Latrobe Plant Metal/Non-Metal

ROOF WAS BOLTED WITH SPLIT SET BOLTS BECAUSE OF A HOLLOW SOUND. MONTHS LATER IT MUST OF SEPERATED CAUSING EXCESSIVE LOAD FOR THIS STYLE AND NUMBER OF BOLTS. THIS FALL HAS BEEN CHECKED BY BOTH MSHA AND MSHA TECH SUPPORT. TWO BOOM JUMBO DRILL WAS HEAVILY DAMAGED.

EMPLOYEE PULLED ON A CHAIN DISLODGING THE PULLEY, CAUSING IT TO SWING THE CHAIN, IT PULLED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE CHAIN AND CONVEYOR STRUCTURE.

EE PNEUMOCONIOSIS CONTRACTED DURING EE WITH PREVIOUS OWNER OF THIS MINE, LATROBE CONSTRUCTION CO BLUE STONE MINE. HIRED BY BETTER MATERIALS CORP AS PROBATIONARY EE ON 3-18-02, TERMINTED ON 5-1 4-02. CONSENSUS X RAY INTERPRETATION RECIEVED ON 7-18-02. POSSIBLE PNEUMOCONIOSIS, SECONARY TO TUBERCULOSIS, SARCOIDOSIS, OR OTHER DIEASE.

RAISED TRUCK BED AND DISLODGED PIECE OF RIB AND IT FELL ON TRUCK CAB.

USING PRY BAR TO LOOSEN BOLTS ON CRUSHER.

SLIPPED ON MUD, SCRAPING LEFT ARM AND TWISTING RIGHT KNEE.

DRIVING BACK FROM THE STOCKPILE 1 HIT A HOLE AND JARRED MY LOWER BACK AND NECK. I ALSO HIT MY HEAD ON CAB OF TRUCK AND CUT MY HEAD.

PUTTING 2 B SCREEN ON BIN, WHEN FLIPPING SCREEN OVER LEFT FOOT SLID IN DUST ON TOP OF BLOCK.

STEPPED OUT OF TRUCK CAB TO CLEAN THE WINDSHIELD. A DISC IN HIS LOWER BACK WENT OUT OF PLACE. THIS HAPPENS PERIODICALLY DUE TO A BACK INJURY ON APR.5, 1993, HOWEVER, IT IS THE FIRST TIME WHILE ON COMPANY PROPERTY. RETURNED TO WORK ON 4-3-98AT HIS NORMAL STARTING TIME, AND OCCUPATION. HE DID NOT PROVIDE THE COMPANY WITH A DOCTOR'S SLIP INDICATING THAT HE SHOULD STAY HOME FOR ONE DAY

HE WAS LAID OFF 12-19-97. APPEARED EARLY MARCH WITH A DOCTOR SLIP AND SAID "SEE YOU IN A FEW DAYS". ON 6-4-98, A LETTER FROM ATTORNEY ADVISED LATROBE CONST CO A CLAIM FOR A WORK RELATED PULMON ARY INJURY HAS BEEN FILED. 7-30-98, ROCKWOOD CASUALTY INSURANCE REQUESTED INFORMATION OF HIS WORK HISTORY.

GETTING OUT OF GRADALL SCALER BOOM MOVED AND EE SLIPPED.

SLIPPED IN MUD 8-5-97 RETURN TO WORK 8-6-97 NO MEDICAL ATTEMTION REQUIRED NOTIFIED EE 8-5-97 SURGERY REQUIRED.

PULLING SCREEN OUT OF SHAKER, CAUGHT RT HAND BETWEEN SCREEN AND STEEL BEAM.

GOT UNDERNEATH A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT TO PICK UP TOOKS. EUCLID WATER WAGON. [GOT BIT BY A COPPER HEAD SNAKE]

INSTALLING ROOF MONITORS, A BRACKET HOLDING HYDRAULIC CYLINDER TO BOOM FAILED AND THE BASKET DROPPED APPROX. 30' TO FLOOR.

INSTALLING ROOF MONITORS, A BRACKET HOLDING HYDRAULIC CYLINDER TO BOOM FAILED AND BASKET DROPPED APPROX. 30' TO FLOOR.

INSTALLING ROOF SENSOR S .

