Vision #9 — Accidents

Total: 155 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
11/29/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Employee was helping lift a 60 H.P. deep well pump to sit on a wooden block when he felt pain in his groin area.
02/11/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall has occurred in the 1st Northwest Sub-mains at Spad 28+00. The dimensions of roof fall are 180' long, 19' wide, and 6' high.
12/30/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall has occurred in the Second Southeast Mains in No. 3 entry at Spad 23+10. The dimensions of the roof fall are 50' long, 18' wide and 5' high.
12/20/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall has occurred in the second Southeast Mains between No. 4 and No. 5 entries, at crosscut 32. The dimensions of the roof fall are 35' long, 18' wide and 10' high.
12/13/2007 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee had put golf cart on charge in golf cart charging station. As he started to walk away he hit a fire suppression nozzle suspended from mine foor which resulted in a laceration to his left ear...
10/04/2007 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 11d lost, 16d restricted Employee was installing roof bolt and as he started to raise boom to insert bolt into roof the other boom was swung hard by other operator. The roof bolt came out of the chuck and struck employee on l...
09/22/2007 MACHINERY DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 6d lost, 40d restricted Employee was installing roof bolt. Pushing roof bolt up into hole he had his left hand on the bolt. He accidentally started the rotation causing his hand to twist around the bolt resulting in a sprain...
09/11/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall has occurred in the main east, No. 6 Entry, Spad 54 + 15. The dimensions of this fall are 20' long, 18' wide and 8' high.
08/24/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 13d lost Employee was rockdusting belt entry and rockdust hose caught on something. He jerked on hose to free it and felt pain in lower back. He did not start missing work until september 13.
08/14/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 12d lost Employee was changing shuttle car tire and it fell over. He and another employee were lifting the tire back upright when he felt pain in his lower right abdomen and later in his groin.
06/05/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 9d lost Employee was pulling shuttle car cable out of reel. He later felt pain in groin at the site of an old hernia where he had surgical repair three months ago, at a previous employer.
04/23/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 79d lost EE was picking up pull chain on shuttle car and twisted right knee.
04/19/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 33d lost EE was walking through curtain & struck his head on a roof bolt in the mine roof, jamming his neck & causing pain in his neck.
04/16/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall has occurred in the second southeast mains in no. 5 entry at spad 25+20. The dimension of the fall is 40' long, 18' wide and 12' high.
04/16/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 82d lost EE lifted a 5 gallon bucket that had bolts in it. (about half full). Felt pain in his lower back.
04/04/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Employee was in bath house and bumped against hook that holds clothes baskets aloft. Hook disengaged and empty metal clothes basket fell striking him in left eye resulting in laceration to eye lid.
03/12/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 8d restricted Ee was climbing up on dozer and his foot slipped, causing his left knee to strike cleat on dozer track. Impact was at lower edge of left knee, resulting in severe pain.
02/10/2007 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was splicing cable and knife slipped, resulting in a cut on left thigh, which required five stitches.
02/06/2007 POWERED HAULAGE NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE had just dumped his car at feeder and was turning around in operator's compartment, when another car cable anchored next to him, jumped to the side hitting him on the right side of the head, drivin...
12/20/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Helping build crib with co-worker and crib block fell mashing little finger on left hand.
12/09/2006 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall has occurred int he first southeast maws, in no.1 entry inby spad 10 & 50. The dimensions of the roof fall area 50' long, 18' wide and 19' high.
12/01/2006 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 12d lost EE was helping splice belt and usually a piece of diesel equipment was out of service. EE got a golf cart to use for transportation. While traveling down inclined travelway, cable broke on braking sys...
11/02/2006 OTHER DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 98d lost Employee was on his knees and in process of installing a roof bolt. When he started to get up his right knee popped and locked into one position and could not bend.
10/23/2006 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY None Employee was unloading pump motor from personnel carrier and had positioned himself between a shuttle car and the personnel carrier. Another shuttle car came down the entry and did not see the personn...
10/21/2006 OTHER DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 36d lost, 12d restricted Employee was helping splice miner cable and was kneeling on the mine floor. Whe he got up his left knee popped and started hurting. He could not straighten it.
