Nesquehoning Bank Coal

Employee was lifting a metal box with approximately 25 pounds of welding rods inside, upon lifting the box slipped and they tried to catch it. Their finger went inside the opening of the box where you take the rods out of and the metal box sliced finger open. They returned to work after receiving 9 stitches in their finger.

Employee was grinding metal hopper door. Foreign material entered EE's right eye causing a corneal abrasion. EE was wearing safety glasses at the time.

Employee was trying to remove stuck 2 1/4" socket from 3/4" ratchet. Had ratchet in vise, attempted to push in ball of ratchet and pull down on socket. When socket released, employee's left ring finger had come in contact between the socket and work bench, resulting in closed fracture of tuft of distal phalanx of finger.

EE was checking computers and PDU's. When EE bent over, one computer fell on EE's head. EE had PPE on while in the container. EE said the computer rolled off and hit EE's hardhat and neck when it rolled down. The Minerva computer weighs approx. 13kg or approx. 28lbs.

Employee was descending catwalk, slipped upon exiting to the ground, hit right hand on railing. Catwalk was clear of debris and snow and ice. Temperatures 10 degrees, possible residual snow on boots caused slip. Employee went to ER, it was determined no broken bones, but to follow up with orthopedic.

EE WAS CUTTING RUBBER BELTING FOR A FLOOR MAT WHEN THE UTILITY KNIFE SLIPPED FROM THE BELTING AND WENT ACROSS HIS UPPER RIGHT LEG, CAUSING A SMALL LACERATION.

EE WAS PUTTING A METAL SCREEN ON FORKLIFT. WHEN SCREEN WAS DROPPED ONTO FORKS, THE SIDE OF THE SCREEN BUMPED HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS TIGHTENING A NUT ON A CONVEYOR TROUGHING ROLLER WHEN HIS WRENCH BROKE. HE FELL BACKWARDS FROM THE JOLT AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

EE WAS LIFTING A STEEL CHUTE LINER INTO PLACE TO BE WELDED. AFTERWARDS HE FELT PAIN IN HIS CHEST.

ADJUSTING FORKS ON FORKLIFT, HAND SLIPPED OFF AND PINCHED FINGER BETWEEN FORKS AND METAL STRUCTURE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING BOLTS IN A LOOSE GRIZZLEY RAIL. HIS LEG SLIPPED BETWEEN TWO RAILS AND BRUISED HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING THE FUEL LEVEL IN A D8 DOZER AND DURING THE PREPARATION CHECK HE TWISTED HIS KNEE.

YEE WAS BRUSHING OFF SOME MATERIAL ON THE TOP OF THE MACHINE WHEN A SHARP EDGE CUT THROUGH HIS GLOVE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING ROUTINE MORNIGN EQUIPMENT INSPECTIONS. AFTER INSPECTING CONDITION OF HAZEMAG CRUSHER, EE TWISTED HIS RIGHT FOOT WHEN TURNING AWAY TO LEAVE AREA.

THE EE WAS PARTICIPATING IN A MOCK EMERGENCY DRIVE AT THE POWER PLANT CONVEYOR. HE WAS REMOVING A PATIENT ON A STRETCHER AND HAD TO LIFT THE STRETCHER ABOVE THE RAILING WHICH WAS SHOULDER HEIG HT.

LIFTING ROCKS OUT OF CHUTE, AND CHANGING HAMMERS. EE WAS STANDING IN AN AWKWARD POSITION AND TWISTED THE WRONG WAY WHILE PUSHING AND LIFTING.

TEE WAS CLEANING SIDES OF SCREEN UNDERFLOW HOPPER WHEN SOME ACCUMULATION OF CULM FELL ON HIS HAND AND CAUSED HIS HAND TO BUMP UP AGAINST THE STEEL SIDE.

MAKING A TAP SPLICE ONTHE INSULATED QUADRAPLEX QIRE. HE WAS HOLDING OTHER WIRE OUT OF THE WAY AND STRIPPING INSULATION. KNIFE SLIPPED OFF WIRE AND STRUCK FINGER.

TOWARDS THE END OF SHIFT, EMPLOYEE REPORTED HE HAD PAIN IN BACK, BUT COULD NOT PINPOINT A SPECIFIC TIME WHEN THE PAIN BEGAN.

EMPLOYEE THOUGHT CAUSTIC PUMP WAS NOT WORKING - WALKED OVER TO SEE IF SHAFT WAS TURNING. AT THIS POINT, HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH CAUSTIC, THROUGH SPLASH OR POSSIBLY BY HAND CONTAMINATION & RUBB ING EYE. EMPLOYEE WAS IN RESTRICTED AREA WITHOUT APPROVAL GEAR.

HE WAS LIFTING A MOTOR CONTROL CENTER WITH A CRANE ASSISTING. WHILE PULLING AND LIFTING THE MOTOR CONTROL CENTER THROUGH THE DOORWAY SIDEWAYS, HE PULLED MUSCLES IN HIS BACK. AT THE TIME OF THE INJURY HE DID NOT GIVE MUCH THOUGHT TO THE MUSCLE PULL. IT AFFECTED HIS LEFT SIDE, LOWER BACK AND LEFT HIP.

EMPLOYEE LIFTED GUARD ON CONVEYOR BELT TO INSPECT AREA WHEN HIS GLOVE TOUCHED A ROLLER & CAUGHT HIS FINGER.

SHUTTING OFF WELDER, L AHND SLIPPED IN BETWEEN FAN AND RADIATOR BREAK MIDDLE FINGER FORE FIGNERAND THUMB

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A PICK-UP TRUCK AND TRIED TO LFIT REAR-END OF TRUCK UP BY HAND AND PULLED MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK.

