All MSHA-reportable mining accidents in December 1983, sorted by severity. Fatalities appear first.
Showing the 500 most recent of 1,711 incidents this month. All fatalities are included and listed first.
WHILE MAKING HOIST REPAIRS MAIN POWER CONTACTOR WAS OPENED AND ROLLED OUT ON TO FLOOR TO CHANGE COIL APPARENTLY OPERATING LINKAGE HAD STUCK NOT ALLOWING MECHANISM TO OPEN ALL THE WAY TO THE LATCHED POSITION AND WHEN CONTACTOR WAS PUSHED BACK IN IT OPERATED THE SWITCH LINKAGE IN REVERSE PULLING CONTACTOR IN TO HOT BUSS CAUSING FATALITY
A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE 2 WEST SECTION IN THE INTERSECTION OF THE #2 ENTRY INBY THE FEEDER BREAKER. THE FALL AREA HAD BEEN MINED TO THE ROOF ROCK & BOLTED WITH 4\ MECHANICAL ROOF BOLTS ON 5\ CENTERS. THE FALL TURNED LOOSE APPROX 4\ TO 5\ ABOVE THE ANCHOR ZONE OF THE ROOF BOLTS. ONE PERSON RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES RESULTING FROM THE FALL.
EMPL OPERATING JEFFREY HELIMINER 122M NEAR FACE OF SUB-MAIN ENTRY ROOM #1 IN AREA 169.WHILE LOADING ELMAC RAMCAR,ENTRY FACE AND BACK FAILED DUE TO NATURAL DEPOSIT OF INERT COMPRESSED GASSES LO CATED IN FISSURE IN ADVANCE AND SLIGHTLY ABOVE WORKING FACE.FLYING MATERIAL STRUCK EMPL AND CAUSED MULTIPLE INJURIES TO HEAD,CHEST AND ABDOMEN...FAILURE DIDNT RESULT IN IGNITION.
#2 DIGESTER UNIT WAS BEING PREPARED FOR A VALVE CHANGE. THIS REQUIRES THAT THE HEATERS AND HOLIZONTAL DIGESTERS IN BLDG. 30 BE SHUT DOWN AND DRAINED. AS THE UNITS DRAIN, THE TRENCH IN BLDG 60 XX 30 OVERFLOWS UNTIL THE SUMP PUMP CAN APPROPRAIATELY TRANSFER THE LIQUOR. THE INJURED EMP WAS COLLECTING SHIFT REPORTS FROM THE VARIOUS CONTROL ROOMS ON A TWO-WHEELED BICYCLE FROM OFFICE TO
FAILING TO BLOCK OR OTHERWISE SECURE BOOM OF A TRUCK CRANE BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL A S ECTION OF BOOM
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING STEERING JACK ON SHUTTLE CAR HE DROPPED JACK ON LITTLE R FINGER AMPUTATING AT DISTAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT
EMP WAS REPLACING A WATER PIPE AT THE TRAYLOR CRUSHER THAT HAD FROZEN AND BURST A 10\ SECTION OF UNSECURED 1" PIPE FELL 2 FEET TRAPPING EMPLOYEES FINGER BETWEEN IT AND AN I-BEAM SEVERI NG THE FIRST JOINT OF RING FINGER ON LEFT HAND
PERRY WAS MOVING H-BEAM WHEN IT FELL ON ITS SIDE AND HITTING ANOTHER BEAM IT SEVERED PART OF HIS MIDDLE FINGER. (L)
ATTEMPTING LIFT ROCK OUT OF FEEDER BREAKER IN PROCESS RUPTURED HIMSELF.INJ REPORTED 12-27-83.
OPERATOR WAS HOOKING MINE TRACTOR TO MINE CAR. THE OPERATING CONTROLS WERE FROZEN WITH MUD AND GRIME. OPERATOR WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CLEANING THE CONTROLS WITH POWER ON. TRACTOR MOVED IN REVER , CRUSHING HIS FOOT BETWEEN MINE CAR AND TRACTOR ASSUMPTION.
USING PRY BAR TO UNPLUG FEED HOPPER WHEN EMPL FELT SUDDEN PAIN IN LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN STRAINING SIDE AGGRAVATING OLD INJURY.
PULLING JACK HAMMER WITH 30\\ BULL POINT,OUT OF GROUND,FELT SHARP PAIN OR PULL IN GROIN AREA ON LEFT SIDE.
EE CLAIMS HE WAS CLEANING FROZEN MATERIAL AT A BELT HEAD WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER GROIN AREA & BECAME NEUSEATED.
SUBJECT WAS UNLOADING OIL FROM SCOOP TO OIL CAR AND RUPTURED HIMSELF IN THE LOWER LEFT ABDOMEN
UNLOADING A TORQUE CONVERTOR FROM A TRUCK- THE CONVERTOR SLIPPED AND KEITH TRIED TO STOP IT FROM FALLING TO THE GROUND AND GRABBED IT CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN AND RUPTURE HIMSELF.
INJURED WAS WORKING ON A CONVEYOR BELT TAKE UP WHILE PUTTING A SHIV WHEEL IN SHIV BLOCK INJURED WAS FEELING SLOT INSHIV WHEEL FOR WEDGE SHAPED PIN TO ALIGN WHI LE CO WORKER WAS TAPPING PIN WITH SLEDGE HAMMER THE PIN ALIGNED AND WENT THROUGH SHIV WHEEL SEVERING THE FIRST JOINT OF MIDDLE FINGER LEFT AHND
EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING TRACK THERE WERE SOME ROOF BOLTS ON AN OVER CAST THAT THE EMPLOYEE WANTED THE WASHERS OFF OF AS EMPLOYEE CLIMBED UP THE BANK T O GVET THESE BOLTS HE SLIPPED EXPIERENCEI NG PAIN IN GROIN AREA
RICH MICHELIS ATTEMPTED TO UNWEDGE A LIFTING HOOK FROM SIDEWALL OF A DRAGLINE BUCKET WHEN A WELDER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUCKET RAISED THE HOOK WITH THE OVERHEAD CRANE CAUSING RICKS FINGER TO BE SMASHED
EE STATED HE WAS HELPING LIFT SCRAPER HOOD FROM FLOOR OF SHOP TO TOP OF ENGINE WHEN HE LIFTED A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER STOMACH.
PRODUCTION HEAD HOUSE. PULLING SHEET METAL PLATE LINER UP TO 3RD FLOOR WITH THE CHERRY PICKER THE STEEL CABLE WAS IN SHEAVE WHEEL & THE PLATE CAUGHT ALONG SIDE OF BUILDING AS MR. SYNDER PUSHE D CABLE AWAY HIS HAND WAS TAKEN THROUGH THE SHEAVE WHEEL.
WAS CLEANING UP IN A HEADROLLER AREA LIFTED A SHOVEL FULL OF MATERIAL AND FELT SUDDEN PAIN IN RIGHT GROIN
A SKID WITH A BELT DRIVE ON THE SKID WRECKED ON THE STRIP AND THEY SET 2 JACKS TO PUT THE SKID ON THE TRACK, MR BAILEY HAD HIS HAND ON THE BAR AND THE JACKS KICKED OUT CAUSING HIS HAND TO HIT THE SKID
RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN GATHERING POT AND FRAME OF CM WHILE HELPING POSITION POT IN PLACE.
MEN WERE IN XXXX OF REMOVING A SHIM WHEN LIFTER BAR SHIFTED CAUSING FRED TO GET HIS FINGER PINCHED BETWEEN THE SHIMS
WAS REMOVING BELLY PANS FROM 800 368 SCRAPER BELLY PAN WAS HUNG UP SO IT WAS NECESSARY TO PRY WITHA BAR TO FREE IT WHILE PRYING PAN BACK THE BAR SLIPPED AND A PAIN IN LOWER RIB CAGE WAS FELT AS DAY CONTINUED THE PAIN MOVED DOWN TO LOWER GROIN AREA
SQUATTING TO MOVE 2 BOXES-COMB WEIGHT 180 LB FELT STRAIN IN GROIN AREA.DR IND HERNIA .
HE WAS TRYING TO ALIGN THE CABLE IN THE SHEAVE THE CABLE CAUGHT HIS HAND AND PULLED IT INTO THE SHEAVE
STEPPING DOWN OUT OF TRUCK.IT WAS RAINING AND FEOOT SLIPPED CAUSING EMPL TO FALL ONTO GROUND.FALL CAUSED RUPTURE.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING A SLIDE GAT E ON A CHUTE FEEDING A CRUSHER WHEN THE GATE SLIPPED PINCHING THE FINGER TIPS ON RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE BOTTOM OF THE GATE AND THE CHUTE
EMPLOYEE WAS IN A KNEELING POSITION HELPING RERAIL A LOCOMOTIVE. AS HE WAS POSITIONING THE CLIMBERS HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN. (THIS INCIDENT BECAME REPORTABLE ON 12-7-83 WHEN EMPLO YEE WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL.)
EMPLOYEE WAS IN A BENT OVER POSITIOON LIFTING A CONTINUOUS MINER TRAILING CABLE WITH THE AID OF A CO WORKER AS HE RAISED THE CABLE TO THE MINE ROOF HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT GROIN HE DID NOT GO TO THE DOCTORS UNTIL 120283
ALFONSO BLAIR WAS RUNNING MINER & A S/C STRUCK HIS HAND & CUT FINGER OFF & MESSED UP SEVERAL MORE.
EMP. WAS DRIVING AN ENDLOADER DOWN AN INCLINE WHEN THE BRAKES FAILED AND END LOADER RAN INTO SPOIL BANK.
CLEANING SOME METAL WITH A WIRE BRUSH AND A PIECE OF METAL FLEW UP INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.
SLIPPED ON LADDER AND FELL, SLIDING DOWN A BOARD.
EMP BUMPED HIS ELBOW WHILE CHANGING A SCREEN IN THE CRUSHER. HE AND SEVERAL OTHERS WERE CHANGING IT. AT THE TIME HE SAID HE BUMPED HIS ELBOW BUT HE SAID IT WAS JUST A BRUISE. ON 1 -30 HE INFORMED ME THAT IT HAD NOT HEALED PROPERLY SO HE WAS GOING TO SEE A DR
DRIVING MAINT HAULAGE VEHICLE DOWN 24-S TOWARD 111 SHOP.MET SCOOP COMING ,SCOOP OPERATOR PULLED OVER TO LET EMPL PASS.PASSED ON LEFT AND HIT RIB WITH LEFT FRONT FENDER AND TIRECAUSING EYE TO B REAK OFF STEERING CYL.EMPL LOST CONTROL AND VEHICLE WENT ACROSS DRIFT,HITTING RIGHT RIB.
BATTERY BLEW UP ON S&S SCOOP WHILE STARTING CRUSHER MINOR EYE DAMAGE RETURNED TO WORK 1 1 84 NO PERMANENT
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS HELPING MOVE SOME CROSSBARS WHEN ONE FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT LEG
INJURED CLAIMS WHILE LIFTING COVER OFF TOP OF LIMIT SWITCHES IN MCC ROOM IN CONCENTRATOR HE FELT MOVEMENT IN LOWER BACK HE FELT NO PAIN AT THE TIME
HE LIFTED A CHUNK OF FROZEN STONE OUT OF TRUCK BED.
PINNING IN 2ND RIGHT AND ROCK GAVE WAY,WEDGING LEFT HAND BETWEEN ROOF BOLT PLATE AND DRILL STEEL WRENCH.
EMP WAS CLEANING AROUND LOW BELT TAIL AND BUMPED HIS RT KNEE ON 4AN 1 84 WATER GOT ON THE KNEE ON 1 23 84 EMP WENT TO DR AND WAS OFF WORK
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A LADDER WHILE REPAIRING A LARGE TRUCK. THE LADDER FAILED & THE EMPLOYEE FELL TO THE GROUND INJURING HIS BACK.
MOVING SECTION OF CONVEYOR WITH CRANE WHILE USING SLING. SLING CAME OUT OF BLOCK, CAUSING ONE END OF THE CONVEYOR TO FALL AND STRIKE EMPLOYEE IN THE LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING LOAD A TAILGATE FROM THE TRAILER END OF A RAM CAR ONTO A MINER HELKPER JEEP, WHEN HE STRAINED THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK.
STOCK WAS TRANSFERRING 50LB BOXES OF EXPLOSIVES FROM POWDER TRUCK TO WOOD BOX ON MUCK TRUCK WHEN ICY SNOW CONDITION CAUSED HIM TO SLIP AND STRAIN HIS GROIN SLIGHTLY HE DID NOT FEEL IT WAS SERI OUS HE FINISHED THE SHIFT AND REPORTED BACK TO WORK TUES 010384 THE EVENING HE WENT TO A DOCTOR WHO HOSPITALIZED HIM
INJURED BENT OVER AS HE WAS PREPARING TO PULL A CABLE USED TO REMOVE BELT FROM THE LONGWALL BELT STORAGE UNIT WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK
EMP EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LEG AND LOWER BACK FROM DECENDING AND ASENDING STAIRS AT #3 SECONDARY. THE INJURED DOES NOT RECALL SUSTAINING ANY INJURY PRIOR TO THAT TIME
THE EMPLOYEE WAS BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE FACE INA SCOOP DIPPER. WHEN THE SCOOP HIT A HOLE, IT BOUNCED HIM IN THE AIR AND WHEN HE CAME DOWN HE LANDED ON HIS SELF RESCUER.
HELPING SUPPORT PIPE BEING HUNG FROM ROOF OF ENTRY.STANDING ON WOODEN CRIB AND IT ROCK BENEATH HIM WHILE HOLDING WEIGHT OF PIPE CAUSING SPASMS OF BACK MUSCLE.CONT WORKING WITH INTERM BACK STI FFNESS UNTIL 2-19-84 WHEN STARTED MED ATTENTIONA DN MISSING WORK.
