Narley MineCoal

A Field Technician was stemming holes with a hand shovel and experienced pain in lower back.

Employee was starting to climb the ladder up on to the end loader when with left leg on the ladder and right foot still on the ground they felt a pop, (pain) in right knee while pushing their weight upon the ladder.

While moving the Cat bulldozer off of the spoil to have maintenance work preformed, a fire was discovered under the operators cab floor board. The operator immediately shut down the equipment and fire extinguishers were used to try and extinguish the fire. fire department was called to finish putting out the fire.

Employee was mounting the ladder of the PC2000 excavator, when EE's foot slipped off the bottom rung and EE landed on EE's right foot at a bad angle causing a strain or sprain.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON SPARE BOOM PART TRYING TO REMOVE A METAL TUBE WHEN THE TOOL BROKE/SLIPPED. EMPLOYEE LOST BALANCE/FOOTING AND FELL A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 4-6 FEET DOWN TO THE GROUND, LANDING ON LEFT ANKLE. ER X-RAY RESULTS OF A BROKE BONE ABOVE THE ANKLE, AND SOME SMALLER FRAGMENTS ALSO.

Dismounting from machine operator placed left hand on the step instead of handrail, his ring hung as he made contact to ground with his feet, ring cut into backside of ring finger.

Employee was preparing to service dozer. He climbed up the dozer tracks from the outside and then started climbing down the inside of the tracks when he lost his footing and fell a distance of aprox.2.5 feet.His body landed on his right hand and arm area. The trauma from hitting this area with his body caused his right hand/wrist/lower arm to swell and became painful.

Truck Driver started complaining about chest pains and numbness in his left arm and shoulder. Taken to the emergency room at Walker Baptist Hospital in Jasper, Alabama. He had possibly suffered a heart attack, kept overnight for test, transferred to Baptist Princeton hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, he is to undergo by-pass heart surgery on 06/23/08.

Employee was operating track-hoe excavator on a pad of coal, prying rock off coal and loading rock trucks. Track of excavator got off pad, causing excavator to fall off pad (drop of aprox. 8 feet) and over onto its side. Employee was in cab (selt belt on) when excavator hit the ground, causing injury to his neck and bruising to his head, right elbow, and buttock areas.