Pocahontas Highwall Mine Coal

Repairing a hydraulic leak on the 1200 Hitachi excavator. EE was on the second rung of the ladder. When EE broke loose a bolt, EE lost footing, which led to EE falling off the ladder to the ground. The ground surface was uneven where EE landed.

Lying beside roller frame using oxy/ace torch to cut broken bolts from frame - torch popped and slag went into left ear causing a thermal burn.

I received a call from security had notified the mantrip bus was on fire. The security guard had stopped near the bus to eat lunch when ee noticed flames come out from under the hood. The job was idle no and employees were injured. This was an inactive part of the job where employees parked.

Lowering belly pan on A40D truck and it fell on his foot & broke ankle

Employee was cutting a tree. When the tree began to fall a limb fell and hit employee knocking him to the ground breaking his leg.

Employee was cutting a tree. Tree fell on his foot.

EE positioned his left leg under the cutter drum of the #53 Highwall Miner in an attempt to remove bolts from the cutterhead auger. Inadequate blocking material allowed the cutterdrum to strike his lower left leg causing fractures and puncture wounds.

EE and another ee was moving a pallet of materials. EE picked his side up by hand so another ee picked his side up also by hand. EE went to take a step and relized his back was hurting so they set the pallet back down. EE reported to EE(Supervisor) that he had hurt his back lifting the pallet.

Foot slipped on step and EE fell to the ground and his foot twisted.

While tramming his Komatsu PC-220 excavator around the Highwall Miner the operator opened his window and reached out to pull his mirror in and caught his left hand between the mirror and the highwall miner lacerating it. He received (9) sutures to his left hand. This is to report medical treatment only, no days were lost.

Employee using right side handrail to pull up on truck, pulled muscle in right upper arm.

Employee was riding bus (mantrip) and when it approached his piece of equipment he stood up as the bus operator braked and he fell and stuck his head on the header above the windshield. He was diagnoised with a cervical strain and concussion.

Employee was changing bits on a miner head when a rock slid out about 3 or 4 feet and struck his right hand and cut his pinky finger.

Mechanic was welding on a truck and when he finished he started rolling up the stinger lead and it become tangled with the ground clamp lead. He pulled on the stinger lead and the ground clamp came off the truck and struck his right hand fracturing his fourth (index) metacarpal. This is to report medical treatment only.

The mechainc was using a screw driver to pry on a cover on a cat 345 excavator when the screw driver broke and struck him on his upper lip lacerating it. The wound required (7) sutures to repair it. No days were lost, this is to report medical treatment only.

Operator was in an A40 D Volvo truck while being loaded by a 988F Cat Loader. While the loader operator was preparing to dump the first bucket of rock in the truck bed a rock slipped out and struck the bed jarring the operator spraining his lower back.

Foreign body in left eye, cut eyelid.

The HWM electrician developed pain in his lower back after his right foot slipped as he stepped into the power head area of the Superior High Wall Miner. He finished his shift and started off on 09/24/06.

While changing bits on the highwall miner cutter head, the foreman struck the distal end of his left little finger with a 4-lb hammer fracturing it. This is to report medical treatment only.

While dumping load to construct barm, the truck lost power and backed over a 10' ledge. The operator struck his left knee against the dashboard resulting in a laceration.