TRUCK ROLLED OVER, THE VICTIM WAS PARTIALLY EJECTED FROM DRIVER SIDE.
Mining Incidents in April 1994
All MSHA-reportable mining accidents in April 1994, sorted by severity. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 2,260
- Period
- April 1994
Top operators this month
- 01 Peabody Coal Company 55 incidents
- 02 Consolidation Coal Company 52 incidents
- 03 Jim Walter Resources Inc 48 incidents
- 04 Old Ben Coal Company 41 incidents
- 05 Arch Of Kentucky 29 incidents
Most recent 500 incidents
Showing the 500 most recent of 2,260 incidents this month. All fatalities are included and listed first.
EE WAS STRUCK BY A COAL SLAB THAT WAS KNOCKED LOOSE BY PLACING OUTRIGGER OF BOOM TRUCK AGAINST THE RIB CAUSING 2 FRACTURED RIBS.
A PARTING SHOT WAS DETONATED A PIECE OF FLY ROCK TRAVELED 236 FEET STRIKING THE VICTIM IN THE HEAD.
EMPLOYEE RESPONDED TO BUILDING FIRE AT THE MILL REFINERY FACILITY, WITH EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM, IN THE COURSE OF FIGHTING THE FIRE, EMPLOYEE WAS FOUND DOWN ON THE FLOOR IN FULL FIRE GEAR AND SCBA. EMPLOYEE WAS TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO ELKO GENERAL HOSPITAL WHER HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
WHILE INSTALLING HEAVY SIDE RAILS ON THE TOP OF BRICKING SCAFFOLD EE PULLED LEFT GROIN. EE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 5-9-94 AND IS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY ON 5-20-94.
WAS TRYING TO UNPLUG CONVEYOR BELT AND FINGER GOT CAUGHT BY SHIEVE AND CUT THE END OFF OF FINGER.
APPLYING CRATER (GRESAE) WITH PADDLE TO GEARS PADDLE GOT CAUGHT IN GEARS & CAUGHT GLOVE & PULLED IN HAND AMPUTATED RT HAND & SEVERAL INCHES OF RT ARM IN GEAR
WHILE LIFTING A CRIB BLOCK WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN GROIN AREA. LOST TIME BEGAN 05/19/94.
EE STATED THAT HE WAS WORKING ON ONE OF OUR ROCK TRUCK. HE STATES THAT HE WAS UNDER TRYING TO LOOSEN A BOLT WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED, HE THINKS THAT MUST OF BEEN WHEN IT HAPPENED.
4 EAST 2 X CUT FACE HE WAS PUTTING UP 1ST BOLT IN LAST ROW. THE BOLT PLATE CAUGHT ON ATRS. HE REPOSITONED PLATE AND WAS GUIDING IT PAST ATRS WITH HIS HAND WHEN THE PLATE CAUGHT ATRS AGAIN. THE PLATE THEN PINCHED THE MIDDLE FINGER LEFT HAND.
REMOVING ROOF PANELS FOR ACCESS THRU ROOF AND STEPPED ON FIBERGLASS SKYLIGHT AND FELL THRU ROOF AMPUTATING LEFT ARM, BREAKING RIGHT LEG AT KNEE, BROKEN TOES IN LEFT FOOT AND CRACKED PELVIS. FR ACTURE OF NO 1 VERTEBRA.
REACHED WITH RIGHT HAND TO CHECK TENSION OF AIR COND. ALT V-BELT, AFTER AIR COND. PUMP HAD BEEN SHUT OFF AND THINKING REST OF SYSTEM HAD STOPPED, GRABBED THE V-BELT THAT WAS STILL TURNING, W HEN ENGINE IS RUNNING AND 2ND,3RD AND 4TH FINGER ON RIGHT HAND WENT THRU AIR COND DRIV EPULLING, CAUISNG LOSS OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED FINGERS BETWEEN THE 2ND AND 3RD JOINTS.
JIM WAS HANDLING A CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE AS THE JOY 14CM15 CONTINUOUS MINER WAS BEING BACKED OUT OF THE FACE. HE TRIPPED ON A LINE CURTAIN AND STUMBLED. WHEN THIS OCCURED HE FELT A PAIN IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS ABDOMEN. DIAGNOSED AS A HERNIA ON 4-26-94.
EMPLOYEE HAS A HERNIA IN THE RIGHT GROIN. HE REPORTED IT ON 19 APR. 94, AND SAID THAT IT HAPPENED TWO MONTHS PRIOR. HE HAD NOT REPORTED THE INJURY PREVIOUSLY. HE DID NOT STATE WHERE IT OCCU RRED. I DO NOT THINK THIS INJURY IS WORK REPLATED. I AM SENDING THIS REPORT INTO COVER MYSELF.
EE AND COWORKER WERE CHANGING SCREENS ON WASH PLANT. EE WANTED TO TIE BELT DOWN. COWORKER THREW EE A ROPE TO DO SO. EE RETURNED TO TAIL PULLEY WHERE HE SLIPPED AND FELL APPROX. 10' TO THE GROU ND.
AN ELECTRICAL CABINET UNLOADED OFF OF A FLATBED TRAILER TIPPED AND FELL OFF CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL CABINET LANDED SCRAPING EMPLOYEES LEFT FOOT-PEELED SKIN OFF FROM TOP OF FOOT CRUSHED AND MA NGLED ALL 5 TOES TOES HAD TO BE SURGICALLY REMOVED.
THE EMPLOYEE STATES THAT THE INITIAL TIME & ACTUAL TIME & ACTUAL CAUSE OF THE INJURY IS UNKNOWN HE SAYS THAT HE HAS BEEN SORE FOR 6-8 MONTHS HOWEVER INCREASED PAIN OF LATE PROMPTED HIM TO SEE THE DOC
EMPLOYEE WAS LOCATING THE GREASE FITTING ON THE BEARING FOR THE GRAVITY TAKE-UP BEND PULLEY WITH HIS INDEX FINGER WHEN A KEEPER LOCATED ON THE RECESSED SHAFT CAUGHT HIS THUMB RESULTING IN AMPU TATION OF THE THUMB TIP.
WHILE REPLACING THE UNIT TRAIN COAL LOADOUT CONVEYOR BELT THE INJURED EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA WHEN HE LIFTED AND PULLEDON THE CONVEYOR BELT.
WAS DRILLING ROCK ON A 24 FT LEDGE WAS ADDING A SECOND DRILL STEEL AND FELT A LITTLE HURT ON RIGHT SIDE IN GROAN AREA. WHEN CLEANING UP AFTER HE GOT HOME HE SAW SOME SWELLING IN THE GROAN AREA .
EMPLOYEE RIDING OUT ON CAGE FELT PAIN IN ABDOMEN.
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED.LOADER WAS LIFTING AND PUSH THE TAIL. EE COULD NOT SEE OVER THE CHUTE ON THE TAIL SECTION SO HE STEPPED UP INTO THE LOADER BUCKET TO CHECK ALIGMENT. FRAME OF THE TAIL SECTI ON CAME DOWN ON HIS LEFT FOO AND PINCHED THE FOOT BETWEEN THE FRAME AND THE BOTTOM OF THE LOADER BUCKET. LEFT FOOT RECIVED A CRUSHING INJURY RESULTING AMPUTION OF THE BIG TOE AND TORN MUSCLE
EE WAS PUSH STARTING PICKUP BY HAND. FOLLOWING THIS PAIN WAS FELT IN GROIN WHICH BECAME PROGRESSIVELY WORSE.
EE WAS OPERATING CHEMICAL HUDRATE MACHINE AND PULLED ON A LEVER TO STOP THE FLOW OF MATERIAL. WHEN HE DID THS, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE PLANT PHYSICIAN AN D SHCEDULED FOR SURGERY. BEGAN TO LOSE TIME ON 4-13-94.
WHILE LIFTING A FEEDER MOTOR, EMPLOYEE RUPTURED HIMSELF.
OPENING DISCHARGE LINE WHICH WAS UNDER PRESSURE AND WHEN WATER SURGED THRU VALVE IT CAUSED THE LINE TO MOVE AND INJURED S HAND SLID INTO PINCH POINT COUPLING ON 4 INC SURGE LINE AND 4 INCH WAT ER LINE.
EE WAS THREADING CABLE THRU LIFTING EYE ON LOADER ARM WHILE IT WAS SUSPENDED BY HELPER WITH PRY BAR LOADER ARM SLIPPED FROM PRY BAR AND CAUGHT EE S HAND BENEATH, DISMEMBERING FIRST JOINT FROM RIGHT HAND INDEX FINGER.
WHEN THE INJURED WAS GETTING OUT OF A PARKED SCOOP THE SCOOP DRIFTED FORWARD 6 TO 8 INCHES CATCHING HIS INDEX, MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS OF HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE CNAOPY OF THE SCOOP AND THE MINE ROOF.
EMPLOYEE WAS HIT BY ROCK FROM ROOF HITTING HIM ON NECK SHOULDER & BACK RESULTING IN STRAIN TO BACK WHILE LOOKING AT THE CENTER LINE IN FACE TO BE MINES
THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT ON A PANEL OF A SHUTTLECAR & HURT HIS RIBS COMPLAINED OF SORENESS
INJURED STEPPED ON A PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT THATWAS BEING PULLED BY A RAM CAR. INJURED WAS THROWN OFF THE BELT INJURING HIS BACK.
HANGING MAIN POWER CABLE INTHE MINE, A CABLE CLAMPS HOOKS STRAIGHTENED OUT DROPPING THE CABLE ON THE EE. HITTING THE EE IN THE NECK EE RETURNED TO WORK ON 5-4-94.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING RAIL CARS WITH A LOCOMOTIVE,WHILE BOARDING THE LOCOMOTIVE THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE STEP STRIKING HIS LEG ON THE STEP CAUSING A LACERATION TO HIS LEG.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED OUT OF BACK OF COMPANY PICKUP AND TWISTED KNEE.
DRAGGING BOX BACKWARD IN TRUCK BED, CLIMBED OFF TRUCK, FOOT SLIPPED ON WET GRASS, TWISTED KNEE.
WHILE CLEANING BUILDUP OFF OF RETURN BELT ROLLERS, SAID MATERIAL FELL OFF STRIKING WORKER ACROSS HIS NOSE, FORCING HEAD BACKWARDS, RESULTING IN SOME NECK DISCOMFORT THE NEXT MORNING.
INJURED MENTIONED ON OR AROUND 2-11-94 THAT HIS KNEES WERE BOTHERING HIM AND HE FELT IT WAS DUE TO CRAWLING AND REPEATED BUMPING OF THEM AT WORK. HE DID NOT MISS WORK OR GO TO DR AT THAT TIME. ON 4-30-94 INJURED SADI HIS KNEES WERE WORSE AND HE WAS GOING TO DR. ON 5-2-94.
HE WAS PULLING IN BOARDS TO THE FLOOR OF THE BUILDING FROM THE CRANE & TWISTED HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE STATED HE GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS RT EYE WHILE GETTING IN MANTRIP EM0PLOYEE COMPLETED HIS SHIFT WITHOUT COMPLAINT NOTE EMPLOYEE REPORTED THIS TO SAFETY DEPT BY PHONE ON 05-02-94 D ID NOT REPORT TO HIS SUPERVISOR WENT TO DOC 05-02-94
HE WAS GETTIN GOUT OF HIS LOADE.R HE SLIPPED OFF THE TOP DECK OF THE PAYLOADER AND CAUGHT HSI LEFT FOOT ON THE BOTTOM STEP, RESULTING IN ASPRAINED LEFT ANKLE.
WHILE ROOF BOLTING A DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF THE HOLE AND HIT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A CLAW HAMMER TO REMOVE THE PIN OUT OF A BELTSPIKE WHEN HE STRUCK THIS HAMMER WITH ANOTHER HAMMER A PIECE OF METAL CHIPPED OFF & EMBEDDED IN HIS R EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING AT RAM CAR AT FACE HIT A LARGE HOLE CAUSIGN SERVERE BACK PAIN.
EE WAS HELPING PUT BELT STRUCTURE IN HE WAS LIFTING A BOTTOM ROLLER HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EE HAD POSITIONED CONTINUOUS MINER IN XCUT BETWEEN BOLT HEADING AND THE 1 LEFT AIRCOURSE SO THAT RIPPER CHAIN COULD BE TIGHTEN. EE SET REMOTE CONTROL UNIT ON TOP OF CM MACHINE AND WAS ATTEMPTI NG TO UMPLUG HIS LIGHT CORD WHEN THE CM MOVED SUDDENLY AND HIS LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT IN A PINCH POINT BETWEEN CM AND THE ROOF.
WHILE MOUNTING HIS BULL DOZER, THE INJURED SLIPPED AND HIT HIS RIB CAGE ON THE DOZER PUSH ARM CRACKING ONE RIB.
INJURED REPORTECLY WAS DRILLING WITH GD83 GINDER DRILL, WHEN HE PULLED DRILL STEEL, FROM DRILLED HOLE WITH THE SINKER DRILL HE SPRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.
WAS STARTING A PUMP BY PULLIN RECOIL ROPE, WHEN HE PULLED ROPE IT PULLE DTO STOP, INJURING RIGHT HSOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS DIGGING A CHANEL IN THE RIB TO HELP BUILD A SEAL IN #1 ENTRY ON 002 SECTION USING A PICK WHILE DIGGING EMPLOYEE MASHED INDEX FINGER ON RT HAND AGAINST RIB
WHILE USING A HAND HELD ELECTRIC GRINDER & GRINDING A STEEL PLATE A SMALL PIECE OF STEEL BECAME EMBEDDED IN THE EMPLOYEES RT EYE
CHANGING HAMMERS IN ROTER FOR CRUSHER. HOLDING THE WRENCH TO LOSEN BOLTS FOR WEDGES. EE HAD HIS HAND BETWEEN THE WRENCH AND THE ROTOR, INSTEAD OF PUTTING WRENCH AGAINST THE ROTOR. INJURING RIG HT HAND.
SHOVELIGN BY THE TAIL PULLEY SHOVEL CAUGHT PULLEY AND HANDLE HIT HIM IN FACE.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING DEBRIS FROM CHUTE OF MOTHER BELT. WHILE REACHING OVERHEAD, A LARGE PIECE STARTED TO COME DOWN. AS SHE HELD IT UP WITH HER RIGHT HAND, THE WEIGHT OF IT CAUSED HE RIGHT T HUMB TO BE OVER EXTENDED.
