Cooper Ridge Deep MineCoal

No Accident. - Clinical pneumoconiosis established on the former employee. Company notified on 4/14/2022. Note: The mine permanently closed on 3/27/2020.

Employee was helping move roof bolter when the operator started the roof bolter EE turned on the cable reel it caught the employee's feet causing EE to fall down. As EE was falling, EE tried to catch self with EE's right arm causing pain in EE's right arm and shoulder.

Employee was roof bolting. While starting a new hole, EE stuck head out from the canopy to see if the steel was straight when a piece of rock fell and hit EE in the face cutting EE's upper lip which required 4 stitches.

Employee was hanging roof bolter cable when a piece of rock fell striking them in the mouth, cutting upper lip on the inside.

A Non-injury Roof Fall was found During a Weekly Exam on 10/30/2019 on the 1st East Mains Return at Break #17. The Fall is approximately 20 feet Long and 20 feet Wide, High has not been determined. There was no injury's associated with this fall.

Employee was roof bolting, while putting resin glue cartridge in the bolt hole. it burst and some of the glue got in their right eye.

A non-injury unintentional roof fall occurred at Crosscut 59 in the #4 entry face area of the 002MMU. The fall is approximately 18 feet wide and 18 feet long and 8 feet high. There were no injuries associated with this roof fall.

On 8/28/2019 a Non-Injury Roof Fall occurred at this mine. The roof fall is located in the No. 6 entry at x-cut No. 24 on the 1-South Mains. The MSHA Hotline was notified and MSHA has conducted an investigation of the Roof Fall. The Roof Fall is approximately 18' feet (There are no injuries associated with this Roof Fall).

Employee was loading roof support material on the roof bolter. EE bent over to pick up roof bolts and a small piece of rock fell from the roof and struck EE in the back of head causing a small cut to the left side of the head.

A non-injury roof fall was found in the No. 6 intersection and the No. 6 right crosscut at crosscut No. 7 on the MMU No. 002-0 section on the 1-South Mains. The roof fall is approximately 20 feet wide x 35 feet long x 12-16 feet high. The roof fall will be cleaned up and the mine roof re-supported. The MSHA Hot-line was notified of the roof fall. See map. There were no injuries.

The injured employee and co-working were removing a metal canopy from a roof bolting machine. As the employees began to lift the canopy with a chain and ratchet to re-position the canopy, the chain and canopy slipped, allowing the canopy to shift, which resulted in an injury to four fingers on the left hand. (No broken bones). Cut glued together.

The employee was plastering a concrete brattice. While moving the bucket of plaster, the employee dropped the bucket and the plaster splashed into the employee's right eye. The employee worked the remainder of shift. On 11/20/2018 the employee's right eye was red and slightly swelled. The employee received medical treatment for the eye injury on 11/20/2018.

An unintentional non-injury roof fall was discovered while doing weekly exam, in the #1 entry of the #1 east mains return, approximately 130 feet in-by the mine portal. The fall was reported to MSHA Hotline, the fall will be cleaned up and re-supported. The fall is 16' wide and 4' high and 4' to 5' long.

A non-injury roof fall at the #3 mine portal, the fall is approximately 16 feet wide, 5 feet long, and 4'-6' high. The fall was reported to MSHA hotline the fall will be cleaned up and re-supported.

The employee was in the belt entry using a roof bolting machine to install belt hangers. As the employee was installing the belt hanger ee reached to activate the fast feed lever when ee twisted lower back.

The (contractor) roof bolter employee was in the No. 1 entry. The roof bolter operator started to drill the hole and a piece of draw rock fell out mashing the contractor employee's ring finger and third finger on right hand against the drill pot of the roof bolting machine. This resulted in a break and laceration to the ring finger on the right hand.

A non-Injury roof fall was found during a Pre-Shift examination. The roof fall was reported to the MSHA hotline. The roof fall is located in the No. 4 entry at x-cut #19 on the 2 south mains. The roof fall is approximately 28' x 30' ft long x 18' x 20' ft wide x 10' x 12' ft thick. The roof fall will be cleaned up and the mine roof re-supported.

A non injury roof fall was found during a pre-shift exam. The roof fall was in the No. 3 entry (Roadway) at crosscut No. 19 on the 2 South Mains. The roof fall is approx. 20'-30' long x 15'-20' ft. wide & 10'-12' ft. thick. The roof fall was reported to the MSHA Hotline. The roof fall will be cleaned up & the mine roof will be re-supported.

A non injury roof fall occurred at approx. 9:25pm on 11/3/17. The roof fall is located in the No.4 entry intersection at x-cut No.8 on the 1 east mains. The roof fall is approx. 20' feet long x 20' feet wide x 8' feet to 10' feet thick. The roof fall is confined to the intersection at x-cut No.8 The area has been flagged and dangered off to prevent access to this area.

A non-injury roof fall was discovered in the No. 2 entry at X-cut #18 on 2 South Mains on 10/3/2017. Upon discovery of the roof fall the MSHA Hotline was immediately notified.

A roof fall was discovered in the #6 intake entry approximately 200 feet inby the main mine fan. The fall measured approximately 18 feet wide, 20 feet long, and 10 feet high.

Contractor EE & co-worker were on the surface working on a rock dusting machine. After the repairs were completed, the IE was standing in front of the machine when the operator started the machine for testing. The IE started to step back & lost balance. IE reached out to grab something & got finger into an unguarded location resulting in cut to tip of finger.

Roof fall occurred in the No.3 entry roadway at crosscut No.26 of the mains. Roof fall is approx 35'-40'long x 30'wide x 6'-10'thick. Roof fall was reported to the MSHA hotline. Call confirmation number 00016188. Wooden cribs have been installed on inby side of the fall and in the adjacent cross cuts to the fall. Mine was in a non-producing status at the time of the roof-fall.

The employee was using a rock bar to pry on a bundle of metal straps to get to a bolt on the back of the roof bolting machine, when the bar slipped causing the employees right arm to come in contact with the corner of the metal straps resulting in a laceration to the right wrist when required (5) stitches or sutures.

A Non-Injury Roof Fall occurred in the No.5 entry just inby the main ventilation fan. The roof fall is approximately 60' feet long x 16'-17' feet wide x 8'-10' thick. The roof fall was reported to the MSHA Hotline. Call confirmation number 1-125127628. The area where the roof fall occurred will be cleaned up and metal arches will be installed.

Contractor employee was performing service work on a continuous mining machine. The contractor was attempting to unpin the short side of the rub rail to clean the demister on the machine. When the rub rail was unpinned both sides of the rub rail came out at the same time. The contractor put the rub rails back into place and strained his back.