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Lower back strain, numbness leg and hip while moving heavy (200-300 lb.) lab equipment without sufficient assistance. Hoping to get well on own, injured person chose not to see a doctor until 7/26/06. She has missed no work; as of 7/26 restricted duty 12 days; she is facility manager so able to fully work with restrictions.

EE was striking the wedge in the socket of a dragline drag cable. The wedge came free unexpectedly and dropped on the employee's left foot, striking the very rear edge of the steel toe in his boot. The force of the falling object turned the toe of the shoe sharply upward forcing a toe against the end of the cap.

Loading coal sample bags into back of a pick-up truck

While ee was attempting to lift an inspection door on the primary crusher at the plant, he experienced pain in his left arm. EE done light therapy for several months for a strained muscle then recently decided to have surgery to his left shoulder rotator cuff.

WHILE WORKING AS A MECHANIC, THE EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT EYE BECAME IRRITATED. UPON EXAMINATION, A SMALL PARTICLE WAS OBSERVED. HIS EYE WAS FLUSHED & HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR OBSERVATION. DR. REMOVED A SMALL METAL PARTICLE WITH A Q-TIP. THE METAL PARTICLE LEFT A RUST RING THAT WAS REMOVED BY AN OPTOMITRIST ON 11/04/04.

While changing the spreader bar on a dragline bucket, the ee's right hand thumb was pinched between a chain link and the connecting eye on the spreader bar. Resulted in a laceration to the thumb that required suturing.

WHILE UNLOADING CUTTING EDGES (MOTOR GRADER) FROM VENDOR (DTS) TRAILER, THE VENDOR PUSHED ONE OF THE EDGES AND IT FELL FROM THE TRAILER STRIKING EE ON THE OUTER THIGH THEN ON THE TOP (BRIDGE) OF HIS LEFT FOOT. RESULTED IN BRUISING THE FOOT AND A FRACTURE OF THE BONE ABOVE THE SMALL TOE.

WHILE TRYING TO REMOVE THE VALUE CAP FROM THE AIR STEM FROM A 651 E SCRAPER TIRE. THE VALVE STEM BECAME LOOSE AND WAS EJECTED UNDER PRESSURE. SAND BLASTING HIS RIGHT PALM AND WRIST. EE WAS C HECKING THE AIR PRESSURE OF THE TIRES.

WHILE ASSISTING WITH THE CHANGE OUT OF THE DUMP ROPES ON THE 2570 DRAGLINE, A TANGLE DEVELOPED ON THE CABLE. WHILE TRYING TO UNDO IT THE END CAME OUT OF THE TANGLE STRIKING HIS LEFT FOOT.

WHILE MOVING A HINGED GEAR COVER EE PUT HIS FINGERS IN THE HINGED OPENING. UPON LIFTING THE COVER IT CLOSED ON HIS FINGER

EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY COUGHED CAUSING A SEVERE BACK SPASM. (N0TE: ATTACHED LETTER QUESTIONED THE VALIDITY OF THIS CLAIM ALTHOUGH THE DOCTOR FELT THE INJURY WAS WORK-RELATED).

EE WHILE CHANGING OUT A WIPER MOTOR WITH THE POWER ON, CUT THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT HAND WHILE TRYING TO MOVE HIS HEAD WHEN THE MOTOR STARTED TO ROTATE INTO THE PARK POSITION.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE MANEUVERING A 130LB.PORTABLE GENERATOR TO THE TAILGATE OF A PICK UP TRUCK, THE GENERATOR SLIPPED CAUSING MUSCLE STR.TO HIS BACK AND NECK. EMPLOYEES DUTIES AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT WAS MONITORING WATER ELEVA-TIONS AND VOLUMES IN PIEZOMETERS OUTSIDE ACTIVE MINING.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A MUFFLER FROM IT'S SHIPPING CRATE. MUFFLER SLIPPED AND CUT EMPLOYEE'S LEFT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES WHILE LOWERING OVERHEAD POWER CABLE FROM POWER POLE THE SHEAVE BLOCK BROKE STRIKING HIS THUMB, THE POWER HAD BEEN DISCONNECTED PRIOR TO THE WORK BEING PERFORMED. THE SHEAVE BL OCK APPEARED TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION PRIOR TO BEING USED.

