MINER RECEIVED BLOW TO RIGHT SIDE OF FOREHEAD WHEN HYDRAULICALLY POWERED DRILL PROPELLED BOLT WRENCH OUT OF THE DRILL HEAD SOCKET. HE DIED FIVE DAYS LATER.
Mining Incidents in May 1983
All MSHA-reportable mining accidents in May 1983, sorted by severity. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities
- 11
- Total incidents
- 1,944
- Period
- May 1983
Top operators this month
- 01 Peabody Coal Company 80 incidents
- 02 Consolidation Coal Company 41 incidents
- 03 Keystone Coal Mining Corp 37 incidents
- 04 Jim Walter Resources Inc 34 incidents
- 05 Helvetia Coal Company 25 incidents
Most recent 500 incidents
Showing the 500 most recent of 1,944 incidents this month. All fatalities are included and listed first.
BOTH SURVEYORS WERE WARNED OF ROOF CONDITIONS,PROCEEDED UNDER UNSUPPORTED ROOF TO INSTALL AND DRIVE SPAD FOR SIGHT LINE.TRANSITMAN CLIMBED INTO CONVEYOR OF MINER AND CHAINMAN STOOD ON FLOOR OF MINE.-2\ OF DRAWSLATE AND WILDCOAL FELL WITHOUT WARNING STRIKING BOTH MEN-#6 ROOM,20 SPLIT,7 FLATRIGHT,8 ROOM SECT.
BOTH SURVEYORS WERE WARNED ABOUT ROOF CONDITIONS BUT PROCEEDED UNDER UNSUPPORTED ROOF TO INSTALL DRIVE SPAD FOR SIGHT LINE.TRANSITMAN CLIMBED INTO CONVEYOR ON MINER AND CHAINMAN STOOD ON MINE FLOOR.-2\ OF DRAWSLATE AND WILDC OAL FELL WITHOUT WARNING,STRIKING BOTH MEN-#6 ROOM,20 SPLIT,7 SLATRIGHT,8 ROOM SECT.
CRANE BLOCK WAS RUN THROUGH LIMIT SWITCH INTO DRUM CAUSING CABLE TO PULL IN TWO DROPPING SHEAVE BLOCK ONTO EMPLOYEE.
ROOF BOLTER WAS PARKED ADJACENTY TO LAST ROW OF PERM SUPPORTS.EMPL AND HELPER WERE IN PROCESS OF SETTING TEMP SUPPORTS WHEN ROCK FELL -14\ X 3\ X 20\\THICK INFLICTING FATAL INJURIES.
MINER WAS OPERATING #2 ENTRY WHEN ROOF FELL ON MINER.SEE 231330013 FOR MORE.
SETTING JACKS ON WILCOX MINER-PULLING OUT OF WORKING PLACE. ROOF FALL-ONE ROCK FELL,HORSEBACK DETECTED 17\LONG X 4\-0\ X 10\WIDE,IMMEDIATELY OUTBY FACE #1 ENTRY IN 004 SECT.
HELPING ON C.M. IN #2 ENTRY WHEN ROOF FALL FELL.,UNDER SUPPORTED ROOF -BOLTS 36\\LONG WITH STRAPS.FALL WAS 32\LONG X 8\WIDE X 7.5\THICK.CANOPY ON C.M. BADLY DAMAGED. BODIES WERE LOCATED RIGHT SIDE OF ENTRY 15\ FROM DECK OF CM AND 3\ IN BY EDGE OF FALL.
EMPLOYEE LOWERED HIMSELF BY ROPE INTO A LEACH TANK IN AN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO RETRIEVE AN UNKNOWN OBJECT, POSSIBLY A HAND HAT OR MEASURING STICK AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED FROM ASPHYXIATION.
STANDING BESIDE C.M. OBSERVING PILLAR RECOVERY OPERATION -STRUCK BY PIECE OF ROCK FROM MASSIVE ROOF FALL.
LOADER BACKED OFF SIDE OF RAMP
EMPL REPLACING DIVIDER IN FEED BOX LOCATED AT DISCHARGE END OF CONVEYOR BELT.GOT LEFT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN DIVIDER AND LOG FEED CONVEYOR BELT.BELT WASNT SHUT DOWN BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH REPAIRS
WE WERE DRILLING A HOLE IN A GENERATOR, CLEANING OUT THREADS. I WAS HOLDING A RAG TO KEEP PIECES FROM GOING INTO GENERATOR. DRILL CAME THROUGH AND CAUGHT RAG, IT TWISTED AND PULLED MY FINGER INTO THE BIT. BEFORE I COULD TELL THE OPERATOR TO STOP, IT WAS TOO LATE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A FOOT VALVE TO BE PUT IN PUMP HOLE WHEN CABLE THAT WAS HOOKED ONTO THE VALVE CAUGHT PAUL AND THREW HIM DOWN BEEN HAVING PAIN SINCE THAT TIME
MAN STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS WORKING IN THE WASHER, HE PICKED UP A WOOD BAR &3 GOT A PAIN IN HIS ABDOMINAL AREA.
WORKER WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN BETWEEN ROLLERS ON CONVEYOR WHEN HAMMER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT & ROLLER PULLING WORKER HAND BETWEEN ALSO RESULTING IN LOSS OF MIDDLE FINGER.
INFLATING TIRE WHEN BEAD BROKE FORCING RIM INTO VERTICAL DIRECTION ,STRIKING LITTLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND.CAUSED END OF FINGER AND FINGER NAIL TO BECOME DISMEMBERED.
EMMPLOYEE WAS ON DRILL MAST AND SIGNALED TO RUN THE DRILL HEAD TO TOP OF MAST, SINGALED WITH LEFT AND. PLACED LEFT HAND ON CROSS MEMBER OF MAST AND HAND WAS CAUGHT IN PINCH POINT WHERE ONLY AB OUT 1/4" CLEARNANCE BETWEEN CROSS MEMBER AND GUIDE SPROCKET BRACKET WHICH WAS MOVING DOWN.
EE STATES THAT WHILE CHANGING DRILLS ON CORE DRILL, HE WAS PULLING ON 2 PIPE WRENCHES HE FELT A STRAIN ON HIS RIGHT ABDOMEN WHICH LATER BECAME ENLARGED & A KNOT OT KERNEL FORMED..
LEFT ARM SEVERED ABOVE ELBOW ARM HAS BEEN REATTACHED PROGNOSIS OF RECOVERY IS GOOD BUT NOT YET CERTAIN
CAUGHT FINGER RING ON EDGE OF METAL BIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING CRAWD BRAKE ASSEMBLY ON 5761 SHOVEL. BARAKE SHOE WAS WEDGED AGAINST MOUNTING FRAME, WHEN EMPLOYEE PULLED ON SHOE IT CAME FREE AND PIVOTED CATCHING LEFT RING FINGER AT FIR ST JOINT BETWEEN BRAKE SHOE AND BRAKE ARM.
WHILE TIGHTENING PACKING ON STEAM PUMP LEFT THUMB WAS JAMMED BETWEEN WRENCH AND CROSSHEAD ON STEAM PUMP CUTTING OFF TIP END OF LEFT THUMB
USING 18\\ PIPE WRENCH TO REMOVE PIPE ELBOW.EMPL WAS BENDING DOWN PULLING ON WRENCH -FELT PAIN IN GROIN.
CARL WAS LOADING HAMMERS FROM THE #5 MILL ONTO A TRUCK WHEN HE STRAINED HIMSELF HE DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD A HERNIA WHEN HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR
FORK LIFT SETTING LOAD OF SLABS ON TIMBER TRUCK KERMU WAS SPOTTING TRUCK TO LAND LACING HE HAD HIS THUMB ON BUNK OF TRUCK LOAD AND PINCHED HIS THUMB BETWEEN IT AND TIMBER TRUCK TRAUMATIC AMPUT ATION OF DISTAL ONE THIRD OF LEFT THUMB NO ACTUAL DAYS LOST - 100 DAYS ATTRIBUTED TO ONE THIRD OF DISTAL OF LEFT THUMB FOR PARTIAL DISABILITY
HE WAS WATCHING MINER CABLE AND A KETTLE BOTTOM HIT HIM
LIFTING 50 LB BAG TO EMPTY INTO A BARREL JOHN GOT A HERNIA
ROOF BOLTER PARKED ADJACENT TO LAST ROW OF PERM SUPPORTS.OPERATOR AND EMPL WERE IN PROCESS OF SETTING TEMP SUPPORTS WHEN ROCK 14\ X 3\ X 20\\THICK FELL INFLICTIN FATAL INJ TO OPERATOR AND DISA BLING INJURIES TO BACK OF HELPER.
THE INJURED SAID HE WAS REMOVING A SAFETY CHAIN FROM THE COUPLER BETWEEN THE MOTOR AND EMPTIES ON THE 4 NORTH EMPTY TRACK WHILE REMOVING THE SAFETY CHAIN HE CAUGHT HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON RT H HAND BETWWEN THE CHAIN AND MOTOR COUPLER HORN
EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO REALIGN LIGHT ON LIGHT PLANT AND PROCEEDED TO CRANK DOWN TELESCOPIC SHAFT UNTIL CABLE DEVELOPED SLACK EMPLOYEE CLIMBED UP ON LIGHT PLANT AND WHILE ADJUSTING LIGHT FIXTGUR E SHAFT DROPPED ANOTHER 4IN TO 7IN PINCHING FINGER BETWEEN STOP ON UPPER SHAFT AND TOP OF SHAFT BELOW
EMP WAS LIFTING HEAVEY WATER SOAKED MINE TIMBERS WHEN HE FELT SUDDEN PAIN IN RIGHT GROIN
WHILE CARRYING A FLAT LOWBOY TNGUE-4\LONG X 1" THICK X 4" WIDE- MAN FELT PAIN AT LEFT GROIN AREA.
CHANGING COMPLIMENT OF BLADES IN SEPARATOR-PULLED MUSCLES IN GROIN.
FOLLOWING LUBRICATION OF DRIVE GEAR, EMPLOYEE STARTED ENGINE TO ADJUST BRAKE OF MAIN DRIVE. SLEEVE OF SHIRT CAUGHT GEAR OR MOVING PART AND PULLED ARM INTO UNIT AND PINCHED IT AGAINST SUPPORT I N FRAME MEMBER, CAUSING AMPUTATION.
DRYER OPERATOR WAS PACKING 50 LB BAGS OF MATERIAL ONTO PALLET WHEN HE FELT PAIN ON HIS RT SIDE OF GROIN AREA PHYSICIAN DIAGNOSED INJURY AS AN INJUINAL HERNIA
WHILE PULLING ROCK OFF PICKING TABLE-CLEANER PLANT EE FELT PULL ON RIGHT SIDE OF LOWER ABDOMEN.
EMPLOYEE TRIED HE LIFTED A ROOF BOLT THAT WAS WEDGED INTO A BUNDLE OF ROOF PLATES WHEN HE LIFTED THE BOLT HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT GROIN AREA EMPLOYEE IS BEING TREATED FOR A HERNIA EMPLOYEE DID NOT START MISSING UNTIL 5-31-83
WAS HELPING TWO MAINTAINERS MOVE I BEAMS INTO FAB SHOP STRAIN TO R LOWER ABDOMEN WENT TO DOC WHO COULDNT TELL IF A HERNIA HAD BEEN CAUSED EMPLOYEE CAME BACK TO WORK AND WORKED CONTINUOUSLY UNT IL 052583 HE RETURNED TO DOC WHO AT THAT TIME DISCOVERED A R INGUINAL HERNIA
PUTTING UP CHAINS IN CHARGING STATION-STARTED TO TIGHTEN BOLT WITH CHAIN ON IT-CHAIN CAUGHT,WRAPPED AROUND WRENCH AND CAUGHT LEFT ARM,WRAPPING IT AROUND WRENCH.
LIFTING A RESISTER FROM UPPER TO LOWER SHELF. INJURY OCCURRED WHILE SWINGING RESISTER INTO LOWER SHELF. BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 5-16-83.
LIFTING LOADER TIRE CAUSED UMBILICAL HERNIA TIRE ASSEMBLY WEIGHS APPROX 250LBS
EMPL GOING IN STORAGE HALL CRANE AREA TO OIL MOTORS AND SHC OPER WAS ENTERING AREA AT SAME TIMEEMPL GOING IN STORAGE HALL CRANE AREA TO OIL MOTORS AND SHC OPER WAS ENTERING AREA AT SAME TIME TO START EQUIP UNAWARE OF EACH OTHER.CRANE STRUCK AND EITHER PUSHED OR DRAGGED EMPL SEVERAL FEET.
EIMCO LOADER WAS PARKED OUTSIDE PORTAL TO TAKE ON A LOAD. OPERATOR WAS GUIDING A VEHICLE PAST THE BUCKET. THE VEHICLE GENTLY NUDGED THE BUCKET IN PASSING. APPARENTLY, THE BUCKET WAS RESTING ON A SMALL ROCK-THE NUDGE WAS ENOUGH TO KNOCK THE BUCKET OFFTHE ROCK SMASHING THE OPERATOR\S FOOT WHICH WAS UNDER THE EDGE OF THE BUCKET. OPEN FRACTURE AND CRUSH OF BIG TOE (RESULTING IN PARTIAL
LIFTING A 2IN PUNCH PLATE SCREEN
REPAIRING CLUTCH ON SAND PUMP - AMPUTATION OF TWO FINGERS ON THE RIGHT HAND.
