Mining Incidents in January 1991

FELL DOWN COAL CHUTE RESULTING IN DEATH

WORKING ON ENERGIZED AIR LINE.

WELDOR WAS IN TRENCH WELDING 30" DIA PIPE WHEN SECTION OF TRENCH WALL BROKE LOOSE & FELL AGAINST EMPL CRUSHING HEAD AGAINST PIPE

WORKING ON 1ST RIGHT MAINS SECTION WHEN A METHANE EXPLOSION OCCURED FATALLY INJURING EMPLOYEE INVESTIGATION IS INCOMPLETE

WORKING ON 1ST RIGHT MAINS SECTION WHEN A METHANE EXPLOSION OCCURED FATALLY INJURING EMPLOYEE INVESTIGATION IS INCOMPLETE

WHILE LOWERING PORTABLE WHEEL MOUNTED WATER PUMP IN NO 2 DRAGLINE PIT INJ WORKING NEAR EDGE OF HIGHWALL SLIPPED AND FELL TO BOTTOM ABOUT 160 FT. WATER PUMP USING 3 WIRE ROPES ATTACHED TO FR ONT END LOADER AND 2 SCRAPERS PUMP BEEN LOWEREDNEARLY TO BOTTOM OF PIT WHEN ACCIDENT OCC

VICTIM USING SLATE BAR TO PULL CAP COAL WHEN DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIM

EMPL WAS CLEANING ELECTRIC BRAKER MADE CONTACT WITH POINT BRUSH EXPLOSION OCCURRED & EMPL WAS SEVERELY BURNED.

WHILE USING THE OVERHEAD CRANES EMPLOYEE HAD HIS AHND NEXT TO THE CABLE WHEN THE LOAD WEIGHT WAS BEING APPLIED HIS THUMB/GLOVE WAS CAUGHT IN BETWEEN TWO CABLES.EMPLOYEE WAS ABLE TO PULL HIS HA ND/THUMB OUT,HOWEVER THE CABLE CAUGHT HIS GLOVE AND PART OF HIS THUMB.

PULL IN LOWER ABDOMEN WHILE MOVING DRUMS OF OIL.CAME BACK TO WORK BUT WAS OPERATED ON AND OUT OF WORK FROM 02-25-91 TO 03-08-91.

EMPL WAS CARRYING BUCKET OF GREASE UNDER OVERCAST WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN RIGHT GROIN AREA.

INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT AND MOVE BELLY PAN ON D-8 DOZER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER RIGHT ABDOMINAL AREA.

INJURED WAS PULLING ON DISCHARGE HOSE AND STRAINED HIMSELF.

LEAK IN WELDING MACHINE. EMPLOYEE STUCK HAND IN MACHINE TO STOP LEAK FOR BLADE SEVERED RIGHT LITTLE FINGER AWPRETATED; PARTIALLY.

EMPLOYEE PINCHED RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN HEADER BOARD AND ROOFBOLTER HALO WHILE PUTTING UP A ROOF BOLT.

INJURED WENT OVER TO OTHER SIDE OF ROOF BOLTER TO HELP OPERATOR FIX HIS SIDE OF ROOF BOLT ER HE LAYED HIS HAND ON TOP OF TRAY ON BOLT ER A PIECE F ROCK FELL CATCHING HIS HAND BETWEEN ROCK & FR AME OF BOLTER

USING POWER SAW IN BLDG EYE BEGAN TO BOTHER HMM AFTER LEAVING WORK, DR REMOVED WOOD SPLINTER FROM EYE

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT THEY WERE TRAMMING ROOF BOLTER TO FACE WHEN THEY NOTICED CABLE WAS NOT REELING OFF SO THEY STOPPED ROOF BOLTER. AT THIS TIME THEY WERE TYRING TO PULL CABLE OFF WHEN HE FE LT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS GROIN. EMPLOYEE RECIEVED A HERNIA. THE EMPLOYEE WORKED UP TO 2-6-91 AND WENT OFF WORK ON2-7-91 FOR SURGERY.

STACKING AND BAGGING 3 HOURS NOTICED PAIN IN TESTICLES

MECHANIC WAS STARTING AIR COMPRESSOR ON SERVICE TRUCK WHEN HIS FINGER WAS PULLED IN BETWEEN STARTER BENDIX AND FLY WHEEL CUTTING OFF PART OF HIS MIDDLE FINGER RIGHT HAND.

WAS TRYING TO GET ROLLERS OF A D9H FREE (THEY WERE FROZEN) BY TURNING AND USING TORCH AND DIGGING WITH BAR TO UNFREEZE. RUNNING TRACKS TO SEE IF FREE. TRACKS DID NOT COME TO FULL STOP CAUSING LEFT HAND TO BE PULLED INTO TRACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 6" X62" PUTTY KNIFE TO PUT LUBRICATION ON THE OPEN GEARS OF A DEWATERING CLASSIFIER (SCREW CONVEYOR). THE PROTECTIVE GUARD WAS NOT IN PLACE AND THE PUTTY KNIFE AND EMPLOY EE'S GLOVE GOT CAUGHT IN THE GEAR PINCH POINT. THE EMPLOYEE LOST PART OF FOUR FINGERS AND PART OF THE THUMB ON THE RIGHT HAND.

THIS INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF LIFTING A CAST IRON HOSE ONTO THE DRILL RIG.THE HOSE WAS APPROX 100LBS.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO ATTACH A CHAIN TO SEVERAL STEEL SCREEN PANELS IN PREPARATION FOR HOISTING. HE LEANED THE PANELS AWAY FROM PILLAR THEY WERE LEANING AGAINST IN ORDER TO GET CLEARANCE FOR TH E CAHIN. HE LOST CONTROL OF THE PANELS AND THEY FELL AGAINST HIS BODY PINNING HIM TO THE GROUND AND CAUSING INJURY. CAUSED MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS AND AGGRAVATED AN OLD HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING A GREASE ZERK IN A FLANGE WHEN THE DRILL CAUGHT IN A HOLE AND THE CAP SPUN CATCHING HIS FINGER. THE RESULT WAS A DISTAL AMPUTATION OF HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING A HAGLUND MUCK CAR TO A LOCOMOTIVE AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE DRAWBAR AND THE HITCH PIN.

WAS LIFTING GLUE BOXES ONTO ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE STRAINED HIMSELF. AT THIS TIME THE DOCTOR SAID IT WAS ONLY A STRAIN AND LATER HE SAID THAT IT WAS A HERNIA.

FOREMAN PUT HIS HAND BETWEEN BELTS AND LET A SPLICE GET HOLD OF HIS GLOVE ON LEFT AHND AND PULLED ARM INTO LOW-LOW END ROLLER AND PULLED LEFT ARM OFF.LOST ARM THREE INCHES ABOVE ELBOW.

MOVING LIFTING TRUCK REAR ENDS AND PARTS,, HERNIA

EE WAS WAS ON 3 MAN CREW REPLACING CHAIN ADJUSTOR SPROCKET CYLINDER OF WOBBLER FEEDER TO PRIMARY CRUSHER. HE REPORTED NO PAIN WHILE WORKING BUT A THOME THAT NIGHT HE NOTICED AN USUSALY SWELLIN G IN GROIN AREA. HE CONTINUED TO FELL NO PAIN BUT ASKED TO SEE CO DR SINCE HE BELIEVED HIS CONDITION WAS WORK RELATED.

VICTIM WAS TROUBLE SHOOTING MINER IN Z-WEST SECTION. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE THE COVER OF THE CONTROL BOX IN CAB OF MINER AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH ELECTRICAL VOLTAGE THE WITNESS TRIED TO FRE E HIM BUT COULD NOT AND RAN TO THE POWER CENTER TO DISCONNECT POWER. WHEN THE WITNESS RETURNED THE VICTIM WAS ON THE GROUND

AREA 50- OPENING WATER LINES, DOWN ON KNEES, PULLING ON LARGE WHEEL VALVE HANDLE FELT PAIN IN LEFT GROIN. DID NOT REPORT INCIDENT UNTIL 1-15-91.

INJURED WAS TRANSFERRING HYDRAULIC OIL FROM MANTRIP TO BOTTOM ALONG TRACK IN 7 BUTT WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT OF HIS ABDOMEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS LAYING TRACK WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.EMPLOYEE WAS NOT OFF WORK UNTIL 01-28-91.

WHILE FIXING BELT,HAND SLIPPED ON MOVING PARTS./

CORE BARREL RESTING ON FOOT, PARTNER BROUGHT ROTATION DOWN DOWN IT CAUGHT ON CORE BARRELL DRIVING IT THROUGH TOP OF BOOTS AND FOOT BIG TOE AND NEXT TOE WERE AMPUTATED

WAS REPLACING BLADES ON A DE-DUSTER IN PREPARTION PLANT.

TURNING A MOTOR ON A CART,FELT A PAIN

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING DRILL STEEL INTO THE AUGER CLAMPS AND WHEN HE REACHED AND PULLED FOR THE LEVER HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER IN THE CLAMP.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING SHIMS ON CIRCLE OF GRADER USING A CRESCENT WRENCH IT SLIPPED CAUSING CIRCLE TO FALL INTO PLACE SVERENING R INDEX FINGER

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICE BETWEEN MAIN SHOP BUILDING AND CONTROL ROOM BUILDING. HE ALLEGES HE SUSTAINED A HERNIA FROM THE FALL. DOCTOR'S LETTER INDICATED HERNIA WAS NOT CAUSED BY THE FALL. THE C OMPANY IS CONTESTING THIS CASE.

8D BATTERIES FROM PICKUP FELT BURNING PAIN IN GROIN.HAD DOCTOR APPT-01-24-91 DID NOT BECOME DISABLED UNTIL 01-31-91.DATE OF SURGERY (LOST TIME BEGAN).

WHILE PULLING SLACK IN POWER CABLE TO MINING MACHINE EMPLOYEE FLET DISCOMFORT IN ABDOMINAL AREA.EMPLOYEE HAD HAD PREVIOUS STOMACH SURGERY AND HAD LEFT APPR 8" SCAR.HERNIA OCCURRED ALONGSIDE OF SCAR TISSUE.

EMPL WEIGHING 40 LB BAGS AND FELT A TEAR IN STOMACH WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A HERNIA OR RUPTURE RIGHT SIDE.

EE WAS CHANGING DRAG BRAKE ON UNIT 204 DRAG LINE CRANE. HE WAS USING A ROPE TO PULL BRAKE BAND OUT WHILE STANDING ON DRUM AND FELT PAIN IN HIS ABDOMEN.

INJURED AND A CO-WORKER WERE SETTING TIMBERS IN THE TAILGATE ENTRY OF THE 0235 LONGWALL.AFTER SETTING APPROXIMATELY 28 TIMBERS HE FELT PAIN IN HIS ABDOMEN.HENRY WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A HERNI A ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS ABDOMEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS DUMPING LOAD WHEN HE PULLED DOOR CLOSED & HIS FINGER WAS PINCHED IN DOOR JAM

EMPL WORKED UNTIL 01/03/91 WHERE ACCORDING TO DR'S REPORT HE HAD ANOTHER RECURRENCE OF ORIGINAL ACCIDENT & MISSED ADDITIONAL 11 DAYS. HE HAS BEEN TERMINATED FROM OUR WORK FORCE.

WHEN EMPLOYEE THREW A RAILROAD SWITCH, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT GROIN AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING TO REVERSE THE FAN DIRECTION ON M-4 DRILL. EMPLOYEE DE-ENERGIZED THE FAN AND REACHED INTO THE FAN BEFORE IT STOPPED TURNING.

WHILE PULLING ON A PIPE WRNECH TO OPEN A VALVE ON A RAIL CAR THE VALVE OPENED SUDDENLY CAUSING A ABDOMINAL HERNIA.

INJURED WAS PUSHING TO STRAIGHTEN A TENSION REABR BOLT DURING INSTALLATION WHEN IT SLIPPED AND INJURED FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

PULLED BACK MUSCLE WHILE REMOVING BELT ROLLERS FROM BELT. HE FINISHED THE SHIFT AND WENT TO DR. NEXT DAY.

EE WAS OPERATING LOADER AT CRUSHED STONE STOCKPILE LOADING CO. LEASED TRUCKS FOR BARGE LOADING. FROZEN MATERIAL BROKE LOOSE FROM STOCKPILE AND LANDED ON FRONT HALF OF LOADER. PUSHING WINDSHIEL D ONTO THE OPERATOR.

I.NAME HELPING OTHER LIFT OUTRIGGER PADS FOR CRANE WHICH WERE FROZEN TO GROUND BY HOPPER AT JAW.I.NAME JERKED PAD QUICKLY AND PULLED NECK ON RIGHT SIDE.

INJURED WAS MARKING HOLES FOR BOLTER OPERATOR WHEN BOLTER OPERATOR SWUNG BOOM STRIKING AND BRUISING INJURED LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE PUTTING IN TIMBER A ROCK CAME DOWN AND HIT HIM IN THE LEFT SHOULDER.

