Mining Incidents in June 1996

WORKING OUT OF A 540 DRESSER LOADER BUCKET TILTED FORWARD CRUSED BETWEEN LOADER & MOTOR GUARD.

THE #2144 SECTION HAD SET UP A FINAL PUSHOUT FOR THE #131 BLOCK, AND HAD LOADED 3 OR 4 SHUTTLE CARS OF COAL. AT APPROX 11 AM, A ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE INTERSECTION, THE PUSHOUT BEING MINDE D. THE VICTIM, EE, WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY THE FALLING ROOF.

FAILURE OF FLOOR SUPPORT CAUSING INJURED & BRIDGE MATAERIAL FALLING ON VICTIM.

THE DECEASED AND A CO-WORKER, BOTH CUSTOMER TRUCK DRIVERS WERE OUT OF THEIR VEHICLES NEAR THE SHIPPING AREA WHEN A HAUL TRUCK DROVE THROUGH THE AREA AND STRUCK BOTH INDIVIDUALS.

THE EE SQUATTED DOWN TO LIFT AN 18 FT. PIECE OF 8" PIPE WEIGHING 514 LBS., TO PUT A TIMBER UNDERIT. HE SAT THE PIPE ON THE TIMBER AND STOOD UP AND STARTED TO WALK. HE THEN FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER STOMACH.

PULLING ON A BELT GUARD MADE OF CHAIN LINK. DEVELOPMED A HERNIA WHILE PULLING.

EE WAS PULLING ON PULLEY MOTOR V-BELTS, TO HELP INSTALL A NEW CONVEYOR BELT. THE OTHER END WAS BEING POULLED BY A PICKUP DRIVEN BY ANOTHER EE. THE V-BELTS MOVED FASTER THAN EXPECTED & EE CAUGH T FINGER IN HEAD PULLEY SHIEVE.

OVER TIME WHILE WORKING ON HEAVY EQUIPMENT, DEVLEOPED A HERNIA.

EE WAS LIFTING SCRAP METAL OFF THE GROUND WHEN THE FELT BURNING SEVSATION IN HIS GROIN AREA. HE THOUGHT AT THE TIME IT WAS KIDNEY STONE BECAUSE HE RECENTLY HAD ONE, AND IT FELT SIMILAR. DELAYE D REPORTING DUE TO THIS .

EMP WAS INSTALLING A RETAINER PLATE ON A SWING SHAFT ON 36001 DRAGLINE. METAL PRY BAR USED TO SUPPORT THE RETAINER SLIPPED AND RETAINER PLATE (WEIGHING APPROX 200LBS) FELL ON EMP'S FINGERS.

SLOPE CAR JUMPED TRACK WHILE HOISTING COAL. STRUCK 2 MINERS WHILE THEY WERE CHECKING THE JOB THAT THEY HAD REPAIRED.

CHANGING CAB MOUNTS ON DUMP TRUCK IN GARAGE. CABWAS HELD UP BY STEEL BAR, BAR SLIPPED, FINGER WAS SEVERED. ACCIDENT OCCURED IN TRUCK REPAIR SHOPNOT MINE.

WAS LIFTING A SCREEN PANEL AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING A PAIN IN RIGHT GROIN AREA. HAD SURGERY FOR HERNIA ON 6-23 UNTIL 6/27/96.

EE WAS PUTTING A ROOF BOLT IN A HOLE ROOF BOLTING WHEN A ROCK FELL STRIKING HANDS BETWEEN ROCK AND BOLT WRENCH.

EE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS ON A HOUSING WHILE PULLING ON THE WRENCH HE FELT A SHARP BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN.

EE DROPPED BAG AND REARTED TOO QUCIKLY TO RETAIN BAG FROM FLOOR.

WORKING ON 8 FT STEPLADDER SLIPPED AND REACHED OUT TO GRAB PIPE AND FELT SOMETHING PULL IN ABDOMEN ABOVE NAVEL.

PLACING WEAR PLATE IN DRAG CHAIN HOPPER W/THE ASSISTANCE OF A LOADER. HOPPER STARTED FALLING INTO THE BUCKET OF LOADER. EE GRABBED IT, ATTEMPTING TO HOLD IT BACK, THUS CAUSING A CRUSHING INJUR Y TO LEFT HAND. LONG & RING FINGER AMPUTATED.

EE WAS LIFTING A 5 GALLON JUG OF WATER. THE NEXT DAY EE WAS PUSHING LANDSCAPE WASTE (GRASS) INTO BUCKET OF ENDLOADER. EACH TIME EE FELT A POP WHEN LIFTING AND/OR PUSHING.

THE WORKER, WHILE LOWERING THE CANOPY, GOT FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BOOM LIFT ARMS AND CUT TIP OF FINGER OFF.

THE INJURED AND COWORKER WERE IN THE PROCESS OF CLEARING THE M-8 CONVEYOR AT THE #4 SHORTHEAD CRUSHER. THE INJURED ATTEMPTED TO MOVE THE CONVEYOR BY REMOVING THE V-BELT GUARD AND PULLING ON TH E DOUBLE V-BELT. A MISUNDERSTANDING WITH COWORKER OCCURRED AND THE CONVEYOR WAS STARTED AS THE INJURED WAS PULLING ON THE V-BELT.

17B SECTION. EMP AND BUDDY WERE INSTALLING VENTILATION TUBES AT THE FACE. EMP BUDDY WAS READY TOCONNECT HIS END OF TUBE, WHEN HIS HARD HAT GOT SUCKED INTO FAN. HIS REACTION WAS TO DRIP THE RUB ES AND GRAB HIS HAT. WHEN THE TUBES FELL, EMP WAS LEFT HOLDING HIS END. THE JOLT CAUSED PAIN IN RIGHT SIDE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS ASSIGNED TO A MOWING YARD WORK DETAIL. THE EMPLOYEE WAS MOWING WHEN HE SAW A DEAD TREE LIMB HANGING OVER THE FENCE AT A LOCAL BASEBALL DIAMOND ON THE LAND HE WAS MOWING, WHICH IS OWNED BY LEHIGH CEMENT. THE EMPLOYEE THEN TRIED TO PULL THE DEAD TREE LIMB FROM THE TIRE AND IN DOING SO SUFFERED A HERNIA.

EE WAS STARTING TO REPOSITION A SHEAVE THAT WAS BEING USED TO MOVE A SHEARER DRUM. HE WAS HOLDING ONTO THE 3/4" WIRE ROPE WITH HIS LEFT HAND. THE DRUM SHIFTED AND PULLED EE S LEFT HAND INTO TH E SHEAVE PULLEY MASHING HIS FINGERS.

HE WAS TORQUEING HEAD BOLTS ON 10-835 LOADER WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN LOWER ABDOMEN, RIGHT SIDE.

HE WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT ON A MILL REDUCER. THE RATCHET SLIPPED AND HE FELL ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER FRACTURING HIS ARM.

HE WAS CRAWLING IN LOW COAL WITH A BOX OF MINER BITS WHEN HE GOT A ROCK BETWEEN HIS RIGHT KNEE AND KNEE PAD CAUSING SWELLING AND IRRITATION. CONDITION DID NOT IMPROVE, REQUIRING SURGERY. HE ST ARTED MISSING WORK ON 8-1-96.

