Blue Diamond Coal CompanyMining Incidents in 2013

Found an unintentional roof fall from break #6 thru 7 on the Calvary 80 Mains in the #1 entry. Fall dimensions are 80' long by 20' wide by 8' thick.

Found an unintentional roof fall in break #1 to # 3 on the Calvary 80 Mains in the # 7 entry. Fall dimensions are 40' long by 20' wide by 7 ' thick.

Found an unintentional fall in breaks #23 and #25 on the Leslie Perry Mains in the #7 entry. Fall dimensions are 130' long by 20' wide by 7' thick.

Found an unintentional roof fall on the # 8 Belt(Right Fork Mains) between breaks # 24 and 25. Fall dimensions are 40' long by 20' wide by 7' thick.

Found an unintentional roof fall between the # 3 and # 4 entries on the Leslie Perry Mains at break #28. Fall dimensions are 60' long by 20' wide by 7' thick.

Found an unintentional roof fall at break #5 on the Calvary 80 Mains in the #2 entry. Fall dimensions are 20' long by 20' wide by 8' thick.

Found an unintentional roof fall between breaks #26 and 27 on the Leslie Perry Mains in the #6 entry. Fall dimensions are 80' long by 20' wide by 7' thick.

Employee was operating shuttle car and as he was turning his coat sleeve caught the rib and it pulled his arm between car and the rib and bruised his arm in which medical personnel later put a cast on it to help protect the muscle and tendons from future damage.

Using the hand wrench to remove a tight bolt. The bolt was located in a confined area of the machine and when technician pulled the wrench to remove the bolt his left shoulder made a snapping noise and started hurting. The pain increased that evening in to the next day.

Employee was observing a crew setting roof support beams while his hand was lying on the continuous miner and an employee flipped a beam over and it struck his left 5th finger. Diagnosed with a fractured finger.

Employee was installing a belt on the mine fan and caught his right index finger and middle finger between the pulley and belt and fractured his right index finger and bruised his right middle finger. No Lost time.

Employee was operating a rail motor and traveling on the track and hit a curve too fast and jarred his back. Employee returned back to work the next day but his back was not getting better and he started missing work 8/26/2013.

Employee was getting a rock off of a curtain and hurt his right arm. Tendon torn and surgery was required. Employee had surgery and started missing work on 7/12/2013.

Employee was weighting down a ventilation curtain with a rock and another rock fell onto the tip of his left ring finger.

He was cleaning rock off of the continuous miner and a rock fell and struck him on the face and knocked him down.

Employee was loading crib blocks into the scoop bucket and a crib block rolled back and struck him on the right ankle. Diagnosed with a hairline fracture in his ankle.

Employee strained back while pulling and lifting on a ATRS extension. It was just learned that employee did return to work on his next shift and worked 5 days restricted duty before being released to full duty.

While bolting the ribs, EE got right 4th finger tip in the slide/hinge on boom and cut and bruised finger.

Employee was using a utility knife to trim the edges of a belt splice and slipped and cut his leg. 3 sutures were required.

Employee was doing rehab bolting work outby and a piece of drawrock fell from the top and struck his hand and fractured his left index finger. Diagnosed with a small non-displaced fracture.

Employee was bolting top and caught his left hand between the drill steel still and wrench and cut his hand. Sutures required.

Employee was hitting a metal pin with a hammer and a piece of the hammer broke off and struck him on his left leg and cut his leg. (2 sutures required).

Employee was using a screwdriver to help peel the jacket off of a cable and slipped and struck the palm of his left hand.

Employee was helping put drums on miner and drums rolled onto hand and fractured 2 bones in his hand. Non-displaced stress fractures.

Employee was removing the drill steel for a test hole and the steel fell and struck him on the left hand and cut his hand. 3 sutures were required.

A small piece of rock (3"" by 5"" by 1/2"" thick) fell and deflected off of the roof bolter and struck employee on the neck and scraped and cut his neck. Sutures were required.