American Mining & Manufacturing CorporationMining Incidents in 2004

MUD SLIP IN INTERSECTION FELL ABOVE ANCHORAGE ZONE. AREA IS APPROX. 20' X 20' X 8-10' HIGH.

A mud slip occurred in the #5 entry at the last open intersection spad #6 to 50. this lsip caused an unintentional roof fall app. 20' x 20' x 6'. the intersection had been previously bolted.

#3 head drive is powered by tires. It appears the roller stopped and tires kept turning creating friction that ignited tires. Slip protection did not shut belt off.

MINING THROUGH SLIP AREA. HAD ALREADY ROOF BOLTED AREA AND PUT STEEL SETS UP. TOP FELL, TWISTING LEGS AND ROCKFALL OCCURRED. FALL WAS APPROX. 12 FT. LONG, 16 FT. WIDE, 8 FT. HIGH.

MINING THRU SLIP AREA. OUTBY APPROX 30' LONG X 17' WIDE X 10-12' HIGH FELL IN PULLING PINS OUT PINS WERE 5' TO 7' GLUE BOLTS, #5 ENTRY INBY SPAD #12+00 2ND NORTH PANEL OFF 2ND MAIN CAST.

Employee was shoveling on slope belt header and threw mud and coal up onto the belt and strained neck and pinched nerve.

Employees were attempting to jack up one side of tailpiece with a railroad jack to prevent #3 belt from contacting the tailpiece. The jack slipped out (kicked out) and off of a piece of wood that the jack was sitting on, striking injured in the left knee causing pain and swelling in the knee.

Employee was crawling and climbing around on #3 header, when left knee started hurting, by the time he got out side his left knee started to swell, which was around 7:00 p.m.

Employee was watching cable to insure that there was slack in cable. Supervisor heard a pop and a ""grunt"" or noise and lost power on his equipment. Supervisor discovered EE laying on ground, unconscious with with no apparent injury.

Making a splice in #4 belt. Knife slipped and cut left index finger. Bandaged on unit and went to Dr. for stitches.