CLIMBING DOWN LADDER ON 988 LOADER TWISTED R WRIST

EMPL WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS UNDER MACK TRUCK WHEN HE TWISTED HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING WELDER IN HANGING TRIP SWITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING SEIVE SCREEN & TWISTED HIS BACK WHILE SETTING SCREEN IN PLACE

WHILE DESCENDING A 5 RUNG VERTICAL LADDER EMPLOYEE SLIPPED OFF RUNG. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT ARM, STRAINING HIS LEFT SHOULDER JOINT.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPE8 ON ICE, BUMPING LOWER BACK AGAINST B LOADER.

EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING COAL SPILLAGE AT RAIL AREA WITH A WHEEL BARREL WHEN HE BUMPED THE HOPPER SUPPORT. THIS CAUSED AN UNEVEN WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION AND HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING A TOOTH FROM A BUCKET WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN THE TOOTH SPLINTERED. A LIVER OF METAL ENTERED HIS LEFT SHIN.

EMPLOYEE FELL A8 HE WAS WALKING FROM HIS CAR TO THE OFFICE TO PUNCH THE TIME CLOCK

EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ARING ROCK FROM GRIZZLY WHEN HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS BACK, CAUSING LUMBO-SACRO SPRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS SH2VELING COAL SPILLAGE AWAY FROM BASE OF STACKING CONVEYOR & EXPERIENCED PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK & LEFT LEG

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG AN ACETYLENE TORCH TO CUT STEEL PLATE WHEN HIS CLOTHING IGNITED.HE WAS WEARING SEVERAL LAYERS OF CLOTHING AND THE FLAMES TRAVELED QUICKLY. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE GROUND AND THE FIRE EXTINGUISH9D. HIS CHEST,SHOULDER, AND LEFT ARM AND BACK AREA RECEIVED SERIOUS BURNS.

EMPLOYEE WAS LI1TING AIR RECEIVER TANK ONTO MANT IWOC 3500 DRAGLINE & STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE LOST H3S FOOTING ON A LADDER WHILE HE WAS WELDING A GUARD ON THE MAGNETIC SEPARATOR.HE RECEIVED A LACERATION UNDER HIS CHIN.

EMP WAS WORKING3ON VIBRATOR PULLEY HIS HAND WAS ON A BELT THAT HE WAS GOING TO CHANGE WHEN THE COUNTER WEIGHT CAUSED THE PULLEY TO TURN HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND WAS BROKEN WHEN IT WAS CA CAUGHT BETWEN P6LLEY AND BELT

EMPLOYEE WAS QU3CKLY GOING TO JOB SITE IN PLANT WHEN HE WALKED INTO A 6IN GATE VALVE BRUISING OR CHIPPING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE WAS BL2CKING DOZER BLADE WHEN BLOCK KICKED OUT LACERATING RT THUMB

EMPL SHOVELING 5T GRIZZLEY WHEN ROCK FELL FROM X-OVER STEPS STRIKING EMPL ON BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO INSTALL A CONVEYOR WHEN IT BECAME WEDGED BETWEEN TWO SUPPORTS EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO FREE IT AND HIS LEG BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN A SUPPORT AND THE CONVEYOR

EMP WAS LIFTING 100 LB. BAGS OF MAGNETITE INTO SUMP

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OFF THE LADDER OF A 275B LOADER AND SLIPPED.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A VOLUTE HOUSING OUT OF HIS WAY AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF A VIBRATOR IN THE PLANT AND STRUCK HIS HAND ON A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING UP A PIECE OF STEEL TO A HOIST WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL BACKWARDS STRIKING HIS BACK ON THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING 100 LB. BAGS OF MAGNETITE DURING HIS SHIFT. THE NEXT DAY HE COMPLAINED OF LOWER BACK PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING BOLTS ON COAL SIZING SHAKER AND WAS STUCK IN RIGHT EYE BY METAL CHIPS.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING PIPES GOING THROUGH PLANT FLOOR. AFTER REMOVING THEM HE FORGOT WHERE HE WAS, STEPPED INTO THE HOLE FROM WHIFH THE PIPES WERE REMOVED, & BUMPED HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON A PIECE OF STRUCTURAL STEEL.

EMPLOYEE AND SUPERVISOR WERE SWINGING A STEEL PLATE ATTACHED TO A LODER WITH A CHAIN,WHEN THE PLATE WAS POSITIONED AT IT\S FARTHEST SWING POINT.THE LOADER OPERATOR WAS INSTRUCTED TO DROP IT AN AND BRUCE COULD NOT GET OUT OF IT\S WAY BEFORE EING STRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A 100 LB. BAG OF MAGNETITE TO SUMP AND TRIPPED ON A 2X4 AND STRAINED LEG FROM THE WEIGHT OF BAG.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANDING WELDER ELECTRODES AT SATALLITE GRIZZLY AND CAUGHT WELDING FLASH

EMP WAS CLIMBING INTO CAB OF TD25E DOZER AND SLIPPED ON TRACK

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING OLD STEEL LINERS FROM REFUSE CHUTE WHEN ONE SLIPPED AND CAUSED A CONTUSION TO EMPLOYEES RIGHT FIFTH FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON A LENGTH OF RUBBER HOSE IN AN ATTEMPT TO LOOSEN IT & BACKED INTO THE DRAIN NIPPLE ON 688 SUMP PUMP. EMPLOYEE INITIALLY COMPLAINED OF LOWER BACK PAIN.

STANDING ON LADDER IN SUMP WHILE WELDING LADDER SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS- AT WHICH TIME HE HIT HIS HEADD. HEIGHT OF SUMP IS 7\.