Mining Incidents in March 1990

A JOY CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS FATAL ACCIDENT WHEN THE MACHINE INFLICTED CRUSHING INJURIES. DUE TO THE IMPROPER BODY POSITIONING OF THE MINER OPERATOR (THE FATAL VICTIM).

VICTIM WALKED INTO THE #3 ENTRY LEFT CROSSCUT TO TALK TO ROOF BOLTER OPERATORS. AFTER A BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH ONE OF THE OPERATORS, HE WALKED INTO THE #3 HEADING. A ROOF FALL OCCURRED WHIC H EXTENDED PAST THE PERMANENT SUPPORT FATALLY INJURING THE VICTIM.

THE VICTIM HAD ALREADY TAKEN 1 CUT OUT OF #5 ENTRY AND IT WAS THEN BOLTED. HE AGAIN RE-ENTERED THE FACE AND HAD MINED THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ENTRY. HE WAS MINING THE RIGHT SIDE AND HAD TRAVELE D APPROXIMATELY 11 FEET BEYOND THE LAST ROW OF ROOF BOLTS, WHEN AN AREA OF ROOF (ABOUT 8 INCHES THICK, 11 FEET WIDE AND 18 FEET LONG) FELL ONT EH MIENR CRUSHING THE VICTIM IN THE DECK OF THE M

MANITOWOC CRANE MODEL #4100W SERIES 11 45 SHEETS OF ROOFING MATERIAL SUSPENDED LOAD FOR UNKNOWN REASON FELL TO GROUND HITTING EMPLOYEE.

HE FELL FROM 4TH FLOOR OF PREPARATION PLANT, HE APPARENTLY GOT HIS WELDING GLOVE CAUGHT ON METAL CAUSING HIM TO BE DRUG OUT OF DOOR CAUSING INJURY - FATAL.

EMP FAILED TO FOLLOW PROPER PROCEDURE FOR TURNING PONTOONS FOR SAFE ACCESS TO FIND AND MAKE REPAIRS. INSTEAD PONTOON WAS SUSPENDED ON STEEL CHAIN WRAPPED AROUND TWO BUCKET TEETH OF TRACKHOE. A ND CHAIN SLIPPED OFF OF TEETH CAUSING THE PONTOON TO FALL.

EMPL LOADED TRUCK TRAVELED THROUGH ROADSIDE BERM AND OVER 60'EMBANKMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING THE HEAD GATE SHEAR DRUM FROM THE RANGING ARM HUB. THE DRUM SUDDENLY GAVE LOOSE ADN CAUGHT EMLOYEE BETWEEN DRUM AND THE COAL FACE. RESULT WAS FATAL IN JURY TO THE EMPLOYEE.

HAD MASSIVE ROCK FALL, RESTRUCTING PILLARS.

CONTRACTOR HAULING SHALE/FILL FROM MINE TO COMMERCIAL BUILDING SITE. OPERATOR PARKED TRUCK AND ENGAGED PARKING BRAKE AND AIR AXLE. OPERATOR EXITED TRUCK, GOT ONTO 988B LOADER FILLED HIS BUCK ET, BACKED UP AND APPARENTLY SAW TRUCK STARTING TO MOVE. HE STOPPED THE LOADER, WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CLIMBING DOWN LADDER OF LOADER WHEN TRUCK CRUSHED HIM BETWEEN LOADER AND TRUCK.

HE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR AND HE GOT HIS HEAD CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CANOPY OF THE SHUTTLE CAR AND A HALF HEADER.

THE EE SAID THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO STOP A CONTRACTOR FROM INSERTING AT CLOSE DISTANCE TO A LARGE OPENING IN A VESSEL CONTAINING EXTREMELY HOT MATERIALS AND WATERLANCE UP INTO THE BOTTOM CON E OF THE STAGE VESSELL OF THE PREHEATER TOWER WHEN HOT RAW MIX FLUSHED FROM THE VESSELL AND CONTACTED HIM THE CONTRACTOR WHO PERFORMED THE INSERTION AND THE CONTRACTOR FELLOW CONTRACT WORKER

THE INJURED WAS SUPERVISING THE CHANGE-OUT OF 1000' OF BELT WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO LEAN ACROSS THE TAKE-UP TO OBSERVE THE POSITION OF THE HYD CONTROL HANDLE. HE PLACED HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE TAKE -UP CARRIAGE ROPE AND GOT HIS HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROPE AND THE PULLEY AMPUTATING HIS INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS WITH PARTIAL AMPUTATION OF THUMB, RING, AND LITTLE FINGERS.

DONT KNOW CONDITIONS CONTRIBUTING TO INJURY.DR TOLD EMPL HEAVY EQUIP OPERATION CAUSED HERNIAS.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS MOVING STACKER CONVEYOR & RAISED IT WITH A HOIST SO HE COULD REMOVE A PIN ON THE AXLE WHEN HE REACHED TOWARDS THE PIN THE CABLE PULLED THROUGH THE CLEVIS & THE TIP OF H IS 1ST FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE AXLE & THE PIN OF THE STACKER

INSTALLING ROCK GUARDS ON BACKHOE,HOLDING GUARD IN PLACE FELT SOMETHING LIKE MUSCLE PULL ON LEFT SIDE.SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION 4-19-90.

INJURED WAS REMOVING B ATTERY COV ERS FROM WEST VIRGINIA ARMATURE RAILRUNNER & AS HE LIFTED HE FELT PAIN IN GROIN AREA. INJURED BEGAN MISSING WORK 4/24.

STUCK FINGER UNDER SWITCH FOR PANIC BAR ANOTHER EMPLOYEE MASHED LEVER CATCHING FINGER TIP & MASHED IT OFF.

EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING THE SHEAR DRUM BY HAND AND SETTING BITS WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN GROIN AREA. EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 4/13/90.

CLEANING OUT HOPPER DISCHARGE CHUTE TO HOT BELT USING CHANNEL IRON, SURGE OF MATERIAL CAME OUT FORCING CHANNEL DOWN ON MOVING BELT KICKED OTHER END UP THUMB CAUGHT BETWEEN CHANNEL AND BRACKET

EMPL DIDNT REPORT FOR WORK 3-26.TOLD CO THAT PM HAD SWELLING IN LOWER ABDOMEN,DR SAID POSSIBLE RUPTURE.(TREATED FOR MASSIVE INTERNAL CANCER 1980,SAME SYMPTOMS.)

EMPL PICKING UP BAG OF LIME.LUMP PROTRUDED FROM GROIN AREA.

BENT OVER TO PICK UP ROLL OF STRETCH WRAP.STRAINED HIMSELF RESULTING IN RIGHT INGUINAL HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE BECAME SICK & WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL ATTENDING PHYSICIAN WAS UNSURE POSSIBLY HEART ATTACH STROKE OR MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH EMPLOYEES HISTORY OF DIABETES HE WAS TESTED TESTS TURN ED OUT NEGATIVE EMPLOYEE GOT A WORK RELEASE FROMEMPLOYEE RAN SCRAPER FOR COMPANY EMPLOYEE DROVE TRUCK FOR COMPANY REOCCURRENCE OF SYMPTOMS XRAY HERNIATED DISC EMPLOYEE FILLED OUT A WORKMANS C

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EMPL CAUGHT LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND BETWEEN TIES & HIGH LIFT BUCKET WHICH ALMOST SEVERED FIRST JOINT OF LITTLE FINGER.

WAS LIFTING A STEEL CUTTING EDGE.

EMPL FAILED TO FOLLOW PROPER PROCEDURE FOR TURNING PONTOONS FOR SAFE ACCESS TO FIND AND MAKE REPAIRS.INSTEAD,PONTOON WAS SUSPENDED ON STEEL CHAIN WRAPPED AROUND 2 BUCKET TEETH OF TRACKHOE.CHAI N SLIPPED OFF TEETH CAUSING PONTOON TO FALL.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING THE O-RING ON A HAULAGE TRUCK TIRE WHEN THE RIM BASE DROPPED AND SMASHED THE TIPS OF HIS LEFT MIDDEL FINGER AND LEFT RING FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS TRUCK ADJUSTING MIRRORS SLIPPED AND FELL DOING A SPLIT AND RUPTURE OCCURRED.

MOVING SUPPLIES IN TRAILER LIFTED OIL BARRELL STRAINING STOMACH

EMPL WAS IN PROCESS OF REINSTALLING BLADE TO DOZER WHEN CRIBBING UNDER BLADE SLIPPED IN MUD & CAUSED RT SIDE PUSH ARM TO PIN EMPLS LEFT LEG AGAINST RT SIDE TRACK. EMPL EXPERIENCED SEVERE CRUSH ING & BRUISING TO UPPER LEFT LEG. NO BONES WERE BROKEN.

REINSTALLING #6 KILN DRIVE, EMPLOYEE HAD HIS RT. 3RD FINGER IN DRIVE BASE BOLT HOLE WHEN THE DRIVE SHIFTED 1/4" OF HIS FINGER OFF.

DRAGGING CO BOX AND CARRYING ROLL OF WIRE,EMPL TWISTED HIS BACK.

WEST BLEEDERS SECTION, REHABILITATION WORK WAS BEING DONE, GRADING BOTTOMS AND REBOLTING AND WERE MESHING THE ROOF OF THE TRACK ENTRIES. AS HE COUPLED HIS AUGERS TOGETHERS HE HELD THE BOTTOM A UGER WITH HIS RIGHT HAND AND ACTIVATED THE BOLTER FEEDS. THE TOP AUGER WAS BOTTOMED OUT IN THE HOLE. THE BOTTOM AUGER BENT PULLING HIS RIGHT HAND INTO THE BOLTER MAST CAUSING THE INJURY.

I.NAME WAS CLEARING A FOUR INCH HOLE IN THE B-1 APRON FEEDER WHICH WAS BRIBGED AND BEING READIED FOR A BLAST. HE WAS USING A ONE-INCH BY EIGHT FOOT PIPE BAR TO CLEAR THE HOLE. AS HE RAMMED THE BAR UPWARD INTO THE HOLE TO CLEAR THE MUCK, HE FELT A PAIN BETWEEN HIS SHOULDER BLAEES. I.NAME'S DOCTOR DID NOT DETERMINE UNTIL RECENTLY THAT THE PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER WAS WORK RELATED.

EMPL WAS PUSHING GRINDING SAMPLE CART WHEN FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN IT & WELDING RECEPTACLE WHICH IS ATTACHED TO BEAM. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION LEFT 5TH FINGER THROUGH M IDDLE PHALANX CAUSING HER TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK

EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN SEAT OF 439 ORE TRUCK. HE HAD STOPPED TO GET A LOAD. WHEN THE LOAD WAS DUMPED INTO THE TRUCK BED A CHUNK OF ROCK APPROXIMATELY 1-1/2' X 1' X 1' ROLLED ACROSS THE HOOD OF THE TRUCK. THE EMPLOYEE HAD HIS HAND ON THE HOOD HANDLE OF THE TRUCK AND THE CHUNK STRUCK AND PINCHED HIS FINGER. TAKEN TO E.R. FINGER AMPUTATED ABOVE THE SECOND JOINT OF HIS RIGHT RING

REPLACING BROKEN SPREADERS ON SHUTTLE BELT. BELT CARRIAGE HAD TO BE SPOOTTED UNDERNEATH PIECE OF PLYWOOD THEY WERE LAYING ON IN ORDER TO WORK. PARTNER YELLED ALL CLEAR EE YELLED BACL ALL CLEAR BUT HAD PLACED HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE CARRIAGE RAIL TO BRACE HIMSELF AND CARRIAGE TROLLEY RAN OVER HIS TWO FINGERS.

OPER DOZER, DOZER L TRACK TRAMMED OVER BOULDER BLADE SLAMMED TO GROUND

WHILE TRYING TO TIGHTEN A PIPE IN TIGHT QUARTERS, HE STRAINED A MUSCLE BECAUSE OF THE REPEATED TRAUMA FROM TRYING TO TIGHTEN THE PIPE.

WHILE REMOVING BAR FROM BORES BAR MOVED SUDDENLY I NAME FINGER WAS INSIDE SPIDER LEGS WHEN BAR MOVED RT RING FINGER SEVERED JUST BELOW FINGERNAIL

EMPL LOADING CRIB BLOCKS IN WHEEL BARROW,PUSHING IT AROUND WORK AREA.FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

ADJUSTING ENGINE SUCKED L HAND IN CUT OFF HALF MIDDLE FINGER TORE UP OTHER

SHUTTLE CAR HIT RIB

TWO MEN WAS LIFTING A 35 GALLONS DRUM OF GREASE TO TAKE IT TO THE DRAGLINE WHEN ONE OF THEM TRIP LIVING ALL THE WEIGHT TO THE OTHER MAN THE OWN THAT GOT INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO CHANGE OUT A BOTTOM ROLLER ON BELT AT SCALE HOUSE. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT THE TENSION OFF BOTTOM BELT WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS GROIN.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHEN HE WENT BACK TO PULL SLACK ON THE CABLE, SOMETHING BUMPED THE LIGHT SWITCH TURNING IT ON. THE SLUSHER OPERATOR STARTED UP AND WHEN THE BUCKET CAME UP HE GOT HIS RIGHT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BUCKET AND EITHER THE SHEAVE OR THE HAULBACK, CUTTING OFF 3/4" OF HIS RING FINGER AND SMASHING THE END OF HIS MIDDLE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE PLACED HIS HAND ON THE INSIDE OF A P-6 POST WHILE HE WAS WATCHING CARS TO BE RE-RAILED WHEN A TIMBER (3X12X18IN) STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A TOTAL AMPUTATION LEFT INDEX FINGER CAUSING HIM TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK

EMPLOYEE WAS RELOCATING 6" SUCTION HOSE TO DEEPER PART OF SUMP HOLE. HE PULLED ON THE HOSE AND FELT A PAIN IN THE AREA OF HIS RIGHT TESTICLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A STEEL BLOCK UP EMBANKMENT. HE SLIPPED AND THE STEEL BLOCK FELL ON HIS THUMB-CRUSHING THE FIRST JOINT ON HIS LEFT THUMB, RESULTING IN AMPUTATION TO THIS THUMB JOINT.

