THERE WERE NO WITNESSES. EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 980 B FRONEND LOADER AND APPARENTLY FLIPPED INTO THE MUCK POND ON ITS TOP BURYING THE MACHINE AND OPERATOR UNDER THE WATER UP TO MIDWAY OF WH EELS UNDETERMINED WHETHER THE LOST CONTROL OR SIMPLY BACKED IN.
Mining Incidents in May 1988
All MSHA-reportable mining accidents in May 1988, sorted by severity. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities
- 6
- Total incidents
- 3,029
- Period
- May 1988
Top operators this month
- 01 Peabody Coal Company 88 incidents
- 02 Consolidation Coal Company 79 incidents
- 03 Eastern Associated Coal Corp 59 incidents
- 04 Asarco Inc 45 incidents
- 05 Southern Ohio Coal Company 43 incidents
Most recent 500 incidents
Showing the 500 most recent of 3,029 incidents this month. All fatalities are included and listed first.
I.NAME ELECTRICIAN PUMPER WAS W ORKING ON SPLICE IN A #10-4 COND.PUMP CABLE WHEN HE APPARENTLY MADE CONTACT PHASE TO PHASE WITH THE ENERGIZED CONDUCTORS
SUSPECTED TO BE STRUCK BY DRILL STEEL TO NECK & JAW AREA
EMPLOYEE WAS DOING CLEAN-UP WORK ON A PLATFORM UNDER THE STACKER BELT WHILE IT WAS RUNNING.THERE WAS NO WITNESS TO THE ACCIDENT.A LONG HANDLE SHOVEL WAS BROKEN AND ON THE PLATFORM WITH THE INS URED EMPLOYEE.HE TALKED TO FELLOW EMPLOYEES AND EMT SQUAD WAND WAS CONSCIOUS WHEN MOVED TO THE AMBULANCE.HE DIED AT 1:00 PM AT THE HOSPTIAL.
OPERATOR WAS IN SHOVEL WHEN DIRT EMBANKMENT OF DIRT CAVED IN COVERING OPERA TOR & SHOVEL
BACKHOE BREAKER ARM STRUCK ONE EMPLOYEE AND CAUGHT ANOTHER EMPLOYEE BETWEEN THE EQUIPMENT AND FRAME. HYDRALIC HAMMER STANLEY 250 MB.
INJURED WAS SHOVELING LOOSE COAL ONTO A CONVEYOR BELT - SEVERAL DAYS LATER HE COMPLAINED OF PAININ HIS STOMACH AND WAS TOLD HE HAD A HERNIA.
HE WAS CHARGING HOIST ROPE ON 1140 SHOVEL. HE WAS PULLING ROPE WITH AIR TUGGER WHEN LINE WAS BULDING UP ON SIDE OF DRUM. HE WAS PUSHING ROPE OVER ONTO MIDDLE OF DRUM WHEN HIS HAND GOT CAU GHT UDER LINE AMPUTATING 5TH FINGER. THIS IS REPORTABLE BECAUSE OF SURGERY.
DRILLERS HELPER WAS RUNNING WIRELINE WHEN OVERSOHT RELEASED CORE TUBE ABOUT TWO FEET OUT OF HOLE HELPER GRABBED FOR THE TUBE (INSTINCTIVELY) AND REALIZED THAT IT WAS A MISTAKE BUT IT WAS TO O LATE AND HIS THUMB WAS SHEARED OFF AT THE JOINT HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED NOT TO REACK FOR THE TUBE IF THE OVERSHOT RELEASED TOO SOON
HE WAS CUTTING THE FIRST LOAD OFF THE LEFT SIDE WITH THE HEAD DOWN. HE WOALKED UP BESIDE THE CAB OF THE MINER TO HELP GUIDE HIM IN CUTTING THE FLOOR. AT THE TIME RAISED THE HEAD OF THE MINER SLIGHTLY, WHICH SENT THE MINER SLIDING FORWARD AND THE BACK OF THE MINER SLIDING INTO THE RIGHT RIB. HE WAS UNABLE TO CONTROL IT. HE SAW THE MINER SLIDING TOWARDS HIM AND TURNED AROUND AND
HERNIA
PRYING ROCK, STRAINED STOMACH.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMED TO HAVE GOTTEN HURT ON 5-3-88 WORKED EVERY DAY AFTERWARDS UNTIL ON 5-24-88 THAT NIGHT HE NOTIFIED MANAGEMENT THAT HE WAS HURT
EMPLOYEE WORKED OVER ON GRAVEYARD AND WAS ASSIGNED TO WORK IN JET MILL AREA STACKING BAGS OF MATERIAL. WHILE STACKING BAGS A BAG STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT SIDE. EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN TO RIGHT SID E OF ABDOMEN. MAY HAVE STRAINED TRYING TO CATCHBAG.
BEFORE LEAVING WORK , EMP CLIMBED INTO THE 225 CAT BACKHOE TO CLOSE WINDOWS WHEN GETTING OUT OF BACKHOE, EMP SLAMMED DOOR AND CAUGHT HIS L. RING FINGER IN DOOR, THE TIP OF HIS FINGER FROM NAI L TIP WAS TAKEN OFF HE HAND BY FORCE. ,,
I. NAME WAS EMPTYING METAL SHAVING S FROM A BUCKET IN MACHINE SHOP. BUCKET WEIGHHED ABOUT 20 POUNDS AND WAS ON A HAND CART. WHEN ATTEMPTIGN TO DUM BUCKET INTO DUMPSTER, BUCKET HUNG UP ON CAR T AND FELL BACK. EM. TRIED TO CATCH IT AND FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN GROIN AREA.
EMP HELPED MOVE FRAME IN SHOPO APROC 300 LBS LATER EMP FELT PAIN IN LOWER R. ABDOMEN. EMP RE. ACC. 2 WKS LATER WHEN HE NOTICED SWELLING NO LOST TIME UNTIL 9-27-889
LOOSE ROCK FELL OFF SHAFT WALL STRUCK EMPL ON RIGHT LEG & RIGHT HAND, AMPUTATED RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN KNEE & ANKLE ALSO HAS FRACTURES IN RIGHT HAND.
WHILE BACKING BATTERY POWERED COAL HAULAGE TRAILOR INTO LOADING HOLE THE EMPLOYEE PLACED RT.HAND ON TOP OF COUPLING PIN RESULTING IN LACERATION OF LITTLE FINGERS ON RT.HAND
INSTALLING A CRAWLER ROLLER INTO FRAME D-9 DOZER A FLOOR CRAGNE WAS USED TO POUTION THE ROLLER THE LONG TIPS LIFT BRACKET SLIPPED FROM THE ROLLER DUE TO MUD IN THE SEAT THE TOLLER FELL 6 8 INC
WORKER WAS GRINDING ONE END OF A 1/2 IN X 3 1/4 IN STEEL BOLT WITH THE GRINDING WHEEL ON A MILWAUKEE BENCH MOUNTED 3/4 HP TWO WHEEL GRINDER
WHILE LIFTING BRAKE ARM AND BRAKE SHOE ON TRUCK COCOMPURE INJURED EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN GROIN AREA. NOTH INJURED WORKED TILL 6-8-88 THEN AFTER DR VISIT STAND VISIT.
EMPLOYEE GOT RIGHT INDEX FINGER PINCHED BETWEEN KILN DRIVE COUPLER GEARS,AUXIULLAARY MOTOR DRIVE.LACERATED END OF FINGER.LOST SMALL BONE AND FINGER NAIL.CLEANED AND SUTURED END OF FINGER.
EMPL STATED THAT HE PICKED UP PORTION OF MINER CABLE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN GROIN.
HELPER AND DRILLER WERE PULLING CORE TUBE OUT OF HOLE HELPER WAS WIPING TUBE WHEN IT KICKED LOOSE FROM OVERSHOT HIS FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TUBE AND DRILL ROD
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING BETWEEN TWO RAILROAD CARS ON A SPUR TRACK,OPERATING THE CARS BRAKE.ONE CAR DERAILED AND THE EMPLOYEES LEFT RING FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BRAKE WHEELS.THE TIP OF THE LE FT RING FINGER WAS ALVULSED,REQUIRING SUTIRES.THE FINGER JOINT WAS NOT INVOLVED.THIS INJURY DID NOT CAUSE ANY TIME LOST.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING INSTLLING A LARGE ROCK GUARD UNDERNEATH A DOZER, FELT A BURNING TEARING SENSATION LOWER ABDOMIN.
DOZER WITH WINCH WAS PULLING LOGS OUT OF BRUSH PILE IN CLEARING OF MINE FACE UP AREA INJURED EMPLOYEE HAD WORKED IN LOGGING ABOUT 2 YEARS FAMILY HAS SAWMILL HE WAS WORKING THE CABLE HOOKING AR OUND LOGS THE BIGTO BURN TO SAVE TAKE TO SAWMILL THIS WAS THE FIRST LOG PULLED OUT O F THE BRUSHE PILE INJURED WHIL TRYING TO RELEASE ABOVE.
LIFTING BLOCK AT ROCK PLANT.
CRUSHER HAD JAMMED AND HE WAS THROWING LARGE ROCK OUT OF CRUSHER TO GET IT UNJAMMED AND HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER STOMACH
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING INSTALL CONVEYOR BELT UNDER SHAKER SCREEN, WHICH WAS AN AREA THAT WAS VERY HARD TO GET TO AND IT WAS TALKING THE HELP OF ALL AVAILABLE TO THREAD THE BELT ONTO THE CONVEYO R. EMPLOYEE JUST STRAINED TOO HARD CAUSING HERNIA.
BOTH HANDS ON BIN LEVER PULLING BACKWARDS TO OPEN BIN GATE ON 2# ROCK AND FELT STRAIN IN GROIN ACCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED TILL 6-21-88 TO M.A. WALKER.
I.NAME WAS HELPING ON A BOLT MACHINE BENDING ROOF BOLTS WHEN HE STRAINED HIMSELF HERNIA IN GROIN AREA
EMPLOYEE NG SURGERY 08-23-88 TO HAVEW THIS REPAIRED.
THE INJURED WAS CLEANING OUT THE GARAGE HE WAS EMPTYING TRASH INTO THE DUMPSTER AND INJURED HIS SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING 5 GAL BUCKETS OF GREASE FROM CENTER BIN AREA HE WAS WORKING ON HANDS AND KNEES WHEN HAPPENED.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE THINKS HE RUPTURED HIMSELF WHILE ROOF BOLTING.
CLIMBING ON AND OFF TRACTOR
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN A CONFINED SPACE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS PASSING TOOLS TO HIM.THE SECOND EMPLOYEE TOSSED A SHARPENED GROUND WHICH THE INJURED EMPLOYEE CAUGHT,LACERATING HIS THUMB.THIS DID NOT RESULT IN ANY LOST TIME ,BUT DID REQUIRE SUTURES.
WHILE CHANGING PUNCH PLATE FOR SHAKER SCREENS HE REAGGRAVATED PRIOR INJURY WHICH OCCURRED DOING THE SAME TASK.
EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING U A LADDER OFF A PILE OF BRICK HE TWISTED & FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER STOMACH EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A RUPTURE ON RT.SIDE DOC.PUSHED IT BACK IN & TOLD THE EMPLOYEE HE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE IT OPERATED ON & REPAIRED PROPERLY IN THE NEAR FUTURE HE IS BACK AT WORK BUT RESTRICTED
WAS PRYING LID OVER ON SAND IMPACTOR STANDING ON TOP OF THE MACHINE AND LOST MY PRY WITH THE BAR AND FELL OFF THE UNIT ONTO A DIG OUT HOLE WE WERE TRYING TO GET THE IMPACTOR CLOSED UP AFTER W E'D DONE REPAIR WORK ON IT ANVIL APRON HAD HUNG UP IS WHY I NAME WAS PRYING
THE MAN STATED HE PICKED UP ONE END OF A WATER PUMP TO POSITION IT.SAID FELT BURNING AND TEARING IN THE GROIN AREA.LOCATION B MAIN EAST-ABOUT ONE X-CUT INBY OLD 2 SOUTH DR. LEFFT INGUINAL HERN IA.
EMPL WAS LIFTING STEEL PLATE INTO UPRIGHT POSITION FOR WELDING. WHILE EMPL WAS LIFTING HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA.
WHILE LIFTING THE MINER CABLE UPON THE BRIDGE, HE PULLED A MUSCLE. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR A FEW DAYS LATER AND WAS TOLD HE HAD A HERNIA. HE DID NOT REPORT THIS TO ME UNTIL MAY 18-88.
EMPLOYEE PULLED MUSCLES IN LOWER ABDOMEN.
INJURED WAS HELPING CHANGE BUCKET OVER TO THE ROCK BREAKER. WHILE LINING UP THE MAIN BOOM TO PUT THE PIN IN, THE MECHINIC SIGNELED THE OPERATOR TO RAISE THE BOOM. THE INJURED STRUCK HIS FING ERS IN THE PIN HOLE FORM SOME UNKNOWN REASON.
EMPL & 3 OTHERS WERE LIFTING LARGE METAL DOOR TO PLACE ON HINGES. EMPL FELT ABDOMINAL PAIN & WAS EXAMINED & HERNIA WAS DETERMINED. THIS EMPL WORKED HIS REGULAR JOB THROUGH 5/29/88 & SURGE RY WAS SCHEDULED FOR 5/31/88.
EMPL WORKS AS LOADER HELPER. AS LOADER WAS TRAMMING FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER, EMPL WAS MOVING CABLE. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK AS HE PULLED ON TRAILING CABLE.
ROLLING ROCK OUT OF ROADWAY
INSTALLING RETURN ROLLER IN RAW COAL BELT & WHILE PUSHING ROLLER WITH HIS FEET HE DEVELOPED PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA.
I.NAME FELT A STRAIN IN THE GROIN AREA. A DAY OR SO LATER A GROWTH IN THAT AREA APPEARED. I.NAME SAYS THE LIFTING OF SECTIONS OF DRILL STEEL CAUSED THE STRAIN.
