Mining Incidents in April 1990

LOADER OPER PARKED LOADER PARALLEL TO AND 12'FROM 36'HIWALL.WAS ENGULFED WHILE STANDING BETWEEN LADDER AND TIRE OF LOADER ON HIWALL SIDE BY A SLIDE OF 10-12 YDS OF MATERIAL.

TRUCK OPERATED BY I.NAME TRAVELING DOWN HAULAGE ROAD,DRIVER LEFT TRUCK WHILE COMING DOWN HILL,SUFFERED FATAL INJURIES.TRUCK CONTINUED ON INTO DITCH AND STOPPED.

VICTIM ADJUSTING CLUTCH CEDAR RAPIDS PORTABLE CRUSHER WHEN PRY BAR CAME FLYING OUT OF CLUTCH AREA STRIKING VICTIM IN CHEST AND PENETRATING JUST ABOVE HEART AREA

RAISED UP IN CURRY CAR BEING PULLED TO SURFACE./HIT LEFT SIDE OF HEAD ON A CABLE BOARD HANGING DOWN RESULTING IN FATAL.#6 ROADWAY,1900' FROM SURFACE SPAD 575.

WALKED INTO PLACE WHERE ROOF WASNT SUPPORTED.FATAL. INTO X-CUT BETWEEN #2 & #3 ENTRIES WHILE MOVING CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE CABLE.ROOF IN X-CUT NOT SUPPORTED...ROOF FALL 2'THICK X 15'LONG X 18-20'WIDE.WAS RECOVERED AT 11:52 AM.

I.NAME HAD JUST FINISHED LOADING PIECE OF COAL,PREPARING TO MOVE MINER TO NEXT CUT.HE AND OTHER HANGING UP MINER CABLE WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOFBOLTS STRIKING EMPL.ROCK WAS 2 1 /2"THICK X 3'WIDE X 6'LONG.WAS UNDER SUPPORTED ROOF,FALL MEASURED44'LONG X 3-12'WIDE X 3-14"THICK.

EMPL ENGAGED BUCKET HOIST THEN LEFT CONTROLS TO CHECK ON OIL LEAK.BECAME TRAPPED BETWEEN MOVING HOIST CYLINDER AND MACHINE CAUSING ASPHYXIATION.

INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS ON SECTION.INSERTING RESIN AND BOLT INTO HOLE WHEN ROOF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON TOP AND BACK PUSHING HIM INTO BOLTING MACHINE.THIS CAUSED INTERNAL CRUSHING INJURIES.

EMPL UP ON PLATFORM ON BOOM OF SHOVEL REMOVING BRASS BUSHINGS,FELL 30' TO GROUND BELOW THROUGH OPEN END OF PLATFORM.FAILED TO USE SAFETY BELT & LINE PROVIDED AT WORK SITE.

ROTATING CAROUSEL ON DRILLING RIG TO OPEN POSITION REACHED IN PATH OFHEAD RIDER PLATES PINCHED THE L CENTER FINGER AND CUT RING FINGER OFF AT FIRST JOINT

ASEMBLING MACHINE AT JINT SET LOWER CENTER PN IN PLACE IT FELL IN SOCKET SEVERING PART OF LITTLE FINGER L HAND TO THE FIRST JOINT

HURT HIS RIBS SOMETIME DUEING THE WEEKEND. THIS CAUSED HIS BACK AND LEGS TO HURT. FIRST DAY OFF FROM WORK WAS MAY 7, 1990.

INJ UNLOADING 4" STEEL PIPE OUT OF SCOOP WHEN ONE END OF PIPE TWISTED & RAISED.END OF PIPE CAUGHT HAND AND MASHED RIGHT LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN PIPE AND TOP OF MINE ROOF.

SHOVELING TAILPIECE ,RAISED SHOVEL OF COAL AND STRAINED LOWER BACK.

4 EMPL WERE SETTING HOPPER SECTION WHICH WAS HANGING BY LIFT BEAM CHOKERS. ALL FOUR WERE PUSHING BOTTOM SECTION TO EAST TRYING TO MAKE FIT. LOAD SHIFTED TO WEST DIRECTION INJURED PERSON WAS ST ANDING. HOPPER SECTION & INJURED WERE PUSHED INTO HANDRAIL WHICH GAVE WAY & INJURED FELL 16'6". HANDRAIL SHOWED SEPERATION WAS CAUSED BY HOPPERSSECITON.

HERNIA FOUND ON COMPANY'S PHYSICAL. SEE ATTACHED DOCTOR'S STATEMENT.

EE WAS SHOVELING AT THE FACE OF THE RECLAIM TUNNEL WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FALL FROM A BELT LINE RUNNING OVER HEAD IT APPEARS THE ROCK WAS DISCHARGED FROM THE COAL SAMPLER.

EMPLOYEE WAS FIXING UNDERGROUND TRUCK AND LOADER TIRES) PICKED UP A TIRE AND HAD PAIN IN GROIN AREA AND BACK. (ACCISDENT OCCURRED APPROX 4-24-90. DID NOT REPORT UNTIL THIS DATE).

SLIPPED OFF THE OUTER FRAME WHEN DESCENDING FROM SCREEN FELL ABOUT 8 FEET.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS SPOTTING 2 LOADED SECTIONS OF TRAIN CARS, AS HE ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB UPON THE CAR, HE SLIPPED AND HIS LEFT FOOT WAS RUN OVER BY THE TRAIN. THIS CAUSED A TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION OF THE LEFT BIG TOE.

WHILE LIFTING SCREEN PANELS UP TO 4'X16'CRUSHED SCREEN SCREEN PANEL SLIPPED CRUSHING LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND BETWEEN SCREEN PANEL & LIFTING CABLE.

WAS LIFTING A CORE BARREL WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK. HE COULD NOT STAND UP FOR ABOUT 15 MINS. AFTER HE WAS ABLE TO STAND UP HE HAD PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND HIS LEGS.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS CHECKING COOLER EXHAUST STACK HE CLIMBED LADDER AND WENT INTO THE STACK AND WHEN HE RETURNED TO THE OUTSIDE HE HAD A HERNIA OUT ON LEFT SIDE.

TESTING AN ALTERNATOR ON ALTERNATOR TEST STAND SHUT MACHINE OFF THOUGHT IT HAD STOPPED & PUT HAND ON V BELT DRIVE HIS FINGER WAS CAUGHT & PULLED INTO ALTERNATOR PULLEY

WHILE OPENING HOPPER CAR DOORS ON TOP OF HOPPER CARS, USING BOTH HANDS, HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELT PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA. HE WORKED A 12 HRS SHIFT AND WENT HOME. THE NEXT DAY HE COMPLA INED TO HIS FOREARM THAT HE MIGHT HAVE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS LOWER STOMACH AREA. THE DOCTOR SAID HE HAD A SLIGHT RUPTURE AND MAY NEED SURGERY IN THE FUTURE.

EMPLOYEE DEVELOPED HERNIA ON LEFT LOWER ABDOMINAL WALL SURROUNDING AREA OF OLD SCAR. NO DEFINITE DATE OF INJURY OR REASON FOR INJURY KNOWN. MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY REPEATED LIFTING.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING AN INGERSOLL RAND DRILL. DURING OPERATION, HE THOUGHT HE SAW A WATER LEAK ON THE RADIATOR. HE LEFT THE MACHINE RUNNING, AND PUT HIS HAND ON THE RADIATOR TO DETERMINE IF THE LEAK WAS OIL OR WATER. WHEN HE DID THIS, HIS LEFT HAND CAUGHT ON THE FAN BLADES. THE FAN BLADE AMPUTATED HIS LEFT RING FINGER AT THE FIRST JOINT.

INJURED EMPLOYEE REPORTED ON 04-23 THAT ON 04-19 HE EXPERIENCED SOME DISCOMFORT IN HIS GROIN WHYILE TIGHTENING THROUGH ROD NUTS ON #3 KILN DOWNHILL THRUST ROLL

HE WAS DISMOUNTING LOADER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE LOST HIS BALANCE. HIS RING CAUGHT ON SOMETHING UNKNOWN ON THE STEP OF THE LOADER WHEN HE FELL CAUSING THE AMPUTATION OF HIS LEFT RING FIN GER AT THE SECOND JOINT.

FELT A PAIN WHILE REMOVING 50 LB BAGS FROM OUR PRODUCTION CONVEYOR AND STACKING ONTO PALLETS. PAIN IN GROIN INCREASED AND HE DID LIGHT WORK TILL SHIFT END AT 7 AM. DOCTORS SAY A GROIN HERNIA.

LOADING 5FT POST INTO SCOOP BUCKET FROM OUT SIDE STORAGE

EMPL STATES HE WAS PULLING ON CONVEYOR WHEN HE PULLED SIDE CAUSING HERNIA.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING ON THE OFFSIDE OF THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE. HE HAD HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE DRILL-STEEL, WHICH MADE IT BEING AGAINST THE TOP OF THE MINE ROOF, AND HE WAS CHANGIN G WRENCHES WITH HIS LEFT HAND. THE OPERATOR ON THE RIGHT SIDE HAD FINISHED DRILLING & WAS DROPPING HIS ATRS WHEN A PIECE OF DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF HIS TRAY & HIT THE TRAM LEVER. THIS CAUSED

HELPING TO CHANGE CABLE ON CRANE, ACCIDENTLY STEPPED ON MOVING SPROCKET LACERATIONS AND SEVERE MUTILATION TO 4TH TOE ON SAME FOOT UY

UNLOADING SLATE-TRUCK TURNED OVER.

CARRYING WELDER AROUND FEEDER STRAIN L SIDE CAUSING HERNIA

LIFTING A PULLING MINER CABLE STRAINED RIGHT GROIN AREA.

REMOVING HOUSING & WHEEL STUD FROM R50 EUCLID TRUCK.

INJURED WAS REMOVING COVERS OFF THE LONGWALL HEAD DRIVE THAT WAS BEING TORN DOWN TO BE SENT OUTSIDE. WHILE TRYING TO REPOSTION HIMSELF, THE COVER SHIFTED ABRUPTLY CAUSING WEIGHT TO BE SHIFTED AGAINST HIM.. HE OVEREXERTED FORCE, CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN, RESULTING IN HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON I.T.E. PANEL WHEN AN ELECTRICAL EXPLOSION OCCURRED. AT THIS TIME WE DO NOT KNE WHAT CAUSED IT. HE WAS BURNED ON LEFT SHOULDER, FACE AND LEFT SIDE OF HIS BACK.

LIFTING-SURGICAL REPAIR OF LEFT INGUINAL HERNIA.

I.NAME LIFTING OAK BLOCKS FROM UNDER MACHINE AND STACKING THEM,INJURED GROIN.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS CHECKING BELT AND PULLEY ALIGNMENT AND MOTOR STARTED AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN BELT AND PULLEY.

EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING OVER PULLING A RADIATOR OUT OF A DUMP TRUCK.

MAN WAS RIDING ON PERSONNEL CARRIER AS THEY WERE GOING THROUGH PULL CURTAIN STRIPS OF BELT HUNG FROM ROOF HE WAS HOLDING IT UP FOR MEN RIDING BEHIND HIM. WHEN THEY PASSED CURTAIN HIS RING APPA RENTLY CAUGHT ON ROOF BOLT PLATE INJURING RING FINGER ON LEFT HAND.

ON 4/10/90 EMPL WAS CLEANING MUD FROM UNDER MS#1 BELT HEAD WHEN HE STRAINED GROIN AREA. HE HAD BEEN THROWING MUD OVER HEAD WHILE SHOVELING FULL SHOVEL LOADS ONTO BELT. HE CONTINUED TO WORK. HE BEGAN MISSING ON 7/9 WHEN HE HAD SURGERY FOR LEFT INGUINAL HERNIA.

REPLACING WATER GASKET ON MACHINE. DRILL ROD FELL OUT OF HOLE STRUCK R MIDDLE FINGER

STRAINED LOWER R ABDOMEN CARRYING 50 LB BAG OF ROCKDUST

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO TAKE OFF TRACK AND WHILE USING A BAR TO MOVE THE RAILS HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN THE STOMACH (HERNIA).

OPERATOR WAS BACKING UP DOZER AND RAN OVER A ROCK AND SLIPPED OFF JARRING NECK.

LIFTING A STAINLESS BLANK WHEN HE FELT A PULLING IN HIS LEFT GROIN.

WHILE LOADING STEEL SHOT INTO JIG BED EMPL FELT PAIN IN LEFT GROIN AREA. INJURY HAS RESULTED IN HERNIA & LOST TIME.

INJURED WAS CHANGING OUT PADS ON THE MILL PAN FEEDER. HE LATER FELT SOME PAIN IN HIS HIP. WHEN THE PAIN WENT AWAY, TWO DAYS LATER, HE NOTICED SWELLING IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN. IT WAS DIAGNOSED AS A HERNIA.