ROGER THURSTON WAS WELDING 3 1/2" O.D. DRILL CASING DOWN INSIDE OF 22" I.D. WELL CASING WHEN HE CAUGHT ON FIRE. THIS HAPPENED AFTER HE HAD ALREADY CUT OFF OLD FISHING TOOL AND WELDED ONE SIDE OF SWEDGE.
THE EQUIPMENT OPERATOR LEFT THE UNDERGROUND SHOP RETURNING TO THE FACE AREA AFTER CHANGING BATTIERS THE SCOOP STOPPED THE OPERATOR CHECKED THE BELLS AND HIS BODY CAME IN CONTACT WITH PART OF T HE MOTION PEDDLE OF THE SCOOP AT THIS POINT THE ACCIDENT
OPERATORA WAS ATTEMPTING TO DRILL A HOLE IN THE ROOF TO INSTALL A ROOF BOLT 183 THE DRILL BIT JERKED A SCALE OF ROCK LOOSE WEIGHING 7-10 LBS DOWN CATCHING THE OPERATORS FINGER ON THE HEAD OF THE BOLT MACHINED. FINGER WAS AMPUTATED.
INJURED WAS LIFTING ROOF BOLTS OUT OF BUCKET OF SCOOP AND RUPTURED HIMSELF
FELL BACKWARDS-WALKING DOWNHILL-ON WET HILL--...HILLSIDE WHEN FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER MINER.
EMP WAS HANDING TIMBER MATERIAL UP TO THE FALSE ROOF WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING EMP ON BACK AND FOOT
WORKMAN WAS BOLTING AND PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM TOP AND STRUCK MAN ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT CAUSING LACERATION
INJURED HAD FINISHED HEATING UP A TRACK PIN-INSIDE TRACK. WHILE WAITING FOR PIN TO COOL INJURED WALKED AROUND TRACK & TOOK OFF GOGGLES. PIN HAD DELAYED REACTION & EXPLODED. FLYING MATERIALS IN TO EYES.
DRIVING EUCLID ROCK TRUCK HIT SOFT HOLE AND THROWN AGAINST ROOF OF VEHICLE HURTING BACK AND NECK
INJURED WAS OPERATING MINER AND A PIECE OF DIRT BECAME LODGED IN LEFT EYE.
INJURED WAS UNCOUPLING WAGON AT #3 MAINTENENCE I SHANTY WHEN HE STEPPED ON HEADER BLOCK AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE
INJ WAS USING STEAM CLEANER TO CLEAN EQUIP THE HOSE BLEW OFF AND SPRAYED HIM WITH STEAM HE WAS GIVEN FIRST AID AND TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL
RUNNING ROOF BOLTER-HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER CAME OVER ON KNEE.
INJURED WAS CHANGING MINER BITS. A PIECE OF STONE FELL OUT OF TOPAND HIT HIM ON HAND (THE HAND THAT HE HAD ON MINER HEAD) IT HIT HIS HAND AT ANGLE AND LAID RING FINGER OPEN BETWEEN KNUCKLE AND SECOND JOINTS. (AS EXPLAINED BY INJURED).
STRAINED BACK WHILE TRYING TO OPEN TIGHT BULK R R CAR TOP DOOR.
EMPLOYEE PICKED UP CRIB BLOCK BEHIND ROOFBOLT AND CARRIED IT 3 CROSS CUTS AND PUT DOWN UNDER MINER COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN BACK UP
THE EE WAS BOLTING THE TOP WHEN A PIECE OF LOOSE ROCK FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT ARM. .
MAN STATED WHILE TIGHTENING THE BOLTS IN A UNIVERSAL JOINT AND IN THE PROCESS HE STRAINED HIS R ARM & NECK MAN WAS WORKING ON 400 END LOADER OUTSIDE BEHIND SHOP
EE WAS STRAIGHTENING FENDER ON SCOOPTRAM. HE WAS PUSHING DOWN ON END OF FENDER WHEN WELD ON OTHER END BROKE LOOSE, CAUSING MAN TO LOOSE BALANCE. MAN FELL HEAD FIRST OFF SCOOP LANDING ON HEAD & RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE INJURED HIS BACK AFTER LIFTING A 4X8 PLYWOOD DOOR AT THE #2 BELT TAIL
WHILE DRIVING COAL TRUCK TO DELIVER A LOAD, FORCED OFF ROAD BY ONCOMING CAR, WHICH DID NOT STOP; HIT BANK, SHEARED OFF UTILITY POLE AND TURNED OVER ON SIDE.
POST THAT WAS BEING USED TO SECURE HEAD WAS KNO/CKING OUT AND STRUCK INJURED ONFOREHEAD.
FILLING AND STACKING 50 LB BAGS OF LIMESTONE.HAD FILLED A BAG,REMOVED IT FROM PACKAGING MACHINE AND WAS PLACING BAG ON PALLET WHEN FELT SHARP BURNING SEENSATION IN RIGHT SIDE.
DRILLING HOLES FOR SHOT STEPPED IN HOLE PULLED BACK MUSCLE
THE EE WAS HELPING LIFT A SPOOL OF CABLE WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.
INJ WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE A PLATFORM OF APPROX 150 LBS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN THE THORACK AREA OF HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE BUMPED HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE METAL STEPS ON THE BRUTE TRUCK AS HE WAS CLIMBING IN THE TRUCK
TRYING TO FREE CONVEYOR BELT WITH A BAR,BELT CAUGHT HIS GLOVE PULLING HAND IN CONEYOR BELT ROLLER.
EMP HAD FINISHED WORKING FOR DAY WORKING WITH EARTHMOVERS MR WILSON WAS PREPARING TO MOUNT HIS TEREX TO TAKE IT BACK TO PARKING AREA FOR NIGHT MR WILSON WAS PARTIALLY MOUNTING OR ENTERING TEREX FELLOW EMP ALONGSIDE WITH ANOTHER TEREX BACKED UP HIS TEREX STRIKING A TREE DEAD LIMB FELL FROM ATOP TREE PERHAPS 75 FT STRIKING MR WILSON KNOCKING HIM TO GROUND
EE STATED THAT THE ROOF BOLTER WAS SITTING AT THE BACK UP FLYS IN #7 ENTRY & THE STANDARD S/C CAME THRU FLYS & HIT BACK OF BOLTER. HE WAS AT BACK OF BOLTER & HE JUMPED UPON TOP OF ROOF BOLTE R & HIT THE TOP OF H IS FOOT.
EMPLOYEE STOPPED THE BELT AND LIFTED A PIECE OF ROCK OFF THE BELT
EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING ROUTINE DUTIES AS A FLOATATION OPERATOR WHEN FOR NO APPARENT REASON. HE SLIPPED ON A CLEAN, DRY FLOOR, TWISTING HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
SETTING UP LADDER- WAS IN PROCESS OF GOING UP TO TIE LADDER OFF SLIPPED & FELL FRACTURING HEEL ON LEFT FOOT.
MR PUGH PUT HIS RING FINGER OF RIGHT HAND IN A SMALL HOLE OF FAN BLADE GUARD CAUSING THE END OF FINGER FLESH TO BE AVULSED
SLEDGING ROCK WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE THEY WERE TRYING TO TURN A ROCK OVER ROCK ROLLED ON LEFT FOOT
WHEN INJURED WAS INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT THROUGH A 5 IN X 7 IN X 14 FT TIMBER A SMALL PIECE OF SLATE FELL FROM BETWEEN TIMBERS THAT WERE INSTALLED AGAINST ROOF STRIKING INJURED ON HEAD
EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING CRIB HE LIFTED CRIB BLOCK AND HURT BACK
EMP WAS WATERING EMBANKMENT AND MADE A SHARP LEFT TURN UP AN INCLINE OF APPROX 3 FT THE CAB OF VEHICLE REACHED THE TOP OF INCLINE THE LEFT REAR WHEEL LIFTED OFF OF THE GROUND AND THEN RETURNE TO THE GROUND OPERATOR HAD STOPPED THE VEHICLE AND THE WATER MOVING IN THE TANK CAUSED VEHICLE TO ROLL TO RT AND COME TO REST ON ITS BACK
HELPING LOAD HEADER ONTO SCOOP ,DROPPED END ONTO RIGHT FOOT.RESULTED IN SWELLING AND BRUISE.
SAWING TIMBER,HIT KNOT KICKING BLADE OUT AND STRIKING THUMB.
HE STATED HE WAS SETTING MINER BITS AND SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS ARM
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS DRILLING THE ROOF AND THE STEEL HIT A SNAG AND BOWED OUT AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT WRIST
ELECTRICAL FIRE ON CATERPILLAR.DAMAGE TO ENGINE COMPARTMENT.
...DURING SHIFT HAD BEEN HANGING PUMP POWER CABLE AND REPEATED STRETCHING MAY HAVE CAUSED BACK PROBLEM.
TERRY LEE NAGY WAS GETTING OFF ROCK HAULER AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE WALK CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND HIT SIDE INTO HAND RAIL ON TRUCK
EMP STATES HE WAS WORKING AS SUPPLY TRUCK DRIVER AND WAS AT ICE HOUSE LOADING WATER CANS INTO SUPPLY TRUCK WHEN HE WAS TWISTING AND LIFTING AT SAME TIME AND STRAINED LOWER BACK
HE WAS BACKING UP TO DRILL BENCH, TURNED OVER INTO PIT AREA.
SPRAINED ELBOW WHILE PULLING ON ROOF BOLT DID NOT GO TO DOCTOR UNTIL 6-13-83.
PLACING IDLER ON BELT CONVEYOR AND NOTED CERVICAL PAIN AND FINGER NUMBNESS
ROCK FELL FROM ROOF BETWEEN TEMPORARY ROOF SUPPORT HITTING VICTIM TOP OF SHOULDERS.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING A 16 GAL BARREL OF OIL INTO A SHUTTLE CAR AND STRAINED LEFT SHOULDER
WHILE SWINGING LSEDGE HAMMER AND LIFTING AND PULLING ON CMENET FORMS IN CELLS WHERE CEMENT HAD BEEN POURED EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK
LIFTING RIPPER TOOTH WITH 1/4\\ CHAIN,HOOK BROKE AND CHAIN STRUCK EMPL IN FOREHEAD.
VICTIM WAS PUTTING CRIBBING UP IN ARCHES HE PUT LEFT HAND ON SHUTTLE CAR AND PIECE OF CRIBBING FELL AND CAUGHT FINGERS AND FRACTURED THEM
INJURED WAS WORKING ON BOTTOM SIDE OF A RAILCAR USING A SCARFING TOOL, HE REMAINED IN ONE POSITION FOR SOME DURATION KNEELING AND REACHING UP TO THE WORK. IT WAS EARLY IN THE DAY & COOL. INJUR ED MOVED AFTER A WHILE & FELT SHARP PAIN BETWEEN THE SHOULDER BLADES & SUSPECTED SOME FORM OF HEART ATTACH
EE JUMPED OFF TRUCK.
EMPLOYEE CAUGHT HIS HAND ON SOME MECHANICS WIRE WHILE CLIMBING THE MAST OF THE 2570 DRAGLINE THE WIRE CUT THROUGH HIS GLOVE PUNCTURING THE PALM OF HIS LEFT HAND THE INJURY WAS MINOR BUT A SERI OUS INFECTION SET IN THE NEXT DAY
LIFTING CABLE FROM ROADWAY AND PULLED MUSCLES IN STOMACH.
EE WAS USING HIS FOOT TO PUSH A JACK HANDLE DOWN. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF LETTING THE JACK HANDLE FLIP BACK UP HITTING HIM IN THE FACE.
LIFTING CABLE OUT OF MUD WITH PICK HAMMER, STRIKING RIGHT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE MOVINGT A DOWDY JACK HE FELL AND STRAINED HIS BACK
INJURED WAS REACHING IN TIGHT AREA ON ROOFBOLTING MACHINE TRYING TO FIND AN OIL LEAK WHEN THE MACHINE WAS TURNED ON HIGH PRESSURE OIL LACERATED LEFT LONG FINGER REQUIRING PLASTIC SURGURY
INJURED AND HIS BUDDY WERE USING A HAND TO ALIGN BELT WHEN PULLING CHAIN BROKE ALLOWING CHAIN TO SPRING BACK AND STRIKE INJURED IN THE CHEST.
HE SAID HE HAD JUST FINISHED DRILLING 2 PLACES & SAT DOWN TO REST STARTED COUGHING, HIS RIBS BEGAN TO HURT AFTER HE STARTED CAUGHING.
PULLING ON WATER LINE POSSIBLY IN IMPROPER POSITION TO DO PULLING CORRECTLY
INJURED BUMPED HIS KNEE ON JEEP WHILE CLIMBING OUT OF JEEP. INJURED BEGAN LOSING TIME ON 8-10-83.
DRILLING HOLE WITH DRILL.DRILL TURNED OVER ROLLING EMPL AROUND INSIDE OF THE CAB.
INJURED AND THREE CO-WORKERS WERE REMOVING SCALE FAROM UNDER #21 PRESS IN THE CLARIFICATION DEPT. , BLDG. 35. WHILE THE FOUR EMPLOYEES WERE LOWERING A LAARGE PIECE OF SCALE TO THE TRANSFER WAG ON, THE INJUREDS FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SCALE AND THE ANGLE IARON EDCGING OF THE WAGON. HE WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL IN VICTOARIA FOR SURGERY TO REALIGN THE FINGER AND SECAURE THE BONES.
REPLACING 3" PLASTIC ELBOW ON PIPELINE, USING PVC PRIMER TO CLEAN SURFACE OF PIPE, SLIPPED & FELL SPLASHING PRIMER IN FACE & EYES. RECEIVED CHEMICAL BURNS TO BOTH EYES.
