No 7 Mine — Accidents

Total: 1,417 accidents | Fatalities: 5

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
08/18/2016 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None ROOF FALL - Occurred in the No.4 entry on 6 section of the E9 tailgate panel. The fall was approx. 28 feet in length and 5-1/2 to 6 feet in height up to the main roof.
08/17/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None REPORTABLE ONLY - Employee was helping move steel sheets to a pallet when ee caught the end of finger between a steel sheet causing fracture to tip of finger.
08/13/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 40d lost Employee was walking down the longwall from the Headgate to the Tailgate when EE slipped and twisted EE's knee causing tear to the meniscus.
08/05/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None REPORTABLE ONLY DUE TO SUTURES - Employee was cleaning up walkway & attempted to throw an impact roller out of the way, caught right ring finger between the roller and wood post causing laceration req...
07/10/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 8d lost Employee was helping pull broken belt back together when the wire rope broke hitting the employee in the face and back causing fracture to EE's nose.
07/07/2016 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - Occurred on the No. 12 section as the continuous miner was cutting bottom in the No. 2 face curtin side, when a bleeder in the mine floor was ignited. The flame lasted 30 seconds or less a...
06/16/2016 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - Occurred on No. 12 section in the No. 2 to No. 3 crosscut. The Continuous Miner was cutting coal and rock when a bleeder in the mine floor was ignited, the flame lasted about 30 seconds or...
05/27/2016 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - Occurred on the No. 6 section while the continuous miner was cutting curtain line side and a bleeder in the footwall was ignited. The flame last approx. 20 to 30 seconds and was extinguish...
05/20/2016 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - Occurred while cutting coal and rock in the No. 3 entry on the No. 12 section. A flash lasted one second and was extinguished by itself. They were cutting on curtain line side when they s...
05/12/2016 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was standing beside the winch at the momo-rail to watch the cable, the momorail hung causing chain to break and the tugger came back hitting EE in the mouth causing laceration and broken toot...
05/11/2016 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - Occurred on the No. 12 section in the No. 2 entry. The Continuous Miner was cutting bottom when a bleeder in the mine floor was ignited, the flame was extinguished with fire extinguishers.
05/10/2016 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - A frictional methane ignition occurred on the mine floor of the #1 face on #12 section. The ignition lasted approx. 15-20 seconds and was extinguished with a fire extinguisher. The miner...
05/03/2016 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 304d lost Employee was sitting in manbus as they were pulling through a switch to leave the bottom. They pulled up on the frog of the switch and stopped, the bus then dropped off the rail causing employee to ja...
03/30/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 34d lost Employee was working on surface at Preparation Plant cutting a 3"" valve out of a water pipe when the pipe fell hitting employee on top of foot. Employee has been working since date of accident and d...
03/30/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee was walking off the face when EE stepped in a hole between Shield #2 and #3 causing EE to fall spraining EE's ankle.
03/01/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None REPORTABLE ONLY - Employee had been using a pry bar to remove the vertical screen off the trash box. EE layed the bar on top of the trash box and continued to work on the screen, the bar fell striking...
02/16/2016 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None REPORTABLE ONLY - Employee was using a hammer, driving a pin out of a shield right above EE's head when the hammer slipped out of EE's hand hitting EE in the mouth chipping a tooth.
12/14/2015 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee had changed out a hose on the #60 shield and as he was raising and lowering the shield a 90 degree fitting broke, the hose whipped around striking employee on ankle causing a contusion to lef...
11/13/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 32d lost Employee was working to re-install pin on #112 shield that had backed out and when he bent over to lift clevis head he felt a burning pain in his stomach. Employee was diagnosed with a hernia on 11/2...
10/22/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 32d lost Employee was walking to the face on the longwall, as he came around the end of the stage loader he stepped to the side to avoid a hose and slipped and fell catching himself with his left arm causing a...
10/17/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost Employee was crossing under the By-pass belt at the cross under carrying a pair of come-a-longs on his shoulder when the come-a-longs hit on the cross under causing him to fall backwards, landing on a...
09/24/2015 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - A methane frictional ignition occurred in the No. 4 entry on the No. 7 section, E-11 Headgate. The miner was cutting bottom 10' from the face curtain line side of the No. 4 entry when the i...
09/14/2015 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - Methane frictional Ignition occurred in the No. 1 entry on the No. 12 section E10 Headgate. The miner was cutting the bottom rock on the curtain line side of the No. 1 Entry when the ignit...
09/08/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 164d lost Employee was helping lay track underground and was putting tie clips around to latch the ties to the rail and the rail slipped falling on his right foot causing fracture to foot.
08/14/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None REPORTABLE ONLY DUE TO SUTURES - Employee had put e-bolt in and was under the shield on the longwall when a rock fell glancing off an employee's hard hat striking his left hand causing laceration requ...