WAS FLIPPING U BELTS ON JAW CRUSHER BECAUSE THEY WERE TWISTED

EE WAS CLEANING OUT SURGE TUNNEL AT END OF SHIFT. HE THINKS HE GOT IN AN AWAKWARD PSOTION AND LIFTED A ROCK TO THROW OUT OF THE WAY AND STRAINED HIMSELF CAUSING A HERNIA ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF A BDOMEN.

WALKED BETWEEN TRUCK AND ROCK DRILL, TRUCK SPINNING WHEELS CAUGHT TRACTION BACKED IN TO HIM, PINING BETWEEN SIDE OF ROCK DRILL AND REA BUMPER OF TRUCK

INSTALLING PINION GEAR ON SHAFT USING WOOD AND SLEDGE HAMMER DRIVING IT ON PART OF WAY BLOCK OF WOOD BROKE CAUSING BLOCK AND HAMMER TO PINCH END OF FINGER AGAINST TOOTH OF GEAR

PRYING WITH SLATE BAR, EXPER PAIN IN L SIDE OF STOMACH

WORKING NEAR BURNER,PIECE OF HARD OIL CAME OUT AND GOT INTO EYE.BLINDNESS IN RIGHT EYE,SEEING 2 DRS.

EMPLOYEE LIFTING AND HANGING MINER CABLE ACROSS ENTRY.EMPLOYEE BEGAN MISSING WORK 07-09-90.

HE WAS CHANGING OUT SCREENS IN THE SECONDARY PLANT WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. LATER HE ALSO FELT A PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA. HOWEVER, HE DID NOT REPORT THE INJURY TO HIS FOREMAN UNTIL 3-5-90.

EMPL WAS TRAMMING 14 BV10 LOADER & PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM RIB STRIKING HIM IN BACK.

CHANGING RIPPER MOTOR ON 14-1 JOY MINER AND WAS TRYING TO LINE PIN HOLES UP, MOTOR SLIPPED & PERSON HAD FINGER IN HOLE WHERE PINS WENT CUTTING END OF RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER OFF RIGHT BEHIND FINGE R NAIL.

STUCK FRAYED END OF BELT ROPE IN HAND GOT METAL IN RIGHT HAND. REPORTED 4-2-90.

A PIECE OF CONRETE FELL FROM SHAFT FORM, AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN FOREHEAD.

EMPL INSTALLING CANOPY ON SHUTTLE CAR,CANOPY FELL OFF MACHINE STRIKING LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING CRUSHER ROLL FROM CRUSHER WHEN HIT LEFT ELBOW ON CORNER OF ROLL.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING WITH A PIECE OF STEEL ON HIS SHOULDER WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN ONTO APIECE OF COAL, TWISTING HIS LEFT ANKLE. EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A SOFT TISSUE INJURY TO HIS ANKLE.

EMPL LOADING RAIL THAT WEIGHED 300-400 LBS ON CAR.WHEN EMPL SIT DOWN TO EAT DINNER,LEG STARTED GETTING NUMB AND HE COULNT GET UP OR HARDLY MOVE.

INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO ALIGN AIR CYLINDER WITH RIGHT HAND WHILE OPERATING CYLINDER CONTROL WITH LEFT HAND. UPON ACTIVATING CYLINDER WITH PRESSURE IT SUDDENLY MOVED PINCHING RIGHT HAND BETWE EN CYLINDER & STRUCTURAL STEEL.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING DRY DUST INTO HAUL TRUCK. THE AREA AROUND WASTE DUST SILO HAD BEEN CLEANED, HOWEVER DUE TO EXTREMELY WET WEATHER, THERE WAS STILL SOME WET AREAS RESULTING IN SLIPPERY COND ITIONS. AS EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP TO GET INTO HAUL TRUCK, HE SLIPPED AND FELL APPROXIMATELY 3 FEET RESULTING IN A FRACTURED RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD JUST FINISHED USING A HAND GRINDER AND HAD TAKEN HIS HARD HAT OFF TO REMOVE THE FACE SHIELD, WHEN HE PUT HIS HAT BACK ON A METAL SLIVER GOT IN HIS EYE.

THE LOAD OUT CREW HAD PUSHED CARS (RAILROAD) BACK UP THE TRACK AND CLEANED THE TRACKS. THEY WERE DROPPING THE EMPTIES BACK UNDER THE TIPPLE. THE EMPLOYEE HOOKED THE CABLE TO THE CAR HOIST ON THE FRONT OF THE CAR WHILE IT WAS STILL MOVING AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE CABLE AND THE RAILROAD CAR.

REPAIRING GAS ENGINE ENGINE WOULD NOT START SO REMOVED SPARK PLUG TO CHEK IGNITION PULLED ROPE START GASOLINE BLEW OUT THE SPARK PLUG OPERIG IN CYLINDER STRIKING HIS FACE AND IGNITING FACIA L BURNS

I.NAME LIFTING AND MOVING HEAVY PARTS AND EQUIP BY HAND.DIDNT FEEL ANYTHING THAT DAY BUT SMALL PAIN IN LOWER BACK BUT IGNORED IT AND CONTINUED WORKING.A FEW DAYS LATER ON-4-3-90 COMPLAINED BAC K HURT.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING FROM THE SAND HOUSE PLATFORM ONTO THE YARD LOCOMOTIVE, IN THE PREP. PLANT TRACKYARD. AS HE STEPPED TO THE LOCOMOTIVE, HE SLIPPED AND FELL, STRUCK HIS LEFT SIDE AGAINST TH E LOCOMOTIVE HAND RAIL BRUISING HIS SIDE.

PAIN IN BACK FROM HEAVY LIFTING OVER PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING SCREEN DECK. THE DECK SWUNG AROUND CATCHING HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING AND WELDING INSIDE A CIL TANK ON 3/31; A PIECE OF HOT SLAG FELL INTO HIS LEFT BOOT CAUSING A BURN. ON 4/19 EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE DOCTOR BECAUSE THE BURN BECAME INFECTED. TH E EMPLOYEE LOST WORK DAYS DUE TO THIS INJURY BECOMING INFECTED.

OPERATOR CLIMBED UP ON THE CIRCLE TO WASH HIS WINDOWS. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL BACKWARDS. HE COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING TO GRAB AND FELL TO THE GROUND LANDING ON HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE CLIMBED UPON HIS TRUCK AND STARTED HIS AIR COMPRESSOR. AS HE TURNED TO EXIT HIS TRUCK, HIS FEET SLIPPED, DUE TO MUD ON HIS BOOTS, AND AS HE FELL HIS RIGHT HAND GOT INTO PULLEY OF AIR COMPRESSOR BEHIND GUARD.

EMPL PLARKED 843 HAULPAK TRUCK IN TRUCK PARKING LOT & OPENED DOOR & WAS EXITING TRUCK CAB AS HE WAS SWINGING LEGS OUT OF TRUCK CAB HE HIT KNEE ON BRAKE CONTROL BASE.

EE WAS PRYING ROCK OUT OF CRUSHER, WHEN CRUSHER CAUGHT BAR AND EE HELD ON TO KEEP FROM FALLING INTO CRUSHER STRAINED AND TORE MUSCLES IN LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS UNLOADING 3FT. STEEL BEAMS LEGS FROM A SCOOP TRACTOR, WHEN HIS RIGHT THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ELG AND A BEAM.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING ON FRAMEWORK AROUND CONE CRUSHER. HAD USED A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON AS A MARKER AND LAID DOWN BETWEEN FRAMEWORK HE WAS ON AND A SECOND FRAMWORK. AFTER WORKING FOR A WHILE WEN T TO WORK ON OTHER FRAME. HE STEPPED ACROST AND PUT FOOT ON ANGLE IRON WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FALL ABOUT 9 FEET TO MUDDY GROUND.

INSTALLING SUCTION PIPE ON PUMP USING HYDRAULIC JACK.IT SLID OUT STRIKING EMPL ON CHEST,PIPE DROPPED ON FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON LOADER TRYING TO CHANGE OUT BAD AUXILLARY WATER PUMP. HE WAS LAYING UNDERNEATH THE LOADER REACHING UP AROUND THE WATER PUMP TRYING TO GET IT OFF WHEN HE KNOCKED LOOSE SOME DIRT AND OTHER MATERIAL WHICH FELL DOWN ONTO HIS FACE.

EE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ON THE PLATFORM ON THE CRANE.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS MOVING THE CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE OUT OF THE SHUTTLE CAR ROADWAY WHEN HE FELL PAIN IN HIS BACK.

PUTTING SCOOP ON CHARGE BUMPED KNEE AGAINST CORNOR OF SCOOP BRUISING KNEE.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED THAT WHILE BOLTING TOP ON 003-0 SECTION THAT A PIECE OF RIB BROKE LOOSE STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK AND NECK, AN INJURY REPORT WAS FILED WITH THE COMPANY ON THIS DATE, NO TIME W AS LOST FROM WORK AT THAT TIME, HE WENT OT HIS DOCTOR ON 3/30/90 AND WAS INSTRUCTED BY HIM TO STOP WORK BECAUSE OF NECK PAIN. THE FIRST LOST WORK DAY 3/30/90.

STEPPED OFF LADDER ON HAUL TRUCK TWISTED ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING THE SHANK ON THE LOADER BUCKET. HE WAS WELDING AND RECEIVED SIDE REFLECTIVE FLASH BURNS TO HIS EYES.

I.NAME AND OTHER LIFTING FEEDER CONTACTOR COVER ,EXPERIENCED SHARP PAIN IN BACK.

W HILE STANDING IN ORGANIC EMUSION EMULSION GOT PANTS SWET & ENTERED RUBBER BOOTS BURNING CALVES & FEET EMULSION CONSISTS OF APPROX 70% KEROSINE 20% DIRT & 10% SULFURIC ACID EMPLOYEE WASHED TW ICE BUT WORE THE SAME BOOTS THE NEXT DAY WHEN BURNS WERE DISCOVERED

CAR GOT LOOSE FROM MOTOR & BROKE SAFETY CHAIN. CAR RAN UP AROUND TURN & ROLLED BACK. EMPLOYEE PLACED HAND ON BACK OF MOTOR. CAR HIT MOTOR. A RAILROAD TIE HIT HER HAND AND MOTOR.

A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING HIM & CUTTING HIS LEFT FOREARM

HE WAS POLISHING A METAL PIECE AT THE POLISH MACHINE. THE METAL PIECE SLID OCCASIONING A CONTUSION IN THE RIGHT LITTLE FINGER.

INJURED WAS HELPING BUILD A BLOCK BRATTICE WHEN HE BUMPED HIS FINGER AGAINST A BLOCK THAT WAS ALREADY SET

EMPL WAS WELDING & PIECE OF METAL FLEW IN HIS EYE.

INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO DISLODGE A LARGE ROCK FROM THE CRUSHER JAW WITH ASTEEL BAR AND THE ROCK SOMEHOW SHIFTED AND CAUSED THE BAR TO STRIKE HIS FOREHEAD NEAR HIS EYE.

EMPLOYEE STATED ON 5-19-88 WHILE PUTTING SWIVEL PIN IN MINER HE DROPPED PIN. WHEN HE CAUGHT IT HE BENT RIGHT ARM BACK CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN RIGHT SHOULDER. THEN ON 3-30-90 HE WAS LIFTING TOOL BOX TO PUT IN LOCKER AND RE-AGRAVATED INJURY ON 5-19-88. THIS WOULD BE YOUR NEW INJURY DATE. ALSO WE WERE CALLED ON 4-19-90 AND NOTIFIED AT THIS TIME THE EMPLOYEE WAS OFF WORK DUE TO THIS INJU

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK WHILE STANDING ON RUNNING BOARD TURNED TO RETRIEVE HOG FROM SEAT OF TRUCK HE STEPPED OFF BGACKWARDS STEPPING ON A LARGE STONE TWISTING HIS ANKLE THINKING IT W AS A SPRAIN AFTER MEDICAL EXAM IT WAS DETERMINEDBROKEN THEREFORE A CAST WAS APPLIED

UNLOADING JUNCTION BOX OFF BACK OF TRUCK, FOOT SLIPPED ON LOOSE ROCK TWISTING KNEE

PULLING DUSTER HOSE FEELING MUSCLE SPASMS IN BACK

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST SET CABLE ON LAST HOOK & WAS MANAUEVERING TO MOVE THE CABLE BASKET TOWARD THE NEXT HOOK AS HE TURNED TO BEGIN MOVING THE CABLE CAME DOWNSTRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS HARD HAT & FORCING HIM DOWN IN THE BASKET OF THE BOOM

EMPLOYEE SAID HE FELL AGAINST TAILPIECE.

DESCENDING FROM TOP OF CRUDE PILE,STEPPED ON EDGE OF TIRE AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

THE DUST CONTROL SUCTION LINE STOPPED UP ON THE BOLTER POT. EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING SUCTION LINE TO CLEAN OUT. AS HE REMOVED CLAMP, THE DUST LINE BLEW LOOSE FROM POT. DUST AND AIR FROM LINE BLEW IN BOTH EYES. NOTE: EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING EYE PROTECTION AT TIME OF INJURY.

RIDING TOWARD THE FACE WHEN UNDER MINER CABLE ANCAUGHT HIM ON ROW HIT OUT OF SCOOP DIPPER

HE WAS UNDERNEATH WELDING ON THE MINER: AS HE ATTEMPED TO MOVE THE JACK HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WORKED LAST SHIFT 03-30-90.EMPLOYEE NOTIFIED ON 05-03-90 THAT HE HAD LOWER BACK PAIN AS A RESULT OF REPAIRING DRAG CHAIN.EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF THE LUMBAT S PINE.THE MRI SHOWED A BULGING ANNULUS OF THE L4-5 AND L5-S1.

