Mining Incidents in May 1990

DRIVING IN PIT APPARENTLY TURNED HEAD TO LOOK AT SOMETHING IN PIT AND WENT OVER EMBANKMENT ROLLING VEHICLE SEVERAL TIMES.

DRILL HELPER RODE DRILL HEAD UP THE MAST.CAUGHT BETWEEN TOP OF DRILL HEAD AND THE MAST.DRILLER STATED THE HYDRAULIC FEED CONTROL WASNT WORKING PROPERLY.

EMP INJ WHEN EMP PLACED TRACK BAR INSIDE OF BACK HOE. BAR HIT BOOM SWING CONTROL EMP CAUGHT BETWEEN BOOM AND THE OUT RIGGER

EMPL DRIVING EMPTY TRUCK BACK TO SHOVEL FOR A LOAD,APPARENTLY WENT TO SLEEP & TRUCK LEFT THE ROADWAY,CLIMBED THE BERM THEN FELL DOWN 45' TO NEXT BENCH LANDING ON LEFT SIDE ROLLING ONTO THE TOP .DRIVER FELL FROM CAB AND WAS CRUSHED BY ROLLING ROCKS.

EMP BACKING THE LOADED TRUCK UP DUMPSITE ROAD TRAVELED THROUGH BERM AND TRIED TO JUMP OUT OF VEHICLE, VEHICLE STARTED TO SLIDE DOWN THE STOCK PILE IT CATAPULTED THE EMP OVER THE VEHICLE TO TH E BOTTOM OF STOCK PILE AND THE VEHICLE ROLLED OVER AND CAME TO REST ON THE EMP

ROCK TRUCK ROLLED DOWN OR OFF 20 FT EMBANKMENT

LUBRICATING TRANS SHIFT CABLE WHEN L FRONT TIRE ON SCRAPER BLEW OUT FORCE SENT HIM IN LINKAGE THEN UP AND OVER THE 631D LANDED 27 FT FROM WHERE HE HAND BEEN WORKING MULT. TRAUMA

NO WITNESS TO ACCIDENT,3-4 MIN.BEFORE PUMPER WAS DISCOVERED MISSING,LOADER MAN SAW EMPL GOING TO THE REAR OF THE BARGE NEAR SUCTION.SAW WATER STOP & WENT TO CHECK.COULDNT FIND I.NAME.CALLED ON RADIO TO OFC,CALLED 911 FOR RESCUE TEAM & DIVERS.I.NAME FOUND IN WATER,BODY RECOVERED-HAD BEEN IN WATER 40-45 MIN WHEN RECOVERED.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING AS ELECTRICIAN IN REPLACING SOME ELECTRICAL WIRING FROM ONE POLE TO ANOTHER. WHILE PULLING WIRE FROM OLD POLE, EMPLOYEE STRAINED AND, ACCORDING TO DOCTOR, PULLED HERNIA.

EE WAS LIFTING SLATE WITH CRANE THE SLIDING DOOR CLOSED STRICKING THE EE ON THE ELBOW AND SENT THE PINKY FINGER RIGHT HAND INTO THE DOOR FRAME AS THE DOOR CLOSED ON IT SEVERING THE TOP OF THE FINGER.

PICKED UP A BELT ROPE TO PUT INTO HANGER AND HURT HIS ELFT SIDE AND GROIN.

REPLACING PIN IN LIFT CYLINDER IN GETMAN TRUCK.PARTNER WAS USING A BAR TO POSITION CYLINDER.I.NAME USED FINGER TO CHECK ALIGNMENT,CYLINDER MOVED PAST THE HOLE AND CUT OFF TIP OF FINGER.

SHALE 0-4IN IN THICKNESS TURNED LOOSE FROM SANDSTONE ROOF & SLABBED BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEE SUBSTAINED INJURIES TO BACK & HIP & ANKLE

EMPLOYEE WAS OILING 190-D DRAGLINE, WAS TURNING FAIR LEAD AND GOT PINKIE FINGER HUNG WHEN HE TRUNED IT AND IT CUT ABOUT ONE THIRD OF HIS PINKIE OFF. AMPUTATION TO FIRST JOINT PER CALL.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING CABLES ON A GRAVEL BARGE AND WAS LIFTING VERY HARD WHEN HE FELT A KNOT WITH A BURNING LIKE PAIN COME TO HIS LOWER ABDOMEN.

WHILE ROLLING AN IRON BUCKET (ON WHEELS) HH FELT A SLIGHT BURNING IN LOWER ABDOMEN.

SUBJECT WAS LIFTING PC OF METAL PLATEON TRAILER

RINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN BOOM ON ATRS SUPPORT ARM & TOP RESULTING IN LOSS OF RING FINGER ON RIGHT HAND FROM 2ND JOINT.

INJ REENTERED SHOP AND HEARD AIR LEAK ON TRUCK UNDER REPAIR.HE CRAWLED UNDER TRUCK.THE OTHER MECHANIC CLIMBED INTO TRUCK,STARTED IT AND BEGAN TO BACK OUT OF SHOP.I.NAME WAS ROLLED UNDER AXLE O F TRUCK AND FRACTURED VERTIBRAE.

THREE NIGHT SHIFT EMPLOYEES WERE TRAVELING TO THE JOBSITE. A LOADED COAL TRUCK WAS LEAVING THE PROJECT. THE TWO VEHICLES COLLIDED TOGETHER. A LL FOUR PERSONS INVOLVED WERE INJURED IN THE ACCID ENT. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED APPROX. 1/2 MILE OUTSIDE COMPANY GATE.

EE WAS LOADING SUPPLIES INTO A TIMBER SKIP AT A STOPE SO HE COULD HOIST THEM TO THE STOPE CREW. A PIECE OF LAGGING 3"X8"X5' AND SEVERAL PIECE OF ROCK FELL DOWN THE TIMBER SLIDE AND STRUCK THE EE RESULTING IN LACERATIONS TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD SEVERAL BROKEN RIBS AND INTERNAL INJURIES.

WHILE MAINTAINING THE WASHING PLANT EE CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN A CHAIN & SPROCKET, CRUSHING THE FOUR FINGERS ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

EMPL WAS SHOVELING SOME COAL SPILLAGE ALONG SLOP BELT. AS HE SHOVELED HE EXPERIENCED SOME PAIN IN LOWER LEFT ABDOMEN. THIS WAS DIAGNOSED AS POSSIBLE HERNIA.

EE WAS ADVANCING RPM ON GAS WELDING MACHINE, WHEN HIS HAND GOT CAUGHT BY THE RADIATOR COOLING FAN EE LOST FIRST JOINT ON RIGHT INDEX FINGER. HE WAS TREATED BY PHYSICIAN.

EMPL WAS PULLING FEEDER CAB LE WITH EMPL FELT STING IN GROIN. WERE PULLING CABLE BY HAND. INJURED EMPL WAS JERKIN G ON FEEDER CABLE TO SET IT OUT OF WATERLINE & RUPTURED HIMSELF.

RIDING MANLIFT, SHE FELL OFF MANLIFT APPROX. 66 FEET CAUSING SERIOUS MULTIPLE INJURIES.

INJURED WAS OBSERVING A SHUTTLE CAR TRAM OVER 85 POUND RAIL TO CLEAR AN ENTRY. AS THE CAR CROSSED THE RAIL, THE END OF THE RAIL HIT INJURED CAUSING HIM TO FALL. THE RAIL CONTINUED TO MOVE CATC HING INJURED'S LEFT FOOT AGAINST AN INSTALLED 85 POUND RAIL.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A BOLT IN A VLAVE BRACKET ON A PALLET CAR. THE HOLE DID NOTY LINE UP WITH AN ALIGNM,ENT BAR SO HE CHECKED THE HOLE WITH HIS FINGER. THE PIPING SPRUNG CUTTING HIS RIGH T LITTLE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS BEING PLACED IN POSTION TO WELD BRACKETS FOR CONDUIT. WHEN MOVING BOOM BUCKET TO LEFT, GRABBERS NEEDED TO BE RETRACTED TO PLACE BUCKET IN POSITION. EMPLOYEE HAD PLACED HIS HAND IN A PINCH POINT AMPUTATING DISTAL END OF RIGHT THUMB.

INJURED WAS LIFTING A TIRE AND STRAINED HIS GROIN AREA CAUSING HERNIA.

HE BELIEVES THAT THE INJURY MAY HAVE OCCURRED DURING WORK. NO PAIN WAS FELT AT THE TIME AND IS NOT SURE HOW IT MAY HAVE OCCURRED, OTHER THAN WHILE LIFTING AND MOVING STEEL MATERIALS.

THE EE HAD HUNG THE MINER CABLE ON THE CONTINUOUS MINER. HE THEN STEPPED OUTBY THE BOOM OF THE MINER THE OPERATOR ASKED IF EYEONE WAS IN THE CLEAR THE MINER HELPER SAID YEST THE OPERATOR PROCE EDED TO TRAM THE MINER THE HELPER STUMBLED AND REACHED OUT WITH LEFT HAND TO STEADY HIMSELF AS THE HELPER GRASPED THE BOOM THE BOOM MASHED HIS LEFT HAND AGAINST THE ROOF.

EE MAY HAVE BEEN INJURED WHILE PERFORMING JOB DUTIES FROM CARRYING ROCK SAMPLER MOVING ROCKS WILL A SHOVEL THE LIFTING A MOTOR THAT OPERATE A CONVY BELT WHILE CLEANING THE SHOP BUT WE ARE UNAB LE TO PIN POINT PRICES CAUSE OF INJURY WHICH HISRESULT IN A HERNIA

EMPL LIFTING DRILL STEEL TO LINE DISCHARGE CHUTE STRAINING HIMSELF CAUSING HERNIA.EQUIP N/A

EMPL UNSCREWING BOWL LINER FROM CONE CRUSHER.A 1" CHOKER CABLE WAS WRAPPED AROUND BOWL,THEN HOOKED TO DOZER.TENSION APPLIED TO TURN BOWL LINER COUNTERCLOCKWISE.CHOKER FAILED AT EYE BILLET HOOK ED TO DOZER.CHOKER FLEW BACK STRIKING EMPL STANDING NEXT TO CRUSHER.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING DRIVE PINS IN DRIVE CHUCK. THE DRIVE CHUCK WAS APPERNETLYSTUCK ON THE KELLY BAR AND WAS NOT FULLY SEATED INT THE TURNTABLE. WHILE INSTALLING THE RETAINER BOLTS, THE D RIVE CHUCK FELL CATCHING HIS RIGHT PINKY FINGER.

LIFTING SMALL TRUCKS FROM TRAMVAYOR CART TO LOAD ON A SUPPLY CAR. FELT A PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA POSSIBLE HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLED INTO A CRUSHER DRIVE SHEAVE WHEN HE STEPPED ON A LOOS BELT THAT WAS WRAPPED AROUND SHAFT. THE CRUSHER HAD BEE DE-ENERGIZED AND WAS WINDING DOWN WHEN ACCIDENT OCCURRED.

EE WAS MOVING A SEPARATOR TUB ON ONE END WITH ROCK BAR. THE TUB SLIPPED AND PUT A STRONG DOWNWARD FORCE ON THE ROCK BAR. EE DID NOT LOSE TIME UNTIL 5-18-90.

SHOT HOLE DRILLS WERE DRILLING NEXT TO HIGHWALL ON BENCH. LOOSE MATERIAL FROM HIGHWALL SLID INTO BENCH AREA & PARTIALLY COVERED DRILLS & DRILL HELPER WAS PARTIALLY COVERED WITH DUST.

INJ HELPING PULL BELT BACK ON SECTION.BELT DOLLY WAS STUCK ON LONG JOHN STRUCTURE.IT BECAME UNSTUCK AND ROLLED OVER RIGHT RING FINGER-AMPUTATION 1ST JOINT.

HE WAS HIS CREW WERE ATTEMPTING TO SHIM A LOOSE SOCKET ON THE #1 7' CRUSHER BY PLACING SHIM STOCK UNDER THE SOCKET SEAT ON THE MAINFRAME FACE. THE SOCKET WAS LOWERED WITH OUR CRANE BUT HUNG UP BEFORE SEATING COMPLETELY. AT THIS TIME HE NOTICED ONE OF THE SHIMS OUT OF PLACE. THINKING THAT THE SOCKET WAS SECURE, HE ADJUSTED THE SHIM WITH HIS RIGHT HAND. THE SOCKET SHIFTED AND FELL NI

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON A RATCHET TO TIGHTEN A NUT ON CRANE, WHEN HE GOT HOME THAT NIGHT HE NOTIECED A KNOT IN LOWER RIGHT SIDE OF HIS ABDOMEN.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A PULL ROPE OFF OF THE SCOOP BATTERY LIFTING JACK WHEN THE OPERATOR RAISED THE JACK CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE JACK AND THE BATTERY. NO BROKEN BONES. SUTURES WER E USED, FINGER BECAME INFECTED, WAS AMPUTATED TOTHE SECOND JOINT.

DRILLING OPERATION USING GARDNER DENVER AIR TRACK CHAIN ON BOOM BROKE BUNCHED UP AT BASE. BOOM LAID DOWN & OPERATOR TRIED TO GUIDE CHAIN WHILE PULLING IT OUT THROUGH SPROCKET. SPROCKET NEEDS T O BE MOVING IN ORDER TO PULL CHAIN THROUGH OEPRATOR HAD ONE HAND ON CONTROLS ONE HAND PULLING CHAIN HAND GOT CAUGHT IN SPROCKET BROKE FOUR FINGERS DAMAGED LIGAMENTS ETC. ONE FINGER LOST.

