Willow Lake Portal — Accidents

Total: 602 accidents | Fatalities: 2

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
12/08/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A unintentional roof fall occurred in the 4G return in the #1 entry at 12+30. The fall measured 25 feet x 20 feet x 4 feet high. It did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury...
12/08/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None A unintentional roof fall occurred in the 4G intake in the #3 entry at 12+30. The fall measured 30 feet x 18 feet x 6 feet high. It did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injur...
12/01/2010 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee stated he was operating a diesel ""mini-trac"" to get rock dust on the 4H road. He pulled the machine into a cross-cut as he thought the engine was getting hot. He dismounted the cab, start...
11/15/2010 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 45d lost Employee, a roof bolter and has been suffering with chronic pain in his left shoulder for a number of years. Job requires the repetitive motion of bending and installing 6' roof bolts. Employee told s...
11/15/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred at the 5th north panel off of the 1st west panel off the north mains. The fall measured 25 feet x 18 feet x 6 feet. The fall was in unit 2 return. The fall area h...
10/29/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None This was a unintentional roof fall in a X-cut between the travelway and left return entries. We had to stop production, call MSHA and a 103 K issued. MSHA then modified it to timber off all approaches...
10/14/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the 1st South sub-main off the east submain in the #4 entry return, at 33+20. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The...
10/11/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the 4C neutral entries at #8 entry 9+80 1st. south sub-main off east sub-main. It measured 25'x 25'x6'. It did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause...
09/21/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 51d lost, 59d restricted Employee states he was beside the feeder standing a timber up when he slipped and fell striking his elbow against the feeder or the ground. He was treated at a medical center and taken off work with a...
09/09/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 201d restricted Employee stated he was relieving the left side bolter and had finished installing one bolt. He then was walking back to the controls to move the machine up, when a rock fell from between the bolts and...
08/16/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 77d lost Employee stated he had lifted up the Cont. Miner trailing cable to get it over against the rib out of the roadway more. As he was walking the cable over he stumbled on some loose gob and fell toward t...
08/08/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 223d restricted Employee has had previous back pain and on this night he was working on a battery breaker box lid, putting it back on. Lifting the lid and positioning it caused his back to hurt more. He received medi...
08/08/2010 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 22d lost Employee stated he was Rockdusting on a conveyor belt line when he turned around to walk out of a x-cut and struck his head on a brow injuring his head/face and fracturing his top rib. He was treated...
08/07/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 48d lost Employee states he was exiting the cab of a scoop when his right foot slipped in mud and reported pain in his right knee. Employee has continued to work, but with pain. Employee was taken off work...
08/06/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 91d lost, 87d restricted Employee stated he had prior shoulder problems and when he pulled on a ventilation curtain it started hurting worse. The MRI shows Tendinosis, Joint Arthrosis. This is an illness that's caused by repe...
07/31/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 77d lost Employee stated he was cleaning on a belt drive take up when a rock fell from the roof, striking him on the head and knocked him to the ground hurting his knee and low back.
07/31/2010 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 208d lost Employee stated he was walking from one entry to another when he struck a brow with his head and jammed his neck. He continued to work until 8/30/2010. when he was taken off by the doctor for an MRI.
07/29/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 82d lost, 19d restricted Employee stated he was helping out with hanging and moving the Roofbolter cable. When he went to turn around to walk another direction he heard and felt his knee pop causing pain in his left knee. He...
07/27/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in entry #3 between the 49+80 intersection and the 50+55 intersection in the first east panel off of the first north submain. The fall measured 25' x 18' x 4' high...
07/26/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost Employee stated he was lowering the canopy of the Bolting machine and had positioned his hand on top of the canopy.A rock fell from the roof and struck him on the hand/fingers. He was taked for medica...
07/20/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 18d lost Employee stated he was roof bolting and had just drilled his hole and was removing the drill auger from the hole. A rock fell from the roof, hit the canopy and continued down behind the canopy, where...
07/12/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the 4G return in entry #8 and partially in entry #7. The fall did not affect ventilation or passage of men or cause personal injury. It had been bolted with 6...
07/12/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the 4F return in entry 7 at #8 crosscut. It measured 20 feet x 20 feet x 7 feet. The fall will not be cleaned up and did not affect ventilation, passage of me...
07/09/2010 POWERED HAULAGE FATALITY Fatal A Supervisor was found lying in an active roadway intersection with fatal injuries that would appear to have been caused by a coal hauler running over his body. There were no eyewitnesses. The investi...
06/17/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 37d lost Employee stated she was getting out of the cab of a Ramcar, when she apparently got her leg caught on something, which caused her to fall to the ground. She really didn't know what happened. She was t...
