| Accident Date | Accident Précis |
|---|---|
| 10/10/2001 | A contractor's operator, walking through a car park at the end of a nightshift, suffered a fracture to the middle finger of his left hand and was detained in hospital for more than 24 hrs when a workmate, who was running across the car park, ran into him and caused him to fall. |
| 12/10/2001 | In a conventional mechanised heading supported by passive steel supports, a development worker had the tip of the middle finger of his left hand traumatically amputated when he stumbled while carrying a roof beam past the machine and his finger became trapped between the beam and a section of monorail lying on the floor. |
| 12/10/2001 | The injured person sustained a chip fracture to his left elbow when he banged his left elbow on a steel cage support/gate while emptying a tramp iron magnet. He did not report the accident to his official or to the medical centre at the time because he thought it was nothing. |
| 15/10/2001 | At a large coal mine a development worker suffered a fractured right femur, lacerations to his right calf, and a fractured left arm while preparing to set a stinger leg to a suspended mesh cage reaching to within 1' of the floor. A lump of stone, 8' × 3' × 1', fell from the roof without warning and struck the bottom of the mesh cage and the base of the stinger leg, propelling the stinger leg against the worker's right leg causing his leg injuries. His subsequent fall was thought to have caused the fracture to the left arm. The stone was retained on the face side of the mesh. |
| 16/10/2001 | On the surface of a coal mine, an explosives store attendant sustained a fracture to his wrist when he fell onto his outstretched arm. He was in the process of locking the outer door of the explosives store, when he tripped over the concrete plinth on which the store was mounted. |
| 21/10/2001 | A regular coalface worker, deployed to a development heading during a weekend, sustained an open fracture to the right index finger and was detained in hospital for a period exceeding 24 hours. Using adjustable spanners, he was uncoupling drill steels at the mast of bolter/miner when one of the spanners slipped causing him to strike his hand against the drill mast. |
| 02/11/2001 | At the entrance to the main gate of a longwall face, an electrician suffered a fracture to his right leg. He had been assisting to prepare the gate belt for manriding and as he was walking past the remote jib a bottom roller flew out and struck him. The belt was not correctly tensioned and the slack belt flipped the roller out as the tension was applied. |