONTROL BLDG.WHILE WITHDRAWING HIS HAND,CAME IN CONTACT WITH 440-480 VOLTS WHICH CAUSED HIS ELECTROCUTION.

I.NAME TOLD TO PUSH HIGH WALL IN AND TO START AT LOW END TO HELP LOADER.LOOKS LIKS LIKE HE WAS STRIPPING AT UNSAFE DISTANCE 1-3\ FROM EDGE OF PIT WALL AND PARALLEL WITH PIT WALL.PART OF WALL C AVED IN CAUSING DOZER TO SLIDE OFF WALL 20\.

ROOF FALL AT FACE

EMPL LEFT ASSIGNED WORK AREA AND APPARENTLY BACKDED TRACTOR HE WAS OPERATING OFF MUCKPILE IN AN INACTIVE AREA.NO MECHANICAL DEFECT AFFECTING SAFE OPERATION OF TRACTOR WAS DISCOVERED DURING IN VESTIGATION..DRIVING IN 69-12 STOPE.LOOKING FOR DRINKING WATER TOOK WRONG TURN DROVE DOWN LARGE DRIFT OVER BENCH 25\ HIGH.3RD SHIFT FOREMAN FOUND TRACTOR UPSIDE DOWN,VICTIM LYING IN WATER.

CONTRACTORS EMPL FELL THROUGH SCREENING AND STORAGE BLDG ROOF WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PUT SHEETING ON MONITOR.

EMPL FATALLY INJURED IN SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENT AT MINESITE.SHE APPARENTLY LEFT CAB OF HAULAGE TRUCK SHE WAS OPERATING AND WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN TRUCK ROLLED OVER HER.

SCOOP OPERATOR DROVE INTO RIB WITH SCOOP-PINNED HIS HEAD AGAINST RIB

I.NAME FELL FROM ROSS CRUSHER ROOM CRANE TROLLEY WHILE IN PROCESS OF HELPING REAVE AND HANG NEW TRAVELER BLOCK FOR TIGER OVERHEAD CRANE.

5:00 SUNDAY AM,I.NAME & I.NAME WENT TO MINE IN ORDER TO GET 2 DOZERS RUNNING FOR THAT DAYS SHIFT.AFTER I.NAME LEFT I.NAME WENT TO ROAD GRADER FROR SOME UNKNOWN REASON.BLADE WAS PARKED AT UPPE END OF 8% HAUL ROAD AND PARKED SO IT WOULD RUN INTO BANK IF IT GOT AWAY.SOMEHOW I.NAME GOT BLADE HEADED STRAIGHT DOWN HAUL RD AROUND 90 DEGREE CURVE AND DOWN 4500\ OF RD WHERE HE TURNED BLADE

I.NAME AND I.NAME HOOKING PEDESTAL MOUNTED FLOOD LIGHTS.I.NAME DRIVING #9 TRUCK WITH MAN LIFT BOOM ON IT.WHEN HE PARKED TRUCK SET HANDBRAKE AND GOT OUT OF TRUCK TO HELP I.ANEM UNTANGLE POWER C ORD.I.NAME TOLD I.NAME TO GET BACK IN TRUCK AND TURN ON LIGHTS AND START PTO SO BOOM COULD BE USED.I.NAME STATED WHEN HE TURNED TO GO BACK AROUND TRUCK IT WAS ROLLING TOWARD THEM.HE JUMPED OU

EMPLOYEE STOOD UP ON MACHINE WHILE MACHINE WAS ON MOTION TO CHECK IF ANY TRFFIC WAS COMING FROM HISRIGHT WHEN HE STOOD UP HE LOST HIS BALANCEFALLING FROM THE MACHINE THE LEFT REAR WHEEL PASSE D OVER HIS BODY

EMPL DRIVING FRONT END LOADER.VEHICLE WENT OVER AN EMBANKMENT EMPL JUMPED OUT OF VEHICLE AND WAS RUN OVER BY THE EQUIPMENT.