EE WAS HELPING TO REPAIR A DANIELS WASHER. WHILE REMOVE PARTS OF WASHER, I SLIPPED/DROPPED, CUTTING DISTAL RIGHT INDEX FINGER AND FRACTURING DISTAL PHALANX.

EE WAS USING CHAIN AND COME-A-LONG TO PUT A SCOOP PART ON FORKLIFT, CHAIN SLIPPED & SMASHED FINGERS BETWEEN CHAIN & COME-A-LONG.

EMP ALLEGES WHILE SWEEPING FLOOR IN PACKHOUSE HETRIPPED OVER AN ELECTRICAL CORD HE LAID DOWN.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING AT THE LOADOUT. HE HAD MADE 3 TRIPS UP AND DOWNSTAIRS CHECKING PROBLEMS AND CARRYING TOOLS AND SMALL PARTS. AT ONE POINT HE SAID HE WAS IN PROCESS OF REMOVING HOSES FROM T HE #1 GATE JACK AND AS HE STOOD UP, HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT. AS THE SHIFT PROGRESSED HIS BACK CONTINUED TO GET WORSE, REACHING THE POINT WHERE HE HAD TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION THAT EVENING.

EE STRUCK THE TOP PART OF HIS FINGERNAIL (RIGHT HAND INDEX FINGER) AGAINST THE EDGE OF A 10" STEEL FLANGE WHEN HE SWUNG A STEEL PIPE WHIHE UNCLOGGING AN AIR SLIDE DUCT AT MILL #1. EE WAS HOLD ING THE PIPE WITH BOTH HAND SAT CHEST LEVEL WHEN HE SWUNG THE PIPE BACKWARDS AND HIS FINGERNAIL STRUCK THE FLANGE.

AN UNPLANNED IGNITION OF POSSIBLY 30 MINUTES IN DURATION OCCURRED INT HE WASTE FUEL PREP ROOM. ACAN OF UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL IGNITED AS IT PASSED THROUGH THE SHREDDER. THE RESULTING FIRE CAUSE D 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO THE BACKS OF BOTH HANDS AND LEFT FOREARM OF EMP WHO WAS FEEDING SHREDDER HOPPER WITH MATERIAL USING A UNILOADER. EMP KEPT HOSPITAL OVERNIGHT. FIRE EXTINGUISHED BY PLNT P

EE WAS TIEING A BREASTLINE ONTO A BARGE TIMBERHEAD. ROPE SLIPPED FROM TIMBERHEAD CAUSING EE TO FALL 12' INTO BARGE.

EE WAS CLIMBING FROM TRUCK UP OVER HANDRAIL AND STEPPED ON A SHOVEL HANDLE. TURNED/SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE.

ANOTHER EE WAS SEALING DOWN LOOSE TOP IN HIGH TOP AREA ON THE 2ND MAIN NORTH BELT. A PIECE OF STONE FELL FROM TOP, BOUNCED ON THE BELT AND HIT THE EE ON HIS RIGHT LOWER LEG. EE WAS STANDING ON TOP OF THE BELT WHICH WAS DE-ENERGIZED.

EE WAS IN THE PROCESS TO POSITION 1 1/2" X 18 1?2" X 18 1/2" PLATE USING BOTH HANDS WITH ANOTHER EE HIS RIGHT HAND SLIPED LOSING HOLT, THE WEIGHT OF PLATE WAS MORE THAN HE COULD HANDLE 1 HANDE D. AS PLATE FELL BACK TO FOOT LEVEL IT MASHED HIS FINGERS.

EE STATES "WHILE CUTTING WITH A WELDER, A PIECE OF STEEL CAME DOWN ON MY LEFT ANKLE."

EE WENT TO SLEEP WHILE DRIVING TRUCK AND TRUNED THE TRUCK OVER. LACERATION ON BACK OF HEAD REQUIRING NINE STITCHES. EE WAS WEARING SEAT BELT AT THE TIME OF ACCIDENT. TRUCK WAS NOT LOADED.

EE WAS ASSITING WITH INSTALLING A BOOM LIFTING OGNICE ON LOADE 4-239 BUCKET. EE WA SHOLDING UP TOPBOOM BAR TO PLACE THE PIN. AS SCRAPED THE TOP OF EE LAST FOOT. CONTUSION TO TOP OF LEFT FOOT.

WHILE SETTING 8" X 8" TIMBER ON LONGWALL-1, AN 8X8 ROLLED OVER ON THE MATERIAL CAR AND CAUGHT HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE CAR AND 8X8.

CHANGING TIPS IN HAMMERMILL--PRIED DOOR OPEN & PRY BAR SLIPPED--TO AVOID FALLING I JUMPED AND LANDED ON RIGHT HEEL. I JUMPED OFF OF 70" ABOVEGROUND PLATFORM.

FELL AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE WHEN CLIMBING ON TRUCK BED.

STEEL BEAM FELL ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING AND LOADING BELT STRUCTURE ALONG BELT LINE HE EXPEERIENCE D PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE COPLETED HIS SHFIT BUT BY HIS ENXT SCHEDULED WORK DAY HE REQUESTED TO SEEK M EDICAL TREATMENT WHICH RESULTED IN LOSS OF WORK DAYS TO GIVE THE LOWER BACK MUSCLES TIME TO HEAL.

CLEANING THE CHUTE ABOVE #11 AND SMASHED THUMB IN BETWEEN THE CHUTE AND THE BAR. WAS HITTING THE CHUTE WITH THE BAR.

LOADER OPERATOR BACKED OFF OF A 1 1/2 2" CUT BANK.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS DRAGGING A ROCKDUST HOSE DOWN BELTLINE- STRUCK HEAD AGAINST ROOF BOLT- CUT RIGHT EAR- REQUIRED SUTURES.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING WITH SERVICING THE CONTINUOUS MINER ANOTHER EMPLOYEE LOWERED TH EGATHERING PAN. ON HIS FOOT. THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 7-12-96.

INJURED WAS LIFTING A RAILROAD TIE AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK.

WORKING ON 75 DEGREE PITCH. WET CONDITIONS, FATIGUE. EMPLOYEE FELL APPROX. 100 FEET DOWN THE PITCH, SUBSTAINING BROKEN JAW, A LACERATION ON THE SCALP, COLLAPSED LUNG.

ROLLING AND PULLING ON PUMP HOSE- STRAINED RIGHT SHOULDER.

WHILE LOADING SUPPLIES ONTO A TRACK ROOF BOLTING MACHINE. THE EMPLOYEE STATED HE EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTTING A CONVEYOR. THE CONVEYOR SHIFTED AND HIT ARM. FRACTURE OF THE RIGHT FOREARM.

EE WAS LOOSENING BOLTS ON PU-12 PUMP BY THE WET SCREEN TO REMOVE THE PUMP SHELL. HIS WRENCH SLIPPED OFF A BOLT HE WAS LOOSENING. HE STEPPED BACKWARDS TO CATCH HIS BALANCE AND STEPPED OFF THE P UMP PLATFORM TO THE LOWER SURFACE (ABOUT 12 INCHES). THAT IS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS GETTING BACK INTO HIS LOADER. AS HE WAS GRABBING THE DOOR HANDLE, HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF THE HANDLE. HE FELL, HITTING HIS HAND ON THE STEPS. BREAKING TWO BONES IN HIS HAND.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE WALKING, SLIPED AND FELL SUSTAINING A CONTUSION TO LEFT SHOULDER.

