Alpha Coal West, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2014

Employee was pushing a hand tool cart in the shop area and felt pain in her lower abdomen

A Technician was assisting a motor grader move trail cable. He was putting rope tied to a cable horn on to the grader ripper. The Technician stepped into a loop in the rope causing him to fall to the ground as the grader pulled forward. The Technician had a bruise and was unable to return on his next scheduled shift due to swelling. His next scheduled shift was 1/9/15.

While removing a pin for a dozer undercarriage, a Maintenance Technician pinched his thumb with the slide sledge.

Employee was descending locomotive steps when the ballast gave away under her feet which caused her to fall.

While changing bucket teeth for a shovel, a small piece of metal broke off the tooth and struck ee in the leg. The result was a 1/4 inch cut. The cut required no treatment at the time of injury. On 6/11/15, the ee had a procedure to repair a narrowed artery under scar tissue. The damaged is the result of the injury that occurred on 2/11/14.

While operating haul truck, & while loading under a shovel, haul truck opr leaned over in the seat to grab a roll of paper towels & hit her head on gear lever when a chunk off the bucket contacted truck bed. 8 days later, after experiencing headaches & vision problems, the opr was diagnosed w/a concussion resulting from contact w/gear selector. Mine rec'd documentation on 2/4/14.

Torquing bolts on push blade when fingers were caught betwee the blade and the acuator for the pneumatic torque wrench causing fracture and laceration requiring stitches to two fingers.

Electrician was leaving electrical shop and wind gusts of 40+ mpg shut the door on his finger, fracturing the tip of his finger

After power washing trucks, employee complained of left wrist pain

Bent over to pick up a Rad1800 tool & back started to hurt before his finger tips reached the tool. The accident wasn't reported to management until 09/29/2014. Accident still is being investigated to see if it is a work related injury.

While employee was assisting another employee replace the bearing on a tail roll, she got debris in her left eye.

The 651 scraper traveling down a ramp at approximately 8 m.p.h. Scraper started riding up the side of the parallel berm, went over the top of the berm, and down the other side 30 feet stopping at the bottom of the other side. The machine had no damage and the employee was wearing his seat belt.

Employee lost his balance, slipped and fell back onto right hand and wrist resulting in a fracture.