INJURED WAS OPENING AN 8IN INJECTION VALVE WHEN WELL HEAD BLEW OFF AT THE CASING INJURED WAS PEPPERED WITH ROCKS AND SAND THE RIGHT ARM WAS BROKEN IN TWO PLACES ABOVE ELBOW AND BELOW ELBOW THE LOWER BREAK WAS A COMPOUND FRACTURE BREAKING THE SKIN
EMP WAS LOADING CEMENT BLOCKS INTO A WHEEL BARROW WHEN THE LEG COLLAPSED ON THE WHEEL BARROW CAUSING IT TO FALL OVER ONTO THE TOP OF HIS FOOT
FILLING RAIL CARS WITH CEMENT.TRIED LIFT CAR LID WITH ONE HAND.
EMPL HASNT KNOWLEDGE OF ACCIDENT-BACK STARTED HURTING BUT SUBSIDED,WORKED 10 HRS SAT.12-31 WENT TO HOSPITAL MONDAY 1-2-84 BACK WAS HURTING.DR X-RAYED AND REFERRED TO SPECIALIST -DIAG SLIPPED D ISC IN BACK.SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY,..BE OFF 4-5 MONTHS.
BOLTING TOP WHEN ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLT ALREADY IN PLACE AND SAFETY JACK.ROCK FELL ON CANOPY,SLID OFF AND ONE END STRUCK EMPL IN LOWER BACK.
SLIPPED ON ICE FELL ON BACK
HE WAS GETTING OFFA MANTRIP TO THROW TRACK SWITCH WHEN HE SLIPPED ON A PATCH OF ICE. HE FELL ONTO HIS RIGHT LEG FRACTURING IT.
WHILE SHOVELING CONVEROR, CONVERYOR BELT CAUGHT LITTLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND BETWEEN HAND SHOVEL AND KICKED BACK CATCHING METAL PART OF SHOVEL AND CONVEYOR CATCHING LITTLE FINGER OF LITTLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND BETWEEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING HAMMER TO KNOCK OFF ICE AND FROZEN COAL DIRT FROM BLADE OF DOZER PC OF COAL DIRT HIT HIM IN LEFTEYE
INJURED HAD A CRIB STANDING UPRIGHT ON MINE FLOOR SO THAT HE COULD SPLIT OR SHAVE THE CRIB TO SIZE AS HE SWUNG THE AXE HE MISSED THE CRIB AND STRUCK HIMSELF ON THE INSIDE OF HIS RIGHT FOOT WIT H THE SHARP END OF THE AXE
HE WAS PUTTING UP PINS AND HE CAUGHT HIS GLOVE BETWEEN THE BOLT AND CHUCK HIS RIGHT HAND HIT THE ROTATION LEVEL
WET AND ICY CONDITIONS. INJURED EMPLOYEE CLAIMED TO HAVE TURNED HIS ANKLE ON THE RAILROAD TRACK APPROX. 50\ WEST OF THE PEBBLE LOADING CHUTE.
BOUNCE IN SECTION DROPPED SOME LOOSE MATERIAL AND STRUCK INJURED ON TOP OF HEAD.
I WAS STEPPING OFF THEROCK DUST TRAILER AND MY FOOT SLIPPED AND I FELL TO THE GROUND INJURING MY LEFT ELBOW.
INJURED WAS CHANGING BIT IN AIR PICK WHEN HE WAS TWISTING THE CHUCK TO TIGHTEN THE BIT THE PICK CAME ON AND THE SHARP END OF THE PICK PENETRATED HIS LEFT LEG
COAL FELL FROM RIB AND HIT MARK. THERE WAS A SMALL BOUNCE THAT CAUSED THE COAL TO FALL.
EMPLOYEE WAS BARRING DOWN HAD HAND ON RIB IN STOPE WHEN ROCK FELL LACERATING LEFT LONG FINGER
MAN STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS HELPING SERVICE THE MINER A PIECE OF SLATE FELL HITTING HIM ON THE HAND
BENDING DOWN TO PUT RIFFLE SECTION AND LEANED AGAINST MIDDLE RAIL WHEN RAIL GAVE WAY
WALKING OFF SHOVEL, FELL ON ICE, FRACTURED RIGHT ANKLE, (CHIPPED BONE).
COMING DOWN STAIRWAY,SLIPPED AND STRAINED BACK.
DRAGLINE OILER AND THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WERE PREPARING TO MOVE THE DRAGLINE POWER CABLE THE CABLE WAS LAYING OVER A ROCK AND WHILE LIFTING AND PULLING TO GET CABLE ACROSS THE ROCK, EMPLOYEE S TRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE STATED, HE WAS WALKING FROM THE RIVER TIPPLE TO THE DOCK AREA. DUE TO ICE AND SNOW COVERING THE GROUND EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL, CAUSING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
THE MAN WAS RIDING ON THE PERSONNEL CARRIER WHEN IT RAN OVER A ROCK CAUSING THE MAN TO BOUNCE AND BRUISE HIS LOWER BACK
WHILE WORKER WAS BENT OVER PICKING UP A MINER CABLE SHUTTLECAR BUMPER STRUCK HIM FROM BEHIND KNOCKING HIM OVER CAUSING INJURY TO LEFT ANKLE AND LEG ABOVE ANKLE
INJURED WAS WALKING ACROSS FOOR IN LOADOUT BUILDING TO HANG UP WELDING LEADS HE HAD BEEN USING. HE CLAIMS AS HE WALKED ACROSS THE FLOOR BOTH HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL ONT O THE FLOOR
INJ WAS OPERATING COAL HAULER PULLING UP RAMP OOT OF PIT WHEN TRUCK RAN OUT OF POWER TRIED TO H OLD TRUCK WITH PARK LOCK AND BRAKE TRUCK STARTED BACKWARDS FRONT OF TRACTOR STARTED OFF GROUND AND TURNING SIDEWAYS OPERATOR GFOT OUT OF CAB AND JUMPED TO THE GROUND
JACKHAMMERING IN HOPPER TO LOOSEN FROZEN MATERIAL AND LEFT SHOULDER BEGAN TO HURT.
WHIEL NEUMANN WAS TIPPING A BARREL TO POUR SOME SOLVENT INTO 14 QT PAIL HE FELT PAIN IN H IS BACK HAS HISTORY OF BACK TROUBLE
EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY TRAILING CAB LE ON 10SC SHUTTLE CAR AS HE WAS CROSSING CABLE. FELL STRIKING MINE PAVEMENT RECEIVED CONCUSSION AND CRACKED VERTEBRAE
CUTTING RAILS AND PIECES WNE UNDER SAFETY GLASSES FOREIGN OBJECT IN EYE
TWO EMPLOYEES WERE LIFTING RAILROAD TIES AND PLACING THEM INTO BUCKET OF FRONTEND LOADER THE BUCKET WAS ON THE GROUNBD AND THE ENGINE OF THE LOADER WAS NOT RUNNING AS BOTH MEN WERE PLACING A R AILROAD TIE INTO BUCKET THE INJURED EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICE CAUSING HIS LEGS TO KICK OUT FROM UNDER HE FELL WITH THE TIE IN HIS HANDS SLAMMING HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE TIE AND THE BUCKE TOF
EMP WAS OPERATING A BUGGY AND DROVE OVER A ROUGH PLACE IN THE ROADWAY, CAUSING DRIVER OF JOY SHUTTLE CAR TO BOUNCE UP INTO THE CANOPY WHICH CAUSED A CUT TO HIS RIGHT EAR
TIGHTING CONVEYOR CHAIN ON MINER WRENCH SLIPPED FELL ON LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS HELPING MOVE MINER FROM #1 ROOM TO #4 ROOM ON THE 1ST LEFT SECTION. HE HAD HUNG EXTRA CABLE ON THE BOOM OF THE MINER. THE MINER OPERATOR, ARLIE BARKER, PROCEEDED TO MOVE THE MINER, CATCHING THE INJURED EMPLOYEE AGAINST THE RIB WITH THE BOOM OF THE MINER, THUS CAUSING MULTIPLE INJURIES.
EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING ROOF, PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL HIT HIM ON HEAD CAUSING HIM TO DRAW FORWARD, CAUSING BACK INJURY.
EMP WAS IN PROCESS OF PUTTING A JUMBO DRILL TOGETHER USING A TUGGER TO HOLD UP THE JUMBO. THE TUGGER SLACKED OFF SOME AND THE JUMBO MACHINE DROPPED DOWN AND HIT HIM ACROSS THE MIDDLE OF HIS BA CK
EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING ROOF AND PIECE OF ROOF FELL AND STRUCK HIM IN THE HEAD
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING BETWEEN RAILROAD TRACKS WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER A PILE OF GRAVEL HE FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE GROUND RESULTING IN A BRUISED KNEE
CARRYING BAG OF ROCKDUST AND FELL OVER A CINDER BLOCK
EMP WAS GASING UP A WELDING TRUCK, WALKED AROUND THE VEHICLE AND SLIPPED ON SOME ICE. HE FELL DOWN SPRAINING HIS BACK STARTED MISSING WORK ON 1-10-84 DUE TO THIS INJURY
THE SHUTTLE CAR CANOPY HUNG ON A ROOF SUPPORT IN LOW COAL CAUSING THE OPERATOR TO BOUNCE IN HIS SEAT AGAINST THE TOP OF THE CANOPY CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS SHOULDER.
EE CLAIMS HE WAS WALKING FROM THE BALL MILL TO THE FOREMANS OFFICE WHEN HE SLIPPED & F ELL.
STEL BROKE WHILE DRILLING A HOLE FOR A ROOF BOLT.
INJURED WAS IN A STANDING POSITION CHANGING SEATING DIRECTION AFTER LOADING SHUTTLE CAR. HE SLIPPED WHEN ENTERING DECK OF SHUTTLE CAR AND HIS RIGHT LEG STRUCK AGAINST FRAME OF DECK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP ON SIDE OF MACHINE; HE SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING HIS LEFT SHIN ON AN OBJECT AS HE FELL.
966 LOADER IN SHOP MELTING OF SNBOW AND ICE CAUSED WET STEPS WHICH CAUSED FOOTING TO BE SLIPPERY EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON CONCRETE FLOOR LANDING ON POSTERIOR
MAN STATES WHEEL ON ROCK DUST CAR WOULDNT STAY UP I WAS BENT OVER HOLDING WHEEL UP AND PUTTING CHAIN ON IT TO KEEP IT UP, WHEN I HAD A SHARP PAIN IN MY LOWER BACK, DID NOT START LOSING TIME U NTIL 1-9-84
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE GOT OFF LOCOMOTIVE TO THROW SWITCH TO GO INTO THE GRIZZLY LEVEL REMOX STATION HE BENT OVER TO GET A HOLD OF THE THROW HANDLE AND IN DOING SO SHIFTED HIS WEIGHT TO HIS LEFT LEG WHEN THROWING THE SWITCH CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT KNEE
SHOVELING MATERIAL FROM FLOOR TO BELT LINES, PULLED MUSCLES IN BACK ACROSS LEFT SHOULDER.
APPROXIMATELY 20FT OUTSIDE OF FRONT DOOR OF THE OLD MAIN OFFICE BLDG, THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON THE ICE ON THE WAY TO HIS PICKUP TRUCK.
WAS LEANING BACKWARDS TO LOOK UP TO SEE WHERE A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK HAD COME FROM AND APPARENTLY LEANED BACK TO FAR AND FELL FROM THE LADDER AND LANDED ON THE FEEDER BELOW.
EMP WAS CLEANING LEDGE UNDER NO 6 ON FIRING FLOOR NO 6 KILN BEGAN TO POP AND BLOW DUST DUST CAME IN AROUND SHIELD
CLAIMANT WAS HELPING MOVE A QUEEN BEE UNDER THE SCALES. THERE IS NOT MUCH ROOM. WHEN LIFTING HE TWISTED HIS BACK. HIS BACK HURT WHEN HE TRIED TO STRAIGHTEN UP.
LOADING HOLES ON DRILL BENCH WITH SAND FROM BUCKET OF LOADER.AS OPERATOR WAS LOWERING BUCKET TO GROUND,EMPL FOOT SLID UNDER EDGE BRUISING FOOT.
PULLING WATER HOSE UP CATWALK WHEN NOZZLE CAUGHT ON SOMETHING FELT PAIN IN UPPER BACK.STARTED LOSING TIME 1-11-84.
IN ICY PARKING LOT
HE ANOTHER WORKER WERE MOVING A X BAR, THE BAR DROPPED ON OEN END AND PRESSED BRISONS ARM TO THE ROOF.
INJURED WAS STANDING ON THE MUCK PILE UNDER BOLTED GROUND WHEN A SLAB FELL FROM OLD TIMBER SLID DOWN MUCK PILE AND HIT HIS KNEE
WORKING ON #4 BELT IN RECRUSH,CHISELING BOLT AND SLIPPED WITH HAMMER AND CHISEL.
THE ALLEGED INJURY OCCURED WHERE A ROCK FELL WHILE INSTALLING BOLTS IN THE 4 XCUT IN THE 2ND LEFT SECTION
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSIGNED TO CHIPPING COATING INSIDE THEKILN WITH A STEEL RODON 122783 AND 122883 EMPLOYEE FELT SLIGHT PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER FROM NBECK TO SHOULDER BLADE ON 122883 EMPLOYEE CLAIMS SHE FELT WORSE ON AWAKENING ON122983 A SCHEDULED VACATION DAY SHE WAS SCHEDULED OFF FOR FOUR DAYS 123083 THROUGH 010284 AND REPORTED THE INJURY ON 010384
WAS CARRYING LUMBER INTO THE FLOATATION BLDG AND SLIPPED AND FELL ON ICE.
EE SLIPPED ON ICE & FELL TO GROUND FRACTURING RIGHT ANKLE.
DURING A SPELL OF SUB-ZERO WEATHER, A HEATER WENT OUT AND PIPES FROZE IN A BUILDING AND CRACKED. EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN THE HANDWHEEL ON A LARGE VALVE THAT WAS FROZEN AND STARAINED MUSCLES IN HIS RIBCAGE. HE CONTINUED WORKING WITHOUT SEEKING MEDICAL ATTENTION OR REPORTING IT AS AN ON-THE-JOB INJURY UNTIL PAIN FORCED HIM TO ON 01-05084.