EE WAS ROOF BOLTING AT 3 FACE SLIS UNIT. HIS DRILL STEEL HAD BEEN HANGING UP IN THE DRILL POT. SO HE USED A ROOF BOLT WRENCH TO STRIKE THE DRILL STEEL TO KNOCK IT FREE. IN THE PROCESS OF STRIK ING THE STEEL THE ADAPTER ON THE WRENCH FLEW OFFAND HIT EE ON THE SIDE OF HIS FACE.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS TRAMMING THE MINER ACROSS THE SECTION WHEN HE TWISTED IN THE MINER SEAT TO LOOK AT THE MINER CABLE. EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHEN HE DID THIS HE FELT A BURNING SENSATIO N IN HIS BACK. EMP. STATED THAT HE CONTINUED TO TRAM THE MINER ACROSS THE SECTION TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MINE WHERE THE BURNING TURNED TO PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EE WAS USING A DRILL PRESS TO CUT HOLES IN RUBBLE SKIRTBOARD. THE DRILL BIT GRABBED THE RUBBER &IT BEGAN TO SPIN WITH THE BIT. EE TRIED TO HOLD THE RUBBER SKIRT BOARD & HIS GLOVE GOT CAUGHT IN THE BIT PULLING HIS HAND AROUND THE DRILL. THIS CAUSED A FRACTURE TO HIS LEFT WRIST.
EMPLOYEE WALKING AROUND PULL TABLE AND CAME AROUND THE CORNER OF THE CAR AND HIT LEFT KNEE.
WAS HELPING THE MECHANIC REPAIR SHOCK ABSORBER OF ONE TEREX TRUCK. THE EMPLOYEE HAD HIS LEFT HAND UNDERNEATH THE SHOCK ABSORBER WHEN THE SHOCK ABSORBER SUDDENLY COLLAPSED FALLING ON HIS HAND.
POURING TRANSMISSION OIL IN A D11 DOZER. RAININ. FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM, FELL, LANDED ON LEFT HIP. BEGAN LOST WORK DAYS AS A RESULT OF THIS INJURY ON 5-2-94.
THIS EMPLOYEE FELT PAINS IN HIS BACK AS HE PLACE DMINER'S LIGHTS IN THE CHARGING RACK AT THE END OF THE SHIFT.
WHILE EE WAS GETTING OUT OF HIS TRUCK UNDER BUNKERS, HE HIT HIS HEAD ON THE CROSS BAR OUTSIDE AND STRAINED HIS NECK. EE WAS WEARING HIS HARD HAT AT THE TIME.
INJURED WAS REVERSING THE ADJUSTING RAM TO ADJUST THE CRUSHER THE RAM WAS RETRATED CATCHING HIS RIGHT RING FINGER BETWEEN THE RAM AND FRAME, FRACTURING THE END OF THE FINGER.
OPERATING A PORTAL BUS WHEN IT DEFRAILED. PERSON STATED HE WAS PAIN IN HIS NECK AREA.
EE CALL IN ON 04-30-94 REPORTED HIS BACK HAD A STEADY PAIN & WSENT TO HOSPITAL ER ON 04-29-94 WANTED TO SEE COMPANY DOC ON 05-02-94
EMPLOYEE WAS REBUILDING CYLINDERS. AS HE PICKED UP A CYLINDER TO PLACE IT ON A CART HE WENT FORWARD AND FELT A SHARP PAN IN HIS SHOULDER. THIS INCEDENT RESULTED IN A DELTOID SPRAIN, RIGHT SHOU LDER, CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.
HE WAS FUELING UP A D-9 CAT. HE SLIPPED ON A MUDDY CAT TRACK AND HIT HIS LEFT KNEE ON THE TRACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS REACHING ABOVE THE HEAD TO SLOT 3480 CARTRIDGE TAPES IN THE TAPE RACKS WHICH ASRE TALL AND THE STEP STOOL WAS NOT HIGH ENOUGH AND SHE STRAINED HE LEFT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE GETTING READY TO REPAIR WELD ON INSIDE OF HOPPER OF SHAKER PLANT SLIPPED ON MUD LEG FELL BETWEEN ROLLER & HOPPER
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE JACKLINE & FELL BACKWARDS AGAINST A RAM BAR
OEPRATOR WAS EXITING THE PIT AND IN A AKWARD MOTION OF HIS BODY AND HE FELT QUOTE A POP.
EMPLOYEE STATED AS HE WAS WALKING OUT OF THE #2 ENTRY A PIECE OF ROCK FROM THE ROOF FELL & STRUCK THE SIDE OF HIS LEFT FOOT
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING 6FT ROCKS WHEN HE WENT TO GET DOWN IS FOOT SLIPPED & HE FELL BETWEEN TWO ROCKS
EE WAS OBSERVING THE MONORAIL CABLES BEING PULLED OUTBY BY A WINCH. HE SAW THE MONORAIL TROLLEYS CATCH ON A MONORAIL JOINT AND SIGNALLED FOR THE WINCH TO BE SHUT OFF. HE WALKED PAST THE WINCH CONNECTION AND THE CHAIN BROKE WITH THE WINCH CABLE HITTING HIM KNOCKING HIM TO THE FLOOR.
KNEE SWELLED.
EE WAS CLEANING SHOP HE ALLEGED A TIMBER UP TO MOVE IT & HE GOT A SPLINTER IN THE SIDE OF HIS HAND HE PULLED THE SPLINTER OUT & HT THOUGHT HE GOT ALL OF IT BUT THE HAND BECAME SORE & SWELLING OCCURRED EE WENT TO THE DOC ON 05-11-94 THEY PULUED MATERIAL OUT FO WOUND & STARTED TREATMENT FOR INFECTION HE BECAME A LOST TIME ON 05-13-94
EMPLOYEE WAS DOING HIS REGULAR WORK AS A ROCKMAN. ANOTHER CREW SE TOFF A BLAST AND A STONE FROM THE BLAST HIT THE GROUND AND THEN HIT EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT LEG.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS RETAPING MINER CABLE WHEN HIS LEFT FOOT GOT CAUGHT IN THE LOOP OF CABLE CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEG.
MAN STARTED THAT HE WAS GETTING OUT OF SCOOP AND HE CAUGHT HIS METATARSAL ON COVER SURROUNDING BRAKE SYSTEM AND HE FELL TO GROUND.
EE WAS DRIVING A SHUTTLE CAR ON THE 005-0 2 LEFT SECTION AT THE FEEDER HE GOT OUT TO CHANGE DIRECTION IN DEEP MUCK. AS HE GOT BACK INTO THE CAR, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN AND A TERAING FEELING IN H IS LEFT FOOT. HE FINISHED THE SHIFT EXPERIENCINGLITTLE PAIN. THIS WAS FRIDAY. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY HIS DAYS OFF THE FOOT GOT WORSE. ON MONDAY HE CALLED THE CO TO REPORT THE ACCDIENT AND WENT T
THE MAN WAS TRYING TO PUT A PIN INTO A HOLE OF A SUPPLY CAR. THE PIN BECAME STUCK. THE MAN TRIED TO HIT THE PIN WITH A HAMMER AND MISSED STRIKING HIS LEFT THUMB. NO MEDICAL ATTENTION WAS N EEDED AT THIS TIME. ON 5-9-94THE MAN WENT TO THE HOSPITAL FOR INFECTION TO HIS LEFT THUMB.
SLIPPED ON SNOW WHILE USING A JACKHAMMER TO DRILL HOLES IN STONE.
OEPRATOR WAS PULLIGN PUMP HOSE. STRAINE DLOWER BACK.
EE WAS ON CUTTING MACHINE WHEN THE SHOT FIRER SHOT A PLACE THE LOOSE COAL FROM THE SHOT HIT THE EE IN THE HEAD CUTTING IT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING SCREENS ON SHAKER PLANT HE BANGED LEFT KNEE CAP INTO ANGLE IRON CAUSING BRUISE ON KNEE CAP
DURING THE NORMAL COURSE OF DUTIES LOWER BACK AND HIP DISCOMFORT OCCURRED.
INJURED WAS RIDING IN THE REAR CARRIER ON A FORDTRACTOR AND IT WAS PULLING A PORTABLE WELDER. THE BAR GATE CAME OPEN AND SHE FELL OUT AND HIT ON HER BACK AND THE WELDER RAN OVER HER RIGHT LEG ABOVE ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING ANOTHER MECHANIC IN THE REMOVAL OF A D9L DOZER TRACK FRAME. THEY HAD TO REMOVE AN EQUALIZER BAR PIN TO DETACH THE SIDE FRAME FROM THE DOZER. EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING A 5 FOO T LONG BAR AGAINST PIN AS OTHER MECHANIC TAPPED THE BAR WITH A SLEDGE. WHEN THE PIN PUSHED THROUGH EYE OF THE EQUALIZER BAR THE TRACK FRAME DROPPED SLIGHTLY & PUSHED BAR DOWNWARD PINCHING FIN
HE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN A PIECE OF CAP ROCK STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK AND NECK. HE STATES THAT THIS WEIGHT CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS BACK AND NECK. THE ATRS UNIT WAS WORKING PROPERLY. THE PIECE OF ROCK DISLODGED FROM THE DRILL HOLE AREA.
LIFTING 5 GAL PALE FULL OF WET SAND. (APPROX 100 LBS).
THE PERSON WAS STANDING ON A TRANSPORT TRACTOR DECK AND ANOTHER PERSON GOT ON, AND HTE TRACTOR MOVED.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING DOZER WHEN HE HIT A BUMP ALLEGEDLY INJURING HIS BACK EMPLOYEE DID NOT START MISSING UNTIL 05-10-94
INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING ROCK DUST OFF THE SCOOP AND HUR THIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON WET CLAY AND FELL AGAINST AGGITATOR DRIVE PLATFORM HITTIN GLEFT SIDE AND RIBS.
EMPLOYEE IS EXPERIENCING PAIN FROM AN INJURY DATED 04-18-94 HE FELL ONTO THE DRILL POT WHILE TRYING TO BEND A ROOF BOLT & INJURED HIS RIBS HE RETURNED TO WORK ON 04-20-94 & CONTINUED WORKING T ILL 04-28-94WHEN HE WAS TAKEN TO THE DR
THERE WAS A ROCK STRUCK BETWEEN THE REAR DUALS ON THE DRILL WATER TRUCK AND THE INJURED WENT TOTHE TIRE SHOP TO GET IT REMOVED. THE INJURED WASSTANDING BY THE TIREMAN WATCHING AS HE REMOVED THE OUTTER TIRE WHEN THE INNER TIRE BLEW CAUSINGAIR AND DUST TO STRIKE THE INJURED.
INJURED WAS USING AN OXY-LACETYL TORCH TO PERFORM MAINTENANCE ACTIIVITIES ON OUR B.E. 1260 DRAGLINE. IN THE PROCESS, HE CONTACTED A PIECE OF HOT SLAY IN HIS RIGHT EYE. HE WAS THEN REFERRED TO THE OPTAMOLIST FOR FRAGMENT REMOVAL AND DIAG.
EE WAS CARRYING TWO 5-GALLON CANS OF HYDRAULIC OIL AND FELT PAIN IN THE LEFT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAMMER IN A MUDDY AREA THE HAMMER SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND HITTING HIS LEFT KNEE
THE EE WAS HELPING TO PULL SOME 6 INCH HOSE DOWN THE MOUNTAIN WHERE HE AND SOME OTHER EE HAD BEEN PUMPING WATER OUT OF THE COAL PIT, AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
INJURED WAS PUTTING HYDRO OIL IN CONT. MINER AND AFTER HE FINISHED, HE BENT OVER TO LIFT THE RUB RAIL TO PUT BACK IN PLACE AND STATES HE PULLED SOMETHING IN LOWER BACK .
USING A BAR TO POKE MATERIAL BUILD-UP AT BRIDGEDOVER HOPPER ON #4 TUNNEL 2ND BOX. A LARGE LUMP OF MATERIAL DISLODGED & FELL ON THE BAR THE EE WAS USING. FORCE KNOCKED EE OFF HIS FEE. WHEN EE W AS SHOWERING AFTER HIS SHIFT, HE NOTICED TWO BLUDGES IN LOWER ABDOMEN.
EE WAS WASHING HIS HANDS OFF WITH SIDE WASH DOWN HOSE WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE FELL AND HIT HIM ON HIS RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK WHEN OPENING GARAGE DOOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 637 SCRAPER HAULING REFUSE FROM THE PREP PLANT TO THE GOB DUMP AREA. THE ROADWAY WAS ROUGHT AND EMPLOYEE STRUCK A ROUGH REA CAUSING DISCOMFORT IN HIS LOWER BACK WHICH WORSENED AS HE CONTINUED TO RUN THE EQUIPMENT. THE INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A MUSCLE STRAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EE WAS CAPPING OFF A BRATTICE ON THE RETURN BRATTICE LINE AT SURVEY TAG 10,140. A ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS AND HIT HIM ON THE NECK SHOULDER AND LEFT ARM.
INJURED BENT OVER TO GET CLAMPS OUT OF BOX FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE BUMPED HIS RIGHT KNEE WHILE MOUNTING THE MANTRIP. REPORTED 5-9-94 AND STARTED MISSING 5-9-94.
EE WAS PUTTING A WINDBREAK UP ON REAR OUTSIDE OF WALKING TOWER ON DRAGLINE WHEN HE SLIPPED ON SNOW AND ICE ON DRAGLINE SHOE STRIKING HIS KNEE ON THE BRACE TO THE DRAGLINE. EE FIRST DAY AWAY FR OM WORK WAS MAY 6, 1994.
