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THE MINER CREW 4AS IN THE PROCESS OF MINING THE LAST LIFT OF THE C-WING NEXT TO THE LEAVE STUMP WHEN WITHOUT WARNING A PILLAR FALL OCCURRED WHICH RODE OUT BREAKER TIMBERS AND WING TIMBERS FAT ALY INJURING TH9 MINER HELPER
RECEIVED WELDING FLAH WHILE WORKING IN VICINITY WHERE WELDING WAS PERFORMED WENT TO ER AT NORTON COMMUNITY TREATED AND RELEASED.
WALKING BESIDE SCOOP SCOOP SLIPPED TO ONE SIDE STRIKKNG TIMBER TIMBER FELL HIT EMP ON SHOULDER AND ARM
EMPL WAS USING ACETYLINE TORCH TO CUT ANGLE IRON FROM 1 LEFT BELT HEAD WHEN PIECE OF CUTTING SLAG COME IN CONTACT WITH EYE.
REPAIRING S C TURNED AWAY TO GO TO PARTS SLED RAN IN TO TORN DOWN BRATTICE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING OXYGEN AND ACETYLINE TANKS ON TO BELT CROSSING AND HURT HSIS WRIST.
AFTER PARKING DOZER, VICTIM STEPPED FORWARD ONTO TOP OF GRIGHT TRACK. RUBBER BOOTS SLIPPED ON WET TRACK, THROWING VICTIM HEAD FIRST OFF OF TOP OF DOZER TRACK ONTO GROUND.
CUTTING INTO CABLE WHEN KNIFE SLIPPED CAUSING LACERATION OF LEFT THUMB.
EMPL IN ROUTE FROM FACE TO FF.EEDER WITH EMPTY BUGGY WHEN BUGGY WENT OVER AN UNEVEN PLACE IN BOTTOM STRIKING HEAD ON MINE TOP.
EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED DRILL BOLT HOLE. WAS REMVOING DRILL STEEL FROM. HIS GLOVE BECAME ENTANGLED WITH STEEL CAUSING INJURY TO LEFT HAND.
EMPL STRAAINED BACK WHILE INSTALLING ROOF BOLT.
HE WAS STOPPING MAN TRIP. PULLED BRAKE WITH RIGHT HAND PUT LEFT HAND IN LINKAGE BRUSING RING FINGER ON LEFT HAND AND FRACTURE.
ATTEMPTED TO THROW CRIB BLOCK UNDER MINER CAT AND STRUCK HAND AGAINST SIDE OF MINER.
A ROCK FALL OCC. ON NORTH 2 BELT 4 X CUT OUBY NORTH 3 DRIVE
EMP WAS TRAMMMING SHUTTLE CAR OF COAL FORM MI ER IN ROUTE TO FEEDER WHEN HE BUMPED HEAD ON MINE ROOF. CAONOPY WERE NOT USED DUE TO COAL HT. AT END OF SHIFT EMP REP. THAT NECK WAS STIFF.
WHEN EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING ROCK FROM BUGGY HAULWAY STRAINED MUSCLE IN LEFT SIDE OF BACK
EMPL HAD JUST FINISHED LOADING THE SHUTTLE CAR WITH COAL HE STEPPED OUT OF THE SHUTTLE CAR DECK AND A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP STRIKING HIM ON THE ANKLE AND FOOT
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO TAKE THE CANOPY POST OFF OF THE SHUTTLE CAR WHICH WAS DRAGGING TOP STRUCK WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER AND BOUNCED BACK PULLING MUSCLES AND OR LIGAMENTS IN LEFT ARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING ROOF BOLT HOLE WHEN A ROCK FELL OFF CANOPY AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON RT SHOULDER BLADE RESULTING IN AN ABRASION
EMP. WA> DRILLING HOLE, STOPPED TO CHANGE BIT IN STEEL, SMALL ROCK FELL OFF RIB HITTING TOP OF BOOT LEFT FOOT BEHIND STEEL TOE.. BREAKING LITTLE TOE WITH A SMALL CUT ON TOP OF TOE.
INJURED PERSON WAS HOLDING SPLICING ANVIL WITH CHANNEL LOCK PLIERS WHILE REPAIRMAN WAS CRIMPING CONNECTOR A PIECE OF METAL BECAME DISLODGED FROM ANVIL STRIKING INJURED AND BECAME EMBEDDED AT S ECOND JOINT OF RIGHT THUMB.
ROOF FALL FACE AREA OF A#2 ENTRY MOUNTAIN BREAK IN ROOF WAS INCOUNTERED ON 022988 PLACE WAS TO BAD TO BE BOLT ED THE PLACE WAS TIMBERED OFF & LEFT THIS FALL OCCURRED SOMETIMES ON T HIS DATE ROOF
THE INJURED MAN WAS HANGING A ROOF BOLTER CABLE.AFTER HANGING THE CABLE,ONE OF THE TIE WIRES BROKE ALLOWING THE CABLE TO STRIKE HIS HAND CAUSING A SPRAIN TO HIS SHOULDER.