SEE ATT:..KILN AT PLANT SHUT DOWN FOR ANNUAL MAJOR REPAIR.I.NAME REPLACING REFRACTORY BRICK LINING IN KILN.AFTER A DAY OR TWO I.NAME TOLD OTHER THAT LIFTING BRICK WAS BOTHERING SHOULDER.OTHER ASKED IF HE HAD HURT SHOULDER ON JOB,EMPL ANSWERED NO IT HAD BEEN BOTHERING HIM FOR A COUPLE OF YRS.WAS THEN PUT ON OTHER WORK THAT DIDNT REQUIRE BRICKING...

REMOVING DRAWROCK FROM MINER & SPRAINED BACK WHEN LIFTING ROCK

EE INJURED RIGHT HEEL WHEN HE EITHER SLIPPED OR JUMPED FROM PULLEY AND LANDED ON A ROCK.

MAKING BELT SPLICE WHEN HE LET KNIFE SLIP AND CUT HAND.

TRAVELING FROM FACE TO OUTSIDE TO GET PARTS ON MANTRIP FENDER CAUGHT ROOF BOLT THROWING MANTRIP SIDEWAYS INTO RIB.

EE QUARRY FOREMAN ENGAGED CLUTCH BETWEEN RUNNING DIESEL ENGINE AND PUMP. RESULTING PRESSURE CAUWSED 8 INCH X 4 INCH REDUCER TO BREAK, HOSE SWUNG FREE, HITTING EE ON RIGHT SIDE OF FACE. EE WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL WITH BROKEN BONE.

RF BOLTING RF BOLTS STACKED AGAINST RIB TURNED TO GET BOLTS FELT POP IN KNEE SURGERY SCHED ON 6-12-90

WHILE REMOVING OR CHANGING OUT BINS DURING MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED A PULLED MUSCLE IN THE GROIN REGION

PIECE OF STEEL FLEW UP & COME INTO OPERATORS COMPARTMENT & HIT HIM IN LEFT SIDE BEGAN MISSING ON APRIL 3 1990

EMPL WAS CHANGING WIRE CLOTH IN SCREENS. WIRE CLOTH WAS UNDER STRESS BEING BOLTED DOWN WHEN IT POPPED LOOSE & CAUGHT LEFT RING FINGER & NAIL ON LITTLE FINGER.

ON LADDER PULLING WIRE, WIRE BROKE FELL 8 FT TO FLOOR

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO COVER A PALLET WITH A SHRINK WRAP THIS MAN LEANED FORWARD TO SPREAD OUT THE WRAP. AS HE STOOD UP HE STRUCK A DOG LATCH ON THE COVER OF A BLOW BACK PIPE. THIS PIPE WAS NOT I N THE "NORMAL" TRAFFIC PATTERN.

EMPLOYEE WAS LETTING THE BRAKE OFF AN EMPTY RAILROAD CAR. HE USED HIS FOOT TO TRY TO FREE THE BRAKE, AND STRAINED HIS BACK IN THE PROCESS.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROLLING BELTS BY HAND & PINCHED FINGERS BETWEEN BELTS & DRIVE PULLY PLANT WAS NOT IN OPERATION ONLY POWER TURNING BELTS WAS EMPLOYEE PULLING ON BELTS SPEED POWER REDUCER BRAKE PRE VENTED BELTS FROM ROLLING BACKWARDS

PULLING CROSSTIES FROM MINE SHAFT WHEN CROSS TIE FLEW BACK & HIT EMPL ON HAND.

WHILE FUELING LOADER, HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND.

IN WASHROOM TAKING SHOWER. STEPPED ON SMALL PIECE OF COAL & CAUSED SMALL LACERATION BETWEEN GREAT & SECOND TOES OF LEFT FOOT.

RAINING AND BIG TRUCKS TORN UP ROAD, DRIVING TRUCK HIT ROCK IN ROAD GOT THROWN AROUND SEAT BELT WHICH WEARING DIDNOT SECURE POSITION

SLIPPED ON CATWALK AND TWISTED ANKLE.

EMPL WENT TO CUT WATER ON SLIPPED AT TOP OF STEPS DOWN ON LEFT SHOULDER & ARM. EMPL DID NOT MISS WORK 10/11/89 BUT STARTED MISSING WORK 3/29/90.

EMPLOYEE LIFTED A 5 GALLON BUCKET OF OIL AND HURT BACK. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 4-18-90 AT WHICH TIME HE BECAME LOST TIME.

I,NAME WAS DRILLING BACK HOLES PRIOR TO BACK STOPING WHEN A ROCK/CLAY SLAB FELL FROM THE HANGING WALL HITTING HIM ON THE BACK.

WAS DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR STRUCK BUMP IN ROADWAY AND HEAD STRUCK CANOPY.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST FINISHED PUTTING DRAG DRUM BOLTS IN THE DRAG DRUM WHICH HE HAD BEEN ASSISTING IN REPAIRING. CRAWLING THROUGH THE PORT HOLE AND SPOKES OF THE DRUM PLACED HIM IN AWKWARD POSITI ONS AND WHEN HE DISMOUNTED THE DRAGLINE HE FELT PAIN UNDER HIS LEFT BREAST, LOWER BACK AND LEFT LEG. EMPLOYEE SAW DOCTOR FOR PAIN ON 4-9-90 AND PHYSICAL THERAPY WAS RECOMMENDED.

HE WAS WORKING ON THE SCRAPER COMPRESSOR. HE FINISHED LUNCH AND WAS BRINGING MORE TOOLS INTO THE SCRAPER ENGINE AREA. HE WAS STANDING ON THE FRONT BUMPER, PREPARING TO CLIMB ONTO THE ENGINE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND BRUISING HIS RIGHT SIDE RIBS AS HE STRUCK THE BUMPER ON THE WAY DOWN.

EMPL STACKING CONTAINERS OF TURNBUCKLES IN METAL BIN IN WAREHOUSE.CAUGHT RIGHT HAND BETWEEN METAL BIN AND ONE CONTAINER MASHING RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER,CUTTING AND FRACTURING IT.

EMPLOYEE WALKED THE DRAGLINE BOOM TO CHECK THE HOIST & POINT SHIFT ON HIS WAY BACKED DOWN THE BOOM THE EMPLOYEE STOPPED THEN LEANED FORWARD AS TO GRAB HIS KNEE EMPLOYEE THEN BLACKED OUT & ROLL ED TOWARD THE INSIDE OF THE BOOM HE FELL APPROX 18FT TO THE MUDDY GROUND

EMPLOYEE IS A ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR REQUIRING HIM TO CRAWL AROUND ON HIS KNEES A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME THEREBY CAUSING HIS KNEES TO SWELL & GET VERY SORE

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON OIL COVERED FLOOR IN THE MECHANIC SHOP ON THE SURFACE. HE FELL ON HIS BACK AND BUTTOCKS.

SHE WAS SEWING 50# BAGS OF PRODUCT ON LARGE PAK LINE. BAG BECAME ENTANGLED. WHEN SHE UNTANGLED BAG 3/8" STEEL ROD USED TO GUIDE BAG SPRUNG UP & HIT HER ON NOSE. ROD HAD BEEN BENT DOWN UNDER PR ESSURE OF BAG & RELEASED WHEN SHE MOVED BAG. SHESUFFERED BROKEN NOSE.

EE WAS DRILLING WITH A FLETCHER RR USING A 4 FT STARTED STEEL. WHILE RIGHT DRILL STEEL EE PUSHED THE UP PRESSURE LEVER BENDING STEEL WHICH HIT EE ON LEFT WRIST.

LOOSENING A NUT BOLT BOLT ON STRUT ASS WHEN RATCHET AND SOCKET SLIPPED OFF AND HE STRUCK PC OF FLAT STOCK WELDED TO SIDE OF STRUT

WAS FUELING DRILL GOT THRU STEPED DOWN ON LOOSE DIRT IN A CRACK HIS FOOT FEEL DOWN IN HOLE TWISTING HIS ANKLE LATER FOUND OUT IT BROKE HIS ANKLE.

HE WAS PULLING A ROCKDUST HOSE WHILE WALKING BACKWARD. HE TRIPPED AND FELL OVER A CRIB TIE JAMMING HIS LEFT THUMB.

ENTERED MINE ON 2ND SHIFT,GOT OFF MANTRIP TO CHECK A PUMP.WHILE CRAWLING IN FRONT OF MANTRIP OPERATOR PUT IT INTO REVERSE TO BACK UP BUT IT WENT FORWARD AND BUMPED I.NAME.

EMPL WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL & CUT EMPL ON FOREARM.

WHILE OPERATING THE LOADING MACHINE THE EMPLOYEE REACHED OUT OF THE CANOPY (WHILE THE MACHINE WAS OPERATING) TO STRAIGHTEN CABLE. HIS LEFT ARM WAS PINNED BETWEEN THE CANOPY POST AND COAL RIB. ACCIDENT RESULTED IN A CRACKED BONE AND A PUNCTURE WOUND TO UPPPER ARM. FULL RECOVERY EXPECTED.

HE WAS LIFTING ROCK DUST STRAINED LOWER STOMACH AREA.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS DRIVING A BEARING ON TO S A SHAFT ON THE TAILPIECE WITH A 12 LB SLEDGE HAMMER AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT ELBOW AFTERWARD. THIS WAS NOT A REPORTABLE ACCIDENT UNTIL 4-23-90 WHEN EE CONSULTED A PHYSICIAN.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS REVERSING THE SEAT ON A 10 SC SHUTTLECAR AND LACERATED HIS FINGER IN A PINCH POINT AREA. THE EMPLOYEE COMPLETED HIS SHIFT AND WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AND RECEIVED 4 SUTURE S. DUE TO INFECTION THE EMPLOYEE COULD NOT RETURN TO WORK FOR SEVERAL DAYS.

RIDING OPEN MANTRIP,JACKET CAUGHT ON ROOF BOLT PLATE AND ROLLED HIM BACK OVER MOTOR HURTING RIGHT SHOULDER & RIB CAGE ON RIGHT SIDE.WORKED 3-30 AND TOOK OFF 3-31 TO GO TO DR.OCCURRED 7 BRKS IN BY D SECTION SWITCH ON MAIN LINE.

LIFTING CEMENT BLOCK 8" X 8" X 16",OVER HEAD FELT PAIN IN BACK.STRAINED MUSCLE,RIGHT HIP AREA.

INJURED WAS SPLICING BELT WHEN THE COME-ALONGS HE WAS USING SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIS THUMB.

WHILE IN A SQUATTING POSITION EMPLOYEE TWISTED LOWER BACK TO ROCK TRACTION TO INSTALL A BEARING

HE WAS PUTTING A BELT ON THE 2ND SCREEN AND THE WIND BLEW A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS EYE.

MOVING TROUGH FROM OLD PLANT. WHILE STEPPING ACROSS TROUGH, LOADER MOVED TROUGH, AND EMPLOYEE SLIPPED CAUSING FALL.

ORE CAME DOWN SLOPE HITTING R LEG HYPEREXTENDING R KNEE

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CHANGE BUCKET AND RIGGING ON 3570 DRAGLINE. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE STEPPING OVER DRAG CHAIN, TWISTING RIGHT KNEE.

FELL WHILE GETTING ON HIS TRUCK OR GETTING OFF HIS TRUCK NO REPORT MADE TO CO UNTIL HE DIDNT SHOW FOR WORK SECOND DAY

PULLING COUNTERWEIGHT OFF SHAFT OF S1, WEIGHT DROPPED AND PINNED HAND BETWEEN WEIGHT AND GUARD.

EMPL WAS LOADING ROCK & PULLING ON IT.

RIDDING GOLF CART THE BOTTOM AT END OF SHIFT HE STRUCK A STEEL RAIL AND WAS THROWN IN THE STEERING WHEEL

EMPL WAS WALKING DOWNSTAIRS FROM ONE LEVEL TO ANOTHER.

USING CUTTING TORCH TURNED TO REACH BURNED FINGERS WITH TORCH

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE GRIZZLIES OVER THE TRUCK DUMP. HE SLIPPED & FELL HITTING HIS RIGHT ANKLE & THIGH CUTTING HIS ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HIS BACK WAS HURTING BUT COULD NOT GIVE A DIRECT CAUSE OR ACTION THAT CAUSED THE PAIN

MAN WAS UNLOADING BELT MATERIAL AND WHEN HE RAISED A BELT BOARD TO REACH FOR A BULLDOG THE BOARD FELL HITTING HIS LEFT THUMB.

EMPLOYEE HURT HIS BACK WHLE PICKING UP A CHAIN GUARD FOR B BELT HEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRIPPING RODS OUT, USING BACK UP WRENCH WHILE BREAKING JOINTS. HE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE BACK UP WRENCH WHILE RAISING RODS AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN BACK UP WRENCH AND FEED CYLI NDER.

EMPL STEPPED OFF FORKLIFT & SLIPPED ON SMALL PATCH OF ICE. ELBOW STRUCK GROUND & RESULTED IN FOUR SMALL BONE CHIPS IN RIGHT ELBOW. INJURY BECAME APPARENT ON 4/12.

THE EE WAS OPERATING A 637 CAT SCRAPER ON PIT U-4B-90. DURING THIS TIME HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT HIM HE WAS DOING NOTHING UNUSUAL OR OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

EMPLOYEE PULLING PIN OUT OF DRIVE CHAIN ON CRANE,PIN CAME OUT AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN FOREHEAD.

HE WAS BAGGING 50 LBS. OF CLAY. HIS LEFT WRIST STARTED HURTING AND GETTING SORE. HE COMPLETED HIS 8 HR SHIFT ON 3/28/90. HE APPLIEDA WRIST BRACE AND CAME INTO WORK ON 3/29/90. HE WAS UNABLE TO COMPLETE HIS SHIFT ON 3/29/90 (ONLY WORKED 2 HRS ON 3/29/90). I.NAME HAD THIS SAME KIND OF INJURY ON 10/18/89.