EE WAS PLACING PISTER RODS IN THE ROCK WHERE HE BUMP THE ROCK WITH THE ROD WHILE RT WAS HANDING OR A SLING HOOK THE HOOK DID NOT HAVE A LATCH L THE ROD FELL LANDING ON EE LEFT FOOT.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO UNLOAD A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT OFF A FLATBED TRUCK. EE CLIMBED ON TOP THE EQUIPMENT TO HOOK UP A CHAIN TO THE BUCKET OF A FRONT END LOADER. THE BUCKET WAS LOWERED AND TAPPED THE EQUIPMENT CAUSING IT TO ROLL. EE JUMPED OFF,LAND ON THE FLATBED CAUSING STRAIN TO HIS RIGHT THUMB AREA.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT THE LOADER OPERATOR DROPPED A LOAD OF SHALE INTO HIS END DUMP AND JARRED HIM FROM SIDE TO SIDE. HE ALLEGEDLY DEVELOPED LOWER BACK PAIN AS A RESULT.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ALONG THE LONGWALL FACE NOE OF THE SHIELDS WERE MOVING A HIGH PRESSURE HOSE BURST APPROX 21/2FT AWAY FROM VICTIM & SPRAYED EMULSIEN FLUID IN RT EYE
MOVING WOODEN WALKING MATS INTO POSITION OVER A NATURAL GAS PIPE LINE. THIS REQUIRED A D6 DOZER AND AN EE ON THE GROUND. THE EE STEPPED FORWARD TO HOOK UP CHAIN TO ONE OF THE MATS. THERE WAS A PPROX. 12 INCH OPENING BETWEEN 2 MATS, WHEN EE STEEPED FORWARD TO HOOK THE CHAIN UP TO ONE OF THE MATS, HE STEPPED INTO THE 12 INCH OPENING. AT THE SAME TIME THE D6 DOZER BEGAN TO TURN LEFT A
INJURED WAS BENDING AN 8' X 3/4" ROOF BOLT FOR INSTALLATION AND FELT PAIN IN RT. GROIN AREA--VICTIM SAID AREA BEGAN TO SWELL LATER IN THE SHIFT.
WAS RUNNING MATERIASL ON THE CONVEYOR BELT WHEN IT STOPPED, HE WENT TO CHECK THE FUSE BOX, 2 WERE BAD. HE REPLACED THE FIRST ONE WITH NO PROBLEM. WHILE PUTTING THE SECOND ONE IN, IT BLEW, BU RNING THE TOP OF HIS HAND AND FLASH BURN TO HIS RIGHT EYE.
UNPLANNED DETONATION OF HOLE DURING LOADING OF SHOT.
REOCCURENCE 3-28-94. FIRST DAY OFF 4-28-94 MEDICAL REPORT WAS NOT RECEIVED UNTIL DATE OF 5-12-94.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS IN A HURRY WHILE CLIMBING ON TO THE MACHINE HE STRUCK HIS KNEE ON ACCESS STEPS
OPERATOR CONFUSED THE PEDALS IN THE TRUCK HE WAS OPERATING. THE OPERATOR HAD MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, BUT IN THE CONFUSION, HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK. THE TRUCK TRAVELED 125 YARDS BEFORE I T OVERTURNED AND CAME TO REST CAUSING THE OPERATOR TO SUFFER A MILD CONCUSSION.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRAGGING A BAG OF ROCK DUST WHEN HE STATES HE EXPERIENCED LOWER BACK PAIN
WAS PUSHING WHEELBARROW SLIPPED WEIGHT OF MATERIAL SHIFTED EE TRIED TO STEAD THE FALLING WHEELBARROW BY BENDING TO SIDE FELT PAIN IN BACK .
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING REMOTELY CONTROLLED CONTINUOUS MINER TO CLEAN UP LEFT SIDE OF ENTRY OF RT XCUT AFTER RT XCUT HAD BEEN MINED THROUGH WHEN COAL FROM RT COAL RIB STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON R FOOT
ON 4-20-94, EMPLOYEE DROPPED A 8" X 8" CRIBBING BLOCK ON RIGHT FOOT. ON 4-28-94, HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND FOOT STARTED TO SWELL, X-RAY SHOWED FRACTURE TO FOOT.
WAS PICKING UP A PORTABLE PLATFORM TO MOVE IT WHEN WHEELS GOT CAUGHT STOPPING THE MOVEMENT ABRUPTLY. EMPLOYEE'S BODY WAS JERKED AND HE FELTPAIN IN LOWER BACK.
STRAIN LEFT SHOULDER THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING A CRIB BLOCK TO PLACE IT ONTO A CRIB & FELT PAIN IN SHOULDER
EE WAS BOLTING A PLACE, HE SET THE LAST BOLT AND WAS WORKING LEVERS ON SLOW TRAM WHEN HE TURNED AND TWISTED HIS BACK. POSSIBLE PULLED MUSCLES.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON PLATFORM ABOVE WEMCO DRYER. TO SWITCH 14" CHUTE TO BIPASS DRYER, WHEN HE PULLE DON HANDLE OF CHUTE HTE HANDLE BROK EOFF CHUTE CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS OFF OF PLA TFORM. EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF LOWER BACK PAIN AND PAIN IN RIGHT HIP AS A RESULT OF THE FALL.
INJURED STATED WHILE HE WAS OPERATING SCOOP HE RAN OVER CRIB BLOCK CAUSING HIM. TO STRIKE HIS HEAD AGAINST CANOPY PAIN IN LEFT SIDE OF NECK AND AGAINST CANOPY PAIN IN LEFT SIDE OF NECK AND SHO ULDER FIRST DAY ABSENT FROM WORK DUE TO THIS INUINJURY WAS 9-19-94.
EE WAS LOWERING THE ANTENNA ON MINER. AT THE SAME TIME THE OPPOSITE BOLTER OPERATOR WAS SLIDING A PLANK ACROSS WHEN A ROCK CAUGHT THE PLANK SMASHING THE INJURED'S RIGHT RING FINGER AGAINST THE ANTENNA.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP #4 BELTLINE WHEN HIS HAT FELL OFF EMPLYEE BENT OVER & PICKED UP HIS HAT & RAISED BACK UP HIT HIS HEAD ON A METAL STRAP ON THE ROOF
EE WAS SHOVELING SAND FROM THE FLAT ROOF OF THE WASH HOUSE AND DUMPING OVER THE EDGE OF THE BUILDING HE SAYS THAT THE WIND CAUGHT THE WHEELBARROW. CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL 5FT 7 INCH FROM THE ROOF OF THE BLDG ONTO THE SAND PILE BELOW.
WHILE BUILDING A STOPPING THE MINER STEPPED ON A CINDER BLOCK AND TWISTED HIS BACK RESULTING A STRAIN.
EMPLOYE EWAS TAKING DOWN A LOOSE BROW. WHEN THE BROW HIT THE MINE FLOOR A PIECE STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT FOOT. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 5-5-94. Y
PREMATURE DETONATION OF HOLE WITHIN BLAST AREA.
EE WAS WALKING DOWN ENTRY WHEN HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPEDOFF INTO AN OLD TIR TRACK CAUSING HIS LEFT ANKLE TO TWIST.
EE WAS PULLING ON A CONVEYOR CHAIN WHICH WAS BROKE ON SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN LOWER BACK. VERTEBRA OUT OF PLACE WHICH WAS PINCHING A NERVE.
INJURED WAS INSTALLING 6FT. ROOF BOLTS IN #3 ENTRY. HE DRILLED THE HOLE 5FT. AND INSTALLED THE RESIN AND ROOF BOLT AND REALIZED THE HOLE WAS NOT DEEP ENOUGH. HE WAS SPINNING THE ROOF BOLT OFF THE CHUCK TO REMOVE IT AND PULLING DOWN ON THE ROOF BOLT AT THE SAME TIME WHEN HIS GLOVE CAUGHT ON THE BOLT AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT HAND.
INJURED WAS REPLACING METAL COVER ON TRACK LOCOMOTIVE WHEN THE COVER CAME IN CONTACT WITH ELECTRICITY CAUSING ELECTRICAL BURN TO HIS HAND.
EE & OT HER CREW MEMBERS WORKED LATE ON SECTION WHILE ENROUTE TO ELEVATOR THEY MEET TRACK TRAFFIC THEY SWITCHED JEEP INTO KICKBACK TO ALLOW ANOTHER BUS TO PASS EE WAS FACING OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL & LEFT ARM WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN PVC PIPE & JEEP FRAME
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING CRIBBING BLOCK TO PLACE UNDER AN ENGINE THAT HE WAS REBUILDING.
WHILE LOOKING AT AN UNFIRED HOLE AT THE REAR OF THE MUCKPILE, A ROCK HIGHER ON THE PILE SHIFTED & ROLLED IN HIS DIRECTION. AS HE TURNED TO GET OUT OF ITS WAY HE LOST HIS FOOTING & FELL ON THE MUCKPILE. HE GOT A FEW SCRATCHES & A CUT BELOW HIS RIGHT ELBOW THAT REQUIRED 3 STITCHES. HE WORKED THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY & TOOK OFF 28TH & 29TH SORE ARM ALSO RAINY
EE WAS GOING TO 70 JACK TO UNSTICK DOWN BUTTON WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN BACK.
INJURED WAS OPERATING ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE LOWERED STABILIZER JACK ONTO HIS FOOT.
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING INTO HIS WORK TRUCK HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SIDE.
EMLOYEE'S BACK GOT SORE WHILE HE WA SBOLTING TOP BUT HE FINISHED HTE SHIFT. WHEN THE MAN TRIP CAME OUTSIDE HE COULD NOT STAND UP STRAIGHT AND HE HADPAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
BUILDING BRADDISH, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ANDSTRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE SIDE OF HIS LEFT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS SHUTTING THE TRUCK DOOR WHEN HIS NECK WENT OUT OF PLACE
WHILE CLIMBING ON A 992D CAT LOADER, EE S FOOT SLIPPED WHEN HE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT ARM HE PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS LEFT SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP SCRAP BALLS WHEN A PIECE OF METAL CAME OFF OF THE MAGNET STRIKING HIM IN THE EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS DOING REGULAR CLEAN UP, EMPTIED TRASH CAN AND STRAINED BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING WIRE SAW WHEEL OFF OF TABLE.IT SLIPPED AND EMPLOYEE GRABBED AT IT,CAUSING STRAIN TO MID-SECTION.EMPLOYEE WENT TO DOCTOR ON 05-31-94 BECAUSE IT CONTINUED TO BOTHER HIM.
WHILE STANDING O THE CONVEYOR CATWALK EMPLOYEE WAS HIT IN THE LEFT ANKLE BY A PIECE OF FLY ROCK FROM A BLAST AT THE QUARRY
EMPLOYEE WAS GOING DOWN STAIRS AT RAW MILL TO CLEAN LOWER LEVEL. HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND STARTED TO FALL, IN TURN GRABBED THE HANDRAIL TO STEADY HIMSELF AND TWISTED OR SPRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOUL DER. THERE WAS NO BUILD-UP ON STAIRS.
CLIMBING OUT OF A BOBCAT HE HURT HIS BACK STANDING UP. MUSCLES TIGHTENED UP.
EMPLOYEE HAS REOCCURANCE OF AN OLD KNEE PROBLEM. HIS KNEE BEGAN TO SWELL SO HE TOOK HIMSELF TO MD. UNSURE HOW HE INJURED HIMSELF.
EE WAS GETTING OUT OF MANBUS AT END OF TRACK AFTER RIDING TO SECTION WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.
WAS WELDING ON BUCKET ELEVATOR LEANED OVER TO WELD ON SIDE OF ELEVATOR AND SLIPPED HITTING HIS HEEL ON HANDRAIL.
WORKER WAS USING SHOVEL TO CLEAN MUD AROUND SNULHER, SHOVEL GOT CAUGHT IN PULLEY. IN AN ATTEMPT TO PULL SHOVEL OUT WORKER STRAINED HIS SHOULDER. DID NOT REPORT INJURY TO HIS FOREMAN UNTIL 7 DA YS LATER, DIDN'T SEE DR. UNTIL 5-2-94.
OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS FOR THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR SMALLER THAN WHAT HE HAS OPERATED IN THE PAST HE STATES THAT OPERATING THIS SHUTTLE CAR IN A MORE CO NFINED SPACE HAS CAUSED HIM TO BE JARRRED MORE &THEREFORE THAT IS WHAT HE HASZ BASED HIS INJURY ON
OEPRATOR WAS DESCENDING VERTICLE LADDER AFTER COMPETING WASH DOWN TASK AT THE DISCHARGE CHUTE OF THE AGGLOMERATION DRUM. OPERATOR SLIPPED FROM THE LAST RUN (APPROX 6") TWISTING HIS RIGHT ANKL E.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS UNLOADING USED TEETH FROMPAK AT 21 DUMP SCRAP YARD SLIPPED ON THE LEFT SIDE WHILE UNLOADING AND HAD A PINCHING SENSATION THROUGHOUT HIS LEG. THIS EMPLOYEE WORKED AND WAS DOING OKAY AND THEN STARTED HAVING PAIN AND THE DR. TOOK HIM OFF WORK AS OF 5-24-94.
EE CLIMBED ONTO DUMP T RUCK TO KICKOUT DIRT HE SLIPPED & FELL TO THE GROUND
EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE WORKING ON A DRAINAGE DITCH HE PICKED UP A ROCK WHILE ON HIS KNEES, AND THIS CAUSED A TINGLING SENSATION AND ACHE IN HIS ABDOMINAL AREA. EE STATED THAT HE AWOKE THAT MORN ING FEELING BAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING HIS EQUIPMENT WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL, INJURING HIS BACK. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EMPLOYEE HAS A HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS. WE WERE WAITING TO HERE FROM THE SPECIALIST W HO EXAMINED HIM AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THIS WAS A NEW INJURY. WE DID NOT RECEIVE THE NEEDED INFORMATION UNTIL 5/17/94.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING MAKE A BELT SPLICE. HE REACHED TO MOVE THE ANVIL BEFORE THE OTHER MAN WAS THROUGH BRADDING THE SPLICE AND WAS STRUCK BY THE HAMMER. THIS RESULTED IN A LACERATED LT. INDEX FINGER. EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN RE-INSTRUCTED IN THE PROPER WAY TO MAKE A BELT SPLICE.
EE CLAIMS HE WAS OPERATING A 966C LOADER, LOADING SAND ONTO ANOTHER TRUCK, AND THE LOADER DEVELOPED A LUNGING MOVEMENT CAUSING TWISTING OF THE EE S LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE GOT OFF SCOOP TO RESET BREAKER. SCOOP WAS PARKED ON HILL. THE BRAKE SLIPPED CAUSING SCOOP TO RUN OVER FOOT.
HYDOIL FROM OVER FLOW ON MINER SQUIRTED IN EYE.
CAUGHT THUMB BETWEEN PINNER HEAD AND ROOF.
