Excel #5 — Accidents

Total: 122 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
01/19/2026 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee was sitting on a bucket at the end of the boom loading a shuttle car with a miner. A rock fell off the boom and landed on both of EE's feet. This caused a laceration on EE's left foot that re...
12/09/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was loading plates on the bolter. They turned around and their elbow came in contact with a bundle of plates. This resulted in a laceration that required 8 stitches.
11/25/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was trying to cut straps on cable bolts. EE was cutting away from self and couldn't cut the bands. EE turned the knife around and was using it like a saw. when the band finally cut, the blade...
09/19/2025 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 6d lost Employee was down on 1 knee cleaning EE's dust box on the roof bolter. A piece of rock fell from between the rib and outside bolt. The rock landed on the back of the foot at the heal. This caused a br...
08/24/2025 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A non injury roof fall was found on 1 belt break 5 in the travel way. The mine examiner had finished their examination and was on the way to the surface when the fall was found.
07/25/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 63d lost Employee was straightening bolts that were laying on the bolter in order to make room for plates that were being loaded. Another employee threw a bundle of plates on the bolter. The plates struck empl...
06/17/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 76d lost Employee was on top of the bolter on knees sliding plates across the bolter. They twisted and felt a pain in their back.
06/05/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a multiplier to remove lug bolts from a scoop. The socket shattered causing EE's hand to slip and hit EE's arm. This caused a laceration that required stitches.
06/02/2025 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall was found during the weekly exam. The location was panel SC-2 #10 entry, 1 break up and 1 break to the left of spad 370. All entries in the panel are common return.
04/24/2025 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee had moved miner from #9 to #6. They had the ropes hooked to the head and pushed the cable into the heading. They went to the head and unhooked the ropes, when they turned around there was a r...
04/22/2025 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 114d lost Employee was helping remove a flight from a miner chain. Employee was over the chain. Another employee was using a hammer to drive the pin out. A piece of metal broke off the pin, went under the safet...
04/19/2025 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A non injury roof fall was found during the weekly airway run. It was on the NW parallel, panel P5 in the #4 entry. This was a continuation of an existing fall.
04/08/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee had drill a hole in the roof to install a bolt. The drill steel got stuck, EE was using both hands to pull the steel out of the hole. When the steel came out of the hole, it dislodged a piece...
03/15/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was running through a flypad, a bolter was parked about 3' from the flypad with the power off. EE hit EE's head on the ATRS causing a laceration the required 4 stitches.
02/06/2025 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 17d lost, 33d restricted Employee was starting to drill the outside hole. When the steel touched the roof, the bit broke and the up pressure caused the drill steel to bend in 2 places. EE hit the rotation causing the steel to...
11/24/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Employee found a roof fall on 1A travel way from break 8 to 16 while preshifting. This is a continuation of a previous fall.
11/17/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Employee was pre-shifting and found a fall on 1A travelway from break 16 to 17 #4 entry
10/29/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 64d lost Employee was swinging in after installing the outside bolt. A piece of rock fell from the top hitting the employee in the right arm causing a laceration that required stitches.
10/28/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Employee found a roof fall during the preshift.
10/18/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was drilling a test hole when employee put the steel in the chuck, a piece of rock fell and hit employee's left hand between the thumb and index finger.
08/28/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 28d lost Employee was bending 2 roof bolts over the tire of the bolter. EE felt a pain in EE's groin area. EE was diagnosed with a hernia. EE started missing work on 9/24/2024.
08/22/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost That crew was lifting beam up and it kicked out falling on EE's leg. It was 5 and 1/2 feet tall in that area, bottom was clean.
08/21/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 32d lost Employee was on EE's knees pushing the battery lids up to do maintenance. As EE was pushing, EE felt a pain in EE's stomach. EE was diagnosed with a hernia and started missing work on 10/7/2024.
08/14/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Fall was found while make weekly exam. Top appears to be okay in #6 entry, inby and outby the fall.
06/13/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was operating the boom on the maintenance scoop. A piece of rock fell from the bolt to the rib and struck employee in the back. This caused a bruised muscle.
