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MANTRIP PULLING THROUGH FIRE DOORS. DOORS SWUNG BACK STRIKING THE MINER ON HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EE WAS SHOVELING BELT OUTBY THE TAILPIECE, SPLICE CAUGHT SHOVEL & JERKED HIM AROUND & TWISTED HIS BACK.
HE WAS STACKING BELT STRUCTURE, GOT HIS HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN STACKS.
EE WAS LOADING CRIB BLOCKS IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK IN SUPPLY YARD & SAID THAT AS HE TURNED TO LAYCRIB BLOCK IN THE TRUCK HE HURT HIS LOWER BACK.
EE ALLEGED THAT AS HE WAS TAKING A SCOOP LOAD OF SUPPLIES FROM THE SURFACE TO THE FACE, THE SCOOP DROPPED OFF POINT IN AN AREA THAT HAS LOW CLEARANCE AND THAT WHEN HE STARTED TRAMMING THE SCOO P AGAIN IT STARTED TOO QUICKLY AND HE BUMPED HISHEAD AGAINST THE TOP AND HURT HIS NECK.
EMPLOYEE HAD JUST INSTALLED THE FIRST BOLT, WITH A SINGLE HEAD LA-15 LONG AIR DOX BOLT MACHINE, IN A FRESH CUT IN NO. 2 HEADING. HE HAD STEPPED BACK AND LOWERED THE ATRS AND HAD JUST STARTED M ANUVERING THE MACHINE TO INSTALL THE SECOND BOLTWHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK APPROXIMATELY 36" X 36"X 4" THICK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE 2ND BOLT OUTBY FRESH CUT AND RIB STRIKING EMPOLYEE'S BACK.
HE WAS RUNNING ROOF BOLTER, TURN TO GET A BOLT FEXT A POP IN BACK, THE NEXT MORNING HE WAS HURTING A LOT WORSE.
EE WAS REMOVING A DRIVE CHAIN FROM AN OLD BELT DRIVE ON THE SURFACE & AS HE LIFTED & PULLED CHAIN HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS BACK. ACCIDENT NOT REPORTED UNTIL 12/21/95.
EE WAS HELPING HAND A MINER CABLE WHEN HE FELT ASTINGING SENSATION IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
ROOF FALL ONE BREAK OUTBY NO.5 TAILPIECE OF BELT LINE. APPROX 90 FEET LONG 20 FT WIDE AND 7 FT HTICK.
HE WAS MAKING SPLICE IN #5 BELT USING HAMMER TO DRIVE RIVETS IN SPLICE. HOOKED HAMMER OVER BELT CONTROL LINE, CAUSING HAMMER TO SWING BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING ROOF BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE FOREARM AND WRIST.
EE WAS BOLTING WITH A GLOVE THAT HAD A STRAP ON THE BACK OF IT AND IT CAUGHT THE HEAD OF THE BOLT CAUSING IT TO TWISTED HIS HAND AROUND.
EE WAS PULLING A 440 BOLT CABLE TO SUPPLY POWER TO HIS ROOFBOLTER MACHINE OVER TO PREVENT OTHE EQUIPMENT FROM GETTING ON IT AND HURT HIS BACK.
EE WAS UNLOADING OR HELPING UNLOAD A MINER CABLE OUT OF THE CONVEYOR ROOM OF A MINER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK EE WAS ON HIS KNEES PULLING CABLE OVER TO SICLE AS IT WAS BEING UNLOA DED FROM MINER BOOM WHEN PAIN OCCURRED IN HIS LOWER BACK
EE WAS PUSHING ROCKDUST INTO AUGER TYPE DUSTER AND SCOOP MADE TURN. EE'S GLOVE CAUGHT ON AUGER PULLING FINGER INTO AUGER.
HANDLING MINER CABL.WHEN MINING MOVING FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER.
EE WAS TAKING A MOTOR OFF OF A FEEDER OUTSIDE WHEN A WASPER STUNG HIM ON THE NECK
TWISTED LEFT KNEE WHILE CHANGING SEATS ON SHUTTLE CAR.
CHANGING BEARING ON HEAD DRIVE TANDEM ROLLER, USING PORTAL POWER TO LOOSEN BEARING FROM SHAFT GOT FINGER ON LEFT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN SHAFT ANDPORTAL POWER WHEN SHAFT MOVED.
3RD SHIFT FOREMAN FOUND FALL AT APPROX 10:30PM. WHILE DOING A PRESHIFT. FALL APPROX 70' LONG AND6' HIGH AND 18' WIDE. APPROX 170' OUTBY FACE, 70FT INBY SPAD 104.
