CONTINUOUS MINER EXTRACTED ONE LIFT OUT OF PILLAR, BLOCK #12. AS EE AND C0-WORKER ATTEMPTED TO INSTALL THE FIRST POST, THE ROOF FELL, RODE OVER THE BREAKER POST STRIKING HIM, CAUSING FATAL INJ URIES.
Baylor MineCoal
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 35
- Years on record
- 2000–2002
- Latest incident
- May 2002
Fatalities at this mine
1 recordedReportable incidents
34 on file (excluding fatalities above)2002 · 3 incidents
ROOF FELL ABOVE ANCHORAGE, NORTHWEST MAINS #5 SEAL SPAD #209, INTERSECTION, FALL MEASURED APPROX 50 FT BY 35 FT BY 4.5 FT. APPROXIMATELY 5800 FT OUT BY TEDDY MAINS WORKING STATION.
EE SLIPPED OFF LADDER AND FELL TO GROUND AND STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW AND BACK OF HIS HEAD.
STEPPED IN A HOLE WHILE SHOVELING #5 BELT. EE DID NOT REPORT INJURY UNTIL 3-21-02, ALSO WITNESS STATES HE DID NOT SEE INJURY.
2001 · 4 incidents
LEFT INDEX FINGER BROKE BEHIND FIRST KNUCKLE, WITH FINGER ALMOST CUT OFF, WORKING ON 2 WHEEL RIDE AND BATTERY LID FELL ON HAND.
EE WAS CARRYING STRUCTURE AND HURT HIS BACK ACCIDENT REPORT WAS NOT RECIEVED UNTIL 9-18-01.
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A BATTERY CELL FROM A SET OF BATTERIES, AS HE BENT DOWN TO SET THE CELL ON THE MINE FLOOR, IT SLIPPED OUT OF THE HANDS, AND AS IT HIT THE FLOOR, THE ACID SPLASHED UP INTO HIS FACE AND EYES.
EE WAS HELPING THE MINER OPERATOR MOVE THE MINER CABLE. WHEN THE NEXT BUGGY APPROACHED, IT STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT LEG.
2000 · 27 incidents
SHUTTLE CAR CANOPY TWISTED/RETATED DOWN FROM IT'S POJECTION AND PINCHED HIS HEAD AND NECK AGAINST THE DECK OF THE SHUTTLE CAR. 2 BOLTS HAD BEEN REMOVED TO ALLOW CANOPY TO BE ROTATED DURING M OVING OF EQUIPMENT FROM ONE SECTION TO ANOTHER.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BESIDE SCOOP WHEN IT DRIFTED, STRIKING HIS RIGHT FOOT & FRACTURING IT.
2 EMPLOYEES WERE USING A CHAIN HOIST TO MOVE A 75 HP PUMP WHEN THE BOLT HEAD AND PLATE THEY WEREHOOKED TO BROKE AND THE PLATE CAME DOWN STRIKING EE IN THE THIGH.
WALKING DOWN #5 ENTRY EE SLIPPED ON BOTTOM FELL ON RESUCURER INJURY TO RT HIP & LEG NUMBNESS IN RT LEG & BURNING IN FOOT
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING A SCOOP FROM THE END OF THE TRACK ON THE 3 SOUTH SECTION. HIS JACKET HOOD OR PART OF HIS JACKET CAUGHT ON A ROOF BOLT OR POSSIBLY A PLATE, PULLING HIM OUT OF THE SCOOP D ECK.
ROOF FALL OCCURED SOME TIME DURING THE WEEKEND. MINE WAS IDLE OVER LABOR DAY. FALL 100' LONG, 20' WIDE, 5' HIGH. 40"" RESIN BOLTS USED IN THIS AREA. NO EQUIPMENT OR AIRWAY AFFECTED. FALL HAD BEEN CRIBBED ON ALL SIDES.
EMPOYEE WAS OPERATING S-CAR ON AN INCLUDED RD-WAY. S CAR SLID DOWN HILL INTO RIB, EMPLOYEE HAD ARM STRUCK AND STRUCK AGAINST RIB WITH ELBOW. SLIGHT ABRASIONS AND SWELLING OF ELBOW.
FALL ON 3 SOUTH SECTION 003 MAIN. BREAK IN BY FEEDER, DID NOT HARM ANY EQUIPMENT OR AIRWAY. SECTION WAS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING MOVED. FALL IS TO LEFT OF SPAD 8347. FALL IS 6 FT HIGH, 18 FT LO NG 24 FT WIDE, FALL EXTENDED INTO INTERSECTION.
EMPLOYEE TRIPPED GETTING OUT OF MANTRIP AND CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH LEFT HAND CAUSING PAIN IN WRIST.
WHILE MAKING A BELT MOVE, BELT HAD BEEN SLACKED OFF & CLAMPED OFF. EMPLOYEE GOT BETWEEN THE TOP & BOTTOM BELT, TRYING TO PULL A SPLICE ON THE BOTTOM BELT. WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS ON BELT, BELT SL IPPED THROUGH CLAMPS FLIPPING EMPLOYEE AGAINST BELT STANDS, HURTING HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS RAISING END OF 60-LB. RAIL WITH SLATE BAR, PRYING END OF RAIL UP WITH BAR. WHILE PUSHING DOWN ON BAR, HE FELT PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER AND LEFT ARM WENT NUMB.
EE WAS SETTING A TANK OF ACETYLENE DOWN WHEN AS FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. EE DID NOT MISS DAY WORK, WENT TO DR 7-2-00.