WHILE HAULING COAL DOWN ELEVATED HAULAGE ROAD VICTIM APPARENTLY LOST CONTROL AND JUMPED OR WAS THROWN FROM HAULAGE VEHICLE-RUN OVER AND DRUG APPROX 15 FEET

I.NAME AND I.NAME WERE TAKING DOWN AN IDLE BELT HEAD DRIVE SYSTEM FOUR RETAINING BOLTS ON THE RIGHT SIDE WERE CUT LEAVING FOUR ON THE LEFT SIDE WHEN THE RIGHT SIDE FAILED TO BREAK LOOSE I.NAM E WENT FOR AN AXE OR OTHER TOOL TO KNOCK THE UNIT LOOSE AS HE DID HE STEPPED UNDER THE WEAKENED UNIT AND THE 4 REMAINING BOLTS SHEARED CAUSING DRIVE ROLLER TO FALL & CRUSH I.NAME RESULTING IN

INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT EMPLOYEE WAS TO BACKSHEAR(TOWARD TAIL GATE) OFF OF FLIGHTS THAT HAD COME OUT OF PAN RACE HE FINISHEDCUTTING OUT & CUT SOME BOTTOM HE TRAMMED THE SHEAR BACK BRITTNE Y CHAIN STARTED STACKING UP SO THEY TRAMMED TOWARD HEAD GATE PAN LINE STARTED UP AT THIS TIME CAUSING FLIGHTS THAT HAD COME OUT OF PAN RACE TO BREAK EMP WAS STRUCK IN HEAD WITH FLYING OBSTACLE

VICTIM ENTERED A VERTICAL SHAFT THAT WAS BEING USED AS A WATER SUMP. SHAFT WAS 90\ DEEP 7\ 3" IN DIAMETER, CONTAINING 28\ OF WATER VICTIM WAS APPROX 15\ - 20\ DOWN THE LADDER,. WHEN HE APPAREN TLY LOST CONCIOUSNESS DUE TO A LACK OF OXYGEN AND FELL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SHAFT

INJURED WAS OBSERVING THE DISCHARGE CHAIN SPROCKET ON THE RECEIVING END OF 21 S/C BY PLACING HIS HEAD BETWEEN THE BUMPER AND TRAM MOTOR WHEN THE S/C SUDDENLY MOVED, CATCHING HIS HEAD BETWEEN T HE S/CAR AND MINE FLOOR

EMPTY RAIL CAR BEING GRAVITY DROPPED DOWN SLIGHT GRADE COLLIDED WITH A PARKED RAIL CAR ON THE SAME TRACK. VICTIM WAS THROWN OFF THE EMPTY RAIL CAR CAR HE WAS RIDING INTO THE END OF THE PARKED RAIL CAR. HE THEN FELL ONTO THE TRACK AND THE RAIL CAR HE HAD BEEN RIDING ROLLED ONTO HIM.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAVELING ALONG A HAULAGE ROAD THAT WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION WHEN THE OUTER EDGE WAUYXX GAVE WAY CAUSING EMPLOYEES TRUCK TO SLIP OVER EMBANKMENT. EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN FROM AND CAUGHT UNDER THE TRUCK

LOADER ACCIDENT BECAUSE OF LOSS OF CONTROL.

I.NAME WAS ON THE GROUND WORKING O/N A WATER HOSE IN PACKER 1 PIT 9 ALONG SIDE THE HIGHWALL-ROCKVROKE OFF THE HIGHWALL AND STRUCK HIM. COVERED FROM WAIST TO FEET IN ROCK CAUSING SERIOUS INJUR Y.

DITCH CAVED IN; ENTRAPPING AND COVERING EMPLOYUE

THE LOADER OPERATOR ASKED TAYLOR TO HELP FIND A AIRLEAK ON HIS LOADER. TAYLOR TOLD HIM TO START THE LOADER, BUILD UP AIR PRESSURE AND MOVE THE LOADER TO THE NORTH SIDE OF FIELD SHOP. THE OPERA TOR STARTED HIS MACHINE, BUILT AIR PRESSURE AND STARTED TO MOVE. I,NAME APPARENTLY FOLLOWEDTHE OPERATOR TO THE MACHINE AND AT THE MOVEMENT OF THE MACHINE HAD CLIMBED ON THE REAR PLATFORM OF T

ROOF BOLTING, A 5\ X 5\ 1-2\ ROCK FELL ON DECEASED

MAIN AIR LINE ON TRUCK BURST, DRIVER JUMPED 7 POSSIBLY TRUCK RAN OVER DECEASED. WE ARE AWAITING CONFIRMATION OF OUTOPSY REPORTS

I,NAME WAS STARTING TO UNLOAD ON THE STOCK PILE, HE STARTED BOUNCING IN HIS SEAT FROM EXCESSIVE SPEED, AND ROUGHNESS OF THE GROUND FROM A PREVIOUS LOAD. THIS IS THE OPINING OF THE TWO WITNESSE S, ALSO THEY SAID THAT JEFF WAS STILL ACCELERATING AND GOING TOO FAST, FASTER THAN HE HAD BEEN GOING EARLIER. HE WAS BOUNCED OFF THE SCRAPER AND RUN OVER BY THE TIRES.

