McCoy Elkhorn Coal CorporationMining Incidents in 2011

A NON INJURY ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE NO. 9 RETURN ENTRY AT SURVEY STATION NO. 1359. THE FALL IS APPROXIMATELY 18FT. WIDE X 7FT. THICK X 30FT. LONG. THE FALL WAS REPORTED TO MSHA BY TELEPHONE ON 9/20/2011.

A non-injury roof fall occurred in the #5 entry one break inby the mine portal. The fall was approximately 20ft. wide x 7ft. thick x 20ft. long. The fall was reported immediately to MSHA and OMSL.

Was lifting miner cable to hang it and pulled groin.

EE was loading rock dust into a rock duster and fell and struck his right shoulder on the rock duster. X-rays were negative.

EE was jacking a mantrip back onto track and the jack slipped out and the bar caught his foot and fractured it.

EE was getting out of a mantrip and placed his left foot under the frame of the mantrip on the mine floor. When he placed his right foot on the mine floor, he slipped and fell backwards, spraining his left foot that was under the mantrip frame.

EE was moving the continuous miner cable out of the haul road and the blew up and burned his right arm and right side. The cable had been ran over by a shuttle car.

EE was bending a roof bolt while bolting top and felt a sharp pain in his groin area.

EE was operating a continuous miner. He was cutting the bottom ledge of rock out from the edge of the #9 intersection, (continuous miner was in the last open crosscut between #8 and #9). The crosscut was on a downward grade, and when he start the cutter head and placed it in the bottom, the miner slew around and struck him with the conveyor boom. EE was not in the ""RED Zone"".

EE WAS AT THE CONTINUOUS MINER TALKING WITH THE OPERATOR ABOUT A NOISE THE CUTTER HEAD WAS MAKING. THE CONTINUOUS MINER WAS IN THE RIGHT BREAK OF THE #4 ENTRY AND EE AND THE OPERATOR WERE STANDING IN THE HEADING. THE CONTINUOUS MINER CUTTER HEAD WAS RUNNING AND EE WAS STRUCK IN THE LEFT EYE BY A FOREIGN OBJECT.

Another miner was cutting a 42"" belt with a Razor Knife, When employee walked by and was cut on the calf with the knife.

EE was holding onto a shuttle car cable as a certified electrician was making a cable splice. As the utility knife came out of the cable jacket, it cut EE between the fingers on his right hand.

EE was standing beside a scoop that was unloading a scoop battery charger. A chain that was attached to the charger became fouled on a hook on the scoop ejector, causing the hook to break and strike EE above the right eye, resulting in a cut.

EE was pulling a 3' x 2' x 6"" piece of rock off top of the continuous miner and cut the 2nd and 3rd fingers of his right hand on the edge of the rock.

EE was operating a mantrip and a pogo stick on top of mantrip caught a stiff jack at a belt drive and sprang back and hit him on the nose.

EE was helping set a re-tracker for a de-railed railroad car and the CSX employee dropped his side of the re-tracker, resulting in the re-tracker falling on EE's left ring finger cutting it.

EE was cutting a dust hose for the roof bolter and the knife slipped and cut his left leg requiring stitches.

EE WAS OPERATING A CONTINUOUS MINER, CUTTING OUT THE MINE ROOF FOR AN OVERCAST, WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FROM THE CUTTER HEAD STRUCK HIM ABOVE THE RIGHT EYE REQUIRING STITCHES.

EE was in the No. 3 entry of the 003-004 MMU bolting top. He was positioning his drill steel against the mine roof and a piece of draw rock fell and struck him on the left hand causing a cut on the left ring finger.

EE WAS HOLDING A HEADER BOARD BETWEEN THE SCOOP BATTERIES/BUMPER AND THE SHUTTLE CAR BUMPER TO PUSH THE SCOOP OUT OF THE HAULROAD. WHEN THE SHUTTLE CAR PUT PRESSURE ON THE HEADER BOARD, HIS THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE HEADER BOARD AND THE SCOOP BATTERIES.

occupational illness(pneumoconiosis)