Sterling North Mine: 75 MSHA citations Coal

THE MINER WAS HELPING TO DO A BELT MOVE AND WAS THROWING BELT STRUCTURE NEAR THE BELT TO INSTALL. AFTER RELEASING A PIECE WHILE THROWING THE MINER FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. NO HORSE PLAY OR SAFETY VIOLATION WAS THE CAUSE. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES AND REGS NOT A FACTOR. PROTECTIVE ITEMS OR TRAINING NOT A FACTOR.

ROOF FALL OF BREAK 5, #5 ENTRY AT INTERSECTION. APPROXIMATELY 20 X 20 FT IN AREA, 10' HIGH EXTENDING INTO #3 ENTRY OF ROOM-1 RIGHT. FOUND BY FOREMAN & MSHA INSPECTOR ON NORMAL INSPECTION.

ALL 4 MOBILE BRIDGES WERE BACKING OUT OF A CUT, WHEN THE FRONT 2 BRIDGES (#4 & #3) STOPPED AND STARTED MOVING FORWARD, WHILE #2 & #1 BRIDGES WERE STILL BACKING. SUDDEN STOP CAUSED THE #2 & #3 BRIDGE TO SLIDE TOWARD THE OPERATOR CATCHING HIS KNEE PAD UNDER THE MACHINE PINNING HIM AGAINST THE RIB. OPERATOR HIT PANIC BAR, BUT IT FAILED TO DISENGAGE. IMMEDIATE REPAIR TO PANIC AFTER AID

ROOF FALL OCCURRED SOMETIME BETWEEN 12:00 AM ON 11-4 AND 9:00 PM 11-5. FOUND BY MINE FOREMAN DOING PRESHIFT FOR 11:00 PM MIDNIGHT SHIFT (SUN-MON) APPROX 6' HIGH 100' LONG IN BY INTERSECTION OF B-13 TO JUST INTO INTERSECTION 13-15 OF 5 RIGHTOFF OF 1 LEFT. FALL WAS POSTED AND DANGERED OFF.

FLOOR HEAVE OF #1 THRU #7 ENTRIES OF 3-LEFT ROOM OFF OF 1-LEFT SOUTHEAST SUBMAINS. FROM BREAK 1 TO BREAK 12, MOST CROSS CUTS REMAINED OPEN.

EE WAS ASSISTING IN HELPING TO TRY TO TIGHTEN UP THE CONVEYOR TAIL PIECE WHEN THE WRENCH HE WAS USING TO HELP TENSION THE TAILPIECE BROKE, CAUSING A PORTION OF THE WRENCH TO FLY LOOSE AND STRI KING HIM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS FACE. CAUSE OF INJURY WAS AWARENESS COMPLIANCE WITH RULES AND REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE ITEMS OR TRAINING NOT A FACTOR.

EE WAS ASSISTING IN REPLACING A GUARD ON A MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER FOR THE CONVEYOR CHAIN. IN ATTEMPTING TO LINE UP THE BOLT HOLES OF THE GUARD A PIECE OF CRIB BLOCK WAS PLACED UNDER THE GUARD A ND DOWN PRESSURE APPLIED TO HELP LINE UP THE BOTTOM HOLES IN THE GUARD AND THE MACHINE-THE CRIB BLOCK KICKED OUT PINNING HIS HAND BETWEEN THE GUARD AND THE CRIB BLOCK.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED AT #3 ENTRY OF SOUTH SUBMAIN BETWEEN CROSS-CUTS 43 AND 44 IN WORKED OUT PORTION OF SUBMAIN USED FOR VENTILATION OF WORKED PANELS 7-R+-1R+. #1,2,4 AND 5 ENTRIES NOT AFFECTE D OR VENTILATION.

ROOF FALL IN 6 - RT PANEL AT CROSSCUT 17 #1 & #2 ENTRIES X 5'HIGH INACTIVE PANEL ALL EQUIPMENT HAD BEEN REMOVED.

ROOF FALL IN 6 - RT PANEL AT CROSSCUT 14 #4 ENTRY = 5'HIGH - INACTIVE PANEL ALL EQUIPMENT HAD BEEN REMOVED.

WHILE ASSEMBLING RIGID CONVEYOR BELT STRUCTURE EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUT A SIDE RAIL INTO THE STAND, THE STAND MOVED CAUSING THE RAIL TO PINCH HIS MIDDLE FINGE BETWEEN THE RAIL & THE STAND.

ROOF FALLS OF O-LEFT PANEL AT INTERSECTIONS OF #1 B-34, #2 B-33 #3 B-32 , #4 BETWEEN B-31 AND B-32 AND #5 B-30 ON A DIAGONAL LINE ACROSS THE PANEL WERE CLAY VEINS WERE PRESENT AND SURFACE VALL EY WALLS ABOVE MET WHICH MAY HAVE CAUSED FAILURE AT BEAM BUILT WITH ROOF BOLTS DUE TO UNUSUAL WEIGHT AND STRESS ON THE ROOF. AREA WAS IN WORKED OUT PANEL NO EQUIPMENT OR MEN PRESENT.

ROOF FALL IN #7 ENTRY OF 001 O-LEFT PANEL AT B-51 CAUSED BY FAILURE OF BEAM BUILT WITH 6' ROOF BOLTS WHICH HAD BEEN INSTALLED BECAUSE OF UNUSUAL WEIGHT AND STRESS ON THE ROOF AT THAT POINT. MA Y HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY WEAK AREA IN ROOF AND WEIGHT CARRIED OVER FROM ADJOINING ABANDONED MINE.