EMPLOYEE WAS BANDING BELT STRUCTURE TOGETHER; WHILE LIFTING ONE PIECE OF TOP STRUCTURE, ANOTHER PIECE OF STRUCTURE ROLLED OVER ON PIECE BEING LIFTED AND BOWED LEFT WRIST BACKWARDS. PAIN FELT IN LEFT WRIST, THEN LATER A KNOT APPEARED ON TOPOF HIS LEFT WRIST.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING TIMBERS OUT OF SCOOP BUCKET WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK. DID NOT GO TO A DOCTOR UNTIL 6/21/00; WORKED FROM 6/16/00 TO 6/21/00.
EMPLOYEE WAS GOING THROUGH A MANDOOR ON STOPE BOTTOM.; MANDOOR & CINDER BLOCK ABOVE DOOR WERE LOOSE, CAUSING DOOR TO FALL OVER AS HE WAS GOINGTHROUGH IT. TOP OF DOOR FRAME AND CINDER BLOCK FELL ON HIS BACK, BACK OF NECK, CAUSING PAIN IN UPPER BACK, BACK OF NECK AND DOWN RIGHT ARM.
WHILE OPERATING SCOOP AROUND A TURN HE HAD HIS LEFT ARM AND HAND OUTSIDE OF DECK HOLDING ONTO RUBBER STEP THAT IS MOUNTED ON DECK END OF SCOOP. WHEN EMPLOYEE PUSHED LEVER FOR SCOOP TO MAKE A R IGHT TURN, BATTERY END OF SCOOP COMES AROUND ANDHITS UP AGAINST RUBBER STOP THAT HE HAD HIS LEFT HAND ON, MASHING TIP OF MIDDLE FINGER LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING PINS ON MINER TAILSHAFT. HE GOT PIN ON OPERATOR SIDE OUT & WAS HOLDING ONTO PIN WHEN TAILSHAFT FELL OUT, SMASHING HIS RIGHT HAND AGAINST INSIDE OF FRAME OF BOOM. THE PIN HE WAS HOLDING ONTO SMASHED & CUT HIS RIGHT HAND AROUNG THE BASE OF THE THUMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING BELT AND BELT STRUCTURE IN SCOOP ON LEFT SECTON WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EE WAS HELPING LIFT SCOOP BATTERY CELLS OFF OF A PICKUP TRUCK ONTO A TRACK MOTOR. FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. ALSO AGAIN ON 4-24-2000 LIFTING A PIECE OF METAL FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. EE DID NOT MISS ANY WORK EITHER TIME. WENT TO DR. 4-26-2000.
EE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF EXPANDED METAL OFF AT #4 BELT HEAD THAT WAS STICKING OUT IN WALKWAY. A SPLICE IN BELT CAME BY HIT EXPANDED METAL, EXPANDED METAL HIT EE'S RIGHT LEG ABOVE KNEE. EE ST EPPED BACK AND FELL OVER WATER LINE, MAY HAVE TWISTED RIGHT KNEE, IT WAS SWOLLEN A LITTLE.
EE WAS MOVING A REMOTE CONTROL MINER, WHILE WALKING BEHIND IT, EE STOPPED TURNED AROUND TO CHECK SLACK HE WAS PULLING AND STEPPED IN A POTHOLE. LEFT KNEE POPPED. THEN LATER ON IN SHIFT WHILE O N HIS KNEES, LEFT KNEE POPPED SEVERAL MORE TIMES.
EE WAS HOOKING A PULL ROPE TO BUCKET OF SCOOP. LAID RIGHT HAND ON FRAME OF BUCKET BEHIND BLADE OF SCOOP. OPERATOR OF SCOOP PULLED BLADE BACK CATCHING TIP OF MIDDLE FINGER BEHIND OF BLADE AND F RAME OF BUCKET.
EE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP IN LOW COAL, LESS THAN 42"" HIGH, NO CANOPY ON SCOOP. WHILE PASSING THROUGH UNDER A MINER CABLE THAT WAS HUNG FROM MINE ROOF, EE GOT HIS HEAD PUSHED BACK BY THE CABLE C AUSING PAIN IN NECK.
EE SLIPPED WHILE GETTING OUT OF SCOOP DECK (LOST HIS BALANCE) TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT HAND, EE LEFT HAND HIT GROUND FIRST THUMB OR HAND SPRAINED BACKWARDS CAUSING PAIN.
#2 MOTOR WRECKED ON SLOPE BOTTOM THAT EE WAS OPERATING. WHILE JACKING MOTOR UP JACK DIDN'T PROPERLY CATCH WHEN PUSHING JACK BAR DOWN. JACK BAR CAME UPWARD HITTING EE IN LOWER JAW.
EE SLIPPED & FELL WHILE CARRYING A BAG OF ROCK DUST. EE SAID WHEN HE FELL HE LANDED ON HIS SELF CONTAINED SELF-RESCUER THAT IS ON HIS BELT.
EE WAS HOLDING A ROCK DUSTING HOSE WHILE ROCK DUSTING STANDING IN FRONT OF SCOOP. SCOOP WAS BACKING THRU A FLY CURTAIN AND NOTICED THIS BREAK THRU WAS BLOCKED BY ANOTHER PIECE OF EQUIPEMTN. SC OOP OPERATOR THEN POST SCOOP IN FORWARD TRAM POSITION AND TRAMMED FORWARD SEVERAL FEET. INJURED EE DID NOT KNEW THIS AND KEPT WALKING BACKWARDS WHILE DUSTING. SCOOP BLADE HIT INJURED EE OR BA