Open Fork Coal

SMOKE WAS DISCOVERED COMING FROM THE BELT TUNNEL, LOCATED UNDER THE OPEN FORK STOCK PILE AT APPROX. 1:45 PM. A FIRE WAS DISCOVERED AND EXTINGUISHED. APPARENTLY THE FIRE WAS STARTED DUE TO THE HEAT GENERATED FROM A BAD BEARING ON A CONVEYOR BELT BELT TAIL ROLLER. THERE WERE NO INJURIES.

EMPL WAS SWATTING AT BUG & STRUCK LIGHT BULB. LIGHT BULB BROKE & CUT RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPL CLIMBED UP ON RR CAR HOOKED SAFETY BELT,FOOT SLIPPED AND HE LOST BALANCE AND FELL OFF CAR.

EMPL WAS ASSIGNED TO PATROL AREA OUTDOORS & STUCK HANDS & ARMS IN POISON IVY.

UNLOADING TIMBERS OFF OF SUPPLY CAR INTO SCOOP BUCKET AND STRAINED BACK.

USING WRONG LIFTING PROCEDURE, EMPL WAS LIFTING MINER CALB E& STRAINED HIS LOWER PART OF BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ON MINER WAS PULLING MINER CABLE AND SPRAINED HIS RT WRIST THIS EMPLOYEE HAS HAD TROUBLE WITH HIS ARM AND WRIST IN THE PAST SOMETIME IN THE PAST HE HAS HAD HIS RT ARM BRO KEN ON 1-16-88 HE ALLEGES HE HURT HIS WRIST LOADING OXYGEN TANKS IN SCOOP ON 3-22-88 HE ALLEDGES HE PICKED UP A TIMBER AND KNOT CAME UPON HIS RT WRIST NEITHER ALLEDGED ACCIDETN WAS LOST TIME A

EMPL WAS MOVING CINDER BLOCKS WITH TWO WHEEL DOLLY IN HEIGHT OF APPROX. 48" TO 50" FROM #2 BELTLINE TO RETURN TO BUILD REGULATOR, EMPL WAS HAULING 8 BLOCKS EACH LOAD HAVING TO BE BENT OVER, A FTER COMPLETING THE JOB HE REPORTED HE WAS HAVING PAIN IN LOWER BACKK & DOWN LEGS.

INSTALLING BREAKER TIMBERS AND AFTER FINISHING TIMBERS,EMPLOYEE STATED THAT BACK WAS HURTING HIM.

EMP WAS OPERATING MINER, THE CAT ON MINER CLIMEBBED ON CAT DRIVE RAISING MINER UP, THE CAT SLID OFF SPROCKET CAUSING A SUDDEN JAR INJURING EMP LOWER BACK AND RIGHT LEG

EMPL USING HYDRAULIC SAW TO SAW TIMBERS TO BE SET AS BREAKER TIMBERS.THE SAW HUNG AND EMPL REACHED DOWN TO TURN TIMBER OVER WITHOUT RELEASING TRIGGER ON SAW.THE SAW FREED ITSELF AND THE CHAIN STRUCK EMPL ON FOREFINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING A WHEEL IN PLACE ON DUSTER. A CHAIN SLIPPED OFF LETTING THE WHEEL FALL CATCHING EMPLOYEE'S FINGER BETWEEN IT AND THE RAIL.

EMPL HELPING HANG MINER CABLE AND WATER LINE.HAD CABLE & WATER LINE HUNG ON STEEL WIRE. EMPL BENT OVER TO HANG CABLE ON ANTOTHER WIRE WHEN IT BROKE AND CABLE AND WATER LINE HIT EMPL ON LOWER RIGHT SHOULDER AND LOWER RIGHT HIP.