B-70 EUCLID DRIFTED TO LEFT SIDE OF ROAD AT A VERY SLOW SPEED(-1 MILE PER HR) AND WENT OVER EMBANKMENT. I,NAME JUMPED OUT OF EUCLID AND EUCLID SLID DOWN EMBANKMENT PUSHING DIRT AGAINST I,NAME NNING HIM AGAINST A TREE AT A DITCH.

MAN PLACED HIS BODY (HEAD & CHEST) THROUGH TOP AND MIDDLE BARS OF RAILING AROUND A HOIST WELL COXX ON CONE FLOOR OF PREP PLANT TRYING TO FREE A LADDER WHICH WAS STUCK IN HOIST WELL, WHEN LADDE R FREED, MAN FELL TO FIRST FLOOR APPROX 49 FEET, HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WHERE HE DIED AT 12D20 ON 6-9-84

VICTIM WAS CLEANING UP A PLACE WITH THE MINER, WHEN A LARGE PIECE OF SLATE CAME DOWN HIT THE CONINUOUS MINER AND SLIDING INTO THE VICTIM IN WHICH FATALLY KILLED HIM. THE ROOF THAT FELL WAS APP ROX 22\ LONG, 16\ WIDE & 3 TO 15" THICK

INJURED WAS EITHER STANDING AT OR SITTING ON LONGWALL DISTRIBUTION BOX WHEN HE FELL ONTO THE RUNNING LONGWALL CONVEYOR BELT. HE WAS THROWN OFF BELT AGAINST A ROOF JACK AND THE TAILPIECE DRILL JACK.

HE FELL INTO "GLORY HOLE" WAS FROUND IN "27" BUILDING ON ORE BELT. "GLORY HOLE" IS THE ORE CAR DUMP.

EMPLOYEE HAD CEASED NORMAL SHOP ACTIVITY TO AWAIT QUARRY BLAST. ROCK WAS THROWN FROM BLAST INTO SHOP AREA STRIKING EMPLOYEE CAUSING LACERATIONS & FRACTURES TO HEAD & BODY. POOR QUAUTY OF ROCK & POSSIBLE SEAM SUSPECTED TO CONTRIBUTE TO EXCESSIVE FLY ROCK.

FATAL VICTIM AND TWO OTHER MEN REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP MINER CABLE WHEN A PORTION OF COAL RIB AND CAP ROCK FELL SUDDENLY CRUSHING AND PINNING THE VICTIM.

STANDING TO CLOSE TO HIGH SAND WALL WHERE WALL IS UNSTABLE.

VICTIM WAS BACKING DOWN SHORT RAMP, DID NOT TURN LOADER. WHEEL CLIMBED BANK. LOADER ROLLED OVER CRUSHING VICTIM, CRUSHED CHEST.

VICTIM WAS HELPING PLACE 6IN X 8IN X 8 FT TIES IN TIERS FOR BLOCKING. THIS WAS TO BE USED TO SUPPORT THE COUNTERWEIGHT OF THE CAR HAUL SYSTEM WHILE REPAIRS WERE BEING MADE. A CRANE LIFTED THE COUNTERWEIGHT. VICTIM REACHED FOR A TIE AND HAD THE UPPER PART OF HIS BODY UNDER THE COUNTERWEIGHT. PART OF THE CRANE RIGGING BROKE. THE COUNTERWEIGHT FELL ON THE VICTIM.

POSSIBLE FATAL INJURY OCCURRED WHILE THE DECEASED WAS EVIDENTLY MAKING A SPLICE IN A CABLE.

A PIECE OF ROCK ABOUT 5FT WIDE 12FT LONG 0-5 1/2IN THICKNESS FELL STRIKING THE VICTIM CAUSING FATAL CRUSHING INJURIES.

EMPLOYEES HAD BEEN TIMBERING WHILE THE MINER WAS CUTTING A PILLAR BLOCK. THE ROOF CONTROL PLAN & PILLAR PLAN WERE NOT COMPLIED WITH. A LARGE ROOF FALL OCCURRED WITH 1 FATAL AND 1 SERIOUS INJUR Y, ALSO MINOR DAMAGE TO CONTINUOUS MINER.

CONTRACTOR BLASTER FATALLY INJURED CHARGING BLAST HOLE.

