FELT PAIN IN BACK UNABLE TO GET UP ON THE FOLLOWING DAY. WAS SHOVELING DIRT UNDER THE CONVEYOR.
Mining Incidents in November 1995
All MSHA-reportable mining accidents in November 1995, sorted by severity. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities
- 5
- Total incidents
- 1,755
- Period
- November 1995
Top operators this month
- 01 Jim Walter Resources Inc 48 incidents
- 02 Consolidation Coal Company 26 incidents
- 03 Drummond Company, Inc. 22 incidents
- 04 Old Ben Coal Company 21 incidents
- 05 Peabody Coal Company 20 incidents
Most recent 500 incidents
Showing the 500 most recent of 1,755 incidents this month. All fatalities are included and listed first.
EE WAS REMOVING COAL FROM THE #17 CLEAN COAL CONVEYOR BELT, WHEN THE SUPPORTING STRUCTURE COLLAPSED.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING ROCK AT THE SURFACE ROCK BIN BUT IT WAS NOT YET READY TO LOAD HE PULLED PAST THE BIN UNTIL IT WAS READY TO BE DUMPED HE THEN BACKED BACK UNDER THE BIN THE BIN FELL CRU SHING THE CAB OF THE ROCK TRUCK CAUSING DEATH TOTHE EMPLOYEE NOTE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BEFORWARDED
MASSIVE SAND STONE ROOF FALL ON THE PILLAR LINE
THE EE WAS ASSIGNED TO OPERATE A FORKLIFT TO LOAD TOTE BINS WITH PRODUCE LIME. THE FORKLIFT WAS FOUND PARKED WITH THE IGNITION TURNED OFF. THE EE WAS LAST SEEN APPROX. 445-500 PM AND IT WAS AS SUMED HE WENT ON BREAK. A SEARCH FOR THE EE STARTED APPROX. 530-545 PM AND WHEN HE COULD NOT BE LOCATED ON SITE, AT HOME, OR AT SURROUNDING BUSINESS THE POLICE AND COAF GUARD WERE CALLED.
INDIVIDUAL WAS FILLIGN A HYDRAULIC OIL TANK ON A DOZER WHEN THE SPOUT CAME OUT OF THE TANK AND HE GRABBED FOR THE 5 GAL CAN HE WAS USING AND SLIPPED OR JUMPED TO THE DOZER TRACK AND STRAINED H IMSELF. HE SAID THAT HE FELT A SLIGHT PAIN BUT NOT CONCERNED ABOUT IT UNTIL LATER.
MECHANIC WAS REMOVING BELLY PAN FRAM LOADER. MECHANIC WAS LOOSENING LAST BOLT, THE BOLT BROKE AND BELLY PAN FELL, CRUSHING HIS 4TH DIGIT LEFT HAND.
EE WAS WALKING FROM PIT STEPPED ACROSS A MATRIX LINE & ONTO ANOTHER LINE. HER FOOT SLIPPED & SHEFELL STRIKING HER RIGHT LEG ON THE PIPE. TESTS DONE TO DATE REVEALED NO PROBLEM UNTIL MRI WAS DO NE ON 2/8/96. TEST RESULTS REVEALED ON 3/11/96 POSSIBLE TEAR OF POSTERIOR CRUCIATER LIGAMENT - RT. KNEE. DIAGNO SIS - PCL DAMAGE.
REMOVING ROCK FROM FROM BELTLINE CUT FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A HEAVY SCRAP TIRE INTO A TRUCK. HE HAS A HERNIA IN THE GROIN AREA.
MOVING CRUSHER HAMMERS FROM PALLET TO TRACTOR BUCKET AND PULLED MUSCLE-HERNIA.
CARRYING 13 HP PUMP WITH FELLOW WORKER. FELT PAIN IN LEFT GROIN, WORKED UNTIL 11-21-95. DIAGNOSED WITH LEFT GROIN HERNIA ON 11-22-95. SURGERY 12-5-95.
WHILE HOLDING WEAR PLATE WHICH WAS BEING TIGHTENED, EE SLIPPED ON FEEDER FLOOR, SEVERING TIP OF RIGHT INDEX FINGER UNDER PLATE.4'X6'X3/4" WEAR PLATE WAS SUSPENDED BY CRANE AT THE TIME OF THE A CCIDENT.
MOVING EQUIPMENT BACK TO YARD FOR WINTER SMASHED FINGER WHEN HOOKING EQUIPMENT UP.
EE WAS HANDLING MATERIAL [ROOF BOLTS & "T"-BOARDS] WHEN HE FELT A KNOT IN GROIN AREA.
WHILE FREEING A BRIDGE HANG UP IN THE PAN FEEDER AT THE PIT CRUSHER, EE WAS USING A DOUBLE JACK TO BREAK A BOULDER. A ROCK FELL, LANDING ON HIS FOOT RIGHT AND BREAKING THE BONES IN THE METATAR SUS.
WHILE REPAIRING THE JAW, EMPLOYEE'S FINGER GOT SMASHED BETWEEN THE CHAIN BOOMER AND METAL JAW.
ON 11-30-95 AT 800 AM EE REPORTED TO THE SAFETY OFFICE COMPALINING OF A NECK INJURY HE WAS NOT SURE OF THE DATE THE ACCIDENT OCCURED BUT THOUGHT IT WAS AROUND THE FIRST PART OF NOV. EE STATED HE HAD STRUCK A ROOF BOLT WITH HIS HEAD WHILE WALKING THE SLOPE BELT ENTRY CAUSING A NECK STRAIN.
IN PREPARATION TO REMOVE AUGER HEAD FROM MACHINE, EE REMOVED CUTTING BITS AND PREPARED TO MOVE FROM UNDER HIGHWALL. HE SLIPPED AND GRABBED HOLED OF THE HEAD GUIDE TO PREVENT FALLING. OPERATOR TIGHTENED BOOM CABLE AT THIS TIME, PULLING UP ON HEAD AND PINCHING HIS LITTLE FINGER/ LEFT HAND BETWEEN HEAD AND GUIDE. FRACTURE AND LACERATIONS TO FINGER RESULTED.
EE WAS ASSIGNED TO CHANGE PANELS ONLINE 5 SIMPLICITY SCREEN ON 2 MM DECK FROM 2.0 TO 1.4 MM WITH PARTNER. HIS PARTNER WAS PASSING THESCREEN PANELS IN TO EE AND HE WAS SETTING THEM IN PLACE. HE LATER REPORTED A SORE BACK. HE WAS SEEN BY A DR. AND TAKEN OFF WORK.
INJURED WAS REPAIRING FLOOR GRATING. REMOVED COME ALONGS AND SHAINS OFF OF THE BEAMS OVER TOP LOWHEADS AND BEATING RUST OFF BEAMS, WHEN RUST GOTIN EYES. ANOTHER EMP WAS WELDING,CAUSING FLASH B URNS TO EYE.
EE STATED THAT WHILE REMOVING BELT FRAMING FROM LONGWALL BELT, HE EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN. COMPLETED INVESTIGATION 12-13-95.
EE WAS LIFTING HEAVY EQUIPMENT PARTS FROM A SHELF TO THE FLOOR IN THE MILLINGTON WAREHOUSE. EE CLAIMS HE TWISTED & HURT HIS BACK.
THE EE WAS STEPPING UP ONTO THE SWING STEP OF A DRILL TO SERVICE IT AND ONE SIDE OF THE STEP BROKE AND THE EE FELL APPROX. 18 INCHES TO THE GROUND. THE EE SPRAINED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
INJURED WAS ADJUSTING A WORK LIGHT WHEN HE PICKED UP LIGHT, FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS ARM.
EE WALKED INTO OR WAS HIT BY SAFETY DOOR ON ELEVATOR AS HE WAS WALKING IN.
EE DID NOT REPORT ANY SPECIFIC INCIDENT. HIS CLAIM HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED BY WORKMENS COMP & DENIED ONCE. IT WAS RECIEVED A SECOND TILME & ACCEPTED AS A CUMULATIVE TRAUMA. IT WAS ACCEPTED ON 11 /30/95.
SCRAPER OPERATOR PULLED AWAY FROM DOZER WHILE BEING PUSHED. SCRAPER OPERATOR STOPPED CAUSING DOZER TO BUMP SCRAPER.
EE WAS WALKING DOWN BELT LINE WHEN HE STEPPED ON A 4" WATER LINE CAUSING HIM TO FALLAND TWISTED L KNEE.
DURING DISMANTALING OF CRUSHER EE GOT HIS TIP OFHIS LITTLE FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN THE JACK & JACKHOUSING.
WALKING UP OUTDOOR STAIRS TO THE WEIGHOUSE. SLIPPED AND FELL ON STAIRS THAT WERE ICY.
FIGHTING WITH COWORKER--NOTIFIED OF INJURIES AS OF 12/5.
THE INJURED WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS WHEN A PIECE OF TOP COAL FELL OFF THE ROOF & HIT INJURED'SLEFT FOOT CAUSING AN ABRASION & POSSIBLE FRACTURE.
EE WAS DRILLING WITH A JACKLEG WHEN A SLAB CAME OFF THE RIB STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT LOWER LEG. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A FRACTURE LEFT ANKLE CAUSING EE TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.
EMPLOYEE WAS MINER HELPER WHEN HE PULED ON MINER CABLE IN MUD AND PULLED GROIN ON HIS LEFT SIDE.
EE RAN OVER A TIMBER IN THE ROADWAY AND CAUSED PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND HE CONTINUED WORKING THE REMAINDER OF THE SHIFT.
EE WAS LIFTING AN 8" CHANNEL INTO POSITION DURING A REPAIR WHEN HE FELT A PINCH IN HIS BAKC. THE PAIN SEEMED TO RADIATE DOWN HIS LEFT BUTTOCKS AND LEG.
EE WAS MOVING A RETURN TRAINING IDLER WHICH WAS STUCK. WHEN HE PUSHED ON IT, HE HAD TO USE A LOT OF FORCE. IT MOVED ALL AT ONCE JAMMING HIS FINGER AGAINST THE ANGLE THAT HOLDS THE IDLER.
EE WAS REMOVING A SWING TRANSMISSION FROM CRANE WHEN THE HEADACHE BALL DESCENDED AT A SLOW SPEED& HIT THE EE ON THE HEAD & SHOULDERS.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO MAKE A BELT SPLICE WHEN HE GOT HIS FINGER STRUCK BY A HAMMER RESULTING IN SUTURES.
FIGHTING WITH CO WORKER.
JACK FAILED AND VEHICLE CAME DOWN ON VICTIM.
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN REPLACING HEAD DRUM ON MINER & CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN DRUM BARREL & MAC CHAIN ON MINER. SMALL DIGIT FINGER ON LEFT HAND WAS CUT ON BOTH SIDE INSIDE CUT BEING DEEPE R.
WAS WORKING ON A SCAFFORD WHEN IT CALAPSED EE FELL 3 FT.
A CONNECTION ON AN ACID LINE CONTAINING SULFURIC ACID CAME APPART AND EE WAS SPRAYED ON THE FACE AND CHEST AND RT ARM. HE RECIEVED 1 & 2 DEGREE BURNS TO THE FACE CHEST AND RT ARM.
EE MOVED MINER CABLE EXPIERENCED BACK PAIN.
EE WAS UNDER THE BACKHOE INSTALLING A HYDRAULIC NOSE DURING INSTALLATION EE WAS LOOKING UP AND DIRT CAME DOWN IN HIS EYES.
EE WAS PICKING UP ROCKS & THROWING THEM OFF CONVEYOR BELT. A ROCK FLEW OFF CONVEYOR & HIT EE ABOVE EAR ON RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD. EE WAS WEARING HARD HAT AT TIME.
EE AND COWORKER WERE INSTALLING HYBOARD #3 ENTRY. EE WAS HELPING COWORKER HOLD UP BOARD TO GET LINED UP. TOP WAS LITTLE LOWE IN THIS AREA. EE WAS HOLDING BOARD WHILE COWORKER RAISED HEAD OF BO LTER, THEN LAID HIS HAND OVER ON ARM OF BOLTER PLACING HIS THUMB AT PINCH POINT WITH HEAD ARM & CANOPY JACK CASE.
THE SHUTTLE CAR HAD NOT BEEN PROPERLY CRIBBED TO PREVENT FROM FALLING. A FRACTURE TO THE LEFT ANKLE AND A FRACTURE TO HIS PELVIS.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT MOUTH OF 3 DEV. HE WAS STANDING IN WHEEL BARROW CLEANING GREASE OFF BEARING AT BELT DRIVE, WHEN A TRACK VEHICLE CAME BY AND BUMPED WHEEL BARROW CAUSING EMP TO FALL AND HIT THE MINE FLOOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING INTO SCOOP, SLIPPED IN OIL IN CAB AND STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE CANOPY.
EE WAS PULLING SHIELDS WHEN OFU STOPPED WORKING. HE WAS GOING TO PULL SHIELD OFF ROTOR. HE PULLED SHIELD TOO CLOSE AND WAS CAUGHT BETWE SHIELD TRUCK TRUNK LINES AND PAN LINE.
EE WAS CHANGING A LIGHTASSEMBLY ON A SHOP, WHILE CARRYING THE REPLACEMENT LIGHT/ASSEMBLY TO THE LIFT TRUCK, THE EE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING INBY SET OF EQUIPMETN AIRLOCK DOORS. AS EMPLOYEE CLOSED DOOR IT CAUGHT ON BOTTOM AND WHE HE PULLED AGAIN ON DOOR IT CAM ELOOSE FROM FRAME AND FELL STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON UP PER LEG.
WORKING IN NEWBAGGER AREA EMPLOYEE TWISTED ANKLE ON RT FOOT.
STRUCK BY ROCK FROM CONVEYOR BELT OR VIBRATING SCREEN CAUSING LACERATION TO THE HEAD.
EE WAS DRIVING WEDGES WITH SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN HEMISSED, CHIPPING HAMMER HEAD. SPLINTER CUT LEG.
DISCONNECTING HYDRAULIC OILLINES. USED OIL DRY EVERYWHERE BUT ON OPEN GRATE - WOULDN'T WORK. STEPPEDON OPEN GRATE, SLIPPED AND FELL ON SHOULDER AND TORE MUSCLES IN ROTATOR CUFF.
