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No Accident. - Clinical pneumoconiosis established on the former employee. Company notified on 4/14/2022. Note: The mine permanently closed on 3/27/2020.
Employee was helping move roof bolter when the operator started the roof bolter EE turned on the cable reel it caught the employee's feet causing EE to fall down. As EE was falling, EE tried to catch self with EE's right arm causing pain in EE's right arm and shoulder.
Employee was roof bolting. While starting a new hole, EE stuck head out from the canopy to see if the steel was straight when a piece of rock fell and hit EE in the face cutting EE's upper lip which required 4 stitches.
Employee was hanging roof bolter cable when a piece of rock fell striking them in the mouth, cutting upper lip on the inside.
A Non-injury Roof Fall was found During a Weekly Exam on 10/30/2019 on the 1st East Mains Return at Break #17. The Fall is approximately 20 feet Long and 20 feet Wide, High has not been determined. There was no injury's associated with this fall.
Employee was roof bolting, while putting resin glue cartridge in the bolt hole. it burst and some of the glue got in their right eye.
A non-injury unintentional roof fall occurred at Crosscut 59 in the #4 entry face area of the 002MMU. The fall is approximately 18 feet wide and 18 feet long and 8 feet high. There were no injuries associated with this roof fall.
On 8/28/2019 a Non-Injury Roof Fall occurred at this mine. The roof fall is located in the No. 6 entry at x-cut No. 24 on the 1-South Mains. The MSHA Hotline was notified and MSHA has conducted an investigation of the Roof Fall. The Roof Fall is approximately 18' feet (There are no injuries associated with this Roof Fall).
Employee was loading roof support material on the roof bolter. EE bent over to pick up roof bolts and a small piece of rock fell from the roof and struck EE in the back of head causing a small cut to the left side of the head.
The injured employee was on a small ladder working on the highwall miner hose reel. The base of the ladder kicked out and the employee fell injuring right shoulder.
A non-injury roof fall was found in the No. 6 intersection and the No. 6 right crosscut at crosscut No. 7 on the MMU No. 002-0 section on the 1-South Mains. The roof fall is approximately 20 feet wide x 35 feet long x 12-16 feet high. The roof fall will be cleaned up and the mine roof re-supported. The MSHA Hot-line was notified of the roof fall. See map. There were no injuries.
The injured employee and co-working were removing a metal canopy from a roof bolting machine. As the employees began to lift the canopy with a chain and ratchet to re-position the canopy, the chain and canopy slipped, allowing the canopy to shift, which resulted in an injury to four fingers on the left hand. (No broken bones). Cut glued together.
The employee was plastering a concrete brattice. While moving the bucket of plaster, the employee dropped the bucket and the plaster splashed into the employee's right eye. The employee worked the remainder of shift. On 11/20/2018 the employee's right eye was red and slightly swelled. The employee received medical treatment for the eye injury on 11/20/2018.
The employee was walking down three (3) steps to the concrete basement floor. As the employee was stepping from the last of the 3 steps to the basement, EE caught heel on the last step or the left foot slipped and EE tried to catch self to keep from falling which resulted in an injury to the left ankle.
An unintentional non-injury roof fall was discovered while doing weekly exam, in the #1 entry of the #1 east mains return, approximately 130 feet in-by the mine portal. The fall was reported to MSHA Hotline, the fall will be cleaned up and re-supported. The fall is 16' wide and 4' high and 4' to 5' long.
A non-injury roof fall at the #3 mine portal, the fall is approximately 16 feet wide, 5 feet long, and 4'-6' high. The fall was reported to MSHA hotline the fall will be cleaned up and re-supported.
The employee was in the belt entry using a roof bolting machine to install belt hangers. As the employee was installing the belt hanger ee reached to activate the fast feed lever when ee twisted lower back.
The (contractor) roof bolter employee was in the No. 1 entry. The roof bolter operator started to drill the hole and a piece of draw rock fell out mashing the contractor employee's ring finger and third finger on right hand against the drill pot of the roof bolting machine. This resulted in a break and laceration to the ring finger on the right hand.