EMPL PUTTING POLE OF JEEP ON TROLLEY WIRE HURT HIS BACK LOWER LEFT SIDE.HEIGHT OF COAL WAS 4-5'.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN8TALLING ROOF BOTLT MINE ROOF WAS APPROX 4 FT SO THE BOLT HAD TO BE BENT TO GO IN HOLE HAD BOLT STARTED IN HOLE WAS ATTEMPTING TO STRAIGHTEN IT HIS HANDS SLIPPED OFF ROOF BOLT CAUSING HIM TO3FALL ON DRILL HEAD OF PINNER AND SPRAINED HIS BACK THE ROOF BOLT WAS WET AND SLICK

EMPLOYEE WAS SI7TING ON DECK OF PINNER WAITING ON MINER TO MOVE FROM PLACE ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS STRUCK & BROKE HEARD HAT CAUSING HAT T O CUT HIS FOR EHEAD

ROOF FALL 1200F7 UP 2RT 2 ABANDONED PANEL ON OLD TRACK WAY CRIBBED OFF FALL MOVED HIGH VOLTAGED CABLE AROUND & STARTED USING A DIFFERENT TRAVEL WAY

CARRYING TIMBERS STARTED TO LAY IT DOWN BACK STARTED HURTING

THE NO. 2 ROOM OFF NO.1 HEADING ON THE 033 ACTIVE WORKING SECTION WAS CUT THROUGH INTO THE 3 RIGHT ABANDONED PANEL ALLOWING A UNDERTERMINED AMOUNT OF WATER TO GLOW ACROSS THE MINER AND SPREAD OUT OVER THE SECTION THEIR WAS NOT A INRUSH OF WATER THE WATER IMINDATEDAT A NONORMAL RATE.

ROOF FALL ON MAINLINE ABOUT 200\ INBY PORTAL. MOUNTAIN BREAK FELL ABOVE BELT ANCHORAGE BLOCKING TRACK & KNOCKING TROLLEY WIRE DOWN. FALL HAS BEEN CLEANED UP & ROOF RE-SUPPORTED.

EE WAS WATCHING AFTER MINER CABLE WHILE MINER WAS CUTTING THE MINE ROOF WAS APROX 57" HIGH. HE WAS SITTING 4\ FROM THE RIB, LOOSE RIB ROLLED OFF & S TRUCK EE IN LOWER PART OF HIS BACK.

MOVING PILE OF TIMBERS THREW A TIMBER ON TOP OF OTHER TIMBERS IT BOUNCED AROUND AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON RT FOOT

EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING A DOOR ON RAILROAD CAR HE HAD THE BAR DOWN THROUGH THE LEVEL HOLE AND IN GROOVE OF THE DOOR THE DOOR WAS HARD TO CLOSE BVBECAUSE IT FIT TIGHT AND HE HAD TO PULL DOWN ON THE BAR WITH MORE PRESSURE THAN NORMAL THE BAR SLIPPED OUT OF TEH GROOVE IN CAR DOOR STRUCK HIM IN FOREHEAD KNOCKING HIM BACK ON HIS RT LEG

EE WAS OPERATING A MINER. HE SAW TIMBERS BREAKING. HE JUMPED OFF MINER, RUN APPROX 15\ WHEN HE TRIED TO RAISE UP HE CAUGHT BE CUASE OF A CATCH IN HIS BACK. POSSIBLY FROM A STRAIN HE GOT WHEN JUMPING OFF THE MINER.

EMPLOYEE HAD HIS BACK TOWARD BELT LINE, TWISTED AROUND, THREW A SHOVEL FULL OF MUD ON BELT, THE BELT CAUGHT THE SHOVEL, PULLED SHOVEL AND ARMS AND SPRAINED HIS RIGHT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE LIFT A LIFTING JACK TO PUT ON ANOTHER JEEP, WHEN HE PICKED THE JACK UP HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING IN DECK OF ROOF BOLTER, SWUNG HIS LEFT KNEE AROUND AND STRUCK HIS KNEE AGAINST DECK.

A LARGE HORE BACK LIP IN MINE ROOF.

