ICG Beckley LLCMining Incidents in 2024

Power was lost off of the main grid. An employee was discovered to be a couple feet from the bottom on the elevator. Generator was started around 5:46 and they were lowered and exited the elevator at 5:49.

An unintentional roof fall was found by the weekly examiner near spad 30803 at 8:03. The area was cribbed and dangered off on all approaches. The fall was approximately 8' in height, and 20' long and wide.

A sudden PLC fault allowed slack to form and force the No. 4 hoist rope over into No. 1 hoist rope on the sheave wheel. The elevator was 30 feet from the mine floor and 8 miners inside. Shortly after the elevator was able to be manually lowered to get the miners off. It was placed back in service at 1:30PM.

A fire was discovered on the number 16 bolter while making a preshift exam in the number 9 entry of the number 4 section. Fire was extinguished by using fire extinguishers, rock dust, and water deluge.

The cord to the elevator door switch was damaged. This caused the elevator to not work from 11:30PM until 1:35AM on the 20th. There were no employees when this occurred.

Note: The original date of injury was 8/6. The employee continued to work until November 22 at which time the results of an MRI revealed that time off work would be needed. Description: Employee smacked the drill steel against another piece of steel while rib bolting to get it unstopped. EE felt a sharp pain radiate from EE's shoulder up into EE's neck.

Note: The original diagnoses was an infection. It was not diagnosed as a hernia until after seeing a specialist on 5/28/2024. Description: While dragging a timber down the offside of 3C head EE felt a pain in EE's groin area. The timber measured 6""x6""x10'.

When coming off the section to outside the mantrip hit a hole and caused the employee to bounce up into the canopy and back down.

Employee was passenger on a rubber tire mantrip exiting the mine. The operator of mantrip steered closer to rib to avoid a hole in roadway at which time employee as passenger had their foot slip off the framing of the man trip causing EE's foot to get caught on a ledge and jerking EE's leg backwards.

The employee was holding up the curtain to allow the scoop to travel bucket first down the No. 4 entry. As the scoop trammed forward the deck of the scoop hit the injured employees left leg.

The employee was attempting to push in the bottom rib bolt. While at the same time EE was holding the wrench to seat the bolt head. EE then spun the wrench, and EE's glove was caught between the wrench and bolt head.

Employee was unplugging the ref chute on 7th floor. As EE was attempting to dislodge the material with a slate bar, the tip of the bar slipped off and caused EE's prying arm hand to pinch between the bar and the chute door.

While adjusting a wire mesh panel, a piece of top rock fell and broke through the previously installed and next panel of mesh and hit the employee's left hand/finger.