HE SET A BATTLE OF CRATER ON FLOOR OF DRAGLINE. HE STEPPED UP INTO MACHINE AND OPEN GUARD OVER SWING GEAR. HE TURNED AROUND BENT DOWN AND PICKED UP JUG OF CRATER. HE STHEN TURNED AS HE TURN ED HE LOST FOOTING OR STUMBLED AND HIS RIGHT HAND WENT INTO GEAR.

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A BUCKET OF ROOF BOLTING BITS FROM THE LAMP ROOM FLOOR IN THE PORTAL BUILDING WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS ABDOMEN.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A CONCRETE HEADER WITH TUGGER HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE CABLE AND DRUM. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN AN AMPUTATION, LEFT INDEX FINGER, CAUSING HIM TO LOSE TIME F ROM WORK.

PER CALL TO CO. 4-19-90, NOT FROM FALL PER DR. NOT FOUNDA FTER FALL. DR. EXAM 5-5-89, CO. WILL SEND NEW 7000-1 AND DR. LETTER. E.W.

I.NAME WAS PULLING A TRAILER PIN OUT AT 124 X-CUT 2ME. THE TRACTOR MOVED CAUSING THE PIN TO CUT HIS LEFT HAND AT THE BASE OF HIS MIDDLE FINGER.

REMOVED ROCK FROM TAILPIECE WHEN IT SLIPPED PINNING HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING THE CONTINUOUS MINER INTO THE RIGHT CROSSCUT IN THE #3 ENTRY OF THE 1 NORTH MAIN SECTION, MMU #004-0. AS HE WAS TRAMMING THE MINER (DOWN GRADE), THE TRAILING CABLE CAUGHT HIS FEET, CAUSING HIM TO TWIST AND FALL AGAINST THE RIB, INJURING HIS SHOULDERS AND NECK.

EMPLOYEE CLIMBED ACROSS SHUTTLECAR TO GET CABLE LOOSE AS HE STEPPED OFF THE SHUTTLECAR HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

CUT ON RIGHT FOOT. DRIVER PULLED OUT AND OUTSIDE PERSON STEP BETWEEN CARS. SHE HAD 29 STITCHES WAS TREATED AND RELEASED AT EMERGENCY ROOM. SENT BACK HOME.

WAS PUTTING BOX OF GLUE ON ROOF BOLTER AND APPARENTLY STRAINED HIMSELF.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING UPON OVERCAST WHEN HE SLIPPED TWISTING HIS KNEE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE DRILL STEEL FROM THE ROOF AND SAID HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A BEARING PULLER TO PULL A BEARING & WHEN HE BENT OVER HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK

INSTALLING A FLY WHEEL ON A FORD TRACTOR. THE FLY WHEEL SLIPPED HE TRYED TO CATCH IT, BUT IT WAS GREASY AND IT SLIPPED AND SMASHED HIS FINGERS BETWEEN THE CONCRETE FLOOR AND THE FLY WHEEL ITSE LF.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS JARRED WHEN THE SHUTTLE CAR HIT HARD INTO A HOLE IN THE HAULROAD.

EMPL PICKING UP METAL ROOF JACK LYING ON MINE FLOOR AGAINST RIB,SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND STRUCK TOP OF LEFT HAND.

INJ MIDDLE FINGER ON R HAND BAGGING BENTONITE CAUGHT BETWEEN FILLER TUBE AND BAG HOLDER

WORKER WAS GRINDING AN EXAUST WHEN GRINDER ACCIDENTLY KICKED BACK AND HIT WORKER ON THE FACE AREA. WORKER HAD TO HAVE STITCHES ON HIS NOSE. HE WAS OFF FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK DUE TO PAIN.

LIFTING 18" X 120" VENT. TUBE,INJ STEPPED ON PIECE OF COAL,LOST BALANCE AND FELT PAIN IN RIGHT LOWER BACK.

APPLYING SOLVENT TO PREPARE PIPE JOINT SOLVENT DROP SPLASHED IN EYE CHEM BURN TO EYE

EMPLOYEE WAS USING AIR TUGGER TO HOIST O2 BOTTLE. THE CHOKER SLIPPED OFF, CYLINDER FALL HITTING EMPLOYEE IN BOTH CALVES.

INSTALLING ELECTRICAL PANEL IN CONT MINER FELT APAIN IN LOWER BACK LIFTING PANEL

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING CRUSHER, HAD FOOT INSIDE HELD FOOT IN ORE POSITION FOR A LENGTH TIME RESULTING IN BRUSING IT.

12 IN LONGWALL MAN WAS ULLING BELT INTO CROSS CUT AT 12-M TAKEUP UNIT & STRUCK HEAD ON TOP.

EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING REAR STEP BUMPER ON WATER TRUCK AND SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE WHEN HE SLIPPED ON STEP BUMPER AND FELL APPROX 18 INCHES.

SHOVELING MATERIAL FROM FLOOR THAT HAD FALLEN FROM OVER HEAD CONVYER. TURN AROUMD WITH SHOVEL FULL OF SHALE AND FELT SOMETHING PULL IN LOWER BACK.

I.NAME AND ANOTHER EMPL INSTALLING EXPANDED METAL GUARDS AROUND CONVEYOR TAKE-UP TOWER.THEY WERE SETTING IN PLACE BY HAND.THE GUARDS WEIGH 225 LB EA.

EMPL WAS GOING UP 1 NORTH TRACK & AT TOP OF HILL MOTOR SPUN OUT & IT WENT BACKWARDS DOWN HILL & CRASHED INTO RIB & BELT AT BOTTOM OF TRACK HDG.

WHILE WALKING TO CHARGING STATION, EMPLOYEE STEPPED INTO AN OFFSET IN THE MINE FLOOR TWISTING HIS RIGHT KNEE.

8 FOOT 3" X 8" BOARDS WERE BEING SHOVED THROUGH A 8" X 16" HOLE IN STOPPING. ONE OF THE BOARDS CANTILEVERED, DUE TO UNBALANCE IN WEIGHT. RESULT WAS EMPLOYEES LEFT RING FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEE N BOARD AND STOPPING.

OPERATOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLIMB ONTO A HAUL TRUCK WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE LADDER AND HIT THE BUMPER, SCRAPPING HIS SHIN. THE ACCIDENT DID NOT APPEAR TO BE SERIOUS. THERE WERE NO CUTS . HOWEVER AREA APPEARED TO BE BRUISED.

OPERATOR WAS GETTING OFF PAN AT END OF SHIFT, HE SLIPPED CATCHING HIS TOE. INJURY WAS TO 2ND TOE ON RIGHT FOOT. TOE OUT OF SOCKET.

INJURED EMPLOYEE WHILE WALKING DOWN THE GRADE FROM MAINTENANCE SHOP TOWARD SUPER INJURED EMPLOYEE & ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE CARRYING THE TUB OF ACID BETWEEN THEM TUB SLIPPED OUT OF INJURED EMPLO YEES OHAND H IT THE GROUND & SPILLED ON LEFT UPPER LEG

THE EMPLOYEE REPORTS THAT HE WAS WALKING UPRIGHT WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE RUBBER MAT AT THE STAGELOADER CONTROL STATION, TWISTING HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN THE SHUTTLE CAR HIT A HILE JARRING HIS BACK.

WORKING BY MACHINERY WIND BLEW SAND IN EYES

WHILE CARRING A BAG OF ROCK DUST INTO THE BELT DRIVE AREA. THE INJURED EMPLOYEE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LWOER LEFT BACK AREA. NEW INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING A JACK FOR THE CUTTING MACHINE. AFTER SETTING THE JACK, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK 3" X 20" X 40" DISLODGED FROM THE ROOF STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE BACK.

USING HOIST LIFTING ROLLER TRIPPED OVER ANGLE HITTING RIBS ON CONVY

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHEN HE GOT OFF WORK AT 4:30 PM., 4-30-90, HE WAS FEELING SOME PAIN IN HIS BACK AND WHEN HE WOKE UP ON 5-1-90, THE PAIN HAD BECOME MORE SEVERE. HE WAS SEEN AT THE ROUND RO CK HOSPITAL WHERE HE ALLEGEDLY WAS INFORMED BY THE DOCTOR THAT HE PROBABLY HAD A PULLED MUSCLE CAUSED BY THE ROUGHNESS OF THE TRUCK MOVEMENT.

TRANS.FROM SPANISH:OPERATING PRIMARY (CRUSHER) THE SCALPER STOPPED AND WHEN EXAMINING THE PROBNLEM IT THREW A ROCK AND IT HIT FOREHEAD.

TRUCK DRIVER LEFT HIS VEHICLE TO SEE WHY THE STORAGE BINS GATE OPERATING CORD WOULD NOT ACTIVATE THE ELECTRICAL SWITCHING MECHANISM AS HE LOOKED UP UNDER THE BIN A SMALL AMOUNT OF #10 DUST DR OPPED DOWN ON H IS HARD HAT FALLING BETWEEN H ISSAFETY GLASSES & FOREHEAD INTO HIS RT EYE

OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS RESULTING FROM MANY REPEATED BACK INJURIES DATING BACK MANY YEARS. REPEATED TRAUMA. FIRST SHIFT MISSED: 4-30-90.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING SCREEN DECK ON SCREENING PLANT USING A WRENCH. HAD REMOVED SEVERAL BOLTS AND FOUND ONE THAT WOULD NOT BREAK LOOSE. USED EXTRA FORCE AND LATER FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AS HE WAS LIFTING A SMALL VENTILATION FAN INTO THE BUCKET OF A 950 ENDLOADER. STRAIN THE MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A 1/2 INCH BELT CHAIN OUT OF MUD AND SUFFERED A POSSIBLE STRAIN TO HIS LEFT HIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING MIENR CABLE AWAY WITH RIGHTR FOOT. FOOT SLIPPED AND WENT UNDER CANOPY OF MINER.

WHILE THROWING A ROCKDUST BAG ON THE BELT, THE EMPLOYEE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE FINISHED HIS SHIFT AND WENT TO HIS FAMILY PHYSICIAN THE FOLLOWING DAY UPON HE WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A SPRAIN.

I NAME WAS LIFTING PARTS BELONGING TO NORTHWEST SHOVEL HE LIFTED SEVERAL PARTS OF THE NORTHWEST SHOVEL CAUSING A PAIN TO HIS BACK

CLEANING OUT BED OF TRUCK PC OF METAL BACK PAIN WHILE MOVING OBJECT FROM OF FRONT OF TRU K TO BACK

THE EE WAS PICKING UP A BAG OF TOOLS PAIN IN BACK.

AFTER PUTTING UP A BOLT, HE LET THE STABJACK ON THE PINNER DOWN. HIS KNEE WAS UNDER THE PINNER. HE WORKED THE REST OF THE SHIFT AND THE NEXT DAY FOLLOWING. HIS KNEE BEGIN TO SWELL ACOPMAINED W ITH PAIN.

WHILE MOVING SOME STEEL PIPE THE EMPLOYEE TWISTED HIS BACK.

WELDING SCREENS AND WEARPLATES IN AWKWARD POSITIONS PAIN IN HIP AND LEG

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WSA MOUNTING A LOADER ON THE LEFT SIDE WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE BOTTOM STEPS CAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN HIS ANKLE.

HE BUMPED RIGHT KNEE ON DRILL POT OF ROOF BOLTER WHILE LOWERING HEAD DOWN.

STEERING 3 WHEELER THE STEERING WHEEL SPUN & CAUGHT HIS LITTLE FINGER ON THE RT HAND FACE B-SECTION

EMPLOYEE REMOVED A PIECE OF MONORAIL FROM TOP OF STAGE LOADER OIL TANK AND WHILE LOWERING TO GROUND EMPLOYEE DROPPED END OF MONORAIL ON RIGHT FOOT.

MAN STATED HE WAS CARRYING PROP S BACK TO WORK PLACE WHEN HIS BACK STARTED HURTING.

EMPL UNLOADING TIMBERS FROM SCOOP BUCKET ALONG #3 PILLAR,SOUTHSIDE PARALLEL SECTION,MMU 001-0. RAISED 4 TIMBERS THAT WERE EXTENDED FROM BUCKET TO REMOVE A CHAIN FROM AROUND TIMBERS,THEN UNLOAD ED TIMBERS.LATER FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING A MALE PLUG RECEPTACLE INTO A POWER CENTER AS EMPLOYEE PUSHED DOWN & IN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN PUSHING AN OIL BARREL CART WHEN HE CONTACTED A WATER HOSE THAT HAD JUST BEEN COILED UP. CART STRAIGHTENED UP AND EMPLOYEE INSTINCTIVELY PULLED DOWN.

HE WAS CLIMBING TRUCK LADDER TO REENTER CAB WHEN HE FELL FROM ABOUT HALF WAY UP. HE FELL ON HIS LEFT SHOULDER. HIS LEFT SHOULDER WAS BRUISED.