EMPL SHOVELING AROUND SCALPER BELT WHEN FOOT SLIPPED IN MUD AND SLID BETWEEN TROUGHING IDLER AND CONVEYOR BELT RESULTING IN LACERATION AND AMPUTATION OF 3RD & 4TH TOES.

HE WAS BOLTING ROOF IN #4 ENTRY USING A FLETCHER MODEL RR I-13 ROOF BOLTER. HE HAD DRILLED THE STARTER HOLE APPROX. 15" DEEP AND WAS TRYING TO PUT HIS FINISHING STEEL INTO THE HOLE BY USING TH E BOLTER HEAD AND FORCING THE FINISHER INTO THE HOLE WITH THE PUSHER STEEL. THE TWO PIECES OF STEEL SUDDENLY SNAPPED TOGETHER AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER AT THE POINT WHERE THE TWO PIECE

THE CONTRACT WORKER WAS GRINDING THE END OF A PIPE ON THE BENCH GRINDER IN THE MAINTENANCE SHOP. HE WAS WEARING WELDING GLOVES. THE GLOVE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE GRINDING WHEEL AND THE STAND, PULLING HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER IN AND CUTTING THE FIRST JOINT OF THIS FINGER OFF.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A CRESENT WRENCH TO REMOVE NUTS FROM BOLTS. HE EXERTED PRESSURE ON WRENCH INJURING SELF. HERNIA, LEFT LOWER GROIN AREA.

HE WAS PULLING AN ELECTRICAL WIRE ON THE CEDAR RAPIDS HAMMERMILL AND FELT A PULL IN THE GROIN AREA.

INJ BOARDING SCOOP TRACTOR,STEPPED INTO KITCHEDN,FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN GROIN AREA.INJ BEGAN MISSING WORK 5-11-90.

PENDING CONCLUSIONS OF INVESTIGATION.

EMPTIED 3 TRASH CANS INTO LOADER BUCKET; ONE WAS REAL HEAVY. DIDN'T FEEL ANY PAIN WHILE UNLOADING TRASH. HE REPORTED ON 5-7-90 THAT HE THOUGHT HE HAD A HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A TIMBER WITH A CO-WORKER, FELT PAIN IN ABDOMINAL REGION. (EMPLOYEE SOUGHT PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL CARE 05/30/90).

EMPL BACK STARTED HURTING WHILE SHOVELING COAL BUILDUP UNDER HEAD DRIVE.

INJURED WAS LIFTING CM CABLE TO TIE IT WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LEFT GROIN AREA.

UHAULING ORE TO STOCKPILE IN 120TN UNIT RIP TRUCK RAMP HAD BEEN CUT INTO PLACE TO CLOSE OFF RAMP TRUCK BEING BACKED UP SPLIT THE BERM CAUSING THE LOADED TRUCK TO TIP OVER ON ITS RT SIDE CAUSIN G STRAINS& SPRAINS OF NECK & MID BACK TO DRIVER SEAT GBELT WAS BEING WORN

BOLTING TOP USING STEEL BARREL CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN JOINTS OF BARREL WHEN HE PUSHED IT TO TOP OF HOLE

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS KICKING A WRENCH WITH HIS FOOT WHEN THE BOLT CAME LOOSE HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS STOMACH & LATER NOTICED A BUMP A MEDICAL DOC CONFIRMED A HERNIA WHICH DOE S NOT NEED IMMEDIATE ATTENTION EMPLOYEE WAS ABLETO RETURN TO HIS REGULAR JOB BUT MAY NEED SURGERY AT A LATER DATE

HANGING CABLES FELL OFF OIL CAN LANDED ON HAND

FELL ON SURFACE AT MINE OFFICE

TRUCK DOOR ON HAUL UNIT CLOSED ON HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A CRIB BLOCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING ELECTRIC GINDER GRINDING DOWN SOME ROUGH SPOTS ON A PIECE OF METAL GRINDER SLIPPED OFF HITTING EMPLOYEES RIGHT LEG & CUT IT. DAMAGE TO LEG REQUIRED STITCHES & BANDAGE. THIS TIPPLE IS NOT IN OPERATION IT IS BEING PREPARED FOR COAL RUNNING.

HE GOT STRUCK ON RIGHT EYE WHILE ADJUSTING SCREW.

REPARING AUTOMATIC OILER ON DRILL.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO FLAG A CRANE OPERATOR WHO WAS HANDLING A LENGTH OF PIPE WITH THE CRANE. THE WORK WAS BEING DOEN IN A CONGESTED AREA. THE PIPE BECAME LODGED AGAINST A SECTION OF HAND RAIL. THE HAND RAIL BROKE. EMPLOYEE MOVED QUICKLY TO GET OUT OF THE WAY, HE FELL AGAINST THE PIPE AND WAS KNOCKED DOWN ONTO HIS RIGHT SIDE.

INJURED CLIMBED ON TOP OF A BELT SPPED REDUCER TO CHECK A BELT MAGNET AND FELL OFF THE SPEED REDUCER. *NOTE* INJURED RECEIVED SIX (6) SUTURES TO INJURED LEFT KNEE.

WE WERE PULLING BELT WITH A H OIST & IT CAME LOOSE & THE CLAMPS STRUCK THE INJURED EMPLOYEE IN THE CHEST & LEFT SIDE OF HIS HEAD

WAS WALKING DOWN CATWALK WHEN FLOOR WELD CAME LOOSE AND PLATE DROPPED PINNING HIS FOOT. WHEN THIS WAS HAPPENING HE STRUCK THE GUARDRAIL AND FRACTURED 4 RIBS.

EMPL MORTARING BLOCKS FOR MINE SEALS,CEMENT INFECTED RIGHT HAND AND ARM IRRITATING THEM WITH SORE PLACES.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET OUT OF SCOOP CAB, AND AS HE TURNED TO OPEN THE DOOR, HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT SIDE OF HIS CHEST.

HE WAS MOVING A SLAB OF STONE ON A TABLE & HE CAUGHT HIS FINGERS BETWEEN STONE & TABLE.

POSITIONING ROCK TO BE CRUSHED BY JAW,STRAINED LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLT & FLYING OBJECT HIT HIM IN EYE.

HE WAS LOCKING GATE TO GO HOME, TRASH BLEW INTO HIS EYE.

EMPL MOVING PALLET FROM END OF FULL PALLET ROLLERS TO FILLING STATION.EMPL PUSHING PALLET UP ROLLERS WHEN FELT STRAIN IN BACK.

EMPL TIGHTENING ELEVATOR FEED LINE DRAG FROM CLINKER SILO TO #2 FINISH MILL USING COME-ALONG TO PULL ENDS TOGETHER TO CONNECT.EMPL PULLING ON HANDLE WHEN HANDLE BROKE.

EMPL STATED WHILE HELPING MOVE MINER CABLE HE TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.

USING COME ALONG, RING BROKE ALLOWING CHAIN TO COME BACK HIT EMP

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING WIPER BLADE ON BELT LINE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN WRIST.

UNCOUPLING RAILCAR MASHING THUMB.

EMPL TRYING TO MOVE A ROCK SHE WAS USING AS A BLOCK FOR FUEL TRUCK.

CABLE ROLLED UP INSIDE CUTTER REED AND HUNG UP. HE PULLED ON CABLE TRYING TO BREAK IT LOOSE FELL PAIN IN BACK.

EMPL ALLEGES TO HURT KNEE WHEN HE SLIPPED ON FRAME WORK OF CONVEYOR.

PARTS TO A COAL DRYER WERE STACKED WHILE DRYER WAS UNDER REPAIR. EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING BY THE STACK WHEN THE TOP PIECE FELL FROMS TACK EMPLOYEE WAS LOOKING TO SEE IF CLEANING NEEDED TO BE DONE IN THE AREA.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS LIFTING A GUARD INTO PLACE AND SUSTAINED AN UPPER BACK STRAIN.

CARRYING PLANK FELT PAIN IN CENTER OF BACK AND NECK MUSCLE SPASM - BACK.

WALKING IN PIT ON LOOSE COAL-TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.

HE LOST CONTROL WHEN PICKING UP A STEEL PLATE.

SAID "WAS LIFTING COVER ON CAR FELT PAIN IN BACK".

CLEANING UP COAL SPILL WITH SHOVEL

REPLACING BOLT IN BATH CONV CHAIN FLIGHT IN ORDER TO DO THIS HE HAD A SLATE BAR PRYING UP ALIGNMENT FELT SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

INJ WAS FILLING DRYED COAL INTO TRAILERS FROM TOP OF STACKER CONVEYOR PLATFORM. WIND BLEW COAL DUST INTO FACE. INJ WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES RESPIRATOR & HARD HAT.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING LEACH LINES. AS THE SPRINKLERS WERE RUNNING, GUSTING WIND WOULD BLOW FINE MIST AROUND THE PAD. SOME OF THIS ACID SPRAY GOT INTO HIS LEFT EYE. (HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLA SSES; HE HAS BEEN ISSUED GOGGLES).

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING RIBS AT THE FACE OF L1 ENTRY IN THE A15 (002) SECTION WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS NECK

STEPPED OTU OF SCOOP ONTO LOSOE GOB, SWUNG OUT AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

PUTTING BREAKER IN ON SCOOP WHICH ENERGIZED THE SCOOP THE SCOOP MOVED KNOCKING I NAME TO GROUND INJURING SHOULDER

MAN WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN THE VISE BY STRIKING THE HANDLE WITH HIS HAND.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS ROOF BOLTING, THE ROOF STARTED TO WORK. AS EMPLOYEE STARTED TO EXIT FROM THE WORK PLACE A SUPERBOLT BROKE ADN CAME OUT OF THE ROOF STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON THE LOWER LEFT BACK.

EE WAS CHANGING THE OIL ON HIS CAT 988B LOADER, AND OF THE DRAIN OIL RAN INTO HIS EAR, AS HE TURNED HIS HEAD TO GET AWAY HE SPRAINED HIS UPPER NECK.

STRUCK ELBOW IN PROP ALONG BELT LINE HE WAS CLEANING CAUSED BRUISE (LEFT).

EMPLOYEEW AS ABOUT TO CLIMB INTO LOADER, LEFT FOOT SLIPPED ON LOOSE PELLETS. EH FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE SAW A DOCOTR ON 11-8-90 AND WAS LATER DIAG. RUPTURED DISC. HE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME F ROM WORK AFTER SEEING A DOCTOR ON 3-7-91.

INJURED WAS INSTALLING TIN COVER OVER A SURFACE BELT LINE. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ANOTHER, OVERHEAD, BELT LIEN STRIKING INJURED ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND NECK. *NOTE* INJURED DID NOT VISI T A DOCTOR WITH THIS INJURY UNTIL 8-11-90. DUE TO THE UNGERING INJURY, INJURED FIRST STARTED TO MISS WORK ON 8-12-90.

EMPL WHILE HELPING MINER OPERATOR STEPPED ON 4/0 CABLE & TWISTED RIGHT KNEE. CABLE WAS LYING ON 3-4" OF WATER. EMPL HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH LIGAMET DAMANGE IN KNEE.

EMPL ALLEGES THAT WHILE WORKING ON CONVEYOR BELT LAY UP HE WENT TO STEP DOWN OFF BELT & FELL TO MINE FOOR BRUISING TRAILBONE. FINISHED SHIFT & WENT TO DOCTOR AFTER WORK. OCCURRED IN UNIT 2 IN BELT ENTRY.

LIFTING BOX OF RESIN TWISTED BACK

THIS EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED WHILE REMOVING OBSTACLES OUT OF THE WALKWAY. AS THE EMPLOYEE WALKED BACK INTO THE CROSSCUT HE STEPPED INTO A RUT IN THE MINE FLOOR CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT ANKL E.

VICTIM WAS MAKING REPAIRS TO AUGER ON 800 MACK ANFO TRUCK HE WAS ATTACHING A DRIVE COUPLING BETWEEN HYDRAULIC MOTOR & HORIZONTAL AUGER BY USING A HAMMER & CHISEL IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROPERLY POSI TION COUPLINGT I NAME PLACED CHISEL ON COUPLING BEGAN TAPPING ON THE CHISEL WITH THE HAMMER SUDDENLY A PIECE OF STEEL SEPARATED FROM CHISEL STRIKING VICTIM IN LEFT EYE

EMPLOYEE CLIMBED ONTO THE ENGINE HOOD OF A CAT 988B LOADER TO REACH A GREASE FITTING ON ANOTHER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. HE PULLED HIMSELF UP USING HIS LEFT ARM ONLY. IN DOING SO, HE SPRAINED A SHO ULDER MUSCLE. EMPLOYEE WEIGHS ABOUT 400 POUNDS.

TOOTH WAS WEDGED ON HYDRASPLIT MACHINE HAMMER WAS USED TO TAP TOOTH BECASUE HE COULDN'T MOVE IT WITH HANDS. PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF & LODGED IN NECK.

UNLOADING HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE FROM SUPPLY CAR. HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

WINDS CAUSED DIRT TO BE BLOWN IN RIGTH EYE.

