B-2 Coal

BLACK LUNG.

BLACK LUNG.

EMPLOYEE WAS EATING LUNCH WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN BACK PREVIOUSLY HE HAD BEEN PULLING UP ROOF BOLT CABLE WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF CHEST PAIN & SHORTNESS OF BREATH INVESTIGATION WAS COMPLETED ON 01-2 5-93

UNDER EE WAS HANDLING TRAILING CABLE FOR CONTINUOUS MINE AND ALLEGED BACK STRAIN THE CLAIM HAS BEEN AND LITAGNATION SINCE INITAL RESERT AND SETTGMENT WAS REACHED BY PLANTING AND DEPENDANT RECE NTLY .

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING ROOF BOLTER INTO DRILLED HOLE TO CLEAR DRILL HEAD OF MACHINE & CLAIMED HE FELT PAIN IN RT SIDE OF BACK INVESTIGATION WAS COMPLETED ON 09--14-92

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR TRAMMING FROM CAR PERSON TO CONTINUOUS MINER HE ALLEGED HIT A HOLE IN RUNWAY JARRING HIS BODY AGAINST SHUTTLE CAR SEAT INVESTIGATION WAS COMPLETED ON 01-23-9 3

54730REASSIGNED FROM STONE 4 MAINLINE MOTORMAN TO SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR AT B2. EMPL OPERATING A LAY DOWN SHUTTLE CAR AND THE CONTROL BAR AGAINST EMPL BACK COMBINED WITH THE CONSTANT UP & DOWN A 33965 OF SC CAUSED BY UNEVEN ROADWAYS RESULTED IN A TRAUMA DISORDER. INVESTIGATION COMPLETED 8-27 UPON RECEIPT OF LAST DRS REPORT.

55081D FINISHED INSTALLING ROOF BOLT AND WHEN HIS TBT CANOPY OF ROCK 1 1/2 T X 20 X 14W FELL ROOF AND HIT EE IN BACK EE FINISHED HIS SHIFT AND THEN WENT TO PHYSICAN .

BLACK LUNG DISEASE

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING STARTER HOLE WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF SHALE FELL FROM ROOF & STRUCK EMPLOYEE OVER LEFT EYE

EMPLOYEES SHUTTLE CAR WAS STUCK AT FEEDER & HE ASKED THE OTHER CAR OPERATOR TO GIVE HIM A PUSH TO FREE HIS CAR AS SCOOP CAR WAS BEING PUSHED INJURED EMPLOYEE PLACED HIMSELF BETWEEN STUCK SHUTT LE CAR & COAL RIBS AS CAR WAS PUSHED IT SLEWED OVER STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE LOOPING ROPE BOUND SCOOP BATTERY JACK LID WHEN HIS THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN JACK & BATTERY TRAY INJURED WAS UNAWARE OF POSITION OF THUMB WHEN IT FRACTURED SCOOP OPERATOR TO RAISE THE JACK

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT RIPPER HEAD JACK INTO MINE JEEP WITH HELP OF ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN BACK.DOCTORS REPORT INDICATED THAT EMPLOYEES PROBLEM MAY HAVE BEEN CONGENTIAL IN NATURE.A WRITTEN DOCTORS REPORT HAS NOT BEENRECEIVED AT THIS TIME.

EE MOVED FROM HIS SAFE WORK LOCATION TO MOVE MINER4 CAGE AT THE SAME TIME OF MACHINE WAS BEING RESITING HE WAS STRUCK BY CONVEYOR BOOM AND KNOCKED INTO RIB AND TO MINE FLOOR INJURED DID NOT PR OPERLY COMMUNICATE HIS INTENTIONS TO MINER OPERATOR.

BLACK LUNG AWARD DATED 1-2-92.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING ROOF BOLT HOLE WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON HEAD EMPLOYEE PINNED SHIFT BUT SOMETIME LATER THAT EVENING WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT HOSPITAL TO SC HEDULED TO SEE ORTHOPEDIST NOON OF JAN 13

EMPLOYEE SPREAD EQUIPMENT CLEANER SOVENT ON ROOF BOLT MACHINE WITH HIS BARE HAND AND A RAG. SOMETIME AFTER THE END OF SHIFT, HE SUFFERED AND ALLIRGIC REACTION AND/OR CHEMICAL BURN TO HIS RIG HT HAND.

EE WAS DRILLING ROOF BOLT HOLE WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTER HITTING CANOPY AND STRIKING EE IN LEFT SIDE OF FOREHEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO LOAD SCRAP INTO A TRUCK WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN TRUCK BED AND SCRAP METAL.

