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FALL ON INTAKE AT SPAD 1516 INTERSECTION CRIBBEDOFF ON ALL SIDES

FALL IN #4 BOLT ENTRY FROM SPAD 1641 TO SPAD 16 19 AREA HAD STACK ROCK WITH A COAL RIDER SEAM D RIGGED OFF ON ALL SIDES MOVED SECTION

EE WAS TAKING A MOTOR OFF OF A FEEDER OUTSIDE WHEN A WASPER STUNG HIM ON THE NECK

TWISTED LEFT KNEE WHILE CHANGING SEATS ON SHUTTLE CAR.

3RD SHIFT FOREMAN FOUND FALL AT APPROX 10:30PM. WHILE DOING A PRESHIFT. FALL APPROX 70' LONG AND6' HIGH AND 18' WIDE. APPROX 170' OUTBY FACE, 70FT INBY SPAD 104.

FOREMAN WAS WALKING INTO #3 RIGHT BREAK TO PUT UP CENTER LINE & HIT POINT ANCHOR BOLT STICKING DOWN FROM TOP

EE WAS CLEANING BELT AND RIB ROLLED OFF HITTING HIM ON RIGHT LEG BELOW KNEE.

HAD A ROOF FALL 3 BRKS. OUTBY THE FACE IN 1 HDG. (LEFT RETURN) FALL IS APPROX. 80 FT LONG, 19FT WIDE AND 6 FT THICK.

RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR IN 4 HEADING PULLED UNDER MINER. A SLAB OF ROCK FELL FROM BOLT TO LEFT RIB STRICKING HIM ON THE TOP OF HARD HAT AND SHOULDER.

HIT KNEE GETTING ON OR OFF OF SCOOP CAUSING KNEE TO SWELL

TAKING 5 GAL HYD OIL CANS UP TO ROOF BOLTER BETWEEN IT & RIB TWISTING HURTING BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS UN-HOOKING CHAIN FROM POWER CENTER AFTER IT HAD BEEN PULLED UP AND INSTURCTED OPERATOR TO PULL CLOSER WITH OUT GETTING IN THE CLEAR AND SCOOP JUMPED ON POINT CATCHING HIS RIGHT FO OT BEFORE OPERATOR COULD GET SCOOP STOPPED.

MINE HAD BEEN IDLE FOR APPROX. A MONTH WITH NO EQUIPMENT LEFT IN MINE. UPON RETURNING TO MINE 2 FALLS WHERE FOUND AND SOME FRAGITE ROOF. MSHA WAS NOTIFIED AND MADE AN INSPECTION. THIS 3RD FALL OCCURRED SOMETIME WITHIN THE FOLLOWING 5 OR 6 DAYS THAT WE WERE GETTING CRIBS AND COLLARS AND FORMULATING A PLAN TO RESUPPORT THE MINE.

MINE HAD BEEN PUT IN ACTIVE NON PRODUCTING STATUS AND ALL EQUIPMENT REMOVED FROM MINE WITH THE INTENSION OF GETTING SMALLER EQUIPMENT IN ORDER TO LOWER THE REJECT. UPON RETURNING TO THE MINE A PPROX. A MONTH LATER AND BEFORE TAKING THE SMALLER EQUIPMENT INSIDE, WE FOUND TWO ROOF FALLS AND SOME FRAGILE ROOF IN OTHER AREAS.

MINE WAS INA ACTIVE NONPRODUCTING STATUS, HAD MEN ON ONE SHIFT ONLY SETTING CRIBS AND COLLARS DUE TO FALLS AND FRAGILE ROOF. FALL OCCURRED BETWEEN THE TIME TH EE LEFT ON THE 24TH AND TIME THEY RETURNED ON THE 25TH.

WHILE RIDING THE MANTRIP THE SCSR BOX CAUGHT ON A VENTILATION CURTAIN AND SLID INTO HIS NECK. PAIN IN NECK UPON LATERAL MOVEMENT.