INJURED CLAIMS WHILE REMOVING SPLASH GUARD FROM TRUNION BCAPING ON PRIMARY MILL NO 8 HE STEPPED OFF PLATFORM AND CAUGHT HIS FOOT ON RAISED FLOOR FLASHING LOST HIS BALANCE AND TTWISTED HIS ANKL TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING PICKUP TRUCK ALONG STATE ROUTE 556 ROAD WAS SLIPPERY DUE TO ICE TRUCK SLID OFF ROAD OVER AN EMBANKMENT ROLLING OVER EMPLOYEE FRACTURED RIBS
EMPLOYEE WAS STRIPPING TINS OFF OF CALCIUM CROWNS WHEN HE FELT NUMBNESS IN HIS RIGHT ARM AND HAND. TINS WERE STICKING TO CROWNS DUE TO EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS.
LIFTING 50 LB BALE AFTER SHE HAD PACKED IT IN PLASTIC.
EMPLOYEE DROVE TRUCK OVER MATERIAL GRADED ON ROADWAY JARRING HIM. STRAINED BACK.
THE VICTIM REPORTED PAIN AND NUMBNESS IN HIS RIGHT HAND AFTER USING A STEEL BAR TO CHIP ICE FROM WALKING AREAS AROUND THE PLANT. THE EXACT NATURE OF HIS PROBLEM HAD NOT BEEN DIAGNOSED AS OF TH E REPORT.
TOM & CARL ZIEMBA WERE PUTTING A PUMP LINE TOGETHER WHEN A ROCK ROLLED FROM THE SPOIL STRIKIN G TOM ON LEFT SHOULDER, RIB CAGE & RIGHT THIGH. KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING HYDRAULIC OIL IN TRACTOR WITH 5 GALLON CAN WHILE REACHING DOWN TO PICK UP CAN OF OIL HE PULLE DMUSCLE IN GROIN AND RIGHT LEG
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING PIECE OF MACHINERY FROM TRUCK TO SHOP FLOOR AND GOT LEFT HAND CAUGHT AND PINCHED AS HE WAS SETTING PART DOWN CRANE WS BEING USED THIS ACCIDENT DID NOT INVOLVE A VIOLATIO N OF RULES REG MINE EQUIP
EMPLOYEE WAS IN MINE PORTAL OFFICE USING 2 COLEMAN LANTERNS FOR LIGHT DUE TO POWER FAILURE. SHE WAS APPARENTLY OVERCOME BY CARBON MONOXIDE FUMES FROM THE LANTERNS.
EMPLOYEE WAS POURING BROMIED TO SAMPLE COAL FOR OPERATION USE LIQUID SPILLED OVER AND BURNED 2 FINGERS ON EACH HAND
MAN STATED THAT HE WAS BREAKING A MUD SILL AND MUD SILL FLIPPED UP HITTING HIM ON THE THUMB
MAN WAS CRAWLING ON BOTTOM DUE TO SEAM HEIGHT TWISTED RT KNEE SPRAIN RT KNEE
EMP WAS OPERATING A TRACK-MOUNTED LOCOMOTIVE HIS LOCOMOTIVE STRUCK ANOTHER ONE WHICH WAS PARKED ON A CURVE AHEAD
EMPLOYEE STATED HE FINISHED BOLTING A PLACE AND DET DOWN TO EAT LUNCH. A ROCK FELL AND HIT HIM ON THE LEG.
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING COAL WITH 482 SCOOP EMPLOYEE RAN INTO RIB OF COAL SEAM CAUSING SCOOP TO BOW AND SLAM HIM INTO TOP AND RIB OF COAL SEAM JAMMING EMPLOYEES HEAD INTO TOP AND RIB EMPLOY EE WAS KNOCKED OUT
ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING LEFFT ARM AND LEG BRUISING ARM AND LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ON BOLTER AND HAD HIS HAND LAYING ON BOLTER AND 5" THICK DRAWROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN BOLTS.
INJURED WAS SITTING NEXT TO RIB WORKING ON HIS DINNER BUCKET AND DID NOT SEE SHUTTLE CAR. THE SHUTTLE CAR HIT HIM ON THE HIP CAUSING A SMALL FRACTURE TO HIS PELVIS. THE SHUTTLE CAR DRIVER DID NOT SEE HIM. HE WAS ON THE OFF SIDE OF THE DRIVER.
WHILE WORKING OUTSIDE USING CABLE ON WINCH TO MOVE RAILROAD CAR FORWARD THE CABLE PARTED STRIKING KIM CAIN JUST BELOW KNEE CAUSING A 3 INCH CUT AND A BRUISED TENDON
INJ WAS OPERATING A PIN MACHINE WHEN SOME COAL FELL FROM THE RIB STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK
DAY SHIFT HAD CUT 3 ENTRY UNDER MIDDLE MAN ABOUT 5FT HIGH EMPLOYEE TRIED TO BOLT AND WHEN POSITIONED DRILL POT HEAD HIS FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN TOP OF DRILL POT AND STEEL
4 RIGHT 5 NORTH LONGWALL PULLING SHIELDS FOOT SLIPPED WHILE SHIELD WAS MOVING PONTOON CAUGHT LEFT FOOT.
EMP RUNNING A 22 EIMCO MUCKER - MACHINE TIPPED OVER ON HIM
INJURED WAS STANDING NEAR OPENING OF TUNNEL WHEN BLAST WAS SET OFF APPROX 5 SEC. LATER SEEN A BOLT OF FIRE COMING OUT OF TUNNEL DIDN\T HAVE TIME TO GET OUT OF WAY OR WARN ANYBODY. TRIED TO TU RN HIS FACE AWAY FROM TUNNEL BUT DID NOT IN TIME TO AVOID GETTING THE FLASH FROM THE FIRE & CATCHING HIS CLOTHES ON FIRE RECEIVING 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO FACE NECK HEAD R SHOULDER & BOTH ARMS.
INJURED HAD BEEN SHOOTING IN HOPPER OFF & ON. HE PUT 2# PRIMER INTO FROZEN COAL IN THE HOPPER. AT THIS TIME HE SET THE SHOT OFF & HAD STOOD UP WHEN AN EXPLOSION CAME UP THE TUNNEL CAUSING INJ URED HE KNOCKED HIM AGAINST AHNDRAIL OR CATWALK CAUSING A CEREBRAL CONCUSSION TO HEAD & BURNS TO HEAD & FACE.
EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK ON LEFT ELBOW BY SWINING TUGGER CABLE THIS EMPLOYEE WAS TREATED ON SAME ELBOW MONTH OF NOV 83 INJURED IN GARAGE AT HOME
3 EES WERE TAKING A 6900 VOLT CABLE OUT OF THE #5-3 BREAK. ALL FORGOT TO TAKE THE POWER OFF THE BOX BEFORE THEY PULLED THE HEAD. AS THEY PULLED THE HEAD OUT IT FLASHED BEFORE BREAKER COULD T RIP. ALL RECEIVED FLASH BURNS.
INJ DISLODGED A TIMBER AND A HEADER STRUCK HIM ON TOP OF THE HEAD
MAN WAS TRYING TO LIFT A ROCK WITH A ROCK BAR WHEN BAR SLIPPED MAN HIT HAND ON ROCK AND CUT RIGHT THUMB
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO THE EDGE OF A BANK TO CHECK ON HIS CREW THAT WAS WORKING A SLURRY LINE THAT HAD FROZEN. HE STEPPED ON SOME SNOW COVERED ICE AND BOTH FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL ON HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATED, HE WAS CARRYING A 5 GAL. CAN OF FUEL FROM A TRUCK PARKED OUTSIDE THE TIPPLE TO A HEATED INSIDE THE TIPPLE. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON ICE CAUSING INJURY TO LEG.
3 EES WERE TAKING A 6900 VOLT CABLE OUT OF THE #5-3 BREAK. ALL FORGOT TO TAKE THE POWER OFF THE B OX BEFORE THEY PULLED THE HEAD. AS THEY PULLED THE HEAD OUT IT FLASHED BEFORE BREAKER COULD TRIP. ALL RECEIVED FLASH BURNS.
EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING METAL TO BE WELDED. WELDING ARC GOT TOO CLOSE AND BURNED MAN\S RIGHT WRIST.
EMPLOYEE STATED, HE WAS PUTTING AIR IN A PUMP FLOAT TO CHECK FOR LEAKS. EMPLOYEE STATED DUE TO USING TOO MUCH PRESSURE ON THE FLOAT IT EXPLODED. FOREIGN PARTICLES TO EYES, FACE, AND BRUISED S SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING THE TRUCK AND THE BRAKES FAILED TO WORK AND THE DRIVER JUMPED FROM THE TRUCK HITTING THE GROUND.
MAN STATED THAT HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS RT THIGH LOADING A BUGGY DRAG
HAD BEEN PUTTING IN A BEARING IN THE SHAKER ANOTHER EMP WAS RFEPLACING THE BELT CHEV AND A PIECE OF METAL CHIPPED OFF
PULLING METAL SHUTE OUT OF WORK AREA AND HURT HIS BACK.
MAN WAS OPERATING MOBLIE BRIDGE ATTACHED TO ANOTHER MOBILE BRIDGE BUDDY MOVED HIS BRIDGE JUST AS MAN WAS GETTING OUT OF 2ND BRIDGE MOVEMENT OF 1ST BRIDGE TWISTED 2ND BRIDGE PINNING MANS LEGS BETWEEN MOBILE BRIDGE AND LOW BELT STRUCTURE BRUISES AND CONTUSIONS OF RT KNEE AREA
EMPLOYEE WAS CRAWLING AROUND ON PAVEMENT MARKING UP THE PLACE TO BE BOLTED AND PUT KNEE DOWN ON A PIECE OF COAL BRUISING KNEE
EE WAS CUTTING PUMP HOSE WITH POCKET KNIFE & PUNCTURED HIS RIGHT LEG ABOVE THE KNEE.
INJURED WAS TIGHTENING A RESTRAINING ROPE ON A BARGE AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.
INJURED WAS GOING TO HOOK CHAIN FROM #1 KUBOTA TO #2 KUBOTA WHEN OPERATOR OF #1 KUBOTA BACKED UP PINCHING HIM BETWEEN THE TWO KUBOTAS.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN WEST END OF PIT & SLIPPED ON ICE STRIKING BACK OF HEAD AND BACK
LOADING POSTS ON SCOOP PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BNACK
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED & FELL CAUSING INJURY TO RIGHT LEG.
WAS LOADING ROCKDUST INTO SCOOP & FELT SOMETHING PULL IN BACK. ROCKDUST BAG WEIGHT 50LBX.
3 EES WERE TAKING A 6900 VOLT CBALE OUT OF THE #5-3 BREAK. ALL FORGOT TO TAKE THE POWER OFF THE BOX BEFORE THEY PULLED THE HEAD. AS THEY PULLED THE HEAD OUT IT FLASHED BEFORE BREAKER COULD TR IP. ALL RECEIVED FLASH BURNS.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING NEXT TO DRILL JUMBO AS IT TRAMMED. A BOOM SWUNG OVER AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE CHEST.
MINER OPERATOR HELPER AND A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FRACTURING A RIB
EMPLOYEE WAS DOWN ON HIS KNEES PUSHING THE SIDE OF THE ROCK DUSTER TO LOAD IT IN THE SCOOP.
EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING CANVAS WHEN HE WAS STANDING ON A STEP LADDER HE STARTED TO DRIVE A NAIL INTO THE CANVAS THE LADDER TIPPED OVER AND EMPLOYEE FELL TO THE BOTTOM
WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A BUSHING APPROX 400LBS WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AND BUSHING SLIPPED FROM HANDS
EMP WAS SAWING WOOD TO BE USED IN STOVE IN SHOP. HE LIFTED ONE END OF TREE AND STRAINED MUSCLE IN BACK
EMP WASA ASCENDING LADDEDR OF EUCLID TRUCK TO CLIMB INTO THE CAB WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK
TRIED TO REMOVE A FROZEN LUMP OF GRAVEL FROM HOPPER GATE WITH SHOVEL WHILE BELT WAS RUNNING. BETL CAUGHT SHOVEL AND BROKE RING FINGER AND INDEX FINGER . INDEX FINGER WAS CUT OFF HALF WAY DOWN FINGERNAIL.
PICKING UP PORTABLE WELDER-FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS BACK.
EMP WAS BAGG ING PULVERIZED LIME. HE WAS WEARING A WHITE CAP AIR SUPPLIED HOOD. HE HAD OPENED THE FACE PIECE ON THE HOOD A LITTLE SO HE COULD BREATH BETTER. A BAG OF LIME BURST AND LIME SPRAYE D INTO HIS RIGHT EYE THRU OPENING IN HOOD
INJ SLIPPED WHILE GETTING OUT OF OF SERVICE TRUCK AND STRAINED HIS KNEE
USING LOADER TO MOVE SNOW.TRAVELLING FORWARD LOADER BUCKET STRUCK EDGE OF PLATFORM SCALE.SUDDEN STOP CAUSED HARD HAT TO COME OFF.HAT WAS STOPPED BY WINDSHIELD AND HEAD HIT BRIM OF HAT CAUSING DEEP LACERATION.WAS WEARING SEAT BELT.SHOULDER HARNESS HAS BEEN ORDERED.
LUBRICATING A TRUNNION BEARING WHEN HER COAT BECXAME ENTANGLED IN A SECONDARY BALL MILL DISCHARGE CHUTE
WHILE WALKING DOWN HAUL ROAD HE SLIPPED ON SOME ICE AND INJURED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
WALKING UNDER TANK SLIPPED ON ICE AND FELL ON HIP
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING CLAY OFF FLOOR AND PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK ACCIDENT HAPPENED 122683 BUYT EMPLOYEE DID NOT GO TO DOCTOR UNTIL 122783 AEMPLOYEE DID NOT WORK 122883 BUT RETURNED OT WORK 1229
EMPLOYEE WAS GOING UP STEPS ON 7-35 DRAGLINE. FEET SLIPPED AND EMPLOYEE HIT RIGHT KNEE ON STEPS.