EE AND ANOTHER EE LIFTING CUTTER EDGE FROM LOADER BUCKET. OTHER EE STUMBLED DROPPING FULL LOAD ON EE S LIFT.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS TRYING TO RACK A 55 GALLON BARREL OF OIL WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK

EMPL WAS PASSENGER IN PERSONNEL CARRIER WHEN HE REPORTEDLY INJ NECK & LOWER BACK. WHILE SITTING IN PARKED PERSONNEL CARRIER VEHICLE WAS STRUCK BY ANOTHER PERSONNEL CARRIER. EMPL REPORTED INJ T O SUPERVISOR IMMEDIATELY AFTER INCIDENT OCCURED.

INSTALLING RF BOLT EXPER PAIN IN GROIN AREA

EE SAID HE WAS CARRYING ONE END OF A 20 FT LADDER WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST A PIPE.

WHILE SETTING TIMBERS IN FACE OF #4 ENTRY ON #6 SECTION EMPL STARTED HAVING PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EE HAD HIS RIGHT HAND LAYING ON TOP OF A WINCH WHEN HE KICKED OUT THE BRAKE, THE WINCH WAS ENGAGED AT SUCH A FORCE IT CAUSED HIM TO FAL BACKWARD, PULLING HIS HAND ACROSS AN EDTE OF METAL.

THERE WAS NO ACCIDENT OR INCIDENT CONNECTED WITH THIS PROBLEM EE HAS HAD CHRONIC BACK SPASMS FOR AT LEAST EIGHT YEARS. EE TURNED TO PICK UP A SCALING BAR AND SUFFERED A MUSCLE SPASM IN HIS LOW ER BAC.

SM ROCK FELL FROM HIGH WALL STRIKING HIM ON BACK

EE WAS USING A PRYING BAR TO LOOSEN DIRT FROM THE SHAKER WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE RIB AND THE ROOF BOLTER WHEN THE MACHINE SLEWED DUE TO CO-WORKERS CANOPY STRIKING AN INSTALLED ROOF BOLT.

MAKING ROUNDS AS A PART OF HIS WATCHMAN DUTIES.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON DEBRIS IN KILN, TWISTING LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS ROCK DUST ALONG THE BELT WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING THE LEFT LOWER BACK AREA ON A ROCK CAUSING A BRUISE TO THE LOWER LEFT RIBS.

GETTING DOWN FROM TRUCK GOT LAST STEP FOOT SLIPPED OFF HE FELL HIT L SHOULDER AND RIBS

INJURED WAS MUCKING BELT IN A LOW COAL SEAM. WHEN HE LIFTED A SHOVEL OF MUCK TO PUT ON THE BELT HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER ABDOMAN.

DOCK UTILITY PERSON WAS ATTENDING THE #2 FEEDER BIN. A COAL TRUCK HAD JUST DUMPED A LOADER OF COAL INTO THE BIN AND WAS DRIVING FORWARD FROM THE BIN. THE COAL TRUCK STOPPED ABRUPTLY AND THE TA ILGATE ON THE DUMP BED SWUNG OUTWARD AND STRUCK OUR EMPLOYEE. HE WAS KNOCKED TO THE GROUND. EMPLOYEE THEN STOOD UP AND COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN THE RIB AREA.

THIS EE AND ONE OTHER PERSON ATTEMPTED TO MANUEVER A SPOOL OF MESSENGER WIRE .

WHILE LIFTING PART FOR CRUSHER, HE PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE LEFT PIPE WRENCH ON BACK OF DRILL STEEL WHEN THE DRILL STARTED THE WRENCH SPUN AROUND AND HIT THE EMPLOYEE IN THE LEFT FOREARM.BRUISED THE LEFT ARM ABOVE THE WRIST.EMPLOYEE LATER WENT TO SEE DOCTOR.ARM IS BROKEN.HE HAD BEEN WARNED NOT TO DO THIS BEFORE.

EE WAS CARRYING TYPEWRITER TRIPPED OVER BOX OF COMPUTER PAPER AND FELL ON LEFT KNEE DID NOT WANT TO GO TO DR. THAT TRINE BUT KNEE GOT TO BOTHERING HER ON 4-15-91 AND WAS TALK TO DR FOR TREATME NT.

A PIECE OF THE MAIN BELT RIPPED AND HAD TO BE CUT HE WAS CUTTING IT AND HAD HIS HAND IN THE WRONG PLACE AND CUT THE TOP OF HIS LEFT THUMB.

REPAIRING CRUSHER FELL BELOW BROKEN COLLAR BONE AND 3 CRACKED RIBS

STANDING WITH BOTH FEET IN CABLE HANDLER CLEANING WATER SPRAYS ON SHEARER. ATTEMPTING TO STEP DOWN HE CAUGHT LEFT FOOT & FELL BACKWARDS STRIKING LEFT CALF AGAINST PIPE RAIL OF CABLE HANDLER. C ONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 2/7/91.

WHILE ADJUSTING A PIN ON A MOTOR, HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE PIN AND THE MOTOR RESULTING IN LACERATION TO HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

INJURED WAS WASHING DOWN SLOPE BELT AREA WIT H FIRE HOSE THE FIRE HOSE BURST CAUSING UNEXPECTED SUDDEN MOVEMENT WHICH CAUSED THE FIRE HOSE NOZZLE TO STRIKE INJURED ON BACK OF LEFT HAND

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS HELPING REPAIR TRAM CHAIN ON EIMCO BOLTER IN #7 ENTRY, WHEN A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF HITTING HIM ON THE ARM.

INJURED WAS LOADING ROCK DUST ONTO BELT CONVEYOR AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

INJURED HAD JUST EMPTIED HIS SHUTTLE CAR AND PULLED OFF OF FEEDER EXACTLY 9 FT WHEN HIS SHUTTLE CAR CANOPY STRUCK THE TOP BREAKING CANOPY LOOSE. THIS CAUSED THE CANOPY TO STRIKE HIM ON THE BAC K AND NECK. INJURED WAS HOSPTIALIZED.

EMPL WAS PASSENGER IN PERSONNEL CARRIER WHEN HE REPORTEDLY INJ NECK & LOWER BACK. WHILE SITTING IN PARKED PERSONNEL CARRIER VEHICLE WAS STRUCK BY ANOTHER PERSONNEL CARRIER. EMPL REPORTED INJ T O SUPERVISOR IMMEDIATELY AFTER INCIDENT OCCURED.

WHILE A ROOFBOLTER OPERATOR WAS WORKING AT THE FACE A SMALL HEAD FELL FROM BETWEEN TWO PEVIOUSLY INSTALLED BOLTS HITTING THE OPERATOR ON THE LEFT LEG THE HEAD WAS MIXED WITH SOME TOP COAL & IT WAS NOT APPARENT THAT IT WAS LOOSE

PULLING HIMSELF OUT OF RAM CAR STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS SIDE NO TIME MISSED UNTIL 2-4-91.

HELPING MOVE A PUMP,SLIPPED AND TWISTED BACK. NO REPORT SUBMITTED DUE TO CIRCUM. AT TIME OF THE ACCIDENT; NOT CONSIDERED TO BE A LOST TIME ACCIDENT BY PREVIOUS MGMT. ON 7-27-92 A CITATION WAS ISSUED,THEREFORE THIS REPORT IS BEING FILED TO MEET THE REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW/

THE EE STATED THAT HE WAS PULLING BELT STRUCTURE BETWEEN BELT TO SET ONTO STEEL ROPE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

CLOSING R R CAR DOORS SLIPPED STRUCK EMP OVER R T EYE

I.NAME.WORKING ON LOADER CONDITIONS WERE MUDDY,WAS WEARING RUBBER BOOTS.GOING TO CHECK HYDRAULICS,ON 1ST STEP OF LOADER HE SLIPPED AND FELL -ANKLE HIT THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOWERING DRILL MAST OF ROOF BOLTER HIS LEFT HAND WAS RESTING ON PART OF THE MAST FRAME HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER WAS SMASHED BETWEEN T HE FRAME & PART OF THE DRILL MAST

EMPL WAS LIFTING & PALLETIZING 50# BAGSOF BARCITE WHEN HE HURT BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING COAL IN THE FURNACE IN SHOP& FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON THE FIRE EXPLODED & CAME BACK ON HIM BURNING HIS FACE ARMS & HANDS APPARENTLY IT WAS LIKE A SMOKE EXPLOSION OR MAY HAV E OCCURRED AS A RESULT OF AIR EXPOSURE CAUSING THE FIRE TO IGNITE QUICKLY

HE WAS WORKING IN 10B SECTION ON THE MINER. HE SHOULDERED A SMALL OXYGEN BOTTLE WHIHC WAS LOCATED AT HIS JEEP AND CARRIED IT APPROX. 300' TO THE MINER. UPON ARRIVAL AT THE MINER (WORK AREA) HIS RIGHT SHOULDER WAS SORE AND NUMBNESS IN RIGHT HAND. LOST WORK DAYS BEGAN 2-15-91.

HOOKING LOAD TO A CRANE.HAD TO BEND OVER TO DUCK UNDER A BEAM.DIDNT BENT OVER FAR ENOUGH AND HIT BEAM WITH HARD HAT.THAT CAUSED HIM TO GO DOWN TO HIS KNEES.

DOING MAINT TRIPPED ON GUARDS AND FELL ON SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE STATES: THAT WHILE SHOVELING ON THE BELT HE FELT PAIN IN BOTH WRISTS AND BOTH FOREARMS. CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME. PERSON STARTED MISSING WORK 3-8-91.

ON 01-31-91 EMPLOYEE WAS DOING THE INSIDE TASK OF MOVING & POSITIONING 1 3/48 821/2X48IN SCREEN CLOTH ON THE MIDDLE DECK OF THE TRIPLE DECK SCREWEN EMPLOYEE REPORTED SOME DISCOMFORT ON 02-01-9 1 BUT CONTINUED TO WORK EVENTHOUGH DISCOMFORT CONTINUED ON 02-20-91 REPORTED WORSENING PAIN AFTER USING 16LB SLEDGE HAMMER DURING BOWL CHANGE ON 02-19-91 EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO COMPANY DR WHO E

HE AND OTHER EMPLOYEE WERE CARRYING ROOF BOLT PLATES AND HE TURNED AND TWISTED HIS BACK. SPRAINED LUMBAR VERTEBRA.

THE ASSISTANT MINE FOREMAN WAS INVESTIGATING THE AREA AROUND THE ANGLE BELTDRIVE AREA TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF STOPPAGE OF THIS BELT FLIGHT. AS HE CONTINUED HIS INVESTIGATION THE INJURED EE S LIPPED AND TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK REGION.

EMPL WAS PASSENGER IN PERSONNEL CARRIER WHEN HE REPORTEDLY INJ NECK & LOWER BACK. WHILE SITTING IN PARKED PERSONNEL CARRIER VEHICLE WAS STRUCK BY ANOTHER PERSONNEL CARRIER. EMPL REPORTED INJ T O SUPERVISOR IMMEDIATELY AFTER INCIDENT OCCURED.

THE EE WAS OPERATING REMOTE CONTROL CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A RIB ROLL STRUCK HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

WHILE CLEANING THE RECLAIM GRATE THE RECLAIM BUCKET FELL ON EMPLOYEE'S FOOT BREAKING A SMALL BONE IN RIGHT FOOT.

GREASING HEAD & TAIL PULLEY,SLIPPED & FELL OFF CONVEYOR BELT ON WALKWAY HITTING HANDRAIL,STRAINING MUSCLES IN NECK & HIP -BRUISES.

EE STATED I STEPPED OVER METAL MY FOOT CAUGHT ON METAL AND DROPPED ON MY FOOT.

WHILE TRYING TO LIFT A OIL BARREL EMPLOYEE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

VITIM TIGHTEN STRUCTURE BOLTS IN BELT STRUCTURE WHEN HE STRUCK A GLOOP NUT WITH A HAMMER TO LOSOEN IT UP ADN A PIECE OF METAL BROKE LOOSE AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING ROCK IN A S&S SCOOP HE CAME TO A LOW AREA & DID NOT HAVE HIS HEAD LOW ENOUGH & STRUCK TOP OF MINE ROOF CAUSING STRAIN TO HIS NECK & LEFT SHOULDER

MAN WAS CLEANING U SPILLAGE AT #1 BET TAIL ROCK DISLODGED FROM TOP BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRICKING HIS SHOULDER TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM ROCK HE TRIPPED OVER TAIL ANCHOR JACK. HE CAUGHT HIS FEET ON JACK TWISTING IT WHILE FALLING WE ASSUMED IT TO BE BROKEN AND TREATED IT AS SUCH.

THE EE WAS CLIMBING ONTO HIS DOZER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF MUD CAUSING THE OPERATOR TO FALL TO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING MINER CABLE.

HYDRAULIC DRILLING

ROLLED OVER BY DOLLY WHEEL.

BENT DOWN TO OPEN A VALVE ON PUMP HE STOOD UP & TURNED AT THE SAME TIME & TWISTED HIS BACK THIS CAUSED HIM TO FALL INTO THE SUMP

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING 6" PLASTIC WATER HOSE OVER A DIRT EMBANKMENT.EMPLOYEE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL,INJURING RIGHT SHOULDER.

HE WAS LIFTING A PIECE OF STONE AND HURT BACK.

