Mining Incidents in February 1989

EMP WAS DRILLING UP HOLES IN NARROW VEIN GOLD MINE WHEN LARGE PIECE OF ORE BROKE LOSE AND CRUSHED HIM.

CAUSE UNKNOWNN STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION EXACT REASON OF DEATH NOT KNOWN AT THIS TIME STILL UDER INVESTIGATION LOADER HEAVILY DAMAGED BY FIRE.

EMPL HAD BEEN INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN #1 ENTRY. HE WAS DISCOVERED BY COWORKERS LYING ON BACK NEAR CONTROLS OF MACHINE & UNDER PERMANENTLY SUPPORTED ROOF. SECTION OF ROOF MEASURING 12'LONGX7.5 'WIDEX1" TO 12" THICK HAD FALLEN INBY PERMANENT ROOF SUPPORTS. THERE WAS NO ROCK ON VICTIM.

HE WAS SHOVELING COAL AFTER MINER & ROCK HORSEBACK FELL ON HIM, HEAD.

ON FEB 17,1989 A D-10 CRAWLER TRACTOR WENT OFF THE EDGE OF A DUMP THRU ICE INTO APPROX. 25' OF WATER. ALL EFFORTS TO LOCATE THE OPERATOR HAVE TO DATE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL.

VICTIM WAS INSTALLING BELT HANGERS AS PART OF REHABILITATION PROJECT. HE HAD INSTALLED HANGER & ASSISTED COWORKER. VICTIM RETURNED TO LEFT SIDE OF BOLTER HEAD NEAR DRILL CONTROLS. WHILE HE WAS WAITING HE WS STRUCK BY MASSIVE RIB ROLL WHICH OCCURRED SUDDENLY & WITHOUT WARNING.

35 TON HAULAGE TRUCK WENT OVER STOCKPILE BANK. OPER WAS CRUSHED IN THE CAB

EMP SENT TO TOP OF LIME STORAGE BIN TIP FLOOR TO CUT AN INSPECTION HOLE THRU THE TEEL BIN TOP 10 FT AWAY FORMPROPOSED WORK THERE IS AN ACCESS MATCH TO INSIDE OF BIN EXACT CASUE OF ACC IS UNKNO WN 7 FT BELOW HATCHWAY ACCESSA BLE BY LADDER PERMANTLEY MOUNTED TO BIN WALL THERE IS A 5 FT SW STEEL PLATFORM WITH HANDRAIL FOR INSIDE INSPECTION USE OTHER EMP ON THIS PLATFORM INSPECTING UND

INJURED & ANOTHER MECHANIC HAD REMOVED GUARD FROM #4 SPOUT ON ROTARY PACKER TO CHECK BELT. BELT APPEARED TIGHT. MECHANIC WANTED TO CHECK WHILE BELT WAS RUNNING ASKED INJURED TO HAND HI BAG HE PUT BAG ON SPOUT & CUT ELT ON. INJURED APPARENTLY HAD HAND ON SHEAVE.

LIFTED PUMP OUT OF BACK OF PICKUP AND CARIED INTO BUILDING AND SET PUMP IN PLACE FELT PULL IN LEFT GROIN.

THREE MEN WERE LIFTING BEAM FOR STORAGE UNTI INTO BUCKET OF SCOOP CAR. BEAM DIDN"T CLEAR BUCKET MAN CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN BEAM & SCOOP CAR BUCKET.

MOVING PALLETS ON TRUCK LIFTING BAGS

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A TOOL BOX AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

LIFTING HOOK ON END OF WINCH CABLE IT BECAME WEDGED IN BOOM POINT SHEAVE ON TRACTOR NO 254 WHILE TRYING TO DISLODGE HOOK FROM POINT SHEAVE EMPLS FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN CABE AND SHEAVE FRAME

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A JOINT OF WATER LINE THAT WAS TANGLED UP IN OTHER MATERIAL. AS HE PULLED, HE FELT A PAIN AND BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN. LATER DIAGNOSIS REVEALED A HERNIA IN ABDOMEN.

EMPL STATES HE WAS CARRYING 5 GALLON SAMPLE OF CHEMICAL & 1 GALLON OF WATER WHEN HER FELT PAIN IN SIDE.

I.NAME, CHIEF ELECTRICIAN, HAD HIS RING AND LITTLE FINGERS OF HIS RIGHT HAND CAUGHT IN THE PINCH POINT OF THE SIDE SHIFT ATTACHMENT OF THE CATERPILLAR FORKLIFT WHILE MOVING A 2900 POUND SHIFTE R AS HE PUSHED AGAINST THE TRANSFORMER WITH THE OTHER HAND AND INSTRUCTED THE FORKLIFT OPERATOR TO SHIFT THE FORKS. AS THE FRAME MOVED, HIS FINGERS WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MOVABLE FRAME AND I

THE INJURED WAS DRIVING A PIN INTO THE MAST WITH A RAM DURING THIS WORK ACTIVITY THE INJURED GOT HIS LEFT HAND CAUGHT IN BETWEEN THE RAM AND PIN AND ALLEGEDLY SMASHED HIS PINKY ON HIS LEFT AHN D ABOV EHTE THIRD KNUCKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING 20' LENGTH OF PIPE ONTO TRUCK WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LEFT SIDE OF GROIN. STILL HAD PAIN AND SWELLING THE NEXT MORNING..

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING PLASTIC DROP CLOTH FROM BENEATH A PRODUCTION HOIST WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS SIDE. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A RIGHT DIRECT AND INDIRECT INGUINAL HERNIA WITH SOME PAIN.

VICTIM WAS ASSITING TWO COWORKERS IN BUILDING CRIBS TO A HEIGHT OF APPROX 19FT HE LIFTED A CRIB BLOCK FROM THE BUCKET OF A WAGNER DIESEL POWERED SCOOP TO A HEIGHT ABOVE HIS HEAD & TRANSFERRED IT TO A COWORKER WHO PLACED IT IN THE DESIRED POSITION I NAME STATED THAT DURING THIS LIFTING PROCESS HE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RT GROIN

THE EMPLOYEE WAS APPARENTLY REACHING FOR THE MINER CABLE AS THE MINER WAS BACKING UP AND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MINER DECK AND THE RIB.

MINER HELPER HAD RELEIVED SCOOP OPERATOR OUT FOR DINNER THE SCOOP OPERATOR HAD FNISHED EATING AND RETURNED FOR HIS SCOOP WHEN MINER HELPER REUTRNED HIS SCOOP AGAINST THE OPERATOR ENTERED INTER SECTION STRIKING MINER HELPER WITH BUCKET OF SCOOP AGAINST THE DECK OF OTHER SCOOP THUS CONTRIBUTING INJURY TO MINER HELPER S ADBONDEN AND PELVIS ON HIS LEFT SIDE.

I NAME AND W NAME WERE LIFTING A COVER BACK INTO PLACE ON A CM WHEN PAIN WAS FELT IN THE GROIN AREA

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING FEED THOAT WITH CHAIN AND ELECTRIC HOIST, WHEN CHAIN APPRANTELY SLIPPED, CRUSHING FINGERS ON RIGHT HAND.

HE WAS LIFTING A JACKLEG AND PULLED SOMETHING FELT PAIN IN GROIN AREA.

EMPL WAS RERAILING FMC MINE JEEP WITH CHAIN HOIST. WHILE HE RAISED JEEP IT SHIFTED SIDEWAYS CATCHING FOOT BETWEEN JEEP & MINE RAIL.

VICTIM WAS OPERATING A SCOOP AND AS THE SCOOP ARTICULATED, THE VICTIM LEFT HAND WAS PLACED INADVERTQNTLY IN THE PINCH POINT AREA AND THE 2 AND 3 FINGERS OF THE LEFT HAND WERE PINCHED CAUSING A MPUTATION AT THE LAST JOINT DISTAL TO THE HAND INFORMATION FROM VICTIM ABOUT INJURY.

I.NAME WAS HELPING TO REMOVE FRONT WHEEL HUB OF HEAVY DUTY TRUCK WHEN HUB CAME OFF SPINDLE, IT WAS HEAVIER THAN THEY THOUGHT AND I.NAME STRAINED TO HOLD IT. HE FELT SOMETHING PULL WHICH HE THO UGHT WAS JUST A MUSCLE BUT TURNED INTO A HERNIA. HERNIA NOT FOUND UNTIL DOCTOR CO9NSULTED MARCH 9, 1989.

EMPL DRILLING LUG ON END OF GROUND WIRE.BIT HUNG AND TWISTED WIRE AROUND FINGER AND CUT END OF FINGER OFF.

THIS WAS NOT A SUDDEN INJURY. EMPLOYEE HAD SURGERY ON A HERNIA WHICH WAS CAUSED BY STRENUOUS LIFTING ON THE JOB.

THE MAN WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET INTO POSITION TO ROOF BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON HIS L MIDDLE FINGER WHICH HE HAD PLACED ON TOP OF THE CANOPY THE ROCK ALSO STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS TRYING TO POSITION A CONCRETE FORM WALL WHEN HE EXPERIENCED SHARP PAIN TO HIS GROIN AND ABDOMINAL AREA

WAS CHAGING DRILL HEAD ON ROOF BOLTED WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER STOMACH HE WORKED UNTIL 2-22-89 WHEN HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL WITH A RUPTURE

HE WAS OPERATING THE JOINT PLANER MACHINE. WHILE ADJUSTING THE MACHINE, HE REMOVED THE GUARD TO CHECK TO SEE IF THE BOARD WAS FLAT. AT THE TIME HE WAS MAKING THE ADJUSTMENT, HIS LEFT HAND SLIP PED FROM THE BOARD HE WAS HOLDING. HIS FINGERS FELL INTO THE RUNNING CUTTERS, AMPUTATING THE FIRST DISTAL OF THE SMALL AND RING FINGERS OF THE LEFT HAND.

EMPLYEE WAS REMOVING BELTS ON QUICK COOL FAN MOTOR AND CAUGHT HIS LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN BELT AND PULLEY, CUTTING THE END OFF JUST BEHIND THE NAIL ON LEFT HAND.

INJURED WAS CUTTING WEAR PADS OFF OF FRONT LOADER 2121 THE WEAR PAD FELL ON HIS RT FOOT

TAKING A PUMP AND MOTOR OUT WHEN PICKED IT UP AND SAT IN BACK OF PICKUP, FELT PAIN TO GROIN.

EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A STATION GATE AND WHILE PLACING IT ONTO A TIMBER TRUCK HE SLIPPED CAUSING A STRAIN TO HIS GROIN AREA.

EMPL WALKING TOWARD 5A MAIN INTAKE PORTAL -STRUCK FROM BEHIND BY SCOOP CAR.EMPL ROLLED AWAY FROM SCOOP BUT RIGHT ARM WAS STRUCK BY TIRE ON SCOOP REQUIRING SURGERY.EMPL MAY BE OFF 3-6 MONTHS.

EMPL STEPPED ON TRACTOR RAKE TO RELEASE PARKING BRAKE AND FELT PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA EMPL EWAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A HERNIA ON 3-16-89 IT HAS NOT BEEN REDUCES AS OF 3-13-89

EMPL WAS SITTING IN A TRUCK DURING A BLAST THE CAB OF THE TRUCK WAS HIT BY A ROCK THE ROCK CAME THROUGH THE CAB AND HIT THE EMPL

EMPL WAS SITTING IN A TRUCK DURING A BLAST THE CAB OF THE TRUCK WAS HIT BY A ROCK THE ROCK CAME THROUGH THE CAB AND HIT THE EMPL

I.NAME SAID HE PULLED MUSCLE LIFTING A JACK. HE SAID HE HAD A HERNIA IN PELVIS AREA FROM THIS INCIDENCE. WE WERE TOLD OF THIS ON 2/22/89.

TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION DISTAL TIP LITTLE FINGER.HE WAS PLACING KILN BRICKS.

EMPLOYEE STATED, WAS PINNING, CAUGHT HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN BOOM AND SAFETY BOOM, WHEN TURNED AWAY FROM PINNER WHEN SOMEONE SAID SOMTHING TO HIM.

BOULDER GOT STUCK INSIDE CRUSHER EMPLOYEE WENT WITH FOREMAN INTO THE CRUSHER TO REMOVE THE BOULDER & ROCKS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT THE ROCK TO REMOVE FROM ITS ACKWARD POSITION EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN BE LOW RT SIDE OF ABDOMEN THRU TO THE RT LEG CONTINED WORKING UNTIL 1030AM AT THIS TIME FELT TOO MUCH PAIN & WENT TO THE DOCTOR

LOADING OXYGEN AND ACETYLENE BOTTLES INTO THE WELDING TRUCK AT THE WAREHOUSE STORAGE BUILDING. HE FELT A TIGHT PULL IN HIS BACK BUT THERE WAS NO PAIN. ABOUT 9:00 P.M. HE WENT TO BED AND FELT P AIN IN LOWER BACK.

REMOVING HEAVY SAFETY COVER GUARD TO FACILITATE REMOVAL OF PINION GEAR OF CLASSIFIER.INSTEAD OF REQ ASSISTANCE,EMPL REMOVED AND RELOCATED GEAR COVER BY HIMSELF.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A MINER & WAS LIFTING A PLANETARY RECEIVED PAIN IN RT GROIN AREA

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A ROOFBOLTER OFF OF LOWBOY, WHEN THE ROOF BOLTER CAME OFF OF THE SIDE OF THE LOWBOY THE FRONT HIT THE MINE ROOF CAUSING THE SUPPLY TRAY TO COME DOWN AND CATCH HIS LEFT I NDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE SUPPLY TRAY AND THE TRAM LEVER.