A non-Injury roof fall was found during a Pre-Shift examination. The roof fall was reported to the MSHA hotline. The roof fall is located in the No. 4 entry at x-cut #19 on the 2 south mains. The roof fall is approximately 28' x 30' ft long x 18' x 20' ft wide x 10' x 12' ft thick. The roof fall will be cleaned up and the mine roof re-supported.
A non injury roof fall was found during a pre-shift exam. The roof fall was in the No. 3 entry (Roadway) at crosscut No. 19 on the 2 South Mains. The roof fall is approx. 20'-30' long x 15'-20' ft. wide & 10'-12' ft. thick. The roof fall was reported to the MSHA Hotline. The roof fall will be cleaned up & the mine roof will be re-supported.
EE was using a large hammer to hit on a belt roller to break it loose from the steel structure. EE was holding the roller with their left hand. As EE was swinging the hammer with the right hand and hitting the roller, they missed the belt roller and hit a finger with the hammer. This resulted in a laceration to the left ring finger, requiring six (6) sutures to close the wound.
The employee was on the surface at the beginning of shift. The employee started to bend over to get into the battery scoop when the employee felt a pop or pull in lower back area.
A non injury roof fall occurred at approx. 9:25pm on 11/3/17. The roof fall is located in the No.4 entry intersection at x-cut No.8 on the 1 east mains. The roof fall is approx. 20' feet long x 20' feet wide x 8' feet to 10' feet thick. The roof fall is confined to the intersection at x-cut No.8 The area has been flagged and dangered off to prevent access to this area.
Non-injury roof fall was found in 5 left panel off 4-North Mains. The roof fall was found during a weekly examination. Roof fall begins in No. 5 entry of 5 left panel and extends inby to crosscut No. 12. Roof fall then continued into No. 6 entry of 5 left panel. Roof fall appears to be approx. 4ft to 8 ft. thick and approx. 18 to 20 feet wide (see map). MSHA Hotline notified.
A non-injury roof fall was discovered in the No. 2 entry at X-cut #18 on 2 South Mains on 10/3/2017. Upon discovery of the roof fall the MSHA Hotline was immediately notified.
A roof fall was discovered in the #6 intake entry approximately 200 feet inby the main mine fan. The fall measured approximately 18 feet wide, 20 feet long, and 10 feet high.
Employee was raising the boom on the belt-head drive. EE was twisting screw jack on the belt drive when EE slipped and fell twisting EE's right knee. The accident occurred on 8/22/17. The EE returned to regular duties after the accident and continued to work until EE's shift on 8/25/17 - 8/26/17.
The employee was walking beside the Rail Road cars at the load out facility checking the doors on the cars. The employee stepped onto a rock and the rock rolled over and the employee fell into a small ditch. The employee continued to work and did not receive any medical treatment until 7/19/2017.
A Non-Injury Roof Fall occurred on 2/27/17. The roof fall is located in the No. 3 entry at x-cut No. 15 on the 2-Left Panel off the 4th North Mains. The approx size of the roof fall is 40' in length, 18'-19' wide x 6'-8' thick. The MSHA Hot line was notified. Call conf. No. 3100034. The fall has been dangered off/wooded cribs installed on all sides of roof fall.
Contractor EE & co-worker were on the surface working on a rock dusting machine. After the repairs were completed, the IE was standing in front of the machine when the operator started the machine for testing. The IE started to step back & lost balance. IE reached out to grab something & got finger into an unguarded location resulting in cut to tip of finger.
The injured employee was riding the Mac 8 Mantrip to the end of the track. As the employee started to get off the Mantrip, employee pulled a muscle in the back of employee's left leg.
The roof bolter operator was loading metal straps onto the roof bolting machine. As the employee was loading the metal straps their hand started to slip and the metal straps shifted or slid and the corner of the metal strap cut the employee on the inside of the right forearm.