38F-Z HEADING SUSTAINED A SULPHIDE DUST IGNITION & RELEASED SUPHUR DIOXIDE GAS RAN NORMALLY PULLING AIR DOWN 38 VENT RAISE WAS OFF LETTING GASES GO UP 38 VENT RAISE SOME GASES ACCULULAT ED AT UNDERGROUND SERVICE AREA EMPLOYEE OPENED BACK ROOM DOOR & WAS EXPOSED TO GASES EMPLOYEE WAS RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL BUT WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS UP TO HIM IF HE RETURNED THE NEXT DAY AS PRECAUTION

SLIDING PAD UNDER TABLE SLIPPED LOSING BALANCE AND INJ HIMSELF IN LOWER GROIN AREA

EMPL WAS DUMPING TRAIN OF ROCK AT SURFACE ORE DUMP. HE HAD FOOT OUTSIDE CAB OF LOCOMOTIVE & STRUCK CAR STOP AT END OF RAIL. BROKE BONE IN RIGHT FOOT.

SMALL PIECE OF RIB FELL HITTING I.NAME ON RIGHT SHOULDER AND RIBS.I.NAME WAS PULLING SLACK OUT FOF MINER CABLE.

PLACING PUMP ON MOTOR PULLED BACK MUSCLE

WALKING DOWN STEPS STARTED BACK UP PAIN IN BACK

WHILE GOING TO HIS VECHICLE, EMPLOYEE TRIPPED ON ONE OF THE WOODEN PEGS STICKING UP FROM THE SIDEWALK FORM. HE FELL AND LANDED ON RIGHT ANKLE AND FELL AGAINST BLOCK WALL. EMPLOYEE NOTICED SMAL L CUT ON LEFT KNEE AND BRUISE ON LEFT HIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING SKIRT RUBBER ON A CONVEYOR WHILE WORKING OU T OF A HIGHLIFT BUCKET HIGHLIF T MOVED FORWARD PINNING THE EMPLOYEE AGAINST THE CONVEYOR

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING SKIRT RUBBER ON A CONVEYOR WHILE WORKING OUT OF A HIGHLIFT BUCKET HIGHLIFT MOVED FORWARD & PINNED THE EMPLOYEE AGAINST THE CONVEYOR

EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING THE DRILL AND MISSED THE BOTTOM STEP,RESULTING IN HIS LEGS SCISSORING EXERTING CONSIDERABLE STRAIN ON HIS GROIN AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING UP AN AIR LINE UNDER #2 KILN WHEN A PARTICLE OF LIME WENT INTO HIS EYE.

EMPL HAS COMPLAINED ABDOMINAL PAIN.IT WORSENED WHILE SHOVELING AND LIFTING ROTEX SCREENS-AS ON 2-5-91.ON 2-8 SOUGHT MED ATTENTION AND WAS TOLD HE HAD HERNIA IN SAME PLACE AS LAST HERNIA OPERAT ION 5 YRS AGO.THE OPERATION WILL PROBABLY BE WEEK OF 2-18 DR STATED REPEATED SHOVELING CAUSED THIS PROBLEM-HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A WATERBLASTER FROM TRUCK. THE OTHER GUY HELPING HIM DROPPED HIS END PUTTING ALL WEIGHT ON HIS SHOULDER, THUS PULLING HIS SHOULDER.

ROCK ROLLED OFF CONVEYOR ON EMPLOYEES FOOT BEFORE HE COULD MOVE AWAY.

INJ LIFTING A TRASH CAN TO EMPTY INTO TRASH DUMPSTER WHEN EMPL FELT PAIN IN BACK.

EE WAS ENTERING THE MILL BLDG. FROM THE NORTH ENTRANCE. HE WAS WALKING UP A VERY SLIGHT INCLINE LEADING INTO THE MILL BLDG. THE GROUND WAS WET DUE TO THE 3 INCHES OF RAIN THAT HAD FALLEN DURIN G THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE EE SLIPPED ON THE SURFACE AND FELL ON THE GROUND. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPTIAL BY AMBULANCE. HE SUFFERED A COMPOUND FRACTURE TO HIS LOWER RIGHT LEG. HE

EMPLOYEE MONITERS THE WATER DISCHARGE DAILY. HE WAS POURING 50# BAGS OF LIME INTO THE TREATMENT SYSTEM WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE JUMPED OFF COMPANY TRUCK AND TWISTED ANKLE. BROKE BONE INF OOT. LEFT WORK FOR TWO WEEKS WAS NOT RELEASED BY DOCTOR SO WAS OFF ADDITIONAL 4 WEEKS.

LOST BALANCE GRABBED OPEN BIN DOOR CLOSED DOWN PINCHED FOOT

CHAIN PULLER SLIPPED THROWING VICTIM BACKWARD.

PULLING ON DRILL STEEL TWISTED R KNEE

HE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER TO THE CAB ON 275 B MICH. WHEEL LOADER WHEN BACK POPPED (PULLED MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK).

BACK INJURY-DAMAGE UNKNOW AT THIS TIME.

EMPLOYEE WAS RETURNING FROM MAIL BOX. WHILE REENTERING OFFICE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THROW RUG AND WET FLOOR. EMPLOYEE FELL HITTING HER HEAD ON FLOR.

WENT TO PIN 1 ENTRY STARTED ON LEFT SIDE TO PUT UP HIS FIRST PIN A PIECE OF GOB FELL DRIVING ALLENS HEAD AND CHIN INTO THE PINNER.

INJURED WAS MOVING CABLE ON THE BELT LINE (IN LOW COAL) HE WAS ON HIS KNEES, CRAWLING WITHOUT KNEE PADS. WHEN HE PUT HIS KNEE DOWN ON A PIECE OF SLATE CAUSING A LACERATION.

EE WAS WORKING IN TRAP AREA AND HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON SLOPE GROUND, SAFETY BELT STOPPED HIS FALL BUT JERKING MOTION FROM BELT CAUSED INJURY TO HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS CUTTING ON METAL THAT WAS COVERED WITH LEAD PAINT SAID HE FELT DIZZY NAUSEOUS HEAD ACHY ALSO HE BROKE OUT IN A RASH SUPERVISOR FEELS IT WAS NOT THE CAUSE OF HIS ILLNESS OTHER EMPLOYEES WORKED IN THE AREA WITH NO REACTION

INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUSH A 6FT ROOF BOLT INTO A HOLE WHICH HAD BEEN DRILLED IN THE MINE ROOF AS HE DID SO THE ROOF BOLT TWISTED CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE,TWISTING HIS BACK AND ALSO STRIKING HIS BACK AGAINST THE MINE FLOOR WHEN HE FELL.

THREE EMPLOYEES WERE MOVING A TRANSFORMER INTO POSITION WHEN INJURED FELT A PAIN AT HIS RIGHT ELBOW.THE NEXT MORNING HE WAS MOVING A TRASH CAN WHEN THE PAIN WORSENED.

PULLING AUGER FLIGHTS OUT OF HILL,BASEBALL-SIZED ROCK FELL FROM SOMEWHERE FROM 80'HIGHWALL STRIKING EMPL ON LEFT SHOULDER.EMPL WORKED THE NEXT DAY BUT EXPERIENCED PAIN AND DECIDED TO HAVE IT E XAMINED.RELEASED TO WORK AFTER SEVERAL DAYS REST

EMPLOYEE HAD THE DOOR TO THE TOOL BOX OPEN & WAS GETTING HIS BOOTS & CAT SPADE OUT AS HE WAS PULLING HIS BOOTS OUT THE LID FELL ON HIS RT HAND

CUTTING COVER WITH TORCH, USING HAND TOOLS TO CLEAN OFF STEEL, METAL ENTERED R EYE

EMPLOYEE STATES THE BUGGY DRAG CAUGH UNDER THE BOOM AND BOUNCED HIM IN THE OPERATOR'S CAB.

CLAIMS HE HURT BACK LIFTING BUNDLE ROOFBOLTS.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A FORKLIFT TRUCK IN REERSE. THE LEFT REAR TIRE HIT A PALLET CORNER WHICH CAUSED THE STEERING WHEEL TO SPIN. WHEN THE STEERING WHEEL SPUN, THE SPEED KNOB ON THE WHEEL H IT THE EMPLOYEE'S ARM BETWEEN THE WRIST AND ELBOW THEREBY CAUSING A FRACTURE.

THE ROOF BOLTER WAS TRAMMING THRU A BREAK AND AS IT MADE A TURN IT LOOKED AS IF IT WAS GOING TO RUN OVER A MINER CABLE THAT WAS LAYING IN THE AREA AND THE INJURED EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO MOVE TH E CABLE AND AS HE DID HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

BREAKING CHUNK OF SLATE WHEN STRUCK FINGERS AGAINS TEDGE OF SLATE CAUSING CUT TO FINGERS.

INJ ROSSING CONVEYOR BELT WHILE IT WAS OFF,SLIPPED AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF RAIL GOING DOWN BETWEEN BELT AND RAIL INJURING LEG.

THE EMPLOYEE REPORTS THAT HE WAS TRAMMING A TRACK MOTOR WHEN THE TROLLEY POLE CAME OFF THE TROLLEY AND HE STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST A CURTAIN BOARD AS HE REACHED TO REPLACE THE TROLLEY POLE.

DRIVING TRUCK HAULING ROCK FROM SOUTH END OF CASTEL MINE DRIVER HIT BUMP IN ROAD CAUSING TRUCK TO TOSS HIM FROM SIDE TO SIDE CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPL WAS LOADING ANFO BAGS INTO POWDER BASKET WHEN HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN GROIN AREA.

INJ & COWORKER WERE CLEANING MATERIAL FROM #4 HEADING IN PREPARTION FOR BELT MOVE PIECE OF LINE CURTAIN WAS LAYING ALONG RIGHT RIB COVRRED WITH MUD. INJ & COWORKER ATTEMPTED TO MOVE CURTAIN BY HAND BUT COULDN'T BECAUSE OF MUD. THEY TOOK CHANNEL LOCKS & ATTEMPTED TO PULL CURTAIN WHEN INJURED'S CHANNEL LOCKS SLIPPED & STRUCK HIMSELF WITH CHANNEL LOCKS IN FOREHEAD. AREA WAS WET & MUDD

EE WAS ASCENDING THE LADDER OF THE LOADER WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE. HE BACKED DOWN TO THE GROUND, AND FOUND THE PAIN IN HIS KNEE SEVERE ENOUGH TO PRECLUDE HIM BEARING WEIGHT ON THE LEG. ACCORDING TO THE EE HE DID NOT SLIP FALL OR TWIST THE KNEE NOR DID HE BUMP THE KNEE OR INUURY IT IN ANY WAY NO DEFICIENCIED WERE FOUND IN THE LADDER. ACCORDING TO THE PHYSICIANS TH

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SLATE BAR TO PRY A TOP BELT ROLLER INTO A BED RAIL SADDLE WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED ON THE ROUND BED RAIL CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO HIT HIS RIGHT ELBOW AGAINST THE BED RAIL.

38F-2 HEADING SUSTAINED SULFIDE DUST IGNITION ON PREVIOUS SHIFT. MINER DID NOT USE REMOTE FAN STARTER. EMPL ENETERED GASES WHILE ATTEMPTING TO TURN ON VENTILATION FAN. EMPL RELEASED FROM HOSPI TAL BUT WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS UP TO HIM AS TO IF HE WANTED TO RETURN TO WORK NEXT DAY. AS PRECAUTION DR WANTED TO CHECK FOR ANY SIDE AFFECTS NEXT DAY.

EE WAS DRILLING A RAISE UP ROUND IN HIS STOPE. ROCK DISOLODGED BY THE DRILLING ACTIVITY FELL, RESULTING IN CUTS ON HIS NOSE, UPPER LIP, AND RIGHT ARM.

EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LOWER BACK WHILE SHOVELING TRACK. NO ACCIDENT OCCURRED, PAIN WAS CAUSED FROM PREVIOUS INJURY IN 1989. AT THAT TIME, EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATED ON FOR BACK INJURY. HIS D OCTOR REPORTED THAT HIS ADDITIONAL PAIN WAS CAUSED FROM THE PREVIOUS INJURY. FIRST LOST WORK DAY- 1-31-91.

PINCHED RIGHT THUMB WITH DRILL STEEL

EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING SUPPLIES FROM THE SCOOP TO THE PINNER. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK KNOCKED HIM CDOWN. HIS FACE STRUCK THE SIDE OF THE SCOOP BUCKET. HE RECEIVED A FRACTURED NOSE AND CHEEK BON E.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT THE MINER CABLE WAS LYING ON TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT AND HE RAISED HIS FOOT UP TO SHAKE THE CABLE OFF WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS CRAWLING ON SECTION AND TWISTED HIS WRIST.

HE WAS RESETTING TIMBERS WHEN SOME ROCK FELL STRUCK EMPLOYEE'S WRIST.

CARRYING BOARDS SOMETHING HIT HER R ELBOW

INJ WAS ADJUSTING PRV FOR LOW PRESSURE ON LONGWALL SHIELDS AT HEAD OPERATORS DECK ON 5 I SECTION. HE HAD LEFT HAND LAYING ON GUARD WHEN COAL & ROCK RIB 2' X 2'X 1' THICK ROLLED OVER & STRUCK H AND.