WHILE GETTING OUT OF BULLDOZER, CLOSED DOOR CATCHING TIP OF RIGHT FOURTH DIGIT.
EMPL WAS STOPPED ON HILL WAITING FOR ROAD TO BE CLEARED. HAUL TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING APPARENTLY HAD BRAKE FAILURE & STARTED ROLLING. EMPL WAS UNABLE TO STOP TRUCK & EITHER JUMPED OR FELL FR OM TRUCK. HIS RIGHT LEG WAS RAN OVER BY TRUCK. INJURY RESULTED IN PORTION OF LEG BEING AMPUTATED.
EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING AIR HOSE FROM THE LEFT HOUSE TO THE RIGHT HOUSE ON THE SHOVEL. WHEN HE LOST HIS BALNCE AND CAUGHT AIR COMPRESSOR FAN, WHICH WAS RUNNING AT THE TIME OF INCIDENT. HE WA WE ARING A RUBBER GLVE, THE FAN BELT CAUGHT THE GLOCR AND PULLED THE FINGER THROUGH THE FAN AND CUT THE FINGER OFF.
EMPLOYEE WORKS AS MOTORMAN HE ADD ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE REMOVING A PERSONNEL JEEP FROM THE TRACK THE OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS SIGNALING TO THE OPERTOR TO MOVE FORWARD WHEN THE SCOOP BUCKET CAUGHT T HE INJUREDS FOOT BETWEEN THE BLADE AND THE TRACK
THE EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TRACKS OF THE TRACK LOADER AND PICK UP TRUCK FRONT END AFTER JUMP STARTING THE TRACK LOADER. THE LOADER EIGHTER STARTED IN GEAR OR JUMPED IN GEAR CAUSING T TH LOADER TO BACK UP AOPPROX. 10 FEET INJURES INCLUDED LACERATION HEMATOMA ABOVE RIGHT EYE, BRUISED CHEST LARGE ADOMNAIL LACERATION WITH EXPOSED INTESTINES LARGE LACERATION TO BACK OF LEGS OR
EMPLOYEE SAID THAT THE INJURY OCCURRED WHEN HE WAS LIFTING 50# BAGS OF PRODUCT, IN MAY OF 1988. NOTE: EMPLOYEE REPORTED THIS INJURY IN FEBRUARY, 1989.
INJURED WAS WORKING ON A LEAKY VALVE IN THE PELLET PLANT OIL ROOM WHILE ATTEMPTING TO TIGHTEN THE VALVE, THE TREADS STRIPPED AND THE VALVE BLEW APART STRIKING INJURED BETWEEN THE EYES BREAKING THE RIGHT LENSE ON HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND CUTTING HIS FOREHEAD.
I. NAME WAS WALKING THROUGH A WATER HOLE IN A BELTLINE AND TWISTED HER ANKLE ON A LUMP OF COAL
HE WAS CLIMBING UP TO THE CAB OF A WABCO TRUCK AND PUT HIS FOOT IN THE RUNG OF THE LADDER AND SLIPPED CAUSING STIFFNESS TO HIS NECK.
I. NAME STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR ON 5 LEFT SECTION, HIT HOLE IN ROUGH ROADWAY, SPRAINING HIS BACK.
I.NAME WAS HELPING SET FEEDER IN 2N/4W HE WAS HANDLING RIB BOARDS & TWISTED HIS BACK DIAGNOSED WITH HERNIATED LUMBAR DISC.L-5 S-1 & UNDERGOING SURGERY 061588 BEGAN MISSING 060388
EMPLOYEE WAS SWINGING 20 LB HAMMER IN BASEBALL BAT FASHION TO TIGHTEN A NUT ON MAIN SHAFT CRUSHER ASSEMBLY AND APPARENTLY STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK MUSCLES WHILE DOING SO
INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO RAISE THE HEAD OF A ROOF DRILL WITH HIS HAND ON THE DRILL STEEL. HE INADVERTENTLY OPERATED THE ROTATION LEVER AND THE STEEL STRUCK HIS LEFT THUMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING BESIDE ROOF DRILL AS THE DRILL TRAMMED ACROSS THE SECTION.HE DROPPED HIS GLOVES THUS TURNING ASIDE TO PICK THEM UP AS HE PAUSED ,THE DRILL RAN ACROSS HIS FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING WITH JACKLEG WHEN THE DRILL LEG KICK OUT CAUSING HIM TO LOOSE HIS FOOTING. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
A FRONT LOADER OPERATOR WAS ASSIGNED TO HELP MAINTENANCE CREW ERRECT A PLATFORM TO POUR REFRACTORY IN KILN. THE HELPER WAS ON THE PLATFORM TO UNLOOSEN CHAIN, HE LOOSENED THE CHAIN, THE LOOSE END CAUGHT ON A SUPPORT ON THE PLATFORM TO MOVE SLIGHTLY, WHICH CAUSED THE HELPER TO LOSE BALANCE, FALL TO THE GROUND, A DISTANCE OF 4'6" CAUSING BRUISES TO LOWER BACK AREA.
WHILE MAKING GAS CHECKS IN NO. 1 HEADING ON 0-EAST SECTION (APPROX 50 FT) SPAD 4974, A SMALL ROCK APPROX 18" X 12" X 1 3/4 " FELL FROM THE TOP STRIKING EMP. ON THE LEFT HAND, FRACTURING THE KN NUCKLE OF LHIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER.
A SECTION OF GRATING 12X 12 INCH WAS CUT OUT OF A PLATFORM TO RUN THE CABLE OF THE CRADE THRU THE OPENING TO PICK UP A SECTION OF PIPE TO BE INSTALLED UNDER THE PLATFORM. THE PIECE HAD JUST BE EN CUT WHEN I NAME WALKED INTO THE OPENING AND PUT HIS LEG THRU THE GRATING HOLE AS HE TURNED 70 DIAG A WELDING LEAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING UNDER A LODING HOPPER CLEANING A TAIL PULLEY WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM A LOADER BUCKET HITTING EMPLOYEE IN THE BACK BRUISED BACK AND LEG
CLIMBING STEPS TO ENTER LOADER AND SLIPPED ON A STEP AND STRAINED HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF MINER AFTER REPAIRING WATER SPRAY ON THROAT OF MINER JUMPED DOWN & FELT PAIN IN LEFT KNEE
EMPL WAS BUILDING BRATTICE. HE WAS IN PROCESS OF CAPPING BRATTICE OFF AS HE WAS STRIKING COPBOARDS WITH HAMMER, HAMMER STRUCK HIS LEFT THUMB FRACTURING IT.
EMPLOYEE WAS ON TOP OF A BULK TANKER PUTTING THE SAMPLE BASKET BACK ON ITS HOOK WHEN HE STEPPED INTO THE FILL HOLE ON THE TANKER.
INJURED WAS IN A STANDING POSITION,USING A SLATE BAR TO BRAKE BOARD FROM A PALLET OF RESIN,WHEN HE PULLED ON THE BAR,HE STATED THAT HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SIDE.
THE SHOP OVERHEAD DOOR HUNG UP WHILE PULLING ON THIS DOOR HE STRAINED HIMSELF IN HIS GROIN AREA
EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING MINER CABLE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND TURNED HIS LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING INTO SCOOP TRACTOR. HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM IN-UNDER HIM, FALLING DOWN AND STIKING RIGHT KNEE ON FRAME OF SCOOP TRACTOR.
SLATE FELL STRIKING EMP. ON FOOT.
I.NAME WAS WORKING ON CHARGER FOR 15 TON MOTOR THERE WAS A TIMBER LYING BY THE TRUCK HE THREW IT OUT OF THE WAY & IT CAME DOWN ON HIS RT.THUMB MASHING IT DIAGNOSIS WAS FX.OF RT.THUMB
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH THE BULLGANG INSTALLING VENT TUBE ON THE 1416 LEVEL. THE VENT TUBE FELL AND KNOCKED A 4 INCH AIR PIPE DOWN WHICH LANDED ON HIS HEAD. HE CONTINUED TO WORK BUT DEVELOPE A STIFF NECK AND UPPER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF LOADER AND STEPPED ON UNEVEN GROUND AND TURNED ANKLE CAUSING SPRAIN
THE EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP THE RAISE WHEN H E SLIPPED CAUSING HIM T O FALL APPROX. 5 FT FRACTURING HIS LEFT RIBS.
EMPLOYEE HAD MOVED THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE AND WAS IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING OUT OF THE OPERATOR'S SEAT WHEN HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE CAUSING A STRAIN WITH FLUID BUILD UP.
MAN WAS OPERATING SCOOP AND HIT SA HOLE I T HE ROADWAY. HE WAS BOUNCED UP AND CAME DOWN ON HIS RT.SHOULDER BLADE WHICH HIT AGAINST SCOOP DECK.
EMPL WAS CUTTING WELD LOOSE. THERE WAS TOO MUCH TENSION ON CONVEYOR WHEN WELD WAS CUT CAUSING CONVEYOR TO JUMP INTO AIR. WELDING TORCH WAS PULLED OUT OF EMPL'S HAND & ACROSS HIS ARM CAUSIN G THERMAL BURN TO RIGHT ARM.
A CLEAR DAY HE WAS RUNNING BESIDE THE CONVEYOR BETL, HE SLIPPED ON A CROCK AND TRIPPED HE SLIPPESPRAINED HIS ANKLE.
OPERATOR WAS CHECKING FOR HYDRAULIC LEAK ON PAN. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY WALKED AROUND MACHINE BUT COULD NOT LOCATE LEAK. HE THEN WENT TO WALK ACROSS FULE TANK. AS HE WAS CROSSING FULE TANK HIS F EET SLIPPED & HE FELL APPROX 12-15' TO GROUND SUSTAINING INJURY.
INJURED WAS PULLING A SLIDER TUBE WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS ELBOW
HE REACHED INTO AREA UNDER PLANT BELT WITH GLOVE ON GLOVE GOT CAUGHT IN IDLER AND PULLED HAND BETWEEN BELT AND IDLER.
WHILE WALKING SEAL LINE EMPLOYEE STUMBLED TWICE OVER THE SAME CHUNK- SECOND TIME HE SPRAINED THE RIGHT ANKLE.
INDIVIDUAL WAS PUTTING MINER CABLE ON MINER WHEN HE TWISTED HIS ELBOW THIS ACCIDENT IS BEING SUBMITTED LATE BECAUSE WERE NOT NOTIFIED BY MEDICAL DEPT.THAT MAN WAS TAKEN OFF WORK
PUHING CRIB ACROSS SUPPLY CR WITH RIGHT HAND AND SLIPPED OUT OF HAND AND HIT LEFT HAND BETWEEN CAR AND CRIB.
HE WAS GRINDING A COPPER PART 1-1/2 " WIDE X 3-1/2" LONG IN THE GRINDING MACHINE THE GRINDING WHEEL PULLED THE PART AND CAUGHT HIS L HAND THUMB SUFFERING DEEP LACERATION AND LOST PORTION OF HI S NAIL
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER ON QUARRY HAUL TRUCK WHEN FOOT SLIPPED ON BOTTOM RUNG HE HUNG ON WITH LEFT HAND CAUSING HIM TO SUPPORT HIS RIGHT WITH A JERK RESULTING IN INJRY TO HIS LEFT SH OULDER.
SPRAINED LEFT ARM WHILE TAKING UP CRUSHER 5-012
EMPLOYEE STATED HE RAN OVER A LUMP OF COAL LEAVING THE FEEDED CAUSING HIM TO BUMP HIS HEAD AGAINST THE CANOPY (STARTED MISSING WORK AND WENT TO DOCTOR ON 6-6-88).
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE DRYER CHUTES AND STEPPED ON A CLEANING ROD AND SPRAINED HIS LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING A PIECE OF IRON WITH A CHIPPING HAMMER. THE IRON WAS BEING CLEANED AND READED FOR WELDING. AS HE STRUCK THE IRON, THE PIECE FELL FROM POSTION STRICKING HIM IN THE FOOT.
PIPE RACK ON DRILL SPUN AROUND AND CAUGHT THUMB.
REMOVING COVER FROM CONTROL PANEL ON FRONT OF SHEARER. HE WAS HOLDING ONTO THE COVER WITH HIS GRIGHT HAND WHEN THE COVER DROPPED DOWN AND SMASHED HIS FINGERS.
BLDG.A BRATTICE WHEN SAND BLEW OFF BLOCKS INTO LEFT EYE FINISHED THE SHIFT BUT CAUSED EYE IRRITATION LOST TIME ONLY
THE INJURED WAS CARRYINGF FIVE,FOUR FOOT LONG ROOF BOLTS.HE STATED HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HI SKNEE ON A SMALL ROCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING SUPPLIES ONTO THE SCOOP. HE BUMPED HIS KNEE ON SCOOP DIPPER BRUISING AND CONTUSING RIGHT KNEE.
SLIPPED WHILE TRYING TO OPEN WATER VALVE CAUGHT SELF ON PIPE AND STRAINED MUSCLE.
COMPLAINED OF LOW BACK PAIN DURING THE NORMAL COURSE OF JOB DUTIES. HE HAS BEEN UNDER MEDICAL ATTENTION IN PAST FOR BACK PROBLEMS. HE WAS UNLOADING ROCK DUST.
THE INJURED WAS USING A BAR TO PRY THE CAT PADS BACK ON A CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED CAUSING HIM PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK.A BURNING SENSATION.
EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE RIDING ON TRACK JEEP HE STRUCK A LOW HEADER KNOCKING HIS HAT OFF THEN STRUCK HIS HEAD ON ANOTHER HEADER.