AN EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A D-7 CAT DOZER, PUSHING MUD, ROCKS AND DEBRIS AWAY FROM THE MOUTH OF A CANYON. WITHOUT WARNING, A MASSIVE MUDSLIDE CAME OUT OF THE CANYON, STRIKING AND OVERTURNING T HE DOZER, APPRENTLY FATALLY INJURING HIM.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS TESTING THE CIRCUIT WITH AN INSTRUMENT AND SUDDENLY AN UNPLANNED DETONATION OCCURRED CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE FATAL INJURIES.

INDIVIDUAL WAS PULLING A PIECE OF LOOSE ROCK FROM TOP AND ROCK FELL STRIKING INDIVIDUAL FROM HIP AREA DOWN AND PINNING HIM TO BOTTOM

VICTIM WAS REPLACING BUCKETS ON A BUCKET ELEVATOR WHEN A CO-WORKER STARTED THE ELEVATOR AS NORMAL NOT AWARE THE VICTIM WAS IN IT. HE WAS CAUGHT BE HIND THE HEAD AND PINNED IN THE MATERIAL AT T HE BOTTOM OF THE ELEVATOR. RESCUE EFFORTS TOOK ABOUT 20 MINUTES DURING THIS TIME THERE WAS NO AIR OTHER THAN A SMALL HOLE DUG OUT.

WORK HAD BEEN PERFORMED INSIDE THE 12,470 VOLT VACCUUM BREAKER COMPARTMENT AND THE POWER CIRCUITS HAD NOT BEEN DE-ENERGZED.

FALLING ICE FROM QUARRY WALL STRUCK EMPLOYEE.

I,NAME WAS FATALLY INJURED ON APRIL 25, 1984 WHILE THE TRUCK WAS BACKING TO TURN AROUND NEAR THE LOAD-OUT BINS.

VICTIM WAS STANDING BESIDE THE PUMP MOTOR COMPARTMENT WHEN A MECHANIC STARTED THE CAR FROM OUTSIDE THE OPERATORS DECK. THE CAR BEGAN TO MOVE-WHEN THE VICTIM SCREAMED, THE MECHANIC JUMPED INTO THE OPERATORS DECK. IN A FRANTIC EFFORT TO STOP THE CAR, HE USED HIS HANDS AND FOOT TO HIT THE CONTROLS. WHEN THE CAR STOPPED, THE FRAME OF THE SHUTTLE CAR WAS COVERING THE VICTIMS BODY UP TO

I.NAME WAS POURING CONCRETE IN THE 6 SWITCH MAINLINE HAULAGE AREA ALONG WITH I.NAME, I.NAME AND I.NAME. I.NAME WAS STANDING ALONG SIDE THE CONCRETE PULLING CONCRETE OUT OF THE DOORS OF THE CAR . A 44-TON LOCOMOTIVE PULLING LOADS SLOWLY CAME INTO THE AREA AND STRUCK THE CONCRETE CAR KNOCKING ONE SIDE OFF TRACK. I.NAME WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CAR AND THE RIB RESULTING IN THE FATALITY.

FOREMAN I.NAME HAD FAILED TO DUE AS RECOMMENDED BY SUPT. HE FAILED TO CLEAN UP ROADWAY INTO #5 ENTRY AND SET REQUIRED TIMBERS NEEDED IN AREA, AND IT APPEARS HE HAD TAKEN TOO MUCK COAL IN AREA AND CAUSE A DANGER FOR HIMSELF AND HIS MEN, AFTER WHICH HE HIMSELF BECAME A FATALITY ON 4-16-84 BY A ROOF FALL IN #5 ENTRY 1ST RIGHT

HE WAS HELPING CHANGE STEEL BEAMS IN B-SHAFT AND HE FELL DOWN THE SHAFT.

WALKING BACK FROM JOCIALIZING WITH ANOTHER TRUCK DRIVER WAITING TO BE SLOW IN STOCKPILE DREW.

THE COAL HAULAGE TRUCK WAS HAULING COAL DOWN THE MAIN HAULAGE ROAD TO THE PREPARATION PLANT WHEN THE EMPLOYEE LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE. THE TRUCK LEFT THE ROADWAY IN A CURVE ANS APPARENTLY ROLLED AT LEAST ONCE THROWING THE OPERATOR OUT OF THE VEHICLE.

EMPLOYEE FAILED TO FOLLOW LOCK-OUT PROCEDURES AND ENTERED ENERGIZE COMPARTMENT.

