Mine No 4 Coal

INJURED CLAIMS TO HAVE BENN PULLING EXCESS SLACK ON CONT. MINER CABLE WHEN HE TWISTED BACK AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. CLAIMS TO HAVE LOST FOOTING AND FELL TWISTING BACK.

INJURED CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN CLOADING CINDER BLOCKS IN SCOOP BUCKET. WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LOWER BACK AFTER LIFTING HALF OF CINDER BLOCK. ACCIDENT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE QUESTIONABLE.

INJURED CLAIMS THAT HE EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN WHILE PULLING ON CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE BY HAND.

INJURED CLAIMS THAT AS HE APPLIED JAKE BRAKE AND FOOT BRAKE HE LOST CONTROL OF COAL TRUCK CAUSING HIM TO DRIVE INTO ROAD SUMP. INJURED STATED THAT IT HAPPENED SO FAST THAT HE COULD NOT REMEMBE R SPECIAL DETAILS. INJURED WAS NOT WEARING SEAT BELT.

INJ CLAIMS TO HAVE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK WHILELIFTING & LOADING MINER CABLE IN SCOOP BUCKET INJ MISSED 1 DAY FOR DR VISIT (4/7/00)

INJURED CLAIMS THAT INJURY OCCURRED WHILE TRAMMING SCOOP IN ROADWAY. TIRE DROPPED IN HOLE CAUSING CAP LIGHT BATTERY TO BRUISE LEFT SIDE. INJURY WAS NOT REPORTED TO FOREMAN UNTIL 3-30-00.

SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FROM IMEDIATE TOP FELL HITTING MAN ACROSS RT EYE ABOVE EYE BROW CUTTING HIS APP 2" CUT, TAKING 10 INNER STITCHS AND 6 OUTER STITCHS. THIS HAPPEN WHILE PREPARING TO PUT UP T HE LAST ROOF BOLT IN THE FACE AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING TWO CLAW HAMMERS TO KNOCK A SPINDLE OUT OF A BELT SPLICE WHEN ONE OF THE HAMMERS CHIPPED, THROWING A PIECE OF METAL IN THE MAN'S LEFT HAND, THIRD KNUCKLE, WHICH HE HAD TO HA VE REMOVED BY A DOCTOR.

WENT TO LIFT A BOX OF GLUE FROM BACK OF ROOF BOLTER TO FRONT OF BOLTER, STRAINING LOWER BACK.

EE WAS ON KNEES BUILDING STOPPING HE TURN TO GETA CINDER BLOCK, TWISTING HIS RT KNEE

GUARD FELL OF #4 BELT HEAD & MINET TRIED TO PICKGUARD UP BY HIMSELF. STRAINED HIS BACK

PUTTING A SPOT BOLT IN #5 HEADING, AN A LOOSE ROCK FELL FROMT HE TOP. HITTING LEFT SHOULDER.

A 2 BY 3' ROCK 4" THICK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON HEAD AND SHOULDERS WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS KNEELING DOWN WORKING ON ROOF BOLTER.

INDIVIDUAL WAS LIFTING ROCK OFF MINER IN AN AWKWARD POSITION. HE MADE A GRUNTING SOUND AND ASSUMED HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

WHILE WORKING ON MINER AND TAKEN SHIELDS OFF MINER AND A DOOR CLOSED AND SHUTTING ON HIS FINGER CUTTING HIS FINGER ON THE RIGHT HAND 3RD FINGER

GETTING OUT OF SCOOP-TO ROCK DART AND SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING HIS LEFT ELBOW ON SCOOP. BRUISE.

PUTTING IN BELT STRUTURE AND PULL BACK OUT.

BRIDGE AND TAILPIECE INDIVIDUAL WAS TRAMMING BRIDGE BY TAILPIECE CAUGHT FOOT BETWEEN BRIDGE AND TAILPIECE CLOSE CLEARACE, INJURY RIGHT FOOT AND ANKLE.

CARRYING STRUCTURE FELL DOWN ON LIGHT KNEE.

ELECTRICIAN WAS WELDING ON THE MBC, EE SET DOWN IN THE AJOINTING CROSSCUT TO EAT DINNER WHILE HE WAS SETTING INT HE CROSSCUT, HIS LEFT EYE WAS BURNT FROM THE ARC OF THE WELDER.

LIFTING BELT STRUCTURE, WHILE MAKING BELT MOVE. STRAINED LOWER BACK.

WALKING THROUGH A SET OF BELT FLYS AND WALKED INTO A HALF HEAD, KNOCKING HIM DOWN.

LIFTING A BOX OF GLUE & TURN TO THROW IT ON BOLTHER & TWISTED BACK

WALKING BACK TO TRAM PINNER. TRIPED AND FELL.

