| Date |
Précis |
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02/01/2003 | A contract lorry driver collecting coal from the mine
surface in a 40 tonne articulated lorry fractured his left ankle
when he jumped from the off-side mounted fuel tank about 1m to the floor
and landed on a piece of spilled coal. He could have used a ladder
and handrails provided on the nearside. To reduce risks further,
all lorry drivers are being instructed to remain in the cabs while in
the coal loading area. |
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02/01/2003 | At a rapid loading bunker site a mine surface a CPP
foreman injured his right hand and was detained in hospital for more
than 24 hours. He had climbed over a guardrail onto the top of the
loading bunker to remove excess coal from the grid covering the bunker
when he slipped and the loading chute traversing wheel ran over his
hand. |
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03/01/2003 | A process worker leaving a large mine site at the end of
his afternoon shift fractured his right ankle when his scooter skidded
in icy conditions as he braked for a speed ramp. |
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06/01/2003 | In a mechanised single entry development heading a
trainee face worker was carrying a pack of rockbolts and a pack of patch
plates fractured his left hand and sustained soft tissue damage when he
stumbled over a recently installed and unballasted steel rail sleeper
and struck his hand on a rail stop. The weight of the bolts and plates
together was 48kg. |
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21/01/2003 | A contract development worker at a large mine sustained a
fractured left tibia and fibula when struck by a 4.2m long rail track
section weighing about 250kg that he and a colleague had lifted with one
set of blocks prior to dinting. The track fell as they tried to
reposition the centre of lift. The injury could have been more
serious had the injured person not been wearing shin protectors. |
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25/01/2003 | A command supervisor on a mechanised longwall retreat
face dislocated his right shoulder when he slipped in unusually wet
conditions and struck it on a powered roof support. |
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14/02/2003 | An experienced miner at a large miscellaneous mine
sustained a fracture to his right foot when he was struck by mineral
spalling from the sidewall of a yielding pillar. He had pulled back the
machine to dress down an overhanging sidewall and was standing at the
entry to a short, unsupported, stub taped off to prevent entry when the
block of mineral fell and pinned his legs. |
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04/03/2003 | While carrying out ripping operations in the main gate of
a longwall retreat face supported by passive delta type steel supports a
workman sustained a fracture to his right forearm when a strut that he
was removing from a damaged crown sprung out and struck him. |
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20/02/2003 | A command supervisor sustained facial injuries and was
detained in hospital for more than 24 hours after he fell while
alighting from a high-speed man-riding conveyor. He had been
travelling outbye in a prone position on the top belt, and as he was
getting up ready to alight, he dropped his flame safety lamp and stooped
instinctively to retrieve it, but he fell from the belt and onto the
inline alighting platform. |
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18/03/2003 | A belt fitter, deployed to remove belt trailers from the
line stands of a conveyor in the main gate of a longwall retreat face,
sustained friction burns to his left shoulder and lost nails on his
right hand when his arm was drawn into a nip point between the type-10
top belt and a top idler. |
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21/03/2003 | A powered roof support fitter became unconscious when he
fell nearly a metre from the side of a stage loader after replacing his
tools in a toolbox provided on the stage loader and struck his head on a
set Dowty prop. |
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24/03/2003 | After checking the cutter picks a shearer driver slipped
on the concave pan of the AFC at the maingate end. He instinctively
reached for a 68.6kg deflector plate bolted to the top of the spill
plates to steady himself, but it moved and trapped his hand causing
crush injuries to his right ring finger that resulted in surgical
amputation below the top joint. The deflector plate had been fitted with
three T bolts which had loosened and become disengaged from their
sockets. |
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24/03/2003 | A coal mine development worker sustained a crush injury
to his right index finger, resulting in its subsequent surgical
amputation at hospital, while working as part of a team inserting a 6.0m
'megabolt' into a hole drilled in the roof. To ram the bolt
fully home the injured person was holding the end of the bolt in line
with the top of the bolting machine whilst a colleague operated it, but
the end of the bolt slipped off the machine and the end plate trapped
his finger against the machine. |
