All MSHA-reportable mining accidents in February 1984, sorted by severity. Fatalities appear first.
Showing the 500 most recent of 1,996 incidents this month. All fatalities are included and listed first.
EMPLOYEE WAS WAITING FOR BOLTER ATRS TO BE SET UP. AS THE ROOF BOLTER ATRS WAS BEING ADVANCED BY I.NAME, LOOSE ROCK BECAME DISLODGED FROM THE RIB OR BETWEEN BOLTS - CRUSHING THE VICTIM TO THE MINE FLOOR
VICTIM WAS ASSISTING THE SECTION ELECTRICIAN IN SPLICING THE TRAILING CABLE TO HIS SHUTTLE CAR WHICH WAS PARKED ON A GRADE. THE SHUTTLE CAR ROLLED DOWN THE GRADE, RUNNING OVER THE VICTIM. THE ELECTRICIAN WAS KNOCKED IN THE CLEAR AND WAS INJURED. VICTIM HAD BROKEN NECK AND CRUSHED CHEST
WAS RIDING SCOOP, HIT HIS HEAD ON A LOW PIECE OF COAL AND FELL OFF SCOOP AND WAS RUN OVER BY SCOOP, FRACTURED SKULL RESULTED IN DEATH
UVICTIM WAS WORKING IN CLINKER BUILDING ON A PLATFORM ON A TRAVELING CRANE DECK. THE CRANE DECK WAS IN A STATIONARY POSITION AND THE VICTIM WAS USING A 6\ LONG STEEL BAR PRYING ON A RAIL. THE BAR SLIPPED AND THE VICTIM FELL BACKWARDS OFF THE DECK ONTO THE GROUND BELOW. THE GROUND WAS LOCATED APPROX. 70\ BELOW THE PLATFORM AND THE BIC VICTIM WAS KILLED INSTANTLY.
EMPLOYEE AND TWO CO-WORKERS HAD ENTERED AN AREA OF THE MINE TO INSPECT A WATER PUMP.
EMPLOYEE AND TWO CO-WORKERS HAD ENTERED AN AREA OF THE MINE TO INSPECT A WATER PUMP.
EMPLOYEE AND TWO CO-WORKERS HAD ENTERED AN AREA OF THE MINE TO INSPECT A WATER PUMP.
HE RAISED THE T.BAR AGAINST THE TOP, HE FAILED TO POSITION CANOPY. HE WALKED UNDER UN-SUPPORTED ROOF, THE ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM
VICTIM WAS OPERATING A DIESEL POWERED TRACTOR WITH A FRONT END LOADER BUCKET MOUNTED ON THE TRACTOR. ROLL OVER PROTECTION STRUCTURES WERE NOT INSTALLED ON THE TRACTOR. THE VICTIM WAS LIFTING A SMALL WOODEN HEADFRAME INTO POSITION OVER THE COLLAR OF AN INCLINED SHAFT (TOTAL WEIGHT 1,000 POUNDS). WHEN THE HEADFRAME WAS IN A VERITCAL POSITION THE HOOK OF THE STEEL CHAIN USED TO HOLD T
DID NOT SET HIS SAFETY JACKS AND DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIM WHILE OUT PAST ROOF SUPPORT
THE VICTIM WAS WORKING ON THE GROUND BESIDE A P & H CRANE BEING USED TO MOVE A FUEL TANK. THE BOOM OF THE CRANE CONTACTED A 13,200 VOLT LINE CAUSING THE VICTIM TO RECEIVE A FATAL ELECTRICAL S HOCK
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING TRAILER TIRE ON BACK OF TRAILER, TIRE BLEW APART WITH RIM STRIKING EMPLOYEE.
VICTIM WAS DRILLING IN THE FACE AND AN EXPLOSION OCCURRED. VICTIM RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED AND SHOSPITALIZED.
TWO MAINTENANCE MEN WERE TRAMMING A 14-BCM JOY MINER FROM NO 1 ENTRY TO NO 4 ENTRY TO SERVICE THE MINER. UPON REACHING THE CROSSCUT BETWEEN NO 3 & 4 ENTRIES THE MAN OPERATING THE MINER LOOKED BACK AND SAW HIS BUDDY LYING ON THE MINE FLOOR. HE HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE BOOM OF THE MINER. IT COULD NOT BE DETERMINED IF HE HAD BEEN CAUGHT AGAINST THE COAL RIB
OPERATING MOTOR WITH ONE MANTRIP CAR HOOKED UP BEHIND THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT THE END OF GRAVEYARD SHIFT AND THE VICTIM HAD JUST RECEIVED THE VERBAL OK FROM THE 4 EMPLOYEES TO PROCEED THE 4 E MPLOYEES WERE IN THE ENCLOSED MANTRIP CAR AND DID NOT SEE WHAT HAPPENED THE VICTIM APPARENTLY WAS NOT ATTENTIVE AND DROVE THE MOTOR THRU THE AIR DOORS APPROX 90YDS DOWN FROM HIS STARTING POIN
TAKEN OFF DEATH CERTIFICATION EXSANGUINATION TRAUMATIC LACERATION OF HEART AND THORACIC AORTA TRANSECTION SEVERE CLOSED THORACO ABDOMINAL INJURIES CRUSH
VICTIM RECEIVED CRUSHING INJURIES TO HEAD WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE OLD PREVIOUSLY DISCARDED ROOF BOLTS FROM NEAR BASE OF COAL RIB. PORTION OF RIB AND OVERLAYING DRAW SLATE FELL STRIKING VICT IM
KEVIN DUGAN WAS HAULING FLUME DUST IN A EUCLID R35 DUMP TRUCK ON HIS SEVENTH LOAD HE BACKED OVER OR THRU THE BERM AND DOWN A 45 TO 50 FOOT BANK INTO 25 FEET OF WATER
SCOOP OPERATOR SHIFTED MACHINE WHILE IN HIGHER TOP, UNDER LOW TOP, WHICH CAUGHT OPERATOR CRUSHING RIB CAGE
EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO 002 SECTION TO HANG SOME LINE CURTAIN AND FOR REASONS UNKNOWN HE WENT IN PAST THE BREAKER TIMBERS AND A ROCK FELL CRUSHING EMPLOYEE
LIFTING MINER CBALE. LIFTING MINER CABLE.
EMP GRASPED BELTS THAT DRIVE A MOTOR SHEAVE THE BLETS WERE NOT TURNING BUT THE SHEAVES WERE THE PRESSURE FROM EMPLOYEES ENGAGED THE BELSTS EMP RT THUMB PULLED THROUGH THE SHEAVE
EMPLOYEE STRAINED GROIN WHILE LIFTING CHAIN TO HOOK IT ON DRAGLINE BUCKET.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING SERTS, STEPPED OUT OF CAR, TO TURN AROUND, WHEN THE CAR ROLLED CATCHING HER LEGS BETWEEN CAR AND RIB BREAKING HER FEET & ANKLES LOST LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS ON TOP OF A TWO-LAYER LOAD OF 8" DIA.X 21\ LENGTH SCHEDULE 40 IRON PIPE, ATTEMPTING TO ASSIST A HYSTER LOADER OPERATOR GET THE UPPER LAYER OF PIPE ONTO THE FORKS, HE FAILED TO REC OGNIZE THAT HE HAD RELEASED A CHAIN BINDER HOLDING THE BOTTOM LAYER. THE LOAD SHIFTED; HE FELL TO THE GROUND AND A PIECE OF THE PIPE FELL ONTO HIS LOWER LEGS, RESULTING IN INJURY.
AS INJURED LIFTED 5"X7"X14\ TIMBER HE FELT A SHARP BURNING PAIN IN GROIN AREA ON LEFT SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISLODGING A PC OF ROCK FROM CONVEYOR OF A CONTINUOUS MINER AS HE WAS MOVING ROCK HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN ROCK AND THE SIDEBOARD OF MINER
MECHANIC WAS GRINDING ALTERNATOR BRACKET FOR REWELDING ON BENCH GRINDER. THE METAL SLIPPED AND HIS HAND SLIPPED FORWARD PUSHING HIS INDEX FINGER INTO THE GRINDING WHEEL. HE GROUND OFF MOST OF THE FINGER, INCLUDING THE NAIL DOWN TO THE BONE, UP TO THE FIRST JOINT.
EE WAS LIFTING CONDUIT.
SHIFTING PALLETS ON FORKLIFT HAD MUSCLE STRAIN IN LOWER ABDOMEN RO EARLY INCISIONAL HERNIA
EE HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO MAKE A STATEMENT & THERE WERE NO WITNESSES. HOWEVER MSHA INSPECTORS HAVE INDICATED SOME TYPW OF FLAME WAS BEING USED CLOSE TO A CONTAINER OF BLACK POWDER & THE POWDER EXPLODED.
EE HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO MAKE A STATEMENT. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES. HOWEVER MSHA INSPECTORS HAVE INDICATED SOME TYPE OF FLAME WAS BEING USED CLOSE TO A CONTAINER OF BLACK POWDER & POWDER EXPLO DED.
INJURED AND CO-WORKER WERE INSTALLING SPILLBOARD ON STAGE LOADER WHICH WAS RESTING ON FLANGE OF STAGELOADER PAN. WHILE MOVING SPILLBOARD IT SLIPPED FROM FLANGE, CATCHING INJURED\S FINGER BETWE EEN FLANGE AND BOTTOM OF PAN.
SUBJECT WAS SHOVELING SMALL SPILL DOWN IN TRUCK DUMP WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN THE GROIN AREA HERNIA IN GROIN AREA
WHILE CHANGING MOTOR ON LUBE OIL SYSTEM FOR IMPACTOR EMPLOYEE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LEFT GROIN WHEN HE LIFTED MOTOR INTO PLACE MOTOR WEIGHTS APPROX 50#
INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS-WHILE PUSHING BOLT INTO ROOF USING PRESSURE OF MACHINE-ROCK FELL-STRIKING HER & KNOCKING HER INTO THE CONTROL AREA OF ROOF BOLTER-INJURING LEFT EYE ANDLEFT ARM.
FLOREN WAS DRILLING HOLE WITH STOPER AND WHEN THE AIR PRESSURE DROPPED, HE BEGAN TO PUSH UPWARD ON THE STOPER AFTERWHICH HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT SIDE.
ON 2-19-84 THE INJURED WAS REMOVING A GUARD FROM A TRIPPER & FELT A PAIN IN HIS SIDE. HE BEGAN LOSING TIME ON 3-25-84.
THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED DURING AN ATTEMPT TO REMOVE A BLOCKAGE FROM A SLURRY PIPELINE. MR HALL WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT OPERATIONS HAD CEA S ED & PROCEEDED TO CHECK BELT DRIV AT THIS TIME, THE PLANT OPERATOR WHO WAS UNAWARE OF MR HALLS PRESSENCE AT PUMP LOCATION STARTED THE PUMP IN AN ATTEMPT TO BACK FLUSH THE LINE, CAUSING SAID ACCIDENT INJURY RESULTING IN SAID ACCIDENT WAS LOS
EMPLOYEE STGATED HE WAS WATCHING THE MINER CABLE AND A ROCK FELL ON HIM
X-CUT FROM NO6 SHOT THROUGH INTO NO5 SCOOP DRIVERS GIVEN TIME TO BE CLEAR.MEN WERE WARNED -READY TO BLAST NO 6 X-CUT SCOOP DRIVER LOST ONE EYE AND HAD BURNS AND CUTS ON FACE.
EMPLOYE CLAIMS HE WAS WORKING IN THE MECHANIC SHOP, HAULAGE LEVEL, AND WHEN HE REACHED FOR A WATER CAN, NOT KNOWING IT WAS FULL OF WATER, ON TOP OF A TOOL BOX HE PULLED ON IT AND THE WEIGHT OF THE WATER MADE IT COME DOWN FASTER. NOT BEING ABLE TO HOLD IT PROPERLY, IT SLIPPED AND HE FELT A PAIN BELOW THE WAISTLINE.
I.NAME COMPLAINED THURSDAY WITH A PAIN IN HIS TESTICLES DUE TO BEING BOUNCED AROUND ON THE EUCLID
WHILE CHANGING SUPPORT BARS IN #3COOLER EMPLOYEE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN GROIN AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A SEQUENCE ROLLER FROM UNDER THE BELT & PLACED IT INTO A FEEDER. THE PULLED & LIFTING CAUSED A STRAIN TO HIS LEFT GROIN. RUPTURE.
LIFTED ONE END OF SKIRTING ON HEAD END OF FC-14.FELT SHARP PAIN IN RIGHT TESTACLE AREA.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS AT #3 ENTRY PULLING ON ROOF BOLTER CABLE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS GROIN, CAUSING INJURY.
DRILLING HOLE IN STRAP METAL-DRILL BIT CAUGHT CAUSING STRAP TO TWIST OUT OF CLAMP SWUNG AROUND CUTTING END OFF RING FINGER-LEFT HAND.
EMP FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS GROIN/ABDOMEN AREA AS HE WAS CARRYING A 50 POUND BAG OF WELD RODS UP AN EXTENSION LADDER
COAL DRILL. EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING COAL WITH HAND HOLD HYD. DRILL WHILE DRILLING COAL EMPLOYEE RETURNED HIMSELF.
EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO LIFT THE TONGUE OF A 6IN TRAILER MOUNTED WATER PUMP (APPROX) 100LB PROBABLE RUPTURE
HELPING TO HOOK UP QUICK HITCH AND RIGHT LITTLE FINGER GOT CUAGHT BETWEEN QUICK HITCH AND ELECTRIC CABLE SKID CUTTING OFF END AT TOP JOINT
EMP HAD LOADED A CHERRYPICKER ON THE LOWBOY & WAS SECURING IT WITH CHAIN BINDERS. HE PULLED ON A BINDER TO TIGHTEN IT AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT SIDE
SLIPPED ON WET FLOOR
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING SUPPLIES ON YARD PULLING ON STRAP TO UNLOAD BLOCK WHEN FELT TEAR OR PULL IN RIGHT SIDE
MR ROHRS & MR MILLER WERE LIFTING A BATTERY WHEN MR ROHRS SLIPPED AND FELT A PULL-RESULTING IN A HERNIA
PULLING WATER HOSE ALONG SIDE #1 STAGE LOADER FELT PAIN IN LOWER STOMACH.WATER HOSE 1\\ DIA X 20\LONG.
