MSHA record for Shingle Branch Mine (mine ID 1508256). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING MECHNIC HOLD WRENCH ON BOLT, WRENCH SLIPPED AND CAUGHT FINGER WITH PIPE, CUTTING INDEX FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING TIMBERS TO FACE WITH SCOOP, HE RAN SCOOP OVER A TIMBER IN HAULWAY, AND IT JARRED HIM. HE SAID UNDER HIS RIGHT SHOULDER BLADE WAS BURNING.
SC RUNNNING GOT STUCK IN HAULWAY GOT OFF THE CAR ROCK FELL FROM TOP HIT ON LOWER BACK
HAULING CAR OF COAL TOWARD FEEDER CAR RAN OVER A CRIB BLOCK IN HAULWAY AND THREW EMPLOYEE AGAINST BACK OF SEAT,EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF MIDDLE OF BACK HURTING.
EMPLOLYEE WAS HANGING MINER CABLE FOR CAR TO HAUL UNDER & STRAINED LOWER BACK
SLIDING BELT HEAD OVER WITH LIFTING JACK, WAS USING LIFTING JACK AND PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.
OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR, TURNED AROUND IN SEAT TWISTED KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PIECE OF MAINTENANCE WORK ON A PIECE OF RAIL EQUIPMENT, ANOTHER PIECE OF RAIL EQUIPMENT WAS 8" BEHIND HIM, WHILE WORKING BETWEEN THE TWO PIECES OF RAIL EQUIPMENT THE BACK PIECE OF EQUIPMENT ROLLED AGAINST THE FRONT PIECE, SQUEEZING HIS LEG BETWEEN THEM, BREAKING HIS LEFT LEG APPROX. 8" ABOVE ANKLE.
EMPL COULD NOT REMEMBER HURTING BACK HE IS GUESSING HOW IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED. HE WAS PULLING DIGGING ARM FOR MINER & STRAINED BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS HITTING METAL SHAFT WITH A HAMMER WHILE HITTING METAL SHAFT PIECE OF SHAFT BROKE OFF AND HIT HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING ROOF BOLTER SUPPLIES ON PINNER HURT HIS RT HIP & LEG
CARRYING PLATES TO BOLTER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL HURTING BACK.
RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR HIT HOLE HURT BACK.
WHILE OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR, HIT HOLE, HURT HIS BACK.
LIFTING TOOL BOX.
LIFTING ON SKID BAR ON MINER HURT BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING BELT LINE AND HAD A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
LOADING ROCK DUST IN SCOOP HURT BACK.
LOADING DRILL POT ON SUPPLY MOTOR.
INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS, GOT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN 2 PIECES OF ROOF PLATES, BROKE THUMB ON RIGHT HAND AND CUT MIDDLE FINGER.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 A CONTINUOUS MINER HELPER. HE WAS PULLING THE TRAILING CABLE OUT OF THE ROADWAY SO THE CONTINUOUS MINER COULD CROSS BACK TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SECTION. WHILE PULLING ON THE CONTINUOUS MINE9 TRAILING CABLE HE STRAINED HIS RIB CAGE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING LONG AIRDOX ROOF BOLTING MACHINE & INSTALLING ROOF BOLT WHEN HE STARTED TO TRAM THE MACHINE HE TRAMMED THE MACHINE IN THE WRONG DIRECTION HE WAS PULLED DOWN BY THE RO OF BOLTER IN A 4ERKED MOTION CAUSING HIM TO HAVE STRAINED BACK MUSCLES
EMPL HELPING MA5E CONVEYOR BELT SPLICE.WHEN THE 2 ENDS OF THE SPLICE PULLED TOGETHER ONE END WAS CAUGHT BY BELT IDLER ROLLER.WHEN EMPL LIFTED BELT TO FREE IT FROM ROLLER HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. 3
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 TRAMMING THE ROOF BOLTER UP TO THE FACE WHEN THE ROOF BOLTER WAS TRAMMED OVER A ROCK IN THE ROADWAY WHICH CAUSED THE MACHINE TO RAISE UP AND THE EMPLOYEE WHO WAS IN THE OPERAT ER COMPARTMENT 7O HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST THE MINE ROOF.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHERE THE OVERALL HEIGHT WAS 38".WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF AND STRUCK HIM ON THE SHOULDER.8"X9"X2" WAS THE ROCK MEASUREMENT,THE LEF T SHOULDER WAS 6RUISED.