SLIPPED ONICE.FELL INTO CC3 BELT AND CAUGHT LEFT ARM BETWEEN BELT AND ROLLER.
EMP WAS PRESHIFTING AND CAME UPON A ROCK ON THE TRACK AS EMP WAS REMOVING ROCK FROM TRACK HE RUBBED HIS HAND ON SHARP PIECE OF THE ROCK CAUSING LACERATION OF LEFT RING FINGER
INDIVIDUAL CROSSING STRUCTURE SLIPPED AND CRACKED RIB.
LOADER WAS BEING TRAMMED INTO CUT IN CROSSCUT RIGHT OPERATOR PUSHED INTO FRESH CUT DISLODGNG BLOCK OF COAL 11" X 13" AND ROLLED ONTO OPERATORS RIGHT FOOT
THROWING PIP 3\\ ROUND X 3\LONG ACROSS MOBILE BRIDGE AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING MATERIAL WITH CART. THIS WAS 30 GALLON BARRELS. TWO HOURS LATER EMPLOYEE SAID LOWER PART OF HIS BACK WAS HURTING.
WAS STANDING ON AN 8IN CEMENT LINE TIGHTENING BOLTS ON AN 10 INCH LINE FEET SLIPPED AND ENTIRE WEIGHT WENT TO LEFT SHOULDER
INJURED WAS WALKING FROM BATHHOUSE TO HIS VEHICLE IN THE PARKING LOT WHEN HE SLIPPED ON A PATCH OF SNOW COVERED ICE & FELL TO THE PAVEMENT TWISTING HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMP WAS OPERATING #4 FURNACE. AIR BORNE PARTICLES. PERLITE PARTICLE GOT IN LEFT HIS LEFT EYE
EMPLOYEE CLIMBED UP LADDER AND WHEN HE STARTED DOWN FOOT SLIPPED ON ICE COVERED RUNG
EMPLOYEE WENT UP A STATIONARY BELT CONVEYOR TO GREASE THE HEAD PULLEY. THE BELT STARTED AND THREW HIM OFF OVER THE CHUTE AND ONTO A SPIRAL SAOLT CLASSIFIER, THAT WAS RUNNING SUFFERED A SEVEREL Y LACERATED DELTOID MUSCLE OF HIS RIGHT ARM, BRUISES AND ABRASIONS ON HIS CHEST AND ARMS AND LEGS.
SET CUTTING JACK, SLIPPED OUT AND HIT HAND.
DRIVING WEDGES WITH PIN DRIVER AND IT SLIPPED MASHING HAND BETWEEN HANDLE AND LEDGE.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
INJURED WAS WALKING OUT THE CLEANING PLANT OFFICE AT QUITTING TIME AT 11:00PM WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE ICE STRIKING HIS RIB CAGE ON THE GROUND AND ICE. FRACTURED RIB.
BRAKES FROZEN ON A PICK-UP TRUCK USING A TORCH TO THAW THEM THEY RELEASED CAUSING THE TRUCK TO ROLL OVER HIS CHEST HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND KEPT IN OVER NIGHT THEN RELEASED BACK TO DUT Y
2 BATTERIES PUSHED TOGETHER,MASHED AND BROKE MIDDLE FINGER NEAR TIP OF FINGER AT JOINT.
GETTING OUT OF HIS TRUCK AND FELL ON ICE.
INJURED WAS HELPING TWO OTHER MEN ALIGN TWO SC SECTIONS OF 8" PIPE THEY LOST THEIR GRIP DURING THIS PROCESS AND DROPPED THE PIPE ON HIS R FOOT THE FLANGE HIT BEHIND HIS STEEL TOE CAP AND BRO KE HIS TOE
WHILE CLEANING THE FACE OF UNIT 3 STRAINED HIS L. KNEE BY JARRING. (BUMPING HIS OPERATED KNEE-HE HAD RTW 12-5-83 FROM SURG.) ON 1-11-83 WE WERE HOTIFIED THAT IRVIN HAS A L. FX LATERAL TIBIA PL ATEAU CAUSED BY BUMPING THE SCOOP WITH HIS KNEE.
THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A SLICK AND MUDDY PIECE OF WOOD WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FALL. THIS RESULSTED IN TORN MUSCLES IN THE ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS FULLY CLOTHED AND LEAVING THE OFFICE TO GO OUT TO HIS CAR AND GO HOME EMPLOYEE FELL IN HALLWAY AND HIT HIS HEAD ON DOOR FRAME EMPLOYEE WENT INTO FULL ARREST THEN RESPONDED AFTER 3 MIN OF CPR
DUMPING ROCKER DUMP MUCK CAR -CAR CAME BACK ON HIM AND HIS ARM WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BODY AND TIMBER ADJACENT TO DUMP POINT.
WHILE INJURED WAS LIFTING A TIMBER ONTO THE ROOF BOLTER HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING A CUTTING EDGE ON AN END LOADER BUCKET, IN THE CENTRAL SHOP THE BUCKET TURNED OVER AND THE CUTTING EDGE FELL ON EMPLOYEE RIGHT FOOT.FRACTURING IT.
INJ WAS OPERATING SC AND HAD HAND ON BOOM FOR SUPPORT HE BACKED INTO A SC BEHIND HIM TO PUSH IT BACK AND THE BOOM OF HIS SC CAME UP AND CAUGHT HIS HAND
HELPING TO PULL TRICKLE DUSTER AND STRAINED HIS BACK
ICE ON ROAD AND GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING STEEL FROM SKIP & INJURED BACK
WHILE RIDING IN MANTRIP SCOOP HIT A HOLE AND SEAT FELL AND HIT HIS BACK
I.NAME. WAS TRYING TO UNSTOP THE BIN USING A BAR, WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO MASH HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE BAR AND THE BIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING 2 PARTS WHILE REPAIRING DRAGLINE ONE PART SLIPPED AND CRUSHED TIP OF EMPLOYEE FINGER
VICTIM DROPPED HYDRAULIC CYLINDER ON HIS HAND MASHING AND BREAKING ONE OF HIS FINGERS.
CLEANING UP WHERE PART OF BRATTICE HAD FALLEN WALKING BACK THROUGH AND THE REST OF THE BRATTICE FELL IN ON HIM
THE INJURED PERSON WAS HANGING A CABLE WHEN DRILL OPERATOR PUT THE REEL ON, CAUSING IT TO KNOCK HIS LEG AGAINST A TIMBER. IT BROKE HIS LEG.
MINER WAS WORKING UNDER CONVEYOR BELT REMOVING CLINKER FROM FLOOR. WHEN HE WAS MOVING THE BUCKET LEVEL OPERATOR BACKWARDS THE ROTATING MOTION PERMITTED HIS THUMB TO G ET CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CO NVEYOR BELT SUPPORTING ABGLE & THE LOADER BUCKET LEVER OPERATOR.
ED WAS LOADING THE LAST TIER OF 40 KG BAGS ON A PALLET ABOUT 5 FT OFF THE FLOOR WHILE SLINGING THE BAG UP INTO PLACE HE TWISTED HIS HAND WHILE HOLDING THE WEIGHT OF THE BAG THIS ACTION RESUL IN SPRAIN IN THE BACK PART OF HIS RT HAND
EMP WAS ATTEMPTING TO ALIGN AN OIL STORAGE TANK ATOP A FLAT BED SERVICE TRUCK WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED AND EMPLOYEE FELL FROM THE TRUCK TO THE CONCRETE FLOOR
INJURED CLAIMS WHEN A ATTEMPTING TO NSPECT HOLES IN FAN SHROUD HE STEPPED ON FAN ROTOR IN SO DOING IT TURNED AND HE FELL TO PLATFORM BRUISING BOTH LEGS
WHILE WORKING IN A PIT, A ROCK 21/2 FT.X 2 1/2 FT. CAME DOWN OFF OF THE SPOIL AND HIT HIS RT. LEG BETWEEN THE KNEE AND ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SUPPORT ONE END OF SWING GENERATOR SHAFT ON THE MARION DRAGLINE UTILIZING A GRAB CHAIN AND THE 3 TON ELECTRIC HOIST IN THE DRAGLINE. HE WAS HOLDING THE GRAB CHAIN WI TH RIGHT HAND AND OPERATING CONTROLS OF ELECTRIC HOIST WITH LEFT HAND. HE INADVERTANTLY HAD HIS HAND BETWEEN THE COUPLING AND THE GRAB CHAIN WHEN HE BUMPED THE HOIST TO TIGHTEN CHAIN. THE HOI
MOTOR MECHANIC WAS REMOVING A RADIATOR FROM A D-9 CATERPILLAR BY HOISTING IT FREE WITH A GROVE CRANE. THE EYE BOLT BROKE AND THE LOAD PINCHED THE MOTOR MECHANICS HAND BETWEEN THE RADIATOR AND FRAME.
JACK WAS COMING DOWN A LADDER WITH A WATER HOSE IN ONE HAND HIS FOOT SLIPPED ANDHE LOST BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 4 FEET. IT HAD BEEN RAINING AND WAS VERY COLD.
REPLACING SPRING ON TRUCK AND THE SPRING SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HAND TEARING IT OPEN AROUND THUMB AREA
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A WELD CLEANING TOOL TO CLEAN RUST AND DIRT OFF THE #2 DESLIMING VIBRATING SCREEN - SIEVE FEEDER BOX CHUTE. HE WAS PREPARING TO INSTALL AND WELD A PIECE OF STEEL (3/8" X 48" X 18") ONTO THE CHUTE. HE HAD THE PLATE LYING ON THE SPLASH BOX (DIVERTER) AND WHILE CLEANING THE CHUTE HE ACCIDENTALLY STEPPED ONTO THE ONE EDGE OF THE PLATE AND THE PLATE SLID OFF T
INJ WAS WALKING DOWN A BANK WATCHING THE 21700 POWER CABLE AND STEPPED ON SOME UNEVEN GROUND WHICH BROKE FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIS RT ANKLE TO TURN UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL
WAS DISMOUNTING FROM ROCK HOPPER LADDER AND SLIPPED ON METAL FLOOR
INJ WAS STANDING BETGWEEN A SHUTTLECAR AND SUPPLY WAGON LOADING CONCRETE BLOCK FROM THE WAGON INTO THE SHUTTLECAR THE SHUTTLCAR DRIFTED FORWARD PINNING HIS FOOT BETWEEN THE SHUTTLCAR AND SUP SUPPLY WAGON SUSTAINED 5 FRACTURED TOES AND SEVERE LACERATION TO BOTTOM OF RT FOOT
EMP STATES WHILE HE WAS TEARING DOWN A WALL A CONCRETE BLOCK FELL ON TOP OF HIS RT FOOT SWELLING NOTED AT PLACE OF CONTACT TO FOOT
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO RE-RAIL A DERAILED LOADED MINE CAR, VICTIM STEPPED BACK OUT OF THE WAY OF THE LIFTING JACK WHILE THE CAR MOVED OVER ATOWARD ALIGNMENT, WHEN HE STEPPED BACK HE LOST HIS FO OTING AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
WALKING BETWEEN BRATTICE WORK PLACED DIAG ACROSS INTERSECTION AND CORNER OF RIB.AS HE WAS WALKING,CORNER OF RIB ROLLED OUT KNOCKING EMPL TO GROUND.
AS EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING MATERIAL FROM THE HOIST PLATFORM HE SLIPPED ON AN ICY SPOT ON THE WALKWAY AND FELL STRIKING HIS NECK AGAINST A TOOL STORAGE SLED THIS ACCIDENT DID NOT RESULT IN LOST TIME UNTIL 011684
MR. NELSON WAS HELPING DRILL AN ANCHOR HOLE IN THE BOTTOM WITH A BUTTERFLY DRILL. WHILE DRILLING THE HOLE THE DRILL STALLED. AS THE DRILL STALLED MR. NELSON LET GO OF THE HANDLE, ALLOWING THE HANDLE TO FLY AROUND AND HIT HIM ON THE LEFT FOREARM.
CLAIMS THAT HE WAS STANDING NEXT TO HIS STOPPED MOTOR WHEN ANOTHER MOTOR UNEXPECTEDLY CAME UP BEHIND HIM. AS HE WAS QUICKLY GETTING INTO A MANHOLE, CLAIMS BACK PAIN (HAS PREVIOUS BACK PROBLEMS ).
JERRY WAS LIFTING A GARDNER-DENVER DRILL UP AGAINST THE RIB, FOR REPAIR, STRAINED HIS BACK IN DOING SO.
PIECE OF SLATE FELL AND STRUCK THE INJURED ON LEFT SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS IN #5 ENTRY WHEN HE WAS RUN OVER BY A SHUTTLE CAR CAUSING CONTUSIONS AND ABRASIONS TO THE UPPER BODY AND A LACERATION OF THE NOSE
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT WITH A FLETCHER ROOF BOLTER AS HE WAS PASING BOLT INTO THE HOLE WITH THE BOON HE WAS RESTING THE WRENCH ON HIS RIGHT THIGH AS HE LOWERED THE BOON THE BOON P PUSHED THE WRENCH INTO HIS LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS REACHING OVERHEAD TO MASRK SIGHTS ON MINE ROOFA ND STRINED HIS BACK
INJURED WAS JACKING UP TAKE-UP UNIT FOR BELT WHEN LIFTING JACK KREELED OVER LETTING TAKE-UP FALL ON HIS FOOT.
LARGE ROCK ON REAR OF TRUCK CAUGHT TIMBER ON FRONT END RAISED UP.
TAKING BELT STRUCTURE OUT OF CAR AND MASHED FINGER BETWEEN CAR AND STRUCTURE.
HE STEPPED OFF OF THE JEEP. HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND ALL HIS WEIGHT CAME DOWN ON HIS LEFT ANKLE.
