Mining Incidents in February 1995

AN EE OF PIPELINE EXCAVATING CO OF SANTA ROSA, CA WAS OFF LOADING THE OVER LOADED PORTION OF AGGREGATE BASE MATERIAL AT THE SONOMA ROCK QUARRY. THE TRUCK HAD BEEN LOADED JUST A FEW MIN EARLIER BY A QUARRY EE, EE WIGH MASTER. THE DRIVER DROVHIS TRUCK NEXT TO THE STOCKPILE HAD HAD JUST LOADED FROM GOT OUT OF THE TRUCK, RAISED THE FRONT BOX OF THE TRUCK AND WAS APPARENTLY TRYING TO RE

PIT DRILLER CLOWTHING BECAME RAPPED AROUND DRILL STEEL CAUSING SUFFICATION.

A CONCRETE FORM FELL AND FATALLY CRUSHED EE.

EARTHQUAKE AT MINE SITE EE FOUND PER MINE RESUCE ATTEMPS APPROX 630 AM 2-5-94 DIED PRIOR TO ARRIVAL AT HOSPITAL. CORDIAC ARREST PRIOR TO BEING BROUGHT TO SURFACE.

THE VICTIM WAS BUILDING A BERM AROUND THE OUTER EDGE OF THE PIT. HE WAS OPERATING A 1977 HOUGH MODEL H-80 FRONT-END LOADER WITH A FOUR YARD BUCKET. HE DROVE THE LOADER OVER THE EDGE AND ROLLED DOWN A 30 FT BANK. HE WAS NOT WEARING HIS SEAT BELT.

EE STATED THAT HE TRAMMED A MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER INTO A COAL RIB, WHICH CAUSED THE OPERATOR DECK TO MOVE SLIGHTLY SIDEWAYS. THE DECK CUT HIS LITTLE FINGER OFF AT THE 3RD JOINT WHEN IT CONTACT ED THE BRIDGE OIL COOLER SINCE HIS LITTLE FINGERWAS HANGING OUTSIDE THE DECK.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING INSTALL A CONVEYOR BELT TAILSECTION. WHILE BLOCKING UNDER THE TAILSECTION, IT SLIPPED OFF A PRY BAR AND PINCHED THE EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN THE FRAME AND A WOOD EN BLOCK.

A MECHANIC WAS ADJUSTING HYDRAULIC CHUTE RAM AND ASKED THIS EMPLOYEE TO HOLD PRESSURE DOWN ON FLOP CHUTE. EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING DOWN WITH BOTH HANDS ABOVE HIS HEAD WHEN THE FLOP CHUTE CAME DOWN AND TOGETHER AND SEVERED BOTH OF HIS THUMBS. LEFT THUMB SEVERED AT 1ST KNUCKLE, RIGHT THUMB AT NAIL BED.

EE WAS CHECKING REASON WHY PRODUCT WAS NOT FLOWING AT PROPER RATE. BEAT ON CHUTE WITH HAMMER. FEED DID NOT IMPROVE. USED WRENCH, UNSCREWED 1" PLUG OUT OF BODY OF FEEDER AND STUCK FINGER THRU H OLE INTO MOVING AIR LOCK CHAMBER WHERE ROTATING ASSEMBLY CAUGHT AND CUT OFF FINGER.

WHILE INSTALLING A PLATE AT THE IMPACT CRUSHER, LIFTED PLATE BY HIMSELF. FELT A PULL IN STOMACH.

EE AND THREE CO WORKERS WERE UNLOADING A MORRIS PUMP OFF OF AN IRWIN SUPPLY CAR. WHILE THEY WERE LIFTING ON THE PUMP SETTING IT UPRIGHT EE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS GROIN. DIAG NOSED AS A HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE WAS AT TOP OF INCLINE IN MANTRIP-MANTRIP SLIPPED OUT OF PARK-EMPLOYEE TRIED TO STOP MANTRIP AS IT DESCENDED THE INCLINE. L LOWER LEG BOUNCED OUT OF MANTRIP & WAS RUBBED AND SMASHED AGAINST RIB OF MINE . LOWER LEG INJURY RESULTED IN AMPUTATION BELOW KNEE PER SURGERY 2-25-95.

THERE WAS A JAMK-UP ON THE PACKAGING LINE WHERE EE WAS OPERATING THE SEALER MACHIEN (SEALS TOPS OF BAGS SHUT) EE DID NOT ACITIVATE ALL THE E-STOPS TO COMPLETELY SHUT POWER TO THE SEALER BEF ORE REACHING FOR THE JAMMED UP BAG. HER RIGHT HAND WAS CAUGHT IN BELT AND HER RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS AMPUTATED (ABOUT ONE-HALF WAY UP).

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BELT RUBBER UP ONTO STRUCTURE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA. AN ALTERNATE WORK SCHEDULE APPLIES AT THE MINE. EMPLOYEE WAS NOT SCHEDULED FOR WORK FEB 17 TO 21.

EMPLOYEE CHANGING STEEL IN DRILL PLACING BREAKOUT PIN WHEN STEEL CAME UNCOUPLED & CAME DOWN ON EMPLOYEE'S FINGER, SEVERING FINGER AT FIRST JOINT.

MECHANIC WAS ROLLING A DRIVE BELT ON THE AIR COMP PULLEY ON 71TD TRUCK. WITH THE BELT NEARLY]ON, HE INSTRUCTED DRIVER TO ENGAGE THE STARTER TO ROLL THE MOTOR AND PULLEYS. THE 1ST ATTEMPT WAS SUCCESSFUL IN TURNING THE PULLEY. MECHANIC REACHED UP TO CHECK THE TENSION ON THE BELT. THEDRIVER DID NOT THINK THE MOTOR ROLLED SO HE BUMPED THE STARTER AGAIN PULLING FINGERS INTO THE

MAN WAS ATTEMPTING TO RETRIEVE DRILL STEEL. MAN WAS STANDING ON BOOM. TOE PINCHED BETWEEN BOOM AND TABLE. RIGHT FOOT TIP OF TOE CUT OFF.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING CHAINS IN #2 KILN AND PULLED HIS LEFT GROIN AREA, CAUSING A HERNIA. EMPLOYEE WILL BE OPERATED ON MARCH 9, 1995, RESULTING IN LOSS TIME.

WHILE LOADING MINE POSTS ON SURFACE, EE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER PART OF STOMACH. ON 2-2495, HE WENT TO DR. WHO FOUND SMALL HERNIA. EE WORKED UNTIL 4-18-95 WHEN HE TOOK OFF TO HAVE HERNIA REPAIR ED.

EMPLOYEE HAD HIS FOOT RESTING ON THE PUSH PIN OF THE BELT CAR. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE PULLED THE PUSH ARM IN PLACE. AS THE ARM MOVED FORWARD, THE INJURED'S FOOT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PUSH-ARM & THE PIN.

EE WAS REMOVING OVERSIZED MATERIAL FROM A MOVING CONVEYOR WHILE STANDING ON AN I-BEAM WHICH WAS APPROX 5FT ABOVE AN ELEVATED WALKWAY AFTER STANDING IN AN AWKWARD POSITION FOR SEVERAL MINUTES H IS LEGS FELL ASLEEP AT THIS TIME HE ATTEMPTED TOMOVE FROM AREA HIS LEG GAVE OUT & HE FELL LODGED HIS LEFT HAND INTO A ROTARY AIR LOCK ALL FINGERS & A PORTION OF HIS LEFT HAND WERE SEVERED

EE WAS OPERATING PINNER IN 2 LEFT HEADING ON OPERATOR SIDE WRENCH KICKED OUT HITTING LEVER CAUSING HEAD TO MOVE. HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN HEAD AND FRAME FINGER HAD TO BE AMPUT ERED.

EMPLOYEE PULLED HIMSELF UP ONTO TRAM AND FELT PAIN IN GROIN.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD TO MISS WORK DUE TO SURGERY REQUIRED TO REPAIR AN OLD HERNIA INJURY. HERNIA HAD INITIALLY BEEN SURGICALLY REPAIRED IN OCT OF 1992 AND EMPLOYEE HAD SAID THAT PERIODI C PROBLEMS HAD BEEN EXPERIENCED SINCE.

DRILL PIPE CAUGHT AGAINS EDGE OF ROTATION GEAR BOX AS IT WAS BEING RAISED TO LOAD PIPE, LIFTING PIPE OUT OF HOOK SLING, PIPE TRAVELED DOWN & PINCHED FINGER OF DRILLER'S HELPER AGAISNT DRILL PI PE & TOOL JOINT SITTING IN BASE OF MAST. PINCHED & BROKE LONG MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND @ FIST KNUCKLE & CUT SIDE OF RING FINGER. HOSP. DECIDED TO REMOVED MIDDLE FINGER @ KNUCKLE BECAUSE OF

INJURED WAS OPERATING CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A PARTICLE OF COAL GOT IN HIS EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A HYDRAULIC HOSE FROM A DRILL JUMBO. AS HE LOOSENED THE HOSE, OIL SQUIRTED HIM IN BOTH EYES. THIS CAUSED A TEMPORARY BURNING SENSATION AND BLURRED VISION. EMPLOYEE MISSSE D 2 DAYS OF WORK PER DR. ORDERS. HE DID RETURN RETURN TO WORK NEXT DAY 3-1-95 BEFORE SEEING A DR.

EMPLOYEE STRAINED LUMBAR IN BACK WHILE PULLING ON WRENCH OVERHEAD. HE TOLD ME ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON MARCH 2 AND I TOOK HIM TO DR.DR. GAVE HIM MEDICATION & SAID HE COULD RETURN TO WORK AND SEE HIM AGAIN ON MARCH 6. MARCH 6 DR. TOLD HIM NOT TO WORK FOR 3 DAYS AND HE WOULD GIVE HIM THERAPY STARTING TOMORROW, MARCH 7.

FINISH DC DISCHARGE SCREW WAS NOT RUNNING. WHEN TURNED ON FOUND DISCHARGE PIPES PLUGGED WITH MATERIAL. HAD CLEARED LOWER PORTION OF THE PIPE. WENT TO ANOTHER SECTION OF PIPES TO CLEAN AND HAD MATERIAL FLOWING WHEN IT LODGE AGAINS. USED A 3# HAMMER TO DISLODGE OBSTRUCTION IN PIPE. MATERIAL THEN FLUSHED OUT AN INSPECTION HOLE STRIKING EE IN THE FACE.

EE WAS HELPING SET PROPS USING A LADDER. WHEN HE STEPPED OFF HTE LADDER ONTO AN UNEVEN SPOT ON THE GOURND HE TWISTED HIS KNEE AND FELL TO THE GROUND.

SLIPPED WHILE GETTING DOWN FROM TRACKMOBILE.

MINER MAN WAS SITTING ON A PLASTER BUCKET CUTTING A CAR OF COAL, WHEN RIB FELL OFF AND HIT HIM ON LOWER PART OF BACK AND HE JERKED FORWARD.

WHILE STANDING ON THE GROUND LOADING IRON INTO ALOADER BUCKET, THE INJURED CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN A PIECE OF IRON AND THE BUCKET LIP. THE FORCEOF THE MOMENTUM MASHED HIS HAND/RING FINGER.

INJURED WAS MOVIGN A WATER PUMP WHEN HIS FOOT GOT STUCK IN MUD CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO WALK UNDER BACKCHECK CURTAIN WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS CLEANING IN THE COOLING TUNNEL IT WAS WET SHE WAS WEARING LEATHER BOOTS THE GOT WATER SOAKED AND SHE RECEIVED A LIME BURN TO BOTH FEET.

EE WAS WALKIGN UP TO #1 BAGGER ADNSTEPPED ON BELT ROLLER AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

THE NECESSITY TO MOVE DRILL CORE TO ANOTEHR LOCATION, CORE WAS LOADED INTO 5 GAL BUCKETS ANDMOVED BY EE. DIRECTLY AFTER MOVING, PAIN WAS FELT IN CENTER OF BACK. BETWEEN SHOULDER BLOADES. EE TOOK LUNCH BREAK. UPON GETTING UP, THE PAIN MOVED INTO HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND NECK. LATER BACK FEELS OK BUT WHILE WALKING, THE MOTION CAUSES PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDERAND LEFT SIDE OF NECK. EE HA

WHILE CHECKING THE FACES A ROCK APPROX. 1' X 6" X 3" FELL STRIKING EE ON THE RIGHT UPPER ARM.

A LOADED BARGE IS CONTROLLED BY THE DREDGE WITH A 1" CABLE. WHEN BARGE IS LOADED, THE CABLE HAS TO BE REMOVED. EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING THE CABLE (WAITING FOR THE WINCH TO BE RELEASED) TO KEEP THE CABLE FROM FALLING IN THE RIVER. THE CABLE SUDDENLY CAME OFF A CAVEL ON THE BARGE, AND HIS RIGHT THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE WIRE AND DREDGE DECK.

PUTTING NEW BAGS ON PACK TABLE. HE RETURNE DOT WORK AS SCHEDULED UNTIL 4-5-95, THE PAIN BECAME TOO GREAT. THE BAGS HE LIFTED WEIGHTED LESS THEN 10 POUNDS.

WHILE OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR, EE RAN OVER A PIECE OF COAL ON MINE FLOOR, CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HEAD AGAINST CAB ROOF.

EMPLOYEE PULLEDTHE MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACKWHILE MOVING HYDRAULIC JACKS

BRAKES FAILED ONT EH CATERPILLAR 920 FRONT END LOADER ON A INCLINE. LOADER ROLLED FORWARD INTO EMPLOYEE'S LEGS.

INDIVIDUAL WAS MOVING A PALLET OF HYDRATE LIME BAGS. WHEN HE STOPPED, THREE OF THE BAGS FELL OFF. AS HE WAS PICKING UP THE BAGS HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE STEPPED ON A LUMP OF COAL AND TWISTED ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE HAD DISMOUNTED A SCOOP AND SPOKE TO A FELLOW EMPLOYEE. AS THE CO WORKER TURNED AROUND, HE UNINTENTIONALLY SPRAYED A BRATTICED SEALANT INTO THE EMPLOYEE'S EYES. THE EMPLOYEE STATED HE COULD HAVE RESUMED HIS REGULAR DUTIES AFTER FIRST AID TREATMENT. WHEN HE AROSE FROM SLEEPING THAT DAY, HIS EYES WERE SWOLLEN & SENSITIVE TO LIGHT. EMPOYEE DIDN'T SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT.

