Mining Incidents in September 2002

THE DESKINS AUTOMATIC ELEVATOR WAS REMOVED FROM SERVICE IN EXCESS OF 30 MINUTES TO TENSION THE GUIDE ROPES FOR THE COUNTERWEIGHT.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE MAIN NORTH #1 ENTRY, #13 X-CUT. 30'L X 18'W X 10'T. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE MAIN WEST #1 ENTRY #6 XCUT. L 20' X W 18' X T 10'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

A TAILGATE BLOCKAGE OCCURRED IN PANEL 16, ENTRY 3, CROSSCUT 36 TO 37. THE INITIAL BLOCKAGE WAS THE RESULT OF FLOOR HEAVE.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE MAIN NORTH #1 ENTRY #8 XCUT. L 30' X W 18' X T 10'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE MAIN NORTH #1 ENTRY #9 X-CUT. L 30' X W 18' X T 10'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

A ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED BY THE SECOND SHIFT PRESHIFT EXAMINER ON THE NO.2 UNIT, 20TH EAST,#3ENTRY, SPAD 85+78.8. THE FALL OCCURRED IN THE PILLAR LINE AND THROUGH AN INTERSECTION. IT MEASUR ED APPROX., 100'X 17'X 8'. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE IF THE FALL ORIGINATED IN THE PILLAR LINE OR IN AN INTERSECTION. IT FELL ON THE UNIT BELT TAILPIECE AND RATIO FEEDER.

SYNOPSIS: TWO CONTACT MECHANICS NOTICED TWO INDIVIDUALS ON ATVS NEAR WHERE A BULK TRUCK WAS PARKED. UPON INVESTIGATION THEY FOUND THE TRUCK ON FIRE. IT HAD TO BE EXTINGUISHED BY THE FIRE DEPT. IT APPEARED THE TRUCK WAS VANDALIZED & THE FIRE INTENTIONALLY SET. THE FRONT OF THE TRUCK INCLUDING THE CAB HAD COMPLETELY BURNED.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED ON THE 6 WEST LONGWALL IN A CROSSCUT BETWEEN #2 & #3 ENTRIES AT CROSSCUT #46. DIMENSIONS WERE ESTIMATED AT 70' LONG BY 6 TO 7' THICK BY 20' IN WIDTH.

ANCHOR BOLT BROKE ON GUIDE ROPES ON ESCAPE SHAFT. EVACUATED MINE AT 8:40 AM. BOLT WAS REPAIRED AND MINERS WENT BACK UNDERGROUND AT 10:40 AM.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED AT CROSSCUT #78 ON 2 EAST MAINS. FALL DIMENSIONS WERE ESTIMATED AT 20' WIDE BY 100' IN LENGHT BY 7 TO 8 FEET HIGH.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE #5 ENTRY ON THE TILLEY SECTION. INTAKE 1 BREAK INBY SPAD #3140. THE FALL MEASURED 20'L X 20'W X 4 1/2'H. ALL ENTRANCES TO THE FALL HAVE BEEN BREAKERE D OFF. THE FALL WILL NOT BE REHABILITATED. VENTILATION OR PASSAGE WAS NOT AFFECTED.

PAGE PORTAL SERVICE CAGE- THIS FACILITY WAS DOWN FOR APPROX. 3 HOURS DUE TO A BAD POWER SUPPLY CARDIN THE POWER CONVERTER. THE CARD WAS CHANGED OUT AND HOIST WAS PUT BACK IN SERVICE. THERE WAS NO INJURIES RELATED TO THIS INCIDENT.

A FALL OF ROOF OCCURRED ON #5 UNIT, S.E. PANEL, #7 ENTRY, CROSSCUT #4 IN THE LAST OPEN CROSSCUT,35'INBY SPAD #39987. THE FALL WAS 65'LONG, 18'W.AND 6'THICK. NO PERSON, EQUIPMENT OR VENTILATION WERE AFFECTED.

THE VENTILATING FAN AT ""B"" SHAFT WENT DOWN DUE TO BEARING FAILURE. THE FAN, FAN SHAFT & BEARING WERE REPLACED. FAN WAS RETURNED TO OPERATION @ 8:30 PM 9/26/02.

A FALL MEASURING 30'BY30' AND FROM 2' TO 6' HIGHWAS FOUND ONE CROSSCUT INBY THE 3 EAST INTAKE OVERCAST IN THE #4 ENTRY OF 3 EAST SUBMAINS. ALL ACCESSES ARE TIMBERED AND DANGERED AND CLEAN-UP W ILL BE COMPLETED AS PER PLAN.

HAD AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL 70'LONG X 20'WIDE X 8'HIGH BETWEEN BREAK #57 TO 59 ON THE #20 BELT ON ELK FORK MAINS.

ELEVATOR BRAKES WERE DRAGGING AND NEEDED TO BE REPAIRED. ELEVATOR BACK IN SERVICE AT 0910. NO EMPLOYEES WERE AFFECTED BY THIS INCIDENT.

ROOF FALL DISCOVERED IN THE BLEEDER SYSTEM FOR THE 001-0 SECTIONS 3RD RIGHT PANEL WHILE THE MINE FOREMAN WAS CONDUCTING HIS WEEKLY EXAMS. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 8' THICK, 25' LONG, 20' WIDE

ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON THE #1 UNIT ENTRY #5 INBY SPAD #4489. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS. L 30' X W 18' X T 7'.

HOIST ROPE ON SLOPE GOT SLACK IN IT AND CABLE BACKLASHED ON TO DRUM. HOIST WAS DOWN FOR APPROX. 2 HOURS.

ROOF FALL OCCURRED AT SPAD 536 WHICJ MEASURED 4 FOOT THICK, 20 FT WIDE AND 20 FT LONG.

AT 8:50 AM ON 9-25-02 ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED BY EE 1 CROSSOUT INBY SURVEY STATION #2401 IN #6 ENTRY. FELL WAS APPROX. 2800 FT OUTBY FACE AREA. FELL MEASURED 18 FT LONG X 15 FT WIDE X 0-5 FT THICK. AREA WAS BOLTER WITH 5 FT RESIN WITH 12' CABLE BOLTS SPOTTED THERE IS NO VENTIALTION BLOCKED, NO INJURIES, AND NO EQUIPMENT INVOLVED.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE MAIN NORTH #9 ENTRY BETWEEN X-CUTS #17 & #18. L20' X W18' X T8'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

#3 MAN HOIST, BREAKER OR RELAY WENT DOWN AND WAS DOWN 1 HOUR AND 45 MINUTES.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE MAIN NORTH #1 ENTRY #16 X-CUT. L35' X W18' X T10'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 10' POINT ANCHOR.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE MAIN WEST X-CUT #7 BETWEEN #7 & #8 ENTRIES. L 25' X W 18' X T 6'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

MINER CABLE CUT. INTERSECTION FALL, CALLED MSHA INSPECTOR IN MORGANTOWN WV.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE MAIN NORTH #6 ENTRY X CUT #14 L 40'X W 18' TO 10' THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' TO 10' POINT ARCHOR BOLTS.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED ONE BREAK INBY SPAD #8057. THE 1ST RIGHT OFF THE 1ST RIGHT OFF THE BIG CREEK MAINS. THIS FALL WAS ON 016 SECTION. THE FALL APPROXIMATELY 120' X 20' X 4' AND CONSISTED OF S HALE.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE MAIN WEST X-CUT 5 BETWEEN #9 & #8 ENTRIES. L65' X W18' X T6'-10'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' & 10' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

THE IMMEDIATE ROOF FELL OUT AROUND THE ROOF BOLTS AT 350 XCUT IN 3 LEFT WEST #3 ENTRY. NO BOLTS WERE PULLED OUT AND THE FALL WAS NOT ABOVE THE BOLT LINE. THE MUD STONE ROOF FELL APPROX. 20' LO NG, 3'-10' WIDE AND 3'-4' HIGH. THE FALL IMPEDED TRAVEL IN AND OUT OF THE WORKING SECTION.

THE COUPLING SHAFT ON THE SLOPE HOIST DRUM BROKECAUSING SLOPE HOIST TO BE TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE HOIST WAS OUT OF SERVICE FOR APPROX 8 HOURS WHILE SHAFT WAS REPAIRED.

MAIN NORTH #7 ENTRY BETWEEN X-CUTS 13 & 14 L30' X W18' X T8'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

ROOF FALL AT #8 ENTRY BETWEEN X-CUTS #18 & #19 IN THE MAIN WEST. L20' X W18' X T7'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE MAIN NORTH BETWEEN X-CUTS 16 & 17 #9 ENTRY. L20' X W18' X T8'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

A FALL OF ROOF WAS DISCOVERED BY THE MINE EXAMINER @ MAIN EAST #4 ENTRY APPROXIMATELY 36+00. 200FT IN LENGTH, 18' WIDTH, 18' HEIGHT. SUPPORTED BY 6' CONVENTIONAL BOLTS, 6X6 TIMBERS & HEINZMANN JACKS.

THE #1 HOIST MOTOR OVERHEATED AND FAILED. MINERS WERE EVACUATED AT 12:50 AM AND OUT OF THE MINE AT 1:05 AM. THE HOIST MOTOR WAS REPLACED, THE HOIST TESTED AND RESTORED TO SERVICE. MINERS RE-ENTERED THE MINE AT 6:45 AM.

NORTH MAIN 25 BLOCK, #7 HEADING - 4-WAY, TRACK HDG. MMU 004. 12 FT HIGH X 20 FT WIDE X 20 FT LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 6 FT RESIN - 6"" X 16"" PLATES, ROOF MATS, WIRE SCREEN, HINTZMANN JACKS & CROS S BARS. FALL DANGERED OFF, ADDITIONAL ROOF SUPPORTS SET AROUND FALL. FALL CLEAN-UP PLAN DEVELOPED & POSTED AT FALL.

A ROOF FALL 60'X 20'X 5' IN THE WEST PANEL #21 X-CUT #3 & #4 ENTRY. 1800'OUTBY 001-0 SECTION. BOLTED WITH 5'FULLY GROUTED ROOF BOLTS & CAUSED BY AN UNDETECTED SLIP.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED AT 23. FALL WAS 20'L X APPROX. 80'LONG BY 15'HIGH.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURED APPROX. 3000'FROM THE ACTIVE FACE IN THE #5 ENTRY OF AN OLD WORKS SECTION. ALL ENTRANCES TO THE FALL HAVE BEEN BREAKERED OFF. THIS FALL WILL NOT BE REHABILI TATED. THE FALL MEASURED 20'L X 20'W X 4'H.

A FALL OF ROOF ROCK OCCURRED ONT HE WHITE OAK EMPTY SIDE TRACK. THE FALL WAS APPROX 41 FT LONG AND 19 FT WIDE, IT WAS APPROX 4 FT THICK. THERE WERE NO INJURIES, NO EQUIPMENT WAS INVOLVED. CROSSCUT NO. 104, 92 AND 17.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED ONT HE #3 ENTRY OF THE 7TH WEST AT 9200' WEST TAILGATE OFF OF THE 8TH WEST LONGWALL. THE FALL WAS APPROX. 20' LONG , APPROX. 10' WIDE AND APPROX. 6-8' THICK . THE FALL DID NOT AFFECT VENTILATION OR PASSAGEUOF MINERS.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE NO.6 ENTRY (INTAKE AIRWAY) 5000'OUTBY THE WORKING SECTION. THE FALL MEASURED 35'LONG X 18'WIDE X 4 & 1/2'THICK. THE INTAKE AIR COURSE WAS NOT EFFECTE D BY THIS FALL.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL WAS FOUND BY EE ON 3 MAINS #7 ENTRY OUTBY SPAD (1BLOCK. THE FALL MEASURED 18' LONG X 18' WIDE X 9' TALL. THE INTAKE ESCAPEWAY WAS REROUTED.

NWA INTAKE XCUT 58 #6 ENTRY. 20'L X 18'W X 7'H.

ROOF FALL 1 BRK IN BY SPAD # 494 IN #1 ENTRY. APP 20' L BY 20' W BY 17' H DATE OF DEVELOPMENT 9-1-98.

OPERATOR WAS GOING DOWN RAMP INTO PIT, RIGHT SIDE BUCKET TOOTH CAUGHT OPERATOR STEER TO RIGHT SIDE. MACHINE PULLED ENOUGH TO THE RIGHT SIDE THAT IT SLOWLY WENT ONTO SIDE. NO DAMAGE TO MACHINE AND OPERATOR WAS WEARING SEATBELT. NO INJURIES.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE NO. 5ENTRY 40' IN BY SURVEY STATION 470 MEASURING APPROX 3 1/2 - 4' HIGH BY 12' WIDE BY 25' LONG. THE AFFECTED AREA WAS SUPPORTED WITH 4' RESIN GROUTED BOLTS AND 4' STRAPS (ROOF MATS). IT APPEARED TO BE A HORSE WITH A SLICK SIDED ROCK.

DURING THE WEEKLY EXAM, A ROOF FALL WAS FOUND AT#56 CROSSCUT IN #2 ENTRY IN 1 NORTH MAINS. THE FALL IS APPROX. 20'X 20'X 8'THICK. 42""FULLY GROUTED BOLTS HAD BEEN USED IN THIS AREA.

ROOF FALL OF INTERSECTION AT 21 X #4 ENTRY OF 1 FLAT LEFT. FALL MEASURED 16'W X 18'L X 8'HIGH. MATERIAL THAT FELL CONSISTED OF 3""ROOF COAL AND 7'9""DARK GRAY SHALE. FALL WAS OUTBY AREA.

A CAVE WAS FOUND IN OUR COMMON ENTRIES, 1 XCUT OUTBY SPAD #195 AREA IS INBY WHERE AN OTHER CAVE HAD FALLED ON 7/20/01. THE AREA THAT HAD FALLED WAS BOLTED WITH 6'POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

A FALL OF THE ROOF OCCURRED ON #5 UNIT 2ND S.E. PANEL #4 ENTRY CROSS CUT #27, ONE CROSS CUT OUTBY THE TAIL PEICE 65 FT INBY SPAD #39753. THE FALL WAS 140' LONG, 20' WIDE, AND 5' THICK. NO PERSON OR VENTILATION WERE AFFECTED.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE #6 BREAK IN THE TRACK ENTRY APPROXIMATELY 800 FT. FROM THE ACTIVE FACE. THE FALL MEASURED 25' L X 20' W X 4' H. ALL ENTRANCES TO THE FALL WERE BREAKE RED OFF AND THE FALL WILL BE REHABILITATED.

A ROOF FALL MEASURING 40' X 20' X 6' IN THE 4 WEST ENTRY AT XCUT #34 , #6 ENTRY. THE AREA HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 6' TENSION REBAR ROOF BOLTS & FALL WAS CAUSED BY AN UNDETECTED SLIP.

FALL WAS FOUND IN THE ABANDONED FACE AREA OF THE OLD 3 RIGHT AREA OF THE MINE. TIME OF FALL UNKNOWN. FALL APPROX. 60' LONG & 3 1/2' TO 5' HIGH. NO EQUIP. OR MEN IN AREA. ALL ACCESS TIMBERED & DANGERED.

