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MECHANIC HAD DRIVEN SERVICE TRUCK TO AND HAD PARKED IN FRON OFTHE COAL TRUCK LEAVING 8 FEET BETWEEN THE TWO VEHICLES.AFTER STARTING THE TRUCK,DRIVER JOINED MECANIC AND TWO TOHER DRIVERS IN ARE A BETWEEN THE VEHICLES TO OBTAIN TOWELS FROM TOOL BOX OF SERVICE TRUCK.COAL TRUCK BEGAN TO ROLL DOWN SLIGHT GRADE TOWARD SERVICE TRUCK CATCHING DRIVER BETWEEN TOOL COMPARTMENT DOOR AND FRONT

EMPLOYEE WAS INSPECTING CRUSHER COAL PREPARTION PLANT WHEN A PIECE OF COAL WEIGHING APPROX. 8 POUNDS FELL FROM A VIBRATING SCREEN 15 FEET ABOVE AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD. EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A MILD CONCUSSION AND NECK STRAIN.

EMPL HAD COMPLETED CUTTING DRAG ROPE OF BE380W DRAGLINE & 2 OILERS BEGAN TO REATTACH ROPE TO DRAG CHAINS. HE RETURNED TO SERVICE TRUCK 20' AWAY WITH OXYACETYLENE EQUIP. TURNING MOMENTARILY TOWARDS REPAIR AREA HE WAS STRUCK IN EYE WITH UNDETERMINED FOREIGN OBJECT. EMP HAD JUST REMOVED GOGGLES & HAD SAFETY GLASSES IN POSSESSION.

TWO WELDERS WER9 ATTEMTPING TO DRIVE TOOTH FROM DRAGLINE BUCKET USING A BAKCINGOFF PUNCH AND SLEDGE HAMMER INJURIED EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING THE 16 INCH HANDLE OF PUNCH WHILE FELLOW EMPLOYEE STRUC IT. WHEN IT WA8 STRUCK SMALL FRAGMENT OF METAL SEPARATED FROM THE NOSE OF THE PINCH AND IMBEDDED IN FINGER. FRAGMENT WAS REMOVED AT HOSPITAL AND 6 STITCHES WERE REQUIRED PUNCH WAS IN GOOD CON

EMPLOYEE HAD FI3ISHED WELDING A CLEVIS AND WITH HELP OF ANOTHER WORKER MOVED IT OUT OF THE REPAIR SHOP BY SUSPENDING IT FROM A LONG STEEL BAR. BOTH MEN HELD RESPECTIVE ENDS OF THE BAR AND WHEN THEY REACHED T2EIR DESTINATION, THEY STOOPED TO LOWER THE BAR. INJURED EMPLOYEE RELEASED HIS END OF BAR AND HELPER RELEASED HIS END IMMEDIATELY AFTER. CLEVIS FELL OVER TOWARD CAUSING THE WELD

VICTIM WAS REPL5CING CUTTING EDGE ON KOMATSU 375 BULLDOZER AFTER POSITIONING NEW CUTTING BOLTS WHICH REQUIRED TO BE SEATED TO PREVENT TURNING WHILE TIGHTENING NUT HOWEVER WHEN APPLYING AIR IMP ACT WRENCH TO N6T THE BOTL HEAD FREED ITSELF FROM SEAT WHILE PUSHING DOWN ON BOLTHEAD HE ENGAGED IMPACT WRENCH AND BOLT TURNED WHILE IN CONTACT WITH HAND AND BEFORE IT WAS FULLY SEATED LEFT M

EMPLOYEE WAS AS8IGNED TO CLEAN A 4' X4' AREA ON THE DRAGLINE TO PREPARE FOR PIANTING.HE WAS DIRECTED TO PLACE A 6' ALUMINUM LADDER ATOP AN UP RIGHT 55 GALLON DRUM IN ORDER TO REACH THE AREA WH ICH WAS 12' ABO5E THE WORKING SURFACE.ONCE HE BEGAN CLEANING,THE FOOT OF THE LADDER SLID OUTWARD AND OOF THE TOP OF THE DRUM, AND THE LADDER COLLAPSED UNDERNEATH HIM.THE EMPLOYEE FELL AND CON

SUPV HAD DRIVEN TO SHOP TO OBTAIN REPLACEMENT PART FOR HIGHWALL DRILL.ITEM WAS HEAVY NO OTHER WORKERS IN SHOP, ELECTED TO LIFT AND CARRY PART TO TRUCK BY HIMSELF.HE STRUGGLED AND COMPLETED TAS K BUT NOTICED SLIGHT DISCOMFORT GREW OVER NEXT FEW DAYS UNTIL INTOLERABLE.

