Section 35 Metal/Non-Metal

MINER HAD FINISHED DRILLING & WAS CARRYING HIS MACHINE TO A STORAGE AREA JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO LEAN MACHINE AGAINST RIB OF STORAGE AREA HE STUMBLED HIS FINGER PINCHED BETWEEN MACHINE & RIB S TITCHES WERE REQUIRED

BACK FALL OCCURRED IN 9800 HAULAGE BETWEEN LHD SHOP #7 VENT HOLE ON THE 1-5 INCLINE. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX 17\X 10\X 6\. ABOUT 35 TONS BACK WAS SUPPORTED WITH 6\ SPLIT SETS AND HEAVY CHAIN LINK FENCING. NO PRIOR EVIDENCE TO GROUND MOVEMENT AREA AT BACK FALL WILL BE CAUGHT UP W/10 X 10 TIMBER SETS AND CRIBS

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A LOADER MUCKING OUT A ROUND AT THE 0310 AREA WHEN HE F ELT SOMETHING IN HIS RIGHT EYE. A METALLIC FOREIGN BODY WAS EMBEDDED

EMPLOYEE FELL 2 OR 3 FEET OFF LADDER WHILE REACHING FOR ANFO LOADING HOSE. DIDNT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL NOV. 14, 1984. RX GIVEN

UP THE SERVICE COMPARTMENT USING THE TUGGER LOCATED AT THE TOP OF THE RAISE. THE TUGGER CABLE WAS HANGING ABOUT 2 ABOVE THE SILL AND HAD A CLEVIS ATTACHED TO IT. THE EMPLOYEE GRASPED THE CABLE ABOUT 2\ ABOVE THE CLEVIS AND TURNED TO ATTACH IT TO THE SLUSHER. THE CABLE SWUNG UP AND THE CLEVIS HIT HIM IN THE MOUTH.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING A MANWAY LADDER.THE RUNG 10\ABOVE THE FIRST LANDING PULLED OFF AS HE GRASPED IT . HE FELL ABOUT 4\ TO THE LANDING.

EMPL CARRYING DRILL MACHINE FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER.HOSES WERE ATTACHED TO MACHINE AND WERE DRAGGING BEHIND MINER AS HE MOVED.DRIFT SLOPED DOWN AND EMPL WAS WALKING FAST.OILER ON AIR HOSE BEHIND HIM CAUGHT IN WIRE MESHWHCH JERKED HIM TO A STOP AND CAUSED HIM TO FALL AND TWIST HIS KNEE.

EMP WAS HELPING LOAD A BUNDLE OF TIMBER IN THE CAGE. THE BUNDLE WAS SUSPENDED IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION FROM THE BACK OF THE WINCH TRUCK. WHILE TRYING TO GUIDE THE TIMBER INTO THE CAGE THE BUND LE SWUNG HORIZONTALY AND PINCHED THE EMPLOYEES HAND AGAINST ONE OF THE WINCH TRUCK BOOMS

ROCKFALL W9002 DRIFT IN LHD AREA OCCURRED SOMETIMES BETWEEN 400PM JULY 12 AND 830AM JULY 16 1984DRIFT SIZE WAS APPROX 12X12FT AND AREA INVOLVED MEASURED APPROX 12X14X16FT GROUND WAS SUPPORTED W/6FT SPLIT SETS & HEAVY CHAIN LINK FENCING NO PRIOR EVIDENCE OF GROUND MOVEMENT

LIFTED REAR END OF BUNDLE FRONT END SHOULD HAVE SLID INTO THE CAGE HOWEVER BUNDLE SWUNG IN AN ARC TO SIDE INSTEAD OF GOING FORWARD AND STRUCK INJ EMP ON LEFT SIDE AND PULLED HIS RT SIDE INTO THE TUGGER CONTROL HANDLE THE RESULT WAS FRACTURED RIB APPARENTLY THE FLOOR OF CAGE WAS LITTLE ABOVE THE SILL LEVEL AND TIMBER HIT THE CAGE FLOOR AND COULD NOT SLIDE FORWARD

THE EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A MOTOR PUSHING A SUPPLY CAR BACK INTO THE MINE, THE SUPPLY CAR WAS LOADED WITH WIRE MESH AND TIMBER. HE WAS PASSING THROUGH A NARROW AREA. A PIECE OF WIRE MESH WAS PR OTRUDING FROM THE RIB. IT HOOKED ONE OF THE ROLLS OF WIRE ON THE SUPPLY CAR AND THE ROLL OF WIRE WAS FLIPPING ON THE CAR AND STRUCK THE MOTOR OPERATOR.

EMPLOYEE ASSISTED A MINER IN CARRYING ABOUT 40 PCS OF LAGGING FROM TOP OF MANWAY OVER SLUSHER AFTER THIS HE WAS WALKING UP DRIFT WITH HIS-BOSS AND HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST A LOW SPOT IN BACK A FEW MINUTES AFTER THIS HIS NECK STARTED TO HURT HE DOES NOT KNOW WHICH INCIDENT CAUSED THE INJURY

THE EE WAS USING A SCALING BAR TO PRY ROCKS OUT OF A HUNG UP RAISE. A ROCK CAME LOOSE SLID DOWN THE BAR & HIT HIM ON THE B ACK OF THE HAND.