THE EE STEPPED OUT OF THE CAB OF 245 BACKHOE 3342 ONTO THE CATWALK TO LET A MECHANIC WORK ON THE CB RADIO. HE WAS FACING AWAY FROM THE MACHINE AND STEPPED TO THE SIDE TO ALLOW ROOM FOR THE MEC HANIC TO GET INTO THE CAB. HE STEPPED THRU A 6" GAP IN THE CATWALK WITH HIS LEFT FOOT, TWISTING HIS ANKLE AND FALLING TO THE GROUND.

EE STATED HE WAS INSTALLING A PIPE FITTING ON THE MAIN WATERLINE, WHEN ANOTHER FITTING BROKE CAUSING THE WATER PRESSURE TO HIT HIM IN THE FACE. HE WAS WORKING ALONG THE BELT ENTRY AT 69 X CUT DIL MAINS.

EMPLOYEE TOSSED THE COME-A-LONG UP TO AN EMPLOYEE STRIKING HIS LEFT THUMB.

MAN FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK WHILE HE WAS HANDLING 12CM-2 MINER CABLE IN THE 8TH WEST AT 5480 FT. MARK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP STEPS TO A LOADER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON STEP CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS GROIN AREA.

EE WAS RUNNING MINER ON THE PILLAR SECTION, TOP STARTED TO FALL IN, EE LEFT MINER AND A PIECE OF ROCK HIT HIM ON THE LEFT HIP CAUSING THE INJURY.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIS HEAD AS HE WAS DESCENDING STEPS FROM CABLE REEL.

WHILE BACKING MINER OUT OF #1 HEAD MINER SLID SIDEWAYS, CATCHING DECK ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNIGN RAM CAR-HIT HOLE CAUSING HIKM TO HIT HIS RIGHT SIDE AGAINST THE CAR.

HE WAS PULLING A 1 1/2" HOSE UNDER THE WELL OF OUR LOADOUT BUILDING. AS HE WAS DOING SO HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE WAS LATER DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIATED DISK. HE DID NOT MISS WORK UNT IL 4-19-95.

TWO LABORERS WORKED ON A 6' HIGH SCAFFOLD PLANK.[FIG 1A] ONE LABORER CLIMBED DOWN THE SCAFFOLD. THE OTHER LABORER [THE VICTIM] WALK TO THE OTHER END OF THE SCAFFOLD TO CLIMB DOWN. WHEN HE REAC HED THE END, THE PLANK FELL ALONG WITH THE LABORER. FACTORS: 1. INJURED'S LANYARD WAS NOT SECURED. 2. PLANK WAS NOT SECURED TO SCAFFOLD. 3. PLANK'S HOOKS C TO C IS 1 1/4 SHORTER THAN FRAME.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING HIS DUTIES AS A SECTION UTILITY MAN WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL, TRYING TO CATCH HIMSELF. HE TWISTED HIS LEFT WRIST. THE BOTTOMS ARE WET AND SLIPPERY.

INJURED WAS FIREBOSSING SECTION BELT FOR NEXT SHIRT. HE WALKED NEAR THE RIB THRU WATER. AS HE STEPPED INTO THE WWATER HE STEPPE DONA HIDDEN ROCK CAUSING HIM TO SLIP. THIS CAUSED A STRAIN TO HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS LIFTING A TIRE & STRAINED HIS BACK.

THE INJURED WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLT WHEN DRAW ROCK FELL IN ABOUT 6"-10" STRIKING INJURED ON LEFT LOWER LEG, FRACTURING FIBIA AND TIBIA.

WHILE INJURED WAS LIFTING SLATE OFF SAW TABLE HE HURT THE UPPER NECK AND SHOULDER AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING THE HOIST WHERE HE STANDS ON THE BOOM & SLACK BRAKES & THE SWINGER HANDLE IS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT OF HIM. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL AS HARD AS HE COULD ON THE SWINGER HAN DLE IN ORDER TO HOLD THE DERRICK PLATFORM AGAINST THE HIGHWALL. AS HE DID SO HE FELT A PIN IN HIS BACK. HE CONTINUE TO WORK THE REST OF THE DAY BUT WENT ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE 3-1-95.

EE WAS RIDING MANTRIP WHEN HE STUCK HIS LEFT ARM OUTSIDE THE CAR, HIS ARM HIT SOME CRIB BLOCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING GET A LARGE ROCK OFF THE TOP OF THE 1026 JEFFREY MINER AND STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE PULLING AT THE ROCK.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED DOWN FROM A RAILCAR ONTO SHOP FLOOR, SLIPPED AND FELL, CATCHING HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT HAND. HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER SIDE. EMPLOYEE DID NOT MISS TIME UNTIL 3-20-95.

EE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EE PICK UP A SPEED REDUCER HOUSING THAT WEIGHED APPROX 150 #'S. SAID HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE WORKED THE NEXT SHIFT 3-1-95.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN CAUSTIC LOADOUT, WHEN APPARENTLY SOME CAUSTIC DUST GOT IN HIS RIGHT EYE, CAUSING SEVERE CHEMICAL BURNS.

SLIPPED AND FELL AGAINST THE SIDE OF A DRUM SITTING IN HIS WORK AREA. BRUISED HIS RBIS. HE WORKED 2/28 THRU 3/13/ DR.'S OFC. CALLED ON 3/6--NO WORK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

DROPPED ROCK [30 - 35 LBS] ON LEFT FOOT.

ON KNEE USING TORCH TO CUT A DMAGED GUARD OFF BELT HEAD TO BE REPAIRED PUT OF SLAG FROM METAL WENT INTO HIS EAR.

CAUGHT LEFT THUMB BETWEEN 2 LARGE PIPE WRENCHES--XRAYS TAKEN--SHOWED A BROKEN LEFT THUMB.

EE WAS DUMPING A LOAD FROM HIS BACK DUMP WHEN THE LOAD SHIFTED BREAKING THE SAFETY CABLE AND ALLOWING THE BED TO OVEREXTEND CAUSING THE CAB TO RAISE OFF THE GROUND. THE TRUCK THEN BROKE IN TWO PARTS FORCING THE CAB TO FALL TO THE GROUND CAUSING EE TO HIT HIS HEAD ON THE WINDSHIELD.

EYE INJURY-MECHANIC WAS WORKING ON A MOTOR GRADER TRYING TP GET THE TILT WHEEL GEARS TO ENGAAGE. THE HAD THE COVER OFF THE GEAR BOX & WAS APPLYING PRESSURE BY THE USE OF A PRY BAR ON THE SHAFT TO HELP THE GEARS ENGAGE. WHEN THE GEARS DID ENGAGE A PIECE OF METAL SHERERED OFF ONE OF THE GEARS & HIT HIM IN THE EYE. IT WORKED ITS WAY BEHIND THE EYE & IT HAD TO BE SURGICALLY REMOVED.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A BOLT FROM A MANTRIP BRAKE CALIPER AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. HE BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 3-15-95.

EE WAS OPERATING A FLETCHER ROOF BOLTER IN THE #5 ENTRY, HE WAS INSTALLING 42" RESIN BOLTS, HE PUT BOLT IN HOLE AND STARTED TO SPIN BOLT, THE ROTATION HOSE ON OEPRATOR, SIDE BUSTED THIS CAUSED HIM TO ET HIT IN THE FACE AND EYES WITH HYYD OIL. THE OILL AS WARM, HOT. HIS EYES WERE WASHED OUT ON SECTION. HE AS BROUGHT TO SURFACE, HIS EYES WERE WASHED AGAIN AND PUT PATCHES ON THEM.

DRILLING HOLE IN FLOOR, AUGER BENT, STRUCK RIGHT WRIST. DID NOT START MISSING WORK (REPORTABLE) UNTIL 3-2-95.

THE INDIVIDUAL WAS HLEPING TO INSTALL STELL H-BEAMS UNDER THE TRACK AT THE CANOPIES, WHEN ONE OF THE BEAM SLSIPPED SIDEWAYS CATCHING HIM ON TH ERIGHT FOOT. HE WORKED THE NEXT DAY AND DID NOT R EPORT THE DAY MISSED AS PERTAINING OT THE ACCIDENT. UNTIL 3-14-95. HE CALLE DIN ON 3-1-95 TO REPORT OFF.

WAS PINNING TOP AND STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED SHE WAS SHOVELING COAL WHEN SHE HEARD A POP IN HER LEFT SHOULDER & FELT PAIN.

INJURED STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST MINE ROOF WHILE GETTING OUT OF SCOOP DECK.

EE WAS PICKING UP THE HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE AND HURT HIS BACK.

MAN STATED BOLTING A TURN OUT TO RT PUTTING IN THE 2ND BOLT. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE RIB SLIDING DOWN HIS SIDE LANDING ON HIS RT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKNG DOWN ENTRY AND SLIPPED, TWISTING HIS LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE GETTING ON A TRUCK. LOST HIS BALANCE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS LEFT FOOT. TRIED TO GET BACK ON THE TRUCK BURT HIS FOOT WOULDN'T SUPPORTHIM. LACERATION AND PULLED MUSCLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING BOLTS IN STEERILNG CLUTCHES OF R10 DRILL & STRAINED HIS BACK.

TRIPPED COMING DOWNSTAIRS. HE HIT HIS HEAD AND SHOULDERS.

WAS DRILLING HOLE IN CABINET HE WAS NOT TO BE IN- ELECTRICAL SHOCK AND BURN.

CARRYING DRILL BIT, SLIPPED ON ICE & TWISTED LOWER BACK. ACCIDENT OCCURED ON 2/27/95; HOWEVER, EMPLOYEE CONTINLUED TO WORK & DID NOT REPORT IT TO THE OFFICE UNTIL 3/13/95.

CREW WAS REMOVING SCREEN IN ABANDONED PREP PLANTSUBJECT WORKER, HE REMOVED HIS SAFETY LINE TO EXIT TO THE FLOOR AND THE SCREEN COLLAPSED. HE FELL 27 FT WITH SCREEN ON TOP OF HIM. HE HAD A PUNCTURE ON RIGHT LEG, BURN ON RT BUTTOCK, SPINE FRACTURE.

CUTTING WITH BURNING TORCH, MATERIAL WENT INTO MOUTH CAUSING A BURN IN THROAT AREA.

STEPPED OFF STEP BACKWARD LEFT FOOT CAUGHT ON STEP CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL SIDEWAYS & CONCRETE CATCHING HIMSELF ON RIGHT HAND & SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE GOT OFF FORT LIFT, TOOK APPROX 6 STEPS AND FROZE. EMPLOYEE SAID HIS BACK HURT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOOKING FOR A KVA TRANSFORMER AND WHILE REACHING IN THE BOX TO PULL IT OUT HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS NOT LIFTING PROPERLY AND GETTING HELP WHEN NEE DED. PERSONNEL EQUIPMENT WORN, NO RULES OR REGULATIONS WERE BROKEN, NO MINING EQUIPMENT INVOLVED AND MINER PROFICIENCY MAY HAVE BEEN A FACTOR.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS BACK BLADING ALONG EMBANKMENT WHEN LEFT TRACK HIT PROTRUSION IN EMBANKMENT CAUSING THE DOZER TO STOP SUDDENLY. INJURED STATED HE HAD PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND RIGHT LE G. NOTE: INJURED WAS WEARING SAFETY BELT.

EE WAS BOLTING TOP AND AS HE BROUGHT THE DRILL STEEL FROM THE HOLE. HE LEFT THE POT ROTATION RUNNING AND THE DRILL STEEL GOT AWAY FROM HIM. HITTING HIS RIGHT ARM AND BRUISING IT.

EE WAS CUTTING SCREWS FROM NO. 9 MILL NORIA AT ONE MOMENT HE WAS LIFTING A HAND CRANE AND SUDDENLY FELT BACK PAIN.

EE STATED HE WAS PRYING ON PUMP SCREW WITH PRY BAR, WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN RT FOREARM. FIRST LOST TIME DAY 3-7-95.

EMPLOYEE TRIPPED OVER A WATER LINE, AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. THIS EMPLOYEE STARTED GETTING MEDICAL TREATMENT ON THE DATE STATED IN ITEM 6.

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKIGN UP BUCKETS OF PLASTER AND HURT HIS BACK.

STEPPED ON A WET AND SLIPPERY ROCK CAUSING HIM O FLAL BACKWARD LANDIGN ON HIS BACK AND SCSR.

THE EE HAD PLACED A HEATER [HOG] INSIDE A FROZENAIR COMPRESSOR TO UNTHAW IT. WHEN THE EE WENT TOREMOVE THE HEATER HE FELT A PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS CLENAING IN THE COOLING TUNNEL IT WAS SOME DUST IN THE AIR. SHE SAID THAT LIME DUST GOT INTO BOTH EYES.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CLOSE DOORS TO THE CABLE TRAY ON THE FACE CONVEYOR. EMPLOYEES WERE HAVING TROUBLE GETTING A DOOR TO CLOSE SO THEY HOOKED A SET OF COME-A-LONGS TO THE DOOR AND TIGHTENED TH EM ALL THEY COULD. DOOR STILL WAS NOT CLOSED. EMPLOYEE TOOK HAMMER AND HIT THE DOOR. WHEN HE HIT THE DOOR THE HOOK ON THE COME-A-LONG CAME LOOSE AND EITHER THE HOOK OR CHAIN HIT HIM ON FINGER

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING TRASH TO DUMPSTER, STEPPED ON SNOW COVERED ICE & FELL TO THE GROUND, PULLING LIGAMENTE IN HIS RIGHT ANKLE & BREAKING HIS RITHT LEG. I PERSON INVOLVED.

WHILE WELDING WAS BEING DONE ON FEED HOPPER, THE EE WAS OBSERVING WITHOUT USING EYE PROTECTION WHICH RESLTED IN BURNING HIS EYES.

