Emerald Anthracite Coal

EE WAS IN PROCESS OF OPERATING A CO TRUCK ON A ROADWAY WHICH PARALELLS A BELT CONVEYOR. HE NOTICED THE BELT WAS TEARING. IN GETTING OUT OF THE CAB IN ORDER TO PULL SAFETY LINE ON CONVEYOR (STO P) HE LOST HIS BALANCE, AND UPON FALLING HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF WALKING ON A SLOTTED METAL CATWALK. IN THE PLANT. SUDDENLY HE SLIPPED AND FELL, LANDING ON HIS KNEE. HE WAS WEARING RUBBERIZED SOLES ON HIS SHOES, WHICH WERE WET AT THE TIME.

ELMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF HELPING MECHANIC REMOVE THE HUB HOUSING & AXIL FROM DRIVE OF A PAYLOADER, WHEN IT LEFT DOSE IT PINNED HIS FINGERS BETWEEN HOUSING AND AXIL DRIVE.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF ATTENDING THE FEED HOPPER, HE TOLD PLANT OPERATOR. HE WAS GOING HOME HE DIDNT FEEL GOOD. HE FELT HE HAD GAS. IT TURNED OUT. HE WAS ADMITTED TO LOCAL HOSPITAL, DIAGNO SED, AS A HEART ATTACK.

DRIVER WAS IN THE ACT OF CHANGING A FLAT TIRE ON HIS TRAILER. THE RIM WAS SLIGHTLY RUSTED AND FROZE TO THE HUB. WHEN IT DID BREAK LOOSE UNEXPECTEDLY, IT THREW THE DRIVER BACKWARDS ON HIS TAIL BONE AND BACK. THUS THE TIRE AND RIM LANDED ON TOP OF HIM.

EMPLOYEE RECEIVED FIRST AID AT THE HOSPITAL AND ALLOWED TO RETURN TO WORK. KNEE STARTED TO PAIN HIM RETURNED TO HOSPITAL AND WAS TOLD TO SEE A KNEE SPECIALIST. HE TOLD EMPLOYEE HE HAD TORN CO RTLAGE AND WOULD HAVE TO HAVE SURGERY. OEPRATIONWAS DONE ON 3-19-91.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF ASCENDING A LADDER, DUE TO HEAVY FROST THAT MORNING. EMPLOYEE'S FOOT SLIPPED ON THE RUNG AND HIS LEG WENT BETWEEN THE RUNGS. IN DOING SO HE TWISTED HIS KNEE. HIS KNEE STARTED TO SWELL. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT AND X-RAY.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF WELDING AND REPLACING PIPE. STOPPED WHAT HE WAS DOING. TO HAVE LUNCH IN WALKING ON CATWALK TO HIS LUNCH BUCKET. HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE. CAUSING SOME SWELLING AND P AIN. HE WAS ADVISED TO HAVE IT X-RAYED.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING T & T NORTH ON STATE RTE. 437 WHEN A DEER JUMPED OUT OF WOODS AND INTO THE TRACTOR. THIS CAUSED THE OPERATOR TO APPLY BRAKES, THUS THE T & T JACKKNIFED ACROSS THE HI-WAY . (PA RTE 437 IS LOCATED IN LUZERNE COUNTY)

EMPLOYEE AND FELLOW EMPLOYEE WERE IN THE ACT OF CARRYING A HOSE UP TO THE FOURTH LEVEL OF THE PLANT SUDDENLY EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF CHEST PAINS. ALSO NUMBNESS IN LEFT ARM SHORT OF BREATH, FACE WAS FLUSHED AND CLAMMY. ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL BY PARAMEDICS AND AMBULANCE.

CUTTING PC OF SHEET SAW KICKED BACK CUTTING THUMB REQ MINOR SURGERY

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF CUTTING AND TRIMMING A WORN PUMP CAUSING HE WAS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION (LEANING DYER). SLAG FROM TORCH BURNING FLEW UP & GOT BEHIND HIS SAFETY GLASSES, HITTING HIM I N THE EYE.

DRIVER OF TRUCK, COLLIDED WITH SLOW MOVING LOCOMOTIVE AT PENN AND FRONT STREET. CHESTER PAR.R. RUNS IN THE CENTER OF FRONT ST. DRIVER EXAMINED AT HOSPITAL AND DISCHARGED.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A COMPANY OWNED TRUCK HE NOTICED MOTOR WAS RUNNING HOT HE STOPPED AND LEFT RADIATOR COOL DOWN THINKING IT WAS COOL ENOUGH HE TOOK A RAG AND RELEASED PRESSURE CAP WHEN LI QUID STOPPED COMING OUT HE TOOK CAP OFF COMPLETLY THUS HOT ANTIFREEZE SOLUTION SHOT UP AND SOADKED HIS SHIRT SLEEVE

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF CLEANING UP PLANT GROUND FLOOR OF MUD & SCRAPE METAL IN TRYING TO PICK UP A PIECE OF SCRAPE METEAL HE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA SUPERVISOR ADVISED HIM TO GO TO A DOC.OR SEE HIS OWN PHYSICIAN AS SEEON AS POSSIBLE