WHILE CHANGING DRILL STEEL PIPE BECAME FREE-CATCHING FINGER AGAINST DRILL.

INJURED WAS REMOVING WEAR PLATES FROM BUCKET ON 988 B HILOADER AND STRAINED TOO HARD.

STEPPED DOWN OFF LOADER STARTED WALKING AROUND MACHINE TO CHEDK POSS. BREAK DOWN STEPPED ON SM ROCK TWISTED ANKLE.

WHILE UNLOADING 50# BAGS OF MAGNATITE FROM PALLETT IN LOADER BUCKET & STACKING IN PLANT HE EVIDENTLY PICKED UP WRONG & TWISTED OR STRAINED BACK.

I.NAME UNLOADING MATERIALS OFF SKIP CAGE,STANDING ON CAGE HE TWISTED HIS BACK TURNING UPPER BODY TO LOOK OVER SHOULDER,UPPER BODY TWISTING MOTION CAUSED HIM TO PULL BACK MUSCLES.WASNT CARRYING ANYTHING.WENT TO DR ,DR SAID COUPLE DAYS OFF TOREST AND RELAX HIS BACK.

WHILE THE BELT WAS OFF THE INJURED ATTEMPTED TO CROSS AND SLIPPED AND FELL LANDING ON HIS LEFT FOOT.

AS EMPL WAS LIFTING ONE END OF 8" PIPE OTHER END FELL JERKING EMPLS ARM & SHOULDER.

STRUCK BEHIND HEAD AND NECK WITH COME-A-LONG

HE WAS MOUNTING HIS SCRAPER (PAN) WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING ON THE CHAIN STEP. IT WAS VERY MUDDY.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING A DRILL STEEL OUT OF THE DRILL AND PINCHED HIS LEFT THUMB IN THE STEEL GUIDES, CAUSING A LACERATION REQUIRING SUTURES.

INJ UNLOADING CRIB BLOCKS FROM FLAT CAR INTO SCOOP BUCKET.TWISTED TO GET CRIB BLOCK LEFT KNEE CAME OUT OF SOCKET.

EMPLOYEE WAS EXAMINED IN JAN 1987 FOR BACK PAIN & WAS DIAGNOSED AS ACUTE DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE HE HAD BACK SURGERY IN APRIL OF 1988 & RETURNED TO WORK IN NOV 1988 HE STATES THAT HE HAS HAD BACK PAIN EVER SINCE BUT NEEEDS TWO YRS TO RETIRE HE NOW MAINTAINS THAT HIS PRESENT CONDITION WAS CAUSED BY THROWING A MAINLINE TRACK SWITCH

BURNING SCRAP WALKED AROUND TO PICK UP MORE SCRAP FELL CAUSING HIS L KNEE TO BEND BACKWARD

EMPL BENT OVER TO ROLL UP CANVAS CHECK DOOR.

I NAME WAS UNLOADING COMSOL FROM BLAST TRUCK & CAUSED BACK STRAIN

LIFTING BEARING FOR D-9 DOZER

EMPLOYEE REPORTS STEPPING ON SMALL ROCK WHILE WALKING UNDERGROUND AND TWISTING LEFT KNEE.

STRAINED THE MIDDLE PART OF HIS ABCK;HELPING MINER DURING LUNCH,HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP MINER CABLE AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

LIFTING GARBAGE CAN LINER FROM GARBAGE CAN STRAINED SHOULDER & THORATIC AREA OF BACK.

DRAGGING DISCHARGE PUMP HOSE.

I NAME HAD JUST CUT 25FT OF SUPER SUCKER HOSE HE DRUG IT DOWN INTO ONE OF OUR PRODUCTION TUNNELS WHEN HE LIFTED THE HOSE HE FELT A POP IN HIS BACK HE WENT TO OUR COMPANY PHYSICIAN & WAS GIVEN PERSCRIPTION MEDICATION

EMPLOYEE WERE LIFTING A PIECE OF STONE TO PUT ON A TRAILER; EMPLOYEE HURT HIS BACK.

INJURED'S WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN EDGE OF OPERATORS CAGE AND COAL RIB WHEN HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO POSITION SHUTTLE CAR BEHIND CONTINUOUS MINER. INJURED HAD TO PUT OPERATOR'S CAGE AGAINST LOWER RIB TO POSITION IT BEHIND BEHIND CONTINOUS MINER, HIS SHIRT SLEEVE SLEEVE AND UPPER LEFT ARM WERE PULLED IN BETWEEN COAL RIB AND EDGE OF CAGE. 28 SUTRUES REQUIRED AND LOST TIME.

EMPLOYEE STATED TO NURSE TRUSS BOLTING IN SECOND EAST WAS BENDING AN EXTENSION PULLING IT DOWN AND TWISTED CAUGHT LEFT HAND, TWISTED LEFT WRIST BACKWARDS AND DOWN STRAINED LEFT WRIST.

INJURED WAS REPLACING WEAR PLATES IN CHUTE BETWEEN SCREEN 311 & 211 SCREEN AS HE WAS WELDING A PIECE OF HOT SLAG FELL & LANDED ON HIS FOOT SLAG BURNED THRU HIS BOOT & MADE A 1"X3/4" 2ND DEGREE BURN ON HIS UPPER FOOT

WHILE I.NAME WAS USING A HAMMER AND CHISLE TO KNOCK OFF A BEARING RACE, A PIECE OF METAL HIT HIM IN THE LEFT EYE.

I.NAME LIFTING OFF CABLE ON RIVER BARGE FELT PAIN IN MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK.

WAS WALKING TO BOTTOM AND HIT HEAD INTO STEEL BEAM THIS WAS NOT A LOST TIME AT THIS TIME.

EMPL OPERATING 3-WHEELER SWITCHED OUT OF UNIHAULER WAY TO LET THROUGH,PROCEEDED TO TRAVEL DOWN HEADING.STOPPED IN MIDDLE BECAUSE OTHER CAR WAS COMING.1ST CAR BACKED UP WITHOUT LIGHTS HITTING E MPL WHO WAS ON 3-WHEELER JARRING BACK,NECK & HIPY

INJURED WAS STANDING ON A NARROW RIMMED THIMBLE IN THE BAGHOUSE, INSPECTING THE BACK ROW OF BAGS. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE THIMBLE CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS RIGHT KNEE.

I.NAME RIDING IN SCOOP WAITING TO LOAD,PIECE FELL HIT HIM ON SHOULDER.

EMPL WORKING ON MINER.DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING RIGHT SHOULDER AND RIGHT ARM.

CLEAN UP MAN WAS CLEANING UP FROZEN COAL & SHOVELING ONTO OUTSIDE OF CRUSHER BUILDING HE PICKED UP OVERSIZE PIECE OF FROZEN COAL ON SHOVEL & THROWED CHUNK OF COAL OUTSIDE AT THIS TIME HE STAT ED IT FELT LIKE SOMETHING TORE IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE COMPALINED OF SWOLLEN KNEE DUETO CRAWLING AROUND IN MINES.NO EQUIPMENT INVOLVED.

DRIVER WAS DISMOUNTING HIS HAUL TRUCK WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND CONDITIONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE INCIDENT WAS A HOLE IN THE DECK THAT THE DRIVER TRIPPED OVER AND LOST HIS B ALANCE

EMPLOYEE CLIMBED ONTO POWDER HAULAGE TO GET A TAPE MEASURE,SLIPPED FROM TRUCK AND SPRAINED RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A PICK UP WHEN THE FRONT WHEEL DRIVE SHAFT BROKE AND CAME THROUGH THE FLOOR BORAD, HITTING HIM IN THE ANKLE.

LIFING 40'GATE VALVE MAN HURT BACK

BREAKING BARS ON DRILL TO CHANGE STEEL AND ALL AT ONCE FELT SOMETHING HIT CALF OF LEG ABOUT 8 OR 9 INCHES FORM FOOT.

IN THE OLD MCC BUILDING AT THE STACKER, I,NAME WAS UNBOLTING CABLE TRAY. HE WAS SITTING ON TRAY WHEN IT FELL TO THE FLOOR.

LIFTING BARRELS ON DRAGLINE STRAINED BACK.

EMPL WAS PULING CABLE OFF CABLE REEL WHEN HE PULLED LOWER BACK. MAN DID NOT START MISSING WORK FOR INJURY UINTIL 3/13/89.

I.NAME GETTING ROCK OUT OF #4 BELT DRIVE AND PULLED MUSCLE IN SMALL PART OF BACK.

HE WAS HELPING THE COAL DRILL OPER. DRILL TEST HOLE WHEN HE PUT HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE DRILL STEEL WHEN HE FELL THE DRILL STEEL BACK ON HIS HAND.

SHUTTLE CAR STUCK ON FEEDER CHAIN CAME LOOSE WHILE PULLING SHUTTLE CAR OFF FEEDER & STRUCK PERSON IN KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING TAPE FROM A VACUUM HOSE WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED, CUTTING HIM ON THE FOREARM. INJURY BECAME INFECTED ON 3-6-89 AND WAS UNABLE TO WORK.

POSITIONING HIMSELF TO PUT IN BOTTOM ROLLER ON MW #4 BELT STEPPED IN HOLE AND JARRED LOWER BACK CAUSING LOW BACK STRAIN.BEGAN MISSING WORK 3-2-89.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS LIFTING A TIMBER AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

WHILE UNLOADING 50# BAGS OF MAGNATITE FROM PALLET IN LOADER BUCKET AND STACKING IN PLANT HE EVIDENTLY PICKED UP WRONG AND TWISTED HIS BACK

PIECE OF DRILL STEEL HIT HIM IN THE HAW WHILE STARTING TO DRILL A HOLE.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED FROM LUNCHROOM ONTO A ROCK AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.

WORKER WAS PLACING SOME 1FT ROCKS WHEN HE SMASHED HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN A ROCK PREVIOUSLY PLACED & HE WAS PLACING INJURY WAS NOT SERIOUS HOWEVER FINGE R WAS BADILY BRUISED

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT THE ROOF FELL BEHIND THE JACKS AND THE FORCE KNOCKED HIM DOWN AND HE STRUCK THE TOP OF HIS HEAD ON A RAM BAR.

SUFFERING BACK PAIN NO ACC OCC .

INJURED WAS LIFTING AN OXYGEN TANK ON TO A TRACK JEEP AND THE OXYGEN BOTTLE SLIPPED OFF THE JEEP ON TO INJUREDS FOOT

PICKING UP ON MANTRIP AND HURT BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS STANDING BESIDE ROOF BOLTER AND DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN STRAPS HITTING HIM ON THE BACK.

INJURED WAS CHECKING FOR A PROBLEM IN FUSE BOX AND GOT INTO POWER BURNING HIS HANDS.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS SHOVELING UP COAL SPILLAGE AND STEPPED IN SOME MUD AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

CHGIN ACETYL TANK ON WELDING TRUCK MIVING TANK FORM STORAGAE PLATFORM TO WELDING TRUCK FELT PAIN IN STOMACH.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT COAL CAR GUN AND CRAWLED OUT OF DOOR AT BOTTOM OF GUN TWISTING LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM HIS TRUCK TO THE A LOA WHEN HE SLIPPED ON ICE PACKED SNOW & TWISTED HIS KNEE EMPLOYEE DID NOT FALL ON KNEE

WHILE TAKING TOOL OFF OF TH TRUCK HIT L LEG

INJURED WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING A PIECE OF PREVIOUSLY HUNG DRILL STEEL WHEN HE APPARENTLY HIT THE WRONG CONTROL CAUSING THE ROOF DRILL HEAD TO RAISE INSTEQAD OF SPINNING.THEREFORE MASHI NG HIS LEFT HAND.

STANDING ON CONTINIOUS MINER PUTTING UP SIGHT LINES ON ROOF. FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING PERSON TO FALL CAUSING INJURY.

EMPLOYEE HIT HIS HEAD ON A STRUCTUAL BEAM WHILE WALKING IN TAIL HYDRO CAUSING SORE NECK.

STRINED BACK TTYING TO LIFT GEAR COUPLING DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 3-6-89

HE WAS UNDER THE LOADER LOADING THE S/C WHEN A LUMP OF COAL FELL OFF THE S/C AND HIT HIM R LEG

EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING DUST TRUCK AND HIT D-8 DOZER, THIS CAUSED HIM TO HIT STEETING WHEEL RESULTING IN A LOW BACK SPRAIN.

INJURED WAS PUTTING UP A CAR DOOR ON 2/23/89 AND SLIPPED AND FELL AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE. HE CAME BACK TO WORK 1 AND ON 2/27/89 HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER ON RAILROAD CAR AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE AGAIN.

WAS COMING OUT OF LAMP HOUSE.STEPPED DOWN STEPS ONE STEP BROKE CAUGHT FOOT CAUSED FALL PULLING MUSCLES IN LEFT LEG BEHIND KNEE.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE MOUNTING THE 8200 MARION DRAGLINE SHOE HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS RT CHEST AGAINST DRAGLINE SHOE AREA WAS MUD & SLICK COVERED AS WELL AS I NAME BOOT S

RIDDEN IN SURFACE VEHICLE TO SUR.WAREHOUSE AREA.VEHICLE WAS STOPPED,I.NAME OPENED DOOR AND STEPPED FROM CAB TO GROUND.KNEE LOCKED UP AND GAVE WAY.DIDNT HIT KNEE,FOOT DIDNT GET CAUGHT AND HE DI DNT STEP ON ANYTHING TO CAUSE THIS....