INJURED WAS TRYING TO LOOSEN A BRAKE ADJUSTING SCREW ON A LOCOMOTIVE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN GROIN
CLEANING FROZEN COAL FROM TOP OF COARSE COAL WASHER.EMPL STANDING ON BARREL,BARREL KICKED OUT AND EMPL FELL ASTRADDLE PIECE OF METAL.
INJURED STATES HE WAS CUTTING SOME SHEET METAL IN THE SHEARING MACHINE IN THE SHOP AS HE WAS PUSHING THE METAL THROUGH THE HANDLE WASNT SEATED IN THE CORRECT POSITION AND HE CAUGHT HIS RIGHT I NDES FINGER IN THE SHEAR
INJURED EMPLOYEE & ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF ROTATING A HI-LIFT BUCKET THAT WAS BLOCKED UP AND ATTACHED BY CHAINS TO ANOTHER HI-LIFT BUCKET TO HOLD IT IN PLACE. THE INJURED MOVED BETWEEN THE BLOCKED BUCKET & THE HI-LIFT HOLDING THE BLOCKED BUCKET IN ORDER TO SPEED UP THE PROCESS OF UNHOOKING THE CHAINS TO MOVE THE BLOCKED BUCKET. WHEN HE STARTED TO RELEASE THE CHAINS
INDIVIDUAL WAS PUTTING SAFETY PIN IN MAST OF DRILL WHEN PIN SLIPPED AND CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN FRAME OF DRILL AND PIN INDIVIDUAL HAD TO HAVE FINGER AMPUTATED
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS CARRYING A HYDRAULIC PUMP TO INSTALL ON UNIT #552 TRANSCRETE PUMP AT THE VENT DRIFT BY THE GRIZZLEY LEVEL SHOP WHEN HE FELT PAIN TO HIS LEFT GROIN AREA.
A HOIST CYLINDER WAS REPAIRED AND REPLACED ON A R35 ROCK TRUCK THE BED OF THE TRUCK WAS PINNED FOR SAFETY AFTER FINISHING THE JOB THE MECHANIC HAD A HELPER START THE TRUCK AND MOVE THE BED TO FREE THE SAFETY PINS AFTER THE FIRST PIN WAS REMOVED THE LAST WAS BEING PULLED WHEN THE BED MOVED FORCING THE PIN AGAINST THE BED CATCHING THE FINGER BETWEEN THE PIN AND BED CUTTING PART OF TH
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN SUMP SCREEN. HE STARTED TO CLIMB THRU GUARD RAILS AND PUT HIS HAND INTO V-BELT ON CLEAN UP PUMP.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING A ROLE FOR A ROCKBOLT TO CATCH UP A BROW ROUND A ROCK FELL FROM BACK AND HIT HIS HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE HIT A HOLE IN THE RUNWAY, CAUSING HIM TO FEEL PAIN IN HIS LEFT GROIN AREA
MAN WAS OPERATING PORTABLE CRUSHER WHEN A LARGE STONE BECAME WEDGED IN FEED BOX A LARGE STEEL HOOK WITH CABLE WAS LOWERED TO REMOVE THE ROCK THE CABLE CAUGHT ON BOX & OPERATOR GRABBED CABLE TO FREE HOOK WHEN SUDDENLY CABLE SWUNG BACK AGASINST STEEL BOX CATGCHING OPERA TORS RT HAND INBETWEEN CABLE & THE STEEL SIDE SEVERING TIP OF INDEX FINGER MAN WAS TAKEN TO LOCAL HHOSPITAL
EMP WAS REMOVING PRODUCT FROM INSIDE OF 6" SUCTION LINE WHEN HIS FINGER WENT INTO UPPER AIRLOCK. SAFETY SWITCHES WERE OFF BUT AIRLOCK SAFETY SWITCH MALFUNCTIONED
MAN STATED HE WAS WORKING ON S AHUTTLE CAR REEL WHEN HIS KERSEY JITNEY BEGAN TO ROLL FORWARD HE STATED HE PICKED UP A BOARD AND ATTEMPTED TO SCOTCH THE WHEEL WITH THE BOARD WHEN HIS LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE FRAME OF THE JITNEY AND BOARD CAUSING IT TO MASH OFF PART OF HIS THUMB 1 1/2 JOINTS ON MIDDLE FINGER AND CRUSHED INDEX FINGER
PLACING MOTOR 10HP ON TO BASE AND MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND BECAME PINCHED BETWEEN MOTOR & MOTOR BASE AND BECAME PARTIALLY AMPUTATED BETWEEN END JOINT AND TIP
EMPLOYEE STUMBLED AND FELL BACKWARDS WHILE HOLDING ONE END OF4" X 6" X 8\ MINE TIMBER. POSSIBLE PULLED MUSCLE OR HERNIA
CLEANING PLANT #2 SLIPPED AND FELL OVER PIPE AND HURT RIGHT INGUINAL AREA POSSIBLE HERNIA.
WHEN UNLOADING SUPPLIES OFF SUPPLY CAR, STEPPED SIDEWAYS TWISTING RT. KNEE RE-INJURING KNEE THAT HAD BEEN OPERATED ON 1980 AND RETURNED TO WORK IN 1983.
WAS PULLING SELF THROUGH MANHOLE ON SOUTH SIDE #8 KILN ALLIS CHALMER COOLER PAIN STRUCK HIM IN LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE WORKING DURING OVERTIME SHIFT USING HAMMER TO CONNECT CONVEYOR CHAIN & STRUCK HIS FINGER WITH THE HAMMER.
EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF T HROWING A MINE POST ASIDE WHEN HE INJURED HIMSELF.
EE WAS STANDING BESIDE A STEEL TRUCK UNLOADING STEEL. HE HUNG HIS FOOT ON FROZEN GROUND CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE & FALL. THE METAL HE WAS HOLDING FELL AGAINST THE UPPER PART OF HIS LEFT LEG & AROUND THE KNEE AREA OF HIS RIGHT LEG.
MR HILLERMAN WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF A D-9L DOZER WHICH HE WAS WORKING ON IN THE SHOP. HE STEPPED OFF THE DOZER TO THE CONCRETE FLOOR PUTTING ALL HIS WEIGHT ON HIS LEFT FOOT, AND HIS ANKLE TURNE D.
I NAME STATES THAT WHILE WORKING WITH A PRY BAR ON A TRACK PAD THE BAR SLIPPED AND HE FELL BACK HITTING HIMSELF ON THE FRAME OF THE VEHICLE HE WAS WORKING ON THIS CLAIM WAS ORIGINALLY DENIED BECAUSE HE FAILED TO REPORT IT ON TIME AND THERE WERE NO WITNESSES HE PROTESTED THE DENIAL AND THE CLAIM WAS ACCEPTED
WHILE SWITCHING OUT A MANTRIP THERE WAS A RUN AWAY AND THE EMPLOYEE GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MANTRIP AND THE UTILITY JEEP AND HE WAS RUN OVER BY THE MANTRIP.
COUPLING A SUPPLY TAILOR ANOTHER MAN DRIVING JEEP WENT INTO HIGH TRAM AND JEEP LUNGED BACKWARDS. COUPLING ON TRAILOR KNOCKED M E INTO JEEP. CATCHING MY RIGHT LEG BETWEEN COUPLING AND F RAME.
DRIVING YARD TRUCK CAUSED SCOLIOSOS, BACK STRAIN INJURY QUESTIONABLE TO JOB RELATED.
MAN STATES WAS WORKING ON JITTNEY, WAS TRYING TO MOVE HOT WIRE TO GROUND IT, GOT IT AGAINST JITTNEY FRAME, GOT LEFT HAND AND BOTH EYES BURNED.
INJURED PICKED UP AN ACETYLENE TANK AND FELT PAIN IN BACK TO RIGHT LEG
INJURED WAS USING A SLATE BAR TO PRY UP ON THE TOP OF FRONT DOOR TO TIPPLE TO GET DOOR BACK IN PLACE WHEN HE PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
EMP STATES THAT HE WAS MOVING A DRAG ROLLER SUPPORT SHAFT ON THE BE 2570 DRAGLINE THE SHAFT HIT A 5 GALLON GREASE GUN WHICH FELL OVER AND THE GREASE GUN STRUCK THE EMP ON LEFT KNEE
EE WAS WAZLKING FROM MILL TO RESEARCH WITH FIBER SAMPLES WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL ON SNOW COVERED ICE ON GRADE BETWEEN MILL YARD & OFFICE YARD AREA. EE DID NOT SEE THE DOCTOR UNTIL 4-2-84 WHEN HE SAW DR.BERTOCCI AS HIS KNEE WAS GIVING HIM SOME DISCOMFORT. I.NAME IS SCHEDULED TO SEE DR.SPINA ON 6-25-84 AS HIS KNEE IS STILL GIVING HIM PROBLEMS. I.NAME IS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY ON 7-
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM DRAGLINE WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIS ANKLE TO BECOME CAUGHT AND SPRAINING IT WHEN HE FELL.
LIFTING COVERS FOR CONVEYOR CHAIN IN STAMBLER FEEDER.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS FILLING OUT END OF SHIFT REPORT FAIL TO TURN OFF BAGGING MACHINE AND WHEN HE REMOVED A HYDRATE BAG FROM THE MACHINE THE LIME CONTINUED TO FLOW FILLING BOTH EYES WITH LIME
ON 2-29-84 EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING CHAINS IN 2 KINKILN. NEXT DAY HE NOTICED PAIN IN BACK & DOWN LEG .
EE WAS PUTTING BOLTS IN ON DRAGLINE & A BOLT FROM OVERHEAD FELL STRIKING HIM IN THE MOUTH.
A ROCK FELL OFF OF THE HIGH WALL HITTING HCARLES SLAPPY ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD KNOCKING HIM DOWN. HE WAS ABOUT 12\ TO 13\ AWAY FROM THE WALL AND APPARENTLY THE ROCK BOUNCED OFF THE WALL TO GO OUT THAT FAR. PAUL MCGEORGE SAW THE ROCK AS IT HIT CHARLES AND YELLED BUT CHARLES DIDN\T HAVE TIME TO MOVE. ONE ROCK IS ALL THAT FELL. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING HIS HARD HAT WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCU
EMPLOYEE WAS BEATING UP LUMP COAL THAT WAS FEEDING INTO FEEDER FOR CROWBER THE AREA WAS WET & ICY. HE SLIPPED & FELL HITTING HIS RT HIP AGAINST SLEDGE HAMMER. HE MISSED 1 SHIFT.
EMPLOYEE STRAINED GROIN AREA WHILE ATTEMPTING TO TURN BLADE ADJUSTMENT ARM ON TRACTOR.
THE INJURED WAS REMOVING CRIB BLOCKS FROM ALONG ALONG A RIB TO PREPARE A WORKING PLACE. THE RIB FELL AND STRUCK THE INJURED ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
PICKING UP JACK HAMMER 94# OUT OF 15 TON LOCOMOTIVE OPPOSITE OPERATORS END WHILE BENT OVER LIFTING JACKHAMMER FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK
EE WAS TRAMMING THE ROOF BOLTER INTO WORKING PLACE. THE BOLTER GOT STUCK IN SOME SPILLAGE. THE EE BACKED THE B OLTER OUT A SHORT DISTANCE & WHEN HE TRAMMED FORWARD THE BOLTER JUMPED AT ONCE & PINCHED HIS LEFT HAND AGAINST A POST.
WORKER WAS WATCHING MINER CABLE (SECOND MAN) WHILE STANDING BETWEEN A ROW OF ROOF BOLTS A PC OF SLATE FELL FROM ROOF AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD AND BACK BRIDGE OF HIS NOSE WAS CUT FROM HIS H ARD HAT HITTING HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND HIS LEFT LEG WAS LACERATED ON ANTERIOR SURFACE ABOUT 2 INCHES ABOVE KNEE TWELVE STICHES WERE USED TO CLOSE WOUND TO THE KNEE
LOOSE ROCK FELL ON EMPLOYEE WHILE HE WAS EATING DINNER CUT HIS HEAD OVER EYE, BRUISED HIS LEG & RIBS.
AFTER ROCK DUSTER HAD BEEN FILLED FROM STORAGE TANK, EMPLOYEE UNCOUPLED HOSE WITHOUT BLEEDING OFF PRESSURE WHICH FRACTURED ARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OUT OF THE TRUCK. THE STEP WAS ICY AND THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL FRACTURING HIS ANKLE.
EE STATED THAT HE WA CHECKING THE OIL IN T HE DART 806 WHICH WAS COVERED WITH SNOW WHEN HE SLIPPED HITTING HIS RIGHT LEG ON THE BUMPER OF THE TRUCK CAUSING INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS PARKING LOT EMP SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING A THERMOS BOTTLE HE WAS CARRYING AND INJURED HIS BACK
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO R EMOVE A STEEL CAR SPOTTER TIE FROM ATOP TWO WORBENCH HORSES AFTER MAKING REPAIRS TO THE TIE VICTIM MISHANDLED THE 250 LB TIE ALLOWING IT TO FALL DIRECTLY DOWN AND ATOP HIS RT LEG CAUSING A SIMPLE FRACTURE TO RT DISTAL TIBIA
L CANO WAS ASSISTING IN THE OPERATION OF A SHOTCRETE MACHINE WITHOUT THE PROTECTION OF GOGGLES NECESSARY FOR SAME EYES BECAME IRRITATED BEFORE GOGGLES WERE PUT ON
LB HUBBARD STOPPED IN ROADWAY TO PICK CRIB BLOCK OUT OF ROADWAY JAMMED HAND BETWEEN SCOOP AND CRIB BLOCK SPRAINED RT WRIST
WAS DRIVING OUT PINS ON BUCKET OF RONT END LOADER WITH A U2 LB SLEDGE HAMMER TO REPAIR IT AND THEN POUNDED THEM BACK IN. HAD TO STAND AT AN ANGLE IN ORDER TO REACH THEM FELT BODY SORENESS PER IODICALLY, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO CAUSE CONCERN UNTI 3/12 WHEN IT BEGAN TO GORW PROGESSIVELY WORSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PLASTERING WALLS OF AN OVERCAST.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TOWARDS PICK-UP TRUCK WHICH WAS PARKED IN BACK OF PLANT MAINTENANCE SHOP AND SLIPPED ON ICY GROUND AND FELLON HIS RIGHT KNEE.