PREPARING TO LOAD BOTTOM HOLES OF MINE FACE WITH EXPLOSIVES A STONE FORM SOMEWHERE STRUCK THE BACK OF MY HEAD NECK AND SHOULDERS. REQUIRING 3 STITCHES ON BACK OF HEAD.

WHILE EE WAS LOADING BOTTOM ROWS, A SECTION OF THE MINING FACE FELL OFF AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT THIGH.

ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE STEERING CYL FROM EUCLID. OPPOSITE END SWUNG AROUND AND HIT EMPLOYEE AT THE BACK OF HIS HEAD BELOW HARD HAT.

ROOF SCALER WAS PREPARING ROOF DISLODGED A LARGE PIECE OF STONE AND WHEN IT HIT THE FLOOR IT SHATTERED AND STONE FLEW IN SEVERAL DIRECTIONS.

ROCK FELL FROM CATWALK HARD HAT LINER CUT FOREHEAD

INJURED WAS DRIVING A PIN IN A 988 HIGHLIFT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN GREASE WITH A METAL SHAVING HIT HIM IN THE LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING FROZEN MUD FROM THE CRUSHER MODIFED CHUTE WITH A BAR AND CHISEL WHEN THE BAR BEGAN TO SLIP THROUGH CHUTE. EMPOLOYEE GRABBED THE BAR AND WHEN HE DID IT KNOCKED HIM OFF BAL ANCE. HE SLID DOWN CHUTE AND WENT TO STOP BY EXTENDING HIS FEET. HIS ONE FOOT HIT A METAL PLATE AND THE OTHER SLIPPED OFF AND BROKE.

EE WAS REACHING OVER HIS HEAD FOR A DRILL STEEL FOR A DAVEY DRILL WHEN THE DRILL LIFTED HIM OFF THE GROUND CAUSING PAIN IN HIS SHOULDERS.

EMPLOYEE WAS OUTSIDE THE DYNAMITE MAGAZINE LOADING TUBES OF EMULSIFIER ONTO A DYNAMITE TRUCK BY HAND.

INJURED WAS PUSHING A SCREEN OFF THE CATWALK ON THE CRUSHER, WHEN HIS RIGHT CALF MUSCLE TIGHTENED UP ON HIM.

EE WAS EITHER SLEDGE HAMMERING OR TURNING A WRNECH WHEN HE GOT INTO AN AWKWARD POSITION AND SUFFERED FROM STRAIN AND PAIN FROM BENDING INTO THE POSITION.

EE WAS WALKING UP THE CATWALK AT WASHPLANT 1 WHEN HIS RIGHT CALF MUSCLE TIGHTENED UP HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL END OF HIS SHIFT. THEN AT HOME AFTER WALKING HE DISCOVERED THAT HE COULD HARDLY WALK.

CLIMBING DOWN OUT OF 988 H.LIFT SLIPPED ON OIL AND FELL TO GROUND.

FELL CLIMBING OUT OF CAB OF A DOWNHOLE DRILL.

EMPLOYEE WAS LUBRICATING BEARINGS ON #3 CONVEYER.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHEN ENTERING INTO A GRADUAL SCALER.

THIS IS A REOCCURANCE OF THE KNEE INJURY. EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM TRUCK AND SLIPPED AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

DRAGGING A GEAR BOX UP TO INSTALL ON CONVEYOR BELT.

EXCESSIVE JOLTING WHILE OPERATING HILIFT THAT HAS LED TO LOWER BACK STRAIN.

EE WAS GETTING INTO A GRADAL SCALER AT WHICH TIME HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND APPROX. 36 INCH.

MELTING GROOVES IN ZINC ON MANTEL OF CRUSHING PLANT.

TEREX HI LIFT WAS PARKED ON A SLOPE DOOR SLIP OPEN AND LEFT FRONT FINGER GOT HIT CUTTING OFF EXTREME TIP OF FINGER.

MOVING A 4" DESIN PUMP.

INSTALLING HOIST CYL ON 980 HILIFT HOIST CYL SLIPPED AND THE WEIGHT OF IT WAS ON ME.

ROOF FALL. LACERATION AND ABRASIONS OF FOREHEAD AND LEFT SHOULDERS.