STEPPED IN HOLE, CAUSING FALL TO GROUND, CAUSING PAIN TO LOWER BACK.

HE WAS MANEUVERING A METAL COVER (20" X 7') FOR A PULL BOX BACK INTO PLACE WHEN HE EXPERIENCED SOME LOWER BACK PAINS.

THE INJURED EE STATED HE HAD COMPLETED THE INSTALLATION OF ROOF BOLTS IN THE BOLT AND TRACK ENTRY OF THE SOUTHMAIN SECTION. THE FOOT JACK WAS RAISED AND ATRS WAS LOWERED. AS THE CANOPY WAS LOW ERED IT STRUCK EE ON THE HEAD AND SHOULDER. EE FIRST WORKDAY LOST BECAUSE OF INJURY WAS 9-19-96.

EE WAS IN PROCESS OF CLEANING AIR CONDITIONER FILTER ON QUARRY HAUL TRUCK, WHEN HE BUMPED HIS ELBOW ON TRUCK SEAT. ELBOW BECAME SWOLLEN AND PAINFUL.

EMP WAS REPOSITIONING A SPRAY BAR, WHICH IS ATTACHED TO A HOSE. THE HOSE WAS COILED UP AND EMP JERKED THE HOSE. AS HE WS DOING SO THE HOSE UNCOILED CAUSING THE SPRAY BAR TO TWIST IN EMPLOYEES LEFT HAND.

EE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO CLAIGN 2550 DRAGLINE BUCKET RIGGING. AS HE WAS PULLING ON THE BAR, THE BAR SLIPPED CAUSING EE TO TWIST RESULTING IN LOWER BACK PAIN.

REPAIRS TO BROKEN SHAFT AND MOTOR REPLACEMENT WERE COMPLETED. CLAY CONDITIONER WAS TURNE DON TEST AND CLEANED OUT SYSTEM. AN EMPLOYEE PASSED THE COVER ACROSS TO EE. IT HOOKED ON A PADDLE AN D DROVE COVER INTO THE SIDE OF THE AUGER CATCHING HIS RIGHT HAND AND MASHING HIS RIGHT THUMB, BREAKING IT. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKENTO HOSPITAL, X-RAYS WERE TAKEN & STITCHES WERE GIVEN. EMPLOYEE WA

EE WAS OPERATING THE BATTERY SCOOP HAULING A LOAD OF BOLTER SUPPLIES TO THE FACES OF THE HRIS UNIT. A COAL HAULER HAD STOPPED IN A CURTAIN IN FRONT OF EE THE HAULER NEEDED TO BACK UP A FEW FE ET TO LET ANOTHER HAULER PASS. IN THIS PROCESS EE'S SCOOP BUCKET SLED UP ON THE HAULER SKIRT BOARDS RAISING SCOOP UP 6"-12". IT THE DROPPED SUDDENLY AS HAULER PULLED AWAY JARRING HIS BACK.

INJURED WAS PUSHING THE ROOF BOLT AND PLATE INTO THE BOLT HOLE WHEN HE GOT HIS FINGERS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROOF AND THE PLATE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO SET A COAL CHUTE AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DELIVERING SUPPLIES. WHEN EMPLOYEE LIFTED THE TAILGATE ON THE SUPPLY TRUCK HE FELT A STRANGE PULL IN HIS NAVEL AREA.

WAS RIDING ON #5 JITNEY & STOPPED AT #2PC TO CHECK BRAKES WHEN HE WENT TO GET OFF OF #5 JITNEY, HIS FOOT WAS ALONG THE SIDE & JITNEY SLID DOWN INTO A BIG HOLE & BRUISED HIS RIGHT FOOT ALONG THE RIB

TAKING BRAKE BOOSTER APART & SPRING FLEW OUT & HIT HIS LEG.

INJURED WAS OPERATING A TRACK RAIL RUNNER AND WAS ENROUTE TO THE 003 SECTION END OF TRACK AREA TO MAKE A BELT SPLICE. WHEN INJURED APPROACHED THE AREA HE ATTEMPTED TO APPLY THE BRAKES IN ORDER TO STOP BUT THE RR BEGAN TO SLIDE AND HIT ANOTHER RR THAT WAS PARKED. IMPACT OF HITTING CAUSED BELT TOOLS TO SLIDE FOREWARD STRIKING INJURED.

ROCK FELL FROM FEEDER BOX ON 2ND PLANT WHILE MAKING REPAIRS.

GRINDING HANDRAIL WITH 4' GRINDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING UNLOAD DRILL RODS FROM DRILLING MACHINE WHEN ONE ROD SLIPPED LOOSE AND FELL, SMASHING HIS LEFT RING FINGER TIP AND FRACTURING BONE AT TIP.

EMPLOYEE BEGAN EXPERIENCING BACK PAIN ON 6-27-96. HE WAS TREATED BY HIS FAMILY DOCTOR ON 7-1-96. EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HIS DOCTOR FEELS THIS PAIN IS AN EXACERBATION OF HIS LOST TIME INJURY DATE D 10-4-89.

EE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN THE HEADING ENTRY OF WEST 1 SECTION WHEN A ROCK FELL BETWEEN THERIB AND THE HOLE HE WAS DRILLING STRIKING EE ACROSS LEFT SIDE. EE'S FIRST WORKDAY LOST BECAUSE OF INJURY WAS 07/31/96.

WHILE CUTTING RIGHT HAND CUT ON PILLAR LINE, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS AND STRUCK HIM CAUSING A LACERATION TO THE LEFT HAND.

STEP BACK OFF OF CONCRETE PAD TO GROUND (6" STEP DOWN) AND TWISTED LEFT FOOT, CAUSING HAIRLINE CRACK TO LEFT ANKLE.

EMP STATED HE WAS OPERATING A MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER WHEN THE CANOPY FELL ON HIS HEAD AND NECK. EMP STARTED VACATION FROM 7-1-96 - 7-5-96.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING ROCK AND FELT PAIN IN NECK.

EE SPRAINED HIS LEFT ARM WHEN HE FELL OFF A EUCLID TRUCK'S STEP LADDER WHIE DESCENDING. EE SLIPPED OFF THE STEPLADDER, LOST HIS RIGHT HAND GRIP TOT HE LADDER'S ACCESS HANDLE AND FELL TO THE G ROUND LANDING ON HIS FEET. DURINT THE FALL, HE GRABBED AND HELD ONTO THE HANDLE WITH HIS LEFT HAND THAT RESULTED IN A SPRAINED LEFT ARM.

BRAKE LINE ON QUARRY TRUCK MESSED UP. BROUGHT TOTHE SHOP TO GET FIXED. STEPPING DOWN OFF TRUCK FELT SOMETHING PULL A MUSCLE IN BACK. SAYS HE DIDN'T SLIP, FALL OR ANYTHING.

EE STATED THAT WHILE SWINGING A SLEDGEHAMMER, THE HANDLE CAUGHT ON SOMETHING CAUSING THE HAMMER HEAD TO HIT HIS OTHER HAND (SMASHED 3RD FINGER OF R. HAND).

TRIPPED ON SHOVEL CAUSING EMP TO SKIP A STEP ON THE STAIRWAY AT PRIMARY CRUSHER AND INJURING LOWER BACK.

EE WAS OPERATING THE SUPPLY MOTOR, PULLING IT UP THE RAIL WHEN IT STARTED SLIDING BACKWARDS AND RAN INTO ANOTHER MOTOR.

