Black Thunder Mine Coal

DISMOUNTING DION CAT TRACTOR MAKING REPAIRS. SURFACES WERE WET. RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED ON PUSHARM BLADE, CAUSING FALL BETWEEN BLADE PUSHARM AND TRACK ROLLER FRAME.

INJURED WAS HAULING A LOAD OF COAL DOWN GRADE IN 1ST GEAR USING THE JAKE BRAKE. HE STATED THAT SOMETHING IN THE REAR END OF THE TRUCK BROKE LOSE CAUSING HIM TO RUN AWAY STRIKING THE REAR OF A COAL TRUCK IN FRONT OF HIM.

CLIMBING THROUGH SHOT MATERIAL, SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING RIGHT LEG AGAINST ROCK.

EMPLOYEE INSTALLING CUTTING EDGE ON D11N DOZER STRAP HOLDING EDGE SLIPPED MASHING FINGER

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING DRILL CHAIN OVER SPROCKET EE OPERATOR WAS HELPING EE OPERATOR PULLED CHAIN CATCHING EMPLOYEES FINGER

EMPLOYEE REMOVING FILTER CONNISTER ON DION TRANSMISSION USING HAMMER WRENCH HAMMER MASHED INDEX FINGER ON RT HAND

USING HYDRAULIC JACK TO REMOVE PIN FROM CYLINDER ROD JACK SLIPPED STRIKING ARM

LIFTING 5 GAL CAN OF FUEL OUT OF PICKUP BED. REACHING OVER INTO PICKUP BED & NOT USING HIS LEGS TO LIFT WITH.

WORKING IN CONFINED AREA OF MACHINE, LAYING FALL DOWN, BENDING AND REACHING.

STEP LADDER PLACED AGAINST RT SIDE SECTION OF COUNTERWEIGHT WHILE CLIMBING LADDER LADDER SLIPPED & EMPLOYEE FELL SPRAINING LEFT ANKLE

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD PARKED HIS PICKUP BESIDE THE LOADER & HAD STARTED TO CLIMB UPON THE LOADER TO GET THE HOURS FROM THE MACHINE HE ST ATED THAT HE HAD GOTTEN ON THE FIRST OR SECOND STEP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER WHEN HE FELT HIS HAND SLIP HE GRABBED WITH HIS OTHER HAND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LADDER HIS HANDS STARTED TO SLIP & HE FELL TO THE GROUND

HYDRAULIC RAM BEING USED TO LIFT HYDRAULIC SHOVEL HOUSE CYLINDER WAS LOCATED ON TOP OF SEVEN FOOT CRIB EMPLOYEE REMOVED LINES GOING TO CYLINDER ROLLED OFF CRIB STRIKING EMPLOYEES RT FOOT

FAN WAS RUBBING FAN HOUSING-EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO ADJUST HOUSING WHEN FINGER WAS STRUCK BY FAN BLADE.

RETRACTING LADDDER,LADDER SLIPPED OUT OF HAND HE ATTEMPTED TO GRAB THE LADDER WITH HIS OTHER HAND MISSING THE LADDER AND STRIKING HIMSELF ON THE CHIN WITH HIS HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING 6" SUCTION HOSE ON 6" PUMP. TIGHTINING BOLTS WITH 36" PIPE WRENCH. WHEN HE PULLED UP ON PIPE WRENCH HE FELT A STINGING IN HIS LEFT BACK.

COAL WAS SET AND WOULD NOT SLIDE INTO TIPPLE, BEECHER CLIMBED UPON HOPPER TO HELP IT TO GO THRU. FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL INTO HOPPER AND HURT HIS BACK.

WHEN EMPLOYEE STARTED OFF THE 988 LOADER, HE GOT TO SECOND STEP FROM TOP, LOST HIS GRIP AND FOOTING, CAUSING HIM TO FALL APPROX. 4' TO THE GROUND. EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS FACING THE MACHINE AND HAD NOTHING WITH HIM WHEN HE STARTED DOWN AND FELL, LADING ON LEFT SHOULDER AND HIP. COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN NECK, SHOULDER AND BACK.

I NAME WAS CHANGING GREASE DRUM WHEN TAKING LID OFF FULL DRUM HE CUT HIS FINGER OVER A SHARP EDGE ON THE LID

EMPL WAS OPERATING HAULER WHICH WAS BEING LOADED BY DEMAG SHOVEL. SHOVEL OEPRATOR WEAS SWINING BOOM OF SHOVEL BACK T0WARD HAULER & FAILED TO RAISE BOOM HIGH ENOUGH TO CLEAR BED OF HAULER. Y

BOULDER WAS DROPPED OUT OF SHOVEL BUCKET INTO HAULER BED CAUSING NECK STRAIN. DOES NOT WISH TO SEE DOCTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING TONG WRENCH TO BRAKE STEEL LOOSE HE ACCIDENTLY HIT TONG WRENCH SWITCH WITH HIS RT HAND WHICH STARTED THE WRENCH IN MOTION & CAUGHT HIS THUMB

HE WAS GOING DOWN HILL LOADED & TRUCK CAME OUT OF GEAR DRIVER JUMPED OUT & TRUCK WENT OVER EMBANKMENT.