EMPL STEPPED OUT OF QUARRRY HAUL TRUCK WHILE DOING SO TWISTED BACK & PINCHED SCIATIC NERVE, RIGHT HIP.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING BASKET FROM TOP OF BULK TRUCK BASKET TURNED OVER STRIKING EMPLOYEES LEFT KNEE
BOLTS HOLDING ELECTRIC MOTOR DOWN, CAME LOOSE CAUSING V BELTS TO COME OFF. WHEN CRUSHER OPERATOR AND CONVEYOR MAN INVESTIGATED, THEY ATTEMPTED TO STRAIGHTEN MOTOR, BUT SLIPPED AND FELL OFF PL ATFORM STRIKING CONVEYOR MAN IN CHEST.
INJURED STATED THAT HE TRIPPED AND HIT HIS KNEE ON GRATING ON THE WALKWAY
HE WAS LIFTING BELT UP WITH ABAR SO WORKMAN COULD PUT TOP STURTURE IN PLACE. ACUTE BACK SPRAIN.
THE INJURED MAN WAS OPERATING A BOB CAT SKID LOADER TO CLEAN UP THE CHUNKS OF HARD CEMENT THAT HAD BEEN THROWN OUT OF THE PACKHOUSE BASEMENT HE WAS ABOUT TO DUMP THEM INTO A DUMP TRUCK WHENA CHUNK FELL OFF THE BACK SIDE OF THE RAISED BUCKET INTO THE OPERATORS CAGE THE CHUNK HIT THE MANS KNEE AND BADLY BRUISED IT
LOADING HIGH LINE & LIFTED CATHEAD
EMPL WAS PULLING SHUTTLE CAR CABLE OUT OF ROAD WAY THEREFORE HURTING LOWER BACK.
EMP. WAS STANDING NEAR A MECHANIC WHO WAS DRIVING A TRACK PIN INTO PLACE. A METAL FRAGMENT CHIPPED OFF THE TRACK PIN AND HIT EMP. IN THE LIP. THE INJURY DID NOT SEEM SEVERE ENOUGH TO WARRANT LOST WORK DAYS BUT HE MISSED 2 DAYS.
EMPLOYEE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE ROLLING A CROSSBAR ON TOP OF STAGE LOADER WHEN ONE END FELL AND PINCHED HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE CROSSBAR AND DUKE JACK.
MAN STATED THAT HE HIT HIS GROIN AREA ON THE FEEDER AS HE WAS WALKING AROUND IT TO RESTART IT. HE CLAIMS HE SLIPPED ON LOOSE COAL.
EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING MINER CABLE NEXT TO RIB AND A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN BOLTS AND RIB STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON BACK AND SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE WAS FEEDING BAG DUST INTO ROCK DUSTER ON S&S SCOOP SHE GOT HER LEFT HAND CAUGHT IN AUGER FX.HER MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND HOSPITALIZED FOR SURGERY ON FINGER
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING LONG TONGUE FROM DOLLEY WITH AID OF FORK LIFT WHEN TONGUE SLIPPED OFF STRIKING TOP OF RT FOOT
I. NAME CRAWLED UP ON THE 2N/1E #1 BELT TAIL TO REMOVE A ROCK CAUGHT IN THE BELT CHUTE. THE BELT STARTED AND TREW HIM OFF OF THE BELT. DID NOT BEGIN MISSING TIME UNTIL 6/6/88. DIAGNOSED WHI TH CERVICAL STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS GUIDING LOADER TOWARDS PIPE 48 INCH CMP ACCORDING TO THE OPERATOR THE BRAKES FAILED CAUSING THE LOADERS BUCKET TO HIT THE 1ST JOINT OF PIPE WHICH ROLLED INTO I NAME AND PINCHED ;H IM BETWEEN OTHER PIPE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN THE STEPS AT AMD PLANT (CONTROL ROOM) TO THE LOWER LEVEL WHEN HE STUMBLED PUTTING ALL OF HIS WEIGHT ON HIS LEFT ANKLE TWISTING IT.
MOVING A WELDER AWAY FROM FEEDERCABLE
SIGNING FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND SLIPPED ON 3" INE AT 9 SOUTH DRIVE.
I.NAME WAS USING STEAM CLEANER IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND STEAM BURNED HIS RT.ARM
EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING MINER CABLE AND A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS AND RIB STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON THE BACK.
WHILE HE & CO-WORKER WERE IN PROCESS OF CHANING DRAG CABLE ON CRANE OPERATOR PUT CHAIN ON CABLE & HOOKED IT TO WELDING TRUCK TO PULL SLACK OUT. WHILE TIGHTENING CABLE INSURED MAN WAS TRYING TO REPLACE WEDGE WHEN CABLE SNAPPED GETTING HIS FINGER.
TWO EMPLOYEES WERE LIFTING 89 LB. SPROCKET FROM BACK OF TRUCK AND PLACING IT ON GROUND.
FOOT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN IRON DUMP BUCKET & ROCK WHILE DUMPING MARBLE SCRAP. BOT WAS TORN OFF FOOT & FOOT & WERE CUT & MASHED.
DURING WORK TIME I.NAME ADN 3 OTHER MINERS WERE SHOOTING RUBBER BANDS AT EACH OTHER PLAYING A GAME I.NAME PULLED BACK A RUBBER BAND IN ORDER TO SHOOT IT THE RUBBER BAND BROKE STRIKING HIM ON THE RT LOWER EYE LID CAUSING A BLOOD BLISTER ON THE OUTSIDE AND INTERNAL HEMORRAGING
INJURED WAS CLOSING THE ACCESS DOOR TO THE SUMP ON LINE 8. THE DOOR WAS STIFF, SO HE PUSHED ON IT HARD. IT WENT SHUT PINCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE LATCH AND THE DOOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF GOING UP STAIRWAY TO ELEVATOR ON 5872 WHEEL WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK ABOUT THE 3RD STEP FROM BOTTOM
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON A SHOVEL CABLE & HE SLIPPED ON LOOSE ROCK
CAME IN CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED CIRCUIT (4160 V) WHILE WORKING ON CABLE IN JUNCTION BOX OF #29 SHOVEL - FAILED TO PULL FUSES ON POLE, TOUCHED BOX LIK AND INSULATOR WITH WRENCH.
THE EMPLOYEE HAD STATED THAT HE WAS GOING TO REMOVE A BOLT FROM THE COAL FEED SCREW WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DETERMINE WHAT TOOK PLACE UNTIL I NAME CAN TELL US WHAT ACTIONS HE TOOK AFTER THAT PO INT. THE EMPLOYEE S ARM WAS PUT INTO OR DRAWN INTO A COAL FEED SCREW THAT WAS RUNNING AN AMENDED FORM WILL BE SENT IN WHEN FURTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE.
HE WAS SOLDERING WHEN A BIT OF THE HOT METAL DROPPED INTO HIS RT.BOOT VICTIM RECEIVED VARIOUS BURNS ON HIS FOOT
INJURED SLIPPED WHEN ENTERING TUNNEL AND STRUCK LEFT KNEE ON CONVEYOR SUPPORT FRAME.
HE WAS CHANGING A DEWATERING SCREEN ON LINE 8. AS HE WAS BENDING OVER TO INSTALL THE SCREEN HE FLET A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND LEGS.
EMPLOYEE CLIMBED MAST OF RBM7 RAISE BORING MACHINE TO REMOVE A 2" BULL HOSE FROM THE SWIVEL.A COMBINATION OF OIL SOAKED BOOTS NOT BEING TIED OFF THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL APPROXIMATLEY 8 F EET TO THE MAIN WORK DECK.
A PIECE OF ROCK SLIPPED FORM MINE TOP AND STRUCK INJ IN CHEST.
EMPLOYEE WAS APINNER HELPER AND AFTER THEY HAD SET JACKS A ROCK FELL OUTSIDE OF THE JACKS AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT LOWER LEG.
COMING OUT SIDE ON MANTRIP, WHEN A TRACK MOTOR RAN INTO MAN TRIP CAUSING HIM TO BRUISE NECK.
INJURED WAS REMOVING CAP FROM RADIATOR WHICH WAS OVERHEATING IT BLEW UP AND INJURED FELL AND HURT HIS KNEE
EMPL WAS LOADING ONSIDE SHUTTLE CAR PREPARING TO LEAVE FACE AREA OF #4 HEADING WHEN LOOSE DRAW SLATE FELL ON LEFT SHOULDER & NECK.
SLATE FELL FROM BETWEEN PINS STRIKING EMP. ON HEAD AND SHOULDERS.
INJURED WAS REMOVING CAP FROM RADIATOR THAT WAS OVERHEATING AND IT BLEW UP THROWING HOT WATER OVER HIM CAUSING BURNS
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A MESCHER MINE TRACTO HE HIT HIS ELBOW ON A ROOF BOLT PULLED LIGAMENTS IN LEFT ARM
COMING OUTSIDE ON MANTRIP WHEN A TRACK MTOR RAN INTO BACK OF MANTRIP CAUSING A PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS SHOULDER.
OPERATING SCOOP RAN OVER A ROCK WHICH RAISED SCOOP UP ON GROUND THEN EMPLOYEE UP AGAINST CANOPY WHEN HE COME BACK DOWN IN SEAT JOLT HURT BACK.
INJ OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR WHEN OBJECT ROCK FLEW UP AND HIT HIM IN THE ARM.
EMP WAS GOING TO USE A D-6 TRACTOR TO CHECK A PUMP THAT WAS NOT ACCESSIBLE BY TRUCK. WHEN HE UNLATCHED THE DOOR TO CLOW IT, HIS RIGHT THU B BECAME CAUGHT AS THE DOOR CLOSED. THE DOOR CL OSED ON HIS THUMB.
HE WAS CARRYING A ALUMINUM PIPE WITH HIS BUDDY TO THE WORK SITE. HE TRIPPED ON SOME DEBRIS CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE BOTTOM STRICKING HIS LEFT ELBOW.
I.NAME WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER OF LOADER AND LOST HIS GRIP AND FELL WHEN HE LANDED ON HIS LEFT HAND IT BROKE
THE H2O LINE HAD BEEN HIT WITH THE HEAD DRIVER COMING OUT ON EVENING SHIFT. WHIEL IN TRANSIT TO 6 RIGHT, MA(TRIP HIT COUPLING CAUSING MANTRIP TO WRECK, CAUSING EMP TO BE THROWN FORWARD, HIT TING CONTROLS.
REMOVING FEEDER CHUTE FROM ROTARY CRUSHER WIND CAUGHT THE CHUTE AND KNOCKED EMPLOYEE OFF THE CRUSHER ONTO A GUARD RAIL HE WAS USING THE PROPER TOOLS HE SHOULD HAVE USED EXTRA PRECAUTIONS DUE T HE STRONG WINDS HE HAD THE PROPER TRAINING FOR THE JOB HE WAS WEARING THE PROPER SAFETY EQUIPMENT
JUMPED OFF TRUCK LANDED ON ROCK TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING SAMPLE DOOR ON EIMCO. THE DOOR WAS STUCK SHUT AND WHILE FORKING IT OPEN HE HIT HIS RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A FRONT END AND PARKED NEXT TO A SECOND LOADER TO TALK TO THE OPERATOR. INSTEAD OF USING THE STEPS THE EMPLOYEE JUMPED FROM ONE LOADER TO THE OTHER AND AS HE WAS JUMPIN G BACK TO HIS MACHINE HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL LANDING ON THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK ON SHOULDER BY CHUTE GATE HANDLE LEFT UNSECURED STRUCK BY-1ST DAY LOST 060388
TAKING OFF CONVEYOR 26 IT GOT STUCK AND EMPLOYEE TRIED TO PRY IT OUT. WHEN HE PRIED IT OUT, IT SLID BACK TOWARDS HIM CAUSING BAR TO GO FORWARD AND PINCH HIS FINGER. REQUIRED 13 STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING UNLOAD A 55 GAL DRUM OF OIL OFF A PICK UP TRUCK AS THEY WERE SLIDING THE DRUM OFF THE TAILGATE IT SUDDENLY FELL TO THE GROUND CATCHING EMPLOYEE LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE DRUM AND TAILGATED OF PICK UP TRUCK EMPLOYEE HAS A BROKEN BONE IN TIP OF RING FINGER AND THE TIPS OF 2 OTHER FINGERS BRUISED.
HOLE IN RUBBER B OOT COMPANY FURNISHED NEW BOOTS UPON REQUEST CAUSTIIC BURN ON FOOT.
WORKING DOWN IN PIET, BOTH EYES STARTED BURNING.
HE WAS HANGING CABLE. SLIPPED ON ROCK AND TWISTED BACK WHILE TRYING NOT TO DROP CABLE. RESTED OVER WEEKEND - WORKED 4 HRS. 5/30/,,. WENT TO DOCTOR 5/31/88. RETN TO WORK 6/6/88 - WORKED 2 DE AYS. RETN'D TO DOCTOR. STAY OFF 2 MORE WEEKS.
EMPLOYEE WAS BARRING A HANG UP DOWN THROUGH THE RAIL MAT. WHEN THE HANGUP BROKE LOOSE, A ROCK HIT THE TIP OF HIS SCALING BAR CAUSING THE HAND-HELD END TO FLIP UP, CATCHING HIS HAND AGAINST TH STEEL CHUTE. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A LACERATION, LEFT RING FINGER, CAUSING HIM TO LOSE TIMEFROM WORK.
WAS SEVICING THE HOSIT. STUMBLED OVER THE AIR LINE, TWISTING RIGHT KNEE.
BENT OVER TO PICK UP A PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE AND TORE CARTLIDGE LOOSE IN LOWER BACK.
THROWING TIMBERS ACROSS BELT LIN AND STRAINED SOMETHING IN THE BACK.
HE WAS CLEANING SOME GRIDS OF MILL SEPERATOR #3 SEPERATOR WITH A CHIPPING HAMMER.AT THAT MOMENT THE HAMMER FORCED IN AND TRYING TO PULL IT WRAPPED AROUND HIS RIGHT HAND,SUFFERING TRAUMA AND ST RING APIN IN HIS RIGHT HAND.
