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INJURED WAS LOADING EMPTY PALLETS ON A TRAILER AND A JOINT OF PIPE WAS IN THE WAY.HE LIFTED PIPE TWISTED AND INJURED HIS BACK.
#3 AND #4 INTERSECTION X C55 OF SOUTH MAINS. INTERSECTIONS WERE HEAVILY TIMBERED AND CRIBBED.
WHILE CHECKING SPLICE IN S/C CABLE FOR BROKEN MONITOR WIRE, THE CABLE LEADS SHORTED PHASE TO GROUND CAUSING ARC & BURNING THROUGH OUTER INSULATION. SOME OF THE VOLTAGE PASSED THROUGH HIS GLOVE AND HAND TO GROUND.
EE STEPPED OFF 9 TAIL PIECE ONTO A TIMBER, HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE TIMBER AND HE FELL, STRIKING RIBS ON TIMBER.
INLAY XC54 TO AND INCLUDING XC55 OF #5 ENTRY OF SOUTH MAINS ROOF FELL APPROX 8' HIGH APPROX 50'LONG
EE WAS MOVING A PUMP IN #4 ENTR. ABANDONED FACES OF NORTH PANEL, WHEN STAINED HIS BACK. HE WORKED UNTIL 7-16-96, BY THE END OF THIS SHIFT. HIS BACK HAD BECAME TO PAINFUL TO WORK.
EMPLOYEE HAD HIS LEFT HAND OUTSIDE OF LOADER CAB HOLDING THE FRAME - THE OPEN DOOR SWUNG CLOSED STRIKING HIS LEFT HAND.
WHILE WORKING ON AN OUTSIDE FAN FOR AN ESCAPEWAY, A 3 FT. SQUARE PIECE OF STEEL SLIPPED AND CAME DOWN ACROSS EMPLOYEE'S THIGH REQUIRING STITCHES AFTER WHICH HE RETURNED TO WORK. EMPLOYEE WAS W ORKING OFFSITE.
HE WAS HELPING DRAG A RAIL OUT FROM UNDER A SHUTTLE CAR, HE FELL OVER A CHUNK OF COAL, TWISTING HIS KNEE AND ANKLE.
ROOF FALL ON PILLAR LIEN ALLOWING EXCESSIVE METHANE INTO RETURN.
INTERESECTION 6 OF 2 ENTRY 1 ST SOUTH FELL, VERYLITTLE WARNING HEARD WAS BOLTED WITH 6' BELTS AND 10-77 CABLE BOLTS IN ADITION NO WATER OR OTHER ABNORMALITIES PRESENT FELL ON EAST SIDE OF ENTR Y 6' OUTBY INTERSECTION HITING LOAD CENTER REMOVED WITH WAGNER.
1/2 BUNGLE OF PANS (ROOF BATS) FELL OFF PAN TRAY ONTO WALKWAY,S TRIKING EMPLOYEE ON BACK OF LEG, SCRAPING AND BRUISING CALVE OF LEG.
C SEAM BARRIER ABOVE CAUSED PILLAR TO SPIKE ROOF CUTTING ALONG SIDE OF PILLAR INTERSECTION. HAD 8' BOLTS AND CABLE BOLTS IN IT.
TEE IS NOT SURE BUT THINKS HE STRAINED HIS ABDOMEN MAKING A BELT MOVE HE DID NOT NOTICE THE HERNIA UNTIL SATURDAY OCT 14. HE DID NOT MENTION BEING HURT NOR NOTIFY MANAGEMENT UNTIL OCT 16 WHEN HE CALLED THE OFFICE THAT MORNING TO SAY WHY HE GRAVEYARD SHIFT FOR OCT 15. HE WENT TO THE DR ON OCT 16 DID NOT GET THE DETAILS SHIFT FOR OCT 15. HE WENT TO THE DR ON OCT 16 DID NOT GET THE
AFTER INSTALLING THE 3RD BOLT OF THE FIRST ROW WHILE DRILL HEAD STILL AGAINST BOLTER THE LEFT RIB ROLLED OVER. THE RIB STRUCK EE RIGHT LEG AND ANKLE KNOCKING HIM OVER IN FRONT OF BOLTER MACHIN E. THE PIECE OF COAL WAS 48"WX52"HX7" THICK. TOPOF RIB SLAB WAS 8" BELOW ROOF LINE.