08/14/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 120d lost Employee was on surface walking to rock truck when he slipped and fell on some gravel, when trying to catch himself with his left hand he tore his rotator cuff requiring surgery.
07/28/2015 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 120d lost Employee was operating the left side of the roof bolter and was using a bolt wrench to push roof bolt into the hole when he felt pain in right shoulder resulting in Rotator Cuff Tear requiring surgery...
07/26/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 40d lost Employee was helping install a whole belt frame, when pushing frame across bottom belt to another employee he got his hand caught between the whole frame and rail causing fracture and sutures to the e...
07/20/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 20d lost Employee was de-trashing belt take up area when he picked up a bottom take up roller and felt pain in lower back causing lower back strain.
07/03/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 61d lost Employee was using a bar and wrench to tighten up bolts on track rail when wrench slipped off of bolt as he was pulling on bar causing him to fall backwards hitting his elbow on rail resulting in frac...
06/19/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was using a spinner wrench to tighten the cathead on the power center, as he was pulling up on the wrench it slipped causing the wrench to hit him in the mouth breaking teeth.
06/15/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 55d lost Degas crew was moving the degas drill. As the employee was loosening the jack a rock fell hitting his right shoulder knocking him down and he fell back on his ankle causing fracture to right ankle.
05/29/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Reportable only - Employee was standing close to where they were burning a bad insert out of 120 miner head, when the hot insert was hit with a hammer to clean the slag off a piece of slag came over h...
05/15/2015 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - Occurred while cutting in the No. 2 face on the No. 6 section. Operator had cut approx. 22 feet out of face and was cutting bottom rock when the frictional ignition occurred. The small fl...
05/14/2015 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 31d lost Employee was drilling a hole for a 6' pin, as he was adding a second drill steel and pushed the pot up the drill steel bowed, catching on the insert and the drill steel struck his left hand causing fr...
05/12/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 11d lost Employee was at the roofbolter when he lost his balance, slipped down under the operator side of the drill mast and accidently grabbed the controls causing the foot on roofbolter to come down catching...
05/07/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None REPORTABLE ONLY - Employee was assembling 6"" Aquamine pipe, while trying to connect a 6"" to 4"" reducer his left thumb was hit by victaulic coupling causing fracture to tip of thumb.
05/02/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 70d lost Employee was pushing against the fork of the Lo-Trac to re-adjust for picking up a core box, when he felt a pop in his left elbow. EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN WORKING SINCE DATE OF ACCIDENT UNTIL TAKEN OFF WOR...
04/28/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost Employee was helping build additional cribs due to the top deteriorating at the mesh line alongside the trailing shields. As the employee set the last two crib blocks on top of the crib, the rocks cam...
04/24/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None ROOF FALL - Occurred on No. 7 section in No. 2 entry face. Miner operator had cut 6 to 8 feet of top when started to flake and was backing the miner out when top fell in the face cut to just pass the...
04/23/2015 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - Occurred while cutting bottom on No. 6 section in the No. 3 to No. 2 cross-cut on the curtain line side. The flame was orange in color, lasting approx. 10 seconds and was extinguished usin...
04/12/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None ROOF FALL - Occurred on No. 12 section in cross-cut between No. 1 and No. 2 entry and 20 feet into No. 2 and No. 3 cross-cut. The rock fall was approx. 40 feet x 20 feet and approx. 15 feet high. Th...
04/09/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None REPORTABLE ONLY DUE TO SUTURES - Employee was attempting to loosen a clevis pin with pliers when the pliers slipped off, his left arm recoiled back striking a yield tube on the adjacent supply car cut...
04/09/2015 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - Potentially occurred on No. 2 Longwall while cutting on face chain at tailgate drive sprocket. Employees did not see a flame or flash, just heard a noise around the panline.
04/06/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 46d lost Employee was stepping off a ladder from the loader and felt sharp pain in the back of his knee, top of calf muscle. EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN WORKING SINCE DATE OF ACCIDENT AND DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT...
04/02/2015 IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST ACCIDENT ONLY None IGNITION - Occurred while mining in 2 to 3 crosscut on No. 6 section. The flame burned appox. 15 to 20 seconds, orange-yellow in color and was extinguished with a fire extinguisher.
03/24/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None REPORTABLE ONLY DUE TO SUTURES - Employee was holding a 3/8 chain that was connected to a water pump, when the other employee moved the equipment to get slack in the chain, the chain tightened up and...
03/23/2015 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Employee was walking down #3 entry of the section, when he stepped on some small rocks twisting his ankle causing sprain to ankle.
03/19/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Employee was walking when he stepped in a hole and his foot slipped back causing pain in his left calf muscle.
03/15/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 45d lost Employee was helping lift a 50HP motor in the prep plant, using boom truck and chain falls, from off conveyor belt to drive base when the motor hung on something and suddenly came free employee raised...