LEWIS CREEK Coal

Employee was repairing a hydraulic hose on #146 1250 Komatsu excavator when EE slipped on spilled oil and fell on a compartment door. Injury was to the right rib cage area.

Employee was holding a B/O hammer and another employee was hitting it with a sledge hammer driving the wedges out of Drag rope sockets on the bucket. Employee made a bad strike causing a piece of metal to fly off the B/O hammer and lodge in EE left forearm. Employee received 2 stitches in left forearm.

Employee was entering the cab of Komatsu 785 Haul Truck and the door had been left open letting snow on floor board. Employee slipped on snow and hit EE's back on arm rest of seat.

Employee was unhooking boomer chains on a lowboy when the lowboy was being lowered to the ground to be unhooked from truck employee's left foot was under the frame of the lowboy causing it to smash EE's foot.

Employee injured mid-lower back.

EE was fueling a dozer, handling the fuel hose when he started having pain in his right shoulder, neck and arm. He thinks he strained himself handling the fuel hose.

Employee the 2nd shift foreman had started the pit pump when he saw a twist in the discharge hose. He reached for the hose and the pump picked up water. The hose hit him in the left thigh knocking him to the ground.

EE was working on a part clamped in a vise. When he loosened the vise to reposition the part it began to fall and EE tried to catch the part and it mashed the tip of his middle finger on his right hand causing him to loose the tip of his finger at the first joint.

Employee was moving cribbing blocks and mashed his small finger on his right hand.

Employee hit a bump in the haul road and jarred his upper back and neck. He did not report the injury until the next day. He did not seek medical attention until 4/29/2012 two days after the incident.