REPORTING ROOF 0ALL ON THE 001 SECTION.FALL WAS JUST INBY THE LAST OPEN X-CUT INN THE #5 ENTRY.WATER PRESSURE ON UNEVEN SLATE STRATA IS THE MOST LIKELY CAUSE OF THE FALL.
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Showing all 12ROOF FALL IN IN7ERSECTION IN FACE OF #2 ENTRY SPAD 1916.
ROOF FALL IN X-7UT TO RIGHT IN FACE OF #5 ENTRY.SPAD 1917.
REPORTING ROOF 0ALL 10 FT INBY PITMOUTH IN BELT HEADING NO ONE INJURED AREA MINED IN OCT 1979
REPORTING ROOF 0ALL AT SPAD NO. 872 APPROX 1000' OUTBY THE FACES IN #4 ENTRY VENTILATION OR TRAVEL OF MEN WERE NOT EFFECTED FALL WAS APPROX 35'L X 20'W, RESIN BOLTS WERE USED IN 4' & 6' LENGT LENGTHS 3
PIECE OF COAL F9LL FROM TOP HITTING HIM IN THE BACK.SENT HIM TO THE HOSPITAL,HAD X-RAYS.HE WAS NOT HURT.
I.NAME STANDING3BETWEEN 2 KERSEY TRACTORS,TRAM WAS FROZEN ON TRACTOR,I.NAME-2 THAWING IT OUT WITH PROPANE TORCH.I.NAME-3 THE PM SHIFT SECTION FOREMAN TOLD I.NAME TO GET OUT FROM BETWEEN TRACTO WHICH HE DID.B6T HE STEPPED BACK IN TO TELL I.NAME-2 SOMETHING WHEN TRACTOR JUMPED FORWARD.
ROOF FALL WAS F2UND BY PRE-SHIFT EXAMINER DID NOT KNOW THE CAUSE.
UNLOADING 50 LB BAGS OF ROCKDUST FROM A SCOOP BUCKET PULLED DISC AND MUSCLE IN HIS BACK
I.NAME AND I.NAME WERE HANGING THE CUTTER CABLE, I.NAME CUTTER OPERATOR, REELED THE CABLE UP AND KNOCKED THEM DOWN. I.NAME WAS KNOCKED BACKWARDSON HIS HEAD, KNOCKING HIM UNCONSIOUS. HE WAS SEN T TO THE HOSPITAL THEY SAID HE HAS A BLOOD CLOT IN HIS HEAD.
I.NAME HAD HIS HAND ON BOLTER & A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON IT BRISING HIS LEFT HAND.
WAS PULLING A CABLE WHEN HE INJURED HIS SIDE.