10/13/2006 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 20d restricted Employee was drilling hole in mine roof to install roof bolt. Lowered roof bolting machine boom temporarily catching left knee under it, resulting in a strain to knee area.
10/12/2006 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was driving 14-man personnel carrier (mantrip bus) and ran over something in roadway causing him to bounce up into mine roof and hurt his neck.
08/29/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee got off his shuttle car and sat down next to coal rib while waiting for continuous miner to move. When he got up he lost his balance and twisted right knee causing a sprain.
08/09/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee was operating continuous mner and reached down to lift miner cable and felt pain in lower back.
08/07/2006 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall has occurred in the main east entries at spad 25 + 45 in No 1 entry. This roof fall is in the intake. The dimensions of the fall are: length 25' x width 19' and height 7'.
08/04/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 20d restricted Employee was helping change out a set of scoop batteries and got his right thumb caught between connector on battery and arm that holds battery.
08/03/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 12d lost Employee was helping pick up belt and structure to put footers under belt stands to level beltline when he felt pain in lower back.
07/16/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 15d lost, 6d restricted Employee was helping load pinner pot on the personnel carrier to take underground. When he and another employee lifted the pinner pot he felt pain in lower back.
07/14/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 17d restricted Employee walked through wing curtain and lost his balance falling on self-rescuer and bruising his hip.
06/15/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 34d lost Employee was helping pull a shuttle car drag across mine floor to install it on a shuttle car when he felt slight pain in his groin. Employee did not start missing work until July 15, 2006.
06/08/2006 OTHER DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee was walking a belt entry, examining the belt, and felt pain in his right hip. The pain got worse as the shift progressed. There was no incident to identify as the cause of the injury.
05/23/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 3d restricted Pulling on cable and chains on previous shift when miner was hung, his back started bothering him. Then tonight while lifting bundle of glue from pinner, his back started hurting him bad.
05/15/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 12d lost Employee was working as extra man while unloading supplies. Felt pulling in lower back.
05/12/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 10d lost Mechanic was checking cable on shuttle car that was not picking up cable. He took cover off and moved car up because line curtian was in the way. Reel unexpectedly took up tripping him causing him to...
05/09/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 135d lost EE was loading bolting machine with glue when he felt pinch in his lower left back. He thought he would be ok went home came back to work the next day worked approx. 1/2 shift when he began hurting...
05/01/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 20d lost, 23d restricted EMPLOYEE WAS TOSSING A PACKAGE OF GLUE ACROSS THE TOP OF HIS ROOF BOLTER TO THE OTHER ROOF BOLT OPERATOR & HE FELT A PULL IN HIS ABDOMEN.
05/01/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A BELT WITH A BELT KNIFE & AS THE KNIFE NEARED THE EDGE OF THE BELT IT CUT EASIER & WITH THE PRESSURE HE WAS APPLYING IT CONTINUED TO CUT HIS KNEE ON HIS LEFT LEG.
04/25/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 14d lost EMPLOYEE WAS DRAGGING 2 ROLLERS UP BELT ENTRY & FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
04/10/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost EE was helping mechanic splice his car cable. He had layed the cable across his knee to cut outer jacket and accidently cut his right knee.
04/07/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 16d lost EE was lifting a tail lift cylinder, when it slipped off his leg and caught his finger against metal.
04/04/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 6d lost EE was pulling with both arms on curtain, when he felt something pull in his right shoulder, causing pain.
03/30/2006 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 7d lost EE hit rotation with bent steel in chuck. It came around and struck EE on his left wrist and left side of head.
03/28/2006 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall has occoured in the main east entries at spad 25 & 45 in No.5 entry. This roof fall is in the return. The dimensions of the fall are: Length 40' width 20' heigth 8'.
03/03/2006 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 323d lost EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING (DRIVING) A 4-MAN DIESEL MANTRIP. AS HE NEGOTIATED A TURN, THE POWER STEERING FAILED AND CAUSED HIM TO RAISE UP AS HE TRIED TO TURN, RESULTING IN HIS HARD HAT STRIKING THE MINE...
02/02/2006 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A roof fall has occurred int he main east entries at spad 38 & 75 in no. 3 entry. The dimensions of the fall are: length 18', width 22', height 8'.