All MSHA-reportable accidents at Canyon Fuel Company LLC operations in 2015. Fatalities appear first.
A roof fall occurred in the West Lease Bleeder #2 entry at #16 x-cut. The roof was bolted with 7' resin bolts and trusses. No person was injured as a result of the fall. The high voltage electrical cable was pulled down by the fall and re-routed prior to any rehabilitation work being done.
A roof fall occurred in the 5 West (MMU 005-0) continuous miner section at x-cut #11, #3 entry. The fall occurred near a flush face. The fall did not impede travel of persons or block an escpaeway. The fall measured aprox 18' wide x 10' long x 4'-5' high. The entire area was bolted with 5' bolts, mesh and mats.
Roof fall was found during weekly examination.
Making a mechanical belt splice. Victim was holding a belt splice tool and another employee was striking the tool with a hammer. Victim moved tool and his partner swung the hammer, striking victim on back of right hand.
EE was unloading belt idlers from a flat-bed trailer. The belt idler he and another miner were sliding off the trailer became hooked to another belt idler. The hooked idler fell off the trailer striking EE on top of right foot fracturing the big and second toe.
While traveling from return to intake, employee stepped off cement pad onto a water pipe and twisted his ankle.
While pulling down a ventilation curtain, employee felt his knee pop as he fell to the ground.
The roof bolter operator was removing his drill wrench from the chuck when he inadvertently got his hand too close to the auger clamp. As he pulled the lever it caught his right finger between the auger clamp.
Employee was trying loosening the locking nuts on a 13"" length of all-thread. When the nuts broke loose the employee fell forward striking his hand on the bed of the boom truck. This caused a laceration to the palm side of his right ring finger.
Attempting to remove a new knife from plastic packaging material. He advised 4 employees sitting next to him to conduct an Observation on him, as he removed knife. He put on cut proof-gloves & cut plastic with his cutters. He then attempted to tear plastic to remove knife, in doing so the knife (or plastic) cut his forearm. Knife was packaged with the blade in the open position.
EE installing a rib bolt through a piece of rib mesh when the screen came down and pinched his right middle finger against the drill mast.
As employee was walking past lube truck, his left ear was caught on a piece of damaged rib mesh. This resulted in a laceration to his ear lobe.
Injured person traveled through overcast mandoor to the intake side. While shutting door, he jammed his ring finger on the face of the door, much like a basketball player jams a finger.