Bull Creek Prep & Refuse Disp FacilityCoal

Driver was attempting to raise the hood on coal truck. As driver was lifting hood from left side it caught on something. When it suddenly stopped driver had immediate pain to left shoulder.

MSHA inspector discovered a small fire in the berm beside a coal stockpile. The high sulfur coal in the berm has spontaneously ignited due to an increase in the ambient temperature. Burning material was spread, watered, and compacted to extinguish fire. The adjoining stockpile was watered and spread out to eliminate some build up of heat.

A piece of slag being chipped from a recently welded piece of metal went into employee's left eye. Medical treatment was received requiring prescription eye drops there is no lost time with this accident.

Hit hand with hammer between the thumb and index finger on left hand while hand was placed on pipe. Requiring stitches between left thumb and index finger on left hand. Employee returned to work next scheduled work day. No lost time

The operator ran the loader off the right side of the road onto the bank and turned over in middle of the road.

Location: Auto Coal Sampler at the crusher plant. Checking secondary sweep on sampler. Had his hand in the secondary, secondary made a sweep and pinned arm and hand in the belt.

While cleaning up maintenance yard, Injury lifted a piece of metal and felt pain in his groin area. No medical treatment or missed time. It was reported as an incident only. However, it appears that a hernia has resulted in this strain and he just sought medical treatment on 10/3/09.