EMPLOYEE WAS GOING DOWN A LADDER ON BELT OVERCAST THE LADDER SLIPPED & HE FELL TO THE GROUND

EMPLOYEE STATED HIS PING HAMMER WAS STRUCK BY A PICK HAMMER RESULTIN IN A PIECE OF METAL STRIKING HIM FROM THE PICK HAMMER.

INJ HAD CARRIED & MIXED SEVERAL BAGS OF STOPPING SEALANT WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN NECK & RIGHT ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS EXAMINING AND TAKING DOWN LOOSE COAL FROM THE RIB. WHEN HE TURNED AROUND TO RESUME ROOF BOLTING, THE RIB FELL AND STRUCK HIM IN THE BACK AND LEFT ARM.

I.NAME HAULING SUPPLIES TO FACE.TRACK MOTOR DE-RAILED.WHILE USING A LIFT JACK STRAINED LOWER BACK.

WAS WELDING ON BED OF 175 TON UNIT RIG & TWISTEDWRONG WAY INJURING HIMSELF

THE MAN WAS USING A LIFTING JACK TO JACK A MOTOR ON TRACK WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS GROIN AND STOMACH.

HE WAS STANDING ON THE TOP OF A ROOFBOLTER TO HANG A CURTAIN IN HIGH ROOF CONDITIONS. AS HE WENT TO GET OFF THE BOLTER HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT ARM AND RIGHT CALF.

REMOVING TIRE WITH SLATE BAR, IT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO FLOOR

EMPLOYEE STATED AS HE WAS CARRYING A BAG OF ROCKDUST HE STEPPED IN UNEVELN BOTTOM SLIP NOT FALL & TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE

THE MAN WAS ON HIS LUNCH BREAK WHEN A ROCK MEASURING APPROX. 10X12X2 FELL BETWEEN PERMANENT ROOF SUPPORTS FROM A HEIGHT OF 26 INCH HITTING THE EE ON TOP OF THE HEAD CAUSING SORENESS STIFFNESS OF THE NECK.

HE WAS SETTING JACKS ON WILCOX MINER AND THE MINER WAS CUTTING COAL GOING TO LEFT. A SLIP FELL OUT AND CAUGHT 2 OR 3 INCHES ON HIS HEAD. FRACTURED SKULL AND SERIOUS OUT ON RIGHT EAR.

WORKING ON A BELT WHEN HAND SLIPPED AND HIT PULLEY.

EMPLOYEE HAD PUT UP OUTSIDE ROOF BOLT AND WAS SWINGING HEAD INWARD TO INSTALL INSIDE BOLT WHEN RIB ROLLED OFF BETWEEN RIB BOLTS AND STRUCK LEFT KNEE.

WHILE BOLTING TOP ROCK FELL STRIKING LEFT FOOT

LOST FOOTING ON STOCK TRUCK CLIMBING BACK IN TRUCK.

FELL DOWN STEPS COMING OUT OF LAMP HOUSE

6-NORTH SECTION. INJURED STATED THAT HE STEPPED ON UNEVEN PAVEMENT AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

HE WAS TRAVELING IN HAULROAD WHEN HE STRUCK A POINT ANCHOR BOLT WITH HIS SHOULDER. THIS RESULTED IN AN ABRASION AND CONTUSION.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR WHEN IT BOUNCED CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO STRIKE THE TOP CAUSING INJURY TO HIS BACK.

MEDICAL VERIFICATION RECEIVED ON 01-29-91.EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHEN CLIMBING DOWN INTO GRADE AREA.

EE WAS MOVING MINER CABLE IN 48 INCH MINING HEIGHT AREAS AND AGGRAUATED PREVIOUS BACK INJURY FROM AUGUST 10,1990 PRVIOUS EXAMINATION IN AUGUST SHOWED THAT TWO OF THE LOWER VERTEBRATES INDICATE THAT LOWER BACK MUSCLES WERE OVEREXTENDER.

GRINDING METAL FOR PLANT REPAIR. GUST OF WIND BLEW METAL FILINGS AROUND FOUR PIECES BECAME LODGED ON OUT EDGE OF IRIS. Y

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS REBUILDING CHUTE ON CRUSHER, CHUTE GAVE WAY AND EMPLOYEE FELL TO BOTTOM OF BUNKER. A 2' X 6' PIECE OF STEEL FELL ON RIGHT SHOULDER.

INJURED WAS TURNING A PIPE ON A SAND SCREW WITH A 24" PIPE WRENCH AND PULLED HIS BACK.

WORKING IN BATTERY BARN STEPPED OFF CONCRETE PAD PULLED MUSCLE IN R THIGH

EMPLOYEE LIFTED A BOX OF WASTE CEMENT CUBES AND LATER FELT NUMBNESS IN LEFT HAND. NOTE: TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OCCURRED LATER WHEN HE WENT FOR TREATMENT OF BACK INJURY. THIS INJURY FIRST K NOWN TO COMPANY 3-28-91.

EMPL PRYING LOOSE ROCK FROM CHUTE WITH LONG BAR AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

CYST ON L RING FINGER

STANDARD BUGGY WENT ON HIGH TRAM AFTER BEING ENERGIZED & OPERATOR HAD STEPPED OFF BUGGY RAMMED INTO BACK OF MINER MINER OPERATOR WAS TRYING TO GET OUT OF DECK OF MINER TO AVOID BUGGY HIT HIS H EAD & LEFT SHOULDER AGAINST A ROOF BOLT

MOVING A REAR STRUCTURE OFF OF A CAT ENGING WITH A HAND CART & HE SET CART DOWN TO MOVE AN OBJECT & THE CART TIPPED OVER LOST TIME

MOVING R CAR WHICH WAS ABOVE RAIL DOOR IT BETAN ROLLING KEPT PUSHING WITH R SHOULDER IT IS PAIN FUL

WHEN HE WAS OPERATING THE CONTINOUS MINER BY REMOTE CONTROL. HE SAW AN AREA OF MINE ROOF ABOUT TO FALL AND HE QUICKLY TURNED TO MAKE SURE HE WAS CLEAR OF THE FALL AREA AND HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

HANDING BRICK UP TO MAN ON PLATFORM ARM SORE DURING NIGHT AND NEXT DAY

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS PICKING UP A FIBER BLOCK TO MOVE THE BLOCK AND HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

HELPING TO SET TIMBERS PICKED UP TIMBER PAIN IN CHEST AND BACK

WHILE OVERHEAD GRINDING EMPLOYEE GOT A PIECE OF STEEL IN HIS RIGHT EYE.

SHOVELING ALL DAY FELT LIKE HE HAD PULLED MUSCLE I N CALF AREA

EMPL STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING THRU 6 RIGHT SPUR & FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK WHILE WALKING THRU LOW TOP AREA.

EMPLOYEE REPORTS INSTALLING DRILL ROCK GUARD WITH 16 LB HAMMER. A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF AND HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT LEG ABOVE THE KNEE CAP.

HE WAS CLEAING A GROUND AREA USING A WATER HOSE, WHEN HE HIT HIS HEAD ON A STEEL BOX COVERING A ACTUATOR.

WHILE LIFTING 7400 SHOVEL TEETH HE STRAINED HIMSELF PRODUCING AN ABCESS WHICH FILLED IMMEDIATELY.I COULD NOT PROVE THIS ABCESS WAS WORK RELATED THE EMPLOYEE CLAIMS IT IS AND HAS MISSED TIME.

WHILE OBSERVING MECHANIC CHANGING OUT MAXI BRAKE ON G/D 120 DRILL THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING IN DOORWAY.WHERE HE COULD GOG THE LIMIT SWITCH.WHILE THE MECHANIC WAS WORKING A PIECE FROM T HE MAXI BRAKE SYSTEM WENT THROUGH THE AIR AND STRUCK INJURED ON BRIDGE OF HIS NOSE,FOREHEAD AND FACE AREA.

SLIPPED ON BELT KNOCKED OFF FUEL OIL CAN FLL REIGNITED FIRE BURNS TO LOWER L LEG AND L SIDE OF FACE

THE MAN WAS MOVING 55 GALLON DRUMS OF ANTIFREEZE WHEN HE DEVELOPED BACK PAIN.

DRIVER WAS LEAVING PIT TO DUMP AREA AT TOP OF HILL WHEN HE NOTICED A FLASH THAT HE THOUGHT WAS AN ELECTRICAL SHORT IN THE GEAR SELECTOR. HE STOPPED ON THE HILL TO CHECK THE SHORT AND THE TRUCK MOTOR DIED. THE TRUCK ROLLED BACKWARDS DOWN THE HILL AND STRUCK THE HIGHWALL, TURNED ON ITS SIDE AND THE DRIVER FELL OUT.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE CHANGING A BRAKE SHOE ON #3 SWIGNER. THE OPERATOR, AND EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING PINS ON 4.H. SIDE AND HE WSA LOOSENING THE ADJUSTMENT ARM. WHILE HE W AS HOLDING BOLT WITH HAND ON ADJUSTMENT ARM. OTHER EMPLOYEE PULLED THE PIN IN ADJUSTMENT ARM RELEASING TENSION. INJURED'S FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN ADJ. ARM AND ADJ. BOLT. RESULTING INJURYW

CHECKING SCOOP, HIT CONTROL PEDAL IT MOVED PINNED BETWEEN 2 SCOOPS

INJ HELPING PULL CONVEYOR BELT UP ON FLAT CAR.WHILE PULLING BELT OVER END OF CAR EXPERIENCED PAIN IN SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE JUMPED OFF A SCOOP WHEN HE LANDED ON A PIECE OF COAL AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

EMPL WALKING ACROSS YARD WHEN WIND BLEW DUST BEHIND SAFETY GLASSES CAUSING CORNEAL ABRASION.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHILE HE WAS WORKING IN THE TAILINGS DAM AREA AS A SUPERVISOR, A FOREIGN OBJECT WENT INTO HIS LEFT EYE. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 1-30-91, AT WHICH TIME HE NOTIFIED THE S AFETY DEPARTMENT AND WAS TAKEN TO THE DOCTOR WHO REMOVED THE FOREIGN OBJECT. HE WAS REMOVED FROM WORK STATUS FOR 24 HOURS AND RETURNED TO FULL WORK STATUS ON 2-1-91.

INJURED WAS UNLOADING ROOF BOLTS AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPL WAS LAYING TRACK & FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

WHILE CUTTING BOLT IN CONVEYOR FRAME PIECE OF FRAME DROPPED APPROX. 4 TO 5 INCHES STRIKING LEFT FOOT BETWEEN SAFETY TOE AND ANKLE OF BOOT.

FALLING ON LEFF ARM STRIKING LOADER BUCKET EDGE WHILE HELPING EXCHANGE GAS METER.

WALKING AND SLIPPED IN MUDDY AREA TWISTED L KNEE

EMPL WAS WALKING TO MATERIAL UNLOADING STATION NORTH OF #3 HOUSE WHEN HE SLIPPED ON ICE & FELL. ROADWAY HE WAS USING WAS ICE COVERED. EMPL COULD HAVE USED CENTER ROAD WHICH WAS CLEAR OF ICE TO REACH DESTINATION.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP ON A CONVEYOR TO REPAIR A TORN BELT. HE PULLED AGAINST A GUARD, LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL, INJURING HIS HEAD.

LOADER BUCKE TRAISED THEREBY LOADER ROLLED AHEAD AND PINED HIM AT KNEE.

EE WAS EMPTYING THE ALKALI BY PASS SYTEM WHEN IT FLUSHED CAUSING DUST TO BE BLOWN INTO HIS EYES.

DOING MAINT, USING CUTTING TORCH MOLTEN METAS;L DROPPED INSIDE CUFF BURNING ARM

INJURED WAS GRINDING A PICE OF METAL ON TRACK VICE.THE GRINDER CAUGHT IN EDGE AND JUMPED HITTING INJURED IN THE FACE.

CHANGING LIGHT BULB AT HEAD PULLEY ON 100' BELT SLIPPING & FELL TO GROUND BREAKING HIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR AND RAN INOT A HOLE. THIS THREW HIM UP. HE CAME DOWN AND HIT HIS RIGHT SIDE ON THE CONTROLS.

WHILE CHECKING AIR FILTRS ON DRILL EMPL SLIPPED & FELL TO GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS DUMPING A WHEELBARROW ONT O THE FLOOR AT BUILDING 400 HE HAD TO TWIST THE WHEELBARROW IN ORDER TO EMPTY IT AS HE STRAIGHTENED UP HE FELT A DEEP THROBBING PAIN IN HIS LOW BACK

HE WAS BREAKING OFF END OF A GRANITE BLOCK WHEN THE END LETE LOOSE & FELL ON HIS LEFT FOOT CRUSHING IT

EMPL WAS WORKING NIGHT SHIFT AS OILER ON DRAG & CHECKING WATR PUMPS. HE LEFT DRAG TO GO CHECK WATER PUMPS & TRIPPED OVER ROCK TWISTED LEFT ANKLE & FELL. HE WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM OF MEYERSDALE HOSP & TREATED BY DR ROOT. HE WAS DIAGNOSED AS BADLYSPRAINED LEFT ANKLE. HEWAS OFF WORK FOR TWO DAYS. HE RETURNED TO REGULAR DUTIES ON 2/4/91,

WAS STEPPING FROM PICKUP ONTO A LADDER TO EUCLID TRUCK TO EXAMINE THE ENGINE WHEN HE HEARD SOMETHING SNAP IN HIS LEG. HE STRETCHED LIGAMENTS IN KNEE JOINT OF RIGHT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING REMOVE DISC FROM MINER AND STRAINED BACK.