MAN WAS LIFTING PIN FOR EXT ENSION ON H OIST CHAIN FOR 7800 BUCKET

CROSSING RR TRACK AND SLIPPED & FELL ON RIGHT KNEE.

EE STATED HE WAS WALKING ALONG THE PANLINE WHEN HE STEPPED ON A RELAY BAR CAUSING HIM TO SLIP THIS RESULTED IN A STRAIN TO HIS BACK FROM THE SUDDEN AWKWARD POSITION OF HIS BODY.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A MOTOR GRADER TIRE WITH A CHAIN THE CHAIN SLIPPED & THE TIRE FELL STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ANKLE.

DRAINING OIL FELT BACK SPASMS

EE WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN A SLUG OF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK.

PULLING BRAKE OF LOADED R R CAR FELT PAIN IN L LOWER BACK AREA

AFTER WORKING ON PUMP SYSTEM AND MOVING PUMPS AND CABLE, HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT. HE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 6-4-90 BECAUSE HE HAS HAD SEVERAL PREVIOUS ON THE JOB AND OFF THE JOB B ACK INJURIES. ON THE JOB BACK INJURY WAS 6-10-87. HE FELT LIKE PAIN WOULD GO AWAY.

EMPL AT BACK END OF GETMAN SCALER RIG HOOKING UP AIR DRILL.OPER BEGAN LOWERING STABILIZER PADS WHICH CONTACTED EMPL FOOT.

MN WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A DRILL STEEL FROM A BOLT HOLE WHEN THE DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF THE HOLE STRIKING HIM ON THE RT RING FINGER

TRACTOR WENT INTO HIGH TRAM, HIT RIB AND JERKED NECK CAUSING NECK STRAIN. (BOTTOM AREA)

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING PANEL COVER BACK ON CONTINUOUS MNER AND HAD BACK PAIN. HE DID NOT REPORT THIS TO FOREMAN AND DID NOT GO TO THE DOCTOR UNTIL 6-4-90. THE DOCTOR TOLD HIM TO TAKE SOME TIME OFF.

EE WAS LOADING WATER LINE IN THE 488 SCOOP WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF IN THE 4 HEADING IN THE INTERSECTION. HITTING HIM ON THE RIGHT KNEE.

A RIB SLOGHED STRICKING THE EMPLOYEE BEHIND HIS LEGS KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND.

THIS EMPLOYEE REPORTED FEELING PAIN IN HIS MIDDLE BACK AFTER ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A BAG OF SAND TO FILL THE SNADERS ON THE TRACK LOCOMOTIVE.

PLANT TRUCK AND 998 B LOADER.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING DRILL STEELS FROM DAVY DRILL. WHILE PULLING DRILL STEELS, BILLY BUCK SLIPPED AND FELL ON EMPLOYEES RIGHT HAND.

WHILE HE WAS LOOSING A CONVEYOR DOWN TO REPLACE A BEARING HE XXPREVENT BY SECURE THE DRAIN WITH A RATCHET PULLER WHEN HE PULL OUT THE LAST BOLT THE DRAIN CAME LOOSE & MADE A BIG PRESION ON HI S RT FOOT CAUSING A TRAUMA & A FX

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE STUCK CONNECTING PIN VICTIMS FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN SAID PIN & CONNECTING LINK JOINING SCOOP & MANTRIP VEHICLE.

UNLOADING MATERIAL PULLED FORM RAIL CAR TURNED STEERING WHEEL TOO MUCH HIT CURB WHEEL CAUGHT HAND

CREW WAS FINISHING A DONUT CRIB WORKER (INJURED)TURNED TO GET A CAP PIECE AS HE DID THE LOW SIDE OF THE BOTTOM OF THE CRIB GAVE AWAY THE CRIB FELL ON WORKER COVERING LEGS & INJURING RIGHT LEG CHEST & LEFT ARM

CROSSBARS HAD BEEN PULLED FROM THE LOWBOY ON FLOOR IN PROCESS OF REMOVING ROPE FROM BARS ROLLED ON R FT

WALKING DOWN #4 HEADING BENT OVER PIECE OF DRAW SLATE FELL HITTING HIM IN BACK. MINING HEIGHT IS AROUND 54 TO 58".

EMPL WAS CUTTING TROUGH THAT WAS APPROX 10' IN AIR AFTER CUTTING TROUGH HE BEGAN KICKING ON IT TO KNOCK IT LOOSE WHEN IT BROKE LOOSE HE FELL WITH IT LANDING ON BAR THAT WENT ACROSS TROUGH.

INSTALLING SHAFT ON CRUSHER WITH OTHER EMP FELT PAIN IN ABDOMEN AREA AFTER LIFTING

INJURED PERSON WAS LIFTING BOLTS & PLATES WHEN HE FELT A PAION IN HIS BACK

HE WAS LIFTING A HOSE FILLED WITH WATER TO SLIDE A WATER PUMP UNDER. IT WAS A 6" HOSE.

WHILE BOLTING TOP, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND HIT ELMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT LEG.

HE WAS INSTALLING 1ST ROW OF BOLTS WHEN A ROCK FROM THE OUTBY SUPPORT FELL FROM ROOF AND HIT HIM.

HE WAS HELPING REPAIR A CHAIN LINE WHEN HE STARTED THE CHAIN LINE A BELT BROKE AND THE END HIT HIM IN THE LEFT EYE.

HE WAS SAWING A TIMBER, AND THE SAW CAME OUT OF THE TIMBER SAW REAF, CUTTING HIS RIGHT FOREFINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING TIE ROD ON FRONT AXLE WHEN HE SLID HIS HAND DOWN TIE ROD, THE TIE ROD WAS HOIT.

WHILE DOZER OPERATOR WAS RETURNING TO THE CAB AFTER CLEANING THE REAR WINDOW, HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND FACTURING HIS RIGHT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN THE WINDSHIELD ON TRUCK FIG LEANING OUT OF OPEN DOOR AND HOLDING ON TO DOOR JAMS. THE WIND BLEW THE DOOR CLOSED ON HIS HAND.

RASH LEFT HAND AGGARNATED BY CONTACT WITH DIRT, SOLVENTS, OILS, GREASE ETC.

HH WAS PICKING UP BELT ROLLER, IT GOT TWISTED SO HE JERKED IT AS HE STRAIGHTENED UP CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING DOWN A RAMP FROM A BENCH, THE ENGINGE QUIT RESULTING NO STEERING, EMPLOYEE JUMPED OUT WHILE TRUCK WENT THROUGH BERM AND TURNED OVER ON ITS SIDE OFF A 20 FT EMBANKMENT. EM PLOYEE SUFFERED CUTS AND BRUISES FROM CONTACT WITH GROUND AFTER JUMPING FROM TRUCK.

CLAIMANT WAS CARRYING A TIMBER ALONG THE BELTLINE AND STEPPED ON UNEVEN GROUND TWISTING HIS BACK.

ANOTHER EMPLOYEE RELEASED PUSH ON SOME SHIELDS UNAWARE THAT PAN ON THESE HAD BEEN LEFT ON PUSH. THIS PULLED BACK ON THE PAN AND CAUGHT HIS FOOT BETWEEN THE DRAW BAR AND STOPS ON THE TOE OF STE EL BOOT INTO TOES OF SHIELD.

HE WAS CLINGING UP HIS RAISE TO START CLEANING DWN AFTER A BLAST WHEN A ROCK DISLODGED, FELL DOWN THE MANWAY AND HIT HIM ON THE SHOULDER AND HAND.

SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE WHILE DIGGING WITH SHOVEL

CANOPY ON SHUTTLE CAR CAUGHT A ROOF BOLT SPRINGING CANOPY FORWARD CATCHING RIGHT INDEX FINGER AND CUTTING TIP OF FINGER OFF.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING MAGNETIC PICK UP OUT OF THE ASPHALT METERING SYSTEM. HOT ASPHALT BURNED HIS RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING 1-1/4 CABLE THROUGH SHEAVE AND CUT THUMB ON LEFT HAND ON SHARP EDGE OF CABLE DRUM. REQUIRED 3 STITCHES, LOST TIME BEGAN 6/4/90.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON A PINNER CABLE FROM THE BOLTER REEL & STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK

EMPL WAS CHANGING CLOTHES IN E SHAFT WASH HOUSE WHEN HE WAS BIT ON TOE BY INSECT.

WAS GETTING DOWN OFF TRUCK AT END OF SHIFT WHEN FELT MUSCLE PULL.

HH WAS FIREBOSSING THE 1ST S.E. SEALS WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL TWISTING HIS RIGHT KNEE.

PICKING UP OXYGEN BOTTLE, CAP SLIPPED OFF AND CUAGHT THE BOTTLE BEFORE IT DROPPED. STRAINING LOWER BACK.

WHILE OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR THIS EMPLOYEE REPORTED EXPERNCING PAIN IN HIS BACK AFTER TRAMMING THROUGH A ROUGH AREA IN THE HAULAGE ROAD.

EMPLOYEE STEPED BACKWARD FROM THE THIRD STEP OF A STAIRWAY-FRACTURED HIS HEEL BONE.

INJURED WAS UNLOADING TIMBERS, CONDITIONS WERE MUDDY HE SLIPPED IN THE MUD WHILE CARRYING TIMBER INJURED BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 6-7-90.

THE MAN WAS ROLLING A ROCK OFF OF HIS SHUTTLE CAR ROADWAY WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK

INJURED WAS TRYING TO LIFT LARGE ROCK OUT OF PANY LINE WAS ADVISED BY FOREMAN & COWORKERS NOT TO LIFT ROCK IT WAS TOO BIG.

EMPL WAS STACKING BELT HARDWARE INTO CAR. BELT STAND FLIPPED UP & STRUCK HIM ON ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS LOOSENING A RAILROAD CAR HAND BRAKE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

I NAME WAS LIGTING A FIRE IN A 55 GALLON BARRELL CONTAINED IN THE BARREL WAS A CAN OF ETHER THE FIRE IGNITED THE ETHER WHICH BURNED I NAME FACE

BETWEEN SHIELDS STRIKING EMPL ON LEFT FOOT FRACTURING 5TH TOE ON LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A TRANSMISSION & FELT TWINTGE IN BACK NEXT MORNING EMPLOYEE WAS UNABLE TO MOVE AROUND BECAUSE OF STIFFNESS & SORENESS IN BACK

AS HE WAS WALKING TOWARDS THE FACE BESIDE THE LOW LOW BELT CONVEYOR,INJURED STATES THAT HE TRUNED AROUND IN ORDER TO WALK IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.AT THAT TIME HE SAYS HE FELL ON THE BELT CON VEYOR WHICH WAS MOVING.THIS SPRAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING LIFT THE BELT WHEN HE INADVERTLY INJURIED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPL SPLICING BELT WHEN RAZOR KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT LEFT THUMB REQUIRING 12 STITCHES.

EE WAS SITTING ON RIB WAITING FOR MINER TO CLEAN ROADWAY TO SET TIMBERS. A LARGE HORSEBACK FELL STRIKING EE.

A HAULAGE TRUCK WAS IN THE PROCESS OF STOCK PILING CRUSHED ROCK AND I DROVE UP BEHIND THE TRUCK,WE WERE BOTH GOING UP AN INCLINE AND THE TRUCK WAS GOING SLOW,I WAS ATTEMPTING TO PROCEED TO PAS S THE TRUCK STARTED WAS EVEN WITH THE REAR WHEELS OR A LITTLE PAST THEM WHEN THE TRUCK STARTED TO COME OVER INTO MY PATH TO MAKE A RIGHT TURN AND FORCED ME INTO A DITCH.

EE WAS CLEANING UP 3 HEAD WHEN HE RAN OVER A ROCK LAYING IN THE ROADWAY CAUSING THE BUCKET OF THE SCOOP TO STIKE THE ROOF OF THE MINE TEARING LOOSE SOME SLATE ROCK THAT FLEW OUT STRIKING THE O PER WHEN HE WENT UNDER THE SPOT WHERE THE BUCKET OF THE SCOOP STRUCK THE ROOF.

WHEN HH WAS PUTTING THE SCOOP BATTERIES ON CHARGE A SMALL ROCK FELL OUT OF TOP STRIKING HIM ON THE LOWER BACK.

EMPL WAS TAKING MAGNECTIC PICKUP OUT OF ASPHALT METERING SYSTEM. HOT ASPHALT BURNED RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING CUTTER BITS ON CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN HE STRUCK HIMSELF WITH A HAMMER.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING MOTOR. MOTOR FELL (400 LBS) PINNED LEG TO 4X4 BEAM. WAS FIRST AID EMPLOYEE DID NOT LEAVE WORK. EMPLOYEE SUFFERED PULMONARY THROMBOSIS ON 11-14-90. WAS NOT REALTED TO INI TIAL ACCIDENT AT TIME. WAS REPORTED AS INDUSTRIAL INJURY BY EMPLOYEE ON 11-26-90.

STANDING ON 4" PIPE FLANGE BEING COUPLED.INJ PLACED HANDS & HEAD ON BEAM OVERHEAD TO APPLY MORE PRESSURE RESULTING IN CERVICAL SPRAIN.

EMPLOYEE TWISTED LOWER BACK WHILE LOADING RESIN ON BOLT MACHINE.