CLIMBING DOWN LADDER ON TRACKHOE, CAUGHT INDEX FINGER OF RIGHT HAND ON SHARP METAL CAUSING LACERATION REQUIRING.

PULLING FUEL HOSE FROM LUBE TRUCK AND FELT PAIN IN NECK.

HELPING A SICK EE FROM A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT TO THE GROUND AND STRAINED BACK.

A STEEL CROSSTIE THAT WAS BEING DROPPED, BOUNCEDAND HIT THE EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT WRIST.

WHILE MOVING OXYGEN BOTTLE. THE BOTTLE BEGAN TO TIP EE MOVED QUICKLY TO CONTROL THE SUDDEN MOVE SEEMED TO PULL A MUSCLE IN STOMACH. EE HAD MOVED BOTTLES BEFORE & SINCE

EE GOT FINGER CAUGHT IN A PINCH POINT WHILE RAISING ANGLE IRON.

EE STATED HE HURT LOWER BACK WHILE LIFTING SAMPLE. HAD JUST RETURNED TO WORK FROM AN OFF JOB BACK INJURY

RETRIEVING COAL SAMPLE FROM TRAIN LOAD OUT. LIFTED SAMPLE CAN WITH LEFT ARM AND PULLED MUSCLE.

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE FILLING WATER TANK ON BACK OF PICKUP WITH HOT WELL WATER, EE LOST HIS GRIP ON THE HOSE AND SPRAYED WATER ON HIS HANDS.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE INSTALLING A STARTER ON A DOZER, HE TURNED HIS UPPER BODY TO THE IGHT, BUT HIS LEFT LEG WAS UP AGAINST THE BELLY PAN AND HE WAS UNABLE TO MOVE IT. EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HIS KNEE FLT LIKE HE HAD BUMPED IT, BUT WHEN HE RETURNED TO WORK ON HIS NEXT SHIFT, THE EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF SWELLING IN THE KNEE.

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE LIFTING A HEAVY METAL PLATE HE MUST HAVE INJURED HIS RIGHT GROIN. AT THE TIME THE INCIDENT WAS REPORTED ON 10-21-97 THE EE REFUSED MEDICAL ATTENTION. AFTER SEVERAL MORE A TTEMPTS TO GET THE EE TO SEE A DR WHEN THE DISCOMFORT WOULD NOT GO AWAY, THE EE SAW A DR ON 11-13-97. AT THAT TIME THE PROBLEM WAS DIAGNOESED AS A HERNIA.

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE FILLING A PORTABLE WATER TANK WITH HOT WATER, THE WATER HOSE BECAME FREE OF THE EE HOLDING THE HOSE, SPRAYING HOT WATER ON EE S LEFT ARM AND SIDE.

EE ALLEGES THAT HE BUMPED HIS LEFT HAND ON THE TOOTH OF A FRONT-END LOADER, WHILE LOADING PIPE INTO THE BUCKET.

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE UNHOOKING 13/4" CHOKER CABLE FROM A HOIST ROPE SLED, THE CABLE BECAME KINKED. WHEN THE EE RELEASED THE CABLE, THE CABLES BROKEN STRANDS SCRATCHED THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT HAND.

EE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS CONDUCTING HIS PRESHIFT EQUIPMENT INSPECTION. EE ALLEGES THAT WHILOE HE WAS INSPECTING THE TIRES, HIS HARD HAT HIT THE BED OF THE TRUCK DISLODGING A PIECE OF MUD. A PIEC E OF THE MUD FELL BEHIND HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND LODGED IN HIS LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS SETTINGG A 3 GALLON BUCK TO FICE ON THE SHOP FLOOR. WHEN HE BENT DOWN THE EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS LOWER BACK, AND THAT HE WAS UNABLE TO STRA IGHTEN UP RIGHT AWAY.