EMPLOYEE WAS BE3T OVER IN THE PROCESS OF SHOVELING NEAR A GROUND LEVEL BELT CONVEYOR WHEN SUDDENLY STRUCK WITH A PIECE OF ROCK OR COAL WHICH ROLLED OFF AN OVERHEAD BELT CONVEYOR WHICH FEEDS T HE PLANT EMPLOY9E WAS WEARING A HELMET AT THE TIME

MECHANIC HEARD 5 POUNDING NOISE IN PUMP HE LOCKED OUT THE PUMPS SO THAT HE ALONE WOULD CONTROL START AND STOP BUTTON INSTEAD OF PLANT OPERATOR HE REMOVED GUARD FROM THE DRIVE UNIT AND STARTED TO WALK TO THE3STOP BUTTON WHEN HE SLIPPED ON STEEL GRATING AND GRABBED THE SHEAVE WHEEL WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE THUS CAUSING LACERATIONS OF FINGER ON RT HAND

EMPLOYEE WAS BITE BY A RAT NO EQUIPMENT OR OBJECTS WERE INVOLVED EMPLOYEE WAS REACHING UP TO GET ON ITEM OFF THE SHELF WHEN ATTACHED BY A RAT

EE WAS CONNECTING A WELDER TO A TRUCK HITCH WHEN THE HITCH PINNED HIS HAND TO THE GROUND.

EE WAS CLEANING UNDER REFUSE LINE. WHILE CLEANING UNDER THE LINE EE SLIPPED & FELL CAUSING A MUSCLE TO PULL.

EE WAS CLEANING INSIDE THE BREAKER WITH SHOVELS & BROOMS. WHEN WALKING DOWN THE STEPS INSIDE THE PLANT THE EE SLIPPED & FELL APPROX 8 STEPS

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING A 175B PAYLOADER WITH HIS LUNCH PAIL AND JACKET IN HIS HAND, WHEN HE SLIPPED OFF THE LADDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAMMERING ON A PC OF PIPE TO CORRECTLY FIT THE PIPE TO BE WELDED WHILE HAMMERING A PC OF LEAD FROM THE HAMMER LODGED IN THE EMPLOYEES EYE

HE WAS HELPING TO PLACE PIPE INTO POSITION INORDER TO BE WELDED ABOVE SUMP. HE SLIPPED AND FELL OF WALKWAY GRATING. CAME DOWN ON HAND, TRYING TO BREAK HIS FALL. WE WERE NOTIFIED YESTERDAY THAT HE HAD A FRACTURE IN HIS LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING LOOSE GRATES ON MAIN GRID AT HOPPER. HE LIFTED HIS VISOR TO CHECK HIS WELD. LIFTING HIS VISOR WITH THE SAME HAND AS THE WELDING LEAD, HE POKED HIMSELF IN THE RIGHT EYE WIT H THE HOT WELDING ROD.

OUTSIDE CLIMBING DOWN STEPS OF HOPPER.SNOWING HARD-EMPL SLIPPED AND FELL 10 STEPS.COMPLAINED OF NUMBNESS AND PAIN IN UPPER ARMS.

CARRYING 5 GAL CONTAINER OF FUEL TO 2ND FLOOR BV// VIA LADDERWAY.FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER.HE HUNG ON TO LADDER WITH ONE ARM AND WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE UP.INJURY TO LOWER SPINE.

TWO EMPLOYEES WERE LIFTING RAILROAD TIES AND PLACING THEM INTO BUCKET OF FRONTEND LOADER THE BUCKET WAS ON THE GROUNBD AND THE ENGINE OF THE LOADER WAS NOT RUNNING AS BOTH MEN WERE PLACING A R AILROAD TIE INTO BUCKET THE INJURED EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICE CAUSING HIS LEGS TO KICK OUT FROM UNDER HE FELL WITH THE TIE IN HIS HANDS SLAMMING HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE TIE AND THE BUCKE TOF

WHILE EMPLOYEE WASUSING COMEALONG TO MOVE MACHINERY FROM ONE SECTION OF PLANT TO ANOTHER THE CATCH ON THE COME ALONG HIT EMPLOYEES RIGHT HAND CAUSING BRUISES AND SWELLING

EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING A SCREEN TO DETERMINE IF IT WOULD BE USEFUL IN THE PLANT. THE SCREEN HAD A SHARP BARB ON IT WHICH LODGED IN THE EMPLOYEE\S LEFT THUMB, FISH-HOOK STYLE. HE THEN PULLED TH UMB AWAY, RESULTING IN SEVERE BREAK IN SKIN, REQUIRING STITCHES.

EE ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE PIECE OF WOOD WHICH WAS BLOCKING MATERIAL FROM GOING UP BELT. EE APPARENTLY FELL OR WAS THROWN, LANDING ON HAND RAIL, HITTING THE SMALL OF HIS BACK, THEN FALLING TO TH E GROUND.