LOADING BELT STRUCTURE ON TRUCK OUTSIDE TO BRING INSIDE BENT OVER TO PICK UP PEICES OF STRUCTURE WHEN LIFTING UP PULLED LOWER BACK.
HAD A ROOF FALL 3 BRKS. OUTBY THE FACE IN 1 HDG. (LEFT RETURN) FALL IS APPROX. 80 FT LONG, 19FT WIDE AND 6 FT THICK.
RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR IN 4 HEADING PULLED UNDER MINER. A SLAB OF ROCK FELL FROM BOLT TO LEFT RIB STRICKING HIM ON THE TOP OF HARD HAT AND SHOULDER.
EE WAS STANDING IN WATER UP TO HIS KNEES AND REACHED DOWN INTO THE TO FILL A 220 VOLT PUMP TO SEE IF IT WAS PUMPING AND WAS SHOCKED TO THE POINT THAT IT KNOCKED HIM DOWN,
HIT KNEE GETTING ON OR OFF OF SCOOP CAUSING KNEE TO SWELL
TAKING 5 GAL HYD OIL CANS UP TO ROOF BOLTER BETWEEN IT & RIB TWISTING HURTING BACK
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT AS HE GOT OFF MINER TO MOVE CABLE OVER HE BUMPED HIS LEFT KNEE AGAINST CANOPY POST ON MINER DECK.
WAS OPERATING MANTRIP WHEN STEERING WHEEL JERKED OUT OF HAND. THE KNOB ON STEERING WHEEL SPUN AROUND HITTING VICTIM ON HAND BREAKING A BONE.
EE ALLEDGED THAT AS HE GOT OFF SHUTTLE CAR TO HANG MINER CABLE. UP ON CORNER HIS FEET SLIPPED FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO DO TE SPLITS, HHE SAYS THIS HAS CAUSED DAMAGE TO HIS RIGHT KNEE.
HE ALLEGES THAT ON 3-25-95 WHILE ROCK DUSTING INRETURN THAT HE HURT HIS BACK SOME WAY, HE NEVER NOTIFIED FOREMAN OR NO ONE ELSE UNTIL HIS FATHER CALLED ME ON MONDAY 3-27-95. SAID HE WAS GOING TO DR.
MIEN WAS IDLE ADN ALL EMPLOYEES WORKING WERE ENGAGED IN BULDING CRIBS FOR EXTRA ROOF SUPPORT. JUST AS HE WENT TO PICK UP A CRIB BLOCK SOMEONE ELSE HAD JUST PICKED ONE UP THAT HAD TWO MROE FRO ZE TO IT, THESE TWO BROKE LOOSE AND CAUGHT HIS THUMB AGAINS THE CRIB HE WAS GOING TO PICK UP.
EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING A BRATTICE OUTBY FACE, THE HEIGHT IS ABOUT SEVENFEET WHERE BRATTICE AS BEING BUILT. WHEN EMPLOYEE LIFTED CINDED BLOCK TO PUT ON TO ROW HE HIT TH ETOP WITH BLOCK ADN KNOCK ED DUST AND ROCK AND IT FELL IN HIS EYE.
HAD ROOF FALL ON LEFT RETURN 2 SCROSSCUTS INBY SURVEY STATION #222 APPEARED TO BE 4' IN THICKNESS BY 20'X20' IN INTERSECITON. NO EQIPMENT OR PEOPLE INJURED.
ROOF FALL ON LEFT RETURN ONE XCUT INBY SURVEY STATION #209. FALL APPEARS 3' IN THICKNESS BY 20' X 20'. NO EQUIPMENT OR PERSONNEL ARE INVOLVED IN THIS ACCIDENT.
ROOF FALL IN LEFT RETURN ONE XCUT INBY SURVEY STATION #210. FALL APPEARS TO BE 4' THICK BY 20' BY 20'. NO EQUIPMENT OR PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN THIS ACCIDENT.
MINE HAD BEEN PUT IN ACTIVE NON PRODUCTING STATUS AND ALL EQUIPMENT REMOVED FROM MINE WITH THE INTENSION OF GETTING SMALLER EQUIPMENT IN ORDER TO LOWER THE REJECT. UPON RETURNING TO THE MINE A PPROX. A MONTH LATER AND BEFORE TAKING THE SMALLER EQUIPMENT INSIDE, WE FOUND TWO ROOF FALLS AND SOME FRAGILE ROOF IN OTHER AREAS.