I NAME WAS PULLING THE MINER CABLE ON THE LONG JOHN WHEN HE TWISTED AROUND AND STRAINED HIS HIP.
EMPLOYEE HAD COMPLETED HELPING DRILLING A PLACE IN FACE AND WAS MOVING DRILL WHEN HIS LOOSE GLOVE BECAME ENTANGLED IN BELTS AND HIS HAND WAS PULLED BETWEEN BELTS AND GUARD WHICH CUT LEFT INDEX FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING TO CHECK COOLANT LEVEL IN RADIATOR OF D-10 AS EMPLOYEE RELEASED PRESSURE ON RADIATOR CAP HOT COOLANT SPRAYED ONTO EMPLOYEES CHEST AND UNDER PORTION OF LEFT ARM CAUSING 1 ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS
HE WAS CUTTING A FACE SPRAG OFF OF A ROOF SHIELD WHEN IT FELL TO THE GROUND IT BOUNCED UP AND HIT HIS RIGHT LEG JUST BELOW THE KNEE
PT HAD FINISHED WORK ON 265 MINER AND HAD HIS HAND FULL OF TOOLS GOING TO WORK ON OFF STANDARD CAR MINE FLOOR STEEP UNEVEN AND OILY PTS RT FOOT SLIPPED AND SLID IN A HOLE IN FLOOR TORE MUSCEL E IN CALF IN HIS RT LEG
HE WAS CUTTING A FOREPOLE OFF OF A ROOF SHIELD WHEN IT FELL AND HIT THE FACE CONVEYOR IT BOUNCED OVER STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT FOOT
EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING COBLE (DC) . IT BROKE APART CAUSING HIM TO BURN HIS HANDS.
HE WAS CLEANING OFF MINER. HE STATED ROCK FELL FROM ROOF AND HIT HIS HEAD THIS CAUSED NECK PAIN. THE ROCK HE SAID HIT HIM WAS 2'4" LONG 1'2" WIDE 1" THICK.
UNLOADING A 55 GALLON DRUM OF OIL FROM AN ENDLOADER BUCKET. HE WAS ROLLING IT OUT ONTO THE GROUND AND DROPPED IT CATCHING HIS HAND BETWEEN IT AND ANOTHER BARRELL THAT WAS ALREADY ON THE GROUND
INJURD WAS INSTALLING BOLTS FROM RIGHT TO LEFT:WAS INSTALLING SECOND BOLT AND HAD DRILED HOSE 18" AND WAS INSTALLING FINISHING STEEL WHEN ROCK FELL.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE CANOPY ON FLETCHER ROOF DRILL OVER WHILE IT WAS STILL FIRM AGAINST ROOF WHEN CANOPY RELEASED IT STRUCK I NAME ON THE HEAD
WHILE LOADING BELT FRAMING MAN STRAINED BACK
USING COME ALONG TOOTH BROKE FELL INJURED BACK.
PT L ULLED APPROX 100 LB SLAB OF IRON OFF OF A RACK AT CHEST LEVEL AND CARRIED APPROX 30 FT TO HIS WORK TABLE AFTER SETTING IT DOWN HE FELT PAIN IN S HIS BACK
INJURED BEGAN MISSING WORKON ON 5/27/88 DUE TO REOCCURANCE OF INJURY WHICH TOOK PLACE ON 4/28/88. ORIGINAL INJURY OCCURRED WHEN MAN WAS DRAGGING ROCK DUST HOSE THROUGH RETURN & IT BECAM ECAUG HT ON RIB CAUSING INJURED TO FALL BACKWARDS TO GROUND.
EMP. CLAINS ACCIDENT HAPENED 6 WEEKS AGO FORM 7-8-88 HELPING OPERATOR WORK ON HOIST LINE F DRAG LINE.
EMP. WAS MOVING AN OXYGEN TANK WHEN IT SLIPPED AND PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE TANK.
EMPL WAS CUTTING GRASS & SMALL BRUSH WITH HAD HELD SICKLE BAR. AS SICKLE BAR STRUCK THORN BUSH, BRANCH RICK-A-SHAYED UP TOWARD HIS FACE WENT UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES & S CRATCHED PUPIL OF R IGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN RT.RETURN OF #8 SEC.HE STEPPED ON A WET ROCK & SLIPPED TWISTING HIS KNEE ON HIS LEFT LEG NOTE EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED ON 052788 BUT CONTINUED TO WORK & BEGAN LOSING TIME 060588
BATTERY CABLE GROUNDED OUT, CAUSING SMOKE AND FIRE. EMPLOYEE BREATHING SMOKE GOT SICK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ALONG THE #3 ENTRY WHEN HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF A TEREX 7250AA LOADER, HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE STEP AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING HIS LOADER, WHEN HE REACHED UP TO SHUT LOADER DOOR HIS FEET SLIPPED ON LADDER RUNG, HE FELKL BACKWARDS STRICKING HIS BACK AGAINST THE TIRE.
WAS PUTTING GEARS ON LEFT SIDE OF 2 HEADDRIVE. WAS HITTING GEARS WITHSLEDGEHAMMER AND CAUGHT THUMB WITH SLEDGEHAMMER.
EMPLOYEE WAS ENGAGED IN PULLING FUSES FOR THE #1 RAW MILL WHEN THE 3RD FESE WAS PULLED AN ELECTRICAL FLASHOVER OCCURRED RESULTING IN BURNS TO THE UPPER TORSO FACE NECK HEAD AND BACK
LABOR WAS ON THE SIDE OF A STOCKPILE ABOUT HALFWAY TO THE TOP PICKING CLAY. THE SIDE OF THE PILE SLID DWN AND HE SLID DOWN WITH IT. WHEN HE STOPPED HIMSELF HE STRAINED HIS MIDDLE BACK.
EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A PIECE OF METAL USED AS A DRAIN TROUGH CORER.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE PRYING ON A ROCK LODGED IN ROCK CHUTE.
WORKING ON COMPRESSOR ON LINE TRUCK, COMPRESSOR WAS FALLING, IN GETTING AWAY TWISTED LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE HE W AS ASSISTING TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES LIFT A 4 FT X 8 FT X 3/16 IN. SHHET OF METAL ONTO THE LOWBOY FENDER HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A SIX INCH PUMP CASING FROM A CRANE TO A WHEEL CART. THE CRANE COULD NOT PLACE THE PUMP PART DIRECTLY ONTO THE CART, SO THE EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING THE PUMP CASING TOWARD THE CART. THE EMPLOYEE FELT DISCOMFORT IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING DOOR ON RAILROAD CAR AND BAR CAME OUT AND STRUCK HIM ON HEAD CAUSING CONCUSSION AND WHILE FALLING TO GROUND TRYING TO CATCH HIMSELF AND TWISTED NECK HIT GROUND CAUSED SCRA TCHED RT KNEE
DRILLING TEST HOLES DRILL WOBBLED HURT RIGHT WRIST.
I NAME WAS WALKING TOWARD 7 ENTRY IN LAST OPEN X CUT WHEN CUTTER WAS PULLING INTO 7 ENTRY WHEN A ROCK SPIT OUT FROM UNDERNEATH THE REAR TIRE, STRIKING HIM BELOW THE RIGHT KNEE, CAUSING SWELLIN G AND A LARGE BRUISE. EMPLOYEE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPTIAL AND CHECKED FOR FRACTURE ON JUNE 1, 1988 EMPLOYEE WENT TO DR FOR FOLLOW UP VISIT. EMPLOYEE NEEDED TO HAVE COLLECTED BLOOD DRAINE
INJURED WAS REMOVING A PIECE OF ROCK FROM TOP OF LMINER, AND THE ROCK SLID DOWN AND MASHED HIS FINGER AGAINST THE PAN.
TRYING TO DRIVE KEEPER OUT WITH A PICK HAMMER AND SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN SLEDGE GLANCE OFF STIKING LEFT LITTLE FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING BELT IN ORDER TO MAKE A SPLICE KNIFE SLIPPED AND EMPLOYEE CUT HIS RIGHT THIGH.EMPLOYEE RECEIVED STITCHES.
INJURED STATED THAT HE SHOVELED COAL FROM THE TAIL OF #1 3RD WEST BELT A& STRAINED HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE PUSHED SCOOP LEVER INTO DOWN POSITION AND IT HUNG LIFTING EMPLOYEE INTO TOP STRIKING HIS HEAD
WHILE LOADING 7200 POWER CABLE TWISTED L KNEE.
STANDING ON LOADER WITH GREASEY FEET AND SLIPPED OFF.
RIDING OUT OF THE MINE ON A MANTRIP. THE MANTRIP HIT A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY, JARRING HIS NECK. NATURE OF INJURY- STIFF NECK.
EMPLOYEE CLIMBING UP LADDER ON FRONT END LOADER, SLIPPED AND BRUISED LEFT LOWER LEG. EMPLOYEE HAD OIL ON BOOT WHICH CAUSED HIM TO SLIP.
INJURED WAS WALKING TO MANTRIP AND STEPPED OVER A PILE OF 1/2" CHAIN (APPROX. 20FT), TRIPPED AND FELL TO THE MINE FLOOR TURNING HIS ANKLE (LEFT)
SLIPPED IN OIL, TWISTED RIGHT KNEE. EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THE INCIDENT HAPPENED 3-4 WEEKS PRIOR TO 5-26-88, EXACT DATE NOT AVAILABLE. DATE OF FIRST TREATMENT IS 5-26-88.
BENT OVER TO PICK UP CAT IDLER, FELT BACK CATCH, COULD NOT GET ON DOWN OR BACK UP.
WHILE MOVING A 55 GAL DRUM ONTO A PEDESTAL, THE DRUM SLIPPED STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT KNEE.
EMPL HAD INSTALLED RIB BOLT WAS SWINGING MAST IN WHEN DRILL STEEL CAUGHT CANOPY JACK LEG. DRILL STEEL FLEW & HIT EMPL IN FACE, FRACTURE TO NOSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ANGING 480 CABLE HE FELT A PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK
HE WAS BARRING TWO STONES APART, HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON THE EDGE OF A GROUT BOX FRACTURING HIS RIGHT RIBS.
EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING BAGS OF CEMENT CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER RIGHT BACK AND UPPER LEG.
OPERATOR DRIVING EUCLID HUL TRUCK, TRIED TO SHIFT GEARS WHILE CLIMBING RAMP. MISSED HIS GEAR AND PERMITTED TRUCK TO RUN BACK WARD INNTO BERM UPSETTING TRUCK. CAUSING BRUISE OF LEFT THIGH. NO TE:DRIVERS ARE ALL INSPECTED TO S TART UP RAMPS UP A RAMPS IN A GEAR THAT WILL BE ABLE TO GET TRUCK TO TOP.
GUARD RAILING
A PUMP WAS NOT PUMPING AND WHILE RAISING THE SUCTION LINE TO CHECK THE PUMP PRESSURE HAD BUILT UP CAUSING THE LINE TO HIT THE EMPLOYEE KNOCKING HIMDOWN.
HE WAS BREAKING STONE WITH AN AIR HAMMER, THE STONE SPLIT AND THREW THE MAN ON THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS DOWN IN THE PIT SHOVELING IN AN AWKWARD POSITION AT THE JAW BELT, STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.
WHILE STANDING BY, PUT HAND NEXT TO SHACKLE. IT TURNED AND CAUGHT FINGERTIP.
I.NAME THREW HIS THERMOS HIS THERMOS TO I.NAME FOR I.NAME TO FILL WITH WATER THE THERMOS HIT I.NAME IN THE NOSE AND BROKE HIS NOSE
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING GROUT TRUCK WHEN POWER STERRING UNIT BROKE THE WHEEL TURNED CAUSING LOWER BACK PAIN
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF OF LADDER TWISTED ANKLE.
CHECKING PHASE VOLTAGE ON 480 VOVOLT O-PHASE DISCONNECT. VOLTMETHER 10 METER WAS SET IN OFF READING POSITION A(D HAD WIRE JUMMPER WHERE FUSE BELONGED. UPON TOUCHIG METER PROBE TO "B" AND "C " PHASES, ARC OF ELECTRICITY INITIATED IN METAL AND DISCONNECT BOX. ELECTRICIAN WAS THROWN BACK 10 FT. BURNT HANDS, NECK FACE, EYES. NO SAFETY GLASSES BEING WORN.
OPERATING MOTOR ON SLOPE BOTTOM POLE CAME OFF TROLLEY AND WHEN HE REACHED FOR POLE, CAUGHT HIS FINER BETWEEN PLOE AND HEADER OVER TOP HAULAGE DOOR.
I.NAME WAS W ORKING ON A HYDRAULIC CYLINDER HE ATTEMPTED TO LOOSEN BOLTS WITH A 3/4 DRILL SWING HANDLE TOOL HE WAS GOING TO USE HIS RT.FOOT FOR LEVERAGE TO LOOSEN BOLT HIS FOOT MISSED TOOL HAN DLE & WHEN HIS FOOT HIT THE GROUND H IS KNEE APPARENTLY TWISTED & TORE THE CARTILAGE
NO INJURY-GENERAL WORK NO ACUTE INJURY.
ROCK TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED AND A ROCK FELL FROM LADDER BUCKET HITTING WALL OF TRUCK BED JOLTED DRIVER AROUND IN THE CAB OF TRUCK. LOWER LEG AND BACK PAIN.
WHILE MAN WAS RELEASING SPRING ON RACK SLIPPED BACKWARDS HITTING RIGHT HAND ON FRAME OF DRILL.