OPERTING A CONTINUOUS MINER WAS HAVING SHARP PAINS IN LEFT SIDE OF CHEST WAS REMOVED FROM INSIDE OF MINE AND SENT TO RALEIGH GENL HOSP

EE TOLD ME THAT HTIS PAIN IN HIS LEFT SIDE HAD BEEN HURTING FOR A WHILE. HE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL.

INSTALLED A CUT OFF VALVE ON A 1' HYD HOSE. HOSE THEN BUSTED, COMING AROUND STRIKING HIM ON THE HEAD.

EE WAS DIAGNOSED AND COMPLETED APPLICATION FOR HEARING LOSS. HE WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS. AUDIOGREAM SHOWED BILATERAL HIGH FREQUENCY SENSORNEURAL HEARING LOSS CONSIST ENT WITH INDUSTRIAL NOIS EXPOSURE. RECOMMENDATION MAD GFOR BILATERIAL HEARING AIDS BY DR.

WHILE ROCK DUSTING BELT HURT BACK.

EE WAS EXAMINED 8-10-98 AND MADE APPLICATION FOR NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS. WAS DIAGNOSED WITH SENSONEURAL HEARING LOSS. DR. MADE RECOMMENDATION FOR HEARING AID EVALUATION.

RECEIVED NOTOFICATION THAT EE HAD FILED PNEUMOCONIOSIS CLAIM AND WAS DIAGNOSED, AS HAVING PNEUMOCONIOSIS. 09-18-98 RECEIVED NOTOFICATION THAT BENEFITS HAD BEEN APPROVED. OCCUPATIONAL PNEUMOCON IOSIS BOARD WILL DETERMINE DEGREE OF CONDITION.

EE FILED FOR BENEFITS AND WE RECEIVED APPLICATION APPROVAL NOTICE 9/15/98 AWAITING OCCUPATIONAL PNEUNOCONIOSIS BOARD TO MAKE DETERMINATION OF DEGREE OF CONDTION

THE VICTIM WAS USING A SLATE BAR TO SLIDE A MINER POT INTO THE SCOOP BUCKET. HE TOLD OPERATOR TO TRAM TOWARD HIM--SCOOP BUCKET CAUGHT SLAT BAR AND SLAMMED IT DOWN ONTO TOP OF VICTIM'S FOOT CAU SING THE INJURY.

REPORT SAYS A TUMOR DEVELOPED IN VICTIMS FOREHEAD AND CAUSED THE ILLNESS.

VICTIM STATED HE WAS LIFTING ONB ELT STRUCTURE WHEN PAIN OCCURRED IN HIS BACK.

WAS SETTING A STEEL GUARD OVER A COUPLER WHEN GUARD SLIPPED & GOT HAND ON SHAFT, & CUT OFF PART OF INDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND.

VICTIM STATED HIS KNEE LOCKED UP DUE TO AN OLD INJURY HE HAD IN 1994. EE STATED TO THE SUPT., THAT HE DID NOT INJURE HIMSELFT INSIDE THE MINE IT WAS AN OLD INJURY ACTING UP AGAIN. HE WAS WALKI NG WHEN IT HAPPENED.

GPF-CLAIMANT WAS DIAGNOSED ON 03-11-98 AS HAVING HAD OCCUPATIONAL PNEUMOCONIOSIS FOR APPROXIMATELY 10 YEARS-HE FILED A CLAIM WITH WORKERS COMPENSATION AND WE WERE NOTIFIED 04-16-98.

SLAGTE FROM TOP FELL FROM DRILL STEEL CAUGHT EDGE OF THE RIGHT EYER, SCRATCHING THE EYE.

GPF-02-27-98 HEARIN GLOSS CLAIM FILED-APPLICATION FOR HEARING LOSS WAS APPROVED 03-16-98. TEMPORARY TOTAL BENEFITS DENIED BUT PERMANENT PARTIAL MAY BE CONSIDERED-APPOINTMENT TO BE SCHEDULED TO DETERMINE CONDITION AND PERCENTAGE OF IMPAIRMENT IF ANY.

GPF-EMPLOYEE FILED APPLICATION FOR PNEUMOCONIOSIS 03-03-98. WAS DIAGNOSED 01-30-98 AS HAVING SUFFERED FROM PNEUMOCONIOSIS FOR 10 YEARS. 03-19-98 APPLICATION APPROVED. HE WILL BE REFERRED TO PN EUMOCONIOSIS BOARD TO DETERMINE DEGREE OF CONDITION AND ANY PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT.

SCOOP OPERATOR WAS WALKING ON HAULAGE ROAD STEPPED IN HOLE & HURT HIS BACK.

ADJUSTING BELT STRUCTURE AND STRAIN BACK.

GPF-CLAIMANT WAS DIAGNOSED 12-01-97.HE FILED APPLICATION FOR OCCUPATIONAL PNEUMOCONIOSIS ON 02-02-98 NO FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE.

