New River Mine Coal

THE VICTIM AND ANOTHER WERE REMOVING ROCK FROM TOP OF MINER. A 3/4" NYLON ROPE WAS WRAPPED AROUND ROCK AND ATTACHED TO A CHAIN THAT WAS ATTACHED TO A ROOF BOLT. THE MINER WAS TRAMMED BACKWARD TO PULL ROCK OFF MINER. AS ROCK STARTED TO MOVE THE ROPE SLIPPED OFF CORNER OF ROCK WHICH BROKE AND A PIECE OF BROKEN ROCK STRUCK VICTIM.

EMP WAS MAKING REPAIRS TO CONVEYOR DRIVE CHAIN ON STAMLER FEEDER. IN THE PROCESS OF HANDLING THE120-2 DRIVE CHAIN A PIECE OF METAL FRAGMENT PENETRATED EMPLOYEE'S THUMB.

EE WAS LAYING OUT BELT STRUCTURE FROM A UNCHAULER. AS HE WAS DOING SO HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SLATE BAR TO SCALE ROOF HE PUT SLATE BAR OVER LOOSE LARGE ROOF & WHEN HE TRIED TO PULL ROCK A PIECE OF ROCK BROKE CAUSING BAR TO JERK HIS WRIST

EMPLOYEE STATEDTHAT HE WAS BOUNCED SIDEWAYS IN SEATING COMPARTMENT OF RAIL OPERATED MANTRIP WHILE IN TRAVEL TO HIS WORKING SECTION CAUSING PAIN TO HIS NECK

EE WAS ASSISTING TO CUT A PIECE OF BELT RUBBER TO PUT IN BELT TAILPIECE AND HIS KNIFE SLIPPED AND LACERATED HIS FOREARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING BAGS OF ROCKDUST ONTO SCOOP BATTERY AND WHEN TURNING TO PUT DUST ON BATTERY HE STRUCK HIS RIGHT RIB CAGE ON BUMPER OF SCOOP BATTERY.

VICTIM A CO-WORKER STOPPED AT THE #8 BELT DRIVE TO LEAVE SOME HOSES FOR A NEW BELT INSTALLATION. THE 3-WHEELER ROADWAY PASSES UNDER THE #8 BELT & THE CLEARANCE IS APPROX 4' HIGH. DURING TH E PROCESS OF LAYING OFF HOSES THE VICTIM POSITIONED HIMSELF ON TH3 3-WHEELS IN A MANNER THAT THE OPERATOR THOUGHT HE WAS READY TO GO AND TOOK OFF CAUSING VICTIM TO STRIKE BELT GUARD.

AN UNINTENSIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN #4 ENTRY RETUR AT SURVEY SPAD #196 OF AN AREA DEVELOPED IN 1981. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX 20'W, 30'L, 2' TO 5' H. THE AREA HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 4' GR OUTED RESIN RODS.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP AND PULLED ALONGSIDE A ROCKDUSTER, REACHED OUT OF OPERATORS COMPARTMENT WITH RIGHT HAND TO MOVE A HOSE OUT OF ROADWAY AND IN DOING SO, HE MOVED STEERING LEVER OF SCOOP CAUSING SCOOP TO SHIFT AND MASHED HIS HAND BETWEEN SCOOP DECK AND ROCK DUSTER MACHINE.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED DUE TO ADVERSE ROOF CONDITION IN #3 ENTRY AT SURVEY SPAD # 959. THIS AREA WAS DEVELOPED 10-81.

EMPLOYEE WAS PAGED ON TELEPHONE. AFTER TALKING ON A PHONE. HE TURNED AND STEPPED ON 4" PLASTIC WATER LINE SUPPLYING WATER TO SECTION, CAUSING THE VICTIM TO FALL. WHEN EH FEL LHIS LEG FOLEDED UNDER AND HSI BODY WEIGHT CAME DOWN ON HIS LEG WHILE IT WAS ACROSS WATER LINE.

EE BENT A 4 FT RESIN BOLT SO AS TO INSERT INTO A DRILLED HOLE, WHEN HE INSERTED PART OF BOLT INTO HOLE AND ATTEMPTED TO RESTRAGITHEN BOLT O COMPLETE ITS INSTALLATION IT TWISTED AROUND IN HOLE CAUSING HIS BODY TO TWIST THUS AGRIVATING AN OLDINJURY.

EE WAS USING A 5 GAL BUCKET TO BAIL WATER FROM AROUND 3 BELT DRIVE AND POURING WATER ONTO 2 BELT HE WAS SLIGHTLY BENT OVER WHILE LIFTING BUCKET AND TWISTING BODY AS HE POUR WATER FROM BUCKET O NTO BELT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING HIS FOREMAN TO INSTALL LINE BRATTICE AND WHEN HE WAS NAILING TO ROOF A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING VICTIM ON ELBOW.

