Every mining fatality in Kentucky

Employee evacuated truck on mine ramp and hit head on ramp floor causing serious head injury. *EE died on 3/19/2024.

While assisting in the offloading of a tank from the RGN trailer, the equipment being used to crane the tank struck JD's Custom Transport employee, causing EE's death.

OUR EMPLOYEE WORKING AT MOUNTAIN AGGREGATES QUARRY MINE SITE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHILE OPERATING A DOZER ON AN ACCESS RD IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT LEFT THE ACCESS RD AND ROLLED DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.

The employee and co-workers were in the No.8 entry at x-cut No.47 on the 3 South Mains preparing to remove a permanent stopping. The injured employee was in the process of walking outby to turn off a water valve, when the roof collapsed resulting in a fatality. MSHA was notified. The injured employee was pronounced dead by the coroner on at 10:48pm on 3/21/2022.

Employee was driving on work site when a tree fell off the High Wall into the cab of employee's pickup.

Employee placed self on the bumper of the miner below the unsupported conveyor tail boom with the machine still energized. EE apparently was trying to trouble shoot issues with the stab jack by utilizing the remote control functions and in the process inadvertently lowered the tail onto self resulting in fatal crushing injuries.

Changing the rear tire on a 992D Loader. Jack kicked out and and loader fell down crushing employee.

The victim was fatally injured when struck by a battery powered scoop which had trammed through a line curtain in the #6 Entry of the #5 Unit (MMU 009-0) outby the working place where the continuous mining machine was being operated.

Employee was on Hydro seeder and changed barrels on the gun and pointed the gun at self and engaged the clutch. The pressure knocked employee back against the rails on the truck. CPR was provided but had no effect.

While employee was working on the ride a piece of rock rolled off coal rib, striking them in the back. Pinning them against the personal ride.

The victim was fatally injured when EE was struck by a battery powered scoop which had trammed through a translucent line curtain in the #3 Entry of the #6 Unit (MMU 005) just outby the working place where the continuous mining machine was being operated. Co-workers observed the victim in a sitting position stretching EE's legs prior to the accident.

FMC employees were attempting to seal the hoist shaft at the Bremen Portal at Ken American Paradise Mine No. 9. Steel beams were welded in place metal decking was secured covering the shaft. Methane accumulated in the shaft and caused a series of two explosions 4-5 seconds apart. The second explosion killed FMC employee. No other fatalities or injuries occurred.

Rib Rolled onto miner operator.

While the surveyor was setting up the instrument in #4 belt entry, the other surveyor was getting height measurements down #3 entry. A shuttle car loaded with coal coming from #2 entry tramming to the feeder struck and killed the surveyor near spad 24.

The belt Foreman & 1 other employee made a belt splice on #7 mainline belt. Belt came on & foreman was dragged approx. 6-7 crosscuts before the belt stopped by a person making belt checks.

While changing work cutter head bits on the coal auger machine, ee was struck by a rock approx 4 feet by 5 feet by 30 inches that fell from the bottom section of the highwall. EE was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Death

Employee was changing a cable pulley that raised and lowered a load spout. While installing the new pulley, something broke. The cable struck the employee in the head area fatally injuring the employee. The investigation is still ongoing to determine the exact cause.

While workers were cleaning up material that was removed from a new coal transfer borehole using a continuous miner, a section of rib/brow fell from the inby portion of the entry and continued outby pulling rib bolts. The material rolled down the rib and struck the miner operator causing fatal crushing injuries to chest and abdomen.

Employee was in preparation to mine the No. 6 Left Crosscut when EE became pinned between the tail of the machine and the coal rib, resulting in fatal crushing injuries.

The miner & a co-worker installed blocking material under the cutter head of the continuous miner to support it while they replaced the load-lock valve. The victim was in the process of installing the new valve when the blocking material failed & allowed the cutter head to fall to the mine floor. The victim was crushed between the boom of the cutter head & the frame of the pan.

The employee was connecting a chain around the bumper of a tractor to a road grader when the grader rolled back and pinned him between to bumper of the tractor and Grader.

The unit mechanic was traveling across the section. A ram car was traveling inby toward the miner. The car had only traveled a few feet inby when the employee was struck by the ram car.

Without checking to ensure elevator car was present, contractor stepped into elevator shaft and fell approximately 25 feet landing on top of elevator car.

Victim was last observed accessing the stern if barge NBN-611. Shortly after, he was noticed to be missing. Snow was present on the barge. Damage or impairment is unknown at this time.

Employee was working near an energized Soft Start Component. Started convulsing or having a seizure. Possible electrocution. Still unknown.

victim entered a hopper without power locked and tagged out and without fall protection

While conducting retreat mining on 6-Left Panel off B-4 Mains, a coal/rock outburst occurred inby break #35. The outburst involved the continuous miner operator who suffered fatal blunt force injuries to his head, chest, and legs.

EE was a self-employed individual who was subcontracted by T & T Energy to perform welding work. EE was performing welding work on the T & T Energy, Begley #1 jobsite and while working experienced fatal blunt force trauma to his head. There were no direct witnesses to the accident and the accident is currently under investigation.

While retrieving samples from quarry face, employee was struck on left shoulder by a rock, resulting in fractures.

EE WAS SETTING A TIMBER ALONG THE RIB WHEN THE RIB ROLLED OFF AND STRUCK HIM, TRAPPING HIM UNDERNEATH THE RIB, RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES. THE TOTAL RIB ROLL WAS APPROXIMATELY 26'LONG x 8' HIGH x 18" THICK. ACCIDENT WAS REPORTED TO MSHA HOT LINE ON THE DAY OF THE ACCIDENT.

Still under investigation. ** The miner was operating a loaded 40 ton articulated haul truck down a slope when the truck went out of control and hit a rib. The cab section overturned. The victim was ejected from the truck. **

Worker took it on his self to cut belt line down without the use of the equipment that we was using to take it down with. He cut it then started walking away from it as it was falling. Then it caught the catwalk he was on and flipped him over the double hand rail on the catwalk and fell to the ground about 20 ft down.

Employee was installing a canopy on the shuttle car and the canopy fell on him striking him in the head and chest.

A miner fell into the Tennessee River while attempting to take draft measurements on the barges parameter. EE had to cross from the permanent floating work-barge to the 1st empty barge EE was walking up-river on the barge. EE fell from the barge into the river workers immediately called for the Marshall County Rescue Squad.

A crib block is believed to have got lodged behind brake pedal & on accelerator pedal, causing a 2 man non-permissible personnel carrier to jump forward, pinning employee against a coal rib, causing death.

Employee was reclaiming highwall with dozer when the dozer flipped and rolled several times landing in the road. Employee was unconscious with labored breathing when they got to him.

Two employees were in route to begin shift loading holes in #11 Pit. As they traveled into the West end of this pit and attempted to drive up ramp onto work area the highwall collapsed resulting in death to both employees.

Two employees were in route to begin shift loading holes in #11 Pit. As they traveled into the West end of this pit and attempted to drive up ramp onto work area the highwall collapsed resulting in death to both employees.

Miner was repairing broke conveyor chain on 94L bridge position himself under the bridge when it fell striking him in the chest area.

Employee was operating the 15 ton Brookville track motor and his head was pinned between the canopy on the motor and a beam on an overcast.

Employee was watching the cable on the dolly when the rib rolled off crushing him. Rib measured approximately 82 by 36 by 11 inches.

Setting miner up to take first cut of coal when he became pinched between miner boom and rib.

A Mack DM-600 tandem axle lube truck was descending a grade into the active work area of the mine when the operator lost control of the truck and either jumped or was thrown from the vehicle. The truck struck an embankment and overturned on its left side resulting in fatal crushing injuries to the victim. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the coroner.

Employee received fatal injuries from a shuttle car that struck him while hanging a check curtain on the #6 unit, #7 entry, #11 seam. His body was discovered by the car operator upon returning from the feeder. (AN MSHA, STATE AND COMPANY INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.)

Employee got caught between the continuous miner and the coal rib suffering fatal injuries.

While directing activities to re-support ribs in an intersection, a rib roll struck a standing roof support which in turn struck the foreman in the head causing fatal injuries.

The injured miner was working at the face area when an isolated portion of the mine roof fell unexpectedly. The accident occurred in an area where roof bolts previously had been installed inby the last open crosscut. The fall measured approx. 70' in length, 20' in width and 12'-15' in height. (See attachment #2)

The injured miner was working at the face area when an isolated portion of the mine roof fell unexpectedly. The accident occurred in an area where roof bolts previously had been installed inby the last open crosscut. The fall measured approx. 70' in length, 20' in width and 12'-15'in height. (See attachment #2)

Injury was cleaning gob in 3 left with continous miner, he started backing out of crosscut when corner of rib rolled off on him receiving a fatal injury to his upper torso. Size of rib striking he was approx. 4'L x 36"W x 16" thick.

Employee was operating a remote control continuous miner. He was struck by a rock. He did not survive the injuries.

On December 12, 2009 at approximately 6:38 am, a pre-dawn, low temperature accident occurred on a haulage road at PE Southern Pike Co. The driver of DT 178 exited the loaded coal truck, resulting in his death.

Two employees were struck by the boom of the pivoting hoist. At this point in the investigation, it appears that the boom or boom hoist ropes came in contact with an adjacent structure as the boom was being lowered. The elevation of the boom changed suddenly as the boom hoist rope or boom lost contact with the structure, striking both individuals.

VICTIM WAS ON A BELT CONVEYOR TO CUT OFF A LOOSE PIECE OF BELT. HE FELL APPROXIMATELY 20 FEET TO THE GROUND BELOW. HE DIED ON JANUARY 11, 2011. HARD FROST THE MORNING OF THE ACCIDENT. FAILED TO WEAR COMPANY SUPPLIED SAFETY HARNESS.

Supply car was bringing concrete block into break to build permanent stoppings when chain broke letting supply car roll through curtain crushing foreman between supply car and 94L bridge causing fatal injury.

Baked over dump in Rock Truck Death

Installing a rolling steel door, the victim was on a stepladder - Lost his balance and fell approximately 7 feet landing on a concrete floor. He died from his injuries. He was taken by helicopter to the hospital (St. Mary's in Evansville, IN.)

Employee entered area of accident by foot deviating from procedure. Was found later in bottom of hopper engulfed by stone.

Victim was in operation of Genie S-85 aerial lift when the lift became caught on exterior wall girt of building under construction. In an attempt to free the caught basket the machine's boom reacted after the basket came free, resulting in the victim's head receiving injuries which were fatal.

Owner of J&P equipment cleaning was working on a steam cleaning engine when one of his employees noticed that he was slumped over the engine. This is still under investgation by MSHA.

Building a road when dozer overturned. Zero witnesses to accident. Dozer rolled down steep 80 foot incline.

Employee was pushing material (shot rock) from a break down shot, when his dozer went over edge of highwall. At this time accident is under investigation by MSHA and OMSL.

Unknown, most likely human error. Employee passed away on 7/25/08.

A tree split & fell onto the victim, pinning him between two trees.

EE dug some holes in water, then the ground gave way and the excavator turner over onto side, trapping EE inside.

While walking outside the warehouse door, next to the loading dock, EE stepped onto the slope part of the loading dock and encountered black ice that could not be seen in the darks. He slid back and landed on his back and his right leg went behind him.

Hauler backed over the outslope. The hauler traveled approximately 150 feet down the spoil pile. The operator was ejected from the cab of the hauler. Operator was a contract worker.

Miner was hit in head by fly rock from blast causing his death.

While excavating coal pit, equipment operator worked himself into a position that when he attempted to correct resulted in overturning excavator on its top, crushing the cab area and the operator.

Employee was operating a scoop between the #5 & #6 entries on the 001/002 MMU one break inby survey station #1411. He was pulling a shuttle car cable that had been wrapped around the canopy post on the left side of the operating deck. As he was pulling the cable, the rear wheel of the scoop ran over the cable. This caused the cable to unwrap & strike him on the side of his head.

Inverted horse back resulted in fatality. "A fatal roof fall occurred at D&R Coal, Inc. Mine No. 2. The victim was located at the pillar corner in the crosscut between the No 7 and No 8 entry on the 001 MMU, when he was struck by a piece of draw rock approx 6' long X 3' wide X 6-8" thick. Victim was pronounced dead at the scene by the assistant Knox County Coroner."

A road grader descended down a haul road backwards and landed against the hillside in a ditch. The operator was found under the ripper at the rear of the machine.

Mud seam fell out of highwall, big rock hit cab of drill killing employee.

Jaw area of head/neck was pinched between handrail of manlift and cable tray. Foot was still on deadman switch.

WHILE PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON CONVEYOR BELT EMPLOYEE WAS PINNED BETWEEN WA500 KOMATSU LOADER AND CONVEYOR BELT LINE RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A WATER TRUCK WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AND OVERTURNED. THE ACCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. THE VICTIM WAS TRAPPED UNDER THE TRUCK. THE VICTIM WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE BODY WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE BREATHITT COUNTY CORONER & THEN TO FRANKFORT FOR AUTOPSY.

On Sat., 5/20/06, at approx., 1AM, an explosion occurred underground at the mine. The explosion occurred during the 3rd shift that is designated as the maintenance shift. The source & causes of explosion are unk at this time. Explosion claimed the lives of 5 of the 6 miners. All the victims have been recovered. The surviving miner was taken to hospital, treated and released.

On Sat., 5/20/06, at approx., 1AM, an explosion occurred underground at the mine. The explosion occurred during the 3rd shift that is designated as the maintenance shift. The source & causes of explosion are unk at this time. Explosion claimed the lives of 5 of the 6 miners. All the victims have been recovered. The surviving miner was taken to hospital, treated and released.

On Sat., 5/20/06, at approx., 1AM, an explosion occurred underground at the mine. The explosion occurred during the 3rd shift that is designated as the maintenance shift. The source & causes of explosion are unk at this time. Explosion claimed the lives of 5 of the 6 miners. All the victims have been recovered. The surviving miner was taken to hospital, treated and released.

On Sat., 5/20/06, at approx., 1AM, an explosion occurred underground at the mine. The explosion occurred during the 3rd shift that is designated as the maintenance shift. The source & causes of explosion are unk at this time. Explosion claimed the lives of 5 of the 6 miners. All the victims have been recovered. The surviving miner was taken to hospital, treated and released.

On Sat., 5/20/06, at approx., 1AM, an explosion occurred underground at the mine. The explosion occurred during the 3rd shift that is designated as the maintenance shift. The source & causes of explosion are unk at this time. Explosion claimed the lives of 5 of the 6 miners. All the victims have been recovered. The surviving miner was taken to hospital, treated and released.

Employee was found pinned between the #4 mobile bridge unit and the section lo-lo conveyor belt structure. He was apparently troubleshooting a report of weak tramming on the left side of the mobile unit. There were no witnesses to the accident.

Employee was walking to his shuttle car when draw rock fell from top pinning lower half of his body underneath. Rock was 20' long, 86" wide, 6.5" thick.

Employee was walking up to a stopping that had just been knocked down by a scoop when a piece of rock fell from between bolts and struck him on the back.

A truck driver loaded the 1984 Ford LT9000 truck, then proceeded down the access road and then for some unknown reason, he got out or left the cab of the truck which therefore led to bodily injury and death (fatality) to himself approximately 100 feet from bottom of hill.

A 2 to 3 foot drawrock fell from face down and back vertically against miner and bolter trapping the miner under the canopy and against the bolting machine causing a fatality.

The victim was caught between 10SC shuttle car and an 818 Long Airdox ram car resulting in severe lower leg injuries and death.

The victim was demonstrating the features of the fault wizard. During the demonstration in the mine office he received an electrical shock and collapsed.

Truck rolled into pump house where employees were eating lunch. Employee was fatally injured.

As employee was eating lunch in the pump house, a truck hit pump house causing fatal injuries.

Pillar were being mined on the MMU 003-0. Mining had been completed in a block and the continous miner had been moved. The crew was in the process of moving the mobile roof supports from the area when a roof fall occurred in the intersection fatally injuring the vicitm.