WAS BLASTING, SOME SHOTS DIDN\T GO OFF. RELIT MISSES, RETURNED TO SCENE TOO SOON. MISS WENT OFF KILLING HIM. INJURING OTHERS.

ROOF FALL. A ROCK FELL STRIKING THE SUPERINTENDENT ON THE HEAD KILLING HIM INSTANTLY.

COAL TRUCK IMPACTED EMPLOYEE AND EMPLOYEE WAS RUN OVER BY THE WHEELS. FATAL INVOLVED TRUCK OWNED BY J & K TRUCKING (CONTRACTOR #E7L)

HIGHWALL ADJACENT TO COAL HAULAGE TRUCK FELL-RESULT FATAL ACCIDENT.

MIKE CALLAHAN HAD SHIRT HAGGING OUT OF PANTS HE WAS WARNED EARLIER IN DAY ABOUT IT. HE WAS TIGHTING SPRING & WAS DONE. STRAIGHTED UP GOT SHIRT H IN SPROCKET HE PULLED IT OUT & LEANED RIGHT BAC K INTO SPROCKET THIS TIME IT CAUGHT BOTH OF HIS SHIRTS AND TWISTED HIM UP.

VICTIM WAS ATTEMPTING TO TRAVEL ALONG SIDE OF A SHUTTLE CAR WHILE THE MINER WAS LOADING & THE MINER BACKED OUT OF THE PLACE PUSHING THE SHUTTLE CAR TOWARD THE RIB PINNING HIM

EMPLOYEE WAS SUPERVISING A DRILLING OPERATION BEING DONE BY VENTURE DRILLING CO. A DRILL STEEL CAME LOOSE FROM MAST OF DRILL RIG AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN 1550 PIT AREA, EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF CONNECTING A PUMP HOSE TO A PORTABLE DIESEL PUMP WHEN FALLING MATERIAL OFF OF THE HIGHWALL STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE

EMPLOYEE WAS ROOF BOLTING ON ONE SIDE OF A CROSSCUT. ON OPPOSITE SIDE EXPLOSIVE CHARGES HAD TEEBEEN SET. THEY WERE THEN UNINTENTIONALLY DETONATED

OPERATOR DROVE DOZER OFF EMBANKMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS APPARENTLY REACHING OVER TAIL OF MINER TO REMOVE A CRIB BLOCK. THE VICTIM FAILED TO TELL THE MINER OPERATOR WHAT HE WAS PLANNING ON DOING. MINER OPERATOR RAISED TAIL OF THE MINER & PINNED VICTIM BETWEEN THE TAIL OF THE CONTINIOUS MINER & THE MINE ROOF, CAUSING SEVERE HEAD INJURIES

#1 DECEASED FAILED TO FOLLOW STANDARD LOCK OUT PROCEDURE #2 WARNING HORN NOT OPERABLE #3 OPERATOR FAILED TO CLEAR ALL MACHINES BEFORE STARING PLANT. CRUSHED BETWEEN ROLLS FROM FEET TO CHEST.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A HAUL TRUCK. AFTER DUMPING LOAD EMPLOYEE DID NOT DISENGAGE POWER TAKE-OFF. AS TRUCK WAS DRIVEN TOWARDS MINE ENTRANCE DUMP BODY WAS RISING AND BED STRUCK ENTRANCE CEILING OF MINE CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO STRIKE TRUCK DASH AND WINDSHIELD. AS A RESULT OF THE IMPACT THEEMPLOYEE INJURED HIS NOSE, CAUSING BLEEDING, LACERATIONS TO RIGHT EYE AND CHIN, X-RAYS REVEALED CRA

SCOOP OPERATOR WAS CLEANING A CUT OF COAL, COAL HT. WAS 38 TO 44" ON SECTION. OPERATOR BACKED MACHINE UNDER A BROW AND THE OPERATORS HEAD WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BROW AND SCOOP. SCOOP HAD NO OPERA TING BRAKE SYSTEM

LOADER WENT INTO LAKE OVER BERM, OPERATOR DROWNED.