RIGHT SIDE TIE ROD PIN BROKE WHILE ON UNDERGROUND HAUL ROAD. TRUCK HIT WALL, CAUSING DRIVER TO BUMP FOREHEAD AND STRAIN RIGHT SHOULDER. SEAT BELT WAS IN USE.
ATTEMPTING TO ADJUST BELT INTO POSITION VIA CHAIN AND LOADER. CHAIN SLIPPED AND FORCEFULLY STRUCK EMPLOYEE ACROSS FRONT OF HEAD FORCING EMPLOYEE TO THE GROUND.
EE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF SCALE WHILE BOLTING. INJURED HIS RT FOOT.
SNOWING-INJURED SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING ON FLATBED AND FELL TO GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN AREA WHERE LONGWALL CHAIN WAS BEING RECOVERED. A SCOOP WAS REPOSITIONING PANLINE FOR EASY ACCESS. AS SCOOP WAS BEING TRAMMED FORWARD IT CONTACTED A TRACK RAIL & MOVED I T. INJURED WAS STANDING IN ENTRY WATCHING WHEN THE SCOOP PINCHED HIS LEFT FOOT BETWEEN THE RAIL THAT WAS BEING MOVED & ANOTHER RAIL. RESULT WAS A FRACTURED TIBIA IN LEFT LEG.
ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING THE EE ON THE TOP OF THE RIGHT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS SPIKING THE TRACK WITH THE SPIKE DRIVER AND THE AIR HOSE CAME OFF OF THE SPIKE DRIVER BLOWING DUST INTO HIS EYE.
WAS ON ONE END OF THE BIG 3" X 12", 6X6, 8X8'S, WHICH ARE VERY HEAVY. COULD FEEL THE PAIN AT THEEND OF DAY, BUT COULD STILL MANAGE TO WORK THROUGH IT. SINCE THEN PAIN HAS PROGRESSIVELY GOTTEN WORSE. PAIN NOW IS OVERWHWLMING. CONSTANT GRINDING IN LOWER BACK WITH SHOOTING PAIN DOWN RIGHT LEG TO THE BACK OF KNEE.
HIT A HOLE IN HAUL ROAD, STRAIN LOWER BACK MUSCLES.
EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY A PRY BAR WHICH HE PUT INTO A CONVEYOR TAIL PULLEY.
EE WAS SHOVELING THE BELT WHEN HIS SHOVEL SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND AS HE TURNED HE TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS INSTALLING 3/8" CROSBY CLAMPS AROUND BRIADED CABLE. HE HAD BEEN DOING THIS FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK WHEN HE STRAIGHTEND TO STAND UP. INJURED BEGAN LOS ING TIME ON 12-01-05.
EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR, WHEN HE RAN OVER SOMETHING IN THE ROADWAY & BOUNCED HIM OUT OF HIS SEAT. HE CAME DOWN & SATE ON THE FOOT PEDAL INJURING HIS BACK.
EMP WAS LIFTING A CAN OF COAL AND FELT A SHARP PAIN THROUGH HIS LEFT ARM AND CHEST.
EE WAS PULLING EXCESS MINER CABLE SLACK BACK FROM THE MINER HE STEPPED ON THE CABLE LOOSING HIS FOOTING AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE. WHEN HE TRIED TO BRACE HIMSELF AN THE RIB HE HURT HIS LEFT WR IST AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT FOOT AGAINST A LUMP OF COAL.
EE REPORTED HE WAS WORKING ON A TWO BY TWELVE WORK PLATFORM AND STEPPED OFF OF THE PLATFORM AND FELL, INJURING HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
EE WAS LOADING PEAT MOSS ON A CONVEYOR BELT, HE HAD FINISHED THETASK AND WAS LEAVING THE AREA. HE STOOPED TO WALK UNDERNEATH SILO AND HIS HARD HAT STRUCK THE BOX HOUSING OF THE LOAD OUT SCALE, AS HE WAS RAISING HIS HEAD ON THE OTHER SIDE.
THE EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE HE WAS WAITING WITH ANOTHER WORK FELLOW TO MOVE A WATER PUMP OF 2", HE CAME DOWN TO TAKE THE EQUIPMENT FELT A SEVERE WAIST PAIN, THAT HARDLY CAN STRAIGHTEN. HE LEFT THE WORK A HALF HOUR LATER. HE USES A BAND GENERALLY. HE REPORTED TO THE "FONDO SEGURO DEL ESTADO".
INJURED WAS MOVING BARGES ON THE RIVER LOADOUT POINT. A ROPE BROKE STRIKING HIM.
EE WAS WALKING DOWN STAIRS TO CRUSEHR FLOOR WHEN FEET SLIPPED AND EMPLOYEE FELL AGAINST STAIRS INJURING HIS BACK AND NECK.
LOST CONTROL OF PRY BAR RESULTING HITTING LEFT HAND ON BOLTS DOING DAMAGE TO LEFT HAND RING FINGER.
EE WAS RIDING TO BOTTOM AT END OF SHIFT IN SECTION BUS WHEN ANOTHER BUS TRAVELING THE SAME WAY LOST HIS BRAKES & RAMMED INTO THEM FROM BEHIND.
EE SLIPPED ON ICE ON TOP OF RAILROAD HOPPER AND ALLEGEDLY HURT HIS BACK HIP.
THE INJURED WAS SHOVELING SPILLAGE ALONG THE 3RD WEST SECTION CONVEYOR BELT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK 4'ONG X 4' WIDE X 4" THICK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK.
EMP WAS WALKING ALONG THE PLANT ROAD FROM THE MILL STAIRS TO THE LUNCHROOM. WAS LOOKING AT CONVEYOR #16 WHEN HE STEPPED ON PIECE OF GRAVEL WITH RT FT. TWISTED RT ANKLE. WAS WALKING ON LEVEL, U NPAVED ROAD WHEN ACCIDENT OCCURRED.
WAS CHIPPING SLAG FROM WELD, WORKER WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES. SMALL PIECE OF SLAG WENT UNDER SAFETY GLASSES AND ENTERED EYE.
EE WAS STANDING ON CONCRETE PIER, OPENING #57 BIN. HE SLIPPED ON SOME ICE AND CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH LEFT ARM AND PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT SHOULDER. DIDN'T INFORM ME OF HIS INJURY UNTIL 11-29-95.
EE WAS WASHING MATERIAL OFF RAMP ON LOWER DOCK. AS HE STEPPED TO ONE SIDE, HIS LEFT LEG WENT INTO A HOLE WHERE ONE OF THE RAMP BOARDS HAD COME OUT.
EE WAS RIDING IN MANBUS. ANOTHER BUS RAN INTO HIS BUS FORM BEHIND. BRAKES FAILED.
EE WAS WALKING ON TRACK COVERED LOAD OUT AREA. EE STEPPED OVER RAIL COVERED WITH SNOW, AND STEPPED BETWEEN SNOW COVERED RAILROAD TIES INTO A HOLE AND TWISTED RT KNEE.
INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO DRIL A HOLE THROUGH A SULFUR BALL WHEN SOMETHING WENT INTO HIS EYE CAUSING A SCRATCH, REDNESS AND DISCOMFORT.
EE WAS CLIMBING UP THE STEPS TO THE 1 BELT, 2 BELT TRANSFER BOX. HE WAS CARRYING HIS BREAKFAST IN HIS LEFT HAND AND TOOLS WEIGHING 50 & LBS. IN HIS RIGHT HAND. HE PROCEEDED TO STEP UP ON THE F IRST STEP WITHOUT THE USE OF HAND RAILS. WHEN HEDID HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EE STATES HE WAS BENDING OVER, CLEANING BELT, STOOD UPRIGHT HIT HEAD AGAINST HEADER BLOCK OVER TIMBER CAUSED NECK PAIN.
EMPLOYEE SAYS THAT HE BUMPED INTO THE SAMPLE PORT.
EE WAS OPERATING HG END OF SHEARER WHEN A ROCK SLUNG OFF OF DRUM, STRIKING EE IN THE MOUTH. SUTURES WERE REQUIRED.
USING CUTTING TORCH ON RADIAL STACKER WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF METAL HIT SIDE OF LEFT EYE.
INJURED AND COWORKER HAD CARRIED ONE BUNDLE OF PVC PIPE TO WORKSITE AND CAME BACK TO GET ANOTHER BUNDLE. INJURED SQUATTED DOWN TO PICK UP ANOTHER BUNDLE AND FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS LEFT KNEE . INJURED WAS WEARING KNEE BRACE.
SLIPPED ON ICE.
MECHANIC HAD DISCONNECTED AND LOWERED TRANSMISSION TO THE GROUND. THE MECHANIC ARBITRARILY FABRICATED A LIFTING EYE TO BE USED TO LAY THE TRANSMISSION ON ITS SIDE. MECHANIC WAS PREPARING TO LA Y THE TRANSMISSION ON ITS SIDE WHEN IT FELL OVER, PULLING AND TEARING THE MECHANIC S FABRICATED HOOK. THE TRANSMISSION THEN RESTED ON THE MECHANIC UPPER RIGHT LEG AND GROIN AREA.
A PIECE OF SLATE FELL, HITTING MAN ON LEFT HIP. THE ROCK THEN HIT LEFT HAND WHICH WAS ON THE BOLTER CONTROLS.
EE WAS TAKING A BELT BLOCK OFF A BELT WHEN THE CHAIN BROKE, CRUSHING HIS LEFT HAND AND FINGERS BETWEEN THE BLOCKS AND BELT ROLLER. HIS LEFT HAND MIDDLE, RING, AND LITTLE FINGERS WERE CRUSHED.
HANGING 20' OF 4" PIPE, COME-A-LONG JAMMED AND HE TEMPORARILY HUNG THE PIPE WITH GALVANIZED WIRE. THE WIRE FAILED CAUSING THE PIPE TO FALL AND STRIKE HIS FOOT.
EE STATED WHILE HANDLING MATERIAL STEPPED ON MATERIALS ON MINE FLOOR TWISTING ANKLE.
EMP WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DRILLING A HOLE FOR ROOF BOLT INSTALLATION WHEN THE DRILL STEEL BROKE.THE DRILL STEEL THEN STRUCK THE EMP IN THE NOSE CAUSING A LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED SUTURES TO C LOSE THE WOUND.
INDIVIDUAL WAS REPLACING A DRIVE BELT ON A VIBRATING FEEDER ADN WAS PRYING THE MOTOR MOUNT BACK WITH A BAR TO TIGHTEN THE BELT. HE HAD A BOLT IN HIS HAND AND WAS TRYING TO FEEL THE HOLE TO PL ACE THE BOLT. THE PRY BAR SLIPPED OUT AND LET MOTOR AND MOUNT DOWN AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE USING PRY BAR SLIPPED AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EE WAS CLIMBING STAIRWAY WHE HIS LEFT BOOT'S METATARSAL CAUGHT ON STARIWAY TREAD. CAUSED HIM TO BECOME UNBALANCED & HE TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.
EE WAS OPERATING A 35 TON HAUL UNIT, PULLING FINES FROM MANUFACTURED SAND PLANT. WHILE DISMOUNTING TRUCK TO TURN OFF A CONVEYOR, EE MISSED A STEP CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND. HE LANDED O N HIS RT SIDE AND ARM.
WA600 KOMATSU LOADER IS USED AT PRIMARY CRUSHER SITE TO PULL THE SPILLAGE PAN WHICH IS UNDER BELT DIRECTLY UNDER JAW CRUSHER. PAN IN 16'X4' METAL PAN WHICH IS PULLED AND SHOVELED OFF ONCE A D AY & SOMETIMES MORE DEPENDING ON WEATHER COND. THE LOADER WAS UNHOOKING CHAIN FROM BUCKET AND EE WAS PUTTING NUTS ON CHECK PLATES APPROX 20' FROM LOADER WITH HIS BACK TO THE LOADER, WHEN LOAD
EMPLOYEE @ #2 ENTRY NEAR SPAD #3297, RIDING SCOOP BUCKET TO SECTION. A BOLT LYING ON ROADWAY FLEW OUT UNDER SCOOP BUCKET STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN THE FACE & NOSE. HE RECEIVED A BROKEN NOSE & REQ UIRED 5 STITCHES TO NOSE AND FACE BETWEEN EYES.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING MINER CABLE TO HANG IT WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
PLACING A PIECE OF IRON ON SAW, IT SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN IRON AND SAW.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING UP TO GET ON EXCAAVATOR, LOST BALANCE, FELL BACK TO CATCH HIS BALANCE FELL ON CLAY BALL OF DIRT TURNED ANKLE OVER.
EE WAS STANDING BY A 12CM MINER, WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK DISLODGED FROM THE RIB, STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER.
BLACK PLASTIC PIPE WAS BEING PULLED UP THE SIDE OF A DIVERSION DITCH WITH A PICKUP. INJURED WAS GUIDING THE PIPE. HE STEPPED IN AN EROSION TRENCH AND THE PIPE CAUGHT HIS LEG AND BROKE IT.
EE WAS TRAMMING ROOF BOLTER WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE FELL BETWEEN BOLTS AND STRUCK HIS RT ARM.
WHILE USING A PRY BAR TO TIGHTEN DYNA TRAC CHAIN. THE CHAIN MOVED AND BAR CAME OUT HITTING VICTIM ON RT FOREARM RESULTING IN A FRACTURE OF FOREARM.
EE STRAINED HIMSELF WHILE REMOVING ROCK FROM UNDER THE LOW STRUCTURE. NOTE: EE WORKED UNTIL 12-11-95 FTHEN HE STARTED MISSING WORK. HERNIA SCHEDULED FOR REPAIR ON 12-13-95.
EE BENT OVER PULLING MINER CABLE OUT OF ROADWAY AND INJURED R. LOWER BACK.
EE STATED THAT HE KNEELD DOWN TO PICK UP SOME SMALL PIECE OF PLYWOOD. AS HE STOOD UPRIGHT, HE FELT A "CATCH" IN HIS LEFT KNEE, PAIN BEGAN IMMEDIATELY IN HIS KNEE. WENT TO DR. AND WAS DIAGNOSED AS A TORN LIGAMENT.
