All MSHA-reportable accidents at Solar Sources Mining LLC operations in 2003. Fatalities appear first.
EE & CO-WORKER WERE GOING TO MOVE A LARGE PIECE OF METAL TO BLOCK UP A LOADER. COWORKER WAS IN THE LOADER AND THE BUCKET WAS IN THE AIR. EE DIRECTED COWORKER IN THE LOADER AND SIGNALED HIM TO STOP. COWORKER SAID HE STOPPED AND WAITED FOR EE TO ATTACH THE CHAIN. EE DID NOT RETURN. COWORKER GOT OFF LOADER & SAW EE WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN LOADER BUCKET & METAL. SUFFERED FATAL HEAD INJURIE
EE WAS PUTTING A NEW SET OF TEETH ON THE HITACHI SHOVEL, HE WAS DOING SOME TRIMMING ON THE BUCKET WITH A TORCH, HE WAS USING A HAMMER HITTING THE METAL. A PIECE CHIPPED OFF AND WENT INTO HIS L EG. HAD SOME NUMBNESS IN LOWER LEG.
CLIMBING DOWN FROM THE FUEL TRUCK AND HIS FOOT ESLIPPED OFF OF THE STEP. HE BRUISED HIS RIGHT LEG.
ON 3/26/03, EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING ON AN EXTENSION LADDER TO WELD ON A SHOOT THAT WAS LEAKING, AS HE CLIMBED TO APPROX 6' OR 7' THE LADDER SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE FLOOR. DUE TO THE R ESULTING FALL HE RECEIVED A FRACTURE TO HIS LEFT HAND, CONCUSSION AND A LACERATION ABOVE HIS LEFT EYE REQUIRING FOUR SUTURES TO CLOSE.
AT ABOUT 4:40AM EE SAID HE WAS PREPARING TO FUELAN END LOADER IN THE PARKING AREA. HE WAS PULLING OUT THE HOSE ON THE FUEL TRUCK AND STUMBLED ACROSS A PALLET LYING NEXT TOTHE LOADER, CAUSING HIM TO FALL & FRACTURE HIS RIGHT LEG BELOW THE KNEE.
EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM END DUMP #1193 A 190 TON TRUCK ABOUT 8 FT FROM THE GROUND. HE SLIPPED OR LOST HIS GRIP ON THE HAND RAIL AND FELL TO THE GROUND.
EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF OF THE GRADER WHEN HE SLIPPED. HE WAS HOLDING ONTO THE HANDRAIL WITH HIS LEFT HAND. EE DID NOT GO TO THE DR WHEN THIS HAPPENED BUT THE INJURY GOT WORSE. HE WENT TO LIG HT DUTY 8-27-03.
EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING TURN OFF OF THE NORTH BREAK. COLLECTING BELT AND WAS STANDING ON THE FLAT COAL CLEANING BUCKET. HE TOOK ONE STEP TO THE LEFT AND STEPPED OFF THE FLAT BUCKET A ND FELL TO THE GROUND.
EE WAS HELPING MOVE HMC IMPELLER ONTO A CART AND PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING A DOZER TRACK, SLIPPED IN MUD. HE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF WHILE FALLING AND HURT HIS SHOULDER.
EE STATED THAT HE MIGHT HAVE BROKE HIS FINGER WHILE HE WAS STRINGING WATER HOSE BECAUSE HE FELL DOWN. ALSO HE MIGHT HAVE SHUT IT IN A DOOR.
EE WAS USING A HITCH PIN TO CLOSE THE EARS ON A 4"" CAM LOCK FITTING WHEN INSTEAD OF HITTING THE FITTING HE STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND WITH HIS RIGHT HAND HOLDING THE PIN.
EMPLOYEE SAID HE DID NOT KNOW WHEN HE GOT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE. HE WENT TO WORK AND HIS EYE WAS BOTHERING HIM AND HE WENT TO ER AND GOT IT REMOVED. (PIECE OF METAL)
EE WAS DOING MAINTENANCE IN THE WASH PLANT SOME TIME THAT NIGHT HE GOT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE. DID NOT BOTHER HIM TILL THE NEXT DAY. WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM NEXT MORNING.
ON 10/15/03, EE WAS LOADING A PIECE OF EXPANDED METAL TO BE USED AS GUARDING ONTO THE HOIST CAGE. AS HE & HIS CO-WORKER WERE POSITIONING THE EXPANDED METAL ONTO THE CAGE TO HOIST IT UP THE EXP ANDED METAL SLIPPED & CAUGHT HIM ON THE LT. RING FINGER CAUSING A LACERATION REQUIRING 6 SUTURES TO CLOSE.
ON 07/25/03, EE WAS CHANGING A GRINDING WHEEL ON AN ANGLE GRINDER THAT REMAINED PLUGGED INTO A POWER SOURCE WHEN A CO-WORKER ATTEMPTING TO ASSIST HIM IN CHANGING THE GRINDING WHEEL INADVERTENT LY DEPRESSED THE TRIGGER & STARTED THE GRINDER CAUSING THE GRINDING WHEEL TO COME IN CONTACT WITH THE EE'S FINGER WHICH RESULTED IN A LACERATION REQUIRING FOUR (4) SUTURES TO REPAIR. HE WAS T
EE WAS ASSISTING IN CHANGING A LARGE PUMP IN THE WASH PLANT, AS HE WAS ALIGNING FLANGE AND BOLT HOLES HE PLACED HIS RIGHT LITTLE FINGER INTO A BOLT HOLE, THE FLANGE MOVE AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER CAUSING A LACERATION TO THE TIP OF THE FINGER.
EE WAS WALKING IN THE PARKING LOT IT WAS WINDY SOMETHING GOT IN HIS EYE.
EE WAS OPERATING COMPANY PICKUP ON COUNTY ROAD GOING FROM MIDWAY PIT TO CANNELBURG WASH PLANT. HE CAME TO AN INTERSECTION WHEN ANOTHER VEHICLE RAN A STOP SIGN AND EE RAN INTO THE SIDE OF THEIR VEHICLE. EE WORKED SOME DAYS AFTER THE ACCIDENT. THEN WENT TO DOCTOR AND FOUND HE HAD A BROKEN RIB.
ACCORDING TO EE, HE WAS PULLING ON A TOW CABLE AT WORK & SAID HIS BACK HURT SO BAD HE COULD BARELY WALK. HE STATED HE WAS NOT SURE WHEATHER THIS WAS WORK RELATED OR NOT. I WAS INFORMED HE STAR TED CORTIZONE SHOTS IN HIS BACK. ON AUGUST 5 & 6 HAD INJECTIONS.