EE WAS INSTALLING A 5' RESIN BOLT, HE PUT 2 HEADER BOARDS ON BOLT TO GET A SURFACE BEARING IN UNEVEN TOP. THE RESIN SET UP TOO QUICKLY CAUSING BOLTER HEAD TO TWIST SUDDENLY AND THE BOLT WRENCH CAUGHT HIS FINGER AGAINST METAL ON BOLT MACHINE

EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HIT A HOLE IN THE FLOOR CAUSING THE SHUTTLE CAR TO JAR THE EE. WHEN THE SHUTTLE CAR JARRED OR BOUNCED THE EE HE SAID HE PULLED OR BRUISED SOMETHING IN HIS L OWER RIGHT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING MINER (TURNING RIGHT HAND BREAK) WHEN LOOSE TOP RIB COAL FELL AND HIT MINER THEN HIT OPERATOR ON RIGHT UPPER ARM. COAL IS APPROX. 7 FT HIGH.

EE SAID HE WAS PREPARING TO MOVE FEEDER UP FOR BELT MOVE BEFORE MOVING FEEDER HE TOOK 500FT OF FIRE HOSE (11/2IN )WHICH WAS ROLLED UP ON A 3/4IN ROD & SUSPENDED FROM ROOF WITH TWO WIRES & PUT ON FEEDER TO BE MOVED UP WITH FEEDER THIS WAS ONA FRIDAY NIGHT & HE SAID HIS BACK STARTED HURTING OVER WEEKEND HE NEVER REPORT ED ACCIDENT TO ME UNTIL 06-01-96 & SA ID HE DID NOT REMEMBER EXAC

ROCK FALL IN # ENTRY NEUTRAL IN 6Y 5 PAD NO 23 140 FT. 3 TO 8 FT HIGH NO AIRWAY BLOCKED.

ROCK FALL IN 8 ENTRY INBY SPAD NO. 390 70FT LONG 2 TO 3 FT HIGH. NO AIR WAY BLOCKED.

INJURED WAS OPERATING FLETCHER BOLTER AND AFTER HE INSTALLED A ROOF BOLT HE WAS LETTING THE HEAD DOWN AND PINCHED HIS MIDDLE AND RING FINGERON HIS RIGHT HAND.

MINER OPERATOR WAS CHANGING PLACES WITH REMOTE MINER OPERATOR WAS WALKING BEHIND MINER WHEN THE RIB BROKE LOOSE AND FELL HITTING THE OPERATOR.

ROOF FALL IN NO 2 ENTRY INTAKE INBY SPAD NO 659 APPROX 140FT LONG 20FT WIDE & 5FT HIGH

ROCK FALL IN NO. 9 ENTRY- RIGHT RETURN. OUTBY SPAD NO. 799- APPROX. 140'LONG 20' WIDE AND 5' HIGH.

HE WAS TURNING A CORNER WITH HIS BUGGY, UNDER THE MINER CABLE, WHEN HE LOOK BACK TO AMKE SURE HE CLEARED THE RIB BEHIND HIM. THE FRONT OF THE BUGGY CAUGHT THE MINER CABLE AND DRUG HIM OFF THE BUGGY.

WAS HELPING CLEAN ROCK OFF TOP OF MINER WHEN A PIECE ROCK THEY WERE PULLING OFF FLIPPED UP AND CAUGHT HIS WRIST AGAINST ROOF CAUSING CONTUSION TO RIGHT HAND AND WRIST.

WAS WALKING AROUND THE SIDE OF HIS SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS BACK AGAINST A ROOF BOLT PLATE HANGING FROM THE TOP. IT CUT HIS BACK ABOUT 1-1/2 INCHES. WENT TO THE DOCTOR 7-15-93 AND HAD 6 STITCHES PUT IN IT.

WAS PUTTING UP ROOF BOLT. WHEN LETTING DRILL HEAD DOWN, A PIECE DRAW ROCK FELL HITTING HIM IN BACK OF HEAD AND BACK. BACK STARTED HURTING THE NEXT SHIFT HE WORKED AND HE WENT TO DOCTOR FOR CHE CK UP.

HAD ROOF FALL APPROX. 4' TO 5' HIGH, 200' LONG AND 20'WIDE. FALL EXTENDED FROM SPAD 645 TO SPAD 664. NO ONE INJURED, NO EQUIPMENT INVOLVED AND NO RESTRICTION OF AIR.