A ROOF FALL OCCUSED IN AN AREA DEVELOPED APPROX 5-6-92, THE FALL MEASURED APPROX 18'WX16'LAND 4' TO 5' HIGH. THE ROOF HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 4' RESIN GROUTED RODS. THE AREA WAS POSTED OFF A ND WILL NOT BE CLEANED-UP.

VICTIM WAS HOLDING A RACHET & AN EXTENSION [3/3' DRIVE] ONTO A LOUG BOLT OF UNAHAULER WHEEL WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO APPLY PRESSURE TO LOSSEN BOLT. THE HEAD OF BOLT ROUNDED OFF CAUSING RACHET TO SLIP STRIKING VICTIM UNDER CHIN.

EE WAS MOVING A BUT OF RESIN FROM REAR OF ROOF BOLTER TO THE LEFT DRILL HEAD. WHEN HE CARRIED THE RESIN A LONGSIDE THE MACHINE HE CLAIMED HE FEEL SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK.

A ROOF FALL OCCURED IN 4 ENTRY 1 CROSS CUT OUTBY SPAD 83. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 18 FT WIDE 18 FT LONG AND FROM 3 1/2 TO 5 FT HIGH. FALL AREA IS IN PROCESS OF BEING CELANED UP RESUPPORTED T HE AREA OF THE FALL HAD BEEN DEVELOPED AROUND 10-1-89.

THIS ROOF FALL OCCURRED AT SURVEY SPAD #938, MEASURE APPROX. 40' LONG, 18' WIDE & THE HEIGHT WAS UNDETERMINED. THIS AREA HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 4' RESIN GROUTED RODS. ADDITIONAL SUPPORTS WERE INSTALLED AND FALL WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP.

THIS FALL MEASURED APPROX. 55 FT LONG 20 FT WIDE AND 5 1/2 FT HIGH THIS AREA HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 4 FT RESIN GROUTED RODS FALL HAS BEEN CLEANED UP AND RESUPPORTED WITH 4 FT RODS AND SUPPLME NTAL SUPPORTS OF GRIBS.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING 5 GAL BUCKETS OF HYDRAULICOIL FROM SUPPLY CAR TWO CANS AT A TIME FROM CAR DOWN TO MINE FLOOR WHEN HE DEVELOPED PAIN TO LOWER BACK.

AFTER THE OPERATOR TRAMMED MACHINE INTO PLACE TO BE BOLTED. ATRS WAS SET UP AND WHEN VICTIM STARTED TO POSITION HIS DRILL TO SET BOLT A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF ONTO CANOPY. ROCK BROKE A PART AFTER HITTING CANOPY AND SMALL PIECE FELL ONTO VICTIMS HAND.

THIS EMPLOYEE HAS RECEIVED MEDICAL TGREATMENT FOR DISC DEGENERATION CAUSED BY REPETITIONS EXPOSURE TO LOW COAL ENVIRONMENT THERE IS NO SPECIFIC EVENT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PAIN

SECTION MANTRIP BATTERIES WERE LOW ON CHARGE VICTIM NEEDED MANTRIP TO TRAVEL TO UNAHAULER CHARGING STATION SO HE LOADED MANTRIP CHARGER ONTO SECTION MANTRIP & IN PROCESS OF OLOADING HE STRAINE D HIS BACK

THIS FALL WAS DISCOVERED DURING A WEEKLY EXAMINATION THEREFORE NOT KNOW WHEN IT FELL FALL WAS IN A INTERSECTION AND MEASURED APPROX. 6 FT HIGH BY 18X18 FOUR FOOT RESIN BOLTS WERE BEING USED.

THE ROCKDUST MACHINE WAS LOADED INTO HOPPER OF UNAHAULER FOR ROCKDUSTING. THE HYDRAULIC HOSE OF DUSTER CONNECTS TO PTD ON OPPOSITE END OF HAULER, THEREFORE THE HOSE LAY ACROSS TOP OF HSULER. WHEN OPERATOR ROUNDED A CORNER THE DUSTER SLID OUT OF HOPPER STRETCHING HOSE AGAINST OEPRATOR KNOCKING HIS HEAD INTO FRAME OF HAULER.

AFTER THE CONTINUOUS MINER CHANGED WORKING PLACES EE WAS PULLING MINER CABLE FROM ROADWAY SO AS TO BE IN CLEAR FROM OTHER EQUIPMENT WHEN HE DEVELOPED PAIN IN LOWER PART OF HIS BACK

VICTIM WAS ASSISTING 2 OTHER EMPLOYEES IN MAKINGA BELT SPLICE WITH CLIPPER SPLICE MACHINE. MACHINE HUNG & THEY HAD TO BACK THE TENSION SCREW OUT TO FREE. AFTER FREEING PRESS VICTIM COULD NOT SEE ADJUSTMENT SO HE PUT FINGER IN JAWS OF PRESSTO CHECK ADJUSTMENT WHEN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE ENGAGED PRESS LACERATING FINGER.