MINE HAD BEEN IDLE FOR APPROX. A MONTH WITH NO EQUIPMENT LEFT IN MINE. UPON RETURNING TO MINE 2 FALLS WHERE FOUND AND SOME FRAGITE ROOF. MSHA WAS NOTIFIED AND MADE AN INSPECTION. THIS 3RD FALL OCCURRED SOMETIME WITHIN THE FOLLOWING 5 OR 6 DAYS THAT WE WERE GETTING CRIBS AND COLLARS AND FORMULATING A PLAN TO RESUPPORT THE MINE.
WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING POWER MIKE ALONG WITH THREE OTHER PEOPLE WHERE PULLING THE 2/0 FEEDER CABLE THRU A STOPPING AND UP TO POWER BOX WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT BACK. HE SA ID AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSED THE PAIN GOT WORSE AND HIS BACK GOT STIFFER.
MINE WAS INA ACTIVE NONPRODUCTING STATUS, HAD MEN ON ONE SHIFT ONLY SETTING CRIBS AND COLLARS DUE TO FALLS AND FRAGILE ROOF. FALL OCCURRED BETWEEN THE TIME TH EE LEFT ON THE 24TH AND TIME THEY RETURNED ON THE 25TH.
EE WAS LIFTING A DRILL POT FOR DOUBLE HEAD BOLTER TRYING TO SET IT IN PLACE BY HIMSELF WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
HE WAS TRAMMING SCOOP UNDER GROUND WHEN A PIECE OF DRAWROCK APPROX. 33" WIDE, 24" LONG, 3" TO 1" THICK ON ENDS, FELL FROM TOP, STRIKING HIM ON HEAD AND CHEST FORCING HIS BODY DOWN ON SCOOP FRA ME AND DECK.
WHILE RIDING THE MANTRIP THE SCSR BOX CAUGHT ON A VENTILATION CURTAIN AND SLID INTO HIS NECK. PAIN IN NECK UPON LATERAL MOVEMENT.
EE WAS INSTALLING A 5' RESIN BOLT, HE PUT 2 HEADER BOARDS ON BOLT TO GET A SURFACE BEARING IN UNEVEN TOP. THE RESIN SET UP TOO QUICKLY CAUSING BOLTER HEAD TO TWIST SUDDENLY AND THE BOLT WRENCH CAUGHT HIS FINGER AGAINST METAL ON BOLT MACHINE
EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HIT A HOLE IN THE FLOOR CAUSING THE SHUTTLE CAR TO JAR THE EE. WHEN THE SHUTTLE CAR JARRED OR BOUNCED THE EE HE SAID HE PULLED OR BRUISED SOMETHING IN HIS L OWER RIGHT SIDE.
THIS MAN SAID ON 8-12-94 WHILE WORKING WITH 5 MORE PEOPLE HE STRAINE DHIS BACK WORKING ON BELT. HE DID NOT REPORT THIS TO ME UNTIL 8-15-94, HE WAS AT DR APPOINT AT THIS TIME, HE DID NOT TALK ANYONE OF THIS UNTIL 3 DAYS LATER IF HE WS HURT ON JOB. HE PASSED ANYONE OF THIS UNTIL 3 DAYS LATER IF HE WAS HURT ON JOB. HE PASSED BY ME THAT MORNING AND TALKED TO ME AND DID NOT REPORT TH
WHILE CUTTING BAND ON LOAD OF BELT STRUCTURE ONE OF THE BONDS BROKE AND STRUCTURE FELL OVER CAUGHT RIGHT LEG FROM KNEE TO BELOW TOP OF BOAT BRUISING THE OUTSIDE OF LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING MINER (TURNING RIGHT HAND BREAK) WHEN LOOSE TOP RIB COAL FELL AND HIT MINER THEN HIT OPERATOR ON RIGHT UPPER ARM. COAL IS APPROX. 7 FT HIGH.
THIS A REOCCURENCE OF A PAST INJURY.
EE SAID HE WAS PREPARING TO MOVE FEEDER UP FOR BELT MOVE BEFORE MOVING FEEDER HE TOOK 500FT OF FIRE HOSE (11/2IN )WHICH WAS ROLLED UP ON A 3/4IN ROD & SUSPENDED FROM ROOF WITH TWO WIRES & PUT ON FEEDER TO BE MOVED UP WITH FEEDER THIS WAS ONA FRIDAY NIGHT & HE SAID HIS BACK STARTED HURTING OVER WEEKEND HE NEVER REPORT ED ACCIDENT TO ME UNTIL 06-01-96 & SA ID HE DID NOT REMEMBER EXAC