GPF-01-19-98 APPLICATION FOR NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS WAS APPROVED. 03-10-98 NO PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY BENEFITS AWARDED. 03-10-98 REQUEST APPROVAL FOR EVALUATION,FITTINGS, AND PURCHASE

WHILE ON CABLE TRIPPED & FELL HURT LOWER BACK

GPF-EMPLOYEE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH OCCUPATIONAL PNEUMOCONIOSIS 09-17-97 AND STATED HE HAD BEEN AFFECTED FOR 15 YEARS FROM ILLNESS. 01-06-98 CLAIM FILED. HIS APPLICATION WAS APPROVED 01-26-98 AND SCHEDULED FOR EXAMINATION ON 04-09-98. AWAITING RESULTS.

ROOF BOLTER OPPER. WAS BOLTING 4 RT CROSSCUT. THERE WAS LOSE SLATE AND BONE COAL PRESENT IN ROOF. ROOF STARTED POPPING ROOF BOLTER STARTED TO RUN SLATE AND BONE MEASURING 3'LX2'WX8" AT THICKES T PART IN MIDDLE FELL STRIKING HIM ON BACK SHOULDER AND ANKLE.

GPF-EMPLOYEE FILED CLAIM 09-17-97-HE WAS DIAGNOSED 08-20-97 AS HAVING SUFFERED FROM OCCUPATIONAL PNEUMOCONIOSIS FOR 10 YEARS.

GPF-EMPLOYEE FILED FOR OCCUPATIONAL PNEUMOCONIOSIS BENEFITS ON 07-21-97 AND APPLICATION WAS ACCEPTED 12-16-97 AND APPROVED-HE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE OCCUPATIONAL PNEUMOCONIOSIS BOARD TO DETER MINE DEGREE OF CONDITION AND IMPAIRMENT.04-18-98NO AWARD GRANTED-CLAIMANT HAD BEEN COMPENSATED IN PREVIOUS CLAIM FOR NO MORE THAN 5% IMPAIRMENT ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE DISEASE.

GPF-EMPLOYEE'S APPLICATION FOR NOISE INDICED HEARING LOSS WAS APPROVED 08-20-97.TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY BENEFITS WERE DENIED BUT PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY BENEFITS MAY BE CONSIDERED. CLA IMANT WAS AUTHORIZED FOR EVALUATION,FITTING, ANDPURCHASE OF BINAURAL HEARING AIDS. CLAIMANT PROTESTED BUT THEN WITHDREW PROTEST 09-24-97.

VICTIM STATED HE WAS INSTALLING A BOLT IN ROOF WHEN LONG THICK PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF SLID DOWN THE ATRS ROPE AND HIT HIM ON THE TOP AND FRONT OF HIS SHOULDER AND ONE SMALL PIECE HIT HIM ON THE SHOULDER FROM BEHIND CAUSING PAIN AND TINGLING AND POPPING IN HIS SHOULDER.

THE VICTIM STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING A BUCKET OF PLASTER AND PULLED SOMETHING IN LEFT HIP.

VICTIM WAS BENT OVER RIDGE RAIL WELDING CROSSMEMBERS ON. LOOSE PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN 2 BOLTS AND RIB ONTO HIS BACK PINNING HIM ON TOP OF THE RAIL, CUTTING OFF HIS AIR SUPPLY AND INJU RING HIS BACK.

COAL RIB ROLLED OFF AND HIT MAN ON FOOT.

PERSON HAD THE RIB COAL ROLL OUT ON HIM. HIT HIM ON LEG AND HIP.

GPF-ON 04-08-97 APPLICATION WAS APPROVED 10-21-97.OCCUPATIONAL PNEUMOCONIOSIS BOARD GRANTED A 10% AWARD. 01-29-98 EMPLOYEE AWARD. NO FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE.

WHILE OPERATING MINER A PART OF RIB COAL & MIX PART ROCK ON CORNER OF RIB BROKE OFF AND HIT OPERATOR PUSHING HIM OVER ON HIS SIDE AND LANDING ON HIS LEG & ANKLE.

GPF-APPLICATION FOR BENEFITS WAS APPROVED BUT EMPLOYEE WAS ONLY ELIGIBLE FOR NECESSARY MEDICAL TREATMENT AND EXPENSES SINCE HE WAS DISABLED FROM WORKING LESS THAN 4 DAYS.

THE INTERSECTION IN #3 ENTRY OUTBY SPAD#727 FELLAPPROX 48" THICK, 18' W, 25' L-NO INJURIES OR EQUIP WAS INVOLVED-THE FALL WAS TIMBERED OFF AT ALL POINTS OF ENTRY & FLAGGED TO PREVENT ENTRY O F PEOPLE. THIS ENTRY IS NOT A NEEDED TRAVEL WAY AND THE FALL WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP. APPROX 90' OUTBY SPAD 727

PULLING DRAWROCK WITH SLATE BAR, SLATE BAR CUT RIGHT HAND.