LOADING AND PULLING TRACK OLD WORKS NORTH MAIN SECTION PULLED MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK WHILE LOADING RAILS
EMPLOYEE LIFTED CABLE,WALKED TO RIB,AND DROPPED IT.
THREE OF EIGHT TIMBERS WERE BEING SET WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL DISLODGING THE TIMBER. ONE OF THE TIMBERS STRUCK MAN ON THE NECK, BRUISING HIMIN THE NECK AND SHOULDER AREA
AS INJURED MAN WAS LIFTING TIMBER FROM SUPPLY CAR TO SCOOP BUCKET HE SAID HIS BACK GAVE WAY. INJURED MAN COMPLAINED WITH PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK. HE FINISHED SHIFT.
INJURED PERSON 4AS CLEANING TAILPIECE WHEN HE FELL ON LOOSE COAL OR ROCK CAUSING A STRAIN TO THE LOWER BACK
HE SAID HE BENT3OVER TO PICK UP A BAG OF ROCK DUST AND HIS BACK LOCKED UP.
INJURED WAS DRI5LING HOLE, PIECE OF TOP SCALE BROKE LOOSE AND FELL ON DRILL HEAD. (DRILL STEEL WAS THROUGH PIECE OF THAT FELL) THE ROCK SHATTERED AND A FRAGMENT WAS FLUNG INTO THE SIDE OF INJU RED'S HEAD. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS CU7TING ROCK IN #5 HEADING TO ESTABLISH AN AIRWAY WHEN THE MINER RIPPER HEAD CAUGHT SOLID IN THE ROCK RAISING THE FRONT OF THE MINER OFF OF THE MINE FLOOR WHEN THE MINER FELL BA CK DOWN ONTO MI3E BOTTOM THE OPERATOR WAS JARRED AROUND IN THE MINER DECK AFTERWARDS HE COMPLAINED OF HAVING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK RADIATING DOWN HIS LEFT LEG ALSO STATED LEFT FOOT WASNUMB &
EMPL TRAVELING 0ROM MINER IN ROUTE TO FEEDER WHEN PROTRUDING ROOF BOLT HEAD IN MINE ROOF CAUGHT SHUTTLE CAR CANOPY TEARING IT LOOSE FROM FRAME.S.C.CANOPY PINNED OPER BETWEEN CANOPY AND S.C.FRA E.OPER COMPLAIN9D OF PAIN IN LEFT SIDE OF CHEST.FX RIB SUSPECTED.
SPLICER ON BELT3CAUGHT SHOVEL SLAMMED HAND WITH SHOVEL ONTO BELT CRADLE INJURING RIGHT LITTLE FINGER.
INSTALLING RIB 6OLT EMPL SWUNG ROOF BOLTER HEAD INTO POSITION FOR NEXT BOLT IN PATTERN.IN DOING SO A ROCK 12'' X 12'' X 6'' DISLODGED FROM TOP STRIKING HIM LOWER RIGHT PORTION OF HIS BACK.
MAN WAS PUSHING35 FT RESIN BOLT UP WITH WRENCH IN HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER RESIN BOLT WAS NOT HARDLY IN WRENCH & MAN TURNED ON ROTATION CATCHING HIS GLOVE BETGWEEN HEAD OF BOLT & WRENCH BREAKING HIS LITTLE FIN1ER ON H IS LEFT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING FROM BULL DOZER AT T OP OF STOCKPILE IN ROUTE TO MINE OFFICE WHEN HE ST EPPED IN A H OLE T URNING HIS LEFT ANKLE
THE INJURED MAN3CLAIMS TO HAVE HURT HIS BACK WHILE RIDING OUT OF THE MINE IN A MANTRIP JEEP WHEN THE JEEP HIT ROUGH JOINT IN THE TRACK. HE WAS HAD BACK SURGURY AND WEARS A BASACK BRACE AT WOR K. 3
TWO SUPPLY MOTO9MEN WERE LOADING A SECTION SUPPLY CAR WITH A FORKLIFT. THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO PICK UP ONE OF THE FORKS UNDER THE BUNDLE OF PLATES. HE HAD HIS BOARD ON ONE OF THE FORKS WHEN IT "KICKED" CAUSIN1 HIM TO FALL AND INJURE HIS SHOULDER.
IN AN AREA CHAN1ING FROM SANDSTONE ROOF TO SHALE. ROOF WAS WET WATER SEEPAGE. FALL 60' L X 20'W X 6'H. NO INJURIES OR EQUIP. INVOLVED
EMPLOYEE WAS RE1LACING GRATING IN SCOOP ROCK DUSTER WHILE LOWERING GRATING DID NOT REALIZE HE HAD HIS FINGER IN WRONG POSITION CAUSING LACERATION OF MIDDLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND
PICK UP BLOCK T2 LAY IN PLACE ON STOPPING AND LOOSE COAL FELL OFF RIB STIKING HIM ON HAND.