TAKING BLASTING POWDER BOXES FROM F LEVEL MAGAZINE AND LOADING THEM ON FLAT CAR.STACK OF FULL POWDER BOXES FELL OVER AND LANDED ON EMPL.
HELPING ASSEMBLE STANDARD CRUSHER MANTLE WHEN CAHAIN COMEALONG CAME LOOSE AND HIT EMPL ON LEFT LEG ABOVE ANKLE.
ROCK FELL BETWEEN SHIELDS STRIKING EMP ON MIDDLE FINGER RT HAND ON THE PANLINE
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF HOOKING UP CONCRETE PIPE AT GRIZZLY LINE 7 HE HAD HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN PIPE TRYING TO LINE UP TO PLACE CLAMP AN EMPLOYEE ASKED IT HE WAS READY FOR HOO K UP AND SLID PIPE FORWARD CATCHING MICHAELS RIGHT 3RD FINGER BETWEEN PIPE
A ROCK FELL ON THE LOADER TRUCK
OTHER EMPL TRAPPED UNDER VEHICLE AND EMPL WAS RUNNING FOR ASSISTANCE AND FELL AND FRACTURED LEFT KNEE.
WALKING ALONG CONVEYOR INCLINE WALKWAY,SLIPPED AND FELL BACKWARDS.
AS EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING STEEL SETS HE STEPPED OFF A FLAT ONTO A SMALL ROCK TWISTING HIS ANKLE THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A DEEP SPRAIN RT ANKLE CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO LOSE TIME OFF WORK
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON TOP FO A FLETCHER ROOF BOLTER INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN AN OVERCAST. HE FELT HIMSELF SLIPPING SO HE JUMPED OFF AND INJURED HIS NECK WHEN HE LANDED ON HIS FEET.
CLEANUP PUMP WAS PLUGGED WITH SLUDGE.EMPL TURNED OFF PUMP AND USED HOSE TO CLEAN OUT PUMP.EMPL TURNED PUMP BY HAND TO FREE SLUDGE.
WATCHING CRAWLER POSITION ON DEAD HEAD OF SHOVERL WHEN CHAIN CAME UNHOOKED ON CATWALK AND EMPL FELL 10\ BRUISING AND STRAINING ANKLES.
WHEN HELPING TO LOAD 90LB ROOF RAIL FROM SUPPLY CAR TO SCOOP TRACTOR PULLED LOWER BACK MUSCLES
CHECKING SOURCE OF HYDRAULIC LEAK ON MACHINE WHEN HYDRAULIC HOSE BURST SPRAYING EMPL AND ENGINE WITH HOT OIL-AS OIL BURST INTO FLAMES FROM CONTACT WITH ENGINE,ATTEMPTED TO DISMOUNT-SLIPPED IN HYDRAULIC OIL FROM BURST HOSE AND FELL TO GROUND STRIKING ELBOW.
EMPLOYEE WAS FIREBOSSING THE LONGWALL FACE WHIELWALKING BESIDE SHEAR A PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING INJURED ON FOOT
WHEN INJ LIFTED THE END OF THE 3X8X16 PLANK HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE WAS ON MINE JEEP LEAVING NO 4 SECTION WHEN INJURED MOVED HIS JEEP, THE JEEP MAINTENANCE CREW RODE IN RAN AWAY STRUCK INJUREDS JEEP KNOCKING HIM OVER AGAINST FRAME OF JEEP AND FRACTURE D A LEFT RIB
HANGING CURTAIN AND SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR RAN OVER RIGHT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS JACKING JEEP ONT TRACK WHEN HANDLE SLIPPED AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON RT HAND
FALLING FROM TRUCK
PICKED UP 5 GAL HYDRAULIC BARREL AND EXPERIENCED PAIN IN BACK.
GREASING ARM ON A 966 END LOADER. HE WAS ON TOP OF THE WHEEL & FELL OFF ONTO THE GROUND. HIS BACK & LEGS ARE SORE FROM THE FALL.
AFTER WORK STEPPED ON ROCK GOING TO HIS TRUCK AND BROKE HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A TRAILER AT THE MAGAZINE HE WAS LIFTING 60LB BOXES OF POURVEX GEL TYPE EXPLOSIRE WHEN HE BEGAN TO NOTICE MID LOW BACK PAIN UPON EXERTION
INJURED WAS WALKING FROM THE DINNER HOLE TO THE SUPPLY TRACK WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER A ROOF BOLT INJURING HIS LEFT LEG.
INJURED WAS LIFTING A ROCK ONTO LINE #1 CONVEYOR BELT WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
MOVING DRILL RIG-CAUGHT RIGHT HAND BETWEEN DRILL BOOM AND ROCK RIB.CONTUSION OF 2ND FINGER RIGHT HAND.CLOSED FRACTURE OF 3RD FINGER RIGHT HAND.
STOCK PILE COLLAPSED WHILE DUMPING. TRUCK SLID DOWN BACK AND TURNED OVER, DRIVER OWN BANK AND TUARNED OVER, DRIVER INSIDE TILL TARUCK STOPPED IN UPSIDE DOWN POSITION AT BOTTOM. (HEAD INJURY N ECESSITATED 10 STITCHES IN BACK OF HEAD, BACK INJURED.) DRIVER CLIMBED OUT OF WINDSHIELD.
SLIPPED OFF A FRONT END LOADER WHILE GREASING A BEARING & TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD PRYED 5761 SHOVEL BUCKET DUMP BAR UP AND PUT A ROCK UNDER IT TO HOLD IT WHILE THEY INSTALLED NEW DUMP ROPE. WHEN THE JOB WAS COMPLETED HE PRYED THE DUMP BAR BACK UP UP TO REMOVED THE ROCK. WHEN HE REACHED AND RABBED THE ROCK THE PRY BAR SLIPPED ALLOWING THE DUMP BAR TO DROP DOWN AND CATCH MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE DUMP BAR AND THE ROCK.
STARTING UP CRUSHER ,PULLED BACK OUT OF PLACE.
TURNED SUDDENLY HANDLING TRUCK BATTERY
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS STANDING IN COVE SHUTE ATTEMPTING TO CUT OFF PAD EYE FROM INSIDE WHEN DOOR ON CHUTE WAS FLIPPAED RESULTING IN A FRACTURE TO LOWER LEFT LEG.
FOREMAN ROBERT RICHEY CLAIMS TWO MINERS WERE BRINGING EMPTY MUCK CARS INTO PANEL 23A I WARNED ALBERT RAYMOND PACHECO 1349 AND DAAVID JOGGERST TO GET OUT OF WAY OF MUCK CARS I WENT TO 10 CUT O UT ALBERT WENT TO 10W RAY TO 10E AND DAVID TO CONCRETE BY 10E ALBERT CROSSED OVER TO WHERE DAVID WAS BY CONCRETE KE KEPT SIGNALLING FOR MOTOR TO CONTINUE WHEN HE GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN 1ST MUCK AN
BELT LINE HAD A KINK IN IT. EMPLOYEE TRIED TO REMOVE IT BY JERKING IT.
SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON BOLTER CONTROL LEVERS AND MASHED LEFT HAND AGAINST MINE ROOF CAUSING A LACERATION IN PALM OF LEFT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A SUPPLY CAR WHEN HE SLIPPED STRIKING HIS SHINS ON THE SUPPLY CAR HE DIDI NOT MISS ANY WORK UNTIL 6-8-83
REMOVING ROOF SUPPORT JACK WHEN ROCK FELL STRIKING EMPL ON RIGHT LEG.
LIFTING MINE TIMBER -FELT BURNING PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK.SUSTAINED PULLED MUSCLE AND SLIGHT DISC DISLOCATION.
EMP WAS GETTING INTO MANTRIP CAR AT END OF TRACK OF THE TURKEY HEADING SECTION 0030 AS EMP KNELT TO GET INTO MANTRIP LEFT KNEE POPPED AND BEGAN TO SWELL
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING IN ROADWAY AND BLOCK WAS TAKEN UP ON ROOF BOLTER AND CABLE CAUGHT HIM BEHJIND RIGHT LEG FRACTURED ANKLE
EMP WAS MOVING FEEDER ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON THE NECK AND SHOULDER KNOCKING HIM DOWN
EMP WAS PUTTING BLADE BACK ON DOZER WHEN HE STARTED TO PUT THE PIN BACK IN THE HOIST JACK IT FELL AND HE CAUGHT IT IN DOING SO IT PUSHED AGAINST HIS RIBS FRACTURING THE NO 11 RIB ON LEFT SID
CONVEYOR CHAIN IN #2 PAN LINE BROKE AND CAUGHT #1 PAN LINE AND PULLED PAN LINE OVER AND FELL ON EMPL LEG AND FRACTURED UPPER BONE IN RIGHT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING OVER BETWEEN CARS TO COUPLE THEM 20 TON MOTOR HAD BAD BRAKES (PER WITNESS) CAUSING MOTOR TO PUSH CARS TOGETHER PINNING EMPLOYEE IN BETWEEN 2 CARS
VICTIM WAS REPLACING FUEL HOSE TURNED HEAD TOO FAR AGGREVATING OLD INJURY CAUSING PARTIAL PARALYSIS
THE INJURED MAN WAS TRYING TO CLOSE THE UPPER GATE OF #5 CLINKER HOPPER WHEN A STEEL PLATE 41"X68"X1/2" WHICH WAS LEANING AGAINST THE WALL APPROX 5\ BEHIND THE GATE-FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT LEG.
MAN WAS CLIMBING DOWN FIXED LADDER ON BACK OF DUST HAULING TRAILER. THE WELD ON ONE SIDE OF A RUNG WAS BROKEN. WHEN HE STEPPED ON IT, HE LOST HIS BALANCE & FELL A COUPLE OF FEET LANDING ON HI S FLASHLIGHT.
EMP JUMPED OFF CONVEYOR BELT TWISTED LEFT ANKLE INJ SUSTAINED SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE
EMPLOYEE TOOK UPON HIMSELF TO PUT PEPPER IN RADIATOR OF A TRUCK. STANDING ON BUMPER SLIPPED STRUCK RIGHT KNEE ON BUMPER. SPRAINED MEDIAR COLATERDE LEGIMENT WITH POSSIBLE REARRAMGMENT OF KNEE T HIS SEEM TO HAVE AGGEREATED AN OLD ARMS INJURY THIS MAN WAS NOT INSTRUCTED TO PUT ANYTHING IN TRUCK RADIATOR.
PULLING SLATE OFF TAIL PIECE AND HURT HIS HAND. THIS MAN HURT ON HAND ON 5/26/83 BUTG DID NOT FIND OUT IT WAS BROKEN UNTIL 6/24/833 AND THIS WAS NOT UNTIL HE HURT HIS HAND AGAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN MANTRIP CAR PORTA BUS BUS STARTED SLIDING WHEN BRAKESWERE APPLIED AND BUS STRUCK SUPPLY CAR INJURED HIT HEAD ON OBJECT IN BUS NOTE BUS WAS CHECKED AFTERWARDS AND NO DEF ECTS FOUND
WHILE DRILLING ROOF BOLT HOLE THE DRILL STEEL BROKE EMPLOYEE PLACED HIS HAND ON DRILL HEAD THE STEEL FELL OUT OF HOLE AND HIT HIS RIGHT RING FINGER AND BRUISED HIS FINGER
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN DINNER AREA EATING DINNER WHEN PIECE OF ROCK 2 1/2FTX2FTX4-5IN FELL FROM RIB TO FIRST ROW OF BOLTS STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT KNEE FRACTURING LEFT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS CROSSING GRIZZLY WHILE CARRYING A PIECE OF 5 FT. 5X8" TIMBER. EMPLOYEE LOST HIS FOOTING, BELL AGAINST SIDE OF GRIZZLY HITTING HIS LEFT KNEE AND RIB CAGE. EMPLOYEE TAKEN OFF NOF OF JOB ON 06-27-83 AND IS SCHEDULED FRO KNEE SURGERY ON 07-11-83.
3 MINERS WERE FLIPPING A TRANSFORMER ON ITS SIDE. AS IT FELL SPOERL LOST HIS BALANCE & FELL FORWWARD, STRIKING KNEE ON ANGLE IRON BRACE. LOST TIME DUE TO SURGEONS INCIISION TO CHECK KNEE FOR D AMAGE.
EMP WAS BACKING MINER UP AND PUSHING ON CABLE WITH HIS FOOT THE MINER STUCK IN TRAM AND CAME OVER ON H IS FOOT THIS WAS IN #4 HEADING ON #2 SECTION
THROWING BUNDLE OF ROOF BOLTS & GOT THUMB CAUGHT IN IT, TWISTING WRIST RIGHT ARM.
THE ROOF BOLT WRENCH FLEW OUT OF CHUCK AND HIT HIM ON FOREHEAD.
WHILE INJ WAS OPERATING CONT MINER HE SAW A GATHERING ARM PICK GOING UP THE CM CONVEYOR WITH THE COAL INTO THE SHUTTLE CAR HE STOPPED THE CONT MINER AND WENT TO THE SHUTTLECAR TO RECOVER THE GATHERING ARM PICK WHEN HE WAS PULLING THE PICK OUT OF THE COAL IT SLIPPED FROM HIS HANDS AND FELL STRIKING HIM ON LEFT FOOT
WENT TO PICK UP MINE POST TO SET TOOK A CATCH IN HIS BACK CAME BACK TO WORK NEXT DAY WAS CLEANING BELT HEAD & BACK GOT WORSE TOOK HIM TO DOCTOR PUT IN HOSPITAL.
