White Buck Coal CompanyMining Incidents in 2008

The fall was approx. 70' long, 9' high and 19' wide (fault area).

Roof fall occurred over the weekend. The fall occurred in the #1 entry LT return qirway, the fall was approx. 65'L x 18""W and 41/2'T. The fall was rebolted and cleaned up, extra support was installed in the fall area.

The left side miner MMU-001 was mining coal in the face of #1 entry and cut a hole approx 2' X 3' in the upper left corner of face, into an old mine that was not known to be there.

An unintentional roof fall occurred on #13 belt BK3, near spad #9883. The fall was above anchorage n the neutral entry. Support being used was 4' resin bolt. The area had cribs set prior to the fall, it fell between the cribs that were set. Approx length 25', width 20' and thickness 6 1/2-7'. No injuries occurred.

An unintentional roof fall occurred on #10 belt, bk 7, neutral entry, spad #7406. Approx length 20 ft, width 20 ft, thickness 4 ft. Support being used 4 ft resin bolt. No injuries occurred.

An unintentional roof fall occurred on 2 Unit #8 Entry Spad no. outby 1 break 10095. Length approx. 40', width 20', height 4' - 6'. Support being used 4' resin grouted bolt. No injuries occurred.

An unintentional roof fall occured on BK 20 #2 panel 1 unit. spad #8058 BK20 #ent, lenght 25', width 20', Height 61/2'. Fall occured 78001 from the face. no injuries occured.

An unintentional roof fall occurred on No. 7 belt no. 6 entry, break 15 on spad #7065. This was an old fall reported before. Fall measured 10' long, 18' wide, 3' thick. No injuries occurred. Fall occurred 1600' from the face.

An unintentional roof fall occurred on No. 10 belt, No. 1 entry, spad No. 8955. The fall measured 40' length, 20' width, and 5' in height. No injuries, no passenge of men were affected.

EE was operating shuttle car and heading to the feedback to unload. He was lashing the SC cable due to the anchor being one break inby the feeder. While EE was back lashing the cable, sprocket broke causing the reel to lock up resulting in the cable coming into the operator's deck striking EE's left arm and caused arm to strike the canopy.

On 9/22/08, EE was tightening the wheel bolts on a shuttle car. While tightening one of the bolts, the socket slipped off, casing EE to lose his balance and fall on and twist his right ankle and foot. EE was treated and diagnosed with a sprain and returned to work. On 9/27/08, EE was re-examined by another doctor and diagnosed with a fracture.

On 8/6/08 EE was adjusting brakes and checking fluid levels on a mantrip at the surface motor barn. Upon completion of the checks, he lost grip on the access panel while lowering it into the closed position and dropped it approx. 18inches where it then struck EE's groin area.

On 7/15/08 EE along with other EE's were in the process of folsing belt for a belt move when the roof bolt eye broke causing the sheave wheel to swing down and hit EE in the right arm. Sheave wheel was being ised to assist in the positioning of the belt and was attached to the plate eye w/clevis.

EE stated he was in the process of unloading belt structure out of the scoop bucket, he entered the scoop bucket after scoop had been stopped and shut off to get a piece of structure and stepped back out of bucket. When scoop operator let bucket down it hit on his left foot.

EE was removing the bolter cuthead. After removing the cuthead, ee was trying to untangle the cable and tripped over gob. He caught himself with his left arm straining his shoulder. EE continued to have pain in his shoulder & went to his family doctor on 1/10/08. His doctor diagnosed him with strained ligaments & took him off work for physical therapy.

EE was operating the continuous miner cutting coal, when a piece of one of the miner bits broke off and came back and struck EE in the left side of his face. First aid was administered and EE was transported to the hospital where he received 5 stiches.

On Nov 19, 2008, employee was in the process of changing a broken miner bit. While he was striking the insert with a sledge hammer, his left hand slipped down the bit lug resulting in him striking his left hand against the insert with the sledge hammer.

EE was using slate bar to turn a 33' long rail, he was being assisted by another EE from the opposite end of the rail. As they were turning the rail the slate bar slipped from EE's hand resulting in the slate bar hitting him on the right side of his head. 2 stitches were required to close the wound.

Employee was loading belt structure on scoop. When he set the piece of structure down on his right index finger, it was mashed between two pieces of structure.