FALL DISCOVERED 9-17-02 AROUND 9:30 AM FALL 20'WIDE 10' LONG 4' THICK-NO INJURED NO EQUIPMENT INVOLVED NO BLOCKAGE OF S SCAPEWAY OR VENT. WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP TIMBERED OFF AND DANGERED.

A FALL OF ROOF OCCURRED AT THE NORTH MAINS RETURN 49 X-CUT #1 ENTRY. APPROX. 30' X 20' X 4' -6' THICK FOR A DISTANCE OF 900'. FALL DID NOT AFFECT VENTILATION OR PASSAGE OF MEN. AREA WILL BE CL EANED AND ALL APPROACHES DANGERED OFF.

1A SUPPLY ROAD X CUT 34 30X18X6 AUG 30 98.

A ROOF FALL WAS FOUND DURING THE WEEKLY EXAM ON 3 WEST MAINS IN THE NO. 2 ENTRY AT CROSSCUT #11. THIS AREA HAD BEEN BOLTED WITH 5' HIGH TECH BOLTS. FALL APPROX. 18' X 18' X 5' HIGH.

THE NO. 1 CONVEYOR BELT STOPPED AND THE NO. 2 BELT CONVEYOR DID NOT SHUT OFF THAT CAUSED A GOBB OUT AT THE HARD DRIVE AND MADE THE BELT START SLIPPE DIN THE DRIVE AND THAT IS WHAT CAUSED THE E E WERE EVUCATED FROMT HE MINE SAFETY.

FIRE FOAM SYSTEM BEING INSTALLED. MECHANICAL ISSUES CORRECTED.

AT #5 BELT INBY SPAD 939, A ROOF FALL OCCURRED AT THE ABOVE MENTIONED MINE SITE. THE SIZE OF THE FALL WAS 50' X 20' X 7'. THE STRATA IS MIXED AND THERE IS A COAL RIDER SEAM ABOUT 6' ABOVE MAIN SEAM. THIS AREA WILL BE REHABILITATED.

A ROOF FALL WAS FOUND AT 26+65 ENTRY 3 4LMS. FALL WAS IN FOUR WAY INTERSECTION AND MEASURED 20' X 20' X 10'. AREA WAS MINED 7-26-02 AND SUPPORTED WITH 6' RESIN PINS. NO INJURY OR PROPERTY DAM AGE RESULTED.

INNER DOOR FELL OFF OF TRACT. MEN OFF CAGE AT 1040 AM ELEVATOR DOOR REPAIRED AT 1115 AM.

THE ELEVATOR WAS DOWN FOR MORE THAN 30 MINUTES BECAUSE SOMEONE HAD PUT ANTISIEZE ON THE CAR DOOR LOCK SWITCH. THE ANTISIEZE WOULD NOT ALLOW THE SWITCH TO FUNCTION PROPERLY. THERE WAS NO ENTRAP MENT.

A ROOF FALL MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 80' X 20' X 5' IN THE 4 WEST ENTRIES XCUT #37 IN #3 & #4 ENTRY. THE AREA WAS SUPPORTED WITH 5' FULLY GROUTED ROOF BOLTS.

NORTH MAINS 67 BLK, #7 HDG. 4-WAY INTERSECTION MMU 004. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 12 FT CABLE & 8"" X 8"" PLATES, 6 FT RESIN & 6"" X 16"" PLATES, WIRE SCREEN, ROOF MATS. 6 FT HIGH X 18 FT LONG X 24 FT WIDE . FALL DANGERED OFF, CLEAN UP PLAN DEVELOPED & POSTED AT CLEAN-UP SITE.

A MECHANIC WAS WELDING ON THE TUBING OF BORE MINER #2 IN THE LAST OPEN X-CUT IN PANEL L23, DURING A BELT MOVE. HE WAS USING A TMX 412 AS A CONSTANT MONITORING DEVICE. SPARKS FROM WELDING FELL TO THE FLOOR CAUSING A IGNITION OF A BLEEDER IN THE FLOOR. THE FOREMAN PUT IT OUT IN 2-3 MINUTES.

(MINED IN 1996) ( DISTO FACE IS 8200 FEET) ROCK FALL AT #50 SPAD 7 BRK FROM SURFACE. FALL WAS ABOUT 20 WIDE BY 40 LONG AND ABOUT 6 FOOT HIGH.

A ROOF FALL OF APPROX. DIMENSIONS 20' L X 20' W X 5' H OCCURRED IN THE NO. 5 ENTRY OF THE NO. 2 SOUTHEAST MAINS, AT XCUT #16. THIS LOCATION IS APPROX. 8350' OUTBY THE WORKING SECTION IN THE MA IN INTAKE. NO INJURY OR DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT OCCURRED. THE FALL WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON THE 1ST LEFT SECTION IN HTE #3 TRACK ENTRY. 20' INBY SPAD NO. 347. APPROX 1300' FROM THE ACTIVE FACE. THE FALL MEASURED 70'L X 20' W X 4-6' H. THE FALL H AS BEEN BREAKERED OFF AND WILL BE REHAVILITATED.

ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED BY FIRST SHIFT FOREMAN AT 6:30 AM. FALL OCCURRED AT X-CUT 40 #1 ENTRY OF THE HATFIELD MAINS. THIS IS A KNOWN FAULT AREA AND HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY CRIBBED AND DANGERE D OFF. FALL MEASURED 50' LONG 29' WIDE BY 12' THICK. NO DAMAGE, VENTILATION NOT AFFECTED.

ROOF FALL, NO. 2 ENTRY OF 10 RIGHT ENTRIES, 1 XCUT OUTBY GOV REGULATOR IN PILLAR LINE. APPROX 45' LONG, 7-8' HIGH, 18' WIDE.

WHILE MAKING WEEKLY EXAMINATION OF INTAKE ESCAPEWAY, A FALL WAS FOUND IN THE #7 TRAVEL INTAKE TRAVELWAY. FALL DIMENSIONS 7' X 18' X 50' LONG. APPROX 8,400 FT OUTBY SOUTH MAINS SECTION, MMU 002 AT SPAD #3206.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED AT THE 3RD WEST #3 ENTRY X-CUT 25. 18'L X 15'W X 10'T. ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' FULLY GROUTED & 10' POINT ANCHOR.

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL 6TH NORTH PANEL, 87 XCUT BETWEEN #5 AND #6 ENTRY. 20' LX 25' X 7' H. 6' TENSION REBAR.

ON 2 NORTH TRACKWAY AT SPAD #48 8N THE INTERSECTION OF BREAK 24, THE ROOF FELL APPROX. 6' HIGH, 18' LONG, AND 18' WIDE.

ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED ON 9-14-02 AT THE #3 ENTRY OF SS# 10258 APPROX. 6000'OUTBY THE WORKING SECTION. THE FALL MEASURED 24'LONG X 18'WIDE X 6'THICK IN THE INTERSECTION. NO EQUIPMENT INVOLV ED, NO VENTILATION INTERRUPTED, FALL WILL NOT BECLEANED UP.

AT 5:15 AM THE HOIST WENT DOWN, WAS PULLING HIGH AMPS WHEN HOISTMAN ATTEMPTED TO MOVE THE SKIPS. AN IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THE INSIDE GUIDE SHOE, WAS ROLLED UP & WEDGED AGAINST GUIDES. THIS WAS CUT OUT, NEW GUIDE SHOE WAS INSTALLED, DURING THE SHAFT INSPECTION THEY FOUND A SPLICE BAR ABOUT 200' FROM THE BOTTOM OF SHAFT THAT NEEDED BOLTS. THE BOLTS WERE REPLACED.

AN UNINTENSIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN XCUT OFF 1 SOUTH TRACK HAULAGE. 79 WALL. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 16'W X 20'L X 8' TO 10' HIGH. NO INJURIES OR EQUIPMENT DAMAGED.

HOT LIME LEFT THE LIME COOLER ONTO THE TAKE-AWAY BELT AND THE HEAT FROM THE LIME STARTED A FIRE ON THE BELT AT THE HEAD PULLEY AREA. THE FIRE DEPT RESPONDED IN APPROX 20 MINUTES AND CONTROLLED THE FIRE. DAMAGE LIMITED TO THE COOLER BELT.

ROOF FALL (7000-1-016-02): LOCATION: SLOPE BOTTOM AREA, 8 X-CUTS OUTBY MS#1 SEAL. DIMENSIONS: H:8-10', W:19', L:30'. GEOLOGY: SOFT, MEDIUM TO DARK GRAY SHALE. ROOF SUPPORT: 6'CONVENTIONAL BOLT S.

A ROOF FALL OF APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS 50'L X 18'W X 5'H OCCURRED IN THE NO.1 ENTRY OF THE NO.2 SOUTHEAST MAINS, BETWEEN CROSSCUT # 86 & #87. THIS IS APPROXIMATELY 2800'OUTBY THE WORKING SECTIO N IN THE MAIN RETURN. NO INJURY OR DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT OCCURRED. THE FALL WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP.

NORTH MAINS 51 BLK #1 HDG. 3 WAY INTERSECTION. MMU 003 7 FT HIGH BY 18 FT WIDE BY 20 FT LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT 6 FT RESIN BOLTS, 6"" BY 16"" PLATES, ROOF MATS FALL DANGERED OFF, ADDITIONAL ROOF SUPPORTS SET AROUND FALL.

NORTH MAINS 35 BLK #1 HDG, 3 WAY INTERSECTION MMU 003 7 FT HIGH BY 18 FT WIDE BY 20 FT LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 6 FT RESIN BOLTS, 6"" BY 16"" PLATES, ROOF MATS, FALL DANGERED OFF, ADDITIONAL ROOF SUPPORTS SET AROUND FALL.

NORTH MAINS 33 BLOCK #1 HEADING, 3-WAY INTERSECTION MMU 003 7 FT HIGH BY 18 FT WIDE BY 20 FT LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 6 FT RESIN BOLTS, 6"" BY 16"" PLATES, ROOF MATS FALL DANGERED OFF, ADDITIONAL ROOF SUPPORTS SET AROUND FALL.

ROCK FALL IN #2 ENTRY OF LEFT RETURN FALL IS 140 FT INBY SPAD #1913. FALL 20 FT WIDE, 30 FT LONG, 5 TO 6 FT. HIGH.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED AT #83 BLOCK M.N. ON #9 BELT. NO INJURIES. FALL DIMENSIONS APPROX. 18-20' W X 30' L X 5-8' ABOVE COAL SEAM.

AN IGNITION QUESTIONABLE OCCURRED ON THE 001-0 G-2 SECTION IN THE NO. 3 ENTRY, WHEN THE ROOF DRILL OPERATOR WAS INSTALLING RIB BOLT AND STATED HE SAW A FLASH FOR LESS THAN A SECOND.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE 1ST WEST PARALLEL X-CUT 55 TO 3 ENTRY. L 18' X W 18' X T 10'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 10' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

ROOF WAS DISCOVERED BY A FOREMAN. THE FALL OCCURRED ON MAIN EAST TRAVELWAY AT # 64 XCUT 18 FT WIDE BY 50 FT LONG BY 6 FT HIGH.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE 9TH EAST, #8 ENTRY, BETWEEN #122 AND 3123 XCUTS. THE FALL WAS 20' LONG, 19' WIDE, AND 7' HIGH. IT DIDN'T AFFECT TRAVEL, VENTILATION, DAMAGE EQUIPMENT OR CAUSE ANY I NJURY. THE AREA WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS.

ROOF FALL AT SPAD #755 & #757 MOUTH OF CLIFF MAINS #1 ENTRY. APPROX. 150' L X 20' W X 5' H.

AN UNPLANNED ROOF FALL OCCURRED INT THE #3 ENTRY @ 1 BREAKS INBY S CURVE ON 1 LEFT SPAD #610, MEASURING APPROX 35'X19'X5'. THE FALL WAS APPROX. 6000 FROM THE ACTIVE SECTION. NO EQUIPMENT INVOL VED, VENTILATION WAS NOT AFFECTED. AREA WILL BE REHABILITATED.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE #3 ENTRY NEAR SPAD #0271. THERE ARE NO ACTIVE FACES IN THIS MINE, TRANSFER OF COAL ONLY. SIZE OF FALL WAS APPROX. 40'L X 20'W X 8'H. AREA WILL BE BRE AKERED OFF AND TIMBERED AND WILL NOT BE REHABILITATED.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED 8,800' FROM THE FACE OUTBY #5 HEAD, #4 BELTLINE. THE FALL WAS 30' X 20' X 6 TO 7' HIGH. THERE IS A COAL RIDER SEAM ABOUT 7' ABOVE WORKING SEAM. AREA WILL BE REHABILITATED.

A FALL WAS DISCOVERED DURING THE WEEKLY EXAMINATION OF THE 1 SOUTH PANEL AT SURVEY STATION 2500.THE FALL WAS NEAR THE TOP END OF THE PANEL IN THE #7 ENTRY. ABOUT 4,000' FROM THE ACTIVE SECTION . THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 150'L X 20'W X 6'H. THERE WERE NO INJURIES OF EQUIPMENT INVOLVED.

ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN A KNOWN FAULT AREA THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY CRIBBED. ROOF FALL LOCATED AT #10 X CUT #7 ENTRY AT 4 LEFT PANEL. FALL MEASURES 50 BY 20 BY 10' THICK.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE #5 ENTRY BETWEEN #24 AND #25 CROSSCUTS. THIS WAS LOCATED ALONG THE CONVEYOR BELT ENTRY OF THE 5S/2E WORKING SECTION. THE ROOF FALL WAS 57'LONG, 18' WIDE & 5'HIGH. THE ROOF FALL WILL BE CLEANED UP & THE AREA WILL BE RE-SUPPORTED. INITIALLY THE AREA WAS BOLTED WITH 4' FULLY GROUTED ROOF BOLTS AND SHOWED NO INDICATION OF FAILURE. GRAY SHALE.

AN UNINTENTSIONAL ROOF FALL COCURRED INT HE 4SOUTH SECTION #7 ENTRY 33 & 41. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 20'X20'X12' TO 15' HIGH. NO INJURIES OR EQUIPMENT DAMAGED.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURED ON #1 BELT, A MAINS, 24 BLOCK. THE FALL MEASURED 18FT TO 24 FT. LONG X 6 FT TO 8 FT HIGH X 12 FT TO 16 FT WIDE.

ROOF FALL DISCOVERED DURING WEEKLY EXAM. FALL IS LOCATED IN #2 ENTRY CROSSCUT #27 TO #29 OF THE HATFIELD MAINS. FALL MEASURED 20'W X 160' X 10' THICK.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE 2 WEST PANEL OFF THE 1ST SOUTH, AT CROSSCUT 9-10, #4 ENTRY. THE FALL MEASURES 20 FEET LONG, 18 FEET WIDE, AND 8 FEET HIGH.

ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE #1 ENTRY AT SPAD 15695 IN A NON PRODUCTING AREA. THE FALL MEASURED 20'X20'X5'. THE AREA HAD BEEN DEVELOPED APPO. 7-15-02. 4' FULLY GROUTED BOLTS HAD BEEN INSTALLED AS ROOF SUPPORT. AREA WILL NOT BE REHAB.