DOING MAINTENANCE- WALKING ON CATWALK- SLIPPED AND INJURED LEFT ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO CHANGE BARGE OUT AT BELT RAMP. HE PULLED ON CABLE AND HURT LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON A MOTOR ON THE OUTSIDE TRACK OF TURKEY NO. 4 MINE ENROUTE UNDERGROUND. AS HE WENT THROUGH A KNOWN HIGH JOINT OF A SWITCH, THE MOVEMENT OF THE MOTOR JARRED HIS BACK, INJURING I T. NOTE: DURING THE INVESTIGATION ON 5-10-90 OUR UNION WAS ON STRIKE FROM 5-4-90 UNTIL 5-15-90. EMPLOYEE CEASED WORK AND WENT ON COMPENSATION, RETURNING WITH THE UNION 5-15-90. THIS DEPT. D

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM CAB OF HAUL TRK TO SERVICE VEHICLE WHEN FOOT SLIPPED OFF BOTTOM STEP RESULTING IN EMPLOYEE FALLING TO GROUND.

UNLOADING TIMBERS,STRAINED MUSCLE IN CHEST.

STRAIN HIMSELF WHILE SHOVELING BELTS

HE WAS WALKING BESIDE CONTINU0US MINING MACHINE & HAD RIGHT HAND ON TOP OF MACHINE WHEN MINER WENT UNDER ROLL IN TOP AT TIME IT TRAMMED OVER HUMP IN BOTTOM & CAUSED FRONT OF MINER TO RAISE UP & CATCH HAND BETWEEN TOP & TOP OF MINER.

ON LADDER TRYING TO PUT BRAKE CHAMBER ON LADDER MOVED DROPPED UNIT ON HAND

LABORER WAS UNLOADING SACKS OF CEMENT & SAND FROM BACK OF PICKUP & HURT BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING THE ROOF STANDING UNDER SUPPORTED GROUND WHEN THE GROUND BROKE FROM BETWEEN LEFT RIB AND THREE ROOF BOLTS. ROCK STRUCK EMPLOYEE'S LEG AGAINST JACKLEG. THE THREE ROOF BOLT S REMAINED INTACT IN THE ROOF.

REMOVING WEAR PLATES FROM A LOADER BUCKET WITH AN AIR ARC WHEN A GUST OF WIND BLEW A PIECE OF SLAG INTO HIS RT EYE IMBEDDING THE PARTICAL INTO THE CORNEA

I.NAME WAS HELPING SHOP PEOPLE PUT GUARDS BACK ON 988 LOADER. HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK AFTER THE WORK WAS DONE, HE IS NOT SURE WHAT EXACTLY WHAT CAUSED THE PAIN. THE DOCTOR DIAGNOSIS W AS THAT HE HAD A PULLED MUSCLE.

INJURED AND CO-WORKER WERE IN THE PROCESS OF BREAKING THE PANS INTO 2 PAN SECTIONS TO BE DELIVERED TO 6D SET UP FACE. TO DO THIS, EMPLOYEES HAD TO OPEN A & B DOORS TO GET DOG BONE OUT TO SEPAR ATE THE PANS. THEY HAD TAKEN BOLTS OUT OF BOTH DOORS. THE B DOOR HAD LIPS ON BOTH SIDES FOR A DOOR TO LAP OVER. AS INJURED AND CO-WORKER WERE OPENING THE B DOOR, THE A DOOR CAME OPEN ALSO AND

INJURED WAS TIGHTENING BRAKES WITH 18" PIPE WRENCH. BOLT WAS STUCK AND HE STRAINED HIS BACK. INJURED HAS HISTORY OF BAD BACK. LOST TIME DIDN'T START UNTIL 5/5/90.

ALLEGED ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHILE I NAME WAS BENT OVER SHOVELING BELT WHEN A PIECE OF DRAWROCK FELL & HIT HIM ON HIS HIP

INJURED HAD INSTALLED A ROOF BOLT AND LET THE BOLTING MACHINE HEAD DOWN ON HIS RIGHT LEG.

WHILE DRAGGING A WATER HOSE AROUND THE YARD WALKING DOWN HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE

EMPLOYEE LIFTED A 4" YELLOW MINE PIPE WITH HIS BACK NOT HIS LEGS. SOME PULLED MUSCLES WERE HIS INJURY.

EMPL & 2 OTHERS REMOVING STONE BIN SHAKER SCREENS AND PULLED GROIN MUSCLES.

EE WAS SETTING A PROP WHEN THE HEADER BOARD FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT HAND.

MANTRIP WAS BACKING UP, SHIELD OVER BATTERY CHARGER CAUGHT FLY PAD AND PULLED SHIELD ON HIM.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED HE HAD ALIGNED THE DOGS ON THE HOIST BEAMS FOR THE OVERHEAD HOIST. HE WAS STEPPING OVER TO THE LEFT BACK-LEG WHEN THE MACHINE SETTLED ON TIS JACKS CAUSING HIM TO FALL AGAINST THE BACK-LEG.

CLIMBING INTO ENDLOADER,SPIDER LANDED ON EMPL ARM AND BIT OPER.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE DRIVING PEN IN CONVEYOR CHAIN THE HAMMER HE WAS SWINGING GLANCED OFF PEN AND STRUCK HIS THUMB.

INJURED WAS CARRYING A BELT SCRAPER AND SLIPPED AND FELL STRAINING HIS LEFT LEG AND LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS TIGHTENING BREAST LINE ON BARGE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK HE CLAIMS THAT THIS PAIN IS FROM AN OLD INJURY

INJURED ALLEGES HE STRAINED BACK WHILE LIFTING BAG CEMENT DURING GROUTING CYCLE. X-RAYS DENOTE A THIN DISC AND SPURS (ARTRITIS). CHIROPRACTOR SAID NOT ALL OF THIS INJURY COULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY LIFTING BAG CEMENT.

HIT A ROCK WHILE OPERATING GRADER AND JARRED BACK.LOST TIME.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING SKIRT BOARD BRACKETS OFF A CONVEYOR WITH AN ACETYLENE TORCH. HOT SLAG FELL FROM THE BRACKET ONTO HIS KNEE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING TO SHUT OFF VENTILATION FAN SIGNALS AND TRIPPED OVER THE THRESHOLD OF THE DOORWAY COMING INTO THE BUILDING FROM THE OUTSIDE.

X-BRACE BROKE ON ROOF BOLTER HEAD LETTING HEAD FALL OUT OF BOOM HITTING ON LEG ON OPERATOR.

WAS SPLICING CABLE WHEN DRAW ROCK APPROX. 3'X3'X3' THICK FELL STRIKING HIM IN BACK.

THE INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUT A SUPPLY CAR BACK ON TRACK WHEN THE JACK SLIPPED CATCHING THE INJURED'S LEFT FOOT UNDER THE FRAME OF THE SUPPLY CAR.

UNLOADING ROCKDUST IN TRACK ENTRY NEAR 3 BELT HEAD DRIVE OF SO SECTION LATER BACK HURTING

THE EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS CLIMBING A STAIRS AND HE HIT ONE OF THE STEPS WIWTH HIS RIGHT KNEE HARMING HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A LARGE TIMBER TO THROW TOWARD THE FACE WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPL WAS STANDING BENEATH BELT DRIP CHUTE TRIMMING CHUTE WITH CUTTING TORCHES WHEN HOT METAL HE HAD UST CUT LOOSE FELL UNEXPECTEDLY STRIKING INJURED'S LEFT EAR & LEFT SIDE OF NECK.

MOVING DIRT WITH LOADER-STOPPED TO TALK TO BOSS-GOT OFF LOADER STEPPED IN HOLE. FELL BACKWARD AND HUR TLEFT ANKLE.

I NAME SLIPPED ON THE BOTTOM STEP OF THE STAIRWAY BETWEEN THE 3RD & THE 4TH FLOOR IN THE NEW PREPARATION PLANT I NAME WORKED UNTIL 05-07-90

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS SHOVELING BELT TAKE UP AND RAISED UP AND STRUCK HIS SHOULDER AGAINST A SUPPORT BEAM. EMPLOYEE DID NOT GO TO DOCTOR OR START MISSING WORK UNTIL 4-30-90.

LUMP OF COAL FELL OFF HOPPER & HIT HIM ON LEFT SHOULDER.

MOVING EQUIPMENT WITH HI-LIFT AND THE MOTOR DIED AND COULDN'T DRIVE IT SO IT WENT OVER THE HILL.

GOING THRU AIR LOCK DOOR, STRAINED BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING SOME DRAW ROCK FROM OFF TOP OF MIER A PIECE OF SHARP ROCK FELL FROM TOP OF MINER HITTING EMPLOYEES RIGHT FOOT

UNWRAPPING A PALLET OF BRICKS KNOCKED FRONT ROW OFF ONTO GROUND WITH ONE BRICK LANDING ON LEFT FOOT.

LIFTING DOZER TRACK SEGMENTS ON PALLET PERSON STRAINED LOWER BACK MUSCLES

EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN ACETYLENE TORCH TO CUT A BOLT OFF DROP BALL HOOK-UP CHAIN DURING OPERATION EMPLOYEE CARELESSLY MOVED FLAME IN PATH OF OXYGEN HOSE WHICH CAUGHT FIRE WHIPPING ACROSS EMPLOY EES CHEST

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS HIS NECK BEGAN TO ACHE THE PAIN PROGRESSIVELY WORSENED DURING THE SHIFT EMPLOYEE CAN NOT RECALL A SPECIFIC ACTION OR INCIDENT THAT MAY HAVE CA USED HIS BACK PAIN

EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY WAS LIFTING CABLE ON THE BELT LINE TO PUT A CHAIN ON IT AND PULLER SOMETHING IN HIS LOWER RIGHT SIDE.

LOOSE GRAVEL ON STAIRWAY

INJURED & A COWORKER WERE INSTALLING A CABLE TRAY ON 4 LS SHEARER THE TRAY FELL & CAUGHT THE INJUREDS THUMB BETWEEN THE TRAY & THE FACE CONVEY0RSPILL BOARD HE SUSTAINED A LACERATION THAT REQUI RED EIGHT STITCHES

DRIVER WAS ON TRAILER TARPING LOAD.SLIPPED & FELL OFF TRAILER.HE WAS HAVING PROBLEMS WALKING SO AMBULANCE TOOK HIM TO HOSPITAL. INJ IS EMPL OF JONES G.FINKE HE WAS OUTSIDE PLANT BUT STILL ON O UR PROPERTY IN DESIGINATED TARPING AREA.

HE WAS BURNING A PIECE OF FLANGE WHEN WELDING SPARKS LANDED ON HIS RT ARM & BURNED IT

LIFTING CEMENT BLOCK AND HURT HIS BACK.

EMPL WAS DOING CLEAN UP AT CRUSHER TO LOOSEN STUCK MATERIAL IN SIDE CRUSHER. PRY BAR HE WAS USING SLIPPED PUNCTURING BOOT LACERATING BIG TOE. 3 SUTURES TO CLOSE WOUND.

AFTER CLEANING RIBS SCOOP OPERATOR WAS GETTING OFF SCOOP MODEL 482 S&S IN APPROX 38" COAL & TWISTED BACK.

EMPLOYEE IS CLASSIFIED AS A CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR, HE WAS WORKING ON THE MINER IN THE 8775 FT X-CUT OF #8 ENTRY IN UNIT #3, HE WAS TIGHTENING THE PLUG IN THE CUTTING HEAD OF THE MINER, THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE STRUCK HIS HAND ON ONE OF THE CUTTING BITS FRACTURING THE DISTAL END OF HIS RING FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

WHILE GETTING OUT OF TRUCK THAT WAA PARKED ON A SLANT, EMPLOYEE MISSED STEP ON SIDE OF TRUCK AND SLIPPED ON LOOSE SALT, FELL HITTING RIGHT ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE RECIEVED ELECTRICAL SHOCK TO RIGHT HAND FROM A TIGHT MINER CABLE, WHEN CABLE TENSION WAS RELEASED; CABLE STRUCK EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT LEG (CM CABLE)

LIFTING A TONGUE THAT FITS IN A CAR,FELT BURNING IN LEFT SIDE.

INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO TIGHTEN UP RAIL BY DRIVING A T-BOARD BETWEEN TWO CROSS TIES. HE WAS USING ANOTHER T-BOARD TO HIT THE T-BOARD WITH. THE T-BOARD HE WAS STRIKING WAS LOOSE AND THE MOMEN TUM OF HIS SWING CAUSED HIM TO STRIKE HIS FINGER AGAINST ANOTHER T-BOARD.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING A MOTOR IN A ROVER WHEN HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS REMOVING A MINER CABLE FROM A CABLE HANGER. THE MINER CABLE SLIPPED FROM HIS GRASP THE CABLE HANGER STRUCK EE ON THE BRIDGE OF THE NOSE AND THE RIGHT EYE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS SHOVELING THE WALKWAY AND WAS BENDING LIFTING SHOVEL WHEN HE FELT SEVERE PAIN IN HIS LOW BACK AREA.