REMOVING S LIP FORMS FROM TOP OF NEW CLK. STORAGE SILOS WHILE LIFTING FORM HE PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.
RUNNING A SCOOP WHEN LEFT 2ND THREE FINGERS WERE MASHED WHEN THE SCOOP PIVITED AND FINGERS WERE MASHED.
WHILE SHOVELING BELT, FEL TPAIN IN LOWER BACK. EXTENSIVE DEGENERATIVE ARTHRITIS IN BACK AREA. DIAGNOSED IN 8-93.
EE CLAIMS HE SLIPPED ON UNEVEN FLOOR AND FELL. AREA WAS WET. FELT PAINTO RIGHT FOOT.
AS EE WAS LIFTING TOOL BOX INTO HIS LOCKER, FELTPAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EE WAS CHANGING OUT BITS ON THE SHEAR, WHEN A PIECE OF FACE ROCK ROLLED OVER AND HIT HIM.
EE WAS ROOF BOLTING IN A KNELT DOWN POSITION WHITH THE HEEL OF HIS RT FOOT POSITIONED UPWARD. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF AND LANDED ON HIS RT HEEL CRUSHING HIS RT FOOT.
CLIMBING UP TO DOZER AND SLIPPED. STRAINED LEFT KNEE WHEN CAUGHT SELF. DID NOT BEGIN TO LOSE TIME UNTIL 12-5-95.
EE STATES HE WAS REMOVING PIPING, GUARD RAILS, MOTORS AND MIXING EQUIPMENT FROM REACTION TANKS FOR REMOVAL OF TANKS AND GENERAL CLEANUP OF AREA. EE WAS ASSISTING FOREMAN IN CUTTING LOOSE A PIE CE OF ANGLE IRON 2"X 2" X 7'. AS HE LOWERED ANGLE IRON TO GROUND, HIS GLOVE GOT CAUGHT ON ANGLE AND PULLED HIM OVER THE SIDE OF REACTION TANK (APPROX 12 FT), FALLING TO THE GROUND AND LANDING
DURING THE PRIMARY CRUSHER MAINFRAME LINER REPLACEMENT, TEMPORARY STAGING HAD BEEN PLACED AT EACH QUADRANT WITH LADDER ACCESS. EMP, WHEN LADDERING DOWN, REACHED BOTTOM AND STEPPED ON A 2"X4"X8 " STEEL BLOCK THAT HE WAS TO INSTALL, TWISTING OR BUCKLING HIS RIGHT KNEE. PHYSICAL THERAPY WAS STARTED ON 12-12-95.
INJURED STEPPED OFF #111 LOCOMOTIVE AND SPRAINED HIS LEFT ANKLE.
HE WAS LOADING A PIECE OF 4" X 4" X 9' ANGLE ON THE LAKE BOAT. HE SLIPPED & THE ANGLE HIT HIS LEFT FOREARM.
PULLING TIRES ONTO LOADER BUCKET AND STRAINED BACK MUSCLES.
EE WAS MAKING A SPLICE IN THE #1 BELT ON TOP OF THE DRIVE UNIT, WHEN THE CONVEYOR UNEXPECTEDLY BEGAN MOVING. EE FELL INTO THE DRIVE UNIT. C.
EE WAS GOING DOWN STAIRS AT SILOS, WHEN HE TRIPPED ON AN AIRLINE. HE GRABBED THE HAND RAIL TO K3EP FROMF ALLING AND HURT HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
THE INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS STEPPING OFF THE LOADER, AS HE WAS STEPPING OFF TO THE GROUND, HE HAD ONE FOOT ON THE GROUND AND ONE FOOT ON THE LAST STEP. AS HE STARTED TO TURN AWAY FROM THE L OADER HE FELT PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER. ON 12-4-95 HE BEGAN THERAPY ON HIS BACK, BUT HAS NOT MISSED ANY TIME.
WHILE COMING OUT OF THE SUPPLY TRIALER, THE EMPLOYEE TURNED OR TWISTED HIS ANKLE ON THE STEPS.
EMPLOYEE REPORTED HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK WHEN HE ASSISTED ANOTHER EMPLOYEE LIFT A RAIL DRILL ONTO BACK ON HIGHRAIL TRUCK AFTER COMPLETING TRACK REPAIRS.
EE WAS USING A HAMMER WHILE STANDING ON RAW COAL TRANSFER BELT DRAIN PIPE. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS CROSSING A BELT ON A CATWALK. AS HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN, HE SLIPPED AND SPRUNG HIS LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING BOXES OF RESIN ONTO ROOF BOLT MACHINE AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
7N TIPPLE CARRYING BELT ON HIS SHOULDER APPROXIMATELY 200' WHEN HE GOT TO THE AREA WHERE HE WAS TAKING IT, HE COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN UP. DR. SAID THAT THIS WAS A AGGREVATION OF A PRE-EXISTING CO NDITION.
EMPLOYEE WAS DETACHING SLURRY HOSE FROM TRUCK AT CAM LOCK VALVE TO PREPARE TO PUMP EMULSION. WHILE LOOSENING CAMLOCK A STREAM OF SLURRY SHOT OUT OF HOSE AND HIT HIM DIRECTLY IN HIS OPEN EYE. E MPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING MANDATORY SAFETY GLASSES
THE EE WAS RE-HANGING THE PLANT #2 CAGE MILL DUST COLLECTOR. THIS REQUIRED LIFTING & PULLING FROM FLOOR LEVEL.
EE WAS HELPING PULL SUPER STACO HIGH PRESSURE HOSES OUT OF A CROSSCUT WITH A CHAIN WHEN THE CHAIN BROKE AND THE CHAIN HOSES STRUCK HIM IN THE FOREHEAD AND RIGHT LEG.
CAUSTIC ON WALKING SURFACE, RAMP ANGLED AT 20 DEGREES, EE LOST FOOTING ON RAMP, FELL ONTO RIGHT ANKLE CAUSING DISLOCATION AND FRACTURE OF RIGHT ANKLE.
EE PUT BREAKER IN FOR THE OUTSIDE DRIVE, WHEN A PHASE LEAD BURNT OFF OF LINE SIDE OF BREAKER, DUE TO A LOOSE CONNECTION, CAUSING FLASH BURNS TO HIS RIGHT EAR AND NECK.
WHILE FILLING 100 LB. COARSE CONCENTRATE BAGS AND PLACEING THEM ON PALLETS, EE LOST HIS GRIP ON ONE OF THE BAGS. WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF REGAINING CONTROL OF THE BAG THE EE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN RIGHT GROIN AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF A SCOOP CAR. HE STUMBLED AND FELL AGAINST THE RIBLINE. STRUCK LEFT ELBOW ON RIB.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND JERKED BACK.
WHILE TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED, A BIG CHUNK OF FROZEN DIRT WAS DROPPED INTO HIS BED CAUSING A JOLT. JOLT CAUSED EE TO JERK FORWARD FORCING HIS WEIGHT ONTO HIS LEFT ARM WHICH WAS UP AGAINST SOME LEVERS. THE ARM DIDN'T BOTHER HIM MUCK UNTIL A COUPLE DAYS LATER. DR REPORTED ARM STRAIN AND WAS REFERRED TO PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR 10 OR LSEE DAYS.
LOADER HAD PULLED A LOG BESIDE ANOTHER LOG AND EE WAS CHAINING THEM TOGETHER. HE HAD CLEANED OUT SPACE TO RUN CHAIN UNDER THE LOG AND WAS PUSHING THE CHAIN UNDER THE LOG WHEN OTHER LOG ROLLED PINNING ARM.
EE WAS HELPING TO CLEAN UP A SPILL FROM A PLUGGED CHUTE ON THE BELTWAGON AT THE BUCKETWHEEL SYSTEM. THE CATWALK IN THE AREA WAS FOLDED BACK TO ALLOW DIRT TO BE SHOVELED THRU AND IT IS FELT THA T EE FELL THRU THE OPENING. APPROX. 10 1/2 FT TOTHE GROUND. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO A TYLER HOSPITAL AND RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL ON 11-25-95 PM.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING UP AN OLD CONVEYOR BELT AT THE CRUSHER. THE KNIFE HE WAS USING SLIPPED AND CUT HIS LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING OIL IN HYDRAULIC MOTOR ON DRAGLINE. HE WAS STEPPING DOWN TO GET OFF MACHINE AND FEL A PULL IN HIS KNEE.
INJURED WAS HELPING TO CHANGE OUT A CONVEYOR CHAIN IN A CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN HE STRAINED THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK.
STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE - SPRAIN.
EE HOOKED A 500' PIECE OF 48" BELT TO A LOCOMOTIVE SO IT COULD BE PULLED OUT OF THE WORK AREA. AS HE WAS WATCHING THE BELT BEING PULLED IT FLIPPED OVER & WAS PULLED OVER HIS RIGHT FOOT & LEG. HIS FOOT WAS TWISTED RESULTING IN A FRACTURE & SEVERE DISLOCATION.
EE AND THREE OTHERSWERE LOWERING A HOOK SHOE USING COME-A-LONGS. WHEN THE HOOK SHOE CLEANT THE BRACKETS, THE HOOK SHOE FLIPPED AND SPUN SIDEWAYS KNOCKE EE AGAINST THE TUB, BREAKING THE TIBIA O F LEFT LEG AND SEPARATED RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING SHEET METAL ON TO A BASKET AND THE SHEET METAL SLIPPED AND FELLON EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING WITH TWO ASSISTANCE OF ANOTHER EMPLOYEES. THE TOW BAR OF THE LIGHT TOWER. AS THEY ATTEMPTED TO PUT THE LIGHT BAR ON TEH TOW HOOK OF THE TRUCK. THEY MISSED AND THE TOW BA R FELL ON THE EMPLOYEE'S LEFT FOOT.
EE WAS USING TRUCK CATWALK TO GET TO AIR TANK TO DRAIN IT. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL. HE LANDED IN RUTS LEFT BY TRUCK, TURNING HIS ANKLE.
THE EMPLOYEE REPORTS THAT HE WAS PLACING A BLOCK OVERHEAD ON A STOPPING WALL WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
HE WAS TRYING TO PULL START A GAS ENGINE AND WHEN HE PULLED THE CORD, HE FELT IMMEDIATE PAIN IN HIS BACK.
WORKER WAS OPERATING ROOF BOLTER WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING HIM ON HEAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP THE LADDER ON A 777 CAT DUMP TRUCK TO MAKE REPAIRS WHEN HE HAD A SUDDEN SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. DOCTOR ADVISED HE SHOULD NOT WORK FOR ABOUT 2 WEEKS.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING SCREENS USING AN AIR GUN TO TIGHTEN BOLTS, A BOLT SPUN AND SLICED HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.
EE WHILE OPERATING LOADER FELT SOME DISCOMFORT JUST ABOVE AND TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE TESTICULAR AREA. EE WAS CONCERNED THAT IT MAY BE A HERNIA
THEHH INJURED WAS MOVING THE ROOF BOLT MACHINE. WHEN HE TRIPPED AND FELL AND THE MACHINE HIT HIM (HE CONT. HE PULLED ON TRAM LEVERS) & BRUISED HIS SHOULDER AND RIGHT KNEE.
INJURED EMP WAS WALKING LOCATION IN BLENDING BINAT STEPS AT DRIBBLE SCREW. EMP STEPPED ON DOG WHICH DARTED QUICKLY UNDER HIS FEET. EMP FELL FORWARD DOWN 4 STEPS. EMP SUSTAINED A SPIRAL FRACTUR E TO RT FIBULA AND CHIP ON ANKLE. INJURY WAS IMMOBILIZED WITH A CAST.
A ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE'S UPPER LIP.
STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN FROM ACCIDENT OF 9/20/95.
UNLOADING CRIBS OFF TRAILER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL LANDING ON HIS KNEE.
INJURED WAS LIFTING A CHANNEL SAMPLE APPROX 50 LBS., WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RT GROIN AREA. HE CONTINUED TO WORK AND SAW A DR SEVERAL DAYS LATER. THE DR CONCLUDED HE HAD A HERNIA OF T HE RT GROIN AREA.
WHILE INSTALLING A REAR DIFFERENTIAL HOUSING IN A CAT 992C THE BOTTOM DRIVELINE HAD TO BE MOVED INTO PLACE IN ORDER TO SPLICE INTO THE DIFFERENTIAL, PULLED RIGHT LOWER BACK AND HIP LIFTING.
LIFTING FUEL TANK TO FUEL B.P.M. ON H.W.M. 118 EE WAS RIDING ON FRONT OF TANIC INSTEAD OF LETTING THE TANK BE LIFTED TO HIM. FORKS ON KOMATSU LOADER TILTED OVER FUEL TANK SLID OFF OF FORKS THR OWING EE INTO COAL PILE. EE WAS ASKED SEVERAL TIMES WAS HE OK REPLY WAS YES.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN THE FACE WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST A SHIELD. EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 11-29-95.
REPAIRING CONTINUOUS MIENR METAL SHAVING FLEW FORM CHISEL STRIKING EE IN THE NECK.
EE WAS THROWING ROCK IN THE HARPER BUCKET & CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE ROCK & THE BUCKET.
WHILE WORKING ON A NEW LOADOUT FACILITY, AN IRONWORKER WAS MOVING FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER. HE SLIPPED AND STRADDLED A BEAM, GRABBING HOLD OF A WELDING LEAD. WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE WELDING LEAD WENT SLACK AND THE MAN SWUNG ONE LEG OVER THE BEAM AND JUMPED 8' DOWN, BUMPING HIS ELBOW AND KNEE ON THE WAY DOWN.
OPERATOR EXPERIENCED DIFFICULTY IN STANDING UP AFTER CLIMBING OUT FROM UNDER 980-B LOADER. OPERATOR HAD JUST FINISHED PLACING BLOCKING UNDER LOADER IN PREPARATION FOR WINTER STORAGE. BACK STRA IN DID NOT SEEM SERIOUS AT THE TIME, BUT THE NEXT DAY OPERATOR FELT HE SHOULD HAVE A DR. LOOK AT IT.