EE WAS PULLING A 6" CEMENT CORE BLOCK FROM PILE WHEN THE BLOCK FELL STIRKING HIM ON THE RIGHT HAND. HE COMPLETED THE SHIFT AND THEN SOUGHT-MEDICAL TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A BALL PEEN HAMMER AND CHISIL. WHILE HITTING CHISIL, HE HIT HIS THUMB. BROKE THUMB.

EE REMOVED HIS WELDING GOGGLES CAUSING DUST ACCUMULATED ON THE GOGGLE AND HIS FOREHEAD TO FALL INTO HIS RIGHT EYE. EE HAD JUST FINISHED CUTTING, WITH ACETYLENE/OXYGEN EQUIPMENT, A HOLE IN THE PRIMAR ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR SCREW CONVEYOR WHEN HE REMOVED THE GOGGLES.

STEPPED OUT OF CRANE, LOST FOOTING AND FELL TO THE GROUND LANDING ON BOTH FEET.

THE EMPLOYEE REPORTS THAT HE WAS STEPPING OFF A SUPPLY CAR WHEN HE SLIPPED, TWISTING HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE STEPPED FROM OUR BROOKVILLE DIESEL MANTRIP ONTO THE GROUND AT THE UNDLOADING AREA ON THE SURFACE AT THE END OF THE SHIFT, WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.

WHILE MOVING BARREL OF OIL THE BARREL SLIPPED AND HE WENT TO GRAB BARREL AND PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TRANSFER A MINER HEAD FROM A FLAT CAR TO A SCOOP BUCKET BY A CHAIN RATCHET. THE MINER HEAD ROLLED OVER CATCHING HIS FOOT UNDER IT.

EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING OPERATORS COMPARTMENT WHEN HIS FOOT GOT CAUGHT ON SOMETHING CAUSING HIM TO FALL FORWARD OUT OF CAB TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNPLUGGING A FLY ASH SILO. HE LATER LOOKED INTO THE SILO TO SEE IF ANY MATERIAL WAS LEFT. WHILE LOOKING THROUGH THE INSPECTION OPENING SOME FLY ASH DISLODGED AND HIT HIM IN THE FA CE. HIS EYES WERE FILLED WITH ASH. HIS EYES HAD TO BE WASHED OUT.

WALKING FROM ONE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT TO ANOTHER STEPPED IN GREASE LAYING ON GROUND, SLIPPED & FELL TWISTING LEFT ANKLE.

INJURED WAS HANGING BOLTER CABLE WHEN THE RIB ROLLED, PINNING HIM AGAINST THE SHUTTLE CAR AND CRACKING HIS STERNUM.

THE EMPLOYEE REPORTS THAT HE WAS LIFTINGAND SWINGING METAL COUNTERWEIGHT PLATES TO THE SIDE WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND THE WEIGHT SHIFTED CAUSING HIM PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

SLOPE CAR JUMPED TRACK WHILE HOISTING COAL. STRUCK 2 MINERS WHILE THEY WERE CHECKING THE JOB THAT THEY HAD REPAIRED.

EE WAS LOADING SANDPIPER PUMP IN MUCK BUCKET WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

WHILE SPLITTING STONE EE PINCHED RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN TWO STONES.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE MAKINT PUMPING ROUNDS. HE SPRAINED HIS RIGHT ANKLE. HE SAT ON HIS FOOT WHEN HE FEL.

GOT WATER IN BOOT.

WAS OPERATING A DEMO LAODER AND RAN INTO A LIGHT POLE. COMPLAINED OF STIFFNESS, SORENESS ON 6-27-96.

SWING BRAKE ON THE SHOVEL FAILED CAUSING CLAM TOSTRIKE INNER FRONT OF DUMP BED OF 85 TON HAUL TRUCK. FORCE CAUSED TRUCK TO MOVE FORWARD AND DOWNWARD VERY RAPIDLY. OPERATOR WAS TURNED SIDEWAYS, WHICH CAUSED HER TO STRAIN HER NECK, BACK,SHLDRS

WAS HELPING ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR PUT IN CENTER BOLT. HE WAS PUSHING BOLT INTO HOLE WHEN OPERATOR DROPPED DRILL HEAD ON HIS FOOT.

WHILE LOWERING TORCH TO GROUND FROM SCREEN CATWALK AREA SLIPPED AND FELL ON TO HAND RAIL. THE HAND RAIL BROKE AND EE FELL ON TO TAIL PULLY GUARD. FROM THERE FELL ONTO GROUND.

DORSAL BACK STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING DOWN LOOSE ROOF AND RIB MATERIAL WHEN A PIECE DISLODGED AND HIT HIM IN THE SHOULDER BLADE AREA.

EMPLOYEE TRIPPED OVER A SHUTTLE CAR CABLE AND STRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE AND BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROLLING UP AN EXTENSION CORD AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH A DAMAGED PART OF THE ELECTRICAL CORD.

WHILE OPERATING A HAUL TRUCK, EE FELT PIAN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

MANTRIP WAS COMING DOWN A HILL. THE TRACK BECAME SLICK CAUSING THE MANTRIP TO RUN INTO ANOTHER MOTOR.

EE WAS OPERATING #15830 WHEEL DOZER WITH THE DOOR OPEN. HE HAD HIS HAND ON THE DOOR JAM, THE DOOR SWUNG SHUT AND SMASHED HIS LEFT THUMB.

THE INDIVIDUAL WAS WALKING UP THE ENTRY, WHEN HE STEPPED ON A LUMP OF COAL AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE. HE WENT TO ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL EMERGENCY RM. THE X-RAYED HIS FOOT AND TOLD HIM TO KEEP IT ELEVATED.

WHILE REMOVING HITCH PIN FROM THE ENDLOADERS, EMP HAD HIS LEFT HAND ON TOP OF THE PIN TO BE ABLETO REMOVE THE PIN. OTHER EMP HIT THE PIN ON THE BOTTOM TO DRIVE IT UP. WHEN IT CAME UP IT PINCHE D EMPS FINGERS BETWEEN THE LOADERS, CUTTING THE MIDDLE FINGER IN 2 PLACES.

EMPLOYE EWAS SITTING ON SCAFFOLD WHEN IT SLIIPPED AND HE FELL. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING A BODY HARNESS AND HAD LAYNARD HOOKED OVER EDGE OF CHUTE, INSTEAD OF SAFTEY LINE. WHEN EMPLOYEE FELL THE L AYNARD SLIPPED OFF CHUTE.

TIRE FELL WHILE EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE TIREON HAUL TRUCK.

EE WAS SHOVELING SAND AT THE STACKER IN THE PLANT SITE AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

WHILE DRIVING EUCLID, HIT A BUMP HURT HIS BACK.

WALKING OUT OF PARTS TRAILER AND FELL. LANDED ONROCKS.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING GUTTERS, FOREIGN OBJECT ENTERED LEFT EYE.

EE WAS LOADING PALLETS INTO PALLETIZER AND FELT FOREIGN OBJECT ENTER LEFT EYE.

EE REPORTS HIS LEG GOT SORE FROM WALKING. NEW REPORT SHOWS EE TO GO FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON UNIT 1 COOLER INNER L SEAL. WHEN HE TRIED TO GET UP FROM UNDER THE COOLER TABLE HIS KNEE WAS INJURED. DIAGNOSIS: SPRAIN KNEE. HE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.