WEST 3, 5 BLOCK XCUT 3-4, MMU 001, 6' HIGH X 18' WIDE X 15' LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 6' RESIN BOLTS, 6"" X 16"" PLATES, ROOF MATS. FALL DANGERED OFF. ADDTIONAL ROOF SUPPORTS SET AROUND FALL.

COIL BURNED UP ON BRAKE ON ELEVATOR, CAUSING BRAKES NOT TO RELEASE.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED 1 BREAK INBY SPAD #236 IN THE #4 CONVEYOR 3,100' FROM THE ACTIVE FACE. FALL MEASURED 70'L X 20'W X 0-6'H. THIS AREA IS BEING REHABILITATED.

AN INUNDATION OCCURRED ON THE 001-0 SECTION. THE CREW OF 9 MEN & THE FOREMAN WERE WORKING THE 7 A.M. SHIFT IN AN AREA APPROX. 150' FROM THE OUTCROP. THE MINER WAS TRAMMED TO THE NO. 4 ROOM & 2 SHUTTLE CARS WERE LOADED FROM THE RIGHT SIDE OFTHE FACE. THE MINER PENETRATED A NON PERMITTED MINE INUNDATING THE SECTION WITH WATER WHICH DIDN'T POSE ANY DANGER TO THE WORKERS. CUT SEALED.

ROOF FALL DISCOVERED DURING WEEKLY EXAM. FALL IS LOCATED IN #2 ENTRY AT #31 TO #32 CROSSCUT OF THE HATFIELD MAINS. FALL MEASURED 20' W X 80' L X 10' THICK.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON THE 10TH WEST TAILGATE ENTRIES OF MW ENTRIES 3-1 AT 325' WEST. THE FALL WAS APPROX. 100'LONG X 16'8""WIDE X 8-10'THICK. THE FALL DID NOT AFFECT VENTILATIO N OR PASSAGE OF MINERS. THE FALL WILL BE CLEANEDUP.

AN AIR COMPRESSOR FOR THE PNEUMATIC BRAKE SYSTEM FRO THE DESKINS ""B"" SHAFT AUTOMATIC ELEVATOR DEVELOPED A MECHANICAL WHICH RENDERED THE ELEVATOR INOPERATIVE FOR APPROX 3 HOURS AND 45 MINUTES.

ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS WITH ELEVATOR FROM 0740 TO 1130.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED AT THE 136 INTERSECTION (G-FACE) OF OUR MAINLINE HAULAGE. THE FALL WAS APPROX. 20'WIDE X 40'LONG X 5'HIGH. THE AREA HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED WITH 4'CONVENTIONAL BOLTS . NO PERSONS WERE INJURED AND NO EQUIPMENT WAS DAMAGED.

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL 7TH NORTH PANEL #2 ENTRY 69 X-CUT 25 L BY 35 W BY 6-8 H OUT BY TAIL 3' CONVENTIONAL 6' AND 8' TR BOLTS.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED IN A MAINS IN THE NO.4 ENTRY, BREAK #17, SPAD 105. THE FALL MEASURED 9 FT. HIGHT 17 FT WIDE X 20 FT LONG.

A ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED DURING A PRE-SHIFT EXAMINATION OFF THE MMU 001-0 A SOUTH PANEL. THE FALL WAS IN THE NO.3 HEADING (S.S.2574) ABOUT 200' OUTBY THE FACE. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 70'L X 20'W X 8-10'H. THERE WERE NO INJURIES OR EQUIPMENT DAMAGED.

VOYAGER #6 MINE EXPERIENCED AN UNPLANNED ROOF FALL AT #85 CROSSCUT. ON BELT LINE.

ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6TH AT 3:45 PM, THE FIRE BOSS FOUND A ROOF FALL BETWEEN NO.52 AND NO.53 CROSSCUT IN THE 3 LEFT WEST RETURN. THE FALL WAS APPROXIMATELY 45 FEET LONG, 17 FEET WIDE AND 8 FT T O 9 FT HIGH. THE AREA HAD MUD STONE, SHALES AND COAL TOP WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE FALL IN THIS AREA. NO EVIDENCE OF FAILURE WAS OBSERVED IN THIS AREA PROIR TO THE ROOF FALL.

A COAL RIB BURST OCCURRED APPROX. 15,000 FEET INBY THE PORTAL ON THE 001-0 MMU APPROX. 3 CROSSCUTS OUTBY THE PILLAR LINE. THE BURST OCCURRED TO THE PILLAR BETWEEN #3 & #4 ENTRY IN A 5 ENTRY SY STEM.

INTAKE #6 ENTRY NWA X C 53. 18X25X6 PROPSETS, CRIBS DATE 2-94.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED IN A-MAINS ENTRY #9, SPAD 209. THE FALL MEASURED 10 FT HIGH X 17 FT WIDE X 30 FT LONG.

ROOF FALL ON MAINLINE BELT AT SPAD #2487. 90'L X 20'W X 5'H.

BLAKES RIDGE ELEVATOR GOVERNOR ROPE THAT WAS ATTACHED TO SAFETY CATCHES BECAME WRAPPED AROUND A STEEL BEAM ON THE CAR. ELEVATOR WAS TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE AND REPAIRED - BY 12:00 PM NOON.

THE ELEVATOR WAS DOWN FOR MORE THAN 30 MINUTES BECAUSE OF A BROKEN ROLLER ON THE ELEVATOR DOOR. 4 PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED ON THE ELEVATOR FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO THE ELEVATOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE COMPANY WATER TRUCK TRAVELING SOUTH ON THE HAUL ROAD. HE PROCEEDED TO CROSS CH16 & DID NOT SEE AN EASTBOUND AUTOMOBILE. THE CAR SWERVED TO THE RIGHT TO AVOID A COLLI SION WITH THE WATER TRUCK AND STRUCK A STOPPED EUCLID HAUL TRUCK. THE AUTO STRUCK THE LEFT FRONT WHEEL OF THE EUCLID TRUCK CAUSING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THE AUTO & MINIMAL DAMAGE TO THE HAUL TR

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON THE 1 WEST BELT AT 8 XCUT. (AWEST, #3 ENTRY AT 5+50 FT.). THE FALL OCCURRED IN THE OLD 1SOUTH BELT TRENCH. THE FALL WAS 30' LONG, 12' WIDE, AND 4' HIGH. FOUR FEET CONVETIONAL BOLTS & SCREEN WERE USED IN THE ROOF OF THE OLD BELT TRENCH. CRIBS WERE SET ALONG RIBLINE OF THE BELT. SOME 8' POINT ANCHOR BOLTS WERE ALSO USED. DETERIORATION OF THE IMM

A FALL OF ROOF WAS FOUND ON 9/5/02 APPROXIMATELY 12:15 P.M. AT #9 ENTRY OUTBY #24 SEAL AT 1 H.

WEST 3 13 BLOCK #17 HEADING 4 WAY-INTERSECTION. MMU 002 8 FT HIGH X 18 FT WIDE X 30 FT LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 6' RESIN BOLTS, 6""X16"" OLATES, ROOF MATS FALL DANGERED OFF, ADDITIONAL ROOF SUPPOR T SET AROUND FALL.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN A CROSSCUT BETWEEN NO. 4 ENTRY (SUPPLY ROAD) AND NO. 5 ENTRY (BELT). 6' HIGH, 18' WIDE & 50' LONG.

ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED INT HE #6 HD. RETURN AIRWAY 1 BRK. OUTBY SPAD #D-213-ALL APP. 6' HIGH, APPROX. 18' WIDE, APP 30' LONG-PAIN NO EQUIPMENT INVOLVED NO BLOCKAGE OF ESCAPEWAY OR VENTILATIO N. WILL NOT CLEANED UP. TIMBERED OFF AND DANGERED.

WEST 3, 8 BLOCK #1 HEADING 3-WAY INTERSECTION MMU 001 8 FT HIGHX 20 FT WIDE X 20 FT LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 6 FT RESIN BOLTS, 6""X16"" PLATES, ROOF MATS. FALL DANGERED OFF, ADDITIONAL ROOF SUPPORT SET AROUND FALL.

THE EAST FINLEY ELEVATOR WAS DOWN FOR MORE THAN 30 MINUTES BECAUSE THE UPS BATTERY WAS OFF & THE BATTERY CHARGER FOR THE BACK UP BATTERY. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE & THERE WAS NO ENTRAPMENT.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON #2 3N54Y #14 S CUT 2ND WEST ENTRIES L70'X W18'XT10'. THE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 6' POINT ANCHOR.

WEST 3 10 BLOCK #5 HEADING 4WAY INTERSECTION. 001-MMU. 8 FT HIGH X 20 FT WIDE X 20 FT LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 6 FT RESIN BOLTS, 6"" X 16"" PLATES, ROOF MATS. FALL DANGERED OFF. ADDITIONAL ROOF SUPPORTS SET AROUND FALL.

NORTH MAINS 23 BLOCK # HEADING 4 WAY INTERSECTION MMU 004 7FT HIGHX 18FT WIDE X 25 FT LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 6 FT RESIN BOLTS, 6""X16"" PLATES, ROOF MATS, FALL DANGERED OFF, ADDITIONAL ROOF SUPP ORTS SET AROUND FALL.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE #4 ENTRY NEAR SPAD #415. FALL MEASURED 20 FT LONG BY 20 FT WIDE BY 0-6 FT HIGH AND FELL APPROX 6000 FT FROM THE ACTIVE FACE. VENT WAS NOT AFFECTED AND THE AREA WILL BE REHABILITATED.

NORTH MAINS 44 BLOCK #3 HEADING 4 WAY INTERSECTION MMU 003 8 FT HIGH X 18 FT WIDE X 20 FT LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 6 FT RESIN BOLTS 6""X16"" PLATES. ROOF MATS FALL DANGERED OFF, ADDITIONAL ROOF SU PPORTS SET AROUND OF FALL.

NORTH 1, 2 BLOCK #7 HEADING, 4 WAY-INTERSECTION MMU 004, 6' HIGH X 18'W X 30' LONG. TYPE OF SUPPORT: 6' RESIN BOLT, 6""X16"" PLATES, ROOF MATS FALL DANGERED OFF ADDITIONAL ROOF SUPPORTS SET SEC OND FALL.

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL 7TH NORTH PANEL #9 ENTRY 52 X-CUT RETURN. 35'L X 20' X 6'H. 4 WAY INTERSECTION, 5'CONVENTIONAL BOLTS.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE #1 RETURN ENTRY ON THE 1ST LEFT SECTION, 1 BREAK OUT BY SPAD 385, AND WAS 700 FT FROM THE ACTIVE FACE. THE FALL MEASURED 35 FT L BY 20 FT W BY 4 1/2 FT. VENTILATION WAS NOT AFFECTED. AREA HAS BEEN BREAKERED OFF AND WILL BE REHABILITATED.

AT APPROX 5 AM ON SEPT 3, 02 THE EXPLOSIVES STORAGE MAGAZINE EXPLODED. I FIRST HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXPLOSION AT 6:00 AM AND CALLED MSHA AT APPROX 6:20 AM CST. MAGAZINE WAS LOCATED IN UNION AT THE THAYER QUARRY.

ROOF FAILURE OCCURRED IN THE 4-LEFT, ENTRY #1 X/C #7. AN AREA 20' WIDE X 20' LONG X 15' HIGH WAS DISCOVERED BY THE WEEKLY EXAMINER. AIR, WATER & STRATA DETERATION CONTRIBUTED TO THE FAILURE OF AREA. REHABILITATION OF AREA IS UNDERWAY. THIS AREA IS INSPECTED BY THE WEEKLY EXAMINER. NO DISTURBANCE IN AIR FLOW HAS BEEN OBSERVED. AIR MOVEMENT IS DETECTED INBY & OUTBY THE FALL AREA.

INJURED EE WAS REMOVING GRATING AT A RAIL CAR UNLOADING HOPPER. THE GRATES HAVE LIFTING BRACKETS ATTACHED THAT SLIDE UP TO ALLOW THE FORKS OF A FORKLIFT TO BE INSEERTED FOR LIFTING. THE EE WAS HOLDING THE LIFTING BRACKETS UP TO ALLOW ANOTHER EE TO INSERT FORKLIFT WHEN HIS LEFT THUMB BECAME TRAPPED BETWEEN THE BRACKET AND THE FORK.

WORKER WAS LIFTING A PIECE OF FLAGSTONE OUT OF HIS WAY WITH ONE HAND WHEN THE STONE SLIPPED OUTOF HIS HAND AND PINCHED THE TIP OF LEFT MIDDLE FINGER OFF BETWEEN THE STONE AND HIS CUTTING WEDGE

4-A TRANSFER--EE WAS STRUCK ON HTE LEFT INDEX FINGER BY A COWORKER WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER AS HE WAS MOVING THE RIVET DRIVER TO THE NEXT LOCATION ON A BELT SPLICE THEY WERE MAKING.

EE WAS BEING TRAINED AS A STACKER. HE REACHED ON THE CHAIN BELT FOR A BAG OF MATERIAL; HIS GLOVE AND HAND WERE CAUGHT IN THE CHAIN BELT. RESULTED IN DISTAL AMPUTATION OF END OF RIGHT MID FINGE R. RETURNED TO WORK WITH RESTRICTIONS 9/17/02.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING SCREENS FOR SCREENING PLANT CAUSING STRAIN/HERNIA.

MECHANIC WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGING A TIRE ON THE SERVICE TRUCK. AFTER LIFTING THE TIRE HE SAID HIS BACK AND STOMACH BECAME SOAR. HE WAS LATER DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIA IN HIS STOMACH.

WHILE LIFTING THE CHUTE OF THE IMPACT, THE CHUTEBECAME JAMMED. EE WENT TO DISLODGE BUT IT SHIFTED AND CAUSED HIS LEFT RING FINGER TO BECOME CAUGHT AND SMASHED. DUE TO SEVERITY OF THE INJURY TH E DR. HAD TO AMPUTATE THE TIP OF HIS FINGER.

CLEANING TAIL ROLLER UNDER FEED BELT A ROCK FELL OFF SIDE OF FEEDER KNOCKING OFF HIS HARD HAT WENT TO PICK UP HARD HAT ANOTHER ROCK FELL, HITTING THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS HEAD.

LOADER OPERATOR WAS GETTING UP ON LOADER TO OPERATE IT AND HE SLIPPED ON THE LADDER AND FELL TO THE GROUND.

WAS DESCENDING A LADDER IN THE PLANT, HE TRIPPED, TURNING HIS ANKLE, WHICH HURTS BADLY.

WHILE DISLODGING CHUNKS ON STRUCTURE OF W4900 BELT THE PRY BAR SLIPPED AND HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK (FIRST LOST DAY 10/1/02).

EE SAYS HE SLIPPED ON THE STEP OF THE WATERTRUCK& FELL BACKWARD ON THE GROUND. THERE WERE NO WITNESS. HE CONTINUED TO WORK FULL TIME. CHOVIESCLINIC NOTIFIED US 10-07-02 THAT HE WOULD BE OFF WORK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. THE DR. HAS REQUESTEDAND MRI.

