Hip-High Mine # 1 Coal

DUST FROM HAUL ROAD GOT INTO EE'S EYES 12/12/00 12/13/00 WHEN HE CAME BACK TO WORK HIS EYES WERERED & SWOLLEN 12/27/00 HE SAW DR. HE WILL RTW 1/2/01

EE WAS USING A SHORT HANDLE SLEDGE HAMMER TO REMOVE A PIN FROM MINER CAT PAD. HE HIT AND BRUISED HIS LEFT ANKLE WITH THE HAMMER.

EE BENT OVER TO PLUG CHARGER ONTO 4-WHEELER. WHEN HE RAISED UP HE INJURED HIS LOW BACK.

EE WAS UNLOADING A ROLL OF BELT BY HIMSELF. THE BELT GOT AWAY, AND ROLLED OVER HIS LEFT LEG.

EE WAS HELPING FIT A PAN ONTO THE MINER. HE WAS CHIPPING WELDING SLAG, A PIECE GOT BEHIND HIS GLAWSSES AND INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS HANGING MINER CABLE & FELT TWINGE IN HIS BACK CONT'D TO WORK UNTIL 8/25/00 DR TOOK HIMSELF OFF WORK 8/25/00

EMPLOYEE GOT PARTICLES IN HIS EYES PUTTING BOLTS IN THE GREASE CASE OF THE MINER. ON 8-7-00 HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR FOR TREATMENT.

EE INJURED HIS LOW BACK MUSCLE LIFTING A 45# BOX OF GLUE ONTO HIS BOLTING MACHINE IN 44" COAL.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING UP BOLTS. HE LET THE HEAD DOWN & PUSHED THE BOLT OVER. WHEN HE RAISED THE HEAD & SPINNED THE BOLT HIS GLOVE GOT CAUGHT. HIS LEFT FOREARM WAS BROKEN BY THE SPINNING BOLT

EMPLOYEE INJURED WHEN THE BOLTER TRAMMED BACKWARD TO SET UP. THEY WERE ABOUT A FOOT OFF. WHEN OPERATOR ENGAGED TRAM, THE RIGHT SIDE ENGAGED FIRST THEN THE LEFT. BOLTER SLEWED RIGHT, THEN ST RAIGHT.

EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT KNEE WAS INJURED JULY 99; AFTERRETURNING TO WORK IN JAN. 2000 HE HAS COMPLAINEDTHAT HIS KNEE HURT; 5/1/00 HE WAS SCHEDULED WITHTREATING PHYSICIAN FOR EVALUATION.

EE WAS PULLING THE MINER CABLE WHICH HAD A KNOT IN IT. HE WAS IN 48" COAL WITH MUD. EE STRAINED HIS BACK.

ROTATION HOSE ON PINNER BUSTED, SPRAYING HYDDRAULIC OIL ON THE FACE AND EYES OF THE EE.

EE INJURED HIS BACK PULLING 8 X 8 X 12 THROUGH MUD. HE WAS HELPING BUILD A BRIDGE.

EE INJURED NECK MUSCLE WHILE SHOVELING GOB FORM UNDER BELT.

EE WAS ON HIS KNEES PULLING THE MINER CABLE. CABLE WAS IN THICK MUD CAUSING IT TO STICK TO THE FLOOR. EE TAKEN TO E.R. AT WHITESBURG HAS STRAIN MUSCLE LOW BACK.

UNCONTROLABLE HILL SEAMS PULLED BACK & LEFT SECTION WHERE FALL OCCURREDX

EE WAS SERVICING SCOOP AT THE SURFACE OF THE MINE. EE WAS ON TOP OF SCOOP. EE WAS IN A HURRY TO GET TO THE NEXT JOB. WHEN EE STEPPED DOWN FROM SCOOP INTO TACKY MUD. AS EE TURNED HE STRAINED.SP RAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE IS THE MINER HELPER, WE SUPPLY THE CABLE PULLERS. EE WAS NOT USING CABLE PULLERS OR RUBBER GLOVES. EE REPORTED BEING SHOCKED BY MINER CABLE WHEN HE TRIED TO PULL IT. OUR ELECTRICIAN/REPAIRM AN CHECKED THE CABLE AND DID NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG. MSHA INSPECTED THE CABLE AND ONLY FOUND A TORN JACKET 100 FT. OUTBY THE MINER.