INJURED WAS SHOVELING UP LOOSE COAL FROM AROUND FACE BLET TAILPIECE AFTER CLEANING UP 1 SIDE OF IT INJURED TURNED BELT OFF & CROSSING TAILPIECE SLIPPED & FEL LHITTING HIP & LOWER TAILBONE ON M ETAL OF FEEDER CAUSING COMPRESSED FRACTURE TO LOWER BACK BONE.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE BUMPED HIS SHIN ON A BRACE ON THE PAN 4/27/90 HE THOUGHT NOTHING OF THIS AS IT DID NOT HURT SKIN WAS SLIGHTLY BROKEN HE DID NOT REPORT IT UNTIL 5/02 WHEN HE NOTICED AREA WAS SWELLING & HE HAD A FEVER

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON AUGER & HIS FOOT SLIPPED & HE HIT HIS RIGHT KNEE

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE LOWERING A SHIELD A ROCK FELL OFF THE TOP OF THE SHIELD AS EMPLOYEE MOVED QUICKLY TO GET OUT OF WAY FROM FALLING ROCK HE TWISTED HIS RT KNEE EMPLOYEE MISSED WORK ON 04=28 =90 & WAS ON UNION BUSINESS ON 04=30=90 HAS BEENOFF SINCE 05-01-90

EMPL RETURNED TO WORK ON 7/31/90. PLEASE CHARGE ADDITONAL DAYS OF 65 TO ORIGINAL INJ OF 9/27/88.

OPER 3 WHEELER, TRAMMING HIT HOLE BOUNCED AGAINST MACHINE INJ BACK

WHILE WALKING THE RETURN THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

HE WAS DISMOUNTING SHOVEL THEN STANDING ON TRACK HE FELL OFF TRACK & TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

WORKER DROPPED A PIECE OF STEEL BEAM ON HIS RIGHT FOOT. BONE WAS FRACTURED. Y

STONE HIT EMPLOYEE'S FOOT, BRUISED LEFT FOOT ARCH AND BROKE LITTLE TOE.

EMPL STACKING BLOCKS HURT HIS BACK.HOWEVER BLOCK PRESS OPERATOR STATES I.NAME NEVER HELPED STACK BLOCKS.

CAPSTAN CUT LINE WHERE SPLICE AND JERKED LINE AND TWISTED HAND.

BOLTING DOWN ROLLERS ON CONVEY, USING AIR IMPACTWRENCH HOLDING NUT WITH FREE HAND, NUT TURNED LEAVING 2 SM CUTS ON FINGER INFECTION IN FINGER

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT OXYGEN SPARGE LINE WITH AQUA-DYNE. SHE HAD ALL PROTECTIVE GEAR ON BUT FORGOT TO TAPE GLOVES TO SUIT. WATER CAME BACK THROUGH OXYGEN LINE AND SPLASHED ONTO HER. BY THE TIME THE EMPLOYEE GOT HER GLOVES OFF, SHE HAD BURN ON WRIST.

EMPL STATES HE PICKED UP OVERLOADED WHEELBARROW & TRIED TO SHAKE EXTRA LOAD OFF AS HE DID HE EXPERIENCED SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING FILTERS ON THE PELLET PLANT AIR CONDITIONER. THIS IS A RESTRICTED ROOM AREA AND HE WAS IN A BENT OVER POSITION TO PERFORM THIS TASK. WHEN HE FINISHED, HE STOOD UP STRAI GHT AND JAMMED HIS HARD HAT ON A RETURN AIR DUCT OVERHEAD. HE FELT A STIFFNESS IN HIS NECK.

ENGAGING SWITCH TO START PLANT,SWITCH BOX CAUGHT ON FIRE CAUSING BURNS TO FOREARM,HAND AND FINGERS.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFT ING A WELDER UP STAIRS TO WELD IMPACE BARS EMPLOYEE KNEW HE HAD HURT HIMSELF BUT HE THOUGHT IT WASNT SERIOUS & DID NOT GO TO THE DR UNTIL RECENTLY HE DID NOT FILL OUT WORKERS COMP INFO UNTIL AFTER HIS SURGERY & TURNED IT INTO US ON 10-10-90

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE STRAINE DHIS WRIST AND ARM. LEFT. WHEN HE WAS LIFTING A SCOOP MOTOR FROM SUPPLY TROP. EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK AFTER INUURY BUT STARTED MISSING WORK ON 5-21-90.

MOVING & STACKING EMPTY 55 GAL DRUMS.SHOULDER STARTED TO ACHE IN PM,NEXT DAY IT WAS MORE PAINFUL AND HAD A HEADACHE.4 DAYS LATER WENT TO DR.

A PIECE OF GRANITE WAS PICKED UP AND SET ON FLOOR OF QUARRY BY CRAB DOG. WHEN THE CRAB DOGS WERE UNHOOKED THE INJURED MAN STEPPED IN BETWEEN THE PIECE OF GRANITE AND THE WALL OF QUARRY THE PIE CE OF GRANITE SHIFTED PINNING HIS FOOT.

WAS PUTTING BELTS ON JAW CRUSHER WAS TURNING WHEEL & WHEEL TURNED THE OPPOSITE WAY JERKING ARM & CAUSING ARM TO GET JAMMED BETWEEN THE WHEEL & A PIECE OF STEEL RESULTING TO TRAMA TO A NERVE I N THE LEFT ELBOW

ROCK ROLLED OFF OF CONVEYOR BELT AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE BACK.

GETTING OUT OF TRUCK STEPPED ON ROCK INJURING RIGHT ANKLE. MSHA - LOST-TIME.

EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE DOCTOR ON 5-7-90 AS A RESULT OF AN INJURY REPORTED ON 4-27-90 WHEN THE LOADER HE WAS OPERATING HAD A ROCK FALL FROM THE SHOT MATERIAL HE WAS LOADING AND HIT THE BUCKET TEE TH CAUSING THE LOADER TO SEVERELY JAR THE EMPLOYEE RESULTING IN PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK/MIDSECTION AREA. DOCTOR DIAGNOSED AS A POSSIBLE BRUISED KIDNEY.

DRIVING PIN WITH HAMMER, PC OF TOOTH CHIPPED OFF HIT UNDER CHIN METAL WENT UNDER SKIN

EMPL BREAKING HEADER BOARD ON LIGHT FIXTURE ON ROOF BOLTER.RIGHT RING FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN HEADER BOARD & LIGHT FIXTURE FRAME SMASHING FINGER.EMPL RECD CONTUSION,LACERATION,5 SUTURES.

PICKING UP BARREL HURT BACK

FELT PAIN LIFTING PC OF IRON

TRYING TO LIFT SMALL OIL TANKER ONTO FORD TRACTOR. TRIED TO LIFT TOO MUCH WEIGHT.

EE WAS STANDING NEXT TO A SCOOP BUCKET THE OPERATOR OF THE SCOOP LOWERED THE BUCKET TO THE MINE FLOOR IN A WET AREA. MUD SQUEEZED OUT FROM BENEATH THE BUCKET AND ONTO HIS FOOT.

EE WAS WATCHING A BAD PIECE OF ROOF WHILE LOWERING DRILL HEAD BEAM ON ROOF BOLTER AND HOLDING WRENCH IN OTHER HAND. AS BOOM LOWERED ON BOLTER IT CAUGHT PINNER WRENCH PUSHING IT TWO ABDOMEN HIM AGAINST THE COAL RD.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE PULLING MINER CABLE HE SLIPPED TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE CAUSING STRAIN. THE EMPLOYEE CALLED THE MINE ON 5/6/90 LETTING US KNOW HE WAS OFF WORK AND WOULD BE HAVING ARTHROSCO PIC SURGERY ON 5/8/90 ON HIS LEFT KNEE.

WHILE CARRYING CRIB THE EMPLOYEE TURNED TO MOVE AWAY FROM A SMALL BOUNCE AND STRUCK HIS BACK ON A ROOF BOLT. THE EMPLOYEE CONTINUEN O WORK UNTIL 5-1-90 AT WHICH TIME HE STARTED MISSING WORK.

RFALLING WHILE MINER OPER OPER MACHINERY

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ALONG SIDE OF #2 BELT DRIVE IN A WESTERLY DIRECTION. HE HEARD HIS NAME CALLED ON A PAGE PHONE BEHIND HIM. HE TURNED 180 DEGREES TO A EASTERLY DIRECTION AND STRUCK HIS ANKLE AND HEEL AGAINST A WOOD CRIB BLOCK.

THIN PIECE OF SLATE FELL FROM BETWEEN PINS,HIT ON CANOPY OF CUTTER AND SHOULDER OF EMPL AS HE AW WAS GETTING IN CUTTER.

INJURED & COWORKER W3ERE DISASSEMBLY BELT - IN PROCESS ROLLER FELL STRICKING INJURED ON RT SIDE OF FOOT

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE PULLING TRAM CHAIN OUT FROM UNDER SHOP BENCH HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS GROIN AREA. THE EMPLOYEE HAS WORKED SINCE THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AND WENT OFF WORK ON 6/22/90 AN D HAD SURGERY ON THE GROIN ON 6/25/90.

USED CRAIB TIE TO PRY GOPHER OFF ROCK

OPER RF BOLTER CAOL ROLLED FORM RIB CCUTTING R AHND

THIS EMPLOYEE WAS ASSIGNED TO OPERATE A ROOF BOLTER WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AS HE WALKED TOWARDS THE MACHINE HE STEPPED INTO A HOLE IN THE MINE FLOOR CAUSING PAIN TO HIS LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT AFTER UNCOUPLING MINE CAR HE STEPPED IN MUD AND SLIPPED FALLING STRIKING HIS KNEE AGAINST THE RAIL.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A CRIB BLOCK AND HURT HIS SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON A LADDER, UNBLOCKING A MAGNETITE TEST AND FELL TO THE FLOOR.

TRAMMING S CAR, HIT POTHOLE ON ROAD CAR WENT IN HOLE HE WENT IN CANOPY OF S CAR

ATTEMTP TO FREE, DRILL, STEEL, REACHING AROUND TOO CLOSE T O JAWS OF WRENCH PULLED MUSCLE

I,NAME WAS ATTEMPTING TO CHECK THE OIL ON A FORKLIFT AND IN DOING SO BUMPED HIS ARM (RIGHT) INTO THE EXHAUST MANIFOLD. BURNING THE INSIDE OF HIS FORKARM. BURN DID NOT APPEAR TO BE SERIOUS AT T HE TIME AND THE EMPLOYEE CONTINUED WORKING. DURING THE WEEKEND IT BECAME INFECTED AND BECAME A LTA, ON MON.

EMPL WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER ON ROCK TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED & BROKE THUMB. WAS NOT INFORMED TIL 5/10 THAT HE WAS OFF & THUMB WAS BROKE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS PULLING OXYGEN CART HE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

I.NAME INSTALLING DROP BOARDS IN 2 LEFT ENTRY.MAKING CERTAIN THAT T-BOARDS IN LINE WITH OTHERS WHEN HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BOARDS AND ROOF.

WAS WORKING ON CRUSHER AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND HIT ELBOW.

EMPL WAS STRAIGHTENING V-BELT ON JAW CRUSHER WHILE I TURNED IT OVER MANUALLY. AFTER STRAIGHTENING BELT EMPL WAS CHECKING IT WHEN BELT ROLLED BACK & CAUGHT THUMB. I WAS LATER INFORMED BY INJURE D THAT HE WAS PULLING V BELTS WHEN HE CAUGHT THUMB.

HE WAS CUTTING BOLTS OUT OF AN 8 INCH WATER LINE WHEN HE PICKED UP ONE OF THE HOT BOLTS WITH HIS HAND.

TRUCK DRIVER BACKED INTO SHOVEL BUCKET.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE LIFTED A 5 GAL PAIL OF PLASTER & FELT A PAIN IN H IS BACK WE HAVE FILED A PROTEST IN THIS MATTER WE DO NOT FEEL THAT ANY INJURY OCCURRED

SOMETIME SHORTLY AFTER THE 1ST OF THE YEAR, EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TWO EMPLOYEES LAY A WALL FRAMEWORK DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND HER FOOT GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE FRAMEWORK AND THE FLOOR INJURING HER L EFT INSTEP. EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT UNTIL 4-26-90. SURGERY WAS PERFORMED ON 7-12-90, BUT UP UNTIL THAT TIME, THE EMPLOYEE WAS NOT OFF OR ON RESTRICTED DUTY.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE LIFTING SHUTTLE CAR TIE OFF TO ANCHOR TO ROOF HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER STOMACH AREA. THE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED STRAIN TO GROIN.

ROCK FELL BETWEEN BELT AND FRAME. OPERATOR TURNED OFF BELT, WENT TO REMOVE ROCK. OPERATOR TURNED BELT BACK ON, ANOTHER ROCK HIT HIM, KNOCKED HIM OFF HIS FEET AND RIB HIT DUAL TIRES. BROKE 7TH RIB ON RIGHT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE REPORTS AT P&H SHOVE #1 WAS SHOVELING MUCK FROM SHOVEL TRACK, TRUNED AND TWISTED BACK.

WHILE TIGHTENING ANCHOR BOLTS DURING TANK INSTALLATION EMPLOYEE STRAINED BACK USING AN AIR WRENCH. THE BOLTS WERE AT GROUND LEVEL AND HE HAD TO BEND OVER A LOT.