EMPLOYEE HIT FINGER WITH SLEDGE HAMMER.

A DUST COLLECTOR CAGE SLIPPED FROM CO-WORKER'S HANDS AND EE JERKED HIS HEAD AROUND VERY QUICKLY AND OUT OF PATH OF CAGE TO AVOID BEING HIT, CAUSING HIM TO SUFFER A CERVICAL STRAIN.

EE WAS HELPING CO-WORKERS TO HANG THE MINER CABLE WHEN HE HURT HIS BACK. HE CONTINUED TO EXPERIENCE NUMBNESS DOWN ONE SIDE- MRI RESULTS ON 10/25/02 SHOWED A HERNIATED DISK AND PINCHED NERVE. HE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 10/25/02.

EE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF 1 1/4"" PIPE WITH A PORTABAND SAW. WHEN THE SAW CUT THROUGH, EE'S HAND WAS CUT BY PIPE.

EE WAS PULLING ON THE HANDLE OF A VALVE AND PULLED MUSCLES IN HIS CHEST AND BACK.

WHILE OPERATING ROOF BOLTER, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM MINE ROOF STRIKING EMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND.

STRETCHING TO HANG ROCKDUST HOSE IN A HOOK FROM A ROOF BOLT. WHEN HE FINISHED HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE. HE BEGAN LOSING TIME ON 10/4/02.

EE SLIPPED OFF THE LADDER WHILE EXITING THE CATERPILLAR 773 HAUL TRUCK.

A ROCK FELL FROM THE MINE ROOF AND STRUCK THE EE ONT OP OF RIGHT SHOULDER AND BACK OF HEAD, CAUSING BRUISED SHOULDER AND SPRAINED NECK.

EE WAS WORKING IN AREA WHERE WELDING WAS BEING DONE. RECEIVED FLASH BURN TO EYES.

TRUCKS WERE DUMPING ON LEVEL GROUND TO BE USED IN BUILDING A LANDFILL CELL. THE DRIVER BACKED UP. THE LEFT TIRE WENT ON THE PRECEDING PILE PARTWAY AND THE TRUCK WAS UNLEVEL WHEN HE STARTED TO DUMP. THE CAB TURNED OVER.

EE WAS HELPING INSTALL HANDING RAIL WHEN HE FELT SEVERE PAIN HIS BACK.

EE STATED THAT HE HAD DRILLED A ROOF BOLT HOLE AND WAS IN THE PROCESS PUTTING A TUBE OF RESIN INTO THE HOLE WHEN A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE ATRS AND ROOF BOLTER CANOPY, STRIKIN G HIM ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD AND ON THE RIGHT FOREARM. THE ROCK MEASURED APPROX. 4 FOOT LONG 3 FOOT WIDE AND 9 INCH TO 6 INCH THICK.

EE STATED HE WAS WALKING SLIPPED AND FELL CAUSING DISCOMFORT TO THE WRIST, NECK, AND LOWER BACK.

CHANGING V BELT USING A COME A LONG TO LIFT MOTOR MOTOR SLIPED FELL ON RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING ONTO 992C CATERPILLAR HIGHLIFT TO CHECK ENGINE OIL. EMPLOYEE FELT A ""POP"" IN HIS LEFT KNEE AND WAS UNABLE TO MOVE HIS KNEE.

WHILE EATING LUNCH NEXT TO A COAL RIB, EE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK MEASURING 6 1/2' X 2 1/2' X 8"" CAUSING A LACERATION & A COMPOUND FRACTURE.

WAS SHUTTING OFF ENGINE OF ROCK TRUCK AND FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF FLOOR AND FELL BACKWARDS OUT OF THE TRUCK. HE GRABBED SAFETY RAIL TO KEEP FROM FALLING AND LANDED ON RT. SHOULDER AND BACK.

EE SLIPPED WHILE MOUNTING DOZER, RESULTING IN A STRAIN TO HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND NECK.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE CLIMBING DOWN OFF D11 DOZER UNDER FOGGY CONDITIONS HIS FOOT SLID DOWN BRACE AND LEG WENT BETWEEN PUSHARM AND TRACK.

EE STATES HE WAS WALKING TO CHECK A PUMP NEAR THE #3 6' BELT HEAD WHEN HE SLIPPED & TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS BENT OVER PICKING UP MINER CABLE, WHEN A 12""X12""X4"" PIECE OF RIB FELL HITTING HIM IN THE HARD HAT. FINISHED SHIFT AND REPORTED NECK PAIN THE NEXT DAY AND WENT TO DOCTOR. BEING TREATED F OR SORE MUSCLES IN NECK BY PHYSICAL THERAPIST.

EE SAID HE HAD TWISTED HIS KNEE EARLIER IN THE DAY WHILE RUNNING FROM SOUNDS OF POTENTIAL ROOF FALL, THEN HE SAID THE ROOF FELL AND HE WAS RUNNING, CO-WORKER WAS ALSO RUNNING AND COULD NOT SEE INJURED AND HE RAN OVER HIM.

EE WAS EXITING PARTS TRAILER WHEN HE FELL HURTING HIS LOWER BACK.

IMPROPER USE OF FRONT END LOADER BUCKET BEING USED AS A LIFT LED TO THE ACCIDENT. FOREMAN FELL FROM THE LOADER BUCKET 6 TO 7 FT DOWN. HE LANDED ON HIS KNEE AND LOWER LEG. THE FALL BROKE THE BO NES IN HIS LOWER LEG.

MOVING A BLOCK OF STONE, LOST HIS BALANCE, DROPPED STONE, THE STONE BROKE AND HIT HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE LAID LADDER AGAINST PUSH ARM OF A D11R STARTED TO CLIMB OFF LADDER SLIPPED OUT AND EMPLOYEE FELL TO GROUND ON RIGHT FOOT.

EE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A SECTION OF TOP BELT 54"" WITH HIS BACK. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS IMPROPER LIFTING, NOT USING MECHANICAL DEVICES. COMPLAINANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP. WAS NOT A FACTOR, MINER PROFICIENCEY A FACTOR, MINING EQUIP0M/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.

EE WAS DESCENDING THE LADDER OF THE CAT HAUL TRUCK AND WHEN SHE WAS ON THE BOTTOM 2 RUNGS, MUDDY CONDITIONS CAUSED HER TO LOOSE HER FOOTING AND FALL. HER SOFT SIDED LUNCH BOX WAS SLUNG OVER HE R HEAD & SHOULDER AND SHE SAT ON THE LUNCH BOX WHICH HAD A CAN OF SOUP IN IT.

STRUCK KNEE ON BLOWER LINE AS HE STEPPED OVER IT.

EE WAS WALKING AT THE REAR OF THE MILL AND TRIPPED ON A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON & FELL.

WHILE WORKING ON THE DRIVE TRAIN UNDER THE L-160 TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS RIDING IN THE REAR SEATING COMPARTMENT OF NO. 13 MANTRIP WHEN THE MANTRIP HIT A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY CAUSING HIM TO FALL OUT OF THE BACK OF THE MANTRIP TO THE MINE FLOOR.

EE STATED THAT ON THIS DATE HIS LEFT SHOULDER WAS INJURED AS HE WAS LOADING BELT HARD WARE ON A PICK UP TRUCK. EE STATED THAT AS HE WAS LOADING THE HARDWARE IT BECAME WEDGED IN THE TRUCK AND T HE SUDDEN STOP CAUSED PAIN IN THE SHOULDER. EE HAS STARTED MISSING TIME.

CONDITIONS ARE WET & SLIPPERY MINE FLOOR. EE WAS TRAVELING ON FOOT IN THE RETURN ENTRY APPROX 350 FT. INBY THE SURFACE PORTALS WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE MINE FLOOR AND FELL, TWISTING HIS RIGHT KN EE. THIS DID NOT BECOME A LOST TIME ON RESTRICTED DUTY ACCIDENT UNTIL 10-10-02.

EE REPORTS THAT CONSTANT TWISTING, TURNING & STEPPING ON TOES OF LONGWALL FACE HAS CAUSED EE'S LT. KNEE TO SWELL. WHEN HE IS REQUIRED TO WORK IN A KNEELING POSITION OR SQUATTING POSITION THE KNEE LOCKS UP & STIFFENS. ON 10/17/02 HE WENT OFF WORK FOR HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN SLOPE BRAKE CAR PULLING UP A SHEARER TRAILER. THE SHEARER TRAILER'S FLOATING AXLE HUNG ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR. THE 1"" SLING PULLING THE TRAILER BROKE. THE BRAKE CAR RECOILED UP THE SLOPE, JARRING THE EMPLOYEE.

MECHANIC WAS DRIVING AN 1 1/2 FUEL HOSE ONTO A 1 1/2""COMBINATION NIPPLE. THE HOSE SLIPPED OFF & THE MECHANIC STRUCK HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER WITH THE HAMMER. THE FINGER RESTED THE HOSE NIPPLE WHEN STRUCK.

DURING RESTART OF PAN FEEDER MOTOR ON UNIT (TO SWITCH TYPE OF PELLETS), HOT MATERIAL (DUST) LET LOOSE FROM THE HOPPER THAT FEEDES THE PAN FEEDER. EE RECEIVED BURNS TO TORSO, ARMS, LEGS AND NOS E.

USING CHANNEL LOCKS TO PULL OLD PIECE OF BELTING OUT OF WALKWAY, CHANNEL LOCKS SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL, STRIKING HIS HEAD ON A ROOF SUPPORT CRIB.

ANOTHER EE WAS ON ROLL FEEDER DECK HOISING FLOOR EE CAME THRU THE DOORWAY AND A SHOT OF WATER AND MUD CAME THRU DOORWAY SO HE TURNED AROUND STEPPED BACK AND AT THE SAME TIME ANOTHER EE YANKED THE HOSE HE STEPPED OVER CAUSING HIM TO TRIP ANDFALL TO FLOOR.

SLIPPED IN MUD AND FELL TWISTING HIS NECK AND BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING ROCK BACK INTO GRAVEL WASHER, EE WAS BENDING OVER AND STRAINED LOWER MIDDLE BACK.

WHILE WALKING EMPLOYEE STEPPED INTO DEPRESSION IN GROUND AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

WHILE LOWERING SAFETY POST ON FLETCHER BOLTER, EE PLACED HAND BETWEEN TOP OF TELESCOPING SECTION AND DESCENDING POST SMASHING TIP OF RIGHT RING FINGER.

OPERATING DOZER, BACKED OVER WINDROLL, JARRED NECK.

LAYING THE FINAL COURSE OF BLOCK ON A STOPPING WHEN HE DROPPED A SOLID CONCRETE BLOCK. THE BLOCK FELL AND AS HE ATTEMPTED TO CATCH IT HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BLOCK AND A METAL MAN DOOR.

WHILE TRYING TO AVOID WATER THAT WAS OVERFLOWING FROM A TANK IN THE HM PLANT, EE TRIPPED OVER A BEAM AND FELL. IN THE PROCESS OF FALLING, HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS HANDS AND JARRED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE IS EXPERIENCING LOWER BACK PAIN, BUT HE HAS NO SPECIFIC INCIDENT WHICH CAUSED THIS PROBLEM. HE HAS HAD BACK PROBLEMS IN THE PAST.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A CAN OF OIL OFF PALLETT WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL.

EE WAS HAULING COAL WITH A TRACTOR & TRAILER WHEN HE WAS COMING UP A HILL. THE TRUCK LOST TRACTION AND WENT BACKWARDS, CAUSING IT TO JACKKNIFE. THE TRACTOR CAME OFF THE GROUND AND WHEN IT CAME BACK DOWN HE STRUCK HIS CHIN ON THE STEERING WHEEL.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO SHOULDER AS HE CLIMBED ONTO A CHERRY PICKER.

AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING TO DRILL A HOLE IN THE ROOF WITH THE ROOF BOLTER, A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM AROUND THE DRILL STEEL & HIT HIS LEFT HAND WHICH HE WAS USING TO GUIDE THE DRILL STEEL. HIS HAND WAS EXAMINED BY TWO INDIVIDUALS & SHOWED NO EXTERNAL SIGNS OF SWELLING, SCRAPES OR ABRASIONS AT THE TIME OF THE EXAMINATION.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A RUBBER TIRE TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE, REFERRED TO AS A ""JOHNSON"" WHEN THE STEERING WHEEL SLIPPED FROM HIS HAND. THE STEERING KNOB ON THE STEERING WHEEL SPUN, STRIKING EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT HAND CAUSING INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING A SECTION OF MINER CABLE WHILE MOVING TO THE NEXT ROOF BOLT HIS LEFT LEG SLIPPED OUT AND HIS RIGHT LEG BUCKLED UNDER HIM. CAUSING A MUSCLE STRAIN. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 10-8-02. AT THIS TIME HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND X-RAYS WERE TAKEN.

LIFTED BAG ON PALLET FROM CONVEYOR BELT TO SCISSOR LIFT AND TWISTED BACK. SPRAINED LUMBAR.

RAINY WEATHER- THE STEPS TO THE WHEEL LOADER WERE SLIPPERY CAUSING THE OPERATOR TO SLIP OFF WHILE GETTING DOWN. HE FELL BACK OFF LOADER SETTING DOWN HARD ONTO GROUND CAUSING PAIN TO LOWER LUMBAR-ALSO BRUISED KNEE & TOES ON LEFT LEG.

EE REPORTED: HE & A COWORKER USING SHIELD HAULERS WERE TRANSPORTING A COAL FEEDER FROM A WORKING SECTION TO THE PORTAL ALONG THE MINE SUPPLY ENTRY. THE FEEDER SLID OFF THE VICTIM'S SHIELD HAUL ER FORKS, THIS ALLOWED THE MACHINE TO BOUNCE CAUSING HIS HEAD TO STRIKE THE TOP OF THE SHIELD HAULER CANOPY ROOF. HE IS EXPERIENCING PAIN & STIFFNESS TO HIS NECK.

EE WAS LOADING SUPPLIES ON ROOF BOLTER AND STRAINED BACK. EE STARTED MISSING WORK 9-30-2002

EE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING ROOF BOLTS FROMT HE BUCKET OF THE SCOOP TO LOAD ONTO THE RIGHT SIDE ROOF BOLT MACHINE WHEN HE FELT PAIN TO THE LOWER LEFT PART OF HIS BUTTOCKS. HE WAS DIAGNOSED A S HAVING A LUMBAR STRAIN.

WHILE TRAMMING HAULER HE WAS STRUCK IN THE MOUTH BY A BROKEN BOARD HANGING DOWN.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSPECTING HYDRAULIC HOSES ON THE DRILL HEAD AND LAID HIS HAND ON THE DRILL HEAD TO PULL HIMSELF UP WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE TIP OF THE RIGHT INDEX FINGER. THE NAIL WAS AVULSED FROM HIS FINGER. SURGERY WAS NEEDED TO REPAIR THE INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO PULL SLACK IN THE MINER CABLE TO HANG IT. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT GROIN AREA.