WHILE PLACING SECTIONS OF KILN RAMP IN PLACE PULLED MUISCLE IN L SIDE OF RIB CAGE HE RETURNED 3-2-89 BUT WENT BACK OUT ON 3-3-89

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO LIFT RAIL TIE & BACK SLIPPED OUT OF PLACE RUPTURED DISC

INJURED STATED THAT HE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE WALKING FROM THE BATHHOUSE TO THE OFFICE.

I NAME CLAIMED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO MOVE PLATE WITH ANOTHER MEPL WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON SNOWY GROUND CAUSING STRAIN TO BACK AND DOWN LEG

PICKED UP PIECE OF STEEL STRAINED BACK

MOVING ROOFBOLT PLATES AND HIT A SHARP EDGE.

EMPL WAS OPERATING ROOF BOLTER IN #6 HEADING WHEN HE REACHED DOWN TO CLEAN OUT FROM UNDER POT OF PINNER WITH RIGHT HAND TOUCHED LEVER WITH LEFT HAND CAUSING POT TO FALL ON RIGHT HAND.

EMPL STATED THAT HE PICKED UP MINER CABLE TO LAY IT ON MINER STRAINING HIS BACK DIDNT GO TO DR UNTIL 3-16-89

WHILE CROSSING FROM ONE ARM OF THE LOADER TO THE OTHER,HE LOST HIS BALNCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND. HE LANDED ON HIS LEFT SIDE, INJURING MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS IN HIS LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A PLASTIC DRAIN PIPE WITH HIS POCKET KNIFE AND CUT HIS RIGHT LEG.

WAITING TO GO IN MINE EM HAD LOWER BACK PAIN HE WENT IN INE PAIN CONT TO INCREASE EXPER. NO INCIDENT TO INJURE BACK.

EMPL WAS IN FRONT OF 15CM JOY MINER CHECKING OIL IN CUTTERHEADS. HE WAS MOVING MINER IN POSITION WHEN HE HEARD WATER SPRAYS BEING TURNED ON. HE TRIED TO MOVE OUT OF WAY QUICKLY & TWISTED LEFT KNEE. MAN DID NOT START TO MISS WORK FOR INJURY UNTIL 3/6/89.

I NAME WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM A CAT 966 LOADER & STEPPED ON A PIECE OF LIME STONE WITH HIS RT FOOT HE TORE THE LIGAMENTS IN HIS RT ANKLE & FELL TO THE GROUND

EMPLOYEE STEPPED DOWN FROM LADDER ON A 988 END LOADER AND SPRAINED HIS ANKLE.

PUTTING SCOOP ON CHARGE AND STEPPED INTO BUCKET FELT SOMETHING POP IN KNEE.

INJURED WAS GOING OUT THE BELT ENTRY WATCHING TEMPORARY SPLICE WHEN HE WENT THRU OVERCAST DOOR HE CAUGHT HIS LEFT RING FINGER ON DOOR LATCH

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A COAL TRUCK. THE SEAT OF HAUL TRUCK WAS LOOSE AND HAD FRONT TO REAR MOTION WHICH CONTINUED ALL DAY.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING MECHANIC TO ISTALL HOSE ON A 988B CATERPILLAR ENDLOADER WHEN EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PULL HOSE INTO PLACE HE ALLEDGES HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN RT RIB CAGE EMPLOYEE COMPLETE D FULL SHIFT OF WORK BUT THE FOLLOWING MORNING EMPLOYEE CALLED HIS FOREMAN & REPORTED THAT HE WAS VERY SORE & WAS GOING TO DOCTOR

WHILEEMPLOYEE WAS PLACING BARREL IN BARREL RACK,BARREL SLIPPED OFF THE RACK AND BRUISED HIS RIGHT KNEE.MONTEREY WAS NOT NOTIFIED THE EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN TO THE DOCTOR UNTIL HIS RETURN -3-13-89.

EMPLOYEE WAS MARKING FOR BOLT AND A PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON BACK OF HEAD, DID DOWN LEFT ARM AND CAUGHT LEFT FOOT.

INJURED HAD BEEN EXPERIENCING SOME BACK PROBLEMS. HE WAS WEARING A BACK BRACE AND WHEN HE TURNED AROUND IN PANLINE AT THE TAILGATE HE HURT HIS BACK.

FOOT SLIPPED FROM LADDER, CAUSING FALL.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF OF A SUPPLY CAR ONTO A SLEDGE HAMMER CAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN HIS ANKLE

HE WAS GREASING 820 S/C CAR WHEN CAR ROLLED OVER RIGHT KNEE.

RIDING IN THE SCOOP BUCKET GOT HIM UP AGAINST THE TOP.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING AND A WELDING FLASH FROM THE ARC WELDER BURNED HIS EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A HAULPAK AND HIT A BIG HOLE IN THE HAUL ROAD. HE WAS JOLTED AROUND AND HURT HIS BACK.

IN TRUCK BED THREW ROLLER OUT BENT DOWN TO PICK UP ROLLER FELT SHARP PAIN IN BACK.

SLIPPED ON ICE FELL TO GROUND

HAD SET EXTENSION LADDER UP ON BOTTOM FLOOR TO VC 48 SPIN DRYER TO PUT BELTSON IT AND WAS CLIMBING LADDER.IT SHIFTED AND HE FELL AND SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE.

HE WAS PUTTING THE PRODUCT INTO THE TRAP AND KNOCKING THE STONES THROUGH THE VALVE HE SLIPPED AND FELL IN.

LOADER OPERATOR WAS SCLAING DOWN LOOSE ROCK WITH A ROCK BAR AND HURT HIS SHOULDER.

LOADER OPER GOT OFF LOADER TO MOVE LOADER CABLE OUT OF ROADWAY.LIFTED CABLE AND BACK FELT SOMETHING PULL IN LOWER BACK.

THE MAN WAS WALKING WHEN HE TRIPPED AND FELL, INJURING HIS RIGHT WRIST. THE REPORT WAS FILED TO ABATE A CITATION ISSUED DURING A PART 50 AUDIT.

PULLING CABLE BY HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING OTHER EMPLOYEES INSTALL A TAIL ROLLER ON BELT. ONE EMPLOYEE HAD GONE TO GET A COME-A-LAONG HE THOUGH HE COULD LIFT THE ROLLER IN PLACE BY HAND AND WHEN HE TRIED THIS HE G OT HIS FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SHAFT ON THE ROLLOR AND FRAME WORK.

THE INJURED WAS TRAMMING SCOOP THRU ROUGH ROAD WHEN SCOOP JOLTED HIM AGAINST BACK OF SEAT,BRUSING LOWER ABCK.

EMPL WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL OUT EXTEND A PIECE OF VENTILATION TUBING AND FEL PAIN IN HIS MIDDLE BACK

EMPL & ANOTHER WERE PUSHING DOWN ON CHEATER PIPE LIPPED OVER HANDLE OF CHAIN BINDER. PIPE SLIPPED OFF & HIT EMPL ON LEFT SIDE OF FACE.

OPERATING ROOF BOLTER DRILLING HOLE PIECE OF TOP UNDETERMINED SIZE FELL STRIKING EMPL ON LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS MOVING A MINER CABLE OUT OF THE HAULWAY WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

OPER TRYING TO PUSH ROOF BOLT UP IN HOLE WITH HANDS IN ORDER TO GET IT IN HEAD OF BOLTER BOLT SLIPPE AND CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN IT AND SIDE OF EAD OF BOLTER.

WALKING FROM DRYER TO BATH HOSUE, SLIPPED AND FELL ON ICE CAUSING INJURY.

EMPL WORKING IN CEMENT BIN HAULING MATERIAL UP ON ROPE.BENT OVER AND COULDNT STRAIGHTEN UP AGAIN.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE FELL OFF OVERCAST ON PATTON MAINS INTAKE.

WHILE LOADING TRAILING CABLE ON MINING MACHINE INJURED EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE WET BOTTOM AND TOWISTED HIUS LEFT KNEE.NO TIME LOST-WENT L/T AS OFF 03-27-89.

THEY WERE UNLOADING 1/2 SUPPLY CAR ROCKDUST ON 4 DEV. 5 SOUTH SECTION AT SUPPLY HOLE. THEY WERE PUTTING DUST ONTO SCOOP 86 DIPPER WAS RAISED FRONT WHEELS SCOTCHED W/CRIB BLOCKS. SCOOP DRIFTED

EMPL WAS SPOTTING A FLAT CAR IN THE 2-C LOADING AREA WHEN HIS BODY WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BRAKE HANDLE AND FLAT CAR HE SUSTAINED BRUISES AND EDEMA OF HIS L HIP AND TESTICLES

EMPLOYEE STARTED TO CLIMBUP LADDER ON HAUL TRUCK SHE GOT UP 3 STEPS & HER FOOT SLIPPED SHE CAUGHT HERSELF WITH HER RT ARM AS SHE GRABBED THE HANDRAIL & SLID DOWN THE LADDER STRAINING HER RT AR M & BACK SHE ALSO CAUGHT HER RT LEG IN CABLE STEP & TWISTED HER RIGHT KNEE

LIFTING A FIVE GALLON BUCKET OF OIL ONTO MACHINE TURNED WHILE LIFTING STRAINING LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON AN OILY SURFACE ON GROUND LEVEL UNDER THE CLEAN COAL SILOS.

I JUMPED UP TO KNOCK SOME ICE OFF MY WINDSHILED., MY LEFT KNEE POPPED AND I FELT PAIN IN MY KNEE.

INJURED AND CO-WORKER WERE THROWING A PIECE OF BELT ON SHIELD TO TRANSPORT OUTSIDE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN THE LEFT SIDE OF NECK. INJURED CONTINUED TO WORK THROUGH 3/6/89 AND WENT BACK TO HIS DOC TOR, WHO ADVISED HIM TO TAKE OFF FROM WORK. INJURED STARTED MISSING WORK 3/7/89.

CLIMBING DOWN OFF OF MT. TRUCK, SLIPPED OFF STEP HURT BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A BATTERY COVER OFF A BUS WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE THE COVER CAUGHT & THE EMPLOYEE JERKED ON CAUSING A SPRAIN TO HIS LEFT SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE TWISTED LEFT ANKLE AS HE STEPPED OFF RAILROAD CAR.

WHILE WALKING BETWEEN MINER ADN RIB INJURED EMPL CAUGHT HIS FOOT ON A ROOF BOLT TRIPPED AND FELL AGAINST THE MINER AND TOP OF HIS HEAD HIT THE MINER ADN JAMMED NECK AND BACK HIS R WRIST WAS AL SO HURTING DUE TO FUTHER INVESTIGATION OF THIS ACCIDENT THIS FORM IS BEING FILED LATE

HELPING CO WORKER HAND PC OF TUBING AND FGELT PAIN IN BACK TUBING WET AND HEAVIER THAN NORMAL.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS DOWN ON HIS KNEES POUNDING SPIKES IN WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE HAS PREVIOUS INJURY TO LOWER BACK.

I.NAME WAS ERMOVING LOOSE ROCK FROM A CONT. MINER, WHEN HIS PRY BAR SLIPPED AND HE TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK.

LOOSE ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS LAS ROW OF BOLTS 1# FACE.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMED HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE SLOPE TRADE WHEEN HE STEPPED ON A ATEP AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

EMPL CLEANING RIBS WITH SCOOP.REACHED OUTSIDE CANOPY TO RAISE CURTAIN TO SEE TO POSITION BUCKET AGAINST RIB.SCOOP MOVED FORWARD CATCHING HAND BETWEEN RIB AND CANOPY OF SCOOP.

EMPL WAS DRIVING PIN THAT HOLDS TRANSMISSION IN PLACE WITH 3# HAMMER WHEN THUMB WAS STRUCK BY HAMMER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OFF 988 LOADER. HE TWISTED HIS BODY WHILE HOLDING ON WITH ONE ARM. COMPLAINED ABOUT A SORE SPOT IN LOWER BACK.

WAS DUMPING LOAD OF COAL AND WHEN BED ELEVATED THE HOIST PUSHED THROUGH THE BED OF TRUCK AND LOADED BED FELL BACK DOWN CAUSING A SEVERE BOUNCED AS BED STRUCK FRAME APPROX. 20 TONS WITH 4-5 FT DROP.

WHILE FILLING OF BENTONITE FROM PACKER BAG EXPLODED AND BLEW CONTENTS ONTO FACE AND INTO LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE CUTTING WITH TORCH SOME OIL CAUGHT ON FIRE. HE GOT A FIRE EXTINGUISHER OUT OF KERSEY SCOOP TO EXTINGUISH THE TOP BLEW OFF CAUSING FIRE EXTINGUISHER DUST TO ENTER RIGHT EY E.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS BUILDING STOPPING IN BELT ENTRY WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS BACK.

SHOVELING ON BELT.SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIP AND BACK ON PIPELINE.DISABILITY BEGAN 3-9-89.

WHILE SETTING JAW CRUSHER BACK ON FRAME AND PULLING IT INTO PLACE WITH COME ALONG TI MOVED. HIS HAND WAS IN WRONG PLACE AND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF STEEL PINCHING HIS SMALL FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN THE AREA WHERE THE SKIP LOADER WAS RUNNING ALL DAY HE COMPALINED OF HEAD ACHES AND AN UPSET STOMACH,BUT THE FOREMAN THOUGHT HE HAD A TOUCH OF THE FLU.HE THEN MOVED CLOS E TO THE DOOR OPENING AND FINISHED OUT THE DAY.AFTER WORK HE SAW A DOCTOR AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM AND THE DOCTOR SENT HIM HOME.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING REILING WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL; HE THEN FELT PAINS SHOOT DOWN HIS LOWERR BACK TO THE LEFT LEG.

