Alpha Coal West, Inc.Mining Incidents in 2015

Operator had dismounted the blade and was walking away from the machine when he slipped on the snow covered ground landing on his left knee. The MRI showed a tear in the cartilage

Employee slipped on the ice and fell on his lunch box while approaching a crew van at the end of shift

Employee was climbing down from a ladder that was used to gain access to the top of a shovel bucket job. As he descended the ladder, it slipped out from underneath him. As he was falling he reached out and grabbed onto the shovel latch bar to catch himself from falling resulting in a dislocated left shoulder.

Employee was doing a clean-up in front of the shovel, when the moldboard caught a rock stopping the blade's forward motion jarring the employee's neck and back.

Employee was dismounting a Cat track dozer and lost his footing spraining his left knee. It was determined on 10/12/2015 when he finally saw an orthopedic specialist that he tore his ACL & MCL.

The operator was dismounting her haul truck when she stepped off she stepped onto a rock rolling her ankle. At her follow-up appointment on 08/25, the doctor scheduled her for an MRI (08/27/15). On 08/29, the doctor diagnosed her with a really bad strain and put her in a cast.

while stepping on to the bottom rung of equipment ladder, the employee's foot slipped off rung. The employee caught himself with his arms, which resulted in a hyper-extension of his shoulder. Initial diagnosis was a sprain. On 5/19/15 the injury diagnosis was upgraded to a tear that will require surgery.

Haul truck operator twisted knee dismounting HT. A 2015 audit of employee injuries we discovered employees initial knee injury was on 4/19/15. It appeared to be a First Aid injury. First work day missed was 5/22/15, surgery 10/29/15.Reporting delay waiting on medical doc's determining degenerative or new injury documentation traced the injury back to a work place injury.

A haul truck contacted a roadside berm causing the truck to tip on its side, fracturing his left wrist.

While dismounting a motor grader/blade, employee missed a step and fell to the ground.

Descending the access ladder when foot slipped, caught self with his left arm going through the ladder steps, hurt left shoulder.

EE placed himself in an awkward position in order to reach a bolt he was attempting to remove. He had his left leg propped up on a motor housing and his right leg and right shoulder bracing against the hoist. His right shoulder slipped causing his left knee to pop from the weight drop.

While drilling holes in a plate on a drill press, metal stringer shaving swung around and caught glove.

Employee was throwing cribbing onto climbing jacks and cribbing hit jack and bounced out and hit employee on the bridge of the nose. Resulting in a laceration requiring stitches.

A mechanic was removing a brake disc plate with a pry bar. As the plate came loose, the end of the bar contacted the mechanic on the chin. The contact resulted in a 1" laceration that required stitches.