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after drawing out feeder chute and running it dry, ee locked out belt and feeder and crawled up into chute to investigate a potential obstruction. After poking around with a pry bar, material from the overhead stockpile sluffed off and engulfed ee in the chute. EE was extracted and is recovering at home (lacerations and contusions)

Employee working in HSI hopper. EE was trying to unjam a rock with pry bar that clogged hopper & was pinned between wear plates & rock. Pressure of rock pinned & trapped them in hopper. Called 911. Employee removed by Fire Dept. Employee rushed to Odessa MCH ER. At ER, discovered employee had minimal internal bleeding. Surgery to stitch first layer of colon to stop bleeding.

Miner dug out area between chute and belt. Miner looked into that area and a mass of material broke loose in chute and entrapped miner.

The condition contributing was a highwall failure. Employee was extracted out of right window of the piece of equipment. Employee had used their right arm and shoulder trying to break the window causing an injury.

Shift started 6AM: 9:30AM Incident: Walking at sand pit which was saturated from weather. Stepped into a section that was deeper than anticipated, unable to extricate foot & second foot became entrapped. The greater the struggle, the more the whole body sunk (quick sand effect). Was in the ambulance by 11:30AM.

Miners were working to clear the jammed primary gyratory crusher. 2 miners were working to remove stone from the bowl, one miner was working farther down in the bowl using an air hammer to break up a large rock when suddenly another rock became dislodged and pinned the miner's feet down, several rocks and finer material slid down as well entrapping the employee below the knees.

While attempting to change skirting on conveyor, employee entered the dozer trap to remove bolts, equipment operator pushed material into the hopper and buried employee with material.

A general laborer fell into the surge pile while cleaning materials from the feeder opening and became trapped.

At approximately 8:00 a.m. a work crew had rigged & was lifting a steel platform from top of a shaft when platform tipped & knocked an employee into the shaft. Employee fell approx 35 feet to the water level in the shaft and was entrapped approx 30 minutes. Employee was thrown a line & was lifted out with an excavator & truck. No injury and no lost time resulted from incident.

A dozer was drawn into a void over one of the feed points on the raw coal pile, trapping the operator for approximately 55 minutes.

On June 28, 2008 Truck #390 was leaving the #518 shovel from a drop cut when a void opened up underneath the left rear tires causing the front of the truck to rise up in the air. We called the 1800-746-1553 @ 9:30 am to inform MSHA that the employee was okay and that we were taking special precautions to secure the truck before removing the employee by using a man-lift.

AS A RESULT OF A ROOF FALL 2 MINERS WERE TRAPPED UNDER A ROOF FALL FOR A PERIOD OF MORE THAN 30 MINUTES. ONE MINER WAS TRAPPED IN THE CAB OF A SHUTTLE CAR & THE OTHER WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN THE S HUTTLE CAR & THE RIB. NEITHER MINER WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED.

EE WAS EXTRACTING RAW MATERIAL FROM THE NORTH WALL OF THE [PIT AND LOADING THE RAW MATERIAL ONTO THE TRUCK THAT COWORKER OPERATED. EE POSITIONED THE EXCAVATOR PARALLEL W/ THE NORTH WALL. AT ~1 415 COWRKER RETURNED FROM THE STOCKPILE AREA TO THE PIT AREA & NOTCIED THAT THE NORTH WALL HAD COLLAPSED & FALLEN IN ON THE EXCAVATOR. CALLED 911 & WENT TO RESCUE EE. EE WAS RESCUED & TAKEN T

EE WAS BACKING UNDER SHOVEL AS BUCKET FILLED WITH DIRT WAS SWINGING AROUND. THE TRUCK BOX AND SHOVEL BUCKET COLLIDED BRINGING THE TRUCK TO A SUDDEN STOP.

OPERATOR WAS CLEANING OUT CRUSHER OPERATOR HAD INSPECTED AREA & LOCKED OUT CRUSHER BY STARTING MATERIAL WAS TRAPPED UP ABOVE IN FEED SHOOT & COULD NOT BE SEEN. MATERIAL FELL THRU SHOOT & TRAP PED OPERATOR PARTWAY IN OPERATOR HAD TO BE DUG OUT