EMPL WAS REPAIRTING A HOSE ON THE 489 CRUSHER HE HAD REPAIRED THE HOSE AND WAS GETTING DOWN WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FEL 2 OR 3 FEET

EMPL STATED THAT WHILE LOADING UP BELT ROLLERS FOR BELT ALYUP IN #1 UNIT HE STEPPED ON BELT ROLLER WHICH CAUSED HIM TO TWIST LEWFT ANKLE. EMPL RECEIVED SPRAIN TO LEFT ANKLE XRAYS SHOWED THERE WAS NO FRACTURE PRESENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING HIS MEN REMOVE HOSES AND CASTERS OFF MONO-RAIL. HE PICKED UP ONE HOSE AND PULLED IT. THIS IS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

WHILE GETTING OUT OF CAR AT WORK EMPLOYEE DROPPED HIS LUNCH BAG.AS HE BENT OVER TO PICK IT UP,,HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS LIFTING 100 POUND BAG OF CEMENT, CAUSING HIS BACK TO JERK. SPASM-LIKE PAIN IMMEDIATLY FELT IN LOWER BACK. IT ESULTED IN LUMBER STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE REPORTS AT #1 SHOVEL, GETTING DOWN OFF CAT TO SPOT TRUCK FOR LEVEL FILL WORK- SLIPPED OR MISSED STEP AND FELL BETWEEN TRACK AND BLADE ARM AND HIT LEFT LEG BEFORE CATCHING SELF WITH AR MS.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING A BUNDLE OF 1INX4IN METAL BARS THAT WERE STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER WHEN HE CUT THE FINAL STRAP SEVERAL BARS FELL OFF THE STACK STRIKING THE TOP RT FOOT

THE MAN WAS UNLOADING HIGH VOLTAGE WHEN HE DEVELOPED LOW BACK PAIN.THE MANS FIRST DAY OFF WAS 03-14-89.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN MANTRIP AT END OF SHIFT WHEN MANTRIP HIT A BUMP. EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN NECK.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE WALKING DOWN A SLOPE. EMPLOYEE'S NORMAL DAYS OFF WERE 2-27 AND 2-28 SO LOST TIME DID NOT START UNTIL 3-1-89.

WAS PULLING CABLE AND STRAINED HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS JACKIHAMMERING OVERHEAD IN THE SECONDARY AIR DROPOUT HOPPER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE DECENDED TWO STEPS FROM THE CRUSHER CONTROLL ROOM ON TO THE CATWALK WHEN HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT FOOT AND SPRAINED HIS ANKLE.

EMPL WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A CENTRIFICAL PUMP FROM A MANBUS AND FEL PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

EMPL WAS PREPARING TO SAW TIMBER WHEN IT SLID OFF BLOCK & STRUCK HI ACROSS TOP OF LEFT FOOT.

I.NAME STEPPED OUT OF SEAT ON MINER.FEET BECAME ENTANGLED IN MINER CABLE.HE FELL AND BROKE ANKLE AND LEG,6" ABOVE ANKLE.

WHILE MOVING CINDER BLOCKS, DROPPED ON CINDER BLOCK ON HAND AND CUT SECTION BETWEEN LITTLE FINGER AND RING FINGER.

I.NAME WAS CARRYING A METAL SIFTER AND SCREENS FOR WASH PLANT AND HE SLIPPED, FELL AS HE MOVED UP THE FIRST STEP OF THE WASH PLANT FROM THE GROUND, WHICH CAUSED HIM TO HURT HIS BACK.

EMPL HELPING MAINT.CREW INSTALL TRANSFORMER.BALANCING IT WITH HIS HEAD CAUSED SORE NECK AND UPPER BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE MAY HAVE SUFFERED A SEIZURE WHILE OPERATING ROTARY LIKN #3. WHILE IN A DAZE HE FELL OR PUSH HIMSELF OUT THE BACK DOOR OF THE KILN AND FELL DOWN TO THE GROUND. INSPECTORS OF THE MS HA IS LOOKING INTO THIS INCIDENT. EMPLOYEE IS STILL IN THE HOSP.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING GATES IN #1 TUNNEL TO LOAD LIMEPLANT DAY BINS. THE EMPLOYEE IGNITED A PROPANE TORCH TO THAW FROZEN CHUNK OF STONE IN THE GATE, INHALATION OF EXHAUST (PROPANE) FUMES CAUS ED SORENESS AND SWELLING OF THROAT.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO HOOK A TOW CABLE TO A TEREX PRODUCTION TRUCK THAT WAS STUCK ON THE TOP OF A CONCENTRATE STOCK PILE. HE BEGAN TO GET UPPER BACK SPASMS AFTER HOOKING UP THE CABLE RESULTI NG IN A DIAGNOSIS OF LEFT INTERCOSTAL STRAIN. HE LOST ONE DAY FROM WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON GRATING ACROSS DITCH IT CAVED IN CAUSING HIM TO FALL & A CORNER OF THE GRATING CAUGHT HIM IN THE LEFT SIDE

EMPL ALLEGES ON OR ABOUT 2/25/89 THAT ON THE DATE STATED ABOVE SHE SLIPPED WHILE DESCENDING A LADDER AND STRAINED HER R SHOULDER NOTE ALLEGED DISABILITY BEGAN ON 2/25/89 EMPL IST STILL DISABLE D

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING OFF STEPS AND MADE A WRONG TURN.KNEE SLIPPED OUT OF JOINT.

WALKING ACROS S YARD STEPPED ON LG ROCK THAT ROLLED CAUSING HIM TO TURN ANKLE.

INJURED CLAIMED TO HAVE PINCHED HIS FINGER WHILE POSITIONING ON IMPACT OTHER FOR THE #1 TABLE DIST

WHILE HIS END DUMP WAS BEING LOADED BY THE CAT LOADER, A LARGE ROCK DROPPED INTO THE END DUMP BED AND JARRED I.NAME BODY, HRUTING, HIS NECK. THE ACCIDENT WAS REPORTED 4/25/89 BUT HAD HAPPENED A COUPLE MONTHS PREVIOUS ACCORDING TO I.NAME.

EMPL WAS STRUCK ON LEFT ANKLE BY PIECE OF METAL PIPE AS FORK LIFT RAN OVER METAL ROUND STOCK & CAUSED IT TO STRIKE EMPL ON LEFT ANKLE. RESULTING IN LACERATION & CONTUSION TO ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN USING WELDING TORCH A FEW MINUTES WHEN APPARENTLY COAL DUST IGNITED AND BURNED HIS FACE. HE WAS USING THE WELDING TORCH INSIDE OF ROTARY COAL BREAKER WHEN ACCI DENT HAPPENED.

OPER SM FRONT END LOADER TRACTOR TRACTOR HIT SOME PROLPS AS INJ ROUNDED CORNER INJ SLAMMED ON BRAKES AND HAND HIT STEERING WHEEL.

BACK STARTED HURTING AFTER OPERATING S.CAR DOWN ROUGH HAULWAY.

HOOKING UP CABLE RECP. AND BREAKER WAS KICKED, SOMEHOW IT GOT GROUNDED AND BURNT LEFT HAND.

WORKING ON #3 TAILPIECE PIECE OF DRAW ROCK COME OFF #4 HEADDRIVE STRIKING EMPL ON RIGHT HAND INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP STEPS INTO A DOZER AND SLIPPED ON STEPS AND FELL.

STEPPING OFF TRACK OF CONT.HAULAGE EQUIP ONTO UNLEVEL GROUND WHILE MOVING TO SEE WHY MINING HAD STOPPED.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN DECK OF MOTOR WITH REGULAR MOTORMAN WHEN THEY CAME UP TO LOW TOP AREA ON MAINLINE BELOW DISPATCHERS OFFICE. HE DIDN'T GET HIS HEAD DOWN FAR ENOUGH AND HIT RAIL (BEING US ED AS TOP SUPPORT) RESULTING IN LACERATION TO RIGHT EAR AND FOREHEAD.

INJURED R KNEE STANDING ON LADDER PREPARING TO HAND 12" PIPE ANOTHER EMPL WAS REACHING THE PIPE TO HIM THE PIPE KICKED OVER AND STRUCK THE INJURED ON THE R KNEE

IT IS BELIEVED THAT I NAME HAD ATTEMPTED TO MAKE A TORQUE PRESSURE READING BY INVERTING A TORQUE WRENCH ONTO A SHORT DRILL STEEL & ACTIVATING THE ROOF BOLTER ROTATION THERE WERE NO EYE WITNES SES TO THESE EVENTS IT IS SURMISED THAT THE TORQUE WRENCH RELEASED FROM THE BLOCKING METHOD & THE TORQUE WRENCH ROTATED AROUND & STRUCK I NAME IN THE LEFT TEMPORAL AREA

STATEMENT FROM INJURED. THE INJURED STATED HE HAD JUST ADDED A 3' EXTENSION TO THE DRILL STEEL SO AS TO FINISH DRILLING A ROOF BOLT HOLE IN THE HIGH BOLT IN THE 3505 BELT HEADING. UNAWARE THAT HE HAD LEANED AGAINST THE BOOM LEVER, RAISING THE BOOM UP CATCHING HIS RIGHT ARM BETWEEN THE BOOM AND CANOPY CAUSING THE INJURY.

EMPL WAS PULLING SHIELDS ON LONGWALL AND SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING BACK ON TONGUE OF SHIELD

HANG TUBING AND PUTTING SLIDER IN TUBING WHEN CHAIN SLIPPED OFF TUBING BAR FALLING ON INJ PUSHING HIM DOWN TOWARD MINE FLOOR SLIPPED OUT OF BELT THAT WAS USED FOR HANGIN TUBING.

WAS TIGHTENING BRAKE UP ON RAILROAD CAR.HAND SLIPPED OFF WHEEL CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

WALKING DOWN TRACK TO TURN TROLLEY POWER ON STRUCK HEAD AGAINST ROOF RAIL

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING RAILS WITH MANBUS. A CLEVIC WAS HOOKED TO END OF RAIL. EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP END ODF RAIL WITH PRY BAR. WHEN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE REMOVED CLEVIC, WEIGHT OF RAIL PUSHED BAR DOWN AND ACROSS INJUREDS FOOT, CAUSING A FRACURTURE TO HIS RIGHT TOE.

IN PORTA BUS COMING OUT WHEN PORTA BUS WRECKED AT STOPPING ON TRACK NO 6. FELT PAIN IN BACK ANS WALKED AROUND AND BACK DID NTO BOTHER MUCH AT THE TIME. SAID WHEN HE GOT HOME, BACK STARTED BOT HERING HIM WORSE.

HANGING 4160 CCABLE FORM MINE ROOF CALE FELL STRIKING HIM ON L WRIST EMP HAS SPRQIAN TO WRIST

INJURED WAS STANDING ON CONVEYOR BELT ATTEMPTING TO MOVE HAND SWITCH. HE BUMPED THE SWITCH, TURNING THE BELT ON. WHILE JUMPED OFF BELT HE LANDED ON CRIB BLOCK BRUISING HIS RIBS, LEG, & ARM.

BUMPED KNEE ON PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE ACCIDENT WASNT REPORTED UNTIL THE FIRST OF MARCH

*EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 3-30-89 OR MISS WORK UNTIL THEN. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO MOVE THE MINER TRAILING CABLE OUT OF THE HAULAGE ROAD HE REPORTED FEELING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

HE WAS OPERATING A D9H DOZER ON THE PIT FOR APPROX 2 HRS STRIPPING STONE OFF THE #8 COAL SEAM WHILE BACKING UP THE DOZER HE SAID HE BACKED OVER A ROCK WHICH THEN JARRED HIS BACK

EMPL WAS GRINDING STEEL WHEN HE RECEIVED FOREIGN BODY IN LEFT EYE.

WHILE REMOVING OLD CONVEYOR AND VENT PIPE VNET PIPE WAS SHORED UP AT ONE END WITH 2 X 2 ANGLE THE OTHER END WAS ONNECTED TO AN 8" RISER WHILEE ATTEPTING TO STRADDLE PIT TO SECURE IRON TO CONVE YOR EITHER THE FOOTING ON THE SUPPORT TO THE VENT GAVE WAY OR IT WAS ACCIDENTLY KICKED WHEN SUPPORTED END OF PIPE FELL THE OTHER END GAVE WAY AND THE WHOLE PIPE FELL 10 TO 15'LONG 6" PIPE LAN

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING AND COVERING EQUIPMENT BEFORE QUITTING TIME (4:00 P.M.). ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING RUBBISH BOX AND FELL ON THIS EMPLOYEE'S FOOT.

WEIGHING 100 LB BAGS.REPORTED TO EMPLYR 2-28-89.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CAULK A FLANGE FOR SILO #7 AT CEMENT STORAGE SILOS HE RAISED HIMSELF UP ON TOE PLATE TO GAIN A LITTLE MORE HEIGHT. WHEN HE STEPPED UP ON TOE PLATE HE STRUCK HI S HEAD ON OVERHEAD PIPING. THIS THEN FORCED THE EMPLOYEE DOWN CAUSING PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK AND TWISTING OF HIS LEFT KNEE. EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEE A DOCTOR OR RECEIVE ANY TYPE OF FIRST AID UNTI

DOZING BARN ON D 8 NOT. FIRE IN ENGINE AREA OF DOZER SHUT DOWN ENGINE SET BRAKES BLADE IN DOWN POOSITION GOT OFF DOZER WITH FIRE EXTING. PUHED CAHRGING HANDLE 5 OR 6 TIME BUT IT WOULD NO;T ACT IVATE STUCK HARD BLOW TO CHARGING HANDLE TO ACTIVATE CAUSING INJ TO R. HAND ONTUSION HYPOTHENAR ARA R. HAND BEGAN TO LOSE TIME.

