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The roof started working at spad #22+20 on MMU 006. shortly after the roof started working it fell in entry numb 8. The fall was approximately 18 feet wide x 100 feet long x 12 feet high. The fall was at 11:34 a.m. and was called in at 11:47 a.m.
The Employee stated that he was moving miner cable and felt a pain in his right groin area. The Employee is waiting for surgery to repair a right hernia.
The Employee stated he went to help the scoop operator dust the faces. The Employee stated he was gathering the dust hoses for the wet duster and didn't realize he placed his foot under the scoop bucket. The scoop operator lowered the scoop bucket and did not know the other Employee had his foot under the edge of the scoop bucket. The scoop bucket lowered onto the helpers foot.
A Fire boss was walking the belt and found a fall in the#5 entry on the other side of the belt. Spad # was 30+50 off of unit 005. The fall was approximately 30 x 20 x 7. the fall was called in to the MSHA hotline at 6:13 A.M.
The section Foreman went out by to check supplies and found a roof fall in the neutral (#2 entry). The fall was 30'x 20' x 7' the fall was reported to the hotline at 10:32 A.M.
The Employee stated he bent over to move trailing cable for a continuous miner and felt a sharp pain in his back.
A weekly Examiner was walking a return in the 2nd North sub main and found a roof fall in # 2 entry at spad 2+70. It was a four way intersection, the fall was 30 feet wide 25 feet long and 9-10 feet high.
The Employee stated he was replacing the suction hose on a roof bolter. The Employee was cutting the hose to the correct length and accidentally cut his right pinky finger lacerating it. The Employee received 7 stitches.
Employee stated he lowered the drill pot on his left knee. The Employee had no broke bones the Dr. placed him on light duty for a few days.
The intake phone would not work. The Examiner traveled the intake to locate the problem and found a roof fall. The fall was in the South mains in number 6 entry at spad 3+20. The fall was 18 feet wide by 30 feet long and 10 feet high.
An employee was loading weed eaters in the back of a pick up truck, one of the employee's with him shut the tailgate catching the other employee's left pinky in the tailgate.
The employee was Fire bossing the mine and found a roof fall in the track entry on the 1st East submain @ spad 12+90. The fall was dangered off, the fall was 24 feet long x 30 feet wide.
The Employee stated that he was installing a roof bolt and a piece of coal fell out of the roof and hit him in the upper lip causing a laceration.
Employee was struck by or walked into something (he is not sure which) causing a laceration on the right side of his head which required 2 staples. He was released to go back to regular duty.
The Employee stated he was loading roof straps on a roof bolter, as he was placing the straps on the bolter his hand slipped and he caught his forearm on the edge of the straps lacerating his forearm. He received stitches in his right forearm.
Employee was walking air courses and found the roof fall. We called the MSHA hotline at 9:20 A.M. We then cribbed and dangered the area off. Air was flowing over the fall, we pulled our crews outby to start corrective actions.
At 11:50 p.m. the roof fell in the #4 room between spad #'s 2+60 and 3+10. the fall was approximately 18 feet wide 35 feet long and 6 feet high. The area was cribbed off and the area dangered off. The fall did not impede ventilation.
Employee was cutting a piece of belt with a utility knife. The knife slipped and the employee cut his right thigh with the knife. (stitches required)
The Employee was operating an off standard center drive shuttle car, after being loaded by the continuous miner, the employee swung around to the inby seat with out setting his parking brake. When the Employee was swinging around to the inby seat, the shuttle car started rolling and caught his right leg against the rib. The result was a fractured tibia.
The Employee went to climb inside of the #6 rail ride, his foot got stuck in the mud and he fell into the ride catching his left hand on the SCSR box. He lacerated his palm and received sixteen stitches.
workers in the area found the fall. The fall started in the belt entry #5 entry and fell approximately 12 feet past #6 entry. The fall is approximately 18 feet wide and 70 feet long it fell on approximately 22 feet of belt structure. The fall was in a isolated area of the mine where adverse roof conditions are encountered. The fall area is at spad number 59+60.
The Employee stated he was traveling through a door underground and the door closed on his left arm.
