Speed Mine — Accidents

Total: 656 accidents | Fatalities: 3

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
04/20/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 60d lost Employee was attempting to plaster a stopping on the 17 Headgate Section. Employee was carrying a bag of b bond on employee's shoulder from the track entry to the belt entry. In the process of carryin...
04/16/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 72d lost Employee was busting up a piece of rock that was beside the rib at 21 break on the Parallel Mains ""A"" belt line. After the employee busted the rock into some smaller pieces employee was going to pla...
04/06/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Employee was shoveling the tail piece on the 20 Headgate Section. In the process of the employee shoveling the tailpiece the employee felt a pain in employee's chest, head, employee's lower back.
04/05/2016 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 60d lost Employee was operating a scoop on the 6 West section. The employee was going outby to load up some roof bolts to take up to the roof bolter up on the section. In the process of tramming the scoop, emp...
03/19/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 149d lost Employee was hanging C/M cable at the mouth or 16 Headgate. The injured employee was assigned the job task of changing out the section scoop charger on 16 Headgate with one that was outby. In the proc...
03/19/2016 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 60d lost EE was operating #328 shuttle car on the 16 Headgate Section. EE was going to get out of the shuttle car to hang up a piece of miner cable. In the process of EE walking to the cable a piece of rock th...
03/08/2016 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Injured EE was assisting another EE to change out a planetary on the #218 C/M machine in use on 1 North Section. EE was prying down on planetary with a slate bar while co-worker was striking it w/16lb...
02/20/2016 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was operating a roof bolter and a piece of the mine roof approx 27"" Long X 21"" Wide X 2"" Long fell and struck employee in the right forearm causing a laceration that required 13 stitches t...
02/18/2016 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 68d lost EE was operating the tail end of the longwall shearer. The EE shut the shearer down and was going to set bits. In the process of EE changing bits a rock that measured 3'X3'X4"" fell from the mine roof...
02/12/2016 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 3d lost, 80d restricted Employee was assisting another employee change the conveyor pot on the #216 C/M machine. The employees were kneeled down in the pan of the C/M machine using slate bars to try to line the conveyor pot...
02/10/2016 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was operating a roof bolt machine and a piece of mine roof fell and caught employee's right hand between the roof bolter and the rock causing a laceration that required 5 stitches to close.
02/05/2016 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 176d lost Employee was operating a roof bolter and a piece of rock fell from mine roof and smashed employees hand between rock and roof bolt machine.
02/04/2016 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was operating the Longwall shearer and a piece of rock was thrown by the head end drum and struck employee in the face causing a laceration that required 3 stitches.
02/03/2016 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 219d lost Employee was attempting to lift a roll of fly pads and while doing so the roll of fly pad slipped out of hands and fell onto right foot/ankle.
02/02/2016 HOISTING ACCIDENT ONLY None At approximately 10:15am it was discovered that the 3 mile air shaft emergency stationary hoist guide rails were damaged. The damaged to the guide rails was caused by ground hooving.
01/26/2016 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 48d lost On January 26th, 2016, injured employee was attempting to make a splice on #1 surface belt. IE was carrying a nail board to the work area when they tripped over a center cam roller submerged in the sn...
01/13/2016 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 69d lost, 12d restricted Employee was trying to move a rock off of a shuttle car cable and while doing so employee slipped on another rock causing employee to stumble and twist employee's left knee.
01/13/2016 FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 138d lost Employee was walking up a set of steps at 3 mile fan on surface and a piece of metal slid down steps and struck employee in the left ankle resulting in a fracture to employee's left ankle.
12/22/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee was working at the Box Cut area around the Dawes drift mouth. The employee was attempting to move a 6 foot timber out of the walkway and was going to throw it into a crosscut. In the process...
12/18/2015 FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 8d lost Injured employee was in the process of cleaning material due to pan line gobbing out, when a rock fell off the pan line striking employee's ankle.
12/01/2015 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 64d lost Employee was moving a piece of guarding that was against the rib and a piece of rock approx. 2.5' long x 4"" thick, fell and struck him in the left thigh. *Employee started missing work due to injury...
11/25/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall was discovered @ 35 Brk, 3 south intake. The fall measured approx. 20 feet wide X 35 feet long X 12feet thick.
11/13/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 60d lost Employee was lifting a bucket (5 gal) full of antifreeze and felt pain in his lower back.
11/04/2015 INUNDATION ACCIDENT ONLY None At approximately 4:40 P.M. on 11/4/15 a sudden inundation of methane occurred on the active 18 Headgate section longwall face. Shield 79 to the tail.
11/02/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 63d lost Employee was lifting a 5 gallon can of hydraulic oil when he felt a sharp pain in his lower back. Employee was attempting to set the can on the dozer track.