ACCORDING TO CURTIS HESS HE HURT HIS BACK ON THE 22 DAY OF DEC 1983 THERE WERE @NO EYE WITNESSESS AND WAS NOT REPORATED TO ANYONE AT THE MINE DEC 27, 1983 CALLED SAID HE HURT HIS HURT HIS BACK.
EMP WAS HANGING LINE CURTAIN IN FACE & HURT BACK
MAN STATED BY PHONE THAT HE HAD STEPPED IN HOLE & INJURED LEG-DATE & LOCATION UNKNOWN BUT DUE TO POWER OUTAGE & SHIFT BEING BLOWN-122283 WAS THE ONLY DATE APPLICABLE-STRAIN SUSPECTED BUT HAVE NT BEEN ABLE TO FIND OUT WHICH LEG NOTE MAN DIDNT START LOOSING TIME UNTIL 010784
TRYING TO REMOVE R R TIE FROM UNDER RAIL WITH LINE BAR WHEN BAR GLANCED OFF STRIKING RIGHT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A ROLL OF WIRE AND STRAINED ABDOMEN
HAD GOT OFF MOTOR TO SWITCH OUT TO BATTERY BARN TRACK,STEPPED BETWEEN TRACKS AND SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE DIRECTING A LOADER STEPPED ON A PATCH OF ICE AND FELL WRENCHING BACK UNDERGOING MEDICAL TREATMENT STILL NOT BACK TO WORK PERHAPS ANOTHER WEEK
AS INJURED WAS RIDING IN JEEP A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMP HAD DRILL STEEL HUNG UP IN HOLE HE REMOVED WXTENSION STEEL HUNG IN HOLE HE REMOVED EXTENSION FROM HOLE AND LOOSE STEEL FELL FROM HOLE AND STRUCK EMP ON LEFT FOREARM
HARLEY WELDONG WAS UNLOADING SUPPLIES OUT OF THE BUCKET OF THE UNITRAC ON THE FACE OF SECTION 2104 AS HE BEGAN UNLOADING THE FIRST OF FOUR ROLLS OF CURTAIN CLOTH HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN HIS GRO GROIN THAT RADIATED TO HIS STOMACH
INJURED WAS RIDING MANTRIP INTO MINER. HE RAISED HIS HEAD AND HIT IT ON THE TOP.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING A TRUCK WITH BLOCKS OF SALT AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
EE WAS SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER IN THE PROCESS OF REPLACING CRUSHER LINER. HE PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS LWOER BACK.
DRAW SLATE BROKE AT FACE & FELL BACK TO OPERATOR HELPER & BOSS
EMPLOYEES HAD STARTED A FIRE IN A FIVE GALLONG BUCKET AT A TEMPORARY WORKSITE TO WARM THEMSELVES. ONE EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO MOVE THE BUCKET BY USING A LONG STICK THROUGH THE BUCKET BAIL HANDLE , THE BUCKET SLIPPED OFF THE STICK, AND BURNING MATERIAL SPLASHED ONTO VICTIMS LOWER LEG CAUSING 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS.
WHILE PULLING SPIKES THE INJURED SLIPPED AND FELL.
A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE MINE ROOF WAS BEING BOLTED UP TO THE ROOF AND FELL SPRAINING THE MINERS BACK AND MAKING A SMALL CUT ON HIS HAND.
RICHARD MIX WAS GOING DOWN THE STEP OF THE RARE EARTH SEPARATION PLANT AFTER HIS SHIFT TO CATCH THE VAN. WHEN HE GOT TO THE BOTTOM HE TURNED TO HIS LEFT AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE AND FOOT. RI CHARD STATED THAT IF HE HAD TAKEN MORE CARE THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING ROCK STRAINED MUSCLES IN BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN IRON BAR TO GET A LUMP OF COAL OUT OF THE CHUTE ON THE COAL CRUSHER BAR WENT UP AGAINST THE CRUSHER CATCHING EMPLOYEES RIGHT HAND BETWEEN BAR AND CRUSHER
WHILE WORKER WAS CLEANING OUT STONE CHUTE APIECE OF STONE FELL STRIKING HIM ON THELEFT KNEE
EMP. STATED HE WAS WALKING FROM HAUL TRUCK PARKING LOT INTO SHOP WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL, INJURING RIGHT KNEE.
WORKING IN GRIZZLEY #11 WINDOW 3.MUCK STARTED COMING OUT OF WINDOW -TURNED TO GET OUT OF WAY,ROCK HIT HIM ON BACK OF RIGHT LEG AT KNEE.
EES WERE CHANGING LINER IN CRUSHER CONE. INJURED & 2 OTHER MEN WERE PUTTING LOCKING NUT ON MANTLE WHEN MANTLE SLIPPED & CAUGHT FINGERS ON RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING CONVEYOR DRIVE CHAIN ON FEEDER WHEN HE LIFTED IT AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
HE IS AN ELECTRICIAN, HE WAS HELPING TO ASSEMDE NEW CONTINUOUS MINER IN UNDERGROUND SHOP, ONE END OF MINER TAIL WAS ON SCOOP BUCKET AND THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO RAISE OTHER AND SO THE MAIN FRAM E OF THE MINER COULD BACK UNDER AND BE ATTACHED TO THE TAIL ASSEMSLY, THEY HAD USED A DOUBLED BELT CHAIN TO LIFT THE TAIL, THE CHAIN BROKE AND TAIL FELL ON MANS FOOT. BIG TOE LEFT FOOT OPEN F
EE WAS CLEANING ROCK OFF THE OTP OF A C/M A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING HIS HEAD RIGHT SHOULDER & RIGHT HAND, KNOCKING HIM TO THE BOTTOM CAUSING INJURY TO HIS RIGHT KNEE.
MAN STATES WAS LEANING OVER BRATTICE WALL WITH ARM FULL OF CAP BOARDS WHEN CO WORKER WAS SPLITTING CONCRETE BLOCK WITH AXE PIECE OF CONCRETE FLEW INTO MY LEFT EYE
CLEANING UNDER CONVEYOR BELT.RAISED UP TO PUT SHOVELFULL OF MATERIAL ON BELT FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.
HE WAS RIDING ON KABOTA AND FELL OFF CAUSING A AFRACTURE OF THE FEMUR NEAR THE HIP JOINT.
ROCK FELL AND HIT ON THE HEAD.
DRAW SLATE FELL AT FACE BACK TO OPERATOR HELPER & BOSS
MAN STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS WALKING DOWN TRACK ENTRY HE STEPPED IN A SWITCH AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE
WHILE ROCKBOLTING ON 4660 96 F.W. STOPE ROCK FELL FROM BACK STRIKING AND LACERATING RIGHT SIDE OF FACE.
WHIEL ATTEMPTING TO INSERT A DRILL INTO PREDRILLED HOLE IN MINE ROOF HE APPLIED TO MUCH THRUST TO THE DRILL UNIT CAUSING DRILL STEEL TO BEND CATCHING THE LITTLE AND RING FINGER OF LEFT HAND B BETWEEN DRILL MAST AND THE DRILL STEEL THUS CAUSING BOTH FINGERS TO BE LACERATED AND REQUIRING SUTURES
SETTING JACK ON CONTINOUS MINER. CAUGHT RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER AND CRUSHED IT.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE BOLT TOP HE SUSTAINED AN INJURY TO HIS BACK THE INJURIED WAS HELPING HANDLE MATERIAL USED TO INSTALL PERMANENT SUPPORT AND WAS NOT OP ERATING ANY EQUIPMENT AT THE TIME OF THE INJURY THE AREA WAS ABOVE NORMAL WALKING HEIGHT WITH MATERIALS MAXIMUM WEIGHT AROUND 30LBS
AIRLINE CAME OFF TRUCK CAUSING A RUNAWAY BEFORE THE EMERGENCY BRAKES TOOK HOLD THE TRUCK HIT A ROCK AND AN EMBANKMENT THROWING THE DRIVER AROUND IN THE CAB RECEIVING SEVERAL BRUISES ON HIS BOD BODY
WAS REPAIRING TRAM CHAIN ON MINER. HIT RING FINGER, RIGHT HAND, WITH HAMMER. FINGER WAS LACERATED T. FIRST JOINT.
MINER HAD PROCEEDED INTO A TIMBER AREA OF STOPE TO INSTALL ADDITIONAL STULLS SLAB FELL STRIKING P STULL STULL STRUCK MINER ON RITHT HIP CAUSING DISLOCATED HIP
IN OCT 83 GUSTAV STRAINED HIS LEFT WRIST WHILE ATTACHING A CABLE TO RAILS THIS WAS REPORTED WHEN HE RESTRAINED THE WRIST LIFTING A SCRUB TUB IN BATHHOUSE WHILE CLEANING BTHHOUSE ON 122183 HE CALLED IN TO REPORT HE WAS GOING TO SEE A DOCTOR ON 122283 AND ON 011084 HE REPORTED HE HAD BEEN OFF DUE TO WRIST RAIL CLAMP & SCRUB TUB
HAD JUST PUNCHED IN FOR NEW SHIFT WAS TURNING AROUND FROM TIME CLOCK HAD SNOW ON BOOTS, TRIED TO STOMP SNOW FROM BOOTS TILE FLOOR WET FROM PREVIOUS EMPLOYEES SLIPPED AND FELL ON WET FLOOR
WHILE STEPPING FROM TRUCK OF KOMATSU DOZER ONTO THE REAR OF A 992 CAT ENDLOADER RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED FROM REAR OF ENDLOADER & EE FELL APPROX 5\ TO THE GROUND.
BEFORE SHIFT, THIS EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING THE MINE BUS TO THE LAMPHOUSE. THE DRIVER OF THE BUS, BELIEVING THAT HE HAD TO PULL OVER TO LET ANOTHER VEHICLE PASS, DROVE THE BUS ONTO A FALSE EDGE OF OF PLOWED SNOW. THE SNOW COLLAPSED AND THE BUS FELL ONTO IT LEFT SIDE. THE EMPLOYEE HAD HIS FOOT CAUGHT IN THE SEATS ON THE RIGHT SIDE AND SPRAINED HIS KNEE.
MR RECTOR WAS PULLING HOSE FOR OUR #225 PUMP AND STRAINED HIS LEFT LEG
THE EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING AN OXYGEN TANK, THE TANK SLIPPED OUT OF THE EMPLOYEES LEFT HAND AND CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEES RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE TANK AND THE BED OF A PICKUP TRUCK.
VICTIM WAS PUT IN A STARAIN. HE COMPLAINED ABOUT HIS BACK THAT SHIFT BUT SAID HE DIDNOT THINK HE WAS HURT BAD ENOUGH TO GO TO THE DR.
MINER STRAINED BACK WHILE HANDLING JACKLEG DRILL FOR ROOF BOLTING.
INJ WAS OPERATING SHUTTLECAR WHEN HE CAME TO CLOSE TO POST AND CAUGHT HIS ARM BETWEEN POST AND LEG OF CANOPY ON SHUTTLCAR
EMP WAS ADVANCING WING CURTAIN TOWARDS FACE OF #4 ENTRY WHEN ROCK FELL IN LEFT X CUT FALLING BACK THROUGH LAST ROW OF ROD BOLTS AND STRIKING HIM ROCK HIT HIM ON LEFTR SIDE BREAKING HIS PELVI ND ANOTHER ROCK STRUCK HIS LEFT FOOT CHIPPING PIECE OF BONE BEHIND HIS LITTLE TOE
EMP WAS HANDLING 5 GAL CANS OF OIL STOOD ERECT AFTER SETTING A CAN DOWN AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK AND NECK
SUBJECT WAS GETTING OUT OF HIS DOZER AND SLIPPED AS HE STEPPED TO THE GROUND IT WAS OBVEREO WITH ICE DUE TO FREEAING RAIN SLEET.
EMP WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR BRAKES FAILED SHUTTLE CAR STRUCK A RIB JERKING EMPLOYEES HEAD AND SPRAINED HIS NECK
INJURED & ONE MORE MAN WAS SENT TO UNLOAD ROCKDUST & CINDER BLOCKS INTO SCOOP THEY LOADED 2 CAR OF ROCKDUST & 3 CAR OF BLOCK THE EMPLOYEE OVEREXERTED HIMSELF CAUSING STRAIN IN LOWER BACK
EMP WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN THE RIB ROLLED OUT AND HIT HIM ON LOWER PART OF LEFT LEG BRUISING HIS LEG
WAS BARRING DOWN THE BACK IN HIS STOPE A SLAB FELL THAT HE KNOCKED LOOSE STRIKING THE SCALING BAR WHICH IN TURN STRUCK THE MINER ON THE ANKLE
CLEANING WITH SCOOP,SCOOP BOUNCED WHEN RAN INTO RIB NOTCH.ELBOW HIT RIB JAMMING HAND INTO CONTROLS FRACTURING ARM ABOVE WRIST.
WHILE WALKING OUT OF SHOP THE INJURED STEPPED ON PIECE OF ROUND BAR STEEL, NEARLY FALLING AND TWISTING RIGHT KNEE.
ORIGINAL ACCIDENT AND REPORT WAS 111483 DISABILITY RECURRED AS OF 122083 & FURTHER TREATMENT NECESSARY DR STATEMENT ATTACHED -EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING DOZER OPERA TOR CLEAN DOZER TRACKS WHICH WERE FULL OF MUD & WHILE SHOVELING SPRAINED HIS BACK
TRUCK WAS COMING UP HILL TO SCALE HOUSE WHEN OPERATOR SAID ENGINE CUT OUT & STOPPED PULLING HE LET TRUCK BACK DOWN HILL HE HIT ROCK AT BOTTOM OF HILL THT WERE IN BERM HE THOUGHT TRUCK WAS TURN ING OVER & HE JUMPED OUT ONTO FROZEN GROUND
INJURED STATED HE WAS SITTING IN THE #6 ROOM WHEN ROCK FELL FROM TOP. ROCK STRUCK INJURED ON HEAD THEN FELL ON RT. HAND AND LEFT LEG CUTTING RT. MIDDLE RING FINGER AND LEFT LEG.