PHILLIP THERION, A PLANT WORKMAN, WAS NOT WEARING HIS HARD HAT WHEN HE CRAWLED UNDER A SECTION OF CONVEYOR TO RETRIEVE A DROPPED WRENCH. A TWO-INCH BY TWO-INCH STEEL PLATE FELL FROM THE WORK AREA ABOVE(ABOUT 4 FT.) AND STRUCK PHILLIP ON THE HEAD.
PUSHING 4X4 BOARD UNDER CONVEYOR BELT TO CLEAN MUD OFF BELT, FOOT SLIPPED, CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL ON 4 X 4 BOARD.
SMALL PIECE OF ROOF (SCALE) FELL FROM BETWEEN PINS STRIKING MAN ON HEAD.
WHEN WALKING OUT TRACK ENTRY AFTER POWER OUTAGE STEPPED ON EDGE OF WOODEN TIE SPRAINING RIGHT ANKLE
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING SNOW OUT OF TRUCK BET THAT HE DRIVES AND AS HE WAS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK BED HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND FAIL TO THE GROUND HE BROKE HIS RT ARM AND HURT HIS SHOULDER
MAN WAS INJURED AS PIECE OF ROOF ROCK (72 IN X 48 IN X 0-4 IN) FELL FROM BETWEEN LAST TWO ROWS PERMANENT ROOF SUPPORT.
THE MAN WAS HANDLING BELT STRUCTURE WHEN THE STRUCTURE SLIPPED FROM HIS GRASP FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT THUMB
PERSON WAS LOADING ROOM ROCK FALL FACE BRISED RIBS.
CHANNEL LOCKS HIT HIS KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING REGULAR JOB DUTY-JACK SETTER THE JACK SLIPPED WHEN THE WILCOX MINER WAS ENGAGED AND STRUCK HIM ON KNEE
BOLTING TOP CAUGHTFINGER BETWEEN BOLTER AND TIMBER.
INJURED WAS INSTGALLING CRIBBING ON RT SIDE BEHIND ARCH CAPS WHEN A LARGE BOULDER CAME DOWN BERTWEEN 5TH &6TH SETS OF STEEL CAUSING STEEL LAGGING TO COME OUT OF WEBB OF CAPS AND IT STRUCK INJ URED ON LEFT ANKLE CHIPPING BONE IN SAME WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED IN 700 LEVEL DRIFT
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AS HE WAS GETTING OUT OF LOADER. STEPS WERE NOT BROKEN OR DAMAGED TO CAUSE FALL - NOR WERE THEY WET, IT WAS AS FAR AS WE CAN DETERMINE AN UN-COORDINATED EFFORT TO GET DOWN ONB THE EMPLOYYES PART
INJURED WAS LIFTING A HEAD ON THE ROOF BOLT MACHINE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
DRILLING HOLE IN POT IN ROOF WHEN SECTION OF POT FELL ON VICTIMS HAND WHICH WAS RESTING ON BOOM OF BOLTER.
THE ACCIDENT WAS CAUSED BY STRESS ON A BRACEING BLOCK FOR A HYDRAULIC RAM ON A 60 TON HAULBACK. THE STRESS BROKE THE WELD HOLDING THE BRACE AND CUASED THE BLOCK TO KICK OUT, STRIKING THE EMPLO
MECHANIC FAILURE OF BREAKING SYSTEM ON 2 LOCOMOTIVE. INJURED JUMPED FROM RIDERS COMPARTMENT OF LOCOMOTIVE TWISTING RIGHT KNEE.
WILLIAMS (HELPER) PUTTING PLATES ON ROOF BOLTS STANDING BESIDE OF MACHINE AND OPERATOR MOVE MACHINE AND TRAM MACHINE OVER RIGHT FOOT CAUSING A FFRACTURE OF FOOT AND ABOVE TOES.
EMP WAS SPRAYING CONCENTRATE AT BASEMENT OF FILTER PLANT EMP FELL BACKWARDS OVER A SMALL PULLEY CAUSING INJURY TO KNEE FIRST DAY OFF FOR EMP OCCURRED ON 3 6 84
INJURED WAS HELPING TO REPLACE PANEL COVER ON CONTINUOUS MINER AFTER MAKING REPAIRS. HE LOST GRIP ON COVER AND HIS THUMB STUCK RIGHT EYE.
PICKING UP BELT ROLLERS AND SETTING THEM UP ON BLOCKS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS CHEST AND RIGHT SHOULDER BLADE
INJURED SAT ON THE REAR BUMPER OF A PICK UP TRUCK TO PUSH IT AHEAD AS HE WAS PUSHING IT HIS FOOT HIT A SPOT OF OIL ON THE FLOOR HE SLIPPED FROM THE BUMPER AND ALMOST FELL TO THE FLOOR.
WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF LIFTING ONE END OF A 100# CONVEYOR RETURN IDLER & TURNING HIS BODY TO SWING THE OTHER END ONTO A CART HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
WHILE LIFTING AND REMOVING A CABLE HOIST FROM A TOOL LOCKER IN THE SHUTTLE HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AREA
APPARENTLY ED WAS CARRYING TOO HEAVY OF A PIECE OF AIR PIPE-HURT HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE WELDING ON PIPE APPROX. 10 FT OFF THE FLOOR FELL TO FLOOR INJURING BOTH HEELS AND RIGHT KNEE AND HIP.
TRIPPED OVER CABLE THAT PULLS IN GANGSAW CAR.
EMP WAS SEATED IN THE CONTROL DECK OF THE CONT MINER WHEN A SHUTTLECAR STRUCK THE CONT MINER STRAIN CLAMP ARM FORCING THE ARM AGAINST THE EMPLOUEES BACK
EE WAS ROOF BOLTING AS HE REACHED ACROSS MACHINE TO GET DRILL STEEL ROCK FELL FROM ROOF CATCHIGN LEFT HANDD BETWEEN ROCK & BOLTER HEAD. FRACTUR*LEFT INDEX FINGER.
REPORTEDLY SUBJECT SLIPPED AND FELL ON A BOARD FOR WAY ALONG NO 3 BELT CAUSING SORWARD ALONG NO 3 BELT CAUSING SEVERE PAIN IN BACK IN 2-WEST AREA IT APPEARS THAT THIS ACCIDENT MAY HAVE INVOLVE D JOB SKILLS MINOR PROFICIENCY TRAINING OR ATTITUDE
STEPPING OVER A CONVEYOR BELT, FOOT SLIPPED AND INJURED KNEE.
VICTIM WAS HELPING LOAD 7X9\S ON A SCOOP. AS THEY PUT THE BAR ON SCOOP, THE END CAME UP AND CAUGHT HIM IN THE GROIN BRUISING TESTICALS.
EE WAS HOLDING A PIECE OF METAL QHILE ANOTHER EE WAS WELDING. HE STOPPED & CHARLES TURNED & ASKED IF DONE WHEN OTHER EE STRUCK ANOTHER ARC. EE DIDN\T NOTICE IT UNTIL 12:00 MIDNIGHT OF THE 28T H.
EE WAS GOING DOWN TO THE MILL, SLIPPED & BROKE HER ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS CLEANING DIRT OFF ROOF OF LUNCH ROOM AND SMALL SECTION OF ROOF GAVE WY
TED WAS COUPLING 24 EMPTIES TO THE EMPTIES ON THE RAMP. HE REACHED IN TO RAISE A LOW BUMPER & WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE 2 EMPTIES WHEN THEY COUPLED. PELVIC FRACTURE.
LOADING SCRAP LUMBER ONTO TRUCK. PIECE FLIPPED BACK OFF TRUCK STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN RIBS.
EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN CHECKING SHORT CONVEYORS AND CHUTES ANDWAS COMING DOWN 4 FOOT EXIT LADDER, HAND RAIL BROKEN CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL 4 FT ON TO THE STAIRWAY.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHIPPING MUCK FROM THE 3 LEVEL TRENCH TO THE SURFACE, USING A 60 HP SLUSHER. THE SLUSHER CABLE BROKE CAUSING A WHIUPLASH WHICH CAME AROUND THE CABLE GUARD HITTING THE MAN ON THE N ECK. HE SUFFERED A LACERATION AND SEVERE BRUISES ON THE NECK.
INJURED STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS DROPPING THE RAILROAD CARS INTO THE SHAKEOUT PIT, INJURED HIS LEFT ARM AND SHOULDER BY SETTING UP RAILROAD CAR BRAKE. THIS WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL MARCH 5, 1984.
INJ DEPARTED FROM REFUSE BIN DRIVING A R 50 EUCLID TRUCK HEADED FOR DUMP APPROX 140 FT FROM BIN RT TIRE TRACKS INDICATED THE TRUCK STARTED RIDING ON ROAD BERM TRUCK TRAVELLED APPROX ANOTHER 100 FT BEFORE BERM GAVE AWAY CAUSING TRUCK TO OVERTURN AND ROLL DOWN EMBANKMENT A DISTANCE OF APPROX 65 FT BERM IS 2FT TO 3 FT IN HEIGHT AND GUARDED WITH STEEL POSTS LACED WITH WIRE RIPE HAU
INJURED STATES HE WAS LOADING 12 FOOT TIMBER ONTO A DIESEL SCOOP TO HAUL INTO THE SECHON. HE THEW ONE END OF THE TIMBER OVER & IT BOUNCE BACK & STRUCK HIM ON THE THIGH.
LABORERS WERE CLEANING UP SCRAPPILE USING A 920 FRONT-END LOADER. WHEN LOADER PUSHED INTO THE PILE OF SCRAP TO PARTIALLY FILL BUCKET AFTER BACKING UP A PIECE OF 12 INCH PIPE ABOUT 10 FT IN LE NGTH FELL OFF BUCKET LANDING ON LABORERS LEFT FOOT BRUISING THE TOP OF FOOT.
EE WAS OPERATING SCRAPER THAT WAS BEING PUSHED BY TRACTOR. SCRAPER GOT CAUGHT ON ROCK, WHEN EE RAISED BOWL, SCRAPER JUMPED OFF ROCK. HE STOPPED & TRACTOR HIT HIM IN REAR RATHER HARD. TRACTOR W AS PUSHING HARD BECAUSE OF ROCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING CHANNELS ALONG TRACK ENTRY, WRENCH SLIPPED OFF BOLT AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT EYE.
THREE MEN WERE CHANGING SCOOP TIRES TO FOAM FILLED. THE TIRE FELL FLAT ON GROUND. TWO MEN LIFTED THE TIRE AS MR. BUTTS PRYED WITH A BAR-WITH TIRE OF 45% THE INJURED REACHED TO HELP GET THE TI RE TO 90% STRAIGHT UP AND D ID NOT POSITION HIMSELF PROPERLY CAUSING UNDO STRAIN ON THE LOWER BACK.
RIB ROLLED OFF & COVERED HIM UP.
THE CONVEYOR ON THE CONTINUOUS MINER WOULD NOT RUN SO AFTER THE MINER WAS BACK OUT OF THE CUT GREENE GOT DOWN ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES TO SEE IF ANYTHING WAS STUCK IN THE THROAT. WHEN HE DID THI S A PIECE OF SHALE FELL FROM THE ROOF AND STRUCK ON THE LEFT SIDE, LOWER BACK, FRACTURING A RIB.
EMPLOYEE BENT OVER AND HIS BACK WENT OUT OF PLACE.
EMP STATES HE WAS SPLICING CABLE AND HE WAS HITTING A KRIMPER WITH A HAMMER AND A PIECE OF THE KRIMPER HIT HIM IN THE RIGHT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING SHOTCRETE HOPPER WITH CEMENT WHEN HE RECEIVED FORCING BODYS IN BOTH EYES.
STEM OF VALVE BLOCK FOR CANOPY BROKE LETTING CANOPY COME COWN STRIKING SHOULDER AND BACK
EMP STATED THE TROLLEY POLE CAME OFF STRIKING HER HAND
THE MAN SAID HE HAD KNOCKED THE POWER ON #33 SHUTTLE CAR AND HE CUT INTO THE CABLE AND IT BLEW UP AND BURNT HIM
AS INJURED WAS GOING THROUGHA 4 X 4 MAN DOOR HE SLIPPED ON THE WET MINE BOTTOM CAUSING INJURED TO TWIST LEFT LEG AND HE EXPERIENCED PAIN AND SWELLING.
INJ WAS REMOVING SHIELD FROM FACE BY ATTACHING ONE END OF CHAIN TO ANCHOR POST AND INSERTING THE OTHER END OF CHAIN THROUGH EYE OF RAM JACK AND TIEING CHAIN TOGETHER WITH A J HOOK INJ WAS IN P PROCESS OF DISCONNECTING J HOOK FROM CHAIN WITH LEFT HAND WHILE OPERATING RAM JACK WITH RT HAND INJ INAVERTENTLY PULLED WRONG LINES AND RAM JACK INSTEAD OF EXTENDING RETRACTED TENSIONING CHA
LEAVING JOB AT MIDNIGHT SLIPED AND FELL ON ICE OFF DOCK INTO PIT INJURING LEFT LEG AND RIGHT SHOULDER
EE WAS WALKING BACK FROM GETTING ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT FOT LIFTING A BLOCK WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOT & FELL ONTO ANOTHER LEDGE.
BURNING BOLTHOLES IN CONVEYOR DECKING. PANT LEG CAUGHT FIRE, BURNING LEFT LEG.
EMP WAS ASSISTING REMOVAL OF SCAFFOLDING LONG SUPPORT PIPES IN THE PROCESS OTHER EMPLOYEES PULLED AND INJUREDS ARM STRUCK SIDE OF KILN HOOD
EE STATED HE SLIPPED & FELL WHILE CARRYING A SCREEN.