EMPLOYEE LOST FOOTING WHILE ON SIDE OF COAL TRUCK & FELL 6-8FT TO GROUND EMPLOYEE BRUISED ON LEFT ARM & SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SPLICE TRAM CHAIN ON CONTINUOUS MINER, TRAM CHAIN WAS ACTUATED TO POSITION FOR SPLICE WHEN CHAIN FOOLED AGAIN SNAPPING CHAIN LINE. PART OF THE BROKEN LINK HIT EMPLOY EE ON LEFT ARM.

PILLAR FALL IN NO.4 PILLAR AT SPAD NO. 174. ROOF FALL FELL ON THE HEAD OF THE CONTINOUS MINER, PUSHING THE MACHINE FALL MEASURE APPROX 15'W X 5'L X 4'THICK.

INJURED HAD FIRST STARTED TO CUT THE FIRST LEFT IN #5 PILLAR WHEN THE CONTINUOUS MINER CUTTING BITS HIT THE END OF A CURTAIN BOARD CAUSING THE BOARD TO COME LOOSE STRIKING EMPLOYEE ABOVE THE R T EYE

BLACK LUNG.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING STEEL RAILS IN SUPPLY YARD.A RAIL END SLIPPED FROM HIS HAND,CATCHING FINGER BETWEEN RAIL AND GROUND.

MINE WAS ON RETREAT WORK.ONE CUT HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM #3 PILLAR IN #2 ENTRY.CONTINUOUS MINER WAS BACKING OUT OF FACE AREA WHEN FALL,3'-5' 20'-25'W,L UNKNOWN,OCCUREED CATCHING OFF SIDE HEAD SECT ION OF MACHINE.MINING WAS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ROOF CONTROL PLAN.NO INJURIES OCCURRED MACHINE DAMAGE MINIMAL.

BLACK LUNG.

EMPLOYEE SAID HE HURT HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AS HE REACHED TO TAKE A HOLD OF HAND RAIL AS HE WAS GOING UP END LOADER STEPS.

JUST FINISHED SETTING TIMBER SAT DOWN ABOUT 2 FT FROM RIB WHEN PC OF ROCK FELL STRUCK EMP IN BA CK

COAL DUST.

BLACK LUNG

BLACK LUNG.

BLACK LUNG.

EMPLOYEE IS NORMALLY A SECTION FOREMAN BUT DUE TO A LABOR DISPUTE WAS WORKING IN A DIFFERENT ECCURATION. EMPLOYEE ALLEGES A BACK INJURY WHILE HELPING TO INSTALL METAL ROOF STRAPS. THE ALLEGED OCCURRANCE WAS NOT REPORTED PROPERLY NOR IN A TIMELY MANNER. MINE MGMT HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THIS INCIDENT NOR WOULD EMPLOYEE'S WITNESSCOMPANY HIS STORY.

INJURED WAS SHOVELING MUD FROM UNDERNEATH #1 BELT AND AS HE STARTED TO THROW SHOVEL OF MUD ONTO BELT HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN LOWER SIDE OF BACK

INJURED HAD MOVED MINER CABLE OUT OF WAY AND SAT DOWN AGAINST RIB WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK 3" TO 7"X48L X 18"W FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON L SIDE RESULTING IN INJURY TO L LEG

WHILE SETTING MINER BITS INJURED WAS IN PROCESS OF REMOVING A BROKEN BIT FROM BIT,LUG AHMMER SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN HIS RIGHT WRIST.WENT TO DOCTOR 04-03-89.

INJURED WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF LOADER HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON BOTTOM STEP CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS RIGHT HIP.

IN STANDING BESIDE ROOF BOLTER MAKING UP BOLTS WHEN OTHER OPER TRAMMED BACK AND RAN OVER FOOT.

INJ COMING OUT OF HOLLOW HIT ICE COVERED ROAD LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND SLID OFF ROAD AND OVERTURNED.

INJURED WAS DRILLING ROOF BOLT HOLE DRILL STEEL HUNG IN HEAD OF BOLTER AND AS HE WAS TRYING TO FREE IT THE STEEL CAME LOOSE AND STRUCK HIM ON T HE WRIST.

INJURED WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM TOP AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT FOOT.

INJURED WAS BOLTING TOP HAD HIS FOOT ON PIECE OF ROCK THAT HAD FALLEN FROM TOP FOOT SLIPPED AS HE SWUNG HEAD ON ROOF BOLTER OUT AND HIS FOOT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE HEAD OF THE B OLTER

INJURED WAS REPLACING RIGHT TRAM MOTOR ON MINER USING A SLATE BAR O INSTALL MOTOR WHEN HIS SHOULDER STARTED HURTING.