WATER PENETRATING TOP IN FAULT AREA.
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Showing all 27ROCK HAD FALLEN IN HALLWAY & PERSONNAL BUGGY RAN OVER ROCK & CAUGHT HEAD HURTING HIS NECK
REMOVING ROCK FROM TOP WITH ROOF BOLT, IT CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN TOP AND RF BOLT CUT HIS MIDDLE FINGER
VICTIM CAME IN CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED CIRCUIT OF 480 VOLTS AC TRAILING CABLE ON STEEL BUGGY.
WHILE LOADING SUPPLIES IN SCOOP BUCKET SPLASHED MUD & WATER IN FACE LE EYES.
DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS STRIKING VICTIM ON HEAD.
EMPL WHILE REMOVING COAL FROM BELT TAILPIECE SLIPPED ON RUNNING BELT HITTING LEFT KNEE ON METAL ON TAILPIECE.
ROOF BOLTER HELPER WAS RELIEVING OUT OPERATOR DURING DINNER BREAK. WAS PULLING UP BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON ATRS OPERATING LEVERS AND DISENGAGED ATRS AND COLLAPSED IT ON OPERATORS BACK BRUISING AND STRAINING IT.
ROOF FALL IN 4 HEADLINE .
EMPL WAS OPENING ANDOOR AT FAN HINGES BROKE FORCE OF AIR PULLED DOOR CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN DOOR & FAN HOUSING.
CHANGE OUT BELT ON SURFACE BELT WAS LYING ON GROUND EE WENT TO JUMP OVER THE BELT BELT CAUGHT HIS RIGHT FOOT ON A BACKLASH TURN HIS TURN HIM 39% TURN IN THE AIR LANDING.
WAS PULLING LID OUT OF MUD ONTO SCOOP REPLACING BATTERY LID.
LINING UP JOINT SCOP CAUGHT L INDX FINGER
I,NAME BROKE 2 MIDDLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND. HE WAS BEATING ROCK WHEN HAMMER CAME OFF OF THE HANDLE. HE BROKE FINGERS WHEN STRUCK ROCK.
PULLING STEEL ROPE WITH EXCEDSS AMOUNT OF STRESSROPE BECOME FOULED & HE KEPT JERKING ROPE IT CAME FREE & HIT HIS KNEE ON STEEL ROOF JACK
LIFTING DRAIN PIPE AND HURT LOWER BACK.
HAND BOUNCE IN SCOOP DIPPER AND LANDED ON LUMP OF COAL.
WAS MOVING COAL DRILL FROM PLAC TO PLACE AND BOOM OF DRILL HIT ROOF AND JARRED ROCK LOOSE AND FELL ON SHOULDER & ARM.
FIRE STARTED NEAR DRIVE ROLLER BEARING LOCATION 1 BREAK INBY DRIFT ON BELT ENTRY ON #2 BELT DRIVE
INJURY & PERSON WAS MAKING A BELT SPLICE & JACKING A GRIP HOIST WHEN IT SLIPPED HITTING HIM IN THE RIB CAGE.
LIFTING TANDEM ROLLER OUT OF BELT DRIVE UNDERGROUND.
MOUNTAIN SEAM RUNNING PARLALL WITH HAL WAY APPROS 100 FT NEXT TO OUT CROP NO ONE INJ
WHILE FREEING I7E FROM FAN HOUSING BY ROTATING FAN BY PULLING ON DRIVE BELT, VICTIM ROLLED LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND BETWEEN BELT AND DRIVE PULLEY.
WAS RIDING MAN 7AR WENT AROUND CORNER TIRE ON BUGGY RAN OVER ROCK AND 8 INCH I NAME HANGING FROM TOP CAUGHT HEAD JAMMED HEAD STRAIGHT DOWN CAUSING DAMAGE TO HEAD SHOULDERS BACK DOWN TO CENTER CENTER OF BACK3AND NECK.
ROOF FALL ON SE7TION 001 IN #5 ENTRY.ENTRY WAS APPROX. 70' TO 75' DEEP.FALL SIGHTED AT APPROX. 40' OUTBY FACE EXACT LENGTH OF FALL AND OVERALL DEPTH CANNOT BE DETERMINED AT THIS TIME.TEST HOLE S WERE DRILLED 2N COMPLETION OF INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TIMBERS IN ALL ADJACENT HEADINGS AND DANGER KEEP OUT SIGN POSTED READING DANGER KEEP OUT 11-17-86 E.D.5:30 AM
WHILE OPERATING3ROOF BOLTER MACHINE HE TRAMED IT UP ON HIS FEET AND BRUSIED HIS LEG.
LOOSE ROOF FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS, APPROXIMATELY 3" THICK, 15" WIDE, 28" LONG. HIT VICTIM ON SHOULDER AND BACK.