Sugartree Coal

INJURED IS A COAL DRILL OPERATOR MOST OF HIS WORK IS WORKING ON HIS KNEES.

INJURED WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE IN TO A SUPPLY CAR WHEN INJURED FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK. INJURED AT THIS TIME IS BEING TREATED FOR PULLED MUSCLE.

INJURED DRILLS FOR COAL AT FACE. THIS REQUIRES HIM TO WORK ON HIS KNEE. HE DEVELOPED SORENESS IN RIGHT KNEE AND ASKED TO HAVE IT CHECKED OUT BY A DR. WHEN CHECKED BY DR. HE APPEARS TO HAVE DEV ELOPED BURSITIS IN HIS KNEE.

POURING CONCRETE AT UNDER GROUND DUMP, MAN GOT SOMETHING IN LEFT EYE. PAIN INCREASED, SAW DR. AND FOUND OUT IT WAS SLIVER OF METAL IN LEFT EYE.

INJURED PLACED LEFT HAND ON TOP OF DUMP DOOR WHILE SCOOP WAS UNLOADING PAN OF COAL IN DUMP. LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND PINCHED IN DOOR. CUTS AND CONTUSION TO 5TH FINGER ON LEFT HAND.

INJURED WORKING AT UG DUMP BREAKING UP ROCK WITHSLEDGEHAMMER. HE STRAINED HIS SHOULDER USING THESLEDGEHAMMER.

MAN WAS GRINDING METAL IN PREPARATION TO WELD METAL. SMALL PIECE OF METAL FLEW UP AND LODGE IN MAN'S LEFT EYE.

ROCKFALL DISCOVERED ON DAY TIME PRESHIFT 12 NOON 9-16-96, 7 BREAKS OUTBY WORKING FACE IN #3 ENTRY ( NOT USED AS ROADWAY). SIZE 23" THICK, 20' WIDE, 40' LONG (APPROX). SET CRIBS AND DANGERED OF F AREA, ( NOT IN TRAVELWAY). ADDITIONALY ALL FUTURE WORKING FACES/CENTERS RETURNED TO 50 FT CENTERS.

INJURED ROCK DUSTING, WHILE DRIVING MESCHER TRACTOR, STEERING ARM HIT TOP THUS CAUSING STEERING WHEEL TO TURN SUDDENLY AND RAPIDLY HITTING INJUREDS RIGHT INDEX FINGER BY STEERING WHEEL.

1ST SCOOP (OPERATED BY INJURED) WAS DISABLED ON SURFACE. 2ND SCOOP TRIED TO PUSH 1ST SCOOP TO SPOT FOR REPAIRS. BUCKET ON 2ND SCOOP RODE OVER BUCKET ON 1ST SCOOOP STRIKING INJURED IN LEFT REAR SIDE.

BLOCK OF COAL ON ROADWAY CAUSED STEERING WHEEL TO THROW MANS ARM UP-FOREARM HIT HEAD OF ROOF BOLT BRUISING FOREARM. ARM SWELLED AND WAS PAINFUL.

INJURED PLACED HIS ELBOW ON ROOF BOLTER HEAD WHILE APPLYING UP PRESSURE ON THE ROOF BOLTER HEAD PINNED LEFT ELBOW BETWEEN HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER & ROOF BRUISED TISSUE IN LEFT ELBOW NO BROKEN BONE PER XRAYS

INJURED WAS HAULING COAL FROM FACE TO BELTLINE WITH MESCHER TRACTOR INJURED TURNED CORNER TO CLOSE TRACTOR HIT RIB CAUSING INJURED'S HEAD TO HIT TRACTOR PAN OR BUCKET CUTS TO RIGHT EYE AREA ABOVE & BELOW RIGHT EYE & BRIDGE OF NOSE. INJURD REQUIRED 6 STITCHES ABOVE RIGHT EYE AND OTHERSCLEANED UP & TREATED.

MINER WAS DRIVING A MESCHER SCOOP HIT A LOOSE BLOCK OF COAL STEERING WHEEL SPUN & BROKE BONE IN HAND & FINGER

EE WAS SHOVELING & GOT COAL IN HIS EYE. DID NOT HAVE ON HIS REGULAR GLASSES OR SAFETY GLASSES.

EMPLOYEE WAS TROUBLE SHOOTING FROM SHORTING CIRCUIT WHEN THE CIRCUIT WAS ENERGIZED A FLASH OCCURRED & BURNED HIS LEFT HAND

TWO JEEP DRIVERS HAULING COAL RAN TOGETHER

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING A JACK FOR THE CUTTING MACHINE. AFTER SETTING THE JACK, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK 3" X 20" X 40" DISLODGED FROM THE ROOF STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON HIS WAY OUT OF MINE AT END OF SHIFT. HIS HAND WAS RESTING ON SAFETY POST OF JEEP. AN OBSTACLE IN ROADWAY WAS HIT BY JEEP TRAPPING HIS HAND BETWEEN SAFETY POST AND TOP OF MINE.

EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING A ROOF BOLT AND TWISTED KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING NEAR STACKER BELT WHEN APICE OF COAL OR ROCK STRUCK HIM ON THE SHOULDER.

OPERATING CUTTING MACHINE WHEN BLOCK OF COAL FLEW FROM UNDER MACHINE STRIKING HIS HAND.

STEPPED INTO BOTTOM OF JEEP AND SLIPPED ONWET BOTTON, EMPLOYEE FELL DOWN HITTING HIS BACK AGAINST JEEP BUCKET.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING A JEEP PAN ONT HE WAY OUTSIDE WHEN JEEP STRUCK THE RIB KNOCKING HIM I NTO JEEP PAN HEAD FIRST.

EMPLOYEE WAS GOING INTO RAMP DRIVING JEEP KNOCKED OUT STOP ON THE DOOR & WENT THROUGH A DOOR

EMPLOYEE WAS STRAIGHTENING A ROOF BOLT TO INSTALL IN ROOF BOLT SLIPPED AND JERKED HIS RT SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING AT SURFACE WITH A HOIST LIFTING A MINING JEEP BUCKET THE HOIST SLIPPED DROPPING BUCKET ON H IS FOOT

GLOVE WAS CAUGHT ON ROOF BOLT TORQUE WRENCH, WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS TORQUING A BOLT. WHEN HE HIT THE ROTATION LEVER.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON WAY OUT OF MINE WHEN A PARTICLE STRUCK HIS RIGHT EYE, CAUSING AN ABRASION.

EMPLOYEE PERFOR4ING REGULAR DUTIES WHEN A PIECE OF COAL LODGED IN RIGHT EYE.

HIGH WALL OF #23ENTRY FELL ROCK AS 16'WIDE X 1-48''THICK X 6'LONG AND BLOCKED ENTRY.

EMP WAS DRIVING3A JEEP WHEN HE HIT A BLOCK OF COAL AND THE STEERING WHEEL FLEW OUT OF HIS HAND. CAUSING HIS RT HAND TO GET CAUGHT BETWEEN RIB AND JEEP

EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING WIRE BASKET FROM PUMP AND STUCK IT IN HIS HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS MU7KING BELT LINE WHEN HE TRAINED HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG HAMMER ON A BELT SPLICE WHEN A PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DR3LLING WHEN A FRAGMENT OF A BOLT MACHINE BIT STRUCK HIM IN THE EYE.

EMPL BENDING ROOF BOLT HURT HIS BACK.

EMPL BACKING OU7 OF FRESH CUT OF COAL WHEN HIS JEEP HIT A BLOCK OF COAL IN ROADWAY WHICH BOUNCED HIM INTO ROOF HITTING HIS KNEE ON THE TOP.

EE WAS DRILLING3WHEN HAND SLIPPED & STRUCK THE SIDE OF STARTING BOX OF DRILL.

EMPLOYEE BUMPED3ELBOW ON BOLT MACHINE.

EMPLOYEE WAS RI8ING IN JEEP BUCKET WHEN IT WENT THRU A CURTAIN MADE OF BELT. HE RAISED UP WHEN JEEP SLOWED DOWN,CURTAIN CAUGHT EMPLOYEE BEHIND NECK AND BENT HIS BODY.

HEAD OF BOLT MA7HINE CAME DOWN AND CAUGHT LEFT ARM.

EE PULLING DRIL5 FROM FACE OF COAL NECK BEGAN TO HURT.

EE WAS CRAWLING3& CAUGHT A PIECE OF COAL UNDER KNEE PAD.

EMP WAS PICKING3ROCK WHEN A BLOCK OF COAL ROLLED DOWN AND HIT HIM ON THE FOOT

EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN DECK OF SCOOP WAITING FOR ANOTHER SCOOP TO PASS WHEN A PIECE OF SHALE IN 2X1X2 FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT SIDE OF HEAD, NECK AND LEFT SHOULDER, BRUSIN G LEFT SIDE OF NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING MESCHER MINE SCOOP WHEN HIS RT KNEE BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN THE JEEP DECK AND BRAKE PEDAL CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO SPRAIN RT KNEE

BLASTING CREW WERE SHOTTING ABREAK THROUGH. COAL FROM THE BLAST TRAVELED THREE BREAKS (-180\) STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT LEG BELWO THE KNEE, FRACTURE TO BONE BELWO KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN THE SCOOP BUCKET ON THE SURFACE PREPARING TO GO UNDERGROUND WHEN THE HIGHWALL FELL AT THE BELT ENTRY CAUSING ROCKS TO ENTER THE SCOOP BUCKET FRACTURING EMPLOYEES RIGHT ANKLE.