Pillars were being mined on the mmu-003-0. Mining had been completed in a block and the continuous mining machine had been moved. The crew was in the process of moving the mobile roof supports from the area when a roof fall occurred int he intersection fatally injuring the victim.

TRAINING IN A TRUCK WHERE THE DRIVER STATES THAT HE LOST CONTROL OF THE EMPTY CAT 773 DUMP TRUCK. THE TRUCK VEERED, RAN THROUGH THE PROTECTIVE BERM AND OFF A 70'-HIGH WALL. (TRUCK LANDED ON ITS TOP; BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA INSIDE CAB OF TRUCK.)

Technician was attempting to repair a steering problem on a wheel loader. He replaced steering pilot valve, started engine, raised bucket and attempted to steer machine. When it would not steer to the right, he dismounted machine without shutting off engine. While attempting to remove steering shaft, the steering activated and steered to the right crushing the victim.

EE was backing (rear lights on) on a 636 Long Airdox Shield Hauler 1 break out by the long wall face at cross cut #88 into the #3 left cross cut where he ran over an airlock door top beam which was hidden in the mud. The rear tire hit the beam resulting in the end rising, and entering the operator's compartment causing crushing injuries.

Employee was cleaning rock dust bin #2 from inside of bin #2; material on sides of bin #2 collapsed, engulfing employee; causing his death.

Unsure how accident happened. Best guess is that the one or both of the left side wheels of the tractor caught a rib and caused the tractor to overturn. The employee was found under the left fender with his head and chest crushed. Do not, at this time, have autospy results to confirm whether the tractor caused death or something prior to the overturned tractor.

EE was fatally injured when struck by ice dislodged from a slurry pipeline.

The mine owner received fatal injuries when he was caught between a 980C Cat Front End Loader & a tractor trailer. The coal truck was having trouble driving up the steep haul road. The end loader was moving into position to allow the victim to hook the steel pull rope to both pieces of equipment. The end loader struck the victim resulting in fatal injuries.

EE had just finished installing timbers and began to observe the top for the miner operator who had begun to cut the end cut in the #2 entry. A section of roof measuring 18' wide 0-60" thick fell on ee causing fatal injuries.

A "HORSE BACK" (ROOF FAULT) MEASURING 2' X 14' X 38' DISLODGED FROM THE MINE ROOF PULLING 2 ROOF BOLTS FROM THE LAST FULL ROW OF BOLTS, FALLING ON THE VICTIM WHOSE LOCATION WAS NEAR THE 2ND ROW OF BOLTS, CAUSING CRUSHING BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA, RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES BEING SUSTAINED.

A FATAL FALL OF ROOF ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON THE 003 WORKING SECTION. THE VICTIM WAS WORKING WITH THE SECTION CREW AND HAD BEEN INSTALLING TIMBERS DURING RETREAT MINING. THE CREW HAD TEMPORARILY HALTED PRODUCTION TO OBSERVE THE MINE ROOF, WHEN WITH LITTLE WARNING THE MINE ROOF BEGAN TO COLLAPSE. THE 5 MINERS RAN TO ESCAPE THE ROOF FALL. FOUR OF THE MINERS ESCAPED.

THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING AN AERIAL BOOM TRUCK INSIDE THE BUCKET TO DISMANTLE A SHOP BUILDING. THE VICTIM & TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE USING THE BOOM OF THE BUCKET TRUCK TO LIFT UP WOODEN 4X6 POST. THE POST WAS BURIED IN THE GROUND WITH CONCRETE. WHILE LIFTING THE POST, THE VICTIM WAS THROWN OUT OF THE BUCKET WHEN THE POST SUDDENLY RELEASED FROM THE GROUND.

THE VICTIM WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CUTTING TREE, CLEARING BRUSH. THE TREE SPLINTERED, STRIKING THE VICTIM.

VICTIM BACKED THE DOZER OVER THE EDGE OF THE HIGHWALL, RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES WHEN HE WAS EJECTED & THEN CRUSHED BY THE SIDE (PUSH ARM) OF THE DOZER.

THE SECTION FOREMAN ON #2 UNIT WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A SECTION OF MINE ROOF THAT FELL BETWEEN TWO ROWS OF ROOF BOLTS. HE AND THE MINER HELPER WERE PULLING A MINER CABLE INT O POSITION TO BE HUNG WHEN THE ROCK FELL WITHOUT WARNING, DRIVING THE VICTIM TO THE GROUND & STRIKING THE MINER HELPER WITH A GLANCING BLOW. THE ROCK MEASURED 11'7"X 3"X 2 1/2".

ON JULY 2ND, 2003, EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK IN THE NECK BY A PROJECTILE WHILE CUTTING COAL WITH A CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE. PRELIMINARY FINDINGS SUGGEST THE VICIM WAS STRUCK BY A SMALL PIECE OF METAL FROM THE TIP OF A CUTTING BIT.

EMPLOYEE WAS INADVERTANTLY OVER RAN BY A SCOOP.

AT 12:30 PM A RIGHT BREAK OFF THE #4 ENTRY SHOT OUT THROUGH AN EXISTING HOLE IN THE RIB OF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SHOT INTO THE PARALLEL BREAK, SHOOTING COAL ONTO THE DRILL OPERATOR, DRILL HELP ER AND SHOT FIRER.

THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING A BOOM TRUCK, ASSISTING IN THE TAKING DOWN OF A LINE DROP TOWER FROM AN ELECTIRCAL SUBSTATION. THE WINCH ROPE BROKE CAUSING HIM TO BE THROWN FROM THE BUCKET OF THE BOO M TRUCK. HE FELL APPROXIMATELY 25 FEET. (THIS WAS NOT AN ELECTRICAL ACCIDENT. THE SUBSTATION WAS NOT IN SERVICE.)

DRIVER FAILED TO NEGOTIATE CURVE AT FOOT OF HILL STARTING ACROSS ONE LANE AND SENT OVER BRIDGE.

LOADED COAL TRUCK WAS LEAVING PIT. FOR SOME REASON STEEP HAULWAY ROAD TRUCK ROLLED BACK. APPARENTLY DRIVER TRIED TO JUMP OUT. HE WAS CAUGHT BY TRUCK AND KILLED.

EE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP TO KNOCK OUT A STOPPING BETWEEN ENTRIES & CLEAN UP BLOCKS & OTHER MATERIAL. WHILE SCOOPING, THE BUCKET PICKED UP A 20' SECTION OF 4" DIAMETER HARD PLASTIC PIPE WITH A METAL COUPLING ON ONE END. THE END OF THE PIPE OPPOSITE THE OPERATOR HIT THE RIB & THE COUPLING END CAUGHT THE INNER CORNER OF THE BUCKET ON THEOPERATOR'S SIDE, BOWED & STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD.

THE EE APPROACHED THE AIRPLANE FAN AREA TO REPOSITION THE END OF THE DISCHARGE HOSE. AS HE WALKED ACROSS THE RAISE ENCLOSURE FOR THE AIRPLANE FAN, A METAL PLATE ALONG THE OUTSIDE EDGE OF THE E NCLOSURE FAILED AND HE FELL INTO THE VENTILATIONSHAFT.

VICTIM WAS STRUCK BY EXCAVATOR BUCKET WHILE WORKING INSIDE A ROCK TRUCK BED. HE WAS CRUSHED BETWEEN THE BUCKET OF THE EXCAVATOR AND THE INTERIOROF THE TRUCKBED. RESULTED IN FATAL INJURIES.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL BOLTS IN THE ROOF, EMPLOYER HIT THE UP LEVER ON THE BOLT MACHINE. HIS HEAD WAS OVER TOP OF THE POT & IT CRUSHED HIS HEAD AGAINST THE CANOPY.

DRIVER APPARENTLY DROVE TRUCK OVER THE HILL.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING APPROXIMATELY 75 FT OUT BY THE FACE PIVKING UP TOOLS AND LOADING THEM INTO MUCK CAR TO BE REMOVED PRIOR TO SHOOTING THE FACE. THE REMAINDER OF THE CREW WAS CHARGING DRILL HOLES IN THE FACE WITH EXPLOSIVES. THE CREW AT THE FACE HEARD A LOUD NOISE, WHEN THEY WENT TO INVESTIGATE THEY FOUND INJURED PINNED UNDER A ROCK 8'6" X 22" X 22" THAT HAD FALLEN OUT OF RIB.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING A SHUTTLE TO THE MINER ON 0001-0 SECTION WHEN THE SHUTTLE CANOPY STRUCK A ROOF BOLT. THE POST OF THE S/C BROKE CAUSING THE CANOPY TO COME OFF STRIKING HIS HEAD. THE VICTIM WAS FLOWN TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TN HOSPITAL IN KNOXVILLE, TN AND IS LISTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THE VICTIM DIED IN A CARE FACILITY ON MAY 27, 2007.

THE ELECTRICIAN WAS WORKING ON A GROUNDED SHUTTLE CAR CABLE AND RECEIVED FLASH BURNS WHEN A SHORT CIRCUIT OCCURED AT THE FEMALE RECEPLACLE ON THE ELECTRICAL POWER CENTER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A POWER DISTRIBUTION BOXTO DETERMINE WHY A CIRCUIT BREAKER WOULD NOT OPERATE. HE APPARENTLY CAME IN CONTACT WITH AN ENERGIZED CIRCUIT DURING THE TROUBLE SHOOTING PROCES S.

EMPLOYEE, A SECTION FOREMAN ON THE 001-0 MMU WAS IN THE PROCESS OF BACKING A JOY, 12-12, REMOTE CONTROLLED MINER OUT OF THE 2-LEFT CROSSCUT IN ORDER FOR THE SCOOP OPERATOR TO CLEAN THE #2 HEADING. EE WAS STRUCK BY THE BOOM AND PINNED INTO THE RIGHT RIB.

THE EE WAS OPERATING A SINGLE BOOM ROOF BOLTER IN THE #6 ENTRY. IN THE PROCESS OF DRILLING A HOLE FOR BOLT INSTALATION THE EE WAS STRICKEN WITH A PIECE OF FALLEN ROOF APPROX. 20'X 21'X 14 FT. IN SIZE. THIS RESULTED IN FATAL INJURIES TO THE EMPLOYEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS FOUND LAYING ON THE MINE FLOOR, APPROXIMATELY 25'INBY SPAD #15181 IN THE #4 ENTRY ON THE 3 RIGHT PANEL, 001 RETREAT MINING SECTION. HE HAD APPARENTLY BEEN RAN OVER BY A BATTERY POWERED COAL HAULER.

WORKER WAS OPERATING A CAT D60 DOZER AND WAS MAKING A PAD TO PLACE A 6" GORMAN-RUPP WATER PUMP ON. DOZER TILTED OVER, WORKER WAS PINNED UNDER DOZER. HE RECEIVED MASSIVE INJURIES FROM WEIGHT OF DOZER.

EMPLOYEE PARKED COMPANY SERVICE TRUCK NEXT TO GEN TRAILER, TRUCK ROLLED AND EMPLOYEE TRIED TO GET BACK IN TO STOP. SERVICE TRUCK SIDE SWIPED GEN TRAILER. EMPLOYEE GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN DOOR AND GEN TRAILER.

VICTIM FELL FROM THE TOP FLOOR OF THE PREPARATION PLANT TO THE GROUND LEVEL APPROXIMATELY 101 FT. TO HIS DEATH.

EE WAS OPERATING A DM600 MACK FUEL TRUCK WHEN HE APPARENTLY LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AND JUMPED OUT OF THE TRUCK. IN DOING SO, HE SUSTAINED SEVERE HEAD INJURIES AND DIED ON 10-4-01. THE ACCID ENT HAPPENED ON A DESCENDING ROAD. CAUSE IS STILL UNDETERMINED.

EE WAS LAST HEARD WITH A HAMMER MAKING REPAIRS TO THE CURTAIN IN THE FACE OF THE #4 ENTRY. AN ELMCO DIESEL SCOOP WAS BEING USED TO CLEAN UP AND HAUL COAL FROM A PREVIOUS ROOM SET UP TO THE ACT IVE MMU 0-001 UNIT AND DUMP IN THE ROTARY COAL FEEDER. THE COAL FEEDER WAS SHUT DOWN AND WHILE REPAIRS WERE BEING MADE THE SCOOP OPERATOR WAS INSTRUCTED TO CHANGE HIS HAULAGE ROUTE AND DUMP T

EE WAS FATALLY ELECTROCRATED AS HE DISASSEMBLED A CONVEYOR BELT STARTING BOX SOURCE OF POWER CAUSING DEATH IN UNKNOWN AT THAT TIME.

OPERATOR BACKED DOZER OVER A HIGHWALL RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES.

EE FELL APPROX 6 FT OFF A KOMATSU DOZER

EE & 3 CO-WORKERS WERE INSTALLING WOODEN CRIBS TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE CONT. MINER. AS THE 4 MEN WERE INSTALLING THE CRIBS, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK MEASURING 11 1/2 FT LONG, 8FT WIDE, & 1"-12" THI CK FELL, STRIKING A FATAL BLOW TO EE

THE VICTIMS WERE ENROUTE 633' DOWN THE SLOPE TO BEGIN DRILLING TO INJECT POLYURETHANE INTO THE SLOPE ROOF WHEN THE RAIL MOUNTED HOIST OPERATED MANTRIP RAN AWAY RESULTING IN 2 FATALITIES

THE VICTIMS WERE ENROUTE 633' DOWN THE SLOPE TO BEGIN DRILLING TO INJECT POLYURETHANE INTO THE SLOPE ROOF WHEN THE RAIL MOUNTED HOIST OPERATED MANTRIP RANAWAY RESULTING IN 2 FATALITIES

THE FATALLY INJ PERSON WAS TRAMMING THE JOY CONTMINER ACROSS THE SECTION WHEN HE STOPPED TO THROW THE MINER CABLE OUT OF THE WAY-HE WAS BETWEEN THE MINER & COAL RIB. IN THE PROCESS OF THROWING THE CABLE HE INADVERNTLY HIT THE TRAM LEVER CAUSING THE MINER TO SLIDE INTO THE RT RIB CRUSHING HIM

THE DECEASED WAS OPERATING A FRONT END LOADER MOVING COAL FROM A STACKER CONVEYER BELT WHEN A PORTION OF HIGHWALL FAILED AND STRUCK THE LOADER. ONLY A FEW SECONDS OF WARNING WAS GIVEN PRIOR TO THE FAILURE. THE PORTION OF HIGHWALL THAT FELL MEASURED APPROX 160 FT LONG BY UP TO 60 FT HIGH AND THE THICKNESS RANGED FROM FEATHEREDGED TO 10 FT.

EMPLOYEE CONTACTED A 20 INCH HIGH PRESSURE GAS LINE WITH HIS LOADER BUCKET WHILE REMOVING OVERBURDEN. AN EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN WHICH HE WAS BURNED WHILE TRYING TO GET AWAY. HE PASSED AWAY AS A RESULT OF THESE BURNS ON 5-19-00.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A ROCK TRUCK, DUMPING INTO HOLLOW FILL #6. HE BACKED TO THE DUMP AND THEN REPOSITIONED TRUCK. AT THIS TIME THE TRUCK WENT OVER THE HILL. HE WAS THROWN FROM THE TRUCK AND RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES.

A CERTIFIED ELECTRICIAN WAS GOING TO MAKE REPAIRS ON THE RIGHT SIDE POWER CENTER IN THE NO. 5 ENTRY, AND WAS FOUND LYING BESIDE THE POWER CENTERIT APPEARS HE RECEIVED A FATAL ELECTRICAL SHOCK.

DOZER WENT OVER SLOPE GOT SADDLEBAGGED ON ROCK CAUSING LOSS OF CONTROL BLADE HIT STUMP CAUSING DOZER TO FLIP END FOR END. OPERATOR EJECTED CAUSING DEATH.