The injured employee was on EE's knees hanging the roof bolter cable slack. After the cable was hung, the operator started to get onto the roof bolter. The operators hand slipped and EE pushed down on the automatic cable reel take up. The injured EE was close to the cable and when the reel engaged the cable became tight and struck EE pushing EE to the side, twisting EE's left knee.
Roof fall occurred in the No.3 entry roadway at crosscut No.26 of the mains. Roof fall is approx 35'-40'long x 30'wide x 6'-10'thick. Roof fall was reported to the MSHA hotline. Call confirmation number 00016188. Wooden cribs have been installed on inby side of the fall and in the adjacent cross cuts to the fall. Mine was in a non-producing status at the time of the roof-fall.
The injured employee was attempting to remove a cord lash or nylon band from a bundle of roof bolts. The employee was using a utility or razor knife to cut the band on the bundle of bolts. As the employee used left hand to cut the banding material, the knife slipped and cut right index finger.
The employee was using a rock bar to pry on a bundle of metal straps to get to a bolt on the back of the roof bolting machine, when the bar slipped causing the employees right arm to come in contact with the corner of the metal straps resulting in a laceration to the right wrist when required (5) stitches or sutures.
A Non-Injury Roof Fall occurred in the No.5 entry just inby the main ventilation fan. The roof fall is approximately 60' feet long x 16'-17' feet wide x 8'-10' thick. The roof fall was reported to the MSHA Hotline. Call confirmation number 1-125127628. The area where the roof fall occurred will be cleaned up and metal arches will be installed.
Contractor employee was performing service work on a continuous mining machine. The contractor was attempting to unpin the short side of the rub rail to clean the demister on the machine. When the rub rail was unpinned both sides of the rub rail came out at the same time. The contractor put the rub rails back into place and strained his back.
The injured employee and Co-worker was removing the slack from the conveyor chain of a continuous miner. The employee had removed links from the conveyor chain and was re-assembling the pins and keepers in the chain. A sledge hammer was being used to drive the lock rings onto the pins when the co-worker hit the injured employee's left little finger with the sledge hammer.
The employee was removing a roll of brattice cloth from the front of the section mantrip. As the employee picked up the roll of brattice cloth, he started to twist and felt a sharp pain in the lower portion of his back.
Employee was pre-shifting belts on 002 section panel belt on #3 entry break #2. While walking his left ear came in contact with a metal strap cutting his left ear, requiring stitches.
The injured employee and co-workers were removing wooden timbers from the bucket of a scoop. The employee was down on one knee pulling the wooden timber out of the bucket when he felt a sharp pain in the lower right side of his back and right hip.
A no injury roof fall occurred at the no. 1 mine portal. The roof fall damaged the mine canopy at the entrance to the no. 1 entry. The roof fall was rock from the high wall and the edge of the mine roof for approximately 4'-6' feet underground. Upon discovery of the roof fall, MSHA was notified. The area was cleaned up and a new canopy was installed in the no. 1 portal.
Employee was in the No.3 entry and started to pull an electrical cable away from the low belt structure when he felt a sharp pain in his right side near the groin area.
The employee was loading supplies onto a roof bolting machine. While lifting the box of resin glue he twisted and felt a sharp pain on the inside of his right leg and right side.
The employee was working on a belt head drive removing structure off the head drive when one of the rollers pinched the left index finger which resulted in a small laceration and a open fracture to the left index finger.
A Roof Fall was found during a weekly examination. The Roof Fall is located on the 1 West Panel off the 1 South Mains. The roof fall is approximately 50' ft. long x 18.5' ft. wide x 6' ft. thick. The roof fall did not affect the mine ventilation or impede passage. The roof fall is located in the outby area of the mine. There are no injuries associated with this roof fall.
Employee was stepping out of the man basket to get extension cord twisting his knee. "Left Knee"
Employee was changing a torque shaft on the gathering head of the 14-15 miner. When he pulled the broke shaft out it had built up pressure and it sprayed hot oil out striking him on the neck and face.
Employee was shoveling loose coal and rock up, when he felt a sharp pain in his left knee and couldn't put weight on it.