AT STARTING TIME INJURED WAS ASCENDING LADDER OF FRONT END LOADER HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON LADDER RUNG & VICTIM FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT ARM ON FRONT END LOADER TIRE CAUSING INJURY TO LEFT ARM. AC CIDENT WAS NOT DUE TO MINERS PROFICIENCY SKILL OR TRAINING.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A LOADER BUCKET WITH A FORKLIFT HE HEARD SOMETHING DRAGGING STOPPED TO LOOK TO SEE WHAT IT WAS THE BUCKET ARM WAS WEDGED ON THE FORKLIFT ARM AND HE PULLED ON THE BUCKET ARM TO GET IT UNWEDGED AND IN DOING SO THE BUCKET ARM CAME UP AND HIT HIS LEG
I,NAME SAID HE WAS USING PRY BAR TO PULL BROKEN TRACK TOGETHER SO IT COULD BE PINNED. BAR SLIPPED CAUSING PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.
ON THE 110 SECTION MAN WAS LOADING PLANK ON JOY LOADER FROM ASCOOP CAR. HE HIT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE PLANK HE WAS CARRYING AND ON E ON LOADER.
EMPLOYEES WERE INSTALING BELT STRUCTURE. 2 EMPLOYEES WERE HOLDING UP BELT ROPE WHEN ONE EMPLOYEE DROPPED HIS SIDE THEREFORE PUTTING A STRAIN ON OTHER EMPLOYEE.
DRIVING JEEP CAME AROUND CURVBE & HIT ANOTHERF JEEP HEAD ON & HIS HEAD HIT PANIC BAR, CUT ON RIGHT EYE RESULTED IN STITCHES.
DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES, WHILE STEPPING INTO GRADALL, INDUVIDAUL HURT HIS RIGHT WRIST.
HE WAS SHOVELING UNDER OLD SPILLBOARD LEANING AGAINST WHEN SPILL SLID DOWN HITTING HIM.
INJURED STOPPED TRACTOR IN INTERSECTION #3 ROOM TO TURN DOWN #2 ROOM. THERE WAS A BLISTER OF TOP COAL APPROX. 3"X1 1/2"X6' FELL STRIKING HIM ON RIGHT ELBOW BRUISING ELBOW.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS ROOF BOLTING AT THE FACE OF CROSSCUT BETWEEN ROOM 1 & 2 WHEN A PIECE OF COAL FELL FROM ROOF AND HIT BOLTER POT AND SPUN OFF STRIKING HIM IN FACE THIS OCCURRED IN U NIT 5 WAS SENT TO HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM TO BE CHECKED
WHILE CHANGING OUT SWING ARM CYCLINDER ON ROOF BOLTER, CHAIN CAME LOOSE WHICH WAS HOOKED TO ROOF ALLOWING MASK TO SWING IN AN PINCH UPPER BODY.
EMP. WAS CLEANING COAL AND REMOVING ROCKS FROM PIT. HE ICKED UP A ROCK AND DROPPED IT ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.
AS INJURED WAS LIFTING A CONVEYER ROLLER HE FLET PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
THE BOLTING CYCLE WAS JUST COMPLETED IN THE RT CROSS CUT I.NAME WAS MOVING THE SCREW JACKS FORWARD ALONG THE LEFT RIB WHEN A JACK FELL HITTING HIS RT FOOT ON THE INSTEP THE INJURY WAS CRUSHED SKIN AND A BAD BRUISE TO THE FOOT
EMPLOYEES WERE REBUILDING THE DRAGLINE BUCKET AT THE WELDING SHOP A WEAR PLATE HAD BEEN HEATED AND THE SUPERVISOR WALKED OUT ON THE SCAFFOLD TO CHECK IT THE SCAFFOLD BOARD TURNED AND THE SUPER VISOR FELL ONTO THE HOT PLATE
MAN SAID HE WAS REMOVING A PIECE OF ROCK FROM BETWEEN THE BELT AND AS HE FLIPPED THE ROCK OVER TI HIT A ROLLER AND THEN CAUGHT HIS FINGERS BETWEEN THE ROCK AND BELT ROPE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING RESIN BOLTS AND STEPPED IN HOLE COVERED WITH WATER AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS LIFTING 63LB STEEL RAILS & LATER WAS SAWING TIMBERS & FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PUT CLOTHES ON PRIOR TO ENTERING THE MINE WHEN HE WAS UNABLE TO STRAIGHTEN UP CAUSING SEVERE LOWER BACK PAIN (NERVE) SCIATICA.
WAS BOLTING ON 12 CM-7 SWUNG BOOM TOWARDS RIB WASS WATCHING BOOM WHEN STEPPED ON ROCK LAYING AGAINST RIB & TWISTED R KNEE & ANKLE.
MAN WAS CARRYING ROOF BLOCKS TO THE FRON TOF THE ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE STEPPED IN AHOLE AND WRENCHED HIS ABCK.
EMP. HAD COMPLETED DRILLING A HOLE IN THE FACE. AS HE PULED BACK ON HIS MACHINE, LOOSE MATERIAL BROKE FREE, FALLING FROM THE FACE AND ON HIS MACHINE, LOOSE MATERIAL BROKE FREE, FALLING FRO M THE FACE STRIKING ON THE SHOULDER. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS AN D ABRASION, NECK AND LEFT SHOULDER AND A LACERATION TO HIS LEFT ARM REQUIRING TWO SUTURES AND IS NOW A LOST
WHILE SCOOPING RIGHT RIB OF BREAK BETWEEN 2&3 HEADING SCOOP HIT OFF SET OF RIB AND JACKKNIFFED INTOT HE RIB THE SCOOP JUMPED FROM LOW TRAM TO HIGH TRAM CAUSING THIS ACCIDENT.
INJURED WAS HANGING MINER CABLE AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
THE MAN WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A PORTION OF STEEL WATER LINE THAT WAS SUBMERGED UNDER WATER. WHILE LIFTING THE STEEL LINE, THE MMAN LACERATED HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING BITS TO MINER IN ORDER TO BIT IT UP WHEN A ROCK 1IN.X2FT.X2FT FELL OUT OF BETWEEN BOLTS STRIKING HIM IN THE LEFT SHOULDER AREA
WHILE CHECKING SUCTION ON CHUCK HEAD DRILL STEELS FELL OUT OF HOLE & HIT TOP OF RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING NUT FOR HINGE PIN BOLT ON KERSEY SCOOP IN SECTION WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
MAN ALLEGES HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK WHEN HE WAS GETTING OUT OF A MOBLE BRIDGE CARRIER FROM A SITTING TO A STANDING POSTION. STRAIN TO LOWER BACK.
AS EMPL MOWING WELDER HE LIFTED ONE END AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER ABDOMEN.NOT REPORTABLE UNTIL 8-8-88 WHEN HE ENTERED HOSPITAL TO HAVE HERNIA SURGICALLY REPAIRED.
THE MECHANIC SAW THAT HIS TRUCK WAS ROLLING BACKWARDS AND HE OVER REACTED AND CUT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD ON THE MINE OFFICE DOOR TRYING TO GET TO IT.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 988 LOADER, WHEN A HYDRAULIC HOSE BURSTED CAUSING OIL TO SPRAY ON ENGINE CAUSING A FIRE. EMPLOYEE JUMPED FROM LOADER TO AVOID BEING BURNED. HE LANDED ON HIS FEET AND R OLLED TO ONE SIDE CAUSING A FRACTURE IN HIS LEFT LOWER LEG.
INJURED STATED HE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM THE DECK OF A BATTERY SCOOP WHICH HAS A CANOPY WHEN HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.
SLIPPED & FELL OF D11N CAT DOZER.
EMPLOYEE WAS THROWING CEMENT BLOCKS THROUGH A MAN DOOR WHEN A CO-WORKER THREW A BLOCK IT MISSED THE DOOR HITTING THE FRAME AND BOUNCING BACK STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON BIG TOE CAUSING A FRACTURE O N RIGHT TOE. FIRST DAY OFF 5-31-88.
EMPLOYEE IS A 630 EIMCO MUCKER OPERATOR. WHILE LOADING BUCKET, HE ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE PLACE IN LINE WITH THE DIPPER ON THE 630 EIMCO AND HIT HIMSELF WITH THE DIPPER ON THE 630 EIMCO AS HE DI SCHARGED THE LOADED DIPPER INTO THE BUCKET.
INJURED WAS OPERATING MINER WHEN A PIECE OFDRAW ROCK FELL FROM RIB TO THE ROOF BOLT PATTERN STRICKING HIM AGAINST THE BACK.
THE SECTION SUPERVISOR LIFTED A BATTERY LID SCOOP TRACTOR TO CHECK THE WATER LEVEL OF THE BATTERY. WHEN HE LIFTED THE COVER HE FELT A STRAIN TO HIS STOMACH.
THROWING TRACK SWITCH, AT 1 SOUTH LOADED TRACK, SWITCH HAD BEEN DAMAGED FROM CAR OFF TRACK PREVIOUSLY - STRAINED GROIN AREA. MAN WORKED UNTIL 6/16/88 - HAD PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED CONTRACTUAL C DAY FOR 6/17/88 AND 6/20/88 AND THEN DIDN'T RETURN ON 6/21/88.
I NAME WAS MOVING THE CONT MINER CABLE WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL 2 NAME STRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL WHEEL JERKED METAL CAUSING LEFT THUMB TO GO INTO GRINDING WHEEL
THE EMPLOYEE WAS EXPERIENCING ELBOW DISCOMFORT WHILE SHOVELING BELT. HE WAS SEEN BY A DOCTOR WHO DIAGNOSED TENDONITUS IN LEFT ELBOW, AND INFLAMMATION OF TENDONS DUE TO REPEATED USAGE.
LOOSE COAL AND ROCK FELL BETWEEN SHEILDS WHEN INJ. LOWERED THE SHEILD. MATERIAL SLID ACROSS SHEILD STRIKING INJ. ON RIGHT LEG ANBOVE KNEE CAUSING CONTUSIONS.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING ON THE 3 SECTION WHEN THE DRILL STEEL BENT, HITTING HIM ON THE LEFT WRIST.
INJURED WAS ROTATING A GEAR ON A FINAL DRIVE FOR A CONTINUOUS MINER. THE FINAL DRIVE WAS BEING REPAIRED IN AN OUTSIDE SHOP. HIS RIGHT THUMB WAS PINCHED BETWEN THE GEAR AND A PULL BOLT. HIS
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING UPRIGHT PLASTERING A BLOCK STOPPING WHEN HE REPORTS THAT HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AS HE TURNED TO GET MORE MORTAR TO PUT ONTO THE STOPPING.
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING UPRIGHT RIDING IN A MANTRIP JEEP WHEN THE JEEP HE WAS RIDING STRUCK A STOPPED JEEP ON THE TRACK IN FORN OF THEM JERKING THE INJURED CAUSING PAIN TO HIS LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS LIFTING UP ON BELT ROPE WHICH SUPPORTS BELT LINE STRUCTURE WITH HIS LEFT HAND WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO CLIP BELT CHAIN BACK ON ROPE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS UP ON CATWALK ASENDING A LADDER FELL APPROX. 15 FEET ON LANDING AND COMPAINED OF BACK PAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING THE MINER CABLE A PIECE OF ROCK ROLLED OFF THE RIB, STRICKING EMPLOYEE IN THE BACK.
INJURED WAS STANDING IN THE NO. 1 ENTRY 75 FT OUTBY SPAD NO. 4388 ON THE PARALLEL MAINS (002) SECTION ATTEMPTING TO PULL A CURTAIN FROM UNDER SOME LOOSE COAL. AS HE PULLED HE SAID HE TWISTED D
EMPL WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS HE LET ATRS DOWN THEREFORE LETTING PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FALL FROM ROOF STRIKING HIM ON HIP & LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING 100 LB BAGS ONTO PALLET.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING MOVE NEW D.A. RAM ACROSS FACE WHEN IT SLID OFF AFC AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING UPRIGHT RIDING IN A MANTRIP JEEP WHEN THE JEEP STRUCK A STOPPED JEEP ON THE TRACK IN FRONT OF THEM THROWING THE INJURED AGAINST THE FRAME OF THE JEEP HE WAS RIDING CAUSING A FRACTURE TO HIS RIGHT FOREARM.
MAN STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS HANDLING PROPS WHILE TIMBERING HE DROPPED PROP ON HIS LEFT FOOT CAUSING POSSIBLE FRACTURE.
VICTIM WAS MOVNG ROCK BY HAND. HE FLIPPED ONE ROCK WHICH STRUCK ANOTHER ROCK. HIS THUMB ON RIGHT HAND WENT BETWEEN BOTH ROCKS
INJURED BACK WHILE DRAGGING 3" HOSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ON ROOF BOLTER, WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON HIS BACK AND LEFT HIP.
STEPPED DOWN FROM A DOZER AND TYWISTED AT KNEE
MAN STGATED HE WAS JARRED AROUND ON CANOPY OPERATOR DECK ON THE S&S SCOOP
INJURED WAS WALKING THROUGH SAND PLANT AREA WHEN HE SUDDENLY FELT PAIN IN RIGHT CALF. EMPLOYEE MISSED WORK ON 5-27-88.
INJURED & FELLOW WORKERS WERE PULLING HYDRAULIC BELT TAKEUP UNIT OUT OF SWAG IN MINE FLOOR WITH 3 TON HOIST. WHEN UNIT STARTED TO SLIDE ON MINE FLOOR SMALL PIECE OF COAL FLEW UP & STRUCK INJU RED IN EYE.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS HELPING TAKE A SHUTTLE CAR DOWN THE SLOPER AND BUMPED HIS KNEE AGAINST THE BELT ROLLER FRAME.
ROCK FELL ON EMPL PINNING HIS FOOT UNDER HIM.
BACKED OFF A WALKWAY ON THE WASH PLANT.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND BELT DRIVE & BUMPED HIS HEAD CAUSING STRAIN TO NECK & LOWER BACK
WHILE INSTALLING MOTOR ON FEEDER HIS FINGERS WERE PINCHED BETWEEN CYLINDER & FRAME.