06/11/2024 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 113d lost Employee was on EE's knees cutting out inserts on a miner. As EE was cutting, another employee was using a hammer to drive the others in. They were about 3 feet apart. A piece of insert broke, went ab...
06/07/2024 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was stacking plate on the bolter. After they stacked the plates, they turned around to see where they were going to step and caught their wrist on the edge of the plates causing a laceration...
05/24/2024 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 54d lost Employee was using a slate bar to pull a rock off of the miner (the continuous miner was located in a heading). When the rock slid off the side of the miner, they did not allow enough room to move out...
05/23/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 6d lost Employee was bolting in #7 heading, EE swung the pot in to put up the inside bolt. A rock slid off the top of the canopy and hit EE's foot. EE did not miss any work until 6/10/2024. Because of the swe...
05/10/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 74d lost Employee had swung the pot out to put up a corner bolt in the first cut out of a break. As EE was getting on knees, a piece of rock from the first row of bolts outby the cut from the outside bolt to t...
05/06/2024 OTHER DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 116d lost Employee was walking from a power center to the head drive and felt a burning sensation in their left knee.
04/26/2024 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 117d lost Employee had dropped the buggy cable that was hung. When employee walked around the corner, the shuttle car operator started the car. The slack that was on the ground reeled up hitting the employee ca...
04/11/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 7d lost Employee was in EE's first place to bolt that morning. After EE placed the bolt in the hole, EE was straightening the bolt to put it in the pot. EE felt a pain in EE's right shoulder.
03/22/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall was encountered at break 30 on 5B belt in the intake at spad 6423.
03/18/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Employee had drilled hole to put up the inside bolt, when employee twisted around to pick up the bolt, employee felt a pain in the left side of lower back.
02/27/2024 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 33d lost Employee was drilling a hole to install a bolt in the last row in a cut. A piece of rock fell from the outside bolt to the rib striking employee on the back. This caused a fracture to the employee's...
02/15/2024 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 114d lost Employee had just installed cable bolts. EE was at the inch tram, when EE dropped the ATRS, a piece of rib rolled off knocking EE against the bolter. This resulted in a fracture to EE's lower back an...
01/29/2024 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a sledge hammer to remove belt clamps. When they swung the hammer, the handle came in contact with the clamp and caused a laceration on their finger that required stitches.
01/17/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 90d lost Employee was dropping a cable, the cable fell and a hanger caught the end of EE's index finger causing a laceration and a fracture to the end of EE's finger.
01/16/2024 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee bent over to move a miner cable from the road way and felt a pain in lower back.
12/02/2023 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Employee found a roof fall in the off neutral after making a preshift. The fall was located on 2 belt at break 18 in the off neutral in the intersection.
12/02/2023 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A non-injury roof fall above the primary support occurred on the Northwest Parallel old 7A break 27 left return.
11/16/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 134d lost Contract employee was pulling a bolt off of the roof bolter that was under a rock. They felt a pain in their lower back.
11/10/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was loading the roof bolter. EE had loaded the operator's side with plates. As EE was throwing the plates to the other side, EE came in contact with the plates and caused a laceration on EE's forea...
10/25/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None An alliance coal employee from central office was helping straighten up the supply yard. Employee was helping move a canopy post from 1 pallet to another. The end slipped and mashed a finger between t...
10/10/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee got a Rope Bolt stuck in the hole as EE pulled it out of the hole by hand, the end of the bolt hit EE's lip causing a puncture that required 2 stitches. This also resulted in a broken tooth.
09/29/2023 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 18d lost Contract Employee was wedging a brattice with a pole ax. They had both hands on the handle driving the wedge. The handle of the ax came in contact with the block, mashing their index finger. This caus...
09/21/2023 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was cutting a zip tie with the utility knife. EE had left hand resting on the machine. When EE cut the zip tie the blade slipped and cut the palm of the left hand.
09/11/2023 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 45d lost Employee was watering the scoop batteries that was sitting on the ground. EE had the lids raised with EE's hand on the batteries. The lid fell and caught EE's fingers causing a fracture to EE's left r...
09/11/2023 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A non injury roof fall was found when the mine examiner was making their airways. The fall was located out by 7 section on their right return.