INJURED STATED THAT HE STARTED TO DRILL WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK STARTED TO FALL INSIDE THE ATRS RING. INJURED PULLED HIS HAND AWAY FROM THE DRILL STEEL. THE ROCK FELL ON THE TOP OF THE DRILL STEEL AND THE OTHER END FLEW UP AND STRUCK INJURED IN THE MOUTH. INJURED WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE IT WAS DETERMINED HE HAD 2 BROKEN TEETHAND RECEIVED 7 STITCHES IN HIS LOWER LIP.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE CLEANING UP [SHOVELING] LOOSE COAL AT THE #1 RIGHT TAIL PIECE THAT HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

JUMPED OFF BANK AND HURT RIGHT FOOT.

WAS OPERATING SCOOP SCOOP RAN OVER SOMETHING IN ROADWAY AND CAUSED SCOOP TO HIT HARD JARRING EMPLOYEE CAUSING HIS BACK TO HURT.

WHILE CHECKING THE OIL LEVEL IN HIS TRUCK, THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED, FALLING TO THE GROUND, STRIKING HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS JACKING MOTOR BACK ON RAILROAD TRACK USING LIFTING JACK TO PUT MOTOR BACK AND GOT PAIN IN LEFT ARM & SHOULDER, BACK AND NECK. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 2-28-95.

INJURED WAS UNHOOKING METAL FROM HOIST-WHEN THE METAL WAS FREE IT SLID INTO DALE RIGHT ANKLE CAUSING SPRAIN TO ANKLE.

WHILE SWEEPING #2 LW BELT, STEPPED ON PIECE OF OLD BELT AND SLIPPED ON BELT. EMPLOYEE STRUCK HER LEFT ELBOW ON THE FOOTWALL UPON FALLING.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO SHEER METAL SHOP TO RETREIVE PARTS WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL TO SAME LEVEL.

WALKING, TRIPPED, CAUGHT SELF WITH ARM. FIRST DAY OFF WORK - 2/27/95.

ROLLER OIL JOURNAL COOLANT LINES PLUGGED AND EE WAS UNPLUGGING THE LINES. WHEN ONE BROKE LOOSE AND DISCHARGED HOT WATER, STRIKING HIS LEFT FOREARM, APPROX. AT BEND OF ELBOW. APPEARED TO HAVE C AUSED 1ST, 2ND AND 3RD DEGREE BURNS FROM ABOVE THE WRIST.

INJURED STATED THAT WHILE FUELING A WATER PUMP, WHICH WAS BEING USED TO PUMP WATER FROM THE COALPIT, A BASEBALL SIZE ROCK FELL FROM THE HIGHWALL,STRIKING HIM IN THE BACK, THE PUMP WAS SITTING APPROX 30' FROM THE WALL. INJURED DROVE HIMSELF TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVINGA BRUISED BACK.

INJURED WAS CHANGING HYDRAULIC JACK ON CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS CROSSING OVER CROSS OVER AND TRIPPED OVER CABLE HANGING DOWN SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE AND WRISTS.

EMPLOYEE WAS GUIDING ELEVATOR BELT AND BUCKET INHOUSING. THE BELT BROKE AND FELL DOWN CAUSING HIS RIGHT HAND TO BE CAUGHT BETWEEN HOUSING AND BUCKET.

INDIVIDUAL IS A FORKLIFT OPERATOR AND HAD DISMOUNTED FROM HIS UNIT TO ADJUST HIS LOAD. HE WAS PICKING UP SCRAP METAL IN AN OPEN FIELD, AS HE WALKED AROUND THE FORKLIFT HE STEPPED IN A HOLE, LOSING HIS BALANCE AND FALLING FORWARD. HE SUFF ERED A SPRAIN OF HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EE WAS COLLECTING SAMPLES AT FAC. 45 FREIGHT ELEVATOR. HE SLIPPED ON SOME TRAY FLOCCULENT AND FELL ON HIS LEFT SIDE INJURING HIS SHOULDER. HE DID NOT LOSE ANY TIME OR ON ANY WORK RESTRICTIONS UNTIL HE BEGAN LOSING TIME 4-27-96 WHEN HE WENT OUT FOR SHOULDER SURGERY.

BELTS HAD COME OFF CRUSHER DRIVE PULLEY. EMPLOYEE TOLD FOREMAN FOREMAN INSTRUCTED EMPLOYEE TOSHUT DOWN & LOCK OUT CRUSHER MOTOR THEN REMOVE GUAARDS TO REPLACE BELTS, EMPLOYEE SHUT DOWN CRUSH ER BUT INSTEAD OF REMOVING GUARD HE STUCK HIS HAND THRU THE GUARD WHILE PULLEY WAS STILL ROTATING.

MIEN WAS IDLE ADN ALL EMPLOYEES WORKING WERE ENGAGED IN BULDING CRIBS FOR EXTRA ROOF SUPPORT. JUST AS HE WENT TO PICK UP A CRIB BLOCK SOMEONE ELSE HAD JUST PICKED ONE UP THAT HAD TWO MROE FRO ZE TO IT, THESE TWO BROKE LOOSE AND CAUGHT HIS THUMB AGAINS THE CRIB HE WAS GOING TO PICK UP.

HE WAS HELPING MOVE A FLAT TIRE AFTER IT WAS TAKEN OFF OF A SHUTTLE CAR. THE TIRE FELL OVER PINNING HIS LEFT KNEE BETWEEN THE NEW & OLD TIRES. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 5/11/95.

EMPLOYEE HAD THROWN A SWITCH, HOWEVER IT DID NOT GO ALL THE WAY DOWN. AS HE STEPPED ON THE SWITCH WITH HIS FOOT, HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON HIS LEG.

STEPPED OUT OF MTOOR, SLIPPED TWISTING KNEE.

EMPLOYEE, A ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR, WAS BOLTING TOP. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK ABOUT 3" OR 4" THICK X 4' X 4' WIDE [FELL] & HURT HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS LIFTING WHEEL & STRAINED HIS BACK. STARTED MISSING ON 2/27/95.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOOKING FOR A HOSE WHEN THE OPEN TOOL BOX LID CAME DOWN STRIKING HIM ON HIS LEFT WRIST.

EE IS STATING THAT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A CHAIN WRENCH FROM THE GROUND TO THE DRILL DECK HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK MUSCLE WRENCH WEIGHS APPROX. 40 LBS.

UNLEVEL GROUND AT #3 DRYER ROAD, LEADING DOWNHILL TO DRYER, TURNED LEFT ANKLE.

THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHEN HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A PIECE OF LINE CURTAIN THAT HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS BACK.

ON 2-24-95 EE COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN, NO INCIDENT PERSISTANT AND FREQUENT PAIN FROM INJURY DATED 4-6-94.

EE WAS CARRYING ROLLERS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND THE BACK OF THE SERVICE TRUCK, BECAME DISTRACTED AND ACCIDENTALLY RAN INTO A 14FT PIECE OF DRILL STEEL INT HE BACK OF THE SERVICE TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE LIFTED BLOCK AND SHARP PAIN HIT BACK.

WHILE PUSHING THE #4 SHOVEL CABLE INTO VACUUM BREAKER BOX, EMPLOYEE STATED HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW ON A ROOF BOLT.NOT NOTIFIED OF THIS INJURY UNTIL 03-03-95.

EMLOYEE STATED THAT HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE LOADING TOOL BOX ON MANTRIP.

HE WAS FUELING LOADER. WHEN HE FINISHED HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER ON MACHINE. HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON BOTTOM STEP AND HE DROPPED 2 FEET TO GROUND, LANDING OFF BALANCE ON LEFT FOOT, STRAINING LIG AMENTS IN HIS KNEE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS USING A WASH DOWN HOSE TO CLEAN UP SPILLAGE AROUND A BELT DRIVE ON THE SURFACE. AS HE WAS WASHING THE SPILLAGE, THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL DOWN.

STRAINED RIGHT LOW BACK MUSCLES WHEN LIFTING METAL.

EMPLLOYEE WAS LIFTING BEAM CLAMP ABOVE HIS HEAD TO INSTALL ON BEAM. EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. FIRST DAY LOST 7/8/96 DUE TO HAVING SURGERY PERFORMED TO REPAIR TORN ROTATOR CUFF.

EMPLOYEE NOTICED PAIN & FELT A KNOT ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE GROIN AREA AS HE WAS SHOVELING ON A BELTLINE. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING TIME 3-2-95.

INJURED STATES THAT THE DRILL HEAD END PLATE WAS COMING LOOSE & HE NOTICED IT NEEDED TO BE RE-TIGHTENED AS HE ATTEMPTED TO PULL THE METAL INTO PLACE HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK. X-RAYS NEGATIVE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PALSTERING A BRATTICE AND GOT SEALANT IN HIS EYES.

DROPPED PULLEY OFF OF A DRILL ON FINGER. WE WERE NEVER NOTIFIED OF THE ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEES WERE PASSING BRICK, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE DROPPED BRICK ON HIS FOOT.

DRIVER WAS TIGHTENING A WHEEL STUD ON HIS TRUCK AND HAD THE WRONG SIZE SOCKET IT SLIPPED WITH HIS FOOT ON THE RACHET AND JAMMED HIS FOOT TO THE GROUND.

ACCIDENT WAS DESCRIBED AS CUMULATIVE SORENESS DEVELOPED OVER SEVERAL DAYS FROM ROUGH ROADS WHICH AGGRAVATED AN OLD INJURY.

CLEANING STICKY MATERIAL FROM LOADER BUCKET, FELT PAIN IN BACK WHILE SHOVELING. DIDN'T REPORT TO SUPERVISOR UNTIL 2/27/95 (MONDAY) AT 10:00.

THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS INJURED ON 11-2-94CAME BACK TO WORK ON 16-95. INDIVIDUAL CAME IN TO WORK ON 2-24-95 AND SAID THAT HIS BACK WAS NOT ANY BETTER. HE WAS SENT HOME AND ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE T O SEE A DR. COPY OF ORIGINAL REPORT IS ATTACHED.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING CAGE ON BOB CAT, CAGE STRUCK OPERATING HANDLE CAUSING BOB CAT TO MOVE AND BREAK HIS LEG.

HITTING SIDE OF BAG TO GET WEIGHT IN BAG HE HURT OR BRUISED HIS SHOULDER.

EE CUT LEFT HAND INDEX FINGER STRIPING WIRE.

EE WAS WORKING UNDER A D-10 CAT TRACTOR. AFTER CRAWLING OUT FROM UNDER HE STOOD UP AS HE STOOD UP, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

WAS CLEANING CLAY ROCKS OFF OF CONVEYOR BELTS/ FEEDER STRAINED BACK & MISPLACED HIP.

EE PULLED A GROIN MUSCLE ON MONDAY BUT WORKED UNTIL FRIDAY BEFORE TAKING OFF WORK DUE TO PAIN. EE WAS HELPING TWO OTHER EE TO UNLOAD A DRILL HEAD FROM A BOLT MACHINE WHEN EE STEPPED INTO A SMA LL DITCH AND PULLED THE MUSCLE.

CABLE HUNG U ON REEL. INJURED PLACED ONE OF HIS FEET ON THE BUMPER OF THE BOLTER AND WAS PULLIGN ONT EH CABLE WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELLAGAINST THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE. T HIS INCIDENT RESULTED INA BRUISED RIGHT RIB.

SUDDEN MOVEMENT OF MINE VEHICLE IN WHICH EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING CAUSED EMPLOYEE HEAD TO CONTACT MINE ROOF.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO REMOVE PINS WHICH CONNECTED THE SPREADER BAR AND HOIST CHAINS TOGETHER ON THE 2570 BUCKET HARDWARE. HE WAS USING A 20 LB SLEDGE HAMMER TO DRIVE OUT THE PINS. WHILE SWIN GING THE SLEDGE HAMMER, HE FELT DISCOMFORT IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. AT THE TIME HE FELT THERE WAS NO PROBLEM. THE INJURY BECAME A REPORTABLE ON 2-28-95 WHEN HE MISSED REGULAR SCHEDULED SHIFT. S

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW IT HAPPENEDMUST HAVE BEEN WHILE HE WAS DOING HIS JOB AS A MINER HELPER PULLING CABLE.

FLUID GROUT ENTERED RIGHT BOOT WHILE PUMPING CREMENTITIOUS MINE SEAL. RESULTED IN SECOND DEGREE CHEMICAL BURN TO RIGHT ANKLE NAD FOOT, OFF WORK 3-6- DAYS.

EE WAS OPERATING BAGGER. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REARRANGE EMPTY BAGS FOR PACKING, AS HE STEPPED DOWN ONTO THE WIRE MESH CONVEYOR, ROTATING LEFT, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE AND IT GAVE WAY.

AS THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF THE DOZER HE INJURED HIS LEFT ANKLE RESULTING IN A LOSS OF TIME.

EE HURT HIS LEG WORKING IN THE TRIPPLE. HE WENT OUT OF THE TIPPLE AND WAS WORKING DOWN THE ROAD ABOUT 100 FT FROM THE TIPPLE WHEN HE GOT DIZZY AND PASSED OUT FALLING AND BROKE HIS JAW OF TEET AND PIT HIS TONGUE.

EE WAS PASSENGER ON AN OPEN TYPE, TRACK MOUNTED EIMCO MODEL SL-2 PERSONNEL CARRIER. AS THE UNTI PASSED THRU BELTING SUSPENDED FROMT HE ROOF TO CONTROL THE VENTILATING CURRENT HIS LEFT LEG CAUG HT IN THE BELTING AND RESULTED IN A DISLOCATION OF THE LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS POSITIONING HIMSELF ON MANTRIP BY PUSHING WITH RIGHT FOOT - AT SAME TIME, THE MANTRIP OPERATOR MOVED MANTRIP CAUSING SPRAIN TO RIGHT LEG.

INJURED WAS INSTALLING A BOTTOM BELT ROLLER ON THE #3 BELT. HE HAD PLACE A BAR UNDER THE TOP BELT SO HE COULD SET THE ROLLER FRAME ON THE BELT ROPE, WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED & STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT SHOULDER & LEFT SIDE OF THE FACE.

ORIGINAL ACCIDENT- EE WAS CLIMBING INTO JEEP AND BUMPED HIS RT KNEE ON THE FRAME OF THE JEEP. STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN ON 2-23-95.

