EE WAS SCOOPING IN #2 ENTRY WHEN HE GOT HIS HEAD CAUGHT BETWEEN BACK OF SCOOP AND TOP.
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Showing 50 of 316EE WAS HELPING MOVE FEEDER. HE HAD CONNECTED CABLE TO #5 TRANSFORMER BOX. WHEN HE ENERGIZED BREAKER FOR FEEDER. THE FEEDER BREAKER BESIDE IT BLEW OUT, CAUSING BURN TO RIGHT HAND. WHEN BOX WA S EXAMIND IT REVEALED INSULATORS ONTOP OF BREAKER HAD FAILED. BOX WAS REMOVED FROM SERVICE AND BROUGHT OUTSIDE.
TAKING T-BAR LOOSE ON FLETCHER BOLTER, KNOCKED PINS, T-BAR SLIPPED OFF OF CRIBS AND STRUCK EE ACROSS TOP OF LEFT FOOT.
PIECE OF DRILL STEEL STAYED IN HOLE. PUT HAND ON TOP OF DRILL POT. STEEL FELL OUT STRIKING HIM ON RIGHT RING FINGER.
EE WAS SHOVELING RIBS IN THE #2 ENTRY AT THE FACE, HE TWISTED AROUND AND HE SAID HE HAD A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
BOLTING TOP, PIECE OF ROCK 1'X 2'X 1 1/2 ", FELL STRIKING HIM ON NECK.
ON KNEES MEASURING COAL & ROCK, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM TROP BETWEEN RIB & ROOF BOLT STRIKING HIM IN BACK OF RIGHT LEG.
WHILE TRAVELING ROADWAY UNDERGROUND EE SAID HE HIT A ROCK OR HOLE IN THE ROADWAY WHICH THREW HIM UP AND CAME BACK DOWN AND HIT HIS LOWER PART OF HIS BACK ON THE BACK OF SCOOP DECK.
A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL AND HIT EE ONT HE LEFT SHOULDER, CAUSING A BRUISE.
HE WAS INSTALLING BOLTS IN ROOF WHEN HE LET THE HEAD DOWN HITTING HIM IN THE RIGHT KNEE. BRUISING IT.
WHILE MAKING A BELT SPLICE THE CLAMP FELL OFF FROM THE OFF SIDE, AND THE EE WAS STANDING BELOW EWHERE THE SPLICE AND BEING MADE AND THE CLAMP HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT HAND WHICH BROKE THE BONE TO THE INDEX FINGER AND BRUISED THE THUMB.
WHILE BOLTING TOP, EE LET THE BOOM DOWN AND THE PIECE OF STEEL HUNG IN THE TOP, A FEW SECONDS LATER IT TURNED LOOSE BEFORE THE OPERATOR COULD GET IT STRIKING THE DRILL POT AND BOUNCING UP AND HITTING THE OPERATOR ON THE LEFT EYELID, CAUSING A CUT ON THE LEFT EYELID.
VICTIM WAS SWING HEAD OF BOLTER SETTING HIS SECOND BOLT WOODEN A PEICE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON HIS BACK.
OPERATOR WAS INSTALLING BOLT AND PLATE WHEN HE ALLOWED 2 FINGERS ON RIGHT HAND TO GET BETWEEN ROOF AND ROOF PLATE MASHINED FINGERS. HE WAS TAKEN TO EMERGENCY ROOM NO BONES WERE BROKEN AND NO S TICHES WERE REQUIRED.
MAN STATED SHUTTLE CAR PULLED MINER CABLE DOWN HE STOPED TO REHANG IT WHEN HE LIFTED CABLE HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN BACK.
3 WHEEL BUGGY WAS BACKING UP THEN OTHER WENT FORWARD CAUSIGN VICTIM TO HIT HIS HEAD DRIVING IT DOWN INTO HIS SHOULERS. THERE WAS A LOW PLACE IN THAT AREA.
YROOF DRILL OEPRATOR BENT OVER TO PICK UP ROOF BOLT. TWISTED HIS LEG.
WHILE OPERATOR WAS CUTTING ON PILLAR LINE A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN THE BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK AND RIGHT KNEE.
A ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED ON 3/21/97 AT APP 4AM IN #7 ENTRY AT CHECK SPAD #111.
WHILE BOLTING TOP ON THE #1 BELTLINE THE EMPLOYEE PLACED HIS LEFT HAND ON THE DRILL BOOM AND AS BOOM WAS RAISING CAUGHT HAND IN PINCH POINT AND CUT SMALL FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
EE WAS LIFTING A BAG OF ROCKDUST OFF THE TOP OF SCOOP, COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN.
EE WAS IN #5 ENTRY WHEN A LOOSE RIB FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE AND HIP. BRUISE TO LEFT SIDE & HIP.
2 EMPLOYEES WERE HANGING MINER CABLE. INJURED BENT OVER AND STARTED TO PICK UP MINER CABLE. AS HE RAISED UP HE STATED THAT HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
ROOF FALL AT THE 5TH LEFT SEALS INTHE INTERSECTION AT THE 5TH SEAL.
MAN STATED HE PUT UP LAST BOLT IN ROW. STARTED DOWN BESIDE BOLTER TO LET ATRS DOWN. STEPPED ON ROCK OR IN HOLE IN BOTTOM. TWISTED LEFT KNEE.
ROOF FALL 1ST BREAK IN SPAD #786 APPROX. 20' LONG AND 20' WIDE, 4' TO 6' HIGH.
