MAN WAS HELPING BOLTER WHEN ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN BOLTS & HIT MAN ON BACK OF HAND & BROKE IT.
Crafts Run MineCoal
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 21
- Years on record
- 2000–2002
- Latest incident
- Jun 2002
Reportable incidents
21 on file2002 · 3 incidents
MAN WAS LOOKING AT SCOOP & HAD HAND ON FINDER & ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN BOLTS. ROCK APPROXIMATELY 1"" THICK, 10"" WIDE, 11"" LONG, HIT MAN ON THUMB.
PITTSBURG BREAK RAN DOWN XCUT APPROX. 45' & TOOK OUT 2/3 INTERSECTION (BREAK HAD BEEN TIMBERED OFF).
2001 · 5 incidents
WHILE BOLTING A ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS AND SLID DOWN TRS AND HIT GROUND FLIPPING OVER AND HIT MAN ON RIBS (ROCK WAS 2"" THICK BY 12"" ROUND)
HE TWISTED TO PICK UP ROOF BOLT TO PUT PLATE ON IT & HURT BACK.
2000 · 13 incidents
WHIE SPILITY FINDER PILLER LINE CAME FROM LEFT SIDE AND FELL ACROSS MINER PINNING HEAD DOWN.
WHILE CHANGING BITS ON MINER EMPLOYEE WAS BENT OVER TO PIECE A WEB MEASURING 1""-3"" THICK, 16"" WIDE 24"" LONG FELL OUT AND HIT HIM ON BACK. (ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS.)
STRAINED GROIN, WAS NOT REPORTED TO MANAGEMENT UNTIL SEVERAL DAYS AFTER INJURED.
WALKING TO MANTRIP TO GOT HOME AND DUMPED KNEE ON CORNER OF 4160 WAGON.
HANGING MINER CABLE, CABLE DROPPED DOWN A KNOCKED HAT AND GLASSES OFF AND WIRE SCRAPED EYE WHEN GETTING UP.
A SOAP STONE ROCK AND WATER IN TOP LET ROCK SEPARATE BETWEEN BOLTS, LETTING ROCK BREAK LOOSEAND DROPPING ON EDGE OF CANOPY, THEN SLIDING OFFAND HITTING MAN ON BACK, LEFT ARM AND RIGHT LEG. HE WAS ROOF BOLTING AT THIS TIME.
WHILE MINING #3 ENTRY 160' INBY SPAD 1530, ENCOUNTERED AN UNCHARTED BOR HOLE, ALLOWING A LARGE INFLOW OF WATER ONTO SECTION.
1 BLOCK OUTBY SPAD 887 PREVIOUSLY BOLTED FALL AREA PORTED BUT DUE TO MOISTURE AND CLAY VIER.
SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS STRIKING ON LOWER RIGHT SIDE OF BACK.