WHILE BENDING ROOF BOLT I NAME FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE ROOF BOLT CAUSING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

AS HE WAS LOADING ROOF BOLT RESIN ONTO HIS BOLT MACHINE,INJURED STATES THAT HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS NECK AND SHOULDER.

EMPL WAS OPERATING PRIMARY CRUSHER WHEN ROCK BRIDGE OCCURRED. EMPL MOVED TO GRIZZLY AREA TO ATTAH LIFTING CHAIN WHILE ATTACHING CHAIN BRIDGE MOVED. ROCK APPROX 200 LBS HIT LEFT LEG. IMPACT CAU SED BY ROCK LEFT EMPL WITH ABRASION & BRUISE ONOUTSIDE OF LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING FLUID LEVEL IN SPEED REDUCERS AND SAT ON MID RAIL TO REMOVE PLUG.THE MIDRAIL PULLED OUT OF SOCKET CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL 8-10 FEET.

AFTER HH ARRIVED AT OUR ST. MARIE PLANT, HE PARKED ON THE SCALE, HE CLIMBED UP HIS FRONT LADDER OF HIS SEMI-TRAILER, OPENED TWO HATCHES, CLIMBED DOWN THE BACK LADDER AND PROCEEDED TO HIS TRACT OR. HE STEPPED IN A HOLE APPROX. 12" DEEP AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE. HH DOES NOT WORK AT THE MINE BUT DOES HAUL SAND FROM THE MINE.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF A SCOOP AND SLIPPED TWISTING HIS LEFT LEG AND KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF STACKING CEMENT BLOCKS AGAINST THE CAOL RIB WHEN HIS HAND WAS STUCK BY A BLOCK THAT WAS TOSSED BY A CO-WORKER. THE INJURED SUSTANED A LACERATION REQUIRING 6 STIT CHES AND A FRACTURE TO THE DISTAL OF THE LEFT RING FINGER.

HELPING CHANGE BATTERIES ON MINER AND MASHED LEFT THUMB.

INJURED WAS HELPING TO MAKE A BELT SPLICE ON THE #1 BELT, AFTER COMPLETEING THE SPLICE, INJURED STARTING LETTING THE SLACK OFF THE RED DEVIL THAT THE BELT WAS TIED OFF WITH. WHILE DOING SO TH E HANDLE THAT WENT TO RED DEVIL SLIPPED OUT STRIKING INJURED ON UPPER PORTION OF LEFT ARM & RIBS, CAUSING BRUISE TO ARM & RIBS.

MISSING WORK FROM PREV INJ NEW INJ ON 5-29-90

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE REMOVING METAL GUARD FROM BETWEEN BELT STRUCTURE AND WIRE, GUARD BECAME CUAGHT ON HIS WRIST.

EMPL GETTING OUT OF LOADER,FOOT SLIPPED ON TOP OF LADDER CAUGHT WHOLE WEIGHT WITH RIGHT ARM.RET TO WK 5-30,WENT TO DR 6-4 RET WK 6-5 WAS OFF 6-6,RET WK 6-7.

GETTING OUT OF MANTRIP TWISTED BACK

EMPL TURNED ON FEEDER.WALKING AWAY TRIPPED OVER PILE OF COAL ,STEPPED IN HOLE AND JARRED LOWER BACK AREA.EMPL RECD STRAIN TO LUMBAR SPINE AREA OR LOWER BACK.

STANDING UP AND OPRATING CONTINUOUS MINER BY REMOTE CONTROL. REACHED DOWN TO MOVE CABLE; SLIPPED AND LOST FOOTING.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE SHOVELED TAILPEICE WHEN WENT TO TURN WATER ON MINER UP ON BACK SIDE OF BELT WHILE RETURNING TO TAILPEICE. HIS BACK STARTED HURTING.

HE AND TWO OTHERS WERE LIFTING ONE END OF TRACK RAIL FOR RECOVERY. HE SAYS WHEN THEY PICKED IT UP HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. IT HAPPENED ON 3 DEV. OFF 5 SOUTH AT THE END OF TRACK S.S. #2270

EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING TO EXIT MINE FOR THE DAY WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF, BOUNCED OFF THE RIB AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE RIGHT EYE.

EMPL DRILLING HOLE TO INSTALL ROOF BOLT.PIECE OF ROCK 2"X 6" THREADED DOWN AUGER CAUSING HIM TO PULL HAND BACK AND AUGER STRUCK HIS ARM.

LIFTING PIPE & HURT LOWER BACK.

THE DRIVER LIGHT A BUTANE LIGHTER TO CHECK FUEL IN TRUCK AND THE VAPORS IGNITED.

TWISTED ARM WHILE CARRYING MOTOR THROUGH PLANT TO SHOP.STRAINED CONNECTING TISSUES IN RIGHT WRIST.

LIFTED CONVEY WITH FORKLIFT CHAINS ON FORK BROKE DROPPED ON L HAND. FRACT POSS, AND CUT

CLEANING UP ELEV OVERREACHED LIMIT PAIN IN REAR LOWER R QUADRANT

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING THE SCREENS AT WASH PLANT. EMPLOYEE PULLED SCREEN TO HOLD IT IN PLACE AND INJURED HIS BACK IN THE PROCESS.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING SULFAMIC 30 GALLON BARREL CLOSER TO THE WALL; WHEN HE DID HE PULLED IN A TWISTING MANNER FEELING A PULL IN HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE DESCENDING THE STAIRS CAUSING A BACK STRAIN.

EMPL WORKING ON WIRE SAW-LEANING AGAINST ANGLE IRON AND PULLED ON WIRE.PULLED TOO HARD AND BRUISED RIBS.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON LOOSE MATERIAL WHILE SPRAYING WEEDS.

THE EMBANKMENT BROKE AWAY CAUSING DOZER TO FACE. THE OPERATOR PROBABLY SUSTAINED INJURY WHEN DOZER CAME TO A STOP AND OPERATOR WAS THROWN FROM IT.

I.NAME RETORQUEING OUTSIDE TIRE ON WATER TRUCK.AS HE PUSHED DOWN ON HANDLE OF WRENCH,IT BROKE LOOSE FROM LUG.I.NAME WEIGHT CAME DOWN ON RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE GOT HIS RIGHT FOOT TNAGLED UP IN A RROPE THAT IS ATTACHED TO AN AIR BAG CAUSING HIM TOTWIST HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A 1 1/2" FIRE HOSE WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

CLEANING UP CONVEY IN PAN STANDING IN FRONT OF CONV DRIPPING AWAY MATERIAL WITH SHOVEL BECAME EWEDGED BETWEEN MATERAIL AND BELT CAUSING SHOVEL WHILE STILL IN HAND TO RIDE UP BETWEEN BELT AND AN IDLER CAUGHT L HAND INJ TO L THUMB

SLIPPED ON LOADER WHILE CLEANING WINDOW, STRUCK PELVIS

FELL OF LOADER.

WHILE WORKING ON CRUSHER OBJECT FLEW UP & LODGED IN EMPLS EYE.

EMPLOYEE DRIVE AND OPERATES THE LOADER IN THE YARD. HE CLAIMS THAT THE BOUNCING AROUND FROM THE LOADER HAD INJURED HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE TRYING TO LOCK RAILCAR DOOR (APPROX. 300 LBS.) PULLED BACK ON BAR (25 LBS) GAVE AN EXTRA TUG DUE TO SOME SAND ON OTHER SIDE AND STRAINED BACK MUSCLES.

WELDING IN MILL PUSHING ON MOTOR

WHILE WORKING ON TRANSFER CASE FOR 773 CAT TRUCK WAS TIGHTEN BOLTS IN EASE WITH 3/4 DRIVE RATCHET THEN FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

DISMOUNTING TRUCK, AS FOOT TOUNCED GROUND, TWISTED KNEE.

EE SAID HE GOT OUT OF TRUCK AND WAS WALKING ACROSS DUMP TO FLAG DOZER OPERATOR. HIS FOOT SLIPPED IN THE MUD CAUSING HIM TO FALL FORWARD.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON LADDER CLIMBING UP TRUCK AND PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT SHOULDER.

INJURED WAS SWEEPING AROUND AND UNDER THE MATS IN THE WOMEN S BATHHOUSE WITH A BROOM. WHEN INJURED PUSHED THE BROOM HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

SAID EMPLOYEE WAS PILING A FRONT END LOADER.HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL ON THE EQUIPMENT STRKING HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING PIN ON A BUSHING WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE STRUCK PIN WITH SLEDGE HAMMER. SLEDGE MISSED PIN STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON BACK OF HAND.

VICTIM AND CO WORKERS WERE HANDLING THE TRAILING CABLE TO THE BUCYRUS ERIE 295B SHOVEL THAT WAS BEING RELOCATED. A ROAD GRADER WAS BEING UTILIZED TO PULL THE TRAILING CABLE WHILE ATTEMPTING TO SECURE THE CABLE BY ROPE TO THE GRADER EE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN THE LOWER REGION OF THE BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS STANDING IN MUD AND PULLED 50 LB BAG OF ANFO OFF TRUCK CAUSING HIS LEFT WRIST TO BECOME SPRAINED.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET CRANE CABLE BACK ON REEL. WHEN HE MOVED THE CABLE THE SLACK CAME OUT & THE CABLE STRUCK HIM ON THE FINGER.

THE EE STATED A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS WERE HE WAS TRADING TOWARD THE SECTION THE ROCK WAS SUPPOSE TO HIT HIM OIL LEFT SIDE OF HIS RIBBS.

EMPLOYEE HAD LEG OUTSIDE OF MOTOR, PINCHED LEG BETWEEN MOTOR AND CAR.

WHILE GETTING OUT OF SHUTTLE CAR EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON OILY SUBSTANCE HITTING BACK ON SEAT.

EE WAS JACKING A CARRIER BACK ON TRACK. THE CARRIER STARTED TO SHIFT BACK ON TO TRACK, WHEN HANDLE SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND AND STRUCK INJURED ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING MINER FROM CROSS CUT 4 TO 5 CROSS CUT 2 TO 3 WITH REMOTE. WHILE WALKING WITH THE REMOT ETHE EMPLOYEE TWISTED HIS KNEE. STARTED MISSING WORK ON 6-7-90.

EMPL FELL & HIT KNEE CAP ON BOTTOM.

EMPLOYEE BUMPED LEFT KNEE ON TAILPIECE WHILE UNDERGROUND.

THE INJURED STRUCK HIS LEFT WRIST ON THE MINER CABLE STAND OFF ARM WHILE REMOVING CABLE FROM THE BACK OF THE MINER.

I.NAME, A MECHANIC, WAS USING A GRINDING STONE ON METAL WHEN THE STONE BLEW APART CUTTING HIS LEG.

TRYING TO INSTALL TIE DOWN STAND. BRACED STAND ON BASKET WHILE ATTEMPTING TO POUND IN 18" BOLT WHEN LEG SLIPPED & FELL ON FOOT.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE BOLTING TOP, (LEFT SIDE OF BOLTER) WAS STRUCK BY 5' X 7' X 4" PIECE OF ROCK, ROCK HAD FALLEN FROM IN FRONT OF T-BAR ON END AND BACK ON THE OPERATOR.

THE EE STATED THAT HE WAS PULLING ON CONVEYOR BELT AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

HH WAS USING A SLATE BAR TO MOVE TRACK OVER AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

NECK AND SHOULDER STRAINED WHEN WRENCH SLIPPED.

THE EMPLOYEE AND ANOTHER WERE ATTEMPTING TO USE THE BOOM OF THE ROOF BOLTER TO BREAK LONG BOARD IN HALF. WITH THE BOARD SUPPORTED ON EACH END WITH HEADER BOARDS AND THE CENTER PUSHED DOWN WIT H THE BOLTER BOOM, THIS EMPLOYEE LIFTED UP ON ON END OF THE BOARD WHEN IT SNAPPED. THE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED CUTS AND A SMALL PUNTURE WOUND TO HIS LOWER LIP.

EE WAS OPERATING A MOBIL BRIDGE UNIT FROM OUTSIDE THE DECK PAN HE TRAMMED IT TO THE SIDE WHEN HE DID IT PUSHED HIM IHNTO THE RIB CAUSING THE INJURY.

EE WAS LEVELING OFF MUCKPILE IN A RAISE PREP IN PREPARATION FOR INSTALLING TIMBER. HE FAILED TO BAR DOWN ADEQUATELY. A SLAB OF ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK RESULTING IN BRUISES AND SMA LL CUTS.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY INJURED HIS RIGHT ARM WHILE PULLING A BATTERY PLUG OUT OF THE SCOOP TRACTOR. HE SAID IT WAS TIGHT AND GAVE THE PLUG A HARD-JERK-PULL AND INJURED HIS ARM. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WI TH A TORN LIGAMENT.

HE WAS BACKING A DOZER UP ON A ROUGH ROAD. HE WAS SITTING IN AN AWKWARD POSTION. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS SHOULDERS AND A NUMBNESS IN HIS FINGERS.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHILE CROSSING OVER A WOODEN BELT CROSS-OVER AT 60 XC RIVER MAINS, THE CROSS-OVER BROKE CAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

WRENCHED HIS BACK WORKING AS DIAMOND DRILL HELPER.INJURY TO RIGHT FOOT ON 5-23 CAUSED HIM TO FABOR FOOT AND RESULTED IN UNEVEN WEIGHT DISTR.IN ROUTINE OF LIFTING AND MOVING DIAMOND DRILL RODS AS PART OF NORMAL WORK ROUTINE.BACK DIFFICULTY DEVELOPED SLOWLY.

