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WHILE WALKING TO POWER BOX IN #5 ENTRY A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM TOP HITTING HIM ON LEFT SIDE OF HEAD. CUTTING HIM ON TEMPLE, TOOK HIM TO HOPSITAL HAD 5 STICHES PUT WHERE HE HAD A CUT ABOUT 1 " LONG.
A SECTION OF ROCK 60' LONG, 18' WIDE GAVE WAY WHERE WE WENT UNDER A HOLLOW, FELL AND DESTROYED POWER BOX WE DANGER OF AND PULLED BACK.
WHILE PINNING THE #2 BREAK, THE 1ST BOLT IN THE PATTERN, THE LEFT RIB ROLLED OFF AND HIT THE ROOF BOLTER IN THE BACK.
FLAT ROCK STOPPED UP HOPPER OUTSIDE STACKER BELT EMPL ATTEMPTED TO DISLODGE ROCK WITH ROOF BOLT WITH OUT FIRST STOPPING BLET. SPLICE IN BELT FOULED ROOF BOLT SLAMMING IT BACK INTO EMPLS HAND.
LEG WAS OUTSIDE3OF CANOPY WHEN ROCK FELL FROM ROOF AND HIT RIGHT LEG ABOVE KNEE.EMPL NOT OPERATING PROPERLY WAS NOT INSIDE CANOPY PROVIDED FOR HIM ON MINER ON 001 SECTION.
THE INJURED WAS3CLEANING BELT SITTING IN A POSITION THAT ONE LEG WAS EXTENDED, A PIECE OF ROCK 5" X 8" X 1/2" FELL FROM THE TOP ON THE EXTENDED LEG JUST BELOW THE KNEECAP IT WAS SWOLLEN AND R ED THE SKIN WAS3NOT BROKE
INJURED WAS PUL5ING A OXYGEN & A CYETELEN CART INTO A SCOOP BLADE WITH ANOTHER MAN THE METAL BLADE IS SMOOTH & HART TO GET FOOTING THE MAN PULLED HIS BACK WHILE TRYING TO KEEP HIS FOOTING
I.NAME WAS SENT3OUTSIDE TO GET BELT TOOLS WHEN HE GOT OUTSIDE HE STEP OUT OF THE MANTRIP HE TWISTED HIS FOOT
WE WERE MAKING 6ELT MOVE, PLACING TOP STRUCTURE ON THE ROPES WHEN STRUCTURE FELL AND HIT ON TOP OF HIS FOOT
I.NAME WAS STEE9ING HIS BUGGY WNEN HE HURT HIS BACK
I NAME WAS LIFT3NG A BARREL OF OIL OUT OF THE SCOOP WHEN I HURT LOWER PART OF MY BACK.
MANTRIP WAS GOI3G THROUGH THE FIRST AIR LOCK DOOR WHICH WAS NOT OPEN ALL THE WASY.THE DECK PART OF THE MAN TRIP CAUGHT THE DOOR AND PULLED IT INTO THE TRIP CATCHING THE VICTIM IN THE SIDE AND THE BACK. 3
WHILE HAULING R5IL TO 001 SEC. I.NAME AND I.NAME DERAILED THE RAIL CARS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO RELOAD THE RAIL BACK ON RAILCARS I.NAME SLIPPED AND FELL
I.NAME OUTSIDE 4AN WENT INSIDE TO BRING OUT I.NAME-SICK.MOTOR PULLING AND FLAT CAR OUTSIDE WHERE CAR CAME LOOSE AND WENT BACK STRIKING MANTRIP.
I.NAME, TRUCK D9IVER WAS DESCENDING REFUSE PILE. HE SAID THAT HE LOST THE BRAKES ON HIS TRUCK. HE TRAVELED APPROX 50 YDS. STRIKING A DOZER THAT WAS PARKED ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. HIS HEAD STR UCK THE WINDSHI9LD BREAKING THE GLASS. HIS CHEST STRUCK THE STEERING WHEEL. THE ROAD WAS DRY AND THE VISABILITY WAS GOOD
AN UNINTENTIONA5 ROOF FALL APPROX 600' FROM SURFACE IN #4 HEADING APPROX 3' THICK 50' LONG.
SPILLED FLOCC O3 FLOOR EMPLOYEE STEPPED IN FLOCC SLIPPED AND FELL HURT RT KNEE
IT APPEARS THAT3THE FAILURE IS DUE TO AN AREA OF LOW COVER IN A HOLLOW AREA FALL IS IN #1 ENTRIES
FAILURE DUE TO 5REA OF LOW COVER IN HOLLOW AREA.FALLS HAVE OCCURRED IN #4,5 & 7 ENTRIES IN IMMEDIATE FACES.ON #002 SECTION.
MOVING SAFETY JACK UP TO START ADDTL ROLL OF ROOF BOLTS SLAB OF ROCK 6\LONG X 4\WIDE X 8\\THICK FELL SLIDING DOWN ROOF JACK HITTING ROOF BOLTER HELPER ON RIGHT HIP PINNING HIM AGAINST BOTTOM.