EMP WAS PULLING FEEDER CABLE DOWN BELTLINE BY HAND WHEN THE LOOP HE WAS DRAGGING CAUGHT ON FLOOR PIN DISLOCATING HIS LEFT SHOULDER
MAN STATES WAS LOADING TIMBERS CAUGHT MY FINGER BETWEN TWO OF THEM SMASHING IT
VICTIM WAS ASSISTING 2 WELDERS WHO WERE WELDING ON THE BUCKET OF A FRONT END LOADER.A PIECE OF HOT SLAG FROM THE WELDING JOB-CUTTING TORCH-FELL ON THE OXYGEN HOSE & BURNED A HOLE IN IT. THE VICTIM SAW WHAT HAD OCCURRED & TRIED TO SQUEEZE THE OXYGEN HOSEE TOGETHER. THE HOSE SUDDENLY IGNITED & RESULTED IN THE VICTIM SUFFERING 2ND & 3RD DEGREE BURNS OF THE PALM OF HIS RIGHT HAND. V
EMP WAS OPERATING 20 TON MOTOR ON HAULAGE THE TROLLEY POLE JUMPED OFF TROLLEY WIRE AND HE REACHED TO PULL IT BACK ON THE EXERTION DISLOCATED LEFT SHOULDER CAUSING EMP TO LOSE TIME OFF WORK
WALKING BELT LINE,TRIPPED ON W ATER LINE TWISTING HIS BACK.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS ROOFBOLTING IN THE TAIL GATE OF LW102. AT THE TIME STATED A SURGE IN THE AGGRAGATE LINE TO THE TAILAGATE PACKWALLS DISLODGED A SECTION OF THE HEAVY STEEL PIPE WHERE IT WAS NOT PROPERLY FASTENED. THE EMPLOYEE WAS WORNED OF THE PIPE FALLING ON TOPA OF HIM AND JUMPED CLEAR. HIS FOOT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO TIMBERS SO HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING SET TIMBERRS IN PILLAR SPLIT HAD SET TIMBER TURNED T@O GET ANOTHER TIMBERR WHEN PC OF ROCK MEASURING 4FTX4FTX4IN FELL FROM BETWEEN TWO BOLTS KNOCKING HIM DOWN FACE FIRS T HIS HEAD STRIKING MINER BIT ON RIPPER HEAD LACERATING RT EYEBROW REQUIRING 24 STITCHES LACERATING CORNER OF RT EYE REQUIRING 7 STITCHES X-RAYS REVEALED HAIRLINE FXS OF RT SHOULDER AND OF 6T
EMPLOYEE WAS GOUGING PLATE OF 10SC SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HOT SLAG GOT IN BOOT BURNING LEG
INSTALLING RESIN TYPE ROOF BOLTS AND HAD DRILLED HOE AND INSERTED GLUE-PUSHING BOLT INTO HOLE WITH BOLT MACHINE HEAD.CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN ROOF BOLT PLATE AND MINE ROOF CAUSING FRACTURE OF LITTL FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING SHUTTALE CAR DRAG OFF OF SHUTTLE CAR BUMPER WHEN HE DROPPED THE DRAG ON HIS RIGHT KNEE, REQUIRING ASPIRATION. TRAUMATIC EFFUSION, RIGHT KNEE
WHILE HE WAS UP ON CRIBBING JOB, HELPING CRIB A PIECE OF AROCK FELL FROM ROOF HITTING HIM ON THE BACK KNOCKING HIM OFF OF CRIB JOB.
HE WAS TAKING TIMBERS OFF OF THE BELT AND HIT BELT WITH HIS RIGHT HAND INJURING HIS FINGER.
EMP WAS HOISTING STOPER DRILL IN A TRANSFER RAISE WHEN SMALL ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM IN THE EYE THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A SUPERFICIAL ABRASION AND CONJUNCTIVITIS RT EYE CAUSING EMP TO LOSE T TIME OFF WORK
GETTING INTO LAODER MAN DID SOMETHING TO LOWER BACK.
AT SHIFT CHANGE EE STOODE UP TO EXIT FROM CAB & STRAINED LOWER BACK.
EE WAS DRILLING WHEN ROCK FELL FROM FACE STRIKING & LACERTING RIGHT ARM.
WHEN INJURED AND HIS BUDDY WERE LOADING 3"X8"X16\ PLANK FROM SUPPLY CAR ONTO SHUTTLE CAR, HIS BUDDY LIFTED ONE END OF PLANK CAUSING OTHER END TO MOVE AND CATCH INJURED\S BETWEEN PLANK AND PIEC E OF METAL ON BED OF SUPPLY CAR.
UNLOADING TRACK RAILS AND FELT PAIN IN RIGHT LEG AND LOWER BACK.
PROPANE FIRE CAUSED BY BURNING PAINT BRUSH BURNING HAND & FACE WITH 1ST & 2ND DEGREE BURNS.
HIT BUMP IN HAUL ROAD CAUSING HIM TO PULL MUSCLE IN BACK
EE WAS WELDING ON A LADDER. THE LADDER TIPPED OVER & HIT HIM ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD.
WHILE DESCENDING LADDER TO CRUSHER PIT SLIPPED AND FELL LANDING ON LEFT FOOT
ROLLING RAIL HOPPERS DOWN THE TRACK AND ONE HOPPER RAN INTO THE OTHER WHICH RESULTED IN JARRING MR SIZEMORE HE HIT HIS SHOULDER AND ARM AGAINST CAR
EMP WAS ATTEMPTING TO STRAIGHTEN A BELT THAT HAD BECOME TWISTED ON CRUSHER BELT TWISTED AND EMPLOYEES LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BELT AND A PULLEY LIFT INDEX FINGER WAS LACERATE AND BROKEN
BREAKING CEMENT AND JACKHAMMER SLIPPED FROM HANDS AND CAME DOWN ON RIGHT FOOT,SLIDING UNDER STEEL TOE IN BOOT.
WALKED INTO J HOOK,HANGING FROM ROOF.
SHOVELING AND STEPPED BACK WHEN RIGHT FOOT WENT INTO HOLE TWISTING HIS BACK.
UNPLUGGING FEEDER.WHILE PRYING CHUNK OF DIRT WITH BAR,BAR SLIPPED CAUSING SUDDEN MOVEMENT -PAIN IN NECK.
WHILE WALKING DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS EMP SLIPPED AND FELL APPROX 20\ DOWN THE STAIRS HE BRUISED MUSCLES AND TORE LIGAMENTS IN HIS LOWER BACK
EMP WAS PRYING ON PULLEY TRYING TO REMOVE FROM JACK SHAFT WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE FALLING DOWN ON HIS ANKLE
WHILE CARRYING A CONCRETE BLOCK FOR A STOPPING THE INJURED STEPPED INTO A HOLE IN THE PAVEMENT CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS LOWER BACK
EE WAS TRYING TO LIFT 2 JUGS OF DISTILLED WATER INTO A TRUCK& REINJURED HER BACK WHICH WAS INJURED ON 4-5-83. PREVIOUS ACCIDENT DID NOT INVOLVE LOST TIME.
EE LIFTED A SAMPLE BAG OF MATERIAL FOR TESTING WHEN HE STRAINED HIS UPPER BACK.
INJURED WAS STNAING BEHIND J. ALEXANDER WHO WA GETTING SUPPLIES OUT OF THE STORAGE BIN. ALEXANDER STOOD UP ON A GRIZZLY BAR TO LOOK INTO THE TOP OF THE BIN. HE LEANED FORWARD & THE BAR SLIPP ED OVER ON INJURED\S FOOT.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON EUCLID REAR DUMP WHILE CHANGING OIL AND BROKE 8 RIBS
EMP STATES THAT HE WAS HELPING HANDLE A METAL HOPPER THAT WAS TO BE INSTALLED ON A CONVEYOR HOPPER WAS BEING HANDLED BY SUSPENDING IT WITH A CHAIN HOIST ANCHORED TO A 4X4 WOOD BLOCK LYING ACR ACROSS 2 BEAMS BY A CABLE SLING WHILE INJ WAS TRYING TO MANUEVER HOPPER IN PLACE TEH BLOCK CAME LOOSE AND LOAD HOIST MAND AND WOOD BLOCK FELL TO THE FLOOR WITH WOOD BLOCK STRIKING MAN IN BACK
SUSTAINED A WELDING ARC FLASH WHILE INSPECTING MACHINERY OIL LEVELS.
WORKING ON WELD TRUCK - WASXING AND CLEANING IT UP - GOT FOREIGN OBJECT IN LEFT EYE DIRT OR SAND
DRIVING R-30 EUCLID,UNIT 10,HAULING SHOT ROCK FROM QUARRY TO CRUSHING PLANT.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON GRATING AT THE PLANT CRUSHER AS EMPLOYEE SHIFTED HIS WEIGHT THE DECK PLATE SLIPPED OFF CAUSING GRATING TO TURN AND EMPLOYEES LEG WENT THROUGH HOLE LOST TIME INJURY RES ULTED
INJURED AND TWO FELLOW EMPLOYEES HAD FREED A STUCK ROTARY VALVE ONE EMPLOYEE PROCEEDED TO OIL DRIVE CHAIN AS INJURED CONTINUED TO CHECK VALVE INJURED INSERTED HIS RT HAND INTO VALVE TO FEEL F OR DAMAGE AT THIS TIME EMPLOYEE OILING CHAIN JOGGED SYSTEM CATCHING INJUREDS HAND BETWEEN VALVE BLADES AND HOUSING INJURED RECEIVED LACEDRATIONS TO 2ND 3RD,4TH AND 5TH FINGERS WITH TENDON DA
EMP WAS PREPARING TO CHANGE TRIP ROPE ON SHOVEL #6 EMP WAS CLIMBING OFF BUCKET USING HEEL PLATES ON BACK OF BUCKET HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND GRABBVED THE BUCKET TO KEEP FROM FALLING PULLING HI HIS SHOULDER OUT
KEENER WAS RIDING ON BACK OF FLAT BED TRUCK WHILE PATCHING POT HOLES WHEN HE LOST HIS GRIP AND FELL OFF TRUCK TRUCK WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY FROM POTHOLE TO POTHOLE AT THE TIME
EE STATES HE WAS DISMOUNTING MOTOR GRADER WHEN HIS LEGS CONTACTED BLADE OF MACHINE, CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON HIS BACK & LEFT ARM.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON HEATER HOSE IN CAB. HOSE BROKE AND HOT WATER BURNT LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING IRON PINS INTO THE GROUND WITH AN EIGHT POUND HAMMER WHEN HE MISSED THE PIN AND HIT THE TOP OF HIS LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS LOADING HOLES AT 047 DRILL ON FLEM MOORE AND STATED AS HE WAS LOWERING CORD W PRIMER INTO HOLE THE ROLL SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT FOOT JUST BEHIND HIS STEEL TOE
VICTIM WAS ON T HE SURFACE AT THE SUPPLY YARD LOADING TIMBERS FROM PILE INTO THE BUCKET OF A SCOOP. VICTIM PICKED UP A TIMBER & AS HE TURNED TO PLACE IT IN T HE SCOOP BUCKET HE SLIPPED ON MUD & FELL TO THE GROUND. AS VICTIM STRUCK GROUND HIS RIGHT HAND WASS CAUGHT BETWQEEN THE TIMBER & THE GROUND. HE SUFFERED A CONTUSION OF THE TOP OF THE RIGHT HAND. SWELLING WAS EVIDENT BUT X-R
R JACKSON SUSTAINED A SEVERE STRAIN TO THE LUMBAR AREA OF HIS BACK WHILE CARRYING A PROP WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE RONALD TRIPPED OVER A PIECE OF COAL AND STRAINED HIS BACK THE EMPLOYEE HAS RECEIV D NUMEROUS WHIRLPOOL TREATMENTS MASSAGES AND HOT TEN TREATMENTS
WHEN LIFTING BELT SEAUANCE ROLLER AND KICKING CEMENT BLOCK UNDERNEATH END OF ROLLER, PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.
RE-RAILING JEEP-JACK SLIPPED CAUSING JEEP TO FALL ON RIGHT LEG.INJURY TO LOWER PART OF LEG.
SLIPPED GOING DOWN STEPS FROM BIRD SIDE TO BOTTOM FLOOR,HITTING STEPS WOTH HIP AND KNEE.
WORKING ON PACKER SOMEONE TURNED SWITCH ON SPINNING BLADES IN PACKER CAUGHT FINGER
EMPLOYEE WASSHOVELING THE BELT THE BELT WAS HIGH IN THIS AREA AND AS THE EMPLOYEE LIFTED A SHOVEL FULL OF MUD ONTO THE BELT THE SHOVEL CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TOP ROLLER AND BELT PULLING HIS ARM
MOVING ROOF BOLTER AND TRIED TO PULL MINER CABLE OUT OF THE WAY AND THEN FELT SOMETHING POP WITH IT RADIATING DOWN HIS LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING ROOF AND INSTALLING STRAPS. HE HAD ONE BOLT IN END OF STRAP, HE REPORTED HE TOOK BOLTER CANOPY AND WAS PUSHING STRAP OVER TO 4\ CENTER, AS HE DID THIS HESAID HE CAUGHT FIN GER ON STRAP OR BETWEEN STRAP & CANOPY AND CUT HIS LEFT RING FINGER. HE SAID HE WAS BOLTING UNEVEN ROOF. HE REPORTED LACERATION AND SAID HE HAD 9 SUTURES IN LT. RING FINGER.