HURT BACK SHOVELING DIRT

TWISTED LEG CLIMBING OFF TRUCK MOUTNED DRILL

HURT HIS LEGS AND BACK DRIVING HAUL TRUCK

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING A POLE AT A FACE IN THE MINE. A ROCK FELL AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS A PASSENGER IN A PICKUP TRUCK. DRIVER OF TRUCK DROVE OVER EDGE OF 2B STONE PILE IN THE MINE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A PICK-UP TRUCK IN THE MINE. EMPLOYEE DROVE PICKUP TRUCK OVER EDGE OF 2B STONE PILE IN MINE.

EMPL WAS CUTTING OAK PLANK WITH CIRCULAR SAW. WHILE CUTTING PLANK SAW KICKED BACK & CUT EMPLS L OWER RIGHT LEG.

TIGHTENING PIPE WITH WRENCH SLIPPED FROM PIPE CAUSED PAIN IN EMP NECK AND BACK

HAMMERING ON STEPS OF HI LIFT PC OF METAL HIT L EYE

EE WAS REMOVING A ROCK FROM 1 BELT. WHEN EE PICKED UP ROCK HE HURT HIS BACK.

EE WAS DRIVING WATE TRUCK WHILE DRIVING A PIECE OF STONE OR DIRT BECAME IMBEDDED IN EE EYE.

STANDING ON DUST CLEANING BIN ON WASH PLANT SLIPPED IN DUST TWISTED BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTACHING A CHAIN TO A PIECE OF METAL. WHILE ATTACHING CHAIN, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED IN THE MUD AND LANDED ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO KNOCK A NUT OFF OF THE 7 FT, SHORT HEAS CRUSHER, WITH A 16 POUND SLEDGE HAMMER. EMPLOYEE MISSED NUT AND TWISTED HIS LEFT WRIST.

EMPL BREAKING LARGE STONE WITH SLEDGE HAMMER TO MOVE IT BY HAND.WHEN STONE BROKE IT ROLLED ONTO EMPL RIGHT FOOT.

EE WAS HELPING REPAIR A MOTOR, WHILE WELDER WAS WELDING A BOLT ON TO A PLATE OF STEEL WELD BROKE CAUSING METAL PLATE TO FALL ON EE FOOT.

EMPL SWINGING SLEDGEHAMMER.EMPL HURT HIS BACK WHILE SWINGING SLEDGE HAMMER.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A STRIKING BAR FROM THE BED OF A PICK-UP TRUCK. WHILE LIFTING STRIKING BAR EMPLOYEE HURT HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING SCREEN ON RIGHT TOP SHAKER. EMPLOYEE HURT BACK WHILE INSTALLING SCREEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING RAIL ROAD TIES ONTO A PICK-UP TRUCK. WHILE WORKING AROUND TRUCK, EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A STONE AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING DRILL STEELS FROM DAVY DRILL. WHILE PULLING DRILL STEELS, BILLY BUCK SLIPPED AND FELL ON EMPLOYEES RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A ROCK WITH HIS HANDS. WHILE MOVING ROCK, ANOTHER SHIFTED AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT LEG.

EMPL WAS WALKING BACK TO OFFICE FROM TIME CARDROOM. WHILE WALKING BACK HE TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON SHAKER SCREEN & FELL OFF SHAKER SCFEEN CAUSING SEPARATION OF PELVIS

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE CLEANING WINDOW AT GARAGE, LADDER SLIPPED AND INDIVIDUAL FELL HURTING HIS RIBS (RIGHT SIDE), RIGHT ARM, CHEEK AND NOSE (RIGHT SIDE)

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE CHANGING SCREENS ON SHAKER AT CRUSHER PLANT, INDUIVIAL TWISTED HIS RIGHT FOOT.

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE TAKING OFF GATE ON SCALPER SHAKER AT CRUSHER PLANDT INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS 3RD AND 4TH FINGERS OF LEFT HAND

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE HITTING CHISEL WITH HAMMER A PIECE OF FOREIGN BODY FLEW OFF AND LODGED INTO HIS L ARM

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE WORKING AT QUARRY INDIVIDUAL CLAIMED HIVES ON HIS ENTIRE BODY

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE WORKING IN THE MINE, INDUVAUL CLAIMED CHEST PAINS.

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE STEPPING OUT OF SMALL EUCLID INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS LEFT FOOT

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE LOADING FACE OF MINE, A LARGE ROCK FELL AND STRUCK INDIVIDUAL ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE STEPPING INTO GRADALL, INDUVIDAUL HURT HIS RIGHT WRIST.