HE IS A GENERAL INSIDE LABORER, HE WAS WORKING AS A ROOF BOLTER, HIS CLOTH GLOVE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BOLT AND THE STEEL PLATE, HE COULD NOT PULL HIS HAND FREE AND HE MASHED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE STEEL PLATE AND THE ROOF. FRACTURED 4TH AND 5TH FINGERS ON THE RIGHT HAND.
UNLOADING TOOL BOX FROM GOLF CART-JERKED IT AND FEET SLIPPED CAUSING SEVERE PAIN IN LOWER BACK.ACCIDENT REPORTED 1-9-84.
A ROCK WAS STUCK BETWEEN BELT DRIVE ROLLER & BELT MR. BELCHER HAD A BAR TRYING TO PULL IT OUT. HIS FOOT SLIPPED & HE FELL AGAINST THE GUARD.
EMP WAS BOLTING TOP IN RT BREAK OF #5 ENTRY OF THE 1ST LEFT TURKEY #1 SECTION ID 0030 WHILE DRILLING THE STEEL BROKE HITTING EMP OF LEFT WRIST FRACTURING IT
EMPLOYEE BUMPED HIS KNEE WHILE INSTALLING OIL PAD.
HE WAS STANDING BEHIND A BOX OF BAGS, WAS NOT SEEN BY FORK TRUCK OPERATOR WHO WAS CARRYING A PALLET OF FILED BAGS, DRIVER HIT BOX WITH PALLET BOX STRUCK EMPLOYEE SPRAIN ARM BRUISE RIBS.
EMP WAS CUTTING ANGLE AND BREAKING THEM APART WHEN HE CUT HIS RIGHT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT POWER CABLE TO MOVE TO ANOTHER LOCATION. HE STRAINED LOWER PART OF HIS BACK. HE WORKED ON LIGHT DUTY UNTIL FRIDAY DEC. 30 AT WHICH TIME ACCIDENT BECAME A LOS ST TIME
STONE FELL IN REPABILITATION AREA STRIKING LEFT HAND STONE FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS.
DRILLING A 3 FT HOLE AND THE DRILLINGS BACKED UP IN THE HOLE SHUT OFF MACHINE AND LOOKED TOWARD THE HOLE AND THE AIR THAT HAD BUILT UP IN THE HOLE BLEW THE DRILLING OUT INTO HIS FACE
INJ WAS PULLING CHARGER CABEL PLUG OUT OF BATTERY OF SCOOP AND HIT HIS FINGER AGAINST PTO BOX
CHIPPING HITCH, COAL FELL HIT KNEE
STRAINED BACK WHILE LOADING SUPPLIES (ROOF BOLTS) IN SCOOP.
EMPLOYEE REMOVING LARGE ROCK FROM ROAD PULLED LOWER BACK MUSCLES
DRIVING CHERRY PICKER DOWN INCLINE,LOST CONTROL AND IT OVERTURNED.RECEIVED MULTIPLE INJURIES.
WALKING FROM ONE SIDE OF MINER TO THE OTHER AND TRIPPED ON GRADE SPRAINING R. KNEE.
HAND CAUGHT IN DUST COLLECTOR AIR LOCK AND CUT 3 FINGERS ON LEFT HAND
MAN WAS LIFTING AND PULLING RAILS OUT OF K11 LW TRACKS ENTRY. MAN FELT PAIN IN NECK AND BACK.
TIGHTENING BRAKE ON RAILROAD CAR AND HURT BACK (OLD INJURY OF ABOUT ONE YEAR AGO).
TAKING SCRAP METAL OUT OF BANDING TOOL WHEN METAL CAME OUT IT CAUSED LACERATION TO PALM OF HIS LEFT HAND REQUIRING SUTURES.
INJURED WAS MAKING SPLICE ON S/CAR - PUT CABLE CRIMPER HANDLE AGAINST RIBS AND PULLED ON OTHER HANDLE WITH BOTH HANDS CAUSING PAIN IN RIBS.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO TAKE THE DRIVE HEAD ON E-1 RAKE CLASSIFIER APART WHEN THE ARMS AND PADDLES SLIPPED OVER AND HIT HIS RIGHT LEG AGAINST THE FRAME.
CHECKING IF WET FAN WAS RUNNING AFTER IT WAS CLEANED.HAD HANDS ON TOP PULLEY GUARD WITH RAG IN HIS HAND WRAPPED AROUND HIS THUMB.PULLEY CAUGHT RAG JERKED IT OUT OF HAND BREAKING HIS THUMB.
INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO RE-ESTABLISH VENTILATION CURTAIN. HE PARTNER WAS MOVING THE PINNER UP FOR THE NEXT ROW OF BOLTS AND RAN OVER HIS FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN A STRAIN WHILE OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR BECAUSE OF LOW TOP. HE WAS ALSO TRAMMING SHUTTLE CAR ON ROUGH HAULWAY.
GOT ON TONGUE OF TRAILER PROCEEDING TO SPRAY INSIDE OF TRAILER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON RIGHT ARM AND BROKE IT.
PIECE OF TOP COAL FELL ON HARD HAT WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING ON A MOTOR CAUSING STRAIN TO NECK AND LOW BACK AREA.
EMPL AND 2 COWORKERS WERE HANGING MINER CABLE WHEN EMPL FELT PAIN IN LOW BACK.
EMPL GOING TO GET INTO MAINT DEPT PICK-UP TRUCK GRASPED DOOR HANDLE SLIPPED ON PACKED SNOW AND ICE AND FELL.
THE EMPLOYEES WERE IN THE PROCESS OF RELOCATING THE BIN-WITH THE USE OF TRACK RAILS MOUNTED UPON SWAMP-PADS, AND RAIL TRUCKS PLACED UNDER THE BIN AND MOVED TO THE END OF THE RAILS. WITH THE US E OF A MOTORIZED PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AFTER THE BIN HAS BEEN RAISED OFF THE RAILS THEY ARE THEN PULLED TO THE NEXT DESIRED POSITION. A BOLT IS PLACED THROUGH THE OPENING IN THE RAIL A CHAIN ATT
SHUTTLE CONVEYOR BELT RAN OVER FOOT WHEN RESTARTED AFTER STALL DUE TO FREEZE.
VIC WAS POSITIONING THE BOLTER IN #3 ROOM WHEN THE BOLTER RAN INTO A HOLE AND THE CANOPY ON THE 380 GLAIS CAME DOWN AND HIT HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON A ROCKY SURFACE AT THE PLANT AND STEPPED WRONG ON THE SURFACE CAUSING HIM TO THROW HIS BACK OUT OF PLACE
INSTALLING RADIATOR IN END LOADER AND WAS STEPPING FROM REAR TIRE TO STEP LADDER,DESCENDING LADDER MISSED STEP AND FELL FROM LADDER SPRAININ RIGHT KNEE.
EMP WAS GOING TO PLACE A TARP OVER A LOAD OF BAGGED STONE THAT HAD BEEN LOADED ONTO A FLAT BED TRAILER TRUCK. THE TARP WAS ROLLED UP AND LYING ON TOP OF THE BAGS AS HE TRIED TO STEP ACROSS THE ROLLED UP TARP HIS LEFT FOOT HIT THE EDGE OF THE ROLLED
LINING UP A JACK TO PUT A PIN IN & CAUGHT HIS FINGER IN THE JACK.
GOT OFF FORKLIFT TO MOVE DRUM OUT OF HIS WAY, FORKLIFT MOVED AND KNOCKED HIM INTO SCREEN #1 STOCK BIN.
CARTER WAS INJURED AS HE AND HATCHER WERE LIFTING UP THE POSTION ASSEMBLY ONTO THE TABLE CARTER EXPERIENCED A PAIN IN HIS BACK THIS EMP HAS HAD A HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS
MOVING WELDER,STRAINED GROIN.
STANDING ON PLATFORM AT DYER-PASS CHUTE USING SLEDGE HAMMER LEFT KNEE POPPED OUT OF JOINT
CLEANING OVERSPILL SAND FROM UNDERNEATH PORTABLE SAND SCREEN CONVEYOR WITH FRONT END LOADER.AS HE WAS BACKING OUT FROM UNDER CONVEYOR,LOADER BUCKET CAUGHT FRAME AND CAME DOWN ON LOADER PINCHIN ING RIGHT THIGH BETWEEN STEERING WHEEL AND SEAT.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL IN THE OFFICE INJURING NECK. HAD SNOW ON BOTTOM OF HIS BOOTS.
SCAFFOLD BRACKET COLLAPSED CAUSING FALL.BRACKET HAS HINGE POINT ON HORIZ LEG OUT OF WHICH PIN-BOLT-FELL OUT.INJ LANDED ON BOTH FEET AND FELL TO GROUND-7\.
INJ AND ANOTHER EMP WERE LIFTING TIMBER WHEN INJURED COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN BACK
TAILPIECE BROKE LOOSE AND HIT SCOTT ON HIS LEFT FOOT. TIMBER HOLDING TAILPIECE BROKE.
MAN WAS INBY FEEDER, TRIMMING EXCESS BOLTING OF SPLASH QUARD, ALONGSIDE RUNNING CONVEYOR BELT. NKNOWN ITEM CAUGHT MAN PULLING HIM ON BELT SOME 100 FT UNDER FEEDER HE THEN JUMPED OFF CAUSING IN UJURY TO LT HIP AND BOTH KNEE.
WHILE ROOFBOLTING THERE WAS A BOUNCE WHICH CAUSED THE RIB TO SLOUGH OFF HITTING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE LEG.
WOMAN STATES WAS ROCK DUSTING A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF HITTING MY NECK CAUSING ME TO FALL FORWARD TOWARD MY KNEES
CUTTING OFF PIECE OF IRON 8INX22INX3/8 IT SWUNG BACK AND FELL ON MY FOOT JUST BEHIND THE ST EEL TOE
OPENING THE LID ON POWDER MAGAZINE.DROPPED LID ON RIGHT HAND.
CARRYING BAG OF CALCIUM WHEN FOOT SLIPPED BETWEEN SOME BAGS OF CALCIUM AND WAS CAUGHT.LOST BALANCE AND FELL WHILE HOLDING BAG FRACTURING LEFT LOWER LEG.
2 OPERATOR PARKED HIS CAR ON FEEDER DID NOT TURN LIGHTS BACK TO FACE 1 OPERATOR DID SEE CAR 2 ON DUMP AND HIT IT 1 OPERATOR HURT SHOULDER AND NECK.
WHILE WORKER WAS TRYING TO MOVE A LARGE PIECE OF STONE MAN EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS BACK.
WAS ADJUSTING ROLLER ON BELT LINE AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN EYE
ROOF BOLTING ROCK FELL HITTING MAN ON L UPPER ARM SM. SUPERFICIAL LACERATION ABOVE RT EYE APPROX 1/4" WAS ALSO KNOCKED DOWN & TWISTED R KNEE.
VICTIM WAS TOOF BOLTING IN BREAK BETWEEN #5 & #6 ENTRIES-SPOT BOLTING. AS VICTIM STARTED A HOLE A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW SLATE FELL CAUSING THE VICTIM TO BECOME FRIGHTENED & INCREASE THE UP PRES SURE ON THE HEAD. THIS RESULTED IN THE DRILL STEEL BENDING & COMING OUT OF THE H OLE. THE DRILL STEEL STRUCK THE VICTIM ON THE LEFT WRIST & IN THE SIDE.
TURNING A DRAGLINE CABLE CABLE HAD BEEN TURNED AND HOOKED UP AND WAS HOLDING CABLE OVER WITH A BAR TO INSURE IT WRAPPING INTO RIGHT GROVES WHEN ACCIDENT HAPPENED CABLE GOT TO TIGHT AND THREW T THE BAR AND BROKE HIS WRIST.
SUBJECT ATTEMPTED TO GRAB AN OBJECT THOUGHT TO BE A PIECE OF TAPE OFF OF A MOVING FAN BELT AND HIS FINGER WAS STRUCK BY THIS OBJECT UNKNOWN
WHILE BUILDING A STOPPING ON RETURN SIDE, THE STAMPING FELL OVER STRELING HIM ON THE ANKLE AND FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING BLASTER AND WAS INJURED WHILE BOTH MEN WERE RUNNING FOR COVER AFTER THE BLASTER SET OFF THE SHOT AND THEY SAW ROCKS FLYING OF THEM.
WHILE MUCKING WITH AN EIMCO 21 IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE RIB, HE WAS IN THE RETREAT MOTION WHEN HE TURNED THE EIMCO TO THE LEFT CAUGHT HIS RIGHT ARM BETWEEN THE CONTROLLER AND THE SIDE WALL CAUSING THE FRACTURE OF THE WRIST.
WAS MOPPING THE FLOOR ALONG THE SIDE OF #2 PUMP WHEN EMPLOYEE TURNED TO START DOWN THE STEPS AND HE FELL, STRIKING HIS RIGHT KNEE ON PUMP COLUMN.
MAN WAS WALKING BEHIND INSPECTOR AND SLIPPED ON THE ICE AND HIT BOTH KNEES ON THE BOTTOM. HE ALSO SLID ON THE BOTTOM INJURING HIS RIGHT ELBOW AND LEFT SIDE OF HIS CHEST. MAN RETURNED TO WORK 1 12-20-83 FOR A PART OF THE SHIFT AND THEN WENT TO SEE A DOCTOR.
THE INJURED SUFFERED A CONTUSION TO RIGHT HAND WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF FALLING SLATE.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS PUTTING PIPE UP ON WALL AND DRILLING PIN HOLES WHEN SHOULDER HAS POPPING SOUND WAS ALSO USING JACK HAMMER THE DAY BEFORE
ATTEMPTED TO ADJUST BELTLINE BY PULLING ON A ROPE AND DEVELOPED LOW BACK PAIN CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 122183
AS EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RETRIEVE TWO DRILL STEELS HE GOT HIS LEFT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN THEM.