EE STATED HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER AT TRAIN LOAD OUT BARN WHEN HIS KNEE CAP HIT STEP. SEVERE CONTUSION TO KNEECAP TAKEN TO EMERGENCY ROOM AT HARD DAY HOSPITAL. DR FELT KNEE CAP WAS SEVERLY SMASHED AND WOULD REQUIRE SURGERY, SHE SEND HIM TO ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON IN BILLING MT. WHO X RAYED FOUND NO DAMAGE AND SENT HIM HOME CANNOT WORK FOR AT LEAST 2 WEEKS.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES WHILE LIFTING A PUMP, PUMP SLIPPED AND HE TRIED TO PREVENT IT FROM FALLING WHICH CAUSED INJURY TO LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP IMPACT WRENCH AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A RIPPER POINT FROM SHELF TO A HAND CART, IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS GLOVES HAND AND LANDED ON ELFT BIG TOE.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING RABBIT BOX CABLES TO THE RIPPER HIS LEFT RING FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETW EEN THE CABLE AND THE RIPPER SHANK.

EE HAD INSTALLED A NEW CRUSHER ROLLER IN THE SECONDARY CRUSHER AT THE TRAIN-LOAD-OUT. THE NEXT DAY HE FELT PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER AND RIGHT THUMB AND FINGERS STARTED TO GO NUMB. EE DID NOT NOT IFY HIS SUPERVISOR TILL 8-24-93.

WHILE REPAIRING BELT AT TRAIN-LOADOUT (TIPPLE) ROLLER FELL ON RIGHT HAND OF EMPLOYEE CAUSING FRACTURE TO RIGHT THUMB.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES WHILE TAPPING A DRAGLINE BUCKET TOOTH, TO LOOSEN DIRT AROUND IT, A SMALL PIECE OF STEEL FROM THE TOOTH STRUCK HIM ON THE OUTSIDE OF RIGHT FEMER ABOVE THE KNEE. THE PIECE OF S TEEL WAS REMOVED AT THE CLINIC.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT AFTER REMOVING THE STARTER MOTOR FROM THE LINE TRUCK, HE WAS LOWERING IT TO THE GROUND. THE STARTER ROTATED AGAINST HIS RIGHT THUMB, HYPEREXTENDING HIS THUMB BACKWARDS. A SPLINT WAS APPLIED TO PREVENT FURTHER INJURY.

WHILE CLEANING 1REASE IN THE REVOLVING FRAME THE INJURED PICKED UP A BAG OF FLOOR DRY WEIGHING 33.3 LBS.HE COMPLAINED SAYING HE WAS HAVING LOWER BACK PAINS.HE WAS THEN TAKEN TO THE EMERGENCY R OOM OF THE HARD3N HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS ADMOTTED.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS RIGHT HIP WHILE MOVING A SHAFT ONTO THE LOADER THE SHAFT WAS FROMTHE #2 CRUSHER AT THE SECONDARY CRUSHER. THE INJURY WAS NOT REPORTED TO MANAGEMENT U MANAGEMENT UNTIL FOUR DAYS AFTER ALLEGED INJURY DATE WE QUESTION IF INJURY OCCURED AS REPORTED.

EMPLOYEE RECIEVED A LACERATION ON OUTSIDE OF LEFT HAND 1 INCH BELOW KNUCKLE WHICH REQUIRED STITCHES. EMPLOYEE RECIEVED THE CUT WHEN PUSHING GARBAGE DOWN IN A TRASH CAN AND CUT HIS HANDON A SOU P CAN LID.

EMP STATES THAT HE WAS MOVING A DRAG ROLLER SUPPORT SHAFT ON THE BE 2570 DRAGLINE THE SHAFT HIT A 5 GALLON GREASE GUN WHICH FELL OVER AND THE GREASE GUN STRUCK THE EMP ON LEFT KNEE

HE HURT HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING A 18:00X25 GRADER TIRE WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES, THAT WHILE STANDING ON A LADDER, HOLDING A 4" PIPE. HE TWISTED AND STRAINED HIS BACK. I WAS ADVISED OF THE INJURY 09-19-83 AT 1:30PM.