ROOF FALL IN #1 ENTRY OF 001 1 LEFT ROOM AT B-28 CAUSED BY FAILURE OF BEAM BUILT WITH ROOF BOLTS BECAUSE OF UNUSUAL WEIGHT AND STRESS ON THE ROOF AT THAT POINT. WEIGHT MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY SETTLING OF ROOF AT B 31 WHERE CLAY VEIN CROSSED WHICH HAD BEEN CRIBBED EXTENSIVELY.

EE, #1 BRIDGE OPER. WAS ATTEMPTING TO ADJUST LEADS FROM #1 BRIDGE TO #2 BRIDGE, WHICH HAD DROPPED LOOSE FROM ITS MOUNTING ARM WHILE BRIDGES WERE STATIONARY. #3 BRIDGE OPER. WAS NOT AWARE, AND PROCEEDED TO MOVE HIS BRIDGE FORWARD WHICH EXTENDED UNTIL THE #2 BRIDGE SLIDING DECK MET ITS STOPS WHICH COCKED THE #2 BRIDGE, KNOCKING EE ONTO THE CRAWLER TRACKS OF THE #1 BRIDGE, BRUISING HI

ROOF FALL ON 2-LEFT PANEL. BREAK 23 SURVEY STATION 1150 ENTRIES 5,4,3,,2,1. FALL DAMAGED SECITON POWER CENTER AND CONVEYOR BELT LINE. FALL OCCURRED ACROSS ENTRIES THRU INTERSECTIONS OF CROS SCUTS FOR BREAK 23 BECAUSE OF MULTIPE CLAY VEINS IN THE ROOF WEAKENED IT ALONG THE RIBS VERTICALLY. TEST HOLES DID NOT INDICAATE ANY ROOF WEAKNESS.

FORMAN WAS SHOVELING ALONG BELT LINE, NOTICED SLIGHT TWINGE IN RIGHT SIDE WENT HOME AFTER HIS MIDNIGHT SHIFT WENT TO BED WOKE UP WITH SWELLING ON LOWER RIGHT ABMOMEN.

OPERATOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO PICK A LARGE CHUNK OF COAL OFF THE BRIDGE CONVEYOR WHEN IT SLIPPED AND FLIPPED UP SMASHIN GFOR A MOMENT HIS LEFT POINTER FINGER ON ROOF BOLT. X-RAYED AT HOSPITAL NO T BROKE BADLY BRUISED.

ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR WAS EXTENDING THE ATRS ARMS ONT EH BOLTER AND GOT HIS HAND BETWEEN THUMB AND FINGER, PINCHED BY SUPPORT PAD WHICH PIVOTS ON THE ATRS ARM MUSCLE AND LIGIMENTS BETWEEN THUMB AND FINGER BRUISED OF LEFT HAND.

HE WAS MOVING THE BOLTER FROM A CROSSCUT TO POSITION THE BOLTER IN #3 ENTRY TO BOLT. HE WAS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE BOLTER. OTHER EMPLOYEE TURNED THE BOLTER SLIGHTLY TO CENTER IT IN THE EI NTRY. HIS ANKLE WAS CAUGHT UNDER THE PANIC BAR BEHIND THE BOLTER HEAD.

VICTIM WAS WORKING WITH THE FOREMAN ON A TAILPIECE USING A PRY BAR TO STRAIGHTEN SOME PROTECTIVE SKIRTING. THE PRYBAR DISLODGED FROM THE FOREMAN'S HAND STRIKING THE VICTIM ACROSS THE CHEST. VI CTIM WENT TO HOSPITAL AFTER SHIFT-DIAGNOSED WITHBRUISED CARTILAGE OF THE RIBS.

WHILE CUTTING A PIECE OF CANVEYOR BELTING WITH A KNIFE, THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT THE EMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND. ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHILE WORKING THE SHOP.

WHILE SERVICING THE MINER, EMPLOYEE STRAINED ADDOMINAL AREA RESULTING IN SWELLING TO GROIN AREA, BY LIFTING A HYDROLIC OIL CAN.

23977ED OFF HOPPER, FELL INTO TRUCK BED, GROUND CLAMP KNOCKED LOOSE AND STRUCK HIM ON RIGHT SIDE OF FACE CAUSIGN BRUISES AND LACERATION IN AND AROUND EAR.

54736YEE SMASHED FINGER IN HIGHLIFT DOOR WHILE TRYING TO SHUT DOOR

CRAWLING DURING NORMAL WORK PERIODS AND CONDITOIONS-SWELLING OF BOTH KNEES.INFLAMMED RIGHT ELBOW DUE TO PULLING CABLE BOTH CODE 26 DOSORDERS.

HANGING BRATTICE CURTAIN IN KNEELING POSITION, MOBILE BRIDGE CONVEYOR CRAWLER RAN OVER RIGHT FOOT.METAL TOE SQUEEZED TOES CAUSING FRACTURE & LACERATION.

EE WAS CHECKING WATER LEAK ON 4 INCH PIPE LINE WHEN COUPLER BLEW OFF CAUSING JET OF WATER TO STRIKE HIM AND KNOCK HIM OVER AGAINST A COMPANION CAUSE SURGE IN WATER PRESSURE.