WALKING BACKWARD CARRYING A MONORAIL BEAM WITH CO-WORKER, INJURED TRIPPED ON ANOTHER BEAM THAT WAS LAYING ON THE MINE FLOOR. HE FELL. THE BEAM HE WAS CARRYING STRUCK HIS LEFT UPPER LEG CAUSING A CONTUSION.
DOZER OPERATOR STATED HE BACKED OVER A RIDGE IN THE SOURCE CAUSING HIS NECK TO POP. AFTER INVESTIGATION WE FOUND THAT HE HAD HAD A PREVIOUS NECKINJURY APPROX 3 YEARS AGO.
REPAIRMAN WAS WORKING ON DRILL STEM. HAD HIS HAND ON STEM AND DRILLMAN PUSHED STEM OUT, PINCHING HIS HAND IN FRONT DRILL BEARING.
EE STATED THAT HE WAS PUTTING THE LEADS INTO A MANTRIP MOTOR TRAM THAT WAS POSITIONED ON THE WORK BENCH LOCATED IN THE MAINTENANCE SHOP. AS HE WAS TURNING THE TRAM MOTOR, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS L OWER BACK.
SERVICING BELT HEAD A BLOCK OF COAL HIT MAGNET DEFLECTING OFF AND STRICKING THE EYE.
EMPLOYEE WITH LONG HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED ONSET OF INCREASED PAIN FOLLOWING USE OF ONSITE EXERCISE MACHINE. THIS RESULTED IN A LOST TIME BEGINNING 3-4-96.
EE STATED THAT HE WAS ASSISTING A COWORKER PLACE A CABLE ON TOP OF A BATTERY CHARGER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. NOTE: EE HAS A LONG HISTORY OF BACK RELATED PROBLEMS AND HAS BEEN DI AGNOSED WITH NARROWING, ARTHRITIS AND SPURS OF THE SPINE.
EE ADN EE WERE WORKING ON T-3506 INSTALLING A REBUILT LEVEL CONTROL VALVE. THEY HAD HTE VALVE SET IN PLACE WITH THEAID OF A PICKER. THE VALVE IS A 6" FISHER V-BALL GREEN VALVE. NUTS AND A L L-THREAD BOLTS WERE USED TO HOLD VALVE IN PLACE. EE WAS WORKING ONA WORK PLATFORM. VLAVE WAS AT CHEST LEVEL. WHILE EE WAS TIGHTENING THE BOLTS, EE FELT SHARP PAIN IN GROIN AREA.
LIFTING PIPE WITH FRONT END LOADER, SITTING WITH RIGHT FOOT PROPPED ON DASH WAITING TO LOWER BUCKET. WHEN EASED BUCKET DOWN, CAUGHT END OF STEEL TOE SHOE BETWEEN BUCKET AND LOADER, BENT TOES D OWN. BRUISED REAL BAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING AN INLOADER AND FELL FROM LOADER ONTO HIS BACK.
WAS WALKING THROUGH SHIELDS ADN TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE. CONTINUED TO WORK HIS REGULAR JOB UNTIL 1-19-96 WHEN HE HAD ARTHROSOPIC SURGERY.
ON 11-21-95 THE INJURIED WAS MOVING A PULL BOX AND FELT A PAIN. BECAME AWARE OF CASE ON 11-30-95.
EE WAS CLIMBING OVER A MUCK PILE WHEN HE TWISTEDHIS LEFT KNEE. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A SPRAIN TO LEFT KNEE CAUSING EE TO LOST TIME FROM WORK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKIN GOFF PRECONTROL VALVE. WHEN BOLTS WERE LOOSENED, FLUID HIT EMPLOYEE IN EYES.
WHILE OEPRATING LOADER AROUND CRUSHING PLANT, DUST BLE WIN EMPLOYEE'S EYES. THIS RESULTED IN EYE IRRITATION FROM LIME DUST.
WAS CLEANING SPRAYS ON SHEARER WHEN PIECE OF TOP ROCK FELL & STRUCK HIM. PIECE WAS 20" X 52" X 3" TO 6" THICK.
REMOVING EXCESS DIRT WITH SHOVEL. WHILE INDIVIDUAL WAS USING SHOVEL HE HAD A STRAIN IN BACK.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT A ROOF BOLT HE HAD INSTALLED WOULD NOT TORQUE PROPERLY AND HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE IT FROM HOLE TO REPLACE IT WHEN HE GOT HIS FINGER TIPS CAUGHT BETWEEN ROOF BOARD (O N BOLT) AND THE ROOF. MASHED TIPS OF FINGERS AND WAS SENT TO HOSPITAL ER TO BE CHECKED.
HE WAS INSTALLING A BUMPER RAIL ON MINER & DROPPED IT ON HIS RIGHT HAND. DID NOT GO TO DOCTOR UNTIL 11-21-95 BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WAS OK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING TOP FOR MINER. HE WAS AT BREAKER POST BETWEEN RIB AND POST AND RIB ROLLED OUT ON TOP OF HIM.
EMP WAS DRIVING THE FORK LIFT TO MOVE A MOTOR DURING REPAIR. MOTOR STARTED TO SLIP OFF THE FORKLIFT. INJURED WENT TO STEADY IT. MOTOR FELL TO THE GROUND SMASHING INJUREDS FINGER.
EE ALLEGES WHILE PUTTING DOOR OF DUST COLLECTOR BACK IN PLACE HE INJURED HIS BACK. REPORTED INJURY ON DAY OF OCCURANCE, BUT SAID IT WAS NOT BOTHERING HIM. ON 11/17/95 EE REPORTED HIS BACK WAS HURTING. SAID HE DID NOTHING ELSE TO INJURE HIMSELF. SENT TO PHYSICIAN ON 11/27/95 WHO TOOK HIM OFF WORK.
HE WAS CLOSING HIS TAILGATE AFTER HE HAD DUMPED HIS LOAD OF GRAVEL.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND TRUCK AT QUICKLIME LOADOUT WHEN HE STUMBLED AND SLID INTO THE SIDE OF #4 CLINKER PIT. THIS WAS A NEW EMPLOYEE HIRED 11-13-95.
ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAMMER WHEN IT SLIPPED AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON LEFT HAND AND WRIST.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN ROCK IN THE CRUSHER CONE WITH A ROCK BAR WHEN HE INJURED HIS BACK.
SCRAPED LADDER AGAINST WALL BREAKING LADDER LOOSE FROM SUPPORT BRACKET. OPERATOR CLIMBED DOWN THE LADDER WITH NO APPARENT PROBLEM AND WITHOUT NOTICING THE DAMAGE. CLIMBING BACK UP THE LADDER T HE STRESS CAUSED THE DAMAGED LADDER TO SHIFT, STRIKING HIS ARM AGAINST THE NOW PROTRUDING SUPPORT BRACKET.
EE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A BOX AND HEARD A POP AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EE WAS STANDING BETWEEN RIB AND MINER WHEN MINER STARTED TO MOVE AND HIT HIM.
WHILE REPAIRING A PNEUMATIC DRILL, A LOOSE HOSE HIT HIM IN THE NOSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE ONTO A TRAILER. WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
THE INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO SPLICE A CABLE ON A CAR WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS LEFT LEG JUST ABOVE THE KNEE, RECEIVING 3 STITCHES.
EMP WAS SHOVELING THE DIRT OFF ONE OF THE SCREENDECKS IN THE PLANT. HIS SHOVEL JAMMED INTO SOLIDSTRUCTURE (ROCK OR SOMETHING) THAT CAUSED THE SHOVEL TO STOP GOING FORWARD AND EMP WAS APPLYING FORCE WHICH CAUSED HIM TO JAM HIS BACK.
WHILE RUNNING A PLANT, TRIAL PUMPS KEPT KICKING OFF. EE HAD TO WALK BACK AND FORTH ON THE CONCRETE TO RESET THE PUMPS. THIS IRRITATED THE BOTTOM OF HIS FEET CAUSING CELLULITIS IN HIS LEFT FOOT WHICH IS IRRITATED BY HIS DIABETES.
TRIPPED OVER BLOCK AND FELL AND STRUCK LEFT ARM ON THE BLOCK.
EE WAS USING A PRY BAR WHILE ATTEMPTING TO RE-POSITION THE DRILLING, UNIT TRANSPORTERS SLED, HE TRIED TO CATCH & STRAINED BACK.
EE ALLEDGES HE INJURED HIS BACK WHEN THE D-8 DOZER HE WAS OPERATING BACKED OVER A 4 1/2 FT DROP OFF ON THE COAL PILE. UPON INVESTIGATING THIS EVENT NO DROP OFF OF ANY APPRECAIBLE DEPTH WAS FOU ND.
APPARENTLY EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING DOWN FROM A 992C AT THE END OF HIS SHIFT WHEN HE SLIPPED FROM THE LAST STEP AND FELL BACKWARD TO THE GROUND. HE FELL ON TO HIS LEFT ARM AND BACK.
HE WAS LOADING STEEL INTO BUCKET OF FRONT END LOADER. HE TURNED AWAY FROM BUCKET AND WAS STRUCK IN THE BACK WITH A PIECE OF STEEL THAT ROLLED OUT OF BUCKET.
EE STATED HE WAS PULLING A PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT OUT OF WALKWAY WITH A PAIR OF CHANNEL LOCK PLIERS WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND DOWN HIS RIGHT LEG. FIRST LOST WORK DAY DID NOT OC CUR UNTIL 11-30-95.
EE WAS CARRING A JACKLEG DRILL UP THE INCLINE INTO HIS STOPE WHEN HIS LEFT KNEE POPPED.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN HAUL TRUCK BEING LOADED BY SHOVEL. SHOVEL HIT TRUCK BED, JOLTING TRUCK, STRAINING EMPLOYEES BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING MESCHER TRACTOR WITH HAND LAYING ON TOP OF POST ON TIMBER KNOCKER. OEPRATOR RAN OVER A ROCK IN ROADWAY CAUSING SCOOP TO BOUNCE CATCHIN GHAND & FINGER BETWEEN POST & MIN E ROOF, CUTTING 2ND FINGER ON RIGHT HAND. COAL SEAM HT. 24".
PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT OF TOP STRIKING INJURED ON NECK, RIGHT SHOULDER AND ARM. EMPLOYEE DID NOT BEGIN MISSING UNTIL 12-1-95.
CUTTING EDGE FELL AND CUT AND MASHED FINGERS. IT WAS HUNG UP, HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO UNHANG IT WHEN IT HAPPENED.
MAN BENT OVER TO CRAWL UNDER A HANDRAIL AND COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN BACK UP DUE TO PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND LEG. HE HAD NO CONTACT WITH ANYTHING. AFTER AWHILE THHE PAIN WAS REDUCED.
HE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO PRY UP A LIGHT BRACKET WHILE STANDING ON A SCAFFOLD AT #29 DRAGLINE. THE PRY BAR SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO DROP DOWN, PUTTING ALL HIS WEIGHT ON HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
A SPOOL OF 1 1/8" CABLE WAS BEING UNCOILED. THE CABLE SPOOL WAS RESTING IN A CRADLE, WITH INJURED EMPLOYEE STANDING BEHIND THE SPOOL. THE SPOOL BEGAN TO FREE-SPOOL DUE TO THE WEIGHT OF THE CAB LE FALLING INTO THE WATER. INJURED EMPLOYEE TRIED TO STOP THE FREE-SPOOL WITH A SHORT PIECE OF PIPE WHICH GRABBED THE SPOOL, INJURING EMPLOYEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING BATTERIES ON THE SCOOP WHEN A PIECE OF DRAWROCK FELL, HITTING HIM ON THE BACK.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE CROSSING AN OVERCAST. STRUCK RIGHT SIDE OF BODY.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS LEANIGN OUT FROM DECK OF ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE FELT AND HEARD A POPE IN LEFT RIB AREA.
SLAMMED LEFT THUMB IN CAR DOOR.
EE WAS TAKING CORE FROM CORE TROUGH AND PLACING IN BOX-CORE TRAY IS ELEVAATED ON ONE END & GROUND LEVEL ON THE OTHER END, WAS NOT BRACED WELL ENOUGH IN THE CENTER TO WITHSTAND THE WEIGHT TWIST ED & FELL OFF SUPPORTS ONTO EMPLOYEE FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF OF MANTRIP TWISTED KNEE AS HE STEPPED OFF.
CLOSING DUMP TRUCK BOX & SECURING WITH LOCKING LEVER. WHILE SECURING THE HANDLE/LEVER IN PLACE, STRAINED BACK.
INJURED WAS USING LIFTING JACK TO RAISE TAILPIECE WHEN JACK BROKE AND INJURED LOST BALANCE HURTING LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN A ROTOR ON A CRUSHER BY USING A PRYBAR. AS HE PRIED ON THE BAR IT SLIPPED. THE SUDDEN SLIP CAUSED HIM TO SHIFT HIS WEIGHT HIS WEIGHT ON HIS LEG ULTIMATELY BRE AKING HIS ANKLE. WHEN HIS ANKLE BROKE HE LOST HIS BALANCE, FELL BACK ONTO THE CONVEYOR HE WAS STANDING ON AND THEN TO THE GROUND.
WAS CLEANING OUT GRIZZLY CHUTE, HE WAS POKING OUT THE CHUTE WITH A BAR. ONE OF HIS FEET SLIPPED OFF THE GRIZZLY BAR, TWISTING HIS BACK.
EE WAS GOING THRU A MANDOOR TO CHECK MAIN A SEALS. WHEN HE GOT THRU IT HE STARTED CLOSING THE DOOR WITH HIS LEFT HAND. THE AMOUNT OF AIR PRESSURE PUSHED DOOR SHUT AND BENT HIS WRIST BACK.
THE EE WAS OPERATING A FRONT END LOADER ILN THE PREP ROOM WHEN HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS EYE. [INJURED WAS WEARING FULL-FACEAD RESPIRATOR AT THE TIME.]
EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING SHEARER AND ROCK CAME AROSS PANLINE, HITTING HIS FINGER. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE AND CRUSH INJURY TO HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
EE WAS ON 4 LEFT SECTION, #5 HDG, ON BLK OUTBY FACE. EE WAS HELPING TO LIFT A BOOM JACK TO INSTALL ON BOLTER. EE ALLEGED WHILE LIFTING JACK, HE PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.