A HAULAGE ACCIDENT OCCURED AT 4:40 PM, 3-5-84. THE ROADWAY WAS DAMP AND IT HAD JUST STARTED TO RAIN. THE EYE WITNESS STATED THAT HE WAS OBSERVING THE VICTIM AS HE WAS COMING AROUND THE ROAD TO WARD THE OUTER SPOIL BANK. AT THIS TIME THE TRUCK SLID OFF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD, TURNED OVER, PINNING THE VICTIM UNDER THE TRUCK. INJURIES TO THE HEAD AND UPPER TRUNK APPEAR TO HAVE CAU

EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN MINE CAR AND ROTARY CAR DUMP. TOLD MOTORMAN TO PULL OFF EMPTIES AND DID NOT GET CARS UNCOUPLED.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE NO. 2 ENTRY FACE AREA. SIZE OF THE FALL WAS APPROX 25\ LONG, 12 TO 14\ WIDE AND 8" THICK

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING ANTI-FREEZE IN TANK WHEN THE METAL ROD HE WAS USING ACCIDENTALLY TOUCHED THE OVERHEAD POWER LINES CAUSINF DEATH.

FROM ALL INDICATIONS INDIVIDUAL WAS EITHER SETTING SAFETY POST OR SEALING TOP. ROCK APPROX. 4FT X 6FT X 6FT FELL ON INDIVIDUAL KILLING HIM INSTANTLY.

THE HAULAGE BELT HAD GONE DOWN SO PRODUCTION WAS STOPPED AND ALL EMPLOYEES WERE PULLED FROM THE MINE, EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SHAFT TO THE OUTSIDE WHEN HE SUFFERED A CORONA RY THROMBOSIS, RESULTING IN DEATH AT 3:00 A.M. ON MARCH 2, 1984

EMPLOYEE WAS WAITING FOR BOLTER ATRS TO BE SET UP. AS THE ROOF BOLTER ATRS WAS BEING ADVANCED BY I.NAME, LOOSE ROCK BECAME DISLODGED FROM THE RIB OR BETWEEN BOLTS - CRUSHING THE VICTIM TO THE MINE FLOOR

WAS RIDING SCOOP, HIT HIS HEAD ON A LOW PIECE OF COAL AND FELL OFF SCOOP AND WAS RUN OVER BY SCOOP, FRACTURED SKULL RESULTED IN DEATH

VICTIM WAS ASSISTING THE SECTION ELECTRICIAN IN SPLICING THE TRAILING CABLE TO HIS SHUTTLE CAR WHICH WAS PARKED ON A GRADE. THE SHUTTLE CAR ROLLED DOWN THE GRADE, RUNNING OVER THE VICTIM. THE ELECTRICIAN WAS KNOCKED IN THE CLEAR AND WAS INJURED. VICTIM HAD BROKEN NECK AND CRUSHED CHEST

UVICTIM WAS WORKING IN CLINKER BUILDING ON A PLATFORM ON A TRAVELING CRANE DECK. THE CRANE DECK WAS IN A STATIONARY POSITION AND THE VICTIM WAS USING A 6\ LONG STEEL BAR PRYING ON A RAIL. THE BAR SLIPPED AND THE VICTIM FELL BACKWARDS OFF THE DECK ONTO THE GROUND BELOW. THE GROUND WAS LOCATED APPROX. 70\ BELOW THE PLATFORM AND THE BIC VICTIM WAS KILLED INSTANTLY.

VICTIM WAS OPERATING A DIESEL POWERED TRACTOR WITH A FRONT END LOADER BUCKET MOUNTED ON THE TRACTOR. ROLL OVER PROTECTION STRUCTURES WERE NOT INSTALLED ON THE TRACTOR. THE VICTIM WAS LIFTING A SMALL WOODEN HEADFRAME INTO POSITION OVER THE COLLAR OF AN INCLINED SHAFT (TOTAL WEIGHT 1,000 POUNDS). WHEN THE HEADFRAME WAS IN A VERITCAL POSITION THE HOOK OF THE STEEL CHAIN USED TO HOLD T

HE RAISED THE T.BAR AGAINST THE TOP, HE FAILED TO POSITION CANOPY. HE WALKED UNDER UN-SUPPORTED ROOF, THE ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM

EMPLOYEE AND TWO CO-WORKERS HAD ENTERED AN AREA OF THE MINE TO INSPECT A WATER PUMP.

EMPLOYEE AND TWO CO-WORKERS HAD ENTERED AN AREA OF THE MINE TO INSPECT A WATER PUMP.

EMPLOYEE AND TWO CO-WORKERS HAD ENTERED AN AREA OF THE MINE TO INSPECT A WATER PUMP.

DID NOT SET HIS SAFETY JACKS AND DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIM WHILE OUT PAST ROOF SUPPORT

THE VICTIM WAS WORKING ON THE GROUND BESIDE A P & H CRANE BEING USED TO MOVE A FUEL TANK. THE BOOM OF THE CRANE CONTACTED A 13,200 VOLT LINE CAUSING THE VICTIM TO RECEIVE A FATAL ELECTRICAL S HOCK

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING TRAILER TIRE ON BACK OF TRAILER, TIRE BLEW APART WITH RIM STRIKING EMPLOYEE.