EE WAS STANDING IN STONE BIN TO HELP THE FLOW OF STONE. HE SLIPPED AND FELL HURTING HIS BACK AND NECK.

EE WAS PUNCHING SLATE HOPPER DUE TO THE HOPPER PLUGGED AND PULLED GROIN MUSCLE.

LOADING BELT STRUCTURE. SLIPPED AND STRAINED BACK AND NECK.

MANTRIP WAS COMING OVER A HILL. RAILS BECAME SLICK CAUSING THE MANTRIP TO RUN INTO ANOTHER MOTOR.

EMP STRUCK HIS ELBOW ON THE FRAME OF THE LOCOMOTIVE HE WAS RIDING IN.

EE'S RIGHT KNEE HIT THE CONCRETE FLOOR OF THE HEAVY EQUIPMENT SHOP WHEN HE FELL WHILE TIGHTENING A SCREW ON A TEREX FULLDOZER. EE WAS TIGHTENING A SCREW WITH A 42" LONG RATCHET WHE IT SLIPPED FROM THE SCREW AND HE FEL HITTING HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE FLOOR.

EE WAS HELPIGN PULL A BROKEN FACE CONVEYOR CHAIN BACK TOGETHER FOR CONNECTION. THEY WER USING TRHE SHEARER TO PULL A WIRE ROPE CONNECTED TO THE FACE CONVEYOR BY A SPLICE LINK. THE LINK BROKE., PART OF WHICH STRUCK EE ON HIS LEFT EAR. RESULTING INJURY WAS A SLIGHT CONCUSSION AND LACERATIONS TO THE EAR (LEFT0 AND HEAD.

ROCK FELL OUT OF ROOF STRIKING RMP ON THE RIGHT SIDE, RESULTING IN TWO BROKEN RIBS.

EE HAD CLIMBED IN SCRAPER TO START FRONT ENGINE. HE WAS CLIMBING OUT TO START REAR ENGINE. DOOR SLAMMED SHUT ON HIS HAND.

ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON PICKER LINE. HE PICKED UP A CRIB BLOCK TO THROW IT OUT OF THE WAY, AND THREW IT UPON THE RIB. HE FELL WITH IT, WHEN HE FELL HE TWISTED THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK AND BRUIS ED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

INJURED WAS STANDING BESIDE THE ROOF BOLTER IN #5 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK, 28" X 8" X 0 " TO 1 1/2" FELL BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HARD HAT AND RIGHT SHOULDER.

TWISTED ANKLE WHEN STEPPING DOWN FROM A FORK LIFT TRUCK.

INDIVIDUAL STATED THAT HE CLIMBED ACCESS LADDER TO THE TOP OF 533 ELEVATOR TO CHECK DUST LEAK. WHEN HE CAME BACK DOWN THE LADDER, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE USING A WRENCH TO LOOSEN A WATERLINE, PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

LOOSE MATERIAL FELL OFF OF SIDE OF MUCKER BUCKET.

STEPPED OFF LADDER, & TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE

WHILE REMOVING WOOD BLOCKING FROM CONVEYOR BELT (WHERE THEY WERE WHEN UNIT WAS MOVED), ONE OF THEM ROLLED BACKWARDS AND EE GOT HIS RT. LOWER LEG PINCHED BETWEEN 2 BLOCKS. SEVERE BRUISE & ABRAS ION OF RT. LOWER LEG AREA.

INJURED WAS OPERATING A D-7 DOZER TRACKING SLOPES AT KISER POINT. HE STATED THAT HE WAS GOING UP SLOPE FORWARD WHEN THE RIGHT TRACK WENT OVER A ROCK HE DECEHRATED THE ENGINE BUT THE CAB VIBRAT E AND RAISED UP CAUSING THE ENGINE TO STALL. HE SAID HE APPLIED THE BRAKES BUT DOZER ROLLED BACKWARD DOWN THE SLOPE APPROX. 100' AND STOPPED ABRUPTLY IN THE HALLOW CAUSING WHIPLASH TO NECK.

HIT KNEE

EE WAS RIPPING ROCK WITH A DOZER WHEN THE RIPPER SLIPPED OFF A SANDSTONE LEDGE CAUSING THE DOZER TO LUNGE BACKWARDS RESULTING IN SHIPLASH TO HIS NECK.

EMP WAS CLEANING WALKWAY ON BELTLINE AND LIFTED A ROCK AND IT WAS HEAVIER THAN HE THOUGHT AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BELT CONVEYOR IDLER AND HERNIATED DISC IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING ROUND STOCK OUT OF THE BANDSAW. ONE END FELL OFF THE STAND AND LANDED ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.

WALKING TOWARD SERVICE TRUCK AND STEPPED ON A RISE ON THE GROUND, LOCKING HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS TIGHTENING THE LUG NUTS ON COAL TRUCK TIRES. THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND BROKE HIS LEG.

WHILE CLEARING WASTE MATERIAL FROM SCRUBBER STORAGE TANK AREA, GOT KILN DUST INTO BOOT CAUSING 2 DEGREE BURN.

CAME IN LUNCH ROOM AT LUNCHTIME FOR LUNCH. STOPPED AND LEANED AGAINST DOOR FRAME - WALL. LIGHTNING STRUCK SOMETHING AND CAME IN BUILDING THROUGHWHERE EMP WAS STANDING.

EE HAD JACKED UP A TRUCK TO REPLACE A WHEEL, HE WAS PLACING BLOCKS UNDER TRUCK TO BLOCK IT UP WHEN HE STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN HIS BACK.

EQUIPMENT OEPRATOR AND PLANT OEPRATOR WAS WORKING ON REJECT BELT AND FELL OFF. HE WAS NOT WEARING HAULTER BELT AS COMPANY POLICY AND FELL OFF APPROX 10'.

EMP WAS CLEANING BENCH ABOVE A SHOT HIGHWALL ANDWAS PUSHING PARALLEL TO THE WALL. LOOSW MATERIALBROKE OUT UNDER THE DOZER AND IT ROLLED OVER ON ITS SIDE APPROX 20 FT, BRUISING ARM AND SHOULDER DR RESTRICTED HIM FORM WORK.

EE WAS WORKING ON THE TOP PANEL (LEFT SIDE) OF A FAN AIR DUCT. AS HE REMOVED THE 12TH BOLT, THE TWO SIDE WALLS MOVED IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS, CAUSING THE PANEL HE STAYING ON TO MOVE TOWARD THE GROUND. HE STRUCK HIS NOSE AGAINSDT THE TOP EDGEOF THE LEFT PANEL, AND FELL ON BOTH KNEES. THE SECTION HE WAS WORKING ON MEASURED 11' X 6' X 17'.

WELDING METAL WHEN TERE WAS A FLASH BACK. EE WAS USING FACE GUARD, BUT IT BURNED UNDER GUARD. MEDICINE FOR EYES WERE ALL THE TREATMENT TO THE EYES.

WHILE WORKING ON A LINER INSTALLATION ON A LIME PUMP, EMP STRUVK HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON THE CASE.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN THE REMOVAL OF A POWER CENTER BEING PULLED BY A 488 SCOOP, WHEN EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN RIB AND SCOOP. EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A FRACTURE TO HIS RIGHT HIP (GIRDLE AREA )

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING ASHES FROM THE THERMAL DRYER WITH A WATER HOSE. THE WATER ON SOME HOT MATERIAL CREATED A STEAM ROLL BACK WHICH BURNT HIM.