SWELLING OF HAND FROM DRILLING
EMP WAS LOADING POWDER TRUCK FROM STORAGE TRAILER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL INTO STOCK RACKS ON POWDER TRUCK EMP BRUISED HIS RIBS
EMPLOYEE STEPPED INTO HOLE IN BURNER FLOOR AND SPRAINED ANKLE.
AS INJURED AND A SECOND PARTY WERE UNLOADING !6\WOODEN CROSSBARS FROM A FLAT CAR. SECOND PARTY LOST GRIP OF HIS END MAKING IT FALL LANDING ON INJURED PARTY HAND CATCHING IT BETWEEN BAR AND FLA BAR AND FLAT CAR.
EMPLOYEE GRADING A HUMP OFF WITH THE UMTRACK HIT ROOF BOLT AND CANOPY BROKE CAME IN ON TOP OF MAN.
EE WAS UNPLUGGING DUST PIPE THE DIRT CAME DOWN PIPE BEFORE EE COULD CLOSE THE INSPECTION DOOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAVELING ALONG CATWALK PREPARING TO ENTER CAB OR ROCK TRUCK. WHILE ON THE CATWALK, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL FRACTURING HIS ANKLE.
INJURED AND CO-WORKER WERE CONNECTING RELAY BAR TO RAM JACK CO-WORKER WAS USING A SLATE BAR TO LIFT RELAY BAR WHILE INJURED WAS USING HIS FINGER TO ALIGH THE CLEVIS OF RELAY BAR WITH EYE OF RA M END RELAY BAR SLIPPED CATCHING INJUREDS FINGER
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ON DRILL, WHEN ATTEMPTING TO BREAK STEEL WITH BREAKER PIN, BREAKER PIN TURNED IN HIS HAND CATCHING HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN PIN AND DRILL CHAIN.
WAS SAVING TIMBERS FELT SHARP PAIN MID LOWER BACK.
WAS WALKING ACROSS THE ROAD TO ASSIT VEHICLE THAT WAS STUCK IN THE SNOW PERSON STATES HE SLIPPED AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE ROADWAY CAUSING A CONTUSION TO RIGHT KNEE
SETTING SMALL PUMP SLIPPED AND TWISTED KNEE HE WAS SETTING THE PUMP INSIDE THE MINE
LIFTING 5\ X 6\ TIMBERS ON PILLAR SECTION OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
LEFT KNEE IS SWOLLEN AND VERY TENDER FROM CRAWLING AROUND IN MINE
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING IN LOW COAL IN TRACK ENTRY AND A PIECE OF ROCK MEASURING APPROX. 4 FT BY 6 FOOT BY 6 IN. FELL FROM BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS AND STRUCK HIM ON LEFT LEG AND SIDE.
TED WAS REPLACING SPRINGS ON CAROUSEL BREAK-OUT DOGS HE WAS PULLING ON SPRING WHEN BACK OF SPRING CAME UNHOOKED CAUSING TED TO LOOSE HIS BALANCE HE FELL OFF DECK OF DRILL AND LANDED ON HIS RT ANKLE CAUSING FX TO RT HEEL
INJURED REVERSEDD A ROOF DRILL & CAUGHT HIS HEAD BETWEEN A HEADER BOARD & EDGE OF THE CANOPY.
WHILE BOLTING IN THE 15 BUTT SECTION EMP WAS STRUCK BY ROOF FALL IN THE NECK AND SHOULDER AREA AND ALSO IN RT FOOT SIZE OF ROCK WAS 36X56X1
HE WAS TAKING TIMBERS OFF OF A BELT. HIT HIS FINGER ON ROCK HANGING ON TIMBERS.
THE EE WAS ROOF BOLTING BY ADDING ADDITIONAL ROOF BOLTS IN BOLTED AREA WHEN A PIECE OF ROOF FELL AROUND THE DRILL SHAFT.
WHILE DESCENDING THE HILL OF A GOLF CAR, THE WHEEL CYLINDER BLEW OUT CAUSING LOSS OF BRAKES. WHEN DAVID DUPONT ATTEMPTED TO GOB THE CAR, THE CAR TURNED OVER AND CAME TO REST ON THE WALL ALONGS IDE THE TRACK ENTRY. EMPLOYEE WAS PINNED UNDER THE CAR. EMPLOYEE WAS A PASSENGER.
EMPLOYEE PUTTING BITS ON MINER, TOOL SLIPPED.
WAS PULLING HIM UP SOME SLACK FOR PINNER AND TOUCHED A SPLIT SPLICE IN CABLE AND IT SHOCKED HIM. CALLED HOSPITAL AND SAID THEY WERE KEEPING HIM FOR OBSERVATION. TALKED TO HIM PERSONALLY.
HE HAD ONE SIDE OF SUPPLY CAR JACKED UP AND WAS IN PROCESS OF JACKING OTHER SIDE AND CAR STARTED SLIDING TOWARD HIM CATCHING FINGER BETWEEN JACK AND SUPPLY CAR.
TAKING A TOP ROLLER OFF OF STANDS, ROLLER SLIPPED OUT OF HAND AND FELL ON RIGHT FOOT, CAUSING A BREAK ON FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING REPAIR THE CABLE REEL OF A 10SC SHUTTLE CAR WHEN THE COVER FELL HITTING HIS LEFT HAND FRACTURING HIS LITTLE FINGER
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON BELT TAILPIECE (STRAIGHTENING IT) ON THE 1 EAST MAIN SECTION ID #002-0 EMPLOYEE WAS USING RACHET JACK TO PULL TAILPIECE OVER RACHET JACK BROKE CAUSING TAILPIECE TO HIT EMPLOYEE KNOCKING HIM BACK RESULT BEING BRUISES AND ABRASIONS ON EMPLOYEES HANDS AND HIPS
CLIMBING UP LADDER TO CAB OF 50 TON TRUCK-TORQUIE WRENCH STARTED TO FALL FROM CAB-MAN REACHED WITH RIGHT HAND TO CATCH IT AND PUT HIM ON TWIST CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN BACK.
EMP WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF METAL WHEN HE CUT THE METAL OFF IT FELL FROM THE BENCH HITTING HIS RT FOOT
THE MAN SAID HE WAS USING A GRINDER WHEN HE WAS STRUCK IN THE EYE BY A FLYING PARTICLE.
INJURED WAS WORKING ON A SURFACE DIAMOND DRILL. HE STEPPED FROM THE CONTROL PLATFORM TO THE DRILL PLATFORM AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE RESULTING IN A PULLED LIGAMENT.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A BOLT MACHINE AND PINNED HIMSELF AGAINST THE RIB.
STRAINED BACK GETTING OUT OF BARTTERY TRACTOR HE HAD BEEN OPERATING TRACTOR FOR A PERIOD OF TIME PRIOR TO REPORTING ACCIDENT
PUTTING UP SHED, DRILLING HOLES, CAUSED PRESSURE ON VERTABRA, PINCHING NERVE IN BACK.
GLEN WAS ON TOP OF THE AIRSLIDE TIGHTENING BOLTS HIS WRENCH SLIPPED AND GLEN FELL OFF AIRSLIDE ONTO THE GROUND KNOCKING HIMSELF OUT FOR APPROX 5 MINUTES UNTIL BRIAN DAY FOUND HIM
SETTING SPARS IN THE ROOF AND PULLED AS PEICE OF DRAW ROCK DOWN ON HIS RT KNEE BRUISING HIS KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING ROCK FROM MINER, ROCK BROKE CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO CUT HAND.
HURT HIS BACK WHILE PULLING MINER CABLE.
WHILE DESCENDING THE HILL ON A GOLF CAR THE WHEEL CYLINDER BLEW OUT CAUSING LOSS OF BRAKES. WHEN EMPLOYEE TRIED TO GOB THE CAR, IT TURNED OVER AND CAME TO REST ON THE WALL ALONGSIDE THE TRACK ENTRY. EMPLOYEE WAS PINNED UNDER THE CAR. EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING.
EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING TAKE-UP BEARING ON CONVEYOR WHILE PULLING ON WRENCH IT SLIPPED OFF OF ADJUSTING NUT. EMPLOYEE FELL ON WORK PLATFORM, STRUCK BACK AGAINST CONVEYOR FRAME.
EMPLOYEE WAS PROBING THE KILN RECOUP DUCT WITH AN IRON BAR. THE PRESSURE WENT POSITIVE AND SOME HOT CLINKER DUST BURNED THE EMPLOYEE\S RIGHT WRIST AND FOREHEAD.
EMPLOYEE AT R/R SIDING LOADING NITRATE INTO HIS TRUCK AND GOT NITRATE IN HIS EYES.
EMP WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM THE MICHIGAN LOADER WHEN LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF STEP EMP WASH HOLDING ONTO HANDRAIL WHEN FOOT SLIPPED HIS BODY SWUNG INTO EDGE OF STEEL LADDER HE HIT TESTICLES AGAINS LADDER EXTENT OF INJURY STILL TO B E DETERMINED
TOM WAS CARRYING A 5 GALLON BUCKET OF OIL TOO THE LONGWALL HEADGATE. HE SLIPPED IN THE MUD PULLING MUSCLES IN HIS BACK.
VICTIM WAS LOADING A PIECE OF42" BELT WHEN HE STEPPED ON A 5X7. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF AND HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLOSE WET ROCK CAR. EE WAS THROWN TO GROUND AS LEVERAGE WAS BEING APPLIED. EE RECEIVED ANKLE DAMAGE EITHER BY TWISTING ANKLE IN GRADING OR BY COMING IN CONTACT WITH DOOR D URING FALL.
EMP WAS REMOVING A POST WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON LEFT SHOULDER
INJ SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE TRYING TO CLOSE HOPPER DOORS ON RAILROAD CAR USING A PRY BAR
INJ WAS ADVANCING A 16IN RIGID SLIDER VENTILATION TUBE IN THE WORKING PLACE WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK
HE WAS BOLTING ROOF, AND THE FRILL STEEL WAS GETTING STOPPED UP DUE TO WATER AND MUD. HIS HEOPER WAS HITTING STEEL TO UNSTOP IT. HE REACHED FOR DRILL STEEL AND SHIS HELPER RICKY PACK STRUCK HI STRUCK HIM ON LT HABD WITH A WRENCH, FRACTURING HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A JACKHAMMER UP A HILL SLIPPED ON ICE FALLING AND JACKHAMMER HIT EMPLOYEE ON BACK OF HEAD CAUSING MILD CONCUSSION
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING LADDERS UP A STAIRWAY AND HE PULLED MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK
INJURED WAS WALKING DOWN TRACK SLOPE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON A PATCH OF ICE, LANDING ON RIGHT SHOULDER.
REPAIRING AUTOMATIC PALLETIZER-PULLING ON ELEVATOR SECTION EMPLOYEE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK. HE HAD PREVIOUS NON-WORK RELATED BACK OPERATION IN LATE 1983. THE REST OF THE DAY HE FELT TINGLING SENSATION IN RIGHT LEG. EMPLOYEE CONTINUED HIS REGULAR WORK SCHEDULE UNTIL 4-6-84 WHEN DR. ADVISED HIM TO TAKE TIME OFF. 4-30-84 RAN MYELOGRAM, 5-2-84 OPERATED.
EE TIGHTENING BOLTS ON AIR SEPERATOR-RAYMOND MILL- WRENCH SLIPPED & HE HIT THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT HAND ON A SCREW CONVEYOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A CUTTING EDGE ON A DOZER HE TRIED TO MAN HANDLE THE CUTTING EDGE INSTEAD OF USING PROCEDURES HE HAD BEEN TAUGHT
THE EMPLOYEE HAS STOPPED HIS MACHINE TO HELP THE MECHANIC DO SOME WORK ON HIS MACHINE AND WHEN HE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF THE CAB HIS LOST HOS FOOTING IN A RUT AND PULLED SOME LIGAMENTS IN HIS BA CK AND SLIPPED TWO DISCS.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ALONG HAULAGE DURING NORMAL COURSE OF HIS DUTIES HE STEPPED ON A LOOSE TIE CAUSING HIS FOOT TO SLIP AND GT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TIE AND RAIL
EE WAS ASSISTING IN T HE REMOVAL OF A GEAR FROM THE CRUSHER IN PREP PLANT. ANOTHER EE WAS TAPPING THE GEAR WITH HAMMER CAUSING A SMALL PIECE OF METAL TO CHIP OF STRIKING EE IN THE LEFT HAND.
THE EMPLOYEE FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON GOT INTO AN EIMCO 935 UNDERGROUND FRONT-END LOADER AND STARTED IT. HE PROCEEDED TO BACK IT OUT OF THE ENTRY INTO A X-CUT AND WHEN HE TURNED THE EIMCO HIS HAN D WAS STICKING OUT OF THE CAB AND AS THE FRONT END ARTICULATED IT CRUSHED HIS LTTLE FINGER. THE EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED AN OPEN FRACTURE OF THE 5TH DIGIT OF HIS RIGHT HAND.
OPENING AIR DOORS-THE CHAIN ON THE DOORS FLIPPED UP AND HIT HIS HEAD CAUSING SMALL CUT JUST TO THE RIGHT OF HIS RIGHT EYE. (BY HAND-WALKING THROUGH THEM)9
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING MANBUS WHEN WHEELS HIT SOME GOB CAUSING STEERING WHEEL TO ROTATE HITTING LEFT THUMB WITH SPOKES OF STEERING WHEEL.
I.NAME (REPORT SUBMITTED 030684 10 DAYS LATE) WAS WORKING ON A TRACK SWITCH HE CLAIMS THAT HE WAS WALKING TO JEEP STUMBLED AND FELL TOWARD JEEP HE THINKS THAT HE STOPPED HIS MOMENTUM WITH HIS RT HAND ON JEEP AND THEN FELL TO GROUND AGAIN BREAKING THE FALL W/HIS RT HAND NOTE THIS REPORT WAS CONTESTED AND THUS REASON FOR LATE SUBMITTAL MAN WAS PAID COMPENSION CONTESTED FOR NO REPORT
PULLED A LOCK ON HOSE AND HOSE BLEW OUT AND STRUCK FINGER.