AT APPROXIMATELY 7:45 PM ON FEBRUARY 14, 2000 DECEASED EMPLOYEE, PREPARATION PLANT OPERATOR, WALKED FROM THE PREPARATION PLANT INTO THE ACTIVE WORKING AREA OF A 275C MICHIGAN FRONT END LOADER. THE OPERATOR OF THE FRONT END LOADER WAS UNABLE TO SEE THE EMPLOYEE. HE WAS STRUCK BY THE BUCKET OF THE 275C FRONT END LOADER WHILE THE OPERATOR WAS FILLING THE BUCKET OF THE FRONT END LOADER

EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BY THE AUGER OF THE CONTINUOUS MINER RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES.

F-600 WAS TRAVELING DOWN ROADWAY APPROXIMATELY 8% GRADE; FAILED TO NEGOTIATE CURVE AT INTERSECTION TRAVELING OVER BERM AND HIGH WALL RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES.

FROM PRELIMINARY: THE VICTIM WAS IN THE AREA OF AN UNGUARDED SELF-CLEANING TAIL PULLEY OF A DISCHARGE BELT FOR A PORTABLE CRUSHER WHEN HIS CLOTHING BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE SHAFT, PULLING HIM I NTO THE CONVEYOR BELT.

THE CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE OPERATOR WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN A ROOF FALL OCCURRED DURING THE RETREAT MINING CYCLE. THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING A JOY MODEL 14-9 CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE BY REM OTE CONTROL WHEN THE FALL OCCURRED. THE CONTINUOS MINING MACHINE HELPER ALSO RECEIVED INJURIES AS A RESULT OF THE ROOF FALL.

FELL APPROX. 55' FROM 3RD FLOOR - FATAL(3RD FLOOR OF PREP PLANT)

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING MOUNTING BOLTS ON A GOB SWITCH WHEN ELECTROCUTION OCCURRED.

EE DROPPED 5 PEOPLE AT THE HIGHWALL MINER SITE & PROCEEDED TO GO REFUEL WHILE THEY WERE TOURING THE OPERATION. HE TRAVELED APPROX 1/2 MILE AND STRUCK SOME POWERLINES. THE HELICOPTER CRASHED INTO A PREVIOUSLY MINED COAL PIT. THE HELICOPTER WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE AND EE WAS FATALLY INJURED.

VICTIM WAS ATTEMPTING TO BOLT A BOOM HOLE, (AS BOLTER HELPER) WHEN A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL, WHICH DID STRIKE THE VICTIM, APPARENTLY CAUSING TRAUMA INJURY THAT RESULTED IN DEATH.

EE, SECTION FOREMAN TRAVELED UP TO THE TWIN HEAD ROOF BOLTER, WHICH WAS IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING ROOF SUPPORT. HE THEN WENT INBY THE ATRS AND A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK STRUCK HIM.

A NEIGHBOR AND ADJOINING LANDOWNER/LEASOR MADE AN UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY ON THE MINE SITE AND DID NOT RESPOND TO AUDIBLE BLASTING WARNINGS.

DRILL WAS DRILLING SEPERATION. WHEN HIGHWALL BEGAN WORKING AND BEFORE DRILLER COULD LEAVE HIS EQUIPMENT THE WALL COLLAPSED FATALLY INJURING HIM.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN THE FRONT OF THE RAILRUNNER AND WAS SETTING ON HIS LEG. THE EMPLOYEE PUT HIS HAND ON THE BUMPER AND RAISED HIMSELF UP TO MOVE HIS LEG FROM UNDER HIM WHEN THE RAIL RU NNER HIT A BENT PLACE IN THE TRACK CAUSING THE RAIL RUNNER TO SHIFT TO ONE SIDE. THE EMPLOYEE'S HAND SLIPPED OFF THE BUMPER & HE FELL OVER INTO THE FRONT OF THE RAIL RUNNER & IT RAN OVER HIM.

THE #2 STONE BIN WITH APPROX. 600 TONS OF CRUSHED STONE FAILED ALLOWING THE CONE SECTION TO FALL THROUGH THE PREP LAB BUILDING. THE QUALITY CONTROL MGR WAS IN THE BUILDING AND WAS CRUSHED BY C OLLAPSING STRUCTURE AND MATERIAL.

EMPLOYEE (MINER OPERATOR) WAS OPERATING A REMOTE CONTROL CONTINUOUS MINER ON THE 002-0 SECTION IN #4 ENTRY ON RETREAT MINING WHEN 3 ROOF BOLTS AND STRAPS BROKE RELEASING A PIECE OF ROCK APPROX 7' X 11' X 8" THICK THAT FELL ON EMPLOYEE WITHOUT WARNING. THE ROCK WAS STRAPPED AND BOLTED WITH 48" FULLY GROUTED RESIN BOLTS.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING HIGHWALL DRILL, WHEN MATERIAL FELL FROM HIGHWALL STRIKING CAB OF DRILL, FATALLY INJURING EMPLOYEE.

WHILE HELPING TO INSTALL STEEL ARCHES A ROCK APPROXIMATELY 89"X33"X5"-14" DISLODGED FROM THE MINE ROOF STRIKING THE VICTIM

WHILE OPERATING A 50 TON CLINE ROCK TRUCK EE FAILED TO NEGOTIATE CURVE-RAN THROUGH THE BERM & STRUCK THE HILL-RECD HEAD INJURY-EE PASSED AWAY ON SUNDAY 9-16-98

VICTIM HAD LEFT THE SURFACE MINE AREA WITH A LOAD OF COAL. HIS TRUCK WAS LATER DISCOVERED OVERTURNED ON THE HAUL ROAD WITH VICTIM UNDERNEATH. ITAPPEARED THAT VICTIM HAD LOST CONTROL OF THE VEH ICLE AND HAD JUMPED BECAUSE THE VEHICLE APPEAREDTO BE HEADED OVER AN EMBANKMENT.

MINE FOREMAN WAS CLEANING UP A BOOM HOLE. HE HADTRAVELED INBY SUPPORTED ROOF WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL CAUSING FATAL INJURIES.

VICTIM (MINER OPERATOR) POSITIONED HIMSELF IN A LOCATION THAT HAD A PIECE OF ROCK BREAK LOOSE FROM THE ROOF, WHICH APPARENTLY CAUGHT THE VICTIM AS IT FELL, CAUSING FATAL INJURIES.

THE FALTALY INJURED PERSON WAS USING THE BUCKET OF THE SCOOP TO HOLD DOWN A HEAD DRIVE THAT WAS BALANCED IN THE CENTER ON CRIB BLOCKS. THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCOOP BUCKET SLIPPED OFF THE HEAD DR IVE. WHEN THAT HAPPENED THE OPERATOR'S SIDE WAS THROWN INTO THE MINE ROOF CATCHING HIS HEAD AND NECK BETWEEN SCOOP AND ROOF.

EMPLOYEE DRIVING TRUCK DOWN SLOPE. FOR UNKNOWN REASON DROVE TRUCK INTO THE DITCH. FOR UNKNOWN REASON WAS FOUND UNDERNEATH THE COAL TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING A SAFETY JACK IN THE NO.3 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF DRAWROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM.

EE WAS PUSHING MATERIAL WHEN THE DOZER HE WAS OPERATING BACKED INTO THE SLURRY IMPOUNDMENT. THE DOZER WAS COVERED BY 15' TO 20' OF SLURRY FOR APPROX. 48 HOURS. MEDICAL EXAMINER REPORTS IMMEDIA TE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS ASPHXIA.

VICTIM WAS STRUCK BY A RIB ROLL WHICH MEASURED APPROX. 23 FT LONG X 0" TO 42" THICK AND 10 1/2 FT HIGH. HE SUSTAINED MULTIPLE INJURIES WHICH LED TO HIS DEATH.

THE VICTIM WAS FOUND LYING OVER A 7200 VOLT AC HIGH-VOLTAGE SPLICE BOX ON THE 007 MMU. THE SPLICE BOX WAS LOCATED IMMEDIATELY OUTBY TEH SECTION POWER CENTER AND IS APPROX. 3 FT LONG, 2 1/2 FT WIDE AND 18 INCHES DEEP. WHEN THE VICTIM CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE HIGH VOLTAGE, IT CAUSED THE POWER TO DEENERGIZE ON TEH MINE SURFACE.

WAS DRIVING ROCK TRUCK APPARENTLY LOST CONTROL OF TRUCK COMING DOWN HILL TO PREP PLANTTRUCK HIT RETAINING WALL BEHIND PREP PLANT HOPPERS-TRUCK FLIPPED END OVER END OVER WALL TO ABOUT SIXTY FEE T BELOW WALL ONTO EMBANKMENT.

EE WAS OPERATING A ROCK TRUCK. WHEN HE BACKED OVER A SPOIL BANK.

EE WAS WORKING ON THE SILVER JET WASHER HIGH PRESSURE AFTER MAKING REPAIRS TO THE WASHER. HE HAD TO REPLACE THE HUBBLE TWIST LOCK PLUG AND CABLE. HE IMPROPERLY WIRE AT WASHER CONTROL. THE 490 VOLTS 3 PHASE PLUG WAS WIRE WITH A POWER WIRE COUNNECTED TO THE GROUND WIRE PUTTING APPROX. 277 VOLTS ONTO THE WASHER FRAME AND ITS METAL ATTACHMENTS.

FINISH PLANT SUPERVISOR WAS FATALLY INJURED WHENHE APPARENTLY CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE METAL CASE OF A SUMP PUMP THAT WAS ENERGIZED WITH 120VAC. 2 IMPROPERLY REPAIRED EXTENSION CORDS WERE US ED WHICH RESULTED IN THE METAL CASE OF PUMP BEING ENERGIZED WITH 120VAC. THIS REPORT WAS FILED WITHIN 2 DAYS OF RECEIPT OF FINAL DIAGNOSIS FROM CHIEF MED EXAMINERS OFFICE.

THE VICTIM HAD DRIVEN A 1991 TOYOTA PICK-UP TRUCK FROM THE COAL STORAGE AREA TO THE MINE SHOP LOCATED ON THE SURFACE AREA OF THIS MINE. THE VICTIM PARKED THE TRUCK AND HAD GOTTEN OUT AND WAS S TANDING BESIDE OF THE TRUCK WHEN THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED ACCORDING TO WITNESSES. THE CAUSE OF THEEXPLOSION IS UNDETERMINED AT THIS TIME, MSHA'S INVESTIGATION IS ON-GOING.

EE WAS OPERATING AN EXCAVATOR LOADING COAL ONTO A 350B HAUL TRUCK WHEN SUDDENLY THE SLOPED HIGHWALL ABOVE THE EXCAVATOR GAVE WAY SLIDING INTO THE PIT COVEREING THE EXCAVATOR WITH MUD AND WATER , TRAPPING EE IN THE OPERATOR'S CAB, FATALLY INJURING HIM.

WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF HANGING A CURTAIN, A COAL OUTBURST OCCURRED, FATALLY STRIKING THE EE.

EE WAS RIDING IN A SCOOP BUCKET WHEN A COAL OUTBURST OCCURRED, STRIKING HIM.

BOLTS DISLODGED MINER, LOOSEN UP BOLTS, ROCK FELL IN DECK OF SHUTTLE CAR STRIKING CAR STRIKING VICTIM IN LOWER STOMACH.

WHILE HELPING REPAIR THE BELT DRIVE CHAIN, HE POSITIONED HIMSELF BETWEEN THE BELT AND FRAME, THE BELT UNEXPECTEDLY STARTED, PULLING HIM INTO BELT DRIVE.

ALLEGEDLY WENT INBY WARNING RIBBON. DRAWROCK FELL.

PUGMILL OPERATOR AND WELDER, CUTTING OUT THE REAR PLATE OF THE PUGMILL TUNNEL FROM THE OUTSIDE OF THE TUNNEL. MATERIAL ABOVE THEM SLOUGHED OFF TRAPPING THE OPERATOR AT THE WAIST AND COMPLETELY BURYING THE WELDER. EMP WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE OPERATOR PULLED MUSCLES IN LEFT LEG, AND WAS TREATED FOR SHOCK.

AN OIL CIRCUIT BRAKER (O.C.B.) LOCATED ON THE SURFACE, CAUSED AN EXPLOSION, CAUUSING TRANSFORMER OIL TO SPRAY COVERING EMPLOYEE, CATCHING HIM ON FIRE, CAUSING 80 TO 90 PER-CENT BURNS TO EMPLOY EE'S BODY.

INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO SCOOP FROM BEHIND THE #1 BRIDGE CARRIER WHEN HIS SCOOP MUST HAVE BECOME LODGED AND OR HUNG AGAINST THE LO-LO BELT STRUCTURE OR POSSIBLY THE SOFT MINE FLOOR.WHEN THE S COOP DISLODGED/UNHUNG THE MOMENTUM WAS SO GREAT THAT THE SCOOP LUNGED FORWARD FORCING THE DECK OF THE SCOOP UNDERNEATH THE BRIDGE CONVEYOR TRAPPING VICTIM.THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED BY EVI

WHILE CHIPPING ICE OFF OF THE EAST PORTAL INTAKE AIRSHAFT WALLS,A PIECE OF ICE FELL FROM AN UNKNOWN LOCATION AND FATALLY STRUCK THE VICTIM IN THE HEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING AROUND #2 BELTHEAD DRIVE REPAIRING BROKEN BELT.BELT HEAD DRIVE WAS ENERGIZED THUS PULLING EMPLOYEE INTO POWER ROLLERS RESULTING IN EMPLOYEES FATAL INJURIES.

VICTIM WAS ASSISTING THE AUGER OPERATOR CHANGE CUTTING BITS.BOTH MEN WERE STANDING IN THE CONVEYOR WITH THE ENGINES "OFF" WHEN A THIRD EMPLOYEE STARTED THE CONVEYOR ENGINE CAUSING THE CONVEYOR TO MOVE INADVERTENTLY CAUSING FATAL INJURIES TOTHE VICTIM AS HE WAS CARRIED UNDER THE AUGER BARREL AND INTO THE CONVEYOR CHUTE.

THE TOP DECK OF A STEEL BARGE 20' BY 12' BY 12'4" X1/4" WAS BEING REMOVED.ONE HALF HAD BEEN CUT FREE FROM THE BARGE EXCEPT APPROXIMATELY 7' OF ONE 20' SIDE.THERE WAS A LIFTING MACHINE ATTACHED TO THE SHEET METAL ALONG THE 6' SIDE WHICH WAS FURTHEST FROM THE UNCUT SECTION OF THE DECK.THE END OF THE SHEET METAL WAS ATTACHED TO THE LIFTING BOOM WITH A CHAIN AND SHEET METAL CLAMP.THE C

EE CHIEF ELECT RICAN CAME IN CONTACT WITH 12470 VOLTS IN A HIGH VOLTAGE SPLICE BOX IN WHICH HE APPARENTLY WAS GOING TO CLEAN THE BOX WAS ENERGIZED

EE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN A METAL FRAGMENT FROM A PLANTARY DRIVE UNIT WAS STRUCK WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER THE METAL FRAGMENT ENTERED IN HIS LOWER RIGHT NECK CUTTING THE AORTA

COLLISION BETWEEN MACK TRUCK AND TOYOTA PICKUP RESULTING IN FATAL INJURY.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS GOING TO PARK SHUTTLE CAR. THE CAR CAME INTO CONTACT WITH CABLE WIRING. AS THE EMPLOYEE EXITED SHUTTLE CAR HE CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE METAL FRAME WHICH CAUSED ELECTRIC SHOC K.

AT APPROX. 10:45 AM THE LOADOUT "TRAIN" WAS STARTED. EMPLOYEES WERE EACH TO PUSH COAL TO THE LOADOUT CHUTES. AT APPROX. 10:50 AM AN EMPLOYEE NOTICED SMOKE COMING FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE TUBE. WHEN HE INVESTIGATED HE FOUND DOZER IN THEHOLE. HE REQUESTED LOADOUT TO STOP. COAL COVERED DOZER. AT APPROX. 12:30PM DOZER PULLED OUT. VICTIM IN SEAT W/ BELT ON. RESUSCITATION FAILED.