DURING ROUTINE CAGE PAKTOR CHANGE OR MAINTENANCE THE OPERATOR IN CHARGE AND A HELPER WERE ASSIGNED TO WORK AREA. THE HELPER WAS REMOVING OR DISCONNECTING THE CRANE HOOK FROM THE CAGE LIFTING T OOL. THE OPERATOR ACCIDENTALLY LOWERED THE CRANE CAUSING THE HELPER TO GET PINCHED BETWEEN THUMB AND INDEX FINGER. HELPER PUT BANDAID ON HIS HAND AND WENT HOME FOR THE EVENING.

EE WAS WORKING ON THE SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL, INJURING HIS LEFT KNEE & BACK.

HE WAS WALKING BACK TO 13A INLET FOR EXAMINATION, TRIPPED OVER LOOSE ROCK & FELL. TWISTING LOWER BACK & RIGHT WRIST. *LOST WORK DAYS BEGAN 9/27/02.

EE WAS EXITING CAB ON EXCAVATOR. WHILE CLIMBING DOWN LADDER, HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF RUNG. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF, BUT TWISTED BACK. EE EXPERIENCED LOWER BACK PAIN AND NUMBNESS IN RIGHT LEG.

EE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE TOOL VAN WHEN HE STEPPED ON A WEAK SPOT INT HE FLOORING. THE SPOT GAVE WAY CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING PLATE OFF FORK LIFT & FELT BURNING IN LEFT GROIN.

DISMOUNTNG MINER HAUL TRUCK AND STEPPED ON SOFT BALL SIZE ROCK. THIS WRENCHED AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS CLIMBING OFF A HAUL PACK TRUCK, WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL FROM A FEW FETT TO THE GROUND FLOOR.,

WHILE HAULING COAL ON A S.C. EMPLOYEE HIT HOLE IN MINE FLOOR, CAUSING PAIN TO LOWER BACK.

HE WAS THROWING STONE INTO TUMBLER MISSED THE HOLE HIT LEFT HAND OF EDGE OF TUMBLER.

WAS STANDING OUTSIDE HIS COAL HAULER, A ROCK FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT ELBOW.

SEPARATING DIFFERENT SIZES OF 20' LONG STEEL, MOVING 4"" ANGLE IRON, HE FELT PULLING SENSATION IN LOW LEFT SIDE OF BACK. REOCCURANCE OF 1/15/90 INJURY.

EE WAS TRYING TO LOOSEN A BOLT ON THE 980 LOADER USING A SOCKET AND 4' CHEATER BAR. THE BOLT BROKE LOOSE JARRING THE EE. THE CHEATER BAR HIT THE BUMPER OF THE LOADER CAUSING A SUDDEN STOP, WHI CH AGAIN JARRED THE EE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING ROCK OFF MINER & FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS LOADING ROOF STRAPS ON A SCOOP AT THE TIME OF THIS INCIDENT. HE WAS PUTTING A CHAIN THROUGH A HOLE IN THE STRAPS WHEN THEY FELL OFF THE TRAILER, EE HAD A HOLD OF THE CHAIN & IT WAS CAU GHT IN THE STRAPS WHEN THEY FELL. THIS ACTION JERKED EE'S ARM CAUSING PAIN IN HIS LT. SHOULDER.

9-26-02 THURS AM, IN OFFICE AREA. THOUGHT HE HAD A STICKER OR SOMETHING IN HIS PANTS LEG AT KNEE. NOTHING SAID AT THE TIME, BUT KNEE HURT DURING THE DAY AND BY NEXT DAY WAS SWOLLEN AND RED. SO UGHT DR ATTENTION NEXT DR INFOR EE IT WAS PROBABLY A SPIDER BITE.

MS. GOODWIN GOT A SPIDER BITE ON HER RIGHT ARM. IT IS UNKNOWN IF IT HAPPENED AT WORK OR NOT.

PLACED LEFT HAND ON CANOPY AND RAISED IT UO TO SET AND CAUGHT MIDDLE FINGER AGAINST MINE ROOF MASHING AND CUTTING FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING A TRACK BRIDLE UNDER THE RAIL & FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

THIS EE WAS BEEN SUFFERING FROM LOW BACK PAIN FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS DURING THIS PERIOD HE HAS RECEIVED THERAPY A COUPLE OF TIMES. DURING THE PAST WEEK 20-26 OCT HE TRIED TO WORK AND DENY HIS PAIN UNTIL IT BECAME UNEARABLE. HE IS NOW REPORTED TO THE STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION. WHICH WILL GIVE HIM ALL NECESSARY MEDICAL ATTENTION.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING #10 BELT, HIT HEAD ON GUARD AT TAIL PIECE. STARTED LOSING TIME ON 10/2/02.

EMPLOYEE HAD SET DOWN ON HI-LINE SUPPLY SLED TO EAT LUNCH. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL & HIT HIM.

COAL TRUCK DRIVER PULLED ONTO SCALES AT THE PREP PLANT. WHEN HE GOT OUT OF TRUCK HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF TOP STEP OF FUEL TANK ABOUT 3'. HE FELL & HIS LEFT KNEE & SHIN STRUCK 6"" PIPE ON WALKWAY.

EE LOST POWER ON THE SHUTTLE CAR. WHEN HE WENT TO CHECK THE CABLE, THE CABLE ARCED, BURNING HIS LEFT HAND.

EE WAS PRYING A STEEL PLATE THAT WAS WEDGED IN THE CRUSHER, THE STEEL PLATE GAVE WAY AND LANDED ON EE'S FINGER.

EE WAS HELPING MOVE A DIESEL PUMP WHEN HE TOOK OFF THE DISCHARGE LINE, STEAM ESCAPED AND THE EE ALLEGEDLY GOT STEAM BURNS ON HIS CHEST, ARM, AND WRIST.

A ROCK FELL OFF THE TOP OF JAW AND HIT HIM ON KNEE WHERE HE WAS SHOVELING.

RIDING A THREE WHEEL BUGGY, HE RAN OVER SOMETHING IN THE ROADWAY AND CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS BACK.

WAS PUTTING 1ST BOLT IN 1ST TURN, ROCK FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT ELBOW.

DRILL STEEL STUCK IN THE ROOF. EE WAS REACHING FOR A WRENCH WHEN THE DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF THE ROOF, STRIKING EE'S RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

WAS LOWERING TOWER ON THE LIGHT PLANT, HAND SLIPPED & THE WINCH HANDLE STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND.

EE WAS SHOVELING WASTE KAOLIN FROM AROUND #2 IMP MILL. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN. FIRST DIAGNOSED AS KIDNEY STONES. CONTINUED VISITS TO DOCTOR NOW SHOWS A HERNIA 10-30-02.

OPENING HATCHES ON RAILCAR, HE STEPPED ACROSS OPENING & TRIPPED, CATCHING HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT ARM CAUSING A STRAIN TO HIS ARM.

EE WAS STEPPING OVER THE FORKS OF A FORKLIFT, HEFAILED TO LIFT HIS LEG HIGH ENOUGH TO CLEAR THE FORK AND HIS BOOT CAUGHT THE FORK. HE FELL FORWARD HITTING HIS KNEE ON THE FLOOR. KNEE SURGERY ON 3/28/03.

EE SLIPPED WHILE DISMOUNTING GRADER. ABRASIONS TO LEFT LEG & RIGHT ARM. SLIGHT CRACK IN BONE IN RIGHT ELBOW.

EE FELL 5 1/2 FEET OFF OF DRIER, CAUSED BY WET SURFACE.

EE WAS DUMPING PRODUCT FROM DUMP TRUCK WHEN THE CAB WENT UP IN THE AIR. EE HURT LOWER BACK WHEN CAB HIT THE GROUND.

THE EMPLOYEE INJURED HIMSELF WHEN HE DISMOUNTED A HAULAGE TRUCK. AS HE STEPPED TO THE GROUND HE TWISTED HIS BACK.

HELPING GRANUSOL OPERATOR OTHER EE CHANGE SCREENS. WHILE WALKING AROUND THE ELEVATOR EE HIS HEAD UNDER THE CATWALK. HE THEN RAISED HIS HEAD TO SOON, KNOCKING HIM TO THE FLOOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING PARTS FROM THE INSTRUMENT REPAIR VAN. AS HE STEPPED OUT OF THE VAN HE FELT HIS KNEE POP. NO TREATMENT AT THE TIME. DIDN'T GET BETTER. HAD MRI FOUND TEAR OF LEFT KNEE MEDI AL MENISCUS. SURGERY ON 1/21/03. LOST TIME.

WRECKED DIESEL SUPPLY MOTOR INTO STEEL BEAM. FRACTURED RIB LEFT SIDE.

EE STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN PULLING HARD ON A RATCHET TO LOOSEN A BOLT AT ABOUT 0330. HE SAID THAT LATER HE BEGAN HAVING PAIN IN HIS ABDOMEN ON THE LEFT SIDE.

EE WAS SPLICING A CONVEYOR BELT, CUTTING THE BELT WITH A RAZOR KNIFE. HE WAS CUTTING TOWARD HIMSELF. THE KNIFE SLIPPED OUT OF THE BELT & WAS PULLED ACROSS RIGHT KNEE CAUSING A LACERATION ABOVE RIGHT KNEE CAP.

THE MINER WAS EXITING THE CAB OF THE CRANE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND HIT THE OUTRIGGER AND THEN THE GROUND. HE NEVER LOST CONSCIOUSNESS.

EE WAS WORKING UNDER CONTINUOUS MINER, AS HE CRAWLED OUT FROM UNDER THE MINER A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN THE PERMANENT ROOF SUPPORTS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE RT. LEG, CAUSING A LG. CONTUSION TO THE UPPER PART OF HIS LEG.

STEPPED ON ROCK AND TWISTED FOOT. CARRYING 5 GALLON BUCKET STEPPED ON UNEVEN GROUND AND TWISTED FOOT.

REPLACING A BELT STRUCTURE RAIL AT BOX CUT-ON #1 SLATE BELT. WHILE LIFTING STRUCTURE, HAD PAININ LOWER BACK.

EE FELT LOWER BACK PAIN WHEN LIFTING 60"" BELT ROLLER.

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING THE ROCK TRUCK WHEN HE BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE FAILED TO REPORT THE ACCIDENT TO MANAGEMENT UNTIL 9/26.

SLIPPED ON SLOPE INJURING HIS RIGHT KNEE.

SHOVELING CUTTINGS AWAY FROM DRILL HOLE - AGGRAVATED PREVIOUS BACK INJURY.

THE EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET OUT OF A STALLED MANBUS. THE MANBUS WAS STUCK BY A MOTOR. HE REPORTED HIS BACK BEGAN HURTING BECAUSE OF THE INCIDENT.

EE WAS STRUCK BY A SMALL PIECE OF DRAWROCK ONT HE LEFT CHEEK OF HIS FACE.

PULLING BELT, HIT HEAD ON WATER LINE HANGING OVER HEAD.

EE WAS UNLOADING 2 CANS OF 460 GEAR OIL. WHEN HE PICKED THEM UP & TURNED TO SET THEM IN THE RIB HEARD HIS BACK POP & FELL TO THE GROUND. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A MUSCLE SPASM & TOLD TO REMAIN O FF UNTIL 9-28-02.

COMING DOWN LADDER, FOOT SLIPPED TWISTING RIGHT KNEE.

WHILE EXITING A MANLIFT, EE WAS ""STOOPING"" DOWN TO GET UNDER THE MANLIFT BASKET SAFETY BAR. WHEN HE STOOD UP, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. THE DR. DIAGNOSED THE PAIN AS A LUMBAR STRAIN.

ROCK HIT EMPLOYEE ON HEAD WHILE BOLTING. STARTED LOSING TIME ON 10/11/02.

EE WAS LOADING ROOF BOLTS ON PINNER AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

WAS RODDING OUT TOWER AND TWISTED FUNNY, HURTINGLOWER BACK.

CLIMBING DOWN 988B LOADER, STEPPED TO GROUND ANDTWISTED ANKLE.

EE STATES HE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF THE EXCAVATOR, WHEN HE STEPPED TO THE GROUND, HIS LT. FOOT TWISTED OUT FROM UNDERNEATH HIM, CAUSING A FOOT FRACTURE.

INJURED WAS HELPING REMOVE ROCK OFF OF CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN THE SCOOP BUCKET HIT HIS RIGHT LEG. THE PERSON CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 9-27-02.

SPRAIN FROM LIFTING & TWISTING FROM PLANT CLEANING.

EE DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT UNTIL 10/3/02 (ON THE JOB ACCIDENT) THE EE FINISHED HIS SHIFT ON 9-23-02, SAID HE GOT UP THE NEXT DAY AND WAS SORE. WENT TOT HE DR AND WAS TOLD HE HAD A STRAINED MUSCLE. THIS WAS A WORK RELATED ACCIDENT.

SUBJECT WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DISLODGING ROOF BOLTER STEEL FROM MINE ROOF WHEN HIS FINGER CAME IN CONTACT WITH ROTATING STEEL, CUTTING HIM.

EE WAS USING A COMEALONG TO RAISE A WINCH CABLE WHEN IT SLID BACK & MASHED HIS LEFT HAND.

EE WAS LIFTING BELT AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WALKED THROUGH PULL THROUGH CURTAIN, AND RAN INTO BROW.

GRINDING A SCREW WITHING MILL, A PIECE OF METAL FLEW INTO HIS EYES.

MOVING STONE TO A STEEL PALLET, A STONE FELL ON HIM FROM BEHIND.

CLEANING SURFACE SHOP, MOVING METAL BAR, TWO MIDDLE FINGERS ON RIGHT HAND GOT SMASHED WITH THE METAL BAR. SMASHED AND BROKEN FINGERS.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING SLOPE WHEN HE STEPPED ON ROCK OR COAL, SLIPPED AND FELL, WHILE TRYING TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT ARM HE SPRAINED HIS LEFT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A 4 INCH WATERLINE FROM A FLATCAR TO A SCOOP BUCKET. ONE END OF THE PIPE FELL OFF THE CAR AND WHEN IT HIT THE MINE FLOOR IT BOUNCED CAUSING HIS LEFT HAND TO BE MASHED AGAINST A SHARP PIECE ON THE SCOOP RAM.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE SHOVELING ON BELT HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. BELT WAS ABOVE SHOULDERS.

EE WAS CARRYING REPAIR PARTS OUT OF THE PARTS HOUSE. HE BEGAN EXPERIENCING BACK PAIN DOING THIS.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS RIDING IN 66 BUS AS THE BUS WAS ATTEMPTING TO TRAVELING INTO THE ROCK DUST HOLE. THE OPERATOR OF THE BUS FAILED TO MAKE SURE THE SWITCH WAS THROWN FOR THE ""HOLE"" AN D THE BUS WENT TOWARD THE SOUTH END SWITCH AND HIT A MAIN LINE MOTOR.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING TO MAKE AN EXAMINATION OF MPL ""C"" WHEN HE SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF WET CONVEYOR BELT ON THE MINE FLOOR. HE SAID THIS CAUSED A STRAIN TO HIS LEFT KNEE BY TWISTING IT.

