Bridger Underground Coal Mine — Accidents

Total: 241 accidents | Fatalities: 2

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
08/17/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None On August 17, 2010, a roof fall was discovered at crosscut #28, Main West Section, #1 entry.
08/04/2010 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted Employee was spot bolting, as he was inserting the resin he felt pain in his back.
08/01/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was installing clips on a Kennedy stopping, he was using a ladder in performing this task. The ladder settle in the mud, employee grasp a panel, cutting his finger. The injury required stitch...
07/21/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee had been taking coal samples and placing them in 55 gallon barrels. Next morning he noticed a bulge in his abdomen. Later, employee sought medical attention and was diagnosed with a hernia. H...
07/08/2010 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 72d lost, 22d restricted While bolting ribs, employee twisted his back as he was installing a truss bolt. Medical attention was not sought until July 19, 2010 and at that time he was placed on restricted duty.
06/28/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was loading a trailer with supplies, dust rolled back under safety glasses into miners eye.
06/12/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 18d lost Employee alleged that he hurt his shoulder as he was pushing up on ventilation tubing that was hanging from the roof of the mine. On 7-21-2010, the employee received treatment for impingement syndrom...
06/02/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 41d lost Injured worker and fellow worker were pulling up water hose in preparation to wash equipment on the longwall. As the hose was being pulled the valve caught causing the hose to turn on. The hose whippe...
05/01/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 15d restricted Employee was in the process of moving ventilation tubing, during this process a piece of cap rock fell and struck the employee in the head. Medical personnel has placed the employee on restricted duty...
03/26/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 37d lost Employee was stepping from a vehicle, did not notice drop in floor level. As his feet engaged the floor, he felt pain in his back. He was released to work but the condition continued to worsen. Emplo...
02/08/2010 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was in process of repairing long wall shield, he accidentally turned on a valve supplying pressurized emulsion to a hose that he was going to hook up to the shield. The pressurized hose struc...
01/28/2010 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While attempting to free up the gearing of a hoist with the use of a screw driver, the screw driver slipped allowing employees finger to come in contact with one of the gears of the hoist. Employees f...
12/09/2009 FIRE ACCIDENT ONLY None On December 09, 2009, a fire was discovered in an outcrop area of a coal seam. The fire was not in the coal seam being mined. The fire was not extinguished in required time frame, therefore, the fire...
11/21/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Coal fines fell off of crossunder striking employee in eye.Employee was given prescription medication for his eye.
11/20/2009 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 31d restricted While getting down from a piece of equipment, employee stepped onto the ground and released his hands from the machine. As his weight transferred to his foot, employee twisted his ankle. Further medi...
10/14/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 181d lost Employee was performing permissiblity on a diesel powered rock duster. Employee posisioned him self in a pinch point. The ending result was employee received a fractured left wrist. This is a lost t...
10/10/2009 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None On 10/10/09 there was a roof fall at XC 30 #3 entry Main West. There was no known indication prior to roof fall.
08/04/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While pulling up monorail slack, a piece of a clip became stuck in the monorail. Employee used a screwdriver to free the monorail roller. After freeing the roller, the roller rolled back over his fing...
06/02/2009 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 40d restricted On June 2, 2009, employee mentioned to his supervisor that he felt pain in his elbow. After extensive medical evaulation, medical professionals determined that the employee has cubital tunnel syndrome...
06/01/2009 IMPOUNDMENT ACCIDENT ONLY None Severe weather started to move into the area around the coal mine and within a short period of time heavy rain began. The area around the highwall and surrounding drainages began to run a considerable...
05/19/2009 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 3d lost, 43d restricted Employee alleges that while swinging a sledge hammer on a piece of rock, he felt a pop in his elbow. After extensive medical evaluation, the employee has been placed on restrictive duty. The differenc...
05/14/2009 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was cutting a section of belt with a knife. The employee slipped, causing the knife to dislodge from the belt, striking the employee above the right knee. The injury required stitches.
04/24/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Injured employee was helping in the repair of a continuous miner conveyor chain. The chain became tangled, fellow employee pushed on the chain, causing the chain to flip over. A flight section of the...
03/23/2009 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Injury was walking between two roof bolters. One of which was being operated by other employee. The operator moved the machine to drill a new hole pinning other employee between the two machines. He...
03/19/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 90d restricted Employee installing hydraulic pump in mobile diesel equipment. Felt pain in left shoulder. After further medical evaluation on March 31, 09, employee was placed on restrictive duty.