MECHANIC WAS INSTALLING BELLY PAN ON DOZER. HOISTED PAN INTO POSITION AND PUT A NUT ON THE BOLT.WHILE PLACING A SECOND NUT AND BOLT IN THE PAN, THE HOISTING CABLE SLIPPED. THE WEIGHT OF THE PA N STRIPPED THE NUT AND THE PAN FELL PINNING THE VICTIM'S HAND BETWEEN THE PAN AND THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 11-17-95.
EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER FROM FEEDER HOUSE & HE MISSED A STEP & FELL 10' TO GROUND. INJURED HIS RIBS.
EE WAS STANDING ON THE WHEEL OF THE H-112 LOADER HIGHH PRESSURE STEAM CLEANING HTE UNIT FOR REPAIRS. HE LOST HISI BALANCE AND STUCK HIS LEFT LEG OUT AS HE STARTING TO SLIP. HIS LEG BRACED HI M ON THE LOWER CAB AREA OF THE LOADER AND HE FELT A POP SENSATION IN HIS LEFT KNEE.
REVISED REPORT. STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN 11-17-95.
EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING A LOAD OF OVERBURDEN TO THE ADJACENT LANDFILL WHEN HE LOST CONTROL AT A CURVE IN THE HAUL ROAD, CAUSING THE TRUCK TO ROLL.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 200 TON ROCK TRUCK WHEN HE WAS JARRED CAUSING STRAIN TO HIS NECK.
HE WAS CHECKING AIR FILTER ON 966 HILIFT WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED FROM TOP OF MACHINE. HE FELL TO THE GROUND & LANDED ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER & ARM. HE ALSO BUMPED HIS HEAD ON HIS WAY DOWN. INJURED RIGHT ELBOW.
EE WAS WALKING THROUGH THE AIR DOORS, ON THE #3 PORTAL BOTTOM, HIS GLASSES STEAMED UP & HE STOPPED TO CLEAN THEM. HE STEPPED ON A ROCK & TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE WHEN HE FELL.
EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING MINER CABLE IN 1S1W #3 ENTRY WHEN A RIB ROLLED OFF AND STRUCK HIM ON BOTH LEGS AND BOTH ANKLES. FRACTURE TO LEFT LEG.
AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO HOOK A CHAIN ON TO THE HEAD BALL OF CRANE IT SWUNG TOWARD HIM AND AS HE ATTEMPTED TO GET OUT OF THE WAY, HE FELL OFF THE BELT AND ON TO THE CAT WALK.
POKING CLINKERS. THE POLE KICKED BACK AND KNOCKED MY HAT OFF AND HIT ME IN THE HEAD.
INJURED WAS GETTING OFF OF MANTRIP AND TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE.
EMP WAS DESCENDING FROM TRUCK RT SIDE LADDER. GRABBED THE HANDLE OF A BATTERY CHARGER DOLLY WITH HIS RT HAND. THIS CAUSED HIM TO LOOSE BALANCE. FELL APPROX 8', LANDING ON FEET. FELL TO GROUND ON BUTTOCKS AND THEN LANDED ON HIS BACK.
EE WAS SERVICING HIRE UNIT FROZEN DIRT CHUNKS WERE CHIPPED CHOPPED OUT AND THE EE STEPPED ON A FROZEN CHUNK INJURING HIS LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT A STONE CHUTE WITH A BAR AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE CHUTE AND THE BAR SMASHED HIS LEFT FOREFINGER.
EE REPORTED HE WAS GOING TO CLIMB UP THE BACKHOE LEFT REAR STEPS. AS HE STEPPED ON THE FIRST STEP IT BROKE, JAMMING HIS BACK.
EE CLIMBING BACK INTO LOADER & CLOSED DOOR ON FINGER.
CLEANING ROLLER OF A BELT CONVEYOR, RT HAND CAUGHT IN ROLLER.
EE HAD FINISHED HIS SHIFT AND WAS LEANING THE MINE IN HIS P.O.V. ANOTHER VEHICLE COMING ONTO THE MINE, OPERATED BY A CONTRACTOR EE, DROVE INTO THE FRONT LEFT QUARTER OF EE S. P.O.V. THE INCOMI NG VEHCILE WAS A P.O.V. OWNED BY THE PASSENGER INSIDE. THIS OCCURRED APPROX. 150' BELOW THE HEAP LEACA BLDG.
EE ALLEDGED THAT HIS NECK AND BACK WAS STRAINED, WHEN HE RAN OVER LARGE ROCK IN ROADWAY WITH SCOOP, AND IT THREW HIM AGAINST CANOPY.
EE WAS WORKING AT THE TABLE OF THE STONE SPLITTER, WHEN TWO ROCKS FLEW UP AND PINCHED HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WALKING ON SECTION AND STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST THE MINE ROOF. LOST WORK DAYS BEGIN 11-17-95.
WAS HANGING CABLE IN POWER ENTRY #5. WHILE HANGING CABLLE PIECE OF WIRE HIT EMPLOYEE IN RIGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ROOF BOLTING ON THE WEST MAINS SECTION WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE FELL STRIKING HIS BACK. THE SECTION IS WET. EMPLOYEE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 11-27-95 WHICH WAS HIS FIRST LOST WOR KDAY.
CHANGING A TIRE- WRIST CAUGHT BETWEEN FRAME OF THE SCOOP AND TIRE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SWINGING THE HEAD OF THE ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE CAUGHT HIMSELF BETWEEN THE BOLTER HEAD AND THE COAL RIB. HE DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 11-27-95.
TURNED AROUND WITH SKID LOADER AT PART'S TRAILER. LOST CONTROL OF LOADER, WENT TO JUMP OFF SKID LOADER AND PULLED ON LEVERS CAUSING LOADER TO GO IN BACKWAD MOTION. WENT DOWN OVER EMBANKMENT INTO PARKING LOT HITTING PARKED CAR AND THROWING EMPLOYEE TO GROUND. WHEN THROWN TO GROUND EMPLOYEE LANDED ON RIGHT LEG. BREAKING IT.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF BOLTING MACHIEN WHEN HE LEFT LEG BENT OUTWARD AT THE KNEE CAUSING LIGAMENT DAMAGE.
EE WAS TRAMMING HIS BRIDGE CARRIER THROUGH SOME LOW COAL AND HE SCOOTED DOWN IN THE DECK OF HIS BRIDGE CARRIER TRYING TO GET HIS HEAD DOWN AND HIS KNEE RAISED UP AND GOT CAUGHT IN THE TOP.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON DRILL REBUILD, RUBBED GRINDING IN EYE FROM SLEVE, THOUGHT IT WAS DIRT. UNABLE TO WASH IRRITATION OUT. NEXT DAY WIFE NOTICED METAL FALKE IN EYE.
STANDING ON GOOSE NECK OF MACK TRACTOR, OTHER EE SLIPPED AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN.
EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF DRAWROCK WHILE SETTING A TIMBER.
STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN ON 11-16-95 FOR ACCIDENT OF 10-21-94. WHILE CHANGING PUMP, STRAINED BACK.
EE WAS ROCKDUSTING WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE FELL BETWEEN THE BOLTS AND RIB STRIKING EE ON BACK OF NECK AND RIGHT LOWER LEG. EE DID NOT START MISSING TIME UNTIL 12-15-95.
EE WAS CLEANING UP CLINKER SPILL ON NORTH SIDE OF RECLAIM BELT WITH A SHOVEL & HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK & DOWN HIS LEGS. EE WAS PROBABLY FATIGUED FROM FAMILY ILLNESS & NOT ENOUGH REST. H E COULD HAVE TWISTED HIS BACK WHILE SHOVELING. THE DR. REPORT INDICATES THAT HE HAS SPANDYLOLESIS.
EMP WAS GETTING OUT OF COMPANY PICKUP ON JOB SITE. THE JOB SITE WAS ICEY AND WHEN EMP STEPPED OUT OF THE PICKUP HIS FEET WENT OUT FROM UNDERNEATH HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND LAND ON HIS LEFT L EG & ANKLE RESULTING IN MULTIPLE FRACTURE- ANKLE
THE OTHER CUTTERS BUILT A FIRE TO EAT DINNER BY. AFTER DINNER WORKER FILLED HIS SAW UP WITH GASOLINE AND OIL. WORKER THEN WALKED BY THE FIRE TO GET A CHAIN FILE FROM THE OTHER WORKERS WHEN HI S CLOTHING IGNITED. HE WAS CARRING THE SAW. HE AQUIRED 2ND AND 3RD DEGREE BURNS TO HSI RIGHT HAND AND BOTH LEGS.
HE WAS WELDING A LUG AND THE WELD BROKE LOOSE AND THE LUG HIT HIM IN THE MOUTH.
EE WEDGED HIS FOOT BETWEEN THE TRACK AND FRAME IN ORDER TO REACH A BOLT HE WAS TIGHTENING. WHEN HE STOOD UP HIS FOOT BEGAN TO HURT.
ON 6E TRAVELWAY WHILE WALKING BETWEEN TO DIESEL SCOOPS, STEPPED ONTO METAL DUCKBILL, LOST FOOTING, FELL CAUSING DAMAGE TO RT KNEE.
EE WAS LIVING IN CAMP TRAILER ON KINROSS MINE PROPERTY. HE WAS RIDING HOME AFTER BECOMING INTOXICATED. THE VEHICLE HE WAS RIDING IN WAS INVOLVEDIN AN ACCIDENT.
HE WAS EXAMINING THE #2 BELT LINE WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE BOTTOM ROLLER AND THE BELT.
EE WAS PASSENGER IN OUTBOUND P.O.V. DRIVEN BY SHIFT SUPERVISOR. AS THEY WERE LEAVING THE MINE PROPERTY ANOTHER P.O.V. OPERATED BY A CONTRACTOR EE DROVE INTO THE DRIVER SIDE FRONT QUARTER. BOTH OCCUPANTS OF THE OUTBOUND VEHICLE WERE ON THEIRWAY HOME WHILE THE OCCPANTS OF THE INCOMING VEHICLE WERE COMING ONTO THE MINE PROPERTY, BACK TO THE CRUSHER.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UPRIGHT WHEN HIS LEFT FOOT STRUCK THE END OF A STEEL WIRE ROPE CAUSING PUNCTURE WOUND TO LEFT ANKLE.
INJURED STATED WHILE UNLOADING A PIECE OF METAL HE PULLED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE MOUNTING DOZER, FELL INTO PITCH BRACE OF DOZER BLADE, CRACKING TWO RIBS.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING A LEAD IN A BATTERY RECEPTACLE ON THE SHIELD HAULER WHEN CONDUCTORS BECAME GROUNDED. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED ELECTRICAL SHOCK CAUSING 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO HIS RIGHT AND LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE INJURED HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING CRIB BLOCKS FROM SCOOP BUCKET.
BENT OVER TO PICKUP HX ROD OFF OF GROUND AND SET ON TRAILER, WHILE PICKING IT UP AND SETTIN GDOWN EE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK.
EE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP WHEN SCOOP MOVE AND SCOOP BUCKET SLID OFF LEVEE, JARRING EE.
STANDING IN OIL BUCKET WHILE PLASTERING AND OVERCASTING, AND FLIPPED AND FELL OFF BUCKET AND TWISTED ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING IN CROSSCUT WHEN A FEEDER CABLE THAT WAS BEING PULLED BY A RAM CAR HIT HIM IN THE LEG.
EE WAS WORKING ON MINER CATHEAD. AS HE WAS PERFORMING WORK, HE STEPPED ON ANOTHER CABLE AND TWISTEDHIS KNEE.
HE WAS OPERATING SINGLE BOOM BOLTER IN THE NORTH ENTRIES DOING RE-SUPPORT WORK. HE HAD HIS HAND ON THE ATRS WITH HIS ELBOW POINTING TOWARD LEFT RIB. HE MOVED THE BOLTER TOWARD TIB CATCHIGN HIS ARM BETWEEN RIB AND ATRS. THIS INCIDENT CAUSED A SIMPLE FRACTURE IN ONE BONE IN THE MIDDLE OF FOREARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING SHUTTLE CAR WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS & STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT LEG.
EE WAS WALKING ON HIS WAY TO TURN IN HIS TRUCK, WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT KNEE.
THE BELTMAN WAS CALING TOP ALONG TRACK ENTRY.HE WAS CLEANING UP LOOSE ROCK THAT HE HAD ALREADY SCALED,WHEN ANOTHER LOOSE PIECE APP 4"X10"X1/2" THICK FELL AND HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT THUMB SMASHIN G IT ON THE TRACK.
WAS OPERATING THE BOLT MACHINE. TWISTED AND BUMPED HIS LEG ON SIDE OF BOLT MACHINE.
EE WAS DUMPING TRUCKS AT NIGHT TIME. AFTER DUMPING A TRUCK THE EE WAS WALKING BACK TO HER SHANTYWHEN SHE LOST HER VISION IN SOME SHADOWS & FELL OVER SOME MATERIAL, STRIKING THE GROUND.
EE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING THE CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE TO THROW IT OUT OF THE ROADWAY WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
WHEN COMPLETING WORK ON A CONVEYOR EE JUMPED OFF, WHEN THE FRAYED END OF A WIRE HANDRAIL CABLE PUNCTURED HIS RIGHT FOREARM. EE NOTICED SWELLING LATER THAT NIGHT AND VISITED THE EMERGENCY ROOM FOR EXAMINATION.
INJURED CLIAMS TO HAVE BEEN WALKING DOWN STEPS AND FOOT SLIPPED IN SNOW. INJURY HELD ON TO BOTH TO KEEP FROM FALLING WHICH RESULTE DIN MOST OF HIS BODY WEIGHT BEING SUPPORTED BY SHOULDER AND NECK INJURED FELT PAIN IN NECK AND SHOULDER AREAAT THE TIME.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING UPRIGHT PLACING CRIB BLOCKOVERHEAD ON CRIB BEING CONSTRUCTED, WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE CRIB BLOCK AND TWISTED HIS LEFT WRIST WHILE CATCHING AND CONTROLLING CRIB BLOCK TO KEEP IT FROM FALLING ON HIMSELF.