LOADING SUPPLIES ONTO ROOF BOLTER, AS HE PICK UP A BOX OF GLUE HE FELT SOMETHING GIVE IN HIS BACK.

MINER OPERATOR PICKED UP MINER CABLE TO MOVE AND BACK WENT OUT ON HIM. WORKED REMAINDER OF SHIFT AND WENT TO CLINIC THE NEXT DAY. DOCTOR TOOK HIM OFF WORK FOR OBSERVATION AND POSSIBLE SURGERY.

EMPLOYEE WAS POUNDING BOLT OUT OF CAP ON ROCK TRUCK, MISSED THE BOLT AND HIT HIMSELF ON LEFT FOOT.

EE WAS WELDING AN I-BEAM, HELD BY CLAMPS, TO A NEW HOPPER LID. HE ATTEMPTED TO TURN THE BEAM AND THE TACK WELD BROKE CAUSING THE BEAM TO FALL ON HIS UPPER & LOWER RIGHT ARM. THE INJURY REQUIRE D 4 DAYS OF LOST TIME TO ALLOW THE BRUISING AND PAIN TO SUBSIDE.

VEHICLE TRANSPORTING EMPLOYEE INTO MINE HIT ROUGH SPOT, JARRING EMPLOYEE. CLAIM DENIED 9/23/02. CLAIM ACCEPTED 1/06/03.

COAL STUCK IN HOPPER & ON BELT. HE CLIMBED ON BELT, STEPPED ACROSS MOTOR BRACKET; COAL SLID OUT FROM FEET; FELL ON BELT.

SHOVELING SPILLED LIME IN #2 COOLER PIT WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS SCALING WHEN A ROCK LANDED ON HIS SCALINGBAR. THE BAR FELL ON HIS FOOT ABOVE THE METATARSAL BOOT GUARD AND CAUSED A CONTUSION. HE DID NOTRETURN TO HIS NEXT REGULAR SHIFT.

OPERATOR WAS TRYING TO PUT AIR CONDITIONER DIRECTIONAL COVER BACK IN PLACE AT THE SAME TIME AS HE WAS OPERATING THE LOADER. THE COVER SLIPPED & HIS LEFT HAND ENTERED THE OPENING. HIS LEFT RING FINGER CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE SQUIRREL CAGE FAN, LACERATING THE FINGERPRINT PORTION OF THE FINGER & ALSO RESULTING IN AN OPEN DISTAL TUFT FRACTURE ON THE END OF THE FINGER.

EE WAS ON A 4' PLATFORM LADDER HANGING A COME-A-LONG. THE HOOK OF THE COME-A -LONG HOOKED THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER, CAUSING EE TO SHIFT HIS WEIGHT. WHEN THE LADDER FELL, IT CAUSED EE TO FALL.

EE WAS HANGING CURTAIN, BENT OVER AND TWISTED PULLING SOMETHING IN LOWER PART OF BACK. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 9/25/02 WHEN HE CONSULTED A DOCTOR.

EE ALLEGES HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE SHOVELING BELT. EE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 5-29-03 AND THEN STARTED MISSING TIME DUE TO INJURY.

EE WAS LOADING 8' ROOF BOLTS ONT HE ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS MIDDLE BACK.

WHILE DOING ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ON A BACK DUMP, EE'S FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE LADDER STEP, GOING BEHIND IT CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS, LEAVING HIM DANGLING UPSIDE DOWN BY HIS LEFT LEG, TWISTING HIS KNEE. CONDITIONS WERE WET AFTER HARD RAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE ONTO SCOOP AND BELT RAIL BOUNCED UP PINCHING LT. LITTLE FINGER TOP BETWEEN BELT RAIL AND STAND.

INJURED WAS PREPARING TO DRILL A ROOF BOLT HOLE. AS HE POSITIONED THE DRILL STEEL AGAINST THE ROOF A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT FOOT.

EE WAS SITTING ON THE RIB EATING HIS LUNCH, A PIECE OF COAL BLEW OUT HITTING HIS RT. HAND.

EE WAS CHECKING AN ORFICE FITTING ON A HYD.REEL ON A MRS MOBILE ROOF SUPPORT. HE STARTED THE MACHINE & THE PRESSURE FROM THE PUMP CUT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT OF THE MINE ROOF IN BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLT & RIB. THE PIECE OF ROCK STRUCK EE'S HEAD.

EE SLIPPED AND FELL AND INJURED HIS BACK. HE STARTED MISSING 9/23/02.

WHILE CLEANING ON BELT SLIPPED AND HURT LEFT KNEE. STARTING LOSING TIME ON 9-21-02.

EE OPENED DOOR TO GET OUT OF TRUCK WHICH WAS ON INCLINE. DOOR SLAMMED BACK ON RIGHT 5TH FINGER CAUSING LACERATION AND FRACTURE.

STEPPED INTO LOADER BUCKET & SLIPPED. BUCKET WAS ON THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE HAD HAND ON ROOF BOLT WHILE INSTALLING ANS BOLT BENT MASHING HAND.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS CHANGING A BURN LOOP FILTER BRACKET WHICH WEIGHED BETWEEN 30-50 LBS. WHILE LIFTING THE BRACKET HE FELT A STRAIN AND A PULL IN HIS RIGHT GROIN.

BUMPED RIGHT KNEE CAP ON STEERING COLUMN OF LOADER.

INJURED WAS BACKING MINER UP, WHEN A PIECE OF RIB ROLL HIT EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD, AND UPPER BACK WHICH RESULTED IN KNOCKING HIM TOTHE MINE FLOOR.

EE WAS SETTING IN A JB LONG MANTRIP, RIDING TO THE SECTION. HE CROSSED HIS RT. LEG OVER HIS LT.LEG AND FELT HIS KNEE ""POP"". EE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 11/21/02, WHICH WAS HIS FIRST DAY AWAY FROM WORK DUE TO THE INJURY.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE #3 RETURN SLOPE ENTRY SLIPPED AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE CAUSING A POSSIBLE STRAIN TO HIS KNEE.

WAS MOVING SCREENS FROM A PICK UP INTO OR ON A TRAILER, WHEN SOMETHING FLEW INTO THE EYE. IT WAS A WINDY DAY.

EE WAS CHECKING THE WASH PLANT BEFORE START-UP, CLEANING THE FEED CONVEYOR AND ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A PIECE OF WOOD FROM THE BELT. THE EE PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE SIDE OF THE HEADSTOCK & THE FEED BOX.

WHILE WALKING UP THE BELT ENTRY TO THE SECTION, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN THE RIB AND THE SECOND ROW OF BOLTS STRIKING EE ON THE HEAD. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WA S TREATED AND RELEASED. HE WORKED UNTIL 9-25-02 WHEN HE DEVELOPED A HEADACHE AND NAUSEA. HE WAS THEN DIAGNOSED WITH A CONCUSSION.

HANGING MINER CABLE, HANGER BROKE AND FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK OF NECK. STARTED MISSING WORK ON 9/23/02.

EE ALLGES HIS RIGHT KNEE WAS STRUCK BY THE HEAD OF THE ROOF BOLT MACHINE BEING OPERATED.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE STRAINED HIS BACK LOADING SUPPLIES FOR ERECTING A SEAL. (NOTE: EMPLOYEE WORKED UNTIL 01-17-03 THEN STARTED MISSING TIME FROM WORK.)

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN #8 RIGHT XCUT. DRAW SLATE FALL ALONG THE RIB STRUCK HIM.

MOVED SAW CABLE. INJURED RIGHT SIDE. HERNIA. PRIOR CONDITION.

EE WAS CRAWLING OVER A PARTICALLY COMPLETED SEAL AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE WHEN HIS FOOT HUNG UP IN THE MUDDY BOTTOM.

EE WAS POSITIONED ON CONVEYOR TRUSS BOLTED TO BENT LEG #2. THE BOLTS WERE REMOVED CAUSING TRUSS TO FALL INSIDE THE BENT LEG WHICH TIPPED 45 DEGREE. HE LANDED ON THE GROUND AND DURING THE FALL PINCHED L. ARM WHICH SWELLED.

DRIVING MAC 8. STEERING WHEEL SLIPPED OUT OF HAND HITTING BACK OF HAND W/KNOB.

EE WAS GETTING GLUE OFF BUCK OF ROOF BOLTER TO TAKE TO THE FRONT WHEN HE RAISED UP AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

WHILE RIDING THE MANTRIP IT HIT A BUMP AND THRU THE VICTIM INTO THE BUGGY FRAME.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING A GATE FOR A SPLITTER BOX. THE LADDER WAS NOT SET UP PROPERLY AND HE FELL.

PICKED UP A CHEEK PLATE AND IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND STRIKING HIS FOOT AT THE INSTEP.

HE KNELT DOWN AND HIS KNEE HIT A PIECE OF ROCK SURGERY CAUSING PAIN. HE CONTINUED TO WORK AND HAD CATILAGE SURGERY ON 12-20-2002. THE MINE WAS DOWN FOR VACATION FROM 12-2-2002 UNTIL 1-2-2003.

UNDER CAT 973 LOADER SERVICING EQUIPMENT. WHEN EMPLOYEE CAME OUT FROM UNDER EQUIPMENT AND STOOD, HE TWISTED LOWER BACK.

THE EE WAS FIREBOSSING THE TRACK HAULAGE WHEN THE TROLLEY POLE ON HIS RIDE CAME OFF THE TROLLEY WIRE. HE WENT TO PUSH DOWN ONT HE TROLLEY POLE TO PUT IT BACK ON THE WIRE, WHEN HE FELT A PAIN I N HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS HELPING A CO-WORKER LIFT A SECTION OF STEEL PLATE FROM GROUND LEVEL TO A WORK BENCH. AT ABOUT 9:00 P.M. OF 9/19/02 HE EXPERIENCED PAIN & SWELLING OF THE RIGHT TESTICLE. THIS INJURY WAS INVESTIGATED & DETERMINED TO BE WORK-RELATED ON 10/31/02.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN A SLOPING SURFACE AND LOST HIS FOOTING AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

WHEN GETTING OUT OF THE CRUSHER HE WAS WORKING ON HE SLIPPED HITTING SHOULDER ON FRAMEWORK. HAS BEEN WORKING WITH SORE WENT TO DOCTOR BUT NOT BETTER. NO 1-14-03 FOUND TORN ROTOR CUFF

SURFACE, SLURRY POND - EE WAS WALKING WHEN HE FELL IN A HOLE STRAINING LEFT KNEE. GOB WAS WET, MAKING WALKING SURFACE MUDDY. ALSO, THERE WERE NO LIGHTS IN THE AREA.

EE SLIPPED WHILE EXITING A LOADER, HIT HIS TAIL BONE ON LOADER STEP AND FELL TO GROUND.

INJURED STATED THAT WHILE HELPING CHANGE A GOLF CART TIRE HE FELT A PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK. INJURED WENT TO THE DR. AND RECEIVED MEDICATION.

EE DIDN'T KNOW OF ANY ONE INSTANCE THAT MAY HAVE RESULTED IN THIS INJURY, HE CLAIMS THAT HIS LOWER BACK JUST GOT SORE & FELT STRAINED ON THIS PARTICULAR DAY. THIS INJURY WAS NOT WRITTEN UP UNT IL 9/25/02. THE EE DID NOT SIGN ACCIDENT REPORT UNTIL 9/30/02. THE ACCIDENT REPORT ARRIVED AT MY OFFICE ON 10/3/02. STILL WAITING FOR MED. REPORTS FOR EE. HE WAS PUT ON RESTRICTED DUTY.

EE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE POWDER TRUCK WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED, WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS WEIGHT WITH HIS HAND HOLDING THE HANDRAIL IT PULLED HIS SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE CUT LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND, REQUIRED 5 STITCHES, STARTED LOSING TIME 9/19/02.

WHILE HOOKING UP TRACTOR TO TRAILER, HE TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

CARRYING A HYDRAULIC PUMP FOR CONE CRUSHER. STEPPED ON ROCK AND PULLED TENDON IN LEFT ANKLE AND LEFT SHOULDER.

WHILE WORKING ON FLY ASH BIN, HOSE WAS PRESSURRIZED AND FLY ASH MATERIAL GOT INTO EYES.

EE WAS PULLING A MINER CABLE. HE STEPPED ON SOME UNEVEN GROUND & TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS OPERATING SCRAPER, STRIPPING BASALT IN WEST PIT, OTHER EE WAS OPERATING PUSH CAT. AS EE IN SCRAPER WAS DROPPING BOWL, OTHER EE BUMPED INTO HIM HARD FROM BEHIND, CAUSING SCRAPER TO GO OVER A LARGE PIECE OF BASALT, JARRING EE A SECOND TIME, STRAINING HIS NECK AND BRUISING HIS RIBS AND HIPS.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FUEL THE MAIN WATER PUMP. HE STEPPED UP ON THE LEFT REAR TIRE OF THE TRAILER THAT THE PUMP IS MOUNTED ON, TO REACH THE FUEL TANK. THE TIRE WAS WET FROM D EW, HE SLIPPED AND FELL OFF OF THE TIRE, LANDING ON HIS BACK ONTO A MOUND OF SAND OVER A PIPE IN THE GROUND.

EE STATED HE WAS LIFTING A 5 GALLON BOX OF WATER TO PLACE IT ON A STAND AT CHEST HEIGHT. SOON AFTER THIS LEFTING EE STATED SOME DISCOMFORT IN HIS UPPER LEFT BACK. HE DID NOT FEEL IT WAS BAD EN OUGH TO GO TO A DOCTOR AT THAT TIME. THE PAIN, HE STATED, CONTINUED AND MOVED DOWN HIS LEFT ARM.

THE EE WAS DOING HIS REGULAR MAINTENANCE WORK & APPARENTLY HE WENT UP THE HIGHEST PART OF THE PLANT WHICH IS APPROX. 8' HIGH. HE SLIPPED OR TRIPPED & FELL RECEIVING INJURIES TO HIS SIDE & LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAND ROCK DUSTING #5 BELT 4 CROSS CUTS FROM THE BELTHEAD. THE HEIGHT WAS APPROX 4-4 1/2 FT WHILE CARRYING 40 LB BAG OF ROCK DUST HE FELT A BURNING PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA, RESULTIN G IN A MUSCLE STRAIN.

POUNDING ON COAL FEEDER WITH SLEDGE HAMMER. STRAINED LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE ALKALI BY PASS AND RESTRICTORS AREA AT THE PREHEATER TOWER STRIKING AN IRON BAR WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. AFTER A FEW HOURS HE BEGAN TO FELL PAIN IN HIS BACK AND RIGHT SH OULDER.

CHANGING CAGE ON WHEEL CRUSHER. WHEN TO PULL LAST BOLT FROM HUB ON OLD WHEEL AND DID NOT HAVE CRANE ATTACHED TO TOP OF WHEEL TO IMMOBILIZE IT. WHEEL TURNED WHEN RELEASED AND PINCHED EE'S LOWE R LT. HAND BETWEEN WHEEL-CAGE AND HUB AND IMPACTSOCKET. CRUSHED LITTLE FINGER AND LOWER HAND.