THIS AREA WAS EXPERIENCING ADVERSE ROOF CONDITIONS DUE TO A FAULT IN SEAM. TEH FALL AREA HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 4' RESIN RODS AND SUPPLEMENTAL SUPPORTS OF CRIBS AND POST HAD BEEN ISNTALLED I N ALL APPROACHES TO THE FALL AREA PRIOR TO FALL.

EE WAS LEAVING CONTINUOUS MINES WITH LOAD AND RUN THRU VENTILATION CONTROL AND FLY PAD AT CONTROL HIT HIM IN FACE KNOCKING OFF GLASSES AND HAT STRIKING HIM ACROSS EYE.

THE SECTION IS EXPERIENCING ADVERSE ROOF CONDITIONS DUE TO MINING A FAULT AREA. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 35' LONG 18' WIDE AND 0" TO 6' HIGH. THE FALL AREA HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 4' AND 6' R ESIN GROUTED RODS.

AN APPARENT METAHEN GAS IGNITION OCCURRED IN THE #5 FACE WHEN THE CONTINUOUS MINER CUT INTO A METHANE FEEDER GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS ENCOUNTERED INCLUDED A SEAM DIP WITH SANDSTONE ROOF LAMINATIO NS THIS METHANE FEEDER WAS NOT PRESENT PRIOR TO MINING ACTIVITIES COMMENCING IN THIS FACE

THIS ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN AN ASSUMED FAULT LINE AREA OF SECTION FALL MEASURED APPROX 25FT LONG 12FT WIDE & 2FT TO 5.5FT HIGH AREA HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 4FT RESIN GROUTED RODS

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN UNLOADING 300 FEET OF LAPPED BELT FROM A FLAT CAR, WHILE PULLING BELT WITH SCOOP AND TRAMMING CAR WITH MOTOR TO POSITION BELT AT BELT HEAD. REAR LAPS OF BELT PINNED E MPLOYEE AGAINST BELT CROSS-OVER LADDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A SHIELD FROM BOLT MACHINE. THE SHIELD SLIPPED FROM HIS HAND AND ONTO HIS THUMB.

54736YEE WAS RETURNING FROM FEEDER AFTER DUMPING LOAD WHEN HE RAN OVER A ROCK IN HAULWAY CAUSING HIM TO BOUNCE FROM HIS SEAT WHILE HE WAS STOPPED TO REPLACE HIS HAT ANOTHER UNAHAULER ROUNDED C 69559 & STRUCK HIS HAULER IN REAR

VICTIM STATED HE RAN OVER A PIECE OF ROCK ALONG HAULWAY, CAUSING HIM TO BOUNCE UPWARD AND HE LANDED ON HIS SELF RESCUER. HE DIDN'T INFORM FOREMAN UNTIL END OF SHIFT ON SURFACE.

THIS FALL OCCURRED IN AN ASSUMED FAULT LINE AREA WHERE SOME ADVERSE ROOF HAD BEEN INCOUNTERED THE FALL MEASURED 18FT LONG 18FT WIDE 3FT TO 6FT HIGH THE AREA WAS SUPPORTED WITH 4FTX6FT RESIN GR OUTED RODS

THIS ROOF FALL OCCURRED WHERE THE SOUTHWEST MAINS SECTION HAD DRIVEN ACROSS FIVE ENTRIES OF OLD WORKINGS. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 18' LONG, 8' WIDE AND 2-4' HIGH. THE AREA WAS SUPPORTED WITH RESIN GROUTED RODS.

THIS ROOF FALL OCCURRED WHERE THE SO WEST MAINS SECTION HEAD DRIVEN ACROSS FIVE ENTRIES OF OLD WORKINGS FALL MEASURED APPROX 18FT WIDE 18FT LONG & 4FT HIGH AREA WAS SUPPORTED WITH 4FT RESIN GR OUTED RODS

THIS AREA WAS MINED IN 1982. THE AREA OF THE FALL IS LOCATED AT SURVEY SPAD 1205 APPROX. 60 FT RT OF EP EVALVATION POINT D OF A BLEEDER ENTRY. THE AREA WAS SUPPORTED WITH 4 FT RESIN RODS AND F ALL MEASURED 20X20 AND UNKNOWN THE HEIGHT. FALL WILL NOT HAVE TO BE CLEANED UP.

