Willow Lake Portal — Accidents

Total: 602 accidents | Fatalities: 2

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
09/02/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in the old 4-E worked out panel in entry #2 at station 10+25. The fall did not affect ventilation, affect passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall measur...
08/28/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the old 1A panel at station 35+70 between entries 3 and 4. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men ot cause personal injury. The fall measured 18ft...
08/28/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in the old 1A panel at station 36+40 entry #1. The fall did not affect ventilation, affect passage of men of cause personal injury. The fall measured 30feet x 18f...
08/28/2008 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 36d lost Employee stated that he bumped his elbow on a roof bolter glue tray while turning around. His fingers were tingling. Employee had been having on-going problems since 2006 with this limb. Doctors repor...
08/25/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in the room off of 11+75 Entry #1 in the old 4E panel. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall could not be measure...
08/25/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred at 20+00 entry #1 on the old 4E panel. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall measured 20' x 20' x 7'. The fall...
08/24/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred at station 26+60 entry #4 in the 4C intake. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall measured 20 feet x 21 feet x 6...
08/24/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 90d lost Employee stated he was walking underground on the section when he stepped in a small hole and twisted his knee.
08/21/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the 5B intake at station 86+45 Entry #3. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall may be cleaned up at a later...
08/17/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the 2-B belt line at the 19+20 station in entry #5. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall will be cleaned up...
08/13/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unitentional roof fall occurred on the 4 E belt line at station 20+75 entry #5. The fall did not affect ventilation of passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall did fall on 25 feet of bel...
08/06/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 53d lost Employee stated he was roof bolting when a rock fell from the roof and struck his little finger and against the drill stem pot. He has continued to work until having surgery to repair a bruised tendon...
08/06/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in the 004 unit intake at 20+00 station in between the #3 and #4 entries. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall m...
08/05/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in the 004 unit intake at the 4+20 station entry #2, 1st N. Main off of the East sub Main. The fall did not affect ventilation, affect passage of men or cause pers...
08/03/2008 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee stated after roof bolting for about one half of a shift his hand and wrist started getting numb and a knot appeared on his palm. Employee started missing on 5/20/2009 for surgery.
07/31/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the 2A travelway entry #5 and #6 at station 5+90. The fall did not affect ventilation or cause personal injury the fall did affect the secondary escape route wh...
07/22/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the old 1A return at station 37+80 entry #9. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury and it will not be cleaned up. It meas...
07/21/2008 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 132d lost EE was helping put a conveyor roller segment in when he felt some pain in his shoulder. Employee has continued to work and recieved a MRI on 08/11/ 2008. The MRI showed significant degenerative change...
07/19/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 33d lost Employee was throwing yield props across the belt line and started hurting in his stomach. (Umbilical Hernia)on 06/20/2007, he was operating a tractor and hit a bump, had pain in his stomach. (Umbilic...
07/18/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred at station 14+75 entry #4 on the 4E travelway. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall measured 25feet x 22feet x...
07/17/2008 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 203d lost Employee stated he was carrying a oil can around a ram car when he stepped on a rock and started to fall. He felt his foot and knee pop, but when he tried to catch himself, he felt his other knee pop....
07/12/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 211d lost Employee was driving a vehicle on a underground travelway when a rock fell from the roof and struck him on the head and in the face. He continued and struck a coal rib. He was transported to medical s...
07/12/2008 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 95d lost Employee was a passenger in a vehicle that was traveling on an U/G travelway. A piece of roof rock fell and struck the driver of the vehicle causing him to probably lose control. When this happened th...
07/03/2008 DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 18d lost Employee has stated his elbow has given him problems for some time. This day while helping pull belting around a drive, the elbow again starts hurting. Everytime he uses his arm in a repetitive moveme...
06/22/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in the old #3 panel (recovery area) at the 67+20 station in the #6 entry. The fall did not affect ventilation, passege of men or cause personal injury. The fall w...
06/14/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 81d lost EE stated that he reached to take the drill steel out of a hole and felt pain in his shoulder. He has not missed any work. He was given a MRI on 09/05/2008 and the results showed that there were no te...