INJURED WAS WALKING DOWN THE PANLINE ON THE LW WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON A RAM JACK. BEGAN LOSING TIME ON 6-1-83.
INJURED WAS CLEANING ON OFFSIDE OF IRENE BELT AND HEARD RIB BUMP. JUMPED BACK & FELL ONTO BELT; RODE BELT SHORT WAY BEFORE WAS ABLE TO ROLL OFF.
WHEN ROOF BOLTING AND REMOVING DRILL STEEL WITH TABLE ROTOLING, GLOVE CAUGHT CAUSING PERSON TO BE THROWN AGAINST BOLTER FRAME. CHIPPING BONE IS RIGHT WRIST.
EMP WAS OPERATING SHUTTLECAR WITH HIS HAND ON EDGE OF DECK WHEN SHUTTLECAR GTO TOO CLOSE TO COAL RIB CATCHING FINGERS BETWEEN DECK AND RIB
THE MAN WAS STEPPING OUT OF THE MANTRIP WHEN HE TRIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIS SHOULDER ON A BELT ANCHOR THAT WAS LYING ALONG THE RIB
CRAWLING FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER SLIPPED AND HIT KNEE AGAINST BOTTOM-CONTINUED TO WORK REST OF SHIFT.
EE WAS PULLING ROCK WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL & STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FACE. HE REQUIRED 3 STITCHES.
WHILE STRIPPING INSULATION OFF A CABLE THE EMPLOYEE CAUSED A SMALL LACERATION TO HIS THUMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING CLUTCH ON WATER TRUCK WHEEL OF TRUCK WAS BLOCKED WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON IT TRUCK ROLLED OVER BLOCK WHEN IT WAS STARTED EMPLOYEE JUMPED FROM WATER TRUCK WHEN IT S TARTED TO ROLL BACKWARDS DUE TO THE FACT IT WAS NOT SECURELY BLOCKED BEFORE BEING WORKED ON
HE WAS CLEANING THE WALKWAY. MOVED A LARGE ROCK & HURT HIS BACK.
WALKING TOWARD ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE STEPPED IN HOLE AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
WHILE RIDING OUT OF THE MINE ON A TRACK JEEP, THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK ON THE LEFT KNEE BY A PIECE OF SCALE ROCK THAT FELL FROMA THE MINE ROOF.
LIFTING JACK PIPE WHILE MAKING CONVEYOR BELT MOVE.RESULTED IN ACUTE LUMBAR BACK STRAIN.
EMPL FELL OFF ELECTRA HAUL FUEL TANK AND HIT PIECE ON SIDE.
INJURED WALKED THROUGH CROSSCUT AND HE STRUCK HIS BACK ON A METAL BOARD, FIRST DAY OFF 6-14-83 AND RETURNED 7-11-83
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ON ROOF BOLTER POT FELL OUT OF THE ROOF CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE BOTTOM OTWISTING HIS KNEE
STRUCK BY DISLODGED TIMBER.
VICITM WAS SITTING IN OPERATOR COMPARTMENT OF C/M. WHILE VICITM WAS OPERATING THE C/M A PIECE OF DRAW SLATE FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING THE CANOPY & THE VICTIM\S RIGHT ARM & LEG. THE DRAW SL ATE WAS APPROX 18"X12"X1" THICK. VICTIM SUFFERED CONTUSIONS OF THE RIGHT ARM & LEG. X-RAYS INDICATED THAT NO BONES WERE BROKEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS ON WORK DECK IN SHAFT FOR GUIDING MUCK BUCKET WHEN BUCKET CAME DOWN HE WAS GUIDING IT AND THE BUCKET CAME OFF GUIDE CHANNEL AND EAR PIN OF BUCKET HIT EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT AND HURT LEFT FOOT
STRUCK BY PIECE OF ROCK WHILE ROOF BOLTING.
ROCKDUST HOSE EMP WAS USING CAME UNCOUPLED DISCHARGING ROCKDUST INTO EMPLOYEES EYES INJ SUSTAINED CORNEAL ABRASION, CHEMICAL KERATITIS BOTH EYES
TOOK CHAIN LOOSE SO CONVEYOR COULD BE PICKED UP WITH ANOTHER LOADER.CONVEYOR SLID OFF LOADER AND CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN CONVEYOR AND GROUND.
MAN STATES I WAS TAKING TRIPS UP TO TOP WHEN I TRIPPED OVER A HEADER AND FELL TO THE GROUND
INJ AND FELLOW WORKERS HAD A MINE RAIL LAYING ON TWO WOOD TIMBERS INJ WAS IN PROCESS OF TRYING TO SLIDE THE RAIL OVER ON ONE TIMBER WHEN THE TIMBER MOVED AND INJUREDS FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MINE RAIL AND A WOOD CROSS TIE
MAN WAS HELPING PLACE A SWING SHAFT AND A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON FELL STRIKING THE LEFT SIDE
EMPLOYEE SAID HIS BACK HURT HIM WHEN HE PULLED SHIELDS
AS THE INJURED WAS GETTING OFF HIS DOZER HE STEPPED ON A ROCK TWISTING HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
INJURED WAS STEPPING DOWN FORM A 1\ HIGH STURDY WOODEN BOX. SHE REACHED BACK TO STEADY HER HAND ON THE BACK OF AN OFFICE CHAIR. THE CHAIR MOVED AWAY CAUSING HER TO LOSE HER BALANCE & SHE FELL TO THE FLOOR WHEN HER ANKLE TURNED. SHE HAD FINISHED WASHING A WALL ABOVE A BOOKCASE & FILE CABINETS. DIAGNOSIS WAS A SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE. ICE PACKS WERE INITIALLY APPLIED.
THE CABLE BLOWED UP AND HE JUMPED OFF S CAR AND IT HAD POWER ON FRAME AND IT KNOCKED HIM DOWN
TRAVELING IN JEEP TO SECTION WHEN MANTRIP RAN INTO BACK OF JEEP.RAILS WERE SLICK AND MANTRIP COULDNT STOP WHEN DRIVER SAW THAT HJEEP WAS STOPPED.JEEP HAD TO STOP TO PICK UP DRINKING WATER TO TAKE ON TO SECTION.
STARTED DRILLING TOP IN #2 ENTRY WHEN PIECE OF ROCK BROKE LOOSE AND FELL DOWN CATCHING HAND ON DRILL POT.CAUSING SEVERE BRUISE ON TOP OF LEFT HAND AND CUTTING SKIN.
PREPARING TO LOAD BULK CEMENT TANK ON LOWBOY,STANDING ON TOP STEP OF LADDER PLACING CHAIN BINDER IN TANK ,STEPPED ONTO SIDE OF TANK AND LOST BALANCE-FALL TO GROUND 12\.LAND ON LEFT SIDE OF BI /BODY.
WHILE GOING TO RELOAD INJ SWUNG TOO WIDE ON CURVE WITH 14 TON EUCLID AND LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND HIT THE WALL TOTALY DAMAGING VEHICLE AND SHATTERING RT KNEECAP ON INJURED
ONE OF THE CONVEYOR ON THE WASHING PLANT STOPPED. THE PROBLEM WAS SWITCH AFTER MAKING REPAIRS HIS THROW THE SWITCH TO START THE CONVEYOR AND FELT SOMETHING HIT HIS EYE HE THOUGH IT WAS SAND A WOOLD WASH OUT. LATER THAT NIGHT IT STARTED TO BOTHER HIM AND HE WENT TO THE E.R. AND FOUND OUT IT WAS METALIC.
ON TUES. MAY 24,1983 EE WAS PULLING ON DRILL BAR TO CHANGE BIT ON IT WHEN BAR SLIPPED & FELL ON HIS RIGHT HAND.
TIGHTING BOLTS ON CRUSHER
EMPLOYEE WAS FEEDING CRUSHER WHEN A WIRE BROKE IN FEEDER BUTTON AND WAS SHOCKED.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING INTO A HOPPER TO TIGHTENBOLTS HE LOST HIS FOOTING ON LOOSE MATERIAL AND INJURED HIS LEFT KNEE WRENCH
EMP WAS PICKING UP SCRAP AT PELLET STOCKPILE AND BENT OVER TO PICK UP A TIE ROD AND FELT SHARP APAIN IN HIS BACK
INJURED WAS WALKING TO PELLET PLANT #21 BELT WHEN HE SLIPPED ON PELLETS TWISTING HIS LEFT ANKLE.
STEPPED OFF CAR & LEG GAVE WAY.
EMP WAS CLEANING BEHIND BALL MILLS WHILE SHOVELING EMP FELT PAIN IN HER BACK
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE WORKING ON KNEES IN ELUTRAIATOR TANK HE FELT PAIN AND STIFFNESS IN RIGHT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS TEARING DOWN ON BLDG WHEN A CLOWBAR SLIPPED HITTING HIM IN HEAD.
A SUSPENDED LOAD WAS BALANCED VICTIM RECEIVED PRESSXURE FROM PART OF THE LOAD ON HIS LEFT GREAT TOE AND SECOND TOE RESULTING IN EXTGREME WEIGHT OVER STEEL TOE
EE STATED THAT HE WAS IN T HE PROCESS OF WORKING ON A MANTRIP, WHEN THE CONTACTS STUCK IN REVERSE GEAR. THIS CAUSED THE MANTRIP TO KNOCK THE EE DOWN & RUN OVER HIS RIGHT KNEE WITH THE MANTRI P.
EE STATED THAT HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING ON A GOLF CART BEHIND A MANTRIP WHEN THE CONTACTS IN THE MANTRIP STUCK CAUSING THE MANTRIP TO STICK IN REVERSE GEAR & STRIKE THE GOLF CART, PINNING EE IN THE SEAT OF THE CART.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN BELT HDG 2 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF TOP COAL AND SLATE FELL ON EMPLOYEE STRIKING HIM ON SHOULDER AND BACK PIECE WAS APPROX 65INX36INX6IN
INJURED DROPPED THE IMPACT ON HIS FING ER.
TIMBERING,PIECE OF COAL FELL HITTING HIM.
TRAVELING FROM OUTSIDE TO SECTION.MANTRIP FORCED EMPL AGAINST ROOF OF MINE WHILE TRAVELING UNDER LOW CORNER.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A CONTINUOUS MINER. WHILE TAKING A CUT OUT OF NO.1 ENTRY, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP. THE ROCK STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BACK.
BENT OVER AT WAIST TO PICK UP A TOOLBOX & COME ALONG & HE FELT HIS BACK TWIST WITH SUDDEN PAIN RESULTING.
INJURED WAS WALKING AROUND TRUCK AFTER COMPLETING SAFETY CHECKS WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS RIGHT LEG.
HE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE TRACTOR & STEPPED ON 1/2 HEADER TWISTING HIS ANKLE.
SLAB FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS STRIKING EMPL ON LEFT HAND WHILE CLEANING DUST BOX ON ROOF BOLTER.
WALKING FROM SCOOP CHARGER TO BELT HEADING AND STRUCK HEAD AGAINST TROLLEY WIRE HANGER.
EMPLOYEE STARTING A LOADER AND JUMPED OFF LOADER.
EMP WAS REMOVING CHECK VALVE FROM A 4 INCH PLASTIC WATER LINE THE PIPE SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HANDS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE NOSE
INJURED WAS WALKING TO THE DINNER HOLE AND TAKING TO A FELLOW EMPLOYEE WHEN HE BUMPED HIS HEAD ON A 1-HOLE BOARD.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ON A CM WHEN A PART OF A RIB FELL HITTING HIS SHOULDER AND ARM
INJ WAS WORKING ON DIAMOND BAR ON 16 SC REEL SHIELD FELL ON LEFT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING BELTS ON CRUSHER TRYING TO STRAIGHTEN THEM OUT. HIS RIGHT HAND SLIPPED AND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BELTS AND THE PULLY ON THE CRUSHER, CUTTING HIS HAND IN SEVERAL PLACES.
PUTTING UP ROOF BOLTS WHEN RIB ROLLED AND PUSHED HIM INTO BOLT MACHINE,FELL AND ROCK AND COAL FELL ON HIM.
PULLING 3 BAGS OF ROCK DUST ON SHOVEL WHILE CRAWLING.SHOVEL BECAME STUCK ON PILE OF CAP BOARDS.PULLED VERY HARD TO MOVE SHOVEL AND RIGHT KNEE TWISTED.
WHILE DISMOUNTING FROM SCRAPER BOTTOM CHAIN STEP SWUNG UNDER AND EMPLOYEE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ON SLEDGE HAMMER WITH HANDLE UP RT POSITION CAUSING INJURY TO HIS TAIL BONE
VICTIM WAS WALKING AROUND BOLTER WHENHE SLIPPED ON WET TRAM-WAY TWISTED RIGHT KNEE
THE MAN STEPPED OUT OF HIS PORTAL BUS & HIS KNEE GAVE WAY.
EMPLOYEE WAS ROOF BOLTING WITH PEN WEST BOLTS, THE DRILL STEELS HE WAS USING CAME A PART AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON LEFT WRIST.
MAN SPRAINED HIS ANKLE WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER WATER HOSE WHILE MOVING THE MINER CABLE.
EE WAS STANDING IN MUD AREA-WHEN HE STARTED TO MOVE A SHARP PAIN WAS IN THE UPPER HIP-MUSCLE STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING CABLE OFF OF ROOF BOLTER REEL WHEN HE FELL BACKWARD AND TRYING TO BREAK HIS FALL FRACTURED HIS RT WRIST
CONTRACT TRUCKER WAS BRING A LOAD COAL TRUCK DOWN THE HAUL ROAD FROM KELLEY COAL CO. WHEN HE MISSED A GEAR AND LOST CONTROL OF HIS TRUCK. HE THEN JUMPED OUT OF THE TRUCK AND LANDED IN THE HAUL ROAD. THE TRUCK WENT DOWN THE ROAD AND RAN INTO THE HILL.