WHILE LOADING HAULTRUCKS, EMPLOYEE FELT A MAJOR JOLT. EMPLOYEE'S HEAD AND SHOULDERS BROKE THROUGH THE BACK WINDOW. EMPLOYEE STRAINED A NECK MUSCLE AS A RESULT. JOLT WAS DUE TO A FAULTY LOADER SEAT.

EE WAS WORKING ON THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. HE WAS PRYING ON A LOWER GRATE WITH A 1 1/2" X 10' BAR. THE LOWER GRATE MOVED UP CAUSING THE BAR TO HANG IN WORN ARCH OF LOWER GRATE. THE OPPOSITE END OF BAR CAME DOWN PINNING EE S LEFT LEG.

INJURED AND CO-WORKER HAD COMPLETED DRILLING A 6" X 15' HOLE FOR DEGAS GROUTING. THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF RETRIEVING THE DRILL STEEL AND BREAKING APART WITH TWO 36 INCH PIPE WRENCHES. INJUR ED AND CO-WORKER WERE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE DRILL AND WERE BREAKING A JOINT OF STEEL. WHEN THEY PUSHED DOWN WITH THEIR WRENCHES, INJURED'S WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS RIGHT KN

WHILE MOVING SET OF EQUIPMENT DOORS AND HIS KNEEBENT THE WRONG WAY. HE WAS LIFTING EQUIPMENT DOOR INTO TRUCK.

WAS CARRYING WATER MANIFOLD TO REMONNECT TO WATERLINE OVERING BELT MOVE. HE TRIPPED OVER BELT STRUCTURE AND HURT HIS BACK.

A 20 LB BOLT THAT WAS BEING CLEANED, ROLLED OFF A TABLE, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON FOOT ABOVE THE STEEL TOE PORTION OF HIS SAFEY SHOE.

OPERATING SCOOP RAN OVER PIECE OF COAL OR ROCK SITTING IN UPRIGHT POSITION BOUNCED OPERATOR UP CAME DOWN ON TAIL SAID HURT OLD BACK INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING CONTINUOUS MINER BY REMOTE. HE WAS STANDING ON RT SIDE AND IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO MINING MACHINE. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK HAD PREVIOUSLY FALLEN ONTO TOP OF MINER. AS EMPLOYE E OPERATED MINER THE DRAW ROCK VIBRATED OFF MACHINE STRIKING OPERATOR.

RIB ROLLED OFF AND KNOCKED HIM INTO MINER.

EMP WAS WORKING ON ROOF BOLTER, USING A PRY BAR WHEN HIS CHEST BEGAN TO HURT.

EE WAS DRIVING A RUBBER TIRED JEEP, AND BUMPED HIS HEAD ON THE MINE ROOF. THE SEAM HEIGHT IS APPROX 48" IN THIS AREA.

EMP WAS DESCENDING A STOCKPILE BERM, LOST HIS FOOTING, FELL AND INJURED HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT ON THE PRIMARY CRUSHER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED, HE WAS JERKING ON CHAIN WHICH WAS ATTACHED TO A METAL PLUG IN RAW COAL DISTRIBUTION TANK. THE PLUG HAD COAL AND ROCK ON IT. HE STATED HE HURT HIS NECK WHILE JERKING CHAIN.

EE WAS DRIVING ON A STEEL PIN W/HAMMER, A PIECE OF METAL FLAKE WENT INTO HIS LT EYE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES W/SIDE SHIELD.

KNEE PAIN STARTED 5-13-96 WHILE CLIMBING ON AND OFF THE DRILL FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRILLING AND SETTING SIGHTS IN THE MINE. KNEE PAIN PROGRESSED UNTIL 6-24-96 AT WHICH TIME THE EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL TO HAVE HIS KNEE CHECKED BY DR.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE SCOOP. A PIECE OF ROOF COAL MEASURING APPROX. 2.5" X 8" WIDE FELL FROFM THE ROOF AND STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER.

INJURED WAS PULLING MINER CABLE WHEN HE FELL, DEVELOPING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS HELPING TO MOVE A DREDGE AND GOT A STEEL SPLINTER IN HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND. EE THOUGHT HE HAD REMOVED ALL FO THE METAL BUT HAD NOT. EE REPORTED INCIDENT TO ME 6-25-96.

INJURED WAS TAPING A SHUTTLE CAR CABLE WHEN THE CAR RAN OVER RIGHT FOOT CAUSING A BRUISED TO FOOT.

EE WAS SITTING AT OPERATOR'S SEAT WHEN SWIVEL SEAT POST MOUNT BROKE & SHATTERED. THIS CAUSED WHOLE SEAT ASSEMBLY & EE TO FALL BACKWARDS ON TO EXPANDED METAL FLOOR. BRUISED RIGHT HIP & LACERATE D RIGHT ELBOW. LACERATION REQUIRED 5 STAPLE.

THE EMPLOYEE REPORTS THAT HE AND A CO-WORKER WERRE LOADING A SPOOL OF 5/8" STEEL ROPE INTO THE SCOOP BUCKET WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS USING A METAL BAR TO PRY AN ELECTRIC MOTOR INTO PLACE. METAL BAR SLIPPED & THE BAR HIT EE IN HEAD ABOVE EYE.

EE SAID 2800 SHOVEL DROPPED LARGE ROCK INTO TRUCK WHILE LOADING. SHOVEL OPERATOR SAID ROCK STUCK IN BUCKET AND FELL OUT INTO TRUCK. HE SAID HIS RIGHT LOWER BACK, LEFT SHOULDER, AND LEFT LEG HU RT. HE SAID HE GOT SICK AND DIZZY. HE SAID HE HEARD A POP IN HIS BACK BELOW THE LEFT RIBS.

PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK WHILE USING A SLATE BAR TO PUT MATT CHAIN BACK TOGETHER ON 14.5 MINER.

THE INJURED PERSON WAS CUTTING OUT BEAM ON THE RIGHT REAR WING SECTION OF 8750 DRAGLINE, WHEN ONE END OF THE BEAM FELL DOWN BEFORE THE OTHER END WAS CUT OFF. WHEN THE BEAM FELL, IT MADE CONTAC T WITH THE INJURED S RIGHT INDEX FINGER CAUSING SIMPLE FRACTURE.

EE STEPPED OFF A LADDER AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

EE WAS MOVING RAMP TO PUT IT AWAY WHEN THE RAMP STARTED TO FAL. EE TRIED TO STOP IT AND TWISTED HIS BACK RESULTING IN STRAIN OF LOWER LEFT BACK.

INJURED WAS WALKING DOWN TRACK ENTRY AND SLIPPED OVER RE-RAILER FELL LANDING ON LEFT SIDE.

THE ALLEGDED ACC OCCURRED WHILE THE EE WAS RELEASING THE TENSION OFF OF A CONVERYOR BELT CLAMP USING A 11/2" WRENCH. HE STARTED TO PULL THE NUT LOOSE ON THE CLAMP BOLT AND SUFFERED A PIERCING BURNING PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT SIDE OF THE BACK

HE BACKED TRUCK TO DUMP AREA THAT WAS BERMED TO PREVENT TRUCK FROM BACKING OVER SLOPE AND RAISED BED ABOUT 3' WHEN SLOPE GAVE WAY UNDER REAR WHEELS ADN TRUCK WENT OVER BACKWARDS AND TRUNED OVE R ON RIGHT SIDE.