DUMP T5RUCK CABLE TO PTO HAD BEEN BENT 7 WOULD NOT PUT PTO SHAFT OUT OF GEAR. DRIVER ASKED MANAGER TO SEE IF HE COULD FIX IT. MANAGER SAID HE COULD & TOLD DRIVER TO STAY IN TRUCK WHEN HE START ED UNDER TRUCK SWEATSHIRT CAUGHT ON PTO SHAFT BEFORE HE COULD GET OUT IT HAD LEFT ARM UP & AROUND SHAFT BEFORE H PULLED AWAY HE SPRAIN LEFT ARM & BRUISED LEFT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING LIFT CONVEYOR BELT AND LIFTING CAUSED HEMORRHOIDS.

INJURED WAS HELPING CARRY A ROOF BOLTER ESTEND JACK WHEN HE TWISTED TO MISS ;HITTING HIS HEAD ON A BEAM HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

CLOSING VALVE TO CARBON COLUMNS APPLIED EXTRA PRESSURE TO STOP FLOW PULLED MUSCLE IN NECK

AS EMPLOYEE WALKED CARRYING A LADDER,THE LADDER CAUGHT CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO TWIST HIS BACK.

EMPL STANDING NEAR A FIRE.WIND BLEW ASHES AND PARTICLES TOWARD EYE,CAUSING METAL TO ENTER EYE.

INJURED WAS BACKING UP CUTTER TURNING RIGHT CORNER INJURED GOT TOO CLOSE TO RIB & CAUGHT FOOT BETWEEN CUTER & RIB.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING WRENCH TO TIGHTEN BOLTS ON COAL CRUSHER ON THE DATE OF 2-16-89. AT THAT TIME THERE SEEMED TO BE NO INJURY. HOWEVER EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT LEFT HAND BEGAN TO HURT AND ON 2-23- 89, HAND BEGAN TO SWELL AND HURT FROM HAND TO SHOULDER AREA.

OPER SHERARER AND CUTTIN G TOWARD TAIL WAS CRAWLING AND R. FOOT DROPPED DOWN BETWEEN RAM BAR AND BASE OF JACK OR JACK FOOT AND RAM BQAR KICKEDD OVER CATCHING HIS FOOT UNAWARE RAM BAR WAS GOING TO KICK.

BOLTER WAS SCALING ROOF, ROCK BROKE BACK CATCHING FOOT AGAINST FRAME OF ROOF BOLTER.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS HELPING CARRY JOINT OF 6 IN PLASTIC PIPE TO DITCH WHEN HE STEPPED ON PIECE OF ICE CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

PORTAL BUS RIDING IN WAS HIT BY ANOTHER BUS STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING EXTRA ROOF BOLTS IN AN AREA OF BAD ROOF.HE WAS PUSHING A BOLT UP WITH THE BOLTER WHEN THE BOLT CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE ROOF,THE ROOF BROKE AND FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE HEAD AND LEG.THE PIECE OF ROCK WAS 18"X18".

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO THROW TRACK SWITCH THE EMPLOYEE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

PINNER OPERATOR HAD FINISHED PINNING PLACE LETTING T BAR DOWN PIECE OF ROCK FELL BEHIND HIM STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON BACK KNOCKING HIM FORWARD AWAY FROM ROCK.

PULLING PIPE THROUGH BRATTICE WHEN PIPE CAME LOOSE FROM BRATTICE AND HTI EMPLOYEE IN THE NOSE RESULTING IN A FRACTURE.

EMPL COLLARING IN RAISE AND ROCK FELL AND CUT RIGHT HAND

EMPL WAS HURT ON #2 LONGWALL ON 2/24/89 TWISTED RIGHT KNEE WHILE WALKING DOWN FACE OF LONGWALL. EMPL WAS RECHECKED FOR PAIN IN RIGHT KNEE AREA ON 4/10\89 WAS KEPT OFF WORK BY DR WITHOUT NOTIFI CATION OF SAFETY DEPARTMENT.

I NAME WAS BENDING A ROOF BOLT AND PULLED THE MUSCLES IN HIS BACK THERE WAS NOT MEDICAL TREATMENT AT THIS TIME ON 4-5-89 I NAME RECEIVED MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR THIS INJURY AND IS STILL RECEIVLY TREATMENT

EMPLOYEE STARTED UP LADDER ON R-85 EUC GOT TO THE THIRD STEP AND SLIPPED AND FELL OFF BACKWARD,LANDED ON HIS SIDE.NO EQUIPMENT DAMAGE.FRACTURED 2 RIBS AND COMPRESSED VERTEBRAE.

TRAVELWAY STEPPED ON ROCK,AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.SPRAIN LEFT ANKLE.SURGERY LEFT ANKLE 02-24-89.

THE INJURED WAS IN THE PROCESS ON HILING A ROOF BOLT ABLE WITH 3 FT DRILL STELL IN THE BELT BLDG 3505 WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED FOR DOTY NAG STATION TO DRILL A HOLE WHEN SOME SMALL PIECE OF D RAW ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP OF THE CANOPY HIS RIGHT HAND WAS HOLDING THE DRILL STELL. THE ROTATION STARTED TURNING THE DRILL STELL PULLING HIS HAND AND THUMB AROUND THE DRILL STELL CAUSINT THE

CHANGING DUST BAG ON CUTTING MACHINE.SEVERELY CUT MIDDLE FINGER LEFT HAND.

EMPL WAS COUPLING A TRAM TO A BATTERY TRACTOR WHEN HIS L INDEX FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE TRACOTOR FRAME AND THE COUPLING PIN THE PIN HAD BEEN PARTIALLY INSERTED THROUGH THE TRACTOR AND TR AM TOUNGE WHEN THE EMPL MOTIONED THE TRACTOR OPERATOR TO\ COME BACK THE TRAM PIN WAS JERKED FORWARD AND CAUGHT HIS L INDEX FINGERS DISTAL END CAUSING A LACEERATION AND FRACTURE

EMPL CHANGING DUST COLLECTOR BAGS AND DUST GOT INTO HIS EYES.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE STEPPED THROUGH METAL MAN-DOOR.THE DOOR CLOSED ON HIS LEG CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS KNEE.EMPLOYEE NEGAN MISSING WORK 03-01-89.MANAGEMENT NOTIFIED 03-10-89 EMPLOYEE WAS OFF, W ORK DUE TO INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FREE A FROZEN FLOP GATE BY STRICKING IT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. THE HAMMER SLIPPED FROM HIS HAND AND AS HE RECHED TO CATCH THE HAMMER, HE SUSTAINED A LOWER BACK STRAI N.

THE INJURED WAS SENT TO REPLACE AN EMPTY OXYGEN TANK ON THE MAINTENANCE TRUCK.AFTER HAVING REMOVED THE EMPTY TANK AND SETTING THE NEW TANK ON THE BACK OF THE TRUCK HE STEPPED ONTO THE TRUCK BE D TO SECURE AND CHAIN THE TANK.IN DOING SO HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND GRABBED THE TANK FOR SUPPORT CAUSING BOTH HIMSELF AND THE TANK TO FALL OFF TRUCK.THE TANK LANDED ON HIS HAND.HE WAS TAKEN TO

TWISTE D ANKLE WALKING STEPPED ON PC OF COAL SWING IN ROOF BOLTER HEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING IN RAISE & STEEL FELL OUT & ON RIGHT FOOT

MOVING PIPE BY HAND EMP HURT HIS BACK.

EMPL WAS MOVING A SAFETY GUARD FROM A SITTING POSITION HE LEANED TO THE SIDE AND STRAINED HIS BACK

SLIPPED ON ICE AS HE WAS GETTING OUT OF PERS VEHICLE

I,NAME WAS CONNECTING A CAR TO A MOTOR. WHILE HE WAS DOING THIS, HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER GOT BETWEEN THE 2 HITCHES ON THE CARS AND WAS MASHED DURING HOOK-UP. HAD LACERATION TO HIS LEFT MIDDLE F INGER, AND REQUIRED STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING TIMBER WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN UPPER BACK. EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN SEEKING MEDICAL ATTENTION AND BEGAN TO MISS WORK ON FEBRUARY 23, 1989.

EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO CARRY A BUNDLE OF 6' RIB PINS ON HIS SHOULDER WHILE CROSSING BELT LINE. WHEN HE STARTED TO STEP OFF THE BELT ONTO ROPE, HE MISSED ROPE AND FELL TO FOOTWALL LANDING ON HIS RIGHT SIDE CAUSING A CAPSULE TEAR IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLOSE THE D-2 BOTTOM GAS LEVEL WINDOWN USING A TUGGET WHEN HE TWISTED LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM A PREVIOUS BACK INJURY EIGHT DAYS EARLIER AND INJURED HIS BACK WHEN HE ASIDED A 50 LB BAG FROM A PACKER TO A FOOT LEVEL BELT CONVEYOR.

WALKING IN CHOCK FLINE WHEN PC OF ROCK STRIKING ON LOWER BACK

THE EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING TWO OTHER MAN MOVE A POWER CENTER. WHILE HANGING THE HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE THE EMPLOYEE WAS RAHCIN OUT OF SCOOP DECK TO MOVE THE CABLE. SUDDENLY THE CABLE FELL FROM T HE MINE ROOF AND STRUCK HIM ACROSS SHOULDER AND NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOWERING BOLTER HEAD AS HE WAS DOING SO IS FOOT SLIPPED ON LOOSE COAL CAUSING BOLTER HEAD TO STRIKE RT LEG

HAULING WATER LINE ON SCOOP WHEN JOINT PIPE FELL OFF AS HE WAS LOADING THIS UP ANOTHER JOINT OF PIPE FLEW BACK HITTING HIMIN R. SIDE.

INJURED RIGHT LEG LOADING SALT INTO BACKHOE BUCKET. AS HE WAS CARRYING THE SALT FROM THE STORAGE BLDG. THE BAG SLIPPED AND HE TRIED TO CATCH THE BAG THIS CAUSED HIM TO LOSE HIS FOOTING A INJUR Y HIS RIGHT LEG.

THE INJURED WAS RIB BOLTING.WHEN HE WAS PULLING THE AUGER OUT OF THE HOLE,HE REACHED OUT WITH HIS LEFT AHND TO SUPPORT THE DRILL AUGER WHILE IT WAS ROTATING,CAUSING HIS LEFT ARM TO BE PULLED A ROUND THE AUGER.FRACTURED THE LEFT ARM.

DISMOUNTING MOTOR HE STEPPED IN HOLE THAT HAD BEEEN DUG FOR LOWERING SUPPLY TRAILER WHEELS RUBBER TO RAIL TYPE TRAILER S IN U;SE, HE FELL TWISTING HIS BACK CAUSING BACK PAIN.

HOOK THAT PULL CABLE, BROKE, HIT HIM IN RIGHT SIDE AND SHOULDER.

INJURED WAS UNLOADING SUPPLIES BELT STRUCTURE FROM SCOOP BUKET BUCKET WAS RAISED SLIGHTLY OPERATOR LOWERED SCOOP BUCKET ONTO INJUREDS FOOT WHEN HE JERKED FOOT HE TWISTED BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS BENDING DOWN TO GET IH HIS SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR THE EMPLOYEE DROVE THE CAR OVER A ROCK IN THE HAUL ROAD. THE EMPLOYEE WAS BOUNCED IN THE SEAT, HIS HEAD HIT THE TOP OF THE CANOPY CAUSING A SERVER STRAIN TO HIS NECK DOWN TO HIS SHOULDER.

WAS LOSDING FCT PARTS ON BELT FELT PAIN IN R LOWER BACK 6LEFT 6SOUTH SECTION

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO THAW OUT A PIT PUMP USING RAGS & ETHER TO START FIRE AROUND PUMP WHEN A CAP ON THE TOP OF PUMP INTAKE WAS REMOVED FIRE CAME BURNING FACE & EYES OF EMPLOYEE

DRILLING A HOLE WHEN KETTLE BOTTOM FELL OUT OF THE ROOF & SLID DOWN THE STEEL STRIKING LEFT HAND

HELPING REMOVE ADAPTER FROM BUCKET OF LOADER.THUMB ON RIGHT HAND BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN ADAPTER AND LIP OF BUCKET.

INJURED STEPPED IN HOLE WITH LEFT FOOT PUTTING WEIGHT ON RIGHT LEG, TWISTING KNEE-NO PROBLEMS AT THIS TIME-BUT WAS UNABLE TO WORK ON 3-9-89. GOING TO DOCTOR TODAY.

WHILE WALKING TO A MANTRIP ON BOTTOM OF THE ELEVATOR SHAFT HE WALKED INTO A LOW VOLTAGE POWER CABLE AND SCRATCHED HIS RIGHT EYE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A HEAVY BOILER FROM A JUNK PILE. FELT A WARM AND PAINFUL SENSATION IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING AROUND CRUSHER, ROCK CAME OFF SCREEN AND HIT HIM ON THE HEAD. HEAD WAS CUT OPEN, HAD TO HAVE STITCHES. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING HARD HAT.

A FALL OF GROUND FROM THE HANGING WALL IN THE STOPE INVOLVING ABOUT TWO TONS OF UNCONSOLIDATED ROCK BOLTS. THE OUTER PART OF THE SHELLS STAYED IN THE HOLES BUT THE WEDGES PULLED THROUGH. A SEC ONDARY, SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL A BIT LATER WHICH RESULTED IN THE INJURY DESCRIBED IN THIS REPORT.

IN ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN ROCK IN THE BINS, EMPLOYEE LOST HIS FOOTING AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

HE WAS WASHING THE LOADER AND FELL DOWN ON HIS ABCK.