WELDING WITHOUT WELDIGN SHIELD, BURNT EYES.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE PERFORMED MECHANICAL REPAIRS ON A MINER, A SHUTTLE CAR AND A LOADING MACHINE. LATER HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER. HE FINISHED HIS SHIFT AND WAS LATER DIAGNOSED AS HAVING CHRONIC BURSITIS. HE WAS NOT ABLE TO WORK DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE PRESCRIBED MEDICATION.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING, BOLTING A FACE AREA. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SCALE LOOSE ROOF WHEN HE SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK, HURTING HIS KNEE.

WHILE UNLOADING OXY-ACTYLENE TANKS FROM SCOOP BUCKET EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF PAIN OR CATCH IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE INSTALLING ROLLER IN BELT PAN, HE STRAINED A MUSCLE IN LEFT RIB AREA.

EMPLOYEEW AS GETTING OUT OF JEEP AND STEPPED ON A PIECE OF ROCK TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

HE AND OTHER EMPLOYEE WERE CARRYING ROOF BOLT PLATES AND HE TURNED AND TWISTED HIS BACK. SPRAINED LUMBAR VERTEBRA.

EMPL BOUNCED OFF SEAT WHILE RIDING IN MANTRIP.DRIVER HIT HOLE IN ROAD,EMPL COMPLAINED OF TAILBONE INJURY.WORKED THAT SHIFT DIDNT RETURN TO WORK .WHEN CONTACTED SAID DR WAS TREATING FOR STRAINE D BACK.

INJURED WAS REMOVING A STARTING BOX COVER OFF.WHEN HELPER HANDED HIM A SCREW DRIVER AND INJURED WAS NOT LOOKING AND THE END OF SCREW DRIVER STRUCK HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE.

MOTORING,TRACK SWITCH WAS THROWN BY MISTAKE.RAIL BROKE DERAILING MOTOR.

INJURED WAS LIFTING CRIB BLOCKS & STRAINED LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISITNG IN REMOVING SCRAP METAL OUT OF PLANT. AS HE ATTEMPTED TO DISLODGE A PIECE OF METAL, IT FELL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE'S LEFT FOOR BEHIND THE HARD TOE AREA. WENT TO DOCTOR ON 1 -29-91 TO HAVE CHECKED. RESULTS INDICATED ONLY A BRUISED LEFT FOOT BUT WITH LOST DAYS OF WORK.

AT PARKING LOT ON SURFACE, EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE SLIPPED GETTING OUT OF CAR, HURTING HIS BACK.

INJ EMPL WAS STANDING UP AT HEAD ROLLER OF #2 BELT DRIVE CLEANING UNDER BELT SCRAPER. HE GOT SHOVEL FULL OF MUD & COAL & TURNED WITH FEET STATIONARY TO PUT MUD & COAL ONTO BELT. HE FELT PAIN N LOWER BACK & WALKED TO FACE AREA TO NOTIFY BOSS. HE WAS PUT ON BACKBOARD & TRANSPORTED OUTSIDE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS PUSHING A WHEELBARROW LOADED WITH MORTAR MIXED A HANDLE BROKE CAUSING STRAIN TO RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS MACKING OFF ROOF BOLTS WHEN DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

PLEASE ADD 24 DAYS TO RECURRENCE TO THIS ACCIDENT REPORT. NO NEW INCIDENT OCCURRED SINCE THE ORIGINAL 7000-1 WAS FILED. DOCTOR SLIP ATTACHED.

INJ & COWORKERS WER REPLACING CONVEYOR LEGS & CHANNELS HE IS UNCERTAIN JUST WHAT TIME IT HAPPENED BUT LATR THAT EVENING HE NOTICED DISCOMFORD IN EYE. HE WENT TO SEE DR & DR NOTICED PARTICLES I N EYE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY SHIELD GLASSES.

TRIED TO START BREST OFF #76 SLANT 30' FROM FACE TOOKE LINERS OFF PUMPS PLUGGED 4' AND BEGUN DRESSING OFF RIBS TO TIMBER TOP CORNER LEFT LOOSE AND PUSHED MAN DOWN SLANT CAUGHT FOOT BATTERY AND BROKE ANKLE.

DURING ROOFBOLTING CYCLE MAN INJURED HIS BACK HE IS NOT SURE HOW INJURY OCCURED PROBABLY BENDING OR REACH ING FOR DRILL STEEL OR ROOFBOLT

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT AS HE WAS REACHING UP WITH HIS LEFT HAND TO PULL A LOOSE PIECE OF DRAW SLATE, THE ROCK FELL CATCHING HIS LEFT THUMB BETWEEN THE CANOPY OF THE ROOF BOLTER AND THE ROCK. THE PIECE OF SLATE WAS APPROX. 4" X 18".

INJURED WAS INJURED AS HE WAS TRYING TO ENTER A MANTRIP.HE REPORTED THAT AS HE WAS GETTING INTO THE MANTRIP HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL ONTO THE MINE FLOOR.HE WENT INTO THE WORKING SECTION AN D PERFROMED HIS REGULAR JOB OF ROOF BOLTING UNTIL 12:30 PM.AT THAT TIME HE REPORTED TO THE FOREMAN THAT HIS BACK WAS BOTHERING HIM TOO MUCH TO STAY AT WORK.

CLIMBING UP ON CONVE GRABBING MOTOR GUARD L FOOT ON SAND LOST BALANCE FELL IN CONV FRAME WITH L ARM EXTENDED ARM DRAWN IN TO PULLEY

STRAINED BACK ASHE PULLED UP ON STEP

HE WAS LOADING GLUE FROM SCOOP TO THE PIN MACHIN AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

HE WAS WORKING UNDER A PICK-UP TRUCK WHEN IT ROLLED OFF THE CAR RAMPS. SOMETHING UNDER THE PICKUP HIT HIM IN THE FOREHEAD AND REQUIRED 10 STITCHES (NO CONCUSSION)

DRAW ROCK FELL STRUCK ON NECK AND SHOULDERS

THE ORIGINAL FORM SHOWED 36 DAYS BUT ON OCTOBER 12,1990,WE SENT AN UPDATED 7000-1 FORM CHANGING TOTAL TO 96 DAYS.THIS LETTER IS TO UPDATE YOUR OFFICE ON THE NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL DAYS LOST TO T HE SAME INJURY AS INDICATED BY THE MEDICAL INFORMATION WE HAVE RETAINED ON FILE.PLEASE REVISE THE NUMBER OF DAYS LOST ON THE 7000-1FORM SECTION 30 FROM 96 TO 101 DAYS LOST.

SAWING A TIMBER-ROLLED TIMBER OVER TO SAW OTHER SIDE.DIDNT REPOSITION THE SAW BLADE.STARTED TO SAW AGAIN AND IT JUMPED OUT OF NOTCH AND CUT FINGER.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS STACKING BLOCKS ON A STOPPING WHEN THE STOPPING STARTED TO FALL. HE RAN BUT WAS STRUCK IN THE LEG BY SOME BLOCKS.

WHILE CLIMBING ON GRADER STRAINED LUMBAR.

CAUGHT FOOT UNDER MINER PAN

EMPL WAS LIFITING RAM JACK AT #60 SHEILD & STRAINED LOWER BACK & GROIN AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING 50 LB. BAGS ONTO PALLETS, HURT LOW RIGHT BACK. ACUTE LUMBOSACRAL STRAIN.

EMPL LIFTING CONVEYOR CHAIN TO RELEASE A ROCK HUNG UNDER CHAIN-EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EE STATES HE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM A SCOOP AND HIS FEET SLIPPED ON SOME MUD AND HE FELL STRIKING HIS LOWER BACK AND TAIL BONE ON THE IRON BAR ON THE SIDE OF THE SCOOP.

HE STATED HE HURT HIS BACK WHEN HE MOVED A ROCK OFF OF THE 3#5 HEADDRIVE

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN CONVEYOR TUBE HOSING OUT THE BOTTOM OF THE TUBE. HE DEVELOPED AN IRRITANT RASH SECONDARY TO HEAT AND DUST AND LOST TIME FROM WORK.

EMPLOYEE AND PARTNER WERE TRYING TO UNPLUG THE INDURATION THICKENER UNDERFLOW LINE. THEY HAD AIR GOING INTO THE LINE AND HAD A WATER HOSE INTO THE OTHER END OF THE LINE. THE WATER HOSE SLIPPED DOWN AND EMPLOYEE PUSHED IT BACK UP, AS HE DID THE BLOCKAGE DISLODGED AND HIS HAND WAS STRUCK BY DEBRIS OUT OF THE LINE. DIAGNOSIS: AIR ABRASION LEFT HAND WITH MULTIPLE FOREIGN BODY INJECTION

EMPLOYEE WAS DUMPING BAGS AT BUILDING 420 FOR ABOUT FOUR HOURS HIS WRIST & FOREARM BECAME SORE OVER TIME & HE REPORTED THE INCIDENT ON HS NEXT SHIFT

SMALL PIECE OF METAL IN HAND REMOVED BY SELF NEXT DAY HAND SWELLED.

FALLING ROCK BAD GROUND

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING MANTRIP WHEN HE RAN OVER A ROCK IN ROADWAY HURTING HIS LOWER BACK.

MOVING CRIB BLOCKS INT/G ENTRY, WET TIMBER SLIPPED OUT OF HAND HITTING LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE HAD POSITIONED HIMSELF BETWEEN 2 PIECES OF LONG JOHN STRUCTURE SCOOP OPERA TOR T WISTED SCOOP INTO STRUCTURE CATCHING INJURED PERSON LEG BETWEEN THE 21 RESULTING IN BREAK OF THE LEG & ANKLE

EE STATED HE SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIMSELF RESULTING IN PAIN TO SHOULDER. EE DID NOT MISS ANY WORK OR GO TO DR UNTIL 3-15-91 HE BROUGHT WE 123 FORM TO OFFICE ON 3-12-91 THIS IS WHEN I LEARNED OF THE INJURY.

EMPL ROCK DUSTING FROM SCOOP AND IT MUST HAVE HIT LOW SPOT IN ROOF OF MINE TRAPPING HEAD,NECK & SHOULDERS BETWEEN SCOOP AND ROOF OF MINE.

BEFORE SHOOTING POPS ON RIB,AIR HOSES WERE TIED UP TO AIR LINE WITH ROPE.RETURNING AFTER SHOT,THE RIB WAS SCALED.AFTER PLACING SCALING BAR ON BACKHOE I.NAME STEPPED OFF BACKHOE.THE ROPE HOLDIN G HOSES BROKE AND A 1" HOSE HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT FOREARM.

USING SCRAPER AND PULLING CABLE TO CLEAN CHUNKS FELT PAIN IN L SIDE

INJURED WAS OPERATING A 10TON LOCOMOTIVE WHEN HE STRUCK A 5 TON LOCOMOTIVE COMING OUT OF A SWITCH CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS BACK RT KNEE & HIP ON THE CONTROL BOX INSIDE THE LOCOMOTIVE CAB

EE STATED THAT HE WAS ROCKDUSTING PULLING ROCKDUSTER WITH AHULER HE GOT OUT OF HAULER TO TURN DUSTER HAULER ROLLED FORWARD PINNING HIM BETWEEN DUSTER AND TOP PARK BRAKE WASNT SET ON HAULER.

EE MANUALLY OPENING BACK GATE TO WAREHOUSE AND PARTS YARDFLET PAIN IN LOWER BACK OVER WEEK END REPORTED INJUYR ON 1-28-91.

EMPL STATED HE BACKED OVER ROCK WITH DOZER. DOZER SLIPPED OFF ROCK & EMPL ALLEGEDLY INJURED BACK. HE REFUSED TO GO TO HOSPITAL. ON 2/1/91 HE WENT TO DR & WAS GIVEN TWO DAYS OFF.

HE HAD JUST WASHED CUTTING MACHINE, WALKED TO REAR OF MACHINE WHERE FEET SLIPPED FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL ON HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A MOBILE DRILL AS HE MOVED DOWN AN INCLINE THE DRILL LEANED TO ONE SIDE ,HE SAID HE BELIEVED IT WAS GOING TO OVERTURN SO HE JUMPED OFF.WHEN HE JUMPED HE STRAINED A LEG MUSC LE.

THEY HAD RAISED A JOINT TO 6" PIPE TO THE MINE ROOF AND WERE ANCHORING IT INPLACE.THE 3/8" ANCHOR ROPE BROKE LETTING THE PIPE FALL HITTING HIM A GLANCING BLOW ON THE LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO DISLODGE A ROCK FROM A CROSS FEEDER AT THE RAW COAL STACKER. THE ROCK BROKE FREE AND EMPLOYEE FELL BACKWARDS INJURING HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE 5TH SOUTH TRACK ENTRY, TRIPPED IN A HOLE, TWISTING HIS LOWER BACK.

