MTR Surface Mine Coal

Employee was climbing up onto a Mack rollback, when he slipped and fell into a low block wall, striking his side and back. Employee fractured L2 and L3. Employee was released from hospital with a back brace.

Dozer was pushing mateiral down a slope for reclamation. When he ran over a rock causing dozer to loose traction and slide sideways. Dozer then turned over.

Employee was tramming an excavator up a hill and was turning onto a road when the cat slid down the hill and the excavator turned onto it's side. Causing the employee to hit his right shoulder on the bars across the inside of the window.

Battery exploded and a piece of it hit employee in forehead, required stitches.

On Sept 13, 2004 due to an occupational illness as substantiated by medical records and reports, ee became unable to work because of the ailments described in the medical reports. This was not duw to a single event at the mine, but repeated trauma over an extended period of time.

Employee was climbing down off dozer when he slipped and fell aprox. 6' to the ground hurting left shoulder and neck.

Employee was traming a 690 drill up a bench road when he noticed the machine loosing power. He looked in his right side mirror and saw flames coming out of the right engine compartment. He shut down the machine and exited it. Employee obtained the machines fire extingushers and used them on the fire. The fire continued to grow engulfing the machine.

Employee was operating an articulating rock truck. A rock had fallen off of the truck. When employee was backing up to turn truck he ran over rock causing a jarring motion in cab. Employee experienced pain in left shoulder. Employee continued to work until 11/5/2004 when he was removed from work by his doctor.

Employee was working on the pad of the Highwall miner. A car was placed on the pad and the employee and another pad man coupled up the cat heads on the car. The employee went back to pull the slack back into the tray resulting in pain in the lower back.

Employee was traveling into work when he encountered a fuel truck in a narrow part of the road impacting the left front bumper. Employee was complaining of pain in his chest area.

Employee was unloading a deck bushing for a drill from a pickup truck to the mechanics drop when he dropped the part. When he bent over to pick up part he felt a pain in his lower back.

Employee was operating an 992-G loader in the outside of a shot. Employee was going into shot to get a bucket load when the loader bucket struck a rock causing the loader to twist and stop, resulting in pain in the left in the left shoulder.

MECHANIC WAS DISMOUNTING DRILL, HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

CHANGING BRAKE CALIPER ON SERVICE TRUCK. TRUCK WAS HELD UP WITH A FORKLIFT. TRUCK SLIPPED OFF FORKS, CATCHING HIS RIGHT HEEL WITH STUD BOLT THAT HELD CALIPER ON.

EE WAS DRIVING TRUCK ALONG PIT ROAD. A ROCK DISLODGED FROM THE SPOIL AREA STRIKING VEHICLE . DRIVER WAS TRANSPORTED TO E.M. XRAYS WERE NEGATIVE EE WAS TREATED WITH PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION AND RELEASED

ADJUSTING PULL DOWN CABLES ON DRILL. WHILE GETTING DOWN HIS FOOT SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH RT ARM. PAIN IN RIGHT ARM AND SHOULDER.

INSTALLING AXLE IN R90 TRUCK, HOLDING PRESSURE AGAINST AXLE TO LINE SPLINES UP. AXLE KICKED BACK, SPRAINED LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS GRINDING ON 850C DOZER BLADE WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING IN HIS RT. EYE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES AND HOOD.

EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING TRANSMISSION FROM A DM800 MACK TRUCK WITH ANOTHER MECHANIC. WHEN JACK WAS LET DOWN ENGINE SHIFTED CATCHING EE'S L INDEX FINGER. LACERATION & SMALL BREAK TO EN D OF FINGER. REQUIRING 4 STITCHES TO END OF FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING 7 7/8' DRILL INTO PICK UP WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN STOMACH, SMALL KNOT AROUND NAVEL AREA.

EMPLOYEE HAD GOTTEN OFF ROCK TRUCK FOR LUNCH. WAS CLIMBING BACK UP LADDER WHEH HE STRUCK KNEE ON HAND RAIL, FELT KNEE GIVE WAY FELL BACK TO GROUND, LEFT KNEE TISSUE DAMAGE.