WHILE HE WAS OPERATING THE BULLDOZER HE GRASP HIS L HAND LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN THE CABIN AND THE RIPPER LEVER CAUSING SEVERE TRAUMA IN HIS FINGER AND NAIL

EMPLOYEE PICKED UP AN ELECTRIC MOTOR WHEN HE PULLED MUSCLES IN HIS BACK.

EMPL STEPPED ON BELT CAR IN SURFACE SUPPLY YARD AND STRAINED RIGHT LEG.

WAS NAIL FLY UP TO BOARD FOR VENTILATION WAS NOT WEARING HIS SAFETY GLASSES,NAIL HIT HIM IN EYE INJURED RIGHT EYE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS PUTTING LIDS BACK ON SCOOP BATTERIES WHEN HIS BACK STARTED HURTING . WENT TO DR ON 2-27-89.

THE MAN WAS CLEANING ALONG THE MAIN SLOPE BELT WHEN A CHUNCK OF COAL FELL OFF, STRICKING THE INDIVIDAUL ON THE LEFT ANKLE.

GETTING READY TO DRILL A HOLE,A SMALL PICE OF ROCK FELL HITTING ON THE LEFT THIGH.

CLIMBING OER 4 BELT TAIL SLIPPED FELL OFF INJ NECK L. SHOULDER AND ARM L. HIP DID NOT NEED MED TREAT. SODT TISSUE INJ TO NECK AND LEFT ARM.

EMPL SHOVELING COAL AT SURFACE BELT TRANSFER POING.EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN.SENT TO HOSPITAL ER TO BE CHECKED.

WITH THE CRUSHER SHUT DOWN, THE OPERATOR TRIED TO DISLODGE A ROCK AND IN THE PROCESS PULLED HIS STOMACH AND CHEST MUSCLES.

WHILE STEPPING OFF THE PACKING CHAIRS HE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF PIPE THAT WAS LAYING ON THE GRATING AND PULLED OR TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

HE WAS LIFTING A STEEL PLATE AND DROPPED IT ON HIS RIGHT FOOT WHICH BRUISED THE BONE.

HE STEPPED OFF CONCRETE PLATFORM AT NUMBER ONE SCREEN ONTO SOFT GROUND HE SPRAINED HIS RT ANKLE

EMPLOYEE STATED HE RODE TO HIS WORK PLACE AND HAD TROUBLE GETTING OUT OF MANTRIP BECAUSE OF BACK PAIN AND HAD TO COME OUT OF MINE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DIGGING OUT 3/4 BLEND BIN WHEN A PIECE OF DIRT CAME FROM ABOVE (ASSUMED FROM SHAKER FRAME) AND STRUCK HIM IN THE BACK OF HIS NECK. HE WAS WEARING A HARD HAT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING AND MOVING A 18 HP, MINE WATER PUMP FROM THE NO#3 BELT HEAD TO ANOTHER LOCATION, AT THIS TIME HE EXPERIENCED LOWER BACK PAIN, I,NAME HAS HAD PREVIOUS BACK PROBLEMS IN THE PAST, AND HAS HAD A BACK OPERATION. HE IS NOW IN THE HOSPITAL BEING TREATED FOR KIDNEY COMPLICATION, NOT FROM A BACK INJURY. THE DOCTORS OFFICE SAID THAT HE MAY HAVE BACK PROBLEMS FROM A PREVI

STELLED OUT OF WATCHMAN S BUS AND SLIPPED ON ICE FALLING DIRECTLY ON HIS BOTTOM WHICH HURT HIS BACK. IT HAD SNOWED ABOUT 6 INCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING SHEETS OF LINER. THE HAND CLAMPS SLIPPED OFF AND HE FELT SOMETHING TEAR IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER. HE THEN FELL DOWN.

EMPL WAS REMOVING LID TO ALCHOLHOL BOW. AIR PRESSURE CAUSED METAL DRAIN COCK TO STRIKE FINGER.

WHILE SURVEYING TOE OF 1401 BLAST IN CD III, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS LEFT FOOT. HE CONTINUED TO MOVE ALONG TOE AND TWISTED HIS LEFT FOOT A FEW MORE TIMES WHEN HIS FOOTING BR OKE THROUGH THE ICE. DIAGNOSIS SPRAIN LEFT FOOT.FROM WORK.

EMPL WAS BEING LOADED IN PIT WHEN PIT LOADER LOADED BIG ROCK ON EUCLID CAUSING TRUCK TO SWERVE THROWING ;EMPL INTO SIDE OF DOOR.

TORNADO RING FELL OVER AND PINNED I,NAME UNDER IT, SMASHING HIS FOOT AND SCRAPING HIS CHIN AND ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGED HURT LOWER PART OF BACK WHILE TIGHTENING BRAKES ON RAILROAD.

INJURED WAS UNLOADING ROCK DUST FROM DERESEL MANSTRIP WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING A SHARP PAIN IN UPPER BACK.

GOT OUT OF MINER TO ASIST MECHANIC RAN HEAD IN LOW BROW OF BOOM HOLE AND HURT NECK AND TOP OF HEAD HEAD ACHES AND STIFFNESS

HANDLING MINER CABLE UP ON TAIL OF MINER STRAINED LOW BACK BEGAN MISSING TIME ON 3-11-89 SURGERY

INJURED STEPPED OVER AN I BEAM PART OF STRUCTURE & TWISTED HIS KNEE THIS ACCIDENT WAS FIRST REPORTED ON MSHA FORM 7000-1 ON 072988 HOWEVER EMPLOYEE DID NOT LOOSE TI ME UNTIL 022289

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING AN ANGLE IRON, IMPROPERLY AND IT CAUGHT PULLING HIS RIGHT THUMB INTO THE GRINDING WHEEL.

EMPL STATED THAT WHLE WALKING HE STEPPED IN MUD UP TO THE TOP OF HIS BOOT LOST BALANCE AND TWISTED HIS BACK

PUT BUCKET OF END LOADER INTO COAL PILE SEAT BROKE AT BRACKET HIT MAN IN MIDDLE BACK

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS SHOVELING ON THE BELT AND HIS BACK STARTED HURTING.

BACK BEGIN HURTING WHILE DRIVING A ROCK TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE HAD JUST DISMOUNTED FROM THE FORKLIFT IN THE YARD AND WALKED ABOUT 8 TO 10 FT AND STEPPED IN A RUT AND FELL DOWN AND LANDED ON BOTH HIS HANDS.

WAS HAND CRANKING AND CHOCKING WATER PUMP ENGINGE. WHEN ENGINE STARTS THE HAND CRANK SHOULD RELEASE, BUT IT DID NOT AND CONTIOUED TO TURN AROUND WRENCHING MY ARM AND SHOULDER.

WHILE LOADING ROOF BOLT PLATES, HE LEANED DOWN TO PUSH SOME PLATES IN SCOOP BUCKET AND STRINED BACK.

STANIDN ON SCAFFOLDING WELDED BRACE BROKE CAUSING TWO MEN AND PLANKING TO FALL 8'.

DRILLED STARTER STEEL UP PUT FINISHER STEEL I HOLE WITH PUSHER STEEL IN DRIL HEAD PUT UP PRESSURE ON HEAD TO COUPLE STEEK PUSHER STEEL AND FINISHER DID NOT ALIGN AND CAUGHT R. AHND BETWEEN PUS HER AND MINE ROOF.

EMPL WAS CHANGING OIL IN THE REAR ENGINE OF SCAPER HE BENT OVER TO REMOVE THE FILTER LOST HIS BALNCE AND FELL

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING AN ENGINE STAND INTO THE BACK OF A PICKUP AT THE GARAGE HIS FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE STAND & A DRUM THAT WAS IN THE BACK OF THE TRUCK STITCHES WERE REQUIRED

CLIMBING ON LOADER BUCKET TO RELEASE CABLE.

FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK LIFTING SUPPLY CAR TONGUE EXTENSION.EXAMINED AND TREATED BY DR.,CHIRO ON 2-27 NO LOST WORK DAYS.DR ADVISED MAN TO BE OFF WORK BEGINNING 3-2 -LOST WORK DAYS BEGINNING TH IS DATE.

EMPL WAS DIRECTING CRANE LOADER WHILE UNLOADING BEARING FOR 7250 DRAGLINE. BEARING FELL & EMPL JUMPED OFF TRUCK & FRACTURED LEFT ARM WHEN HE HIT GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING THE NO.3 HEADING AND HAS JUST INSTALLED THE FIRST ROW OF BOLTS. HE APPARENTLY WAS MOVING THE ROW OF TEMPORARY SUPORTS AT THE ROW OF BOLTS HE HAD JUST INSTALLED WHEN A LARG E SLICKEN-SIDED ROCK FELL CATCHING HIS LEG. THE ROCK MEASURED APPROX. 9' LONG X 21"-43" WIDE, X 8"-13" IN THICKNESS.

INJURED WAS OPERATING A REMOTE CONTROLLED CONTINUOUS MINER MMV 006-0 H-PANEL WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK 4" THICK, 10" WIDE AND 18" LONG FELL FROM BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS AND HIT INJURED ON RIGHT SIDE ON HEAD. INJURED DID NOT LEAVE WORK, BUT SAW DOCTOR THE NEXT MORNING.

FOREIGN BODY IN L EYE DOES NO;T KNOW EXACT CUIIRCUMSTANCES OF HOW IT GOT THERE.

STOPPED SCOOP QUICK AND HIT BACK ON SCOOP

EMPL STATED THAT HE WAS SHOVELING 3 WEST MAINS DRIVE AND EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS BACK

EMPL CLEANING HOSES AFTER PUMPING AND WATER WITH CEMENT IN IT SPRAYED INTO EYE CAUSING INFECTION.

ROOF BOLTER WAS SCALING PIECE OF ROCK WHEN ANOTHER PIECE FELL BEHIND HIM & HIT HEAD & NECK.

HE WAS IN PROCESS OF MOVING PORTAL BUS SO HE COULD GET TO AND UNLOAD CARS OF CRIB BLOCKS. WHEN HE GOT OFF THE PORTAL BUS HE STEPPED ON A AIRLINE, TWISTING HIS LEFT ANKLE.

WHILE ROOF BOTLING A KETTLEBOTTOM FELL FROM THE ROOF MASHING HIS RIGHT RING FINGER AGTAINST THE BOLTER BOOM. THIS INJURY REG 4 SUTURES.

WHILE WALKING IN LOW AREA MAN FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPL WAS ROOFBOLTING A PLACE THAT HAD FELL OUT WHEN HE WAS STRUCK ON THE ANTERIOR SIDE OF HIS R LOWER LEG BY A PIECE OF SLATE THAT FELL FROM THE ROOF HIS LEG WAS ABRAISED AND BRUISED EMPL DID NOT BEGIN TO MISS WORK UNTIL 2-28-89

WHILE STANDING ON SCAFFOLDING WELDED BROKE CAUSING TWO MEN & PLANKING TO FALL 8'.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICE WHILE WALKING ACROSS THE PARKING LOT AND WRENCHED HIS BACK.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS TAKING 1ST LEFT OFF OF #36 PILLAR BLOCK, TURNING MINER TO THE LEFT, PUTTING THE MINER IN THE RIGHT RIB. A RIB TURNED OVER, STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT ANKLE, THAT WAS OUT OF MINER DECK.

DRAW ROCK FELL FROM TOP STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT SIDE OF NECK.

WALKING AROUND ROOF BOLTER SLIPPED AND FELL ON MINE FLOOR CAUSING HIM TO HURT LEFT SHOULDER.

LIFITING BAG OF ROCK DUST FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

P-6 SECTION MAN RAMMING OUT PANLINE - STEPPING FROM SHIELD PONTOON TO PONTOON - STEPPED TONEXT PONTOON WITH RIGHT FOOT AND LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF PONTOON HE WAS ON - LEFT KNEE TWISTED INWARD.

THE INJURED WAS OPERATING HIS DOZER NEAR THE HIGHWALL WHEN MUD AND ROCK SLID OFF THE BANK AND STRUCK THE DOZER CAUSING THE OPERATOR TO STRIKE HIS HEAD ON THE CANOPY.

PULLING SHIELDS ON LONGWALL WHEN A ROCK FELL BETWEEN THE SHIELDS STRIKING HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPL STATED HE WAS SHOVELING BELT WHEN THE SHOVEL SLIPPED AND CAUSED HIS HAND TO STRIKE THE GUARD FRAME FOR THE TAKE UP

EMPL WAS INJURED WHILE CUTTING ON LOADER BOOM THAT LOWERED ON HIM PINNING HIM TO GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS OFF-LOADING A BANDED UNIT OF ARMORED CRIBBING FROM THE DECK OF A SERVICE HOIST CAGE. AS HE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO MOVE THE LOAD CLEAR OF THE SIDE OF THE CAGE, THE TIMBER TONGS HOL DING THE LOAD SLIPPED. HE "JUMPED BACK" FROM THE LOAD AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK IN THE PROCESS.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 215C JOY SHUTTLE CAR TRANSPORTING COAL. SHUTTLE CAR EITHER HIT A PIECE OF COAL ON ROADWAY OR HIT A LOW PLACE CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO BE JOLTED FROM THE SEAT AND BACK DOWN THEREFORE CAUSING DAMAGE TO CARTILAGE AROUND RIBS - NO BROKEN BONES OR OTHER INJURIES. INJURY CAUSED SOLELY BY BODILY MOTION.

HE WAS CLEANING A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WITH A WIRE BRUSH BEFORE STARTING TO WELD. A PIECE OF RUST FLEW INTO HIS EYE.

WHILE STANDING BESIDE CUTTING MACHINE VICTIM STATED CUTTER BACKED UP & RAN OVER FOOT.