TOWING DIABLED TRUCK- WHEN CHAIN BROKE- LOST CONTROL OF TRUCK- JUMPED OUT OF TRUCK- CAUSING INJURY.
CAP COAL FELL FROM ROOF AND CUAGHT EDDIE COMPTON ON THE LEFT SHOULDER AND HEAD NECK WAS INJURED, ALSO.
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A METAL FRAME FROM CONVEYOR BELT AND STEPPED IN A RUT AND FELL TWISTING LEFT ANKLE AND PULLING MUSCLES FROM ACHILLES TENDON.
HE WAS WALKING INTO WORK FROM THE PARKING LOT. SLIPPED AND FELL ON THE ICE.
SHOVELING & BARRING A PLUGGED ELEVATOR HOUSING WHEN MAN EXXPERIENCED PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.
REPAIRING BROKE SHOES ON TROLLER-ANOTHER WORKER WAS USING A TORCH 10 FT AWAY & A SMALL OBJECT GOT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL
HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE ROLLER MILL IT WAS DUSTY CAUSING LIGHTING TO BE BAD EMP WALKED IN AND TRIPPED OVER A PALLET ON FLOOR HE COMPLAINED OF HIS BACK HURTING
INJURED CLAIMS WHILE STANDING BY A FORKLIFT TALKING TO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE THE SUPPORT LEG FOR THE FEED CHUTE FOR NO. 6 PRIMARY MILL FELL OFF THE FORKLIFT STRIKING INJURED ON THE BACK OF HIS RIGH T LEG CAUSING HIM TO BE KNOCKED DOWN.
INJURED MAN HAD JUST BLASTED AIR AT TRIP HE STARTED DOWN TRACK IN OF TAIL TRACK WHEN HE STEPPED IN HOLE BETWEEN TIE.
WAS USING HAMMER & PUNCH ON 1-JOINT OF A TRUCK-TRACTOR HE WAS REPAIRING, A SLIVER OF STEEL FLEW & EMBEDDED IN HIS L. HAND PALM & LODGED NEAR THUMB BONE, THE X-RAYS REVEALED. DR. TREATED & GAVE A TETANOUS SHOT, BUT DIDNT REMOVE PIECE ON INITIAL VISIT, THINKING PIECE WOULD ISOLATE ITSELF & COULD REMAIN. THE 3RD WEEK LATERCOMPLICATIONS SET IN, INFECTION & DRS DECIDED ON SURGERY TO REM
EMP FOOT SLIPPED OFF RUNG ON STATIONARY LADDER AND HIS KNEE STRUCK A LADDER RUNG
RADIATOR CAP BLEW OFF AND BURNED ARM.
INJURED WAS SHOVELING COAL ONTO BELT. AS HE THREW A SHOVEL FULL ON THE BELT HE TWISTED HIS UPPER BODY THUS STRAINING HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ALONG HAULROAD WHICH WAS IN GOOD CONDITION.
EMP WAS DESCENDING A LADDER SLIPPED AND HELD ONTO HAND RAIL PULLING A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK
EE STATES WHILE REACHING FOR WELDING ROD ON WORK BENCH HE BUMPED A LOADER TOOTH THAT FELL TO FLOOR STRIKING HIM ON TOP OF RIGHT FOOT.
LIFTING CHANNEL IRON-STRAINED LOWER BACK. (HE FINISHED THE SHIFT)
SUBJECT WAS UNHOOKING ROPE FROM DOZER BLADE HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED ON LOOSE PIECE OF SHALE CAUSING RIGHT ANKLE TO TURN OVER.
OPERATING SCOOP LEFT WHEEL RAN OVER LUMP OF COAL WHICH IN TURN RAISED OPERATORS HEAD INTO THE MINE ROOF STOVED HEAD & NECK REGION.
GETTING CELLS OFF BACK OF BATTERY TRUCK RIGHT KNEE POPPED AND BEGAN TO HURT HIM.
EMPLOYEE STATES HOOKING TONGUE TO SCOOP TONGUE CAME UP & I CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN PIN AND SCOOP-USING A PIECE OF SPLINET SHAFT FOR A PIN.
EMPLOYEE STATES: WAS WALKING AND HITHEAD ON STEEL HANGER JAMMING HIS NECK.
INJURED MAN WAS REMOVING A WOOD POST FROM SECTION CONVEYOR BELT AT THE TAILPIECE STRUCK THUMB LEFT HAND BETWEEN POST & METAL FRAME OF THE TAILPIECE. CAUSING A CUT OF THE LEFT THUMB REQUIRING STITCHES. ACCIDENT OCCURRED IN THE C2 SECTION M.MU. 002-0.
INJURED WAS OPERATING CONTINUOUS MINER REMOTELY AS HE PREPARED TO MOVE TO LEFT SIDE OF THE CUT A CORNER ROLLED OUT AND HE WAS STRUCK BY TOP BINDER ROCK CAUSING A FRACTURED HIP
I WAS WALKING UP TO THE SWITCH BOX TO START UP A ROCK DUST TANKER I STRUCK MY RIGHT KNEE AGAINST CRIBBING
WATCHING MINER CABLE WHEN PIECE OF TOP COAL FELL STRIKING HEAD AND SHOULDERS. APPEARED HOT TO BE SERIOUS HE FINISHED THE SHIFT.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING TOP. A PIECE OF HIS STEEL HUNG UP IN THE DRILLING PROCESS. HE WAS PULLING ON IT TRYING TO FREE IT. IT SLIPPED LOOSE AND STRUCK HIM ON HIS NOSE. HE WORKED FOR A FEW DAY S BEFORE IT BEGIN TO GIVE HIM SOME DISOMFORT. HE THEN WENT TO SEE A DR.
INJURED WAS CUTTING IN #3 ENTRY AND COAL, ROCK OR METAL HIT HIM IN THE EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING ROCK OFF BELT - STRAINED BACK.
EMP WAS INSTALLING TRAM CAR LINER WHEN THE FRONT END OF THE CURVED LINER FLIPPED UP AND HIT HIM ON RIGHT HAND RT HAND WAS ON PIECE OF ANGLE IRON AT THE TIME
WHILE WALKING OUT OF THE MINE DURING AN ELECTRICAL OUTAGE HE WAS REQUIRED TO WALK APPROX 4 MILES & IN MY OPINION WAS NOT ABLE TO DO THIS ACTIVITY
WAS LAYING UP CRIBS WHEN MAN WAS HIT ON HAND BY CRIB BLOCK LOW TOP STANDING IN AWKWARD POSITION.
WAS GETTING OFF HI-LIFT STEPPED ON REAR TIRE OF HI-LIFT & FELL. DID NOT USE PROPER ACCESS TO G ET OFF MACHINE. LACERATION RIGHT FOREHEAD.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS STANDING BY A MINER AND ROCK FELL ON HIM
EMPLOYEE TWISTED HISBACK WHILE LOADING ROCK DUST.
WHILE THROWING ROCKDUST INTO BUCKET OF SCOOP CAR WORKER LOST HIS FOOTING CAUSING HIM TO FALL STRIKING HIS TAILBONE ON BUCKET OF SCOOP ALSO STRAINING THE MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING FACE WHEN A STONE FELL FROM ROOF HITTING VICTIM IN RT FOREARM
HE WAS HELPING PERFORM MAINTAINCE WORK ON EQUIPMENT INCLUDING CHECKING THE HYDRAULIC ON A SCOOP TRACTOR HE PLACED HIS FEET UNDER THE DIPPER OR BUCKET WHILE REACHING FOR HIS TOOLS. AS HE DID TH E OTHER EMPLOYEE LOWERED THE BUKEWT WITHOUT KNOWING POSITION OF THE INJURIEDS FEET.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED OUT OF DRAGLING BUCKET INTO SMALL HOLE IN WELDING SHOP FLOOR AND TWISTED ANKLE
INJ STATED HE WAS TROUBLE SHOOTING WHEN HE PUT THE CONTACT TIPS IN W ITH HIS SCREW DRIVER IT FLASHED AND GAVE A FLASH BURN TO BOTH EYES
EMP WAS LOADING ANFO ONTO PICKUP HE PULLED PICKUP AHEAD TO CLOSE DOOR ON THE VAN THE PICKUP ROLLED BACK PINNING EMP BETWEEN THE PICKUP AND THE VAN
MAN STATED, THAT WHILE HE WAS LIFTING CABLE OUT OF WAY FOR THE RAM CAR TO GET THROUGH HE GOT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.
HAD MINOR INJURY TWISTED LEFT KNEE 2/23/84 DIDNT LOSE TIME TILL 7/12/84 AFTER WHICH TIME HAD A KNEE OPERATION, STEPPED IN HOLE IN KILN COATING
INJURED GOT HIS FEET WET. HE THEN GOT LIME IN HIS BOOTS WHICH WERE NOT LACED UP. THE LIME MIXED WITH THE MOISTURE ON HIS FEET AND CAUSED THE BURNS. INJURED DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT UNITL TH E NEXT DAY. THE BURNS COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED HAD HE REPORTED IT WHEN IT HAPPENED.
LIFTING A PIECE OF PIPE AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
APPROX. FEB. 23, 1984 EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS PICKING UP A SMALL BARRELL OF GREASE AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE DID NOT REPORT THIS TO HIS FOREMAN UNTIL APPROX. ONE MONTH LATER.
HENDERSON WAS TRYING TO GET THE COAL IN ROTARY FURNACE TO BURN HE THREW SOME DIESEL ON THE FIRE THEN TURNED THE FAN ON THE FIRE EXPLODED AND BURNED HIS HANDS AND FACE
JIMMY E THOMPSON HAD WALKED INTO SHOP TO ADVISE SUPT ABOUT MECHANICAL PROBLEM HE WAS HAVING WITH HIS LOADER AT SAME TIME TWO MECHANICS WERE WORKING ON 992 CATAPILLAR LOADER TILT LINKAGE JIMMY WAS STANDING IN LINE WITH LINKAGE MECHANICS WERE WORKING UNKNOWN TO EVERYONE LINKAGE WHICH WEIGHTS SEVERAL HUNDRED LBS WAS FREE TO SLIDE DOWN LIFT ARM STRIKING JIMMY ON RT SHOJLDER AND JAW THR
EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING OVER AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE WAS NOT LIFTING ANYTHING
EMP WAS WORKING ON MILL WATER LINES ON A LNADING WHEN HE STEPPED INTO A VOID ON THE DECK LOST HIS BALANCE AND STRUCK AGAINST THE PROTECTIVE HANDRAIL ON HIS RIGHT SIDE
MAN WAS WORKING IN FINISH MILL BLDG, 30 FT. ABOVE FLOOR ON SUBWAY GRATING DECK. HE WAS CUTTING OLD PIPE WHICH WAS BEING LOWERED THRU REMOVABLE GRATING SECTION. WHILE CUTTING, THE GRATING WAS R EMOVED, WHICH HE APPARENTLY WAS NOT AWARE OF. HE FINISHED HALF OF CUT, TURNED TO WALK AROUND AND STEPPED THROUGH THE OPENING.
EMP WAS WORKING IN THE YARD AT THE LUBE RACK CHAANGING OIL BARRELS BAREL WAS LAYING DOWN EMP LIFTED ONE END AND STOOD IT UP WHEN HE RELEASED BARREL HE COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN ALL THE WAY UP
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING AROUND AN AUTOMATED TRIPPERCAR WHEN IT UNEXPECTEDLY REVERSED DIRECTION. IT STARTLED HIM, HE JUMPED BACK, SLIPPED AND F ELL. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURED LEFT TIBIA AND FIU LA.
INDIVIDUAL WAS TRYING TO STEP OVER A SMALL DITCH WHEN HE FELL INTO IT, TWISTING LEFT ANKLE.
I WAS HELPING BREAK DOWN THE DRILL BY HOLDING THE JAWS WHEN THEY KICKED BACK AND H IT MY HAND
WHILE INJURED WAS SETTING A POST HE HIT HIS ELBOW ON OPPOSITE POST WHILE USING AX TO TIGHTEN POST
THE INJURED WAS WALKING UP A STAIRWAY IN THE PREPARATION PLANT. HE SLIPPED & STARTED TO FALL GRABBED THE HANDRAIL WHEN HE STARTED TO FALL PULLING MUSCLES IN HIS ARM.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS FUELING HIS DOZER HE SHUT THE FUEL OFF DISCONNECTED THE NOZZEL FROM THE DOZER AND TWISTED HIS BODY AROUND SAID HE FELT HIS BACK GIVE
EMP WAS HELPING PUT CRAWLER PAD BACK ON 5561 SHOVEL WHEN WELDED EYE BROKE WHICH A COMEALONG WAS ATTACHED PAD FELL AND STRUCK EMP ON RT FOOT
INJURED STATED HE WAS MOVING MINER CABLE WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS THREE FINGERS BETWEEN CABLE AND STAND OFF.
EMP WAS INSTALLING RIPPER MOTOR IN CONT MINER MOTOR BECAME HUNG ON SOMETHING AND EMP PLACED HIS HAND UNDER MOTOR BETWEEN MOTOR AND BOTTOM OF COMPARTMENT AT SUCH A TIME MOTOR FREED ITSELF D DROPPING ON EMPLOYEES RT HAND LACERATION OF RING AND MIDDLE FINGERS AND FRACTURE OF MIDDLE FINGER
FALL ON HIS RIGHT LEG TWISTING HIS RIGHT ANKLE AND BUMPING HIS LEFT KNEE
PIERCE WAS DRIVING ONE END OF MANTRIP WHEN OTHER DRIVER PUT THE PARKING BRAKE ON FROM OTHER END PIERCES HANDLE HIT HIM ON THE RT ELBOW
EMPLOYEE STATES WAS OUTSIDE OF SHOP, GETTING INTO PICK UP TRUCK. STEPPED UP TO GET IN AND STRUCK HEAD AGAINST INSIDE OF CAB OF PICK UP JAMMING HEAD DOWN.
