| 01/04/2003 |
A locomotive driver sustained a fracture of the right foot when
he was struck by an 8' × 6" × 6" wooden prop which he was
unloading from a flat bed vehicle. While his colleague held one end
he placed the other onto the raised edge of the vehicle so he could
reposition himself. The prop slipped off the vehicle striking his
foot behind the steel toecap of his boot. He continued to work for
a further two hours before seeking treatment in the surface medical
room. Safety in manual handling operations has been further
reinforced by a series of toolbox talks. |
| 02/04/2003 |
A contract electrical engineer was injured when a severe short
circuit occurred as he tried to withdraw a contactor on the
incoming side of a multi tier switchboard. He sustained burns to
his face and hands, which were severe enough for him to be detained
in hospital. The sort circuit was probably initiated by copper
shards, from earlier related work involving drilling of the main
copper bus bars, which had fallen onto the insulating retaining bar
for the incoming contacts for the circuit breaker. |
| 25/04/2003 |
A header, making his way from the pit bottom loco station to the
shaft side, through a level, illuminated road with a concrete
floor, at the end of the Friday afternoon shift, fell and sustained
a triple fracture of the left wrist. He claimed to have been
knocked over. |
| 10/04/2003 |
An experienced command supervisor, assisting another to load two
14" diameter, 3.9m long pipes each weighing 160 kg onto the
bottom strand of a belt conveyor, failed to control the load and in
putting down his end of the pipe sustained crush injuries to his
left hand including a fractured finger that resulted in detention
in hospital for +24 hours. |
| 01/05/2003 |
An experienced header, acting as banksman to direct the movement
of an FSV, sustained fractures to his left tibia and fibula when he
was struck by a pair of 6.5m long, 10" × 8" RSJs that
were dislodged by the FSV that he was directing. |
| 02/05/2003 |
A workman walking outbye at the end of his shift slipped and
fell in an unwitnessed accident and fractured the 5th metatarsal of
his right foot. |
| 09/05/2003 |
An experienced powered roof support fitter sustained a suspected
high-pressure injection injury, which resulted in detention in
hospital for +24 hours, when his hand was forced violently against
an arch leg outbye in the maingate of a longwall face. He was
removing a feed hose to a belt reeler from the compressed air range
and, after turning off the air feed, disconnected the bayonet
fitting without firstly dissipating the stored pressure. The hose
subsequently whipped as he tried to control the pressure by folding
over the hose. |
| 24/05/2003 |
A face worker walking outbye between the belt and the rail track
in a main arterial roadway tripped over a section of old belt
structure that was lying on the floor but covered with spillage.
He fell and his right hand struck the bottom of the belt structure
causing a fracture to a bone in the right hand. |
| 01/06/2003 |
In a skip shaft inset a general workman sustained lacerations to
his right heel that required detention in hospital for +24 hours.
He had been deployed to assist a fitter to change grease nipples on
the traversing chute that loaded coal into the skip pocket hopper.
As he climbed down from the platform he put his foot onto the
support channel for the traversing chute. The traversing chute was
not isolated and when it moved it trapped his foot between the
chute and the limit switch. |
| 02/04/2003 |
A command supervisor slipped on a conveyor access bridge ramp
and sustained a deep cut to his kneecap resulting in him being in
hospital for over 24 hours for treatment. |