INJURED WAS BENT OVER WELDING WHEN HE STOOD UP HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE SLIPPING ON WELDING CABLE.IMPORTANT HE KEPT ON WORKING UNTIL 03-15-95 AND WENT OFF WORK ON 03-15-95.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE SLIPPED ON THE STEP OF TRUCK WHEN MOUNTING AND GRABBED THE DOOR HANDLE WITH HIS LEFT HAND RESULTING IN AN INJURY TO HIS LEFT ARM.

EE SAID HE FELT SOMETHING TEAR IN HIS RECTUM WHILE LIFTING A TIMBER. THIS REPORT IS BEING FILED TO ABATE CITATION 3795572. OPERATOR CONTENDS THAT THE SITUATION DESCRIBED DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A REPORTABLE INJURY.

THE RED STREAK WAS FIRST NOTICED AT SCHOOL BEFORE WORK STARTED THE RED STREA RAN FROM HIS CENTER FINGER TO APPROX 3" PAST HIS LEFT WRIST, THEN AT AN 90 ANGLE TO THE OUTSIDE OF HIS ARM. THE STR EAK WAS ONT EH BACK SIDE OF HIS ARM.

WHILE TRYING TO REMOVE SHIM THE PRY BAR SLIPPED OFF LATCH BAR CAUSING SHIM TO CUT END OF FINGER.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE HAD OIL ON HIS BOOTS AND SLIPPED ON A LADDER CLIMBING ON TO A LOADER AND FELL TO THE GROUND. HE ALLEGEDLY SPRAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

OUR CO FILED AN INJURY REPORT ON THIS EE ON 1/10/94 AT THAT TIME HE INJURED HIS BACK & WAS UNDERA DOCTORS CARE W/O ANY TIME LOSS. THIS INJURY THAT WAS FILED ON 1/10/94 BECAME A LOST TILME INJU RY ON 2/23/95. THIS REPORT IS BEING SUBMITTED ONTHE ADVICE OF THE BELLEVUE, WA. MSHA OFFICE.

EE WAS HELPING WELDERS PUT REROD TOGETHER. FLASH HURT BOTH HIS EYES.

INJURED SUFFERED LACERATION & CONTUSION OF LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A METAL BARREL WHICH FELL ONHIS RIGHT FOOT AND FRACTURED HIS TOE.

EE WAS CROSSING OVER 36" CONVEYOR BELT TO REPAIR BELT TWISTING HIS KNEE.

WHILE HOSING A BOLT CONVEYOR SYSTEM EE WAS KNEELING TO HOSE UNDER THE BELT WHEN HE MOVED TO THE SIDE HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE EE FIRST DAY OFF WAS 0331-95

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING HEAVY OBJECT WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN WELDING ON A BREAKER WRENCH OF A HIGHWALL DRILL. WHILE CHIPPING SLAG A PIECE OF SLAG GOT INTO HIS RIGHT EAR. HE FIRST SAW A DOCTOR ON 2/25/95 WHO DIAGNOSED NOTHING WRONG. ON 3/1/95 HE COMPLAINED OF DIZZINESS & SAW A DOCTOR. A HOLE WAS FOUND IN THE RIGHT EAR DRUM. HE STARTED MISSING WORK DAYS ON 3/1/95.

EE WAS LOADING 20 INCH VENTILATION TUBE INTO SHUTTLE CAR.

EE SUSTAINED A THROMBOSED HEMORRHOID AS HE STRUCK THE LIP OF A CHUT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. THIS INJURY BECAME LOST TIME ON 3-3-95.

THERE WAS A DRAG LINE TIDE DOWN ONTO A TRAILER WITH CHAINS. EE SLIPPED OFF THE DRAGLINE FELL HITTING HIS BACK ON THE CHAIN.

EE WAS PUTTING A 7' BENT BOLT INHOLE, & STATED TO SPIN BOLT, THE BOLT CAME AROUND STRIKING EE IN RIGHT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING BELT ON A CAR INSIDE THE MINE, HE STEPPED ONTO THE CAR AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED, TWISTING HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING. FELT PAIN IN RIGHT LEG.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS PULLING A TIMBER OUT OF THE MUD & STRAINED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS PULLING CABLE ON COAL FEEDER WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS CLEANING GRIZZLY WITH 920 LOADER. LOADER STRUCK THE GRIZZLY CAUSING EE TO STRAIN HIS BACK.

EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN THE BUMPER OF THE CAR LODGED ON THE FRAME OF THE MINER AS THE MIENR WAS BACKIGN UP. WHEN THE MINER PULLED FORWARD THE SHUTTLE CAR DROPPED AND BOUNCED CAUSI GN EE TO BE JARRED IN HIS SEAT, HIS HEAD HIT THE TOP OF THE CANOPY AND HE BOUNCED ON THE SEAT. HE IS BEING TREATED FOR A BACK STRAIN.

PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN RIB & ATRS OF FLETCHER BOLT MACHINE.

INJURED STATES HE WAS REACHING FOR A ROOF BOLT WHEN HE FELT A STRAIN IN HIS BACK.

A ROCK FELW OUT OF HTE CM CONVEYOR CHAIN AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE IN THE HIP AND LLEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING A CHUNK CAUGHT IN THE BELT TAIL WIHT A SLATE BAR. THE EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND ABDOMEN WHLE REACHING OVER THE TAIL.

EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS BACK MOVING STEEL TO SUPPORT THE ROOF. THIS DID NOT BECOME A LOST TIME UNTIL 5-5-95.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO DINNER HOLE TO GET HELP WITH HOSE. WHILE WALKING SHE HIT HER HEAD ON LOW AREA WHERE COAL HAD ACCUMULATED.

A ROCK FLEW OUT OF THE CM CONVEYOR CHAIN AND STRUCK THE EE IN RIGHT HIP & LEG.

INJURED WAS MOVING A DRAGLINE TRAILING CABLE WHNE HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. EE REPORTWAS ONTLY A FIRST-AID CASE, BUT LATER ON IT BECAME NECESSARY TO TAKE 2 DAYS OFF. D.O.I. 23 FED 95-WORKED NORMAL SHIFT ON 2/24AND 2/25. SCHEDULED OFF 2/26. STARTING MISSING 2/27 AND 2/28.

EMPLOYEE WAS LEAVING THE D9L DOZER TO TAKE A NATURE BREAK & AS HE STEPPED ON THE PUSHARM HE LOST HIS FOOTING CAUSING HIM TO FALL STRIKING HIS TAIL BONE.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING BELT PUMPS OUT OF TRACK RIDE WHICH WERE FOULED TOGETHER. WHEN HE PULLED TO LOOSEN THEM AND LATER HELPED MOVE SOME ROCK DUST, HIS ABDOMOINAL AREA STARTED BOTHERING HIM.

EE WAS OPERATING THE CONTINUOUS MINER CLEANING UP #4 XCUT. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK APPROX. 20" LONG, 18" WIDE, 2" THICK, FELL OUT BETWEEN BOLTS AND HIT HIM ON HIS HARD HAT, RESULTING IN A STRAINE D NECK.

STRAIN LOWER BACK THE EE STATED THAT HE BENT OVER TO LIFT A METAL GUARD THAT COVERED THE DRIVE ROLLER HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO MOVE SHUTTLE CAR AFTER THE STEERING WENT OUT. PULLED LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED OUT OF #516 WELD TRUCK CAB. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE VEHICLE RUNIGN BEARD. SPRAINING HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED THAT 2 WEEKS PREVIOUSLY HE HAD FELT PAIN AFTER SETTING TOOLS DOWN.

AFTER DUMPING HIS LOAD AT THE TOP OF "C" RIDGE. INSTEAD OF AVOIDING THE AREA, OR PROCEEDING WITH CAUTION, EE ELECTED TO DRIVE OVER THIS AREA. HOWEVER, HE DID NOT PREPARE HIMSELF FOR THE SUBSEQ UENT "JARRING" ACTION IN THE CAB OF THE TRUCK. EE STRAINED HIS BACK (STRAINED/SPRAINED) AS A RESULT OF THE JARRING ACTION.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON LEVEL GROUND TWISTED HISANKLE.

EMPLOYEE THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS A PROBLEMWITH STOPPED CONVEYOR BELT (THERE WAS NOT) & HE CLIMBED ONTO THE BELT TO CHECK FOR METAL THE CRUSHER OPERATOR DID NOT SEE WORKER UNTIL HE STARTED CONVE YOR & SAW WORKER FALL BACKWARDS IN TRYING TO CATCH HIMSELF THE EMPLOYEE HURT HIS BACK & BRUISED HIS BUTTOX WHEN HE FELL

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A 4 IN ROCK THAT WAS CAUGHT IN A SELF CLEANING TAIL PULLEY ON A HIGH SHAKER. THE ROCK WAS WEDGED BETWEEN THE PULLEY AND CONVEYOR BELT. EE GRABBED THE ROCK, PULLED I ON IT, THE ROCK TWISTED LOOSE AND HIS HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROCK AND PULLEY. THIS RESULTED IN A LACERATION AND BRUISED FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS SWEEPING OUT OF CONTROL ROOM IN LANT & TWISTED HIS BACK.

THE EE WAS REPAIRING THE UNDERCARRIAGE ON THE 240 BACKHOE. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LEVEL THE DIRT WITH A 16 SLEDGE HAMMER IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE A MORE COMFORTABLE WORK AREA WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PA IN IN HIS LWOER RIGHT BACK, CAUSING A MUSCLE STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE MOVING CABLE OUT OF ROADWAY AND PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

WHILE PUSHING WITH HIS LEGS ON CABLE SO THAT CLAMP COULD BE ATTACHED TO CABLE AND DRUM. EE STATES THAT HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE. THIS IS A LOST TIME ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAND BAGGING ON PACKAGING LINE BAGGING 10# PRODUCT WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

405 NORTH LIFTING BOTTOM BELT ROLLER INTO PLACE FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER GROIN AND BACK.

EE STATED THAT WHILE SHOVELING ON THE MAIN SOUTH BELT TAKE UP HE EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING CUTTING MACHINE IN #2 HEADING, WHEN ROCK FELL FROM RIB CAGE, STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN LOWER BACK AREA.

THE INDIVIDUAL HAD APPARENTLY PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK THE NIGHT BEFORE ON HIS PREVIOUS SHIFT.

EMPLOYEE SAID HE WAS TRAMMING SCOOP DOWN RETURN TOWARD OUTSIDE. HE SAID HE HIT HIS HEAD IN TOP WHILE TRAMMING THE SCOOP.

EE WAS OPERATING A JACKLEG DRILL DRILLING A HOLE IN THE BACK TO INSTALL A ROCK BOLT. A LARGE ROCK CAME OUT OF THE LEFT RIB STRIKING THE EE KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND.

EE SLIPPED ON THE STEPS BETWEEN THE DRUM FLOOR AND TABLE FLOOR. STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL SOME WIRE CABLE FROM BENEATH SOME COAL WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

WHILE REBOLTING A FALL AREA A ROCK DISLODGED FROM THE TOP MEASURING 3'X4'X18" TO 4" THICK. HITTING THE PERSON ONT HE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS BODY. BREAKING HIS RIGHT ARM, RT HIP, RT LEG NOSE AND U PPER OF THE JAW.

EE WAS BARRING ON RT. FENDER THAT THEY WAS REMOVING FROM 777 HAUL TRUCK UNIT 601 THE FENDER CAME DOWN ON RT FOOT. SMASHING CUTTING BREAKING TWO TOES ON RT FOOT.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING UP SPILLAGE ALONG A CONVEYOR BELT WHEN HE STATED HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN THE BACK OF THE NECK.

WHILE SHOVELING NO. 2 BELT DRIVE, EE WAY STANDING IN MUD AT HE LIFTED LOADED SHOVEL TO BELT, HIS BODY TWISTED AND HIS FEET REMAINED STATIONARY IN MUD. HIS LEFT KNEE LIGAMENT APPARENTLY TORE.

WAS CLEANING BEARING AND RETAINER UNTI WAS STANDING UP RIGHT AND BLOCKED UNIT HAS A FLAT SPOT MACHED ON ONE SIDE OF THE RETAINER EDGE FLOOR HAD SLIGHT SLOPE. VIBRATION OF FLOOR DUE TO EQU8PMEN T MOVING IN SHOP MAY HAVE CRISED BEARING TO MOVEFORWARD AND ROLL ONTO FLAT SURFACE ON SIDE OF BEARING RETAINER AND FALL ONTO BIG TOE RIGHT FOOT AND FRACTURE TOE.

WELDING A PLATE ON THE BOTTOM SIDE OF WET SCREEN HEAD BOX. SLAG GOT BEHIND GLOVES AND BURNED THROUGH SHIRT SLEEVE AND LONG UNDERWEAR. SECOND DRGREE BURN TO FOREARM.

EE STATED HE WAS PULLING CONTROL CABLES OUT OF HOOK AND FELL RESULTING IN PAIN TO LOWER BACK.

PULLING UP FEEDER CABLE AND HURT NECK AND BACK.

EE BECAME A LOST TIME AGAIN ON 02-22-95 FROM INJURY OF 3-12-95.

EE WAS REMOVING SIDE WARE PLATES FROM INSIDE OF CRUSHER HAD SPACE HEATER OUTSIDE OF CRUSHER FOR HEAT CRUSHER WAS OPEN LID WAS UP AND SIDE DOORS OPEN.

WHILE REPLACING A "0" SPEED ROLL THE ROLL STARTED TO FALL AND THE EMPLOYEE CAUGHT THE ROLL AS ITWAS FALLING STRAINING HIS RIGHT ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING HAUL TRUCK. HE WAS BEING LOADED & A LARGE ROCK WAS DROPPED ONTO TRUCK JARRING OPERATOR.

