Canyon Fuel Company LLCMining Incidents in 2019

A three way intersection in the primary escapeway of the 4 Right Longwall section fell above the anchor zone.

Roof fall above the anchor zone in the intersection of Mine 5 LOB seam XC-204 in the #2 entry.

A roof fall was found by a pumper. This fall was not in an escapeway or travelway. It was in a return crosscut. There was no change in ventilation.

Roof fall in the old 9 East intake was found by preshifter.

EE reached into engine compartment with motor running on skid steer to tighten nut on fuel line. Left hand was holding wrench and right hand was resting on fan shroud, when they leaned in right hand little finger contacted running fan, causing laceration.

EE was helping another miner carry 4"" X 20' aluminum pipe. They both had pipe on shoulder. EE in back fell. IE was in the front and felt pain in right shoulder. IE did not want to seek medical attention until January 14, 2020. IE went on own to the doctors and then wanted workers compensation. Workers compensation investigated and approved claim on February 15, 2020.

Employee was hanging life line and got ankle caught between the rib and a mine vehicle causing injury. The truck backing up in motion was a contributing factor to the accident.

EE was walking to the door to enter the warehouse. They looked over at two other miners while walking, left foot caught the corner of the outside floor mat and they tripped. EE was carrying paperwork and when they fell to the floor they landed on their left elbow.

Repairing feeder breaker on surface. EE needed to remove pin to adjust bracket on hydraulic jack mounted to tracks. The pin in bracket was bound up. When EE air-arced through pin, EE thought that the jack and tracks would drop to ground. However, the tracks came up when the pin was cut. A different bracket on tracks struck EE in welding hood causing lacerations to forehead.

EE was working in adjacent maintenance bay servicing a piece of equipment. Metal push pin from adjacent maintenance bay bounced off ground and struck EE on the lower leg.

While breaking up rock with sledge hammer at the Longwall Tailgate drive, a rock fell off the gob plate and landed on employees left foot causing a fracture on top of foot.

While a mechanic was trouble shooting a Utility Vehicle, they accidently pulled forward and the trailer wheel smashed miners calf.

Injured person fell backwards onto Longwall panline and hurt their lower back.

While removing a radiator cap from equipment, employee received burns on forearm.

Dragging a ventilation tube with another EE, walked by the section fan and hit left hand (free hand) on the fan frame.

Employee was working on LW move. When EE went to get in EE's bucket, a piece of pan line slid and struck employee on the foot causing injury

While starting up a stationary ladder, employee slipped and fell backwards causing hand to be fractured.

While removing a lump of coal off the longwall Bretby, the lump of coal fell onto employee's foot. EE's foot was on the drawbar knuckle. The downward pressure of the lump caused upward pressure from the knuckle and fractured the employee's big toe.

EE was setting shield sprag, when the initial cave behind longwall happened. The air pressure knocked EE off EE's feet and EE landed on EE's back on shield toe.

Employee was walking down the longwall face carrying a rolled up hose. Their right foot slipped forward and they fell backwards injuring the left ankle as they landed on it. EE did not seek medical attention until March 12, 2019. At this time an X-Ray showed a fractured Tibia.

Employee was walking outby on the off side of the belt when they took a step with the right foot and the ankle twisted inward. The resulting injury was a fracture to both the metatarsal #4 and #5 bone.

Installing bottom rib bolt, EE fell off bolter and caught self with hands on ground, causing pain in shoulder.

Employee was prepping area for seal building. EE scaled down loose material from ribs, while bending over to clean up scaled down material a piece fell from rib hitting employee in back of head on hard hat. The incident required 5 staples.

Rib blew out and struck miner in the head causing small laceration.

While using a razor knife, miner cut index finger. Miner was not wearing the required cut resistant gloves.

Crew was unloading a cable spool out of truck bed, EE was using a bar to pry spool over bed rail. The spool shifted and pinched EE's hand between bar and truck fender causing laceration to right hand ring finger.

EE could not get two sections of drill steels to separate. EE bounced the steels against the drill box, they separated and the bottom steel came back and struck EE on chin causing laceration.

EE was operating controls on material hauler and placed other hand in pinch point on moving part.

EE was hammering in a new bit sleeve on miner drum, a piece of metal came off sleeve and hit EE in left cheek, causing laceration.

EE roof bolting, when two drill steels came together, they pinched the palm of EE's left hand causing a laceration.

A coal burst come from the top of the face area hitting a longwall propman in EE's airstream helmet. This resulted in a cut to the right side of EE's head and likely slight concussion.

EE was standing on second rung of ladder, hanging 4 inch drisco pipe on roof with straps. EE lost footing and dropped to ground landing on feet, but held onto hanger strap with left hand. The hook of the strap punctured through gloves and cut EE left hand on the flexural crease between thumb and forefinger.

EE was walking and tripped on lump of coal, fell into rib cutting upper lip.

EE was stacking two I-beams on top of each other and pinched finger between between beams, causing laceration.

Two EEs were tightening bolts on shield trailer with ratchet. EE moved ratchet from bottom-side bolts to top-side bolt changing direction of pull and when other EE pulled on ratchet in same direction as previous bolts, EEs finger was caught in pinch point between ram cylinder and ratchet handle.

EE washing and cleaning equipment at end of shift. EE lost control of water hose and it whipped up and hit in teeth.

A rib burst happened on the face and hit shearer operator. The piece of coal that hit them caused their safety glasses to cut their face.

An employee was in the process of taking down a Kennedy stopping. During this process, they picked up a panel and began to collapse it. The top section of the panel slide down and pinched the individuals left little finger against the bottom section. This resulted in a laceration which required 5 sutures to close. Employee was released back to work with no restrictions.

Injured person was walking up the longwall face. They tripped and fell forward and cut the palm of their hand on a piece of rock or something sharp.