MYRON WAS RIDING MANTRIP IN WHEN IT WENT THROUGH WATER HOLE EE RAISSED UP AND CAUGHT BACK ON ROOF BOLT AN DIT BENT HIM DOUBLE.
STANLEY WAS TRAMMING LOADED SHUTTLE CAR TO FEEDER WHEN HE HIT A STRAP HANGING FROM TOP WITH CANOPY CAUSING A PIECE OF COAL TO FLY IN HIS LEFT EYE.
MAKING BELT MOVE, SCOOP MAN WAS UNLOADING BELT STRUCTURE OUT OF SCOOP BUCKET WHEN HE THREW A PIECE OF TOP STRUCTURE STRIKING EE ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT.
SOME TIME AFTER THE PRESHIFT WAS MADE THE SCOOP OPERATOR DISCOVERED A ROOF FALL IN THE #6 INTAKE ENTRY 9 BREAKS OUTBY THE FACE AREA. THE FALL WAS TIMBERED OFF. A MSHA INSPECTOR WAS ON JOB SITE . HE HELPED WITH INVESTIGATION OF FALL.
NUT BROKE OFF CANOPY JACK WHEN OEPERATOR LET CANOPY DOWN, CANOPY FELL STRIKIGN OEPRATOR ON TO POF HEAD CAUSING NECK INJURY.
MAN SSTATED HE WAS GETTING ROCK OUT OF SECTION TAIL PIECE, TOLD BELT MAN TO BUMP BELT. HE WAS HOLDING ONTO ROCK TO THROW OFF BELT, WHEN ANOTHER PIECE CAME LOOSE AND SMASHED RIGHT INDEX FIGNEE R BETWEEN THEM.
BENDING A 48" ROOF BOLT, PULLED MUSCLE ON RIGHT SIDE OF BACK.
WHILE TRAMMING SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST THE CANOPY, WHICH BRUISED THE BACK OF NECK AND LEFT SHOULDER.
MAN PICKED UP BOX A RESIN OUT OF SCOOP BUCKET WHEN HE STRAIGHTENED UP AND TURNED HE TWISTED HIS BACK.
EE PULLED PINNER STEEL FROM HOLE BEFORE DISENGAGING ROTATION CAUSING STEEL TO COME OUT OF POT & HITTING EE IN FACE.
AN INTERSECITON 1 BREAK OUTBY SPAD #7 ADN 1 BREAK TO THE RIGHT FELL 4-5'T THIS FALL IS IN FRONT OF A DEAD END ENTRY APPROX 25-30'DEEP THERE IS LINE BRATTICE BUILT IN THIS ENTRY.
PUSHED BOLT UP WITH HEAD OF PINNER. LET HEAD DOWN & CAUGHT BIT WRENCH BETWEEN ARM & HEAD.
EE WAS BOLTING TOP IN THE #4 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF CAP COAL FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT FOREARM, CHIPING A BONE.
OPERATOR WAS BOLTING FIRST TURNED BREAK WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL. OPERATOR JUMPED BACK GRABBING LEVERS OF PINNER, DROPPING HEAD OF MACHINE ON HIS FOOT.
EE WAS DRILLING THROUGH A ROOF STRAP AND A PIECEOF METAL FLEW OUT HITTING HIM IN THE EYE, EE WASWEARING SAFETY GLASSES.
STATED HE WAS PULLING MINER CABLE WITH MAC 8 HAD TO MOVE 3 WHEELER OUT OF WAY. STARTED TO BACK 3 WHEELER UP LET LEFT LEG GET BETWEEN THE TWO RIDES RIGHT FOOT GOT CAUGHT ON TRAM PEDAL.
WHILE EE WAS GETTING A PIECE OF ROCK OFF TAIL PIECE HE DISLOCATED HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
WHEN WEEKLY EXAM WAS CONDUCTED A ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED THAT HAD OCCURED SOME TIME AFTER PREVIOUS WEEKLY EXAM. THE FALL WAS ON THE NNU 003 IDLE SECTION 480 FT. OUTBY FACE IN #1 ENTRY. 3 BREA KS OUBY SPAD #1930
EE THE OFF SIDE BOLTER OPERATOR WAS MOVIGN SUPPLIES ON TO PPOF MACHIEN WHEN EE, THE STANDARD SIDE BOLTER OPERATOR, STARTED TO MOVE THE MACHINE. THE MACHINE TIRE RAN OVER EE'S LEFT FOOT, BREAK ING THE FIRST AND SECOND TOE ON THAT FOOT.
EE SAID HE HURT LOWER BACK WHILE LIFTING STRUCTURE.
VICTIME WAS SITTING DOWN EATING LUNCH. WHEN HE STOOF UP SAID HE HAD VERY SEVERE BACK PAIN. MAN SAID PULLED MINER CABLE BEFORE LUNCH, SAT DOWN, WENT TO GET UP AND BACK HURT.
WHILE HANGING THE CABLE ON THE MINER HEAD, THE MINER MAN RAISED THE PAN BEFORE THE HELPER COULD GET HIS LEFT HAND OUT OF THE WAY.
ROCK FALL IN THE NO. 1 ENTRY ABOUT 40 FT FROM THE OUTSIDE. THE ROCK FALL IS ABOUT 7' HIGH AND ABOUT 30' LONG. THERE WAS NO ONE WORKING WHEN FALLOCCURRED. THE ROOF HAD BEEN BOLTED WITH 5" RESIN BOLTS.
EMPLOYEE WAS SWINGING HEAD OF BOLTER WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK SLIPPED UP AND CUT HIS LEFT THUMB.