WORKING AS CREW MEMBER ON DRAG SHOVEL REPAIRS,EMPL HAD BACK PAIN BUT CONTINUED TO WORK.REQUESTED MEDICAL ATTENTION 4-30-90/1ST SHIFT MISSED.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON DRAGLINE PADE AND TRIPPED ON LOOSE ROCK AND HURT HIS RIGHT KNEE. ON JULY 9, 1990 IT WAS REPORTED TO MANAGEMENT THAT THISEMPLOYEE'S ABSENCE SINCE JUNE 13, 1990 WAS A RE SULT OF THE AFOREMENTION INJURY. THE EMPLOYEE REMAINS OFF.

HANGING CHAIN OVER VIBRATOR LOST BALANCE FT SLPPED OUT FORM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL DOWN ON CHUTE

EMPLOLYEE WAS OPERATING A DOZER PUSHING SPOIL AT A TRUCK DUMP IN A HOLLOW FILL WHILE DOING SO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE BACKED A ROCK TRUCK INTO THE FIRST EMPLOYEES DOZER CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS NECK

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING OVER WIND ROW, DURING THE RAIN, AND SLIPPED AND FELL AGAINST THE DOZER BLADE, CRACKING A RIB.

AFTER SETTING WATER PUMP,EMPL JUMPED FROM BED OF AUTO CAR CRANE TRUCK HE HAD BEEN STANDING ON WHEN HE STRUCK RIGHT ELBOW ON EDGE OF BED ON WAY DOWN TO GROUND.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON 4-26-90, DID NOT REPORT TO FOREMAN UNTIL 5-8-90. THIS REPORT IS LATE DUE TO CONFLICTING DATES. EMPLOYEE CLAIMED HE WAS HANGING MINOR CABLE ON "J" HOOKS WHE N IT FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON THE CHEST & RIBS.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING OPEN CROSS-CUT ALONG RIGHT RIB BUT WAS TOO CLOSE TO RIB WHEN IT BECAME LOOSE.

WHILE RIDING IN A SCOOP, THE BUCKET HIT A HOLE. THE INJURED MAN WAS BOUNCED INTO THE AIR AND CAME DOWN AND HIT COAL AND ROCK IN THE SCOOP BUCKET, INJURING HIS LEFT LEG.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS HELPING I NAME HANG UP THE CABLE ON HANGER BOARDS ACROSS THE BELT HEADING WHEN HE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

EMPL TIGHTENING BOLT USING 16" CRESCENT WRENCH.WRENCH SLIPPED ,RIGHT ELBOW STRUCK PIECE OF METAL.STARTED MISSING 5-29-90.

INJURED EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN AS HE WAS EXITING THE OPERATORS DECK ON A SCOOP INJURED HAD FELT SLIGHT BACK PAIN EARLIER WHILE HANGING VENTILATION TUBING

EMPL STRAINED LOWER BACK WHILE SHOVELING 3-A BELT HEAD.

RIB ROLLED AND HIT HIM IN BACK,MOVING HIM FORWARD AND HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH LEFT HAND BENDING AND STRAINING WRIST.

INJ & CO-WORKER INSTALLING ELECTRIC CONTROL COVER ON CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN COVER SLIPPED PINCHING INJ RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN COVER AND CONTINUOUS MINER CANOPY.

MAN WAS INSTALLING ROOFBOLTS WHEN SOME DRAWSLATE FELL, PARTIALLY HITTING HIS HEAD. THIS CAUSED HIM TO JUMP BACK, LANDING ON HIS HIPS. HE SUFFERED SOME DISCOMFORT, BUT DID NOT GO TO A DR. ON 6- 19-90 HE THOUGHT HE WAS HAVING A HEART ATTACK (CHEST PAIN & ARM TINGLING). HE WENT TO A DR AND ALL TESTS WRE NEG. HE THEN SAID HE HAD A PINCHED NERVE. WE WERE INFORMED HE HAD A BULGING DISC.

SLIPPED ON WET FLOOR AND FELL HITTING RIGHT SIDE ON WATER PUMP.

INJURED WAS PUTTING BATTERY LOCOMOTIVE ON CHARGE ON THE EAST CHARGING TRACK IN THE MOTOR PIT. AFTER PLUGGING TEH CABLE TO THE LOCOMOTIVE, INJURED STARTED TO PUT THE CHARGE CABLE ON AND TURN TH E CHARGER ON. HE HUNG HIS FOOT IN THE CABLE AND A PIECE OF HOSE ON THE FOOTWALL AND TRIPPED AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING AND CARRYING A BUCKET OF B BOND IN LOW AREA WHEN HE DEVELOPED PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING THE DREDGE PIPELINE. HE ATTEMPTED TO LIFT A JOINT OF PIPE AND STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

THIS EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING OTHERS, HANGING 4160 CABLE FROM ROOF. THE CABLE RUBBED ALONG THE ROOF CAUSING SOME COAL PARTICLES AND ROCK DUST TO FALL, HITTING THE EMPLOYEE IN LEFT EYE.

THE MAN WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LIMESTONE SLOPE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL DISLOCATING HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPL WAS PERFORMING ROUTINE WORK ACTIVITY REPIARING TIMBER IN MANWAY. IN CAOURCE OF DAY'S WORK HE DEVELOPED SHARP PAIN IN LUMBAR REGION. ONSET OF PAIN COINCIDED WITH TURNING OF BACK. TYPE OF B ACK PROBLEM SHOULD BE CALSSIFIED AS CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER IN MY OPINION.

I.NAME SHOVELING FEEDER ON 1 SOUTH.PULLED MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING AROUND BOLTER AND SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS LEG.

LIFTING SCTION OF BELT WHEN FELT SHARP PAIN INLOER BACK

EMPL COMING OFF SECTION IN RAILRUNNER AND AS HE STARTED DOWNHILL,PULLED BACK ON BRAKE AND A HOSE BURST LEAVING HIM WITHOUT BRAKES.A DIESEL MOTOR AND SUPPLY CAR WERE ON OTHER SIDE OF HILL AND H E WAS ABOUT TO HIT THEM.EMPL JUMPED OFF RAILRUNNER STRIKING LEFT KNEE AS HE HIT MINE FLOOR.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS PRYING ON A PC. OF SLATE WHEN HE FELL BACKWARDS AND HIT HIS HEAD.

CHANGING DIRECTION ON SHUTTLE CAR AND WHEN HE GOT OUT OF CANOPY, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTER STRIKING HIS HEAD AND SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN BELT LINE, WHILE WALKING HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED ON WET ROCK DUSTED PAVEMENT. WHEN HE SLIPPED HE GRABBED A BELT CHAIN TO KEEP FROM FALLING DOWN. AS HE CONTINUED TO WALK HE BEGAN FEELING PAIN UNDER HIS LEFT SHOULDER BLADE. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 11:00 AM WHEN HE CAME OUT TO GO TO DOCTOR.

MAN WAS HELPING CHANGE A ROLLER IN A TAILPIECE. THE ROLLER SLIPPED MASHING THE END OF MAN S FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING ONTO BACK OF JUMBO WHEN HE SLIPPED, DID NOT FALL, BUT HURT LOWER BACK.

A ROCK BURST LIFTED THE FLOOR OF THE STOPE CAUSING HIM TO SEVERLY SPRAIN HIS LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS TEARING DOWN AN OLD CABINET WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE & STUMBLED, PLACING HIS LEFT FOOT DOWN ON A 2X4 THAT HAD NAILS STICKING OUT OF IT.

HIT ON HEAD BY SHUTTLE CAR TRAILING CABLE.

EE WAS LOOPING CABLE ON HEADDRIVE WHEN HE STARTED TO TURN HE PUT ALL HIS WEIGHT ON HIS RIGHT LEG. THIS CAUSED A FRACTURE TO HIS DISTAL END OF HIS RIGHT LOWER EXTREMITY.

TWISTED NECK LAG ROCK ROLLED FROM FACE OF HIGHWALL HIT REAR OF TRUCK

PULLING ROOF BOLTER CABLE OUT FROM UNDER MINER CABLE & FELT PAIN IN RIGHT ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHILE TURNING AROUND TO FACE OPPOSITE DIRECTION IN THE CAB OF #19 SHUTTLE CAR IN THE 7D SECTION HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

HE WAS SETTING A TAILPIECE, WHEN TAILPIECE MOVED AS THEY WERE SHIFTING THE TAILPIECE WITH A JACK CATCHING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

MOVING CABLE STRAINED BACK Y

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLT INTO DRILLED HOLE. WHEN PIN CAME OUT OF DRILL HEAD SUMP JACK. HE WAS LOOKING UNDER THE DRILL HEAD ATTEMPING TO REPLACE THE PIN WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF COAL FE LL INTO HIS EYE. EMPLOYEE DID HAVE SAFETY GLASSES ON.

EMPL WAS WALKING & TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE.

RUNNING AN AIR DRILL AND HAD PAIN IN LOWER BACK WITH NUMBNESS IN LEFT LEG AND PAIN IN LEFT LEG. PAIN IN NECK AREA.

EE WENT TO THE SHOP AREA TO GET A CASE OF SMALL BOTTLED WATER. WHEN HE PICKED IT UP HE SAID HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LOWER BACK.

HIT BUMP BOUNCED IN SEAT SEAT BELT WAS ON. INJURY CRACKED RIB COLLAPSED LUNG. WE BELIEVE RIB INJURY OCCURRED OFF JOB WITNESSES REPORT SEEING INJURED EMPL BEFORE START OF WORK. WE HAVE FILED RE PORT IN CONJUCTION WITH W/C.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO FREE A MINER STUCK IN THE MUD AT THE FACE OF #3 ENTRY, MAINS SECTION, THE VICTIM GOT HIS HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MINER BOOM AND THE RIB.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A HYDRAULIC HOSE ON SCOOP. WHEN THE HOSE BROKE FREE (HE WAS PULLING ON HOSE) IT CAUSED HIM TO SLIP ON THE PAVEMENT WHICH WAS WET AND MUDDY. WHEN HE SLIPPED HE STRAINED HI S LOWER BACK.

KPRYING ON TAIL DRIVE OF LONGWALL 15 RECOVERY & PRY BAR SLIPPED STRIKING HIM ON LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON 2 EAST TRUCK AT BLOCK #15 WHEN HIS FOOT BECAME TANGLED IN SOME CABLE CAUSING HIM TO TRIP AND STRIKE HIS RIGHT RIB CAGE INTO THE TRACK RAIL RESULTING IN 2 FRACTURED RIBS .

EMPL WAS SHOVELING OUT TAIL PULLER ON DRY BED BELT HE SAID HE HAD TO STOOP DOWN & STRADDLE YOURSELF TO KEEP YOUR BALANCE IN SAND & WHEN HE WENT TO CLIMB OUT HE FELT SHARP PAIN.

EE HAD COMPLETED DRILLING HOLE AND WAS IN PROCESS OF REMOVING DRILL STEEL FROM HOLE DISENGAGOING ONE DRILL STEEL FROM ANOTHER WHEN THE STEEL PIN THAT LOCKS THE LOWER DRILL STILL BECAME DISLODG ED AND CAME OUT EE JUMPED BACK INTO CAB STRIKING HIS LEFT SHOULDER AGAINST THE CAB OF THE DRILL COMPARTMENT.

PC OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM MINE ROOF STRIKING HIMON HAND R WRIST

INJURED LOWERED HIS CANOPY AFTER INSTALLING A ROW OF ROOF BOLTS. INJURED STATED THAT THE CANOPY ONLY CAME DOWN APPROX. 12". THE ROOF BOLTER WAS ADVANCED TO INSTALL THE NEXT ROW OF BOLTS AND IN JURED TRIED TO RAISE/LOWER THE CANOPY WHEN THE CANOPY DROPPED SUDDENLY, APPROX. 8 TO 10 INCHES, STRIKING HIM ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD.

EMPL WAS OPERATING AIR WINCH PULLING 140'X6"LENGTHS OF PE PIPE. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO KEEP CABLE WINDING LEVEL ON REEL EMPL CAUGHT FIRST THREE FINGERS OF LEFT HAND BETWEEN FRAME & CABLE OF AIR W INCH CAUSING LACERATIONS OF RING & LITTLE FINGERS & ALSO FRACTURES OF SAME.

EE WAS REMOVING ROLLER FROM BELT SCRAPER AND STRAINE DRIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPL STATED THAT HE PUT FIRST ROOFBOLT NEXT TO RIB & WAS WAITING FOR OTHER OPERATOR TO FINISH PUTTING BOLT UP WHEN PIECE OF DRAW ROCK APPROX 1 1/2' LONGX6" WIDEX3" MAXIMUM THICKNESS FELL FROM ROOF. ROCK STRUCK RIGHT ARM & LEG.

WHILE CRANKING POWER CABLE FROM CABLE STANDARD, HIS LEFT HAND BECAME PINCHED UNDER GEAR.

