MSHA record for #5 (mine ID 1516104). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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EMPL WAS LIFITN GON S/S BATTERY CHARGER WITH SLATE BAR & STRAINED SOME MUSCLES IN SIDE.
AFTER CUTTING AND SHOOTING A CUT OF COAL THE EMPLOYEE STATED A LUMP OF COAL HAD FALLEN FROM THE RIB AND STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK OF THE NECK.
THIS MAN WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLT IN HOLE WHEN HE HAD TO USE HEAD OF BOLTER TO PUSH ROOF BOLT IN HOLE HE HAD HIS LEFT HAND HOLDING BOLT IN PLACE WHEN BOLT SLIPPED HE CAUGHT HIS INDEX FINGER AN D THUMB, BETWEEN BOLTER HEAD AND ROOF BOLT.
INTERSECTION 4 BRKS OUTBY FACE IN #7 HEADING FELL IN SLATE TOP BROKE LOSE FROM MAIN TOP ABOVE BOLTS THERE WAS NOT ANYONE IN AREA OF ROCKFALL WHEN IT FELL
TRAMING ROOF BOLTER ACROSS SECTION LOOKING BACK WATCCHING CABLE RAN INTO COAL DRILL DRILL PARKED AT TIME BOOM OF COAL DRILL HIT HIM ON L KNEE CUTTING KNEE AT JOINT.
ROCK FALL IN CROSSCUT NBETWEN 36 AND 5 ENTRIES 3 BRKS BACK FROM FACE. NO ONE WAS IN PART OF MINE WHEN ROCK FELL
WHEN I ARIVE AT TAIL PEACE OF BELT LINE INJ. TOLD ME THAT ROCK WAS STUCK IN TAIL PEACE. AND WHEN HE DISLODGE IT AND IT PULLED HIM INTO BELT LINE, HE TOLD ME HE HURT HIS LOWER BACK HE WORKE D THE REST OF SHIFT AND WENT OT DR. NEXT DAY 11-24-88
INDIVIDUAL WAS IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING SUPPORT IN ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF DRAWROK 4 FEET LONG FELL ON HIS FOOT WHICH WAS DOUBLED BACK BEHIND HIM. INDUVIDAL WAS ON HIS KNEES WHEN ACIDENT HA PPENED ANS WAS UNDER SUPPORT ROOF. HE SUSTAINED BROKEN LEFT FOOT ATRS WAS BEING USED.
INDIVIDUAL WAS HELPING ON ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE STOOD UP & CAME IN CONTACT WITH ROOF BOLT OR HALF HEADER WITH HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
SCOOP OPERATORS WERE LOADING OUT LEFT WING ON PILLAR LINE WHEN INTERSECTION FELL TRAPPING A SCOOP WHICH HAD PULED DOWN IN TIMBER LINE FOR THE REMOVAL OF RIGHT WING TO ALLOW LOADED SCOOP TO P ASS WHEN SUDDENLY WITHOUT WARNIGN INTERSECTION FELL BLOCKING SCOOP IN AND FALLING ON BUCKET OF 2ND SCOOP NEITHER SCOOP NOR OPERATOR WAS COMPLETELY TRAPPED IN AND TOOK APPROX 30 MIN TO RET
INDIVIDUAL WAS 3N THE PROCESS OF LOADING BRATTICE BLOCKING A SCOOP FOR TRANSPORTATION UNDERGROUND. WHEN A BLOCK TUMBLED OFF THE PALLET OF BLOCK MASHING INDIVIDUALS HAND BETWEEN TWO BLOCKS CRUS HING THE MIDDLE3FINGER ON THE RIGHT HAND.
PULLING PIECE O0 DRAW ROCK PRIOR TO POSITIONING MACHINE WHEN ROCK FELL FARTHER THAN EXPECTED STRIKING HIM ON RIGHT FOOT.BREAKING 2 BONES IN TOP PORTION OF FOOT.UNDER SUPPORTED ROOF AT TIME OF