EMPL & LOADER OPERATOR WERE CLEARING BOULCERS FROM HIGHWALL PRIOR TO BLASTING BY LOADING BOULDER ON TRUCK & DUMPING ELSEWHERE. LOADER DUMPED BOULDER IN TRUCK JARRING INJURED CAB OF TRUCK. INJ URED WEARING SEATBELT. INJURED FELT SOME INITRIAL PAIN BUT SOON FELT MORE SEVERE PAIN. SENT TO DR WHO DIAGNOSED INJURY AS ACUTE BACK STRAIN. GIVEN MEDICATION & SENT HOME. THERAPY UNDERWAY.

(WEDNESDAY) EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING 3 HOURS OVERTIME STACKING 40# BAGS OF DECORATIVE STONE ON PALLETS. EMPLOYEE STRAINED LUMBAR BACK MUSCLE. SUPERVISOR WAS NOT ADVISED OF INJURY. EMPLOYEE WORKED 8 HOURS OVERTIME ON SATURDAY. MONDAY MORNING, EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF SEVERE BACK PAIN AND THE NEED TO SEE A DOCTOR.

MECHANIC PLUGGED IN TRUCK FUSE WENT IN REVERSE STRUCK TABLE AND EE.

EMPLOYEE TRIED TO LIFT BLOCKS OUT OF THE EAGLE TRUCK FROM THE OUTSIDE BY BENDING OVER THE SIDE. HE SHOULD HAVE CLIMBED INSIDE AND THREW THE BLOCKS OUT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ORIGINALLY HIRED ON AS A B OPERATOR MINE IN 09-89 TEMPORARUY THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND DAY OF WORKING ON SURFACE IN LOADOUT HE WAS FEEDING POTASH INTO THE HOPPER THRU T HE LOADING SPOUT WHEN IT PUSHED HIM OFF THE SIDEOF THE CAR HE DID NOT HAVE A SAFETY LINE ON HE FELL APPROX 15FT

REFUELING LOADER #10,CLIMBING LADDER,PULLING FUEL HOSE,FELT PULL IN GROIN AREA.

MAN WAS STANDING WORKING OFF TAILGATE OF WELDING TRUCK CUTTING SMALL PLATES WITH A CUTTING TORCH HE DETECTED A LAEAK IN THE OXYGEN HOSE BUT RATHER THAN CHANGE HOSE HE BENT THE HOSE & PLACED IT BETWEEN HIS LEG & TAILGATE HE THOUGHT HE STOPPEED THE LEAK & CONTINUED CUTTING WHEN SUDDENLY HOSE IGNITED AT THE BEND BURNING HIS LEG

PICKED UP SOME PIPE & BACK TIGHTENED UP.

WHILE EMPL WAS GRINDING PIECE OF STEEL,PIECE OF RUST ENTERED RIGHT EYE.FIRST LOST DAY WAS 4-2-90

EMPLOYEE WAS USING HOT STRIP SOLUTION TO TRY TO THAW FROZEN HOSE.HOSE BLEW INSTEAD,SPRAYING STRIP SOLUTION(CAUSTIC) IN EYES AND FACE.

WORKING WITH PIECE OF IRON BAR FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BENCH & IRON BAR DISABILITY STARTED 03-30-90

PERFORM REPAIR, MINER CARRYIN TOOLS SLIPPED FELL DOWN FROM PLATFORM IN CHUTE CAUSING INJ TO R HIP AREA

HAULING MATERIALS AND CLEARING RUBBLE 3 RD FLOOR BACK PAIN

WHILE MOVING SCRAP IRON (SMALL PIECES OF I-BEAM) BY HAND INTO A PILE. HIS FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN ONE ALREADY IN THE PILE AND THE ONE HE WAS SLIDING NEXT TO IT. FINGER WAS CUT AND REQUIRED S TITCHES. HE WASN'T WEARING GLOVES AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN.

STRAINED BACK PULLING WIRE ROPE.

EMPLOYEE HAD REMOVED THE CATHODE PICKER FROM THE CRANE ABOVE THE ELECTROWINNING CELLS HE DROPPED THE PICKER ON HIS FOOT INJURING HIS RT LITTLE TOE

USING BEAM LEG FOR WEIGHT IT FELL OVER AND HIT LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE REPORTS WHILE INSTALLING A MAN BASKET ON A FORKLIFT, HE PULLED A MUSCLE.

STEPPED OF D-7 DOZER SPRAINED ANKLE & KNEE.

ACCIDENT WAS REPORTED ON 3/29 & DID NOT BECOME LOST TIME OR REPORTABLE UNTIL 5/10. EMPL STATED TO FOREMAN THAT HE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM DOZER TRACK FOOT SLIPPED CASUING ELBOW TO STRIKE DOZER TRACK. HE CONTINUED WORKING UNTIL 5/10 WHEN HE VISITED DR COMPLAINING OF PAIN IN RIGHT ELBOW.

TRUCK ON SIDE OF ROAD, THROTTLE STUCK WENT TO TRY TO RELEASE IT, LOOKE DUP GOING IN BACK OF TRUCK PINNED HIM IN CAB

WAS MAKING SAFETY BENCH FOR DRAG, GOT OUT ON TRACK AND ROCK CAME DOWN OFF HIGHWALL AND HIT HIM ON RIGHT LEG.

HE WAS DISMOUNTING HIS COAL TRUCK. AS HE STEPPED DOWN TO THE GROUND HIS KNEE HURT. HE DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 4-6-90. AT THIS TIME HIS ACCIDENT BCAME REPORTABLE.

LIFTING PARTIALLY FILLED DISCHARGE LINE

WHILE WORKING ON 777 ROCK TRUCK EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE GOING UP LADDER & FELL TO GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING EMPTY ROCK TRUCK DOWNHILL ON HAUL ROAD & WHEN HE APPLIED RETARDER TRUCK STARTED TO SLEW & SKID ON WET HAUL ROAD & RAN UP LEFT BANK OF HAUL ROAD & TRUCK LAID OVER ON ITS SI DE

EMPL DROPPED RAIL FROM DOSCO OVERCAST ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT.

MAN STATED THAT WHILE THROWING THE MINER CABLE OUT OF THE WAY, SOMETHING POPPED IN LEFT SHOULDER BLADE AREA.

STEPPPING DOWN FROM LOADER SLIPPED FELL TO GROUND TWISTED ANKLE

AFTER INFORMED OF LAY OFF, SAID HIT HEAD ON MINE TOP WHILE OPER SHUTTLE CAR STOVED SELF

ROOF FELL BETWEEN ROOF BOLT.

I,NAME WAS CHECKING VOLTAGE AT A SWITCH BOX, WHEN HIS TESTER CONTACTED A LOOSE CONNECTION, A FLASH RESULTED, BURNING HIS LEFT HAND.

INJURED PERSON WAS TRYING TO GET PIECE OF DRILL STEEL OUT OF COAL. HE WAS USING HANDS TO PULL DRILL STEEL BACK & FORTH WHEN FINGER GOT IN BETWEEN STEEL & COAL.

EE WAS DRIVING MINE CART 3- WHEELER WHILE USUALLY INSPECTING A TRAILING CABLE WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A SET OF CABLE BOARDS.

EE WAS SCALING LOOSE ROOF NEAR WHERE HE HAD A TEMPORARY ROOF SUPPORT JACK SET WHEN THE LOOSE ROCK HE WAS SCALING DOWN FELL IT KICKED THE TEMPORARY JACK OUT STRIKING HIM IN THE INSIDE OF HIS LE FT KNEE.

HANGING DISCAHRGE LINE RAISED THE LINE WITHY A ROOF DRILL HEAD AS FAR AS THE HEAD WOULD RAISE SET RF JACK UNDER PIPE STARTED USING IT TO RAISE HIGHER, PIPE SLIPPED OFF JACK CAUGHT FINGERS BETWEEN PIPE AND JACK

STEPPED OFF OF LADDER ON SHOE & FOOT SLIPPED ON MUD

WHILE PULLING SCALES SALT CHUNK FELL ON EMPLS FOOT.

REPARING AN 1 1/4 INCH HOSE ON THE DUST COLLECTION BOX, THE MINER STRAINE DHIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING HOLE TO INSTALL ROOF BOLT WHEN PINNER STEEL FELL OUT OF HOLE AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRAGGING WELDER LEADS TO THE FEEDER WHEN HE JAMMED HIS NECK AND SHOULDERS INTO A CHAIN HANGER. EMPLOYEE DID NOT BEGIN MISSING TIME UNTIL 4-24-90.

WORKER CRAWLING AND SETTING ON HIS KNEES DURING OPERATING OF EQUIPMENT RESULTED IN FLUID ON KNEES.WORKER WENT EMERG.RM 4-1 WAS X-RAYED AND GIVEN MEDICATION.

EE WAS CROSSING THE BELT CONVEYOR TO TURN ON SECTION WATER LINE. WHEN HE STEPPED OFF OF THE CONVEYOR HE STEPPED ON A ROCK OR PIECE OF COAL AND TURNED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

I NAME WAS HELPING MOVE THE POWER UP ON THE 002 SECTION HE HAD PICK UP A MINER CABLE AND BEGAN TO PULL AND FELT PAINS IN THE LOWER BACK.

FELL ADN SPRAINED RIGHT HAND WHILE LOADING SUPPLIES. HAPPEND AT END OF TRAC - 405A

EMPL STATED HE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN PIN BOARD & CANOPY. HE WAS HOLDING PIN BOARD IN PLACE AS HE PUSHED ROOF BOLT INTO DRILL HOL WITH BOOM.

EMPL STATED HE WAS CLIMBING UPSHORT LADDER TO CHECK COAL FILTER TO LOOK AT IT. IN COMING BACK DOWN GOT FOOT THROUGH RUN CAUSING HIM TO BEND RIGHT LOWER LEG BACK WRONG WAY WHEN HE GOT OFF BALAN CE.

EE WAS WORKING ON THE INTERIOR PART OF A BATTERY CHARGER, HE HAD THE LID STANDING AGAINST THE RIB. WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO PUT THE LID BACK ON HE COULD NOT LIFT IT HIGH ENOUGH, SO HE GOT ON TOP O F THE CHARGER TO LIFT THE LID IN PLACE. AS HE POSITIONED THE LID HE FELL OFF THE CHARGER AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE HIT TUNNEL WALL WITH A SMALL UNDERGROUND SHUTTLE TRUCK. HE WAS BUMPED INTO GEAR SHIFT LEVER AND BRUISED A LEG MUSCLE.

WASHING ENGINE LOST BALANCE FELL ON L ARM

PUSHING LEVER TO SHUT DOOR ON FEEDER FELT PAIN IN L ARM

EE ALLEDGES HE HURT HIS BACK SHOVELING.

WHILE EMPL WAS HANDLING CHANGE BASKET BOOT FELL & STRUCK HIM ON LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A LARGE STEEL TOOL BOX FROM THE BUCKET OF A UN-A-TRAC, WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

THIS EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP TRACTOR WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF FALLING ROOF MATERIAL. A PIECE OF SLATE (SIZE UNKNOWN) FELL STRIKING HIM ON HIS NECK AND SHOULDER.

WHILE OPERATING WATER INJECTION TYPE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE VICTIM SLIPPED IN MUDDY ROADWAY CAUSING HYPEREXTENSION OF RIGHT KNEE.

I.NAME WAS PULLING ROCK WITH THE SLATE BAR. THE BAR WAS CAUGHT AND KNOCKED INTO HIS LEG.

WHILE INSTALLING PIN OF LOADER BUCKET OUTSIDE SRPRINGDALE SHOP A GUST OF WIND BLEW, DUST INTO HIS EYES. EH RUBBED HIS EYES WITH DIRTY GLOVES CAUSING AN INFECTION OF THE EYELIDS AND SKIN OF FAC E IN AREA OF EYES.

THE MAN WAS IN THE MANTRIP COMING TO THE BOTTOM AS IT WAS QUITTING TIME THE TRIP JUMPED THE TRACK AND THREW THE MAN FOREWARD BRUISING HIS SIDE.

EMPL WAS SITTING IN DECK OF MANTRIP. FUSE BLOWED & BURNED BACK.

EMPL STARTING TO PUT UP BOLT WHEN SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN ATRS AND HEAD OF BOLTER.STRIKING EMPL ON ELBOW OF RIGHT ARM DISLOCATING ARM AT ELBOW.

WORKING BENT OVER TIGHTENING BOLTS USING BIG IMPACTOR.

STRAINED LOWER BACK WHILE LIFTING OIL BARREL ON UNIT 6

EE WAS CRAWLING ON HANDS AND KNEES WITHOUT USING KNEE PADA WHILE INSTALLING GRATING.

OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR TRANSPORTING COAL FROM CONTINUOUS MINER TO FEEDER ON WORKING SECTION.I.NAME TRAVELING OUTBY IN NO.6 ENTRY WHEN SHUTTLE CAR STRUCK DEPRESSION IN ROADWAY CAUSING I.NAME TO BE THROWN UPWARD AND AGAINST OPERATORS CANOPY.

BENDING OVER TO PICK UP PC OF PIPE SHARP PAIN IN BACK AND L LEG

WHILE OPERATING BATTERY SCOOP TRACTOR INJURED EMPL HAD BACK JARRED WHEN SCOOP TRACTOR RAN OVER BUMP IN RUNWAY.

GRAVITY TUB BLOCKED UP WHILE CLEANING SLIPPED ON LATTER & T WISTED ANKLE

DISMOUNTING LOADER FT SLIPPED OFF LADDER, HOLDING ON LADDER CAUSING JERK TO BODY WT

INJURED EMPL WAS REMOVING ELECTRICAL MOTOR FROM MOUNT WHEN WRENCH FELL FROM GUARD & STRUCK RIGHT THUMB. PROTECTIVE GLOVES WERE BEING WORN AT TIME OF ACCIDENT.

WAS LIFTING A FIRE EXTINGUISHER OFF A SERVICE VEHICLE TO CHECK IT, AND FELT A POP IN HIS LOWER BACK.