EMP HAD BEEN WORKING IN MOTOR PIT FOR THE ENTIRESHIFT USING A HAND HELD GRINDER WHEN HE BEGAN EXPERIENCING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. FIRST WORKDAYLOST BECAUSE OF ACCIDENT WAS 7-1-96.

CREW JUST HAD A SAFETY MEETING. THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING THE STATIC LINE TO RE TIE OFF AT THE RIDGE LINE TO INSTALL RIDGE VENTING. THERE WAS AN 18" WIDE OPENING ALONG THE ENTIRE RIDG E LINE. EE WALKED UP TO THE RIDGE LINE FACING IT, GOT TO THE EDGE OF THE OPENING THEN TURNED AROUND & STEPPED BACK INTO IT & FELL THROUGH.

EMP WAS WORKING ON GRAVEL BARGE FRAME. FRAME BROKE THE WAS HOLDING COME A LONG. COME A LONG FELLAND HIT HIM AND INJURED THE FRONT OF HIS HEAD.

EMP ALLEGES THAT WHILE WALKING AROUND THE CONSTRUCTION SITE, HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE AND HAS A SLIGHT FRACTURE. EMP REFUSED MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THE TIME OF INJURY BUT DID GO TO HOSPITAL FOR TREA TMENT TWO DAYS LATER ON A SUNDAY.

EMPLOYEE NOTICED SWELLING IN RIGHT KNEE WHILE ATHOME. STATED IT WAS FROM STRIKING KNEE EARLIER IN THE MONTH. CONTINUED WORK UNTIL HE NOTICED SOME DISCOMFORT AND REQUESTED TO SEE A DR.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLIGN TUBE AND GOT LEFT FOOT CAUGHT IN HOSES. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL BACKWARDS OFF THE DECK, AND TWISTED AND PULLED LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS LIFTING LAVA ROCK OUT OF THE CONE.

WHILE WAITING FOR REPAIRS ON A SHUTTLE CAR, A RIB IN #7 PILLAR ROLLED OUT AND STRUCK EMPLOYEES LEFT SHOULDER AND BACK.

INJURED WAS DRILLING AN 8 FT ROOF BOLT HOLE. HAD DRILLED 4 FT AND HAD PUT 2ND. PIECE OF DRILL STEEL ON. THE STEEL FLEW APART AND FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

EE WAS MOVING CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE OUT OF ROADWAY AND FELT PAIN IN BACK.

EMP HAD BROUGHT A UNIT OF 5' BOLTS INTO SD2100 ON A FLATCAR. HE PUT HIS BACK AGAINST THE RIB ANDPROCEEDED TO PUSH THE BOLTS OFF THE FLATCAR WITHHIS RIGHT FOOT. FELT PAIN IN STOMACH AREA.

EMP WAS HELPING CHANGE A CABLE AND HOLDING ON TOA BAR SUPPORTING THE FULL SPOOL. ANOTHER EMP SETHIS END OT EHR BAR DOWN AND EMP HAD HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER PINCHED BETWEEN BAR AND SPOOLS USED TO SUPPORT THE BAR.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM THE 1ST ADDCAR. HE STEPPED ON THE RUBBER FLASHING ON THE SIDE OF THE CAR PART OF THE DUST CONTROL THINKING IT WAS METAL. THE RUBBER FLEXED DOWNWARD AND EE FELL ABOUT 3 1/2-4' TO THE LAUNCH WALKWAY AND THEN ABOUT 3 1/2 TO THE GROUND. THE RUBBER FLASHING WAS REMOVED TO PREVENT A RECOURRENCE.

EE STATED THAT HE PICKED UP ONE CORNER OF METAL STEPS TO PUT CRIB BLOCK UNDER THEM AND STARTEDD FEELING SICK.

EMPLOYEE AS HELPING CHANGE A BLOW BAR INSIDE THECRUSHER; CABLE BECAME STUCK AND EMPLOYEE USED A HAMMER TO TRY TO UNJAM THE CABLE, HAMMER HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE RIGHT HAND

EE WAS USING WATER HOSE TO CLEAN ROCK OUT OF TROUGH FOR BRIBETY IS LOCATED WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A ROCK THAT WAS THROWN BY FACE CONVEYOR.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO REPAIR A DOZER TRACK WHEN THE PRY BAR HE WAS USING SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS FOOTING. HIS LEFT LEG WENT OUT TO THE SIDE STRAINING HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN AND DR DIAGNOSIS WAS SPONDOLYSIS SPINYLOTHESIS.

WHILE BREAKING APART A DRILLING HAMMER, HIS HAND GOT PINCHED BETWEEN THE BOWL AND THE WRENCH.

STARTED TO CHANGE SEATS AND DRAW ROCK FELL AND HIT HIM ON HIS HAND AND CUT 1 FINGER.

LIFTED 5 GAL BUCKET OF OIL ONTO LOADER SAID HURT BACK 6-21-96. THEN HELPED LEVEL TRACK FOR OUTBURNER SAID HURT BACK WENT HOME. DID NOT WANT TO GO TO DOCTOR 9-25-96. WENT TO DOCTOR 9-26-96. RET URNED TO WORK 9-27-96, WORKED NEXT WEEK. OFF WORK- DOCTOR SAID DO NOT GO TO WORK.

INJURED WAS RIDING IN A MANTRIP. POLE BEGAN ARCING ON TROLLEY WIRE. JUMPED FROM MANTRIP.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE CUT HAY ON 6-21-96 FOR 12 HURS AND PROVIDED TRACTOR MAINTENANCE FOR 1 HR WITH NO BACK PAIN. EMPLOYEE FURTHER STATES HE AWOKE THE MORNING OF 6-22-96 WITH BACK PAIN.

WHILE CROUCHING UNDER THE CRUSHER, EMP WAS PUTTING A CONE TOGETHER, AND PULLED HIS LOWER RIGHT LEG.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS PULLING ON A 2" X 100' SECTION OF WATER LINE AND FELT A PAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS LOWER BACK. HE CONTINUED TO WORK, KNEELING DOWN TO CONNECT THE LINES TOGETHER. WHEN HE TRIED TO GET UP HE HAD SEVERE PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK MOVING DOWN HIS LEFT LEG.

EE REPORTS THAT HE WAS RIDING ELEVATOR UP THE SHAFT WHEN THE ELEVATOR STOPPED SUDDENLY, JARRING HIM AND CAUSING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. NOTE: BECAME REPORTABLE ON 7-11-96 WHEN INJURED INFORMED EMPLOYER HIS ABSENCE BEGINNING 7-8-96 WAS DUE TO INJURY.

4C LONGWALL SETUP--THEY WERE USING A SHIEVE WHEEL & WIRE ROPE TO PULL STAGELOADER CHAIN & FLIGHT INTO STAGELOADER. A FLIGHT BECAME JAMMED & SCOOP STOPPED PULLING. EE WALKED TOWARDS STAGELOADER WHEN THE CHAIN SUPPORTING SHIEVE WHEEL BROKE & WIRE ROPE BECAME FREE & STRUCK HIS LOWER LEFT LEG, CAUSING BRUISE.