WHILE TRYING TO UNPLUG THE STACKING TUBE, A PIECE OF COAL FELL FROM ABOVE, HITTING HIM ON THE HEAD AND LEFT SHOULDER. AT THAT TIME, EMP THOUGHT HE WAS FINE & DID NOT NEED ANY MEDICAL TREATMENT WENT TO DR. 7-27 AFTER SHOULDER KEPT BOTHERING.
WHILE USING A UTILITY KNIFE TO SPLIT CONDUIT FOR CABLE TO GO THROUGH STOPPINGS, KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT THUMB.
WHILE STACKING CINDER BLOCKS TO BUILD STOPPING, EE SAID HIS BACK STARTED HURTING.
NO 2 ENTRY FACE AND INTERSECTION FELL IN COVERING THE FLETCHER BOLTER . WE WERE PINNING RIBS WHEN BOLTER GOT STUCK. BEFORE WE GOT BACK WITH WAGON TO PULL BOLTER OUT IT WAS COVERED UP. THERE WAS NO SIGN OR WORKING OF AREA BEFORE WE LEFT TOGET WAGON TIME WE WERE GONE WAS 10 MIN.
OLD DETERIATING ROOF "C" SEAM
WHILE MINING IN #2 ENTRY THE RIB SLOUGHED, KNOCKING A CORNER OF BRATTICE LINE DOWN APPROX. 25' BEHIND CONINUOUS MINER. HE TOOK A SPAD GUN & WAS IN PROCESS OF REPAIRING THE VENTILATION WHEN A P IECE OF RIB 3'8" H, X 3'10" W, 8" TO 6" DISLODGED KNOCKING HIM TO THE MINE FLOOR & LANDING ON TOP OF HIM.
WHILE OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR, EE RAN OVER A PIECE OF COAL ON MINE FLOOR, CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HEAD AGAINST CAB ROOF.
WHILE MAKING VENT HOLE IN STOPPING WITH DOUBLE JACK, COAL RIB BLEW OUT AND HIT EE ON THE HAND CAUSING HIM TO CUT PALM OF LEFT HAND, WHICH REQUIRED 8 STITCHES.
EE WAS HAND LOADING BLOCKS AND ONE FELL OUT OF THE BUCKET OF THE WAGNER ONTO HIS FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING MINER CABLE HOOKS WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING BELTLINE SUPPORT CABLE. IN DOING SO, DISLODGED TIMBER THAT CABLE WAS HOOKED TO. THE TIMBER, UNDER PRESSURE, FELL BACK AND HIT HIM ONT HE SIDE OF THE HEAD.
WHEL STACKING BLOCK, HE TWISTED HIS BACK.
WHILE INJURED WAS PULLING WATER HOSE FOR CONTIN UOUS MINER HE STEPPED WRONG, TWISTED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WATERING ROADWAYS, DRIVING FORD TRACTOR. HE WAS STOPPED, GETTING OFF FORD TRACTOR. THE RUNNING BOARD OF TRACTOR WAS WET. AS HE WAS GETTING OFF TRACTOR HE SLIPPED AND TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF ON RAIL OF TRACTOR AND PULLED HIS BACK IN DOING SO.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING STEEL TO MAKE FEEDER BREAKER FLYGHTS. HE HAD FINISHED THE LAST CUT AND BEATOVER TO MOVE REMAINING SHORT PIECE OF STEL OUT OF THE WAY, THE PIECE OF STEEL WAS ON THE BAND SAW, ABOUT KNEE HIGH. IN BENDING OVER KERMIT STRAINED HIS BACK.
INJURED WAS ASSITING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE UNLOAD ROOF MATS FROM FLATBED TRAILER. HE WAS EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE FORK LIFT AND HA DLIFTED THE MATS OFF OF THE BLOCKIN GON THE TRAILER. THE MATS STARTED TOSHIFT ON THE FORKS, SO HE SAT THEM BACK DOWN ON TEH BLOCKING. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE THE BLOCKS. HE CAUGHT INJURED' LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN BLOCK AND M
A PIECE OF COAL ABOUT 1.5' X 1' X 6" THICK FELL OUT OF ROOF FROM BETWEEN THE PANS, STRIKKING HIM ON THE HEAD AND RIGHT SHOULDER.
A SMALL FALL - APPROX 6' H - 25' L - 16' WIDE - FELL AT CROSS-CUT #10 OF #5 ENTRY OF 2ND NORTH.