A 1989 AUTOCAR COAL HAULAGE TRUCK RAN OFF AND OVERTURNED ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ELEVATED ROADWAY RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES TO THE DRIVER, A CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS EVIDENTLY INSPECTING HIS SHUTTLE CAR CABLE WHICH HAD LOST POWER. HE WAS STANDING AT THE SHUTTLE CAR REEL BETWEEN THE CAR AND CURTAIN APPROXIMATELY 5' AWAY. A SCOOP BACKED THROUGH THE CURTAIN AND HIT THE CAR AND EMPLOYEE, PINNING HIM BETWEEN THE SCOOP AND CAR.

THE VICTIM WAS HAULING A LOAD OF OVERBURDEN MATERIAL ALONG THE STONE ACCESS ROAD WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE ROCK TRUCK HE WAS OPERATING. THE TRUCK ROLLED APPROXIMATELY 600 FEET OVER AN EMBANK MENT RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES.

EE WAS REPAIRING ON A MARION 201 ELECTRIC SHOVELHE WAS WORKING ON A NUT TO A PIN & THE MEDIUM VOLTAGE COLLECTOR RINGS. THE SHOVEL WAS ENERGIZED TO PUT THE NUT ON THE PIN. POWER WAS DE-ENERGIZE D ON THE MEDIUM VOLTAGE COLLECTOR RINGS. AFTER PUTTING THE COLLECTOR RINGS BACK, HE ENTERED INTOTHE COMPARTMENT THAT HELD THE ENERGIZED 7200 VOLT C RINGS & CAME IN CONTACT WITH ELECTRICITY.

FATAL ACCIDENT - VICTIM APPARENTLY FELL 31 FEET FROM AN ELEVATED CATWALK [UN-WITNESSED], STRIKING A STINGER BAR CAUSING MASSIVE DAMAGE TO HIS BODY RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY LOADING OR HAULAGE MINING EQUIPMENT AS HE WAS CROSSING THE MINE ROAD. A CO-WORKER DISCOVERED THE BODY IN THE ROADWAY NEAR HIS PERSONAL VEHICLE. THERE WERE NO WITNESS ES & IT HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED:[A] THE EXACT MACHINE INVOLVED, [B] WHETHER OR NOT THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING OR IF HE HAD COLLASPED DUE TO A PHYSICAL PROBLEM JUST PRIOR TO BEING STRUCK.

HE WAS DROPPING AND GOT IN UNDER THE WHEELS. IT HAD BEEN RAINING AND WAS MUDDY AND SLICK.THE CORONER PRONOUNCED HIM DEAD AT THE SCENE.

EMPLOYEE EITHER TRIPPED AND FELL ONTO BELT OR FELL ONTO BELT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CROSS BELT WHILE USING THE TAILPIECE SPILL PLATES AS SUPPORTS. EMPLOYEE STRUCK TAILPIECE SPILL PLATE AND 1ST RO LLER OUTBY TAILPIECE CONTINUED DOWN #2 BELT TO #2 BELT DRIVE DISCHARGE ROLLER WHERE HE WAS SQUEEZED BETWEEN THE BELT AND TOP. HE EITHER FELL OR WAS THROWN INTO #1 BELT TAILPIECE AND CONTINUED

THE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A DOZER DOING SOME RECLAMATION WORK, CUT INTO A NATURAL GASLINE, CAUSING A EXPLOSION. DUE TO EXTENSIVE BURNS, HE DIED 10-23-94. THE DOZER HE WAS OPERATING WAS ALSO D ESTROYED IN THE EXPLOSION.

PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT OF TOP AND KILLED HIM.

OPERATING UTILITY TRUCK ON WHITAKER COAL CORPORATION HAUL ROAD. TRUCK RAN INTO BERM, TURNED ON SIDE AND CAUGHT FIRE.

AN AREA OFF ROOF FELL ON THE ROOF BOLTER INFLICTING FATAL INJURIES TO THE ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR. THIS AREA HAD SHOWN NO SIGNS OF BEING FAULTY.

WHILE TRAVELING FROM THE 005-0 UNIT TO THE 1-A SLOPE BOTTOM. THE EMPLOYEE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN THE NO. 1 6-TON N.M.S. TRACK LOCOMOTIVE HE WAS OPERATING COLLIDED WITH THE NO. 4 6-TON N.M.S. TRACK LOCOMOTIVE AT THE NO. 1 SWITCH (SS# 6962). THE NO. 4 MOTOR WAS TRAVLEING FROM THE NO. 1 SECTION.

EE WAS USING A BOOM TRUCK TO PLACE A TIRE ON A 773-B DUMP TRUCK CAT. THE TIRE SLIPPED AND PINNED THE EE AGAINST THE BOOM TRUCK.

AN EXPLOSION OCCURED IN AN ABANDON PANEL WHERE TWO WORKERS WERE TRANSPORTING BLOCK IN AN S&S SCOOP. THE TWO WERE KILLED AS THE RESULT OF THE EXPLOSION. THE TWO WERE BURNED AND IN AN ATOSPHERE OF CO CARBON MONOXIDE. THEY WERE FOUND APPROX. 12-13 X CUTS INTO THE PANEL. ONE FOUND IN SCOOP BUCKET AND THE OTHER APPROX 10 FEET FROM SCOOP. THE PRESSURE FROM THE EXPLOSIVE HAD BLOWN OUT

AN EXPLOSION OCCURED IN AN ABANDON PANEL WHERE TWO WORKERS WERE TRANSPORTING BLOCK IN AN S&S SCOOP. THE TWO WERE KILLED AS THE RESULT OF THE EXPLOSION. THE TWO WERE BURNED AND IN AN ATOSPHERE OF CO CARBON MONOXIDE. THEY WERE FOUND APPROX. 12-13 X CUTS INTO THE PANEL. ONE FOUND IN SCOOP BUCKET AND THE OTHER APPROX 10 FEET FROM SCOOP. THE PRESSURE FROM THE EXPLOSIVE HAD BLOWN OUT

THE VICTIM WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN STRUCK OFFSIDE SHUTTLECAR NO 3288 IN THE CENTER OF NO 3 ENTRY OF THE NO 004-0 UNTI APPROXIMATELY ONE FOOT INBY SURVEY STATION NO 8826.

DECEASED WAS CUTTING A TREE,THE TREE SPLIT AND FELL AND HIT HIM IN THE HEAD.KILLING HIM INSTANTLY.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHIFT LEADMAN RUNNING THE WORK PLATFORM. HAD TROUBLE WITH JACK WANTING TO LOWER PLATFORM. DOGS ON TWO JACK FAILED (SLIPPED) LETTING PLATFORM DROP.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING A D 10 N CAT BULLDOZER,TOMAKE REPAIRS HE HAD TO REMOVE THE BELLY PAN. BEFORE REMOVING ALL THE BOLTS HOLDING THE PAN IN PLACE THE PAN WOULD BE SECURED FROM FALLING WITH A CHAIN OR BLOCKS.WE BELIEVE HE MISS COUNTED THE REMAINING BOLTS TO BE REMOVED AND WHEN HE REMOVED WHAT HE ASSUMED WAS THE NEXT TO LAST BOLT THE BELLY PAN FELL ON HIM.

THE VICTIM WAS TRAMING A REMOTE CONTROL CONTINUOUS MINER INTO THE FACE AND WAS WALKING ALONG THE SIDE OF IT. THE BOOM CRUSHED HIM INTO THE RIB OF COAL CAUSING DEATH.

A PIECE OF DRAWROCK MEASURING APPROXIMATELY SIX FEET BY 5 FEET AND WAS THREE TO SIX INCHES THICK FELL ON VICTIM WHO WAS HELPING ON AROOF BOLTING MACHINE. THE IMPACT RESULTED IN THE VICTIM DYI NG INSTANTLY.

EXPLOSION INSIDE MINE CAUSED UNDETERMINED INVESTIGATION INCOMPLETE. BODY WAS RECOVERED 12-2-93.

FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON THE VICTIM ADVANCED IN BY ROOF SUPPORTS WITH THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE, AND IN ADDITION THE PROTECTIVE CANOPY WITH HIS ENTIRE BOYD. AS A RESLT A PIEC EOF THE UNSUPPORTE D ROOF FELL AND INFLICTED THE FATA INJURY. THIS WAS IN #4 ENTRY 003 SECTION.

INJURED WAS HAULING #14 COAL FROM THE 1450 PIT TO THE VOLUNTEER TIPPLE. AFTER BEIGN LOADED INT HE PIT, HE BEGAN EXITING THE PIT AND THE DRIVELINE ON HIS TRUCK BROKE APPROXIMATELY 100' FROM WH ERE HE HAD BEEN LOADED. THE TRUCK BEGAN ROLLING BACKWARDS AND HE APPARENTLY LOST CONTROL AND TRIED TO JUMP FROM THE TRUCKAS IT WAS MOVING. HE APPARENTLY FELL OR WAS KNOCKED INTO THE PATH OFH

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED INT HE #8 ROOM ON THE MMU 001 SECTION IN A UNDETECTED SLIP 19'X45'BY26" TO 40" THICK RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF 2 MINERS.

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED INT HE #8 ROOM ON THE MMU 001 SECTION IN A UNDETECTED SLIP 19'X45'BY26" TO 40" THICK RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF 2 MINERS. ONLY SPECULATION EXIST AS TO WHY THE SHOT FIRER W AS IN THIS AREA.

HE TOOK A GUARD OFF NO. 2 BELT LINE TAKE-UP FOR WHAT REASON WE DO NOT KNOW, RESULTING IN HIM BEING CAUGHT BETWEEN TAKE-UP STATIONARY ROLLER AND BELT, RESULTING IN A FATAL ACCIDENT. HIS JOB WAS A BELTMAN.

UNLOADING BAGS OF POWDER FROM STORAGE TRAILER ONTO PICKUP TRUCK. APPARENTLY PULLED PICKUP TRUCK AWAY FROM STORAGE TRAILER SO AS TO CLOSE DOOR ON STORAGE TRAILER. PICKUP TRUCK WAS APPARENTLY LE FT IN GEAR (REVERSE) ROLLED BACKWARDS PINNING WORKMAN BETWEEN STORAGE TRAILER AND PICKUP TRUCK, CRUSHING HIM.

SHUTTLE CAR WAS TRAVELING TOWARD THE DUMP WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK CAME DOWN FROM BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS. THE ROCK LANDED IN THE DECK OF THE SHUTTLE CAR.

INJURED WAS USING A JACK AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH TROLLEY WIRE.

THE EE WAS ASSIGNED THE DUTIES OF REPAIRING THE BOLTING MACHINE AND ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NO EYEWITNESS IT IS APPARENT THAT THE VICTIM LEANED OVER THE BOLTING MACHINE AND HIT THE UPLEAVER WITH HI S HIP OR LEG. THE BOOM OF THE MACHINE PINNED THEVICTIM TO THE ROOF CAUSING CRUSHING FATAL INJURIES TO ME VICTIM CHEST.

THE FOLLOWING WAS A CONCLUSION DRAWED FROM ACCIDENT SITE. THE EE WENT INTO HEADING TO BOLT TOP WHEN HE WENT INBY AN OPEN CROSSCUT NOT SUPPORTED HE PARKED HIS BOLTER AT THE LAST ROW OF BOLTS AT THAT TIME HE WENT INBY ROOF SUPPORTS APPROX. 30-40 INCHES ON MARKING 3RD BOLT. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK APPROX. 15X18X8 FELL STRIKING HIM AND PINNED HIM AGAINST BOLT MACHINE.

R.B. OPER INSTALLING BOLT NEXT TO RIB IN 2L BRK. PIECE OF MIDDLE MAN BURST OUT CRUSHING EMPL AGAINST ROOF BOLTER. PIECE OF MIDDLEMAN THAT CAUSED FATAL ACCIDENT MEASURED 7' X 30" X 10".

A ROCK FALL APPROX SIZE 4FT THICK X30FT WIDEX40FTLONG FELL ONTO CASE 1085B RUBBER TIRE SCALER MACHINE CO #110170 LOCATION WAS MID WAY IN 46 CROSSCUT OFF JNORTH LOEWR LEVEL ROCK FELL ONTO CAB O F MACHINE CRUSHING OPERATOR MACHINE WAS POSITIONED BEYOND ADDITIONAL 12FT ROOF BOLTS

I.NAME WORKING ON ENERGIZED HIGH VOLTAGE LINE. EMPL WAS A CONTRACTOR WORKING FROM BUCKET TRUCK WHEN EMPL CAME IN CONTACT WITH POWER.

DUE TO STRUCTURAL FAILURE COAL BIN #2 COLLAPSED CAUSING I.NAME TO BE COVERED UP WITH COAL.

EMPL OF CONTR TRUCKING COMPANY COMMITTED AN UNSAFE ACT BY STEPPING OVER BARRIER,GOING OUT ONTO BIN ALL OF WHICH WAS UNAUTHORIZED & CONTRARY TO RECENT SAFETY TRAINING.

ROCK FALL 2-4'THICK,25'WIDE AND LENGTH UNKNOWN OCCURRED IN INTERSECTION OF #4 ENTRY,1 BRK OUTBY PILLAR LINE OCCURRED CAUSING THE DEATH OF INAME AND OTHER EMPL ON THE MMU-003-0 (405 C-SECTION)

ROCK FALL 2-4'THICK,25'WIDE AND LENGTH UNKNOWN OCCURRED IN INTERSECTION OF #4 ENTRY,1 BRK OUTBY PILLAR LINE OCCURRED CAUSING THE DEATH OF INAME AND OTHER EMPL ON THE MMU-003-0 (405 C-SECTION)

INJURED PERSON WAS OPERATING A ROBBINS DRILL DRILLING ROCK BELOW THE #11 COAL SEAM.THIS DRILLING WAS BEING DONE IN THE PAGE DRAGLINE S/N 377 PIT.S MASSIVE HIGHWALL SLIDE SOME 75 TO 80 FT DOWN THE PIT AREA IN WHICH EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING MOVED OUT AND DOWN THE PIT COVERING HIM AND THE DRILL RIH HE WAS OPERATING.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING TOWARD FACE AREA.APPEARS HE DROVE HIMSELF INTO COAL RIB ALONG ROADWAY.

AN EMULSION JACK WAS BEING USED TO FREE LONGWALL SHIELD NO 125,WHICH WAS WEDGED BETWEEN THE GOB PLATE AND SHIELD NO 124.THE PLATE WAS ANGLED;LEANING TOWARD THE JACK.AS THE JACK WAS PRESSURIZED THE PLATE ANGLE DECREASED ENOUGH TO FREE THE JACK HEAD;RELEASINNG THE POTENTIAL ENERGY STORED IN THE FLEXING OF THE PLATE.THIS CAUSED THE JACK TO COME UP STRIKING EMPLOYEE.

INDIVIDUAL WAS PERFORMING DUTIES AS SECTION FOREMAN.IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE SECTION FOREMAN ASSUMED A POSITION WHICH WAS NOT VISIBLE TO THE SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR.THE SECTION FOREMAN WAS STRU CK BY THE SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR.THE SECTION FOREMAN WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE MINE SITE BY PIKE COUNTY (KY) COUNTY CORONER.

EMPLOYEE,TRUCK DRIVER,WAS DRIVING A LOADED COAL TRUCK DOWNHILL TOWARD THE TIPPLE.HE LOST CONTROL AND STRUCK A CAR TRAVELING UPHILL.THE CAR HAD PASSED TWO TRUCKS GOING UPHILL WHICH STOPPED TO A LLOW ROOM FOR EMPLOYEE'S TRUCK COMING OFF. THE PARKED TRUCKS TRIED TO WARN THE CAR OF THE APPROACHING TRUCK BY BLINKING THEUR LIGHTS.THE CAR CONTINUED ON AND WAS STRUCK BY THE TRUCK RESULTING

EMPLOYEE,TRUCK DRIVER,WAS DRIVING A LOADED COAL TRUCK DOWNHILL TOWARD THE TIPPLE,HE LOST CONTROL AND STRUCK A CAR TRAVELING UPHILL.THE CAR HAD PASSED TWO TRUCKS GOING UPHILL WHICH STOPPED TO A LLOW ROOM FOR EMPLOYEE'S TRUCK COMING OFF.THE PARKED TRUCKS TRIED TO WARN THE CAR OF THE APPRACHING TRUCK BY BLINKING THEIR LIGHTS.THE CAR CONTINUED ON AND WAS STRUCK BY THE TRUCK RESULTING I

A FATAL ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON 004-H WHEN CASWYTE EE WAS OPER ST SHUTTLE CAR. WHEN HIS BREAKER KNOCKED AND HE LOST POWER DOWN IN A SWAG DEPRESSION THE OTHER SHUTTLE CAR OPE BEING UNABLE TO SEE I N THE SWAG BECAUSE OF THE CANOPIES TRAMMED HIS SHUTTLE CAR DOWN INTO THE SWAG AN INTO THE OPERATOR DECK OF CAR OPERATER BY EE CRUSHING HIM.