10/28/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall above anchorage was discovered at approximately 9:00 AM. The fall occurred at 14 Tail Gate Break 114, 1 thru 3 crosscuts. There were no injuries nor was ventilation impeded.
10/17/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Employee was fire bossing at 72 brk. 2 South seal pump when he tripped over a 6 inch discharge line and fell into a sand prop that was set around the seal wing wall injuring right knee.
09/20/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall above anchored occurred at approximately 8:20 AM. The fall occurred on the slope belt at break 12 in the intersection. They were no injuries nor was ventilation impeded. The...
09/16/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was using a slate bar to remove a rock from on top of the continuous mining machine. In the process of prying the rock off of the continuous mining machine, the rock slid down the slate bar a...
09/11/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 29d lost Employee was walking toward face from the power center on the 6 West section. After the employee got past the power center about a break, he slipped on the wet roadway and twisted his lower back.
08/31/2015 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 33d lost Employee was pulling a shield in on the longwall face. In the process of pulling in the shield his foot caught got under the pontoon of the shield and it caused him to smash his right foot. It broke t...
08/28/2015 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 36d lost Employee was helping to move the power on the longwall section. The monorail became hung up and the injured employee was feeling a joint of it looking for a rough spot. In the process of feeling the m...
08/26/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was going to help to unload vulcanize equipment at 3 South Head. In the process of stepping out of the battery motor he stepped on a rock, twisting his left knee, and fell face first to the g...
08/20/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee was helping set timbers at 13 brk on 3 South belt line. He was using a pick hammer to set the cab wedges. He swang to hit the cap wedge with his hammer. When he did the hammer bounced back an...
08/20/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 41d lost Employee was walking around the scoop that another employee was operating up on 17 Headgate. They had just loaded a winch power box into the scoop bucket and they were going to take to the mouth of th...
08/04/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred at approximately 1:15 AM. The fall occurred at the long bottom seal at the intersection of the No. 3 seal. No injuries occurred nor was ventilation impeded. The tra...
07/23/2015 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 32d lost Employee was helping unload supplies on the 6 West section at the supply doors. They had hooked up the pull chain to a pilot of bulk dust and the scoop so they could pull the dust into the scoop. In t...
07/23/2015 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 26d lost Employee was helping change battery cells out of the #523 scoop on the 18 headgate longwall section. In the process of loading one of the battery cells into the #765 Duckbill Mantrip, the employee fel...
07/21/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 63d lost Employee suffered a back strain when he slipped/tripped and fell onto the draw head of a low boy.
07/18/2015 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 1d lost Employee was scooping gob out of a break on the long wall when a cable bolt flipped up out of the gob striking the employee in the back of the head causing his forehead to strike the value chest in th...
07/16/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall above anchored occurred at approximately 12:30AM. The fall occurred at the Long Bottom Seals between seal No 2 and seal no 3. No injuries occurred nor was ventilation impede...
07/03/2015 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 61d lost Employee was using a pair of chain hoists to pull in belt on 4 South. In the process of operating the chain hoist the clamp came loose off of the belt and caused the employee to fall off the ""A"" fra...
06/14/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 84d lost Employee was walking in the #3 belt entry to 55 break on 19 head gate when a rock that measured 5 1/2 foot long, by 2 1/2 foot wide, by 1/2 to 3 inches thick fell between two bolts striking the employ...
06/09/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 33d lost Employee was helping to move some shuttle car cable up on the 6 West Section. In the process of pulling on the shuttle car cable, the employee tripped on a rock causing him to fall against the rib, st...
05/30/2015 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 22d lost Employee was installing a sieve wheel to the mine roof to pull in the belt on 6 West. As the employee started to hang the sieve, a rock on the right corner rib rolled out smashing the employee's right...
05/26/2015 FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 82d lost Employee was backing the continuous miner out of a cut when a rock fell out between the rib and outside bolts striking the employee on the left foot.
05/15/2015 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall above anchored occurred at approximately 4:50AM. The fall occurred on 5 West B-Beltbreak No 13 in the track entry. There were no injuries nor was ventilation impeded. The fa...
05/11/2015 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 30d lost EE was assisting another employee carry a 60"" top roller to a scoop insert. In the process of carrying the roller the EE stepped into the scoop insert to stack the top roller on top of another one. W...
04/27/2015 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee was diagnose with permanent partial hearing loss.
03/09/2015 POWERED HAULAGE ALL OTHER CASES (INCL 1ST AID) None Employee was operating scoop near the bottom of the slope when he lost brakes suddenly and struck a concrete pad stopping abruptly. Employee continued to work until 4/24/15 when he was taken off work...