EE WAS ROOF BOLTING ON THE FLETCHER BOLTER. HE WAS BEGINNING TO ADVANCE THE MACHINE WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN TWO PANS PIECE OF ROCK WAS ABOUT 4 FT LONG BY 3 FT WIDE BY 8-10 INCHES THICK. IT HIT EE ON THE HEAD AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN INTO THE WALKWAY OF THE MACHINE.
A FAULT HAD CROSSED THE INTERSECTION #26 #3 ENTRY OF NORTH SECTION THE FAULT AREA HAD SLINGS AND 8' BOLTS ALONG WITH THE 6' BOLTING CYCLE. THE AREA WAS BETING WATCHED CLOSELY AND THE AREA HAD FALLEN, WITH WARNING , AS BEING WATCHED.
ROOF FALL XC 26 #2 ENTRY OF 3 WEST CAVE IN INTERSECTION 20' X 18' X 10' HIGH.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SPAD GUN TO TRY TO PRY A RIB DOWN. RIB ROLLED FELL ON HIS LEFT BRUISING & SKINNING LEG.
A 6FTX5FTX24IN LEFT RIB CHUNK ROLLED OFF STRIKING BOLRE OPERATOR & HELPER PINNING THEM UNDERNEATH CHUNK OF COAL AS THEY WERE REMOVING DRILL STEEL FROM #2 BOLT ON FIRST ROW
A 6FTX5FTX24IN LEFT RIB CHUNK ROLLED OFF STRIKING BOLTER OPERATOR & HELPER PINNING THEM UNDERNEATH CHUNK OF COAL AS THE7Y WERE REMOVING DRILL STEEL FROM #2 BOLT ON FIRST ROW
EMPOLOYEE STEPPED BETWEEN 2 CHUNKS OF COAL FELL & TWISTED HIS RT KNEE
A RIB OF COAL POPPED OUT BEHIND BOLTER OPERATOR. MELVIN WAS NEARBY AND TURNED TO AVOID GETTING HIT AND TWISTED HIS LEG/KNEE WHEN HE STEP ON SOME LOOSE COAL ON THE FLOOR OF THE MINE.
EE WAS STANDING ON THE SIDE OF THE MINE ROADWAY WHEN THE UNITRAC RAN OVER A TIMBER IN THE ROAD WAY SWINGING THE TIMBER AROUND KNOCKING HIS FEETE OUT FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON HIS B ACK
WE WERE FINISHING INSTALLING CROSSBARS. EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED TO TAKE OUT FOUR OF THE CENTER TIMBERS IN BREAKER ROW. WHEN KNOCKING ONE OF THE TIMBERS OUT, ONE FELL ON EMPLOYEE, HITTING HIM ON THE BACK OF HIS LEG, SCRAPING LOWER CALF TO HEEL.
EE WAS AT 4TH NORTH WHEN HE STEPPED ON SOME LOOSE COAL CAUSING HIM TO TWIST THE LOWER LEFT SIDE OF HIS BACK RESULTING IN PAIN DOWN THE LOWER LEFT SIDE.
EE WAS MOVING A ROCK OUT OF ROADWAY & SMASHED HIS FINGER IN PROCESS REQUIRING STITCHES
A ROOF FALL, APPROX. 70' X 12' X 7' FELL IN THE #3 ENTRY EAST OFF OF 4TH NORTH SECTION.
INJURED WAS WATCHING HIS STEP WHEN HE GOT TO THE BELTLINE CUT 27 S ROLLER HIS CONCENTRATION SHIFTED TO WHY SPILL HE THEN LOST HIS FOOTING DROPPING NOT ABLE TO CATCH HIMSELF IN ANYWAY PULLED LE FT PECTORAL & RT HIP MUSCLE
68935 PUTTING ON CHAIN & BINDER EMPL WAS TIGHTENING BINDER AND CAUGHT PENIS UNDER CHAIN.
INJURED WAS TRYING TO BREAK UP A CHUNK OF COAL ON THE BELTS. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND WAS PULLED INTOT HE BELTS, HIS CLOTHING CATCHING ON THE BELTS. THIS RESULTED IN GROIN AREA PULLED AND A H IP INJURY.
ROOF FALL OF APPROX. 4' TALL IN CROSSCUT #32 #5 ENTRY SOUTH MAINS. APPROX. 4' OF ROCK FELL OVER FOR APPROX. 30'.