55015D SUPT WAS IN ROUTE TO THE SECTION LOADING POINT EE WAS RIDING THE BUCKET END OF THE SCOOP MATERIAL FROM THE ROOF FELL FROM BETWEEN TWO BOLTS 41 INCH APART STRIKING THE EE ON THE CHEST IT 06643D APPEAR THE SCOOP STRUCK ROOF BOLT CAUSINGROCK TO FALL.

MINER CLEANING BOTTOM HOLES WHEN 25' X 25' X 3" ROCK FELL FROM CEILING

EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT AWAY FROM BOLTS & LANDED ON END AWAY FROM EMPLOYEE THEN FALLING UNDERNEATH CANOPY ONTO EMPLOYEE & AGAINST THE BOLTER ITSELF-FATAL

EMPL WAS FOUND BENEATH GOLF CART WITH EXTENSIVE HEAD INJURIES. VICTIM WAS UNCONSIOUS & APPARENTLY NOT BREATHING. INVESTIGATIVE IS BEING CONDUCTED BY MSHA.

EMPLOYEE WAS FOUND HAVING DIFFICULTY BREATHING

SUPERVISOR & TWO EMPLS WERE PREPARING TO MOUNT PIN ON BUCKET TO BOOM ALREADY LOWERED OF DIGGER DERRICK TRUCK. AS SUPERVISOR ATTEMPTED TO POSITION 1 TON FLATBED TRUCK CARRYING PIN ON BUCKET INJ EMPL WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TIP OF BOOM & FLATBED TRUCK WHEN HE SUSTAINED SEVERE INTERNAL ABDOMINAL INJ. INJ EMPL SUCCUMED IN OPERATING ROOM OF HOSPITAL.

VICTIM CAME FROM FACE AREA FLL AREA TO HELP IN CLEANING UP FALL & HELPED FOR ABOUT 20 MINUTES. THEN VICTIM & FOREMAN STARTED TO LEAVE AREA FOR HOME & ROOF ROCK FELL STRIKING & KILLING VICTIM. AREA WAS MINED 10 YEARS AGO & WAS 4 BREAKS INBY PORTALS BUILT BY PREVIOUS OPERATOR.

WHILE TROUBLE SHOOTING ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT ON CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE EMPL'S FOREARM CONTACTED ENERGIZED 950 VOLT A.C. CIRCUIT. SUBJECT ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT WITH WHICH PERSONAL CONTACT WAS MADE WOULD NOT NORMALLY BE ENERGIZED HOWEVER ELECTRICAL CONTACTOR WAS STUCK IN MACHINES'S CONTROL PANEL. EMPL COULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THIS CONDITION EXISTED.

EMPL WAS HELPING SHOTFIRE MAN & AFTER THEY WERE FNISHED LOADING HOLE HE STEPPED AROUND CORNER. HE ADVISED SHOTFIRE MAN TO SHOOT IT. SHOT BLOWED OUT BACK STRIKING EMPL.

EMP PREPARING TO ATTACH ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CABLE BETWEEN ADD CAR COAL CONVEYING UNITS WHEN EXPLOSION OCCURRED INBY THE HIGHWALL BEING MINED. EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN OFF LAUNCH PLATFORM SUSTAINING FATAL BLUNT TRAUMA INJURIES AND BURNS.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE #3 MOBILE BRIDHE CARRIER,LOCATED BEHIND THE MINER IN THE #3 ENTRY WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 70'X20'X5-7'H ONTO THE MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER CAUSING FAAL INJURIES TO HIM.

THIS EMPLOYEE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY A JOY 21SC SHUTTLE CAR IN THE 002 SECTION #3 ENTRY ONE X CUT INBY SPAD #7884.

ACCORDING TO MSHA OFFICALS,EMPLOYEE (NAME),CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR DID NOT FOLLOW ROOF CONTROL PLANS,CUT TO LARGE A CUT AND WHEN OTHER EMPLOYEES WENT IN TO SET TIMBERS DRAW ROCK FELL OUT FRO M BETWEEN THE BOLTS AND CAUGHT (NAME) FROM THE BACK CAUSING DEATH.

AS A RESULT OF AN INVESTIGATION IT APPEARED THAT THE EE ACCIDENTALLY CAME IN CONTACT WITH 300 D.C. VOLTS TROLLEY WIRE WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PUT POLE ON WIRE RESULTING IN ELECTROCUTION.

VICTIM WAS RIDING THE 1 BELT INSIDE THE MINE GOING TO THE ACTIVE WORKING SECTION AND HIT A ROCK WHICH HAD FALLEN SOMETIME BETWEEN 800 P.M. ON 5-16-91 AND 605 AM ON 5-17-91.

TRUCK WAS PARKED VICTIM WAS ON CAT WALK. THE TRUCK ROLLED BACK VICTIM GOT BACK IN TRUCK AND TRUCK ROLLED OVER EMBANKMENT VICTIM WAS THROWN OUT AND TRUCK ROLLED OVER HIM.

WHILE DOING PILLAR RECOVERY WORK THE VICTIM WAS HELPING ON A REMOTE CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A PIECE OF THE ROOF APPROX. 30 INCH THICK X 18 FT LONG SLABBED OUT CATCHING THE ICTIM UNDER IT AND CAU SING IMMEDICATE DEATH. THE CONTINUOUS MINER WAS ALSO COVERED UP.

WHILE DOING PILLAR RECOVERY WORK THE VICTIM WAS WAS RUNNING A REMOTE CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A PIECE OF THE ROOF APPROX. 30 INCHX 18 FT WIDE X 80 FT LONG SLABBED OUT CATCHING THE VICTIM UNDER IT AND CAUSING IMMEDICATED DEATH THE MINER WAS ALSO COVERED UP.

ROOF BOLT OPERATOR WAS A BOUT SIX FOOT INBY PERMINATE SUPORT NO EYE WITNESS.

I NAME OPERATING SCOOP IN REMOTE MODE SCOOPED FACE 3 ENTRY WHILE BACKING HE WAS STRUCK BY SCOOP CRUSHED BETWEEN SCOOP AND ROOF BOLTER SETTING IN X CUT CRUSHING BLOW CAUSED FATAL INJURIES TO RI GHT SIDE OF TORCO.

VICTIM USING SLATE BAR TO PULL CAP COAL WHEN DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIM

INJ WAS COVERED UP IN ROCK FALL.MASSIVE ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON CONT MINING MACHINE DURING PILLAR RECOVERY ON 004-0 MMU...CONT MINER OPER ESCAPED UNINJURED AS RESULT OF CANOPY INSTALLED OVER OPE RATORS COMPARTMENT

ROCK FALLING FROM HIGHWALL PINNING EMPL BETWEEN SCOOP.

EMPL & OTHERS OF DEADWORK CREW REINSTALLING ROOF BOLTS AFTER SMALL ROOF FALL OCCURRED.THE PTO ON SPEEDCO DRILL GOT HOT.THEY ALLOWED IT TO COOL.AFTER EMPL PLUGGED PTO BACK IN,A RIB ROLLED OVER ON RAILRUNNER PINNING EMPL BETWEEN ROLL AND RAILRUNNER.FALL 48" X 46" X 7" STRUCK ON HEAD.

EMPL DOING REPAIRS ON CONTINUOUS MINER WATER SYSTEM SOLONOID VALVES LOCATED NEAR CONVEYOR CHAIN.EMPL STARTED MACHINE RIPPER HEAD WHILE NEAR CONVEYOR ADN APPARENTLY STARTED THE CONVEYOR INSTEAD .NO EYE WITNESSES.CRUSHED BETWEEN CHAIN AND CONVEYOR TUNNEL GUARD.OCCURRED ON ACTIVE 002-0 SECTION IN NO 6 ENTRY.

EMPL OPERATING MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER IN BELT ENTRY STRUCK IN THE HEAD WITH 48" LONG PIECE OF ROOF BOLT DRILL STEEL.

EMPL OPERATING ROCK TRUCK,BACKED OVER BERM HOLLOW-FILL AND EMPL JUMPED OR WAS THROWN FROM OVERTURNING TRUCK AND WAS COVERED WITH FILL ROCK.

I.NAME RUNNING LOADER,CLEANING A PLACE UP AND WENT OUT FROM UNDER ROOF SUPPORT.DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIM.FALL DIMENSIONS-4'L X 3'W X 2" THICK THAT FELL ON VICTIM.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON POWER CENTER: EMPLOYEE CAME IN CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED POWER WIRES.

WHILE DOING PILLAR EXTRACTION MINING ON THE 001 SECTION A MASSIVE ROOF FALL OCCURRED. THE FINAL PUSH ON THE 2 LEFT BLOCK WAS BEING MINED. THE ROCK FELL ABOVE PERMANENT ROOF SUPPORTS AND OVERRO DE THE SUPPORT POST ALLOWING THE CONTINUOUS MINER AND COAL HAULER TO BE TRAPPED. THE INJURED WAS POSITIONED OUTBY THE MINER AND BETWEEN THE BREAKER AND ROADWAY POSTS OBSERVING THE ROOF. WHEN

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING SCRAP METAL WITH THE DOZER. A VALVE BROKE OFF A PROPANE TANK CAUSING PROPANE GAS TO LEAK INTO THE AIR. THIS ACCIDENT OCCURRED OFF THE PERMITTED AREA.

EXPLOSIVES. A BLASTING ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT APPROXIMATELY 2:00 PM ON 7/31/90 ON THE 001-0 SECTION AT GRANNY ROSE COAL CO., NO. 3 MINE, ID 1516719. THREE EMPLOYEES WERE FATALLY INJURED.

EXPLOSIVES. A BLASTING ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT APPROX. 2:00 PM ON 7/31/90 ON THE 001-0 SECTION AT GRANNY ROSE COAL CO., NO. 3 MINE, ID 1516719. THREE EMPLOYEE'S WERE FATALLY INJURED IN THE ACCIDE NT.

EXPLOSIVES. A BLASTING ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT APPROX 2:00 PM ON 7/31/90 ON THE 001-0 SECTION AT GRANNY ROSE COAL CO., NO. 3 MINE, ID NO. 1516719. THREE EMPLOYEES WERE FATALLY INJURED IN THE ACCI DENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATIEN WINCH, LOWERING 15' LONG, 54" DIA. PIPE IN EXCAVATED SURFACE HOLE WHEN CASING JERKED, CAUSING WELD HOLDING CHAIN ONTO PIPE TO FAIL. PIPE FELL AND CRUSHED I.NAME.

I.NAME, CO-WORKER AND SECTION FOREMAN WERE LOADING AND STEMMING BOREHOLES WHEN THE ROOF FELL.

THE POWDER CREW WAS IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING OFF A FLOOR SHOT. THE POWDER MAN TOLD THE POWDER MAN HELPER HE WAS GOING TO WALK UP TO A POINT AND YELL BACK AT HIM WHEN TO FIRE THE SHOT. THE POW DER MAN GAVE THE SIGNAL TO SHOOT. A FLY ROCK WAS BLOWN OVER A EST. 200-250 FT BLUFF AND HIT THE POWDER MAN IN THE HEAD.

EMPL DRIVING TRACTOR/TRAILER INTO MINE SITE-WENT DOWN STEEP GRADE AND WENT OFF ROADWAY AND OVER AN EMBANKMENT.

WALKED INTO PLACE WHERE ROOF WASNT SUPPORTED.FATAL. INTO X-CUT BETWEEN #2 & #3 ENTRIES WHILE MOVING CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE CABLE.ROOF IN X-CUT NOT SUPPORTED...ROOF FALL 2'THICK X 15'LONG X 18-20'WIDE.WAS RECOVERED AT 11:52 AM.

VICTIM WALKED INTO THE #3 ENTRY LEFT CROSSCUT TO TALK TO ROOF BOLTER OPERATORS. AFTER A BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH ONE OF THE OPERATORS, HE WALKED INTO THE #3 HEADING. A ROOF FALL OCCURRED WHIC H EXTENDED PAST THE PERMANENT SUPPORT FATALLY INJURING THE VICTIM.

HE FELL FROM 4TH FLOOR OF PREPARATION PLANT, HE APPARENTLY GOT HIS WELDING GLOVE CAUGHT ON METAL CAUSING HIM TO BE DRUG OUT OF DOOR CAUSING INJURY - FATAL.

HAD MASSIVE ROCK FALL, RESTRUCTING PILLARS.

WORKER WAS CHANGING HOSE ON ROOFBOLTER WHEN HE HIT THE CONTROL TO THE BOOM CAUSING IT TO FALL ON HIM.

HE WAS PRIMING HOLES FOR BLASTIN,G WHEN APPARENTLY A PRIMER AND BLASTING CAP WENT OFF IN HIS HAND. IT SEVERED HIS RIGHT HAND AND DAMAGED 3 FINGERS OF L. HAND ADN OPENED HIS BOWEL.

A ROCK FALL OCCURRED ON 003 SECTION IN THE NO. 5 ENTRY, 50 FT INBY SPAD NO. 2838. THE CONTINOUS MINER WAS EXTRACTING COAL IN THE 5 RIGHT INTERSECTION WHEN A SUDDEN ROCK FALL FELL FATALILY INJ URY SECTION FOREMAN. WHO WAS ALONG SIDE OF MACHINE THE FALLW AS APPROXIMATELY 24 FOOT X 34 FOOT X 1 FOOT TO T 1/2 FOOT THICK.

THE MAINTRIP CAR THAT HE WAS RIDING GOT LOSOE FROM THE MOTOR; IT TRAVELLED THRU A SWAG ON THE TRACK PART WAY UP THE OTHER SIDE; THEN IT REUTNED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRETION, COLLIDING WITHT HE MOT OR. (WAS WORKING OVERTIME ON THE DATE OF THE ACCIDNET). HAPPENED IN C-SECTION ON MAIN LINE.

ON 12/19/89 AT APPROX 4:30 PM A FATAL HAULAGE ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON ACCESS ROAD TO KOCH CARBON INC HALL BRANCH 1 MINE. ACCIDENT OCCURRED AS SUPPLY TRUCK DRIVER FOR UNITED SUPPLY CO WAS TRANSPOR TING SUPPLIES TO MINE ON ICE & SNOW COVERED ACCESS ROAD. TRUCK STALLED &/OR LOST TRACTION WHICH RESULTED IN TRUCK SKIDDING APPROX 90' BACKWARD. EMPL EXITED TRUCK & WAS STRUCK & TRAPPED BY LEF

THE DUST COLLECTION HOSE STOPPED UP. THE OPERATOT LEANED UP OVER THE DRILL POT AND LIFT ARMS TO REACH THE HOSE IN AN ATTEMPT TO UNSTOP IT. HIS LEG OR HIP CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE LEVER WHICH R AISES THE DRILL POT, CRUSHING HIS HEAD AND CHEST AGAINST THE ROOF RESULTING IN THE INJURY.

THE VICTIM WAS HELPING CO-WORKERS REPLACE A WHEEL UNIT ON THE (COMPANY NO. B-406) JOY SHUTTLE CAR. ANOTHER SHUTTLE CAR (CO. NO. B-413) WAS IN OPERATION ON THE REGULAR PRODUCTION RUN AND THE OP ERATOR OF THE CAR IN USE, MADE A WRONG TURN AND STRUCK THE VICTIM CATCHING THE VICTIM BETWEEN BOTH SHUTTLE CARS.