EE WAS PUSHING BRUSH AROUND SIDE OF HILL, HILL WAS WET AND MUDDY DUE TO RECENT RAIN, DOZER SLIDDOWN HILL HITTING TREE STUMP, TURNING DOZER OVERON RT. SIDE, CAUSING PAIN IN BACK AND NECK.

EE WAS OPEATING A R-85 ROCK TRUCK HAULING ROCK TO DUMP AREA WHEN HE HIT A HOLE CAUSING HIM TO HIT ROOF OF CAB WITH TOP OF HEAD, CAUSING PAIN IN HIS NECK

EE WAS MOUNTING A ROCK TRUCK, FIRST STEP WAS A CABLE STEP, EE PLACED RT. FOOT ON STEP THEN PUT HIS WEIGHT ON THE STEP. WHEN DOING SO THE STEP SWUNG CAUSING PAIN IN RT. KNEE.

EE AND ANOTHER EE AT SURFACE SHOP PICKING UP A PARTS SHELF WHILE DOING, INJURED TRIPPED OVER A CRIB BLOCK AND THE RESULTING MOTION CAUSED A SPRAIN TO LEFT KNEE. ON 11-27-01 INJURED SAW A DR. AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, WHO PLACED HIM ON RESTRICTED DUTY TILL DEC.4TH, INJURED RETURNED TO WORK ON 11-27-01, DOING LIGHT WORK IN HIS REGULAR JOB.

EE WAS OPERATING A CAT D9L DOZER RECLAIMING THE OUTSLOPE ON THE MTR MINE. HE WAS PUSHING DIRT & ROCK UP THE SLOPE AND AS HE BACKED DOWN THE SLOPE HE RAN OVER SOME ROCKS. SHORTLY THEREAFTER HE STARTED EXPERIENCING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK, MOST LIKELY DUE TO REPEATED TRAUMA.

EE STARTED HIS SHIFT ON AN L85 ROCK TRUCK AT 0600. LATER IN THE SHIFT HE STATED THAT HIS SEAT WAS LOOSE CAUSING HIS BACK TO HURT. A NEW SEAT WAS ORDERED. AT 1000HE PARKED THE ROCK TRUCK, STATE D HIS BACK WAS HURTING AND WENT HOME. HE HAD NOT RETURNED TO WORK.

CO WORKER RAISED BED OF 777 HAUL TRUCK SMASHING FINGER BETWEEN BED AND HOIST CYLINDER.

VICTIM WAS A PASSENGER IN A PICKUP TRUCK ON THE HAULAGE ROAD. A ROCK APPROX. 31/2 SQUARE FOOT CAME OFF THE HIGHWASS & STRUCK THE TOP OF THE CAB (PASSENGER SIDE) RESULTING IN SERIOUS INJURIES T O VICTIM (A VISITOR, NOT AN EMPLOYEE). HE SUFFERED FRACTURES TO THE LEFT TIBIA & FIBULA, RIGHT FEMOR & PELVIS, AND A CONCUSSION.

EE WAS PULLING FIBERLOCK OF SLURRY PIPE IN ORDER TO COUPLE PIPES TOGETHER WHEN HE PULLED TOO HARD STRAINING THE MUSCLE. HE DIDN'T MISS ANY WORK UNTIL ON 11/1/00 HE ONCE AGAIN WAS INJURED. HE W AS REMOVING A PIECE OF METAL FROM HIS TRUCK. WHILE HE WAS PULLING ON THE METAL HE REINJURED HIS RIGHT BICEP.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF MOUNTING THE OPERATOR'S CAB OF GREASE TRUCK. HE PLACED HIS LEFT FOOT ON A STEP AND HIS RIGHT HAND ON A GRAB RAIL AND AS HE BEGAN HIS CLIMB HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED AND HE RETURNED TO GROUND LEVEL. CAUSED A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE HAD SURGERY TO CORRECT CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME ON HIS RIGHT HAND. THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT REFLECTS THE BEGGINING OF THE DISABILITY.

EE WAS DESCENDING FROM COAL LOADER WHEN HE STATED HE STEPPED ON A LUMP OF COAL ON THE STEP RESULTING IN A FALL.