SHE CLAIMS THAT WHILE DRIVING A PRODUCTION TRUCK SHE HIT A POTHOLE CAUSING HER NECK TO BE JARRED.

INJURED WAS BUILDING A STOPPING AND HAD THE CINDER BLOCKS UP 6 COURSES HIGH AND AS THE INJURED ADDED A BLOCK AND TURNED TO GET ANOTHER THE STOPPING STARTED TO FALL. THE INJURED SAW THE STOPPI NG FALLING AND WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE OUT OF THE WAY, WHNE SHE WAS STRUCK ON THE LEFT ANKLE AND LEG. THE INJURED WAS NOT KNOCKED TO THE MINE FLOOR.

INJURED WAS STRUCK ON HEAD WHEN BAR THAT WAS OVERHEAD WAS VIBRATED LOOSE BY HAMMERING.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING DOOR ON #113 TANK IN ORDER TO WASH OUT THE TANK. IN THE PROCESS OF PICKING UP THE DOOR AND LAYING IT TO THE SIDE, HE HURT HIS BACK. THE DOOR WEIGHS ABOUT 100 POUNDS.

I.NAME HELPING REPLACE DRAGLINE CABLE.WHEN CABLE WAS CUT,PORTION LEFT ON SPOOL SNAPPED BACK HITTING I.NAME IN GROIN AREA.

INJURED WAS PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON 980 LOADER HE BROUGHT WITH HIM A 5 GALLON CONTAINER OF ANTI FREEZE. THE CONTAINER WAS PLACED UP ON MACHINE HANGING OVER THE EDGE AS HE CLIMBED HIGHER EE W ITH HANDS ABOVE HEAD AT THE CONTAINER SO IT WOULDNT BE HANGING OVER THE EDGE IN SO DOING HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK.

EMPL WALKING ON CONVEYOR,SLIPPED & FELL HURTING RIGHT SHOULDER.BELT WAS COVERED WITH ICE. CONTINUED WORKING FOR 1 WEEK AFTER FALL,THEN WENT TO DR.

EMPL STEPPED DOWN FROM RAILROAD CAR INTO LOOSE GRAVEL & TURNED LEFT ANKLE.

THE INJURED WAS USING AN OXYGEN AND ACETYLENE OUTFIT TO BURN A BOLT OFF OF A VICTAULIC COUPLING. A SPARK OR PIECE OF SLAG IGNITED ACETYLENE THAT WAS LEAKING NEAR THE TOP OF THE CYLINDER. THE I NJURED, FEARING THE CYLINDER MIGHT EXPLODE, TURNED TO RUN, SLIPPED AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT THIGH AGAINST THE STEEL STRUCTURE BASE OF THE U-267 BELT TAIL.

WHILE GREASING LOADER BOOM LADDER KICKED OUT FROM UNDER ME & I FELL 3 TO 4 STRIKING MY HEAD.

EMPL WAD ADJUSTING FORKS ON 163 FORKLIFT WHEN HE FELT POP IN LEFT KNEE. THIS WAS FIRST AID INJ. EMPL HAS SCHEDULED ELECTIVE SURGERY TO REMOVE TORN MENISCUS MAKING THIS REPORTABLE INJ.

OEPR ROOF BOLTER RAISE UP HIT BACK AGAINST BROKEN BAND HANGING DOWN

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING A 200 HP MOTOR HANGING BY A CABLE FROM THE FORKS OF A LIFT TRUCK THE CABLE HOLDING THE MOTOR ON THE FORKS SLIPPED OFF LETTING WEIGHT OF THE MOTOR DOWN ON THE STEEL B AR EMPLOYEE WAS USING TO ALIGN THE MOTOR. DOCTOR DIAGNOSED LUMBAR SPRAIN. GAVE EMPLOYEE TYLENOL #3 AND FLEXERIL 10MG, AND LUMBAR SUPPORT WITH CUSTOM MOLDED INSERT.

DROPPED PLUG OF TRAILING CABLE, PLUG CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN TRUCK BODY AND ITSELF

INJURED WAS PULLING LOOSE RIB & MORE CAME THANN HE ANTICIPATED STRIKING HIM IN PELVIC AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING GOLF CART ON SECTION 3207. WHILE GROWING THROUGH LOW TOP HE HIT HIS HEAD ON A "T" BOARD. REQUEST FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT WA INITIATED ON 6/6/90.

EMPL WAS CHECKING ROOF CONDITIONS IN WORK AREA WHEN HE WAS INJURED. WHILE SCALING DOWN LOOSE ROOF MATERIAL THIS EMPL ATTEMPTED TO PRY DOWN LARGE PIECE OVER HEAD. WHEN MATERIAL STARTED TO FALL HE STARTED RUNNING FROM AREA & TRIPPED ON PIECE OF SLATE. HE THEN FELL TO MINE FLOOR INJURING RIGHT KNEE & BUTTOCK.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS LOCATED ON THE BED OF A WELDING TRUCK STANDING ON TOP A TOOL BOX CHECKING THE FUEL LEVEL IN A WELDING MACHINE. HE TURNED AND STEPPED DOWN ONTO BED OF TRUCK AND HIS AN KLE TWISTED/GAVE AWAY UNDER BODY WEIGHT. SPRAIN TO LEFT ANKLE. NOTE: EMPLOYEE DID NOT SLIP, TRIP OR STEP ON SOMETHING.

EMPL WAS GETTING OUT OF MANTRIP. HE SLIPPED & FELL STRIKING RIGHT SHOULDER ON MANTRIP FRAME.

EMPL STEPPING OUT OF CAB OF SATELLITE MINER,VENTILATION TUBING FELL & STRUCK EMPL IN BACK OF NECK CAUSING STRAINED NECK MUSCLES.

FOOT SLID UNDER THE FLOOR JACK OF RF BOLTER AS SET IT FLOOR JACK PINNED FT AGAINST THE BOTTOM

MAN WAS USING A PIECE DRILL STEEL TOP PIECE FELL & STRUCK HIM ON THE INDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO LIFT A 20 FT HEAVY WALL PIPE JOINT. THE OTHER MAN WHO WAS HELPING HIM DROPPED HIS END. EMPLOYEE WAS STILL HOLDING HIS END WITH THE PRY BAR HE HAD PLACED IN THE END THE PIPE. THE IMPACT HURT EMPLOYEE'S BACK. HE COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

OPER WAS STANDING ON CATWALK OF DRILL IN FRONT OF COMPRESSOR AIR TANK POP OFF RELEASE VALVE POPPED OFF HOT COMPRESSED AIR HITTING OPER ON LEFT SIDE & STOMACH.

INJURED WAS MAKING UP ROOFBOLTS & CO-WORKER PULLED RIB STRIKING HIM IN LEFT LEG

WORKING ON DUSTER STARTED TO CLIMB OFF TABLE STEPPED ON ANGLE AND TURNED ANKLE

THE EE STATED THAT HE WAS GETTING OUT OF LOCOMOTIVE WHEN HE FELL LOST HIS BALANCE AND STRUCK ARM ON FLAT CAR.

TRAMMIONG SCOOP INTO X-CUT CANOPY SCRAPED RIB KNOCKING COAL DOWN INTO CANOPY ON HIM.

MOVING PUMP, TWISTED BACK

STRAINED BACK LOADING BAGS.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING TO INSTALL A ROOF BOLT, THE VENTILATION TUBING FELL AND STRUCK HIM IN THE BACK OF THE NECK CAUSING STRAINED NECK MUSCLES.

THE MAN WAS USING A PUMP JACK TO RAISE THE FACE CONVEYOR WHEN THE RATCHET HANDLE HE WAS USING AS A JACK HANDLE SLIPPED OUT OF THE JACK STRIKING HIM ON THE FACE.

CUT RIGHT HAND PUTTING UP ROOF BOLT. HAPPENED AT FACE OF A-SECTION.

EMPLOYEE STATES TO SUPERVISOR THAT WHILE HE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR, THE CAR WENT THROUGH A DIP IN THE ROADWAY CAUSING HIM TO BOUNCE AND STRIKE HIS HEAD ON THE CANOPY AND STRIKE HIS RIGHT ARM AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE CAB, RESULTING IN NECK STRAIN AND CONTUSION TO ARM. STARTED MISSING 4-18-90.

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING UP STEPS FROM TRACK AREA TO #3 COAL BELT AREA, WHEN INJURED EMPLOYEE SLIPPED, JAMMING HIS LEFT WRIST ON THE STEPS.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK AND STARTED DOWN STEPS, SLIPPED AND FELL TO GROUND HITTING A ROCK ON HIS LEFT SIDE OF BACK.

THE WATER LINE WAS STRETCHED AROUND THE HOOK ON THE CONTINUOUS MINER. THE MAN WAS PULLING THE WATER LINE OFF THE HOOK AND IT SPRUNG BACK TWISTING THE MAN WRIST. THE MAN WORKED UNTIL 5-22-90 WH EN HE REPORTED OFF.

CLIMBING OFF CHERRY PICKER & TWISTED WRONG

INJURED PERSON WAS GETTING OUT OF MAN-TRIP, WHEN HE SLIPPED AND SPRAINED HIS KNEE.

CUTTING BRUSH SMALL TREE SPRUNG BACK HITTING EMPL IN BACK OF LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING EQUIPMENT WHEN HE STEPPED FROM GRADER HE TWISTED HIS FOOT

EMPLOYEE SAID HE WAS SHOVELING COAL AND HIS SHOULDER STARTED HURTING.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING 20 LB SAMPLES THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND AT THE END OF THE SHIFT HE NOTED THAT HIS BACK WAS HURTING.

INJURED STATES THAT HE AND CO WORKER WERE PREPARING TO THREAD BELT THRU BELT DRIVE. ONE END OF BELT HAD BEEN PLACED UNDER SCOOP BATTERIES WHEN BATTERIES WERE RAISED TO RELEASE BELT INJURED RIG HT THUMB BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN BATTERY LIFT JACK AND BATTERY HOUSING ACCIDENT RESULTED IN A COMPOUND FRACTURE OF RIGHT THUMB.

EE WAS SHOVELING AROUND THE 1 BELT HEAD DRIVE SOUTSIDE NEAR THE 37 MAIN PORTAL. AS HE WAS SHOVELING MUCK HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT.

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A HEAVY BUCKET OF TOOLS TO THE JOB HE WAS ASSIGNED TO. HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL DOWN, LANDING ON HIS BACK. THIS RESULTED IN HIM SUFFERING A BACK STRAIN. (THIS INJURY ACTUALLY OCCURRED ON 3/27/90. THE EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME FROM THE INJURY ON 5-9-90, BUT FAILED TO INFORM THE PROPER AUTHORITIES OF THE SITUATION UNTIL 5-24-90.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE ACT OF CUTTING AND TRIMMING A WORN PUMP CAUSING HE WAS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION (LEANING DYER). SLAG FROM TORCH BURNING FLEW UP & GOT BEHIND HIS SAFETY GLASSES, HITTING HIM I N THE EYE.

EMPL WAS HOLDING BARGE ROPE WITH SEVERAL RAPS AROUND TIMBERHEAD ROPE JUMPED LOOSE & HIT EMPLS LEG BREAKING BONES.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING MINER, CUTTING ROCK, WHICH WAS HARD CUTTING AND CAUSED MACHINE TO BOUNCE. INJURED STRUCK HIS HEAD ON MINER CANOPY.

EE MAINTAINS THAT HIS BACK BEGAN HURTING WHEN HE WAS DRAGING CABLES ON THE LONGWALL SECTION ON 3-26-90. HE CONTINUED TO WORK AND WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR ON 3-27-90 WHEN HE RAN OVER A ROCK IN THE ROADWAY RESULTING IN A SUDDEN JOLT TO HISLOWER BACK. HE IS PRESENTLY ON CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS BARRING DOWN ON LARGE ROCK, WHEN IT BECAME DISLODGED, IT CAME OUT OF WINDOW ONTO GRIZZLY FASTER THAN ANTICIPATED, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT FOOT.

EE WAS CONTINUOUS MINER HELP MINER CABLE ACCIDENTLY \GOT CAUGHT ON SIDE OF SHUTTLE CAR. THE CAR PULLED SLACK OUT OF CABLE WITH EE LEFT LEG CAUGHT IN A LOOP OF THE CABLE IT PULLED A MUSCLE IN E E LEG.

WHILE CLILMBING DOWN FROM A BUNDLE OF RODS THE MAN FELL.

EE WAS ROLLING ROCK OFF TOP OF SCOOP WHEN ROCK SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HANDS, CAME BACK AND STRUCK HIM ON RIGHT KNEE.

PULLING ON MINER CABLE

EMPLOYEE WAS IN REPAIR SHOP GRINDING METAL HOSE HANGERS (THESE HANGERS HAVE PLASTIC COATING WHILE GRINDING EDGE OF HANGERS SMOKE CAME OFF OF GRINDING WHEEL).

EMPL SPLICING CONVEYOR BELT SOUTHSIDE PARALLEL SECTION 011-0. PICKED UP BELT SPLICE BRAD BOARD STRAINED HIS BACK.EMPL STARTED MISSING 4-23-90.OFFICE NOT AWARE OF THIS UNTIL FIRST PART OF JUNE.

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING WHILE WORKING HIS REGULAR SHIFT 7:00TO 3:30 HE HAD PAIN IN HIS LEFT EYE AT 8:00PM EMPLOYEE WENT TO GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL WHERE THEY SURGICALLY REMOVED PARTICLE FROM EYE

I.NAME LIFTING ON BRETBY WITH 4 CO-WORKERS,STRAINED MUSCLE IN HIS MID BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING TWO WORN RAILS OF RAILROAD TRACK AT LOADOUT FACILITY OF PINEY T IPPLE IN ORDER TO REMOVE WORN TRACK(RAILS) THE SPIKES HOLDING THE RAILS IN PLACE HAVE TO BE REMOVED THIS IS DONE WITH THE USE OF A TOOL CALLED A NAIL BARDURING THE COURSE OF REMOVING THE SPIKES THE EMPLOYEE BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK & LEGS PAIN INCREASE OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS & H

SNASHED LEFT RING FINGER BETWEEN PULLEY AND A SAFETY GUARD. CRUSH INJURY TO LEFT RING FINGER.