VICTIM WAS HELPING ON ROOF BOLTER AND WAS POSITIONING A STEEL ROOF STRAP WITH HIS HAND WHILE POSITIONING HIMSELF IN FRONT OF THE BOLTER INBY PERMANENT SUPPORT.

TOP TURNED LOOSE FROM COAL SEAM ABOVE ANCHORAGE POINT.

HE UNLOCKED THE GATE AT THE MINE ENTRANCE. HE RAN BACK TO HIS TRUCK BECAUSE IT CAUGHT FIRE. HE WAS PUSHING HIS TRUCK TO GET IT OUT OF THE WAY. THE GATE CAUGHT THE DOOR OF HIS TRUCK SO HE COULD NOT GET OUT OF HIS TRUCK. HE DIED OF SMOKE INHALATION.

INJURED WAS HAULING FINISHED PRODUCT FROM MAIN CRUSHING PLANT TO STOCKPILE STORAGE AREA INJURED DROVE TRUCK #1479 LOADED WITH #11 STONE UP A STOCKPILE RAMP & ON TOP OF AN APPROX 35FT HIGH STOC KPILE AS INJURED BACKED TO THE EDGE OF STOCKPILE& WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DUMPING THE LOAD OF PRODUCT TRUCK #1479 WENT OVER EDGE & CAME TO REST UPSIDE DOWN AT THE STOCKPILE BASE

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THE VICTIM TRAVELED APPROX. FOUR FEET INBY PERMANENT ROOF SUPPORTS (ROOF BOLTS) AND A SECTION OF ROOF (HORSE BACK) MEASURING 0-9" THICK BY 9' BY 12' LONG FELL CRUSHING THE VICTIM.

EMPLOYEE WAS CRUSHED BETWEEN THE A.T.R.S. ON A ROOF BOLTER AND THE MINE ROOF.

FOR UNKNOWN REASONS THE VICTIM'S TRUCK ROLLED APPROX. 75 FEET DOWN AN ELEVATED HAUL ROAD FROM IT'S DUMPING POINT WHERE IT THEN CROSSED THE ROAD BERM AND OVERTURNED DOWN THE APPROX. 55 FOOT HIG H SPOIL SLOPE AND CAME TO REST ON THE HAUL ROAD BELOW. THE VICTIM WHO WAS NOT WEARING SEAT BELTS WAS THROWN FROM THE TRUCK WHEN IT REACHED BOTTOM OF THE SLOPE.

THE OPERATOR WAS LAST SEEN GRADING ACCESS ROAD AT ABOUT 5:00 PM GOING DOWN THE HILL. THE GRADER WAS IDSCOVERED AT ABOUT 1:00 AM OVERTURNED IN CREEK AT THE BRIDGE. THE BODY OF THE DECEASED WAS REMOVED AT ABOUT 2:00 AM BY THE MARTIN COUNTY DEPUTY COYOVER & THE RESCUE SQUAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING DOWN TREE WHEN HIS SAW BECAME HUNG-UP. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE, WITH SAW BEGAN TO CUT TREE TO REMOVE SAW WHEN TREE FELL ONTO EMPLOYEE.

A TRAILING CABLE WAS ENERGIZED BY ANOTHER EMPL WHILE REPAIRS WERE BEING MADE

EMPL WAS CHECKING ON A SHIELD THAT WAS HUNG WHILE AT THE SHIELD THE EMPL FOR UNKNOWN REASON PLACED HE HEAD APPROX 6" UNDER THE SHIELD THE SHIELD FELL RESULTING IN A HEAD INJURY

I NAME WAS REMOVING A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK THAT WAS CAUGHT ON A STRAP (32"X 27"X 6" THICK) WE HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE FELL ADN THE ROCK FELL ON HIM THE ROCK STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT S IDE OF THE FACE AND HEAD ALSO ON THE CHEST AREA

EMPLOYEE WAS SUPERVISING MAINTENANCE WORK ON CONTINOUS MINER PLANETARY GEAR TRAM CHAIN BROKE CAUSING A LINK TO FLY 12 FEET STRIKING VICTIM IN NECK CAUSING FATAL INJURY

EMPL WAS IN PROCESS OF PLUGGING 4160 CAT HEAD INTO BACK OF SECTION POWER CENTER. HE WAS WIPING LUGS OFF WITH HAND TO REMOVE MUD. EMPL WAS NOT AWARE THAT CABLE WAS ENERGIZED THEREFORE HE INSTAN TLY BECAME ELECTROCUTED.

EMPL HAD BEEN INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN #1 ENTRY. HE WAS DISCOVERED BY COWORKERS LYING ON BACK NEAR CONTROLS OF MACHINE & UNDER PERMANENTLY SUPPORTED ROOF. SECTION OF ROOF MEASURING 12'LONGX7.5 'WIDEX1" TO 12" THICK HAD FALLEN INBY PERMANENT ROOF SUPPORTS. THERE WAS NO ROCK ON VICTIM.

EMPL WAS LOADING TRUCK WITH CAOL BY HAND. HE WAS DAVISED OF IMMINENT DANGER & ESCORTED FROM PIT BY FIRER OF SHOT. HE PROCEEDED OUT OF PIT & ROCEEDED TWOARDS FIRER. FIRER MOTIONED FRO HIM T AKE TRUCK AWAY FROM DANGER. EMPL TURNED BACK TO CHECK EQUIPMENT ASSUMING DRIVER HAD LEFT JOB FROM THAT POINT ON NORMAL CONDITIONS WERE FOLLOWED. SHOT WAS DETONATED ABOUT 9:22 AM. DRIVER HAD

A SLIP OF ROOF OCCURED DURING PILLAR RECOVERY THAT MEASURED APPROX 20' LONG 33' WIDE & 13' HIGH CAUSING FATAL INJURY TO EMPL.

SLIP OF ROOF OCCURRED DURING PILLAR RECOVERY THAT MEASURED APPROX 20' LONG 33' WIDE & 13' HIGH CAUSING FATAL INJURY TO EMPL.

SLIP OF ROOF OCCURRED DURING PILLAR RECOVERY THAT MEASURED APPROX 20' LONG 33' WIDE & 13' HIGH CAUSING FATAL INJUR TO EMPL.

CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEE WAS TARPING LOADED TRACTOR TRAILER WHEN HELOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL FROM THE TRAILOR.

I NAME PARKED HIS CAR IN THE LAST OPEN X CUT INTERSECTION OF 2 ENTRY WHILE WAITING FOR THE LOADER TO CHANGE X CUT HE WAS ASSUMED TO BE OUTSIDE HIS EAR CLEANING THE OPERATORS COMPARTMENT THE B WAS RETURNING FROM THE FEEDER DID NOT SEE HIM OR HIS CAR DUE TO THE COAL SEAM HEIGHT AND THE CAR CANOPY THE B CAR DRIVERS FIELD OF VIEW WAS DOWN THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS EAR AS HE TRAMMED AHEAD

INJURED MAN WAS WORKING IN THE SUMP PUMP AREA IN THE BOX CUT THEY WERE IN PROCESS OF MOVING A SUMP PUMP HIS HELPER HAD LEFT THE AREA OR A FEW MINUTES AND DID NOT SEE THE LARGE ROCK THAT FELL F ROM THE HIGHWALL AND HIT THE VICTIM STRICKING HIM IN JAW, NECK AND UPPER RIGHT CHEST AREA.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CABLE ARM AND THE RIB CAUSING HIS CHEST TO BE CRUSHED WHICH CAUSED FATAL INJURIES 001 SECTION NO. 7 ENTRY.

THE SCOOP OPERATOR WENT FROM NO. 4 HEADING TOWARD NO. 3 HEADING TRAVELING THROUGH THE NO. 4 LEFT BREAK WHEN HE TRAVLED OUT FROM UNDER SUPPORTED ROOF IN THE NO. 4 LEFT BREAK AND WAS KILLED BY F ALLING ROCK.

VICTIM WAS ATTEMPTING TO NEGOTIATE A TURN ON THE SHUTTLE CAR, AND IN DOING SO, HE ATTEMPTED TO SEE BETTER BY REMOVING HIMSELF FROM UNDER THE CANOPY AND WAS TRAPPED AND CRUSHED BETWEEN THE RIB AND THE CANOPY.

FIREARM OF SECURITY GUARD FELL FROM SHOULDER HOLSTER STRIKING CONCRETE FLOOR, THEREBY DISCHARGING THE FIREARM AND FATALLY WOUNDING HIMSELF.

APPARETLY HE HAD GONE TO CHECK FUEL IN FUEL TANK, AND WAS ON HIS WAYBACK TO PICKING TABLE AREA. FOR SOME REASON WE DONT KNOW WHY, HE WALKED UNDERNEATH THE COAL STACKER BELT, AND WAS COVERED W ITH ABOUT 400 TO 500 LBS. OF COAL AND ROCK.

CONTINUOUS MINER WAS TRAMMING OUT OF THE LEFT CROSSCUT OF THE #4 ENTRY MINER HELPER POSITIONED HIMSELF IN A DANGEROUS POSITION BETWEEN MINING MACHINE & RIG RIB & WAS CRUSHED BY TAIL OF THE C ONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE

AN ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON 061588 WHEN AN EMPLOYEE CLIMBED INTO A MAN HOLE UNDER A 2300 P&H SHOVEL & CAME IN CONTACT WITH CONNECTORS RING WHICH CONTAINED HIGH VOLTAGE POWER WHICH RESULTED IN A FA TAL ACCIDENT

I.NAME WAS DRIVING BULK ANFO TRUCK FROM STRIP SHOT AREA TO LOAD TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING ONTO A STATE ROAD FROM STRIP PIT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO TURN LEFT ONTO A ROAD LEADING TO ANFO BIN BUT WENT STR AIGHT AHEAD & RAN OVER A 250FT EMBANKMENT HE EITHER JUMPED OR WAS THROWN FROM TRUCK HE WAS CRUSHED BY THE T RUCK & DIED FROM INTERNAL INJURIES (THIS IS MY SPULATION ON MY PART GIVEN

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A 769 CATERPILLAR ROCK TRUCK HAULING REFUSE TO THE SLURRY POND WHEN HE BACKED UP TO DUMP HIS LOAD THE TRUCK WENT OVER THE EMBANKMENT FLIPPED OVER UPSIDE DOWN OUT IN THE SL URRY POND THE CAB SANK IN THE SLURRY TRAPPING THE DRIVER

WHILE TRYING TO REMOVE MISFIRED SHIT IT EXPLODED-CAUSED FATAL INJURIES.

THE EMPLOYEE HA8 JUST CLOSED THE LAST DOOR ON THE EMPTY R.R. CAR AND WAS IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING TO THE NEXT LOADED CAR TO OPEN DOORS WHEN (NAME)SHOUTED FOR THE EMPLOYEE TO LOOK OUT.THEN THE LOADED CAR,WITH3DOOR OPEN ONLY ON ONE SIDE,BECAME OFF BALANCE AND FLIPPED OVER CAUSING THE EMPTY CAR THAT THE EMPLOYEE WAS BESIDE TO FLIP OVER ALSO TRAPPING THE EMPLOYEE BETWEEN THE EMPTY CAR

A CHARGED BORE 2OLE PREMATURELY EXPLODED.

I.NAME WAS FATA5LY INJURED 12-9-87 AT 8:20 PM WHEN A ROCK BRAWL FELL OFF A PILLAR OF COAL IN THE #2 ENTRY 0010 SECTION WHILE HE WAS LOADING COAL WITH THE SCOOP HE WAS UNDER ROOF SUPPORT AS THE ROCK FELL ON T2 THE SCOOP CRUSHING HIS HEAD AND BACK

I.NAME WAS INST5LLING A ROOF BOLT WHEN THE ROOF COLLAPSED CAUSING MULTIPLE CRUSHING INJURIES AND DEATH

TRACTOR DRIVER 4AS MOVING TRACTOR FROM HIGH TOP INTO LOW TOP APPARENTLY DID NOT PUT HIS HEAD DOWN LOW ENOUGH WHEN TRACTOR MOVED INTO LOW TOP HEAD WAS PINNED BETWEEN LOW TOP AND FENDER ON TRAC TOR 3

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING A GARDNER DENVER 16 HIGHWALL DRILL EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING NEAR A THIRTY FOOT HIGHWALL WHEN WITHOUT ANY WARNING DIRT AND MUD FELL FROM THE HIGHWALL COMPLETELY COVERING THE EMPLOYEE INSID9 DRILL CAB AND ALSO COVERING THE MAJOR PORTION OF THE DRILL THE FORCE OF THE DIRT AND MUD CRUSHED THE CAB OF THE DRILL RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THE EMPLOYEE

VICTIM WAS ON #2 STOKER BELT LINE WHEN BELT WAS STARTED TO RECLAIM COAL FROM STORAGE VICTIM WAS TRANSPORTED THROUGH AN AREA OF APPROX 5 INCH CLEARANCE THROUGH A CHUTE AND INTO A RAIL CAR CAUSI NG MASSIVE HEAD3AND CHEST INJURIES RESULTING IN HIS DEATH

NO WITNESS. VIC7IM HAD TRAMMED ROOF BOLTER TO #2 HEADING WAS FOUND BY MACHINE AFTER BEING HIT BY ROOF FALL

INDIVIDUAL WAS 1ULLING ROCK FROM THE ROOF WITH A ROOF BAR IN THE HAUL ROAD. THE ROCK FELL ON THE INDIVIDUAL CAUSING A FATAL INJURY.

INJURED WAS SCO2PING A INTERSECTION WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK DISLODGED FROM R.B. ROCK WAS 3-9-8 INCH THICK 14 INCHES WIDE AND 8 FT LONG AND STRUCK HIM CAUSING COMPOUND FRACTURE TO LEFT WRIST AND P OSSIBLE HEAD IN4URY.

THE VICTIM WAS 7RAMMING A CAT. MODEL 966C FRONTEND LOADER FROM THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED E-3 MINE SIGHT TO POTTER MINING CO SHOP FACILITY LOCATED 295 MILES AWAY. AFTER HAVING TRAVELED 8 MILES ALON G THE ELEVATED 9OADWAY, THE FRONTEND LEFT THE ROADWAY AND TRAVELED OVER THE OUTER EDGE OF THE ROADWAY, OVERTURNING ONTO ITS RIGHT SIDE. FRONTEND SLID DOWN THE EMBANKEMENT AND CAME TO REST AFT

THE VICTIM WAS 2PERATING A RUBBER TIRED TRACTOR ATTACHED TO A SHOP MADE BUCKET ON THE HAULROAD WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON THE TRACTOR 27X14X3 IN THICKNESS AS THE TRACTOR MOVED THE ROCK FELL IN THE DECK TR5CTOR PINCHING HIM IN THE STOMACH FATABLITY INJURY HIM.

VICTIM WAS OPER5TING A MACK MODEL 600 TRUCK EQUIPPED WITH A 4000-GALLON WATER TANK. WHILE APPLYING WATER TO THE MINE HAULAGE ROADWAY WHICH WAS UNDER RECONSTRUCTION, FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, TH E VICTIM WAS BA7KING THE TRUCK DOWN AN INCLINED SECTION OF THE ROADWAY WHEN THE REAR TANDEM WHEELS TRAVELED OVER THE OUTER EDGE OF THE ROADWAY, ALLOWING THE TRUCK TO CAPSIZE. THE VICTIM WAS F

AS A RESULT OF 7HE ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION IT WAS DETERMINED THE 542 D-8 CAT DOZER, BEING OPERATED BY THE VICTIM, ENTERED THE 14 COAL HOPPER. THE VICTIM CLIMBED, FELL, OR WAS THROWN FROM THE CA B OF THE DOZER,3HE THEN FELL THROUGH THE HOPPER, ONTO THE FEEDER BELT AND CARRIED TO THE 2 WASHBOX WHERE HE WAS DISCOVERED.

WHILE MAKING RE1ULAR ADVANCES IN MINING, A PIECE OF THE MINE ROOF FELL UNEXPECTEDLY ON THE MINER WITH PIECE FALLING AROUND IT. I NAME WAS SETTING TIMBERS WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED AND BECOM.. XXX BECAME CRUS2ER BENEATH THE ROCK AND WAS FATALLY INJURED.