THIS FALL OCCURRED IN LAST OPEN BREAK OUTBY #5 FACE MEASURING 30'LONG X 40'WIDE X 1-6' HIGH.THE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE AN ASSUMED FAULT LINE ACROSS THIS PART OF THE SECTION.AREA PREVIOUSLY BOLTED WITH 4' RESIN GROUTED RODS.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND MINER & STUMBLED OVER SOME ROCK THAT WAS LAYING ALONGSIDE OF MINER

REACHED FOR DRILL STEEL FROM STORAGE TRAY AND STRUCK HIS THUMB AGAINST TRAY

I.NAME HELPING ON MINER.ROCK FELL ON MINER AND I.NAME STARTED TO RETREAT.BROW ON RIGHT RIB FELL HITTING HIM IN THE BACK KNOCKING HIM DOWN FACE FIRST.HAD LACERATION TO LEFT TEMPLE AND COMPLAINE D OF CHEST PAIN.

EE WAS RIDING IN THE OPERATORS COMPARTMENT OF MANTRIP ALONGSIDE THE OPERATOR AND ANOTHER PERSON . HISELF RESUCER CAUGHT ON A MINE POST TURNING HIM AROUND IN MANTRIP AND INTO HIM, BRUISING HIS RIBS.

HE WAS RIDING IN THE OPERATORS COMPARTMENT OF MANTRIP ALONGSIDE THE OPERATOR AND ANOTHER PERSON. HIS SELFRESCUER CAUGHT ON A MINE POST TURNING HIM AROUND IN MANTRIP AND INTO I.NAME.

RF FALL IN 1 ENTRY 70' INBY SPAD 195 20'W 20'L 6" TO 4' THICK

INJURED WAS KNEELING ON KNEES CLEANING HIS DUST BOX WHEN A ROCK ROLLED OR FELL FROM ROOF OR RIB (UNKNOWN WHICH) ONTO HIS FOOT.

EE JUST COMPLETED INSTALLING OUTSIDE BOLT IN FIRST ROW. HE MOVED HEAD TO INSIDE TO INSTALL AND BOLT. WHEN HE LOWERED HEAD TO INSERT STEEL. HE FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON LOWERED HEAD DOWN ONTO HIS LT LEG RESULTING IN LACERATION TO LT FEMUR, ABRASHION TO LT LEG.

A 2 IN X 12 IN X 12 IN PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF WHILE THE INJURED WAS INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT STRIKING THE VICTIM ON THE LEFT HAND WHICH RESULTED IN A SMALL CUT

THE DETAILS OF THE ACCIDENT ARE INCOMPLETE DUE TO THE INJURED NOT FILING AN OFFICIAL ACCIDENT REPORT. THE INJURED IS A SUPERVISOR AND HAS THE FULL RESPONSIAILITY OF FILING AN OFFICIAL ACCIDENT REPORT.

THE MARK 22 FAIRCHILD CONTINUOUS MINER HAD COMPLETED A 18 FT. CUT IN NO. 5 ENTRY AND WAS BACKING OUT WHEN THE SUPPORTED ROOF IN THE NO. 5 ENTRY INTERSECTION BEGAN "WORKING". THE SECTION FOREM AN INSTRUCTED THE CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR TO ABANDON THE MACHINE AND APPROXIMATELY TWO MINUTES LATER THE ROOF IN THE NO. 5 ENTRY ITERSECTION COLLAPSED.

I,NAME WAS BALANCING A CRIB BLOCK AND HALF HEADER ON TOP OF THE CONTINUOUS MINER STABILIZING JACK WHEN THE HALF HEADER ON TOP OF THE JACK CREELED OVER MASHING HIS THUMB AGAINST THE TOP PLATE O F THE STABILIZING JACK.

THE MARK 22 FAIRCHILD CONTINUOUS MINER WAS MAKING THE THIRD SUMP INTO THE NO. I ENTRY TO NO. 1 ENTRY CROSSCUT WHEN THE ROOF ABLOVE THE CUT STARTED "WORKING". THE CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR ATT EMPTED TO BACK THE MACHINE OUT OF THE CUT BUT WAS BLOCKED BY THE MOBILE BRIDGE CONVEYORS. APPROXIMATELY 30 SEC. LATER, THE ROOF COLAPSED ON THE MACHINE.

THE INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A ROCK THAT WAS STUCK IN THE REAR BRIDGE DOLLY WHEN THE ROCK FLIPPED OVER MASHING HIS AHND AGAINST THE DOLLY.

EMPLOYEE HAD HIS HAND OVER THE HEAD OF THE ROOF BOLTER, GUIDING A PIECE OF STARTER DRILL STEEL INTO THE ROOF WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK APPROXIMATELY 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 FT X 4 INCHES FELL BETWEEN THE ATR S, STRIKING HIM ON THE ARM AND HAND.

CO WORKER DROPPED A HU FUSE HOLDER APPROX 40-50 FT FROM TOP OF POLE ONTO RIGHT FOREARM

WAS UNLOADING ROCK DUST OUT OF UNITRAC BUCKET TWISTED BACK.