BLAINE WAS OPERATING A ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN INJURED WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO LOWER THE HEAD HE HIT THE WRONG LEVER THIS CAUSED THE HEAD TO DROP QUICKLY INSTEAD OF SLOWLY PINCHING HIS LEGF UND DER THE HEAD THIS RESULTED WINTO A LACERATION
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING AN AUGER TYPE CONTINIOUS MINER WHEN HE POSITIONED THE MINER INTO HIS CORNER THE PANIC BAR MOUNTING BOX BUMPED HIM IN THE LEG AS IT CAME NEXT TO HIM.
EMPLOYEE TWISTED HIS FOOT AS HE STEPPED FROM A DRILL TO THE GROUND GROUND WAS ROUGH RUTTED AND FROZEN
SLIPPED ON ICE AND BROKE UPPER RIGHT LEG.
MAN WAS CLIMBING MAN WAY IN RAISE WHEN HE NOTICED LAGGING HUNG UP IN TIMBER SLIDE HE COULD NOT REACH THE PIECES HUNG UP HE HAD HIS PARTNER RAISE THE SKIP UP AS HE STEPPED ON TO SKIP THE CABLE BROKE AND MAN FELL APPROX 25FT TO SILL BELOW
WHILE LIFTING A PIECE OF ROCK OFF BLET AT FEEDER EMP SLIPPED AND ROCK FELL ONTO RING FINGER OF LEFT HAND
MAN STATED, THAT WHILE HE WAS WALKING, HE STEPPED IN A HOLE & RE-HURT HIS KNEE.
EMPL MAKING ROUND,SLIPPED ON ICE IN MINE YARD AND LANDED ON TIME CLOCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING HYDRAULIC CRANE WHILE CHANGING SLURRY LINE ON SLURRY LAKE LEVEE WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO TURN AROUND HE BACKED TO FAR DOWN DEVEE HIT SOFT MATERIAL AND TIPPED CRANE OVER ON I TS LEFT SIDE
EMP WAS CHECKING HOOKUP ON STEEL INSTALLATION COMALONGS WERE BEING USED TO RAISE SILO DISCHARGE CHUTES INTO PLACE CABLES SUPPORTING CHUTES BROKE ALLOWING CHUTE TO FALL STRIKING EMP ON FOOT HO HOSPITAL VISIT PROVED THREE TOES BROKEN ON LEFT FOOT
ON 121883 EMPLOYEE WAS SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER BEATING ON ROTOR BREAKER AT WASHER AND HE THREW HIS ARM OUT OF SOCKET & IT POPPED BACK IN ON 121983 EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING TOWARDS HIS HOUSE HAVI NG FORGOTTEN SOMETHING INSIDE GLANCED BACK TGOWARDS STREET AND HIS NECK POPPED CAUSING HIM A GREAT DEL OF PAIN
INJURED HAD SCOOP HUNG IN MUD. PICKED UP BLOCK & THREW IT UNDER TIRE. BLOCK HIT TIRE, BOUNCED BACK CATCHING FINGER BETWEEN BLACK AND BATTERIES.
LIFTING A RAIL ROAD RAIL WITH A JOINT BAR THE RAIL TURNED OVER STRIKING EMPLOYEES LEFT FOOT.
THE INJURED WAS BENT OVER PICKING UP A PIECE OF SHEET METAL 4\ X 8\ X 1/4" AS HE STARTED TO LIFT THE METAL, IT SLID, CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE METAL AND THE SOLID CINDER BL OCKS IT WAS RESTING ON
INJURED WAS RELEASING LIFTING JACK AND CAUGHT LEFT THUMB IN JACK LACERATING LEFT THUMB
MR. HICKS WAS STANDING ON WATER PIPE ABOUT 3 FT OFF THE GROUND CHEEK THE 4A BELT BOOTS WERE MUDDY AND HIS FEET SLIPPED OFF THE WATER PIPE CAUSING TO STRIKE THE WITH HIS FEET.
PUTTING LOW BELT ON
GETTING TOOLS FROM TOOL BOX LID FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT HAND 25 SUTURES REQUIRED TO CLOSE WOUND
THE INJURED WAS OPERATING THE STD SHUTTLE CAR HE WAS PREPARING TO GET INTO THE CAB THE OFF SIDE SHUTTLE CAR COME AROUND THE CORNER THE ANCOR CROKE LOOSE FROM THE ANCHOR POINT CAUSING THE CABLE OF THE OFF SIDE SHUTTLE CAR TO STRIKE THE INJURED IN THE FACE
RUNNING MOTOR,TROLLEY POLE CAME OFF WIRE AND EMPL REACHED FOR POLE CATCHING FINGER BETWEEN POLE AND RAIL BAR.
EMPL RIDING ON PUMP BEING PUSHED BY D-9 TRACTOR TO WATER IN FRONT OF 201 SHOVEL.RIGHT TRACK OF TRACTOR DROPPED DOWN CAUSING PUMP TO TILT UPWARDS.EMPL TRYING TO GET OFF PUMP WHEN PUMP DROPPED D OWN EMPL HIT PUMP MOTOR AND WAS THROWN FORWARD HITTING RIGHT CHEST AREA ON HANDRAIL.RESULT-2 FRACTURED RIBS OF RIB CAGE ON RIGHT SIDE.
INJURED WAS PULLING ON A 12 INCH TAKE AWAY CONVEYOR BELT WHICH HAD BECAME JAMMED. SAID CONVEYOR CARRIED THE SALT BLOCKS WHICH WERE PRODUCED IN TYHE BLOCK PRESS. INJURED WAS TRYING TO UNJAM, TH E BELT BY PULLING WITH BOTH HANDS, WHEN THE BELT BECAME FREE, INJURED HANDS WERE TOO CLOSE TO THE HEAD PULLEY & HIS HANDS SLIPPED BETWEEN THE BELT AND HEAD PULLY.
THE DRILL WAS IN A POSITION WHERE THE FRONT BOARDING LADDER WAS OPPOSITE AN UNPLUGGED DRILL HOLE. INJURED WAS INT HE PROCESS OF CLIMBING OFF THE DRILL TO WALK TOWARD HIS CARRYALL. AS HE DISM OUNTED THE DRILL & TURNED HIS LEFT LEG WENT INTO THE DRILL HOLE UP TO HIS CROTCH. SWOLLEN & BRUISED LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT AS HE WS OPERATING AN OPEN TYPE BUS THE TROLLEY POLE CAME OFF WIRE HE APPLIED PARKING BRAKE & AS HE LEANED OVER TO REINSTALL POLE HE BUMPED PARKING BRAKE BUS DRIFTED BACKW ARDS POLE BROKE AND HE WAS STRUCK BY THE POLE
TWISTED ANKLE COMING OFF BUS AT WORK
SCOOP RAN OVER TIMBER CAUSING END OF TIMBER TO STRIKE EMPL IN RIBS.
EMPLOYEE WAS GOING DOWNHILL WITH THE 30 TRACK AIR HE LOST CONTROL OF EQUIPMENT AND RAN INTO BANK THE IMPACT CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO BE THROWN FROM EQUIPMENT AND RAN INTO BANK THE IMPACT CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO BE THROWN FROM EQUIPMENT CAUSING INJURY
THE EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE MANTRIP WHEN HE BUMPED HIS RIGHT KNEE AGAINST THE MANTRIP THIS RESULTED IN PHLEBITUS IN THE RIGHT KNEE THIS ACCIDENT BEING REPORTED LATE DUE TO THE FACT TH AT I WAS INFORMED HE WAS OFF ON VACTION I LATER LEARNED THAT ONLY ONE WEEK WAS VACATION
MOVING POWER CABLE SLIPPED ON SNOW FELL STRIKING KNEE
WHEN TRYING TO RESET AIR LOCK DOOR EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LOWER BACK AREA. DONALD INJURED HIS BACK ON 5-26-82 & WAS IDLE FOR 29 DAYS. AS 6-17-83 HE REOCCURRANCE OF BACK INJURY & WAS IDLE FOR 92 D AYS. HE HAS RE-INJURED BACK AGAIN & DOCTOR SLIP WILL FOLLOW.
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING HIS STEEL GOT STUCK AND HE COULDNT PULL IT OUT WHEN HE TURNED TO GRAB A WRENCH TO PULL IT THE STEEL FELL OUT OF THE HOLE AND SMASHED HIS LEFT THUMB BETWEEN STEEL AN D DRILLING MACHINE
STANDING BESIDE TAILPIECE BEING MOVED WITH SCOOP.TAILPIECE LEG CAUGHT ON BOTTOM AND SHIFTED SUDDNLY PINNING HIS LEG BETWEEN RIB AND TAILPIECE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING LONGWELL FACE IN PREPRATION TO SHOT DANDROCH ROLL, AS HE WAS DRILLING A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FLAKED OFF ROOF BRUSHING MAN NOSE FEARING MORE ROCK WAS FILLING MAN JERKED BAR BOON FROM FACE SUDDEN JERKING ,OVE MENT EASED MUSCLE TEAR IN RIGHT SHOULDER.
REMOVING STARTER FROM TRUCK. WAS BENT OVER A FRAME MEMBER LIFTING THE OLD STARTER WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN THE BACK. (RE-OCCURENCE DATED 05-16-83)
HELPING TO PULL 30FT RAIL HOOK SLIPPED MAN FELL BACKWARDS TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT HAND CAUSING A FRACTURE TO HIS LEFT WRIST
THE SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR WAS HAULING FROM THE FACE TO THE SECTION DUMPING POINT. HE ENCOUNTERED A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY, CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO STRIKE HIS HEAD & SHOULDERS AGAINST THE CANOPY OF SHUTTLE CAR.
PIECE OF ROCK POPPED OFF FACE AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT SIDE, CAUSING BRUISE AND POSSIBLE CRACKED RIB.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING IN HIS TRUCK ROCK CAME OUT OF CRUSHER HIT HIS RIGHT HAND. BRAKE HIS MIDDLE FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS DIRECTING FRONTLOADER IN CLEAN UP WORK. A PIECE OF DRILL STEEL BURIED IN THE DIRT SNAPPED LOOSE AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON WRENCH TO TIGHTEN BOLT DOING SO HE PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT SHOULDER
THE INJURED CONSTRUCTED A TEMPORARY TOILET BY STACKING CEMENT BLOCKS- FELL OFF BLOCKS AND CAUGHT LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN TWO BLOCKS. (A PORTI-POT IS PROVIDED ON SECTION.)
EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF CLOSING GATE AT SERVICE SHAFT. HE GOT HIS FOOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE GATE GUARD AND FLOOR OF THE CAGE.
STEEL BAR USED TO GROUND UNIT BEING WELDED,KNOCKED OFF STRIKING EMPL ON SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN A CHAIR WELDING WHEN A PIECE OF HOT SLAG FELL DOWN INTO HIS BOOT
DRAGLINE CREW WAS IN PROCESS OF MOVING EXCESS POWER CABLE USING THE DRAGLINE BUCKET THE CABLE WHILE BEING MOVED HUNG ON A ROCK WHEN IT CAME LOOSE IT STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT LEG JUST ABOVE THE ANKLE CAUSING A FRACTURE TO THE FIBULA
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING WORK ON AN 8IN WATER LINE WHEN IT BURST A FRAGMENT OF WATER LINE STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON LEG FRACTURING HIS TIBIA AND FIBULA
PULLING RUN THRU BOARD THROUGH CHECK.CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN ROOF BOLTER HEAD AND BOARD.
EMPL PUSHING DIRT AT DUMP SITE.WHEN HE SHIFTED FROM FORWARD TO REVERSE,IT DIDNT GO INTO GEAR.EMPL PULLED OUT ON CUTTING CLUTCH LEVER,STRIKING HIS KNEE WITH IT.
BENT OVER LIFTING SHAFT AND HURT BACK
THE 10 TON MOTOR HIT BALLAST CAR FINGERS WERE SMASHED BETWEEN MOTOR AND CAR
PERSON FELT PAIN IN BACK WHILE DRAGGING DOWTY JACKS AND PAIN WAS WORSE WHEN HE SWENT TO GET OFF BELT
THE INJURED WAS REPAIRING WHEN A TWENTY POUND ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP AND HIT HIM ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE 3 ENTRY OF THE SOUTHWEST LAUREL SECTION ID 004-0 EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN THE DRILL STEEL BROKE AND MASHED HIS LITTLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND
EMPL CLAIMS HE WAS BARRING DOWN DRAW POINT AT GRIZZLEY LEVEL #12 LINE 4N WHEN FOOT SLIPPED AND HE TWISTED HIS BACK.
/INJURED MAN WAS LENDING A HAND TO ANOTHER EE WHO WAS ATTEMPTING TO REPAIR A BROKEN HYDRAULIC HOSE ON A RUBBER TIRED BACKHOE. INJURED MAN WAS USING A PRYBAR TO PRY ON THE HYDRAULIC VALVE BODY AS HE WAS PRYING HIS FOOTING WAS LOST IN THE MUD WHERE HE WAS STANDING. HE FELL DOWN ACROSS ONE OF THE HYDRAULIC OUTRIGGERS ON THE MACHINE. SUSTAINED INJURY TO RT UPPER CHEST BRUISED RIB CAG
EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS SHOVELING, WHILE HAND ON SHOVEL HE SWUNG STRIPPING LEFT HAND AGAINST BELT CABLE. ABRASION, CONSTUSION OF 4TH FINGER BELTXXX LEFT HAND
THE INJURED WAS OPERATING A RAM CAR TO TRANSPORT WORKERS TOT HE SECTION HE MADE A SHARP LEFT TURN & PINCHED HIS RIGHT ARM BETWEEN THE CAR & THE TRAILOR.
THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING MECHANIC PUT GAURD RAIL UPON SIDE OF MINER ON EPERATOR\S SIDE. THE MECHANIC HAD RAIL LIFTED UP WITH SLATE BAR, THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS GUIDING THE RAIL INTO PLACE, WHEN SLATE BAR SLIPPED OUT DROPPING RUB RAIL ON LEFT FOOT.