THE MAN STATED HE WAS HELPING UNLOAD RAIL BARS FROM A FLAT CAR ONTO A SCOOP HE GOT THE MIDDLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN A RAIL BAR AND THE SCOOP
EMPLOYEE APPARENTLY HURT LOWER BACK WHILE STACKING BAGS OF KAOLIN
EMPLOYEE WAS STRINGING UP OLD ROOF BOLTER BITS WHEN A ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON HIS RIGHT ARM, BRUISING HIS ARM
INJURED STATED THAT WHEN HE DROPPED THE BLADE OF THE SCOOP HE WAS OPERATING HE FELT PAIN IN HIS NECK
EMP WAS WELDING ON DRAGLINE BUCKET AND THE DUMP SHEAVE WAS LAYING ON TOP OF THE BUCKET WHILE HE WAS WELDING THE DUMP SHEAVE FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON H IS BACK
WALKING TO SECTION STEPPED ON CHUNK OF COAL TWIESTED ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTRUCTED BY HIS SUPERVISOR TO SPREAD SAND OVER A FLOCK SPILL AND ASSIST THE SHIFT MECHANIC IN REPAIRING THE PIPELINE LEAK THAT CAUSED THE SPILL. THE EMPLOYEE WALKED INTO THE SPI LL AREA PRIOR TO SPREADING THE SAND HE HAD JUST PURCHASED, THIS RESULTED IN A SLIP AND FALL INJURYING HIS LOWER BACK, BRUISING TISSUES SURROUNDING THE COCCYX AND CAUSING BLEEDING FROM THE REC
MAN TRIPPED ON CEMENT BLOCK WHILE WALKING TO WORKING PLACE SPRAINED LEFT KNEE
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS HAND MUCKING SHOVELING MUCK FROM DITCH TO MUCK CAR HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN LOW BACK STRAIN CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO LOSE TIME OFF WORK
STEPPED ON 4X4 AND IT ROLLED UNDERFOOT CAUSING ME TO FALL STRIKING FRONT OF LEFT KNEE AND I NSIDE OF RT KNEE LEFT KNEE HAD SUPERFICIAL BRUISE AND ABRASION RT KNEE BRUISED DEEPLY
THE INJURED BENT OVER AND PICKED UP A CAN OF OIL UP ON THE LONGWALL FACE AS HE PICKED THE CAN OF OIL UP HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK
EMP WAS ROOF BOLTING AND CHANGING BITS WHEN THE ROOF BOLTER TRAMMED OVER RT FOOT
INJURED WAS CARRYING BELT STRUCTURE AND STRUCK HEAD ON ROOF BOLT JAMMING NECK
MR. SIMPKINS WAS ROOF BOLTING & ONE SIDE OF ROOF BOLTING MACHINE BRAKES DID NOT WORK & CAUSED IT TO SWING AROUND & HIT MR. SIMPKINS IN T H E LEFT SIDE-RIBS.
DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR TO TAIL OF ALPINE MINER.ON DOWN GRADE,LOST POWER -UNABLE TO STOP SHUTTLE CAR.AT SAME TIME LOST STEERING AND HIT BACK OF MINER.EMPL THROWN UPWARDS AGAINST ROPS CAGE,STRIKING HEAD.
GETTING INTO TRUCK TO WATER ROADWAYS OUT SIDE DESERET MINE HIT HEAD ON TOP OF DOOR.
ATTEMPTING TO RETRIEVE OLD POWER CABLE OUT OF BREAD THROUGH WHEN STRUCK HEAD ON LOW-HANGING BROW AND JAMMED NECK.
INJURED SLIPPED ON A ROCK WHILE CLEANING OUT A DRAIN DITCH AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE THIS ACCIDENT WAS NOT DUE TO MINERS EFFICIENCY
WAS TRYING TO GET 3 WHEELER UNSTUCK AND THE BOARDS FELL HITTING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
MR TOLER WAS OPERATING A SCOOP WHEN COAL DUST BLEW INTO HIS EYES
CRANKING A SMALL GASOLINE MOTOR 3 HP MOTOR KICKED BACK CAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN LOWER BACK.
THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN ROSENKRANCE TRIPPED OVER AN AIR HOSE LAIN ON THE GROUND BY ANOTHER CONTRACTOR. HE LANDED ON A CONCRETE SLAB ON HIS HAND. HIS INJURIES INCLUDED SEVERAL ABRASIONS & A BROKEN BONE IN THE LEFT HAND. AN INITIAL LESSER INJURY HAD OCCURRED TO T HE SAME HAND THE PREVUIOUS WEEKEND.
RELATED TO OLD INJURY-BRUISED LEFT KNEE WITH INTERNAL DERANGEMENT OCCURRED IN UNIT 3 TRIPPED OVER PIECE OF ANGLE IRON UNDERGROUND.STARTED MISSING WORK ON 5-23-83. LETTER SENT.
FRONT END LOADER OPERATOR COMPLAINED OF BACK ACHE TO FOREMAN AT NOON ON 5-23-83 AND FINISHED SHIFT. DOCTOR DIAGNOSED ON 5-24-83, RESCURRENT HERNIATED DISC FROM INJURY IN SEPTEMBER 1981.
REQUESTED NARR FROM COMPANY 8-23-83.FORM INCL FOR WORK COMP- PUTTING CHAIN GUARD ON PUGMILL WITH METAL CREEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING AROUND THE FEEDERS IN ORDER TO SHUT THE DOORS IN THE #2 SILOH AND THE COAL WASHED THROUGH FEEDER PINNING HIS LEFT KNEE AND LEFT FOOT BETWEEN THE COAL AND THE CHUTE
SETTING JACK IN #2 FACE TO HANG VENT.CURTAIN -PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.
MOTORMAN WAS DELIVERING 3 CARS TO 9_14 & 13 ONE CAR OF BLOCK ON ONE END ONE CAR OF CHANNELS ON MIDDLE THEY LOST CONTROL OF LOAD JUST PAST PROD SHAFT BECAUSE OF WATER ON TRACK AT BOTTOM OF HILL CHANNELS FELL OFF AND ONE STRUCK EMP ON LEFT SIDE OF HEAD
THE INJURED WAS OPERATING THE MINER WHEN THE MINER HEAD HUNG IN FACE WITH CATS SPINNING CATS CAUGHT AND SPUN THE BACK OF MINER AROUND ON FOOT
INJURED WAS DRIVING S/C, HIT LARGE ROCK, S/C HIT RIB, CAUSING DRIVER TO HURT BACK.
EMP WAS SHOVELING ON BLET WHEN PIECE OF TOP 3X2X8 FELL GLANCING OFF EMP LEFT KNEE AND STRIKING EMP RT FOOT SPRAIN AND STRAIN KNEE AND RT FOOT
CRANKING HOIST WHEN CHAIN BROKE.BROKEN CHAIN HIT EMPL ON RIGHT KNEE,CUTTING IT AND CAUSING LAMENESS.TORN LIGAMENTS ON LEFT SIDE OF RIGHT KNEE.
CABLE ON D RILL BLOWED AND EMPLOYEE JUMPED OFF
STEPPED THROUGH OPEN SPACE IN GRID AT HOPPER.PUNCTURE WOUND TO LOWER LEFT LEG,FRONT SIDE.
PRIMING CARBURETOR WITH GASOLINE ENGINE BACKFIRED GAS IGNITED CLOTHING CAUGHT FIRE 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS ON UPPER TORSO NECK BOTH ARMS LEFT EAR AND CHIN
WORKER WAS SITTING ON TOP OF ROPS ON CAT FORKLIFT WHEN DECENDING EMP PLACED LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE GUIDE PIN AND CYLINDER CAP THE WORKERS FOOT HIT THE LIFT CONTROL THE MAST CAP MOVED UP AND MASHED HIS FINGERS
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING LOOSE COAL FROM UNDER THE BELT LINE AND STRAINED HIS BACK
LIFTING PROP OUT OF RAMCAR WHEN FELT SOMETHING GIVE IN HIS BACK -DULL PAIN BECAME MORE INTENSE AS SHIFT WORE ON.
EMP WAS CLIMBING UP LADDER ON POWDER TRUCK LADDER BROKE CAUSING EMP TO FALL AND LADDER FELL ON H IS FOOT
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE AND WITNESS WERE TRAMMING A FLAT CAR OF 6FT LAGGING INTO PANEL 23A A WELDON PUMP WAS SITUATED ON THE CORNER THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD CLEAR IT AND PROCEEDED THE LAGGING CAUGHT THE PUMP AND RAISED THE LAGGING UP THEY STOPPED AND TRIED TO BACK UP BUT THE LOCOMOTIVE WOULD NOT FUNCTION IN THAT DIRECTION CAR USED A 4X3X6 LAGGING TO HIT THE PUMP LOOSE WHEN IT BECAME FREE
MAN WAS LIFTING A BELT ROPE PUTTING IN A BELT FRAME AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPL HOLDING FACE DRILL FOR VOLLEY FIRING LW FACE.DRILL BOUND UP,ROCKED HIM OVER.TWISTED LEFT KNEE TRYING TO STAY ON FEET AND PROBABLY DAMAGED LIGAMENTS IN KNEE.REFERRED TO ORTHOPEDIST AND REL EASED TO CONTINUE WORK UNTIL 6-6-83 WHEN HE WAS ADMITTED FOR SURGERY.MAY BE OFF FOR 3 MONTHS.
INJURED WAS PUSHING FORWARDS THE EXTENDED CUTRAIN WHICH WAS HUNG FROM PIN PLATES BY J HOOKS THE HOOKS CAME OUT OF PLATES AND CURTAIN FELL TO FOOTWALL AS CURTAIN FELL INJUREDS THUMB GOT CAUGHT IN THE END OF EXTENDED CURTAIN ROD AND WAS BENT BACK AND TWISTED
WHILE BENDING OVER TO PICK UP A BIT BOX EE FELT A CATCH IN HIS BACK. HE WAS NOT LIFTING ANYTHING AT THE TIME.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING THE PADS BACK UP RIGHT ON THE TRS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS BACK.
MAN STATES WAS PUTTING CABLE BACK IN REEL ON DRILL WHEN I CAUGHT MY 183 TOE AND FELL ON SHOULDER
OPERATOR-LIFTED HEAVY OBJECT IN THE WRONG MANNER & STRRAINED BACK MUSCLES. OPERATOR HAS BEEN IN THE PAST TOLD TO WATCH THIS PROCEDURE.
MR BOGGS WAS PUTTING IN A 6FT ROOF BOLT AND WASTRYING TO STRAIGHTEN IT WHEN HIS LEFT SHOULDER POPPED AND STARTED HURTING
EE WAS STEPPING DOWN THE LADDER OF HIS TRUCK WHEN HE LOST HIS GRIP & FELL 3\ TO THE GROUND & LANDED ON HIS BACK.
PUTTING POWDER INTO MAGAZINE,STEPPED ON RIDGE IN TRAILER AND TURNED ANKLE.
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM WAS INSTALLING THE #7 ROOF BOLT IN THE FACE OF THE #3 ENTRY AS HE STARTED HIS FIRST PIN STEEL A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK 4X4X2 FELL FROM THE ROOF AND PINNED CUNNINGHAM AGAINST THE BOOM OF THE PINNER
CHANGING A SCREEN ON A RAW COAL VIBRATOR- WHILE HOLDING UP HIS END OF THE SCREEN HE MADE A MOTION TO TURN & FELT PAIN IN HIS KNEE.
PREPARING TO CHANGE BOTTOM ROLLER OF BELT. WET AND MUDDY BOTTOM -SLIPPED AND STRUCK LEFT ELBOW ON BELT STRUCTURE.
RIDING ON MOTOR AND HIT HEAD ON ROOF BOLT.
VEHICULAR ACCIDENT WITH WATER TRUCK
HELPING LIFT DA RAM ON CROSSOVER AT HEADGATE SAGE LOADER DA RAM FELL PINCHING LT. LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN RAM & TOP OF STAGE LOADER.
CLEANING OUT DISCHARGE BOX OF BALL MILL BECAUSE OF SPILL AND CYANIDE MIXING PUMP WAS LEAKING SOULTION INTO SPILL MINOR INJURY BURNS ON FEET AND LEGS FROM THE CYANIDE SOLUTION
LOADING BARREL OF CHAIN ON LOCOMOTIVE AT #1 STATION OF HAULAGE LEVEL-LIFTED IN BAD POSITION ADN TWISTED LOWER BACK.
J SAVAGE WAS 300 FT UP THE SLOPE FROM THE FACE LOOKING AT THE TAIL CONVEYOR AND HOPPER FOR POSSIBLE CLEAN UP WHEN THE HOIST ROPE SLACK WAS TAKNEOUT TO ASSIST THE ST 5 UP THE DECLINE WHEN THIS WAS DONE THE HOIST ROPE CAME OVER AND HIT JOHNS LOWER RIGHT LEG FRACTURING THE LEG
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS ROCK BOLTING ON #7 CROSSCUT ON UNDERCUT AT THE GRIZZLY. WHEN HE STRUCK BOLT IN HOLE TO DRIVE WITH MACHINE, BOLT FELL AND HIT HIM ON HIS LEFT HAND.
TRYING TO MOVE PIECE OF SLATE,GOT PAIN IN BACK.