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES,WHILE TIGHTENING BOLT ON BEARING,INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS RIGHT TESTICLE.

DURING THE COUR8E OF REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE PUTTING METAL HOOK ON FEEDER BOX AT CRUHCER PLANT, INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS LEFT FOOT

DURING THE COUR8E OF REGULAR DUTIES WHILE GRINDING, A PIECE OF FOREIGN OBJECT FLEW OFF, AND LODGED INTO RT EYE

DURING THE COUR8E OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE WALKING TO GET WATER TRUCK INDIVIDUAL SLIPPED ON ROCK HURTING HIS RT.KNEE

DURING THE COUR8E OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE OPERATING GRADALL INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS ELFT SHOULDER.

DURING THE COUR8E OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE CLEANING ROLLERS AT CRUSHER PLANT, INDIVIDUAL TWISTED HIS L EFT ANKLE

DURING COURSE O0 REGULAR DUTIES WHILE ADJUSTING LIGHT OF LIGHT PLANT ON TRUCK INDIVIDUAL FELL HURTING RIGHT SHOULDER.

DURING THE COUR8E OF HIS REGULARR DUTIES, WHILE MARKING FACE OF MINE, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND STRUCK INDIVIDUAL ON HIS RIGHT FOOT

DURING THE COUR8E OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE DIGGING WITH PICK AT FACE OF MINE, INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS LOWER BACK.

DURING THE COUR8E OF HIS REG DUTIES WHILE BACKING UP WITH SMALL EUCLID INDIVIDUAL WENT OVER A 10'-12' LIFE EUCLID TURNED OVER HURTING HIS BACK.

DURING THE COUR8E OF HIS REGULAR DUTRIES WHILE PUTTING STEEL DOWN ON SIDE OF DAVEY DRILL INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS RIGHT THUMB

DURING REG DUTI9S DRIVING LARGE EUCLID HIT BUMP ON ROAD RIGHT HAND SLIPPED AND STRUCK GEAR SHIFT HURTING RIGHT HAND AND 3RD AND 4TH FINGERS

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE LIFTING STEEL PLATES ON TO TRUCK INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS 5TH & 6TH VERTERBRAE

DURING COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE STEPPING OUT OF LARGE EUCLID INDIVIDUAL TWISTED HIS LEFT ARM

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE PULLING AIR HOSE, INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS FINGERS OF LEFT HAND (INDEX FINGER & MIDDLE FINGER).

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE STEPPING OUT OF BULK TRUCK, INDIVIDUAL SLIPPED ON MUD & FELL ON MUFFLER OF TRUCK HURTING HIS RIGHT ARM.

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE GRINDING STEEL PLATE A PIECE OF FOREIGN OBJECT FLEW OFF WENT UNDER HIS GOGGLES AND LODGED INTO HIS RT EYE

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE DRIVING 980 HILIFT OUT OF THE MINE, INDIVIDUAL HIT A LARGE POT HOLE & HURT HIS NECK & RIGHT SHOULDER.

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE PULLING ROCK WITH ROPE AT CRUSHER INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS LOWER BACK

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE GETTING OUT OF GRADALL, INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS RIGHT ANKLE

DURING THE COURSE OF REGULAR DUTIES WHILE BACKING UP SCALING RIG INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS RT HAND AND MIDDLE FINTGER ON STEERING WHEEL

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE TRYING TO LOOSEN BOLT WHILE CHANGING SCREENS AT SHAKER PLANT INDIVIDUAL HURT HIS BACK

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE CLEANING OUT DRILL HOLE A ROCK FELL FROM FACE OF MOINE & HIT INDIVIDUAL ON RIGHT FOOT.

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES WHILE PULLING ROPE AT CRUSHER INDIVIDUAL SPRAINED HIS LWER BACK

DURING THE COAURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE CHANGING DRILL STEEL, METAL GUARD FELL OFF PULLEY AND STRUCK INDIVIDUAL ON LEFT SHOULDER.

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE WELDING FRAME OF LARGE EUCLID WITH AIR ARC, A PIECE OF METAL HIT INDIVIDUAL ON LEFT FOOT.