LOOSE ROCK FELL AS HE WAS PUSHING UP A BOLT WITH THE BOLTER BOOM.CAUSED LACERATION TO LEFT INDEX FINGER 20 STITCHES.#3 UNIT.

EMPL GETTING INTO NO.1 PORTAL BUS WHEN NO.7 PORTAL BUS RAN OR BUMPED INTO NO.1 PORTAL BUS CAUSING HIM TO HIT RIGHT RIB CAGE AGAINST FRAME OF NO.1 BUS.

HH SAID HE WAS TIGHTENING A TAIL PULLEY BEARING BOLT AND THE CRESENT WRENCH SLIPPED AND HIS LITTLE FINGER HIT THE GUARD. HE BROKE THE TIP OF HIS FINGER AND REQUIRED STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING MECHANICS ON DRILL REPAIR. PRY BAR FELL FROM MAST OF DRILL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT LEG JUST ABOVE THE KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A ROCK WITH HIS HANDS. WHILE MOVING ROCK, ANOTHER SHIFTED AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT LEG.

JACKED ROOF BOLTER UP TO WORK ON REAL. JACK FELL OUT CATCHING ARM AND CUT TWO SMALL PLACES ON RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD.

EMPL LOWERING CANOPY AFTER INSTALLING ROOF BOLT.CANOPY CAUGHT A PIN BOARD WHEN CANOPY BROKE FREE,IF FELL SUDDENLY STRIKING HEAD ,EXPERIENCED NECK PAIN.

EE WAS CHECKING VOLTAGE ON A BREAKER IN THE 150 POWER BOX WHEN IT BLEW UP.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING WORK ON THE POWER BOX AT E BOTTOM HE WAS STANDING ON A CONCRETE BLOCK THE BLOCK ROLLED OVER & HE FELL ON HIS RT KNEE & THIGH

DA RAM BROKE AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON LEFT HIP.

A ROLL OF SOME STEEL ROPE ROLLED OFF OF SOME BELT STRUCTURE THAT WAS IN THE SCOOP BUCKET, FELL OVER AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEES RIGHT HAND.

FEET SANK IN MUD, EMPLOYEE LOST BALANCE CAUSING KNEE TO TWIST AND CARE TUBE TO DROP ON KNEE.

HE WAS WALKING NEAR TO NUMBER THREE KILN, SLIDE AND TWIST HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EMPL SAID HE TRIPPED ON TOP STEP & FELL ON CONVEYOR.

EMPL WAS ASSIGNED TO CLEAN AROUND FEED END OF RAW MILL #2. EMPL STATED HE HAD BEEN USING SHOVEL FOR APPROX 1 HOUR. AS HE WAS SHOVELING MATERIAL OFF FLOOR HE FELT POP IN BACK.

WAS TRYING TO UNSTOP A TUNNEL AND HIT THE METAL DOOR WITH LEFT THUMB ALSO PRIOR TO THIS WAS SHOVELING AND 2 KNOTS CAME UP ON RIGHT WRIST.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING A BUCKET OF BOLTS ON THE BACK OF RO STINGER AND AT THE SAME TIME THE OPERATOR WAS LETTING THE OUTRIGGER DOWN SETTING IT ON EMPLOYEE'S LEFT FOOT CAUSING A FRACTURE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A PIECE OF METAL FROM A COVER PLATE WHEN HE STRUCK THE METAL WITH A PUNCH & HAMMER SOME MATERIAL BROKE OFF STRIKING HIM IN LEG.

CLEANING BELT HIT IN KNEE WITH ROCK 5 BELTLINE

PULLING TANK CART CAUGHT R HAND BETWEEN CART AHNDLE AND WELDER ON WALL

EMPL PUSHED SHOVEL TO DEEP INTO BELT & SHOVEL WAS CAUGHT & JERKED OUT OF HANDS BRUSING SHOULDER.

WALKING AROUND BELT DRIVE BECAME TANGLE D IN 3' LONG LOOP OF ROPE, FELL TO FLOOR TWISTING KNEE

EE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE DECK OF HIS 13 TON LOCOMTIVE, STEPPED ON THE END OF A TRACK TIE AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPL DRAGGING PRESSURIZED ROCK DUST HOSE COUPLER CAME APART AND ROCK DUST FLEW INTO EMPL EYES.

BOLTING MACHINE OPERATOR MODING TOO HIS 4TH BOLT IN 2 ENTRY RIGHT CROSSCUT. ROCK FELL BETWEEN AND 1 AND 2 BOLT FALLING ON HIS LEFT LEG BREAKING IT. HELPER WAS MOVING MACHINE. ROCK WAS APPRX 6 INCH THICK AND FEATHERED OFF ON ALL SIDE S3' 10"LONG 2'10" WIDE OPERATOR WAS NOT OUBY ROOF SUPPORT.

VICTIM WAS SETTING TIMBERS WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL AND INJURING FOOT.

PIECE SCALE FELL FROM ROOF BESIDE BOLT WHILE SCOOPING IN #3 HEADING. HITTING INJURE PERSON AN LEFT SIDE OF HEAD.

PIPE FELL FROM 3RD FLOOR TO SECOND FLOOR STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON RT HIP DISLOCATION BRUISED PIPE MEASURED 2" BY 10 FT LONG.

THE EMPLOYEE BELIEVES THAT WITH THE AMOUNT OF WALKING SHE DID ON 05-27-90 OVER ROUGH TERRAIN HE INJURED HER FOOT.

CABLE BEING USED TO UNLOCK CRUSHER BROILE AND THE RECOIL STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN CHEST AND RIGHT FOREARM.

EMPL WALKING AROUND FRONT OF WATER TRUCK IN MINE SHOP.SLIPPED ON WET FLOOR,TRIED TO STOP HIS FALL BY GRABBING TIRE AND FORCED BACK LEFT WRIST CAUSING SPRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSPECTING MINER AT START OF SHIF. HE WAS BENT OVER, LOOKING AT OIL LEVEL GAUGE WHEN HE HEARD A POPPING NOISE CAUSED BY GROUND PRESSURE. IN AN ATTEMPT TO EXIT AREA, HE RAN HEAD FI RST INTO MINER, KNOCKING HIMSELF UNCONSCIOUS, AND CAUSING BUMP ON HEAD.

EMPL STATED HE CAUGHT FINGERS BETWEEN FRAME OF BATTERY TRACTOR & UPPLY CAR WHEN HE WAS DRIVING & CAR COUPLER STRUCK HAND WHEN IT ROLLED AGAINST TRACTOR.

EMPL WAS REACHING FOR TOP ROLLER IN PREPARATION TO INSTALL IT. WHILE DOING HE SLIPPED & FELL INTO BELT RAIL FRACTURING RIB ON RIGHT SIDE.

EMPL WATCHING CONT.MINER CABLE WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM MINE ROOF AND STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK.ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN RIB AND ROOF BOLT.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS DUMPING A LOAD OF MATERIAL, BOX OF 65 TON TRUCK CAME DOWN AND JARRED EMPLOYEE'S NECK.

WHILE STEAM-CLEANING CONCRETE PAVEMENT OUTSIDE THE MAINTENANCE SHOP, EMPLOYEE THEN TURNED THE STEAM-CLEANER NOZZLE TO CLEAN THE SOLES OF HIS BOOTS. THE STEAM GOT INTO HIS RIGHT BOOT AND BURNED HIS LEG.

HEAD FELL OUT BETWEEN PINS AND HIT HEAD WHILE AT TEND OF TRUCK LOADING SUPPLIES.

EMPLOYEE DID NOT BEGIN MISSING WORK UNTIL 6-11-90. THIS EMPLOYEE WAS ASSIGNED TO REPLACE CONVEYOR BELT STRUCTURE ALONG THE MAIN NORTH CONVEYOR VWHEN HE REPORTED INJURING HIS WRIST. WHILE ATTEM PTING TO LIFT AN IDLER ONTO THE STRUCTURE HE REPORTED FEELING PAIN IN HIS RIGHT WRIST AND THUMB.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING #5 X 40" RESIN BOLTS. WHEN REMOVING STEEL FROM HOLE EMPLOYEE REMOVED FIRST PIECE OF STEEL LEAVING REMAINING STEEL IN HOLE, THEN REMAINING STEEL FELL OUT OF HOLE AND CAU GHT RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN FIRST PIECE OF STEEL AND REMAINING STEEL, RESULTING IN BROKEN FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ALONG LONGWALL FACE FROM TAILGATE END TO HEADGATE WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST #3 SHIELD, RESULTING IN A STRAINED NECK. SHIELD #3 WAS 6" LOWER THAN SHIELD #4.

HOLDING DRILL STEEL IN HAND WHILE DRILING HOLEINTOP GLOVE CAUGHT ON STEEL TWISTED HAND

INJURED WAS WORKING AROUND A BELT TAIL PIECE AND SUDDENLY JUMPED TO AVOID A RIB ROLL. WHEN HE JUMPED HE SPRAINED HIS LEFT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED TO HIS FOREMAN THAT ON 5-26-90 HE WAS LIFTING ON WASH BOX HIS BACK WAS STRAINED, THIS WAS REPORTED ON 6-13-90.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE RAILRUNNER AT THE END OF THE TRACK AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS USING A SLEDGE HAMMER HITTING A DIRT PIN TO LINE UP A PIPE WHEN THE HURT HIS KNEE.

EMPL STATES THAT CRIB TIE FELL ON RIGHT HAND.

LIFTING THE MINER CABLE, SUFFERED A STRAIN TO LEFT ABDOMEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BESIDE LEG HOLDING UP CROSS COLLAR WHEN IT BECAME DISLODGED AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON LEFT SIDE OF LOWER BACK, RESULTING IN BRUISED SPLEEN.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS PULLING UP ON A DRIVE WRENCH AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

ONE DR CLAIMS EXPOSURE TO BLASTING GASES.ANOTHER DR BELIEVES EXPOSURE TO CONTAMINATED WATER.RESULTED IN MILD HEART ATTACK,GASTRIC TEAR,GASTRONTERITIS AND POST INFECTIOUS THROMBOCYTOPENIA.

INJURED WAS CLEANING THE HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER OFF WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE FELL OUT BETWEEN TWO BOLTS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT HAND, BREAKING HIS LEFT THUMB.

CLEANING THE BELT AND NEXT DAY HIS BACK STARTED HURTING

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT AS HE WAS REMOVING THE DRIVE ROLLER IN CARRIER OF THE MOBIL BRIDGE CONVEYOR, THE ROLLER CUAGHT HIS RIGHT LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN THE ROLLER AND THE FRAME OF THE CARRIER.

ROCKS FELL FROM TOP STRIKING HARD HAT AND NECK.

EMPL DEVELOPED PAIN IN LOWER BACK AREA WHILE MOVING CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE. HE RETURNED TO WORK ON 5/2 THEN WENT OFF AGAIN ON 5/25. HE SAID IT WAS CONTINUATION OF FIRST INJURY.

ON MAY 23 1990 EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS EXPERIENCING PAIN IN HIS NECK PROBABLY FROM AN OLD INJURY THAT OCCURRED IN 1985 WHEN HE ALLEGEDLY STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST THE MINE ROOF WHILE CONNECTING B ATTERY CHARGER LEADS TO SCOOP BATTERIES

WORKING ON DOZER FOOT SLIPPED AND FELL.

WAS LEAVING WITH CHEST AGAINST MINER WHILE PULLING CABLE THROUGH PANEL AND BRUISED RIBS.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN CENTER COMPARTMENT OF PORTA BUS WHICH DERAILED CAUSING INJURED TO BE BOUNCED AGAINST A TRAM MOTOR. VICTIMS RIGHT CHEST STRUCK AGAINST MOTOR.

LOADED TRUCK TRAVELING DOWN HLL STEERING TURNED SO FAR LOCKED UP WENT IN BERM STARTED OVER BERM JUMPED OUT INJ TO FT ANLKE

EMPLOYEE STATED HE STRAINEDBACK WHILE SHOVELING BELT.

WHILE TURNING AROUND ON LONGWALL,EMPLOYEE TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE (FACE LINE).

INJURED WAS SHOVELING COAL AND SLIP FELL OUT BETWEEN BOLTS AND STRUCK HIS LEFT LEG. HE WAS WORKING 33 FEET OUT BY WORKING FACE.

INJURED WAS STRUCK BY A ROOF ROCK WHILE STANDING AT THE LAST ROW OF BOLTS AS HE COMMINCATED THE ALIGNMENT OF THE MACHINE FOR THE NEXT ROW OF ROOF BOLTS.

EE WAS GRINDING METAL WITH HAD GRINDER WHEN IT SLIPPED AND CUT TOP OF LEFT HAND.

RICOCHETED FLYROCK STRUCK TAILGATE OF DUMP TRUCK AND BOUNCED OUT OF BOX AND STRUCK EMPL ON OUTSIDE OF LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE STATED AS HE ATTEMPTED TO BACK THE LINK BELT CRANE DOWN THE RAMP AT THE DOCK AREA, THE BRAKES WOULD NOT HOLD. AS EMPLOYEE SHIFTED THE TRANSMISSION INTO THE LOW THE ENGINE DIED. EMPL OYEE JUMPED FROM CRANE AND INJURED HIS BACK.