EMPL WAS TRAMMING MINER TOWARD FACE IN #5 ENTRY WHEN A ROCK APPROX. 8" BY 10" 1/2" THICK FELL LONG WAYS STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF HIS RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING MINE CABLE LOOSE FROM TOP MINER MOVED PULLING CABLE DOWNIN HIS SHOULDER

UN-HOOKING OIL SUPPLY CAR FROM MAN TRIP AND CAR SLID AROUND FELL ON LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGED HE PULLED MUSCLES INSIDE RIB CAGE ON 10-26-92 WAS TAKEN OUT OF MINES AT 6:00PM ON 10-30-92 TAKEN TO HOSPITAL CHECK & RELEASED SAME DAY HAD BAD CHEST PAINS ACCIDENT WAS NOT REP ORTED UNTIL THIS TIME

WAS CHANING BITS ON 14-10 MINER WHEN CLIP SLIPPED OFF AND STRUCK MINER MAN IN EYE.

61206ELDING,AND ARC FROM WELDER BURNT RIGHT EYE .ANOTHER WELDER WAS WELDING IN SAME AREA.

RIDING ON MANTRIP FELL TO KEEP HEAD DOWN HAT STRUCK COLLAR ROLLING HIS HARD HAT OVER HEAD SCRAPPING HIS HEAD

SHOVELING AROUND BELT DRIVE STRAINED BACK

MAN WAS RIDING A 2 MAN PERSONNEL CARRIER TO D02 SECTION WHEN HE MET A SCOOP TRAVELING TOWARD OUTSIDE. THE MAN PULLED INTO A BREAK TO LET SCOOP PASS. THE HAULROAD WAS ROUGH AND MUDDY. THE BATTE RY END OF SCOOP SLID INTO THE PERSONNEL CARRIER JARRING THE MAN AND INJURING HIS BACK.

STANDARD BUGGY WENT ON HIGH TRAM AFTER BEING ENERGIZED & OPERATOR HAD STEPPED OFF BUGGY RAMMED INTO BACK OF MINER MINER OPERATOR WAS TRYING TO GET OUT OF DECK OF MINER TO AVOID BUGGY HIT HIS H EAD & LEFT SHOULDER AGAINST A ROOF BOLT

MAN WAS USING A JACK TO HELP REPOSITION A RIPPER MOTOR TO INSTALL THE TOP HOLDING PIN JACK SLIPPED OUT HITTING THE MAN JUST ABOVE THE LEFT KNEE CAP.

SCOOP OPERATOR TRAMMING INSIDE WITH SUPPLIES A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK APPROX. 8X10X1 THICK FELLOW OPERATORS HAND AND LEFT ARM.

RAN OVER ROCK IN ROAD, BOUNCING HIM IN TOP

FALL 11 BRKS OUTBY FACE IN #8 HEADING IN INTERSECTION BETWEEN SPAD 531 AND SPAD # 535. IT WAS TIMBER OFF CONTINUATION OF OLD FALL.

EMPL WAS OPERATING SCOOP BRINGING IT OUTSIDE. HE GOT AGAINST RIB & RIB FELL OFF INTO SCOOP MASHING MIDDLE FINGER.

INJURED MAN WAS SITTING DOWN WITH LEGS CROSSED INDIAN STYLE WHEN HE STOOD UP HIS KNEE POPPED OUT OF PLACE.HE SAID HIS KNEE HAD POPPED OUT LIKE THIS BEFORE.

FALL 18 FT WIDE 36" HIHG 50 FT LON CRIBBED OFF DANGER OFF.

PIECE OF DRAW ROC APPROX 3' BY 6' & UP TO 3" THICK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS ONTO MINER OPERATOR AS HE WAS TAKING FIRST CUT OUT OF #6 RIGHT BREAK ON 001 SECTION. ROCK FELL SUDDENLY GIVING N O WARNING.

CHANGING RIPPER MOTOR ON 14-1 JOY MINER AND WAS TRYING TO LINE PIN HOLES UP, MOTOR SLIPPED & PERSON HAD FINGER IN HOLE WHERE PINS WENT CUTTING END OF RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER OFF RIGHT BEHIND FINGE R NAIL.