VICTIM WAS DRILLING IN THE FACE AND AN EXPLOSION OCCURRED. VICTIM RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED AND SHOSPITALIZED.

OPERATING MOTOR WITH ONE MANTRIP CAR HOOKED UP BEHIND THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT THE END OF GRAVEYARD SHIFT AND THE VICTIM HAD JUST RECEIVED THE VERBAL OK FROM THE 4 EMPLOYEES TO PROCEED THE 4 E MPLOYEES WERE IN THE ENCLOSED MANTRIP CAR AND DID NOT SEE WHAT HAPPENED THE VICTIM APPARENTLY WAS NOT ATTENTIVE AND DROVE THE MOTOR THRU THE AIR DOORS APPROX 90YDS DOWN FROM HIS STARTING POIN

TWO MAINTENANCE MEN WERE TRAMMING A 14-BCM JOY MINER FROM NO 1 ENTRY TO NO 4 ENTRY TO SERVICE THE MINER. UPON REACHING THE CROSSCUT BETWEEN NO 3 & 4 ENTRIES THE MAN OPERATING THE MINER LOOKED BACK AND SAW HIS BUDDY LYING ON THE MINE FLOOR. HE HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE BOOM OF THE MINER. IT COULD NOT BE DETERMINED IF HE HAD BEEN CAUGHT AGAINST THE COAL RIB

TAKEN OFF DEATH CERTIFICATION EXSANGUINATION TRAUMATIC LACERATION OF HEART AND THORACIC AORTA TRANSECTION SEVERE CLOSED THORACO ABDOMINAL INJURIES CRUSH

VICTIM RECEIVED CRUSHING INJURIES TO HEAD WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE OLD PREVIOUSLY DISCARDED ROOF BOLTS FROM NEAR BASE OF COAL RIB. PORTION OF RIB AND OVERLAYING DRAW SLATE FELL STRIKING VICT IM

KEVIN DUGAN WAS HAULING FLUME DUST IN A EUCLID R35 DUMP TRUCK ON HIS SEVENTH LOAD HE BACKED OVER OR THRU THE BERM AND DOWN A 45 TO 50 FOOT BANK INTO 25 FEET OF WATER

EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO 002 SECTION TO HANG SOME LINE CURTAIN AND FOR REASONS UNKNOWN HE WENT IN PAST THE BREAKER TIMBERS AND A ROCK FELL CRUSHING EMPLOYEE

SCOOP OPERATOR SHIFTED MACHINE WHILE IN HIGHER TOP, UNDER LOW TOP, WHICH CAUGHT OPERATOR CRUSHING RIB CAGE

VICTIM WAS DRILLING WITH JUMBO IN HEADING ON CHEROKEE 18N17 SUB 6 WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY BAULK GROUND WHICH FELL FROM APPROXIMATELY 4FT OVERHEAD STRIKING HIM APPARENTLY KILLING HIM INSTANTLY FR OM ACUTE FRACTURE OF NECK THE GROUND WAS APPROX 3FT IN DIAMETER 4IN THICK WEIGHED APPROX 300-400LBS

EMPLOYEE GOT OUT OF DRILL AND WALKED AROUND TO HAMMER SIDE TO CLEAN WINDOW OF CAB IT APPEARS THAT EMPLOYEE STEPPED UPON THE DRILL CHUCK TO CLEAN THE UPPER WINDOW OF THE CAB EMPLOYEE MAY HAVE L EANED BUT SOMEHOW HIS COVERALL BECAME ENTANGLED INT HE DRILL STEEL THIS PULLED HIM THROUGH THE SPACE BETWEEN THE STEEL AND THE MAST AND WRAPPED HIS RIGTH ARM AND CHEST AROUND THE STEEL

A PALLET OF CRIB BLOCKS WAS BEING LIFTED BY A FORLIFT TO CLEAR THE ICE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE CRIBS. VICTIM WAS CLEARING THE ICE FROM THE CRIBS REMOTELY WITH A SHOVEL SHEN THE BAND AROUND THE CRIBS BROKE AND THE CRIBS FELL ON HIM

A ROCKBURST OCCURED IN THE 100 STOPE 4660 LEVEL RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES FROM FLY ROCK AND TIMBER