02/25/2009 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While cutting on a plastic bucket with a razor knife, the knife slipped and cut the left thumb of the employee. Stitches were required.
02/05/2009 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While taking a shower the employee slipped and hit his head on the floor. This injury required stitches. He was released for regular duty.
02/04/2009 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted Employee was turning on a water valve, stood up and fell over onto beltline structure, hurting his ribs. Original medical examine and x-rays showed no rib breaks, later medical evaluation showed rib b...
01/12/2009 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While installing a new spring board on a continuous miner using a roof jack to assist in the installation of the spring board, the jack handle slipped out and hit the injured miner in the right upper...
12/15/2008 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted After employee finished shift, he left in personal vehicle and slid on icy spot and wrecked personal vehicle. Although, Bridger does not agree this incident as reportable, Bridger is reporting in good...
11/17/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted While grabbing 8"" steel pipe with left hand to position the pipe for fitting with the other pipes, the miner felt a strain i his lower left back region. Miner did not miss any work and has been place...
11/09/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 159d lost Miner alleged that he slipped while walking in entry way and felt pain in his back Was not reported to supervisor for two days later. The miner had been previously injury in mining accident in Utah in...
08/06/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None While tramming the miner around a corner the cable was pulled down from roof striking employee in the face cutting eye brow over left eye.
07/26/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was unloading 6' aqua pipe off of the haulage equipment. He was located on top of the vehicle. The pipe started to roll, hitting the employee and knocking him to the ground. He was taken to t...
06/25/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 42d restricted Injured miner was carrying a roller along with a fellow miner. The roller got hung up on injured miner's coat causing a poor carrying position causing pain in the lower back. Injury happened on 6-25-0...
03/31/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 17d lost, 297d restricted Employee was working on the belt line in muddy conditions. There was pipe in the walk way, the employee was walking across the pipe when his foot slipped and was caught between two pieces of pipe. His...
03/29/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Return off the longwall was being re-habilitated due to upcoming longwall move. A roof fall occurred inby the area of rehibilitation for an area of roof 20 ft. long x 11 ft wide and 4 ft in height fe...
03/28/2008 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Removing old belt roller. Roller was hard to get out so he was tapping it with a hammer. Employee tried to grab roller when another employee hit his finger with a hammer causing a laceration to his...
03/07/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 52d lost Employee was working on top of feeder (030101) 4th right section. When employee was getting down from the feeder he jumped the last two feet, lost his footing and hyper-extended his left shoulder. Emp...
01/22/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 6d lost Employee was packing a rock over the stage loader to put on the pan. He slipped and fell. Landed on his stomach pinching hand between rock and panline. Finger on left hand was cut requiring five st...
12/29/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None The top is falling out 9? to 12? out in front of the tips shields #1 thru #5. Top falling high, started out at or about the horizon of the anchor point of the original bolts. #1 shield tipped over...
12/12/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None The longwall face was mining through #15 crosscut. Between night shift and day shift the crosscut fell in.
11/26/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 21d restricted The employee was operating the Tele-Tram. He was following some pickups between the airlock doors. When the truck in front of him stopped, he was unable to stop his machine before the angle iron in...
11/13/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None During the pre-shift examination of the 1st Right intake, a roof fall was discovered in the #3 entry at #28 xc.
11/07/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was stacking 60"" top belt rollers. He was lifting them with his right hand and as he lost his grip, he tried to catch it with his left hand. The roller pinched the index finger of his...
09/14/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was building a Kennedy Stopping and while he was holding the Kennedy Pannel, the top slid down and the sharp edges, cut the end of his finger. He required 3 stitches.
07/24/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall was discovered in the 2nd Rt. intake just ouby #16 xc. The fall measured approx. 20' long, 16' wide and 6 to 7' high. The area is wet and the stratta experienced degradation due to satu...
07/24/2007 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost Employee was shoveling coal onto conveyor belt. The shovel struck the belt and roll jerking the shovel from the employee's hands. Employee reported burning sensation in his lower back later in the s...
07/07/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall was discovered in the 1st Right section, which is the tailgate of the longwall. The fall was at cross cut #14 between the #1 and #2 entries. Neither travel nor ventilation were effected....
05/18/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 16d lost The employee was taking down overhead lights from a belt drive area. He was on the 3rd rung of a step ladder and reached out to hang a cable. One of the legs of the ladder folded under and he fell t...