05/28/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee stated that he and the Cont. Miner operator were setting roof jacks. When the operator left to do something else, this jack fell and struck the victim on the hand causing a severe laceration.
05/23/2008 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 169d lost Employee stated he had been working on the ratio Feeder on this unit, when he turned and started walking away, when he struck a bent Roof bolt with his left shoulder. Person started missing the on 10/...
05/10/2008 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 18d lost Employee stated he was standing at the side and end of a ram car shoveling some rock dust out of the bed of the car. The stinger, liked a little pushing all the rock dust out, so he was shoveling the...
05/08/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in the 3C return entry #1 at 36+45. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall measured 22 foot x 19 foot x 6 foot hig...
04/21/2008 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 18d lost Employee was a Roof Bolter and stated that he was picking up and loading some roof plates onto his boom tray, while his buddy was installing a corner bolt. When the installation was done that person w...
04/14/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintenional roof fall occurred in worked out rooms at station 65+80 in entry #3 of the 3D panel. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall will not...
04/06/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 38d lost Employee works as a scoop/utility man. He was loading supplies and was lifting a bundles of roof bolt resin off of a pallet and loading it into the scoop bucket and felt a strain in his lower abdomen....
04/05/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 51d lost Employee stated that he was removing some rock from behind the ramplate or stinger on his ramcar, when he felt a little pain in the middle of his stomach. Employee was diagnosed with a Imbilical herni...
04/01/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 61d lost The injured was standing beside the side controls of the roof bolter and had reached out and placed a wrench on top of the bolter. As he was removing his hand and starting to walk away a rock fell and...
03/24/2008 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 12d lost Employee stated he had traveled with the MSHA insp. and after he left he was assigned to shovel out the drain in the diesel barn. As he shoveled it into a trash can and then emptied it into a small du...
03/21/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the Old 1-A return at station 28+00 in the #10 entry. The fall measured 60 feet x 18 feet x 8 feet. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or caus...
03/20/2008 ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 30d lost Employee alledged he tripped over a conveyor chain on the mine floor while on a Labor safety inspection. We feel he was employeed by the local on this day and we deny the injury. Also his diagnosis fr...
02/26/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the East Submain at station 23+10 Entry #8. The fall measured 26 feet x 20 feet x 5 feet. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause pesonal...
02/25/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the Main North at station 87+26 in the #2 entry. The fall measured 30 foot x 18 foot x 5.5 foot. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause p...
02/25/2008 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 9d lost Employee stated the operator told him he was starting the roof bolter and for him to pull foward and before he could get out of the way, the operator trammed the bolter foward running, over his toes.
02/12/2008 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 9d lost EE stated his neck has been giving him trouble for a long time,has gone to the chiropractor several times before this incident and afterwards.He was walking across the face when he bumped his head on...
02/11/2008 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 300d lost Employee stated he struck his head against the canopy after hitting a hole in the roadway while driving a Ram Car. He also stated that he had hit his head many times through the years and the MRI show...
02/04/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in the Main North return at station 153+71 in entry #10. The fall measured 20 feet x 22 feet x 7 feet thick. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men...
02/04/2008 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 281d lost Employee stated he was operating an underground Tractor, when he hit a bump in the road that caused him to be bounced upward, striking his head on the roof. Employee didn't miss any work until 02/14/...
02/03/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 48d lost Employee was loading some 6' timbers and other supplies into the scoop bucket. As he moved a timber to load it, he felt a pain in his lower abdomen. This is his regular everyday duties.
01/10/2008 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 21d lost Employee stated he was walking toward the face when he slipped on a flat slick rock. He lost his balance and recovered from falling but twisted his knee. He continued to work until 9/22/2008 when he w...
01/07/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred on the 5B intake at station 87+15 entry 6. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall will be cleaned up at a later da...
01/05/2008 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in the 2B entries at 18+55 entry #3. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall measured 40 feet x 20 feet x 15 feet h...
12/27/2007 FALL OF ROOF OR BACK ACCIDENT ONLY None An unintentional roof fall occurred in the 1A neutral entry #8. The fall did not affect ventilation, passage of men or cause personal injury. The fall measured 50' x 20' x 7' thick. The fall wil...