INJURED WAS LOA8ING BAGS OF ROCKDUST FROM SUPPLY CAR TO SCOOP. HE WAS CARRYING THE DUST A SHORT DISTANCE WHEN A SHARP PAIN WENT THROUGH HIS LOWER BACK AND HIP.
UNPLANNED ROOF 0ALL IN ABANDAN AREA IN NORTH MANES TWO BRAKES INBY SPAD 831 NO INJURIES.
EMPL WENT INTO 04 HEADING TO CHECK COAL HEIGHT.SETTING IN CROUCHED POSITION WHEN DROPPED OUT OF TOP BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON HEAD AND BACK.
NO INJURY - ROO0 FALL LOCATED 1 BREAK INBY SURVEY STATION 919 #3 ENTRY. 80'L X 10'W X 4 - 4 1/2' H, 1 NORTH SECTION
MINER CREW MINI3G LAST LIFT OF C-WING NEXT TO LEAVE STUMP WHEN WITHOUT WARNING,PILLAR FALL OCCURRED WHICH RODE OUT BREAKER,TIMERS AND WING TIMBERS AND COVERED CM .INJURED TRAPPED IN CANOPY EQU IPPED DECK FOR 8HORT TIME.
INJ MAN HAD LOA8ED 1/4'' X 18'' X 48'' PIECE OF SHEET METAL ON TOP OF MANTRIP CANOPY ON HIS WAY TO SECTION,THE METAL FELL OFF AND STRUCK MAN CAUSING FX OF RIGHT SHOULDER BLADE AND LACERATION T O NECK. 3
EMPL OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR ON ROUGH BOTTOM AND INJURED BACK.
LOW SEAM HEIGHT POOR VISIBILITY INJURED MAN LOWERED THE DRILL HEAD ONTO HIS KNEE WHEN CHANGING DRILL STEEL BRUISING HIS KNEE
INJURED MAN WAS REMOVING A LOOSE ROOF BOLT FROM TOP AS IT DROPPED FROM HOLE IT HIT HIS LEFT RING FINGER & CUT IT REQUIRING 12 STITCHES
CLEANING #5 HEADING WHEN SCOOP RAN OVER UNEVEN BOTTOM CAUSING STRAIN TO LOWER BACK.
MAN WAS LETTING HEAD DOWN ON BOLTER DRIFT STEEL FELL FROM BOLTER STRIKING HIM ON LEFT LITTLE FINGER.
WHILE PULLING LOOSE ROCK WITH A SLATE BAR IN #2 HEADING ON SO SECTION I NAME STRAINED RT SHOULDER ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHILE PANELING RT SIDE OF SO SECTION
UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL.
UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL
INJ OPERATING SC ON NORTH SECTION.INSURED PERSON EITHER STRUCK HOLE OR LOOSE ROCK THROWING MAN INTO TOP OF CANOPY CAUSING STRAIN TO LOWER BACK.
MAN WAS HANGING MINER CABLE & STRAIN HIS BACK
WHILE DRILING HOLE ROCK VIBRATED FROM TOP OF CANOPY & FELL ON MANS FOOT
EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP PUMP MOTOR & STRAINED HIS BACK
INJURED MAN WAS ROLLING RIB OUT OF WAY-STRAINED BACK.
INJURED PERSON WAS A REPAIRMAN ON THE NORTH SECTION. HE WAS PREPARING TO PLACE A CLAMP ON THE SUCTION HOSE OF THE BOLTER A ROCK APP 2 1/2\ X 1 1/2" FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS STRIKING THE INJURED ON THE LEFT HAND, CAUSING A FRACTURE OF THE HAND
TOP IN THE CROSSCUT WAS TO HIGH FRO THE MINER TO CUT DOWN THE DRAWROCK WHEN THE ROCK FELL IN THE FACE IT CAUSED THE DRAW ROCK IN THE INTERSECTION WHICH WAS BOLTED UP TO FALL STRIKING THE INSU RED PERSON ON THE RT KNEE CAUSING A FRACTURED KNEE CAP.
PLACED PINNER STEEL IN POWER CENTER TO HOLD START ROP AND WHEN SCOOP TIGHTENED UP AND ROPE BROKE,PINNER STEEL CUT HAND AND BRUISED KNEE.
MAN WAS OPERATING SCOOP WHEN TURNED CORNER HE CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN FRAME AND BUMPER OF SCOOP
ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON RIGHT FOOT
AN UNINTERTIONAL SOME FALL OCCURRED 200 FEET OUTBY THE FACE OF THE NO.6 ENTRY ON TEH 1 SOUTH SECTION. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 18\X20\X5\. THE SHALE ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH 5 RESIN RODS. THERE W ERE NO INJURIES OR EQUIPMENT INVOLVED.
REMOVING ROCK FROM FEEDER WHEN PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.