EE RECD INJURY TO HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER WHILE HELPING SPLICE A BELT. EE REACHED TO GET THE KNOCKER ANOTHER EE HIT THE KNOCKER AND FIRST EE FINGER WITH A POLE AX. EE RECD 6 SUTURES TO CLOSE THE WOUND

EE WAS COMING OUTSIDE TO GET THE EVENING SHIFT CREW. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING THE EE.EE WAS CUT ON THE FOREHEAD ABOVE THE LEFT EYE. EE WAS TREATED AT THE ER WHITESBURG ARH EE RECD 4 SUTURES TO CLOSE THE WOUND

EE WAS PUTTING A RAIL RUNNER BACK ONTO THE TRACK. THE JACK SLIPPED CAUSING THE EE TO MOVE SUDDENLY. EE SLIPPED TO THE SIDE CAUSING INJURY TO HISLOWER BACK. EXAMINATION REVEALED A PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK. EE WAS OFF WORK 4 DAYS AND RETURNED TO HIS NORMAL DUTIES.

EE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS. A TIE WIRE ON THE BOLT PLATES CAUGHT THE LITTLE FINGER OF THE LEFT HAND. AS THE ROTATION BEGAN, THE WIRE TWISTED, CUT THROUGH THE GLOVE CUTTING HIS FINGER. HE WA S TREATED AT THE E.R. AT WHITESBURG HOSPITAL.

EMPLOYEE PULLED A MUSCLE WHILE SHOVELING THE BELT. EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING WET COAL IN 38 TO 40 INCH HIGH AND OVERLOADED HIS SHOVEL.

EE WAS BOLTING TOP. A FOREIGN OBJECT GOT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE CAUSING REDNESS AND SW4ELLING. EE SAW HIS FAMILY DR. 5-8-98 AND LEARNED HE HAD AN INJURED CORNEA.

EE WAS OPENING A VENTILATION DOOR TO THE MAIN LINE. THE BRAKE ON THE RAIL RUNNER HE WAS RIDING ON FAILED TO HOLD. THE MACHINE ROLLED STRIKING WEEE ON LEFT ARM & LEG.

EE WAS CUTTING BRUSH FOR LOACTION OF GAS LINE. EE SLIPPED, CUTTING THE MIDDLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND WITH A MACHETE.

EMP WAS BOLTING TOP UNDERGROUND. STAB JACK BLEW OFF CAUSING CANOPY TO COME DOWN STRIKING THE EMP ON TOP OF THE HEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING BELT STRUCTURE SING HIS LEFT KNEE TO PIVOT. HE TURNED AND HIS KNEE STAYED IN PLACE, TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING BITS ON MINER LIP AND THE MINER CLIP FLLEW BACK STRIKING HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE.

EMP WAS CHIPPING SLAG FROM MINER DRUM WHEN HOT SLAG WENT INTO HIS EYE. EYELID BURNED AND STUCK TOGETHER.

ACCIDENT WAS REPORTED NEXT DAY TO SUPERVISOR. HE STATED HE HIT HIS RIGHT ELBOW IN SHOVEL BELT. HE FELT A SMALL AMOUNT OF PAIN AT THE TIME BUT THE NEXT MORNING HIS ARM WAS SORE.

EE WAS SHOVELING HEAVY WET COAL ON THE BELT WHENHE FELT PAIN IN UPPER BACK. EE WORKED & DID NOT COMPLAIN OF ANY PAIN UNTIL 11/12/96.

EMP WAS BACKING OUT OF #2 HEADING. WENT TO MOVE MINER CABLE AWAY FROM RIB. MINER KICKED SIDEWAYSPINNING EMP BETWEEN MINER HEAD AND RIB.

EE WAS CARRYING 50# BAGS OF ROCK DUST IN 44 INCH COAL AND STRAINED BACK.

EE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN HIS GLOVE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BOLTING WRENCH AND STEEL, PULLING THUMB ON RIGHT HAND.

EE HAD INSTALLED RIB BOLT AND MOVED AREA TO 2 BELT, WHILE MOVING FEVER JACKS FELL INTO HOLE CAUSING CANOPY TO STRIKE VICTIM IN HEAD.

ROOF FALL OCCURRED ONE BREAK, OUTBY SPAD #28 IN #3 ENTRY. AREA WAS 4 FT THICK, 20 FT WIDE C 20 FT THICK. VENTILATION WAS NOT INTERFERRED WITH.

AT APPROX. 90' INBY SPAD #36 OF THE #4 ENTRY, A ESTIMATED FALL OCCURRED THAT WAS 18' WIDE 140' LONG AND 6' TO 10' THICK (SEE ATTACHED MAP). THIS FALL INCLUDED ONE INTERSECTION AND ONE DOUBLE H EAD FLETCHER BOLTER.