WAS PICKING UP SAM PLE BUCKET AND LOADING IN PANS TO BE DRIED. STANDING UP HE FELT SHARP PAIN FROM NECK DOWN TO MIDDLE OF BACK. SORE FOR REST OF DAY SEEN DECTOR
EMPLOYEE TURNED TO LOOK OVER HIS SHOULDER AND FELT MUSCLE SPASM IN HIS LOWER BACK AND DOWN HIS LEGS OPERATING FRONT END LOADER
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON ROCK DUST HOSE, WHEN IT PULLED APART, CAUSING HIM TO FALL AGAINST A FLAT CAR.
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING BOLT WITH RATCHET. CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN TWO PIECE OF METAL.
EMPLOYEE WAS STRICKING PANEL BOARD ON SCOOP WITH HAMMER. PIECE OF METAL HIT HIM IN THE EYE AND LODGED METAL WAS REMOVED BY DOCTOR.
STANDING ON SCRAPER BREAKING BOLT LOOSE AND LOST BALANCE FELL ABOUT 7 FT BREAKING BONE IN RT BOREARM
PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON ABBY DRILL USING A GRINDING MACHINE AND GOT A METAL CHIP IN HIS RIGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS STGANDING UPRIGHT REACHING UPWARD TO HANG 7200 HV CABLE ON MESSENGER LINE USING A METAL INSULATED HOOK WHEN HANGER HOOK SLIPPED CUTTING INJUREDS RT.HAND
INJURED WAS DRIVING THE NITRATE TRUCK ON THE HAUL ROAD AND THERE WAS A PLACE ON THE ROAD THAT A BULLDOZER TURNED AT, AND WAS ROUGH. HE STATED THE TRUCK GAVE A ROUGH JAR, AND THE SEAT IN THE TU TRUCK HIT BOTTOM AND JARRED HIM.
REMOVING RADIATOR CAP, CAP BROKE AND SPRAYED HOT ANTI-FREEZE ON RIGHT ARM AND RIGHT SIDE OF CHEST.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING AT A SCREENING PLANT WHEN A LARGE ROCK BECAME LODGED IN HOPPER I.NAME ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE ROCK WHEN IT DISLODGED AT THE BASE & TURNED OVER ON HIS HAND
MAN WAS SUPERVISING A BRICK CREW AND A PIECE OF COATING FROM KILN (APPROX 100 LBS) STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD AND SHOULDER AREAS
WHILE LIFTING A 5 FT DRILL STEM,RUBBED HIS STOMACH MUSCLES.
EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING BAGS OF KAOLIN CLAY ONTO THE BAG CONVEYOR AND EXPERIENCED PAIN TO THE LOWER BACK AREA.
EMP. WAS STRUCK BY A FALLING PC.OF COAL, APPROX 6 FT. X 30IN. X6 IN.THICK.
AS MOVING BOLTER OUT OF OLD ROOMS WORKER HAD HIS HAND LYING ON ARM OF DRILL HEAD. STONE FELL FROM ROOF HITTING FINGER.
WHILE PULLING ON A RUBBER BELT HE SLIPPED AND FELL WHEN HE FELL HE HAD A HAMMER ON HIS MINERS BELT AND THE HAMMER STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT RIB CAGE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING PALLET TO BACK OF TRUCK AND BOARD PULLED LOOSE AND HE FELL OFF REAR OF TRUCK HITTING HIS HEAD AND KNEE.
I NAME STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE CARRYING A ELECTRIC HYDRALIC POWER SUPPLY BOX DOWN THE LONGWALL FACE.
ONE OF THE TRANSMISSION STUD BOLTS BROKE AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING IT. THE TRANSMISSION FELL ONTO THE INJUREDS HAND.
RIDING IN SCOOP BUCKET AND EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING ONTO SCOOP BUCKET STOP AS OPERATOR RAISED SCOOP BUCKET OFF BOTTOM CATCHING EMPLOYEE'S TWO FINGERS BETWEEN SCOOP FRAME AND SCOOP STOP.
INJURED WAS IN THE PROCESS OF UNBOARDING THE MANBUS WHEN IT WAS STRUCK FROM BEHIND BY THE FOLLOWING TRACK JEEP WHICH WAS HIT BY A THIRD TRACK JEEP KNOCKING IT INTO THE MANBUS CAUSING THE INJUR ED TO WRENCH HIS BACK AND STRIKE HIS BACK AGAISNT THE MANBUS
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING POWDER TRUCK DID NOT SHIFT FEET WHEN TWISTING WITH WAS CAUSING BACK STRAIN.
EMPL WAS BRIING STONE INTO CRUSHER & WENT TO GET ANOTHER BUC KET OF STONE FOR CRUSHER WHEN STONE GOT CAUGHT IN JAW OF CRUSHER. HE GOT OFF LOADER & WENT UP TO ASSIST IN GETTING STONE THRU C RUSHER WHEN STONE WAS THROUGH BELT WAS ACTIVATED & EMPL WAS ON ANOTHER VELTR NOT VISIBLE FROM CONTROL PANEL. UPON SEEING HIM COMING UP RETURN BELT FOR SCREEN MACHINE WAS SHUT OFF BY EMPL.
APPROX.100PM EMPLOYEE WAS BIT BY SOMETHING IN HIS BOOT MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR WAS PRESENT AT THE TIME NEXT MORNING WOUND HAD ENLARGED & AT THIS TIME SUSPICIONS OF INSECT BIT ESCALATED UPON ARR AL AT EMERGENCY ROOM BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER WAS S AID TO BE THE CAUSE
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A 2INCH ALUMINUM LINE WHEN HE FELL & BROKE HIS LEFT WRIST 2INC.PIPE BROKE CAUSING FALL
WHILE ASSISTING DRILL OPERATOR CHANGE STEEL ON DRILL RIG, CAUGHT LEG BETWEEN CAROUSEL AND CHASSEXXX CHASSIS.
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING DISCHARGE LID ON END OF SIZER IN CHIP CHUTE, COVER ON HELME DID NOT CLOSE.
WHILE BARRING DOWN I NAME SCRATCHED HIS FINGER ON A SCALING BAR IT GOT INFECTED
EMPLOYEE WAS ON TOP OF LOADER BUCKET WHILE CLIMBING DOWN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL AGAINST THE BACK OF LOADER BUCKET
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT THE RAILROAD CAR DOOR BAR HE WAS USING TO CLOSE DOOR SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL JARRING HIS BACK.
ON CATWALK IT WAS COVERED WITH STONE AS 2 WAS WALKING DOWN & TRIPPED & TWISTED MY RIGHT KNEE.
THE VICTIM AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE PASSING TIMBERS, THE VICTIM WENT TO GRAB A TIMBER WHEN THE OTHER EMPLOYEE THREW A TIMBER TOWARD THE VICTIM. THE TIMBER STRUCK THE LITTLE FINGER OF THE RIG HT HAND ON THE VICTIM WHEN IT GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TIMBERS.
EMPLOYEE STATED, WAS TIGHTENING BIT LUG WITH WRENCH, WRENCH SLIPPED OFF, MAN FELL BACKWARDS HURTING LOW BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS TIGHTENING PLUG ON MINER WITH CHISEL WHEN SMALL PIECE OF METAL FLEW OFF AND STRUCK IN EYE HE WAS WEARING PRESCRIPTION SAFETY GLASSES AT TIME OF ACCIDETNN
AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF HIS COAL MOTOR HIS LEFT FOOT WAS CAUGHT ON THE OPERATORS SEAT BY HIS METATARUL GUARD CAUSE HIM TO SLIP AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE AND CALF.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS WALKING DOWN A SLOPE WHEN HE STEPPED ON SOMETHING CAUSING HIM TO LOOSE HIS BALNCE AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
EMPL ALLEDES HE JAMMED HIS HEAD INTO ROOF WHILE OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR WHICH CAUSED CERVICAL STRAIN.
HE HAD DRILLED THE ANGLE HOLE FOR THE TRUSS BOLT AND AS HE WAS TIGHTENING THE BOLT A PIECE OF RAOCK FELL HITTING HIS RIGHT FOOT. THE ROCK WAS APPROX. 12 INCHES LONG. HE DID NOT LEAVE DURING THE SHIFT TO GET HIS FOOT CHECKED.
STANDING ON PIPE FOOT SLIPPED & FELL AGAINST MOTOR BASE
STEPPED OUT OF MOTOR ONTO SMALL ROCK & TWISTED ANKLE.
ACTUAL CAUSE OF ACCIDENT UNKNOWN. MINER HIT AIRLINE WITH FRONT END LOADER ON WAY OUT OF MINE. COUPLING IN AIRLINE PULLED APART & AIRBLAST HIT MINER IN FACE. DRS. PROGNOSIS BILATERAL CORNEAL FOREIGN BODIES & SANDBLAST TO FACE.
EMPL STATED THAT WHILE LIFTING MINER CABLE, HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
BOLTING IN INTAKE ESCAPEWAY WITH GOPHER AIR DRILL. LOOSE TOP WAS PRIER DOWN BEFORE BOLTING. WHEN AUGER WAS PUSHED AGAINST THE TOP, A PIECE OF SLATE FELL ON VICTIMS LEFT ANKLE CAUSING A BRUIS E.
EMPLOYEE STATED TO SUPERVISOR, LITTING AND HANDLING CABLE AND STRAINED LOW BACK AND LOW ADBOMEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS OBSERVING INSTALLATION OF SHEAR PIN & FEEDER MOTOR WAS JOGGED WHILE ALIGNING HOLES PIN FLEW OUT STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN FOREHEAD CAUSING NECK STRAIN & LACERATION
MOVING MINER CABLE WHEN RIB ROLLED OFF AND HIT HIM IN BACK.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A ROCK BURIED UNDER MUD AND STRAINED THE ARCH OF HER RIGHT FOOT.
EMPL STATED WHILE LOADING ONTO MANTRIP HE SLIPPED & FELL ON SLOPE.
I. NAME WAS ASSIGNED TO SWITCH SPENT LIQUOR PUMP FROM SOUTH PUMP TO NORTH PUMP DISCHARGE VALVE. THE NORTH PUMP WAS OPENED WHIKE SOUTH UMP WAS RUNNING . SUCTION VALVE ON NORTH PUMP WAS CLOSED .LIQUOR ENTERED DISCHARGE LINE OF NORTH PUP AT ABOUT 210 POUNDS, CHECK VALVE DID NOT HOLD. VENT WAS OPEN ON NRTH PUMP. LIQUOR FILLED NORTH PUMP. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLOSE VENT ON NORTH PU
HE WAS HELPING GET OLD UNDERFLOW PUMP FROM UNDDR THICKNER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK.
DRAGGING LEG UPRIGHT ACROSS FACE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
WHILE CLIMBING DOWN OFF A LOADER HIS FOOT LIPPED OFF BOTTOM STEP AND HE FELL 3 FEET.
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING LOOSE STONE FROM UNDER CONVEYOR BELT A ROCK HIT THE CRUSHER BOX, BOUNCED OFF AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SKIDSTER WHEN IT STALLED INSTEAD OF ATTEMPTING TO RESTART THE MOTOR OR DRIVING IT TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, HE JUMPED OUT WHILE THE SKIDSTER WAS STILL MOVING.
EMPLOYEE WAS FINISHING UP A LUBE JOB ON A LOADER UTILIZING A GREASE GUN. SOME CAKED ON MATERIAL WORKED LOOSE AND FELL INTO HIS FACE AND EYES HE IMMEDIATELY WASHED IT OFF BUT DURING THE NIGHT H E EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LEFT EYE SO HE WENT TO THE EMERGECY ROOM THE FOLLOWING MORNING.
HE WAS GETTING OFF 475 TO HELP FELLOW EMPLOYEE & STEPPED ON ROCK BELOW LADDER OF MACHINE THEREBY TWISTING HIS RT.ANKLE DECLINED GOING TO DOC.SAID HE WULD GO TO HIS OWN DOC.
WHILE LOADING UNIT TRAIN THE NEXT STRING OF CARS STRUCK CARS BEING LOADED. THE EMPLOYEE LOST BALANCE AND WAS THROWN INTO SIDE OF CAR.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO GET THROUGH THE MANDOOR AT THE TOPOF THE SLOPE THE TREMENDOUS VELOCITY OF AIR BLEW HIM SIDEWAYS TWISTING HIS LEFT ARM HE WAS HOLDING ONTO THE FRAME WIHT HIS LEFT HAND TO KEEP FROM FALLING
EMPL WAS RUNNING SEATER STONE ON GENERATOR COMMUTATOR WHEN STONE BROKE. HIS FINGER WAS JERKED & CONTACTED RISER BARS. SEVERE ABRASION RESULTED EMPL WAS WEARING LEATHER GLOVES.
WORKING ON DOZER & PAN FELL ON FINGER BROKEN FINGER
WHILE LOADING UNIT TRAIN THE NEXT STRING OF CARS BEING BROUGHT DOWN STRUCK CAR BEING LOADED CAUSING WORKER TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND BE THROWN AGAINST CAR CAUSING INJURY
EMPL WAS PICKING UP 2 5 GALLON BUCKET OF LUBE
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A DRIVE SHAFT ON AN R-35 HAUL TRUCK WHEN DRIVE SHAFT SLID DOWN & CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN YOKE & THE SHAFT
EMPLOYEE WAS REMVOING A TOOL BOX ON WELDING SERVICE TRUCK. AROLL OF ROPE BEHIND THE TOOL BOX PREVENTED THE LID FROM LAYING BACK IN POSTION. THE LID FELL, FRACTURING HIS RIGHT HAND INDEX FING ER.
DESCENDING STAIRWAY ONTO LOWER FRAME OF 5761 STRIPPING SHOVEL WHEN STRUCK BACK OF HEAD OF STEEL FRAMEWORK. SHORT TIME WHEN STRUCK BACK OF HEAD ON STEEL FRAMEWORK. SHORT TIME LATER VICTIM COMPL AINED OF PAIN IN HEAD. PAIN WORSENED UNTIL AMBULANCE WAS FINALLY CALLED FOR TRANSPORT TO HOSPITAL.