VANDALS HAD DAMAGED THE PRIMARY CRUSHER DRIVE ELECTRIC MOTOR AND IT WAS BEING REMOVED FOR REPAIR. THE INJURED WAS GOING BACK TO HIS PICKUP TRUCK TO GET A WRENCH WHEN HIS FEET SLIPPED ON THE WE T CONVEYOR BELT CAUSING HIM TO FALL APPORX. 4\ TO CONCRETE.
HE WAS COMING OUT OF THE MINE AND SLIPPED AND FELL.
OPERATOR STATED THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE EXTENDABLE HEAD OVER TO BETTER ALIGN CHUCK WITH PINNER STEEL WHICH HE HAD STUCK IN ROOF HE WAS HOLDING THE STEEL WITH HIS R HAND AS HE MOVED THE HEAD INWARD THE CANOPY PINCHED HIS HAND AGAINST STEEL IN ROOF
WHILE WORKING WITH RESIN & PREFORMING ROOF BOLTING DUTIES WIRKER BECAME ILL.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE DROVE SHUTTLE CAR INTO THE RIB THROWING HIMSELF UNDER STEERING WHEEL (THIS WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 022884 WHICH AT THAT TIME HE BEGAN MISSING)
EMP HAD HAND AGAINST TOP OF CANOPY MINER MOVED CATCHING HAND AGAINST TOP
MAN WAS PUTTING UP OVERCAST WALL WHEN WALL CAVED IN ON MAN
MOVING EQUIPMENT OUT OF THE WAY IN PREPARATION FOR INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC MOTOR
WHILE USING A PUNCH AND HAMMER TO REMOVE A BEARING A PIECE OF METAL WAS EMBEDIED IN THE EMPLOYEE LEFT LEG.
HAULING BELT DRIVE MOTOR FOR LO-BELT ON 2WHEEL CART WE HAD MOTOR SECURED WITH A CHAIN AND HIS HAND WAS BETWEEN MOTOR AND SIDE OF CART WHEN MOTOR SHIFTED AND CUGHT HIS HAND
SUBJECT WAS ATTACHING ANOTHER DRILL STEEL WHEN A 1/4" HOSE BLEW OUT SQUIRTING HYDRAULIC OIL INTO BOTH EYES.
EMPLOYEE SAID HE HURT HIS BACK WHILE PULLING MINER CABLE OUT OF R/W
HE IS A ROOF BOLTER, HE WAS HELPING THE OTHER OPERATOR INSTALL A X-BLOCK IN UNIT #5, THE HOLE HAD BEEN DRILLED, HE WAS HOLDING THE BLOCK AND BOLT IN THE HOLE AND THE OTHER OPERATOR SET THE PAR T OF THE DRILLING ARM THAT RESTS ON THE MINE FLOOR DOWN ON HIS LEFT FOOT. FRACTURED TOES 1-3 ON THE LEFT FOOT.
WHILE BOLTING A LEFT SOME ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN PINS AND HIT HIS LEFT ANKLE
AS INJURED WAS PULLING A ROLLER OUT FROM UNDER BELT HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK
THE INJURED WAS WALKING BY THE 1ST SECTION DRIVE OF THE 2ND BELT WHEN SHE STEPPED IN A HOLE CAUSING A SPRAIN TO HER RIGHT ANKLE.
PULLING MATERIAL OFF OF HILL WHEN HE HIT A HARD PIECE OF GROUND WHICH TURNED THE SCRAPER SIDEWAYS THEN FLIPPED IT COMPLETELY OVER.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRAGGING THE CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE UP WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
MIKE WAS INSTALLING ROCKBOLT AND PLATE WHEN A ROCK CAME OFF THE BACK STRIKING HIM IN THE MOUTH.
SHOVELING RIB VENTILATION TUBE FELL STRIKING HIM ON NECK AND SHOULDERS.
INJURED WAS GETTING OUT OF MOTOR AND STEPPED ON A ROCK.
INJURED WAS SETTING TIMBERS IN FACE WHEN COAL FROM A BURST RIB HIT LEFT EYE.
VICTIM WAS SHOVELING MATERIAL FROM HEAD OF C/M WHILE MINER HELPER WAS PUTTING OIL IN MINER. THE M INER RECEIVES OIL BY SUKING IT THRU A HYDRAUILIC HOSE BY PUTTING HYDRAULIC UP PRESSURE ON THE GATHERING HEAD. THE MINER WAS FULL OF OIL THE MINER HELPER PUT DOWN PRESSURE ON THE GATHER HEAD LEVER ALLOWING THE GATHERING HEAD TO SET DOWN ON HIS FOOT.
WHILE WALKING, EMPLOYEE FELL AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
INJ WAS MOVING A CART WITH OXYGEN AND ACETYLENE ON IT WHEN HE SAT THE CART DOWN IT STARTED TO TIP OVER FRONTWARDS THE MAN GRABBED THE CART AND PULLED IT BACK UPRIGHT HE CLAIMS HE STRAINED HI BACK IN THE PROCESS
EMPLOYEE STEPPED FROMA ROCK TRUCK AND TWISTED HIS FOOT WHEN HE CONTACTED THE GROUND
ROCK FALL 8IN. X 8 IN. X 2 IN. STRUCK HEAD.
WAS COMING OUT IN BUS BEHIND MAN PULLING 2 MOTORS WITH A CHAIN CHAIN BROKE MOTOR RAN DOWN INCLINE. STRIKING BUS WITH MR FOX INSIDE AND BOUNCED HIM AROUND.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS STRICKING SHAFT WITH A HAMMER IN THE SHOP WHEN A PIECE OF METAL FLEW OF THE COU LERS AND GOT IN HIS LEFT EYE.
INJURED WAS CHANGING A WHEEL UNIT ON SHUTTLE CAR USING A 3/4 DRIVE RATCHET THE RATCHET SLIPPED LETTING THE EMPLOYEE S FINGER GO OVER AND STRIKE A SHARP PIECE OF METAL RESULTED IN CUTTING THE I NDEX FINGER & FINGER NEXT TO THUMB
EMPLOYEE HIT HEAD AGAINST CANOPY ON SHUTTLE CAR STORING NECK & SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THE SLOPE BELT. (FIREBOSS) WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED IN THE MUD. VICTIM MADE A HALF TURN AND FELT PAIN IN RIGHT HIP.
EMPLOLYEE STRAINED LEFT SIDE WHILE TRYING TO LIFT A CHUG-A-LUG PUMP
WHILE ASSISTING 10 OTHER EE TO CARRY 60 GAGE RAIL. THE INJURIED OCCURRED A STRAINED BACK.
INJURED WAS HOLDING A 6"X 8"X 10\ BEAM IN PLACE WHILE HIS BUDDY TIGHTENED BEAM TO ROOF WITH WEDGE. AFTER THE BEAM WAS PRESSURE TO ROOF INJURED BUDDY STRUCK THE BEAM WITH AN AXE TO TEST HOW TIG HT THE BEAM WAS. INJURED WAS STILL HOLDING THE BEAM AND WAS STRUCK WITH THE AXE.
MAN STATED THAT WHILE REPLACING A SWING TAIL HOSE HE SLIPPED OFF THE TAIL OF THE MINER.
BOLTING TOP, SMALL ROCK FELL, HITTING FINGER
MOTOR BACK FIRED ON COMPRESSION, STROKE KICKED HANDLE. BACK BENT RIGHT HAND OF OPERATOR BACK TO ARM AND HANDLE CAME BACK AND HIT RIGHT WRIST.
THE INJURED EE WAS INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT IN THE #2 ROOM IN FACE AREA ON THE 5 RIGHT 3 WEST SECTION WHEN SUDDENLY THE COAL RIB BEHIND HIM TURNED OVER. THE RIB STRUCK THE EE ON THE LOWER PART OF THE BACK RESULTING IN CONTUSIONS.
MAN STATES WAS SITTING DOWN AND USING HOE TO PULL ROCK OUT FROM UNDER SLOPE BELT AND STRAINED OVER TOO FAR AND FELT PAIN IN BACK
EMP WAS RUNNING WILCOX MINER AND JACK PULLED PIECE OF ROCK OUT FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS HITTING EMPLOYEE WITH DRAW ROCK
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP WHEN HE HIT A HOLE IN RUNWAY CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HEAD AGAINST THE CANOPY. NECK SPRAIN.
THE INJURED WAS HELPING UNLOAD 48 INCH BELT PINS WHEN A PAN WAS INADVERTANTLY DROPPED ON HER RIGHT FOOT CAUSING CONTUSIONS & BRUISES.
AFTER KNOCKING OVER A SMALL SAND BIN THE EE ATTEMPTING TO PICK UP WITH A FORKLIFT EE B ACKED FORKLIFT DOWN A SMALL EMBACKMENT GETTING IT STUCK. EE AT THE TIME SAID HE DIDN\T FALL OFF FORKLIF T. HE CONTINUED TO WORK TO AID IN EXTRACTING THE FORKLIFT BEFORE EVENTUALLY SAYING HE FLET ILL & WANTED TO GO HOME. HE BECAME EXCESSIVLY WORRIED &A GITAED AT HIS MISTAKE. HE BECAME PALE &
THUMB AND MIDDLE FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN DRYER WHEEL AND TRACT WHILE GREASING THE DRYER WHEEL.
PAUL WAS STACKING BAGS FOR CONGLOEUM CORP.ORDER WHICH IS A DIFFERENT LOADING PATTERN. THE NEXT DAY WHEN PAUL CAME TO WORK HE MENTIONED TO FELLOW EMPLOYEE ROBERT FARNSWORTH THAT HIS BACK WAS BO BOTHERING HIN AND EAS GLAD THEY DIDN\T HAVE TO STACK THAT PATTERN ANY MORE. HIS BACK CONTINUED TO GET WORSE.
I.NAME AT PORTABLE PRIMARY CRUSHING PLANT. HE WAS HSIFTING ROCKS SO IT COULD BE SAFE TO GO DOWN THE MAIN TOP TO BOTTOM LADDER. WHILE HE WAS SHIFTING THE ROCKS ONE ROCK SLIPPED SMASHING HIS RI GHT THUMB & BRUISING HIS RIGHT HAND.
RIDING MANTRIP AND HIT ANOTHER MANTRIP.
INJURED & CO-WORKER WERE MOVING POWER CABLE, HAD NYLON SLING FASTENED TO POWER CABLE ANDTO DOZER BLADE, DOZER WAS MOVING BACKWARDS PULLING CABLE AS OPERATOR HAS BACING HEHAD TURNED TO HIS LEFT WHEN OPERATOR TURNED DOZER, THE EDGE OF BANK GAVE WAY CAUSING THE DOZER TO DROP APPROX. 10 FT, LEANING SIDEWAYS. THE CAUSED CABLE TO GO TIGHT, CAUSING A WHIPPING ACTION, CABLE HITTING INJURED
EMP WAS REPAIRING A FAIRLEAD THE LOWER VERTICAL FAIRLEAD SHEAVE WAS REMOVED AND PLACED IN A STANDING POSITION IN THE SAND BY THE CRANE THE CRANE WAS DISCONNECTED FROM THE CABLES ON THE SEAVE AND WAS SWINGING BACK TO REMOVE THE FAIRLEAD A PICKUP TRUCK WAS BEING MOVED FROM THE SITE WHEN JOHN JUSTICE STEPPED TOWARD THE TRUCK TO CATCH THE SOCKETS ON TAILGATE AS HE PASSED TH
PERSON WAS PULLING UP CHOCK WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ABOVE CHOCK STRIKING PERSON
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING COAL AND REINJURED PREVIOUS INJURY OF JANUARY 13, 1984 WHICH WAS DIAGNOSED TO BE PAIN AND MUSCLE SPASMS IN NECK.
WHEN TAKING THE PULL CABLE OFF THE BACK OF HIS LOADER IT TWISTED CAUGHT HIS FINGER & PINCHED IT
EE WAS CARRYING MATERIAL FOR LOADING BLAST HOLES & SLIPPED ON MUD OR ICE TWISTING THE LEFT ANKLE.
WHILE DOING MAINTENANCE ON FEED CHUTE, CAUGHT SLEEVE ON CORNER AND PULLED EMPLOYEE SNAPPING LEFT WRIST CAUSING A FRACTURE.
MAN STATES: WAS HANGING CABLE ON THE LOOP OF THE LOADER, CABLE HAD BECOME SLACK, GOT FOOT CAUGHT UNDER CANOPY OF LOADER AND THE GROUND, PINNING IT
THE MAN WAS WORKING ON PLUGED SAND LINE. AS AIR PRESSURE WAS APPLIED THE PIPE HANGERS BROKE LOOSE & PIPE STRUCK MAN IN CHEST.
LIFTING WIRE PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.
INJURED SLIPPED WHILE DESCENDING FROM SCREEN SECTION OF SECONDARY PLANT. LADDER WAS FROSTY & INJURED HAD FLASHLIGHT IN ONE HAND. INJURED FELL TO G ROUND RESULTING IN COMPRESSED FRACTURE OF LU MBAR VEREBRA.
DRY SUNNY WEATHER. ACCIDENT HAPPENED INSIDE OF OUR WAREHOUSE. INJURED WAS RE-STACKING BAGGED MATERIAL. DOCTOR DESCRIBED INJURY AS MUSCLE SPASMS.
WHILE PUTTING COVER ON TRANSMISSION EMP HAD PIECE OF STEEL ACROSS THE TIRE TO STAND ON AND STEPPED ON THE CORNER OF THE STEEL PLATE SLIPPED LEG BETWEEN TIRE AND MACHINE
INJURED WAS HELPING TO INSTALL INSULATION ON A BULK OIL TANK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND ATTEMPTED REGAIN HIS BLANCE BY PLACING HIS LEFT ARM ON THE OIL TANK ON THE LACERATION HIS LEFT WRIST WHEN IT TO TOUCH THE FLASHING WHICH COVERED THE INSULATION.
UNLOADING POSTS FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK INJURED UNLOADED 4 POSTS
HURT BACK WHILE SETTING BITS
VICTIM WAS WORKING INSIDE A FROZEN SOLUTION TANK BREAKING UP ICE. VICTIM SLIPPED ON THE ICE AND SOLUTION ENTERED OVER THE TOP OF HIS RUBBER MILL BOTTS. THERE WAS LAYER OF LIME IN THE BOTTOM OF THE TANK.