INJURED WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS ON RIGHT SIDE, WHEN LEVELING CHAIN ON LEFT SIDE BROKE. LINK FROM BROKEN CHAIN STRUCK INJURED IN FOREHEAD.

HE WAS LIFTING WHEEL BOX AND DROPPED IT ONTO HSI RIGHT INDEX FINGER. LACERATED INDEX FINGER ON RIGHT HAND. REQUIRED FOUR STITCHES. BROKEN BONE.

EMPL WALKING TO BOLTER WHEN RIGHT KNEE GAVE OUT.TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF AND STEPPED IN HOLE TWISTING LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SEEN BY DOCTOR.NAME ON 4/25/90 AND TAKEN OFF WORK BECAUSE OF INCREASED BACK PAIN.

DOZER HUNG UP HE ATTACHED WIRE ROPE TO OTHER WAS CLIMBING OVER ROPE HE GOT CAUGHT IN BETWEEN WHEN DOZER STARTED

WHILE CHECKING ON SHAKER IN PLANT EMPL SLIPPED ON CATWALK. CHEST HIT HANDRAIL FRACTURING THREE RIBS.

STANDING ON WOOD PLANK PAINTING INSIDE OF SURGE BIN HOPPER WITH BRUSH EE LEANED OUT TO PAINT TO SPOT BOARD MOVED FELL OFF HOLDING ON TO LEVELINDICATOR WITH LEFT HAND SLIP HAND DOWN LEVEL INDIC ATOR CUT FINGER ON BOTTOM OF INDIGATOR.

EE WAS LOADING OIL IN SCOOP BUCKET IN HEIGHT OF APPROX 50 INCHES HE SET HIS RIGHT KNEE DOWN ON A ROCK AND BRUISED IT.

CLEANING PRIMARY SCREEN WHEN MY FOOT BECAME STUCK WHEN I STEPPED DOWN OFF OF SCREEN I FELL AND LANDED ON MY BUTT.

BAR LAYING ON CROSS PC OF CRUSHER REACHED IN GRABBED BAR RUBBER ON COV HOOKED BAR THROWING HAND AGAINST FRAME OF CRUSHER

INJ DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR AND RAN OVER TIMBER,BOUNCED HIM UP AND HE LANDED ON BATTERY LIGHT CAUSING BRUISE IN LOWER BACK.

USING TORCH TO BURN BOLT FROM DRIVE SPROCKET GREASE AND OIL IGNITED FLAMES TO BURN FACE AND NECK

LETTING CABLE DOWN FROM OVERHEAD CABLE HORSES COIL STRUCK HIM ON L KNEE UY Y

CLEANING OUT LIME BIN WITH SLEDGE HAMMER AND REP 4-3-90 BACK HURTING AND WENT TO DR

HE WAS ROLLING PIECE OF METAL OVER ON ITS SIDE & HURT BACK.

PAINTING TANK FOR TRUCK THOUGHT GUN STOPPED LAYED IT DOWN TO CHECK THE MACHINE PICKED THE GUN BACK UP MIDDLE FINGER ON L HAND HIT THE TRIGGER INDEX GINER IN FORNT OF NOZZLE

THE EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS WALKING WHEN HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT FOOT.

I.NAME WAS INSTALLING A RIPPER ASSEMBLY AND WHEN HE TOOK A HOSE OFF OIL STARTED COMING OUT. HE MOVED OUT OF THE WAY AND HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT LEG BELOW THE KNEE.

FELL OFF TRACTOR & HURT BACK & LEFT SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN THE #2 TAILS ROOM CUTTING SCREEN SPRINGS, AND DURING THE PROCESS THE FUMES IN THE AREA MADE THE PERSON ILL TO THE POINT OF COUGHING, EXPULSION OF PHLEGM AND FEVER. DOCT OR'S DIAGNOSIS WAS ZINC POISONING. (THIS REPORT WAS LATE DUE TO WAITING ON DOCTOR'S RESULTS OF BLOOD TESTS FOR ZINC CONTENT).

DROPPED 2 1/2 DIA. 4' LONG PIPE ON RIGHT FOOT, USE PIPE FOR LEVERAGE ON PIPE WRENCH TO LOOSEN, BELT UNDER FEEDER THAT WAS PLUG UP AND IT SLIPPED.

THE EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS CLEANING A VALVE ON A WASH TANK. HE HAD USED SOLVENT AND A SOAP PRODUCT, HE THEN SPRAYED THE VALVES OFF WITH A HIGH PRESSURE WASHER AND SOME OF THE CLEANING FLU ID GOT BETWEEN HIS LEG AND WAS TRAPPED BY HIS SOCK TOP AND IRRITATED BOTH LEGS AT THE SOCK TOP AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING TO MOUNT BULLDOZER WHEN HE SLIPPED & STRUCK RT KNEE ON TRACK OF DOZER

INDIVIDUAL WAS STANDING UP A 42 INCH TROUGHING IDLER ON CONVEYOR WHEN HE STRAINED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.PUT ON LIGHT DUTY AND THERAPY.HAS NOT RESPONDED TO THERAPY.FURTHER TESTS INDICATE TORN ROTAT

HE HAS SAID THAT HIS KNEE BOTHERS HIM AFTER THROWING/PALLETIZING 100 LB. SACK.S HE SAYS HE FEELS OK IN THE MORNING BUT HURTS LATER IN SHIFT. HE ORIGINALLY REPORTED TO HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HE HURT HIS KNEE STEPPING OFF HIS BACK PORCH. DOCOTOR WILL DO ADDITIONAL TESTING UBT SAYS THERE IS NO FRACTURE. POSSIBLE CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER.

CLOSING DOOR WITH PRY BAR SPRAINED BACK

EMPL INSTALLING TIRE ON BALL MILL-#2 RAW-.WHILE MOVING COME-ALONGS,TIRE MOVED PINNING LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS SERVICING EQUIPMENT ON 5 BUTT SECTION. HE WAS EXITING THE OPERATORS COMPARTMENT OF EIMCO LUBE TRUCK, AS HE WAS PULLING HIMSELF UP AND OVER THE DRIVERS SEAT HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT BACK AREA. EMPLOYEE DID NOT MISS ANY TIME UNTIL MAY 1ST.

EMPLOYEE SET A PUMP JACK DOWN ON BOTTOM, IT FELL OVER HITTING HIM ON THE RIGHT FOOT. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK ON APRIL 30, 1990.

EMPLOYEE STATED AS HE WALKED THROUGH THE HOUSE AREA OF THE 450 DRAGLINE HIS FOOT BECAME ENTANGLED WITH THE ELECTRICAL CORD FROM THE OVERHEAD HOIST HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL. EMPLOYEE FRACTU URED HIS LEFT WRIST AS A RESULT OF THE FALL.

I.NAME ATTACHING HOOKS INTO ROCK SO IT COULD BE HOISTED UP.ROCK SHIFTED SLIDING AGAINST LEG PINNING IT,HOIST HELD IT TIGHT FROM FALLING.

CLIMBING LADDER, LOST FOOTING FELL HITTING FUEL TANK OF ANOTHER CAT TRUCK

EMPL BENDING DOWN TO TAPE PANTS LEG AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPL SLIPPED ON WET CONVEYOR BELT,TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

WALKING AWAY A PIECE OF BELT THAT WAS LAYING ON THE GROUND WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE BELT CAUSING A PAIN IN HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS ARC AIRING WEAR PLATES OFF A D-11 DOZER BLADE HE HAD ARCED 3/4WAY AROUND THE CENTER PLATE & WAS CHECKING THE TOP WHEN THE PLATE BROKE LOOSE AT THE TOP & STRUCK HIM IN TH E HEAD KNOCKING HIM OFF THE BLADE BACKWARDS STRIKING LEFT ELBOW & ROBS ON A CRIB BLOCK LACERATION OVER LEFT EYE AN LEFT ELBOW REQUIRING STITCHES & CONTUSIONS TO LEFT RIB CAGE

ASSISTING INSTALLING PIN IN SHOVEL FELL RESUTLING STRAIN TO LOWER L LEG

MINE MECHANIC WAS LIFTING A HEAVY OBJECT & STRAINED HIS BACK

IN HOPPER STANDING ON A ROCK. THE ROCK MOVED UNDER FOOT. PULLED LIGIMENTS.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS PULLING ON A PIECE OF CURTAIN ADN FELT A PAIN IT HIS BACK. *HE DID NOT BEGIN MISSING WORK UNTIL APRIL 30 AND NO ONE KNEW IS WAS MINE RELATED UNTIL 5-3-90.

EMPL WAS SANDBLASTING STONE. SAND GOT UNDER SAFETY GLASSES.

PIECE OF CLOD 8"X8"X3" FELL & STRUCK TOP OF EMPL'S LEFT HAND.

EMPL OPERATING BULLDOZER PREPARING DRILL BENCH.WORKING ON TOP OF LOOSE MATERIAL BACKING UP WHEN REAR OF MACHINE DROPPED OVER ROCK.THIS CAUSED PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

PULLING DOWN PEICE OF ROCK THE ROCK BROKE LOOSE CAUGHT ON A BOLT SWUNG DOWN STRIKING HIM OIN THE LOWER LEFT LEG CAUSING ABRASION.

EMPL INSTALLING ROOF BOLT,HIT REVERSE ROTATION BY ACCIDENT AND CAUSED FX TO WRIST.

PULLING CABLE OFF OF COAL DRILL AND PULLED MUSCLES IN BACK.

EMPL WELDING ON TAILGATE OF TRUCK WHEN LOADER BUCKET HOLDING TAILGATE IN PLACE SLIPPED AND STRUCK HIS HAND.RESULTING INJURY WAS A FX TO LITTLE G FINGER ON LEFT HAND.

ROCKS FELL STRIKING LEFT BIG TOE.

RUNNING DOZER ON REFUSE, JARRED LOWER BACK

WHEN INSTRUCTED TO PERFORM THE WELDING TASK, THE EMPLOYEE REPLIED HE WOULD BUT WILL GET HURT AND GO HOME. THIRTY MINUTES LATER HE ALLEGED AN INJURY TO HIS LEFT ANKLE. HE REFUSED TO BE EXAMINED BY MINE EMT AND INSISTED TO BE TAKEN TO HIS TRUCK. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO LOGAN GENERAL HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE WHERE X-RAYS WERE NEGATIVE. HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO TAKE SOME TIME OFF, WEAR AN ANKLE

EE WAS SETTING TIMBERS WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP HITTING HIS RIGHT FOOT. HE SUFFERED A BROKEN TOE.

INJURED RT SHOULDER WHILE LOADING CINDER BLOCKS.

I.NAME RECEIVING MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR 1989 INJ-

EE STATED HE WAS USING CHEATER PIPE ON SPANNER WRENCH REMOVING A STUFFING GLAND FROM HYD. CYLINDER WHEN THE SPANNER WRENCH SLIPPED OFF CAUSING EE TO TWIST HIS LOWER BACK.

ASST FOREMAN WAS WALKING FROM THE FEEDER AND AT THE FIRST INTERSECTION INBY THE FEEDER HE STEPPED INTO A HOLE AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

OPER S CAR RAN OVER ROCK BOUNCED HURT NECK

EMPL REPORTED HE WAS IN PROCESS OF CHANGING HEADLIGHT ON D10 DOZER WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL CUTTING RIGHT HAND ON WHAT HE SUSPECTS WAS RADIATOR CAP.

SCOOP OPERATOR PARKED SCOOP UNDER THE CUTTER'S CABLE BLOCKS. THE CUTTER OPERATOR TOOK UP HIS SLACK CABLE FASTER THAN NARMAL, JERKING HIS CABLE OFF THE CABLE HANGERS AND HITTING THE SCOOP OPER ATOR ON THE HEAD.

MAN WAS THROWING ROOF BOLTS ONTO A BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS LEFT SIDE

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING CAR SPOTTER WHILE BACKING UP & LOOKING BACK THE CARS JAMMED TOGETHER CAUSING VEHICLE TO COME TO AN ABRUPT STOP EMPLOYEE NOTICED SORENESS IN NECK & SHOULDER EMPLOYEE DID NOT WISH TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION ON THIS DATE & DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 05-02-90 HE DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 05-2-90

EMPL WAS REMOVING HAY BALES FROM STACK TO FLATBED TRUCK. ONE OF HAYHOOKS PULLED OUT CAUSING HIM TO LOOSE BALANCE & FALL TO GROUND STRIKING HEAD.

EMPL CHUNKING IN CHANNEL,FELL LANDING ON LEFT SHOULDER.

BELT WAS BEING PULLED IN AN ANGLE FROM MAIN LINE CONVEYOR WITH AN ENLOADER THE EMPLOYEE HAD POSITIONED HIMSELF IN AN AREA THAT WHEN BELTHUNG IT PULLED ACROSS STRIKING EMPLOYEE & KNOCKING HIM O FF A 6FT PLATFORM

WAS EXTENDING WATER COUPLING AND LINE CAME APART HITTING HIM IN HAND.