06/02/2010 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 194d lost Employee stated that he was operating a shuttle car and as he was turning his body around in the seat to travel the other way, he twisted his right knee.
05/25/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 168d lost, 32d restricted Employee was roof bolting in section 003, they had just installed the next to last row of bolts and they moved up to install the last row. The injured employee reach in to the controls to swing the bo...
05/23/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 87d lost Employee was roof bolting and they advanced the bolter for their next row. The employee was swinging the boom out,when a rock fell out striking him on the head. It knocked him to his knees and the sha...
05/23/2010 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 72d lost Employee stated he was bolting and had dropped his boom down against the floor, with pressure on it. He then lowered his canopy and raised the boom off the floor at about the same time. This caused th...
05/21/2010 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 14d lost Employee was walking intake escapeway per company safety day. He was tethered to another employee and holding on to lifeline. The lifeline went around a turn and there the rib had rashed out into his...
05/20/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 96d lost Employee stated he was installing an 8 ft. bolt into the roof. When he went to bend it back straight his hand slipped and the bolt twisted straining his shoulder. Employee worked the next 2 shifts and...
04/24/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the 5A belt line at station 15+40 entry #4. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall did fall on the belt line an...
04/12/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 244d lost Employee was standing watching the Cont. Miner cable as it was being pulled out of the excess pile. The Roofbolter had started to tram to the face, when the injured was struck by the bolter cable that...
04/10/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occured in the 4C intake at station 7+70 entry #5. The lifeline and reflectors were re-routed around the roof fall and the fall was timbered off. The fall measured 24 x 24...
04/03/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 27d lost Employee stated he was pulling on the bolter cable to get enough slack to hook on to move to another area. While he was doing this he felt pain in his lower right abdomen. Was taken off with a possibl...
04/02/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee was getting into the cab of a diesel scoop when he got his foot tangled up when he stepped in and fell foward, striking his mouth on a handle next to the cab. He was taken to medical services...
03/29/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Employee was in beside a Ram Car, in a sump, washing the machine off. He finished what he was doing, shut the water of and threw the water hose and valve up on the bank. The handle to the shut off hit...
03/27/2010 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 2d lost Employee stated he was operating the Cont. Miner and had just set the machine over in the cut and was waiting on a car to come in to load. He stepped up beside the machine and looked back to watch for...
03/26/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 9d lost Employee stated while bending a 6' roof bolt to get it in the hole, he pulled something (muscle) and the pain went into his back also. He worked the rest of the shift and stated there was even discomf...
03/22/2010 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 264d lost Employee was attempting to drive his vehicle around a parked Shuttle Car that had been left out in the middle of an intersection. There was gob on the opposite corner of him and when his front tires h...
03/11/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 328d lost Employee stated that he was exiting his Ramcar when his left foot got hung/caught in the car controls. This caused him to slip and spread his legs apart (like the splits), straining his hip and also a...
03/10/2010 ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 264d lost Employee stated that he raised his bucket to push a feeder wing wall down. The scoop bucket slipped off the wing wall and dropped suddenly. Employee said he felt pain in his neck. He had a neck surger...
03/04/2010 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 66d lost Employee stated that he was walking toward the face, watching the miner cable as it was being pulled up. He walked through a pull thru curtain next to the rib and stepped on a pile of small rock and g...
02/27/2010 ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 61d lost Employee stated that him and 5 other people were hanging the miner cable and after completing the job he felt some pain in his neck. The employee has had 2 prior surgeries, one on C4-5 and C3-4. The M...
02/26/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 13d lost EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS BENDING AN 8' ROOF BOLT WHEN AFTERWARDS HE HAD A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
02/19/2010 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 7d lost Employee had walked thru a isolation curtain and going to pull the nips on the scoop, when a mantrip that had just been parked in a entry broke loose, free-wheeled down thru the curtain, struck a notc...
02/19/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on unit 3 in the right side rooms @ 4+00 room #3 at station 28+70. The fall was at a 3 way intersection and mesured 18.5 feet x 20 feet x 6 feet. The fall was inb...
02/18/2010 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Employee stated that he was carrying pin boards to the scoop when he stepped in a uneven place in the mine floor and fell on his knee. He continued to work for a couple hours and asked to be taken to...
02/18/2010 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 108d lost Employee stated he was standing in a notched in place, when a rock fell from between the roof bolts and struck him on the head and shoulder. Employee has continued to work until he was taken off until...
02/16/2010 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 246d lost Employee stated he was removing the tongue on a Rescue Chamber, to install it on the other end. When he lifted up on it he felt a sharp pain in his right elbow. he continued to work until the 24th whe...