ON MAY 19,1989,THE EMPLOYEE SUBMITTED AN ACCIDENT REPORT REGARDING A STRAINED BACK.IN FEBRUARY,HIS BACK WAS SORE AFTER A COLD DAY IN THE SLURRY BUILDING.MECHANICS WERE DIGGING OUT A TUNNEL TO REPAIR A WATER LINE AND SEVERAL LIFTS WERE REQUIRED OF PUMPS,MOTORS,AND PIPES.THERE WAS NO SPECIFIC ACCIDENT YET AT DAY'S END HIS BACK WAS SORE.HIS PHYSICIAN PROVIDED HIM WITH A BACK BRACE FOR

I NAME WAS PULLING WATER HOSE BACK FROM CUTTER & HIS KNEE WENT OUT CAUSING SWELLING TO THE LEFT KNEE

INJURED STATES HE WAS TRY ING TO OPEN THE SLIDING DOOR OF A BANTAM CRANE THE DOOR STUCK WHEN HE PUSHED HARD ON THE DOOR HE PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN HANDLE OF DOOR & SIDE OF CRANE CAB

PICKING UP GRATE AND PULLED A MUSCLE.

TONGUE ON TRAILER TOOL BOX BROKE

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CLEANING THE MIXER. HE WAS HOLDING THE MIXER DRUM IN THE DUMP POSITION WITH HIS FOOT. THE MIXER WAS TURNED ON TO CLEAN OUT THE MATERIAL. THE MIXER LOCKE D UP AND THE MIXER WAS PULLED BACK INTO REGULAR POSITION PUSHING INJURED BACKWARDS. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL INTO MANHOLE WHERE MATERIAL WAS TO STRUCK HIS RIB CAGE.

HE WAS ASSIGNED TO PLANT MAINTENANCE AND WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING FROZEN MATERIAL FROM THE CONVEYOR BELT SO THAT NEW SKIRT BOARDS COULD BE INSTALLED. HE WAS STANDING ON THE CONVEYOR WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ABOUT 3 FT TO THE GROUND.

HE AND TWO OTHER MEN WERE OPENING THE DISCHARGE CHUTE FROM THE NORTH DIESTER. AFTER LIFTING THE TOP CHUTE WITH A CHERRY PICKER THEY HOOKED A CHAIN TO THE BATTEN ONE. AS THEY STARTED TO LIFT IT THE CHUTE CAUGHT AND WOULD NOT RAISE ANY MORE. HE HAD THE OPERATOR LOWER THE CHUTE BUT IT DID NOT MOVE. HE PUT HIS HEAD NEXT TO THE CHUTE TO SEE WHAT WAS KEEPING IT FROM RAISING. THE CHUTE SU

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING WELDER.

VICTIM TOLD SUPERVISOR ON 2-16, THAT HE HAD WRENCHED HIS BACK ON THREE OCCASSIONS PREVIOUS TO THAT DATE. AT THAT TIME AN ACCIDENT REPORT INTERNAL WAS FILLED OUT. VICTIM REINJURED HIS BACK ON 2 -22. AT THAT TIME HE STARTED HE HAD SEEN A DR DURING HIS DAY OFF, AND THAT HE WAS TAKING PRESCRITION MUSCLE RELAXANTS.

I NAME WAS LIFTING A METAL PLATFORM UP DURING THIS WORK ACTIVITY I NAME ALLEGEDLY PULLED MUSCLES ON HIS LEFT SIDE CHEST & ABDOMEN

EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A CROSSTIE & PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT SIDE

THE CREW HAD FINISHED DRILLING A HOLE AND WERE PULLING THE DRILL PIPE OUT OF HOLE TO LOAD ONTO SERVICE TRUCK. THE DRILL PIPE TONG UNLATCHED AND ROD DROPPED ONTO LEFT SIDE OF EMPLOYEE'S HARD HA T. EMPLOYEE HAS A BROKEN VERTABREA IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WENT DOWN A LADDER INTO A RAIL CAR. LADDER TILTED AND TO AVOID FALLING, EMPLOYEE GRABBED THE TOP OF THE HOPPER CAR, STRAINING RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TOWARD THE WALKWAY THAT GOES OVER THE PUMP ROOM. HE TRIPPED OVER A WELDING LEAD THAT WAS ON THE FLOOR BETWEEN THE HANDRAIL AND WEMCO. EMPLOYEE FELL TOWARD THE FLOOR AND PUT HIS RIGHT HAND OUT TO CATCH HIMSELF WHICH RESULTED IN INJURY.

THE INJURED WAS STANDING ON A 4 FT STEP LADDER WENT TO STEP DOWN THE LADDER AND KICKED OUT FROM UNDER HIM, HE FELL AND HIT HIS HIP AND LOWER BACK ON THE LADDER AND FELL TO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WALKED THROUGH A DOOR IN A CINDER BLOCK STOPING AND A CINDER BLOCK FELL FROM OVER TOP OR DOOR AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON NECK AND SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE STATED AFTER PLUGS WERE INSTALLED ON SCOOP HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE DISMOUNTING FROM SCOOP.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF TOP OF SWING ONTO DRAIN PIPE, FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND HIT HIS RIGHT SIDE ON THE SWING CASE. BRUISED RIBS AND PULLED MUSCLE AROUND RIBS.

EMPL WAS PUTTING BELT CHAIN BACK UP AND WHEN LIFTED BELT ROPE HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK

EMPL SLIPED WHEN CARRYING 40# STEEL PLATE DOWN STAIRS IN GARAGE.

INJURY WAS CAUSED WHEN PERSON STEPPED FROM RAIL FLAT CAR DOWN ONTO PAVEMENT.

EMPL WALKING NEAR WAREHOUSE AREA SLIPPED ON ICE AND FELL BRUISING LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE A SECTION OF SCHED. PIPE FROM THE PIPE RACK SO A LOADER COULD PICK UP. THE PIPE SPUN AROUND, FELL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT LEG AND FOOT.

MAN WAS WORKING ON BOTTOM OF SHAFT HOOKING UP PANNING WHEN A ROCK FELL OFF THE RIB AND HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT LEG AND ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STAIRS WHEN HIS FOOT GOT CAUGHT AND HE SLIPPED AND FELL INJURING HIS KNEE.

TRYING TO FIX OIL LEAK ON BOLTER WHEN LARGE ROCK FELL. SUTURES.

INJURED WAS WALKING FROM THE PORTAL OF THE MINE, APPARENTLY STEPPED WRONG AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE AND LOWER PART OF RIGHT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPORTING FOR WORK AFTER BRUSHING THE SNOW FROM HOOD OF HER CAR EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING & SLIPPED & FELL STRIKING HER LEFT ARM ON THE CAR CAUSING A FX TO THE UPPER LEFT ARM

WHILE LOADING ROCK INTO A SUPPLY CAR THE INJURED EMPLOYEE HAD HIS LEFT HAND PINCHED BETWEEN A PIECE OF ROCK & SUPPLY CAR

I NAME STEPPED IN FROZEN END LOADER CLEAT MARK AND JAMMED HIS ANKLE THIS IS AN AGGRAVATION OF A PREVIOUS INJURY OF 1-18-89 COPY OF 7000-1 FROM IS ATTACHED

INJURED WAS RUNNING MACHINE MOTOR WHEN LOADS IN FRONT OF HIM WRENCHEDD CASEN HIM TO RUN INTO REAR WRENCHED CAR RESULTING IN AN INJURY TO HIS THOGH. THREW MAN AGAINST BRAKE WHEEL AND FRAME OF MOTOR.

MOTORAMN FAILLED TO STOP LOCO AS IT APPROACHED VENTIL DOOR MECHANIC WELDONG ON . MECH. ATTEMPTED TO JUMP CLEAR BUT R. ARM GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN LOCO AND MINE TIMBER.

REACHED UP TO GET STEAL OUT OF BOLTER HEAD AND HIT LEVER AND RAISE DD PINNER HEAD UP AND CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN TOP AND PINNER HEAD.

PUT HAND ON POWER ROLLER GLOVE GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN ROLLERS & PULLED HAND INTO ROLLER

LEANED OUT OF DRILL TO CHANGE DRILL PIPE LOST FOOTING AND FELL OUT OF DRILL, HURTING LEFT ELBOW AND FOREARM. RAINING AT TIME OF INJURY.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST FINSIHED DUMP LOAD ROCK BY CRUSHER AND WAS ON WAY BACK INTO MINE WHEN A PARTIALLY RAISED BED CAUGHT ON CEILING OF MINE ENTRANCE CAUSING THE TRUCK TO COME TO A SUDDEN STOP. SU DDEN STOP CAUSED EMPLOYEE TO HIT STEERING WHEEL AND DASH INJURING RIGHT LOWER RIBS.

BENT OVER TO PICK UP ROOF BOLT.

MAN STATED THAT HE WAS TRYING TO BOLT SOME LOOSE TOP AND THE TOP BROKE UP AND FELL STRIKING HIS HEAD,NOSE AND SHOULDERS-HE SAID THE TOP WAS WHITE ROCK WITH HIDEN SULFUR BALLS AND IF YPU WEREN' T CAREFUL SCALING,YOU COULD PULL A WHOLE INTERSCECTION IN-HE THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE BETTER BOLTED UP DUE TO ITS SIZE BUT HE MISJUDGED IT.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BESIDE BOLTER WHILE IT WAS BEING MOVED WHEEL RAN OVER TOES.

EMPLOYEE WAS WAITING FOR HIS TRUCK TO BE LOADED WHEN HE DESCNDED HIS TRUCK.HE WALKED AROUND TO THE BACK OF HIS TRUCK,SLIPPED ON ICE AND FELL BREAKING HIS HIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A SHAFT MOUNTED REDUCER AND TAPPING IT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER.THE ELECTRICAL MOTOR WAS NOT BOTTOMED DOWN.THE VIBRATION MADE THE MOTOR SLIDE AND STRIKE THE EMPLOYEE.

EMPL WAS MOVING A LARGE ANFO POT TO PREPARE TO MOVE IT IN AN LHD BUCKET WHILE TURNING THE POT THE POT CAME OFF BALANCE AND THE HANDLE STRUCK HIM ON HIS L RIBS THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A CONTU SION TO HIS L RIBS CAUSING HIM TO LOSE TIME FROMWORK

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVIG HYDRAULIC HOSE FROM POWER SHOVEL HOSE BURST AND SPRAYED HOT HYDRAULIC OIL IN HIS FACE AND EYES.

INJURED STATES HE WAS WALKING FROM T-I JUNCTION TO RESCREEN HE SLIPPED & FELL ON ICE LANDING ON LEFT SIDE

EE WAS PUSHING A MOP WITH THE PALM OF HIS HAND. THE COP CAUGHT ON A BIN CAUSING INJURY TO RIGHT HAND. HE WAS LATER DIAGNOSED AS HAVING CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME AND SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY ON 7-5-8 9. HE LAST WORKED ON 7-5-89. THIS INJURY WAS DETERMINED TO BE WORK RELATED ON 8-28-89.

INJURED WAS COMING DOWN LADDER FROM 1581 PRODUCTION TRUCK. RIGHT FOOT WAS ON GROUND & LEFT FOOT ON LADDER. RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED ON ICE & TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.

THE INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS ABCK WHILE HE WAS LOADING MINE TIMBERS FROM A SHASUPPLY CAR ONTO THE BUCKET OF A SCOOP.

CLAIMANT WAS BUILDING A STOPPING IN THE #1 HEADING ON 11 RIGHT. HE WAS PUTTING THE CORNER BLOCK IN THE TIP OF THE STOPPING. A OVERHANG LET LOOSE HITTING HIM IN THE SIDE OF THE HEAD CUTTING HIS RIGHT EAR, ALSO SAID HIS NECK AND SHOULDER WERE HURTING.

I,NAME WAS OPERATING A PORTAL BUS THAT GOT OUT OF CONTROL WHILE TRAVELING DOWN A STEEP GRADE, HE WA ADVISED TO STAY IN THE BUS BY HIS FOREMAN, BUT HE JUMPED OUT OF THE BUS AND LANDED ON HIS RI GHT SHOULDER. I,NAME WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND RECEIVED 6 STITCHES IN HIS RIGHT ARM AND ALSO HAD SEVERAL BRUISES. NO BONES WERE BROKEN.

PICKED UP & LIFTED PIECE OF STEEL PLATE FROM GROUND & PUT IT ON A TABLE TO BE CUT IN DOING SO RESULTED IN ACUTE LUMBO-SACRAL MUSCLE SPRAIN & SPASMS SAW DR ON 22ND 23RD & WAS RELEASED AS PHYSIC ALLY ABLE TO RETURN TO WORK ON FEB 24TH

POSITION ROCK IN CRUSHR JAW

TRYED TO PASS BETWEEN SCOOP AND COAL RIB WAITED FOR SCOOP TO CLEAR, OPER TOOOK OFF CAUGHT HIM AGAINST THE RIB

EMPL ON TOP OF CRUSHER PUTTING ON DUST COVER.STEPPED OFF AND PARTIALLY BURIED SAUCER PLATE AND TWISTED FOOT.

OPERATOR COMPLAINED ABOUT LOADER BEING TOO LOOSE THEREFORE CREATING A JERKING MOTION WHEN IN OPERATION I UNDERSTAND THE OPERATORS BACK PROBLEM ORIGINATED FROM A PREVIOUS PROLEM BEFORE HE START ED WORKING WITH OUR COMPANY DAMAGE OR INJURY APPARENTLY WAS MINIMAL BECAUSE ONLY 1 DAY MISSED

DURING MAINT. WORK PC OF STEEL BECAME LODGED IN THE MIDDLE FINGER OF HI S RIGHT HAND.

