Moorman Surface Mine Coal

EMPL USING AIR WRENCH TO TIGHTEN BOLTS ON HOIST MOTOR COUPLING ON DRAGLINE -CAUGHT LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN WRENCH AND COUPLING.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS GREASING THE BACKHOE WHEN HE TWISTED TO TURN AROUND AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT BECAUSE OF MUD HIS RUBBER TIRE DOZER HAD SLID INTO A BRUSH PILE A LIMB BECAME LODGED IN GRAB RAIL & MIRROR BRACKET WHEN HE DISLODGED THE LIMB & RELIEVED PRESSURE ANOTHER L IMB STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THEHEAD JUST BELOW THE HARD HAT

EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN AWARDED COMPENSATION BY THE KY WORKERS COMPENSATION BOARD FOR COAL WORKERS PNEUMOCONIOSIS.

EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT HE DID NOT TRY TRUCK BRAKES BEFORE STARTING DOWN 300 FT LONG RAMP BRAKES WERE FROZEN AND TRUCK TRAVELED DOWN RAMP TOSSING EMPLOYEE AROUND AND AGAINST INSIDE OF CAB.

EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT HE WAS USING AN AIR WRENCH TO TIGHTEN CABLE CABLE CLAMPS ANS FOREIGN MATERIAL ENTERED HIS EYE.

HE WAS USING A 4ANUAL CRANK TO OPEN AN OVERHEAD DOOR WHEN THE HANDLE SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND AND WHEN HE GRABBED THE HANDLE, IT JERKED HIS BACK.FIRST DAY AWAY FROM WORK WAS 10-13-87.

EMPL HOOKING WI9E CABLE,SCRAPED ARM AGAINST FRAYED PLACE ON CABLE.

EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT WHILE DISMOUNTING FROM TRUCK BED AFTER CHECKING SHAFTS BEING DEVEIVERED,HE STRAINED UPPER SHOULDERS (NECK) AS HE WAS HOLDING HAND HOLDS WHILE DISMOUNTING.

EE STATED TAHT 4HILE REPLACING A DOZER TRACK. DOZER OPERATOR & PLACEDD HIS HAND ONT HE TRACK WHILE IT WAS BEING MOVED CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN 2 TRACK PADS.

EMP STATED THAT3WHILE WORKING ON A PIN ON 1260 DRAGLINE BUCKET CO-WORKERS WERE DRIVING PIN OUT USING A SLEDGE HAMMER AND HE WAS 3 OR 4 FEET AWAY AND FOREIGN MATERIAL ENTERED HIS EYE, HE WAS NO T WEARING EYE P9OTECTION AND DIDNT REPORT INJURY TO HIS FOREMAN UNTIL 6-11-87

EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT HE HAD BEEN USING A CUTTING TORCH & WAS USING AN AIR CHIPPER TO REMOVE SLAG FROM BURNED METAL SURFACE WHEN A PIECE OF SLAG ENTERED HIS EYE

WHILE HE WAS UN2OOKING PULL CABLE FROM A DOZER HEDROPPED THE DRAWBAR IN BACK INTO THE HOLE CATCHING AND MASHING HIS FINGER.

MOVING SURPLUS 6OLT BINS FROM ONE WAREHOUSE TO ANOTHER,STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT HE WAS USING A CARBON-ARC WELDERS ALONG SIDE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE USING THE SAME EQUIPMENT AND RECEIVED A FLASH BURN TO HIS EYES WHEN HE FAILED TO FOLLOW HIS FOREMAN'S INSTRUC TIONS TO USE WE5DING SHIELD.

EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT WHILE INSTALLING A FUEL PUMP ON A 280 TRACTOR, THE FUEL LINE SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO STRICK HIS FINGER ON SHARP SIDE OF ENGINE.

EMP SAID HE AND3ANOTHER EMPLOYEE MOVED A PUMP CABLE AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER HIS BACK STARTED HURTING

HE WAS DISMOUNT3NG DOZER LETTING HIS HAND SLIDE DOWN HAND RAIL. THE RAIL WAS BENT IN AGAINST SIDE PLATE CAUSING HIM TO CATCH HIS FINGER AND CUT IT.

EMPLOYEE WALKED3OUT ON TRACK TO UNHOOK CABLE FROM BLADE AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIMT O FALL AGAINST TILT CYLINDER CUTTING RIGHT LEG.

EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT HE WAS REMOVING ARMATURE FROM 1260 BE DRAGLINE MOTOR AND WHILE REMOVING WIRE CONNECTOR THE WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HAND ON BRUISE RING.