WHILE SWEEPING INJURED STEPPED ON RAIL COVERED WITH DUST AND INJURED FOOT.
EMP WAS GETTING OFF SCRAPER AT LUNCH. STEP HAD BEEN KNOCKED LOOSE BETWEEN START OF SHIFT AND LUNCH. EMP MISSED STEP AND GELL TO THE GROUND HITTING HIS HEAD.
EE WAS HOOKING UP A WELDING TRAILER TO THE FORK LIFT. THE FORK LIFT OPERATOR BACKED UP TO THE TRAILER & BUMPED INTO INJURED.
DRIVER GOT THE TRUCK OUT OF GEAR WHILE GOING UP AN INCLINE. THE TRUCK ROLLED BACKWARD AND THE DRIVER JUMPED OUT. THE TRUCKS LEFT FRONT TIRE ROLLED OVER THE DRIVERS LOWER LEG, CAUSING A COMPOUN D FRACTURE OF THE FIBULA AND TIBIA.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON LINE SIDE OF STARTER. WIRES WERE ENERGIZED. IN AN ATTEMPT TO SWITCH WIRES, EMPLOYEE DISCONNECTED ONE WIRE AND TOUCHED THE ENERGIZED WIRE TO A PORTION OF BOX CAUSING AN INSTANT EXPLOSION.
HYD HOSE BUSTED ON BOLT MACHINE IN ATTEMPTING TO GET OUT OF WAY STRUCK FACE ON TRS REQUIRING STITCHES.
EE WAS SHOVELING SCALE CAUSING TRAUMATIC BURSITIS TO HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. EE DID NOT LOSE TIME ORON ANY WORK RESTRICTIONS UNTIL 5/29/96 WHEN HE BEGAN RECEIVING PHYSICAL THERAPY & WAS PUT ON WOR K RESTRICTIONS.
RUNNING MANLIFT FOR ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WHO WAS WELDING ON AN OVERHEAD. WELDING FLASH BURN TO THE EYES.
CUTTING OUT STEEL BUCKET LINER IN LOADER BUCKET, STEEL LINER SPRUNG UP AND THREW HIM UP IN THE AIR. HE HIT HIS HEAD ON TOP, THEN CAME DOWN ON HIP ON EDGE OF BUCKET. BACK AND NECK PAIN AS A RES ULT.
EE ENTERED F.P. 11 - GOING UP STAIRWAY & STRUCK HEAD ON OVERHEAD DOOR THAT WAS NOT ALL THE WAY UP.
STATIONARY LADDER GOING UP TO CATWALK ON CONVEYOR BROKE LOOSE AND FELL WITH PERSON ON IT. PERSON INVOLVED WAS BRUISED AND SORE AND HAD SMALL CUT TO SIDE OF HEAD.
EE WAS WORKING ON A FRONT END LOADER IN A BENT OVER POSITION. HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT AND CONTINUED TO GET WORSE AFTER WORK.
WHILE DRIVING 85 TON HAUL TRUCK TRHOUGH QUARRY AREA, TRUCK TRAVELED OVER ROUGH SURFACE. FELT PULL LOWER BACK FROM BEING JARRED IN TRUCK.
EE WAS GETTING DOWN OF A NEW PAN FEEDER, HIS HAND SLIPPED & HE FELL LANDING ON HIS FEET BUT TWISTED HIS BACK. DOCTOR HAS NOW ASSIGNED EE TO PHYSICAL THERAPY.
MISSED DAYS AGAIN, CO TRYING TO CONNECT TO OLD INJURY OF 8/28/95
SLAMMED RIGHT THUMB IN DOOR OF TUG BOAT.
CARRYING DEISTER BAR. LIFTING IN AN AWKWARD POSITION.
HEW WAS OPERATING CONT. MINER WHEN THE CAR DRIVER HIT HIM. INJURED HIS KNEE.
THE MECHANIC WAS DISMOUNTING FROM DOZER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL. APPARENTLY HE HAD OIL OR SOME SLICK SUBSTANCE ON THE SOLES OF HIS SHOES WHICH WAS THE MAIN CONTRIBUTOR TO THE ACCIDENT.
INJURED WAS BUILDING A BRATTICE WALL OUT OF OMEGA FIBER BLOCKS. HE WAS LIFTING A BLOCK OVER HIS HEAD TO PLACE IT ON TOP OF THE STOPPING. HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK. PAIN EXTENDED T O BETWEEN SHOULDER BLADES AND BACK OF NECK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A TIRE ON A MAC-8 PERSONNEL CARRIER. EMPLOYEE BENT OVER AND LIFTED THE TIRE UP. HE REPORTED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOW BACK. EMPLOYEE HAS A HISTORY OF BACK PAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS STARTING TO DRILL A ROOF BOLT HOLE WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK 1" X 4" X 30" FELL ON HIS RT. HAND.
PRE-EXISSTING CONTITION, EMPLOYEE WAS DISPATCHED FROM THE UNION HALL AS A QUALIFIED SCRAPER OPERATOR. EE DID NOT ADVISE EMPLOYER OF HIS BACK CONDITION, AND ENTERED NO ON THE PRE-EMPLOYEMENT F ORM IN THE BACK PROBLEM SECTION. OUR COMPANY POLICY WOULD PROHIBIT OPERATING THIS TYPE OF EQUIPMENT WITH A KNOWN MEDICAL PROBLEM LIKE THIS.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS CUTTING THE LAST BOLT FROM A COAL CHUTE TO BE RECOVERED. THE CHUTE WAS SECURED BUT DROPPED APPROX. 2" STRIKING HIM ON TOP OF THE HEAD, STRAINING HIS NECK.
EE WAS HANGING BBOLTER CABLE ON THE BOLTER OPERATOR'S OFF SIDE. THE OPERATOR DIDN'T SEE HIM BECAUSE OF THE BOLTER CANOPY. THE BOLTER WHEEL RAN OVER EE'S RIGHT FOOT BRUISING IT.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING CLIPS ON THE LOWER KENNEDY STOPPING RAIL. HE WAS BENT DOWN AND HIS RT KNEE POPPED OUT. HE WAS UNABLE TO STRAIGHTEN HIS LEG.
WHILE MOVING ROCK. RIGHT LITTLE FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN ROCK AND METAL CUTTING TIP. LEFT HAND DOMINANT.
THE INJURED WAS CHIPPING FLUX OFF OF WELD ON SCOOP WHEN A PIECE WENT IN HIS EYE. DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS THERE UNTIL WEDNESDAY NITE 11-15-95. WENT TO DR. ON 11-17-95 - RETURNED 11-20-95.
DURING A BELT MOVE ON GRAVEYARD SHIFT, INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING SOME BELT ROLLERS AND SOMETHING PULLED IN GROIN AREA. (POSSIBLE HERNIA)
WORKER WAS OPERATING SCOOP. CAME UNDER LOW ROOF CAUSING HIM TO HIT ROOF AND PUSH HIMSELF DOWN INTO SCOOP.
EE WAS PULLING SPIKES OUT OF TRACK WITH SPIKE BAR WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EE WAS FOLLOWING THE TRAILING CABLE ON THE MULE WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST THE ROOF.
EE WAS CONNECTING A BEAM ONTO A COLUMN BY A BOLTED CONNECTION. THE OPPOSITE END WAS CONNECTED OT THE COLUMN BY WELDING TO THE EXISTING STRUCTURE. EE INCORRECTLY CROSSED THE BEAM THAT HAD NOT B EEN FULLYT WELDED INSTEAD OF WALKING AROUND THE PERIMETER STEEL. THE WELDS/TACKS BROKE, CAUSING EE TO FALL APPROX 15 FT. A HARNESS WAS BEING USED FOR FALL PROTECTION, EXCEPT WHEN RELOCATING.
AT THE #4 APPROACH TO WEST PORTAL FAN SHAFT EMPLOYEE WAS MARKING UP THE DATE BOARD. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND EMPLOYEE JUMPED BACK AND FELL BACKWARDS.
EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF METAL FROM A HAMMER HEAD WHILE REMOVING A BELT PIN.
COAL ROLLED FROM RIB & HIT EE IN FACE & LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN APPROX 48" H AS HE CAUGHT HIS HEAD ON A ROCK LEDGE AND KNOCKED HIS SELF DOWN, STOVING UP HIS NECK.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED OVER A WATERPIPE AND BOTH FEET SLIPPE DOUT ON THE WET, ICY SURFACE. HE LANDED ON HIS ELBOW WHICH JARRED HIS SHOULDER.
OPERATING A D9G DOZER AND PUSHING DIRT OVER ROCKY TERRAIN WHEN THE DOZER JARRED CAUSING INJURY TO NECK, SHOULDERS AND BACK.
EE WAS CUTTING BOLT IN JAW DIE, DIE SLID OFF LIPOF CRUSHER, PINNING EE. DIE WAS HELD BY CRANE, HOWEVER, THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH TENSION ON CABLE. EE INJURED HIS L LEG & R LEG, TO A SMALLER DEGREE
EE JUMPED OUT OF VAN TO UNLOAD BAGS OF GARBAGE AND SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE.
EE WAS INSTALLINT RETURN ROLLER ON CONVEYOR BELT THERE IS A METAL SLOPE UNDER CONVEYOR BACK WAS SITTING ON SLOPE AND STARTED TO SLID DOWN REACH UP AND BEAM AND PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.
WAS MOVING SCAFFLING MANUALLY AT THE 1ST PIER, #4 KILN WHEN HE HURT HIS LOWER BACK.
THE INJURED WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE INTO BUCKET OF SCOOP & AS HE PICKED UP A PIECE OF STRUCTURE AND TURNED TO THROW INTO SCOOP BUCKET, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
TRYING TO CONNECT OF OLD INJURY
PULLED SHOULDER MUSCLE STACKING BAGS.
THE EMPLOYEE GOT A PICK UP TRUCK STUCK ON THE HEAP. IN TRYING TO GET IT OUT THE EMPLOYEE SAID HE FELT A TWING ON HIS BACK. REPORTED TO HIS SUPERVISOR, BUT SAID HE DID NOT NEED TO SEE DR. WENT TO DR. AFTER HOURS THAT EVENING.
LIFTING 80 LBS BAGS OF CONCRETE ON SIDE OF HILL.HURT UPPER & LOWER BACK. FILED LATE DUE TO PHYSICIAN'S REPORT.
BOULDER TRAVELED DOWN INCLINDED SCOPE AT WORK SITE AND STRUCK INJURED (MCNAY) ON RIGHT ANKLE. WORK SITE: MURRAY H.G. PORTAL AREA.
OPERATOR WAS CLEANING UNDER BELT, BACK BECAME SORE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING MINING CABLE AND STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE DOING THIS.
MAN WAS LOCATED AT TAILPIECE OF 1ST 54" BELT. HE WAS HELPING LOAD 54" ROLLERS ONTO A SCOOTER, WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE CONTINUED TO WORK AND WAS TWISTING AS HE SPREAD ROCK D UST AND FELT EVEN MORE PAIN. HE SUFFERED A BACK STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKIGN INT EH REFINERY MOVING A GOLD BAR FROM MOUCO TO THE COOLING TUB WITH LIFTING TONGS. WHILE MOVIN GHTE BAR SLIPPED FROM THE TONGS IN THE LOOKING TUB. WHEN THE EMPLOYEE RE- POSITIONED THE TONGS AND LIFTED THE BAR HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.
EE WAS CLIMBING STAIRS TO FEEDER HOUSE. HE TRIPPED ON THE STEPS AND HIT HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE TOP STEP.
EE STATED HE WAS ENTERING THE OPERATOR'S DECK ONA DOUBLE BOOM ROOK BOLTER. HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED, FELL AGAINST FRAME OF OPERATOR'S DECK CAUSING PAIN TO AREA OF RIGHT HIP. EE STARTED MISSING WO RK 11/14/95.
EE WAS ASSISTING IN UNPLUGGING OVERSIZE ROCK IN PRIMARY AND FELL, JAMMING HIS THUMB, RESULTING IN A FRACTURE OF THE DISTAL END OF THE RIGHT THUMB.
THE INJURED WAS HELPING ROOF BOLT IN THE FACE OF THE #3 TO #2 ENTRY CROSS CUT. A PORTION OF THE RIGHT RIB (3'X 2'X 3' ON ONE END AND DOWN TO 3" ON THE OTHER END) FELL, STRIKING HER ON THE LEFT SIDE ON HER LEFT UPPER ARM.
EE WAS OPERATING ROOF BOLTER. WHEN HE STARTED THE DRILL STEEL A SMALL PIECE OF ROOF ROCK BROKE LOOSE AND STRUCK EE ON THE NOSE RESULTING IN A LACERATION.
EE WAS TRAMMING CAR TO MINER AND DROPPED IN HOLE WITH WHEEL EXPERIENCING PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
WAS LIFTING A ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMER AND PUTTING IT IN A STARTER BOX AND HURT HIS BACK.
EE WAS PULLING MINER CABLE OUT OF ROADWAY.
INJURED WAS PULLING DOWN ON A PIECE OF ROCK WITHSLATE BAR WHEN ANOTHER PIECE OF ROCK FELL DOWN AND HIT HIS HAND.
WAS DESCENDING THE STAIRS IN THE PREPARATION PLANT AND MISSED A STAIR. HE GRABBED HOLD OF THE HANDRAIL AND HIS BODY WEIGHT CARRIED HIM FARTHER THAN HE COULD HOLD. HE FELL AND SLID DOWN THE S TAIRS.
A PIECE OF ROCK MEASURING 36" WIDE X 43" LONG X 2-8" THICK SLID OFF AN OVERCASE WINGWALL AS THE WALL WAS BEING REMOVED. THE ROCK HIT A POST AS IT WAS FALLING AND BOUNCED ONTO THE INJURED PERSO N LEFT ANKLE HE SUSTAINED A FRACTURE OF TWO BONES IN LEFT ANKLE.
IT WAS RAINING VERY HARD AND THE ROCKS ON THE HILLSIDE WERE SLIPPING. EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS OPERATING THE LOADER WHEN A 12" ROCK ROLLED DOWN THE HILL AND BROKE THE SIDE WINDOW OUT OF LOADER H ITTING EMPLOYEE ON BACK OF LEFT SHOULDER. HE WASTAKEN FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT: X-RAYS. THE NEXT DAY HE WAS SENT FOR A MRI OR SCAN, HIS DR. IS WAITING FOR RESULTS.