SITTING IN HAUL TRUCK BEING LOADED,I.NAME SUSTAINED LOW BACK STRAIN.

TWISTED KNEE WHILE REPAIRING DRYER

HE WAS PULLING ON RINCH WHILE WORKING ON DOZER MOTOR STAIN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A PUMP ONTO A STAND WHEN HE ALLEGEDLY FELT A PULL IN HIS GROIN AREA. WE SENT HIM TO THE HOSPITAL AND THEY ON HIM FOR A HERNIA. HE IS NOT RECOVERING AT HOME AND WILL BE O FF WORK FROM 6 TO 8 WEEKS.

AFTER CHANGING PUMP MOTOR THE INJURED AND ANOTHER MINER LIFTED THE MOTOR ONTO A JEEP FOR TRANSPORTATION OUT OF THE MINE WHILE LOADING THE MOTOR HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS BACK.

CATWALK ON FROST ON IT L FOOT SLIPPED ON INCLINE SLIPPED AS HE WALKED FORWARD TWISTED R KNEE

THE EMPLOYEE REPORTS THAT HE WAS WALKING OUT OF THE LONGWALL FACELINE WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST A SHIELD CANOPY STRAINING HIS NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING NORMAL DUTIES AS DOZER OPERATOR BY RIPPING AND PUSHING OVERBRUDEN.AS HE STOPPED FOR HIS LUNCH BREAK HE NOTICED SOME MODERATE PAIN IN HIS BACK.HE CONTINUED WORKING AND A T THE END OF HIS SHIFT HE NOTICED THE PAIN HAD INCREASED.HE INFORMED HIS SUPERVISOR OF HIS CONDITION AND SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION.INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS MUSCLE STRAIN.INJURY WAS CAUSED BY TU

WHILE PULLING MINER CABLE A SPLICE BLEW UP BURNING HIM ON THE RIGHT HAND

MAKING BELT SET UP PICKED IT UP PAIN IN LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE NORMALLY USED LOW PRESSURE AIR TO FORCE WATER FROM THE LINES.THIS TIME THE EMPLOYEE WHO IS VERY EXPERIENCED AND COMPETENT AT THIS TASK,MISTAKENLY APPLIED HIGH PRESSURE AIR TO THE SYST EM WHICH CAUSED THE FLEXIBILTIY TO BLOW OFF.THE SYSTEM HAS NOW BEEN MODIFIED TO REDUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH FUTURE OCCURRENCE.

SLIPPED OFF TOP STEP ON JOCKEY TRUCK BROKE LEFT HAND AND BRUISED LEFT SIDE OF THE BODY.

EMPL PICKED UP A BOX OF GLUE OFF DRILL.FELT SOMETHING PULL IN LOWER BACK.

EXITING ROOM WENT TO OPEN DOOR PUSHED TO OPEN CUT ON GLASS WINDOW LACERATION

THERE IS WELL HERE FOR OUR WATER. THERE IS CHLORINE IN IT FOR PURIFICATION PURPOSES. WHEN TANK IS EMPTY IT IS REPLACED. EMPL WAS IN PROCESS OF REPLACING TANK. HE DID NOT HAVE ON PROPER BREATHI NG APPARATUS & INHALED CHLORINE.

LEANING AGAINST DOOR TO GET IT OPEN AND KNEE BUCKLED OUT FROM UNDER HIM.LEFT KNEE BE OFF 3-4 MOS

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF REAR CAB OF THE REED DRILL WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK. (DRILL OPERATOR DRILLS AN AVERAGE OF 15 HOLES IN 8 HOUR SHIFT. HE MUST GOT OUT OF DR ILL CAB MOUNTED AT REAR OF DRILL TRUCK, WALK TO CAB OF TRUCK, MOVE TRUCK TO NEXT HOLE, THEN BACK TO DRILL CAB. DRILL CAB AND TRUCK CAB BOTH HAVE STEPS TO CLIMB.)

EMPLOYEE STATED HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE LIFTING A BOX OF ROOF BOLT RESIN AND THROWING IT ONTO THE TOP OF THE ROOF BOLTER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A SPRAY BAR DOWN A STAIRWAY.AS HE STEPPED OFF THE BOTTOM STEP ONTO THE CEMENT FLOOR,HE STEPPED ON A PEBBLE AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.DIAGNOSIS:LEFT ANKLE SPRAIN.HE BEGAN TO L OSE TIME FROM WORK.

EE WAS INSTALLING BOTTOM ROLLER ON TRACK FRAME. STRUCK ROLLER WITH HAMMER TO KNOCK IT IN PLACE. A CHIP OF STEEL FLEW OFF ROLLER AND HIT HIM IN LEG. EE WENT TO HOSPITAL FOR EXRAY, THEY FOUND SM ALL PIECE OF STEEL IN HIS LEG.

HE WAS DIPPING COAL IN THE STOCKPILE,THE LOADER JERKED CAUSING INJURY TO HIS NECK.HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS NECK.

WHEN HE PITCHED EXTENDABLE LINE CURTAIN FORWARD FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK THOUGHT TO BE RECUTRRENT INJURY UNTIL MEDICAL INFORMATION SHOWD ACUTE LUMBO SACRAL STRAIN REPORT RECEIVEDF 02-13-91

INJURED WAS REPAIRING MAIN LINE SWITCH. HE WAS LIFTING RERAILER INTO LOADER BUCKET WITH USE OF CHAIN TO DRAG IN LOADER BUCKET. HE FELT A SLIGHT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPL OF DEAN MACHINERY CO WAS USING PUNCH & HAMMER TO REBUILD FAN DRIVE ON MOTOR. INJ WAS STANDING APPROX 10' AWAY & PIECE OF METALSTRUCK HIM IN RIGHT EYE.

EE: LOWERED OXYGEN OR ACETELNE CYLINDER FROM PICK-UP AND FELT A SHARP PAIN AT HIS WAIST.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS PUTTING GUARDS BACK ON RIGHT MINER WHEN HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE OPERATING THE MAN TRIP TRACTOR AS HE STARTED IN THE MINE THE TRACTOR RAN OVER A PIECE OF ICE IN THE ROADWAY. AS THE TRACTOR CAME BACK DOWN IT PINCHED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN CAR CO UPLER AND THE PIECE OF ICE. LACERATED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER WHICH REQUIRED SUTURES TO CLOSE THE OPEN WOUND.

EMPLOYEEW AS LOADING CRIBBING BLOCKS ADN HUNG HIS GLOVE ON A SLIPTER CAUSING HIS FINGER TO BE MASHED BETWEEN THE BLOCK AND BUCKET RAM ON SCOOP.

WHILE REMOVING HOSE FROMSERVICE TRUCK EMPL'S FOOT SLIPPED OFF PLATFORM CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO GROUND.

TURNED WRONG WHILE LOADING TRUCK AND HURT BACK.

INJURED WAS SHOVELING ALONG BELTLINE & STRAINED CHEST

INJURED EMPLOYEE CONNECTED JUMPER CABLES TO AIR COMPRESSOR IN ORDER TO START IT. WHEN THE SWITCH WAS TURNED ON, THE CABLES IMMEDIATELY GOT HOT AND STARTED BURNING. HE ATTEMPTED TO TURN TO SWIT CH OFF BUT HIS LEFT FOOT GOT CAUGHT UNDER THE TONGUE OF THE AIR COMPRESSOR AND CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS KNEE AND FALL TO THE GROUND.

WHILE DESCENDING STEPS AT THE TRUCK AUGER SAMPLER, EMPLOYEE FELL STRIKING LOWER AREA OF BACK AND BUTTOCKS ON STEPS.

EMPLOYEE WAS BREAKING DRILL PIPE LOOSE,WRENCH SLIPPED AND STRUCK IN THE RIB ON LEFT SIDE.THIS RESULTED IN A CONTUSION AND SPRAIN TO RIB CAGE.

THROWING CRIBS TO BLOCK MINER AND PULLIING MINERCABLE,EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.WENT LOST TIME 03-20-91.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP HAULING ROCK & STATED HE RAN INTO A HOLE & JARRED HIS BACK

EE WAS LIFTING A TIMBER AND STRAINED A MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

CONDITIONS AT QUARRY WAS 17 FT AIR LINE FROZEN ON 1978 MACK DUMP TRUCK EE FOUND BRAKES FROZEN SO HE DRAINED AIR TANKS THIS TRUCK HAS ON AIR DRYER ON IT AND HE WAS GOING TO PUT IN DRYER AIR LIN E CAME OFF AND ICE FLEW INTO EE FACE MAINLY RIGHT EYE.

HIT ARM ON BUMPER OF LOADER WHILE CLIMBING DOWN. CUT LEFT ELBOW, REQUIRING TWO STITCHES.

DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR WHEN CAR DIPPED INTO HOLE IN ROADWAY CAUSING HIM TO HIT THE BOTTOM OF SHUTTLE CAR CANOPY WITH HEAD.

WAS DRIVING TRUCK IN PIT WHEN TIRE HIS A FROZEN CHUNK WHICH CAUSED THE STEERING WHEEL TO SPINB AND HE CAUGHT HIS THUMB IN IT.

THE MAN WAS SETTING POWER ON A SWITCH HOUSE WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF OF A BOLT HANDLE CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HAND AGAINST THE SWITCHHOUSE.

WHILE ROOFBOLTING I NAME STRAINED HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING TIMBERS, WHEN HE PICKED UP TIMBER BY HIMSELF HE HAD SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

MOUNTING #32 TRUCK WHEN HE PUT LEFT FOOT ON LADDER HE MISSED LADDER & HIT LEFT SHIN & WRENCHING BACK.

EMPL REPORTED THAT BACK STIFFENED UP DURING WORK DAY. EMPL COULD NOT RELATE ANY SPECIFIC EVEN OR ACTIVITY THAT CAUSED BACK TO STIFFEN. EMPL HAS HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS.

INJURED WAS STANDING IN THE HEAD STALL BETWEEN THE COAL CATCHER AND RIB AND IN FRONT OF THE CRUSHER,SPOTTING VARIOUS PARTS,INCLUDING ONE KB CANOPY JACK;THE JACK WAS BEING CONVEYED TO THE HEAD FOR REMOVAL.THE CANOPY JACK EVIDENTLY BECAME HUNG ON THE PAN SIGMA AND SHOT FORWARD TOWARDS THE HEAD.THE CANOPY JACK STRUCK A TIMBER THAT WAS SET.THE TIMBER,THE CANOPY JACK OR BOTH APPARENTLY

WHILE RUNNING A SCOOP IN 36" COAL CLEANING UP #2 HEADING, ROOFED THE SCOOP AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT KNEE.

LOW SEAM MINING 40" BENDING A 4 FOOT ROOF BOLT TO INSTALL IN TOP.AS HE WAS BENDING THE BOLT,HIS HAND SLIPPED ON THE BOLT CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND HE FELL AGAINST CANOPY ON ROOF BOLT ER.

OPERATING A SCRAPER WHEN IT RAN OVER A CHUNK OF SOMETHING AND HURT IS BACK WITH JOLT.

A MAN WAS PULLING DRILL OUT OF HOLE HE STRAINED HIS KNEE THE STRAIN ENDED UP BEING AN INFECTION.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING STRIPPING CREW WITH ITS CHOKERS TO PULL OUT SOME EQUIPMENT THAT GOT STUCK IN THE MUDDY SECTION OF THE STRIPPING AREA. GOING BACK TO HIS WATER TRUCK, HIS RIGHT LEG WAS TWIS TED WHEN THE GROUND GAVE WAY AND HIS FOOT SANK INTO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON PRESS, WHEN A GRATING SHE HAD JUST LIFTED AND JAMMED OPEN SLAMMED ACROSS HER RIGHT HAND AS SHE ATTEMPTED TO OPEN THE ADJACENT GRATING.

WHILE ROCK BOLTING, PULLED BACK MUSCLE.

BRUISED SHOULDER AND ELBOW LEFT RUNNING INTO A BENT BOLT.1ST LOSTIME DAY WAS 01-30-91.

I.NAME LIFTING SUPER SUCKER HOSE OFF SIDE OF TRUCK.ONE SIDE OF THE HOSE STRUCK HIM ON LEFT SHOULDER AND NECK.

EE WAS REMVOING V BELT FROM MOTOR GEARBOX.

WHILE CLEANING WELD WITH CHIPPING HAMMER SMALL PIECE OF METAL BECAME LODGED IN EMPLS LEFT EYE. EMPL DID NOT REPORT INCIDENT TO EMPIRE TILL 2/4/91. HE THOUGH PROBLEM WS FLASH BURN TO EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF DOZER AND BUMPED HIS RIGHT ELBOW.

D-9 SECTION. HIT LEFT ELBOW ON VALVE ON ATRS JACK WHILE INSTALLING BOLT. CONTUSION.

