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CREW OF MEN LEFT SURFACE AT 7:00 AM. 7:04 HAD TRAVELED 250' INBY ROADWAY DRIFT #3 ENTRY AND FOUND THE TOP HAD SWAGGED ABOUT 6". MEN BACK ON SURFACE AT 7:15. CHECKED THE INBY SIDE OF SWAG AND F OUND TOP WORKING. CALLED FEDERAL AT ABOUT 9:15 AM. CHECKED AGAIN AT 10:30 AM, FOUND THE TOP HAD FALLEN.
HAD END LOADER BUCKET SETTING ON GROUND 4 MEN WERE SLEWING A BATTERY CHARGER OVER INTO BUCKET OF LOADER AND CHARGER CAUGHT HIS FINGER AGAINST THE BUCKET RESULTING IN A CUT INDEX FINGER OF LEFT HAND.
MAN WA USING A HYDRALIC HAND DRILL IN THE FACE DRILLING A CUT OF COAL, PREPARING IT TO BE SHOT. HE WA WITH DRAWING THE DRILL AFTER HE HAD DRILLED THE HOLE UP AND HIS ELBOW HIT HIM IN THE RIBS .
THE TRAM CHAIN BROKEON JOY 16 RB CUTTER. THE REPAIRMAN WAS SPLICING BACK THE CHAIN WITH A HAMMER AND A PIECEOF THE HAMMER CHIPPED AND FLEW INTO HIS INDEX FINGER.
MINE FOREMAN WAS MAKING AN INSPECTION OF MINES BEING REOPENED, FOUND A ROOF FALL ON THE #1 BELT INBY THE 4TH OPEN X-CUT FROM THE BELT DRIFT. FALL IS ABOUT 100' LONG AND 20' WIDE, 3-4' HIGH.
HAD A ROOF FALL JUST INBY 5TH LINE OF X CUTS AND UP INTO THE 6TH LINE OF X CUTS UP INTO THE 6TH LINE OF X CUTS THAT HAD JUST BEEN TURNED THIS WAS ABOUT 30 - 40 FT OUTBY FACE FALL WAS 17 FT 6 I CH WIDE 4 FT HIGH 50 FT LONG.
MINE FOREMAN WAS MAKING WEEKLY EXAMINATION ON HIS RETURN AIR COARSE WHEN HE FOUND RECK FALL IN 2ND X CUT INBY FAN DRIFT #1 ENTRY. WATER HAD BEEN SEEPING THRU TOP IN THAT AREA & W EAKENED IT FALL IS ABOUT 15'WX20'LX4'H.
ROOF BOLT HELPER WAS BENDING A RESIN ROD AND PUSHING IT UP IN THE HOLE WHEN HE PULLED ON IT TO STRAIGHTEN IT IT TURNED IN THE HOLE AND THE PLATE CAME AROUND AND HIT HIM IN THE NOSE