OFF AGAIN WITH PREVIOUS INJURY. STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN FROM PREVIOUS INJURY OF 10-8-94.
EMULSION LINE CAME LOOSE AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT LEG BELOW HIS KNEE BRUISED POSSIBLE FRACTURE.
HE WAS CHASING COWS TO GET THEM BACK ACROSS THE FENCE. WHEN HE SLIPPED & TWISTED HIS KNEE. THE DR. ANTICIPATES SURGERY ON 11/21/95.
LOSENING CHAIN BINDER REACHED DOWN PULL BINDER SPRUNG BACK HITTING JUST BELOW KNEE BREAKING LEG.
THE INJURED WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN A PINNER STEEL FELL OUT OF HOLE AND MASHED LITTLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND BETWEEN STEEL AND PINNER POT CAUSING A LACERATION AND A FRACTURE(CHIP).
EE STATED WHILE WALKING, STEPPED ON LOOSE COAL ON MINE FLOOR CAUSING HIM TO SLIP & FALL, TWISTING LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER, 8 FT, UNDER THE PRIMARY CRUAHER WHEN HE LOST HIS HOLD AND FELL. HE LANDED ON HIS FEET AND THEN FELL TO THE GROUND, BREAKING BOTH ANKLES.
BELT JAMMED, SHOVELED BELT OFF, TURNED POWER ON DID NOT GO BACK ON. OPERATOR DETERMINED POSSIBLEBLOWN FUSE, SHUT POWER OFF, REPLACED FUSE, BREAKER BOX BLEW UP.
EE SLIPPED WHILE CLEANING MUD OFF BELT AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.
INJURED WAS CARRYING BELT STRUCTURE ACROSS THE TRACK ENTRY OF THE 17 EAST MN LONGWALL SET UP AREA. TWISTED SIDEWAYS. STRAINED LOWER BACK. LEFT LEG HAD NUMBNESS.
RUNNING SUPPLIES IN JEEP/. COMING DOWN RAIL LINE. THERE WAS CHAIN HANGING DOWN FROM BELT LINE. EMP DIDN'T SEE CHAIN UNTIL IT HIT HIM IN THE EYE.EMP SUFFERED 2 CUTS ACROSS WHITE OF EYE AND 1 CU T ACROSS CORNEA.
FELL IN HOLE ON CATWALK ON 6X20 SCREEN CAUGHT RIBS ON LEFT SIDE.
EE WAS STEPPING FROM THE ROCK BARGE TO THE DOCK BARGE WHEN HE PUT HIS FOOT ON THE DOCK BARGE HE SLIPPED ON THE ICE. HE FELL WITH ALL HIS WEIGHT COMING DOWN ON HIS LEFT ANKLE.
ROPE EE WAS USING TO CLIMB INTO CRUSHER TO REMOVE A WATER JUG FAILED.
EE DROPPED HYD LINE ON FINGERS ON RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A SHANK ONTO A LOADER. EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE KNEELING POSITION AT THE TIME. WHEN EMPLOYEE STOOD UP, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWERBACK.
EE WAS PUTTING UP ARCHES WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE ARCHES AND HIT HIM ON THE HEAD ALLEGEDLY STRAINING HIS RT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS ENTERING MILL CRUSHER WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING ON SNOW COVERED ICE AND FELL.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING TRUNK LINE HOSES IN SHIELDS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN RIGHT SIDE. EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 11/17/95. MANAGEMENT DID NOT BECOME AWARE EMPLOYEE WAS OFF UNTIL 12-4-95.
INSTALLING HEAD ON GRADER, FELT RIGHT SIDE PULL.
MINER WAS MOVING ROOF BOLTER AND RAN OVER ROLL ON BOTTOM CAUSING WRIST(LEFT) TO BE PUSHED INTO THE MACHINE.
THE ROOF BOLTER WAS STUCK IN SOFT BOTTOMS NEAR THE FACE OF #1-MAIN WEST UNIT. EE [OPERATOR] WASROCKING BOLTER FORWARD & BACKWARD. EE [INJURED] WAS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF BOLTAER THREW A BOAR D UNTER THE RIGHT FRONT TIRE, ON THE SECOND ROLLFORWARD HE TRIED TO PUSH BOARD DONW INTO RUT USING HIS R FOOT. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OVER THE TOP OF BOARD UNDER TIRE ON THE NEXT BACK MOTION.
TRUCK DRIVER, EE, WAS IN THE PROCESS OF PRE-TRIPPING COAL TRUCK. HE PLACED HIS LEFT FOOT IN THE HOLE ON THE BUMPER. THE DOOD WAS WET, HE PULLED ON HOOD, HANDS SLIPPED, CAUSING FOOT TO BE HUNG IN THE BUMPER. CAUSED BRUISES & POSSIBLE STRAIN TO LEFT ANKLE.
EE FELL OFF OF COAL CONVEYOR WHILE WORKING ON IT.
INJURED HELPED HANG MINER CABLE IN LAST OPEN X-CUT, #6 ENTRY, #2 UNIT, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. HE THEN PROCEEDED TO SCOOP AND ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB INTO DECK, PAIN GOT WORSE.
WHILE PULLING A STONE ON A HYDRAULIC SPLITTING MACHINE EE PULLED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP DOOR FOR COAL MILL AND PULLED LOWER BACK.
HE BENT OVER TO GET A BLOCK OF WOOD TO PUT IN THE BARREL AND THE FIRE CAUGHT HIS COAT ON FIRE.
EE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EE MOVE AN 8" CHANNEL IRON 14' LONG ON A TWO WHEEL HAND CART. WHILE MOVING THE CHANNEL IRON ONTO THE CART EE FELT MUSACLEPULL IN GROIN AREA. EE WORKED UNTIL 12-18-95 WHE N HE HAD SURGERY.
INJURED WAS WORKING ON A LONGWALL SET UP FACE. HE WAS HELPING SET SECTIONS OF PANLINE AT FACE. TAKING A CRIB BLOCK OUT FROM UNDER PANLINE THAT WAS BEING SET BY SCOOP. PINCHED FINGER BETWEEN CR IB AND BUCKET OF SCOOP.
EE WAS LIFTING HIGH PRESSURE LINE AND STRAINED HIS GROIN.
LIFTING AND CARRYING. LIFTED AND CARRIED AN OXYGEN BOTTLE USING THE BUDD SYSTEM. STRAINED LOWER BACK THEN GRINDED AN AREA IN AN UNUSUAL POSITION.
BOLT WAS BROKEN OUT ON STEERING ARM. ARM WAS RAISED UP SO BOLT WOULD NOT FIT INTO IT. EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO JACK ARM DOWN WITH HYDRAULIC JACK, WHEN JACK SLIPPED OUT, CATCHING EE'S HAND AGAINST S.CAR FRAME.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN THE PRODUCTION SHAFT REPLACING THE TAIL ROPE. HE WAS WALKING OUT ONTO SOME CROSS TIES AND RAISED UP TO SOON AND STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A STEEL BEAM. EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 11-20-95.
INJURED WAS OPENING THE ELEVATOR DOORS. HE HAD OPENED THE SOLID OUTER DOORS APART APPROX 1' WHENTHE ELEVATOR STARTED, CATCHING THE TOP OF HIS LEFT HAND ON HAND RAIL ON INNER SCREEN DOOR.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHEN HE TOUCHED THE ENERGIZED 440 VOLT CABLE FOR THE CONTINUOUS MINER, HE RECEIVED A SEVERE SHOCK.
MINER WAS WALKING TOWARD #2 BELT DRIVE IN 4 RIGHT 7 NORTH. HE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF BLACK PLASTIC PIPE AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
MAN LOSTED FOOTING IN ROCK IN COLLAR AREA, FELL AND LANDED ON BACK AND NECK ROCK IN COLLAR AREA NEEDS TO BE RAKED MORE OFTEN.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT AFTER INSTALLING AROOF BOLT AND WAS LETTING THE BOOM DOWN HE LAID HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE BOOM AND CUT HIS RIGHT 3RD FINGER IN THE SCISSORS OF THE BOOM. RQUIRED SUTURES.
HE WAS PUTTING UP HIS INSIDE BOLT WHEN A RIB ROLLED AND STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT FOOT.
EMP ALONG WITH OTHER COWORKERS WERE INSTALLING A SAMPSON POST TO HOLD A TAILPIECE IN 8BHG AREA. WHILE HOLDING UP POST A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND STRUCK VICTIM. CAUSE OF ACCIDENT WAS IMPROPER ROO F EXAMINATIONS. NOT CONDUCTINF PROPER EXAMINATIONS WAS A RULE & COMPLIANCE PROBLEM IN THIS ACCIDENT, MINER SKILLS MAY BE A FACTOR, PERSONNEL EQUIP OK.
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN A BELT MOVE. THE BELT CREW WAS SHEAVING THE BELT WHEN THE SHEAVE BLOCKCAME LOOSE STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE IN THE HEAD CAUSING A LACERATION TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD. THIS LACERATION RESULTED IN STITCHES.
THE INJURED PERSON WAS REACHING ACROSS A ROOF BOLTILNG MACHINE TO PICKUP TWO TUBES OF RESIN WHENHE SUDDENLY EXPERIENCED PAIN IN BACK ON LEFT SIDE. HE SUSTAINED MUSCLE SPASMS.
EE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN VENTILATION TUBE FELL DOWN STIKING EE KNOCKING HIM AGAINST THE MINER STRAINING LOWER BACK.
WHILE HANGING MINER CABLE BETWEEN NO. 5 AND NO. 6 ENTRIES THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED PAIN AND BURNING SENSATION IN GROIN AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING LOAD AND WASH SHIELDS. HE WAS UNDER A SHIELD AND RAISED UP, JAMMING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AGAINST THE SHIELD.
HURT LOWER BACK WHILE SHAKING ROCK FROM RIP RAP BUCKET.
EE WAS CLEANING WIPER ON BELT UNDER SCREEN, WHENA WEIGHT USED FOR TENSION, SWUNG UP & STRUCK HIM IN THE FACE & HEAR. SMASHING HIS NOSE, FOREHEAD & TOP OF HEAD.
STRAINED LEFT SHOULDER PULLING TO HARD TO TIGHTEN BELT.
EMPLOYEE REPORTED HAVING RUST ON SHIRT SLEEVE WHEN HE TOOK SHIRT OFF AND GOT RUST IN EYE.
EE WAS SHOVELING DEBRIS FROM UNDER THE JAW CRUSHER BELT. WHILE DOING SO A ROCK FELL FROM THE FEEDER ABOVE, STRIKING HIM IN THE BACK.
EE SLIPPED WHILE SHOVELING & STRAINED HIS SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING 4RT ON #2 SECTION. AS HE WAS IN HIS 1ST CUT, THE TOP STARTED FALLING AND HE BEGAN TO BACK THE MINER OUT OF THE CUT. AS HE WAS BACKING UP WITH THE MINER CABLE AND REMOTE IN HIS HAND HE TRIPPED OVER THE CABLE, DISLOCATINGHIS LEFT KNEE.
EMP WAS CLEANING THE PONTOONS ON THE FLOATING DREDGE CONVEYOR. HE WAS DESCENDING DOWN A LADDER AND LOST HIS FOOTING. WHEN HE GRABBED FOR A HOLD HE PULLED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
WHILE TIGHTENING BOLT ON HD. DRIVE EXPERIENCED PAIN LEFT SIDE OF BACK.
HE WAS HANG MINER CABLE AND HURT HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING A 500 FOOT CABLE WITH TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES INTO A BUCKET AND WAS PICKING UP A LOOP OF THE CABLE AND FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS SUPERVISING THE LOADING OF LONGWALL SHIELDS. THE SHIELD WAS BEING HOISTED OFF THE "B" SHAFT CAGE AND THEN LOWERED ONTO A SHIELD CARRIER. EMPLOYEE HAD JUST CHECKED ONE OF THE HOIST ING CHAINS WHEN THE SHIELD MOVED TOWARD HIM WHILE IT WAS BEING HOISTED. THE SHIELD CAUGHT EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT ARM BETWEEN THE CAGE WALL AND SHIELD CAUSING A COMPOUND FRACTURE OF THE RIGHT ARM.
THE INJURED WALKED THRU A CURTIN AND STRUCK HEAD ON A BROW OR HEAD CAUSING JAMMING TO NECK.
EMPLOYEE MASHED FINGER LOADING BELT STRUCTURE.
THE EE INJURED HIS BACK WHEN HE PICKED UP A DEUG ON THE 002-0 SECTION STRAINED MUSCLES.
INJURED STATED THAT WHILE EXITING THE UNIT HAULER HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.
WAS GETTING OUT OF SWEEPER TRUCK, SLIPPED AND FELL FROM VEHICLE/MUD ON SHOES.
EE CLAIMS WHILE LOADING BY HAND MINER CABLE INTO CONVEYOR, HE FELT PAIN TO HIS FOOT. (TINGLE FEELING).
WHILE GETTING ON A BOBCAT, EMPLOYEE TWISTED AND HIT LEFT KNEE.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT EAR OUT OF ITS PACKINGCRATE.
PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND CUT HAND.
DRIVER ALLEGS THAT A LUMP OF COAL FELL FROM A PASSING TRUCK & HIT HIM ON THE HEAD.
WE WERE SETTING IDLERS FOR CONVEYOR BELT. IDLER STARTED TO SLIDE, I REACHED TO STOP IDLER FORM FALLING & TWISTED MY LOWER BACK.
EE WAS LIFTING BELT SO SCOOP COULD GO UNTER IT &SAID HE HURT HIS BACK.
INJURED WAS OPERATING A ROOF BOLTING MACHINE AT FACE AREA. STONE FELL FROM THE TOP AND STRUCK IN ON TOP OF HEAD AND ON HIS SHOULDERS. ROCK WAS 4' X 4' X 2".