WHILE UNPLUGGING CRUSHER, REEL ROLLED AND PINCHED LOWER LEG.

HE WAS REBUILDING ROLLER FRAMES FOR D11 TRACTOR. TAKING SNAP RINGS OUT OF BOGGIE PIN COVERS WHEN HE GOT A SMALL PIECE OF METAL IN HIS LEFT EYE.

WHILE SERVICING CONE CRUSHER, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED OFF SCAFFOLDING AND FELL TO GROUND, BREAKING HIS LEG.

USING A SHOVEL TO DIG MUG FROM A DRAIN PIPE.

AS EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING THE ELEVATOR DOORS, THEY STUCK. HE ATTEMPTED TO RELEASE THE DOORS BY PULLING DOWN & THEN PUSHING THEM UP. WHILE PUSHING THE DOORS UP HE CONTINUED TO HOLD ONTO THE STRAP WHICH ALLOWED HIS FINGER TO BE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DOOR & FRAME.

WHEN THE EMPLOYEE OPPENED THE DOOR TO THE BACKHOE, THE DOOR CAME FLYING OPEN AND JAMMED HIS LEFT WRIST.

A PIECE OF ROCK FELL ACROSS BOOM ON BOLTER & BROKE IN HALF. AS EMPLOYEE LEANED BACK TO GET OUT OF THE WAY, HE SLID OFF THE SEAT OF THE BOLTER.

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING CAT 988F LOADER IN THE RAINWHEN SHE SLIPPED WHILE CLEANING THE WINDSHIELD. SHE HAD MINOR INJURIES (BUMPS AND SCRAPES) TO HER LEFT LEG.

INJURED SAID HE WAS HANGING THE CONTINUOUS MINERS CABLE FROM THE MINE ROOF AND AS HE LIFTED THE CABLE, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK.

INJURED HAD OPENED A DOOR THAT RAISED FROM THE BOTTOM AND PROPPED IT UP WITH A ROOF BOLT. AS SOON AS HE PASSED UNDER THE DOOR, HE KNOCKED THE PROP LOOSE, CAUSING THE DOOR TO FALL AND STRIKE HI S BACK. THE DOOR WEIGHED APPROX. 70# & FELL APP. 2 FEET.

CONTRACTOR WAS REMOVING PLYWOOD WALLS FROM EACH SIDE OF CEMENT RETAINER WALL AROUND RARE EARTH RECOVERY SYSTEM. WHILE THIS WORK WAS IN PROGRESSANOTHER CONTRACTOR WAS REMOVING TEMP PIPE BRACES FROM INSIDE RETAINER WALLS AND REMOVING THEM TO OUTSIDE, THE METAL BRACE FELL OFF ON ONE END AND STRUCK MAN ON RIGHT SHOULDER AND BACK AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROLLING A ROCK OFF A BLUFF. WHEN HE STRAIGHTENED UP HE HAD A MUSCLE SPASM IN HIS BACK RESULTING IN A LUMBAR STRAIN.

ROCK DISLODGED FROM ROOF & STRUCK MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND.

EE WAS HELPING REPLACE BELT ROLLER ON THE STACKER WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK. HE LEFT WORK & WENT TO THE DOCTOR. THIS IS A LOST TIME ACCIDENT AT THIS TIME THE DOCTOR THINK S HE HAS A PULLED MUSCLE.

FOUND LAYING BESIDE ROCK TRUCK UNCONSCIOUS.

WHILE LIFTING AN HYDRAULIC RAM FROM A TRUCK BOX ONTO A DRAGLINE SHOE, THE EMPLOYEE'S MIDDLE LEFT HAND FINGER GOT PINCHED. THE INJURY TO HIS FINGER REQUIRED MEDICAL TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WORKING ON CONVEYER #16 REPLACING ROLLERS, WHEN HE STEPPED FROM CONVEYER TO WALKWAY, HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE AND FELT PAIN, BUT KEPT WORKING. PAIN CONTINUED, AND HE RE PORTED IT THE NEXT DAY.

EE WAS DOING CLEAN-UP AND WHILE MOVING A FLOOR STAND, HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER STOMACH. EE WENT TO DR. ON 9-18-02, WHEN HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A NAVEL HERNIA.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING A FELLOW WORKER HANG THE CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE. HE LATER BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE BACK PAIN.

DUE TO FOG, DRIVER LOST SITE OF ROAD AND TURNED THE STEERING WHEEL TO SHARPLY AND OVERTURNED THE TRUCK.

EE WAS HELPING TO MOVE A MINER, AS PART OF THIS MOVE HE WAS HELPING TO HANG THE MINER CABLE. HE FELT SOME BACK PAIN AFTER THIS EVENT AND IT CONTINUED TO GET WORSE AS HE BOLTED THE REST OF THE DAY. HE SWITCHED TO A COAL HAULER TO HELP EASE THE STRAIN ON HIS BACK. EE CONTINUED TO WORK & ON 10/26/02 HIS PROBLEM FLARED UP AGAIN HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND BECAME AN LTA ON 10/28

EMPLOYEE WORKING WITH GILLATEEN HAD TOO MANY SLABS OF ROCK ON ROLLER TABLE, ONE ROCK PUSHED A CENTER ROCK OFF ON EMPLOYEE'S FOOT, BREAKING ALL FIVE BONES IN FOOT.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED GETTING ON THE BACKHOE. AS HE WAS FALLING, HE GRABBED THE HANDRAIL AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS GROIN. EE DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 9-24-02.

EE WAS CLEANING THE WINDSHIELD ON A CAT 980G FRONT END LOADER, HE SLIPPED AND FELL APPROX. 10' TO THE GROUND FRACTURING HIS LEFT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A CONVEYOR BELT ADJUSTER & FELT PAIN IN BACK.

DRIVING A HAUL TRUCK, BRUISED DISK IN BACK.

EE WAS ASSEMBLING NEW STEEL INTO A GIARD UTLIZING THE WELDING TABLE AS A WORKBENCH. THE EE WAS WORKING ON THE CONSTRUCTION UNDER THE WELDING TABLE OVERHANG. WHEN EE RAISED UP TO A STANDING POSITION, UNDER HIS OWN POWER, HIS LEFT SHOULDERSTRUCK THE WELDKING BENCH.

WHILE CUTTING A PIECE OF HOSE, HAND SLIPPED CAUSING LACERATION TO LEFT KNEE.

ROCK WAS PUSHED OFF HIGHWALL & HIT THE EDGE OF HIS MACHINE & JARRED HIM, INJURING HIS SHOULDER. (WC PENDING INVESTIGATION, EE DIDN'T REPORT TILL MUCH LATER.)

EE WAS SHOVELING DIRT AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK AND HIP RIGHT SIDE. HE WENT TO THE DR COMPLAINING OF PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK. HE STATED THE ONSET TO BE 9-16-02. HE CONTINUED TO WORK SINCE THE F IRST INCIDENT ON 1-10-03.

EMPLOYEE MOVED A ROCK OFF BELT STRUCTURE AND FELT A BURNING PAIN IN GROIN AREA. RUPTURED HERNIA - WILL REQUIRE SURGERY. STARTED MISSING 9/23/02.

WAS KICKING AND GRAVEL AND KNEE WENT OUT.

EE WAS GETTING DOWN OFF LOADER TO GET FUEL. WHEN HE STEPPED OFF THE LADDER, ONE FOOT WAS IN THE MUD. HE SLIPPED & FELL TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE STATED THAT WHILE CLEANING THE NO.2 TAILPIECE, HIS KNEE GAVE IN CAUSING HIM TO FALL AGAINST THE TAILPIECE, INJURING HIS LOWER BACK & NECK.

INJURED WAS OPERATING CAT STICK STEER LOADER (BOBCAT). HE PUSHED HOT LIME AND WATER INTO A PILE WHEN BOTH HOT LIME AND STEAM CAME IN ON HIM. HE JUMPED FROM THE CAB OF THE MACHINE AND LANDED IN HOT LIME.

COMING DOWN THE ACCESS TO THE SCALPING SCREEN HE HAD BEEN CHANGING OUT THE MECHANISM ON WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL BACKABOUT 2 1/2 FEET TO THE GRATED FLOOR. HE STUCK O UT HIS LEFT ARM TO CATCH HIMSELF.

EE CLAIMS WRIST AND KNEE INJURY OCCURRED BECAUSE SHE STRUCK A WOODEN BENCH. SHE CLAIMS SHE STRUCK THE BENCH BECAUSE SHE HAD AN ANXIETY ATTACK DUE TO WEARING A RESPIRATOR. SHE WAS WEARING THE RESPIRATOR BECAUSE OF A PREVIOUS SITUATION WHERE HER DR. SAID SHE COULD NOT BE EXPOSED TO CHEMICALS, DUST OR PAINTS.

WHILE PREPARING TO HELP DO BELT MAINTENANCE WORKTHE EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING AN ACETYLENE CYLINDER TO THE SITE. THE ROOF HEIGHT WAS LOW, EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF LOW BACK PAIN.

THE INJURED WAS IN THE WALKWAY UNDER THE SHIELDS WHEN A ROCK CAME OUT OF THE FACE, SLID DOWN THE TOP OF THE SHEARER AND STRUCK HIM IN THE RIGHT LEG. HE RECEIVED A LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED NUM EROUS SUTURES INSIDE THE WOUND AND 8 STAPES TO CLOSE THE WOUND.

CONTINUOUS MOVEMENT OF LOADER SIDE TO SIDE AND BOUNCING CAUSED BACK STRAIN.

EE WAS EXITING DOZER, SLIPPED ON TRACKS AND STRUCK THE DOZER TRACK WITH HIS UPPER TORSO AND BACK.

REINJURY OR PAIN IN LOWER BACK REGION FROM PREVIOUS INJURY 12/27/01.

EE SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING DOWN LOADER JERKING HIS LEFT ARM. THIS CAUSED A JERKING MOTION THAT POSSIBLY CAUSED TEAR IN HIS ROTATAR CUFF. EE RETURNED TO FULL DUTY ON 10/15/02. LATER HAD MORE PAIN IN SHOULDER, & CURRENTLY ATTENDING PT BUT STILL HAS LIMITATION ON ARM MOVEMENT. EXPECTED TO REACH END OF TREATMENT IN 2 MONTHS.

WHILE REACHING DOWN TO MOVE PUMP HE FELT SOMETHING IN HIS BACK PULL, HE STATES THAT HE FLUNG HIMSELF UPRIGHT IN REACTION AND HIT HIS HEAD ON THE MINE ROOF.

SHE WAS WALKING DOWN THE STEPS FROM THE CHANGE-OUT TRAILER AND MISSED A STEP.

EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A SEVERE HEAD INJURY WHEN HE WAS STRUCK ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS HARD HAT BY A PIECE OF METAL. THE INJURY OCCURRED WHEN A PUMP EXPLODED AFTER A SCREENBOX HAD BEEN CLEARED AND THE PUMP RESTARTED.

EE WAS OPERATING A LOADED HAUL TRUCK WHEN HE HIT A POT HOLE IN THE ROAD.

SLIPPED AND FELL STRIPPING THE FLOOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING TIMBERS, THE RIB FELL, PUSHING HIM INTO A KENN STOPPING, CUTTING HIS RIGHT EAR.

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 STATED HE WALKED AWAY FROM TOOL CAR, STEPPED IN HOLE, TWISTING ANKLES.

EE WAS GETTING READY TO SERVICE A MINER WHEN HE TURNED AROUND AND WALKED INTO A LOW HANGING PIN BOARD JAMMING HIS NECK IN THE PROCESS. HE STATED AT A LATER DATE THAT THE USED HIS RIGHT ARM TO CATCH HIMSELF AS HE FELL BACKWARD AFTER COMING IN CONTACT WITH THE ROOF BOARD HE CONTINUED TREATMENT OFF AND ON OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS AS THE DR. TRIED TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF HIS DISC

HELPING ON MINER CABLE, FEET GOT CAUGHT IN MINER CABLE AND HE TRIPPED AND FELL.

THE EE WAS INSTALLING CABLE AT AND AROUND A NEW BELT HEAD. HE WAS USING A STEP LADDER CLIMBING AND LIFTING CABLE. HE REPORTED A BACK PAIN ON MONDAY 9-16-02. ON 9-17-02 HE BEGAN MISSING TIME.

EE WAS CARRYING A TOP ROLLER ASSEMBLY CRADLE CLING THE A WEST BELT WITH ANOTHER EE TOP WAS LOW INT HE AREA AND HE WAS WALKING BENT OVER. HE TWISTED HIS KNEE. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE OR IMPAIRMENT TO THE OPERATION OR TO ANY EQUIPMENT. NO OTHER FAULTER WERE INVOLVED.

EE WAS PICKING UP BELT IDLERS & THROWING INTO BACK OF PU WHEN HE FELT A POP IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER & FELT PAIN. EE DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 3/5/03 WHERE SURGERY WAS PERFORMED TO REPA IR SHOULDER

EE WAS CHANGING A DRILL BIT ON THE BOLTER WHEN THE PIPE WRENCH SWUNG AROUND, STRIKING THE EE INT HE NOSE, WHICH REQUIRED 3 SUTURES.

HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE LIGHT A TORCH, HE THEN BURNED HIS LEFT HAND.

WHILE JACKING UP LOW TAIL DOLLY, JACK SLIPPED OUT AND HIT EE ON SIDE OF HEAD NEAR JAW/EAR.

WHILE OPERATING SHEARER EE STEPPED ON SOME COAL & TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE. HAS A HISTORY OF DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE FROM PREVIOUS INJURIES & SURGERY. WORKED UNTIL 11/18/02 WHEN HE WENT OFF FOR SURGERY-CHONODROPLASTY-A SURGER TO HELP RELEIVE OSTEORARTHRITIS.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING 48"" ROOF BOLTS IN AN AREA WHERE THE MINING HEIGHT WAS 37"" WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK BENDING A BOLT.

AS THE LOADER LOADED MATERIAL INTO THE TRUCK, THE LOADER BUCKET DROPPED STRIKING THE TRUCK.

CATCHING 50LB BAGS OF TALC HE FELT PAIN IN LEFT WRIST & FOREARM. ON MONDAY & TUESDAY, SEPT. 16TH& 17TH, HE WAS MUCKING IN THE MILL & FELT PAIN TO LEFT WRIST. LOST TIME STARTED 9/18/02.

EE WAS PARKING DOZER AT THE END OF HIS SHIFT AS HE WAS STEPPING OFF THE DOZER, HE SLIPPED ON THE DOZER TRACK AND FELL TO THE GROUND BREAKING HIS RIGHT HIP.

EE WAS FUELING A CAT LOADER, HE HAD TAKEN THE FUEL HOSE OFF THE LOADER... THE FUEL VALVE ON THE LOADER STUCK OPEN, DUMPING FUEL INTO EE'S FACE &UPPER BODY.

EE AND COWORKER WERE IN THE PROCESS OF TAKING A OUTBOUND TRAIN TO ALCHEM JUNCTION. EE WAS ON THE FRONT OF THE ENGINE WHEN THE TRAINE DERAILED AND THE ENGINE WENT TO THE GROUND. WE BELIEVE EE J UMPED CAUSING A FX TO THE LEFT LEG AND ARM.