EE HAD A LOWER LUMBAR STRAIN EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WASHING 980C WHEEL LOADER WITH A 3000 PS1 WASHER THE FATIGUE FROM HOLDING THE WASHER CAUSED A STRAIN 3 WEEKS LATER IT WAS REPORTED EMPLOYEE SAID HE HAD BEEN TO THE DOC & IT WAS REQUESTED HE TAKE THE REST OF THE WEEK OFF FOR REST (03-14-95) THE DAY HE RETURNED TO WORK WE WERE INFORMED THE STRAIN WAS RELATED

EE WAS HELPING UNLOAD BATH FLIGHTS FROM DELIVERY TRUCK. MUSCLE STRAIN IN NECK. EE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 5-8-95.

INJURED PERSON WAS INSTALLING TEMP. SUPPORTS [SCREW JACKS] ACROSS INTERSECTION OF 3L BRK & 2 ENTRY WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF ROCK THAT FELL BETWEEN THE JACKS.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED OUT FO #518 FLATBED SERVICE TRUCK. HE STEPPED INTO A DEPRESSION IN THE HARD PACKED SNOW (CREATED BY VEHICLE EXAHUST) AND SPRAINED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING IN X-CUT 4 TO 5. HE TWISTED WITH TWO BOLTS AND ROOF MATS TO THROW THEM UP BY CHUCKHEAD. WHEN HE TEISTED BACK HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE CAME DOWN STAIRS AND SLIPPED WHEN HE STEPPED FROM THE BOTTOM STEP TO THE GROUND.

WHILE CROSSING THE YARD IN A LOADER THE OPERATOR RAN OVER A PILE OF MATERIAL,THE IMPACT BOTTOMED OUT THE OPERATORS SEAT,JARRING THE OPERATOR.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN THE BANK OF THE SAND PIT, LOST HIS FOOTING, WHEN FALLING TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND/OR ARM. CAUSED A MASSIVE TEAR TO THE ROTATOR CUFF IN THE LEFT SHOULDE R.

LOADING TRUCK, SLIPPED ON STEPS.

EE WAS CLEANING HIS WORK AREA. WHILE MOVING A BEARING TAKEUP, EE DROPPED IT, STRIKING HIS LEFT HAND WITH IT.

INJURED WAS LIFTING PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING THE SCOOP WHEN IT GOT AGAINST A PIECE OF 4" WATER LINE (PLASTIC) THAT KICKE DUP AND STRUCK HIM ON THE FOREHEAD CAUSING A (KNOTT) AND BRUISE.

THE EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIMSELF IN THE HEAD WITH A BAR WHILE HE WAS CLEANING IN THE PLANT.

INJURED EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF LOWER BACK PAIN RESULT OF PALLETIZING SLATE SLABS DURING HTE PRIOR DAY. EMPLOYEE REPORTED THIS TO HIS SUPERVISOR ON 2-22-95.

MAN WAS CROSSING OVER LONGWALL TAIL DRIVE TO INSPECT TAILGATE ENTRY AND HE STEPPED INTO A HOLE TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE.

REMOVING SCOOP PANEL BOARD COVER. HOLDING COVER ON BOTH SIDES. RAISED RIGHT SIDE OF COVER. COVER SLIPPED OUT OF RIGHT HAND, SWUNG DOWN AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT FINGERS BETWEEN COVER AND PANEL BOX. AVULSION AND LACERATION REQUIRED STITCHES.

SHOVELING ROCK ONTO CONVEYOR BELT AND FELT SHARPPAIN IN MIDDLE OF BACK.

HARMER TRAILER HAD TURNED ON SIDE AT MINE SITE. MEN WERE ATTEMPTING TO RIGHT TRAILER WITH LOADER WHEN IT HUNG UP. EE ATTEMPTED TO STRAIGHTEN TRAILER WHEN IT CAME DOWN, INJURING TWO FINGERS ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

CLIMBING ONTO BACKHOE - WIND CAUGHT DOOR AS IT WAS BEING OPENED. STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE OPERATING SCRAPER AND HIT A ROCK WITH THE FRONT TIRE JARRING HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING LADDER ON #13 SILO. WHEN HE REACHED THE BOTTOM STEP OF THE LADDER HE FELT HIS KNEE POP.

WHILE TRAMMING THE SCOOP,T HE TIRE SPLASHED MUD INT OHIS LEFT EYE CAUSIN GREDNESS & PAIN.

HE WAS A PASSENGER IN A PICK-UP TRUCK THAT TRAVELED OVER A HOLE IN ROADWAY ON REFUSE PILE CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO BE BOUNCED AROUND IN CAB.

EE WAS ON TOP OF ROOFBOLTER, WHEN HE JUMPED OFF MACHINE HE LANDED ON LEFT FOOT CAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN ANKLE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING CONES FROM THE 1009 DUST COLLECTOR TUBE SHEET WITH AN 8# SLEDGE HAMMER. WHILE SWINGING THE HAMMER, THE EMPLOYEE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK.

WHILE WORKING ON THE TOP END OF THE TILT CYLINDER IT SMASHED HIS RIGHT HAND. HE WAS TRYING TO REAJUST THE LOAD ON THE SLING. THIS IS A LOST TIME ACCIDENT.

EE WAS LIFTING A SCREEN

WHILE MOVING PALLET OF IDLERS, INJURED ARM MUSCLES.

EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING BY AUTOMATIC WELDER, BUILDING UP ROLL CRUSHER. HE WAS WEARING WELDING HELMET AT THE TIME BUT WAS NOT WEARING GLASSES UNDER THE HELMET HOOD TO PROTECT HIS EYES FROM THE BRIGHT FLASH OF NIGHT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING THE MINER CABLE WHEN HE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS LIFTING A CLUTCH PUMP WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. ON 11-28-95 PHYSICAL THERAPY WAS PRESCRIBED.

WHILE TURNING A VALVE HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

VICTIM WAS CRAWLING UNDER BRIDGE CONVEYOR GOING FOR A DRINK OF WATER, WHEN CONVEYOR DROPPED STRIKING VICTIM ON LEFT HIP, BRIDGE WAS GOING OVER A HUMP IN THE BOTTOM AND DROPPED SUDDENLY.

EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING A BRATTICE OUTBY FACE, THE HEIGHT IS ABOUT SEVENFEET WHERE BRATTICE AS BEING BUILT. WHEN EMPLOYEE LIFTED CINDED BLOCK TO PUT ON TO ROW HE HIT TH ETOP WITH BLOCK ADN KNOCK ED DUST AND ROCK AND IT FELL IN HIS EYE.

PICKED UP CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE & PLACED ON MINER BOOM. BEGAN EXPERIENCING LOWER BACK PAIN.

WAS CUTTING WITH A TORCH OUT OF AN CONDOR MAN LIFT CAGE. VISIBILITY AND AIR WERE EXCELLENT. EMPLOYEE CUT A 6" PIECE OF CHANNEL IRON 18" LONG. WHEN CUT THROUGH THE PIECE OF CHANNEL FELL LOOSE A ND KNOCKED THE TORCH OUT OF HIS HAND FALLING AGAINST HIS LEG CAUSING 1" BURN.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT SHOVEL OF MUD UPON THE BELTLINE. HE FELT HIS BACK STIFFENING AND PULLING. HE COMPLAINED OF PAIN GOING DOWN LEGS.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING BACKWARDS OFF OF LAUNCH VEHICLE. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL BACKWARDS.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING TAKING DOWN SHELVES AND SOME DEBREE FELL INTO HIS EYE.

WHILE DISMOUNTING A D10 BULLDOZER THE EE SLIPPED AND FELL CATCHING HIS RT LEG BETWEEN THE PUSH ARM AND TRACK THEN LEANING DOWN ACROSS THE PUSHARM BACKWARDS RESULTING IN A REDUCTION OF CIRCULAT ION TO HIS LOWER LEG REQUIRING SURGERY.

DRILLING, PULLED ON DRILL, HURT BACK.

EE WAS STANDING ON THE SECOND RUNG OF A LADDER WHILE TRYING TO PUT A PAN ON THE BOOM OF A ROOF BOLTER. HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND, STRAINING HIS BACK.

INJURED WAS DISMOUNTING A 631C CAT WATER WAGON WHEN STRAINED HER BACK [LOWER].

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS PULLING MIENR CABLE UP #3 HEADING WHEN HE FELT SOMETHIGN GIVE IN HIS LWOER BACK

MINER WAS BARRING DOWN LOOSE GROUND WHEN ROCK FELL FROM RIB AND HIT HIM ON THE HAT AND NECK/SHOULDER AREA.

INSTALLING BOLTS OFF JUMBO DECK, ROCK FELL OFF OF RIB HIT EDGES OF DECKING, FLIPPING DECKING UP, HE JUMPED OFF DECKING ONTO MUCK PILE APPROX 5' OFF OF GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTIN GSCOOP BATTERIES ON CHARGE WHEN HE PINCHED HIS FINGER PEELING THE SKIN OFF OF IT.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP WHEN THE WHEEL OF THE SCOOP TRAMMED OVER A ROCK IN THE ROADWAY. THIS ACTION CAUSED THE OPERATOR TO BE THROWN UPWARD WHICH INJURED HIS LOWER BACK. HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN THE LEFT LEG WITH BURNING SENSATION.

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK MEASURING 16" X 18" ROUND AND 1.5" THICK FELL ON EMPLOYEE WHILE SHOVELING, STRIKING HIM IN THE LOWER BACK. COAL HEIGHT FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: 10'6".

INJURED WAS HAULING COAL PROM THE FACE TO THE BELTLINE WITH A WESCHER FRACTOR. INJURED HAD HIS HAND OUTSIDE OF DECK OF TRACTOR PINCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE TRACTOR DECK AND THE COAL RIB. IN JURED HAD LACERATION TO MIDDLE FINGER AND LACER ATION BETWEEN MIDDLE FINGER AND RING FINGER ON RT HAND.

WHILE WASHING DOWN WITH WATER HOSE, EE WALKED BETWEEN TWO PUMPS STRIKING HER RIGHT KNEE AGAINS THE PUMP FRAME.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WALKED ACROSS A CHAIN THAT WAS TOWING A B/O SHIELD. THE CHAIN BROKE AND STRUCK BOTH LEGS, CAUSING BRUISING AND CONTUSIONS.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING INSIDE A SCRAPER IN AN AWKWARD POSITION WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE, SLIPPED, FELL AND SPRAINED HIS LEFT ANKLE. AT TIME OF INCIDENT, EMPLOYEE WAS HAMMERING A STEEL WEDGE WITH A SMALL HAMMER.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE LIFTED FOUR ROPE LOOPS OF CABLE OFF THE MINER HEAD AND LIFTED ONE SECTION OF CABLE OUT OF HOOKS ON SIDE OF MINER AND SOMETIME BETWEEN THESE TWO TASK HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LO WER BACK.

WHILE PRESHIFTING TRUCK EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOWER LADDER USED FOR CHECKING ENGINE OIL. LADDER FELL SUDDENLY STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN RIGHT SHOULDER AREA.

SHUTTLE CAR CABLE WAS PULLED DOWN OVER ROADWAY S THE OTHER CAR PASSED UNDERNEATH HITTING THIS EMPLOYEE ONT EH EAR AND LACERATED IT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF A HOPPER, WHEN HE STEPPED FROM THE HOPPER TO THE SCAFFOLDING, HIS RIGHT KNEE MADE A POPPING SOUND. X-RAYS WERE TAKEN.

CLIMBING OFF EQUIPMENT AND FOOT SLIPPED. GRABBING WITH LEFT HAND CAUSED LACERATION.

EE PARKED FORLIFT IN GEAR ON INCLINE. FORLIFT ROLLED. EE MOVED OUT OF THE WAY AND STUMBLED AGAINST A ROCK, CRACKING 3 RIBS AND BRUISING HIS SPLLEEN.

SMASHED TOES WITH RAILCAR BULKHEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS AT THIS MILLING MACHINE IN CENTRAL SHOP. EMPLOYEE FELT MATERIAL ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE. HE BELIEVES THE MATERIAL MAY HAVE COME FROM THE WELD SHOP (GRINDING). HE WAS WEARING SAFE TY GLASSES WITH SIDE SHIELDS. THIS CASE WAS RE CENTLY CONFIRMED TO BE WORK RELATED.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING 3/4" THICK LINER PLATE IN STONE CHUTE. LINER PLATE SLIPPED OFF LIP OF CHUTE AND FELL 3 1/2 FT. LANDING ON LEFT SIDE OF EMPLOYEE'S LEFT FOOT. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A LACERAT ION AND FRACTURE OF SMALL TOE.

PRIOR TO ENTERING THE CAB OF HIS PICK UP TRUCK, THE EMPLOYEE FAILED TO CLEAR EQUIPMENT ACCUMULATED FROM PREVIOUS SHIFT. AS A RESULT, THE EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT FOOT BECAME ENTANGLED WITH AN ANTENNA WIRE THAT WAS TUCKED UP UNDER THE DASHBOARD. AS THE EMPLOYEE BEGAN TO STEP FROM THE VEHICLE, THE WIRE HELD BACK HIS FOOT. THE EMPLOYEE' HAND WAS INJURED AS HE TRIED TO CATCH HIS FALL TO GROUND

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING ON NEW STRUCTURE TO HOLD HYDROCYCLONES. DURING HIS WORKING SHIFT HE RECEIVED WELDING FLASH BURN FROM ANOTHER WELDER LOCATED ON SAME STRUCTURE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE FELT BACK PAIN WHILE HANDLING BELT.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING LOADER'S RADIATOR CAP TO POUR WATER WHEN IT EXPLODED AND BURNED HIS LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO MOVE MINER CABLE WHEN MINER OPERATOR STARTED TRAMMING MINER INTO LEFT CROSSCUT. TAIL OF MINER HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE LEFT SIDE.

LOADING WHIZZER PUMP INTO SHAFT BUCKET, PUMP STRUCK RIGHT INDEX FINGER MASHING IT BETWEEN BUCKE TAND PUMP.

MINER OPERATOR WAS LAYING CABLE OVER TO RIGHT RIB AND HURT HIS BACK WHILE LAYING CABLE OVER TO THE RIGHT RIB.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE FELL.

EE WAS HANGING PINNER CABLE, WHEN HE TURNED AROUND A HANGING WIRE STRUCK HIM IN THE RT EYE. OBTAINED CORNEAL ABRASION.