DUMPING LOAD LIGNITE OFF TRUCK HYDRAULIC HOSE BLEW APART CAUSNG RAM OIL UNDRER PRESSURE TO STRIKE BACK WINDOW SSHTTERING BACK WINDOW BLOWING OUT FRONT WINDOW.

COMING DOWN STIRS FROM SPOKANE ABOUT SECOND OR THIRD STEP I STIPPED ON ROCK MY LEG W TWISTED I STARTED TO FALL I GRABBED THE STAIR RAILING STOPPED MYSELF FORM GOING ALL WAY TO BOTTO M. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.

CLEANING UP AROUND TRUCK DUMP SHOVELING COAL AND BENT OVER TO PICK UP LOOSE COAL AND INJURED LOWER BACK.

HOLDING STEEL FOR WELDER OP

WAS CLIMBING OFF D8L CAT,DOZER,FOOT SLIPPED OFF STEP GOING DOWN AND FELL AND HIT GROUND WITH LEFT ARM FRACTURING LEFT ELBOW.

HYDRALIC HOSE ON CATERPILLAR D8K RUPTURED & SPRAYED OIL ON TURBO. THE OIL FLASHED & CAUGHT FIRE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED BURNS ON FACE EXITING MACHINE.

GETTING OUT OF DOZER FEET SLIPPED OUT FORM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON LEG.

I NAME A ROCK TRUCK DRIVER WAS HAULING A LOAD OF OVERBURDEN WHEN HER TRUCK STRUCK A POT HOLE IN THE HAULROAD. SHE WAS BOUNCED AROUND IN THE CAB.

HE WAS RUNNING THE CRUSHER WHEN HE TURNED FROM THE SURGE LINE TOWARDS THE WOBBLERS, SOMETHINBG HIT HIM IN THE LEFT EYE.

HE WAS TAKING A BOX DOWNSTAIRS ON A TWO-LEVEL TWO-WHEEL CART WHEN HE FELT A STRAIN IN HIS BACK.

MINER TOOK UNSAFE POSITION WHEN HE STARTED TO BEND OVER TO PICK UP A WATER HOSE.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING A DAMAGED SECTION OF BARNEY ON THE RILL ELECTRICAL BOX. A PICK UP HAD BEEN POSTIONED TO PROVIDE LIGTHING IN THE ARE. THE PICK UP ROLLED AHEAD, STRICKI NG THE ELECTRICAL BOX IN THE PROCESS, IT PINNED THE EMPLOYEE BETWEEN THE PICK UP BUMPER AND ELECTICAL BOX.

VICTIM AND TWO CO WORKERS WERE LIFTING A SHUTTLE CAR CABLE REEL ONTO THE BED OF A DIESEL TELETRAM WHEN HE INJURED THE SHIFT OF HIS LEFT RING FINGER PROXIMAL TO THE HAND. VICTIM FURTHER STATED THAT HE BELIEVED THE INJURY OCCURRED WHEN HIS FINGER WAS CAUGHT BET3WEEN THE CABLE REEL AND THE LEFT SIDE OF THE TELETRAM BED.

HE WAS REPLACING A HYD PUMP ON A 484 S&S SCOOP. HE WAS TRYING TO HOLD UP A HOSE WITH A PIECE OF WIRE WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED AND RAN THE WIRE IN HIS HAND.

STRAINED BACK LIFTING TIMBER.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS WORKING ON THE BOTTOM BELT DRIVE AND AS HE LIFTED ON THE CHAIN HIS BACK STARTED HURTING.

WHILE EMPLOYEE SERVICED MINER, HE PICKED UP A FULL 5 GALLON HYDRAULIC OIL CAN AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT ELBOW.

WHILE MOVING THE BOLTER THE LEFT TRAM LEVER STRUCK CAUSING THE BOLTER TO SPIN AND STRICKING HIM WITH THE BOOM.

MAN FITTING UP PIPE WITH COME A LONG PULLED OR STRAINED MUSCLE IN SIDE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SCRAPING PAINT OFF OF A CRUSHER SHOOT, WHEN A CHIP OF PAINT FLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

EMPL WAS PERFORMING ROUTINE WORK UNLOADING TIMBER CRIBBING FROM A TIMBER TRUCK HE COMPLAINED OF A SORE BACK AND VISITED A DR THE NEXT DAY HE IS STILL OFF WORK A DIAGNOSIS IS STILL NOT ESTABLIS HED EVEN AFTER CAT SCAN AND MRI

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS BREAKING A CINDER BLOCK WITH AN AXE AND HE STRUCK HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER WITH THE FLAT SIDE OF THE AXE.

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PULLING CABLE WITH JEEP LOOP CAUGHT FOOT CASUING HIM TO FALL ON HIS LEFT SIDE, LNADED ON LEFT RESCURER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND OIL TRUCK HIS RIGHT FOOT GOT STUCK IN MUD, CAUSING HIM TO FALL FORWARD.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNDER SHOVEL IN CAR BODY HOLDING LEFT SWING TRANSMISSION BOLT WHILE ON HIS BACK WITH HIS FEET PROPPED UP. HIS FEET SLIPPED WHILE REACHING FOR BOLT.

EMPL WALKING TOWARDS "A" SHAFT STEPPED ON UNEVEN GROUND.FELT SOMETHING SNAP IN TOP OF RIGHT FOOT.HAS TORN LIGAMENT OF RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS BLASTING COAL FROM FACE WHEN AK SMALL CHUNK OF CLAY HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE TEMPLE AREA EMPLOYEE DID NOT PLACE HIMSELF IN A SAFE PLACE BEFORE BLASTING EMPLOYEE WAS TRANSPORTED TO HOSP ITAL & RETURNED TO WORK ON 022389

WHILE CARRYING A BAG OF ROCKDUST INTO THE BELTDRIVE AREA THE INJURED EMPLOYEE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT BACK AREA

EMPL SWINGING 10 LB MAUL TO OPEN VALVE ON NO 2 SUCTION UNDERFLOW PUMP.MAUL MISSED KNOCKER ARM AND AS EMPL FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH SWING HE PULLED OR STRAINED LEFT SHOULDER JOINT.

DISASSEMBLING MAXI BRAKE CLINDER.

I NAME STATED THAT HE WAS CRAWLING TO GET A SCOOP WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIS BACK CAUSING HIS RIBS TO BE BRUISED OR CRACKED.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS TIGHTENING XXXXWANGER WITH CRESCENT WRENCH WRENCH SLIPPED & FELL PULLING RT CALF MUSCLE

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS LIFTING A PIECE OF METAL AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

INJURED WAS STANDING NEAR THE PILLAR LINE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CONT MINER WHICH HAD JUST FINISHED TAKING THE FIRST LIFT CUT TO THE LEFT WHEN A PICE OF RIB 1"THICK 55"HIGH AND 17' LONG FELL ONTO HIM.

WHILE EMPL WAS WORKING ON DRAGLINE, RUST WAS BLOWN INTO CONRER OF RIGHT EYE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES BUT HIGH WINDS BLEW RUST PAST THEM.

EMPL WAS CHANGIONG OUT SEPARATOR BLADE AND STRAINED HIS BACK IT WAS BERY CRAMPED QUARTERS AND USED ALOT OF FORCE WITH PUSHEING AND PULLING BLAD SEVERE STRAIN L-S SPINE

EMPLOYEE WAS ADDING CHEMICAL TO (NOT READABLE)EMPLOYEE OPENED BALL VALVE AND SMALL RUBBER HOSE CONTAINING CHEMICAL WHIPPED BACK AND SPLASHED CHEMICAL INTI EMPLOYEES RIGHT EYE.LOST TIME ACCIDEN T.

IN PROCESS OF EMPTYING TRASH BARRELS FORM SHOP 2 BARRELS HAD BEEN TAKEN OUT ONTO WAREHOUSE DOCK TO BE DUMPED INTO LG TRASH DU MPSTER. ACCESS TO DUMPTSTER FORM DOCK SIDE WAS BLOCKED BY LARGE TR ANSFROMER THEREFORE AT THE TRASH IN DOING SO STRAINED MUSCLES IN BACK.

THE BELT CREW WERE ADDING BELT ONTO THE 3RD EAST BELT AND HE WAS UNDER THE BELT ATTEMPTING TO LIFT IT WITH HIS BACK AND WHEN HE LIFTED HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

THE INJURED WAS RUNNING THE 988 LOADER AND DID NOT MOVE HIS SEAT FORWARD TO FIT HIM PROPERLY,RESULTING IN LOWER BACK PAIN.

HE WAS LOADING ROCKDUST BAGS INTO WAGNERS BUCKET. HE FELT PAIN IN LWOER BACK WHEN HE WENT TO LIFT LAST BAG OF DUST.

EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY PANIC BAR AGAINST RIGHT KNEE WHILE REPOSTIONING THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE. THIS EPORT WAS DELAYED PENDING THE OUTCOME OF INVESTIGATION.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING ON AN AIR MOVER, HE TURNED ON THE WRONG AIR VALVE AND ANOTHER HOSE CAME UP STRIKING HIM ON THE FACE. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A SEVERE AVULSION AND LACERATION, LOWE R LIP; SEVERE DENTAL INJURY AND DISPLACED INCISORS, CAUSING HIM TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A TOOL CAR, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT GROIN. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN AN ACUTE RIGHT INGUINAL HERNIA. HE WAS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY AND IS NOW A LOST T IME INJURY.

I NAME & I NAME WERE BUILDING A BRATTICE ON #2 UNIT RETURN THEY ROLLED A RUN OF BLACK OVER IN THE SUPPLY TRAILER & I NAME ARM STARTED HURTING

ATTCH;WORKING AT QUARRY.I.NAME DRIVING HIGH-LOADER & EMPL STOOD IN TRUCK TRAILER ON TOP OF ROCK BEING LOADED.FREEZING RAIN MADE ROCK SLICK.RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED FORWARD & DOWN ALONG SLOPE OF LOAD .EMPL TWISTED TO LEFT AND LANDED ON BUTTOCKS.FELT PULLING SENSATION IN CENTER OF LOW BACK...DURING COURSE OF NEXT WORK DAY,..BACK BECAME MORE PAINFUL.NEXT AM,..FELT SEVERE,PIERCING PAIN IN SA

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING AND REMOVING ROCKS FROM PIPE WRECK WHERE TRAILERS CLUMP AND INJURED HIS BACK BENDING OVER.

EMPLOYEE WAS LILFTING A WOOD BAR(6X6X16)ON TWO SEPERATE OCCASIONS ON THE SAME DAY WHEN HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK/HE AND ANOTHER WORKER WERE LOADING WOOD BARS INTO A BELT TAILPIECE TO MAKE A B ELT MOVE.THEY WENT TO ANOTHER LOCATION TO LOAD ANOTHER WOOD BAR WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN TO THE OTHER WORKER.HE COMPLETED THE SHIFT AND SAW HIS DR ON THE FOLLOWING DAY.

INJURED STATED HE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF THE DECK OF A MINE JEEP AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

CRAWLING UNDER PAN HOUSE AREA STUCK A NAIL IN KNEE CAP AREA. GOING TO SERVICE OILER ON FAN WHEN THIS HAPPENED.

WAS UNLAODING MOTOR OFF OF FLATBED TRUCK CHAIN SLIPPED & HE LOST BALANCE FELL DOWN ONTO HIS BACK.

BUILDING STOPPING HIT LEFT THUMB WITH HAMMER.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON HIS WAY OUT OF MINE AT END OF SHIFT. HIS HAND WAS RESTING ON SAFETY POST OF JEEP. AN OBSTACLE IN ROADWAY WAS HIT BY JEEP TRAPPING HIS HAND BETWEEN SAFETY POST AND TOP OF MINE.

INJURED WAS OPERATING PAN AND AS HE WAS COMING DOWN HILL PICKING UP SLATE HE TWISTED HIS BODY AROUND AND HIT A BUMP IN TRAEL WAY AND HURT HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST FINISHED M OVING THE FEEDER BREAKER INTO POSITION WITH HIS CREW. WHEN INSTALLING THE SIDE BOARDS, THE HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO METAL PLATES CAUSING A BRUISE IN THE WRIST.

WHILE EMPL WAS USING AN OVERHEAD HOIST TOLOWER A CHUTE TO THE FLOOR THE CHUTE SHIFTED WHEN IT REACHEDS THE FLOOR AND ROLLED OVER ONTO HIS FOOT THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN AN UNDISPLACED FRACTURE OF THE 2ND AND 3RD LEFT METATERSALS CAUSING HIMTO LOSE TIME FROM WORK

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE GRABBED ANODE EAR TO BREAK IT LOOSE FROM CATHODE. IT CAME LOOSE AND DROPPED BACK INTO PLACE ON TRIANGLE BAR ON TOP OF HIS HAND CRUSHING AND LACERATING IT.

MAINEAST. VICTIM WAS UNLOADING ARMOR CLAD TIES FROM SUPPLY CAR. WHEN STARTING TO PICK ONE UP, ANOTHER PERSON PULLED A TIE DOWN OFF A STACK HITTING VICTIM'S LITTLE FINGER.

STRAINED LOWER PART OF BACK UNLOADING GENERAL INSIDE SUPPLIES.MED;FLEXERIL,MOTRIN.

I NAME WAS LOOSENING A PEICE OF BELT STRUCTURE WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED: TRYING TO LOOSEN LUG NUTS ON BUGGY, WRENCH SLIPPED AND FELT KNIFE-LIKE PAIN IN RIGHT LOWER BACK.