INDIVIDUAL WAS CHANGING BATTERIES IN SCOOP WHILE BATTERY WAS SUSPENDED ON HOIST IT TURNED STRIKING INDIVIDUAL IN SIDE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A 5 GALLON BUCKET OF HYDRAULIC OIL AND FILLED SOMETHING IN STOMACH.

CAUGHT FOOR BETWEEN 2 SPRING RODS & TWISTED BACK & LEFT LEG

EMPL WAS CUTTING PIECE OF METAL FIRE BLEW BACK IN LEFT EYE 1ST DATE OF TREATMENT & 1ST DAY MISSED WERE 5/29.

AS I.NAME WAS DRILLING A HOLE IN THE TOP WITH THE ROOFBOLTER, THE HYDRAULIC HOSE BURST AND HYDRAULIC OIL WENT IN HIS EYES.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING BELT STRUCTURE FROM A FLAT SUPPLY CAR AND WAS LOADING THE MATERIAL INTO THE BUCKET OF A SCOOP ONE. IS THE PROCESS OF LIFTING ONE OF THE BELT STANDS. THE EMPLOYEE FELT DISCOMFORT IN HIS LOWER BACK.

TRIPPED ON CONDUIT LEADING TO SCRUBBER MOTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING TO DRILL A HOLE FOR 3RD ROOF BOLT IN THE FACE OF #6 ROOM WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW SLATE FELL OUT OF THE ROOF HITTING THE BOOM BREAKING UP & A SMALL PIECE FLEW INTO EYE

LOADING FOAM FILLED CUTTER TIME AND WHEEL STRAINED BACK.

HE WAS ARC AIRING FLARES OFF OF FAN CASE. HE WAS REACHING UP WORKING FROM A LADDER. HE GOT NECK AND UPPER BACK PAINS. (CHIROPRACTOR TREATMENT)

INJURED ALLEGES THAT WHILE CARRYING A BOBCAT TIRE IN THE MOLY PLANT,HE SLIPPED ON AN OIL SPILL AND FELL ON HIS UPPER RIGHT HIP.HE REFUSED MEDICAL ATTENTION ON THE DAY OF THE ALLEGED ACCIDENT.H E STARTED VACATION ON 05-26-90.INJURED RETURNED FROM VACATION ON 06-10-90 WHEN HE ASKED TO SEE A DOCTOR.HE WAS GIVEN ADVIL AND RETURNED TO WORK.HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 10-30-90 WHEN HE PRO

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK ADN LANDED WRONG WHICH RESULTED IN HIM TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE.

ON 6-5-90 THE EE REQUIESTED TIME OFF BECAUSE OF BACK PAIN REPORTING AT THE TIME HE HURT IT ELEVEN DAYS BEFORE WHILE MOVING DRAGLINE CABLE BY HIMSELF HIS DR THEN DIAGNOSED THE PAIN AS LUMBER D IXK DIEASE. ANOTHER DR LETTER DATE 7-7-90 REFERSTO TWO DEGENERATED DISK L4/5 L5, S1. MONTH AS WORKERS COMP. DIVISON HAS NOT RULLED WEATHER THE PAIN IS A OCCUPATIONAL DIEASE OR AN INJURY HIS IS

BUSTING ROCK OUT OF CONVEYOR CHAIN ON BRIDGE. ROCK LACERATED MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND. FACE AREA.

EMPL RUNNING ACROSS PARKING LOT DURING LUNCH BREAK.IT WAS RAINING & MUDDY.SLIPPED AND BRUISED HIS KNEE.

INJURED CLAIMED THAT HE LOST FOOTING ON FUEL STAND AND FELL TO GROUND BETWEEN DOZER AND FUEL STAND.

EMPL CLOSING DOORS ON RR CARS,PINCH BAR SLIPPED CAUSING EMPL TO FALL ONTO GROUND -PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK AREA.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING BEARING ON TAIL ROLLER OF STACKER BELT. THE TAIL ROLLER SLID FORWARD CAUGHT RING FINGER OF RIGHT HAND, RESULTING IN A DISLOCATED AND CUT FINGER.

EMPLOYEE CLIMBING DOWN LADDER AND SLIPPED ON BOTTOM RUNG. STEPPED DOWN ONTO ROCK.

WHILE CLIMBING DOWN TO TRUCK TOOL BOX LOST FOOTING & FELL INTO BACK OF TRUCK.

EMPL HAS BACK PAIN FIRST REPORTED 7-18-90.RESULT OF FALL REPORTED TO COMPANY ON 5-24-90.AT THAT TIME NO BACK PROBLEM WAS INDICATED.

MISPLACED FOOTING ENROUTE TO STOP PLANT FEED DUE TO MALFUNCTION. SMOKE CAUSED POOR VISIBILITY AND HE PULLED SOME LIGAMENTS IN HIS LEFT LEG AT KNEE AFTER MISSING BOTTOM STEP ALONGSIDE 6K CRUSHE R.

A LIFTING JACK SLIPPED A TOOTH,THE JACK HANDLE STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE LOWER RIGHT JAW.POSSIBLE FRACTURE.

EE ALLEGES THAT HE SUSTAINED A BACK STRAIN WHEN A I BEAM ROLLED OFF A SUPPORT PIER, AND IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROTECT HIMSELF HE PLACED HIS LEFT HAND FORWARD AND THE BEAM PULLED HIS ARM DOWNWARD.

IN MILL AREA TO COLLECT CEMENT SAMPLE,SHOVELED BRIEFLY TO REMOVE MATERIAL FROM AROUND SAMPLER.AGFTER COLLECTING SAMPLE,EMPL RETURNED TO LAB TO BEGIN TESTING PROCEDURES.PREPARED SAMPLES FOR TES TING-SNEEZED,FELT SHARP PAIN IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 5' PRY BAR TO CLOSE BOTTOM DUMP DOORS ON 100 TON RAILROAD CAR. WHEN EMPLOYEE PULLED DOWN ON PRY BAR IT CAME DISLOGED FROM RAILROAD CAR, CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL BACKWARD W ITH ALL HIS BOOT WEIGHT ON RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE LIFTED BREAKOUT DOG ON DRILL & HURT HIS BACK OBJECT WAS LIFTED ABOUT THREE FEET.

PULLING ROLL OUT CHUTE CLOSED, HOOK ON COME-A-LONG SLIPPED OFF CAME BACK AND STRUCK HIM IN THE FACE BUSTING HIS NOSE AND BRUISING HIS EYE AND CHEEK.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING A PIECE OF STEEL FOR CRUSHER AND CUT HIS FINGER ON STEEL BANDING STRAP. HE WAS WEARING GLOVES AT THE TIME. CUT TO LEFT INDEX FINGER REQUIRED 4 STITCHES.

SUCTION ON DRILL HEAD WAS PLUGGED UP HE LOWERED HEAD WHILE DRILL STEEL WAS STILL IN ROOF HE PUT HIS HAND OVER HEAD TO CHECK THE SUCTION THEN ATTEMPTED TO PUSH ROTATE LEVER BUT PUSHED THE WRONG LEVER & HEAD WENT UP CATCHING HIS HAND BETWEEN DRILL HEAD & DRILL STEEL

INJURED & ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE IN PROCESS OF CHANGING FLOOR GRATING AT K114 DUST SCREW A PIECE OF GRATING ADJACENT TO THE PIECE THEY WERE REPLACING WAS RUSTED & RAISED UP EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON THIS PIECE OF GRATING CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS ANKLE

THE EE WAS WALKING ON THE 003 SECTION WHEN HE HIT A HALF HEADER WITH HIS HEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING COAL ONTO THE BELT AND EXPERIENCED PAIN IN THE WRIST.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED DOWN APPROX. 1 FT. FROMA DAMP SAND HOPPER TO THE MAIN HOPPER. UPON LANDING, HE APPARENTLY TWISTED HIS KNEE. HE APPLIED ICE AND REMAINED ON THE JOB. ON 6-11-90, SWELLIGN OCC URRED IN THE KNEE. THE KNEE WAS DRAINED AND PAIN RELIEVERS WERE PRESCRIBED.

HAUL STALLED STARTED BACK JUMPED OUT LANDING AND FALLING ON ROAD

SPLICING CONVEYOR BELT,CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN TIMBER SUPPORTS.

TWISTING L ANKLE EXAMINGIN SEAL AREA STEPPED DOWN ON CLOD TWISTED ANKLE

WHILE SHOVELING GRAVEL EMPLOYEE PULLED LIGAMENT IN RIGHT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN THE TRACK HEADING, STEPPED ON A STEEL TIE AND SLIPPED. THE EMPLOYEE COMPLETED HIS SHIFT AND REPORTED TO MON. GENERAL ER AT 2:30 AM ALL X-RAYS WERE NEGATIVE AND THE EMPL OYEE WAS DIAGNOSED AS A BACK STRAIN.

INJURED LIFTED TWO 5 GALLON OIL CANS (FULL) AND TURNED TO WALK TOWARD FACE AREA. INJURED FELT SEVERE PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN WORKING ON A MIXING VALVE FOR PIT SHOWERS AND WAS LEAVING THE PIT SERVICE BUILDING WITH 4242 DUMP TRUCK.THERE WAS A BEE IN THE TRUCK AND EMPLOYEE WAS STUNG ON HIS CHEEK AS HE GOT INTO THE TRUCK.ON 05-27-90 HE SAW A DOCTOR BECAUSE OF SWELLING AND SORENESS OF CHEEK.HE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.DIAGNOSIS:FACIAL CELLULITIIS.

LOOSE ROCK FELL ON MINER OPERATOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING HIS RESPIRATOR AT THE END OF SHIFT. THE ELASTIC STRAP CAUGHT AND SNAPPED THE EMPLOYEE IN THE EYE.

EMPL WAS WORKING INSIDE OF ROTARY KINL #1 SCRUBBER VENTURI DAMPER WELDING PLATE ON SHAFT. AS HE ATTEMPTED TO GET OUT OF DAMPER HE STRUC DOOR FRAME WITH KNEE & FELL.

USING SLEDGE HAMMER TO DRIVE HINDGE PIN IN PIN SHATTERED SLIVER OF STEEL IN L ARM

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST LIT A CUTTING TORCH WHEN THE OXYGEN HOSE IGNITED NEAR THE HOSE FITTING THIS SHOT THE FLAME ONTO EMPLOYEES CLOTHES CAUSING SECOND DEGREE BURNS TO HIS ABDOMEN CHEST & NECK AFTE R INVESTIGATING WE ASSUME THAT THE ENDS OF THE WELDING HOSE WERE WORN THRU BEFORE THE EMPLOYEE LIT THE TORCH (ALL WELDING HOSES WILL BE INSPECTED BEFORE USE)

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING BELT ROPE & STURCTURE, AND TRIPPED OVER SOMETHING & FELL AGAINST RIB OF MINE, HITTING HEAD ON RIB & STRAINED NECK.

DRAGGING 40 HP BRIDGE CARRIER PUMP MOTOR ACROSS BRIDGE CARRIER,STRAINED HIS BACK.STARTED MISSING TIME 6-1-90.

STEPPING OFF DRILL, PA D ROLLED TO OUTSIDE CAUGHT LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN PAD AND ATRS SMASHING LITTLE FINGER AT LAST JOINT

INJURED WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING LINE CURTAIN AND 4X4 POST IN RETURN AND SHORTING LINE CURTAIN IN 1 FACE. INJURED TAPPED A 4X4 POST, PREPARING TO KNOCK IT WITH HAMMER WHEN A PEICE OF ROO ROCK 51 INC LONB X 10 IN TO26INC WIDE X 4 INC TOTO FEATHERED EDGE THICK FELL BTWEEN THE OUTSIDE ROW OF ROOF BOLTS AND THE RIB STRIKING INJURED ON HIS HARD HAT AND HIS LEFT FOOT.

HE WAS STRUCK BY CAP ROCK, WHILE REPLACEING A STAPLE LOCK FITTING ON A BOLTER, IN THE FACE AREA. THE BOLTER LSOT HAD POWER TO THE DRILL THRUST, DUE TO STAPLE LOCK FALLING OUT, INJURED WAS OUT BY THE ATRS TRYING TO INSTALL THE STAPLE LOCK WHEN A PIECE OF CAP ROCK STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD & SHOULDER.

EE WAS STACKING 40 PRODUCT ON A PALLET WHEN A BALE DID NOT FALL STRAIGHT. HE REACHED ACROSS AND AROUND THE PALLET TO STRAIGHTEN THE BALE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

WHILE I.NAME WAS SHOVELING THE NO. 5 BELT DRIVE HE GOT HIS SHOVEL CAUGHT IN THE BELT AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT WRIST. THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 05/30/90 AND DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT TO THE OPERATOR UNTIL 06/01/90.

EMPL WAS PULLING PIECE OF DRAW SLATE BEFORE STARTING ROOF BOLT CYCLE. ROCK FELL & HIT T BAR ON ROOF BOLTER & BROKE INTO, ROCK FLIPPED BACK & HIT EMPL IN RIBS. ACCIDENT OCCURED ON 5/24 BUT EMPL DID NOT GO TO DR TILL 5/30.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROOF BOLTING AND WHILE INSTALLING THE 1ST BOLT A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF THE RIGHT HAND CUASING A FRACTURE TO THE TIP OF THE RIGHT THUMB AND A LACERATION TO THE RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE STEPPED ON A LUMP OF COAL WHILE SHOVELING THE BELT AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. HE STATES THAT HE DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD GIVE HIM A BAD PROBLEM BUT IT CONTINUED TO HURT AND SWE LL.