TOWARDS THE END OF SHIFT, EMPLOYEE REPORTED HE HAD PAIN IN BACK, BUT COULD NOT PINPOINT A SPECIFIC TIME WHEN THE PAIN BEGAN.

MAN WAS PUSHING ON THE REEL VALVE LEVER TO TURN THE REEL OFF. THE VALVE WAS TIGHT AND AS HE PUSHED HARDER HIS HAND STARTED HURTING.

INJURED WORKER WAS EXITING WHEEL 1 OF THE LINE 5 COOLER WHEN HE HOOKED HIS FOOT BOOT ON A PIECE OF STEEL CAUSING HIM TO TRIP AND FALL TWISTING HIS RT KNEE AS HE FELL.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING CREW POURING CONCRETE THROUGH A 6" SLICK LINE PIPE. THE PIPE KICKED, KNOCKING EMPLOYEE DOWN & CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER ON A PIECE OF REINFORCING STEE L, BREAKING A CARPAL BONE IN HIS LEFT HAND.

A PIECE OF 2' X 3', .24 GAUGE SHEET METAL SLID OFF THE GAS CYLINDERS IT WAS COVERING & STRUCK HIM ON THE NOSE AS HE TURNED ON THE GAS.

WHILE DESCENDING VERTICAL LADDER SLIPPED AND FELL ABOUT 6-7 FT ONTO CONCRETE SLAB COVERED WITH 1-2 FT OF WATER AND FROTH. LANDED ON BOTH HEELS.

THE INJURED WAS OPEATING THE TAILGATE SIDE OF SHEARER WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FROM THE DRUM CAME OVER THE SHEARER STRIKING HIM ON THE R SIDE OF HIS BODY CAUSING CONTUSIONS TO HIS R WRIST, R CHEST AREA, & R KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS FILLING PODS WHEN COUPLING BLEW APART, STRIKING HIM.

EE CLAIMS INJURY ON 2/19 AND 2/20. HE DID NOT WORK ON 2/20 AND REPORTED THE INJURY TO HIS SUPERVISOR ON 3-25-95. INVESTIGATION REVEALS THAT THIS MAY NOT BE JOB RELATED EE CLAIMS HE SLIPPED IN MUD AND PULLED ARM WHILE CLIMBING OF TRACK OF D3DOZER.

WHILE IN THE PACKING AREA, WORKER WAS STANDING ON TOP OF THE PACKING CHAIR TRYING TO FIX A STUCK RAM WHEN HE FELL & STRAINED HIS KNEE.

HIGH PRESSURE HOSE KNOCKED EMPLOYEE OFF LADDER, BRUISING HIS HIP.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A SMALL MOTOR, WHILE LIFTING HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO ER ROOM AT ST. PETERS HOSPITAL IN HELENA.

LOST BALANCE WHILE LIFTING A PIPE.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING NEW CRUSHER SCREENS WHEN A FOREIGN OBJECT BLEW INTO RIGHT EYE. DID NOT REPORT TO EMPLOYER TIL 2-21-95.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING A CONTRACT MINER TO CHANGE A FLAT TIRE ON A FRONT END LOADER WHEN THE LOCK RING SLIPPED, PINCHING HIS RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN THE WHEEL AND RING.

SUBJECT AND WITNESS IN WORK BASKET ON FORKLIFT REPAIRING BROKEN WATER LINE. UPON COMPLETION SUBJECT MOTIONED FOR LIFT OP TO LOWER BASKET. INSTEAD OP TILTED BASKET CATCHING SUBJECT BETWEEN BASK ET AND CONDUIT.

EE WAS INSTALLING SCRAPER ON BELTLINE. AS EE BEGAN TO MOVE SCRAPER, IT FELL AND STRUCK HIM.

TIGHTENING A BOLT ON A ROLLER WITH AN AIR WRENCH THAT HAD A BROKEN METAL STRAP ATTACHED. WHEN THE BOLT TURNED THE METAL STRAP TURNED AN CUT THE EE HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A METHANE MONITOR IN THE DECK OF A 1026 JEFFERY MINER & GOT HIS BACK IN A TWISHED POSITION & WHEN HE TRIED TO GET UP HE COULD NOT STARIGHTEN UP.

INJURED WAS REMOVING TRAILING CABLE FROM CONTINUOUS MINER BOOM. HE STEPPED ON A ROCK WHICH CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS RIGHT ANKL.E

MINER WAS DRILLING A FACE ROUND WHEN A BASEBALL SIZE ROCK CAME OUT OF THE BACK & [HIT] HIS HAND THAT WAS CONTROLLING THE JACKLEG DRILL. THIS RESULTED IN A ABROKEN THUMB WHERE THE THUMB WAS RES TING ON TOP OF THE DRILL.

ALLEGED HAPPENED 2/18/95, DATE REPORTED 5/15/95.EE WAS IN THE MAN LIFT AOUT 30'IN THE AIR. HE STEPPED OUT OF THE MANLIFT OVER A HAND RAIL & FELLBACKWARD ABOUT 5' TO THE DECK ON HIS BACK, HE DI D NOT HURT HIMSELF AT THE TIME. WHEN HE TURNED IN THE ACCIDENT IN MAY HIS SHOULDER WAS HURTING. THE CO AND SIIS DENIED HIS CASE THRU 2 APPEALS. HE WON HIS CASE & WAS OPERATED ON 6/20/96.

LOADING TIMBERS ON SCOOP, STRAINED BACK. EMPLOYEE DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 2-25-95.

WHILE ENTERING THROUGH HOLE ON TOP OF RAILCAR, PERSON SLIPPED AND WAS INJURED WHEN ATTEMPTED TOSTOP HIMSELF.

WHILE STRAIGHTING A STEP ON A 988B WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER, A PIECE OF THE SLEDGE HAMMER [METAL] CAME OFF & STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT JAW.

BARRING, BAR SLIPPED OFF ROCK & HE FELT PULED LOWER STOMACH MUSCLE, LEFT SIDE. FIRST SHIFT MISSED 2/24/95. HE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 2/23/95 & WE WERE UNAWARE OF THE HERNIA UNTIL THIS TIME.

AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING UP ON CRIB BLOCK, HE FELT A POP IN HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED IN A MUD HOLE AND HURT HIS LEFTFOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE A ROCK HUNG IN A BELT CHUTE WHEN THE ROCK CAME OUT. IT ROLLED OFF THE BELT AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON HIS LEFT ANKLE.

CARRYING AN OXYGEN BOTTLE TO THE FACE WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AND TURNED HIS KNEE.

EE STARTING THE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT TO ALLOW SUFFICIENT WARM UP TIME BEFORE THE SHIFT BEGINS WHICH IS AT 630 AM. THIS IS HIS DAILY RESPONSIBLE AT EUCLID END DUMP AND WAS CLIMBING BACK DOWN. MAKI NG HIS WAY TO GROUND. POOR CONTACT SLIPPED AND CARRIED HIS WEIGHT TO THE GROUND WHEN IT LANDED HE HEARD POP.

EE WAS CARRYING 2 BAGS OF GARBAGE DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS, WHEN HIS HEEL CAUGHT ON A SKID STRIP CAUSING HIM TO FALL STRIKING HIS BACK ON A WATER DISPENSER.

TRACTOR RAN INTO A MANTRIP CAUSING THE MANTRIP TO STRIKE HIM, HURTING BACK AND NECK. THIS CLAIM IS UNDER PROTEST TILL FURTHER INVESTIGATION.

WORKING ON SCAFFOLD WAS MOVING RIGGING TO HOIST DUCTWORK INTO POSITION. EE WAS MOVING A 1 1/2 TON COMEALONG WHEN FOOT SLIPPED ON THIN LAYER OF DUST CAUSING A STRAIN TO GROIN AREA.

EE REPORTS THAT HIS BACK STARTED HURTING WHILE HE WAS SAWING A TIMBER. HE STATES THAT HE HAD LIFTED A TIMBER AND POSITIONED IT FOR SAWING JUST PRIOR TO INCIDENT. (ROBBING) PILLAR RECOVERY MINI NG.

WALKING DOWN STEPS, TWISTED KNEE.

THE INJURED WAS CLEANING SHIELDS ON THE LONGWAL FACE. WHILE IN THE PROCESS, HE RAISED THE LEGS ON SHIELD #55 IN ORDER TO SHOVEL GOB FROM UNDERNEATH THE FEET. WHEN THE SHIELD WAS LOWERED, A PIE CE OF ROCK DISLODGED & FELL STRIKING HIM ON TOP OF HIS R HAND CAUSING A LACERATION BETWEEN HIS RING FINGER & MIDDLE FINGER.

EE WAS LOADING DRILL HOLES. HE STEPPED IN A BAD DRILL HOLE AND SPRAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE, BACK, SHOULDER.

THE PORTAL BUS HE WAS DRIVING WAS HIT BY A RUN-AWAY PORTAL BUS WITHOUT AN OPERATOR.

AIR LINE CAME LOOSE FROM THE TRAILER & HE DIDN'THAVE BRAKES.

THIS ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON SURFACE. THERE WERE TWO MANTRIP MOTORS OUTSIDE WHEN HE WENT TO GET ON MANTRIP, INSTEAD OF GETTING ON TRIP FROM LOADING SIDE HE WENT BETWEEN THE TWO MOTORS TO LEAD FRO M BACK. THE OPERATOR TOUCHED TIE CONTROLLES MOVING THE MANTRIP IN REVERSE, CATCHING HIS LEG BETWEEN THE TWO MOTORS AND BREAKING IT.

WHILE MAKING VENT HOLE IN STOPPING WITH DOUBLE JACK, COAL RIB BLEW OUT AND HIT EE ON THE HAND CAUSING HIM TO CUT PALM OF LEFT HAND, WHICH REQUIRED 8 STITCHES.

EMP WAS SITTING IN INTERSECTION IN X-CUT 4-5 IN A-5 ROOMS WHEN HE WAS STRUCK IN THE BACK WITH A ROOF BOLTER ATRS WHEN IT WAS COMING THRU CANVAS. ON 9-12-95 EMP REPORTED HE WAS HAVING TROUBLE W ITH BACK PAIN. SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 9-12-95 AND STARTED MISSING WORK ON 9-13-95.

EE WAS PULLING ALONG WITH A CO WORKER A JOINT OF 2" WATERLINE INTO PLACE TO CONNECT WITH A JOINT OF 3" PLASTIC WATER LINE. AS HE WAS PULLING ON THE WATERLINE HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK A REA. THIS WAS DIAGNOSED AND HE LOST TIME ON 2-22

SLIPPED ON STEP COMING FROM THE CRUSHER TO GROUND LEVEL, TWISTED ANKLE AND FELL ON ARM AND SHOULDER--RIGHT SIDE.

INJURED WAS RIDING IN A TRACTOR WHEN THE TRACTOR SLID INTO A RIB HE HIT HSI BACK ON FIRE SUPPRESSION BOTTLE.

EE STATED HE STEPPED OFF FCT INTO A HOLE, TWISTING LEFT ANKLE.

WHILE ASSISTING IN RESETTING THE LOWER RAMP BARGE, THE EMPLOYEE WAS INSTRUCTED TO RELEASE THE DOGS ON THE WINCH HOLDING THE UPPER BANK LINE, DOING SO HAD THE FOOT BRAKE ON & FAILED TO REMOVE H IS L HAND FROM THE TOP OF THE HAND WHEEL. THE LOADER ON THE BANK BEGAN TO MOVE THE BARGE OUT FROM THE BANK. THIS CAUSED THE WINCH TO UNWIND CABLE WHICH CAUSED THE HAND WHEEL TO CATCH HIS HAND

WAS INSTALLING SUB SHAFT ON DRILL. HAD UNIT POSITIONED PERPENDICTULAR TO GROUND RESTING ON DRILL BIT. UNIT WAS "LODGED IN GROUND". UNIT LOST BALANCE & FELL WITH THREADED SECTION STRIKING BOOT ON RIGHT FOOT BEHIND WHERE METATARSAL PROTECTIONENDS.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING HOSE. STEPPED IN HOLE AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

INJURED WAS BACKING UP A GOLF CART AND BACKEDINTO A PARKED SHUTTLE CAR CAUSING A STRAIN TO LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND USING A SPADE TO CLEAN THE TRACK ON HOE WHEN HE STEPPED ON FROZEN DIRT CLOD TWISTING HIS FOOT WHICH CAUSED THE FRACTURE OF A BONE IN HIS RIGHT FOOT. THE ACC IDENT OCCURRED ON FRI. 2/17 AT 4:40 AM. HIS SHIFT STARTED ON 2/16 AT 6:00 PM. THE SWELLING & PAIN CONTINUED TO GET WORSE OVER THE WEEKEND RESULTIONG IN VISIT TO DR. SO HE DIDN'T REPORT TIL MO

HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING A DRIVE SHAFT FOR THE FINES CONVEYOR AT THE 9 MN WEST HEAD. HIS THUMB WAS IN THE UNIVERSAL WHEN HE TWISTED THE SHAFT TO LINE UP THE SPLINES.

HE CARRIED A BOOM JACK FROM THE SURFACE TO A POINT UNDERGROUND.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE HAD LIFTED 8" BLACK PIPE TO PLACE IT ON THE WELDING MACHINE. HE FELT A PULLING IN HIS RIGHT SIDE AS HE PUT THE PIPE DOWN. DOCTORS REPORT STATED A POSSIBLE TORN MUSCLE IN THE RIB OR UPPER ABDOMINAL AREA. 1 WEEK OFF FOR REST.

INJURED WAS IN THE SCOOP BUCKET FILLING ROCK DUSTER, STEPPED OFF BUCKET TWISTING ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE PICKED UP & MOVED MINER POWER CABLE. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK DUE TO INJURY ON 3-6-95. ACCIDENT CLASSIFICATION: HANDLING MATERIAL.

ON 2-17-95 THE EMPLOYEE INJURED HIS BACK WHENHE WA JOLTED AS HE STRUCK A ROCK IN THE ROAD. ON 3-3-95 HE BEGAN TO MISS WORK DUE TO PROGRESSIVE PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS RIDING A PORTAL BUS. THE BUS DERAILED AND HE BUMPED HEAD AND RIGHT KNEE RESULTING IN NECK AND KNEE PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING ELECTRIC CHAIN HOIST & HAD LEFT HAND OF CONTROL & RIGHT HAND ON CHAIN & LIFTED LOAD & PULLED RIGHT HAND INDEX FINGER & THUMB INTO HOIST CAUSING LACERATION TO LINGER & LA CERATION TO THUMB.