EMPLOYEE BUMPED HIS LEFT ELBOW WHILE PRYING WITH A PRY BAR.
EE ALLEGED HE WAS LIFTING BAG WHEN HIS BACK FELT PAIN.
A PIECE OF ROCK FELL BETWEEN THE BOLTS & HIT HIS LOWER RT BACK
EPLOYEE WAS PUTTING UP LAST ROW OF ROOF BOLT SIN #5 BREAK. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL AND HITEMPLOYEE'S RIGHT HAND CAUSIGN CUT TO FINGERS.
INJURED WAS PULLING A JUMBO CABLE BY HAND. WHEN DOING SO HE TWISTED HIS BODY, HE FELT HIS RIGHT KNEE POP. INJURED HAS A TORN MENISCUS IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A WATER HOSE DOWN THE STEPS AT THE END OF THE #2 STOKER FEED CONVEYOR WHEN HE TURNED HIS ANKLE CAUSING PAIN & SWELLING
EMPLOYEE BEGAN LOSING TIME 4-27-94.
EMPLOYEE SAID HE ADVANCED A LONGWALL SHIELD FORWARD, HE WAS POSITIONED AWAY FROM THE LONGWALL SHIELD BEING MOVED. HE TURNED TO ADVANCE THE NEXT SHIELD WHEN A SMALL ROCK STRUCK THE TOP OF HIS R IGHT HAND AND RESULTED IN A FRACTURE.
EMPLOYEE FELL ONTO FOOTWALL WHILE LOADING BLOCKS ONTO SCOOP
THE SUBJECT PERSON WAS WORKING UPPER PLANT MAINTENANCE ON A RAINY DAY WHEN LIFTING HE HAD A FOOT SLIP OUT CAUSING TO STRAIN HIS LOWER GROIN AREA
EMPLOYEE WAS THROWING CABLE TO THE RIB WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS RIDING IN THE #124 BATTERY JEEP WHEN THE DOOR ON THE SCAR BOX OPENED & STRUCK HIM ON HIS RT KNEE THIS REPORT IS SUBMITTED LATE BECAUSE IT WAS NOT REPORTED TO MANAGEMENT THAT HE WAS OFF DUE TO CLAIMED INJURY UNTIL 08-02-94 WHEN WE WERE GIVEN A DOCTORS SLIP FROM SAFETY COMMITTEE MANAGEMENT DOES NOT FEEL THAT THIS SHOULD BE REPORTED
EE WAS OPERATING THE ROOF BOLTER WHILE DRILLING IN THE ROOF HE PUT HIS LEFT HAND ON THE DRILL STEEL HIS GLOVE GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TWO PIECES OF STEEL TWISTING HIS HAND. PULLED RING FINGER A ND CUT LITTLE FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A METAL BAR TO UNPLUG AND CLEAR CLAY OUT OF A CRUSHER. WHEN THE JOB WAS COMPLETED HE LET THE BAR FALL TO THE GROUND AND IT STRUCK HIS FOOT. HE WAS WEARING HARD TOE SHOES - I NJURY BEHIND STEEL TOE.
DOZER TRACKS- CONTUSIONS- HIP/KNEE/ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE STUMBLED WHILE RESTOCKING SECAR 71 & STRAINED BACK ALTHOUGH ALLEGED ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON 04-26-94 EMPLOYEE DID NOT MENTION IT TO ANYONE EMPLOYEE REPORTED ACCIDENT AFTER DOC VISIT ON 0 5-02-94 WHEN HE RETURNED TO WORK ON 05-04-94 ACCIDENT REPORT COMPLETED ON 05-04-94
EMPLOYEE HIT HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON A HANDRIAL, WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED HE WAS USING TO PRY LOOSE ALARGE ROCK THAT WAS WEDGED IN THE JAW CRUSHER.
EMLOYEE REACHED TO PICK UP GLOVES, A PIECE OF ROOF FELL CATCHING LEFT HAND RESULTING IN A BRUISE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CARRY METAL SHEET INTO THE SHOP AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK MUSCLES.
WHILE CLEANING SOME ROCK OFF THE TOP OF A CONTINUOUS MINER, THE EE CUT HIS HAND ON A PIECE OF SHARP ROCK.
EMPLOYEE BENT & WAS PLACING SLINGS IN HOLES OF BLOCK WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING VISE GRIPS & PUNCH TO DRIVE OUT BOLT. ANOTHER SWUNG SLEDGE HAMMER TO HIT PUNCH - MISSED AND HIT EMPLOYEE'S LEFT THUMB. THUMB BONE FLESH AND SPLIT ON TIP OF THUMB. BONE FRA CTURED. THIS ACCIDENT IS RECORDABLE.
HE WAS USING A WINCH AND THE CABLE CAME LOOSE CAUSING TO HURT HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK AND STEPPED ONLOOSE ROCK OVER TURNING ANKLE.
EE WAS GREASING & FUELING THE ENDLOADER AS HE WAS COMING DOWN THE STEPS OF THE ENDLOADER HE STEPPED OFF OF THE LAST STEP WRONG
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO TAKE OFF CUTTING EDGE ON ENDLOADER. BOLTS HAD BEEN REMOVED EXCEPT FOR ONE. WHEN EMPLOYEE TOOK IT OUT, METAL FELL 2 FEET AND STRUCK HIM ON RIGHT FOOT CAUSING CONTUSION.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO SEPARATE AN HYDRAULIC CYLINDER BY PUTTING AIR TO IT AND THE AIR PRESSURE CAUSED THE PISTON AND CYLINDER AND CASING TO BLOW APART.
INJURED WAS CLEANING A CHUTE ON THE PRIMARY JAW CRUSHER WITH A LARGE STEEL BAR. THE BAR SLIPPED FROM HIS HAND AND SMASHED HIS RIGHT THUMB AGAINST A GRIZZLY BAR ON THE FEED HOPPER.
EMPLOYEE AND HIS SUPERVISOR WERE LOADING A RADIATOR ON THE BACK OF A PICK UP WHEN THE RADIATOR SLIPPED AND THE FAN SHROUD CAUGHT HIS WRIST AS IT FELL TO THE GROUND.
WHILE MANUALLY MOVING CRANE EMPLOYEES HAND SLIPPED INTO PULLEY
TEAM MEMBER JUMPED OFF OF A MOVING TRUCK, CAUSING HIM TO FALL LANDING ON HIS LEFT HAND BREAKING HIS LEFT ARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAMMER TO TIGHTEN A BOLT ON THE ROLLER PRESS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
INJURED STATED HE WAS DEGOBBING COAL CHUTE & REMOVING ROCK FROM BELT WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN BACK
INJURED WAS DRIVING A CONNECTION. LINK IN THE CUTTER CHAIN STRIKING AMETAL PIN AND A CHIP OF METAL STRUCK IN HIS LEFT EYE.
EE WAS PUTTING TRACK PAD ON DOZER STRAINED HIS BACK.
EE NOTIFIED HIS SUPERVISOR ON MAY 6 1994, OF AN ELBOW SHOULDER STRAIN INJURY WHICH HE ALLEGES TO HAVE OCCURRED WHILE PERFORMING MAINTENANCE DUTIES ON APRIL 26, 1994. ON OCT 26, 1994 EE BEGAN L OSING TIME DUE TO SURGERY ON THE RIGHT ELBOW.
BEGGING M35 37 BAGS TO THE PALLET & HURT BACK DID NOT MISS ANY TIME FROM WORK UNTIL MAY 8TH
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS INSTALLING T1N ON AN OVERCAST FLOOR WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL HITTING HIM ON THE LOWER BACK
EE WAS STACKING STONE ON PALLETS BY HAND, BECAMEOVERBALANCE, FELL & KNOCKED STONE OFF STACK & IT SMASHED HAND.
WALKING ALONG STAGE LOADER IN MUD AND WATER WHENHE SLIPPED ON ONE ROCK AND FELL AND HIT ANOTHER ROCK. FIRST DAY OFF WORK-- 4-28-94.
EE WAS LIFTING A BOX OF RESIN AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
EE STATED HE LIFTED A 6X6X6 LONG TIMBER, FELT PAIN IN MIDDLE OF HIS BACK.
HE WAS LAYING TRACK ON 8L2SW. AS THEY WERE MOVING A RAIL INTO POSITION, HE TRIPPED ON UNEVEN BOTTOM FALLING ON HIS W-65 SELF RESCUER BRUISING HIS RIGHT HIP.
INJURED WAS WORKING AND CAUGHT FINGER IN FEEDER CHAIN.
GETTING OUT OF 12NORTH TRUCK DUMP, ONTO A 6' LADDER, LADDER SLIPPED AND HE FELL ABOUT 5' TO THE BOTTOM HITTING ON HIS BACK WITH LADDER UNDER HIM.
TRANSFERRING DRUMS FROM MINE CAR TO SCOOP. SCOOP BUCKET WAS UPRIGHT, HE AND CO-WORKER SWER SLIDING 55 GAL. DRUMS ONTO SCOOP, LEFT FOOT SLIPPED AND HE LOST HIS BALANCE, DRUM SLID AND CAUGH THI S FINGE.R FIRST DAY AWAY FROM WORK 4-28-94.
BUS WAS STOPPED ON SOUTH MAIN TRACK AND LOCOMOTIVE BUMPED INTO IT.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING COUPLING PEN FROM MOTOR BYSTRIKING IT FROM THE BOTTOM WITH A HAMMER. EMPLOYEE STATED HIS GLASSES SLID FORWARD WHEN HE BENTOVER, HOWEVER, HE CONTINUED DRIVING PEN OUT WITH HAMMER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL EMBEDDED IN HIS LEFT EYE. REQUIRING SURGERY.
EE WAS LIFTING A ROOF SUPPORT EXTENSTIO AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.
6LEFT 4SO MAN WAS HANGING A CHECK CURTAIN IN A CROSSCUT AT THE LONGWALL HEADGATE WHEN A PIECE OF STONE FELL FROM THE TOP & STRUCK HIM IN THE LOWER BACK ABOVE THE LEFT HIP
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS HELPING REMOVE A SHUTTLE CAR TIRE & WHEEL FROM S/CAR ON 13E SECTION. AS HE TRIED TO LIFT IT UP, HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EE WORKING ON SCOOP AND HIT HIMSELF IN LEG WITH HAMMER.
EE RAISED BOOM & SWUNG BOOM OJT TO INSTALL BOLT APPARENTLY BACK REST HUNG UP ON ATRS & SWUNG BACK HITTING EE IN THE LOWER BACK LEAVING A RED MARK & IT KNOCKED THE WIND OUT OF HIM
EMPLOYEE THREW A 50 POUND BAG OF SAND ONTO A PALLET AND FELT SOMETHING "POP" IN HIS LEFT ELBOW.
HE WAS CARRYING OIL TO THE HEADGATE AND STEPPED IN MUD BETWEEN #3 AND #4 SHIELD, CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT KNEE.
EE WAS WORKING ON AL BLOWER WHEN HE REACHED INTO DUST WORK TO MOVE LOOSE WINE STRIKING HIS FINGER INTO FAR BLADES ON BLOWER CUTTING FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BOX (40-50 LBS.) OF DRINKING WATER WHEN GHE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.
ORIGINAL ACCIDENT 1-25-94. ADDITIONAL DAYS LOST FROM 4-26-94 TO 6-2-94.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING SCREENS ON SHAKER DECK RECEIVED ELECTRICAL SHOCK/BURN TO LEFT HAND FIRST TWO FINGER TIPS.
WALKED FROM THE CAR TO THE FEEDER AND STEPPED ON A SHARP STONE WITH HIS LEFT FOOT, IT DID NOT CUT THE BOOT BUT BRUISED THE BOTTOM OF HIS FOOT. THE ROCK WA UNDER LOOSE MUD.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOUNT A 988B ENDLOADER WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF THE RAIL FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK HE DID NOT FALL & THE LOADER WAS IN GOOD CONDITION
ORIGINAL ACCIDENT 9-23-88. WENT OFF WORK 4-26-94, RTW 5-10-94, 12 ADDITIONAL DAYS.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING 6 TON WAGNER DUMP TRUCK. BACK PAIN STARTED DURING SHIFT AND BECAME PROGRESSIVELY WORSE. THERE WAS NO SPECIFIC INCIDENT WHICH STARTED BACK PAIN.
WHILE REMOVING A FEEDER FROM A BELT TAILPIECE A RIB ROLL OCURRED AND STRUCK INJURED'S RIGHT LEG.INJURED SUFFERED A SEVERE SPRAINED RIGHT KNEE.
EE WAS REPAIRING A CANOPY ON THE REFUSE BELT STRUTURE WHEN A WELD BROKE ON THE STRUCTURE CAUSING HIM TO FALL 3 TO 4 TO THE GROUND.
EMPLOYE EWAS HELPING REPLACE THE U-BELTS ON A COARSE COAL SCREEN. THUMB ON RIGHT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN PULLEY AND BELT.
EMPLOEYE DIDN'T KNOW WHEN OR WHERE HE GOT A SLIVER OF METAL IN HIST WRIST. HE DID BECOME AWARE OF IT ON 4-25-94 WHEN A NOTICED AN INFECTED AREA ON HIS WRIST. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN OFF WORK DUE TO THE INFECTION.
EMPLOYEE WAS CROUCHED REMOVING AN EXHAUST SYSTEM FROM A FUEL TRUCK WHEN EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO STAND UPRIGHT HIS LEFT KNEE WOULD NOT STRAIGHTEN HE FELT CRAMP LIKE PAINS & HEARD A POPPING SOUND
EMPLOYEE PICKED A BAG OF ROCK DUST TWISTED AROUND & WRENCHED UPPER BACK
WHILE PULLING AND TUGGING ON A WATER HOSE, EMPLOYEE'S FEET SLIPPED IN MUD, CAUSING HIM TO FALL WHICH DISLOCATED SHOULDER.
INJURED WAS LOADING SUPPLIES ONTO A SUPPLY CAR WHEN THE CAR WAS STRUCK BY ANOTHER CAR CAUSING HIM TO GET HIT BY FLYING MATERIAL.