ENTERING CAB OF HAUL TRUCK #110 FOOT SLIPPED FROM 2ND STEP OF CAB(APPROXIMATELYU 3 1/2FT)AND FELL TO GROUND TWISTING LEFT KNEE SEVERLY.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSPECTING CRUSHER COAL PREPARTION PLANT WHEN A PIECE OF COAL WEIGHING APPROX. 8 POUNDS FELL FROM A VIBRATING SCREEN 15 FEET ABOVE AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD. EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A MILD CONCUSSION AND NECK STRAIN.
EMPL WAS REMOVING TIE ROD FROM UNIT RIG TRUCK, WHILE DOING SO TIE ROD FELL & S TRUCK EMPL CAUSING AN INJURY.
INJURED WAS LOADING OXYGEN TANK ON TO SUPPLY TRUCK FRO TRANSPORT WHEN HE SAID HE FELT SOME THING PULL IN HIS LOWER STOMACH AND GROIN AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR AND A ROCK FLEW OUT OF THE MINER BOOM AND STRUCK HIM ON THE CHEEK NEAR HIS RIGHT EYE.
WAS GETTING OFF OF DOZER TO TALK TO THE FOREMAN AND HE SLIPPED ON TRACK FALLING TO THE GROUND.
STRAINED BACK WHILE LIFTING TIMBER.
EMP SAID HE REC. CONCRETE BURNS WHILE HELPING MUCK OUT SHAFT AFTER A POUR.
EMP. WAS GETTING OFF THE MAN TRIP TWISTED HIS LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING A BRATTICE WHEN HIS LEFT THUMB WAS BRUISED BY BLOCKS BEING THROWN ACROSS BELT LINE
EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A 40# BAG OF ROCK DUST AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS GROIN.
I. NAME WAS SETTING JACK PIPE TO ANKOR THE TAILPC. AND IT SLIPPED OUT OF HOLE FELL AND SMASHED HIS RIGHT AND FINGER.
THE VICTIM WAS WALKING TO PICK UP HIS SCSR WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER A HOLE, SPRAINING HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
PUTTING A JACK INTO A COAL HAULER IN A STOOPED OVER POSTION AND STRAINED LOW BACK.
AT 3 SOUTH SECTION MAN WAS LIFTING DIGGING ARM OFF LOADING MACHINE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF METAL WHEN THE METAL FELL AND STRUCK HIS RT FOOT RESULTING IN THE FRACTURE OF THE 5TH TOE OF RT FOOT
ROOF BOLTING IN WEST GANGWAY.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT COLLAR OF A VENTILATION WINZE OPERATING AN LHD WINZE GRADE WAS 30% EMPLOYEE LOST CONTROL RESPONSE OF MACHINE & TRAVELED DOWN GRADE FOR A DISTANCE OF 100FT.DURING THE UN-CONTR LLED TRAVEL THE EMPLOYEE SPRAINED HIS RT.ANKLE LEFT KNEE & PULLED MUSCLES IN HIS RT.SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING WATER VALVE GOT FINGER BETWEEN HAND WHEEL AND BOLT.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING ALONG SOUTH BELT LINE WHEN A SHOVEL FULL OF COAL. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUT ON THE BELT CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE JABCO PULL CORD AND SPLASHED COAL IN EMPLOYEES RIGHT EYE .
I NAME STEPPED OUT OF A 15 TON MOTOR TO HOOK UP SOME SAFETY CHAINS WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE MINE FLOOR HE SPRAINED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO TAKE THE CANOPY POST OFF OF THE SHUTTLE CAR WHICH WAS DRAGGING TOP STRUCK WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER AND BOUNCED BACK PULLING MUSCLES AND OR LIGAMENTS IN LEFT ARM.
WHILE MOVING MOTOR THE MOTOR MOVED AND HE WAS HIT BY THE MOTOR IN HIS RIGHT ANKLE SUFFERING SMALL FRACTURES.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING BELT LINE WHEN HE PULLED THE SHOVEL OUT FROM UNDER THE DRIVE HE STRUCK HIS ELBOW AGAINST THE RIB BEHIND HIM.
DRIVING PINS OUT OF BUCKET HAMMER GLANCED OF BUCKET & HIT TOP OF FOOT.
EMPL WAS IN HIS WELDING TRUCK & HE WAS GETTING OUT OF DRIVER'S SEAT WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN OUT OF WELDING TRUCK. WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN OUT OF WELDING TRUCK HE TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE. EMPL WEN T TO DR., DR FOUND THAT TWO LIGAMENTS WERE TOWN IN EMPL'S LEFT ANKLE.
ON 6-3-88 LABORER ALLEGED SUSTAINING AN INJURY AT WORK WHILE DRINKING WATER IN THE TERTIARY CRUSHER CONTROL ROOM DURING THE AFTERNOON SHIFT ON THE ABOVE DATE SHE STATES IN THE COMP REPORT WHI LE TURNING HER NECK SHE FELT A PAIN FOR A MOMENT AND WENT BACK TO WORK NO LAB REPORT WAS INITIATED NOR WAS ANY SUPERVISOR NOTIFIED THEREFORE THE RESULTING TIME OFF WORK IS BEING CONTESTED WIT
HIS HAND SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING OFF A GRANITE BOLOCK, CUTTING HIS HAND ON A ROUGH PART OF THE BLOCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS OBSERVING STEEL BEING CUT WAITING TO REMOVE STEEL WHEN STEEL SUDDENLY FELL ON HIS RT LEG BREAKING HIS ANKLE AND SHIN BONE
THE MAN WAS WALKING UNDERGROUND WHEN HE STRUCK HEAD ON A STEEL ROOF MAT.
LIFTING FULL SAMPLE BUCKET FROM CYCLONE TO WORK AREA.
WHILE WORKING ON TOP OF TIN ROOF OF #2 CONVEYOR HE GRABBED A CROSS MEMBER & TOOK LARGE STEP CAUSING A TWIST TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BACK
INJURED WAS HELPING OTHER DRILLER ATTEMPT TO BREAK DRILL STEEL STRING WHEN STEEL CHIP FLEW FROM COUPLING & PENETRATED RT.ARM OUT PATIENT SURGERY PERFORMED AT HOSPITAL TO REMOVE STEEL CHIP
EMPL TYING OFF BARGE DUE TO HIGH WINDS AND WHILE PULLING ANCHOR ROPE HE PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMED HE GOT HIS EYES BURNED WHILE HELPING ANOTHER WELDER. EMPLOYEE ADMITTED THAT HE WAS NOT WEARING WELDING HOOD.
THE INJURED WAS SENT TO STACKER TO REPLACE A JUCNCTION BOX. HE HAD TO CLIMB A LADDER SIX FEET TO REACH THE JUNCTION BOX. AS THE INJURED STOOD ON THE LADDER IT SUDDENLY SLIPPED OUT FROM BENEA TH HIM AND HE JUMPED TO THE GROUND SPRAINING HIS LEFT ANKLE.
INJURED WAS PULLING SHOVEL CABLE TO DRAY, WHEN HE FELT HIS BACK GO OUT.
INJURED WAS DESCENDING LADDER FROM MACHINE HOUSE IN PREPERATION TO MOVE DRILL HE SLIPPED ON SOME GREASE ON STAIRS TRIKING BACK OF RIGHT LET ON LADDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM A LOADER CUTTING EDGE HOLDING THE HEAD OF BOLT WITH LEFT PALM WHILE OPERATING ANIMPACT WRENCH WITH RIGHT HAND.BOLT HEAD SPUN CUTTING LEFT PALM.
UPON SEING INSCE, EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO GET INSECT SPRAY WHEN BITTEN.
I.NAME WAS THROWING TIMBERS IN LOW TOP WHEN HE STRAINED HIS GROIN
JUMPING FORM ONE ROCK TO ANOTHER AS HE HAS TO DO FREQUENTLY FELT KNEE POP. DR. FEELS PRESENT PROBLEM COMES FORM JOB RELATED ACCIDENT WHICH WAS NO;T REP. TO US AT TIME IT HAPPENDED THY THOUGHT IT WAS NOT SERIOUS.
UNLOADING END DUMP HAUL TRUCK AT PIT RUN STOCKPILE, TRUCK BED BROKE AND SHIFTED THROWING DRIVE AGAINST CONTROLS INJURING LOWER BACK.
STOCKER DRILL FELL AND EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO CATCH IT - STRAINED HIS BACK.
USING A HAMMER TO LLOSEN ROCKS IN HOLES OF CATWALK PRIOR TO CLEANING SAME.ROCK CAME UP STRIKING LEFT EYE.
EMPL WAS WALKING BACK TO MAKE UP ROOF BOLT ON LEFT SIDE OF MACHINE. HE STUMBLED & FELL TO BOTTOM INJURING HIS LEFT KNEE. DIAGNOSIS IS STRAIN OF LEFT KNEE LIGAMENT & AGGRAVATION OF PRE-EXIS TING ARTHRITIS.
EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING ON A ROCK WITH A CROWBAR ROCK MOVED HIS HAND SMASHED BETWEEN THE CROW BAR AND A MACHINE
CONTRACTED OUTSIDE MECHANIC HAD HIS LEGS BROKEN WHEN HE BECAME PINNED BETWEEN A DOZER AND HIS REPAIR TRUCK.THE DOXER WAS STARTED WHILE IN GEAR.
INJURED WAS WALKING FROM LEFT SIDE OF ENTRY TO RIGHT SIDE. THERE WAS APPROX. 8" OF WATER IN ENTRY- STEPPED ON MINER CABLE, SLIPPED AND FELL ON LEFT SIDE OF BODY INJURING HIS RIBS.
LOOSE IMPACT WRENCH GOT CAUGHT IN TROUSER LEG
WHILE HOOKING STONE THE EMPLOYEE WAS JERKING ON THE HOOK.
BRAKES ON R-50 FAILED, STEERING LOCKED. INJURED COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN.
EMPL WAS STANDING ON GRIZZLEY OVER FEED HOPPER. GRIZZLEY WAS BEING LIFTED UP ON ONE SIDE FOR ACCESS INTO HOPPER BY C HAIN TIED FROM GIZZLEY BAR TO FRONET END LOADER BUCKET. GRIZZLEY BAR BRO KE LOOSE CUASING GRIZZLEY TO FALL BACK & EMPL FELL APPROX 9' TO GROUND INJURING HIS HEEL.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF TRUCK WHEN HE STOPPED ONTO STEP DOWN HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING L HIMFOR FELL OUT OF TRUCK STRIKING HIS BACK ON SEDDER TANK FUEL OR GREASE ON SHOES PROBABLY CAUSED FOOT TO SLIP SUSTAINED BRUISE TO BACK.
EMPL CLIMBED ONTO IMPACT CRUSHER TO CHECK ADJUSTMENT, LOST FOOTING & FELL OFF RESULTING IN FRACTURE TO RIGHT LEG SUPERIOR TO ANKLE.
SLIPPED WHILE DISMOUNTING FROM LADDER SPRAINED LEFT SHOULDER INITIALLY REPORTED AS MINOT SPRAIN.SURGERY 06-27-88 UNDERWENT SURGERY FOR RUPTURED DISC WITH OUT CLEARANCE OR APPROVAL FROM COMPANY OR INSURANCE CARRIER.UNDER INVESTIGATION BY LIBERTY MUTUAL INJURY COULD HAVE BEEN FROM PERSONAL ACCIDENT WHEN FALLING FROM HORSE.
WHILE UNLOADING A PC OF ROCK THAT HAD BECOME LODGED IN THE CRUSHER FEEDER, VICTIM WAS ATTEPTING TO MOVE ROCK.WEIGHT OVER 50 LBS WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE WORKED THE RET OF T SHIFT. MANAGEMENT BEXAME AWARE THAT THIS WAS A REPORTABLE ACCIDENT ON 7-19-88.
HE WAS CLEANING AROUND THE #3 TAILPIECE WHEN A RIB ROLL OCCURRED IN THE AREA HE WAS WORKING. THE RIB ROLL HIT HIM RESULTING IN INJURY TO THE BACK, RIBS AND RIGHT ARM.
ON 5-23-88 EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON SHIELD CAUSING A CERVICAL INJURY BUT HE MISSED NO WORK. IN AUGUST OF '88 HE CAUGHT HIS LAMP CORD ON SHIELD VALVE AGAIN INJURING HIS NECK. HE STILL MISSED NO WORK UNTIL 2-9-89 WHEN HE UNDERWENT CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY FOR A HERNIATED DISC.
WHILE TRYING TO ALIGN BOLT HOLESIN MINER BOOM HINGE PIN, THE SPRING BOARD ON MINER WAS HUNG ON A FLIGHT. WHEN THE BOOM WAS SWUNG SLIGHTLY, THE SPRING BOARD JUMPED RAPIDLY AND HIT ON TOP OF IN
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING OIL BARRLES ON R & O CRANE. HE SLIPPED ON SOME OIL THAT WAS ON THE BED OF THE R & O AND FELL TO THE TRUCK BED HURTING HISRIGHT SHOULDER AND RIGHT HIP.
I NAME WAS BAGGING ROOFING MATERIAL WHEN HE STEPPED AND TWISTED HIS ARCH IN HIS LEFT FOOT. HE REPORTED IT TO OTHER AT11 15 AM NO WITNESS HE TOOK HIM INTO THE DR X RAYS WERE TAKEN NO BROKEN BON WAS GIVEN A PRESCRIPTION FOR HE MISSED ONE DAY OF WORK.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE HOLDING BRAKE AND THROTTLE PEDALS AND PULLING LEVER, MUSCLE IN HIS BACK WAS STRAINED.
WHILE ASSISTING THE ELECTRICIAN THE METER HE WAS HOLDING BECAME ENERGIZED.
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EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING PUT HAMMERS ON CRUSHER HE PULLED MUSCLE OR STRAINED BACK LIFTING ROLLERS
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR THROUGH A CROSS CUT WHEN THE CANOPY SCRAPPED THE RIB CAUSE COAL TO BECOME EMBEDDED IN HIS LEFT EYE. (FOREIGN OBJECT).