I NAME WAS FATA5ITY INJURED BY A ROOF FALL ACCIDENT MEASURING 12X3X0-12 IN THICKNESS HE WAS SETTING AN UNSUPPORTED FACE AREA. HE WAS IN THE FACE AREA OF #2 ENTRY THE MINER WAS OPERATING IN 2 C ROSS CUT. 3

EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NGING TIRE ON TRUCK. JACK KICKED-OUT FROM UNDER TRUCK STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN CHEST.

I,NAME WAS BACK3NG OFF-BOARD OPERATED CONTINUOUS MINER AWAY FROM FACE AFTER MAKING CUTWHEN MACHINE RAN OVER REMOTE CABLE CAUSING IT TO BE INOPERATIVE. OTHER EMPLOYEE, ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR, CAM E TO ASSIST I,N5ME IN FREEING CABLE FROM UNDER MACHINE AND TO REPAIR CABLE WHEN A ROOF ROCK APPROX. 5 FT X 4 FT X 5" THICK FILL ON I,NAME AND MACHINE CAUSING DEATH TO HIM AND BACK BRUISES TO

COAL WAS BEING 5OADED FROM THE NO.2 PILLAR OF THE 001 WORKING SECTION. I,NAME WAS STANDING AT THE CROSSCUT BETWEEN THE NO.2 AND 3 ENTRIES OBSERVING THE LOADING CYCLE WHEN THE ROOF COLLAPSED. T HE VICTIM WAS C2VERED BY THE ROOF FALL AND THE LOADING MACHINE OPERATOR WAS TEMPORARILY TRAPPED BENEATH THE CANOPY OF THE JOY 14 BU-10 LOADING MACHINE.

THE EMPLOYEE WA8 USING A PERSONNEL CARRIER TO PULL THE CONVEYOR CHAIN ON THE CONTINUOUS MINER (JOY 14-CM5) BY USING A CHAIN HOIST BETWEEN THE TWO PIECES OF EQUIPMENT. THE EMPLOYEE WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN T2E PERSONNEL CARRIER RAN UP UNDER THEBOOM OF THE MINER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING ROOF FALL ON MINER. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF, WITHOUT WARNING, CRUSHING THE EMPLOYEE. THE ROCK WAS APPROX. 8-12 INCHES THICK AND APPROX. 8 FEET ROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS AT3THE LEFT SIDE OF ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE APPARENTLY WENT IN BY THE ATRS SYSTEM WHERE A ROCK FALL OCCURRED CAUSING HIS DEATH.

FREE END OF EXP2SED 480 3 PHASE CABLE (6/3C) WERE LYING ON THE GROUND ENERGIZED. NEAR THE HIGH VOLTAGE SUBSTATION AND THE VICTI, CAME IN CONTACT WITH IT.

I,NAME WAS WORK3NG AT #2 BELT HEAD WHERE HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE POWER CIRCUIT IN THE CONTROL BOX FOR #2 BELT. HE WAS KILLED INSTANTLY.

THE ACCIDENT OC7URRED WHEN THE VICTIM WAS PARTICIPATING IN DETONATING A CHARGED ROUND FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHWALL FOR A FUTURE UNDERGROUND MINE OPENING AND WAS STRUCK BY FLYING ROCK FROM THE BLAST. 3

THE VICTIM WAS 2PERATING A SCOOP ON ROUTE TO THE SURFACE TO PICK UP MAINTENANCE SUPPLIES, WHEN HE APPARENTLY GOT HIS HEAD CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SCOOP AND THE MINE ROOF, RESULTING IN HIS DEATH.

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING PARTS TRUCK TRAVELING ON MINE ACCESS ROAD. WHILE TRAVELING ON ROAD, EMPLOYEE CROSSED INTO THE PATH OF A TIRE TRUCK RESULTING IN A HEAD ON COLLISION.

VICTIM WAS PROC9SSING A LOAD OF COAL IN THE 2ND CUT OF A CUTBACK OFF #1 ENTRY WITH A JOY 14BU8 LOADING MACHINE WHEN A PORTION OF THE MINE ROOF FELL CRUSHING THE VICTIM. THE ACCIDENT OCCURED IN AN INTERSE7TION APP 200' INBY THE MINE SAND%@**%%* PORTAL. THE ROOF HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WHERE THE ROOF CONDITIONS WERE CHANGING FROM SANDSTONE TO SLATE. THE ROOF HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 4

EE, I.NAME WAS 7AKING DOWN ROCK WHEN A KETTLE BOTTOM UNDETECTED ABOVE DRAW ROCK FELL.

EE WAS INSPECTI3G WATER SPRAYS ON FEEDER. WHILE LEANING OVER EE INADVERTANTLY HIT BOOM LEVER ON PICK/BREAKER WITH LEG CAUSING THE PICK/BREAKER TO RAISE. EES HEAD WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN PICK/BREAK ER ASSEMBLY & R2OF OF MINE. EE WAS GIVEN 1ST AID BY AN E.M.T. & TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL. EE DIED 3-25-87 FROM INJURIES RECEIVED 3-16-87.

ATTEMPTING TO 2ANG LIGHTS ON POLE POWER WAS STILL ON MADE CONTACT WITH POWER LINE.

I BELIEVE THAT 7HE CAB ON THE D9G DID NOT FULLY LET HIM SEE WHERE HE WAS AT. HE GOT TOO CLOSE TO THE BANK GAVE AWAY.

ROCK FELL FROM 2IGHWALL ONTO THE STEEL BEAM OF TEMPORARY CANOPY AND ROCK AND BEAM FELL ONTO THE EMPLOYEE

EE WAS OPERATIN1 A 644B FRONT END LOADER WHEN UNKNOWINGLY & WITHOUT THE OWNERS PERMISSION THE LOADER RAN OVER AN EMBANKMENT THROWING VICTIM OUT & LANDING ON TOP OF HIM CRUSHING HIM.

SPLICING 1015 P2WER CABLE AND CIRCUIT BREAKER FOR CABLE WAS ENERGIZED CAUSING DEATH BY ELECTROCUTION.480 V 3-PHASE FOR FRESH WATTER PUMP LOCATED NEAR TAILPIECE ON D GATE 036 SECTION.

FEL BACKED DOWN2ILL TURNED INTO DITCH AND OVERTURNED.

MOVING FUEL TRU7K FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER AT AUGER MINE SITE.FOR UNKNOWN REASON HE MADE WRONG TURN AND TRUCK ROLLED OVER STEEP EMBANKMENT APPARENTLY THROWING HIM OUT OF TRUCK RESULTING IN HIS DEATH. 3

DUST SET OFF BY3SHOOTING FALL OF COAL - #3 UNIT/#2 ENTRY

INDIVIDUAL PICK9D UP ENERGIZED CABLE AND HELD IT BY FEMALE OUTLET.CABLE WAS WIRED WRONG HE GOT SHOCKED THROUGH OUTLET.#3 ENTRY OF #1 UNIT 001.WENT TO GET EXTENSION CABLE FOR POWER SAW 4 X-CUTS OUTBY #1 UNIT 1OWER CENTER.FOUND LYING FACE DOWN IN 3'' WATER.

36'' PIECE OF D9ILL STEEL BECAME LODGED BETWEEN WOODEN HALF-HEADER HELD AGAINST ROOF BY ROOF BOLT AND INJUREDS CHEST WHILE HE WAS OPERATING BATTERY POWERED TRACK MOTOR BEING USED AS MANTRIP.TH IS CONCLUSION R9ACHED BY INVESTIGATION MADE BY FED,STATE,& COMPANY OFFICIALS.

FOREMAN SOUNDIN1 ROOF WHEN HORSEBACK FELL OUT RESULTING IN FATALITY.LAST OPEN X-CUT OF #3 HEADING-12' X 21' X 2-12''.

I.NAME CAME IN 7ONTACT WITH ENERGIZED CABLE WHILE LOOKING FOR SINGLE PHASE CONDITION IN CABLE. FATAL.

AFTER ATTEMPTIN1 TO START A STACKING CONVEYOR AND REPLACING TWO BLOWN FUSES BLOW IN SUCESSION I NAME AND II NAME SHOVELED OUT THE FEED BOX TO RELIEVE THE BELT. II NAME REATTEMPTED TO START THE BELT 3 TIMES. O3 FILING, HE RETURNED TO FIND HIM UNCONSCIOUS NEAR THE BASE TAILPULLEY OF THE BELT HE IS BELIEVE TO HAVE BEEN ELECTROCHTED DUE TO A BLOWN TO GROUND MOTOR.

AN INDEPENDENT 7ONTRACT TRUCK DRIVER HAD DUMPED HIS LOAD OF COAL AND PULLED FORWARD A FEW FEET FROM THE PILE WHEN HE APPARENTLY STOPPED HIS TRUCK TO CHECK THE TAILGATE. THE END LOADER BACKED UP AND THE DRIV9R WAS PINNED BETWEEN THE VEHICLES

WAS BOLTING IN 05 ENTRY AND 10" THICK PIECE OF DRAWROCK FELL AND TRAPPED AGAINST THE BOTTOM

DEATH DUE TO RO2F FAILURE

EMPLOYEE HAD BE9N WORKING WITH SOME PUMPS TO KEEP THE WATER DOWN. IT IS ASSUMED THAT HE CAME INTO CONTACT WITH A GROUND

FATAL ELECTRICA5 WHILE REPAIRING SECTION POWER CENTER

EMPLOYEE WAS SW3TCHING A CAR OF SUPPLIES IN THE #3 ENTRY TRACK HAULAGEWAY AND RATHER THAN APPLY HIS BRAKES HE REVERSED THE LOCOMOTIVE AND OPENED THE CONTROLLER WIDE OPEN THIS ALLOWED THE LOCO MOTIVE TO SLIDE3WITH VERY LITTLE BRAKING EFFECT THE LOCOMOTIVE TRAVELLED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE GRADE AND STRUCK A PARKED PERSONNEL CARRIER WHICH WAS SETTING AGAINST ANOTHER 8 TON LOCO. THE DECK

EE WAS OPERATIN1 A BOBCAT LOADER. THERE WAS A ROCK UNDER THE PEDALS. THE BUCKET WAS ON THE GROUND ON ITS NOSE & THE ENGINE WAS RUNNING. EE WENT TO THE FRONT OF THE MACHINE TO REMOVE THE ROCK EE REMOVED THE3ROCK & MACHINE TRIED TO LOWER THE BUCKET WHICH WAS ALREADY ON THE GROUND. THIS CAUSED THE FRONT OF T HE MACHINE TO LIFT UP. EE WAS CRUSHED BETWEEN THE MACHINE BODY & A CROSS B

EE WAS CUTTING 6OLTS ON THE BACK EDGE OF DOZER BLADE. BLADE WAS RESTING ON A LARGE 3 1/2"X5' SLAB OF LIMESTONE. EE WAS RESTING A CUTTING TORCH IN A KNEELING POSITION. THE ROCK ON WHICH THE BL ADE WAS RESTIN1 SPLIT & THE INNER HALF CRUSHED EES HEAD AGAINST DOZER RADIATOR.

VICTIM WAS IN P9OCESS OF TRAMMING A CAT 992 FRONTEND LOADER UP AN 11 DEG. SLOPE ALONG A ROADWAY LEADING FROM THE MORRIS COALBED EXPLORATION PIT AFTER TRAVELING 258 FT UP SLOPE AN OIL LINE LEA DING FROM THE E3GINE TO THE RT TURBO CHARGER RUPTURED RESULTING IN THE ESCAPE OF ENGINE LUB OIL AFTER TRAVELING AN ADDITIONAL 228 FT THE ENGINE EITHER STALLED OR WAS SHUT OFF BY THE OPERATOR T

THE INVESTIGATI2N DETERMED THAT THE EMPLOYEE HAD INSTALLED THE LAST ROOF BOLT IN PROPER SEQUENCE AND WHILE WAITING FOR OTHER OPERATOR TO FINISH HIS CYCLE, HE STEPPED BEYOND PERMENT ROOF SUPPOR T AND WAS STRUC5 BY A ROCK APPROXIMATELY 8X10X10 THICK AND WAS KILLED INSTANTLY.

THE VICTIM WAS 3N THE PROCESS OF CLIMBING OFF THE LEFT SIDE C-FRAME OF A PARKED DOZER. AT THE SAME TIME, I NAME , DOZER OPERATOR, WAS CLIMBING ONTO THE DOZER. THE VICTIM WAS STANDING ON THE LE FT SIDE TRACKS 4HENT HE DOZER TRAVELED BACKWARD RESULTING IN THE VICTIM BEING THROWN OFF AND RUN OVER. THE DOZER TRAVELED BACKWARD FOR A DISTANCE OF 150 FT AT WHICH TIME IT STALLED ON A SLIDE

INSTALLING CRIB3BLOCK ROOF FALL.

MACK COAL TRUCK WRECK AND HEAD INJURY TO THE DRIVER

THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING A BATTERY-POWERED SCOOP CLEANING ROADWAY COAL AT THE NO. 2 BLOCK ON FIRST RIGHT PANEL. THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN A PORTION OF THE MINE ROOF, MEASURING 30 INCHES THICK A MINUMUM OF 20 FT IN WIDTH, AND EXTENDING AN UNDETERMINED DISTANCE, FELL STRIKING THE VICTIM AND SCOOP. THE HEIGHT OF THE COAL WAS 39 INCHES.

THE VICTIMS WERE WORKING IN THE UNVENTILATED FACE AREAS. THEY WERE OVERCOME BY THE FUMES FROM THE BLASTING OF THREE CUTS OF COAL IN THIS AREA. THEY DIED OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING.

THE VICTIMS WERE WORKING IN THE UNVENTILATED FACE AREAS. THEY WERE OVERCOME BY THE FUMES FROM THE BLASTING OF THREE CUTS OF COAL IN THIS AREA. THEY DIED OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING.