EE WAS STANDING AT EDGE OF CROSSCUT IN FACE OF 3 HEADING ON MAINS SECTION AND ROCK FELL FROM EDGE OF RIB STRIKING EE ON HAND SHOULDER SKINNING NOSE RESULTING IN STIFF NECK TO EE.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WALKING SLIPPED & FELL RESULTING IN A SIMPLE FRACTURE OF HIS LEFT WRIST
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS BENT OVER PULLING MINER CABLE TO THE RIB WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
HE WAS TRYING TO FREE UP THE MONORAIL THAT WAS HUNG UP ON THE TORQUE COVERTOR. HE WAS USING A SLEDGE AND WHEN IT CAME LOOSE WITH FORCE IT CAUGHT EE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE NECK.
WHILE GETTING BACK INTO BOBCAT, FOOT SLIPPED AND CONTROL LEVER TO BUCKET TILT, THE BUCKET-BROOM TILTED AND PINCHED RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN BUCKET AND FRAME CAUSING A SEVERE BRUISE TO ANKLE (NO FRAC TURE) AND SURROUNDING AREA.
HE HAD HIS HAND OUTSIDE HTE OPERATOR CAB AND GOT IT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CAB AND THE PIVOT POINT ON THE WAGNER DIESEL SCOOP WHEN HI KNEE HIT THE STEERING LEVR.
INJURED WAS OEPRATING A D8L DOZER & WAS STARTING TH EPROCESS OF BUILDING A POND. HE THEN NOTICED A FLA TIED ON ATREE THAT HE NEEDED TO MOVE. HE MOVED THE FLAG AND STARTED TO WALK BACK TO HSI DOZIER WHEN HE SPRAINED HIS ANKLE.
REMOVING ELECTRICAL POWER CABLES FROM MACHINE LIFTING POWER CABLES & STRAINED LOWER BACK SPTRAINED LOWER BACK 60 FT OF #2-4 COND POWER CABLE WEIGHT 150# /60FT LONG
LIFTING 4" STEEL PIPE HE STRAINED LOWER BACK.
EE STATED HE STEPPED IN A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AREA.
WAS PACKING 50 LB BAGS ON TO PALLETS & LIFTED A BAG TO PUT ON THE PALLET & TWISTED LOWER & MIDDLE OF BACK HAD A BACK BRACE ON & AFTER TWISTED IT TIGHTENED UP BELT & PACKED BAGS ONTO THREE MORE PALLETS
EE WAS PAINTING RESIN SEAMS. LUMP OF ROCK FELL HITTING HIM ON BACK OF NECK.
GERALD WAS TAKING STONE PIECES FROM SEVERAL PALLETS AND PUTTING THEM ON ONE ALLET TO PROVIDE CUSTOMER WITH MIXED COLOR RANGE STONE. AS HE PICKED UP A PIECE ABOUT 75 LBS. HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS FOREARM. HE DID NOT GO TO GET MEDICAL ATTENTION, ON 5-10-94 HE SHOWED ME A LARGE BRUISE ON HIS FOREARM, I TOLD HIM HE SHOULD GO TO THE DOCTOR. DOCTOR SAID HE HAD ELBOW STRAIN 5-11-94.
HANGING WIRE ROPE FROM THE TOP HIS BACK STARTED HURTING THE NEXT MORNING EMPLOYEE WAS SCHEDULED FOR A MRI ON MAY 2 1994 FROM A PREVIOUS BACK PROBLEM
EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING SAMPLE BOTTLES BEFORE GOING OUT INTO THE PLANT ON A SAMPLE RUN. WHEN EMPLOYEE TURNED AROUND TO WALK OUT OF THE LABORATORY, HE BUMPED HIS LEFT KNEE ON THE CENTRIFUGE WHICH IS LOCATED BY THE BACK DOOR OF THE LABORATORY. EMPLOYEE DID NOT BEGIN LOSING TIME UNTIL 6-27-94.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WORKING ALONG THE 11D BELT, WAS USING A SHOVEL TO CLEAN UP, THE REPEATED LIFTING CAUSED PAIN IN HIS RIGHT ELBOW. EMPLOYEEWORKED UNTIL 5-4-94, HE WENT TO DR. ON 5-4-94 AND WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING AN INFLAMED NERVE INHIS RIGHT ELBOW. FIRST DAY OFF 5-4-94.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING SET BELT TAIL PIECE LIFTING LIDS ON BELT TAIL. BACK STARTED HURTING FINISHED SHIFT WENT TO DR 4-26-94.
EE WAS OPERATING CONTINUOUS MINER A LARGE ROCK FELL AND CAUSED THE RIPPER HAND TO GO DOWN TO THE BOTTOM THE ROCK THEN FELL OFF THE MINER. THIS CAUSED THE OPERATOR TO BE THROWN INTO THE MINER C ANOPY.
WORKER WAS WELDING IN AN AREA WHERE OTHER WORKERS WERE GRINDING. A PIECE OF IMBEDDED FOREIGN OBJECT WAS FOUND IN THE LENS OF HIS EYE WHICH RESULTED IN SURGICALLY REMOVED BY OPTHOMOLOGIST.
STARTED TO TAKE NYLON STRAP OFF SHIPPER SHAFT, FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF HOIST CABLE AND WENT BETWEEN A ROCK AND ON A BUSHING.
EE WAS WORKING IN FACE WHEN METHANE IGNITED.
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS ON A TRACK OF A DOZER AND SLIPPED OFF THE DOZER.
INJURED WAS REPALLETIZING 55 LBS. BAGS IN A TRAILER WHEN HE WAS BENDIN GDOWN AND STARTED BACK UP HE STRAINED A MUSCLE ON THE RIGTH SIDE OF HIS EPLVIC
SWINGING HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER OVER, BOLTER PUSHED BOLT OVER AGAINST ANKLE.
WHILE PACKAGING LIGNITE ON THE BAGGER A BAG BURST OPEN POWDERED LIGNITE GOT INTO THE EYES OF THE EMPLOYEE
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS PUTTING UP A ROOF BOLT WHNE A LOOSE PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT HITTING HIS LEFT LEG.
PULLED BACK MUSCLE.
HE WAS PULLING A 2 WHEEL DOLLY BACK WARDS, WHEN HE CAUGH HIS FOOT ON A TRACK TIE, CAUSED HIM TO FALL. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK LATER IN THE SHIFT. HE WAS WORKING ALONG THE 13E TRACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING 6FT RESIN BOLTS UP TO PLACE IN CHUCK OF PINNER & GOT PAIN IN BACK
HE CAME OUTSIDE TO GET A WHEEL UNIT AND USED IMPROPER LIFTING TECHNIQUES CAUSING AN INJURY TO THE LOWER BACK.
EE WAS USING A 4" GRINDER, BEVELING A PIECE OF ROUND STOCK, WHEN THE GRINDER HIT HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE FELL TRYING TO REMOVE A PIECE OF STEEL FROM STORAGE RACK THE EMPLOYEE FELL A SECOND TIME ON THE SAME SHIFT WHEN HIS LEG WENT THROUGH GRATING WHILE WORKING ON REFUSE BELT
WHILE PULLING DRAGGING 12 INCH DIAMETER STAINLESS STEEL DUCTING THE WORKER EXPERIENCED SHARP PAIN THRU HIS BACK.
RE-OPENNING CASE WITH THE WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION PREMIUM OF PUERTO RICO. THE CASE WAS CLOSED ON 6-91. HE IS RE-OPENNING HIS CASE BECAUSE HE IS HAVING BACK PROBLEMS.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING THE LEG OF A JACKLEG OUT OF THE MUD AND TWISTED HIS BACK.ACCIDENT HAPPENED 04-25-94 EMPLOYEE LEFT WORK 05-04-94 WITH HIS INJURY.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS USING A PIPE WRENCH TO TURN MOTOR SHAFT, WHENCH SLIPPED AND HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.
INJURED WAS LETTING DOWN A SINGLE PROP WHEN A ROCK FELL AND HIT HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT DUST WENT INTO HIS EYE PARTICLE BECAME IMBEDDED
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING COUPLING OF LOWBOY FLAT CR TO COUPLE IT TO MOTOR & STRAINED LOWER BACK
WHILE PULLING ON PRY BAR, AGAINST MOTOR, PRY BAR SLIPPED AND EMPLOYEE FELL ON BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING AND LOADING 50# BAGS OF ANFO. 2 HRS AFTER HE BEGAN LOADING HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT AND TIGHTEN UP. THE PAIN BECAME WORSE THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND AFTER THE EMPLOYEE WENT HOME. A BACK SUPPORT BRACE WAS NOT WORN.
CHANGING DRILL STEEL OUT SLIPPED FELL ON LEFT SIDE
WORKING ON MINER. HAMMERING APIECE OF METAL MISSE DMETAL AND HIT HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS BENT OVER INSPECTING COOLER CARRYING WHEELS, WHEN HE STOOD UP, FELT SHARP PAIN IN BACK.
ALLEGEDLY WHILE USING A CHIPPING GUN TO BREAK UP CHUNKS IN SILO #94, A LARGE CHUNK BROKE OFF STRIKING THE END OF THE CHIPPING GUN BIT, CAUSING GUN TO PIVOT STRIKING THE VICTIM IN THE EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DOING A LOT OF BENDING, GETTING UP AND DOWN, WHILE WELDING ON A CONVEYOR.
HE WAS CROSSING A BELT CROSS WALK WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE, RESULTING IN A STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING DOWN ON 3/4" RATCHET WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE. THE OTHER EMPLOYEE SLIPPED OFF CAUSING SPRING BACK. THE RATCHET CAME UP AND STRUCK HIM UNDER THE CHIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOOKING FOR PARTS ON A SHELF IN THE UNDERGROUND SHOP A SMALL SHAFT FELL ON THE SHELF & KICKED DUST INTO HIS EYES HE REACHED UP WITH HIS GREASY HAND & RUBBED HIS EYE WHICH CAUSED F URTHER IRRITATION
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING READY TO CHANGE A TIRE ON A BOOM TRUCK AS HE WAS TAKING THE NEW TIRE DOWN OFF THE BED OF THE TIRE REPAIR TRUCK THE NEW TIRE ROLLED & AS HE GRABBED THE TIRE HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING CHANNEL IRON TRACK WHEN IT SLIPPED OUT OF HER HANDS AND FELL JUST BEHIND TH ESTEEL TOE OF HER BOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A CHIESL IN AN ATTEMPT TO PRY OPEN A STEEL COLLAR. WHEN HE STRUCK IT WITH A HAMMER, THE CHISEL FLEW UP AND STRUCK HIM. HE WAS WEARING GLASSES. HOWEVER A SMALL PIECE OF GLASS CHIPPED OFF AND LODGED IN HIS EYE. HE MISSED ONE DAY OF WORK AND RETURNED WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS.
EMPLOYEE REPORTED THAT AS HE WAS PULLING ON A BATTERY PLUG ON A BATTERY TRACTOR TO REMOVE IT FROM THE BATTERY RECEPTICLE HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK ON HIS RIGHT SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING A VALVE WHEN HE FELT EXTREME PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
MIKE REPORTED FRO ORK ON 4-26-94 AT 12:00 NOON, HIS FIRST DAY BACK AT WORK AFTER WEEKEND, AT THAT TIME HE REPORTED HIS HACK HURT. WE SENT HIM TO COMPANY DOCTOR.
EE AND OTHER WERE SPOT BOLTING IN THE 1 RIGHT ENTRY IN PREPARATION FOR INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN THE CROSSCUT ENROUTE TO THE HEADING WHEN A PIECE OF SCALE ROCK FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT ARM CANSI NG AN INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING PULL CONTINUOUS MINER POWERCABLE SLACK INBY TOWARDS THE FACE AREA WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
LIGHTING GAS HEATER WHEN FLAMES FLEW BACK ON BOTH HANDS.
HELPING TO REMOVE A BASKET FROMA DRYER IN TH PREPARATION PLANT AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS ELBOW WHILE HE WAS REMOVING A BELT ROLLER FROM THE SECTION BELTLINE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON ROOF BOLTER WHEN REPLACING THE LIDS HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND PULLED HIM DOWN.
EE WHILE SETTING TIMBERS ON LONGWALL FACE, A RIB ROLLED OUT CAUSING TIMBER TO BE KNOCKED LOOSE. STRIKING EE IN BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A BOTTOM BELT ROLELR WHEN HIS LEFT HAND SLIPPED OFF THE ROLELR AND STRUCK AGAINST A PIPE.
EMPLOYEE STATED, HE WAS HELPING MOVE A PUMP ON A DOLLY WHEN THE WEIGHT SHIFTED CAUSING HIM TO TAKE ON MORE OF THE LOAD. HE SUFFERED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. AREA WAS 2 MAIN 3 X CUT.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ACCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 05-09-94 & THAT EMPLOYEE DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 05-09-94 EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP WATER HOSE & STRAINED HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE PULLING BELT HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER EMPLOYEE DIDNT BEGIN MISSING UNTIL 04-26 MANAGEMENT WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS UNTIL 04-26-94 THIS MATTER IS STILL UNDER I NVESTIGATION
HE WAS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK, WHEN LOADER OPERATR DUMP SOME GRAVEL IN THE BED. IT SHOOK THE TRUCK AND HTI HIS HEAD. HAD TO HAVE 1 STICH.
INJURED WAS PUTTING IN A SPLATTER PLATE IN #4 KILN COOLER. HE WAS STANDING ON COOLER GRATES HOLDING THE PLATE WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE, FALLING FORWARD A COUPLE OF FEET. RATHER THAN DROPPING T HE SPLATTER PLATE, HE HELD ONTO THE PLATE, EXTENDING HIS ARMS TO FULL EXTENSION, STRAINING NECK AND ARM.
AFTER FUELING HIS DRILL EE JUMPED FROM THE TRACK TO THE GROUND WHILE HOLDING THE FUEL HOSE IN HIS HAND A DISTANCE OF APPROX. 2 1/2 FT HE WORKED THE REMAINDER OF FRI. 22ND SAT AND SUNDAY 24TH H E REPORTED TO THE DR OFFICE MON 4-25-94 WHERE HEDIAGNOSED AS HAVING A LOWER BACK SPRAIN. HE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED TO RETURN TO WORK AT 600 AM 5-2-94.
GRADER BLADE CAUGHT LARGE ROCK ON ROAD CAUSING BGRADER TO TO STOP QUICKLY. EMPLOYEE STRUCK STEERING HWEEL WITH LEFT SIDE OF CHEST.
A SLIP FELL OUT BETWEEN THE BOTLS AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE AT BASE OF NECK AND SHOULDER.