EE EXPERIENCED NECK & LOWER BACK PAIN WHILE SHOVELING HEAVY ROCK.

ON 9/13/02 AROUND 2 PM EE WAS COMPLETING WORK OF PRESSURE WASHING GREASE. HE THEN BEGAN TO CLEAN HIS RUBBER BOOTS WITH THE PRESSURE WASHER. THE PRESSURE WASHER PUT A HOLE ON TOP OF BOOTS AND B URNED FOOT.

WORKER CLAIMED THAT RIDING AROUND IN A 631 SCRAPER WITH A LOOSE SEAT CAUSED INJURY TO HIS BACK.

MINER WAS DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR OVER ROUGH SPOTS HIT BUMP AND JAMMED NECK ON CANOPY OF BUGGY. RETURNED TO WORK THINKING HE WOULD FEEL BETTER. HEADACHE GREW WORSE AND NUMBNESS IN HANDS INCREA SED. MINER DROVE SELF TO HOSPITAL. HAD SURGERY ON C5 AND C6 DISKS.

EE WAS OPERATING A FAIRCHILD 35C SCOOP, CLEANINGROADWAYS ON THE CONSTRUCTION AREA OF THE NEW #1 SECTION. HE WAS TRAMMING THE SCOOP IN REVERSE WHEN THE OPERATOR SIDE REAR TIRE RAN OVER AN OLD TIMBER LYING IN THE ROADWAY. THE END OF THE TIMBER CAME UP INTO THE DECK AND STRUCK EE IN THE RIBS.

EE JUMPED OFF THE BED OF A WATER TRUCK.

WHILE WORKING WITH ANOTHER EE TO MOVE A PORTABLE WATER PUMP, THE PUMP BEGAN TO FALL. EE ATTEMPTED TO KEEP THE PUMP FROM FALLING. IN DOING SO HE INJURED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

LIFTING OXYGEN CYLINDER TO MOVE IT.

ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP STRIKING PERSON IN THE HEAD AND NECK.

EMPLOYEE LIFTING BULL GEAR OUT OF OIL BATH AND FELT PAIN. EMPLOYEE DID NOT STOP WORK UNTIL 10-1-02.

EE HIT RIGHT KNEE ON STEP OF LOADER WHEN CLIMBING DOWN.

EMULSION WAS SPRAYED INTO EMPLOYEES EYES WHEN THE RETURN HOSE FROM #82 SHIELD WHIPPED BACK WHEN THE PRESSURE WAS RELEASED.

EE GOT ON TOP OF THE HOT MIX PLANT & ATTEMPTED TO WELD SOMETHING & TOOK LID OFF & HE THEN REACHED DOWN TO CLOSE LID AGAIN SHIRT CAUGHT FIRE. HE JUMPED DOWN INJURING FOOT & DISLOCATING TOES. WI TNESS GRABBED HIS SHIRT & RIPPED IT OFF.

EE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS BACK AND SIDE WHILE TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE SCOOP.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING TO GET IN HIS ROCK TRUCK WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT BACK, ARM AND LEG.

EE SLIPPED ON STEP WHILE CLIMBING INTO TRUCK CAB AND FELL AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING THE DOOR ON THE PREP PLANT ELEVATOR. HE SMASHED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE DOORS AS THEY CAME TOGETHER. EMPLOYEE FAILED TO KEEP HANDS CLEAR OF THE PINCH POINT. NO OTHER FACTORS WERE INVOLVED.

USING PRY-BAR TO PULL BACK TENSION PULLEY TO RE-PLACE FAN BELT ON COMPANY TRUCK.

WHILE OPERATING A MANTRIP EE SAID HE HIT A ROCK WITH THE FRONT WHEELS CAUSING THE STEERING WHEEL TO TURN VERY FAST AND STRIKING HIS RIGHT HAND. WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE MANTRIP AND IT RAN I NTO THE RIB.

EMPLOYEE WAS FUEL LOADER @ FUEL STATION WHEN HE SLIPPED & GRABBED HAND RAIL W / LEFT HAND PULLING LT. SHOULDER.

EE STATED THAT HE BENT OVER TO MOVE MINER CABLE OUT OF HALLWAY, FEELING PAIN IN LOWER BACK. WENT TO DOCTOR ON 9-12-02 STARTED MISSING WORK ON 9-18-02.

THE BED OF AN ARTICULATE HAUL TRUCK ROLLED OVER ON ITS RIGHT SIDE.

WORKER STANDING ON LADDER, REACHING OVER HEAD TO TAKE BOLTS OUT OF EQUIPMENT. BOLT WOULDN'T COME OUT - HIS GRIP SLIPPED CAUSING HIS BODY TO TWIST TO THE SIDE. THE MUSCLES IN HIS BACK KNOTTED U P.

EE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO REMOVE A PIECE OF ROCK FROM THE FEEDER. THE BAR WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROCK AND A FEEDER FLIGHT. CAUSING THE BAR TO STRIKE THE EE.

A ROCK SPLITTER MOVED A LARGE ROCK BY HIMSELF, RESULTING IN A STRAINED MUSCLE IN HIS ABDOMEN.

WAS HYDROSEEDING, C HOSE GOT HUNG OVER ROCK, WENT TO PULL HOSE OVER ROCK, JUMPED OFF BANK, LEFT KNEE TWISTED & POPPED.

OPERATOR WAS HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE STEEL STOPPING UP WHEN HE DROPPED THE HEAD THE STEEL STAYED IN THE HOLE. HE THEN RAISED THE HEAD BACK UP AND WHEN HE DID AS HE HIT THE ROTATION HE DID NOT REALIZE HIS GLOVE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PINNER HEAD & HIS STEEL CAUSING HIS RT ARM AND HAND TO TWIST AROUND STEEL.

INDIVIDUAL WAS WASHING OUT THE BACK OF A CEMENT TRUCK WHEN HE FELL FROM THE TRUCK BRUISING HIS BACK.

THE INJURED WAS HELPING CARRY A GUARD COVER FOR THE HEADGATE DRIVE WHEN HE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND FELL. THE WEIGHT OF THE GUARD CAME DOWN ON HIS BACK. THE INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A STRAIN REQUR INING REST.

EE HAD JUST FINISHED LOADING BOLTER SUPPLIES ON THE BOLTER IMMEDIATELY PRECEEDING THIS INCIDENT.HE STATED THAT ABOUT A MINUTE AFTER WALKING AWAYFROM THE BOLTER HE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS CHEST. HE EXPERIENCED NUMBNESSIN THE FINGERS OF HIS LEFT HAND AND HIS CHEST HURT WHEN HE MOVED HIS ARM. UPON EXAMINATION IT WAS DETERMINED HE STRAINED HIS CHEST.

TWO EMPLOYEES WERE WELDING AT THE SAME TIME ON METAL BOXES. SOMETIME DURING THIS PERIOD ONE EMPLOYEE BURNT HIS EYES.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING ABOUT 30 LOBS OF TOOLS UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS ABOUT 15 FT IN LENGTH TO GET TO THE BLUNGER CATWALK. HE HANDED THE TOOLS DOWN TO A CO-WORKER INSIDE THE BLUNGER. HE THEN CLIM BED DOWN INTO THE BLUNGER AND BEGAN SETTING UP HIS TOOLS. A SHORT TIME LATER HE FELT PAIN IN HIS CHEST AND LEFT SHOULDER.

THE GATE ON #4 BIN FAILED TO CLOSE. I WENT TO 2ND FLOOR TO CLOSE THE STEER HORN ABOVE THE GATE. MY FINGER GOT SMASHED BY THE COUNTER WEIGHT AND THE ARM ON STEER HORN.

PALLETIZING, 4 X 4 BASKET, FINGER CAUGHT, STACK IN ROCK.

EE WAS WORKING BEHIND THE ELECTRICAL BLDG AT THE WASH PLANT. HE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER TO TAKE MEASUREMENTS IN PREPARATION TO DO WELDING REPAIRS. WHILE DECENDING THE LADDER. BEFORE IT WAS TIED OFF, THE LADDER KICKED OUT AT THE BOTTOM CAUSING THE EE TO FALL APPROX. 15'

EE AND A CO-WORKER WERE LOADING 10' BY 5"" BELT RAILS INTO A SCOOP BUCKET, EE HAD HIS HAND ON A BELT RAIL IN THE SCOOP BUCKET WHEN THE CO-WORKER TOSSED ANOTHER BELT RAIL INTO THE SCOOP BUCKET, HITTING EE'S RIGHT HAND, FRACTURING HIS RT RING FINGER.

THROWING OVERSIZE ROCKS OFF BELT.

COMING DOWN LADDER AND THE LADDER GAVE WAY. '

WHILE CLIMBING OVER A PIECE OF MOBILE EQUIPMENT TO RUN JUMPER CABLES, HE FELL OFF CRACKING 2 OF HIS RIBS.

EE REPORTED SERIOUS PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE SAID THAT HIS LOWER BACK HAS BEEN SLOWLY PROGRESSING IN PAIN OVER THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS. HE FEELS THAT THIS INJURY IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LONG H OURS OF WORK. HE COULD NOT ATTRIBUTE THE PAIN TO ONE SPECIFIC INCIDENT.

EE STATES THE MUCKER SHOT WAS OPERATING REMTILY DID NOT STOP WHEN SHE WANTED TO SHE ALSO STARTED SHE RAN TO THE RIGHT OF THE MUCKER AND WAS PINNED AGAINST THE RIB. AND GOLD AS OF THIS DATE IS STILL INVESTING THIS ACCIDENT AND HAS NOT YET DETERMINED THE AU CAUSES FOR THIS ACCIDENT.

DIAGNOSED ON 9-11-02 WITH INGUINAL HERNIA AND BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 9-13-02.

KNOCKING A PIN OUT OF A COWL ON A D11 DOZER WITH A HAMMER WHEN A PIECE OF THE HAMMER CHIPPED OFF AND EMBEDDED IN RIGHT EYE BROW.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A ROOF BOLTER, INSTALLING THE FIRST BOLT IN THE INSIDE ROW WHEN WITHOUT WARNING THE RIB BEHIND HIM ROLLED OFF STRIKING HIS LOWER BACK. HE SUFFERED MUSCLE STRAIN.

WORKING WITH CHAIN HOIST AND THE CHAIN BROKE AND HIT HIM IN THE FACE.

EE WAS PUSHING OVERBURDEN, WHEN HE REACHED THE END OF HIS PUSH HE REVERSED DIRECTION AND RAN OVER A ROCK WHICH JARRED HIM AND CAUSED HIM TO FULL A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE SYAYED THE FRONT OF THE NOSE ROLLER AREA OF THE HEADRIVE WHEN HE STATED THE SPLICE PULLED HIM INTO THE ROLLER AREA BETWEEN THE BELT AND SCRAPER. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE IT WAS DETERMINED THAT HE HAD NO FRACTURESONLY SCRAPES AND BRUISES.

THE INJURED & ANOTHER EE WERE LIFTING A TOP BELT ROLLER & HIS OFF HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MIDDLE & OUTSIDE ROLLER ON HIS SIDE. THE INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A FRACTURE & LACERATION TO HIS LE FT INDEX FINGER.

WHILE MOVING &/OR BENDING TO PICK UP A LARGE ROCK OFF OF A CONVEYOR BELT, EE HEARD A POP IN HIS UPPER BACK. HE DID NOT ACTUALLY PICK UP THE ROCK HE WAS JUST MOVING/BENDING TO REACH FOR ROCK.

EE & 2 CO-WORKERS WERE WORKING ON THE 005-0 SECTION, HANGING MINER CABLE. EE'S ARMS WERE ABOVE HIS HEAD WHEN HE PLACED MINER CABLE AND WATER LINE INTO THE CABLE HANGER. EE IMMEDIATELY FELT PAI N IN HIS MID BACK. HE WAS TAKEN TO WILLIAMSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIATED DISC AT L4.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING PULL CABLE ON DRAGLINE AND IT SPRUNG BACK HITTING HIS LEFT HAND.

EE WAS ASSIGNED TO A TASK REQUIRING HIM TO PERIODICALLY WORK IN A CROUCHED POSITION OVER SEVERALDAYS. HE DEVELOPED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK THAT COULD HAVE POSSIBLY BEEN RELATED TO THIS TASK. THIS RESULTED IN LIGHT DUTY.

EE WAS CHECKING #1 CLINKER COOLER DRIVE MOTOR. IT HAD STALLED BUT WAS SHOWING A RUN FROM THE OPERATOR'S PANEL. HE REMOVED THE GUARD FROM THE MOTTOR-GEAR REDUCTION COUPLING TO SEE IF HE COULD S PIN IT BY HAND. FAILING THIS, HE TOLD THE OPERATOR TO SHUT THE DRIVE OFF. THE BACKLASH CAUSED THE COUPLING TO SPIN IN REVERSE, SNAGGING HIS GLOVE, PULLING HIS ARM AROUND THE SHAFT OF THE MOTO

EE WAS PULLING ON MINER CABLE WHEN HE FELT INTENSE PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE EXITING THE TRUCK, HE FORGOT SOMETHING IN THE CAB AND STARTED BACK UP THE LADDER. HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL FROM THE TOP RUNG OF THE LADDER TO THE GROUND.

EE WAS PUTTING OIL INTO A CAT DION BULLDOZER WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL OFF DOZER AND SPRAINED HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS LOADING A TRUCK. SAID HE HIT A BUMP AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE SAT DOWN, ATE LUNCH, AND ERNT TO 6TH FLOOR TO HELP CHANGE A CYCLONE PIPE. WHILE WALKING ACCROSS THE FLOOR HIS RIGHT LEG & FOOT GAVE OUT.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE CATWALK OF THE SILO TRANSFER BELT, FELL AND HURT HER SHOULDER.

WHILE WELDING, A EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A FLASH BURN TO HIS EYES.

INJURED WAS AT THE POWERCENTER. HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A PIECE OF TRASH AND FELT PAIN IN HIS KNEE. HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AND DIAGNOSED WITH OUTSIDE LIGAMENT TORN INTO AND INSIDE LIGAMENT TORN ON RIGHT KNEE. HE HAS A HISTORY OF REPEATEDINJURIES IN MEDICAL HISTORY TO RIGHT KNEE.

THE EE WAS PUTTING HOSES ON SHIELD WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WORKED ALL DAY 9-10-2002. HE CALLED IN A 2255 ON 9-10-02 AND STATED HE WOULD BE OFF WORK UNTIL 9-16-02. NO IMMEDIATE ACCIDENT REPORT WAS COMPLETED.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING THE HYDRAULIC DRILL WITH HIS LEFT HAND & REACHING DOWN TO THE MINE FLOOR TO PICK UP A WRENCH WITH HIS RIGHT HAND & FELT A CATCH IN HIS MID TO LOWER BACK AREA.

EE WAS WALKING TOWARDS BELT CROSSOVER WHEN HE SLIPPED IN MUD FALLING ONTO MOVING BELT. INJURIES WERE BRUISED RIBS AND A PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.