Royal Falcon Mine — Accidents

Total: 18 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
10/05/2009 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 61d lost EE was putting a roof bolt in a trimed off corner of an intersection. He bent over to pick up the roof bolt after drilling his hole and felt a pain in his left shoulder and neck. He continued to work...
06/09/2009 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 77d lost The employee was working on the Main West head roller out in the pit. When he was done, he stepped on the belt rail to get down. His foot slipped and he tried to catch himself by grabbing the coal shu...
06/02/2009 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unplanned roof fall occurred at Knight Hawk Coal LLC, Royal Falcon mine on 6-2-2009 in the Main North return. MSHA was immediatly notified and all steps required were followed. No K-order or citati...
05/26/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 279d lost Roof bolter was pulling drill steel out of chuck when he felt a pain in his left shoulder. He had continued to work after the accident until 10-19-09. The accident caused a tearing of his left shoulde...
05/22/2009 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Knight Hawk Coal LLC, Royal Falcon Mine has had an unplanned roof fall in #4 entry at the +570' cross cut in the Main North return. No equipment or people were envolved in the fall. The fall was calle...
04/25/2009 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unplanned roof fall was discovered in the Main North section in #7 entry at the +1495' mark. The fall was immediately called in to MSHA and all proceedures have been followed. We at Royal Falcon ha...
03/30/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 75d lost Employee was trying to hang the continuous miner cable by himself when he felt pain in his right shoulder. The pain continued to get worse and he had to have surgery on it on 5/11/09. Ron worked until...
02/15/2009 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Knight Hawk Coal LLC, Royal Falcon Mine has had an unplanned roof fall in the 1st E. Panel at the +580' mark in the #5 entry. Plans have been sent to MSHA to clean up the roof fall. No one was injured...
02/09/2009 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 22d lost Ram Car operator got off of his car to move some miner cable out of his haulage road. He felt a sharp, pulling pain in his stomach. He went to the doctor to have it checked out and found that he had a...
01/18/2009 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None We at Royal Falcon Mine had an unplanned roof fall on 1/18/2009 in the #2 entry at the +770 cross cut in the 1st E. Panel. A Fletcher double boom roof bolter was partially under the fall. A plan for r...
01/05/2009 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None We at Royal Falcon Mine had an unplanned roof fall in the 1st East panel at the +580 cross-cut in the #6 entry inby the section tailpiece. The roof fall fell on our Joy 12 continuous miner. All rehab...
12/30/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Knight Hawk Coal LLC, Royal Falcon Mine found a roof fall in the #1 entry of the Main West at the +430 cross cut in the return. The fall did not obstruct any escapeways, air courses, and was outby the...
12/17/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None Knight Hawk Coal LLC, Royal Falcon Mine has experienced an unintentional roof fall. The fall happened in the first set of return rooms of the 1st east panel at the +288 cross cut in the #3 entry. No p...
12/05/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 15d restricted Employee was helping put up Heintzman beams. They had put a safety chain around the beam and the boom of the Bobcat, when one of the men pushed too hard, causing the beam to come off of the boom of th...
10/20/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None This mine experienced a roof fall in #7 entry at the 470' cross cut.
09/26/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None This mine experienced a roof fall in #6 entry at the +277.5 cross cut.
07/09/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None This mine experienced a roof fall in #1 entry at the 5 + 30 cross cut.
06/07/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None This mine experienced a foof fall in #8 entry at the +333 cross cut.