HE WENT INTO THE PLACE TO BOLT IT.HE SET HIS ATRS AND WAS STARTING TO PUT UP HIS 1ST BOLT WHEN A ROCK BROKE LOOSE AND FELL.(KETTLE BOTTOM).

MAN WAS TRYING TO PULL 4 WHEEL CART LOADED W/LARGE CONVEYOR MOTOR FROM ELEVATOR ONTO LANDING AS HE DID SO PULLING HE FELT A STINGING PAIN IN H IS BACK WORSE THAN PREVIOUS BASE PAIN HED HAD PRI OR

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT A CHUTE THAT FEEDS COAL TO A TERTIARY COAL SAMPLER.EMPLOYEE FAILED TO LOCK-OUT OR DENERGIZE THE SAMPLER.HIS HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CUTTER BAR AND FRAME OF THE CH UTE RESULTING IN LACERATION,FRACTURE OF THE DISTAL PHALANX OF RIGHT THUMB.

WAS CLIMBING RUNGS OF LADDER TO REFUEL LOADER N QUARRY AREA WHEN HE MISSED A RUNG OF THE LADDER & FELL TO THE GROUND 12 FEET BELOW WAS CARRYING HOSE IN HAND WHILE CLIMBING

WALKING ACROSS TURCK SCALES EMP STEPPED ON GUARD REELED R ANKLE

WHICH USING A POST TO PUSH A PIECE OF ROCK FROM TOP OF MINER. THE INJURED EE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECES OF ROCK THAT FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT THE MINER CABLE WAS LYING ON TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT AND HE RAISED HIS FOOT UP TO SHAKE THE CABLE OFF WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.

CLIMBING OUT OF LOADER SLIPPED AND BUMPED L KNEE ON LOADER IT HAD ICE ON IT

INVOLVED IN SHOVELING GREASE FROM ONE BARREL TO ANOTHER WHEN SUSTAINED A SUDDEN ONSET OF LOW BACK PAIN CLINIC EVALUATION DIAGNOSED & TREATED FOR A MUSCLE SPASM NO LOST TIME AT THIS DATE LIGHT DUTY ONLY

I.NAME PICKING UP CHAIN LINK TO LOAD ON TRUCK-PULLED MUSCLE & PINCHED NERVE IN LEFT SHOULDER.

BENT DOWN TO PICK UP A FRICTION BAN AND BACK & HIP WENT OUT.

EE HAD CLIMBED ONTO THE STEEL COVER OVER THE CLEAN COAL CONVEYOR TO POUND ON A PLUGGED CHUTE. IN CLIMBING DOWN SHE TRIPPED BACKWARDS AND STRUCK HART BACK AGAINST THE HANDRAIL ON THE CONVEYOR W ALKWAY.

RF BOLTING, SM PC OF ROCK DISLODGED STRUCK TOP OF FOOT, BRUISE ON L FOOT

INJURED WAS BENDING A ROOF BOLT IN PREPARATION FOR INSTALLATION.

AS EE WAS FUELING TRUCK LADDER SLIPPED AND EE FELL.

INSTALLING FRONT COVER ON ENGINE #3208 COVER SLIPPED.

SCOOP COMING BY PERSONNEL CAR CATCHING END OF CARTHROWING IT ON MAN

EE WAS CHARGING HOLE WHEN HE CAUGHT RIGHT HAND BETWEEN ROOF BOLT AND TAMPING STICK, AND CUT TENDONS IN BACK OF RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING THE BREAK ON A RAILROAD CAR AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT ELBOW.

EMPL STEPPING INTO BUCKET OF CHERRY PICKER STANDING ON LEFT LEG GOING INTO BUCKET.HAD ALL HIS WEIGHT ON IT AND TWISTED LEFT LEG,KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS HANGING A CURTAIN ACROSS THE CROSSCUT WHEN HE STRUCK HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER WITH A HAMMER.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT AS HE WALKED BESIDE A TRACK RAIL A FELLOW EMPLOYEE ROLLED THE RAIL OUT AND THE RAIL STRUCK INJUREDS FOOT.

WHILE BOLTING THE MINE ROOF, A PIECE OF SLATE FELL AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE BACK OF THE NECK AND BACK. THE BLOW CAUSED A BRUISE AND SOME SORENESS. TREATMENT BY PAIN MEDICATION FROM MUL T. COMM. HOSPITAL.

EMPLOYEE WAS A PASSENGER IN #27 JEEP WHICH WAS PARKED AT THE MOUTH OF 20 LEFT SECTION.INJURED STATED THAT HIS JEEP WAS STRUCK FROM BEHIND BY ANOTHER JEEP WHICH CAISED PAIN TO HIS LOWER BACK AN D NECK.

USING HAND TOOL PC OF METAL ENTERED R EYE

EMPL BARRING ROCK AT CONVEYOR BELT,STRAINED HIS BACK.SCALING BAR WAS BOTH BENT AND IMPROPER LENGTH.BEGAN LOSING TIME 1-25-91.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING STEEL W/AEC WELDER.FOREIGN BODY LODGED IN LEFT EYE.EMPLOYEE THOUGHT HE WASHED IT OUT.EYE BEGAN BOTHERING HIM AFTER WORK.DISCOVERED F/B IMBEDDED IN LEFT CORNEA.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR HE HIT A BUMP IN THE ROADWAY CAUSING HIM TO HIT HEAD ON CANOPY OF SHUTTLE CAR AND STRAINING HIS LOWER BACK AREA.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS LIFTING SOLID CONCRTE BLOCKS AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER CAUSING A STRAIN.

THIS EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED WHILE UNLOADING MATERIAL FROM A MATERIAL CAR (SUPPLY TRAM) IN TO THE BUCKET OF A SCOOP TRACTOR. WHILE HANDLING SEVERAL JACK KENNEDY STOPPING PANELS THE EMPLOYEE'S HAN D SLIPPED STRIKING A SHARP EDGE ON ONE OF THE PANELS. THE EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING GLOVES AT THE TIME, BUT DID LACERATE THE THIRD (MIDDLE) DIGIT ON HIS LEFT HAND. THERE WERE APPROX. 6 TO 7 SUTURE

EMPLOYEE WAS CAHNGING BATTERIES ON COAL HAULER(820 S&S) WHILE DOING SO HE WAS PULLING ON JUMPER CABLES TO HOOK UP BATTERIES.THIS RESULTED IN BACK INJURY.

A ROCK 6X12X14 FELL BETWEEN BOLTS STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT FOOT EMPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING MET ATARSAL PROTECTION

WORKING ON MINER, HIT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WITH HAMMER WORKING ON A CAT PAD.

HE WAS HANGING MINER CABLE, WHEN HE RE-INJURED HIS BACK. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ORIGINAL DATE OF INJURY WAS 12-3-90.

TWISTED KNEE WHILE OPER ROOF BOLTER BUMPED AGAINST BOLTER.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING TRACK AND MASHED FINGER BETWEEN RAIL AND CROSSTIE.

HE DROPPED A 17FT 5IN RUBBER LINE PIPE IT BOUNDED OFF ANOTHER PIPE ONTO HIS FOOT

EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING 90 LB CHAIN IN KILN AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING THEM WORK ON THE ROTOR OUT OF THE PLANT #3 HAZEMAG. THE ROTOR HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM THE CRUSHER AND HAULED TO THE MIDDLE BAT OF OLD SHOP. THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF REMOV ING AND TURNING THE DUMMY BARS. THEY WERE TRYING TO REMOVE THE DEVICE THAT HOLDS THE DUMMY BAR IN PLACE. EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING IT IN A FIXED POSITION WHILE I.NAME HIT IT WITH A 8 LB SLEDGE HAM

CLEANING & SPRAYING PRIMER PAINT USING A SPRAY CAN ON A TRUCK BED IN SHOP HE WAS WEARING A MASK & EYE PROTECTION

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING REAR WINDOW OF JOCKEY TRACTOR WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL ACROSS TRUCK FRAME.

SLID ON WET SPOT COMING DOWN PARTS STAIRS - SPRAINED AND FRACTURED LEFT FOOT.

STOPPED BY THE QUARRY AND PLACED TWO BATS OF 50 LBS BARN LIME SAMPLES IN HIS CAR.

INJURED WAS PERFORMING PRE-START INSPECTION P FTHE NO 2 JCI500 LOADER,WHEN HE SLIPPED ON SNOW COVERED ICE,LANDING ON HIS BACK.

INJURED LIFTED A LARGE ROCK AND PULLED AND INJURED CHEST WHILE HE WAS PERFORMING HIS JOB.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING D8-L DOZER ON THE HILL AT AZEVEDO QUARRY.EMPLOYEE SAYS HE FELT PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK AND LEGS.AFTER AWHILE THE EMPLOYEE SAID THE PAIN WAS SEVERE AND COULD NOT REMAIN ON THE DOZER.EMPLOYEE LEFT WORK.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS CHECKING WATER LEVEL IN BATTERY OF HIS FORKLIFT AT WHICH TIME BATTERY EXPLODED.

EMPL WAS PUTTING PALLET ON FLOOR PALLET SLIPPED & FELL ON EMPL'S LEFT FOOT BRUISING INSTEP.

BACKED TO EDGE OF STOCKPILE TO DUMP BANK GAVE WAY TRUCK ROLLED OVER

STRAINED SHOULDER WHILE LIFTING 100 LB BAGS.

HE HAD PUT UP LAST BOLT AND WAS PULLING HEAD OF PINENR BACK, WHEN DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS, HITTIN GHIM ON THE TOP OF HIS LEFT FOOT.

WHILE STANDING ON BED RAIL OF TRUCK INJURED WAS JIGGLING WINCH CABLE HAND SLIPPED OUT OF GLOVE, LOST BALANCE FELL DOWN ON TOP OF HYDRAULIC TANK THEN SOMERSAULTED LANDING ON HIS HEAD ON CONCRET E.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM BOLTER WHEN HE SLIPPED ON WIRE ON STEP AND PULLED RIGHT SHOULDER.

ALLEGEDLY TWISTED LEFT ANKLE WHEN HE GOT OUT OF MUCK BUCKET TO ENTER SHAFT.

EMPL MAKING ELEC INSPECTION OF 1 RIGHT JANE 3 DRIVE AND BELT.STEPPED OUT OF MANDOOR AND LEFT LEG SLIPPED INTO WATER DITCH OUTSIDE OF DOOR,TWISTED KNEE.

THE 4/0 TRAILING CABLE FOR THE CONTINUOUS MINER WAS HANGING ACROSS THE INTERSECTION. WHILE THE MINER WAS CHANGING PLACES, HE CRAWLED UP TO THE INTERSECTION AND STOPPED UNDER THE CABLE. ABOUT T HAT TIME THE CABLE PULLED TIGHT AND FELL FROM THE HOOKS CATCHING HIM ON HIS LEFT SIDEAND TWISTING HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING NEAR A MACHINE THAT WAS BEING REPAIRED. A CROWBAR WAS BEING USED TO BRACE A PART OF THE MACHINE. AS WORK PROGRESSED, THE CROWBAR CAME LOOSE AND DROPPED TO THE FLOOR. IT B OUNCED INTO EMPLOYEE'S LEG CAUSING INJURY.

5 LEFT 1 NORTH REMOVING LARGE PIECE OF SLATE OUT OF LOADER HEAD.RIGHT HAND SLIPPED OFF SLATE CAUSING MASHED FINGER BETWEEN DIGGING ARM AND SLATE

EE PICKED UP TIMBER TO SIT UNDER I BEAM FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING HOLES ON THE 3D #2 BELT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF GLUE. THE DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF THE HOLE STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE'S LEFT THUMB CAUSING A FRACTURE.

EE WAS CUTTING TOP SOIL ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HAUL ROAD ON THE NEW 2 A REFUSE AREA TO LEVEL AN AREA TO LAY STONE SO A FUEL TANK COULD BE INSTALLED. THE DOZER HIT AN UNMARKED GAS LINE RUPTUR ING IT WHICH CAUSED AN EXPLOSION OF GAS AND FIRETHE OPERATOR WAS BURNT ON HIS FACE, NECK, HEAD, ARMS AND HANDS WHILE EXITING THE DOZER.

EE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS AND BENT OVER WHEN HE STOOD UP AND FELT A PULL IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CROSSING OVER A WOODEN BRACE WHEN HE BUMPED HIS LEFT KNEE AGAINST BRACE.BRACE WAS APPROX 18" HIGH.

WHILE WALKING LONG SIDE EMPTY SUPPLYTRUCK AT OUTSIDE SUPPLY YARD INJ SLIPED ON SNOW COVERED ICE & FELL TO GROUND STRIKING RIGHT BUTTOCKS.

HE WAS EXITING THE CAB OF THE D-9 DOZER AND STEPPED ON THE ICE COVERED CAT WALK. HE SLIPPED ON THE ICE AND FELL TO THE GROUND ON HIS REAR END.

EE WAS REPAIRING HEATER ON D-9 DOZER. SLIPPED ON MACHINE AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE AS HE FELL TO GROUND. SNOWY AND ICY CONDITIONS PREVAILED.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WHEN HE WAS WALKING FROM HIS PERSONAL VEHICLE TO THE OFFICE BUILDING. RESULTED IN PAIN TO HIS NECK AND SHOULDERS.