INJURED WAS JACKING THE BELT BACK WHEN THE BELT BROKE AND THE JACK HANDLE HIT HIM IN THE RIBS.

ROCK FELL OUT OF TIRES WHILE BEING HOISTED FROM SHAFT CUT THE HEEL OF I NAME

EMPL STATED HE WAS WALKING & TRIPPED OVER TRACK TIE & FELL ON RIGHT WRIST RESULTING IN BRUISE.

EMPL SCALING FACE AREA IN UG MINE USING SCALER.WHILE EMPL SCALING UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER OF FACE,LARGE PORTION OF FACE BROKE LOOSE,FALLING & STRIKING FRONT OF MACHINE.MACHINE WAS THROWN BACKWA RDS RESULTING IN BEING THROWN FORWARD RESTRAINED ONLY BY SEAT BELT.

EMPLOYEE WAS SCALING LOOSE ROOF IN NO. 1 ENTRY AT MOUTH OF NO. 1 ROOM. LOADER OPERATOR WAS LOADING COAL IN NO. 1 ROOM FACE. LOADER BOOM CAUGHT EMPLOYEE BETWEEN BOOM AND RIB. EMPLOYEE WAS INJUR ED IN HIP AND PELVIS AREA.

AT 9.45 SECTION BOLT BROKE AND I.NAME WENT TO GET A PIECE OF BELT TO PUT IN SECTION BELT, WHEN LOADING THE BELT HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN THE WAREHOUSE REVEIWING FILES. WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO LIFT A BOX OF RECORDS HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT GROIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING RAILS UP #1 LONGWALL TRACK USING A LOCOMOTIVE, WHIHC A LOCOMOTIVE AND MANBUS PARKED UP THE TRACK BROKE LOOSE AND CAME DOWN THE TRACK, STRIKING THE LOCOMOTIVE HE WAS OPERAT ING.

EMPLOYEE HAD UNLOADED ROOF BOLT SUPPLIES ONTO FLAT CAR. WHEN HE TRAMMED SCOOP AWAY FROM FLATCAR HE RAN OVER A CRIB BLOCK AND BOUNCED HIS HEAD INTO CANOPY.

HE SAID HE WAS HANGING MINER CABLE AND DIDN'T KNOW HE HAD HURT HIMSELF UNTIL HE WOKE UP NEXT MORINING AND HAD PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

HELPING WELDER.

MINER OPERATOR TRAMMED MINER INTO ACETYLENE TANK CAUSING GAS TO IGNITE RESULTING IN FLASH BURNS TO HANDS AND NECK AREA.

INJURED WAS CUTTING BELT, MARKING IT FOR SPLICE WITH A UTILITY KNIFE. THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

EMPL HAD BEEN BRINGING T BOARDS TO STAGELOADER AREA & HAD STACKED THEM APPROX 6' TO 8' HIGH. WHEN SHEARER CUT OUT AT STAGELOADER VIBRATION CAUSED BOARDS TO FALL STRIKING EMPL ON RIGHT ANKLE.

THREE NIGHT SHIFT EMPLOYEES WERE TRAVELING TO THE JOBSITE. A LOADED COAL TRUCK WAS LEAVING THE PROJECT.THE TWO VEHICLES COLLIDED TOGETHER.ALL FOUT PERSONS INVOLVED WERE INJURED IN THE ACCIDENT .THE ACCIDENT APPROXIMATELY 1/2 MILE OUTSIDE COMPANY GATE.

FELL OFF BACK OF TRAILER ONTO COAL PILE,INJURED HEAD AND RIGHT ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS DOWN ON ONE KNEE PUTTING A PIN IN A DOZER WHEN HE STOOD UP HE TWISTED HIS KNEE (LEFT KNEE).

EMPL WAS LIFTING TONGUE OF SUPPLY WAGON WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

HEATER CORE BUSTED ON DOZER, HE WAS OPERATING. HE BREATHED ANTIFREEZE FUMES WHILE INSIDE CAB, CAUSING SICKNESS & SWELLING.

EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED TURNING VALVE NEXT TO MILL THICKNER TANK AND WAS CLIMBING DWN ROD STEPS ON TANK TO PLATFORM. EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON PLATFORM, TWISTING RIGHT LEG AT KNEE AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING LADDER OF HI-LIFT WHEN HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE SECOND STEP AND HE FELL LANDING ON RIGHT HAND, ARM AND SHOULDER.

ROCK FELL ON FOOT

THREE NIGHT SHIFT EE WERE TRAVELING TO THE JOBSITE. A LOADED COAL TRUCK WAS LEAVING THE PROJECT THE TWO VEHICLES COLLIDED TOGETHER ALL FOUR PERSONS INVOLVED WERE INURED IN THE ACCIDENT. THE AC CIDENT HAPPEN APROX 1/2 MILE OUTSIDE CO GATE.

TIGHTENING A BOLT IN A STEEL BACE WITH AN ADJUSTABLE WRENCH. THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF NUT AND HE HIT HIS LEFT THUMB ON THE STEEL BRACE.

3 NIGHT-SHIFT EMPLS TRAVELING TO JOBSITE.LOADED COAL TRUCK WAS LEAVING THE PROJECT.THE 2 VEHICKLES COLLIDED.ALL 4 PERSONS INVOLVED WERE INJURED IN ACCIDENT.HAPPENED 1/2 MI OUTSIDE COMPANY GATE

USING TORCH HE SLIPPED OFF FELL SIDE WAYS OFF CONVEY LANDED ON GROUND SEPARATED L SHOULDER

SETTING STONE DOWN, MIDDLE R FINGER CRUSHING IT HAD STITCHES

ATTEMPTED TO CHECK CHAIN ON DRILL WHILE CHECKING IT THE CHAIN SHOOK BACK & FORTH HITTING FINGERS

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A SMALL PIECE OF STEEL IN THE SHOP WHEN HE FELT A SLIGHT PAIN IN HIS LEFT ARM. THE NEXT DAY HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND WAS TOLD THAT HE TODE THE LIGAMENT IN HIS LEFT BIC EP.

EMPL WALKING DOWN SOME STAIRS WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL CATCHING HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT HAND.

EE WAS CLEANING THE FRONT LIGHTS ON A CAT D-7 AND WHILE STANDING ON PLATFORM ON LEFT SIDE OF TRACTOR REACHED ACROSS THE HOOD TO CLEAN THE LIGHT ON THE RIGHT SIDE. EE CLAIMS HE GOT AGAINST THE GRAB IRON AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SIDE.

CHECKING DRILL, HAND LAYING ON DRILL TABLE WHEN BARBER BUSHING FELL ON HAND

USING 24 TO 1 MULTIPLIER WRENCH ON CONE CRUSHER-CHAIN SLIPPED CAUSING THE WRENCH TO STRIKE RIGHT KNEE.

MINER WIPED EYES WITH HANDS AFTER HANDLING UNKNOWN SUBSTANCES.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEAMING OFF TS-24 WHEN HE FELL OFF LADDER.

REMOVING SCREEN AND IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING ANOTHER EE WAS RASING THE HOIST WHEN THE HOOK CAUGHT AN I BEAM AND BROKE CABLE BLOCK HIT EE IN THE FACE NOSE. EE WAS WEARING HARD HAT AND SAFET Y GLASSES.

VICTIM WAS OPERATING A ROCK TRUCK WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. HE DEPARTED THE SHOVEL PROCEEDED TOWARD THE DUMPING AREA APPR.X .6 MILES AWAY AS HE BEGAN DESCENDING A INCLINE NEAR THE DUMPING PO INT THE RIGHT FRONT TIRE STRUCK A DEPRESSION IN THE ROADWAY. HE WAS THROWN OUT OF THE SEAT AND OVER AGAINST THE LEFT DOOR. HE EXPERIENCED A SUDDEN PAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS BACK AS HE LANDED

WAS CRAWLING AROUND ON KNEES.

HE WAS LOADING DOLLY AND DROPPED THE DOLLY ON HIS LITTLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

REPLACED DUST BAGS IN RF BOLTER CHECKING FOR LEAK INSTRUCTED OPER TO START MACHINE SHIELD TO FALL STRIKING HIM ON HEAD CUTTING ON EYE

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON A TIMBER SLING WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

EE STEPPED OFF A BATTERY LOCOMOTIVE ONTO THE WALKWAY IN A DRIFT. HE DID NOT STEP INTO A HOLE, OR ONTO ANY OBJECT OR UNEVEN SURFACE.NEVERTHELESS HE MANAGED TO TURN HIS LEFT ANKLE, RESULTING IN LOST TIME FROM WORK. EE PERHIS OWN STATEMENT COULD NOT IDENTIFY A CAUSE FOR THE INJURY.

INHALED SMOKE PUMP SENT SMOKE WHERE HE WAS WORKING

EMPL PULLING ON GIMMICK POLE THAT WAS STUCK AND PLE RELEASED AND PINCHED HIM BETWEEN POLE AND SADDLE BAGS.

ROCK SLABBED FROM TOP AND CAUGHT BOTH UPPER ARMS AND CAUSED LACERATION TO FOREHEAD. HAPPENED AT FACE.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SCOOP IN THE FACE AREA OF THE SOUTH SECTION. AS HE TRAMMED TROUGH A ROUGH SECTION OF ROADWAY, THE JARRING MOTION OF THE SCOOP CAUSED THE EMPLOYEES BACK TO BE INJURED.

EMPL WAS OPERATING CONTINUOS MINING MACHINE SHUTTLE CAR HAD BEEN LOADED WHEN IT PULLED AWAY FROM MINER DRAG CAUGHT MACHINES WATER LINE PULLING IT DOWN ENTRY. WATERLINE CAUGHT EMPLS FOOT CAUSIN G HIM TO TRIP FALLING ONTO REMOTE BOX.

WHILE DOZING MATERIAL OUTSIDE LEFT TRACK WAS RUN TOO CLOSE TO EDGE & MACHINE SLID OVER SIDE APPROX 20'. WHEN HE HIT BOTTOM BLADE STUCK IN PIT FLOOR & THREW HIM FOREWARD AGAINST SEAT BLET.

EMPLOYEE SLIDE A BAR UNDET THE BELT TO LIFT THE BOTTOM BELT SO A BOTTOM ROLLER COULD BE INSTALLED. IN DOING SO HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING A TOP ROLLER ON THE BELT, WHEN HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS SWITCHING A VALVE TO CHANGE THE FLOW OF WASTE DUST WHILE MOVING THE VALVE WITH A 5FT STEEL BAR BAR SLIPPED OUT OF HOLE IN VALVE CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL OVER A PIPE EMPLOYEE FELL TO FLOOR & BAR FELL ON HIS LEFT HAND DIAGNOSIS NON-DISPLACED FX 2ND & 3RD FINGERS LEFT HAND DOC APPLIED LEATHER FINGER/THUMB SPLINT

I WAS CARRYING BRATTICK CLOTH APPROX. 100 LBS I FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

VICTIM WAS OPERATING A S&S SCOOP MODEL 482 WHEN HE GOT SOME COAL DUST IN HIS EYES IRRITATING THEM.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE A WHEEL LOADER'S SEAT FOR REPAIR WHEN THE SEAT SUDDENLY CAME FREE, STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE IN THE FACE AND SHOULDER AREA. THIS CAUSED BRUISING OF THE FACE, AND NEC K AND SHOLDER STRAIN, POSSIBLY A PINCHED NERVE.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING RESIN BOLTS WITH A SINGLE HEAD ROOF BOLTER, AS HE WAS PUSHING THE ROOF BOLT WITH A HALF HEADER UP INTO THE BOLT HOLE, THE BOLT BENT AND CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEE'S FINGERS, P INCHING THEM.

EE WAS SCALING HAULAGE RAIL WITH A PICK. THE PICK BOUNCED OFF THE RAIL AND STRUCK THE EE S RIGHT INSTEP RESULTING IN A PUNCTURE WOUND.

WHILE OPERATING SCOOP INJURED RAN OVER CRIB BLOCK INMUD & THUS JARRED BACK.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS STRUCK BY APIECE OF ROCK TOP APPROX. 2'X3'X2" AFTER INSTALLING CENTER BOLT IN NEXT TO LAST ROW AT FACE OF ENTY 2 (TAG 50+55) IN UNIT #4. STATES HE HAD FINISHED IN STALLING BOLT AND WAS SWING LEFT BOOM IN (PREPARING TO MOVE UP TO LAST ROW) WHEN ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS ALREADY INSTALLED. WENT TO HOSPITAL ER

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING THE FUEL TRUCK WHEN HE HIT A COUPLE OF BUMPS IN THE ROAD. AT THAT TIME HE FELT A SLIGHT PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE DID NOT SEE A DOCTOR UNTIL 6-19-90 BECAUSE OF INCREASED BACK PAIN AND WAS TAKEN OFF WORK AT THAT TIME. DIAGNOSIS: SCIATICA

WHILE THE EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING SUPPLIES HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING A VERTICAL LADDER TO GET TO A PLATFORM. AS HE WAS PULLING HIMSELF UP THE LADDER HE FELT A PAIN IN THE CHEST - RIBCAGE AREA. HE WAS EVLAVATED AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM. TOL D TO REST AND MAKE AN APPOINTMENT WITH HIS OWN DR.

