King Coal No 1 Mine Coal

Employee was stepping off the #2 bolter onto the mine floor and twisted his right knee.

Employee was wearing safety glasses and a scarf around face while grinding on tailpiece. He had quit grinding. With scarf & glasses still on, he coughed blowing debris from scarf under glasses into his eye.

Fall was found by mine foreman and MSHA inspector while traveling airways in worked out area.

The coal truck was coming down the hill and met another truck coming up the hill. The driver got over too far and ran into the ditch causing the truck to turn over against the bank. As the driver was pulling himself out of the truck, he hurt his shoulder.

While lowering the canopy on the roof bolter, EE had his right hand on top of the lever that lowers the jack. The canopy was lowered down on top of his hand. EE was looking away while lowering the canopy.

EE was walking from power center towards the face, when he tripped on a piece of rock laying on bottom and fell. rt knee was bruised.

Employee was getting in scoop. Stated he had hold of scoop canopy and was stepping into deck of scoop. Felt pain in Rt shoulder as if it dislocated.

EE was putting hand up on cable that was hung from roof. Said he felt rock and looked up and was hit with a small piece of rock in the face.

While bolting top in the #6 entry, a piece of rock approx 2' X 1' X 5" thick fell and hit the operator side of the canopy. The piece of rock glanced off the canopy and hit the off side bolter operator in the back, causing a bruise.

While the employee was rolling up fly pad, the fly board broke and hit him across the nose cutting it and possibly breaking it (not likey).

Miner was in 6 Rt, while cutting middle band of rock, the continuous miner started to bounce. The miner boom was bouncing up and down, causing the load-lock retrieve valves to release and let the boom fall into the S/C. This caused S/C to bounce and throw EE, the S/C operator, up into th top of the canopy.