THE INDIVIDUAL WAS WALKING UP THE HEADING BETWEEN #6  ENTRY WHEN HE FELL & TWISTED HIS RT KNEE THEY TOOK XRAYS & DIAGNOSED IT AS A SPRAIN OR STRAIN TO THE RT KNEE
WHIEL SERVICING #3 BELT HEAD EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON GREASE THAT WAS SPILLED, STRICING HIS RIGHT HAND AGAINST HTE TURN BUCKLE ON TAIL PIECE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HITTING A ROPE DOG WITH A HAMMER AND A SMALL PIECE OF METAL FLEW OF STICKING IN HIS CHEST.
AFTER WORKING HOURS WERE OVER, EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE SHOP OFFICE AND SOME OF THE EMPLOYEES WERE INVOLVED IN HORSEPLAY AND THE EMPLOYEE HURT HIS NECK.
EE WAS INSTALLING 48" RIGID FRAM STRUCTURE. AT THE END OF SHIFT, EE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS BENT OVER PULLING MINE CABLE.
ORIGINAL ACCIDENT 7-21-93. HE HAS MISSED AN ADDITIONAL 27 WORK DAYS. HIS FIRST DAY OFF WAS 5-22-94. HE RETURNED TO WORK 5-31-94.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT THROTTLE STUCK ON END-LOADER HE WAS OPERATING CAUSING THE MACHINE TO SRIKE A METAL BEAM FORCING HIS BODY INTO THE WINDSHIELD CAUSING BACK, NECK AND SHOULDER PAIN.
BARGE HOIST CABLE HIT EMPLOYEE IN LEFT GROIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS CROSSING BELT LINE TO CHANGE ROLLERS WHEN BELT LINE STARTED CAUSING HIM TO CUT HIS LEG & HIS FINGER
13 EAST INJURED STEPPED OUT OF A SMALL MOTOR AND WHEN HIS RIGHT FOOT LANDED ON A ROLL ON THE BOTTOM HIS ANKLE TWISTED CAUSING A SPRAIN TO THE RT. FOOT.
PERSON WAS CLIMBING A STEP ALDDER WITH TOOLS IN HAND. LADDER CLAPSED AND PERSON FELL TO THE GROUND ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE OPERATING HIS SHUTTLE CAR, THE CONSTANT BOUNCING OF THE SHUTTLE CAR CAUSED HIM TO FEEL PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. THE ROADWAYS ARE EXTREMELY ROUGH AND EMPLOYEE HAS A HI STORY OF BACK PROBLEMS.
INJURED EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF SORENESS AND STRAIN OF HIS BACK DUE TO SHOVELING BELTS.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM PICK UP TRUCK TO CRUSHER. GROUND WAS WET AND MUDDY FROM RAIN. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED IN THE MUD, TWISTING HIS BACK. DID NOT FALL DOWN.
EE WAS PULLING OUT FUEL BARREL TRAILER, AS DOING THIS THE TONGUE ON THE TRAILER PULLED OFF AND DROPPED ON THE RIGHT FOOT OF THE EE AND MASHED IT, HE IS NOW ON CRUTCHES.
EE WAS CHANGING THE ROLL OF STRETCHWRAP AND SHE CAUGHT HER LEFT HAND BETWEEN 2 ROLLS.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING ROCK IN THE MILL YARD AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
INJURED WAS USING A STEP LADDER TO DO SOME WORK ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE STOCKHOUSE HE INADVERTENTLY MISSED TH ELAST RUNG OF THE LADDER WHILE DESCENDING. HIS LEFT FOOT LANDED HARD ON THE FL OOR, HE SUSPECTS THAT HE MAY HAVE RECEIVED A LOWER BACK INJURY, HOWEVER HE CONTINUED TO WORK AFTER THE INCIDENT, HE WAS NOT AWARE OF THE INJURY.
EE WAS AROUND JACK 140 THAT WAS BEING PRESSURIZED, WHEN A PIECE OF METAL SHEARED OFF AND STRUCK IN ON THE TOP OF THE LEFT HAND.
WORKER WAS ON ROLL CRUSHER PLATFORM HE SAT DOWN ON BUCKET PUTTING WIRE FEED STINGER IN LAP TO PUT ON WELDING HELMET STINGER SLIP-PED OFF LAP CUTTING SAFETY BAR THAT HE WAS LEANING AGAINST HE F ELL 8FT ONTO CONCRETE FLOOR INJURING HEAD & BOTHWRIST
MOVED A DESK WHILE PAINTING. INJURED HIS BACK. HAD BACK SURGERY SEVERAL YEARS AGO. EMPLOYEE SHOULD WORK TO PUT HIMSELF IN BETTER ALL OVER PHYSICAL CONDITION WHICH WOULD AVOID INJURIES.
BOB CALLED IN TO REPORT HE STRAINED HIS BACK AT WORK ON 4-22-94, LAST DAY WORKED. REPORTED ACCIDENT TO US ON 4-25-94 AT 10:00. WANTED TO SEE COMPANY DOCTOR.
WALKING UPHILL AND STEPPED ON A ROCK. LEFT KNEE POPPED OUT AND DISLOCATED.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A FK PUMP WHEN THE HOUSING SLIPPED WHILE PRYING IT INTO PLACE STRIKING HIS RIGHT WRIST.
EE'S LEFT FOREARM WAS CAUGHT IN SEMI-AUTOMATIC PALLETIZER. HE SPRAINED LEFT FOREARM.
EE AND CO WORKER WERE WORKING ON CRUSHER EE WENT TO STATION LEVEL FOR SOME RAGS AND MORE TOOLS ON 2ND LONG FIGHT OF STAIRS HE MISSED A STEP FALLING TO NEXT LEVEL.
AS TRAILING CABLE WAS BEING PULLED FROM A LOOP OF THE CABLE STRUCK THE EE'S LEFT LEG RESULTING IN A FRACTURE OF THE TIBIA AND A COMPOUND FRACTURE OF THE FIBULA.
KEN STATED THAT HE WAS IN #3 ENTRY. THE HAD REPLACED PART OF SHUTTLE CAR AND THAT THE SLACK HAD BEEN PULLED OFF THE CAABLE REEL. HE HAD HIS RIGHT FOOT ON THE SLACK TO KEEP THE CABLE STRAIGHT . AS THE SLACK TOOK UP, THE CABLE PUSHED HIM UP AND INTO THE COAL RIB. RESULTING IN FRACTURE TO RIGHT LEG IN KNEE JOINT.
RIDING IN A PICK-UP TRUCK.
THE MAN AND HELPER WERE LIFTING BELTING UP WITH LIFTING BAR. THE MAN FELT A PULL AND BURNING IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN.
HYDRAULIC HAMMER SLIP FROM PLATFORM AND CUT HIS THUMB FROM HIS LEFT HAND AND PORT OF FINGER MARK.
EE WAS SHOVELING MATEIRAL FROM THE TUNNEL LEADING FROM THE CRUSHER. HE WAS WEARING A SUPPORT BACK BRACE. HE FELT HIS BACK INJURY AT THE TIME BUT THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A STRAIN. IT DID NOT IMPROV E AND HE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL ON 4-29-94.
CUTTING A BLOCK, WHEN BLADE HIT ROCK, CHIPS OF SLATE FLEW.
STRAINED RIGHT SHOULDER WHILE INSTALLING LOCO WHEELS. REINJURY FROM 2-16-94.
INJURED WAS IN PROCESS OF HELPING INSTALL A LOADER BUCKET TOOTH WHEN HIS CO-WORKER HIT HIS HAND WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING PIPE WRENCH OFF AND HIS HAND WAS CRUSHED BETWEEN WRENCH AND HYDRAULIC CYLINDER.
JOHNSON WAS ATTEMPTING TO USE A PRY BAR TO REMOVE A RATHER LARGE LUMP OF COAL FROM THE TONGUE OF A SUPPLY TRAILER. HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS SIDE. HE CONTINUED WORKING UNTIL 5-4-94 AND WAS OFF UNTIL 5-12-94. THE DOCTORS COULD NOT AGREE ON THE PROBLEM BECAUSE A CYST WAS LOCATED IN HIS OTHER SIDE. ON 5-24-94 THEY FINALLY DECEIDED HE HAD A STRAIN AND LOST TIME ACCIDENT.
THE EE WAS TRYING TO PULL A TREE BRANCH OUT OF THE TRACKS OF HIS DOZER WHEN A LIMB CAME BACK AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE. HE DID NOT FEEL IT WAS NECESSARY TO SEE A DR UNTIL 4-25-94. HE RETURN TO WO RK 4-26-94. HE WAS REFERRED TO A EYE SPECIALIST,WHO STATED THAT HE HAD CUT THE CORNEA IN HIS EYE AND MAY HAVE TO HAVE I REPAIRED THRU LASER SURGERY.
SETTING A BUNDLE OF CALCINE COOLER TUBES IN PLACE WITH AN AIR TUGGER WHEN THE BUNDLE DRIFTED OVER. EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING ONTO THE BUNDLE RESULTING IN A STRAINED BACK.
DRIVER WAS DESCENDING LADDER ON FRONT OF ROCK TRUCK. SHE SLIPPED ON THE BOTTOM STEP AND HIT HER CHEST ON THE FRONT BUMPER OF THE TRUCK.
SETTING BUNDLE OF TUBES FOR CALCINE COOLER, BUNDLES SHIFTED AND WORKER JUMPED BACK AND FELL ON REAR END, RESULTING IN BACK STRAIN.
EE WAS TIGHTENING SOME BOLTS ON A BALL BEARING HOUSING WHEN THE WRENCH HE WAS USING SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS SWINING BOOM AND ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE PINCHED HIS FINGE.R
EMPLOYEES LEFT ARM BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE FEED BELT TAILPULLEY, CAUSING INJURY TO ARM AND SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING LADDER ON QUARRY TRUCK TO GET INTO THE TRUCK. AS HE REACHED HTE SECONDSTEP OF THE LADDER HIS RIGH TKNEE POPPED EMPLOYEE STATED THAT AFTER WORKING ANOTHER HOUR HE NOTICE D THAT IT WAS SWELLING AND HTE PAIN WAS WORSE. STATED THAT HE DID NOT BUMP IT OR ANYTHING.
EE WAS GREASING HI LIFT WHEN HE STEPED ON A PIECE OF DRILL STEEL WITH HIS RIGHT FOOT AND TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING BLADES ON A GANG SAW WHEN HE DROPPED A BOARD. HE CLIMBED DOWN THE LADDER ON THE LEFT SIDE TO RETREIVE THE BOARD. HE CLIMBED BACK ON THE SCAFFOLD AND PROCEEDED TO THE CNE TER. AS HE DID SO THE SCAFFOLD ON THE RIGHT SIDE FELL. THE EMPLOYEE FELL ABOUT 7' AND LANDED ON THE CONCRETE. IT APPEARS THAT AS HE GOT ON THE SCAFFOLD ON THE LEFT SIDE, THE RIGHT SIDE BE
INJURED WAS PINNING THE FACE OF #5 ROOM. HE STARTED HIS FIRST STEEL AND A PIECE OF DRAW SLATE 2 FT X 2 FT X 4 IN FELL OUT AND HIT HIM IN THE HEAD. HIS FIRST DAY MISSED WAS ON 6-13-94. SAW DR. FOR FIRST TIME ON 6-12-94.
WALKING OUTSIDE STEPPED IN A HOLE, THREW MY LEG BACK CAUSING IT TO POP, STATED SWELLING.
EE WAS INUNDATED WITH CEMENT TO HIS RT EYE CAUSING THIS SCAB TO HAVE TO BE REMOVED
PULLED MUSCLES IN BACK WHILE PRYING WITH A SCALING BAR.
EE WAS FUELING EQUIPMENT. HE STEPPED ONTO A ROCK AND SPRAINED HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING A ROOF BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP HITTING HIM ON TOP OF THE RIGHT LEG JUST ABOVE THE KNEE CAP THE PIECE OF ROCK WAS APPROX 8INX16INX1IN
OPERATING A TRUCK HAULING ROCK. EE STATED THAT SEAT BOTTOMED OUT AND HE LATER STARTED EXPERIENCING LOWER BACK PAIN. LOST WORK DAYS BEGAN ON 4-22-94.
INJURED WAS CARRYING A 5 GALLON CONTAINER OF HYDRAULIC OIL WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
INJURED STATED TO THE BEST OF HIS KNOWLEDGE HE WAS CLEANING ON THE E BELT . HE DECIDED TO CROSS THE BELT. AFTER THROWING HIS SHOVEL TO THE OTHER SIDE, HE STARTED TO CROSS THE BELT WHEN THE BEL T STARTED, DRAGGING HIM UNDER THE HEAD FRAME OF THE FEEDER. HE ROLLED OFF THE BELT AND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TOP AND BOTTOM BELT FOR A PERIOD OF TIME BEFORE BEING ABLE TO GET OUT.
FIRST DEGREE BURN. THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS REACHING ACROSS HOT DRILL STEEL AND BURNED HIS RIGHT FOREARM, WHILE ROOF BOLTING THE FACE AREA.
EE & COWORKER WERE ROLLING MESSENGER WIRE CABLE OUT. CABLE SLIPPED OUT OF COWORKER'S HAND & STURCK EE ON THE LEFT EYEBROW AND CHEEK BONE CAUSING1/8 -1/4" CUT TO EYEBROW AND BRUISING. CUT WAS C LEANED AND BANDAID WAS PUT OVER CUT. EE WENT TO EYE DR. 4-26-94 FOR CHECKUP.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING THE CUTTING MACHINE WHEN HE GOT HIS LEFT FOOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MACHINE & THE RIB, CUTTING HIS BIG TOE & THE NEXT ONE TO IT.
EMPLOYEE AND SEVERAL OTHER CREW MEMBERS WERE RIDING IN RAM CAR TRAILER ENROUTE TO TRACK AT END OF SHIFT. WHEN RAM CAR TRAVELED OVER UNEVEN FOOT WALL, THE FRONT END OF THE TRAILER WENT DOWN CAU SING THE REAR TO RISE AND EMPLOYEE'S HEAD STRUCK THE ROOF CAUSING INJURIES TO HIS NECK, BACK, CHEST AND ABDOMEN.