WORKSHOP WAS EN7IRELY DESTROYED BY FIRE OF AT PRESENT UNKNOWN ORGIN. 2 PICK UPS SPARE PARTS, MAINTANCE AND WELDING EQUIPMENT ETC WE ARE ALSO DESTROVED AT THE TIME OF THE FIRE, NO EMPLOYEE S WE RE WORKING AND 7HE LAST WORK SHIFT HAD ENDED 30 HRS. PREVIOUS TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE FIRE BY A PASSER BY BECAUSE OF COMPLETE DESTRUCTION T IS NOT KNOWN HOW OR WHERE THE FIRE STARTED. WE ARE

DRAGLINE OILERS3ROUTINELY CHECK WATER LEVELS IN COOLING SYSTEMS OF DRAGLINES EVERY SHIFT.VICTIM ADVISED BEFORE INJURY THAT THE ENGINE WAS OVERHEATING.AS HE LOOSENED READIATOR CAP TO RELIEVE PR ESSURE,CAP WAS 0ORCED OFF AND HOT WATER WAS EXPELLED FROM RAD. AND ONTO SHOULDER AND ARM OF VICTIM.IT WAS LEARNED THAT CAP WOULDNT ALWAYS RELIEVE PRESSURE WHEN PARTIALLY UNSCREWED...REPLACE W

OPERATOR WAS BR5KING & LOWERING BUCKET OF FRONT-END LOADE WHEN INJURY OCCURRED, AS FORWARD MOVEMENT OF LOADER WAS SLOWING TO A COMPLETE STOP, DOOR OF CAB SWUNG FORWARD TO CLOSE. AT THE SAME TI ME THE OPERATOR3ANTICIPATING THE STOPPING OF THE L OADAER, PLACED HIS L HAND ON THE DOOR FRAME TO RISE FROM THE SEAT. FINGER WAS CUT & B RUISED WHE

VICTIM WAS ASSI1NED TO CLENA COAL SEAM TOP WITH HAND SHOVEL WHIEL REMVOING SHALE FROM FACE OF SEAN HE LIFTED A PARTICULAR HEAVY PIECE OF SHALE AND WALKED ABOUT 20 FT TO SPOIL SIDE TO DISPOSE OF IT AS HE STE1PED UP ON RIDGE OF CLAY HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIANING HIS LOWER BACK WHILE SHALE DIRECTLY CAUSED THE SLIP AND BACK STRAIN CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE IMPROPER FOOTING AND DECISI

VICTIM WAS TIGH7ENING LUGNUTS OF A WHEEL BY USING A WRENCH & SOCKET. HE SLIPPED AN ALUMINUM PI E OVER HANDLE FOR ADDED LEVERAGE & FROM A STANDING POSITION USED HIS FOOT TO FORCE DOWN THE WREN CH & PIPE. HIS 0OOT SLIPPED OFF THE PIPE DUE TO MUDDY CONDITIONS. THE WRENCH RECOILED & SENT THE PIPE UPWARD STRIKING IN MOUTH. INJURIES SUSTAINED WERE A CUT LIP & A CHIPPED TOOTH.

EMP WAS SEARCHING FOR 5 GALLON OPEN PLASTIC BUCKET TO AID IN PUMPING OPERATION IN PIN. HE COULDNT LOCATE ONE AND THEREFORE DECIDED TO MAKE A SUITABLE CONTAINER FINDING A 55 GALLON DRUM HE FIRS T CHECKED FOR RESIDUAL FLUIDS. FINDING NONE HE CHECKED FOR POSSIBLE ODORS COMING FROM THE BAREL. SATISFIED THAT THE BARREL WAS CLEAN HE LAY THE BARREL ON ITS SIDE AND STOOD AT THE BOTTOM END.

WIRE ROPE SPOOL WAS IN FRONT-END LOADER BUCKET WHEN VICTIM CUT RESTRAINING WIRE FROM ROPE END. AS ROPE UNWOUND, SPOOL TURNED SLIGHTLY AND CONTINUED TO UNWIND. AS ROPE END MADE 3RD REVOLUTION, IT STRUCK VICTIM ACROSS NOSE. INJURIES WERE LIMITED TO A FRACTURED NOSE AND ASSOCIATED ABRASIONS. INJURY DID NOT RESULT FROM NONN-COMPLIANCE OF REGULATIONS BUT FROM POOR JUDGEMENT ON PART OF V