EMPL LIFTING TR5ILING CABLE FROM C.M. CABLE HOOK AFTER HE HAD TRAMMED C.M.UP TO FACE TO BEGIN TO CUT COAL.WHEN HE LIFT CABLE HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT HIP.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 STANDING NEXT TO THE GATHERING HEAD OF A CONTINUOUS MINER AND WAS TIGHTENING A HOSE COUPLING AT THE SAME TIME AS THE MACHINE WAS BEING FILLED WITH HYDRAULIC OIL.THE EMPLOYEE U NKNOWINGLY HAD 1LACED HIS FEET UNDERNEATH THE GATHERING HEAD AND WHEN THE GATHERING HEAD WAS LOWERED HIS FOOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MINE FLOOR AND GATHERING HEAD. HE SUSTAINED 2 SMALL BROKEN BON
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 HELPING 2 OTHER EMPLOYEES HANG THE CONTINUOUS MINER TRAILING CABLE TO THE ROOF SO THAT SHUTTLE CARS COULD TRAVEL UNDER THE CABLE WHILE LIFTING THE TRAILING CABLE HE STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS 6ACK.
EMPL WORKING WI7H HIS CREW LOADING STEEL TRACK RAILS.AS EMPL STARTED TO LEAVE THE JOB HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT.SAID THE PAIN WAS ATTRIBUTED TO LOADING STEEL TRACK RAILS.
THE EMPLOYEE HA8 BEEN OPERATING THE CONTINUOUS MINER, WHEN HE CHANGED PLACES HE GOT OFF OF THE MACHINE TO HELP PULL UP SLACK OUT OF THE TRAILING CABLE. AS A RESULT OR PULLING ON THE CABLE HE STRAINED HIS HA4 STRING.
I NAME WAS CUTT3NG AND LOADING COAL WITH A CONTINUOUS MINER, WHILE OPERATING THE MINER A ROCK FOOED THE CONVEYOR CHAIN AS HIM ATTEMPTED TO UNFOUL THE ROCK A SMALL CHIP OF ROCK HIT HIM ON HIS R IGHT EYE. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING ROOF BOLT THE #3 HEADING WHEN THE BELT PULLEY CAME LOOSE ON THE LONG AIRDOX ROOF DRILL EMPLOYEE WAS BEATING THE PULLEY BACK ON THE MOTOR SHAFT WHEN THE BAR KICKED BACK AND STRUCK EMPLOYE9 IN THE MOUTH
EMPL OPERATING 9OOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE STARTED TO DRILL LAST HALF OF ANCHOR HOLE.FINGER WAS PINCHED AT JOINT OF 2 PIECE SECTION DRILL STEEOL.
INJURED WAS GOI3G TO HANG CONTINUOUS MINER TRAILING CABLE BUT AS HE STARTED TO BEND HIS BODY TO REACH DOWN TO PICK UP CABLE HE EXPERIENCED SOME PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA ON LEFT SIDE
WHILE INJURED W5S LIFTING CONTINUOUS MINER TRAILING CABLE TO BE HUNG HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK
INJ WAS MINER H9LPER ON SHIFT .AS MINER WAS BACKING OUT OF #9 ENTRY INJ WAS PULLING CABLE OUT OF PATH OF MINER.THERE WAS LITTLE PAIN AND CONTINUED TO WORK THE REMAINDER OF THE SHIFT.
