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AT THE TIME WE WERE ON PILLAR RECOVERY. EMPLOYEE TOOK MINER UP INTO PLACE, STARTED LOADING COAL, MASSIVE FALL OCCURRED WITHOUT WARNING, TRAPPING TWO EMPLOYEES UNDER FALL. HE WAS KILLED DUE TO THIS FALL.
WHILE INSTALLING ROOF SUPPORTS PINNER OPERATOR LET DRILL HEAD DOWN TO AKE OUT PINNER STEEL OUT OF HOLE HIS FOOT GOT UNDERNEATH DRILL BOOM CAUSING IT TO BRUISE HIS LEFT FOOT
RIDING MAN BUS TO OUTSIDE, RAISED HIS HEAD UP IN LOW CLEARANCE TOP. SHOVED HIS HEAD BACWARDS.
EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A RIPPER MOTOR COVER. HE GOT THE COVER ABOUT WAIST HIGH AND IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HANDS. IT FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE TOP OF HIS LEFT FOOT JUST ABOVE HIS STEEL TOE, BRUI SING HIS FOOT.
WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL MINER OFF OF ITS CABLE USING A UNHAULER AND A BIG PULL CHAIN WHILE PULLING AND JERKING THE MINER CHAIN SLIPPED OFF AND WITH A GLANCING BLOW HIT EE . BRUISE HIS LEFT ANKL E AND LEFT SIDE OF HIS RIBS
EE WAS SELLING IN SCOOP DIPPER WHEN FIT JARRED AND HURT HIS TAILBONE.
BELT TRANSFORMER OVERHEATED AND CAUGHT FIRE. BELT TRANSFORMER WAS CHANGED OUT TO PROPER SIZE
EE WAS HOOKING TURN BUCKLE UP TO HAULER. THE HAULER BACKED UP A MASHED HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN THE HAULER AND THE TURN BUCKLE.
OPERATING SCOOP CLEANING #5 RIGHT BREAK WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS HEAD BETWEEN THE MINE ROOF & THE SCOOP DECK. HE HAD A CUT ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS FOREHEAD.
ROCK FALL IN #6 ENTRY IN INTERSECTION INBY SPAD 2384. LENGTH ABOUT 90' LONG, WIDTH 45', HEIGHT 5'. NO INJURIES, NO EQUIPMENT INVOLVED. NO AIRWAY INVOLVED. ROCK FALL TIMBERED OFF. THE FALL WAS IN THE PILLAR LINE.
EE STATED HE WAS LOADING ROOF BOLTS ONTO SCOOP BUCKET AND AN OBJECT WENT INTO HIS EYE.
EE STATED HE WAS CRAWLING BESIDE COAL RIB. COAL BROKE OFF FROM RIB & HIT HIM IN THE HEAD.
EE STATED HE WAS INSTALLING BELT STRUCTURE WHEN ELBOW POPPED. EE DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 7/21/97HE RETD TO FULL CAPACITY DUTY 7/23/97.
WE HAD A ROCK FALL APP 2300 FT OUTBY ACTIVE SECTION ON RIGHT RETURN NO PLANS TO CLEAN FALL UP NO AIRWAYS BLOCKED.
THIS ROCK FALL WAS A CONTINOUS OF A FALL THAT HAPPENED APPROX 2 YEARS PRIOR TO THUR. APPOX 25' EXTRA WAS FALLED.
ELECTRICIAN WAS REPLACING FINAL DRIVE IN CONTINUOUS MINER. WOOD BLOCK KICKED OUT AND STRUCK LEFT HAND.
WE HAD A MASSIVE ROCK FALL ON A PILLAR SECTION RESULTING IN TRAPPING TWO MEN.
WE HAD A ROCK FALL IN NEUTICAL ENTRY 4 ENTRY ON PILLAR SETTING NO EQUIPMENT INVOLVED NO INJURY TO PERSONAL OR EQUPMENT FALL WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP TIMBERED ON ALL SIDES.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS LIFTING A TOOL BOX ON MANTRIP AND HURT HIS BACK.
ROCK FALL WAS DISCOVERED ON PRESHIFT 3-23-97 - 80'LONG, 20'WIDE, 6' TO 8' THICK ABOVE ANCHORAGE
EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING UNIHAULER WHEN HE LAID HIS FOOT UPON TOP TO REST LEG. WHEN LEAVING DUMPING POINT, HE FORGOT TO REMOVE HIS FOOT FROM TOP OF UNIHAULER CAUSING HIS FOOT TO BE CAUGHT BETWEEN TOP OF UNIHAULER AND ROOF.