T HIS IS AN ALLEDGED ACCIDENT FILED BY THE EMPLOYEE OF T ENDINITIS IN BOTH FEET TERMINATED EMPLOYMENT 04-22-94 WENT TO WORK AT JOHNSON BROS THIS MAN DID NOT REPORT THE ALLEDGED INJURY TO ANYO NE AT MINE THEREFORE WE COULD NOT FILE THIS REPORT
WHILE REPLACING THE TOP OF A REFUSE DRYER, HE WAS USING A SMALL LINE UP BAR TO CENTER UP THE TOP. HIS BAR SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL ABOUT 6 FEET OFF THE SIDE OF DRYER.
EE WAS WORKING NEXT TO ROADWAY WHEN A PICKUP TRUCK PASSES. A PIECE OF ROCK WAS THROWN UP BY THE TRUCKS TIRE AND STRUCK EE S LEFT LEG, CUTTING IT ABOVE THE ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CROSSING #8 GRIZZLY FROM WEST TO EAST. AS HE CROSSED IT HIS ARM CAME IN CONTACT WITH A SALVAGE CONTROL BOARD AND WOOD SLIVER WENT INTO ARM. THIS INCIDENT RESULTE DIN A WOOD FORE ING BOYD (SLIVER) LEFT FOREARM. FORCEPS WERE USED TO REMOVED THE FOREIGN BODY AND A RUBBER BAND DRAIN WAS PLACED IN HIS ARM.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS LIFTING ROOF BLOCKS & STRAINED BACK DIDNT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 04-26-94
SCOOP HAD BEEN CLEANING TAILPIECE AND WAS BACKING AWAY FROM TAILPIECE INTO CROSSCUT ONE BLOCK INBY THE TAILPIECE. AFTER THE SCOOP CLEARED THE BELT ENTRY THE SHUTTLE CAR STARTED TO TAIL TO DUMP . THE SCOOP KICKED OUT OF TRAM RUNNING BACK IN BELT ENTRY HITTING SHUTTLE CAR. THE CORSSCUT WAS ON GRADE AND DRY.
EE STATED THAT HE WAS ON HIS SHUTTLE CAR GETTING LOAD OF COAL IN 1 ENTRY THE MINER TAIL WAS AGAINST THE TOP LOADING COAL INTO HIS SHUTTLE CAR AND TRAMMING FORWARD HE FELT SOMETHING FO IN HIS L EFT EYE. A PIECE OF METAL WAS TAKEN OUT OF HIS LEFT EYE BY DR PRUITT AT THE DANIEL BOONE CLINIC IN HARLAN KY.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION PULLING A ROOF BOLTER CABLE AS A CO-WORKER TRAMMED IT ACROSS THE SECTION WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
HE WAS CARRYING LEFT STRUCTURE WHEN HE SLIPPED IN THE MUD AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.
EE WAS CLIMBING UP LADDER, SLIPPED ON 3RD RUNG OF LADDER, FELL ON LEFT SHOULDER. EE DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1994.
EE HAD ARMS IN UPRIGHT POSITION IN EFFORT TO PREVENT COAL FROM FALLING ALONG SIDES WHILE UNLOADING COAL. EE PULLED MUSCLE IN SHOULDER.
EE WAS USING PRY BAR TO GET A ROCK OUT OF SURGE BIN BELT. HE HIT HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON A PIN. EE THOUGHT IT WAS JUST BRUISED BUT ON 4-23-94 IT STARTED TO SWELL. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR ON 4-24-94 I T STARTED TO SWELL HE WENT TO THE DR ON 4-24-94
TASKED WITH BUILDING CRIBS EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP BASES FROM THE BUCKET OF THE #5 WAGNER AS HE STEPPED OFF THE BUCKET HOLDING ONE BASE IN HIS HAND HE STRAINED HIS LOW BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON MINER CABLE AS MINER BACKED OUT OF A PILLAR SPLIT WHEN HE FELT A PAININ HIS RIGHT CHEST.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A BAG OF ROCK DUST AND FELT A PAIN ON THE LEFT SIDE OF BACK. FIRST DAY OFF OF WORK WAS 4-23-94.
AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS BURNING ON THE MINER HEAD A PIECE OF HOT STEEL FELL INTO HIS BOOT RESULTING IN A BURN TO THE TOP OF HIS RT FOOT
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A BEARING IN A WHEEL HUB. WHEN HE STRUCK THE RACE DRIVER (TOOL) WITH THE HAMMER, THE HAMMER GLANCED OFF, STRIKING HIS ARM.
WHILE LOADING ROCK DUST INTO A ROCK DUST MACHINETHE INJURED FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT ELBOW.
WAS BOLTING TOP . SET BOLTER OVER FOR NEXT BOLT AND SLEW IT ON HIS KNEE.
MOVING BOLTER AHEAD FOR NEXT ROW OF BOLTS AND ROCK BROKE AROUND BOLT AND HIT CHARLES ON HEAD.
THE MAN WAS PREPARING TO REMOVE THE DRILL STEEL FROM THE HEAD OF THE BOLTER. AS HE SWUNG THE DRILL HEAD HE PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE DRILL STEEL AND THE CANOPY.
INJURED WAS LIFTING A ROCK FROM THE CONVEYOR BELT & STRAINED HIS BACK THIS WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 04-27-94
ON 4/20/94 EMPLOYEE REPORTED THAT HE BUMPED HIS ELBOW WHILE MOVING A SCREEN ON A GRAVEL VIBERATOR. IT FELT AS LITTLE STRANGE SO HE REPORTED IT. ON 4/22/94 HE HAD IT CHECKED BUT KEPT WORKING UN TIL 5/18/94 WHEN HE WNET BACK TO THE DOCTOR AND PUT ON A RESTRICTION. HE WAS OFF 5/19/94 AND DIDN'T COME IN ON 5/20/94 WHEN HE COULD HAVE WORKED
THE EMPLOYEE ALLEGED THAT WHILE CLEANING IN THE PLANT HE HIT HIS HEAD ON A PIPE WHICH SPRAINED HIS NECK.
THIS IS A RE-OCCURENCE OF A PREVIOUS INJURY DATING 12-1-93. EMPLOYEE, A TAILPIECE OR "DUMP" WORKER, RETURNED TO WORK ON 12-13-93 AT WHICH TIME HE WAS ISSUED A BACK SUPPORT "SAFETY BELT" THAT H E AGREED TO WEAR, BUT IT WAS SOON DISCARDED. NOW SOME 4 MONTHS STATES HIS BACK HAS BEEN TROUBLING HIM FOR A WHILE AND THE PAIN HAS BECOME TO BAD TO CONTINUE WORKING.
EN WERE PULLING BLOCK OUT OF FACE WHEN THE BLOCK BEING PULLED HIT ANOTHER BLOCK ANDKNOCKED A PIECE DOWN. IT ROLLED ONTO HIS LEG, WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE WAY HE SLIPPED AND FELL CAUSIGN THE STONE TO ROLL OVER HIS LEG AND FOOT.
WHILE CUTTING RUSTY IRON A PIECE OF RUST POPPED OFF IT AND GOT IN HIS RIGHT EYE.
HANGING MINER CABOLE PICKING UP CABLE WITH HANDS & HANGING IT ON INSULATED HOOK THAT HANGS FROM MINE ROOF
SUBJECT WAS ENGAGED IN THE REPAIR WORK OF A UTILITY TRUCK. HE WAS INSTALLING SUSPENSION SPRINGS WITH THE AID OF A HYDRAULICALLY OPERATED FLOOR JACK. THE SPRINGS WERE LIFTED INTO PLACE AND THE SUBJECT PLACED HIS FINGER INTO A PINCH POINT, THE FLOOR JACK SLIPPED, CAUSING HIS FINGER TO BE CUT.
EE STATED THAT HE WAS BACKING THE FRONT BRIDGE OUT OF THE FACE OF #3 ENTRY & THAT THE BRIDGE WAS ON A HUMP I THE FLOOR THE TAIL OF THE MINER GOT UNDER THE DUCK BILL ON THE BRIDGE & WHEN THE BR IDGE DROPPED OFF IT BOUNCED HIM CAUSING THE BACKOF HIS HEAD TO HIT THE CANOPY POST
EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED UNLOADING A PART UNDERGROUND WHEN HIS LIGHT BATTERY FELL OFF HIS BELT LANDING ON HIS LITTLE TOE ON HIS LEFT FOOT
EE WAS SEEDING A STEEP HILL SIDE HE WAS DRAGGING A HOSE AND FELL DOWN TWISTING HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE REPORTED T SUPT. ON 4-21-94 THAT HE MUST HAVE HURT HIS NECK OR SHOULDER AREA ON 4-20-94 BECAUSE HE WOKE OF 4-21-94 WITH A STIFF NECK. ON 4-26-94 HE TOLD SUPT. THAT HE HAD REPORTED THI S INCIDENT TO HIS FOREMAN. FOREMAN DENIES THIS. EMPLOYEE NOW SAYS HE HURT HIS SELF WHILE BENDING A 6' ROOF BOLT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING ROCK FROM UNIT #25 A&B GRIZZLY SYSTEM WHEN ANOTHER ROCK SLID DOWN THE GRIZZLY STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT HAND RESULTED IN A CUT APPROX 3IN LONG DOWN THE (L) FOREFINGER
EE WAS LIFTING A DRILL POT AND ROTATION MORTOR FROM PINNER ONTO TRACTOR AND HURT BACK, WHILE WORKING ON MAINS SECTION 016 AT DINNER HOLE.
WHILE OEPRATING A SCOOPY, EMLOYEE BACKED INTO A HOLE, CAUSING AN INJURY TO HIS BACK.
MINER OPERATOR WAS TRAMMING TO PINNER OUT OF 7 RIGHT WHICH WAS HOW CUT AS HE WAS BODYING THRU THE INTERSECTION DUE TO COAL BUILD IN BEHIND THE RMINER THE MINER BOOM HIT AND LOOSE A ROD LEFT IN THE ROOF THE BOLT THAT SCOOP DROPPED CAUSE A ROCK TO FALL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING THE OPERATOR ON THE BACK OF THE NECK AND BACK.
INJURED WAS HELPIN GPULL A SCOOP WITH A JEEP AND CHAIN WHEN TH ECHAIN BROKE AND HTE HOOK OFF OF THE CHAIN HIT HIM IN HE BACK OF HIS HARD HAT. THIS ACCIDNET WAS NOT REPORTED TO THE SAFETY DEP ARTMENT UNTIL 4-27-94.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING ROOF BOLT SUPPLIES ON ROOF DRILL WHEN BACK WAS INJURED.
AT 113 BLOCK MAIN WEST EMPTY TRACK HANDLING 30" CRIB BLOCK TO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING THE CRIB TO FAIL AND STRIKE HIM ON LEFT KNEE.
EE WAS CONDUCTING FIRE BOSS DUTIES ON SECTION 3210 WHEN HE JAMMED HIS NECK ON A T BOARD EMPLOYEES FIRST WORKDAY LOST BECAUSE OF INJURY WAS 05-17-94
EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING A LIP OF POTTED OUT AREA PUTTING LAST BOLT IN. AFTER DRILING LAST HOLE HE WAS PUTTING BOLT IN WHEN A ROCK SLID DOWN THE WRENCH STRIKING HIM IN THE LEFT SIDE/6TH RIB.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE ROOF BOLTER IN #1 ENTRY - LOB - WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK BROKE LOOSE FROM THE RIB PINCHING HIS FINGER AGAINST THE MINE FLOOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING STEEL BEAMS USING A PRY BAR. BAR SLIPPED AND HE STRUCK HIS FOOT WITH THE BAR.
DRIVER BACKED TRUCK INTO HOLE AND TURNED OVER ONSIDE.
EE WAS SAWING TIMBER WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON EE RIGHT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS PULLING ELECTRICAL CABLE BACKWARD WITH A D3 DOZER HE WAS LEANING TO THE RT LOOKING OUT THE OPENED DOOR WITH HIS HAND RESTING NEAR THE FRONT DOOR FRAME POST WHEN THE DOZE R BACKED UP A SLIGHT INCLINE THE DOOR CLOSED ON HIS THUMB
LOADING DUST AND GOT PAIN ON LEFT SIDE.
PLACING A METAL SPIKE IN A TREE WITH A HAMMER. SPIKE WAS DISLODGED STRIKING VICTIM IN THE HEAD. EYE BROW- LACERATION.
WHILE WORKING ON UNIT #B46C DEWATERING SCREEN (SIVE), THE SCREEN HOLDER WOULD NOT MOVE INJURED GRABBED THE UNTI IN THE MIDDLE AND LIFTED IT UP.
EMPLOYEE WAS GREASING THE SCALPER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL AND INJURED HIS BACK, RT ARM, AND HEAD BY HIS RT EAR.
WHILE CLEARING SPRAY TOWER CHOKE, DUCT OPENED AND SPRAYED EMPLOYEE WITH HOT RAW DUST.
MINE FLOOR CHANGED BETWEEN 7 & 8 ENTRY JARRING SCOOP OPERATOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING SET CRUSHER WHEN THE FRONT RT TIRE OF CRUSHER ROLLED UNTO HIS FOOT
MANUAL STACKING AT 50 LB BAGS. AGGRAVATED AN EXISTING BACK SITUATION.
WAS BENDING A ROOF BOLT WHEN FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE. SPRAINED LIGAMENT.
EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING MINER, IT BOUNCED REAL HARD, A BIG RIB SHOT OUT & HIT EMPLOYEE & ROLLED OVER HIS LEG.
UNLOADING ROOF BOLT SUPPLIES FROM SCOOP BUCKET & FELT PAIN IN BACK.
WAS SETTING TIMBERS ON PILLAR LINE AND A PIECE OF DREW ROCK FELL HITTING HIM IN HEAD PUSHING CHIN INTO CHEST.
INJURED WAS PULLING AN OLD PIECE OF SCRAP BELT OUT OF THE RAW COAL TUNNEL WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK.
WHILE EE WAS PACKAGING 50# POLY BAGS, HE FELT A STRAIN IN HIS NECK. THE PAIN WOULD COME AND GO UNTIL THE 26TH. WHEN GETTING INTO HIS CAR THE PAIN REUTRNED, SO HE PLANS TO SEE A CHIROPRACTOR FO R THIS INJURY.
INJURED JUMPED OFF LOCOMOTIVE AND TWISTED KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING A TRUCK AND WHEN HE BENT OVER HE HAD A PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK.