EMPLOYEE WAS NOT AWARE THE OPERATOR OF THE BOLTER WAS GOING TO MOVE THE MACHINE.EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BESIDE OF MACHINE AND WHEN IT STARTED TO TRAM IT RAM OVER THE TOP OF HIS FOOT.

HE WAS TRYING TO CLEAN THE CONTINUOUS MIENR CONVEYOR WHIHC WAS FOULED WITH ROCK. AND HE HIT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER, WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER.

THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE GETTING OUT OF A MANBUS AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STARTED TO GET OFF SCOOP IN LOW COAL AREA WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF THE EDGE OF THE SCOOP DECK. HIS HAND JAMMED INTO BTOOM, BENDING INDEX AND MID-FINGERS BACK, POSSIBLY BREAKING THE B ONE NEAR THE NUCKLE.

EMPL WAS LOADING ROOF SUPPORT MATERIAL ONTO ROOF BOLT MACHINE WHEN PIECE OF LOOSE ROOF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON BACK.

EE WAS DRILLING A PIN HOLE FOR EN EYE PIN TO ACCOMODATE SLUSHING IN HIS STOPE. THE DRILL STEEL BROKE THE EE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL FORWARD, INJURING THIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER AND STRAINING HI S BACK.

EMPL BACKED INTO ROCK AND HURT HIS BACK.FIRST DAY MISSED WAS 5-28,THEN 5-30,31,6-1,6-2 RETURNED TO WORK 6-4-90.

PULLING STEEL RAILS WITH RAIL DOGS RAIL CAUGHT TIES WITH BOND END DOGS STRUCK IN GROING

EE WAS LIFTING BELT WITH A BAR.

HE WAS HELPING TO CHANGE SCREENS & CONVEYOR BELTING ON PLANT. WHILE LIFTING BELTING HE TORE MUSCLE IN RIGHT SHOULDER.

WHILE INSTALLING 10' SECTIONS OF STEEL PIPE & TURBINE PUMP IN OLD AIR SHAFT OIL TUBE FOR TURBINE PUMP FELL CATCHING. EMPL THUMB & FOREFINGER CUT THEM.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS REACHING FOR THE REMOTE CONTROL BOX FOR THE 102 HP MINER, WHEN HE PULLED BOX BACK TO HIM PULL SOMETHING IN HIS BACK.

OPENING DOOR HAND SLIPPED OFF OF HANDLE HAND SLIPPED IT STRUCK CAR INJ FINGER ON L HAND

KNOCKED CEM ENT BLOCK ON HER R FT CONSTRUCTING STOPPING

I NAME WAS SMOOTHING ROAD WITH HOZ FEIN 35 0C HAUL TRUCK WAS RETURNING FROM SPOIL PILE I NAME MOVED FEL INTO SMOOTH LANE LEAVING ROUGH MINE EXPOSED TO I NAME IN 350C I NAME HIT ROUGH SPOT & W AS BOUNCED AROUND IN CAB THE USE OF A SEAT BELT PREVENTEDK I NAME FROM SERIOUS INJURY

STARTING TO PULL CATHEAD OUT OF POWER CENTER WHEN THE CATHEAD BLOWN UP BURNING EMP L HAND BURN ON EYES ARC

PULLING ELEVATOR OUT UPSETTING IT & IT PINNED HIM TO HIGHWALL.

VICTIM WAS AT THE BACK OF ROOF BOLTER APPROXIMATELY 25' FROM FACE. HE WAS BENDING ENOUGH BOLTS TO BOLT THIS PLACE WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK 24'X24"X1" FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS HITTING ON SIDE OF HE AD. HE SUSTAINED 3 SMALL CUTS TO LEFT EAR.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHILE PULLING THE CABLE OFF OF #16 S.C. CABLE REEL IN JEFFERSON MAINS SECTION, HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS RIGHT RIB CAGE AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING A KENNEDY STOPPING DOWN AND EXPERIENCED PAIN IN BACK.

I.NAME LEFT THE CLEAN UP JOB AT THE SECONDARY PLANT, CAME UP TO THE PRIMARY CRUSHER AND HELD THE WRENCH FOR THE EMPLOYEES THAT WERE HITTING IT WITH A HAMMER TO TIGHTEN THE WEDGE PLATE BELTS. L ATER ON AFTER THE PLANT WAS RUNNING, HE CAME TO HIS SUPERVISOR AND COMPLAINED THAT HOLDING THE WRENCH HAD HURT HIS BACK. SUPERVISOR DID NOT INSTRUCT EMPLOYEE TO PERFORM THIS TASK. EMPLOYEE TO

2ND FLOOR OF PLANT MAN WAS DRAGGING PIECE OF PIPE TO BE FITTED TO FEED BOX TO DE-SLIME VIBRATOR. MAN INJURED BACK ON 4/30/90 AT HOME WHILE MOVING FREEZER.

MEDICAL VERIFICATION RECEIVED ON 5-25-90. EMPLOYEE WAS RELOCATING SHUTTLE CAR TIE OFF AND TRIED TO LIFT TIE OFF INCLUDING TIRE, SPRING AND CABLE OVER HIS HEAD TO ATTACH TO ANCHOR BOLT.

EE HAD BEEN OPERATING A TEREX PAN ON 3-9-90. AFTER HIS SHIFT HE COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN BUT DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 5-23-90.

INJURED WAS KNEELING ON GOB PILE WASHING COAL SPILLAGE AWAY FROM THE TAIL DRIVE WHEN A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK 20 IN WIDE X 38 IN LONG X 3 IN TO FEATHERED EDGE FELL STRIKING INJURED ON TOP OF HEAD RIDING DOWN HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND RIDING INJUREDTO THE MINE FLOOR CAUSING HIM TO ROLL ON HIS RIGHT WRIST. THE ROCK WAS PETRIFIED TREE TY0PE ANOMALY IN THE ROOF.

EMPL UNLOADING BOX CAR AND PUSHED ON BAR TO OPEN HOPPER DOOR AND TWISTED KNEE.

CHANGING CUTTING EDGES ON BUCKET OF THE LOADER PC OF METAL BROKE SKIN IN R HAND BECAME IMBEDDED

WALKING ON TRAIN SLIPPED FELL ON ROCK FALLING TO GROUND

HANGING RF BOLTER CABLE OPER OF MACHINE REELED UP CAUGHT FOOT TRIPPED HIM FELL ON BACK

EE WAS STANDING ON SCOOP BUCKET TRYING TO ALINE A TRWAND AND REDUCER TO FIT IN MINER. THE BUCKET WAS RAISED TO HELP OUTER AND CUAGHT UNDER EDGE OF MINER WHEN THE BUCKET RELEASE IT ACTED LIKE A SORING BOARD AND JARRED EE S BACK. HE MAY HAVE BEEN WEDGED INTO TOP ALSO. THIS CAUSED HIM TO SPRAIN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE CARRYING BREAKER TIMBER ON PILLAR LINE.

ADDING OIL TO TRACTOR ROCK FELL FORM ROOF STRUCK ON HEAD AND BACK OF NECK

EMPLOYEE JUMPED OUT OF HIS HAULER CARRYING A FIRE EXTINGUISHER BECAUSE A HOSE HAD BLOWN ON A LOADER & HE THOUGHT IT MIGHT HAVE CAUGHT ON FIRE WHEN HE LANDED ON THE GROUND HE LANDED INA MANNER WHICH CAUSED HIM TO PULL HIS BACK CAUSING PAIN TO THE LOWER BACK & HIP AREA

PUTTING MATERIAL ON SCOOP & TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.

EMPL PRYING ROCK OFF CONT.MINER AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.ACCIDENT UNDER INVEST,NOT REPORTED UNTIL 5-30-90.

EMPL WAS LIFTING & THROWING CONT MINER CABLE OUT OF HAULAGE ROAD. DURING PROCESS HE SUFFERED PAIN IN LOWER BACK & STOMACH AREA.

DRIVING TRUCK,IT HIT CHUCKHOLE IN ROAD,INJURED HIS BACK.

LOCATION HIGH PRESSURE TRUNNION LUBE PUMP FEED END OF PRIMARY MILL. EMPL WAS CHECKING CALIBRATION OF PRESSURE SWITCHES. USING 8" ADJUSTABLE WRENCH HE KNEELED DOWN ON RIGHT KNEE BENT FORWARD TO REAH 1/4" PIPE PLUG & WHILE PULLING ON WRENCH FELT STRAIN IN BACK. HE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.

ALLEGEDLY INJURED WAS OPENING SAND DOOR IN MAIN TUNNEL, PRYBAR SLIPPED, HE FELL AND STRUCK HIS LEFT SIDE ON STEP.

EE WAS SHOVELING NEAR BELT TRANSFER WHEN A PIECE OF COAL BOUNCED OFF BELT AND STRUCK EE IN LEFT KNEE. FIRST DAY OF WORK MISSED DUE TO THIS ACCIDENT 5-29-90.

MOVING CABLES OUT OF WALKWAY ALONG TAIL PC HEARD POP FELT PAIN IN BACK

EMPL WAS GETTING OFF BACK OF PICKUP TRUCK BED. HE CLAIMS HE SLIPPED & FELL. PRIOR THAT EVENING 2 WEEK LAYOFF NOTICE WAS POSTED.

EMPL CLEANING CONVEYOR BELT ROCK FELL AND STRUCK EMPL IN BACK OF HEAD.HARD HAT WAS WORN? .EMPL HANDS WENT NUMB.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE BENT OVER AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS CUTTING A CABLE FOR SPLICE AND UTILITY KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING HIS LEFT THUMB.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A MOILING MACHINE TO BREAK CONCRETE WHEN HE PULLED UP ON THE MACHINE HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A LOW BACK STRAIN CAUSING HIM TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK

EMPLOYEE WAS CRAWLING ON HIS KNEES ON THE MINE FLOOR IRRITAITING HIS RIGHT KNEE CAUSING IT TO SWELL.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A SHUTTLE CAAR AND HIT A HOLE IN ROADWAY CAUSING A JOLT TO EMPLOYEE THUS CAUSING PAIN IN THE BACK AND SIDE OF EMPLOYEE.

INJURED WAS MOVING 6IN SUCTION HOSE FOR WATER PUMPS HE ALLEGES LOW BACK INJURY THE INJURY WAS REPORTED LATE

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON A ROCK WHILE WALKING THRU ROLLER MILL BLDG & TWISTED HIS RT KNEE EMPLOYEE WENT TO DOC & WAS GIVEN PRESCRIPTION DID NOT TAKE IT EMPLOYEE WANTED SECOND OPINION ON CONDITION H E WAS SENT TO ORTHOPEDIC PHYSICIAN NOW WANTS THIOPINION

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN A 16 INCH I BEAM WITH 2 6INCH I BEAMS WELDED AT 90 DEGREE EE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL UNDER ONE OF THE SIX INCH BEAMS.

ROOFBOLT OPERATOR WAS TAKING BELT HANGING BRACKET DOWN. DURING A DEBELT. HE WAS USING A 16" CRESCENT WRENCH. WHEN HE STRAINED HIS ACK. ACCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 6-5-90. PERSON DID NOT SE E A DOCTOR UNTIL 6-5-90.

OPERTOR WAS TAKING THE BOLTS OUT OF THE TRACK ON D9L DOZER. WHEN THE BOLTS WERE REMOVED, THE TRACK SLID FORWARD, CAUSING OPERATOR TO HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST SIDE STEP OF THE DOZER. HE DID NOT THI NK HE WAS HURT AT THE TIME. HE WORKED OUT HIS SHIFT AND WORKED THE REST OF THE WEEK. OVER THE WEEKEND, HIS UPPER BACK WAS BOTHERING HIM. ON TUESDAY THE 29TH THE WENT TO THE DOCTOR.

INJURED WAS LIFTING CROSSTIE AND STRAINED HIMSELF IN GROIN AREA.

HE WAS SLIDING RAIL PARTS & BEAM PIECES ALONG TOUGHING ROLLERS ON #10 CONVEYOR. HE WAS LIFTING BEAM OVER ROLLER WHEN PIECE OF RAIL ROLLED AGAINST SIDE OF EAM & PINCHED RIGHT THUMB. TIP OF THUM B WAS CUT OFF APPROX 3/4 CM FROM TIP.

WHILE BOLTING TOP I.NAME CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN TOP AND ROOF PLATE. HE INJURED MIDDLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS FABRICATING A METAL COVER FOR A NEW DRYING SYS BEING INSTALLED HE TRIED TO REPOSITION THE COVER FOR ADDITIONAL WORK BY HIMSELF BY HAND HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER RT BACK AREA

WHEN LOADING A TANK TRAILER ON TRUCK, HE TRIED TO STRAIGHTEN TONGUE ON TRAILER WHEN IT ROLLED FORWARD SMASHING THE TWO MIDDLE FINGERS OF THE RIGHT HAND, BETWEEN TONGUE AND 4" CRIB BLOCK.

INJ DRILLING ROOF TO INSTALL BOLT AND HORSEBACK FELL ON HIM.

PUTTING FLAT CAR ONT RACK SLATE BAR BEING USED JERKED IN HIS HAND CUT BETWEEN THUMB AND FORE FINGER