EE WAS LIFTING MINER CABLE ONTO MINER HOOKS, WHEN HE NOTCIED A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
WE HAD A ROCK FALL IN ONE BLEEDER SYSTEM, ROCK FACE HAS BEEN TIMBERED OFF. NO AIRWAY WAS BLOCKEDNO EQUIPMENT WAS INVOLVED. NO TRAVELWAY INVOLVED. NO PERSON INJURED. STATE MINE INSPECTOR WAS WI TH SUPERINTENDENT WHEN DISCOVERED FALL..
EMP WAS REMOVING BELT LINE. PICKED UP A PIECE OFBELT STRUCTURE TO PUT IN COAL HAULER AND INJUREDHIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING STRUCTURE IN BELTLINE WITH A PIECE OF PIPE WHEN CHAIN HANGER BENT CAUSING BELT ROPE TO COME OUT. CHAIN HANGER HIT HIM ONTHE LEFT EYEBROW AND PIPE CAME UP HITTING HIM ON THE CHIN. HE HAD A CUT OVER HIS LEFT EYE AND A BRUISE ON HIS CHIN.
EMLOYEE WAS USING SLATE BAR ON GETTING A PIECE OF DRAW STATE OFF MIENR WHEN BAR SLIPPED INJURING HIS RIGHT LITTLE FINGER.
MULTIPLE SLICKEN SIDE OR HOOD BACK OR SLIP, FELL OUT ABOVE ANCORAGE OR ANCOR POINT.
EE WAS DRIVING RAM CAR WHEN HE HIT HIS HEAD ON ROOF.
EE WAS STARTING DRILL STEEL WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW SLATE FELL AND PINNER HEAD AND BOUNCED OFF CUTTING HIS CHIN.
EE WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN ROOF STEEL GOT HUNG IN ROOF, EE TRYING TO GET OUT STEEL WHEN HE BY ACCIDENT HIT WRONG LEVER, DROPPING BOOM ON KNEE.
EE WAS UNDERNEATH A GOODMAN LOCOMOTIVE THAT WAS ON CRIB BLOCKS. THE TRUCKS OF THE MACHINE FELL DOWN ON HIS CHEST.
EE WAS LIFTING A ROCK ONTO THE BELTLINE AND DROPPED IT ON HIS FOOT.
HAD ROCK 20FT BY 20FT 51/2 FOOT THICK APP 4000 FOOT OUTBY FALL AREA
PUTTING MINER CABLE UP ON HANGER AND PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.
EE WAS TIGHTENING UP BOLT ON THE CLUTCH HOUSING OF A MINER. RATCHET SLIPPED OFF & EE FELL FORWARD & HIT HIS MOUTH ON THE HOUSING.
ROOF FALL ABOVE ANCHORAGE.
EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING A BRATTICE WHEN ROCK FELL FROM TOP HITTIN GHIS LEFT SHOULDER AND RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING PERSONNEL CARRIER WHEN HEHIT HOLE AND LOST CONTROL OF STEERING WHEEL AND HIT RIGHT HAND FRACTURING HIS SMALL FINGER.
WAS BENDING A ROOF BOLT WHEN FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE. SPRAINED LIGAMENT.
BOLTING TOP & ROCK FELL & HIT LEFT SHOULDER ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN BOLTS
UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL 45 BREAKS INBY MINE PORTAL SURVEY STATION 1539 MEASURING 90'X20'X 4 1/2. ROOF FALL WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP BUT TIMBERED OFF & DANGER BOARDS ERECTED ON ALL ENTRANCES TO R OOF FALL.
UPON CHANGING SHIFTS AND EXITING THE MINES ON THE PERSONNEL CARRIER THE EMPLOYEE RAISED TOO SOON AND GOT COAT HUNG ON ROOF BOLT WHICH PULLED HIM BETWEEN PERSONNEL CARRIER AND TOP.
TRIMMING BELT AND HAND SLIPPED KNIFE CUT AREA AROUND THUMB ON LEFT HAND.
CONVEYOR CHAIN CAME OUT OF GUIDES OF MINER & HIT LEFT SHOULDER CAUSING BRUISE. NOT REPORTABLE?
BOLTING TOP AND SMALL ROCK FELL AND HIT RIGHT SHOULDER ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN BOLTS.
DROPPED LID COVER ON FINGER
PULLING BELT KNIFE & FELT SOMETHING PULL IN SIDE OF CHEST WENT TO DOCTOR AND WAS SAID TO HAVE A MUSCLE STRAIN.
TURNED TO PICK UP MINER CABLE AND PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.