RECEIVED PARTICLE IN RIGHT EYE WHILE USING GRINDING DISK IN QUARRY DOING MAINTENANCE WORK.

I.NAME GOING TO GET CUSTOMER FILE,STEPPED DOWN OFF PLATFORM AT COMPUTER WRONG AND FELL SPRAINING RIGHT SHOULDER AND ANKLE.

EE WAS ON TOP OF SCREEN CUTTING A PIECE OF METAL WITH TORCH WHEN THE SUPPORT LET GO UNDERNEATH AND EE FELL. HE THINKS HE WAS KNOCKED OUT FOR A MIN OR SO. EE WAS IN SURGERY FOR 4 HOURS AND HAD A WIRE IN HIS FINGER. EE WAS DISCHARGED AT 10;00ON 3-27-90.

HE WAS CHECKING THE WATER IN THE DOZER'S RADIATOR WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED. (HE WAS STANDING ON THE ARM LEADING TO THE BLADE). THE DOZER HAD MUCK ON THE ARM AND TRACKS FROM THE AREA IN WHICH HE WAS WORKING. WHEN HE FELL HE HIT HIS SHOULDER/ARM ON THE DOZER.

LOCATION INSIDE TILDEN I COOLER EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON WELDING IN KNIFE SUPPORT STEEL HE HAD BEEN WORKING ON THIS JOB FOR ONE WEEK & COMPLAINED OF HIS LOWER BACK GETTING PROGRESSIVELY WORSE D IAGNOSIS ACUTE LS STRAIN/SPASM HE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING QUARRY LOADER IN PIT WHILE BACKING UP HE RAN OVER A LARGE ROCK ABOUT 4FT IN DIAMETER THE JAR CAUSED HIS TEETH TO HIT TOGETHER BREAKING TWO JAW TEETH ONE ON EACH SIDE OF HI S MOUTH

HE WAS REMOVING A NIP OFF THE TROLLEY WIRE. ONE END CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE BUS HE WAS OPERATING AND CREATED ON ARC. THE ARC BURNED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS HOLDING A 3/4 BOLT PIN WHEN THE HEAD OF THE HAMMER CAME OFF STRIKING HIM IN THE ARM FRACTURING IT. THE BOLT WAS BEING DRIVEN BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE THROUGH A CHAIN LINK ON A NORTHWEST DROPBALL.

HE WAS CLIMBING OFF A 769 ROCK TRUCK AND RAN INTO THE STEP LADDER.

TRAMMED DOZER OVER STUMP WHICH CAUSED HIM TO BE JARRED IN CAB OF DOZER.

EMPL WAS WELDING ON LOADER. LEFT FOOT GOT CAUGHT UNDER LODER TOOTH & HE TWISTED LEFT LEG.

SHOVELING DIRT AROUND PLANT AREAS.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN BATTERY RUBBER TIRED MANTRIP THAT BOUNCED AS IT RAN OVER A TIMBER BUTT AS IT BOUNCED HIS HAT FELL OFF & HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE MANTRIP FRAMEWORK

INJURED WAS LOWERING THE CNAOPY POSITIONED OVER THE OPERATOR'S CONTROLS WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING THE BACK OF HIS LEFT HAND.

ALLEGED OCCUPATION ILLNESS IS CLAIMED TO HAVE OCCURED OVER AN UNDETERMINED PERIOD OF TIME DUE TO EMPL CARRYING TOOL BOX MANY TIMES FROM WELDING SERVICE TRUCK TO SHOP & BACK TO TRUCK RESULTING IN PAIN IN RIGHT ELBOW & ARM.

THE MAN WAS WALKING BACKWARDS WHILE ROCKDUSTING BY HAND. WHILE WALKING HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AGAINST A CRIB. FIRST DAY OFF 4/6/90.

EMPL LIFTING SCOOP TIRE UP OFF MINE FLOOR TO PUT ON SCOOP.FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND RIGHT KNEE.EMPL WENT TO DR,DIAG LOWER BACK STRAIN.DIDNT MISS TIME UNTIL 5-23-90 WHEN HE RET.TO DOCTOR.

WHILE MOVING AN OXYGEN TANK THE INJURED EMPLOYEE CAUGHT THE LITTLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE TANK & A CEMENT BLOCK HE SUSTAINED A SMASHED LITTLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND & ALSO THE NA IL WAS PARTIALLY T ORN OFF

THE INJURED MAN STATED THAT WHILE PULLING A PIECE OF CURTAIN OUT OF THE MUD. HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPL WAS IN PROCESS OF HANGING VENT BAG OFF TOP OF 3 1/2 YD LHD. THERE WAS WATER PUDDLE ON RIGHT SIDE OG LHD & HE STEPPED DOWN OFF LHD INTO PUDDLE OF WATER LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF ROCK THAT WAS SUBMERGED IN WATER. TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.

HELPING TO INSTALL VALVE SHOULDER

THE EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE LAYING TRACK HE BENT OVER AND TRIED TO PICK UP A RAIL WHEN HE HURT HIS BACK.

INJURED WAS STRUCK ON THE LOWER RIGHT LEG BY A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK WHILE ATTEMPTING TO START A ROOF BOLT HOLE

GUIDING A ROCK IN THE JAW WITH HIS FOOT.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE PUSHING ON BASKET EXTENSION ON BLASTING RIG.

EMPLOYEE & HIS FELLOW EMPLOYEE WERE PULLING A BARGE INTO POSITION WHEN HE SLIPPED FALLING BACKWARDS DOWN THE SLOPE END OF THE BARGE INTO IT

FOOT SLIPPED ON LOOSE MATERIALS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LOAD DRAG TOOTH INTO DRAG BUCKET RESULTING IN SEVERELY TWISTED OR SPRAINED BACK

WHILE WORKING AROUND SHAKER,BUMPED RIGHT KNEE.

MVOING RF BOLTINGH MACHIN E WHEN PC OF ROCK FELL FROM TOP HIT HIM ON RIGHT FOREARM

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 20 TON MOTOR HE CAME TO AN AREA WHERE THE TROLLEY WIRE WAS BENT UP FROM BEING PUSHED UP BY AN OVER LOADED CAR. THE TROLLEY POLE LOST FULL CONTACT WITH THE WIRE A ND A LARGE FLASH OCCURRED IN HIS FACE. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN BILATERAL CONJUCTIVITIS CAUSING HIM TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.

SHUTTLE CAR DRIVER WAS PREPARING TO CHANGE DIRECTIONS AS SHE WAS SITTING DOWN IN THE SEAT FOR THE NEW DIRECTION SHE BUMPED HER ELBOW

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PICK UP PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT TO CLEAR UP TRACK WAY & FELT STRAIN IN HIS BACK.

PICKING UP LEVEL WINDE & FELT PAIN IN MID BACK.

INJURED WAS STANDING BACK BRACED AGAINST ROOF APP 42 INCH HEIGHT USING FEET TO GUIDE CABLE TO PREVENT CABLE FROM BEING PULLED INTO HAULROAD AS MINER ADVANCED CABLE BECAME TANGLED AROUND HIS FE ET TWISTING THE LOWER PART OF HIS BODY.

JUST STARTED TO DRILL TOP AND HAD RUBBER GLOVES ON OUT GLOVE STUCK TO DRILL STEEL AND TWISTED KNUCKLE OUT ON JOINT ON MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND. HAD TO BE PUT BANK IN PLACE AND STITCHES UP.

THE A.C. CABLE WAS HUNG FROM THE ROOF APROX. 12 FT HIGH. THERE WAS SLACK HANGING DOWN BETWEEN HANGERS WHICH ALLOWED THE EE TO REACH THE LOOP OF THE CABLE HE WAS PUSHING UP ON THE CABLE ON ONE SIDE OF THE HANGER AND ANOTHER EE WAS PUSHING ON OTHER SIDE TRYING TO UNHOOK CABLE FROM HANGER IN ORDER TO TAKE IT DOWN.

11M LONGWALL MAN WAS SHOVELING SPILLAGE ALONG HEADGATE WHEN HE TURNED TO THROW COAL ONTO BELT GOT BAD PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPL STATED HE WAS PICKING UP BOX OF MINER BITS WITH LEFT HAND WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING RIGHT HAND. RIGHT HAND WAS LYING ON TOP OF TOOL SLED.

EMP USING LIFTING JACK TO MOVE COAL DRILL, AJCK HANDLE SLIPPED OUT OF JACK CATHCING R HAND BETWEEN THE HANDLE AND FRAME OF DRILL

CLIMBING UP LADDER WITH WRENCHES IN ONE HAND. OTHER HAND SLIPPED OFF RAIL. EMPLOYEE FELL TO THE GROUND LANDING ON HIS BACK.

INJURED WAS HANDLING THE 12 CM CABLE WHEN THE CORNER RIB ROLLED AND HIT INJURED IN THE RIGHT SHOULDER AND RIB AND THIGH. THIS WAS THE FIRST CUT IN THE SHORT SIDE OF THE BLOCK. THIS INVOLVED NO VIOLATIONS OF ANY RULES OR REGULATIONS.

LIFTING 2-6" CONVRETE BLOCKS AND STRAINE DHIS GROIN AREA. INDIVIDUAL DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 4-2-90.

DUE TO THE REPEATED TRAUMA OF OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR FOR THE LAST 15 YRS. THE EMPLOYEE DEVELOPED LOWER BACK PAIN.

I.NAME THROWING BELT ROLLERS THROUGH MANDOOR.CUAGHT LEFT THUMB BETWEEN END OF ROLLER AND EDGE OF DOOR FRACTURING IT.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING TO THE MANTRIP STATION TRIPPED IN A HOLE AND SPRAINED HIS ANKLE.

INJURED WAS WALKING IN MUDDY CONDITIONS & INADVERTENTLY STPPED IN HOLE & TWISTED RIGHT KNEE CAUSING IT TO POP OUT OF SOCKET.

CLIPS HAD BEEN WELDED TO THE SIDES OF AN INCLINED DUCT TO SUPPORT SCAFFOLD FRAMEWORK. THE INJURED AND A WELDER HAD GOTTEN ONTO THE SCAFFOLD TO WELD SAFETY CLIPS FOR THEIR SAFETY LINE WHEN CLIP BROKE. THE INJURED FELL ABOUT 6' AND THEN SLID DOWN THE INCLINED DUCT FLOOR INTO A LOUVERED FAN DAMPER. THIS RESULTED IN A BREAKAGE OF A BONE IN THE RT. LEG ABOVE THE ANKLE.

ANOTHER EE WAS BURSTING A ROCK OUT OF BRIDGE AND A PIECE OF ROCK HIT INJURED EE IN THE RIGHT EYE.

OPERATOR RAN JEEP INTO SCOOP AND CUT LEFT LEG NEXT TO ANKLE.

I.NAME OPERATING DOZER,LEG WAS FORCED TO HIT BRAKE LOCK LEVER.

HE CLIMBED OFF OF A CAT 769 TRUCK & WHEN HE STEPPED ONTO THE GROUND & FELT A SHARP PAIN IN H IS BACK

EMPL WAS WALKING TO BATHROOM WHILE ANOTHER WAS BVACKING UP WITH FORKLIFT & BUMPED INJURED ON BAKCK OF RIGHT LEG & HIP. WENT TO HOSP & HAD XRAYS. DR RELASED HIM TO COME BACK TO WORK 3/27. CALLE D 3/27 & SAID HE WAS LITTLE SORE SAID HE WOULD COME BACK TO WORK 3/27.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING 50# BAGS OF ROCK DUST FROM THE TRAM CONVEYOR ADN STACKING THEM ON A PALLET. LEMPLOYEE STATED HIS RIGHT HEEL GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BOARDS OF A PALLET AND WHEN HE TRIE D TO MOVE THE FOOT. HE TWISTED THE RIGHT ANKLE. THIS SAME ANKLE WAS BROKEN IN NON-WORK ACCIDENT ON 9-23-89. HE RETURNED 2-6-90.

CLIPS HAD BEEN WELDED TOTHE SIDES ON AN INCLINED DUCT TO SUPPORT SCAFFOLD FRAMEWORK. THE INJURED AND A LABORER HAD GOTTEN ONTO THE SCAFFOLD TO WELD CLIPS FOR ATTACHING THEIR SAFETY LINE WHEN A SUPPORT CLIP BROKE. THE INJURED FELL ABOUT 6' AND THEN SLID DOWN THE INCLINED DUCT FLOOR (ABOUT 10-15') INTO A LOUVERED FAN DAMPER THIS RESULTED IN SOME BRUISES AND A SMALL CUT OVER THE RT EY

WHILE THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING BESIDE THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE A PIECE OF SLATE FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING HIM ON THE LOWER PART OF HIS LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP UNDER TANK 4 WHEN A PARTICLE OF DIRT ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS CHANGING PRESSURE BANK FILTER WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE FILTER FROM ITS HOUSING USING A SCREWDRIVER, IT SLIPPED AND PUNCHTURED THE PALM OF HIS LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE CHANGING SCREEN. LIFTING SCREEN OFF CATWALK ON TOP SCREEN DECK WHILE TWISTING AROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CARRY A JOINT OF 2" PIPE UP THE CATWALK ON THE REFUSE BELT. THE END OF THE PIPE HIT A HANDRAIL CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO STRAIN HIS NECK AND SHOULDER. THIS MAN DID NOT STAR T MISSING WORK UNTIL 4/17/90.

WHILE DRILLING A HOLE FOR A ROOF BOLT A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL HITTING EMPLOYEE IN THE HEAD BUSTING HIS NOSE.