INJ OPERATING C4 WHEN HE GOT FLOATING OPERATORS DECK ON TRAILING CABLE WHILE ATTEMPTING TO FREE CABLE HE PLACED HIS HAND IN UNSAFE POSITION UNDER THE DECK WHEN THE CABLE WAS PULLED FROM UNDERN EATH THE DECK,D9CK FELL ON HIS HAND.
INJURED WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE GOT OFF OF THE SHUTTLE CAR TO TURN HIMSELF IN THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL HE TWISTED HIS KNEE
INJURED WAS BEGINING TO DRILL A ROOF BOLT ANCHOR HOLE, AS HE DRILLED ABOUT 2\ IN 4" THICK FELL OUT AROUND THE DRILL STEEL STRIKING THE INJURED ON THE BACK OF THE NECK AND UPPER BACK BRUISED UPPER BACK NECK POSSIBLE PINCHJED NERVE.
INJURED WAS WALKING BY BELT FEEDER, HE STUMBLED AND FELL, HITTING HIS LEFT LEG AND HIP AGAINST FEEDER.
INJURED WAS HANGING THE POWER CABLE FOR THE CONTINOUS MINING MACHINE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK
INJURED WAS OPERATING A SCOOP AS HE PASSED UNDER A 3" WATERLINE THE LINES CAME LOOSE HITTING HIM ON THE BACK OF THE NECK.
CUTTING PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT WHEN POCKET KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT RIGHT HAND FOREFINGER.
INJURED WAS LIFTING A REPAIR PART ONTO A TRANSPORTATION CAR WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK
INJURED WAS RIDING ON A PERSONAL CARRIER WHEN HE WAS CAUGHT BY AN OVER HANGING CABLE AND WAS PULLED OFF OF THE CARIER.
DRILLING ANCHOR HOLE FOR ROOF BOLT WHEN SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING INJ ON LEG.
INJURED WAS MOVING A 4/0 POWER CABLE SUPPLYING POWER TO A CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN HE SUFFERED A BACK STRAIN, MANAGEMENT WAS NOT INFORMED OF THIS ACCIDENT UNTIL 6-18-84
INJ WAS OPERATING A BATTERY POWERED SUPPLY MOTOR TRACK HAULAGE INJ WAS UNABLE TO STOP HIS SUPPLY MOTOR AT THE END OF THE SECTION TRACK HE STRUCK THE SECTION MANTRIP CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS LEFT ARM AGAINST THE DECK OF HIS SUPPLY MOTOR
INJ WAS UNLOADING 50# BAGS OF ROCK DUST FROM A FLAT CAR AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK
INJURED WAS SHOVELING BELT CONVEYOR
INJURED WAS UNLOADING SUPPLIES FROM THE MANTRIP WHEN HE BUMPED HIS LEG AGAINST A PIECE OF SHEET METAL RESULTING IN FALL OF INJURED WHEN INJURED FELL HE STRUCK HIS LEFT SIDE AGAINST THE MANTRIP
ANUNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL HAS OCCURRED AT THIS MINE ON THE 003 WORKING SAECTION ABOVE THE ANCHORAGE ZONE OF THE ROOF BOLTS BEING USED 48". THE FALL MEASURED APPROX 1204 LONG 20\ WIDE & 12\ H IGH. IN THE # 4 #5 & #6 ENTRIES. FALL OCCURRED THRU THE LAST LINE OF BREAKS FROM SURVEY STATION #7596
AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL HAS OCCURRED AT THIS MINE ABOVE THE ANCHORAGE ZONE OF THE ROOF BOLTS BEING USED WHICH WAS 48IN ON THE 001 OLD WORKING SECTION THE FALL MEASURED 6FTX20FTX150FT IN THE NO 6 ENTRY
RIDING IN SCOOP BUCKET TO SECTION WHEN SCOOP HIT A HOLE IN HAULWAY AND HE HIT FRAME OF BUCKET WITH HIS SIDE.
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