MAN WAS WALKING ACROSS AN OVERCAST PATIO BLOCK BROKE MAN FELL STRIKING LEFT KNEE ON RAIL FRAME WORK OF OVERCAST
STEPPED IN HOLE WHILE MOVING CABLE AND TWISTED ANKLE
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A ROCK OFF OF THE MINER AND STRAINED HIS BACK
THIS MAN WAS TRAMING ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE PUSHED LEVERS THE WRONG WAS THE ROOF BOLTER PUSHED HIM BACK ON HIS REAR.
MR TAYLOR WAS LOADING SUPPLIES ONTO THE ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE SPRAINED HIS HAND
THIS REOCCURRENCE HAPPENED WHILE MR HARSHBERGER WAS SHOVELING AND EDGE OF SHOVEL GOT CAUGHT IN THE SPLICE OF THE BELT INJURING LIGAMENTS OF RIGHT SHOULDER. HE IS OFF OF WORK
CLIMBING UP ON FRONT END LOADER,SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH RIGHT HAND ON MIRROR AND LEFT ARM ON FENDER CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
INJURED & CO-WORKER WERE ATTEMPTING TO CLOSE A LARGE SLIDING DOOR AT THE STOREROOM POLE BARN. THE DOOR BECAME HUNG UP AND EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO PRY THE DOOR CLOSED HE POSITIONED A STEEL BA R AGAINST THE CORRUGATED SHEETING ON THE DOOR AND PREPARED TO USE THE DOOR FRAME AS A FULCRUM. AS HE PULLED ON THE BAR, THE BAR SLIPPED OFF THE SHEETING AND HE SUFFERED THE RESULTING INJURY
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A FORKLIFT, AFTER PICKING UP A PALLET, THE EMPLOYEE PUT THE FORK IN REVERSE AND STRUCK A STEEL COLUMN.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS ALIGNING A STEEL TRACK SWITCH BY HITTING IT WITH A TRACK HAMMER AND WHEN HE HIT THE TRACK A METAL FRAGMENT CHIPPED OFF FLEW AND STRUCK HIS LOWER LEFT LEG
WORKING ON OVERHEAD DOOR AND SPRING SLIPPED CATCHING HIS RIGHT THUMB IN SPRING.
WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM 988 CAT LOADER, CAUGHT HEEL ON LADDER & FELL SPRAINING RIGHT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING OFF FALLEN TREE WHICH HAD BEEN PUSHED OVER BY DOZER. TOP OF TREE SPRANG BACK STRICKING EMPLOYEE LEFT ANKLE.
CARRYING BUCKET OF GREASE WHEN TRIPPED ON METAL BAND AND FELL STRIKING RIGHT ELBOW ON MINE BOTTOM-CONTUSION.
EMP. STATED WAS MOVING POWER CABLE WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED IN RUT WHILE WALKING FROM SLOPE TO BATHHOUSE. INJURY SUSTAINED- TORN LIGAMENTS, RIGHT ANKLE.
PERSON WAS M OVING PUMP UP B32 SIDE TRACK CAUGHT RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN PUMP AND SUPPLY CAR
INJURED WAS GETTING OUT OF CAB HOLDING ON TO H ANDLE ON TOP OF CAB AS HE T URNED TO GO DOWN THE LADDER & CHANGE HOLD TO LADDER HANDRAIL HE SLIPPED & FELL TO THE GROUND PULLED LIGAMENTS IN R IGHT LEG.
THE LEFT BOOM MAST JACK BYPASSED AS EMPLOYEE WAS TILTING THE HEAD IN TO DRILL CAUSING IT TO DRIVE HER HAND BETWEEN THE TRS JACK AND THE DRILL STEEL
RAN OVER ROCK IN ROADWAY WHILE TRAMMING SC -FELT PAIN IN BACK.
CHANGING TEETH ON BUCKET OF SHOVEL. TEETH FELL AND BUMPED RIGHT THUMB.
EE WAS MOVING WATER BARREL. THE DISCHARGE LINE BROKE SPRAYING WATER ON EE. EE SLIPPED CUT HIOS RIGHT WRIST ON A PIECE OF LAGGING WHICH WAS LYING ON THE FLOOR. INJURY SUSTAINED: LACERATION RIGH T WRIST REQUIRING 6 SUTURES.
EMPLOYEE WAS BLOCKING UP A SCREEN WITH A PIECE OF METAL THE METAL FELL OUTAND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON RING FINGER OF LEFT HAND EMPLOYEES FINGER WAS BROKEN AND REQUIRED STITCHES
RIGHT LEG KNEE JOINT LOCKED UP WHILE CLIMBING INTO 399 FUEL TRUCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING ROOF BOLTER AND WHEN HE WENT OVER A HIGH PLACE FRONTENT MACHINE CAME UP THROWING EMPLOYEE UP AGAINST ROOF
EMPL WALKING ACROSS ROCKY AREA ,TRIPPED OVER A ROCK.REACHED OUT TO CATCH HIMSELF AND HAND STRUCK A ROCK.THUMB ON LEFT HAND WAS BROKEN.
STUD FROM HYDRAULIC PULLER SHEARED UNDER TENSION CAUSING STUD TO TRAVEL APPX 15\STRIKING EMPL IN CHIN.
OPERATOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO LEAVE MCHINE TRIPPED ON CAB LEDGE LOSING HIS BVALANCE THEN FALLING TO THE GROUND ABOUT 12 FEET STRIKING THE GROUND WITH THE BOTTOM OF HIS LOWER BACK
WHILE CHANGING DRILL BIT ON SCHRAMM DRILLING RIG KELLY BAR SLIPPED AND CAUGHT THE FIRST TWO FINGERS OF THE LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE BIT WRENCH AND THE HELPERS STAND BREAKING THE TWO FINGERS
ROBERT COSMA WAS WALKING BESIDE DOZER (TO CLOSE) WHEN CRAIG MASON STARTED BACKING UP AWAY FROM OIL SKID. CRAIG STEERED DOZER ALITTLE WHICH MADE CORNER OF BLADE STRIKE ROBERT\S LEFT ANKLE, ROBE RT WAS IN PLAIN SITE TO FRONT OF DOZER.
HE WAS GETTING OUT OF T RACTOR.
EMP WAS HELPING REMOVE BEARING ON FILTER AND PULLED LEFT SIDE
EMPLOYEE STATED, HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT UP THE KU SCREEN AT THE TIPPLE. THE SCREEN WEIGHS APPROX. 60 LBS. AND IS HINGED ON ONE SIDE. EMPLOYEE STATED HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
SUPPORT GAVE WAY BENEATH FOOT WHILE INSPECTING HOPPER CAUSING LEG TO BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO SUPPORT MEMBERS RESULTING IN A PULLED MUSCLE
INJURED WAS RIDING IN JEEP GOING THRU AIR LOCK DOORS. DOORS WERE PARTIALLY OPEN. TROLLEY POLE STRUCK DOOR, THEN FLEW AROUND AND STRUCK INJURED ON HEAD.
OPERATOR WAS PUSHING ROCK DUMPED BY TRUCKS ALONG TOP PORTION OF ROUGH GRADED A0CSLOPES LOWER TRACK OF DOZER BROKE OVER OUTER PORTION OF SLOPE CAUSING DOZER TO ROLL OVER & DOWN ROUGH GRADED OUT SLOPE AFTER SEVERAL APPARENT ROLL OVERS OPERATOR WAS THROWN CLEAR OF DOZER DURING ROLL-OVER OR WHEN THROWN CLEAR OPERATOR SUFFERED MASSIVE LACERATIONS & LESIONS TO FOREHEAD
DISMOUNTING FROM ROAD GRADER AND SLIPPED FROM LADDER DUE TO ICE AND MUD.DAMAGED CARTILAGE IN KNEE.
WHILE INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT UNDER UNSUPPORTED TOP A ROCK FELL ON HIS BACK
HIS BACK JUST STARTED TO HURT HE WAS NOT INJURED IN ANYWAY HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT CAUSED IT
INJURED WAS DRILLING ROOF FOR THE INSTALLATION OF 48IN RESIN ROOF BOLTS INJURED PUT TOO MUCH PRESSURE ON THE BOOM RAISE LEVER DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONTROL LINKAGE RESULTING IN THE BENDING OF THE D RILL STEEL WHICH THE INJURED WAS HOLDING WITH HIS LEFT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING MOTOR AT THE 6 SOUTH LOADING POINT. STARTING BOX FIRED UP AND BURNED BOTH OF THE EMPLOYEES HANDS.
EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP SHEET METAL. WHILE PICKING UP METAL, EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN.
PULLING #8 CABLE ACROSS IDLE BELT LINE-NOT MOVING WERE MOVING SECTION-IN AREA OF BOOM HOLE SHOT OUT AND BOLTED.BUMPED ROOF WITH LEFT SHOULDER AND PIECE OF DRAW ROCK 18\\ X 6\\ X 0-2\\THICK FEL
EMP WAS BEATING ROCK, AND TRIED TO TURN ONE ROCK OVER AS HE AS HE LIFTED THE ROCK TOWARDS HIM WITH HIS LEFT HAND. THE ROCK EITHER SLIPPED OR BROKE FROM HIS HAND MAKING HIM FALL AS HE FELL HIS RIGHT ARM WAS CUT BY THE ROCK
INJURED WAS ROOFBOLTING- TOOK HOLD OF DRILL AUGER TO STEADY IT AND AUGER HAD A BURR ON IT, CAUGHT HIS GLOVE AND IT TWISTED HIS HAND AND WRIST, STRAINED LIGAMENTS.
JACKING SC UP WITH LIFTING JACK WHEN JACK BAR STRUCK EMPL ON SIDE.
SECURITY OFFICER MAKING CLOCK PUNCH ROUNDS WAS EXITING A BLDG HAD A DOG WITH HIM BOTH WENT OUT DOOR DOG STOPPED ,HE TRIPPED OVER DOG TURNED AND SPRAINED ANKLE ON WALKWAY.
INJURED HAD COMPLETED DRILLING ROCKBOLT & WAS HOLDING S-83 JACKLEG IN BACK OF BUCKET INJURED EITHER SLIPPED OR BUMPED JACKLEG THAT EXTENDED LEG & THREW INJURED FROM BUCKET & WORK PLATFORM TO GROUND APPROX (7) FT BELOW STRIKING HIS HEAD ON JACKLEG ITSELF OR SHARP ROCK WORK WAS BEING DONE IN INCLINE TO INSTALL HANGER BOLTS TO HOOK A MESSENGER CABLE TO HANG VENT BAG IN THE BACK
GOING TO GET ON ENLOADER GOING TO STEP OVER OPENING THAT WENT DOWN INTO MAINTENACE PIT FELL APRR. 4 FT.
EMP WAS DRIVING FRONT END LOADER FOR 5 HRS WHEN HIS LEFT ARM BECAME SORE AND STARTED TO TINGLE EMP CLAIMS HE BUMPED HIS ELBOW
RAM CAR BATTERY BEGAN TO SMOKE. EMPLOYEE SET OFF FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM TO BATTERY, BUT HOSE WAS NOT COUPLED. EMPLOYEE INHALED A QUANTITY OF BATTERY SMOKE AND SODA-ASH SUPPRESSANT, CAUSING C HEMICAL BURNS TO LUNGS.
INJURED WAS REACHING FOR TOOLBOX WAS SITTING ON AND OF MINE CAR WHEN MINE CAR MOVED FORWARD CAUSING WHEEL TO ROLL ONTO INJUREDS FOOT
LIFTING AND PULLING MINER CABLE WHILE MACHINE WAS BEING MOVED PAIN HIT HIM IN LOWER BACK.
STRAINED BACK PULLING 150\ LENGTH OF 2\\ AIR HOSE.
FROM INFORMATION RECEIVED IT IS APPARENT THAT INJURED WAS WALKING FROM LAMP HOUSE TO OFFICE SLIPPED IN THE MUD AND FELL AND INJURED HIS BACK AND LEFT ARM
GETTING 1ST AID KIT OUT OF TOOL BOX AND DROPPED LID OF TOOL BOX CATCHING THUMB.
EE NOTICED ROCKS ON PORTABLE CRUSHER BELT & STOPPED MACHINE WHILE TRYING TO REMOVE ROCKS EE TWISTED HIS BACK WHICH RESULTED AS ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN.
INJURED WAS GETTING OFF TRACK JEEP STEPPED ON A LUMP OF COAL AND TWISTED ANKLE
EMPL WALKING DOWNSTAIRS SLIPPED AND FELL,LANDING ON RIGHT SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN QUARRY, WHILE ATTEMPTING TO NAUIGATE A SLOPE TO THE QUARRY SUMP PUMP, HE ENCOUNTERED AN ICE PATCH, SLIPPED AND FELL, RESULTING IN TRAUMA TO HIS LOWER BACK.
EMP WAS ADJUSTING A PUMP WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN FROM IT AND SLIPPED AND FELL
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING BOLTER TO THE #6 ENTRY THE CANOPY HIT THE RIB AND A PIECE OF COAL KNOCKED LOOSE AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON BACK.
WHILE HE WAS RUNNING MOTOR, TROLLEY POLE CAME OFF WIRE AND WHEN HE REACHED FOR THE POLE, HE CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE POLE AND LOW HANGING ROOF BOLT.
INJURED WAS GETTING OFF BELT DURING AND ON SHIFT MANTRIP WHEN HE STEPPED ON ROCKDUST BAG AT UNLOADING PLATFORM CAUSING HIM TO TWIST ANKLE.
HE WAS DRILLING HOLE FOR ROOF BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE FELL OFF THE CANOPY BREAKING IN HALF CAUSING ONE PIECE TO FALL ON HIS FOOT.
INJURED WAS IN THE PROCESS OF TIGHTENING A BOLT WHEN A SLAB OF ROCK FELL OUT FROM ROOF BOLT PLATE HIT CANOPY AND THEN GLANCED AND HIT OPERATOR ,INJURED
LOADING BOLTING SUPPLIES ON KUBOTA-STRAINED BACK WHILE LOADING ROOF BOLT PLATES.