THE EMPLOYEE TURNED ON THE AIR TO THE DRILL MACHINE AT THE OILER AND WALKED TOWARD THE MACHINE. AS HE DID THE AIR HOSE SLIPPED OFF THE MACHINE AND DIRT WAS BLOWN INTO THE EMPLOYEE EAR.

EMPLOYEE TIGHTENING BOLT ON PUMP BOWL, TOOTH ON 3/4" RATCHET BROKE, STRAINED ELBOW.

LIFTING BRAKE CALIPER FROM MIDDLE OF SHOP TO PUT AWAY.

EE & SUPERVISOR PLACING SHORT PIECE OF H-BEAM IN POSITION TO WELD ON SKIP POCKET CYLINDER BRACKET. INJURED EE HOLDING THE BEAM. FELLOW WORKER TAPPING BEAM WITH DBL. JACK BEAM SLIPPED HIT INJU RED & CUT FACE.

EE WAS HELPING MINER LOAD DRILL HOLES ON PILLAR. A SLAB CAME OFF THE FACE & STRUCK HIM & THE MINER.

EE HAD JUST FINISHED DRILLING SLAB HOLES ON PILLAR. MOVED DRILLING EQUIPMENT OUT OF DRILL POSITION, HIM & HIS HELPER STARTED LOADING HOLES. A SLAB CAME OFF THE FACE & STRUCK HIM & HIS HELPER.

THE MINER WAS SITTING ON A BENCH IN THE CHANGE ROOM CHANGING HIS CLOTHES WHEN AN EMPTY BASKET CAME DOWN AND HIT HIM ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD RX WAS GIVEN FOR HEADACHE. EMPLOYEE DIDNT SEEK MED ICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 11/09/83

MINER WAS INSTGALLING STULLS THERE WAS SOME LOOSE WIRE HANGING FROM BACK WHERE HE WANTED TO PUT STULL SINCE HE COULD NOT REACH IN EASILY HE STOOD ON STULL WHICH ROLLED FROM UNDER HIM MINER FE LL & LANDED IN STULL

EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A ROCK, TWISTED ANKLE AND FELL. TRIED TO BREAK HIS FALL WITH HAND AND JAMMED THUMB.

EE HAD WORKED ON SKIP GREASED, ETC. HAD STEEL BULKHEAD OVER SKIP COMPARTMENT WHEN JOB WAS FINISHED PICKED UP BULKHEADS & STRAIND BACK.

WALKING DOWN 3600 INCLINE CARRYING ELECTRICAL CABLE, SLIPPED ON WET SLIPPERY GROUND.

THE MINER WAS DRILLING ROCK BOLT HOLES IN THE BACK AFTER HE HAD FINISHED DRILLING THE HOLES AND WAS PREPARING TO PUT THE BOLTS AND WIRE MESH A SLAB FELL FROM THE BACK AND HIT HIM ON THE LEGS

MAN WAS CARRYING 2 BUNDLES OF ROCK BOLTS FROM THE MANWAY TO WORK AREA THE ROUTE HE WAS TRAVELING HAD A LOW SPOT IN IT WHICH HE HAD TO BEND OVER TO GET THROUGH AS HE DID SO HE FELT PAIN IN LOW LOWER BACK

A SLUSHER CUTOUT HAD BEEN BLASTED WHICH WAS ABOUT 10 FT HIGH THE BACK HAD TO BE BOLTED AND SINCE HE ONLY HAD A MEDIUM LENGTH LEG FOR HIS MACHINE THE MAN WAS WORKING OFF THE TOP OF THE MUCK P PILE MACHINE LEG BECAME BURIED SEVERAL INCHES DEEP IN THE LOOSE MUCK WHEN HE TRIED TO PULL IT OUT HE PULLED A BACK MUSCLE

LIFTING LOADER TIRE CAUSED UMBILICAL HERNIA TIRE ASSEMBLY WEIGHS APPROX 250LBS

EMPLOYEE WAS POINTING OUT CONNECTOR TO INSTALL TIMING DEVICE. CONTACTOR HANDLE WAS PULLED BUT PIN WHICH DE-ACTIVATES CONTACTOR HAD FALLEN OUT. EMPLOYUEE RECEIVED ELECTRICAL BURN.

THE MINER WAS CARRYING HIS DRILL MACHINE AND LEG FROM A FACE TO A STORAGE AREA HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND THREW THE MACHINE AWAY FROM HIMSELF HOWEVER THE STINGER ON THE LEG HIT HIM ON THE FOOT RE SULTING IN A CUT ON TOP OF THE FOOT

PREPARING TO HOIST TIMBER TO TOP OF RAISE WHILE DRIVING.EMPL MAY HAVE BEEN MOVING STAGING OVER RAISE TO HOIST TIMBER -UNKNOWN.FELL TO BOTTOM OF RAISE.