LIFTING TANDEM ROLLER OUT OF BELT DRIVE UNDERGROUND.
I NAME BENT OVER TO PICK UP A REMOTE BOX WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE ROOFBOLTS AND HIT HIM ON THE BACK BETWEEN HIS SHOULDER BLADES - 9 MAIN NORTH WEST
HE WAS HELPING CARRY A 36" TAIL ROLLER WHEN HIS HIP WAS SPRAINED.
GIRTH GEAR ON 12 FT DIA X 450 FT KILN HAD BEEN ROTATED 180 DEG WELDERS WERE WELDING SPRING PLATES TO KILN SHELL WHEN THEY WERE STOPPED BY A SUDDEN HARD RAIN AFTER THE RAIN HAD SLOWED THE CREW OF 3 REPAIRMEN AND 2 WELDERS WERE INSTRUCTED TO PLACE A TARPAULIN OVER THE TOP OF KILN SO WELDING COULD PRECEED ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS WHEN THE ABOVE WAS REQUIRED ANGLE IRONS WERE WELDED TO
HE WAS IN THE SHAMROCK 300 FT LEVEL WAS DRILLING IN A RAISE AND A ROCK FELL ON HIS LEFT FOOT
INJ. WAS PULLING RIB STEEL OUT OF RIB, HIS HAND SLIPPED FREE LETTING HIM FALL BACK AGAINST RIB DRIL. INJ. STRUCK LEFT SIDE OF HIS RIB CAGE AGAINST RIB DRILL SUFFERING SEVERE CONTINUNSIONS.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING EQUIPMENT WHEN HE EXPERIENCED CRAMPS IN LOWER BACK AND LEGS.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SLUSHER IN A STOPE SLUSHER WAS HELD IN PLACE IN A STATIONARY POSITION THROUGH THE USE OF CHAIN BINDERS THE JERKING ACTION FO THE SLUSHER RESULTED IN ONE OF THE CHAIN BINDERS OPENING UP SUDDENLY THE HANDLE OF THE CHAIN BINDER STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE UPPER FOOT/ANKLE AREA
WHILE LOOKING AT AUGER SHAFT & TURNING AT SAME TIME SMALL OBJECT FLEW INTO HIS EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING PUTSIDE PLATE ON MINER AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
PULLING CABLE KNEE DOWN RIB POPPED OUT AND HIT EMPLOYEE LEFT SIDE LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS WALKING FROM SECTION MANTRIP TO HIS ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE. INJURED WAS EXAMINED BY PHYSICIAN AT THIS TIME & CONTINUED TO WRK UNTIL 8/17/88 WHEN HIS KNEE WAS REEXAMINED.
HE WAS JACKING A WRECKED SUPPLY CAR BACK ON THE RAIL WHEN THE LIFTING JACK SLIPPED OUT AND FLEW UP STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT EAR
RUNNING SHEARER ROCK FELL SMASHING RIGHT THUMB AGAINST GUARDRAIL FRACTURE RIGHT THUMB WITH SUTURES.
SPRAINED LET THUMB, WAS TAKING A COAL SAMPLE, HE SWUNG SAMPLER UNDER COAL, WHEN SAMPLER CAME AROUND HE TRIED TO CATCH IT. THE SAMPLER HIT HIS LEFT THUMB BENDING IT BACKWARDS.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING .A LOW ROOF BOLT WAS STICKING OUT OF THE ROOF WHEN HE STRUCK THE BACK OF HIS NECK CAUSING STRAIN MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS ON HIS NECK CAUSING STRAIN MUSCLES IN LIGAMENTS IN H IS NECK.BECAME A LOST TIME ON 05-25-88 WAS NOT REPORTED AS A LOST TIME UNTIL 06-03-88.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF A LADDER AND TWISTED ANKLE ON UNEVEN GROUND.
WHILE CARRING 2 PAILS OF MEDIA DOWN STAIRS OPERATOR LOST BALANCE AND WHEN HE HIT LANDING WEIGHT OF PAILS PULLED ON ARM CAUSING ACUTE SPRAIN OF ROTATOR CUP ON LEFT SHOULDER. '
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE MINER USING RADIO REMOTE MEANS IN THE #1 ENTRY ON 1R-SM SECTION A PIECE OF FLYING METAL APPROX 4 MM HIT EMPLOYEES GLASSES KNOCKING THE LENS OUT OF THE FRAME AND BECA ME LODGED IN EMPLOYEES EYE
OIL HOSE BUSTED SPRAYING OIL ON EXHAUST MANIFOLD AND EMPLOYEE. FIRE RESULTED BURNING THE EMPLOYEE.
USING A ROCK BAR TO PRY UP CONVEYUOR BELT SO A IDLER ROLLER COULD BE INSTALLED EMPLOYEE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN MIDDLE OF HIS BACK
INJURED WAS GETTING T BOARDS FOR HEADGATE AS HE WALKED AROUND A RAIL CAR HE TRIPPED OVER SOMTHING AND FELL. HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HE TRIPPED OVER.
WHILE TAPPING CHISEL WITH HAMMER, FOREIGN BODY FLEW INTO EYE. FOREIGN BODY REMOVED BY EYE SURGEON.
HE WAS STANDING NEXT TO THE RIB WHEN A 610 SCOOP CAME BY CARRYING A PAN SECTION WHEN SCOOP TURNED THE CORNER IT KNOCKED OUT A FRICTION PROP USED TO SUPPORT THE ROOF THE PROP FELL STRIKING ON THE LEFT FOREARM AND RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE FAILED TO REMOVE CHOCK FROM WHEEL OF HAUL TRUCK BEFORE OPERATING SAME SEH SUBSEQUENTLY RAN OVER THE CHOCK EMPLOYEE DISMOUNTED AND REMOVED THE CHOCK FROM THE REAR OF THE TRUCK WHILE D RAGGING THE CHOCK AND IN THE PROCESS OF PICKING UP THE CHOCK EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HER BACK
INJURED WAS ON CROSS ANGLE BRACE CUTTING BACK PANEL OFF ELEVATOR HOUSING. AS PIECE FELL DOWN, HE SLIPPED AND BUMPED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A COME-ALONG WHEN HE NOTICED A KNOT ON HIS RIGHT ELBOW AND HIS ARM STARTED TO SWELL.EMPLOYEE DOESN'T REMEMBER HITTING ELBOW.
INJURED EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LOWER BACK WHIE SWEEPING FLOOR WITH BROOM.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING INTO SCOOP WHEN HIS HANDS SLIPPED OFF CANOPY & HIS RT.LEG WENT INTO BOTTOM
HE WAS REMOVING BRICK FROM KILN WITH A CHIPPING GUN. A BRICK FELL FROM THE KILN ROOF ONTO HIS HAND, WHICH WAS HOLDING THE CHIPPING GUN. UPON IMPACT, HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER SUSTAINED A COMPOUND FRACTURE AND LACERATIONS.
HE RUNNING #3 BELT HAS AN ANEMEMOMETER ON HI BELT, IT CAUGHT, AND BUMPED HIS LEFT EBLOW ON BELT STRUCTURE.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING BOLT MACHINE AND BUMPED HIS LEFT KNEE WITH BOLTER AND BRUISED HIS KNEE. HE HAD KNEE X-RAYED.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS JACKING UP THE SCOOP TO CHANGE A FLAT TIRE AND ONE OF THE PIECES OF 4X4'S HE WAS USING FELL OVER ON HIS AHND AND THERE WAS A STAPLE STICKING OUT THAT STRUCK IN HIS LEFT HAND CAUSING A PUNCTURE WOUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING 18" VENTILATION TUBING FELT A POP IN RIGHT ELBOW LATER FELT PAIN
I.NAME WAS LIFTING CRIB BLOCK & STACKING CRIBS HE SAID HE HURT HIS LOWER BACK I.NAME HAS HAD HISTORY OF LOWER BACK PROBLEMS HAD MISSED WORK SEVERAL YEARS AGO
HE WAS WORKING IN THE SHOP AND PICKED UP A BATTERY FOR A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER
WAS USING A CHAIN SAW TO CUT TREES CHAINSAW KICKED BACK AND CUT UPER LEFT LEG.
WHILE I.NAME WAS SHOVELING UNDER THE BELT TAKE UP HE LOST HIS BALANCE HE TRIED TO STOP HIS FALL & HE FELT A PAIN IN H IS BACK
ON MAY 23 1988 AROUND 315 PM HE PROCEEDED TO MOVE FROM TOP OF A DRUM A LUBRICATING PUMP THAT WEIGHS FROM 200 TO 250 LBS IT WAS MOVED WITH THE HELP OF A COMPANION AT THAT MOMENT HEDID NOT FEEL ANY PAIN. WHILE HE WAS IN HIS HOME AROUND 330 PM HE BEGAN TO FEEL RIGIDITY IN THE LOWER PART OF THE BACK.
MOVING A BATTERY STAND AND IT SLIPPED AND PUSHED HIM BACKWARDS
WHILE OPERATING A TRACK HAULAGE LOCOMOTIVE, VICTIM PASSED UNDER A CROSSING TROLLEY WIRE THAT WAS GUARDED WITH WOODEN BOARDS. THE VICTIM STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE WOODEN GUARD JAMMING HIS HEAD DO WN ONTO HIS NECK. THIS ACCIDENT INVOLVED NO VIOLATIONS OF APPROVED RULES AND OR REGULATIONS. VICTIM WORKED UNTIL FIRST DAY MISSED 6/20.
OPERATOR WAS HAULING A LOAD OF TOPSOIL DOWN A HILL WITH A 637 SCRAPER THE SCRAPER STARTED BOUNCING BECAUSE OF THE ROUGH GROUND THE OPERTOR WAS JARRED UP AND DOWN IN HIS SEAT WITH SEAT BELT ON WHEN HE STOPPED THE SCRAPER HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS HIPS AND LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE UNPLUGGED A CATHEAD WHILE UNDER LOAD CAUSING A PHASE TO PHASE ARC WHICH BURNED HIS RIGHT HAND.
VICTIM WAS TAKING A SHOWER WHEN HE FELT SOETHING IN HIS EYE HE RUBBED IT & THOUGHT IT WAS OK ON THE WAY HOME IT STARTED BOTHERING HIM HE WENT TO THE DOC.THE FOLLOWING MORNING
HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN HANDS-OFF STEEL BRACKET AND TOP.
EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A BAG OF ROCKDUST AND WAS TURNING AS HE PICKED IT UP AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER PART OF BACK
AS INJURED WAS PULLING THE HOSE AND CABLE THE HOISE GOT TANGLED AS HE TRIED TO FREE THE HOSE IT HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN THE CRUSHER BUILDING ON THE 2ND FLOOR NEAR THE STEPS GOING TO THE THIRD FLOOR. NO INJURIES WERE VISIBLE. DURING THE PAST NINE YEARS, HE HAS SUFFERED BLACKOUTS AND CONVULSIONS APPARENTLY AS A RESULT OF AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING THE HOIST CYLINDERS ON A FRONT END LOADER HE WAS STANDING ON THE BOOM ARMS AND USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO DRIVE OUT THE PIN SECURING THE HOIST CYLINDER PISTON STRAINED HIS BACK
PULLING A WIRE ROPE WITH PERSONNEL CARRIER LOOSE AND CAME AROUND AND HIT MAN IN UPPER LIP 3 STITCHES.
THE INJURED TURNED AROUND TO PICK UP A PORT-A-BVAND WHICH IS MOTOR OPERATED HACK SAW HAND TOOL.APPROXIMATE WEIGHT OF 25 LBS. WITH THE TURN IN HIS ABCK AND WEIGHT OF TOOL HE PULLED HIS ABCK MUS CLES.
HE WAS BOLTING ROOF WHEN A SLUG FELL STRIKING HIM ON RT. SIDE OF HEAD AND SHOULDER.
HE WAS WORKING ON JACK WHEN JACKSETTER PUSHED RAM CONTROL SWITCH TO THAT JACK. RELAY BAR PUSHED FORWARD CATCHING HIS LEFT BUTTOCKS BETWEEN RELAY BAR AND JACK LEG.
EMPLOYEE STATED SUPERVISOR THAT HE THOUGH HE HURT HIS LOWER BACK WHILE OPERATING HIS SHUTTLE CAR. HE STATED WHILE TRAMMING BACK AND FORTH TO THE MINER IN ROOM THERE WAS A DIP THE ROADWAY THAT JARRED HIM CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS LOWE BACK.
OPERATOR OF A COMPANY TRIAXLE CLIMBED THE LADDER ON THE BED OF THE TRUCK TO SEE IF THE SLUDGE HE WAS HAULING HAD ALL DUMPED FROMTHE BED AND HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON T HE GROUND INJURING HIS BACK RT RIBS AND NECK AND BREAKING HIS GLASSES
DRAW ROCK FELL INBY LAST ROW OF BOLTS. THE ROCK BROKE OFF AT LAST ROW OF BOLTS AND ROCK STRUCK VICTIM.
EMPL WAS INSTALLING PATTERN ROOF BOLT WHEN ROCK, 2 1/2'X2 1/2'X1 1/2" THICK FELL OUT FROM TOP JUST INBY LAST ROW OF BOLTS.. ROCK APPARENTLY FELL OUT LANDING ON ITS END & THEN FELL OVER FLAT S TRIKING EMPL ON RIGHT LEG. EMPL WAS INSERTING BOLT IN HOLE WHEN ROCK FELL.
WAS HOLDING UP SHORT STRAP OF ROOF BOLTER & FELL OVER & C OMPLAINED OF HIS BACK.
INJURED WAS LIFTING A SLATE ROCK OFF CONVEYOR AND FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOLDER.
HAD BEEN PLACING A CAST RAIL BARS IN PLACE AND WAS PICKING UP SHEET METAL AND WENT TO KNEES.