INJURED WAS WALKING FROM MILL BLDG TO MAINTENANCE BLDG WHEN HE STEPPED ON A STONE WITH HIS RT FOOT HE HEA RD A SNAP & FELT SEVERE PAIN HE WALKED/HOPPED TO HIS CAR & DROVE TO THE MILL BLDG TO G ET HELP HE WAS THEN DRIVEN TO CHESAPEAKE GENERALHOSPITAL WHERE HE RECEIVED TREATMENT FOR A BROKEN FOOT

EMPL USING SMALL JACKHAMMER.LAID IT DOWN TO PUT ON DUST MASK.CHUNK OF MATERIAL FELL HITTING THE BIT OF JACKHAMMER AND CAUSED THE HANDLE TO STRIKE EMPL IN RIGHT JAW.

PULLING ON CABLE

HE WAS CLEANING MUD OFF THE BELT ROLLER WITH SHOVEL AND TWISTED HIS BACK THE WRONG WAY.

HE WAS WATCHING BALLS COME OUT OF BALL SORTER INTO 55 GALLON BARRELS. WHEN A BALL MISSED BARREL, HE REACHED TO PICK IT UP AND TURNED AND ANOTHER BALL MISSED STRIKING AND BREAKING HIS FRONT TOO TH.

EMPL WAS STANDING ON U NEVEN GROUND WHILE TRYING TO BREAK UP CHOKE OUTSIDE RAW CHUT.

STEPPING OFF BULLDOZER SLIPPED & HIT RIGHT LOWER BACK ALSO BRUISED BUTTOCKS.

HAULED LOAD TO REFUSE, PUSHED CABLE WITH FORCE MASHED HIS MIDDLE FINGER

WHEN HE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE FROZEN MUD AT THE SHOP AREA, HIS LEFT FOOT BROKE THROUGH THE FROZEN MUD AND ICE AND HE SLIPPED AND FELL. THIS RESULTED IN THE EMPLOYEE STRAINING THE MUSCLES IN H IS LOWER LEFT LEG.

REMOVING PLYWOOD FROM BUCKET PULLED MUSCLES IN BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 4 LB HAMMER MISSED HOLE ALIGNMENT PIN ON DOWN SWING,RIGHT WRIST HIT FLOOR BEAM.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOISTING A WEAR SHOE FOR THE HEEL OF THE BUCKET IN THE BUCKEET SHOP WITH THE OVERHEAD CRANE SHOE SLIPPED OUT OF CHOKER & HIT BUCKET & BOUNCED TOWARDS EMPLOYEE SHOE (METAL WEAR PLA TE) STRUCK THE EMPLOYEES WRIST CAUSING FX

DUMPING BALLAST DOWN ON EMPTY TRACK BELOW SUGAR RUN DUMP,ROCK FROZEN,GOT UP IN CAR TO FREE IT AND FELL STRIKING BACK ON SIDE OF MINE CAR.

HE LIFTED A STARTER SHEET EXPERINECING PAIN. HE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 2-4-91 DISABILITY BEGAN 2-5-91. HAND.

TINJURED STATED THAT WHEN HE WAS GETTING OFF OF THE BACKHOE, HE WAS OPERATING, HE STEPPED INTO A HOLE FILLED WITH WATER AND HE TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

A DRILL STEEL WAS STUCK IN THE ROOF. EMPLOYEE REACHED UP TO PULL THE DRILL STEEL FREE. HE ACCIDENTALLY HIT THE FAST SPEED FEED CAUSING THE LOWER HALF OF THE DRILL STEEL TO STRIKE HIS HAND.

ONE-HALF INCH HYDRAULIC HOSE BURST ON #3 SHIELD. SOLVENT THEN STRUCK MAN IN LEFT EAR.

I NAME WAS LOADING TIMBERS INTO SCOOP & INJURED BACK FIRST DAY AWAY FROM WORK AS 01 -28-91

PICKING UP R F BOLTS STRAINED LOWER BACK LEFT SIDE

LIFTING CRIB BLOCK FROM PALLET STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A ROOFBOLT NEXT TO THE RIB. AS HE LOWERED THE HYD DRILL HEAD, HE WAS STRUCK BY THE DRILL HEAD ON THE RIGHT KNEE RESULTING IN A BRUISE.

BACK PAIN

LOWER BACK STRAIN WHILE UNLOCKING CHAIN FROM HOIST CYLINDER.

EMPLOYEE DESCENDED FLOOR DRILLING RIG BACKWARDS. EMPLOYEE'S HEAL SLIPPED, CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO SPRAIN SACROILIAC.

THE INDIVIDUAL WAS WALKING WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL. HE TRIED TO BREAK HIS FALL WHICH CAUSED HIM TO INJURE HIS WRIST.

WHILE INSTALLING BOLT AGAINST LEFT RIB OF #7 FACE, A SMALL BROW APPROX. 18" X 18" X 3' THICK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING HIM ACROSS THE TOP OF LEFT KNEE CAP. AREA ABOUT THE KNEE WAS BRUISED AND SW ELLING WAS PRESENT.

PULLING ON ROCK

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING T HE SLOPE BOTTOM MAN WHEN HE STEPPED OUT OF THE MOTOR THAT HE WAS IN HE STEPPED INTO A HOLE TWISTING HIS RT ANKLE HE BEGIN MISSING WORK ON 01-25-91

EE DID NOT BEGIN MISSING WORK UNTIL 4-17-91. THE EE WAS USING A HAND TOOL TO TIGHTEN A NUT ONTO AN AIR RAPPER FOR A SEIVE WHILE DOING SO THE EE REPORTED FEELING PAIN IN HIS RIGHT ELBOW.

EE ALLEGES HE WAS PUNCHING A LUMP OF COAL IN THE BOTTOM OF 4 COAL TANK USING A SHORT BAR AND THE LUMP BROKE AND EE SMASHED FINGER ON EDGE OF THE CONE.

EE SAID HE WAS OPERATING A 300 GALIS PINNER WITH ATRS SYSTEM HE WAS SET UP FOR THE FIRST BOLT. HE HAD HIS ATRS SET AND WAS STARTING TO DRILL WHEN A KETTLE BOTTOM FELL, HITTING HIM ON FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING AIR LOCK DOORS AFTER THE MANTRIP HAD PASSED, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED AS HE WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR, HE MADE A TURN IN BELT ENTRY AND SHUTTLE CAR STRUCK A BELT STAND AND THE BELT STAND KICKED AND HIT THE BACK OF HIS HARD CAP CAUSING A PAIN IN H IS NECK.

EMPLOYEE BROUGHT PIT LOADER TO THE SHOP AT QUITTING TIME. WHEN HE GOT OUT OF THE LOADER, HE MISSED THE BOTOTM STEPS, PULLING MUSCLE IN LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A 35 LB. BUCKET OF GREASE, WHEN HE TWISTED WITH IT, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 1/29/91.

INJURED ALLEGES THAT WHILE STANDING ON THE SIDEBOARDS, CAB LEVEL OUTSIDE WALKING, HE SLIPPED ON THE SURFACE, FALLING TO THE TRACK GROUSERS OF THE D9L CATERPILLAR TRACTOR/DOZER, STRIKING HIS TA ILBONE.

HE STATED THAT HE WAS HANGING A CHARGER CABLE AND WAS CRAWLING ACROSS FEEDER WITH PHONE WIRE IN HIS HAND TO HANG THE CABLE ON ANOTHER BOLTS. THE END OF THE WIRE SPRANG UP AND STRUCK HIM IN TH E LEFT EYE.

BOLT WRENCH KICKED OUT STRICKING EMPLOYEE ABOVE LEFT EYE.

AFTER WORKING DURING THE SHIFT PERFORMING THE NORMAL DUTIES OF A SECTION FOREMAN,INJURED WAS EXPERIENCING PAIN IN HIS UPPER RIGHT AR.STARTED MISSING WORK 03-04-91.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS PARKING LOT TO MANTRIP & TURNED HIS LEFT ANKLE CAUSING A SPRAIN

PICKED UP ROCKS, THREW ON CONV FELT PAIN IN R SHOULDER

WORKER WAS TRAMMING BOLTER TO FACE TO SET LAST ROW OF BOLTS IN #5 ENTRY AND FOULED HIM SELF BETWEEN BOLTER AND RIB ON LEFT KNEE.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING A CEMENT BLOCK ON TOP OF A WALL HE CLAIMS HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING SCREENS AT ROCK PLANT & HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON SIDE OF JAW CRUSHER WHEN HE ALMOST FELL. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT ARM. EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A 3-4' PLATFORM.

EMPL UNLOADING SUPPLY CAR DROPPED PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE ON FOOT.

USING TWO WRENCHES ON A NUT & BOLT, TO LOOSEN RUSTED BOLT. RUSTED BOLT CAME LOOSE, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT SHOULDER.

STANDING ON A WORK DECK,HELPING PIN RIB,HEARD RIB CRACK STEPPED BACK AND SLIPPED OFF WORK DECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING CABLE OFF OF SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE STARTED HAVING PAIN IN STOMACH & GROIN AREA

EMPL LIFTING OXYGEN TANK IN A BAG,HANDLE RIPPED LOOSE AND HAND WAS UNDER TANK.WHEN IT FELL IT PUSHED HAND DOWN AND CAUGHT IT BETWEEN TANK AND MOTOR.,

MINER BUMPED SCOOP AND IT ROLLED BACK WHILE HE WAS LOADING SUPPLYS, CATCHING HIS LEFT LEG FROM KNEE DOWN TO ANKLE BETWEEN SCOOP BUCKET AND WHEEL OF ROOF BOLTER.

EMPL WAS WORKING IN SHOP REPAIRING & SUPERVISING REPAIRING WHEN HE BECAME DIZZY & PASSED OUT FOR FEW SECONDS. RUSHED HIM BY AMBULANCE TO EMERGENCY WHERE POSSIBLE HEART ATTACK WAS CONFIRMED. AF TER COMPLETE DIANOSIS WAS FINALIZED DEFINITE HEART ATTACK WAS RULED CAUSE & EMPL HAD OPEN HEART SURGERY PERFORMED.

UNLOADING BAG OFF SUPPLY TRUCK, IT SLIPPED HURT R SHOULDER AND R R ING FINGER

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICE ON FLOOR

ORIGINAL DATE OF INJURY WAS AUG. 1989, WHEN HE WAS HELPING ALIGN THE BELT ROLLER. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE RACHET AS HE WAS APPLYING PRESSURE, CAUSIN GHIM TO FALL. HE DID NTO GOT TO THE DOCT OR. ON 9-11-90 RE-INJURED AS HE WAS HELPING PUSH A FLAT CAR BACK, HE JUMPED OUT OF THE WAY, RE-INJURED KNEE. ON 1-22-91, KNEE POPPED AS HE GOT OUT OF BED.

EMPLOYEE DRIVES A FORKLIFT. AS HE WAS GETTING DOWN FROM THE FORKLIFT, HE HAD A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE NOTICED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK ON 1-15-91 AFTER LIFTING A BOX.

EMPL WASS FIXING 4" WATER LINE ON SURFACE ON SDIE ON SPOIL PILE & TWISTED KNEE DUE TO WATER FREEZING WHERE PIPE BROKE MAKING IT VERY SLIPPERY.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WALKING DOWN SUPPLY TRACK ANDSTRUCK HIS HEAD ON LOW HEADER.

WALKING AROUND OUTSIDE FROZEN GROUND SLIPPED AND FELL HURTING L SHOULDER

STATED BY EE WHILE WALKING DOWN AN EMBANKMENT HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL TO THE GROUND.

STARTING BOAT, HILL GAVE WAY FORCING SAND IN IT IT SUNK

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN SHOP AND TWISTING LEG AND THEN BACK STARTED TO HURT. SAW DOCTOR 2/12, 2/21, 3/7, 4/15 AND 4/18. ON 4/18 HE REICEVED A DISABLED FOR WORKSLIP FROM DOCTOR.

WHILE CLIMBING ONT O A SHOVEL PARTS DOCK TO HOOK A CHAIN ONTO A DRIVE TUMBLER EMPLOYEE SLIPPED & FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT FOOT HE SAW A DOC ON 01 -2 5-91 DIAGNOSIS TENDONITIS LEFT FOOT HE LOST TIME FROM WORK

PULLING PALLET IN PLACE WITH RIGHT FOOT BEFORE BEGINNING TO STACK BAGS.

EMPL WAS CLEANING OUT SPILL SCREW AT #3 STATION TURNED HOSE FROM HI VAC & HAD PAIN IN BACK.

CARRYING BOXES FROM TRUCK TO STORAGE, BURNING PAIN IN GROIN AREA

GOT OUT OF TRUCK WALK TO DRILL, STUCK OUT L ARM FRONT END LOADER STRUCK L ARM

WALKING THROUGH PLANT,JUMPED OVER WATERHOLE TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING DRUM ON RIGHT FRONT TIRE OF A PAYLOADER TRUCK PINCHED HIS FINGER IN JACK.EMPLOYEE PASSED OUT AND HIT HEAD ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR.

WELDING BRACE, SPRAINED BACK