ICG Beckley LLCMining Incidents in 2012

At the above mentioned time an un-planned roof fall occurred in the secondary escapeway for the #2, and #3 section. The fall began 15' outby spad 26, and 90' outby spad 25. The fall continued approximately 75' inby toward spad 38. All approaches were timbered and dangered off.

An unplanned roof fall was discovered in-between survey station 1533 and 1515 in the intake air course that travels toward the number 2 and 3 section. The fall was approximately 60' long, and 16' wide and 4' high. The area was dangered and breakered off, as well as plotted on the mine map.

The Original Date Of Injury was 9/3. The employee continued his normal work dutied while seeing a chiropractor. It was not until 09/27/12 that the employee began missing work from this injury.(Injury description)The employee was walking from a 2 man ride to the # 1A belt drive for fire bossing purposes, while walking he hit his head into a roof bolt and stubbed his neck.

The injured and another employee were attempting to move a screen deck with a forklift and nylon strap. The forklift operator went to pick one end of the deck up, the strap broke and the deck fell and smashed the other employee's foot.

The employee was riding in a mantrip at the end of his shift. The driver of the mantrip stopped and swerved suddenly to avoid holes in roadway. A plastic bit bucket with a nylon tether inside of it came off the top of the machine and hit the employee in the shoulder. This incident has been under investigation and is now ruled compensable.

The injured was stepping out of the deck of a roof bolter, it was on top of a rut. When he stepped out of the bolter, it slid over against his foot/ankle. He did not start missing work until 5/29/2012 due to this condition.

This incident originally occurred on 4/15/2012, he did not start missing work until 4/19/2012. The injured was helping to move a 8"" I-beam that was 11' long, to position it for a belt drive. He strained his back in the process.

The injured was helping to load bulk bags of rock dust with a forklift into the hauler duster. He held the loop up that is located on top of the rock dust bag to let the forklift lift the empty rock dust bag out of the hopper. He motioned for the operator to pull forward, the left front tire of the forklift trammed into his right leg.

The injured was cleaning rock off the from the top of the miner. He and another employee was attempting to push the rock into the conveyor boom. As the rock started to shift into the conveyor it pivoted upward and caught his finger in- between the rock and the roof.

The injured was setting some cribs for supplemental support. As he was beating a wedge over top of the crib the hammer caught some lifeline and caused him to miss the wedge and hit some fingers.

The injured had installed his outside bolt and began swinging the boom toward the inside to install the center bolt. A piece of rock measuring 8"" long x 8"" wide x 4"" thick at the center down to a sharp edge fell and hit him on the arm causing a laceration.

The injured was attempting to install a roof bolt and plate with a 4' metal strap on top for supplemental support. While inserting the glue before putting the bolt in the hole a small unknown size piece of rock fell, hit the strap, which caused it to hit his arm and cut it.

While installing cable bolts, the injured drilled the hole to the required depth. He then went to put a wrench in the drill pot to install the cable bolt. A piece of rock fell from the roof and struck the employee on his right thumb while he was putting the wrench in the chuck.

The injured was doing some spot bolting outby the face 1 break in the # 6 entry. The operator of the machine dropped the ATRS and moved up for the injured to spot another bolt. After the ATRS was set the injured was walking beside of the machine and a thin, sharp piece of draw rock fell from the roof and struck the victim on the ear.

The injured was preparing a piece belt to be vulcanized. While cutting a strip of belt off, the belt knife came out and cut his leg.