EMP WAS LIFTING THE COUNTER WEIGHT ON THE #2 REFUSE BELT. EMP HAD 3 TON HOIST ATTACHED TO A HOLEIN BEAM. THE HOLE IN BEAM BROKE OUT AND CAUSED HIM TO FALL ABOUT 4'. LATER IN THE SHIFT, HE STAR TED HAVING PAIN IN BACK AND RT HIP AND LEG.
EMP WAS OPERATING THE OFF STANDARD SHUTTLE CAR, HAULING COAL. THE CANOPY STRUCK A ROOF BOLT IN THE ROOF AND BROKE OFF OF THE MACHINE SLIDING OVER THE OPERATOR.
SHOVELING MATERIAL AND STRAINED UPPER LEFT ARM.
EE WAS WINCHING LARGE WRENCH FOR COLLARS UP TO TABLE, AS WRENCH WAS LIFTED IT SWUNG, PINCHING HIS RT LEG AGAINST TONGS.
WHILE WORKING ON BELT INJURED WAS STRUCK IN THE SHIN BY A PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING MT SUPPLY CARS TO THE BOTTOM WHEN THE 3RD MT GOT CAUGHT AT A LOOSE TRACK JOINT STOPPING TRIP SUDDENLY WITH THE EMPLOYEE SUSTAINING A WHIPLASH INJURY.
THE LOADER ROLLED FORWARD PINNING EE'S RIGHT FOOT.
EE WAS SERVICING THE MINER OUTSIDE THE NEW MINE THAT IS JUST STARTING IN. THE AREA WAS MUDDY & EE SLIPPED & FELL ON HIS RIGHT LEG & FOOT - BREAKING RIGHT ANKLE.
A PIECE OF DRAWROCK FELL, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON THE BACK. WHILE HE WAS BENT OVER.
EMPLOYEE WAS PINNING WHEN HE MOVED BOOM OF PIN MACHINE IN WRONG DIRECTION AND WAS MASHED BETWEENBOOM AND RIB.
EMPLOYEE STATED HWILE USING TORCH TO CUT HINGE PIN OUT OF CAR HE BURNED HIS RIGHT HAND.
EE WAS HELPING COWORKER CHECK ELECTRICAL PANEL ON A CRANE. EE STEPPED DOWN OFF CRANE TO STEP AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.
MGT IS SKEPTICAL THAT THE EVENT OCCURRED. EE CLAIMES A ROCK WAS DROPPED INTO TRUCK BED CAUSING TRUCK TO DO DOWN. THE JERKING MOTION OF THE SEAT CAUSED THE BACK INJURY. IF FURTHER INVESTIGATION INDICATES THE EVENT DID NOT OCCUR, MGT WILL REQUEST REMOVAL OF THE EVENT AS AN ACCIDENTIAL INJURY.
EE WAS LOADING TANKER WITH EMULSION. HOSE NOZZEL STUCK IN TANK. WHEN EE TRIED TO PULL IT OUT, HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
WHILE OPERATING A 3/4" AIR IMPACT WRENCH, EE STATED HE INJURED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE REMOVING NUTS FROM GEAR CASE BOLTS.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING V-BELT, PULLEY PINCHE DHIS FINGER BETWEEN V-BELT AND PULLEY AS HE WAS ROLLIGN V-BELT ON BREAKIGN HIS MIDDLE FINGER.
EE WAS PUTTING UP A TIN DOOR FOR A BATTERY CHARGING STATION. HE KNEELED DOWN TO GET A PIECE OF TIN WHEN A SHARP PAIN HIT HIM IN HIS LOWER LEFT BACK. HIS LEFT LEG & FOOT WENT NUMB.
EE WAS ASSISTING IN PUTTING A 120' CONVEYOR BELT ON WHILE THE GRADER WAS PULLING THE CABLE ATTACHED TO THE BELT. THE CABLE KINKED AND EE HAD HIS FOOT IN THE AIR & THE KINK CAUGHT HIS FOOT & RA ISED HIM IN THE AIR & WHEN THE GRADER BACKED OFFHE FELL ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER & NECK.
THE EE STATE DTHAT HE STEPPED OUT OF THE DECK OF THE SHUTTLE CAR HE WAS OPERATING AND HIS RIGHT ANKLE GAVE OUT. HIS ANIDE TURNED INWARD AND HE FELT SEVERE PAIN IN THE ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PIECE OF WOOD TO CLEAR BRUSH ALONGSIDE ROAD.
MECHANIC SERVICING FUEL TRUCK WAS STRUCK ON TOP OF HEAD BY HOOD. INDIVIDUAL SUFFERED CUT SCALP &WAS RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS.
CLIMBING LADDER TO ROOF, LOST BALANCE AND FELL.
EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS BACK WHEN LIFTING AN AUGER.
NOT A SERIOUS INJURY. 5 LOST-TIME DAYS DUE TO BACK STRAIN.
TRYING TO REMOVE A ROCK FROM C-3 TAKEUP PULLEY, W HILE THE BELT WAS STILL RUNNING. USING LONG HANDLE SHOVEL TO POKE ROCK. AS HE TRIED TO POKE THE ROCK OUT OF THE RUNNING BELT, WITH SHOVEL, T HE BELT CAUGHT THE SHOVEL PULLING EE INTO THE PULLEY.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING STEEL STOCK INTO STORAGE RACK, WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS GROIN AREA. EMPLOYEE WAS SEEN BY HIS PERSONAL DR. EMPLOYEE STATED THAT INJURY RESULTED IN A INGUINAL HE RNIA.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING BOLTER WHEN HE RAN OVER ROCK; THEN BUNDLE OF PLATES FELL AND STRUCK HIS FINGERS ON RIGHT HAND.
EE WAS OPERATING ROOF BOLTER, DRILLING HOLE TO DEPTH OF 4' WHEN STEEL BROKE AND STRUCK HIM ON RIGHT HAND.
AFTER MOVING FROM ONE SECTION TO ANOTHER AND MAKING PREPARATION FOR THE NEW SECTION, EMP WAS SCALING TIP EHILE THE BOLT CREW MADE PREPARATIONS TO SPOT BOLT. EMP PULLED A PIECE OF ROCK, MEASURI NG APPROX 3'L X 3'W X 3-8"THICK. HE MISJUDGED HIS POSITION AND THE ROCK SLID DOWN HIS BODY AND BROKE BOTH BONES IN HIS LOWER LEFT LEG.
EE WAS PUTTING A CHAIN ON A ROTOPACTOR CAP BEINGLIFTED & MOVED BY A CRANE. ONCE THE CHAIN WAS AROUND THE CRANE OPERATOR PUT IT TO THE CROUND. EEWAS STANDING NEAR & THE ROTO PACTOR WAS PLACED O N HIS RIGHT FOOT. NO OTHERS WERE INJURED IN THISINCIDENT NO DAMAGES STO EQUIPMENT WERE SUSTAINED.
EE WAS HELPING HAND A MINER CABLE WHEN HE FELT ASTINGING SENSATION IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
PULLING ON CABLE AND HURT BACK.
EE WAS DRIVING WEDGES & MISSED WEDGE WITH HAMMERMASHING HIS LEFT THUMB.
PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT FOOT FRACTURE.
WELDING ON BELT DRIVE--A PIECE OF SLAG FLEW INTO EYE, IRRITATING EYE.
EE WAS PUTTING MINER CABLE ON MINER. HE SLIPPED & BUMPED HIS KNEE.
WAS PUSHING GOB OUT OF SCOOP BUCKET ON BELT. ROCK FELL ON BOTTOM BELT. EE WENT TO GET ROCK ADN THE ROCK HIT HIS RIGHT HAND AGAINST BOTTOM STAND OF BELT.
REPAIRING SPLICE ON FEED CORD TO RAIAL STACKER. SHUT MASTER SWITCH OFF TO THE MAIN CONTROL IN THE VAN. SWITCH WAS MOVED TO CONTROL BOX ON THE BARMARK AND HAD FORGOTTEN IT WAS MOVED AND FEED WA S STILL LIVE. WHEN HE CUT INTO THE FEED THE FEEDWIRE WAS STILL LIVE AND CAUSED AN ELECTRICAL FLASH. NOTE: WITNESS DIDN'T SEE THE ACCIDENT BUT WERE CLOSE BY AND HEARD THE NOISE.
EMPLOYEE WAS BEATING ON A ROCK WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN HE MISSED THE ROCK CAUSING HAMMER TO TWIST HIS WRIST CAUSING IT TO POP. DR EXAM SHOWS NO BRUISING NO SWELLING AND NO CREPITUS. DIAGNO SIS: STRAIN RIGHT WRIST. (THE EMPLOYEE HAS PINS IN HIS RIGHT WRIST FROM A PREVIOUS ATUOMOBILE ACCIDENT).
FOREIGN OBJECT FLEW INTO EYE DURING WORKIGN HOURS. IT WAS NOT DISCOVERED UNTIL LATER THAT NIGHT AFTER WORK. WIND WAS BLOWING HEAVILY & THEIR WAS LOTS OF DUST AND SAND BEING BLOWN AROUND.
WHILE PICKING & SHOVELING EE SPRAINED LEFT FOREARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING DOZER. AS HE STEPPED OFF OF THE DOZER PUSH ARM, HIS HEEL SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING 36" BELT STRUCTURE FROM BUCKET OF SCOOP WHEN HE EXPERIENCED A PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA.
EE WAS ASSISTING IN JACKING UP KILN #2 AT PIER 3 WITH 250 TON JACKS AND ELECTRIC POWER UINIT. AS JACKS WERE BEING RELEASED ONE AT A TIME, THE VERTICAL HEIGHT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JACKS CAUSE D THE SADDLE TO INCLINE TO ONE SIDE. THE PRESSURE BEARING DOWN ON THE SADDLE CAUSED A FILLER BAR TO SHOOT OUT AND STRIKE EE ON HIS LEFT HAND.
CLEANING OTU FEEDER AND SLIPPED, FELL ON PIECE OF METAL.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON INCLINED MINE BOTTOM AT 40 NO. 1 TAILPIECE WHEN HER FEET SLIPPED AND SHE FELL CAUSING INJURY TO HER BACK.
BUILDING BRATTICE IN MUDDY AREA ON RETURN SIDE OF SECTION. TOP TWO ROWS OF BLOCK FELL & STRUCK INJURED ON THE LOWER RIGHT LEG, BRUSISES, CONTUSION.
EE STATED THAT HE WAS WORKING WITH HIS CREW MOVING A ROCK FALL. EE STATED THAT WHILE THEY WERE RESUPPORTING AND MOVING THE ROCK A PIECE 1/1/2 F THICK X 3' L AND 1'W SLID OFF THE PILE AND STRU CK HIM ON THE LEFT WRIST. EE ALSO STRUCK THE BAUCK OF HIS HEAD. EE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE RECEIVED 12 STITCHES TO HIS WRIST.
EE STATED THE HE WAS MOVING PIPE AROUND, WHEN CO-WORKER WAS LETTING DOWN THE FORK OF THE BOBCAT & WHILE PULLING ON 12" CERAMIC PIPE A SHARP EDGE OF THE CERAMIC PIPE CUT HIS FINGER.
EE WAS CHASING TRESPASSERS NEAR THE MOBILE HOME PARKED ON THE FORMER MARINE MAGNESIUM PROPERTY WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER SOME ROCKS & FELL. EE BEGAN PHYSICAL THERAPY AROUND 11/21/95. HE HAD SURGERY ON THE SHOULDER ON 9/16/96.
THE EMPLOYEE HAD ORIGINALLY REPORTED ON 11-8-95 HAT AFTER MANY EYARS OF PERATING VARIOUS PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THATHE HAD EXPERIENCED PAIN AND NUMBNESS IN HIS RIGHT WRSIT AND ARM. ON 3-19-96 WH ILE WORKIN GAT ANOTHER MINESITE HE LEFT WORK EARLY BECAUSE OF THE RECURRING PROBLEM. HE FAILED TO RETURN TO WORK THE NEXT DAY. HE WAS ADVISED TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION.
EE WAS OPERATING A CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A PILLAR LINE FALL OCCURRED KNOCKING HIM DOWN. HE RECEIVED LACERATIONS TO HIS HEAD LEFT SHOULDER AND HANDS.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING SUPER SACKS FROM THE TAYLOR SUPER-SACK FILLER. HE PUT HIS FOOT UNDER THE LIFT PLATFORM WHEN THE OPERATOR WAS BRINGING IT DOWN, THIS BRUISED HIS FOOT.
WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN LOCK ON DRYER USING CHANNEL LOCKS. HE FELT A POP IN HIS WRIST. WORKED UNTIL 2-14-96 WHEN HE WENT TO DR AND WAS GIVEN A CORTIZONE SHOT. THE SHOT CAUSED A REACTION SW ELLING IN HIS WRIST AND HE COUL NOT WORK UNTIL 2-20-96.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CROSS BETWEEN NO. 1 AND NO. 2 RAW COAL SCREENS. HE SSTEPPED FROM THE SCREEN TO AN I -BEAM AND GRABBED HOLD OF A 3" METAL LINE TO STEADY HIMSELF. THE 3" LINE BROKE OFF CAUSIGN LOSS OF BALANCE AND FALL TO FLOOR BELOW.
EE WAS HELPING TO PULL PALLETT OF ROCK DUST INTOBUCKET OF SCOOP WITH THE STINGER JACK. THE STINGER JACK SLIPPED OFF THE COUPLING OF THE FLAT CARLANDING ON HIS LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A HUAL TRUCK THAT COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER HAUL TRUCK. THE CAB OF HIS TRUCK WAS DAMAGED ADN HAD TO BE CUT TO EXTRICATE HIM. HE WAS ENTRAPPED FOR ABOUT ONE HOUR.
EE WAS CLEANING BOTTOM SIDE OF CONVEYOR BELT WITH SHOVEL. SHOVEL CONNECTED WITH FLEXO CLAMPS & THREW THE SHOVEL INTO THE HEAD PULLEY. BELT PINCHED EE'S COAT & HIS ARM FOLLOWED AROUND THE OUTSI DE OF CONVEYOR PULLEY. BROKE BONE IN EE'S RIGHT ARM, CONTUSION/BURN & MASHED RIGHT HAND. BURNED MUSCLES & NERVES IN HAND.