Ceredo Dock Coal

An employee was cleaning out a chute on the #1 river belt. While doing so, the employee accidentally turned on the valve of a water hose and the water hose was inadvertently angled toward the employee's face. When the second valve was turned on, the hose sprayed water into the employee's eyes, causing an eye injury.

Employee was mounting locomotive 413 and as EE was ascending the locomotive stairs, the employee felt a pop in the right calf area. EE was evaluated at ER and given time off until follow up with Ortho. Ortho prescribed PT for a calf strain and degenerative conditions of the knee.

Overland Belt Fire. Belt caught fire, possibly due to a faulty roller, after being shut down for lunch. The belt structure, belt, rollers and electrical equipment will need repaired/replaced.

Employee tripped and stumbled over a pallet in the maintenance shop yard and struck the front bucket of a parked backhoe causing the fracture of 3 ribs.

Employee attempted to align a railroad switch. When employee rotated EE's torso and exerted the appropriate amount of force to move the switch handle to the opposite position, EE's right foot slipped off of the cross tie into the adjacent ballast gravel used to stabilize the switch. This caused the employee's lower body to do the splits, resulting in a strain to the lower back.

EE aggravated his chronic back issues while mounting hill engine. EE stated that incident did not contribute to his chronic back pain, which is managed by meds. EE went to personal Dr. where he was put off until 7/1/15. EE had personal Dr. complete short term disability papers on 5/27/15, but this was rejected by HR. Case was processed as WC on 5/27/15.

Employee arose from a sitting position while on break and temporarily blacked out causing him to fall forward out of the conductor's shanty and onto the track ballast rock resulting in lacerations to the forehead and chin requiring 1 staple and 3 stitches.

The #1 conveyor belt chute at the Ceredo Dock plugged off with coal. Employee was using a sledge hammer to hit the side of the chute on the upriver side of the middle level of the transfer structure to knock loose the frozen coal when a piece of metal about 1/4x10x34 inches in size hit his left hip and back area, causing a bruise/contusion.

Employee was attempting to adjust broom bristle on sampler tail piece with pry bar. Pry bar snagged moving belt and smashed employee's fingers between pry bar and belt resulting in fracture to left ring finger and laceration to left pinky finger requiring 4 stitches.

Employee was walking in the Ceredo rail yard after coupling two locomotives together and stepped on a piece of ballast rock causing him to roll his left ankle resulting in a fracture.

Employee was rolling up a grease hose and in the process the grease gun struck the corner of the bed on the grease truck causing the trigger on the grease gun to depress injecting grease into the left index finger of the employee. This resulted in surgical removal of the grease.

Employee was mounting a parked locomotive on CSX Yard 1 West and slipped bruising his left side ribs and back. Employee was placed on restricted duty by doctor in that the employee couldn't climb or lift greater than 10 lbs for 48 hours. Case turned into lost time due to out company not having light duty positions.

Employee was working with 7 other employees in the Dump 1 Feeder Room to clean up a large coal spill resulting from a malfunction of the # 3 Feeder Belt. In the process of shoveling the spilled coal onto the belt to clean up the area, the employee sprained his ankle by stepping backwards onto a lump of coal. This resulted in a lost time accident.

Employee was dismounting a railcar and when his left foot touched the ground he felt a "pop" in his left knee resulting in pain.

Employee was placing a piece of scrap metal into a loader bucket for disposal into the scrap metal bin and in the process, pulled a muscle in his right bicep area, resulting in two days away from work.

Employee was standing inside locomotive preparing to dismount when a faulty air valve on one of the railcars caused the train to enter emergency mode and stop. This unexpected stopping motion caused the employee to fall inside the locomotive and hit his head. Doctor put employee off for two days.

Employee was attempting to sit down inside company vehicle and in the process, felt severe pain in his lower back. This resulted in a strained lower back and two lost time workdays as per doctor's advice.

Employee had just finished fueling his locomotive and in the process of dismounting the loco to replace the nozzle, he stepped on the fuel hose and rolled his ankle. This resulted in the employee spraining his ankle.

Conductor mounted the cut of loaded railcars to protect the move to the hill, and as he mounted the railcar, pulled a muscle in his right shoulder. Employee was instructed by doctor to be off work and attend physical therapy for a potential muscle tear. Foreman was not made aware of incident until 11/30/2008.

Employee was attempting to enter the cab area of Locomotive 1200 and in the process bumped his head on the low clearance door facing. Employee heard his neck pop and now has a strained neck. Employee was wearing a hard hat. Employee is taking physical therapy for his neck. Didn't learn of the incident until 11/20/2008.

Tech walked into sample building to remove bag and stepped on loose floor grating and fell through with left leg up to shin below knee. The grating returned to position trapping leg. No skin damage; ankle sprain resulted. Grating may have been loosed due to vibration from sampling system or not replaced during recent construction. Grating in walkway path.

Employee was securing barge with tugger wire to timberhead and during this process accidentally hit the remote tugger winch on/off switch with his knee. As a result, the employee pinched his left hand fifth digit finger between the wire and timberhead. Employee fractured the tip of left hand fifth digit finger as well as received 3 stitches.

Employee was walking across the storage yard and twisted his right ankle, which caused a sprain. Employee's doctor put him off for 3 days, therefore resulting in a lost time accident.

While mounting a railcar, employee felt a pop in his left shoulder. Employee was given full duty release from local doctor on 5/14, but went back to the doctor on 5/17. The doctor on 5/17 put the employee off work, for further treatment, until June.

Employee was attempting to adjust spotlight on off-loader barge by tossing a rope around the light bracket. During the tossing motion, employee pulled muscles in his back. Employee didn't inform mgmt. that he missed work on 6/25, due to this incident, until 7/3/07.

PRB Stockpile on upriver # 4 feeder area experienced a fire. The stockpile fire was close enough to the draw off tunnel feeder belt to ignite the belt. The coal pile fire, along with the feeder belt, were extinguished at approximately 10:10 PM on 8/13/06 by local fire department. There were no injuries as a result of this incident.

EE was installing a new run of conduit. During the conduit run, a bracket from the old conduit needed to be removed. The anchor bolts from the old bracket were loosened & EE tried to pry the bracket the rest of the way out of the wall. At this time, the bracket fell and grazed EE's left index finger, resulting in a laceration requiring 3 stitches.

EE was tightening an anchor bolt on a counterweight guide beam. The crescent wrench he was using slipped off of the anchor bolt, causing EE to hit an adjacent anchor with his right fifth digit finger. This resulted in a bruise to the finger and EE was given 3 days off by his attending physician, therefore resulting in a lost time accident.

Employee was coupling an air hose to adjoin two railcars. When finished, the employee rose from the squatting position and felt a pop in his lower back along with pain. Doctor's report showed that the employee had chronic back pain and spasms. The employee had just returned to work on 10/17/05 from being off 3 1/2 months due to a non-work related back injury.

Employee was replacing the grating over the Dump 1 tail roller. The grating slipped and hit the ground. The employee tried to replace the grating by himself and strained a muscle in his back.

EE was cleaning in the draw off tunnel by the feeder #2 walkway above tunnel floor. After cleaning was complete, EE was preparing to climb down the fixed ladder access. Before climbing down the ladder, the EE needed to reconnect the safety chain and while doing this, slipped and fell against the tunnel wall, injuring his right shoulder.

Employee was attempting to close the hopper door on a railcar with a pry bar. During this time the pry bar slipped and struck the employee in the forehead resulting in a laceration .