THE VICTIM WERE WORKING IN THE UNVENTILATED FACE AREAS. THEY WERE OVERCOME BY THE FUMES FROM THE BLASTING OF THREE CUTS OF COAL IN THIS AREA. THEY DIED OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING TIMBERS A PIECE OF DRAW SLATE FELL THIS STRUCK EMPLOYEE AND TRAPPED THE EMPLOYEE UNDER THE ROCK

EVERYTHING WAS NORMAL WITH A NON-DETECTABLE SLIP THAT DROPPED OUT NO EQUIPMENT WAS INVOLVED

EVERYTHING WAS NORMAL WITH A NON-DECTECTABLE SLIP THAT DROPPED OUT NO EQUIPMENT WAS INVOLVED

INJURED WAS DRILLING BELT HOLE WHEN A RIB ROLLED OFF BEHIND HIM STRUCK HIM IN THE BACK AND CRUSHED HIM AGAINST THE BOLT MACHINE

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING ELECTRICAL WORK ON A BELT STARTER BOX AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH AN ENERGIZED CIRCUIT THE RESULTING ELECTRICAL SHOCK CAUSED CARDIAC ARREST AND DEATH

SUBJECT HAD WATERED THE BATTERIES AND THEN WAS ENERGING THE CIRCUIT OF THE CHARGER AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE HOIST BATTERY CRADLE BATTERY CASES AND CHARGER SWITCH BOX WHICH APPARENTLY HAD BECOME ENERGIZED

I.NAME WAS CUTTING A TREE HIS SON I.NAME WAS OPERATING A BULLDOZER THE TREE STARTED FALLING THE WRONG WAY I.NAME RAN TOWARDS HIS SON TO GET HIS ATTENTION THE TREE STRUCK THE CANOPY ON THE BULL DOZER AND VEERED OFF AND STRUCK I.NAME IN THE HEAD I.NAME DIED INSTANTLY

A FATAL ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT THE #3 MINE CANADA COAL CO INC. FROM A FALL OF RIB IN WHICH THE VICTIM I.NAME AGE 30 WAS CRUSHED AGAINST THE RIPPER HEAD ON A LEE NORSE 265 CONTINOUS MINER THIS OC CCURRED IN THE #3 ENTRY 100 FT OUTBY THE FACE AREAS WHILE THE EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING BITS

EMPLOYEE PUT POWER UP ON FEEDER HYDRAULIC HOSE HAD TRAM LEVER ENGAGED FEEDER SWUNG AROUND AND PINNED EMPLOYEE AGAINST RIB EMPLOYEE DIED FROM RUPTURED AORTA AT 1:17 PM

APPARENTLY WAS CHECKING SLOPE BELT WHEN HE BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE IDLER ROLLER TO THE BELT TAKE-UP CAUSING A FATAL INJURY

TRAVELING THROUGH VENTILATION CURTAIN AT THE SAME TIME AS THE AR4 SCOOP WAS THE CURTAIN CAUGHT ON THE SCOOP BUCKET AND CAUSED THE VICTIM TO FALL UNDER THE WHEELS

EMPLOYEE FAILED TO SECURE THE UPRIGHT PORTION OF STEEL STRUCTURE AND POSITIONED HIMSELF IN UNSAFE WORKING FASHION

MULTIPLE ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON 001 SECTION AT APPROXIMATELY 130PM TRAPPING TWO BRIDGE OPERATORS FALL WAS 0-6FT THICK 55FT WIDE & 65FT LONG VICTIMS DIED INSTANTLY FROM FATAL INJURIES CAUSE OF A CCIDENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED

MULTIPLE ROOF FALL OCCURRED ON 001 SECTION AT APPROX 130PM TRAPPING TWO BRIDGE OPERATORS FALL WAS 0-6FTTHICK 55FT WIDE & 65FT LONG VICTIMS DIED INSTANTLY FROM FATAL INJURIES CAUSE OF ACCIDENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED

VICTIM WAS WALKING ALONG SIDE BOLT MACHINE WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIM CAUSING FRACTURES OF SEVERAL RIBS & LEG & A PUNCTURED LUNG

I.NAME WAS LOADING COAL IN PIT WITH HIS LOADER WHEN AN ELECTRICAL STORM CAME UP SUDDENLY LIGHTENING SET SHOT OFF ABOVE WHERE I.NAME WAS WORKING COVERING HIM & HIS LOADER WITH SEVERAL FEET OF D IRT

I.NAME WAS SCRAPING LOOSE COAL FROM THE MINE FLOOR AT THE WORKING FACE INBY PERMANET ROOF SUPPORT WHEN ROOF FELL RESULTING IN DEATH

TWO MOTORS HAULING EMPTY TRAILERS RAN TOGETHER-ONE SUPPLY CAR WENT ONTO THE TOP OF ONE MOTOR

VICTIM WAS RESTING AGAINST BOOM OF HIS PINNER WHEN A LOADED SHUTTLE CAR HUNG INTO PINNER CABLE (HUNG ON CROSS OVERS) DAMAGING CABLE TO EXTENT THAT ALL THREE CONDUCTORS & C ROUNDS WERE SEVERED A PHASE CONTACTED A GROUND TO FRAME OF PINNER ENERGISEING

CONTINUOUS MINER WAS CUTTING IN #1 ENTRY & HAD SET OVER TO BEGIN LEFT RUN I.NAME HAD JUST WALKED UP TO THE MINER & WAS STANDING BESIDE THE DECK A PC OF DRAW ROCK APPROX 6IN THICK 3FT WIDE & 10FT LONG FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS & RT RIB THIS PC OF ROCK STRUCK I.NAME CRUSHED HIS UPPER CHEST & RESULTED IN HIS DEATH

THE ROCK TRUCK WAS BROKE DOWN AT TIME OF ACCIDENT GENE WAS REPAIRING TRANSMISSION AND HE WAS UP UNDER IT TAKING OUT BOLT WHEN THE TRUCK JUMPED 18 INCHES KILLING THE VICTIM IT WASS SETTING ON A LEVEL GRADE WITH THE BED RAISED WITH HALF LOAD OF COAL IN IT

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL

UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL

I NAME AND I N AME ROOF BOLTERS WERE GOING TO INSTALL A SPOT BOLT PRIOR TO PINNING THE CUT TWO SAFETY JACKS WERE SET I NAME WAS INSTALLING A THIRD JACK WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK 7X7X4 FELL ST STRIKING HIM IN THE HEAD AND SHOULDER RESULTING IN SERIOUS HEAD INJURIES

LOW COAL AND HUMAN ERROR AND CAUSED FATALITY

HAD BEEN TESTING TOP AND PULLING DOWN LOOSE ROCK PRIOR TO STARTING THE BOLTING CYCLE AND ROCK EITHER FELL ON HIM OR HE PULLED IT DOWN ON HIMSELF

VICTIM WAS OPERATING A BM600 MAC TRUCK LOADED WITH APPROX 25 TONS OF COAL WHEN FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK TRUCK TRAVELED OVER AN EMBANKMENT CRUSHING THE VICTIM THER WERE NO EYEWITNESSES TO THE ACCIDENT VICTIM WAS NOT FOUND UNTIL 08 10 84 AT 700 AM AT THIS TIME THE CAUSE OF ACCIDNET CANNOT BE DETERMINED

ROOF FALL AT FACE

SCOOP OPERATOR DROVE INTO RIB WITH SCOOP-PINNED HIS HEAD AGAINST RIB

I.NAME AND I.NAME WERE TAKING DOWN AN IDLE BELT HEAD DRIVE SYSTEM FOUR RETAINING BOLTS ON THE RIGHT SIDE WERE CUT LEAVING FOUR ON THE LEFT SIDE WHEN THE RIGHT SIDE FAILED TO BREAK LOOSE I.NAM E WENT FOR AN AXE OR OTHER TOOL TO KNOCK THE UNIT LOOSE AS HE DID HE STEPPED UNDER THE WEAKENED UNIT AND THE 4 REMAINING BOLTS SHEARED CAUSING DRIVE ROLLER TO FALL & CRUSH I.NAME RESULTING IN

MAIN AIR LINE ON TRUCK BURST, DRIVER JUMPED 7 POSSIBLY TRUCK RAN OVER DECEASED. WE ARE AWAITING CONFIRMATION OF OUTOPSY REPORTS

VICTIM WAS HELPING PLACE 6IN X 8IN X 8 FT TIES IN TIERS FOR BLOCKING. THIS WAS TO BE USED TO SUPPORT THE COUNTERWEIGHT OF THE CAR HAUL SYSTEM WHILE REPAIRS WERE BEING MADE. A CRANE LIFTED THE COUNTERWEIGHT. VICTIM REACHED FOR A TIE AND HAD THE UPPER PART OF HIS BODY UNDER THE COUNTERWEIGHT. PART OF THE CRANE RIGGING BROKE. THE COUNTERWEIGHT FELL ON THE VICTIM.

A PIECE OF ROCK ABOUT 5FT WIDE 12FT LONG 0-5 1/2IN THICKNESS FELL STRIKING THE VICTIM CAUSING FATAL CRUSHING INJURIES.

FOREMAN I.NAME HAD FAILED TO DUE AS RECOMMENDED BY SUPT. HE FAILED TO CLEAN UP ROADWAY INTO #5 ENTRY AND SET REQUIRED TIMBERS NEEDED IN AREA, AND IT APPEARS HE HAD TAKEN TOO MUCK COAL IN AREA AND CAUSE A DANGER FOR HIMSELF AND HIS MEN, AFTER WHICH HE HIMSELF BECAME A FATALITY ON 4-16-84 BY A ROOF FALL IN #5 ENTRY 1ST RIGHT

ROOF FALL. A ROCK FELL STRIKING THE SUPERINTENDENT ON THE HEAD KILLING HIM INSTANTLY.

COAL TRUCK IMPACTED EMPLOYEE AND EMPLOYEE WAS RUN OVER BY THE WHEELS. FATAL INVOLVED TRUCK OWNED BY J & K TRUCKING (CONTRACTOR #E7L)

A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE NO. 2 ENTRY FACE AREA. SIZE OF THE FALL WAS APPROX 25\ LONG, 12 TO 14\ WIDE AND 8" THICK

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING ANTI-FREEZE IN TANK WHEN THE METAL ROD HE WAS USING ACCIDENTALLY TOUCHED THE OVERHEAD POWER LINES CAUSINF DEATH.

THE HAULAGE BELT HAD GONE DOWN SO PRODUCTION WAS STOPPED AND ALL EMPLOYEES WERE PULLED FROM THE MINE, EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SHAFT TO THE OUTSIDE WHEN HE SUFFERED A CORONA RY THROMBOSIS, RESULTING IN DEATH AT 3:00 A.M. ON MARCH 2, 1984

VICTIM WAS ASSISTING THE SECTION ELECTRICIAN IN SPLICING THE TRAILING CABLE TO HIS SHUTTLE CAR WHICH WAS PARKED ON A GRADE. THE SHUTTLE CAR ROLLED DOWN THE GRADE, RUNNING OVER THE VICTIM. THE ELECTRICIAN WAS KNOCKED IN THE CLEAR AND WAS INJURED. VICTIM HAD BROKEN NECK AND CRUSHED CHEST

DID NOT SET HIS SAFETY JACKS AND DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIM WHILE OUT PAST ROOF SUPPORT

TWO MAINTENANCE MEN WERE TRAMMING A 14-BCM JOY MINER FROM NO 1 ENTRY TO NO 4 ENTRY TO SERVICE THE MINER. UPON REACHING THE CROSSCUT BETWEEN NO 3 & 4 ENTRIES THE MAN OPERATING THE MINER LOOKED BACK AND SAW HIS BUDDY LYING ON THE MINE FLOOR. HE HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE BOOM OF THE MINER. IT COULD NOT BE DETERMINED IF HE HAD BEEN CAUGHT AGAINST THE COAL RIB

THE VICTIM WAS SITTING IN FIRST CROSSCUT IN THE #1 ENTRY ON THE FIRST LEFT SECTION 60\ INBY SPAD #67. THE ROOF IN INTERSECTION FELL ABOVE ANCHORAGE ZONE OF THE ROOF BOLTS RENDERING FATAL INJUR IES TO HIM.

A ROCK FALL AT THE FACE CAUGHT THE VICTIMS HEAD, AND PINNED IT AGAINST THE BOTTOM.

WAS MARKING TOP FOR LOCATION OF ROOF BOLTS TO BE INSTALLED & A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK, APPROX 3" THICK X 10\ WIDE X 8\ LONG FELL, CATCHING ERNEST UNDERNEATH THE ROCK

THE EMPLOYEE WAS GREASING THE HEAD ROLLER ON A RADIAL STACKER, HE WAS ON THE BELT WHEN IT WAS ENGAGED CAUSING HIM TO FALL 35 FT. & 8 IN. AND LAND ON ASPHALT, WHICH RESULTED IN A FRACTURED SKUL L & A BROKEN NECK

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING COAL WITH A SCOOP OUT OF THE RIGHT BREAK IN #6 ENTRY AT #7 MINE. WHEN HE STARTED TO MAKE THE LAST CLEAN UP RUN ON THE INBY SIDE OF THE RIGHT BREAK, HE BACKED UP THINKING T HAT HE WAS GOING INTO THE LEFT BREAK. WHEN HE HIT THE INBY CORNER OF THE LEFT BREAK IN THE #6 HEADING, HIS HEAD HIT THE RIB AND WAS FORCED INTO THE FRAME OF THE SCOOP. THE COAL HEIGHT IN THIS

EE WAS TOLD BY FOREMAN TO CUT SOME TREES THAT WERE ALREADY ON THE GROUND. THAT THE FOREMAN WOULD BE THERE IN A FEW MINUTES TO HELP HIM. WHEN HE WAS FOUND LATER HE WAS PINNED UNDER A T REE AGAINST A ROCK. APPARENTLY TREE FELL ON HIM & HE WAS PINNED AGAINST A ROCK.

THE VICTIM WAS CHECKING POWER CONNECTIONS IN THE 4160 VOLT COMPARTMENT OF THE SECTION TRANSFORMER WHEN HE CONTACTED AN ENERGIZED POWER CIRCUIT.

EMPLOYEE FELL INTO CUMBERLAND RIVER FOR NO APPARENT REASON & DROWNDED EMPLOYEE HAD LIFE VEST ON BUT NOT FASTENED LIFE VEST CAME OFF DURING FALL

22% SLOPE ON ROADWAY, BRAKES ON EQUIPMENT FAILED RESULTING IN FATALITY.

MR. BRAFFORD ON HIS WAY TO GET R/R CAR TO DROP IN TO TIPPLE TO LOAD, HE WAS STRUCK BY A END LOADER.

TROUBLESHOOTING-REPAIR WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED ON SURFACE ELCTRICAL SUBSTATION (POWER WAS DE-ENERGIZED TO LOW VOLTAGE CONTROL CIRCUIT ON WHICH ACTUAL WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED). EMPLOYEE WAS U NDER NO DIRECT WORK ASSIGNMENT AT THE TIME, BUT FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON (SPECULATED HE WAS RETRIEVING A DROPPED POCKET KNIFE) HE STEPPED INSIDE THE SUBSTATION AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH AN ENERGI

AN ELKHORN AR-4 BATTERY SCOOP OPERATED BY VICTIM WAS BEING TRAMMED FROM THE SCOOP PILE LEVEL TO THE MINE PORTAL LEVEL ON THE SURFACE NEAR THE TOP OF THE INCLINE RAODWAY. THE SCOOP STARTED TO ROLL BACKWARDS DOWNGRADE & STRUCK THE UPPER HILLSIDE BANK. A LARGE BOULDER WAS DISLODGED & FELL ON TO THE OPERATOR COMPARTMENT STRIKING & IMPALING THE VICTIM ON THE END OF T HE DEENERGIZEIN

HIDDEN SLIP IN RIB RELEASED ROCK AND FELL ON VICTIM.

TROUBLE SHOOTING 480 VAC CABLE WHILE ENERGIZED. METER LEAD PULLED OUT OF METER STRIKING GARY ON HAND WHICH RESULTED IN DEATH.

ROOF AT FACE FATALLY INJURED EMPLOYEE.

UNAWARE OF CREW MEMBER WALKING ON BLIND SIDE OF SHUTTLE CAR AND RAN OVER HIM.UNSURE OF EVENTS INVOLVED.EMPL STRUCK AND RUN OVER BY SHUTTLE CAR IN #3 ENTRY BETWEEN 1 & 2 X-CUTS OUTBY FACE.EMPL PULLING ROOF BOLTER CABLE DOWN PREPARING TO HANG CABLE ON CROSSOVER WHEN STRUCK.

SETTING JACKS ON WILCOX MINER-PULLING OUT OF WORKING PLACE. ROOF FALL-ONE ROCK FELL,HORSEBACK DETECTED 17\LONG X 4\-0\ X 10\WIDE,IMMEDIATELY OUTBY FACE #1 ENTRY IN 004 SECT.

EMPL PUSHED EMERGENCY STOP BUTTON AS CAGE WAS ASCENDING ON INSPECTION SPEED.HE OPENED CAGE DOOR MANUALLY, GOT OUT OF CAGE AND DROPPED DOWN TO TOP FRAME OF BOTTOM LANDING DOORS.WHEN CAGE DOORS WERE SHUT THE CAGE CAME DOWN ON VICTIM WHO APPARENTLY WAS ATTEMPTING TO ADJUST BOTTOM LANDING DOOR SAFETY INTERLOCK SWITCH.KILLED INSTANTLY.

OPERATING DRILL BY RAISING MAST TO ACCOMMODATEFOR REPAIRS TO LEAKING HYDRAULIC CYLINDER LOCATED IN MAST.MAST WAS IN 80 DEG. RAISE POSITION WHEN BODY FOUND.ONE LINE WAS BROKEN AND LIE ON GROUND ONE TELEPHONE LINE STILL IN CONTACT WITH MAST.VICTIM WAS (HAD BEEN) STANDING ON GROUND AND OPERATING CONTROLS.

ROCKFALL RESULTING IN DEATH-ROCKFALL WITHIN SUPPORTED AREA.