CLIMBING LADDER ON RAILROAD CAR TO GET INSIDE TO CLEAN IT WHEN ALMOST TO THE TOP HAND SLIPPED OFF LADDER AND WORKER FELL FALLING ON LEFT FOOT
SHOVELING STONE OFF TOP OF SHIELD WHEN ROCK FELL FROM TOP ABOVE SHIELD.MAN STEPPED BACKWARDS AND ROCK FELL BETWEEN OTHER SHIELDS STRIKING MAN ON LEFT ARM AND SIDE.
A PART OF A CRUSHER WAS BEING LOLOWERED INTO PLACE WHEN IT HUNG UP ON A FLOOR BOARD. WHEN THE BOARD SPRUNG LOOSE IT THREW DUST IN BILLS FACE. HE WAS NOT WEARING GLASSES AT THE TIME. AS ONE EXC ONE EXCEPTED THIS TO HAPPEN.
WAS PUTTING LEAD BACK ON MINER WHEN IT FELL ON FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING WITH A JACKLEG DRILL FOR ROCK BOLT. A ROCK FELL FROM BEHIND A STEEL MATT AND HIT HIS HAND.
WHEN APPLYING AIR PRESSURE TO THE WABCO WATER TRUCK #2701 TO START IT, FULL AIR PRESSURE (130 PSI) ENTERED THE HYDRAULIC TANK THROUGH A PRESET AIR PRESSURE REGULATOR VALVE CAUSING HYDRAULIC TA NK TO EXPLODE WHILE ELDEN WAS WALKING TO THE SIDE OF IT. HYDRAULIC OIL AND METAL/PAINT FRAGMENTS WENT TO HIS FACE AND UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES, SCRATCHING LENS OF RIGHT EYE.
MAN STATES: AS IWAS PREPARING TO LEAVE AT THE END OF THE SHIFT, I REACHED OVER ONTO THE JEEP TO PICK UP MY LUNCH BOX, WHICH WAS SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE JEEP AND THE BATTERY WHICH W%AS ON CHARGE, BLEW UP IN MY FACE KNOCKING ME DOWN
MAN WAS PICKING UP SUPPLIES WHEN A TIMBER FELL & CAUGHT HIS RIGHT HAND AGAINST TIMBERS ON THE HEADER CAR.
HE WAS OPERATING A SMALL CRANE. HE STOOD UP IN THE CAB TO RELEASE THE CABLE AND ACCIDENTALLY BUMPED INTO THE GEAR KNOB. THE CRANE MOVED SIDEWAYS INTO A PARKED PAN SCRAPER.
EMP WAS HELPING SPLICE DRILL CHAIN WHILE SPLICING IT SLIPPED WRENCHING AND STRAINED TENDONS IN WRIST
VICTIM WAS CHANGING BELT STRUCTURE, WHILE LIFTING A PIECE OF STRUCTURE HE COMPLAINED OF A PAIN IN HIS BACK.
POSSIBLE PULLED MUSCLE LOWER BACK.
A SMALL RIB ROLL FELL A LUMP OF OCAL 6\ X 18" X 4" STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON LEFT LEG & ANKLE.
MOVING METAL CABINET,7\TALL 3\ WIDE X 12\\ DEEP.STRAINED MUSCLE IN BACK.SHELVES MOVED 8\.WEIGHT OF SHELVES 100 LB.
CUTTING PIECE OF BELT WITH UTILITY KNIFE-CUT FINGER ON PIECE OF METAL PROTRUDING FROM THE BELT. TOOK 5 STITCHES.
WHILE THROWING POST THRU WORKER TRIPPED OVER A BUNDLE OF CAP WEDGES INJURING HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING ROOF BOLTS OUT OF THE UN-A-TRAC AND PUTTING THEM ON THE ROOF BOLTED WHEN HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN-GROIN AREA, CAUSING INJURY.
WALKING THRU BREAK AT #1A TAILPIECE & SLIPPED ON SLICK BOTTOM & FELL.
IND WHEEL EDGE AND CONSEQUENTLY THE EMPLOYEE STRUCK GRINDING WHEEL WITH LEFT HAND. RESULTING IN A SMALL ABRASION ON HIS KNUCKLE.
THE MAN WAS REMOVING A SAFETY JACK WHEN THE BOLTER OPERATOR TRAMMED THE BOLTER PINCHING GANGEMI FINGER BETWEEN THE BOLTER CANOPY AND JACK.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE RECEIVED INJURY WHILE HANDLING THE REMOTE UNIT FOR A CONTINUOUS MINER. THE UNIT WEIGHS APPROX 15 LBS. THE CONDITIONS IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA WERE NORMAL WITH WALKING HEI GHTH PRESENT.
INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE INTO SCOOP BUCKET WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
HELPING TO CHANGE SPRING WITH 2 OTHER EES SPRING SLIPPED PINNING FINGER.
EMPLOYEES WERE LIFTING TOP HALF OF PUMP CASING TO PLACE IT BACK ON TOP OF THE BOTTOM HALF. UPON LIFTING AND MAKING A SLIGHT TURNING MOTION EMPLOYEE PULLED THE MUSCLES IN HIS BACK
SHOVELING CONCRETE PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.
EE WAS BRINGING DOWN RAIL CAR TO BE LOADED AND STRAINED A GROIN MUSCLE WHILE PULLING ON THE CAR BRAKE.
INJURED WAS PULLING A 5" X 7" CROSSBAR OUT OF SHUTTLE CAR WITH CHAIN WRAPPED AROUND DRILL STEEL TIMBER AND DRILL STEEL FELL ON INJUREDS FOOT CAUSING PUNCTURE WOUND OF 4TH TOE AND LEFT FOOT
INJURED STEPPED OUT OF WATER TRUCK AND STEPPED ON A ROCK. THE ROCK TURNED OVER AND HE BROKE HIS RIGHT FOOT.
EMP WAS OPERATING A ROOF BOLTING MACHINE. HE INSTALLED A BOLT AND WAS MEASURING THE SPOT FOR THE NEXT BOLT WHEN THE BOOM CAME DOWN ON HIS FOOT. HE HAD FAILED TO PLACE THE BOOM LIFT/LOWER LEVER IN THE NEUTRAL POSITION INJURY SUSTAINED. FRACTUR BASE OF SECOND METATARSAL, LEFT FOOT
EMP WAS SHOVELING ROCK OFF THE 7 FT CONE CRUSHER AND STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK
HAROLD YOUND WAS HANDING ROLLERS TO EDITH WHO WAS STANDING ON THE CONVEYOR BELT. EDITH SLIPPED AND FELL 12-15 FEET TO THE GROUND.
THREE MEN WORKING ON SCAFFOLD POSITIONING SPACEBAR SEGEMENTS WHEN ONE OF THE SUPPORT BOARDS BROKE CAUSING MEN AND EQUIPMENT TO FALL. ESTIMATE WEIGHT ON SCAFFOLD WAS BETWEEN 700-750 LBS. TWO 2X 4 S NAILED TOGETHER WERE PLACED LENGTHWISE ON EACH SIDE OF SCAFFOLD WITH TWO 2X6 PLACED AT E ACH END WITH TWO IN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN THE 2X4 S PLYWOOD PLANKING WAS PLACED ON TOP OF THE 2X6S CO
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A ROLL OF PLASTIC.HE SLIPPED ON PLASTIC,FELL,STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND AND THIGH ON SOME LUMBER.THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A CONTUSION AND ABRASIONS TO THE LEFT WRIST,CON CONTUSION AND HEMATOMA TO THE LEFT THIGH,AND STRAIN TO THE LEFT KNEE,CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.
WAS KNOCKED DOWN BY FLYING PIECE OF GRANITE FROM A BROKEN BLOCK THAT FELL TO BOTTOM OF QUARRY.
WRECNH SLIPPED WHILE WORKING ON BRIDGE CONVEYOR
A SECTION OF DRAIN PIPE WHICH WAS BEING CUT OFF FELL & BOUNCED STRIKING THE INJURED ON THE FOOT.
MR WALKER WAS MOUNTING THE B 55 R DRILL WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE STRUCK HIS KNEE AND SHIN AGAINST THE TRACK OF THE DRILL MR WALKER WAS HSOPITALIZED 2 28 84 FOR TESTS ON HIS KNEE HE START LOSING TIME 2 28 84
EMP SAID HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER THAT WAS WELDED TO THE SIDE OF A STACKING TUBE AND WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN TO A LOWER STEP THAT HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE STEP AND THIS JERKED HIS BACK
JOHN WAS WORKING AS A BOLTER HELPER. THE HEAD COAL FELL INBY THE ROW OF BOLTS BEING INSTALLED AP PIECE OF HEAD COAL SLID OUT BY OFF THE MACHINE CANOPY & STRUCK JOHN ON THE LEFT FOOT. JOHN HAS MULTIPLE FRACTURES OF THE ANKLE AND TOES OFTHE LEFT FOOT
EMP WAS HANDLOADING RUBBER TIRED COAL TRAILER RUBBER TIRE ROLLED ON COAL TRAILER ROLLED BACK ON EMPLOYEES LEFT FOOT BRUSING TOP OF LEFT FOOT
MAN BENT OVER TO PICK UP 2 BRAKE SHOES & HE FELT PAIN IN HIS CHEST.
EMP SLIPPED IN MUD AND STRUCK RT KNEE ON POST BRUIED RT KNEE
INJURED WAS REPLACING A TRAM MOTOR ON THE MINER. WHILE LIFTING THE MOTOR IT SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS FINGER AND SMASHED IT BETWEEN THE MOTOR AND MINER FRAME
EE WAS OPERATING S/C WHEN HE PASSED OVER ROUGH ROADWAY CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HEAD AGAINST THE TOP OF T HE CANOPY.
EMP WAS CLIMBING OVER A ROCK AND SLIPPED AND TWISTED KNEE
HURT BACK WHILE LIFTING BAG OF ROCK DUST.
INJURED WAS COMING DOWN OFF A STOCKPILE OF CRUSHED GRANITE WHEN HE TWISTED HIS KNEE
HOLDING DELIVERY HOSE FROM BULK NITRATE TRUCK WHEN BOLTS BROKE HOLDING OVERHEAD SCREW CONVEYOR FEEDING DELIVERY HOSE,SCREW CONV FELL STRIKING EPL RIGHT SHOULDER BREAKING SCAPULA AND CRACKING 3 UPPER RIBS ON RIGHT SIDE.
AT 4 00 PM ON 2 2484 LEWIS HILL SECT FOREMAN TOLD ME THAT EDGAR COCRAN SAID HE HAD HURT HIS BAKCK LIFTING A BAG OF ROCK DUST AND THERE WAS NO WITNESSES
EMPLOYEE & PARTNER, BOTH JOURNEYMEN ELECTRICIANS, WERE WORKING ON STRINGING A POWER CABLE. THE RETURN TO THE FLOOR OF THE DRIFT, THE INJURED JUMPED DOWN OFF A PIPE ON WHICH HE WAS STANDING, WH ILE HANGING ONTO A VALVE ON ANOTHER PIPE LINE. HE REACHED THE END OF HIS ARM BEFORE HIS FEET HIT THE FLOOR OF THE DRIFT, CAUSING AN INJURY TO HIS SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING BOLT ON 506 CRAWLER AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND HIS ELBOW STRUCK MINE ROOF
EMP WAS DRILLING IN SHAFT BOTTOM DRILL STEEL HUNG UP IN HOLE HE TRIED TO GET IT OUT DRILL JERKED AND SPUN AROUND AND HIT HIM IN LEFT LEG
AS INJURED WAS HELPING TO BLOCK CONTINUOUS MINER OFF MINE BOTTOM THE WEIGHT OF THE MACHINE WAS PUT ON THE CRIB BLOCKS CAUSING ONE TO KICK OUT STRIKING INJURED ON THIGHS OF BOTH LEGS
FEET SLIPPED WHEN CLIMBING DOWN FROM TRUCK INJURED LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS TRYING TO GET UNATRAC DOWN BELT LINE HE HIT A HOLE AND IT BOUNCED HIM
HE HAD A HOLE DRILLED INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS, HE PUT THE BOLT IN THE HOLE AND WAS PUSHING IT UP, IT GOT IN A BIND, BROKE AND FLEW AND HIT HIS LEFT WRIST CAUSING A FRACTURE OF HIS WRIST.
CUTTING CONVEYOR BELT AND BELT KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING HIS HAND.
DANCY WAS USING A COME ALONG TO LIFT A MOTOR FOR A BELT DRIVE WHEN HE PULLED A BACK MUSCLE
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING TURN NAILS ON FLAT CAR & NAIL TURNED HURTING HAND.
THE MAN WAS SETTING A POST WITH A HAMMER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO TIGHTEN A CAP WEDGE, HE STRUCK HIS LEFT THUMB WITH THE HAMMER.
PERSON SAT DOWN NEXT TO RIB TO EAT LUNCH WHEN A PORTION OF RIB FELL OFF STRIKING PERSON ON BACK
FELL OFF LADDER CARRYING BELT ROLLER
INJURED WAS PULLING AND HANGING CABLE FOR A BUDDY SO CAUSED A HERNIA ON LEFT SIDE LOWER STOMACH
EMP WAS TRYING TO REACH BOLT ON A SHELF A CARDBOARD BOX CONTAINING A CRUSHER LOCKING NUT WAS LEANING AGAINST THE SHELF EMP PULLED THE BOX FORWARD IN ORDER TO REACH THE BOLT THE BOX SEPARATED A D THE NUT INSIDE FELL ON HIS RT FOOT BADLY BRUISING IT
EE WAS WORKING IN #3 KILN PUTTING UP A 30# JACK TO BRACE BRICKS ACROSS KILN.
I.NAME CUTTING ROLLOVER SUPPORT OFF OLD DOZER WITH TORCH TO BE INSTALLED ON ANOTHER DOZER.ROLLOVER SUPPORT FELL AND STRUCK LEFT LEG ABOVE KNEE.LEG WAS BROKEN.
