Oceana Plant and Loadout Coal

While dumping a load of coal, the truck was leaning too much to the passenger side resulting in both truck & trailer to overturn onto the passenger side.

Machine operator was adjusting seat and lowered seat catching fingertip in seat housing resulting in laceration of finger and breaking of metacarpal of finger.

Employee attempted to drop out 29 empty rail cars from empty track to 40. He could not control cars - went by 40 and through crossing into load track, thus colliding with 28 loaded cars. 1) weather wet & rainy. 2) Employee did not follow policy in that he brought 29 empty cars when policy calls for a maximum of 12 cars per 1 dropper.

Spontaneous Combustion in a coal stockpile.

EE WAS LIFTING 40-LB. SAMPLE BAGS IN BACK OF COMPANY TRUCK. AFTER LIFTING SEVERAL SAMPLES, EE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS AWARDED 5% PPD BENEFITS FOR OCCUPATIONAL PNEUMOCONIOSIS.

TRUCK CROSSING RR TRACKS AND WAS HIT BY TRAIN ENGINE. DRIVER WAS THROWN AROUND IN THE CAB CAUSING INJURY TO LOWER BACK, A BROKE TOE & LACERATIONS TO FOREHEADF. DRIVERSAID HE COULDN'T SEE ENGIN E UNTIL HE WAS ON THE TRACK. WHEN HE SAW THE TRAIN HE STOPPED & TRIED TO BACK UP. AN UNCOUPLED TRAIN ON THE OTHER TRACK WAS BLOCKING HIS VIEW.

WHILE WALKING FROM SECURITY BLDG TO GATE EE LOST HIS FOOTING ON WET GROUND, FALLING AND HITTING ON HIS LOWER BACK. HE STATED HE WAS OK, FINISHED HIS SHIFT WORKED THE NEXT DAY. UPON HIS NEXT SC HEDULED SHIFT ON 3/26/00, HE ADVISE HIS DR PUT HIM OUT OF WORK FOR TWO WEEKS.

MR STANLEY,(SALESMAN FOR D.A. LUBRICANT CO.) WASTRAVELING UP HAUL ROAD ON PASSENGER SIDE SEAT OFPICKUP. A PLANT EMPLOYEE WAS WATERING ROAD WITH AN ENDLOADER. THE ENDLOADER BACKED UP APPROX. 12 0 FEET AND STRUCK THE PICKUP'S RIGHT FRONT SIDE,TRAPPING MR. STANLEY'S FOOT IN THE CAB. HE WAS EXTRICATED AND TRANSPORTED TO RALEIGH GENERAL HOSPITAL.

INJURED WAS WALKING ALONG RAILROAD TRACK, WHEN HE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF COKE CAUSING HIS ANKLE TO TURN.

CHANGING DRIVE BELTS ON #2 CLEAN COAL SCREEN COMALONG SLIPPED RESULTING IN HITTING LEFT ELBOWON MOTOR SUPPORT FRAME.

EE WAS HELPING INSTALL A NEW BELT ON THE BELT PRESS. HE WAS PULLING OLD BELT OFF WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN.

INJURED WAS GETTING OFF DOZER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL OFF THE MACHINE AND STRIKE HIS SHOULDER ON DOZER BLADE

SOME EMPLOYEES WERE DOING SOME SUTTING ON THE FLOOR WHEN SOME SPARKS CAUGHT A BOX ON FIRE ON THE 1ST FLOOR. HE WENT TO PUT I TOUT SOME PVC GAVE IN THE BOX INGINTED CAUSING THE BURNS.

THE DUMP OPERATOR- THURMAN DICKERSON- SPOTTED THE COAL TRUCK UNDER A HIGH POWER LINE TO DUMP THE LOAD IN THE STOCKPILE AREA. THURMAN DICKERSON POSSIBLY STEPPED ON THE FIRST STEP OF THE COAL TR UCK & WAS KNOCKED TO THE GROUND. THE BED MUST HAVE COME IN CONTACT WITH THE POWER LINE.