CHANGING DRILL STEEL,LIFTING 12\LONG STEEL INTO POSITION,FOOTING GAVE WAY ON LOOSE MATERIAL AND SEVERE STRAIN PLACED ON LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS LIFTING DRYER BASKET UP AFTER DRYER SCREEN IN SO HOIST COULD BE USED. HURT HIS BACK.
WHILE SUPERVISING LAYING RAIL THE RAIL SLIPPED OFF JACK FALLING ON MANS RIGHT INSTEP BETWEEN STEEL TOE OF SHOE & ANKLE.
GRINDING KEY STOCK WHEN IT BECAME LODGED BETWEEN SIDE OF GRINDER AND TOOL REST PINCHING LEFT HAND.
DRIVER CLIMBED ONTO TRUCK-HIS FOREMAN DROVE IP & BEGAN GIVING DIRECTIONS & IN ORDER TO HEAR HE LEANED OVER EDGE PF TRUCK & FELL TOG ROUND.
OPERATING END LOADER AND STRAINED HIS BACK GETTING DOWN FROM ATHE EQUIPMENT CAB.
WHILE CHANGING TRACTION MOTOR ON MINER HE WAS LIFTING WITH A BAR AND SPRAINED HIS BACK
ON THE 7:00AM TO 3:00PM SHIFT THE INJURED WAS CHECKING EQUIPMENT & CLEANING CHOKE-UP OUT OF THE TRIPPER CHUTE AT THE CHALK STAKER. DURING THE TIME OF THE CHOKE-UP, THE INJURED GOT DUST IN H IS EYES.
EMPLOYEE SAID HE WAZ REPAIRING LOADER BY REPLACING TRAM SPROCKET HE SAID HE SPRAINED HIS WRIST WHEN HE LIFTED THE SPROCKET
OPERATING CAT.PAN SCRAPER #01-26.DROVE DOWN RAMP COLLIDE WITH EUCLID R-35 TRUCK.WEARING SEAT SAFETY BELT -RECEIVED DISLOCATED THUMB WHEN HAND STRUCK STEERING WHEEL.
PUSHING JEEP TO PUT DRIVE BELT BACK ON -STRAINED BACK.
UNLOADING 50 LB SACKS OF ROCKDUST OUT OF A BUGGY HAD ONE FOOT UP IN THE BED OF THE BUGGY AND ONE FOOT ON THE GROUND WHEN HE PICKED UP A SACK FELT PULLING SENSATION AND PAIN IN LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN
INJURED WAS HELPING A CO-WORKER LIFT A SINGLE PROP JACK WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE A WATER PUMP OUT OF A SHUTTLE CAR ROADWAY WHEN HE PULLED ON THE PUMP AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
TRIPPED ON PIECE OF BAND STEEL AND FELL STRIKING HAULAGE SUPPLY TRAILER.
WALKING TO ANOTHER PLACE WHEN SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM TOP BETWEEN BOLTS AND HIT EMPL ON LOWER PART OF BACK.
OPERATING LIFTING JACK TO PUT LOW BOY BACK ON TRACK.JACK HANDLE SLIPPED OUT OF JACK AND HIT EMPL ON LEFT FOOT.
PUTTING PANS ON.HELPING TO ALIGN PANS TO BOLT UP ,JERKED PANS AND FELT PAIN IN SHOULDER.AREA MUDDY AND WET.
RECOVERING WATER LINE ROCK SLID OFF RIB AND CUT LEFT INDEX FINGER
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING SET TIMBERS IN PILLAR SPLIT. HAD SET TIMBER, TURNED TO GET ANOTHER TIMBER, WHEN PIECE OF ROCK MEASURING 4 X 4 X 4 FELL FROM BETWEEN TWO BOLTS, KNOCKING HIM DOWN FACE FIRS T HIS HEAD STRIKING MER BIT ON RIPPER HEAD, LACERATING RIGHT EYEBROW REQUIRING 24 STITCHES, LACERTING CORNER OF RIGHT EYE REQUIRING 7 STITCHES, X-RAYS REVEALED HAIRLINE FRACUTRES OF RIGHT SHO
EMPL HOLDING CRIB BLOCK WHEN FOREMAN PUTTING IN A WEDGE PIECE OF ROCK FELL HITTING EMPL ON RIGHT FOOT.
WHEN SHOVELING COAL ALONG BELTLINE PERSON FELT PAIN IN GROIN AREA HE HAS CONTINUED WORKING UNTIL 8 15 83 AND IS NOW IDLE
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING BLASTING POT TO ANOTHER LOCATION WHEN FOOT SLIPPE CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL AND BLASTER FELL ON EMPLOYEE PINNING BOTH ARMS AND 1 LEG
WHILE HE WAS UNLOADING ROCK DUST, HE STEPPED ON A CRIB TIE AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
MAN WAS MOVING A BULKHEAD DOOR INSIDE A RAIL CAR
SEVERE CONTUSION RIGHT WRIST
CLEANING OUT ROCK BIN AND IN COMING BACK UP ROPE,HAND SLIPPED AND HE FELL BACK INTO BIN.FIRST REPORTS FROM EMERG RM AND DR WAS BACK S PRAIN.IN LATER MONTHS THERE WERE SEVERAL COMPLIC ATIONS RESULTING IN HOSPITAL VISITS AND INVOLVED VARIOUS DRS.
WHILE WORKING IN T HE JEFFERY SCALPING TOWER EE RAISED HIS HEAD UP HITTING HIS HEAD ON AN IRON BEAM CAUSING A STIFF NECK & SOME PAIN.
EMPL UNLOADING PROPS AND ROOF MATS FROM SHUTTLE CAR.ROOF MATS WERE COVERED WITH OIL,SLIPPED OUT OF HANDS AND STRUCK EMPL ON RIGHT FOOT.
DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF HOLE AFTER HOLE WAS DRILLED UP AND CAUGHT EMPL FINGER BETWEEN DRILL STEEL AND DRILL POT.
EMP WAS TAKING TOW EXTRA 80# BAGS OF PELLETS OFF TOP OF A LOAD HE WAS GOING TO WRAP HE PICKED UP THE FIRST BAG AND TWISTED 90 DEGREE AND SET BAG ON FLOOR HE THEN EXPERIENCED SOME PAIN IN LOW LOWER BACK REGION
EMPLOYEE LOWERED DRILLINGHEAD OF ROOF BOLT MACHINE ON THE END OF A ROOF BOLT WHICH LEVERED OVER A ROCK SUDDENLY RAISING AND STRIKING HIS FACE
LIFTING POST STRAINED LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING A ROLL OF CANVAS MATERIAL USED FOR CURTAIN CLOTH WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS NECK HE WAS PLACING THE ROLL OF CURTAIN UP ON A HIGHER LEVEL AT THIS TIME
TRAMMING SCOOP AND HIT HEAD ON PINBOARD OR HEADER BOARD.
ROCK FELL ON LEG WHILE RUNNING ROOF BOLTER.
LARRY HALE ELECTRICIAN WAS CHANGING A BATTERY RECEPTICAL & GOT ENERGIZED LEADS TOGETHER, & BURNED RIGHT HAND & WRIST.
INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A STUCK DRILL STEEL FROM A ROOF HOLE UTILIZING THE STEEL GUIDE. HE PUT THE BOOM LIFT LEVER IN THE RAISE RATHER THAN THE LOWER POSITION AND HIS THUMB WAS CAUGH T BETWEEN THE STEEL GUIDE AND THE ROCK.
INJURED EMPLOYEE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE REMOVING BOLTS FROM G EAR SEGMENT. INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS ON BOTTOM AND WITNESS WAS ON TOP. AS THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS LOOSENING ONE BOLT, THE OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS LOOSENING A DIFFERENT BOLT. THE SECOND BOLT DROPPED OUT, PINCHING THE INJURED EMPLOYEES FINGER BETWEEN THE BOLT AND A TING A DIFFERENT BOLT. THE SE
PAN SCRAPER STUCK OPERATOR GRABBED ROLL BAR TURNING STEERING AND CAUGHT FINGERS BETWEEN BAR AND GOOSE NECK STOP
EMP WAS TIGHTENING DOWN SHIM BOX BOLTS WITH A WRENCH THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF AND EMP FELL LANDING ON LEFT WRIST AND BACK
PUSHING 5\BOLT INTO DRILLED HOLE WHEN HE SUFFERED LOWER BACK PAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS LAYING ON THE ABCV STACKER BELT CHECKING GEAR OIL AND SOMEONE TURNED POWER ONMAKING BELT START TO MOVE PULLEY CAUGHT HIS ARM BELT CAUGHT KNEE PERSON OPERATING POWER TURNED OFF WHE N RELIZING WHAT WAS HAPPENING
STRAINED BACK LIFTING HEAVY TIMBER.
EMPLOYEE STANDING IN FRAME OF DUMP TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL BACKWARDS HITTING BACK OF HEAD.
HE CLAIMS WHILE DUMPING LEAD CONCETRATE FROM A CLINE TRUCK THE FRAME MEMBER ON THE TRUCK BROKE THIS CAUSED THE BED OF THE TRUCK TO SHIFT FORWARD STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE
OPERATING JACKHAMMER IN DIRT.PUTTING IN SPRINKLER SYSTEM AT QUARRY OFFICE.
WHILST CLEANING WINDSHIELD EMPL FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING FALL ON BOOM ARMS.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING OIL PAN FROM 1200 AIR COMPRESSOR. A CHAIN WAS HOLDING OIL PAN UP WHILE MANUVERING OVER RADIUS AND FUEL TRANSFER LINE. THE OIL PAN SLIPPED OUT OF THE CHAIN FALLING APPROX. 18" HITTING EMPLOYEE ON TOP SIDE OF LEFT WRIST.
DRIVING 3-WHEEL GOLF CART WHEN HIT ROUGH PATCH OF CONCRETE AND LOST CONTROL.CART TURNED ON ITS SIDE DUMPING EMPL OUT ON GROUND,BRUISING RIGHT LEG AND SHOULDER.LEG GOT ALL RIGHT BUT PAIN IN SHO ULDER CONT UNTIL ON 2-29-84 HOSPITALIZED FOR SURGERY ON SHOULDER.EST LOST TIME 6 WKS.
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING CO WORKER LIFT A RAM WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING DROP LIGHT IN SHOP. HE HAD ONE END OF LIGHT HOOKED IN FENCE AT TOOL ROOM. AND WAS WALKING BACKWARD CLEANING CORD WHEN HE TRIPPED AND FELL.
EE WAS WALKING ACROSS LONGWALL FACE & STEPPED ON A RELAY BAR & TURNED HIS RIGHT ANKLE. RELAY BAR IS PART OF THE LONGWALL FACE, IT WAS NOT AN EXTRA OR SPARE ITEN IN THE WALKWAY.
VICTIM WAS CLEANING UP JUNK ALONG TRACK & WENT TO THROW A BARRELL INTO A COAL CAR & HIT TROLLEY WIRE & COAL CAR WITH BARRELL.
WELDING IN THE PIT AREA LEFT EYE FELT IRRITATED AS IF SOMETHING WAS IN IT
EMPLOYE WAS SITTING ON DUMP TRUCK WHEN HE RELEASED TAILGATE WHITH GATE RELEASE HANDLE APPLIED TOO MUCH PRESSURE ON WRIST OF LEFT HAND
WALKING UP STEPS OF SHED IN THE RAIN TO CHECK PL// POLYMER INVENTORY.SLIPPED AND FELL TWISTING BACK MUSCLES AND BRUISING BOTH KNEES.
TEARING SADDLE APART ON D-9 TRACT FRAME.WORKING ON SADDLE ON TRACT FRAME-LIFTED UP ONE END OF DA--SADDLE CAUSED PROBLEM IN LOWER BACK.
DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR HIT HOLE AND SPRAINED OR PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT SIDE OF LOWER BACK
INJURED WAS REMOVING STUMBLING HAZARD-LOADING CRIB BLOCK INTO SC WHEN ANOTHER CRIB BLOCK ROLLED OFF PILE & STRUCK HIM ON RT. FOOT.
EMPLOYEES WERE BOLTING THE TOP WHEN A ROCK FELL AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE NECK.
THE EMPLOYEE STATES THAT AS HE WAS STEPPING OFF A BELT TAIL PIECE HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED IN THE MUDDY MINE BOTTOM.
THE ROOF IN THE AREA HAD POTTED OUT SOME SLIPS WERE EXPOSED AND THE ROOF CONSISTED OF SLICK SLATE EMPLOYEE HAD INSTALLED A RIB PIN WHEN HE LOOKED OVER THE OTHER BOLTER A PIECE OF SLATE FELL AN D STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK OF HIS LEFT SHOULDER WHEN HE LOOKED UP ANOTHER PIECE FELL AND HIT HIM IN THE CENTER OF HIS FOREHEAD CAUSING A SMALL LACERATION THAT REQUIRED EIGHT SUTURES TO CLOSE
WHILE INJURED AND HIS CREW WERE REAPIRING CONVEYOR BELT INJURED LIFTED A PIECE OF SLATE FROM THE WALKWAY AND WHEN HE DID HE EXPERIENCED A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK
INJURED WAS LIFTING A SIX VOLT BATTERY AND STRAINE DMUSCLES IN LOWER BACK
EMPL DRILLING HOLE,ROCK FELL AND STRUCK RIGHT ANKLE-BRUISED.