EE WAS LOADING #2000 BULK BAGS. A FULL BAG STARTED TO FALL OVER AND HE TRIED TO STOP IT, CAUSING A BACK STRAIN.

AS EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON GATHERING "POT" ON CONTINUOUS MINER, HE GOT HIS FINGER IN A PINCH POINT BETWEEN A PIPE AND FRAME OF MACHINE. THIS RESULTED IN A MASHED (LACERATION) FINGER. EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 2-18-95.

EMPLOYEE REPLACED A LEAKY "O" RING ON A FRONT END LOADER HYDRAULIC VALVE. WHILE TIGHTENING THE "O" RING SEAL WITH A WRENCH, EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT ARM. A DR. INFORMED EMPLOYEE THAT TI ME MAY HEAL HIS ARM AND SURGERY WAS AN OPTION. EMPLOYEE ELECTED TO HAVE SURGERY ON 10-31-95.

HE WAS INSTALLING THE OUTSIDE BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LOWER BACK.

EE AND A FELLOW EE WERE ADJUSTING DRIVE BELTS ON THE BREAKER BELT. EE WAS USING A TORCH TO HEAT UP THE ADJUSTER BOLTS. AFTER HEATING THE ADJUSTER BOLTS, THE TORCH WAS LAID ON THE BELT STILL LI T. EE STEPPED BACK CLOSE TO THE TORCH AND BURNEDHIS LEFT FOOT. HE HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED NOT TO SET TORCH DOWN WHILE LIT.

EE WAS GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL TO MAKE A WRENCH WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON TOP OF THE GRINDER CATCHING HIS KNEE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGH WATER WHEN HI RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED AND TWISTING AND FRACTURING IRGHT ANKLE.

PULLING JACK TO AN AREA WHERE HE COULD USE IT RAISE THE BELT AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK OBTAINED LUMBAR SPRAIN.

EMPLOYEE AND A CO-WORKER WERE INSTALLING A 48" BOTTOM BELT ROLLER ON AN IDLE CONVEYOR. WHILE PERFORMING THIS TASK THE EMPLOYEE REPORTED EXPERIENCING A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

BUILDING A BRATTICE, PCIKING UP BLCOKS AND BEGAN EXPERIENCING LOWER BACK PAIN.

EE HAD HOOKED SLATE BLOCK. BLOCK SLIPPED FROM HOOK HITTING A STATIONARY BLOCK WHICH FELL ON EE'S FOOT.

RECURRENCE OF REPORT DATED 10-11-94. LAST DAY WORKED 2-16-95. SCHEDULED TO BE OFF UNTIL 3-3-95.

EMPLOYEE CLIMBED UP CONVEYOR SYSTEM TO UNPLUG CHUTE AND END OF HEAD PULLEY SHAFT CAUGHT HIS CLOTHES.

EE WAS LOADING BELT INTO A CAR AND STRAINED HIS BACK, SUFFERED A PULLED MUSCLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING A 3-WHEELER AND BACKED INTO RIB CAUSING INJURY TO HIS NECK.

HE TOLD HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK WHILE SHOVELING IN THE PLANT.

SCOOP RAN OVER LUMP OF COAL AND THE COAL SHOT OUT AND HIT HIM IN THE KNEE.

SPRAYING TRANSFER. HOSE GOT CAUGHT ON LEG OF STRUCTURE, PULLED HOSE. WHEN HOSE CAME LOOSE CAUSED EMPLOYEE TO FALL BACKWARDS STRIKING HIS BACK AGAINST VALVE.

THE INJURED WAS TRAMMING THE CONT. MINER AND THE CABLE DISLODGED A TIMBED AND IT STRUCK HIM IN THE LOWER BACK 1ST DAY OFF 2-20-95.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF VEHICLE, SLIPPEDON ICE HE DID NOT FALL DOWN. CAUGHT HIMSELF ON VEHICLE. TWISTING HIS BACK.

INJURED WAS PERFORMING MAINTENANCE WORK AT THE 16 EAST BELT DRIVE AREA. HE STEPPED DOWN FROM A WOODEN 5 X 7 BRACE FOR DRIVE & HE FELT HIS LEFT KNEE "POP OUT". BRACE WAS ABOUT 2 1/2 FEET ABOVE THE MINE FLOOR.

HAD THUMB ON TOP OF DRILL POTION THE BOLTER, MASHED THUMB INTO TOP.

EMPLOYEE PINCHED HIS LEFT KNEE WHEN HE DROPPED THE HEAD OF THE BOLTER DOWN FROM THE ROOF.

EE SAID HE WAS TRAMMING A 482 SCOOP DOWN RETURN HAULWAY. HE SAID HE HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST MINE ROOF.

PIECE ROCK FELL OFF HI WALL ONTO CANOPY OVER TRACK ENTRY. A STEEL RAIL SUPPORTING THE CANOPY BROKE AND STRUCK EE ON HEAD.

CLIMBING ONTO A D-8 DOZER & THE BKADE AREA WAS MUDDY & SLIPERY. HE SLIPPED & HIS LEG WENT BETWEEN THE BLADE ARM & THE CAT TRACKS. STARTED MISSING TIME 2/24/95.

WHILE INSPECTING RAPPER RODS IN T-2 2C PRECIPITATOR EMPLOYEE BUMPED HIS RIGHT KNEE ON CHANNEDL CONNECTING 5TO THE PORCELAIN RAPPER ROD HE WAS SEEN BY A PHYSICIAN ON 08-31-95 RIGHT KNEE INJUR S URGERY WAS SCHEDULED ON 09-27-95 LAST DAY WORKED09-2 6-95

ON2-15-95WHILE WORKING ON A CRUSHER. HE SLIPPED WHEN PICKING UP A PART ON THE CRUSHER STAND. AFTER PULLING SOMETHING IN BACK. HE SAW THE DR. AND CONTINUED TO WORK LIGHT DUTY. IT KEPT BOTHER ING AND WITH NO MORE LIGHT DUTY HE WILL BE OFF FOR A WEEK OR 2 DEPENDING ON HOW HE FEELS LAST DAY OF WORK 2-23-95.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE INHALED DUST WHILE SHOVELING, WITNESS STATES THAT IT WAS RAINING & THEY WERE SHOVELING MUD & THAT THERE WAS NO DUST PRESENT. WE HAVE INSUFFICIENT MEDICAL RECORDS TO DE TERMINE IF THIS CLAIM IS WORK RELATED. WE ARE WAITING FOR MEDICAL RECORDS FOR DETERMINATION.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER WHEN HE LET THE CONVEYOR BOOM DROP DOWN CATCHING HIS LEFT RING FINGER CAUSING A LACERATION ON 001-0.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A SUMP HOSE AND TWISTED LEG.ORTROSCOPY 6/1/95

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING PALLETS IN THE PALLET STACKER. HIS HAND WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE PALLET AND THE STACKING MACHINE.

INJURED STEPPED OFF LOADER AND TWISTED BACK.

WORKING UNDER DOZER WHEN DIRT FELL INTO HIS EYE.

JUMPED OFF A DOZER TWISTED KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DOWN ON HIS KNEES HELPING INSTALL A LENSE ON A 21 SC SHUTTLE CAR WHEN EMPLOYEE KNEE LOCKED UP ON HIM.

TWO BUSED WERE TRAVELING TO BOTTOM. ONE WAS ON TOP OF FAULT HILL AND BRAKES FAILED. ROLLED BACK ONTO OTHER CAR.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN A GRATED SECTION OF THE MAIN PLANT EMPLOYEE GALLERY. HE TRIPPED AND FELL, INJURING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER- FACE- RIBS. EMPLOYEE IS WEARING A SHOULDER IMMOBILIZER.

TWO BUSES WERE TRAVELING TO THE BOTTOM. ONE WAS GOING UP FAULT HILL WHEN BRAKES GAVE WAY. ROLLED BACK INTO OTHER CAR.

TWO BUSES WERE TRAVELING TOWARD BOTTOM. ONE BUS ON TOP OF FAULT HILL. BRAKES FAILED AND BUS ROLLED BACKWARDS, HITTING OTHER BUS.

HE WAS STEPPING UP ONTO THE SLOPE SUPPLY TRAILER TO SECURE A SUPPLY LOAD ABOUT A (14" STEP). HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE SIDE OF THE TRAILER. HE FELT A PAIN ABOVE HIS HEEL WHEN HIS FOOT CONTACTED THE GROUND. THE DR. SAID HE HAS A STRETCHED ACHILLES TENDON.

EMPLOYEE CLIMBED LADDER IN PARTS HOUSE TO GET A HOSE FROM AN UPPER SHELF. HE LOST HIS BALANCE WHILE PULLING ON THE HOSE - FELL ONTO CONCRETE FLOOR - FRACTURED RIGHT ARM.

WHILE CARRYING THE DUST BOX OUTBY TO DUMP, EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO REPLACE A PIECE OF METAL ON FINE COAL SUMP.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STEEP GRADE, LOST HIS FOOTING & FELL, LANDING ON HIS BACK & HIP - CONTUSION.

WAS BENDING 4' ROOF BOLTS.

A CREW OF EMPLOYEES WERE HOISTING A PIECE OF STEEL WHEN THE TELESCOPIC EXTENSION TAILED STRIKING INJURED EMPLOYEE.

WHILE WASHING OFF TRUCK, WALKING ON 5TH WHEEL FRAME AND FELL BETWEEN 5TH WHEEL AND WALKWAY.

USING HAND TOOLS TWISTING MOTION.

EE WAS WALKING BESIDE FEEDER AND STEPPED ON NAIL, PUNCTURING BIG TOE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS LEANING OVER A PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE AND WAS IN THE PROCESS OF PICKING UP THE TOP ROLELR WHEN HIS FOOTING SLIPPED AND HE FELL STRIKIGN HIS RIB AGAINST THE BELT STRUCTURE. T HE EMPLOYEE MISSED WORK ON 2-16-95, CAME BACK TO WORK, STARTED MISSING 2-24-95.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A RAILCAR TO UNJAM A DOOR WHEN HE STRAINED HIS STOMACH.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO STABILIZE SLAB OF SLATE, WHICH WAS SUSPENDED FROM OVERHEAD LIFT AND PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT ARM.

EMPLOYEE WITH PREVIOUS BACK PROBLEMS, ATTEMPTED TO LIFT CURSHER BLOCK WEIGHTING APPROX 100 LBS. [ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN THE LIFT] COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN, WORKED THE REMAINDER OF HI S SHIFT.

VICTIM WAS CARRING A 20' PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT, & TRIPPED ON AN AIR HOSE, FELL DOWN & THE PIECE OF BELT LANDED ON LEFT LEG, BENDING IT SIDE-WAYS & CAUSING PAIN IN THE LEFT KNEE.

WHILE BREAKING ICE FROM CREEK PUMP LINE, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON ICE, FELL AND LANDED ON TAILBONE AND RIGHT SHOULDER. HE WAS TREATED IN THE EMERGENCY RM. AT GOOD SAMARITAN HOPSITAL, X-RAYS WERE T AKEN AND EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN AND EMPLOYEE WAS GIVEN RX FOR MUSCLE THIGH MUSCLE SPRAIN AND RIGHT TRAPESIS MUSCLE.

INJURED WAS SHOVELIGN THE 15 EAST GATE BELT. HE HAD SAT AGAINST THE RIB LIEN TO EAT DINNER. LOOSE RIB ROLLED OFF AND STRUCK HIM ON BACK OF HEAD, NECK AND UPPER BACK.

HE WAS BOLTING TOP. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND HIT HIM ON RIGHT HAND. WHILE IT WAS LAYING ON HIS LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN ASPHALT PLATN PUGMILL, REMOVING ASPHHALT FROM SHAFT WITH SLEDGE HAMMER. SLEDGEHAMMER SLIPPED OFF METAL, HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE KNEE (RIGHT SIDE).

WHILE ROOF BOLTING IN THE NO. 8 ENTRY, THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK 10' LONG 4" WIDE AND 2" THICK FELL FROM THE ROOF AND STRUCK HIS LE FT HAND WHICH WAS POSITIONED ON THE BOOM ARM OF THE BOLTING MACHINE. REQUIRED STITCHES AND SURGICAL DEBRIDEMENT.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS TRYING TO RAISE BELTOFF THE GROUND TO SLIDER CHAIN AROUND BELT AND PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND NECK.

WAS TRYING TO UNPLUG THE AUGER ON THE COLLECTOR WITH A PIPE WRENCH AND THE AUGER ENGAGED AND TRAPPED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE COLLECTOR AND THE PIPE WRENCH. THIS BRUISED HIS LEFT HAND.

EE WAS SHOVELDING 8 BELT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN PINS AND STRUCK HER ON THE NECK AND BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER AND SLIPPED SLIGHTLY WHEN HE STEPPED ONTO THE GROUND. THIS REINJURED HIS KNEE CAUSING SOME SWELLING AND DISCOMFORT. MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR THIS INJURY WA S SOUGHT ON 2-24-95 AND SURGERY WAS REQUIRED ON 2-28-95. THIS IS A REINJURY OF A KNEE THAT WAS HURT 6-8 MONTHS AGO IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS AT HOME& AT WORK. TREATMENT NOT GIVEN AFTER ORIGINAL A

THE INDIVIDUAL WAS WALKING FROM THE BELTLINE TO THE TRACK ENTRY WHERE HE SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF ROCK IN THE WALKWAY AND FELL. WHEN HE FELL HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS PUSHING A 9' BOLT INTO THE HOLE WITH THE DRILL POT WHEN HE LOWERED THE DRILL POT HE SMASHED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE WASHER ON THE BOLT AND THE AUGER GUIDE CLAMP.