STRUCK BY PRY BAR

EMPLOIYEE LET THE PINNER HEAD DOWN ON HIS LEG

ATTEMPT TIGHTEN BOLTS ON DRILL RIG LOST BALANCE FELL CAUSING INJ TO R ANKLE

LOADING MATERIAL OFF CAR IN SCOOP, STEPPED OFF CAR, R ANKLE GAVE WAY

GETTING OFF CAGE & BUMPED FROM BEHIND GETTING BATTERY OUT OF POUCH & JAMMED RIGHT THUMB INTO HIS SIDE

CLIMBING OUT OF THE EDGE OF THE WATER SUMP AND FELT HIS MUSCLE PULL IN HIS LEFT KNEE. FIVE MINUTES LATER, WHEN HE WAS CLIMBING ONTO THE DROPBALL HIS KNEE CAME OUT AND BACK INTO JOINT.

EMPL STATED SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN BOLTS. HITTING HIM ON BACK OF NECK & LEG.

FELL AGAISNT BLOCKS FT ENTANGLE IN PC OF BANDING

INJURED STATED THAT HE PICKED UP A TIMER TO MOVE IT OUT OF THE ROADWAY, AND HIS BACK STARTED HURTING, AND HE COULD NOT STRIGHTEN UP.

WHILE MANDOSEALING OVERCAST AREA HOSE ON MANDOSEAL MACHINE BECAME PLUGGED. WHILE PASSING OVER MACHINE TO UNPLUG HOSE INJURED EMPLS BOOT BUMPED HOSE CLAMP WHICH CAUSED PRESSURIZED HOSE THAT WAS PLUGGED TO BREAK LOOSE & SPRAY MANDOSEAL INTO INJURED EMPLS FACE.

INJURED WAS LIFTING FLETCHER ROOF DRILL HEAD FROM PARIS CAR WHEN HE EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN.

WHILE TURNING AROUND ON SHUTTLE CAR EMPL TWISTED BACK.

CRAWLING ON KNEES HURT L KNEE BRUISED L KNEE

WALKING TO 1 ST FLOOR OF PREP PLANT WITH MAGNITE ON FLOOR FT SLIPPED HEEL HUNG ON FLOOR GRATING TWISTING BODY

EMPL IN STOOPED POSITION TRYING TO UNSTOP CLOGGED LINE WITH WATER HOSE.

WHEN CLIMBING FROM THE LAODER. HE SLIPPED OFF THE SWING STEP AND INJURED HIS BACK AND ANKLE WHILE HANGING ON THE HAND RAIL.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING 3" STEEL WATER LINE, PIPE STRUCK HIM ON RIGHT FOOT.

MAN WAS RUNNING TO AVOID GETTING WET FROM TANK OVERFLOW, MAN RAN INTO VALVE HANDLE.

I.NAME DRIVING PICKUP TO GO SHUT OFF WATER PUMPS.COMING DOWN HILL WHEN TRUCK SLIPPED OUT OF 4-WQHEEL DRIVE INTO NEUTRAL AND BRAKES WENT OUT.I. NAME HIT HYDRAULIC COAL LOADING SHOVEL.

THE INJURED MAN WAS CROSSING THE BELT TO MOVE SHUTTLE CAR CABLE. WHEN CROSSING THE BELT, HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED, CAUSING INJURED MAN TO HIT HIS KNEE ON BELT STAND. THE INJURED MANS BOOTS WERE WET AND MUDDY.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING PAST A BREAKER BOX WHEN HE STEPPED ON AN AIR HOSE AND LOST HIS BALANCE. HE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF AND THE SCREWDRIVER HE WAS HOLDING WENT INTO THE BREAKER BOX CAUSING AN ELECTRICAL FLASH.

WHILE SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO REAINSTALL THE CUTTER CHAIN BACK IN BAR JARRETT INJURED HIS BACK. SWELLED DISC IN BACK.

INJURED WAS OPERATING A RAIL MOTOR AND WAS IN PROCESS OF HAULING A LONGWALL TAILGATE SECTION TO THE SURFACE. THE LOWBOY TRAILER THAT WAS HAULING THE TAILGATE SECTION CAUGHT A LOOSE PIECE OF 6" PLASTIC PIPE AND FLIPPED IT BACK ACROSS THE MOTOR STRIKING INJURED.

HE WAS UNLOADING CONCRETE BLOCKS OFF SUPPLY CAR & STRAINED BACK HAPPENED AT END OF SUPPLY TRACK 405A SECTION.

CLIMBING DOWN LADDER SLIPPED TWISTING R KNEE EMP 3' FROM FLOOR ACC OCC

THE ONLY PERSON PRESENT WAS THE INJURED EMPLOYEE. MANAGEMENT HAS NOT TALKED TO EMPLOYEE AS HE IS IN ICU AT IVINSON HOSPITAL. IT IS ASSUMED AT HTIS TIME THAT EMPLOYEE FELL THROUGH AN OPENING IN THE GRATED FLOOR.

INJURED EE AND THE DRILLER WERE SWINGING THE KELLY ROD BACK TO THE SIDE, WHERE HIS HAND WAS HIT BETWEEN THE KELLY AND DRILL HEAD.

WHILE BOARDING THE DRAGLINE THE EMPLOYEE'S FOOT SLIPPED RESULTING IN A BRUISE TO RIGHT LOWER BACK AND SHUOLDER. ON 11/29/90 DURING AN INVESTIGATION OF ANOTHER INCIDENT IT WAS FOUND THE EMPLOYE E HAD BEEN MISSING WORK SINCE 8/29/90 DUE TO HIS INJURY AND NOT A NON-WORK RELATED CAUSE. THE EMPLOYEE REMAINS OFF WORK.

EE STATED HE WAS HEATING A SPACER RING WITH OXYGEN ACETYLENE TORCH WHEN FLAME WENT OUT. THE EE THOUGHT THE TIP WAS CLOGGED TURNED OFF BOTH VALVES AND RUBBED TORCH IGNITED AND BURNED HIS LEFT H AND.

INJURED WAS CHANGING BEARINGS ON CONVEYOR DRIVE PULLEY. WHILE CHANGING THE BEARING I.NAME WAS IN A HUNCHED POSITION UNDER SOME STEELWORK. AFTER COMING OUT FROM UNDER THE STEELWORK HE FELT SOME PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL A CHUTE INTO POSITION ON THE MILL FLOOR IN THE MILLING AREA WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PULL THE CHUTE INTO POSITION THE EE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK WHICH RADIATED DOWN HIS IT HIP.

WHILE TRAVELING TO 43 SEAL TO CHECK ON PUMP EMPLOYEE WAS INSIDE AN AIR LOCK & WAS GOING THROUGH THE 2ND DOOR WHEN THE INTAKE BRATTICE SUCKED OUT ON THE LEFT SIDE.

ROCK FELL BETWEEN PINS WHILE TAMPING UP FACE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING UPRIGHT USING A SLATE BAR TO SCALE DOWN LOOSE ROOF WHEN A PIECE APPROXIMATELY 24" X 24" X 2" THICK STRUCK THE TRS BAR ON THE BOLTER AND GLANCED STRIKING INJURED'S LEF T ANKLE.

EMPL WAS PUTTING CONDUIT ON CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE IN #3 3NTRY FACE OF 1 NORTH MAINS SECTION. ID #004-0. AS HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP PIECE OF CONDUIT HE STRAINED BACK.

PUTTING PEDESTAL ON SHEARER RT ARM WAS LEANING ON PANLINE WHEN PEDESTAL FELL ABOUT 18 INCHES ONTO RT ARM(400-500LBS) (ELBOW AREA GOT MOST OF IMPACT)

CAUGHT RIGHT HAND BETWEEN MACHINE AND LEG.

WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN PIECE OF DRILL STEEL FLEW OUT & HIT HIM ON RIGHT ARM. ACCIDENT HAPPENED AT FACE.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SLATE BAR AS A SKID TO SLIDE TRACK RAILS FROM RAIL TRUCK AS A RAIL WAS SLID DOWN BAR THE BAR FELL CAUSING RAIL TO STRIKE HIM

EMPL STEPPED INTO BUCKET OF SCOOP & TRIPPED OVER CONCRETE BLOCK TWISTING ANKLE.

EMPL WAS HELPING WITH SECTION MOVEUP ON 2 NORTH MAINS SECTION ID #001-1. AS HE WAS PULLING ON 7200 VOLT POWER CABLE TO BE CONNECTED TO POWER CENTER HE STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO HOOK UP THE LOWBOY TONGUE TO THE SLOPE CAR. HE WAS HOLDING THE TONGUE IN ONE HAND WHILE LOOSENING A CLEVIS WITH THE OTHER CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE DID NO T BEGIN TO MISS WORK UNTIL 4/3/90.

USING BAR TO REMOVE DIGGING ARM, SLATE BAR SLIPPED STRAIN TO LOWER ABDOMEN

EMPLOYEE STATED HE SLIPPED ON RAILCAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN HIS ANKLE

INJURED BACK WHEN MANTRIP STRUCK COAL RIB.

INJURED WAS STANDING BENT OVER PREPARING TO SHOVEL FACE LINE IN PREPARATION FOR SHOOTING COAL BOTTOM, WHEN A PIECE OF ROOF FELL. BETWEEN THE TIP OF 125 CANOPY AND OUTSIDE ROW OF ROOF BOLTS IN TAIL ENTRY, STRIKING INJURED ON BACK SHOULDERS SLIDING DOWN BAC AND LEGS, RIDING INJURED TO THE MIN FLOOR. TIP OF CANOPY TO COAL FACE APPROX 3', PAN LINE PULLED BACK 18 TO 24 INCHES, 2 TIMBER

WHILE HANGING CABLE THE EMP STEPPED BACK TRIPPING OVER CRIB BLOCK FELL TO MINE FLOOR

MAKING SPLICE IN BELT THE HEAD OF ANIL FLEW OFF STIKING VICTIM IN L EYE

STEPPED OUT TO UNPLUG GRATE TRIPPED OVER HOSE FELL TO FLOOR

AS THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED DOWN OFF TRACK ROCKDUSTER, HE STRAINED HIS R. ANKLE.

MAN WAS CHANGING BOTTOM ROLLER ON BELT LINE. WHEN HE PUT ROLLER ON HANGER PLATE FINGER GOT CAUGHTIN BETWEEN ROLLER & PLATE & IT CUT FINGER.

ROCK FELL BETWEEN SHIELDS STRIKING BACKSIDE OF RIGHT FOOT.

PULLING MINER CABLE BACK & PULLED BACK MUSCLE

EMPL STEPPING OUT OF BACKHOE STEPPED DOWN TO GROUND AND INTO RUT IN ROAD TWISTING LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE PINCHED LEFT HAND BETWEEN TWO ROD MILL LINERS.

PULLING DUST HOSE & FELL INTO A HOLE TWISTING RIGHT ANKLE

PORTABLE CONVEYOR AND FEEDER BEING MOVED. A LOADER WAS REQUIRED TO ASSIST THE UNIT OUT OF A HOLE. THE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING IN A POSITION TO DIRECT THE OPERATOR (LOADER) AND THE OPERATOR OF TH E FEEDER AS IT STARTED TO MOVE A ROCK FELL FROM THE ELEVATED CONVEYOR AND STRUCK HIM ON THE FOOT.

WALKING FROM WAREHOUSE OFFICE TO MAIN OFFICE STEPPED ON SMALL ROCK TURNED LEFT ANKLE

INJURED STOOPED OVER IN PREPARATION TO DRILL A ROOF BOLT HOLE AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

DUCKING UNDER A CONVEYOR, HARD HAT BLOCKED VISION AND CAUGHT ON PIPE/BEAM AND JAMMED NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANINGING SNOW OFF THE FLOAT PULLEY ON A GRAVITY TAKE UP. HE INSTRUCTED ANOTHER WORKER TO RUN THE BELT UP A FEW INCHES. HE THEN STEPPED ON THE PULLEY BEFORE IT STOPPED, PINNING HIS LEG BETWEEN THE BELT AND THE PULLEY.

EE WAS WORKING ON A CIRCUIT BREAKER IN THE MOTOR CONTROL ROOM OF THE PREPARATION PHART WHEN A SLHORT CIRCUIT OCCURRED CAUSING A FLASH BURN TO HIS FACE.

EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED WHEN 8IN COUPLING HE WAS CUTTING LOOSE WITH TORCH DROPPED DOWN & KNOCKED HIM OFF STEP LADDER ABOUT 7FT TO PLANT FLOOR

MAN WAS BENT OVER,STRAIGHTENED UP AND RIGHT KNEE STARTED TO HURT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LEAVING DRAGLINE TO TALK TO MECHANIC WHO HAD ARRIVED AT DRAGLINE. SNOW HAD BEEN FALLING ALL MORNING AND HAD ACCUMULATED 4-5 INCHES. AS HE DISMOUNTED, HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF A PIEC E OF SHALE AND INTO A SMALL RUT CAUSING HIS ANKLE TO TWIST, RESULTING IN A SPRAIN.

WALKING ON 1ST FLOOR ON PLANT WHEN STEPPED ON PC WET RUBBER CAUSING HIM TO SLIP AND FALL AGAINST STEEL BRACED

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING, GLOVE ON LEFT HAND FILLED WITH ACETYLENE AND CAUGHT FIRE. BURNED EMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND BADLY.

EMPL WAS USING BAR TO LIFT BELT DURING BELT MOVCE HE STATED HE FELT PAIN IN STOMACH & BACK.

ROCK FELL FROM ROOF OF MINE & HIT EMPL ON RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED ON 3-26-90 THAT HIS BACK WAS A LITTLE SORE. HE THOUGHT HE MAY HAVE INJURED THE PAST SHIFT. EMPLOYEE HAS NOT WORKED SINCE 3027-90. NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT JOB-RELATED INJURY.

EMPLOYEE DROPPED 15 LB DRILL ON TOE.