The Employee stated he was unplugging the receptacle for the scoop battery and it arced in his right hand.
Employee was walking the air courses and found a roof fall at 21+50 in the #2 entry in the return. The roof fall was in a four way intersection. the Fall was 17 feet by 15 feet and measured 4 to 6 feet high.
Employee was cutting belt when the blade broke and his hand glazed over top of the blade resulting in a deep cut to his right little finger. Four stitches were required, Employee returned to work on his next schedule shift.
Employee was pulling new belt onto structure with 3/8 inch cable, as the cable was sliding thru his left hand a burr lacerated his left little finger.
Employee was tramming a buggy around a corner and ran into rope hangers hanging from top, one caught his right nostril causing a laceration. (6 stitches)
EE was walking the MMU 001 belt line and he saw the top working at spad #4+20. EE kept all personnel out of the area and pulled the section Employees outby. The roof fell in on the beltline in #4 entry. EE placed floor to roof support around the fall and moved the section.
EE went into the intake to look at the tracking and communication equipment and found a roof fall. EE called out to another ee called in the roof fall to the hot line. The roof fall was in the intake in #7 entry at the 1st North West submain at spad # 1+70. The fall was 15 feet wide 26 feet long and 7 feet high. The fall was called in at 4:15 p.m.
After helping his roof bolt partner straighten out a bent cable bolt, he was walking back to his side when he slipped and as he attempted to catch himself he placed his hand on the idle arm as his partner was running the drill pot up. At this time his hand got caught in the mechanism causing a crushing injury to his left index, middle and ring finger.
The Employee stated that he went to push a roof bolt out and felt a sharp pain in his groin area.
Employee was walking and hit his hard hat on a roof bolting knocking it off of his head, he raised up and struck the top of his head on a roof bolt causing a laceration. (required staples)
The Employee stated that he was scooping an entry and caught a roof strap, the strap came around and hit the employee in the ear cutting his right ear.
Employee was roof bolting and got his finger caught between leveling arms and the canopy post. (fractured finger)
The Employee stated that he loaded a shuttle car, the shuttle car operator went to leave and over steered bumping him on his left side.
The employee stated that he had just placed a roof bolt in the head of the roof bolter and was pulling his arm back when a piece of shale 2'x3'x 2" fell hitting the Employee in the right forearm and hand, fracturing his 5th small metacarpal hand.
We had a roof fall 7' to 8' high, 18' wide and 22' long in a 4 way intersection on c-panel in # 1 entry @ spad # 4+20. This is the belt entry for the c1-panel.
Underground at mine #6 Buckingham Coal. Installing cutter boom pins. Struck the pin with a hammer and a piece of pin chipped off and lodged in the left cheek.
Employee was cutting the band off of a bundle of roof bolts using two sets of channel locks, due to the amount of pressure on the band when he cut it loose it backlashed and cut his right forearm. (He received 8 stitches)
Employee stated that he aligned his screen on the roof, his steel was started on a strand of the screen. When he rotated the drill steel to drill his hole it wrapped the screen around the tip of his finger pinching the tip of his left index finger off.
Employee stated he was walking by the lamp house and tripped he tried to catch himself and his knee gave out.
The Employee stated that he stepped in a hole firebossing the roadways on unit 006. When he stepped in the hole he felt his back twist.
The Employee stated he crossed thru a regulator and twisted his lower back.
employee thought he had the safety pin in the boom of the fletcher bolter. he started loosening the fitting to the feed jack and the boom dropped on his right arm.
Employee was bending a roof bolt when the bolt slipped out of his hand and the bolt plate lacerated his left forearm. (5 stitches)
The Employee stated that he stepped out of the scoop and his leg bent backwards twisting his right knee.
Employee stated that he he was tripped by a trailing cable and twisted his knee.
The employee stated he was reaching for a roof bolt and twisted his back.
Employee was lifting a rock off of a shuttle car. The rock slipped and pinched the employee's left hand lacerating the left pinky the employee received 9 stitches in his left pinky.
Employee strained his right shoulder tightening down belt structure, he was treated at the Hospital ER and returned to work, upon the results of his MRI test EE was excused from work by the Dr. for 6 weeks.