AT APPROX 1100AM ON SAT JAN 21 1984 PETRIK WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN A SET OF FOUR EMPTY 100 TON HOPPER CARS ROLLED DOWN AN INCLINE ON THE NORTH SPUR AT THE CAREY SALT MINE WHEN THE ICE MUD AND SNOW BUILD UP BETWEEN THE SHOES AND WHEELS MELTED THESE CARS STRUCK THREE FREE STANDING HOPPER CARS ON WHICH A BRAKE WAS SET DRIVING THEM FORWARD INTO ONE HOPPER CAR AND TWO BOX CARS WHICH WE

THE VICTIM WAS SITTING IN FIRST CROSSCUT IN THE #1 ENTRY ON THE FIRST LEFT SECTION 60\ INBY SPAD #67. THE ROOF IN INTERSECTION FELL ABOVE ANCHORAGE ZONE OF THE ROOF BOLTS RENDERING FATAL INJUR IES TO HIM.

A ROCK FALL AT THE FACE CAUGHT THE VICTIMS HEAD, AND PINNED IT AGAINST THE BOTTOM.

WAS MARKING TOP FOR LOCATION OF ROOF BOLTS TO BE INSTALLED & A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK, APPROX 3" THICK X 10\ WIDE X 8\ LONG FELL, CATCHING ERNEST UNDERNEATH THE ROCK

CHESTER AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR WELDER WAS CONTRACTED TO REPAIR THE PAN OF CAT 633 MOTOR SCRAPER THE PAN WAS BENT AND NEEDED TO BE STRAIGHTENED CHESTER HAD CUT THE GUSSETS FROM UNDER THE PAN AND HAD PLACED ANGLE IRON ON THE PAN AND WEDGED IT AGAINST THE GOOSE NECK INAN ATTEMPT TO STRAIGHTEN THE PAN HE STARTED THIS PROCEDURE ON ONE SIDE OF THE PAN AND HAD MOVED THE ANGLE IRON TO T

EMPLOYEE A MEMBER OF ELECTRIC LINE CREW WAS REMOVING A FRAME GROUND WIRE FROM A 167 KVA TRANSFORMER ONE END OF THE GROUND WIRE ACCIDENTLY CAME IN CONTACT WITH 13800V PRIMARY EMPLOYEE HOLDING T HE WIRE RECEIVED FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCK

IMPROPER OR ABNORMAL WORKING PROCEDURE WHEREAS ONE STONE HAD BEEN DISTURBED WHEN CHAIN WAS HOOKED TO SECOND STONE FIRST ONE NOT HAVING BEEN BLOCKED FELL ON MAN

THE EMPLOYEE WAS GREASING THE HEAD ROLLER ON A RADIAL STACKER, HE WAS ON THE BELT WHEN IT WAS ENGAGED CAUSING HIM TO FALL 35 FT. & 8 IN. AND LAND ON ASPHALT, WHICH RESULTED IN A FRACTURED SKUL L & A BROKEN NECK

A BLOCK OF STONE HAD BEEN SEPARATED FROM THEMAIN LEDGE. IT WAS THEN TURNED OVER ON ITS ISDE FOR SPLITTING INTO TWO PIECES. ONEEND OF THE BLOCK WAS PICKED UP BY MEANS OF A WIRE SLING. DEGARMO W AS ATTEMPTING TO SLIDE A TIRE UNDER THE BLOCK AND THE SLING BROKE LETTING THE BLOCK FALL TO THE FLOOR. IT STRUCK A HIGH PLACE CAUSING PART OF THE BLOCK TO SEPARATE AND FALL ON TOP OF HIM.

THE EMPLOYEE PLACED HIMSELF BETWEEN THE CAB SUPPORTS OVER THE CONVEYOR BOOM. HIS LEG ACTIVATED THE BOOM CONTROL AND THE UPWARD MOVEMENT OF THE BOOM PINCHED HIM BETWEENM THE BOOM AND CAB ROOF

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING COAL WITH A SCOOP OUT OF THE RIGHT BREAK IN #6 ENTRY AT #7 MINE. WHEN HE STARTED TO MAKE THE LAST CLEAN UP RUN ON THE INBY SIDE OF THE RIGHT BREAK, HE BACKED UP THINKING T HAT HE WAS GOING INTO THE LEFT BREAK. WHEN HE HIT THE INBY CORNER OF THE LEFT BREAK IN THE #6 HEADING, HIS HEAD HIT THE RIB AND WAS FORCED INTO THE FRAME OF THE SCOOP. THE COAL HEIGHT IN THIS