MAKING BELT SPLICES LOCOMOTIVE HAD TENSION ON BELT WITH A CHECKER MOTOR MAN LET TENSION OFF AND INJURED STARTED TO KNOCK ROP. CLAMP LOOSE AND SOMETHING STRUCK HIM IN RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS RIDING INBY END OF JEEP COMING OUTSIDE. POLE CAME OFF TROLLEY WIRE EE REACHED TO PIT POLE BACK ON TROLLEY WIRE POLE BOUNCED FROM ROOF HIT EE IN MOUTH & CUT HIS LOWER LIP.

ROOF FALL ON BELT LINE AT A FAULT AREA WHERE A MOUNTAIN BREAK WAS PRESENT

HELPING ANOTHER EMPL LIFT CLUTCH SINK-CASE TO MINER TO PUT IN S C EMPL BENT OVER TO LIFT CLUTCH SINK-CASE STRAINED BACK.

STARTED TO ADD MORE DRILL STEEL TO DRILL ROOF BOLT HOLE DEEPER,PIECE OF STEEL FELL FROM HOLE AND CAUGHT THUMB BETWEEN STEEL AND DRILL HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER,MASHED THUMB

EMP WAS HELPING OTHER EMPLOYEES HANG MINER CABLE AND WATER LINE HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE SPRAINED HIS RT KNEE

EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING THE MINER CABLE, HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE SPRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PICK ROOF BOLTER CABLE UP TO MOVE OUT OF HAULWAY OF SHUTTLE CARS WHEN HE LIFT THE CABLE UP HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMING THE ROOF BOLTER BACKWARD THE CANOPY SCRUBBED THE MINE ROOF CAUGHT A LOOSE ROCK THE ROCK FELL INTO THE OPERATORS DECK OF THE ROOF BOLTER STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND BRUISED HIS SHOULDER

EMP HAD DRILLED A ROOF BOLT HOLE WHEN HE LOWERED THE DRILL HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER THE DRILL STEEL HUNG IN THE HOLE OF THE MINE ROOF PAYING NO ATTENTION OF WHAT HE WAS DOING HE PLACED HIS LEFT HAN D ON TOP OF THE DRILL HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER THE DRILL STEEL FELL FROM THE HOLE STRIKING HIS RIGHT HAND AND FRACTURED HIS HAND

EMPLOYEE HAD DRILLED A ROOF BOLT HOLE WHEN HE LOWERED THE DRILL HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER THE DRILL STEEL HUNG IN THE HOLE OF THE MINE ROOF INATTENTION TO WHAT HE WAS DOING HE RESTED HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE THE DRIL HEAD OF THE ROOF BOLTER DIRECTLY UNDER THE DRILL STEEL HUNG IN THE HOLE OF THE MINE ROOF THE DRILL STEEL FELL FROM THE HOLE STRIKING HIS RIGHT RING FINGER AND AMPUTATED THE FIN

WHILE DRILLING ROOF BOLT HOLE THE DRILL STEEL BROKE EMPLOYEE PLACED HIS HAND ON DRILL HEAD THE STEEL FELL OUT OF HOLE AND HIT HIS RIGHT RING FINGER AND BRUISED HIS FINGER

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING MINER CREW MOVE MINER ACROSS SECTION WATCHING THE CABLE HE PLACED HIS LEFT HAND ON TOP OF MINER CANOPY, THEMINER TRAMMED INTO A LOW PLACE, IT TILTED UP AND CAUGHT EMPLOY EES HAND BETWEEN CANOPY AND ROOF.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING A MINE TIMBER WITH HIS LEFT HAND STARTED THE SAW IN TIMBER, THE SAW BOUNCED OVER ON LEFT HAND AND CUT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

TIMBERS WERE LAYING ON RIB, EMPLOYEE REACHED DOWN TO PICK END OF ONE UP, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE PICKED ONE UP CAUSING ANOTHER TIMBER TO ROLL OVER ON INJURED LEFT HAND.