EMPL WAS INTALLING NEW TAKEUP ROLLER IN NO 5 MAIN LINE BELT DRIVE WHEN AS TIGHTENING BOLT SOCKET SLIPPED OFF OF BOLT CAUSING EMPL TO FALL BACKWARDS INJURING LOWER BACK AT URLING #3 MINE OF KEY STONE COAL MINING CO. EMPL DID NOT LOSE TIME UNTIL 4/01/91.

EMPL WAS INJURED BY FALLING ROOF MATERIAL WHILE OPERATING ROOF BOLTER. WHILE DRILLING HOLE INTO MINE ROOF MATERIAL 8'X8-14"X1 1/2-4" THICK FELL STRIKING EMPL ON LEGT LEG & BACK. EMPL SUFFERED BRUISES & LACERATIONS AS RESULT.

SHOVELING COAL,WALKING DOWN BELTLINE STEPPED ON UNEVEN SPOT TWISTING LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS CLIMBING ONTO THE END LOADER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE DID NOT BEGIN MISSING WORK UNTIL 5-11-90/ AS THIS EMPLOYEE WAS WLAKING HE STRUCK BY FALLING RIB MATERIAL. THE REPAIRMEN WAS LEAVING THE WORK BENCH TO GO TO WORK ON A PEICE OF EQUIPM ENT. AS HE WAS WALKING HE WAS STRUCK IN HIS RIGGHT LEG BY A PIECE OF COAL.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE GOING INTO UNIT A 2ND MANTRIP CAME OUT OF UNIT. HE STOPPED UNDER OVERCAST AND THE 2ND TRIP SLID DOWN HILL AND STRUCK HIS MANTRIP. HE HAD PUT HIS LEFT FOOT UP TO BRAC E HIMSELF AND WHEN THE COLLISION HAPPENED HE SPRAINED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON TARP TO PULL TARP OVER TRAILER. ROPE BROKE AND EMPLOYEE CLIMBED ON TOP OF TRAILER AND PULLED ROPE AGAIN. ROPE BROKE A SECOND TIME AND EMPLOYEE FELL TO THE GROUND.

HE WAS RIDING AND BELT STARTED IN FAST FEED AND COULDN'T GET OFF AND HIT A PIECE OF PIPE THAT HOLDS CABLE. INJURY TO NECK, LOW BACK STRAIN AND CONTUSION LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS TRANSFERRING OIL FROM 55 GAL. DRUM TO THE 300 GAL. TANKS IN THE TRUCK SHOP WHEN HE FELT A TWINGE IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A FIBERCRETE BLOCK WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE RESTED HIS LEFT ARM ON PLATER COVER OF LINE STARTER THE PLATE COVER FELL INTO POWER LEAD CAUSING AN ELECTRICAL FLASH BURNING EMPLOYEES ARM

WHILE WALKING TO MANTRIP EMPLOYEE TRIPPED ON RAIL AT END OF TRACK HE ASSUMED THAT THIS INCIDENT MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO HIS ARTHRITIS OF WHICH HE HAS HAD FOR SOME TIME

VICTIM WAS PERFORMING NORMAL DUTIES AS ELECTRICIAN. WHILE WORKING IN PLANT CONTROL ROOM. HE WAS PULLING ON SOME WIRES WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

SHOVELING MUCK FROM UNDER CONV BELT WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN BACK. CAUSED STRAIN.

EMPL WAS MOVING S.C. CABLE BY HAND & HURT BACK.

HE WAS PUTTING UP CURTAIN & TWISTED KNEE COAL SEAM IS LOW & REQUIRES CRAWLING.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING IN 2 ENTRY AND STEPPED ON BLOCK OF COAL ROUNDED BLOCK ROLLED UNDERNEATH HIS FOOT TWISTING HIS ANKLE.

EMPL WAS AT #2 COOLER CALIBRATING DP CELLS. HE HIT HARD HAT AGAINST LOW PIPE JAMMING NECK & UPPER BACK.

MAN WAS ON 11TH DEV SOUTH LONGWALL OPERATING LONGWALL SHIELDS. AS HE MOVED SHIELD FORWARD HE BE AME CAUGHT BETWEEN FACELINE & SHIELD LEG & STRAINED BACK.

HE WAS RAISING HIMSELF IN THE MANLIFT. HE WAS LOOKING TO THE LEFT WHEN HIS RIGHT ARM GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MANLIFT FRAME AND A 21" I BEAM. AT HIS TIME HE SHUT HTE MACHINE OFF, UNTIL HELP AR RIVED WHICH WAS IMMEDIATELY.

EE WAS PLACING STEEL BLOCKS UNDER CUTTING EDGES OF DOZER IN TRUCK SHOP. ANOTHER EE WAS OPERATING THE DOZER S BLADE AND REAR RIPPER, AND DID NOT SEE THE EE PLACING THE BLOCKS UNDER THE BLADE, D ROPPED THE BLADE CATCHING THE FINGER OF EE. FRACTURE OF RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

PIECE OF DRAW SLATE FELL CATCHING MAN ON SHOULDERS AND BACK.

EMPL HAS NOW STARTED TO MISS WORK AGAIN 3/24/90 & ACCORDING TO EMPL THERE WAS NO OCCURRNCE OF NEW ACCIDENT. THIS IS LINGERING INJ FROM 1/19/90 ACCIDENT.

FRACT L FOREARM TRIPPED ON FORKSS OF FORKLIFT TRUCK TRIED TO STOP HIS FALL WITH L ARM

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND LOADER BUCKET AND TOUCHED HOOD OF IT. A BURROW OF METAL CUT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER GIVING HIM CELLULITIS

SCOOP DRIVER WAS LEAVING FACE WITH LOAD OF COAL & FRONT END OF HIS SCOOP HIT & DISLODGES ROOF BOLT & IT FELL IN DECK OF SCOOP & STRUCK LEG.

EMPLOYEE BUMPED HIS LEFT KNEE AGAINST THE FRAME OF A ROCK DUSTER CAR.

WHILE LIFTING A FFEDER PAN OUT OF JAW CRUSHER,EMPLOYEE REACHED DOWN BELOW BODY,TWISTED AND HANDED PAN ABOVE HEAD.

EMPL WAS PRYING WITH BAR. IT SLIPPED & HE TWISTED WRIST CAUSING SPRAIN..

ACCIDENT WAS REPORTED 9:00 PM 3/25/90. THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT IT WHEN IT HAPPENED. HE SAID IT HAPPENED 2:00PM 3/23/90 WHILE OPERATING A SCOOP. HE SAID HE RAN INTO A RIB, SAID IT FELT LIKE A BEE STING IN HIS BACK AND HE DIDN'T THINK NO MORE ABOUT IT TILL 3/24/90 AND HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL 3/25/90.

EE HAD BEEN LIFTING AND TWISTING ON SOME EQUIPMENT AND ALSO HAD BEEN CRAWLING IN A MINE A FEW DAYS PRIOR. ON 3-23-90 THE RIGHT KNEE BEGTAN TO SWELL THE DR ALLEDGE THAT EE HAD COAL MINERS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE ENTERED CAB DOOR SWUNG CLOSED-EMPLOYEES THUMB WAS PINCHED BY HINGE SIDE OF DOOR

A PIECE OF OF ROCK FALL OUT BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS AND STRIKE THE PERSON IN THE MID BACK WHILE SAWING A TIMBER. (NO BONE WERE BROKEN-JUST BRUISE.)

INJURED WAS PUSHING ON SLATE BAR TRYING TO PULL PIN OUT OF LONGWALL SHEAR BAR SLIPPED AND INJURED FELL INJURING LEFT WRIST THIS MINES WAS PLACED ON TEMPORARY CLOSURE ON 3-23-90. INJURED WAS G IVEN RETURN TO WORK SLIP FOR 4-2-90.

FOOT FLIPPED ON PLATFORM AND FELL TO GROUND APPROX. 6 FT STRUCK HIS HEAD FELL ON UPPER RIGHT BACK HURTING RIBS. CONTUSION RIB CAGE THORAX. CONTIUSION HEAD FACE AND NECK.

EMPL HUNG LEG ON D.A.RAM-PULLED LEG FREE,PULLED MUSCLE IN GROIN.

EE WAS BOLTING THE ROOF TOP HE LAID HIS HAND IN THE TRAY AND ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS AND STRUCKHIM ON HIS LEFT HAND RESULTING IN A CUT APPROX. 3/4 INCHES LONG ON TOP OF LEFT HAND.

STOCKING PARTS WENT TO PUT FLANGES IN BIN FFELT PAIN IN BACK

EMPL WAS CARRYING TWO BAGS OF ROCK DUST TO BELT DRIVE WHEN HE STEPPED ON STONE & TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE.

OPERATOR WAS ADDING A PIECE OF SECTION STEEL AND HIT THE HEAD RAISE LEVER ON BOLT MACHINE AND MASHED HIS HAND BETWEEN HEAD AND ROOF.

WAS LOOKING UP AT BAGHOUSE AND DIRT FELL INTO HIS EYES.

WORKING UNDER LOADER AND WHEN HE TURNED HIS HEAD AROUND, HE HIT AN ANGLE IN HIS RIGHT EYE.

BACKING UP TO DUMP WENT OVER BANK TIPPED ON SIDE INJ AT ANGLE TO DUMP

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS LIFTING/PUSHING A ROOF BOLT ASSEMBLY INTO A DRILL HOLE IN THE ROOF, HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS BACK AND SHOULDERS.

MAN WAS ON 11TH DEV SOUTH LONGWALL WORKING ON JOB OF BOLTING SPRING WAS TO FACELINE & CARRYING CONTROL BLOCK VALVES FROM FACE TO HEAD WHEN HE SAID BACK STARTED HURTING.

THIS CONDITION DEVELOPED OVER A PERIOD OF SEVERAL WEEKS OF SCALING IN MINES SHE WAS ON DIFFEREND SCALING MACHINES EACH SHIFT

EMPLOYEE WAS DOING PELLET TEST IN THE LAB AND WAS REPLACING THE DOOR ONT EH TUMBLE DRU. WHILE REPLACING THE DOOR IT SLIPPED, AND WHEN HE GRABBED IT HE FELT APULL IN HIS LOWER BACK. DIAGNOSI S: ACUTE LS SPASM WITH STRAIN. HE BEGAIN TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A WORK BARGE FROM THE HORSE SHOE SUMP WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING GUARD OFF HEAVY MEDIA IN WASHER PLANT STRAINING HIS BACK

CLAIMAINT STATED HE WAS UPON TRACKS OF D8K DOZER PUTTING FAN BELTS ON, HE WAS IN KNEELING POSITION, LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL OFF OF TRACKS ON TO CEMENT PAD, FRACTURING HIS RIGHT FOREARM FIRST ABOVE WRIST.

EMPLOYEE HAD A 1 TON MECHANIC TRUCK SUSPENDED ON A HYDRAULIC JACK WITH SUPPORTS PLACED UNDER THE AXLE APPROX 1IN BELOW THE RAISED HEIGHT THE EMPLOYEE WAS IN A SITTING POSITION WITHIN THE WHEEL WELL THE TRUCK FELL OFF THE HYDRAULIC JACK DOWN1IN TO THE SUPPORTS THUS TRAPPING THE EMPLOYEE WITHIN THE WHEEL WELL AREA

CONVEYOR BEING SET WAS IMPROPERLY RIGGED FORCING CONVEYOR IN PLACE. EMPL WAS IN UNSAFE POSITION.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING LOADING MACHINE WHEN HE CAUGHT FOOT BETWEEN PIECE OF COAL & LOADING MACHINEW

EMPL STATED HE STEPPED FROM SUPPLY MOTOR MINE FLOOR WAS WET FEET SLIPPED FALLING TO MINE FLOOR STRIKING LOWER PART OF BACK AGAINST MINE FLOOR.

INJ WORKING IN SUPPLY YARD ASSISTING LOADING SUPPLY CAR,FOOT BECAME ENTANGLED IN LOOSE STEEL BANDS WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS STRIKING RIGHT LOWER BACK AGAINST STEP-UP END OF SUPPLY CV AR.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET BY ORE CAR AND HURT HIS STOMACH.

I NAME WAS CROSSING AN OVERCAST HE CLIMBED ONE SET OF LADDERS WALKED ACROSS THE TOP OF THE OVERCAST WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE DOWN SET OF STEPS THE STEPS SLIPPED CAUSING I NAME TO FALL

CONVEYOR BELT OPERATOR WAS BARING A LARGE ROCK & STRAINED HIS BACK BEGAN LOSING TIME 032690

TWO EMPLOYEE'S WERE DISASSEMBLING A HOSE USING THE RIGID ;HOSE MACHINE. BOTH WERE PULLING ON THE HOSE VICE WHICH PULLS THE HOSE FROM THE FITTING. THE HOSE CAME FREE FROMT HE FITTING AND THE FICE SLID BACK. THE VICE SLID COMPLETELY OFF THE SLIDE ON ONE SIDE AND PIVOTED WHICH CAUGHT EMPLOYEE'S FINGER BETWEEN THE SLIDING MECHANISM.

EMPL FILLING BATTERY WITH ACID,PINCHED OFF HOSE AND WHEN HE MOVED TO NEXT BATTERY CELL,HOSE CAUGHT ON TOP OF BATTERY FLIPPING ACID ON HIS FACE AND FOREHEAD AREA.ACID RAN INTO HIS EYES.WAS WEAR ING SAFETY GLASSES.

LEFT KNEE OF THIS EMPLOYEE STARTED SWELLING & HURTING WHILE CRAWLING AROUND THE SECTION HE DEVELOPED WATER ON THE KNEE APPARENTLY FROM CRAWLING AROUND THE SECTION

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING TRUCK WHEN FOOT SLIPPED OFF STEP HE THEN CAUGHT HAND HOLD AND STRINED NECK MUSCLES.

EE STATED THAT HE STRAINED HIS SHOULDER WHILE TIGHTENING BOLTS.

TAKING DOWN BLDG AROUND SAW PIECE OF ANGLE IRON ABOUT 2' LONG FELL FROM TOP OF MACHINE.