EE WAS BOLTING TOP AND WHEN HE LET DOWN THE CANOPY TO REPOSITION THE MACHINE A PIECE 8 ROCK FALL AND STRUCK HIM ACROSS THE TOP OF HIS LEFT HAND CAUSING SWELLING AND BRUISES.

GOT OUT OF DECK OF SHUTTLE CAR WENT TO TURN AROUND SAID HE GELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND IN RIGHT LEG. TRIED TO WALK IT OFF FOR AWILE AND THEN ASKED FOR A RIDE OUTSIDE.

THE EMPLOYEE PLACED HIMSELF ON TOP OF THE FEEDER AND THEN PUSHED THE CONTROL LEVERS TO LOWER THE FEEDER AND THE FEEDER BUMPED UPWARD HITTING HIM IN THE CHEST AREA AND THE ROOF OF THE MINE SLIG HTLY CAUSING HIM TO BE BRUISED AND HAVE SLIGHT CHEST PAINS.

THE SHUTTLE CAR HAD NOT BEEN PROPERLY CRIBBED TO PREVENT FROM FALLING. A FRACTURE TO THE LEFT ANKLE AND A FRACTURE TO HIS PELVIS.

KNEE ON ROOF BOLT PLATE.

COAL FALL FROM TOP PIECES GOT IN LEFT EYE.

PULLING PILLARS- SETTING TIMBER- WHEN TOP STARTED TO FALL. HE STARTED TO RUN AND TRIP AND FELL HITTIGN ON LEFT SHOULDER.

MINER WAS GETTING 3 LIFT OUT OF RIGHT BLOCK #2 ENTRY #8 BLOCK. WHEN LIFT WENT THROUGH SLIP MEASURING 30"-48" FELL ON MINER 18' LONG. FEDERAL INSPECTOR WAS MAKING GENERAL CHECK OF AREA. NO VIOL ATIONS WERE WRITTEN. AREA CHECKED OK.

TWISTED LEFT KNEE TRYING TO PULL MINER CABLE.

LOADING TRUNION IN SCOOP BUCKE SAID HURT LOWER BACK.

MAN WAS PULLING CABLE BACK ON PILELR LINE.

PUTTING RAILS TOGETHER ON BELT MOVE PIECE OF METAL CAME OFF PIN THAT HOLDS RAIL TO BOTTOM STANDWENT IN RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

STEPPED OFF STACKER BELT, TURNED RIGHT KNEE.

HE HAD BACK TO FLY PADS TAKING CENTER - SCOOP CAME THROUGH FLIES AND SCOOP BUCKET WENT OVER TOP OF HIM.

ROCK FALL BETWEEN BOLTS HITTING HIM ON HEAD AND NECK.

HE WAS HOLDING STRAP FOR CONV. CHAIN ON 14/12 MINE TRYPING TO GET CHAIN BACK TOGETHER. GUY HIT STRAP WITH 16# SLEDGE HAMME HITTING EE ON RIGHT HAND INJURING FIRST KNUCKLE.

METAL FOR BACKSTOP FOR #2 TAILPIECE HE WAS HOLDING FELL PINNING HIM BETWEEN BELT AND METAL.

REMOVING STRUCTURE FROM OLD BELT LINE--THREW PIECE OF STRUCTURE ON TOP OF ANOTHER. METAL CHIPS FLEW IN EYE.

JAM HOOD IN TOP WHILE OPER HAULER

MINER OPERATOR WAS ABOUT TO HANG CABLE PULL ROPE ON FRONT END OF MINER, HE SWUNG MALHINE CATCHING HELPER WITH CONVEYOR BOOM AGAINST RIB.

PIECE OF DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF HOLE PINCHING FINGER TO DRILL HEAD

OPERATOR STARTED TRAMMING BOLTER WITHOUT NOTIFYING HELPER, RUNNING OVER EE'S LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON HIS KNEES SETTING TIMBERS WHEN HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE AND TORE CARTILAGE IN IT.

HE WAS MANUALLY ASSISTING THE DRILL BOOM SWING ON ROOF BOLTER AND STRAINED MUSCLES IN NECK. HE RETURNED TO WORK ON 4-7-93 AND LEFT AGAIN ON 4-14-93.

MINER WAS LOADING ROCK DUSTER WITH BAGS OF ROCK DUST WHEN HE INJURED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS MANTRIP STRUCK A ROCK IN THE ROAD JARRING HIS BACK.

FALL IN INTERSECTION IN RETURN 150 FOOT FROM OUTCROP 0-6FT HIGH 18 FT WIDE 24 FT LONG 4' GLUE BOLTS INSTALLED LAMINATED SANDY SHALE ROOF.