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EE WAS SETTING A TIMBER ALONG THE RIB WHEN THE RIB ROLLED OFF AND STRUCK HIM, TRAPPING HIM UNDERNEATH THE RIB, RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES. THE TOTAL RIB ROLL WAS APPROXIMATELY 26'LONG x 8' HIGH x 18" THICK. ACCIDENT WAS REPORTED TO MSHA HOT LINE ON THE DAY OF THE ACCIDENT.

Worker took it on his self to cut belt line down without the use of the equipment that we was using to take it down with. He cut it then started walking away from it as it was falling. Then it caught the catwalk he was on and flipped him over the double hand rail on the catwalk and fell to the ground about 20 ft down.

At approx 5:20 pm a 40 ton articulating truck was traveling along a haulage road impacting a 63" high berm. The truck traveled across the berm and fell 72 feet to the mine floor below. The victim was extracted from the truck by EMS and airlifted to the Hospital.

Employee got caught between the continuous miner and the coal rib suffering fatal injuries.

Injury was cleaning gob in 3 left with continous miner, he started backing out of crosscut when corner of rib rolled off on him receiving a fatal injury to his upper torso. Size of rib striking he was approx. 4'L x 36"W x 16" thick.

Employee was operating a scoop between the #5 & #6 entries on the 001/002 MMU one break inby survey station #1411. He was pulling a shuttle car cable that had been wrapped around the canopy post on the left side of the operating deck. As he was pulling the cable, the rear wheel of the scoop ran over the cable. This caused the cable to unwrap & strike him on the side of his head.

Truck rolled into pump house where employees were eating lunch. Employee was fatally injured.

As employee was eating lunch in the pump house, a truck hit pump house causing fatal injuries.

A FATAL FALL OF ROOF ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON THE 003 WORKING SECTION. THE VICTIM WAS WORKING WITH THE SECTION CREW AND HAD BEEN INSTALLING TIMBERS DURING RETREAT MINING. THE CREW HAD TEMPORARILY HALTED PRODUCTION TO OBSERVE THE MINE ROOF, WHEN WITH LITTLE WARNING THE MINE ROOF BEGAN TO COLLAPSE. THE 5 MINERS RAN TO ESCAPE THE ROOF FALL. FOUR OF THE MINERS ESCAPED.

EMPLOYEE WAS INADVERTANTLY OVER RAN BY A SCOOP.

EE WAS FATALLY ELECTROCRATED AS HE DISASSEMBLED A CONVEYOR BELT STARTING BOX SOURCE OF POWER CAUSING DEATH IN UNKNOWN AT THAT TIME.

EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BY THE AUGER OF THE CONTINUOUS MINER RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES.

WHILE OPERATING A 50 TON CLINE ROCK TRUCK EE FAILED TO NEGOTIATE CURVE-RAN THROUGH THE BERM & STRUCK THE HILL-RECD HEAD INJURY-EE PASSED AWAY ON SUNDAY 9-16-98

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING A SAFETY JACK IN THE NO.3 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF DRAWROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM.

EMPL OF CONTR TRUCKING COMPANY COMMITTED AN UNSAFE ACT BY STEPPING OVER BARRIER,GOING OUT ONTO BIN ALL OF WHICH WAS UNAUTHORIZED & CONTRARY TO RECENT SAFETY TRAINING.

ROOF BOLT OPERATOR WAS A BOUT SIX FOOT INBY PERMINATE SUPORT NO EYE WITNESS.