MAKING SET UP FOR 7400 SHOVEL. GETTING OFF DOZER SLIPPED ON MUDDY CATS INJURED LEFT KNEE (FRACTURE BONE).
WHILE CHANGING A FLAT TIRE LIFTED TIRE AND BACK SNAPPED.
TIGHTENING BOLT ON MINER. WRENCH SLIPPED FELL & HIT SIDE OF MINER.
EE HAD E-Z GO GOLF CART STUCK IN MUD, HE USED A BAR TO TRY TO FREE THE CART. THE BAR SLIPPED & HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
THE INJURED EMPLOYEE HADLET HIS CLOTGHES BASKET DOWN TO BEGIN CHANGING CLOTHES FOR WORK. WHEN HE HOISTED THE BASKET BACK UP HE STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS LF. SHOULDER.
WAS SECURING BOAT AND LEG BECAME ENTANGLED IN WEEDS AT BALANCE AND FELL ON EDGE OF BOAT HITTING LEFT KNEE.
HE WAS HELPING LIFT A PORTABLE HYTDRAULIC LIFT AND PLACE IT IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK HE ALLOWED HIS FINGER TO BE PLACED WHEN THE JACK WAS LOWERED TO THE FLOOR OF THE TRUCK HIS FINGER BECAME CAUG
PERSON SLIPPED ON PIPE LINE WHEN COMING OUT OF #5 BELT DRIVE AND FELL ONTO TRQACK ENTRY.
TINNELL WAS STANDING IN A CULVERT (STEEL MANWAY) WHEN A BLAST WAS SET OFF ON THE LEVEL ABOVE. CONCUSSION CAME DOWN RAISE INTO MANWAY.
KEN AND LEE WOLFORD WERE LETTING A STOPER DOWN AFTER DRILLING A 4 FT. HOLE. THEY HAD A 2 FT PUSHING 4 FT PUSHER AND A 5 FT PIECE OF DRILL STEEL IN THE STOPER AS THEY LET THE STOPER DOWN KEN GR AB THE 2 FT PUSHER INSTEAD OF THE 4 FT. THE 2 FT CAME LOOSE OF THE 4 FT AND THE 4 FT FELL AND HIT KEN.
WHILE TIGHTENING THE HOLD DOWN BOLTS ON T HE GUARD FOR THE 3 RT-A BELT DRIVE THE WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING INJURED TO LOOSE FOOTING RESULTING IN A FALL.
MASHED FINGER TORE NAIL OFF, HOOKING UP LINE TO POWER CENTER
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING BOBCAT LOWER PART INTO PLACE ON DRILL, THE BUCKET DROPPED SUDDENLY, PINNING HAND UNDER PART BEING LOWERED AND THE DRILL, CUASING LACERATION OF LITTLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.
I.NAME WSA TAKING SAMPLES ON DRILL RIG HE PICKED UP TWO LARGE SAMPLE BAGS TO MOVE THEM & FELT THE PAIN IN HIS BACK
I.NAME & I.NAME WAS UNLOADING CEMEMNT BLOCKS & I.NAME DROPPED A BLOCK ON I.NAME LEFT FOOT.
WAS PULLING #1 MANTRIP WITH BATTERY MOTOR FROM 6 SUPPLY TO PIT MOUTH OF 5 SUPPLY WHEN UNHOOKING MANTRIP FROM CHAIN THAT WAS HOOKED TO MOTOR JENNY MOTOR, THE JENNY SWANT ACROSS STRIKING INJURE D ON LEFT WRIST
EMP WAS HAMMERING A BIT OUT WITH A HAMMER AND BIT PULLER ON THE MINER AND A PIECE OF STEEL WENT INTO MY LEFT HAND
THE INJURED AND ANOTHER PERSON WERELIFTING A DRAW BAR FROM A LOWBOY HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE RAIL CAUSING HIM TO LOOSE HIS BALANCE
WAS LIFTING A MINE TIMBER & SAID HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.
EMP STATED HE WAS PUTTING THE UNA TRAC ON CHARGE AND HIT HIS RT KNEE ON UNA TRACAUSING INJURY
PULLING ON A 15" ADJUSTABLE WRENCH TIGHTENING A BOLT AND WRENCH SLIPPED GETTING EMPLOYEE STRAIN IN BACK. HAS A HISTORY OF BAD BACK.
GETTING INTO TRACK MOTOR AND BUMPED KNEE.
SODA ASH QUIT FLOWING FROM TANK AND EMPLOYEE PROCEEDED TO CLEAR THE RESTRICTED FLOW THE CHEMICAL BROKE LOOSE AND GOT IN THE INJUREDS EYES
MIQUEL WAS CLEANING OUT FEEDER TAIL PULLEY A ROCK FELL FROM ABOVE HITTING HIM ON THE RIGHT CHEEK OF HIS FACE. HE WAS TREATED FOR LACERATION (4SUTURES).
EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN OUTSIDE AND WAS ON HIS WAY BACK INTO MINES AND TOP FELL.
EMPLOYEE WAS LEAVING JOBSITE-STEPPED OFF CONCRETE SLAB IN SHOP AREA-TURNED ANKLE.
THE EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN LIFTING HEAVY OBJECTS THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE DAY. HE IS NOT USED TO LIFTING HEAVY OBJECTS AND HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK MUSCLES.
EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY TIMBER THAT WAS BEING MOVED BY SLUSHER IN SLUSHER LANE
INJURED WAS LIFTING MINER CABLE ONTO THE FRONT HOOK OF THE CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS RIGHT LEG. BEGAN LOSING TIME ON 3-8-84.
2 ROCK TRUCKS WERE PARKED IN A WIDE SPOT TO LET ANOTHER TRUCK PASS. THE 1ST TRUCK PULLED OUT & NOTICED ANOTHER TRUCK COMING, SHE DECIDED TO BACK UP WHEN SHE BACKED INTO THE 2ND TRUCK.
I.NAME WAS DOING MAINTENANCE ABOVE THE CRUSHER AND THE COME-A-LONG SLIPPED AND A PIECE OF STEEL HIT HIM ON THE FOOT
INJURED HAD JUST SCALED A PIECE OF HANGING DOWN AND IT HIT HIS EAR MUFFS WHICH WAS LAYING ON THE JUMBO. INJURED STEPPED OFF THE SIDE OF THE JUMBO TO PICK HIS EAR MUFFS UP AND A CHUNK CAME DOWN , STRIKING INJURED ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS HEAD AND SHOULDER.
THE EMPLOYEE WERE REPAIRING SLAMDOOR. ONE WAS HOLD WOOD WHILE THE OTHER DROVE NAILS WOOD WHILE OTHER DROVE NAILS WITH A HAMMER. A PIECE OF METAL FLEW INTO ONE EMPLOYEE EYE HE WAS NOT WEAARING WEARING SAIFETY GLASSES
THE EE STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO TIGHTEN A 2" PIPE UNION WITH A 16" PIPE WRENCH THE JAWS OF THE PIPE WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS. WHEN HE FELL BACKWARDS HE FEL L OFF THE CATWALK A DISTANCE OF 8\ TO THE CONCRETE FLOOR BELOW. RESULTING INJURIES WERE A SPRAINED RT WRIST A SPRAINED RT ANKLE CONTUSIONS TO HIS RT HIP & RT SHOULDER.
INJ AND 2 COWORKERS WERE IN THE PROCESS OF HANGING 2 SECTIONS OF BELT DRIVE CUARDING MEASURING 10X3 WEIGHING APPROX 150 LBS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN RT ARM INJ WAS LIFTING WITH RT ARM AND WAS GO GOING TO HOOK GUARDING INTO POSITION WITH LEFT HAND
SCLING LOOSE ROCK AT FACE AREA WITH A STONE BAR. PUSHED BAR UP QUICKLY TO LOOSEN ROCK. CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN END OF BAR & BOLT PLATE IN ROOF FRACTURING FINGER.
USING 5 FT DIAMOND DRILL ROD TO PUT MUCKER BACK ON TRACK MUCKER TURNED SIDEWAYS AND DRILL ROD FLEW OUT AND STRUCK VAUGHN ON LEFT THUMB
SECTION OF RIB SLOUGHED OFF & HITHIS RIGHT KNEE. HE WAS KNOCKED TO THE GROUND. INJURY TO RIGHT KNEE ONLY.
SUBJECT CAUGHT THE FIRST THREE FINGERS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN TWO MINE RAILS WHILE LOADING THEM ON A RAIL TRUCK ON THE 6-PANEL SECTION.
LUMP OF COAL ROLLED FROM BELT STRIKING WORKER ON LITTLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND
INJURED AND CO-WORKER WERE LOADING A T.R.S. JACKONTO A SUPPLY CAR. INJURED GOT HIS HAND BETWEEN JACK AND CAR MASHED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.
HE FINISHED HANGING A LINE CURTAIN AND THEN WALKED AROUND THE END OF IT. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE SHOULDER.
EE WAS WELDING A PIECE OF METAL FELL ON HIS TOE.
AL BROWN WAS GRININD METAL PLATES WITH AN ELECTRIC GRINDER AND CUP BRUSH DURING .
INJURED WAS WALKING DOWN SLOPE AND SLIPPED ON ICE CAUSING PAIN INLOWER BACK AND LEG
STRUCK BY PIECE OF COAL FROM FACE AS HE REPAIRED CONVEYOR CHAIN FLIGHTS.
FELL ON ICE GOING TO DRIFT MOUTH AND BROKE HIS TAIL BONE.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF USING A STEEL PRY BAR TO PRY ON THE MAN AND MATERIAL CAGE WHEN THE BAR BROKE, STRIKING HIS RIGHT HAND AND FINGERS.
EMPLOYEE WAS MAKING A RUB RAIL FOR MINER-THE RAIL SLIPPED OFF EAR OF MINER STRIKING HIS LEFT FOOT. CONTUSION.
INJ WAS WALKING IN A LOW ROOF AREA WHILE CARRYING A PIPE WHEN HS STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE ROOF CAUSING PAIN AND STIFFNESS TO NECK AND UPPER BACK APPROX HEIGHT IN THIS AREA IS 4 TO 4 1/2 FT
INJURED WAS SCOOPING UP COAL SPILLAGE IN THE FACE OF THE #1 ENTRY WHEN A LOOSE RIB TURNED OVER, STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER & NECK RESULTING IN CONTUSION TO THE RT SHOULDER & NECK.
POTTER HAD BEEN WORKING AT OUR DEEP MINE ON A REGULAR BASIS AS A REPAIRMAN WHICH REQUIRES WORKING ON YOUR KNEES SEVERAL HOURS DAILY WHEN HIS KNEE BECAME SWOLLEN AND IRITATED AROUND 3 PM ON 2 18 84
INJURED WAS WALKING WHEN HE STEPPED ON A LUMP OF COAL.
INJURED WAS CHANGING THE OIL IN A KILN TRUNION ASSEMBLY WHEN IT SPLASHED HOT OIUL IN HIS FACE - OIL IN EYES AND BLISTERS ON FACE AROUND EYES
WAS INSTALLING BLADE TO A DOZER WHEN RIGHT SIDE PUSH ARM FELL OFF BLOCK AND CAUGHT RIGHT FOOT UNDER PRY BAR
HAND MUCKING FACE AND SLAB FELL OUT OF FACE AND BROKE LEFT ARM
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A TOOTH TIP ONTO THE 7820 MARION DRAGLINE. EMPLOYEE STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN HIS NECK BECAUSE OF THE 75 POUND WEIGHT.
WORKING UNDER SCREEN IN THE HOPPER CLEANING MAGNETITE OFF THE SCREEN, A PIECE FELL ON WRIST.
EMPLOYEE LIFTED A TIRE FROM OVERHEAD RACK IN GARAGE AND STRAINED LOWER BACK.
EMP MOVED SCOOP BACK FROM WORK AREA AND WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN OFF THE SCOOP HE TIWSTED HIS ANKLE
PULLING TRAILING CABLE, TRIPPED OVER A PILE OF CABLE AND FELL. TWISTED LEFT THUMB WHEN HAND HIT BOTTOM
EE DEPRESSED THE 480 VOLT CIRCUIT BREAKER HANDLE IN THE OFF POSITION PRIOR TO BEGINING WORK ON THE STARTER CIRCUIT FOR THE #1 PUMP RESERVIOR. HOWEVER EE WAS UNAWARE THAT THE CICUIT REMAINED EN ERGIZED DUE TO A HANDLE MALFUNCTION INSIDE THE CIRCUIT BREAKER. UPON TOUCHING A BOTTOM CIRCUIT BREAKER CONNECTION WITH A SCREWDRIVER, A FLASH OCCURRED CAUSING TEMPORARY BLINDNESS & HEADACHE.
WHILE HELPING TO AN END OF A 27\ I-BEAM FROM ONE WORK HORSE TO ANOTHER THE EE SPRAINED HIS LWOER BACK. THE STRAIN OF LOW LUMBAR MUSCLE REQUIRED 4 DAYS OF REST 3 OF WWQHICH HE WAS SCHELDULED T WORK. ALL MEN ON THE SPECIAL WORK FORCE WERE PROMPTLY REINSTRUCTED ON CORRECT POSTURE FOR LIFTING & CARRYING HEAVY LOADS.
MINE RIB SLUFFED OFF PUSHING MAN DOWN AGAINST ROOF BOLTER PUSHED HIS LEG AND FOOT UNDERNEATH BOTTOM EDGE OF ROOF BOLTER. RESULTED IN HAIRLINE FRACTURE NEAR ANKLE JOINT IN LEFT FOOT
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS WOLKING THE BELTLINE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS KNEE
SCALING ROOF WHEN PIECE OF ROCK STRUCK RIGHT FOOT.
USING BAR TO CLEAN NITRATE BIN.BAR SLIPPED AND EMPL STRAINED RIGHT ARM....
HE WAS GOING TO GO THROUGH A MANDOOR AND IT HAD PRESSURE ON IT, SO HE KICKED IT OPEN @AND HURT HIS BACK AS HE KICKED IT.