THE ROOF OF THIS MINE HAS A HISTORY OF LOOSE DDRAW ROCK. VISUAL INSPECTION WAS DONE BEFORE BOLTING THE AREA BEGAN, BUT THE ROOF WAS NOT TESTED BY SOUNDING. A PIECE OF ROCK BROKE LOOSE WHILE VICTIM WAS DRILLING A BOLT HOLE. THE ROCK STRUCK THE VICTIM IN THE FACE AND BODY, CUTTING HIS FACE AND LEG.

INJURED WAS REMOVING A GUARD FROM THE PRIMARY MEDIA PUMP WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN SILO TUNNEL WHERE THERE WAS A LARGE SPILL OF CEMENT ON THE FLOOR.WERE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE WORKING THERE STIRRING UP DIRT.EMPLOYEE STARTED SNEEZING AND PUT ON A PAPER DUS T MASK.STILL KEPT SNEEZING.AT 2:00PM HE SNEEZED AGAIN AND NOSE STARTED BLEEDING.EMPLOYEE FINISHED SHIFT.NOSE BLEED ALL EVENING.WENT TO PERSONAL DR. 02-15 FOR TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK IN LEFT EYE BY FORIEGN BODY WHILE ASSITING REMOVAL OF A BEARING. TEMPORARILY REMOVED SAFETY GLASSES NEAR FELLOW EMPLOYEE SING HAMMER AND CHISEL.

INJURED WAS LIFTING A CRATE WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS UPPER BACK.

EE WAS REPAIRING A CAR CABLE. HE HAD TAKEN THE POWER OFF THE WRONG CAR, AND CUT INTO A CABLE WITH POWER ON IT. BURN ON LEFT FOREARM.

ORIGINAL ACCIDENT 12-23-94. DR RECOMMENDED ON 3-6-95 THAT THE PATIENT BE OFF WORK FOR A TWO WEEK PERIOD FROM 3-6-95 UNTIL 3-20-95 TO ALLOW HIS CONDITION ENOUGH TIME TO SUBSIDE AND STABILIZE.

EE WAS REMOVING PIN FROM CUTTER HEAD FRAME WITH ROD AND HAMMER, WHEN PIN DISLODGED QUICKLY FORCING THE ROD EE WAS HOLDING UPWARD, PINNING THUMB BETWEEN ROD AND JACK PLATE OF MINER.

STEAM CLEANER OPERATOR LOST CONTROL OF THE WAND & BURNED A SPOT ON HIS RIGHT LEG [2ND DEGREE BURN] ABOUT 2" IN DIAMETER JUST ABOVE BOOT. EMPLOYEE HAS DIABETES & WOUND HAS NOT HEALED.

INDIVIDUAL WAS OPERATING 3 WHEEL PERSONNEL CARRIER WHEN HE HIT A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM AND JARRED HIS LOWER BACK. NEXT DAY HE WENT TO DR ESPE FOR SPINAL MANIPULATION.

THE INJURED HAD AN ACCIDENT ON 1-20-95. THIS IS A REOCCURANCE OF THAT INJURY. THE INJURED WEN TBACK TO DR ON 2-14-95 AND HAS BEEN OF DUE TO THAT INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASKED TO HELP MOVE A DRILL. THE CABLE WAS LOOPED ON THE DRAY AND DRAGGED UTNIL TIGHT HE WAS STANDING ON THE BACK CORNER TRYING TO LIFT OFF A LOOP WHEN HE FELT A PULL N HIS GROIN . DIAGNOSIS: DIRECT INGUUINAL HERNIA. HE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK. SCHEDULED FOR SURGERYY.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP THE BELT LINE GOING TO ANOTHER HEAD DRIVE AND STARTED THROUGH A MAN DOOR AND SLIPPED AND FELL.

CARRYING ROCK DUST HOSE OVER BELT CROSSOVER PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A TIRE WITH TWO OTHER PEOPLE. THE TIRE SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING EMPLOYEE'S FOOT AND LANDING ON IT.

ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING A BIT IN HOLDER OF CONT. MINER. A PIECE OF METAL FLEW OFF HITTING HIM IN RIGHT EYE.

WAS WALKING TRIPPED OVER A ROCK AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.

ROLLIGN AROLL OF BELTING MATERIAL IT ROLLE DBACKWARD INTO HIS FOOT, BENDING SAFETY TOE SHOE UP AND BACK AGAINST HIS FOOT.

THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE SHE WAS HURRYING TO GET ON TO A LOADER SHE HIT HER HEAD ON THE ROPS JAMMING OR SPRAINING HER NECK. SHE WENT OUT ON REGULAR R & R & SAW A DR. ON FEB 27, 1995 - FI RST DAY MISSED WAS FEB 28,1995. WE DID NOT KNOW SHE HAD SEEN A DR. UNTIL THE 27TH OF FEB.

WAS CHANGING FLAT TIRE ON COAL TRUCK (10 WHEELER) HURT HIS BACK FROM HIS SHOULDER DOWN TO HIS CHEST.

INJURED WAS CLIMBING TO THE TOP OF THE GOB TRUCKTO DO SOME WORK IN THE CLEAN COAL SILO LOAD OUT AREA. AS HE WAS CLIMBING UP THE CAB PORTION OF THE TRUCK HE FELT A PULL IN HIS LEFT LEG.

SHOVELING GRAVEL AND SPRAINED RT FOREARM.

THIS EMPLOYEE NOTIFIED MGMT BY A PAGE PHONE THAT HE WAS SICK AND NEEDED HELP. MGMT THOUGHT HE WAS SICK AND WAS SENT TO A MEDICAL FACILITY. HE WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING TRAUMA TO HIS HEAD & NECK. MGMT COULD NOT DETERMINE WHAT IF ANYTHING HAPPENED. ON 2-23-95 HE REMEMBERED THAT HE WAS STRUCK WITH A SLATE BAR WHILE PERFORMING WORK NEAR A BELT ROLLER MGMT IS REPORTING THIS EVENT AS AN

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING A WALL DOWEL. THE DOWEL CAUGHT EMPLOYEE'S GLOVE AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT THUMB.

HE WAS LOADING AN ARTICLE AND FELT A PAIN IN HISBACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES SHE WAS LEAVING BATHOUSE, GOING UP THE STEPS TO PARKING LOT. STEPS WERE WET AND SHE SLIPPED AND HIT HER KNEE ON STEP.

PERSON WAS CARRYING A 5 GAL PAIL OF ROCK SAMPLESTO THE PARTS TRUCK, SLIPPED ON ICE ON STAIRS & FELL ON SIDE & STRAINED BACK.

WHILE INSTALLING A FINAL DRIVE IN A DOZER, A COME-A-LONG FELL STRIKING THE EE'S LEFT MIDDLE FINGER CUTTING THE TIP OFF OF THE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING ON TOP OF 610 SCOOP ADN GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN TOP AND SCOOP COMING OFF 22 GATE RESULTS IN BRUISES AN SORENESS TO BACK AND LEGS.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING WIRES TO TAKE TUBE DOWN. THE TUBE FELL, HITTING HIM ON THE NOSE CAUSING A BLOODY NOSE.

OPERATING D9DOZER, COMPLAINED OF FUMES IN CAB OF DOZER.

WHILE WALKING IN THE #2 INTAKE ENTRY EMKPLOYEE SLIPPED ON AREA WHERE ROOF DRIPPES HAD FROZEN ON BOTTOM FELL AND CAUGHT HIMSELF ON RIGHT HAND INJURY RIGHT SHOULDER EMPLOYEE HAD WORKED WITH SHOU LDER UNTIL 9-13-95 WHEN HE HAD MRI DONE AND SURGERY SCHEDULED FOR ROTATOR CUFF.

WHILE WALKING UP TO THE SECONDARY CRUSHER BUILDING, TRIPPED ON WALKWAY AND FELL ON LEFT KNEE.

PERFORMING MAINTENCE ON DUST COLLECTOR SYSTEM. NO SPECIFIC TRAUMA TO INVESTIGATE. EMP. FELT PAIN IN LEFT KNEE AFTER REPEATEDLY WALKING UP AND DOWN STEPS. ORIGINALLY FIRST AID. DUE TO CONTINUED SWEELLING & PAIN, EE REQUESTED MEDICAL TREATMENT.

EE WAS ROOF BOLTING AT THE FACE WHEN HE SEUNG DRILL HEAD OVER TO RIB AND BEGAN LOWERING STAB JACK ONTO HIS OWN FOOT. SQUEEZING LEFT FOOT BETWEEN BOTTOM AND STAB JACK.

EE STATED WHILE WALKING DOWN THE ENTRY HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A PINBOARD AND HAD NECK PAIN.

INJURED WAS POSITIONING FEEDER BREAKER TO INSTALL NEW BIT WITH COM-A-LONG. THE CHAIN OF HTE COM-A-LONG RUBBED AGAINST THE FEEDER DOOR PUTTING PRESSURE ON THE SAFETY CHAIN CAUSING IT TO BREAK. THE DOOR THEN FELL, STRIKING THE INJURED'S RIGHT FOOT

HE WAS UPRIGHTING A 120 LB GREASE DRUM NEAR COLLER 1 FAN 2. AS HE HAD DONE SO, HE HIT A PROTRUDING FLANGE ON THE DUCT WORK ON HIS LEFT SIDE. HE WAS ROLLING THE DRUM UNDER THE DUCT TO GET IT BA CK TO THE DELUGE ROOM.

EE STOOPED DOWN TO PICK UP AN AIR MANIFOLD WHEN HE FELT HIS BACK LOCK UP & COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN OUT. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN BACK SPRAIN. HE WAS SET TO THE HOSPITAL, TREATED & RELEASED TO GO BACK TO WORK. ON 2/22 THIS CONDITION WORSENED & WAS TAKEN OFF THE JOB. THIS IS NOT A LOST TIME INJURY.

PN EE PITCHED A BELT SPLICING TOOL ACROSS THE BELT TO THE INJURED EE HITTING HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING 4' RESIN BOLTS, BENDABLE. HE WAS USING THE HEAD OF ROOF BOLTING MACHINE TO PUSH BOLT UP IN THE HOLE WHEN THE BOLT SLIPPED CATCHING HIS LITTLE FINGER.

INJURED WAS BOLTING ON THE MINER/BOLTER MACHINE IN THE #13 ENTRY OF THE NORTH BLEEDER SECTION. ARIB ROLLED OVER AND STUCK HIM ON BOTH SHINS & UPPER LEGS.

EMPLOYEE & CO-WORKER WEREE REPLACING A PANEL COVER (APPROX 150#) ON A JOY 10SC SHUTTLE CAR. CO-WORKER INADVERTENTLY DROPPED 1 END & CAUSED ADDITIONAL WEIGHT TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE EMPLOYEE'S END CAUSING A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. THE SHUTTLE CAR WAS IDLE-MAINTENANCE BEING PERFORMED-AT TIME OF ACCIDENT. THIS EVENT SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED AS DEGREE 3, CLASSIFICATION 09-HANDLING MATERIA

THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF LIFTING A SHUTTLE CAR FENDER FROM HIS MANTRIP WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS BACK AS HE WAS LOWERING THE FENDER TO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING BELTLINE. EMPLOYEE TWISTED HIS BACK RESULTING IN STRAINED BACK MUSCLES.

HE WAS RECLAIMING HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE AND CUT HIS LEFT RING FINGER ON A HANGER.

OPERATING MANTRIP WHEN TROLLEY POLE CAME OFF WIRE, WHILE PUSHING POLE DOWN TO REPLACE IT ON WIRE, HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER ABDOMEN. HE CONTINUED WORKING UNTIL 2-20-95 AND HAD SURGERY FOR HERNIA REPAIR ON 2-21-95.

HE WAS DRIVING BUS WHEN BRAKES FAILED WHILE BUS WAS APPROACHING DOOR AND HE CAUGHT HIS LEFT ARM BETWEEN DOOR AND SEAT OF BUS.

HE JUMPED FROM THE 2-3 FLOOR TO THE SLOPE INJURING HIS LEFT HIP OR LOWER BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING 5 GAL BUCKETS OF MINE SEALANT OUT OF SCOOP WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF RIGHT SIDE HURTING.

THE EMPLOYEE WHO RECEIVED THE RPORTABLE INJURY NOTIFIED OR OFFICE ON 2-14-95 THAT HE HA DEXPERIENCED SEVER LOWER BACK PAIN DURING NAD AFTER HIS WORK SHIFT THE PREVIOUS DAY 2-13-95. T HE EMPLOY EE REPORTED TO US THAT HE COULD NOT SAY FOR CERTAIN WHAT CAUSED TH EINJURY TO HIS LWOER BAKC BUT DID INDICATED THATIT MOST LIKELY OCCURRED HWILE HE WAS OPERATING A HYDRALIC EXCAVATOR NEAR OUR

WHEN LIFTIN GPIPE HOISTING PLUG MALFUNCTIONED AND PIPE FELL HOISTIN GPLUG MALFUNCTIONED DUE TO EXTREMELY COLD WEATHER.

HE WAS BOLTING THE ROOF. HE REACHED ACROSS THE BOLTER FOR A BUNDLE OF PLATES. WHEN HE PICKED THEM UP & PULLED THEM BACK, HE STARTED HURTING.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A GRINDER DOOR WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER MUSCLE.

HE WAS LIFTING A BAG OF ROCKDUST OFF THE TOP OF A PINNER AND TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE HURT HIS BACK LIFTING A 5 GAL OIL CAN.

OPERATING A BACKHOE , ROCK FLEW INTO LEFT EYE WHILE WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

EE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A 100 BAG AND HURT HIS BACK WHEN HE LIFTED THE BAG.

AGGRAVATED PREIOUS INJURY WHICH OCCURRED IN 1993 DUE TO CONTINUED USE OF LEG.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE HAD JUST FINISHED CUTTING MANGANESE BAR FROM THE GRIZZLY. AS HE STOOD UP, HE REMOVED HIS CUTTING GOGGLES FROM HIS EYES. EITHER A FOREIGN PARTICLE BLEW IN HIS EYE OR HE WAS FLASHED BY THE CLOSENESS OF A WELDER.

THE SECTION MANTRIP RAN INTO THE BACK OF THE TWO MAN PERSONNEL CARRIER. THE IMPACT JERKED HIS NECK AND BACK.