WHEN EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A FITTING FROM AN HYDRAULIC STEERING VALVE ON A EUCLID REAR DUMP TRUCK WITH A WRENCH, THE FITTING BROKE LOOSE SUDDENLY AND EMPLOYEE\S LEFT HAND HIT AGAINST THE EDGE OF A STEEL MOUNTING BRACKET WHICH RESULTED IN SEVERED EXTENSOR TENDONS ON LEFT INDEX FINGER.
INJURED AND FELLOW WORKER WERE LOADING BUNDLES OF 10FT PINS ON A SCOOP BUCKET AS HE WENT TO GET ANOTHER BUNDLE INJUREDS LEFT FOOT GOT CAUGHT IN SOME MATERIAL ON FOOT WALL HE FELL ACRDOSS TH E SIDE OF THE SCOOP BUCKET
THE EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING ONTO THE CANOPY WHILE OPERATIANG THE SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE CANOPY AND THE RIB.
EMPLOYEE HAD STARTED TO REPAIR A SHORT DRIVE BELT WHEN HE HAD SOMEONE CONNECT A WIRE ROPE TO THE BELT ANBD PLACED THE ROPE THROUGH A SHIEVE WHEEL TO RIG A WAY TO PULL THE BELT WHEN PRESSUREWAS APPLIEC TO THE ROPE THE SHIEVE WHEEL CAME LOOSE AND ALLOWED THE ROPE TO SWING INTO THE EMPLOYEE
HELPING OTHER EMPL LOAD ROLL OF WIRE BELT ROPE INTO SCOOP DIPPER WHEN THEY TURNED ROP OVER IN DIPPER.EMPL FOOT STRUCK BY ROLL OF ROPE BETWEEN SCOOP DIPPER AND ROPE.
WAS LIFTING A PIPE AND CARRYING TO CUT TWISTED BACK WHILE LIFTING STRAINING BACK
MR. DUNCAN WAS WATCHING AS MR. ALLEN-REPAIRMAN- WAS WORKING ON T HE COAL CUTTING MACHINE. MR. ALLEN HIT THE WEDGE WITH A HAMMER & THE CHISEL DISLODGED & FLEW UPWARD STRIKING MR. DUNCAN NEXT TO HIS RIGHT EYE.
RIDING MOTOR-BENT OVER FROM WAIST,EMPL BATTERT LIGHT POUCH ON HIP CAUGHT ROOFBOLT IN TOP.KNOCKING HIM TOWARD BACK OF MOTOR.
EMP WAS GREASING FORKLIFT ENGINE WAS RUNNING TO TURN STEERING WHEN HE WALKED AROUND MACHINE IT TOOK OFF PINNING HIM AGAINST STEEL POST
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR EXPERIENCED HEADACHE AT BEGINING OF SHIFT DURING SHIFT STOPPED SHUTTLE CAR TO HANG MINER CABLE & FELT SEVERE STIFFNESS & GAIN IN NECK.
I.NAME TRAMMING SCOOP ON SURFACE TO LET ANOTHER SCOOP GET AROUND THE OTHER.SCOOP HIT PICKUP TRUCK AND I.NAME RIGHT HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN FRAME OF SCOOP AND TRUCK.HAND WAS CUT AND MAYBE BR OKEN ABOVE THUMB ON RIGHT HAND.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE HIT A HOLE IN THE RUNWAY. THE JOLT CAUSED HIM TO HIT HIS HEAD ON THE CANOPY CAUSING INJURY TO HIS NECK AND HEAD.
EMP STATES HE WAS WALKING AROUND CAB OF 93 M CRANE ON WALKWAY CARRYINBG AN ELECTRIC EXTENSION CORD AS HE TURNED THE CORNER AROUND THE CAB HE EITHER SLIPPED OR STUMBLED FELL ONTO WALKWAY THEN TO GROUND ABOUT FIVE AND A HALF FEET FRACTURING BOTH BONES IN LEFT ARM
WAS HELPING PUT D9 ROLLER ON ANDCAUGHT RT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN ROLLER AND FRAME MASHING IT
EE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF PIPE WHILE CHANGING FROM #3 SILO TO #2 SILO TO GET A DIFFERENT GRADE OF CLAY, FRACTURING HIS ANKLE. HE HAD ACCIDENT 5-18-83 WHICH HE THOUGHT WAS ONLY A MINOR SPRAIN. H E WORKED UNTIL 5-27-83 WHEN IT STARTED BOTHERING HIM WITH PAIN & SWELLING. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR 5-27-83 & FOUND HE HAD A HAIRLINE FRACTURE OF THE LEFT ANKLE.
CLEANING OUT STOPPED UP CHUTE,ROCK FELL FROM CONVEYOR AND HIT ARM.
SHOVELING RIB,GOT UP FROM KNEES AND KNEE POPPED.
WAS SETTING TIMBERS - STARTED TO HAVE PILLER FALL, THEY WERE GETTING BACK OUT OF WAY OF DUST AND WIND. HE TRIPPED OVER SOMETHING, FELL AND ROLLED ON BOTTOM, INJURED WRIST WAS PUT IN INFLATABEL SPLINT, BROUGHT OUTSIDE TOOK TO EMERGENCY ROOM AT HOSPITAL XRAY FOUND WRIST WAS BROKEN - PUT IN CAST.
EXACT CAUSE UNK-OVER 7 DAY PERIOD WORKED ON MILL SPRINKLER SYSTEM,PICKED UP DOUBLE FLAP VALVE,PUT CHAIN ON ELEVATOR AND USED WHEEL BARROW.DETERM BY INS CO TO BE WORK RELATED INJURY ON 9-9-83.
INJURED WAS PLACING WEDGE UNDER STONE SLAB WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING UP SLAB WITH A CROWBAR THE CROWBAR SLIPPED CAUSING CRUSHING INJURY TO LEFT INDEX FINGER ON TIP OF TINGER
BAR TO HOLD CART AT #4 LINK BELT STATION ROLLED CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT AND PULLEY
EMP WAS CLIMBING A LADDER TO THE MANWAY OF HIS STOPE CARRYING SUPPLIES IN ONE HAND AND USING ONE HAND TO GRIP THE LADDER RUNGS HE MISSED A GRAB FOR THE LADDER AND FELL ABOUT 10 FT TO THE SIL LEVEL STRIKING THE TIMBER SKIP WITH LEFT THIGHT
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING MANTRIP, HIS KNEE CAUGHT TIMBER.
THE INJURED RECEIVED A FRACTURE TO HIS RIGHT THUMB WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS THUMB BETWEEN A PRY BAR & THE PIN OF THE MINER. HE WAS USING THE BAR TO HELP CHANGE THE SHEAR JACK & THE BAR SLIPPED.
#2 SCOOP COME AROUND A CORNER AN HIT ON RIGHT FOOT.
EMP WAS GOING TO EMPTY THE WHEELBARROW PLACED AT THE TROMMEL SCREEN DISCHARGE ON NO 2 MILL HE STEPPED ON A BOLT PROTRUDING FROM THE FLOOR STUMBLED AND TWISTED HIS KNEE
CLAIMANT WAS ASSISTING IN LOADING A FRAME ONTO FRONT END LOADER BUCKET IT WAS STUCK IN THE MUD HE BENT OVER AND PULLED ON THE FRAME AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING 6FT ROOF BOLT IN THE PROCESS OF STRAIGHTENING THE BOLT TO LINE WITH DRILL HEAD BOLT SLIPPED FROM EMPLOYEE GRIP BOLT SPRANG BACK STRIKING EWMPLOF STRAIGHTENING THE BOL IN HEAD CAUSING A LACERATION ABOVE RT EAR
INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS BENDING ROOF BOLT IN HOLE WHEN IT SPRANG BACK STRIKING HIS NOSE.
WHILE TIGHTENING A ROOF BOLT A SMALL PIECE OF METAL STRUCK THE MAN IN THE LEFT EYE.
INJURED BACK WHEN CHANGING SCREEN CLOTH ON SCREENS, PARTIALLY LIFTING AND CRAWLING AROUND IN THE SCREENS.
INJURED SLIPP
A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK 10TO 12IN IN DIAMETER AND 1INTO 2IN THICK FELL OUT OF THE TOP AND HIT INJURED FOOT
CLEANING 2ND MAIN BELT-PICKED UP BAG OF ROCK DUST CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
USING BAR TO GUIDE CABLE ON DRUM OF 3500 SHOVEL BAR SLIPPED CAUGHT HAND AND HIT NECK
LOADER WAS LOADING TRUCK ROCK WAS DUMPED INTO TURCK ROCK ROLLED ACROSS THE BED OF TRUCK HITTING OTHER SIDE OF BED CAUSING DRIVER TO BE KNOCKED ABOUT IN CAB INJURING HIS NECK
CHET WAS RETRIEVING A DROPPED GLOVE WHILE CLIMBING UP THE LIPS ON A METAL CHUTE - HAND SLIPPED AND HE FELL STRICKING KNEE ON A PIPE AND FRACTURING KNEE CAP OF RIGHT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON FEEDER AND DID NOT GET HIS BODY CLEAR OF APPROACHING RAM CAR. CAR BACKED UP TO FEEDER AND CAUGHT PRESLEY\S LEGS BETWEEN CAR AND LOOSE COAL AT DUMPING END OF FEEDER.
PULLING ON PIPE LINE-PULLED HIS BACK.
REMOVING BELLY PAN BOLT STRIP OUT OF PAN HIT WRENCH AND WRENCH HIT CALF OF RT LOWER LEG
WHILE BOLTING,PIECE OF SLATE FELL STRIKING ON HEAD AND SHOULDERS.UNDER LEGAL INVEST. DUE TO LENGTH OF TIME BEFORE SEEKING MEDICAL AID.
EMP FELL FROM LADDER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO HANG BRATTICE
INJURED & HIS PARTNER WERE ASSISGNED TO MOVE THE #5 DRILL OFF ITS PATTERN FOR A BLAST, A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 900\-950\. THE PARTNER WAS OPERATING THE DDRILL WHILE THE INJURED WAS LOOPING CABLE O N THE STINGER. THE DRILL MOVED ABOUT 800\ WHEN S DUE TO UNEVEN TERRAIN, THE STINGER SUDDENLY ROSE HIGHER OFF THE GROUND. AS THE INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOOP THE CABLE THE STINGER HE FELT A
MUCKING, PUSHING CLAM, RIGHT ARM GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN CLAM AND RIB.
EMPLOYEE PULLED MUSCLES WHILE OPERATING ROOF BOLTER
IDLE ARM FELL ON LEG WHILE BURNING IT OFF
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING ON 24" TUBING WHEN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE MOVED TUBING AND MR. SIMS FELL TO THE MINE FLOOR SUSTAINING NECK AND BACK INJURIES.
OTHEL WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE USE A POWER PULLER TO PULL BELT BACK TOGETHER OTHER EMPLOYEE LET GO OF HANDLE AND IT CAME BACK AND CAUGHT OTHELS THUMB AND BRUISED IT
DRILLING HOLE FOR ROOF BOLT AND STANDING UNDER UNSUPPORTED TOP-SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL HITTINGHIM ON RIGHT SHOULDER.
HE WAS STRIKING A PIECE OF METAL WITH A HAMMER AND CHISEL WHEN A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF AND STRUCK HIS HAND.
EMP WAS ASSISTING IN MOVING A 13 HP SUBMERIGIBLE PUMP AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK
MR. WAITE A TIRE REPAIRMAN WAS WORKING ONT HE TIRE TRUCK BED, HE SLIPPED & FELL TWISTING HIS RIGHT WRIST. IT WAS RAINING & THE TRUCK BED WAS SLICK. TRUCK BED IS DIAMOND SKID RESISTANT SURFACE
CARRYING BELT CLAMP AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
WHILE VICTIM WAS BREAKING LUMPS OF COAL WITH SLEDGE HAMMER, HE SWUNG AND MISSED THROWING HIM OFF BALANCE RESULTING IN BACK STRAIN.
OPERATING MINER WHEN BIT BROKE OFF RIPPER HEAD CHAIN ,STRIKING RIGHT LENS OF SAFETY GLASSES.
UNLOADING TIMBERS WHEN CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN TWO TIMBERS.
HELPING MOVE STORAGE BIN WHEN IT FELL OVER ON TP// TOP OF HIM.
INJURED SAID HE FAIL AND STRUCK HIS KNEE AGAINST THE METAL WATER LINE.
INJURED WAS CLIMBING UP THE 9141 HAUL TRUCK ACCESS LADDER WITH A WRENCH IN ONE HAND WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL 3 FT. TO GROUND LEVEL.
INJURED STATED HE WAS DOWN ON KNEES PULLING A 5/8" CONTRAC CABLE AND FELT PAIN IN BACK.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING PARTS OUT OF THE PARTS TRAILER AND PUTTING THEM IN A TRUCK TO TAKE TO ANOTHER LOCATION. HE PICKED UP TWO BELT PULLEYS FOR A STACKER AND STARTED OUT THE DOOR, AT WHICH T IME HE FELT SHARP PAINS IN THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK AND IN HIS LEGS. HE WAS TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO THE HOSPITAL, BUT WAS NOT ADMITTED AT THIS TIME.
MAN STATES STANDING ON TOP OF TAILPIECE CLEANING CHUTE OUT AND WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN 3 OR 4 FT DROP ONTO WATERLINE PLACED HIS LEFT FOOT AND TWISTED KNEE
PULLING CABLE AND HAD PAIN IN LEFT ABDOMEN.
LIFTING TOOL BINS.
STANDING IN CROSSCUT WITH SUPV -RIB RASHED AND STRUCK EMPL ON LEFT FOOT.CONTUSION-LEFT FOOT.FRACTURE-PROXIMAL PHALANX LEFT 5TH TOE.