TWISTED BACK STRAIN WHILE LOADING SUPPLIES

EMPLOYEE WAS RESETING POWER AT SUBSTATION RESET POWER TURNED HANDLE ON SWITCH GEAR & IT EXPLODED

MINERS WERE LOWERING #135 SHIELD TO PICK IT UP OUT OF GOB. LOOSE ROCK FELL OFF SIDE OF SHIELD & HIT EMPL ON RIGHT ANKLE.

EE BENT OVER TO PICK UP AND MORE A MINER CABLE WHEN A RIB ROLLED OFF ONTO HIS BACK, RIGHT LEG, AND KNEE CAUSING A BRUISE. THIS OCCURRED ON 0-EAST 2 HEADING.

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS STRUCK ON SHOULDER AND HARD HAT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A SPRING TO THE PRIMARY FEEDER WHEN THE CABLE HOLDING THE SPRING IN THE COMPRESSION BROKE. THE SPRING STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE IN THE SIDE BRUISING HIS RIGHT KIDNEY AND LIVER.

EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT KNEE LOCKED UP IN JOINT WHEN HE KNELT DOWN.

HE STATED THAT HE HAD THE BOLT MACHINE HEAD SWUNG OUT TO THE RIGHT SIDE AND NEEDED TO PULL THE BOLT MACHINE FORWARD WHEN HE TRAMMED ROOFBOLT ON THE RACK OF THE BOLT MACHINE CAME INTO CONTACT W ITH THE TIRE CAUSING THE ROOF BOLT TO FLY OUT OF THE RACK AND STRIKE HIM.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROOF BOLTING RIB WHEN A ROCK FELL OUT OF RIB HITTING HIM ON THE FOOT.

HH WAS SITTING DOWN WAITING FOR CUTTING MACHINE TO CHANGE PLACE AND STARTED TO GET UP, WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP, HITTING HIM ON THE LEFT LEG.

PULLING MINER CABLE OUT OF ROAD LOWER BACK STRAIN

THIS EE IS A CLASSIFIED CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR. WHILE WALKING TO THE WORKING FACE TO ASSIST THE OTHER OPERATOR, THIS EE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF SHALE ON HIS HAND AND NECK. THE PIECE OF MAT ERIAL MEASURED 4X2X6.,

INJURED WAS PINNING BELT HEADING, OPERATING ON LEFT SIDE OF ROOF BOLTER, INJURED WAS LOWERING HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER, WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING LEFT INJUREDS LEFT FOREARM & SHOULDER .

DRILLING HOLE,TURNED TO RIGHT AND WRENCHED HIS BACK-LOWER.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS SHOVELING ON 3 WEST B-BELT WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

THE MAN WAS CARRYING A POST WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK CAUSING HIM TO INJURE HIS BACK

PIECE OF DRAW SLATE FELL DURING BOLTING CYCLE MEASURING 6 FT X 5 FT X 3 IN THICK FALLING BAKC TO ATRS COMING UNDER NEAT TO CATCH RIGHT FOOT.

THE MAN STATES THAT AFTER HE HAD COMPLETED WORKING ON THE 8:01 SHIFT HE DEVELOPED PAIN UNDER HIS LEFT ARM HE STATES THAT HE HAD CARRIED A JACK FOR A ROOF BOLTING MACHINE

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING TIMBERS INTO THE SCOOP BUCKET AT THE END OF THE TRACK OF THE 2 SOUTH PARALLEL SECTION, MMU #001-0. AS HE TWISTED TO PLACE A TIMBER IN THE SCOOP BUCKET, HE HURT HIS LEFT KN EE.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE INHALED SMOKE FROM HEATED GREASE BARRELS.

2 X 4 LAID OVER UNEVEN ROCK AND MEN WALKING BACK & FORTH OVER TIMBERS TO WORK AT SITE. A 2X4 ROCKED AS I.NAME WALKED OVER IT TWISTING ANKLE.

INDIVIDUAL WAS WELDING ANGLE IRON. HE RAISED HIS WELDING HOOD TO INSPECT THE WELD AND SLAG AND DIRT FELL INTO BOTH EYES.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A ROOF BOLTING MACHINE. HE HAD HIS HAND ON TOP OF DRILL POT AND A SMALL PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF AND HIT HIM ON HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE PULLING TANGLED WIRE OUT OF GARBAGE PILE WHEN HE PULLED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

RUNNING SHUTTLECAR AND HIT A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM AND STRAINED BACK.

THEY WERE CONSTRUCTING A DUST COLLECTOR HOUSING. HE WAS HOLDING THE METAL TOGETHER WHILE I.NAME WELDED. HE LOOKED AWAY WHEN AN ARC WAS STRUCK. THTA EVENING (4-24-90), HE WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM WITH A DIAGNOSED FLASH BURN IN BOTH EYES. DROPS AND CREAM WERE PUT IN EYES, PATCHES WERE APPLIED FOR 30 HOURS.

CLEANING FROM UNDER CRUSHER WITH LOADER AND TAKING MATERIAL TO DUMP SITE. WHILE DUMPING ON PILE LOADER WAS NOT STRAIGHT AND BUCKET WAS A LITTLE HIGH IN AIR, LOADER WENT OVER. I.NAME WAS THROWN OUT OF LOADER HITTING INTO PILE.

HE WAS WORKING ON ROOF TIGHTENING SCREWS GOING UP & DOWN LADDER BACK STARTED HURTING WHILE WORKING

CLIMBING OUT OF TRUCK STEPPED ON UNEVEN GROUND TWISTED L ANKLE

HE WAS CLIMBING ON ROCK TURCK, HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND CAUSED HIM TO FALL HITTING HIS RIBS ON BUMPER.

LIFT ED A LOADER CABLE WHILE SITTING ON SEAT OF LOADER & STRAINED HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING STONE AR OUND PRIMARY CRUSHER WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO THROW THE SHOVEL FULL OF STONE HE TWISTED & FELT A PAIN IN THE BACK

WORKING IN REAR OF #3 MILL WITH WELDING ROD AND SOME SLAG CAUSED CAN OF AERO KROIL TO EXPLODE CAUSING BURNS ON HIS BODY.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING SCRAP METAL AND TWISTED HIS BACK WHEHN HE SLIPPED. NOTE: THERAPY REQUIRED AS OF MAY 21, 1990.

PICKING UP SCREEN FROM SHAKER DECK CAUSING LEFT SHOULDER INJURY.

INJURED PERSON WAS HELPING TO REMOVE A GUARD OFF THE DRIVE BELTS ON IMPACTOR WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL APPROX 4FT TO THE GROUND IT WAS VERY WINDY THAT DAY & THE WIND CONTRIBUTED TO HIS LOSING HIS BALANCE

EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN THE MID BACK AREA AFTER REPLACING A SET OF TRNNION TIRES ON A SHREDDER. IT IS THOUGHT THAT HE STRAINED HIS BACK LIFTING THE TIRES IN PLACE. HE HAS BEEN TREATED F OR AN ACUTE THROACIC STRAIN WITH BED REST, AND RX MEDS.

JUMPED OFF CONVEYOR 5' JUMP AND JARRED NECK.

EE STATED THAT A HYDRALIC CYLINDER CAME LOOSE ON BOOM BLOCKING HIS VIEW. HE MOVED BOBCAT DOWN GRADE AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

EMPL WAS STRUCK WITH CHAIN LINK FRAGMENT WHEN ALLOY CHAIN BROKE DURING TIGHTENING OF CONE CRUSHER.

EE WAS WORKING ON A PUMP IN THE CYANIDE MIX AREA WHEN HE WAS SPLASH IN THE FACE BY ABOUT 5 GALLONS OF 15% CYCANIDE SOLUATION A PH OF AROUND 110 HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES, COMFO RESPIRATOR AND RUBBER GLOVES HE FLUSHED HIS EYES FOR MORE THE CAUSTIC SOLUTION. HE WAS SCHEDULED TO WORK GRAVEYARD SHIFT ON 4/25/90 AND DAY SHIFT ON 4/27. THE OTHER DYAS WERE SCHEDULED OFF DAYS.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP AREA AFTER REPLACING A PIT PUMP. HE PICKED UP A BOX OF ELECTRICAL CABLE AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT SIDE CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO HIS KNEES. EMPLOYEE PULLE D A MUSCLE ON HIS LOWER LEFT SIDE.

EE WAS USING A HAMMER AND HEAD OF THE HAMMER SPLINTERED CAUSING A PIECE OF METAL TO GO INTO HIS ARM.

WIND BLEW GRAIN OF DIRT INTO EYE.

MAN WAS LOADING SHOTCRETE INTO HOPPER WHEN CEMENT DUST BLEW INTO BOTH YES. MAN WAS WEARING GLASSES.

CHANGING OUT WORN BASKET IN REFUSE DRYER & CUT FIRST FINGER ON LEFT HAND

DRIVING STAKES WITH SLEDGE HAMMER SLIPPED STRUCK EMP ON R FT.

EE FEELS AS IF HE DID NOT COMPLETELY OPEN TOGGLE SWITCH AND THAT THE VIBRATION OF THE BUILDING CAUSED THE SWTICH TO BECOME CLOSED, THEREBY CAUSING THE CONVEYOR TO REENERGIZE AND HIM TO BE PUT THRU THE CHUTE AND ONTO THE RAW COAL SCREEN. THEEE WAS SEVERELY BRUISED BUT SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY PERMANENT IMPAIRMENT.

OPEN CRACK IN GROUND

STRUCK MISFIRED CAP AND PRIMER, WHILE SCRAPING FACE

OPER DUMP TRUCK BY HAULING DUMPING CRUSHED STONE IN STOCKPILE PLACED TRUCK IN FORWARD JUMPED OUT BEFORE FALLING OVER BLUFF

HELPING PUT STARTER ON 945-B FRONT END LOADER. AHD COMPLETED JOB WHEN HE STARTED TO COMPLAIN THAT HE COULD NOT TURN HIS HEAD.

INJURED STEPPED FROM THE LAST STEP OF A RUBBER TIRED DOZER TO THE GROUND. HE STEPPED ONTO A RIDGE CAUSING A HYPER-EXTENSION TO HIS RIGHT ACHILLES TENDON.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING (OILING) NEAR VIBRATOR AND CRUSHER WHEN A ROCK FLEW OUT FROM SOME PART OF THE EQUIPMENT AND STRUCK HIM ON THE FACE KNOCKING HIM TEMPORARILY UNCONSCIOUS.

CARRYING CRIB TIES ACROSS BELT AND THROUGH MAN DOOR TO BUILD CRIBS IN RETURN,STRAINED LOWER BACK.

PUTTING GREASE INN IDLER OF DOZER, HEAT PRESSURE IN IDLER CAUSED THE PLUG TO BLOW SPRAYING HOT GREASE IN R HAND

EMPLOYEE WAS STOOPING DOWN & HOSING UNDER A365 WHEN EMPLOYEE STOOD UP HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK PAIN INCREASED AS SHIFT PROGRESSED EMPLOYEE DID NOT SLIP OR TRIP STARTED MISSING WORK D UE TO ACCIDENT ON MAY 7 1990

INJURED COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN AFTER OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR ALL SHIFT.

EMPL STATED HE WAS UNLOADING ROCKDUST FROM SUPPLY CAR WHEN PALLET OF DUST TURNED OVER CATCHING INJURED RIGHT LEG BETWEEN DUST & SUPPLY CAR.

DRIVER WAS STANDING ON TRUCK BATTERY BOX ROLLING UP TARP. WHEN HE STEPPED BACKWARD OFF BATTERY BOX AND LANDED ON HIS BACK.

EMPL WAS USING PAIR OF PLIERS TO CUT LINCH BANDING MATERIAL WHICH WAS HOLDING FORMS ONTO WOODEN SKIP. WHEN BAND WAS CUT IN COME BACK STRIKING HIM IN LITTLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND CUTTING IT.

TRAMMING FORK LIFT FROM MINE SITE TO STOCK YARD. LOST CONTROL AND WAS THROWN OFF.

WORKER WAS DRILLING DOG HOLE WITH JACKHAMMER WHEN SMALL ROCK CHIP HIT HIM IN EYE. WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY GLASSES AT TIME.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE LOOSENING A TRACK BELT HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING PULL UP SLACK ON BACK-UP ROOF BOLTER CALBE WHEN BACK STARTED HURTING.

I,NAME WAS MOVING MATERIAL WITH A CHERRY PICKER ON A WORK BARGE. HE WAS SWINGING THE BOOM FROM THE STERN TO THE BOW OF THE WORK BARGE WHEN MID-WAY OVER THE WATER, THE CHERRY PICKER TOPPLED OVE R-I,NAME JUMPED OFF PICKER BEFORE IT WENT OVER.

WORKING ON PUMP PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK AND NECK.

HE STATED THAT HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA AS HE LIFTED A BOX OF RESIN FROM THE BACK OF THE ROOF BOLTER. THE PAIN PERSISTED SO A DOCTOR WAS CONSULTED.