EE REACHED UP AND BEHIND FOR AN AFFIDAVIT FORM. DUE TO SITTING ALL NIGHT, MUSCLE ARE TIGHT. HAD TO REACH UP AND TURN AT SAME TIME. AREA SMALL WITH NOT MUCH ROOM TO STORE PAPERWORK. HAVE PREVIO USLY LOOKED INTO SEVERAL OPTIONS TO MAKE WORK SITUATION MORE EFFICIENT. WILL INVESTIGATE WAY TO MAKE PAPERWORK EASIER TO REACH.
EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING A 48IN ROOF BOLT WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS (L) UPPER CHEST AREA
EE WAS DOING REPAIR WORK ON 77B CAT TRUCK, CHANING TIRE ROD END WHEN HYD JACK SLIPPED AND CAUGHT FINGER.
DURING THE STARTUP OF THE PLANT, EE WAS CHECKING THE TOWER LEVEL GAUGE WHEN STEPPING BETWEEN THE A.J. ROOM AND TOWER ROOM EE MISSED THE CURB STEP CAUSING HIM TO INJURY HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS LIFTING ROCK AND FELT PAIN.
JAM HOOD IN TOP WHILE OPER HAULER
SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM TOP & HIT HAND
REMOVING BROKEN ELEVATOR BELT FROM TOP OF ELEVATOR FOR REPAIR
EE WAS REMOVING A STARTER FROM A TRUCK WHEN HE STEPPED ON SOME GREASE CAUSING HIM TO SLIP TWISTING HIS BACK.
REPLACING PLOW IN MILL, UPON PICKING UP THE PLOW, HE SKINNED THE INSIDE OF THE LAST TWO FINGERS ON THE RIGHT HAND, ON PLOW TIP.
EMPLOYEE LOOKED OUTBY AS THE MINR HEAD WAS NEXT TO HIM AND AT THE SAME TIME RELEASED THE TRAM LEVERS, THE MACHINE "COCKED" AND THE HEAD CAUGHT HIM.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING CRUSHER WHEN STONE FLEW UP OUT OF MACHINE AND STRUCK HIM ON RIGHT ELBOW. STICHES REQUIRED.
EE WAS CHECKING THE BATTERIES IN A DOZER. THE LID ON THE BATTERY BOX SLAMMED SHUT, CUTTING EE S RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING BLOCKS FROM A STOPPING. A SOLID 6" X 8" X 16" BLOCK FELL OFF THE STOPPING ONTO HIS EFT WRIST & HAND. EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A FRACTURED LEFT HAND. HE WAS WEARING GLOVES AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.
BAWYLOR WAS OERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN THE SHUTTLE CAR HIT A ROUGH SPOT IN THE ROADWAY. THE RESULTED INTO BAYLOR BEING BOUNCED TO THE POINT THAT HIS HEAD STRUCK THE BOTTOW OF THE CANOPY. TH E IMPACT RESULTED INTO A PINCHED NERVE IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVIGN A TABLE INT EH CRUSHER REPAIR BAY. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE IS TREATING WITH PHYSICAL THERAPY. THE STEEL TABLE WEIGHT APPROX 100#'S WAS RESTING ATOP THE WEL D BENCHA ND WAS BEING ROTATED FOR FURTHER FABRICATION.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING J CHANNEL FROM A SHUTTLE CAR AND SAID WHEN HE PULLED ON THE J CHANNEL HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
MINER OPERATOR WAS OPERATING MINER WITH REMOTE BOX WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL & STRUCK OP.ON TOP OF RT HAND MAKING IT CUT ON HAND ROCK WAS 24IN LONG 17IN WIDE
EE STATED WHILE HELPING TO LIFT A SHIELD HE FELT BURNING IN HIS BACK.
AS EE WAS TRAMMING A FEEDER HE STATED THAT THE FEEDER TWISTED AND IN TURN TWISTED HIS BACK. EXPERIENCING BACK PAIN.
HANDYMAN JACK MALFUNCTIONED DROPPING TRAILER ON EMPLOYEES FOOT FRACTURING THREE BONES.
EMPLOYEE WAS EMPTING DUST BINS AT BLACKTOP PLANT #1. WHILE GETTING BACK INTO TRUCK SLIPPED, INJURING RIGHT KNEE. SPRAINE DLIGAMENTS.
EMPLOYEE WAS GOING TO THE FACE TO CHECK CH4 & UPDATE THE CROSSCUT GOING TO THE FACE HAD WATER IN IT THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE COAL UNDER THE WATER & TWISTED HIS KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING THE MINER CABLE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE WORKED THE REST OF THE SHIFT AND WENT TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION THE FOLLOWING DAY. EMPLOYEE BROKE NO COMPANY RULE S OR REGULATIONS AND JOB SKILLS COULD HAVE BEEN A FACTER. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING PROTECTIVE CLOTHING BUT WAS NOT WEARING A SUPPORT BELT.
EE WAS OPERATING UNIHAULER TO CONTINUOUS MINER, BUMPED UNIHAULER INTO THE END OF MINER TAIL AND JARRED BACK.
THE INJURED & CO WORKER WERE REPLACING THE HEAD DRIVE COVER ON THE LOAL WALL HEAD DRIVE. A PIECEOF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP STRIKING INJURED JUST BEHIND THE METATARSAL GUARD OF HIS BOOT. THIS WAS ON HIS LEFT FOOT.
EE CLIMBED UP LADDER TO ENTER LOADER. AS HE OPENED THE DOOR OF THE LOADER, HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS RIGHT HIP, TRAVELING DOWN HIS LEG.
PLUGED UP MINER TO MOVE OUT OF SHOP. BREAKER BLOWED UP WHEN IT SET UP, FLASH FROM BREAKER BURNT RIGHT HAND.
PULLED MUSCLES WHILE LIFTING STACKING 50 LB BAGS
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING COAL. ONE OF THE DOORS WOULD NOT OPEN. HE TRIED TO PRY THE DOOR OPNE. THE DOOR SWUNG OPEN STRIKING HIS SAFETY GLASSES.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING KABOTA DOWN ENTRY AND SOME MATERIAL FELL FROM THE ROOF AND HIT HIM IN THE LEFT EYE.
EMPOYEE HAD JUST FINISHED REPLACING LIGHT ON 95 SHIELD. HE TURNED AND PUT HIS HAND ON HAND RAIL AND ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN 95 AND 96 SHIELD.
STRAINED BACK WHILE LIFTING
HE WAS LOADING BOLTER SUPPLIES ON BOLTER AND HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP ROOF BOLTS WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS AND HIT HI ON THE BACK OF NECK.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION ROOF BOLTING ON THE RT SIDE OF THE ROOF BOLTER HE RAISED THE DRILL STEEL AGAINST THE ROOF & BEGAN TO ROTATE IT A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF HE WAS DRI LLING & STRUCK HIM ON THE HAND
EMPLOYEE DIDN'T SEE A CHUCK HOLE IN HAUL ROAD. HE RAN OVER IT AND SEAT BOTTOMED OUT. THE JOLT CAUSED HIS BACK TO HURT.
EMPLOYEE SAID: HE WAS USING PIPE WRENCH TO ADJUST TOE-IN ON LECTRA HAUL, WHEN PIPE WRENCH SLIPPED AND KNOCKED EMPLOYEE'S HAND HAT OFF AND OPPOSITE END HIT EMPLOYEE IN HEAD RESULTING INC UT ON TOP OF HED.
INJURED WAS DRILLING COAL ON THIS DATE. INJURED TRYED TO PUSH A WAGON TYPE COAL DRILL OVER SOME LOOSE COAL LEFT IN THE WORKING PLACE, WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LEFT SIDE OF BACK.
STRAIN LOWER BACK THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE THREW A 5 GALLON BUCKET OF CEMENT PLASTER ACROSS BELTLINE & FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK
TAKING PUMP OFF FLAT USING COME-ALONG AND CRANE. WHEN THEY PULLED PUMP, IT CAME OFF UNITS SIDE. THEY PUSHED IT INTO UPRIGHT POSITION. THE NEXT DAY HE FELT TIGHTNESS IN BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING MINER CABLE TO POWER CENTER TRIPPED OVER ROCK AND FELL DOWN. OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE PULLING CABLE WHEN HE FELL.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR ON MAINS SECTION 016 & WHILE TRAMMING SHUTTLE CAR TOWARD DUMPING POINT HITTING HOLE IN ROADWAY & CAR DRAG BROKE LOOSE CAUSING SHUTTLE CAR TO RUN INTO RIB HUR T EMPLOYEE BACK & NECK
EE STATED WHILE LIFTING A CRIB BLOCK HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT UPPER ARM.
ACCIDENT OCCURRED IN INTERSECTION TWO BREAKS OUT BY WORKING FACE AT SPAD 1724 EMPLOYEE WAS SCOOPING THE BELT HEADING AFTER A BELT MOVE A PIECE OF WATER LINE IN THE GOB AREA POPPED UP IN THE SC OOP DECK STRIKING HIM IN THE FACE REQUIRED STITCHES
REMOVING THE COVER TO THE LONGWALL RACK WHEEL AND THE COVER FELL ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.
VICTIM WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE RAN OVER A PIECE OF STONE ON A CORNER OF THE TRAM ROAD. VICTIM BOUNCED 3 TIMES IN SEAT STRAINING LOWER BACK.
EE WAS HELPING REMOVE ROCK OFF CONVEYOR BELT. FINISHED SHIFT. ON 4-20-94, EE CALLED IN AND INFORMED FOREARM THAT HIS BACK WAS HURTING AND WAS GOING TO THE DR.
WHEN HE PICKED UP A CURTAIN BOARD TO TAKE TO THE ROOF BOLTER HE FELT A PULL IN THE GROIN AREA THIS ACCIDENT DID NOT BECOME LOST TIME UNTIL MAY 4 1994
TWO EMPLOYEE WERE CARRYIGN GEAR REDUCER THAT WEIGHED APPROX 100 LBS. THE INJURED EMPLOYEE COMPAINED OF SEVERE BAKC PAIN AND WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR BACKSTRIAN.
SECURITY OFFICER REPORTED BRAKES FAILED ON VEHICLE WHILE DESCENDING DOWN THE ROAD FROM THE REFUSE PILE. THE GUARD JUMPED FROM THE VEHICLE. VEHICLE BRAKES WORKED WELL IMMEDIATELY UPON INSPECTIO N AND WHEN DRIVEN FROM SCENE.
LIFTING A 12FTX4IN BOX BEAM WITH A CHAIN THAT HAD KINKS IN IT THE WEIGHT OF THE BEAM STRAIGHTEN THE LINKS & THIS CAUSED A JERK TO HIS RT SHOULDER CAUSING A STRAIN
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING WATER TRUCK FOR DUST CONTROL HE STEPPED FROM WATER TRUCK TO CATWALK AT THE WATER FILL STATION & SPRAINED KNEE THE CATWALK IS IN LINE WITH THE TRUCK DOOR & THERE IS NO EL EVATION DIFFERENCE
INJURED WAS PULLING CABLE OF MARK 22 MINER IN ORDER THAT HAULAGE SYSTEM COULD BE MOVED.
THE EMPLOYEE HAD REMOVED A SUMP PUMP FOR REPAIRSAND FAILED TO COVER 1' MANHOLE. AFTER NEARLY COMPLETING THE REPAIRS THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED INTOTHE MANHOLE CAUSING HIM TO FALL HITTING BOTH ELBOWS.
ON 04-20-94 THE EMPLOYEE NOTICED A KNOT BELOW THE WAIST LINE ON THE RT SIDE THE EMPLOYEE DIDNT KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED & THOUGHT IT COULD OF BEEN THE SHIFT BEFORE WHEN THEY WERE REMOVING A COUN TER BALANCE SHAFT ON THE BOLTER THE RIGHT FRONT WHEEL HAD TO BE REMOVED THE LUGS WERE VERY TIGHT & REQUIRED USING A CHEATER PIPE WHEN THE NUTS CAME LOOSE THEY BROKE LOOSE ALL AT ONCE WHICH PO
ORIGINAL ACCIDENT 4-18-94. PLEASE ADD 11 DAYS TO RECURRENCE.
WHIE TRAMMING BRIDGES TO MIENR #3 BRIDGE PULLED #2 BRIDGE SIDEWAYS. #2 BRIDGE OPERATOR AHD HIS LEFT HAND ON TRAM LEVERS AN DIT FORCED HIS ARM INTO THE TOP ROOF. COAL HEIGHT 34" - 36", ARM WA S NOT BETWEN THE BRIDGE AND ROOF.
PICKING OFF A RIB ALONG BELT. A PIECE OF ROCK (BETWEEN THE STRAPS) LET LOOSE AND STRUCK HIM. FIRST DAY OFF WORK: 4-19-94.
HANGING MINER CABLE A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN BOLT AND STRUCK HIM ON HEAD HURTINGHEAD AND NECK. #5 UNIT, #2 ENTRY
WHILE WINDING THE WINCH (HAND CRANK) FOR THE COUNTERWEIGHT TOWER FOR #36/1 CONVEYOR, THE WINCH HANDLE SLIPPED OUT OF EMPLOYEE'S HANDS ADN STRUCK HIM ON THE TOP LEFT SIDE OF THE HEAD. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED CONCUSION AND STITCHES TO THE HEAD.
EE WAS ACTIVATING A MICROSWITCH WHILE TROUBLESHOOTING THE SWITCH MECHANISM FOR THE #3 FEEDER MOTOR WHEN THE MICROSWITCH FLASHED.
EE WAS STANDING ON 4TH STEP FROM TOP OF 10' LADD KNOCKING A BLOCK OUT OF A BRATTICE WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND TO KEEP FROM FALLING, HE JUMPED OFF. HE LANDED, TURNING HIS LE FT ANKLE OVER.
EE STATED WHILE CARRYING A BAG OF ROCKDUST FROM TRACK TO THE BELT HEAD HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT KNEE.
TROUBLE SHOOTING A ELECT SWITCH ON MAINLINE AT 2 NORTH LOADED TRACK STEPPER IN A HOLE FELL DOWN FRACTURED BONE ON OUTSIDE OF LEFT FOOT.
REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP ROOFBOLTER MACHINE TRAILING CABLE. CABLE TAKE UP ACTIVATED AND CAUGHT CABLE AROUND LEGS, KNOCKED DOWN.