PULLING WATER HOSE IN PREPARATION OF CLEANIG AROUND PLANT AND DISTURBED A BEE.

LIFTING STEEL PLATE.

EMPL WAS LOWERING MOTOR & GAR DRIVE INTO POSITION WITH CHAIN HOIST & AS HE WAS ALIGNING BOLT HOLES RIGHT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN MOTOR & STEEL FRAME. ACTION CAUSED CONTUSION OF EMPLS RIGHT HAN D.

EMPLOYEE SAID HE WAS WALKING DOWN A SLIGHT INCLINE CARRYING A BUCKET, WHEN HIS FEET SLIPPED.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING LIFT BRETBY OUT OF PAN LINE BACK INTO BRETBY TRAY WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LOWER BACK

RUNNING BRIDGE CARRIER IN TIGHT SPACE AND CARRIER BUMPED HIS KNEE

SHOVELING LIME ROCK PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK

ATTEMPT TO PUT OIL IN LOADER, FT SLIPPED AND AUGHT SELF WITH L AR M CLIMBING LADDER WITH OIL

A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK APPROX. 2 1/2 INCHES THICK 11 INCHES WIDE AND 3 FOOT LONG FELL OUT BETWEEN #1 BOLT AND ATRS SETUP FOR NEXT BOLT.

EE WAS CARRYING COAL SAMPLE BAGS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SIDE AND DOWN HIS LEFT LEG.

SHOVELING BELT BACK STARTED HURTING

EMPLOYEE WAS TORQUING BOLTS. THE TORQUE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF THE BOLT HITTING HIM IN THE NOSE AND CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL APPROX. 20 FEET TO THE GROUND. EMPLOYEE THINKS THAT HIS SAFETY ROPE CAME UNHOOKED AS HE FELL.

LIFTING 4" SQUARE PIPE OUT OF ROCK FELT PAIN IN LOW BACK.

INJURED STATED HE WAS STANDING BEHIND THE MINER OBSERVING THE MINER CUT COAL AND WHEN THE MINER STARTED BACK HE PICKED UP THE CABLE TO PULL IT OUT OF THE MINER WAY. HE CAUGHT HIM FOOT BETWEEN THE CABLE AND A PIECE OF ROCK HE HAD A SPIRAL FRACTURE OF HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS CHANGING CUTTING EDGES ON 988 LOADER AND STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING EDGE TO BE BOLTED.

EMPL LIFTING 7'SECTION OF WATER PIPE ONTO BACK OF TRUCK.

ADJUSTING CHEMICAL FLOW,WIND GUST BLEW EMPTY CHEMICAL CONTAINER ONTO EMPL.WIND UNUSUALLY STRONG-70 MPH -EXCESS OF 100 MPH.THE PLANT EXPERIENCED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO TREES,FENCES,ETC.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING BELTLINE WHEN A ROCK FELL OUT FROM THE ROOF AND HIT HIM ON THE LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE IN UNDERGROUND SHOP SWITCHING A FEEDER LOW-BOY AS HE WAS WALKING AROUND THE FEEDER HE STRUCK HIS RIGHT KNEE ON FEEDER CAUSING CONTUSION. THE EMPLOYEE WORKED UP TO 4-26-90 AND STARTED MISSING WORK DUE TO THIS INJURY ON 4-27-90.

THIS EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO MOVE A BATTERY INTO POSITION FOR CHARGING. HE ATTEMPTED TO SLIDE THE BATTERY RATHER THAN LIFT IT. HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

SHOVELING BELTLINE,SHOVEL GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN ROLLERS AND CONVEYOR BELT.REACTION CAUSED SHOVEL TO THRUST UPWARD PLACING INJ PERSON ARM IN STRAIN.

INSTALLING ROOF BOLT AT FACE OF COAL WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL HITTING HIM ON RIGHT SHOULDER AND NECK.

PULLED MUSCLE IN NECK - SHOULDER WHILE BENDING ROOF BOLTS. CONTINUED WORKING THE REST OF SHIFT AND REPORTED TO WORK THE FOLLOWING SHIFT. WENT TO DOCTOR ON 4-25-90 AND REPORTED OFF THAT DAY.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE STEPPED UPON RAILROAD TO SET BRAKES AND SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIS HEAD AGAINST A RAILROAD TIE.

HE WAS BENCHING WITH A 455 KOMATSU BULLDOZER. WHILE OPERATING THE BULLDOZER, A HYDRAULIC LINE LOCATED ON THE RIPPER ATTACHMENT RUPTURED AND PULLED FROM THE FITTING ON THE HYDRAULIC CYLINDER. T HE HYDRAULIC HOSE WHIPPED FORWARD, STRUCK HIS SHOULDER AND THE BACK OF HIS HEAD CAUSING LACERATIONS.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN VALLEY FILL. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE DUMPED HIS ROCK TRUCK AND THE WIND BLEW DUST IN HIS LEFT EYE.

TURNED HEAD FELT PAIN

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING A PLATE ACROSS THE POLY SCREEN WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING ON THE CHUTE THAT WAS BEING INSTALLED OVER THE SHAKER A PIECE OF DIRT FLEW INTO HIS EYE

EMPL WAS IN SHOP AT REFUSE HOLLOW SWEEPING SHOP. HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN HE STATED HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK MINES WAS TEMPORARILY CLOSED ON 3/23 & IT WAS NOT KNOWN AT TIME OF CLOSURE IF THIS ALLEDGED INJURY WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST TIME ACCIDENT.

EMPL WAS WORKING WITH STEEL CABLE WHEN BURR PUNCTURED SKIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEAM CLEANING ON THE THINSEAM MINER AND THE SPLASHBACK FROM THE STEAM CAUSED TWO PIECES OF METAL AND RUST TO FLY INTO RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS GETTING OFF FORK TRUCK SLIPPED AND HIT HIS LEFT ELBOW.

INJURED MAN WAS CUTTING A ROD, PROTRUDING FROM WALL, WITH AN ACETYLENE TORCH. HE CLAIMS HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON RAILING AS HE STEPPED DOWN AND FELL BACKWARDS ONTO STEEL GRATING.

THE INJURED PERSON WAS SHOVELING COAL AT A HEAD DRIVE LOCATION HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK WHILE SHOVELING

HE WAS SHOVELING AND "TURNED WRONG OR SOMETHING". IT FELT LIKE SOMETHING KNOTTED UP IN LOWER RIGHT BACK.

SM FALLIN IN CRUSHER FLEW BACK LANDED ON R FOOT

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING I NAME MOVE A CHARGER BY RESETTING IT EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING CHARGER & INJURED BACK

INJURED WAS DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR AND HIT A HOLE AND HIS BACK STRUCK THE TOP OF SEAT.

LIFTING SIDE RAIL ON MINER STRAIN BACK.

INJURED STATED WHILE WORKING BELOW HPC PLATFORM A PIECE OF I-BEAM BEING USED AS SPACER-MEASURING 4IN THICK 10IN LONG FELL STRIKING CATWALK-BOUNCING & HITTING INJURED ON LT WRIST CAUSING CONTUS ION TO WRIST

EMPL PUTTING 6" PIPE IN DOUBLE DECK VIBRATOR,LOWER DECK.FELT BURNING IN LEFT SIDE WHILE LIFTING SCREEN IN PLACE.

LIFTING COAL DRILL IN POSTION, DRILL STRAINED BACK

HANDING FEED POD TO OTHER EM STRAINED LOWER PC LIFTED WT 80 POUNDS

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING W/DRILL RIG. SCREW MOTOR FELL, HITTING LOWER PART OF RIGHT ARM. FIRST REPORT, ARM BADLY BRUISED BUT NOT BROKEN. GARDNER DENVER 2 MFB SCREW FEED (KPART INVOLVED).

EMPL WATCHING CONT.MINER CLEAN UP A PLACE JUST CUT-ROOM 2 IN UNIT 5,WHEN PIECE OF ROCK 2' X 2' X 3" FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS AND STRUCK RIGHT FOOT JUST BEHIND STEEL TOE GUARD.WENT TO DR NEXTDAY

1-SOUTH SECTION TAKING CABLE FOR SURGE CAR TOWARD POWER CENTER AND TWISTED ANKLE DID NOT STEP ON ANYTHING HIS ANKLE JUST TWISTED.

EMPL WAS PULLING ON 2" PLASTIC DISCHARGE LINE WHEN HE TWISTED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP A RIB ROLL ALONG BELT LINE. HE BENT OVER TO MOVE A LARGE ROCK, WHEN HE PICKED IT UP TO MOVE HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT LOWER ABDOMEN.

FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN PROP BAR AND LOADED ORE CAR.

WAS CHANGING HIGH PRESSURE WATER PUMP. PICK UP PUMP AND ALLEGEDLY STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF KNEE AND BACK PAIN FROM PULLING MINER CABLE.

LOADING BELT STRUCTURE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK

I.NAME GOT OUT OF BED TUES.AM,HIS BACK WAS SORE.SAW DR 4-25,27 & 30.

PERSON WAS RIDING MANTRIP CAR. IT WAS BACKED INTO A SCOOP. NO DAMAGE DONE THAT WAS NOTICEABLE, THE INJURED HAD NO PROBLEM UNTIL 4 HOURS LATER COMPLAINED OF BACK.

CAUGHT LITTLE FINGER IN D-H1 DRILL HAMMER WHEN IT WAS MOVING.

ELEC TRACKING DOWN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM ON 815 SHOVEL.TRACING WIRES WITH HANDS,TOOL POUCH CAME IN CONTACT WITH 480V TERMINAL BAR ON RIGHT SIDE OF CABINET.PHASE-TO-PHASE ARC OCCURRED WHICH EXPLOD ED WITHIN THE CABINET.WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES WHICH PROTECTED EYES,HOWEVER BOTH HANDS WERE BURNED BY EXCESSIVE HEAT.

SHE WAS HELPING A MEDICAL PUT A RUBBER SPLASH GUARD BACK IN FRON T OF #2 ROD MILL AFTER A ROD CHARGE SHE TURNED TO WORK AWAY & FELT PAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF HER BACK & RIB CAGE AREA (LOST TIME)

HE WAS WALKING BETWEEN PREHEATER AND SHOP. HE STEPPED ON A STONE, TURNING HIS ANKLE AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL MAY 22,1990.

EMPLOYEE WAS LAYING A WATER LNE, TO A PUMP, ALONG THE BELT LINE OF THE 1 NORTH MAIN SECTION, MMU #004-0. AS HE WAS LAYING THE WATER LINE HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON WET BOTTOM AND BRUISED HIS RIGHT HIP AND BACK.

BENDING RF BOLT IT SLIPPED OUT OF HAND HIT HIM IN MOUTH BUSTING LIP AND LOOSENING TOOTH

MAN WAS DISCONNECTING THE CHARGER PLUG (CATHEAD) FROM THE RIGHT ROOF BOLTER RECEPTACLE. WHEN HE KNOCKED THE BREAKER BOX TO DE-ENERGIZE THE PLUG, HE APPARENTLY KNOCKED THE DRILL BOX BY MISTAKE. HE THEN DISCONNECTED THE CHARGER PLUG (UNDER LOAD) CAUSING AN ARC.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A PORTABLE AIRTUGGER OFF OF ONE TON TRUCK ONTO A 4-WHEEL CART WHEN HE FELT A CRACK IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER. DIAGNOSIS: ACUTE BURSITIS. HE WAS SEEN AT A LATER DATE BY A SPECIA LIST AND IT WAS DETERMINED THAT HE HAD A POSSIBLE TEAR/ROTATOR CUFF. SURGERY WAS SCHEDULED FOR 7-19-90 AND HE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK, EFFECTIVE 7-19-90.

BURN ON BOTH ARMS FROM PLACING WEARGUARD IN PIPE

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING FILL-UP ROCK DUSTER TANKS. THE HOSE WAS ACCIDENTALLY BUMPED FROM ITS HANGER, WHEN IT DROPPED ROCK DUST FLEW UP INTO HIS EYES.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING LOADER, CLEANING ROCK OFF COAL. WHILE REMOVING ROCK FROM COAL, HE HIT A HARD SPOT CAUSING REAR OF LOADER TO COME OFF GROUND, BUCKET SLIPPED OFF BOTTOM OF ROCK CAUSING REAR OF LOADER TO DROP QUICKLY JAMMING LOWER BACK.

LIFITNG AND NEXT DAY SORE IN BACK

SPLICING PIECE OF CABLE KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING EMPLOYEE'S HAND.

EMPL WAS LOADING 3" WATER LINE & CAUGHT RIGHT RING FINGER BETWEEN TRAILER & WATERLINE MASHING NAIL OFF. EMPL FINISHED SHIFT. HE THEN MISSED WORK 4/23-24 & RETURNED TO WORK ON 4/25. HE TOOK OF WORK 4/27 TO HAVE FINGER EXAMINED.

HE WAS ISNTALLING A WINDOW INTO THE CRUSHER SHED AND WAS OPENING A TUBE OF CAULKING AND CUT HIS HAND WITH HIS KNIFE.