ON 6-20-96 WHILE LOADING COAL WITH LOADER REPORTED TO FOREMAN THAT HE WAS SICK, RT SIDE AND LEG WAS HURTING. WAS TAKEN TO ER DR WHO DIAGNOSED POTIENT AS STRAIN WITH RETURN TO WORK ON 6-21-96. REQUESTED TO SEE ANOTHER DR 7-5-96 ADN SCHEDULEDSURGERY. EE STATED THAT HE DID NOT HAVE AN INCIDENT AND LATER SAID HE RAN OVER A ROCK. NO WITNESSES. WORKERS COMP IS TREATING AS ILLNESS.

FELL BACKWARD OVER OPENED FILE CABINET DRAWER.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING UP A CHAIN ON A 6" PIPE AND THEN TO A 966 LOADER. SHORT TIME LATER EMPLOYEE NOTICED PAIN IN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE WAS UNABLE TO WORK ON 6-25-96 AS A RESULT OF THIS. THIS INJU RY IS AN AGGRAVATION OF A PREVIOUS INJURY ON 5-21-96.

EE WAS CLEANING AND POSITIONING MILING MACHINE RAILS. WHEN HE LIFTED ONE END OF A RAIL HE STRAINED HIS BACK MUSCLES.

WHILE PULLING BOLTS OUT OF A PIVOT SHAFT ON A D10N, THE BOLT GAVE WAY TOO SOON AND EMPLOYEE HYPEREXTENDED HIS LEFT ARM.

SUPERVISOR CLAIMS THAT WHILE LIFTING BELT STRUCTURE ON A BELT MOVE IN 2 NORTH HIS BACK BECAME SORE. CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS NOT GETTING HELP, AND OVEREXERTION.

INJURED WAS BETWEEN TWO JEEPS IN THE SHOP & IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGING A JEEP LIGHT THAT WAS BURNT OUT. ANOTHER JEEP CAME INTO THE SHOP & STRUCKHIS JEEP. WHEN THE JEEP MOVED FORWARD HIS LEG(RI GHT LOWER) WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO JEEPS. RIGHT LEG HAD MULTIPLE FRACTURES AND HIS LEG WAS PLACEDIN CAST.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR, HIT THE RIB AND WAS THROWN INTO THE DECK OF MACHINE, HIT MOUTH AND JERKED NECK AND BACK.

WEAVING CABLE THRU ROOF SHEET TO JOIST, CUT KNUCKLE ON LEFT HAND PARTIAL TENDON LACERATION, REQUIRED SITCHES.

EE WAS TAKING OUT THE BREATHER PLUG ON THE RIPPER HEAD OF THE CONTINUOUS MINER WITHA CRESCENT WRENCH AND THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF AND HE HIT HIS ELBOW ON A MINER BIT LUG.

EE WAS GETTING OFF A TRACTOR AND HER BATTERY PAK, THAT WAS ATTACHED TO HER WORK BELT GOT HUNG UP ON SOMETHING AND SHE FELL. THE BATTERY PACK JAMMED INTO HER SIDE AND LOWER RIB CAGE, WHICH CAUS ED HER SOME DISCOMFORT. THE EE CONTINUED TO WORK. ON 6-25-96 SHE WENT TO THE DR COMPLAINING ABOUT BLOOD IN HER URINE. HER FIRST DAY OFF WORK IS 6-26-96.

WORKER ON WALKWAY WITH HANDRAIL REMOVING PIECE OF EXISTING CHUTEWORK. WORKER WASHED OFF TO WALKWAY. CHUT ME6TAL WAS SUPPORTED BY 2 ONE TON CHAIN HOIST. A NEW EYELET WAS ON ONE END, USED EXISTI NG EYELET ON OTHER. EXISTING EYELET GAVE WAY, CAUSING METAL TO STRIKE WALKWAY KNOCKING IT DOWN. WORKER FELL APPROX 9' WITH THE WALKWAY INJURING LOWER RIGHT LEG.

EE WAS HAULING DE TO THE STOCK PILE SITE AND WHEN HE WENT AROUND THE CORNER HE SAID THE STEERING LOCKED UP AND HE COULD NOT STEER AND HE RAN INTO AN ONCOMING SCRAPER.

EE WAS STANDING TOO CLOSE TO AN 8" PLASTIC PIPELINE WHILE IT WAS BEING MOVED. PIPE SLID DOWN LOWER FRONT OF LEG AND MADE A SMALL SCRAPE ON SHIN. EE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AS A PERCAUTION. HE WA S X RAYED, GIVEN ADVIL, AND RELEASED.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAND CRANK TO LOWER A BELT. HE LOST HOLD OF THE CRANK. IT SWUNG BACK AND HIT HIM IN THE WRIST.

WHILE HOLDING A BOARD SUPPORTING A CONVEYOR BELT THAT THE CONNECTOR BOLTS WERE BEING CHISELED OF A SLIVER OF METAL FLEW FROM CHISEL INTO LEFT HAND INDEX FINGER. THE FINGER BECAME INFECTED AFTE R INITIAL FIRST AIDE RESULTING IN LOST TIME DAYS

EE WAS OPERATING 988B HIGHLIFT ON DAY TO DAY BASIS, THE SEAT WAS BROKE ON THE LEFT SIDE FOR APX 2YRS. HE DID NOT REPORT THE BROKEN SEAT TO EMPLOYER.

EE LACERATED RIGHT HAND ON PORTABLE CRUSHER.

ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS AND HIT HIM ON RIGHT LEG.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND BOTTOM AREA NEAR SHOP, HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS RIGHT LEG IN BACK OF LEG.

EE HAD MOVED A DRILL FEED CYLINDER TO THE EDGE OF THE SUPPLY CAR TO LOAD IT INTO THE TRACTOR TO TRANSPORT IT TO THE MACHINE. HE STARTED TO TURN AND WALK AWAY WHEN THE JACK ROLLED OFF THE SUPPL Y CAR ONTO HIS LEFT FOOT. HE WENT TO THE ER WHERE THEY XRAYED HIS FOOT AND PUT ON AN ELASTIC WRAP. HE HAD BROKEN TO 2ND BONE BEHIND THE LEFT TOE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF 35 TON HAUL TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL.

EE ALLEGES WHILE CLOSING SCREEN BOX 2 WASH PUMP LIQUOR GOT INTO RIGHT BOOT. THERMAL/CAUSTIC BURN 2 DEGREE TO RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED HE LIFTED A 20'X3/8" CHAIN AND PLACED IT ON FRONT OF GRADER.

SLIP AND HEARD LEFT KNEE SNAP.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF A HIGH SPOT IN THE BOTTOM TWISTED HIS UPPER LEFT LEG. DR'S REPORTS SAID THAT HE HAS A STRAIN IN HIS BACK. HE WAS OPERATING A BOLT MACHINE WHEN HE NOTICED HIS PAIN.

EE WAS STANDING IN A VERSA TRAC BUCKET WHEN HE BENT OVER TO PULL A CHAIN LOOSE FROM THE JACK, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

TAIL PULLEY BEARING STARTED TO GO BAD ON F-5 CONVEYOR. EMP BENT OVER TO GET A BETTER LOOK AT IT.A PIECE OF IT FLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

VICTIM STATED WHEN WALKING ALONG SUPPLY ENTRY, A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EE DISMOUNTED A RAIL HAULAGE TRAIN, FOOT STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE. THE ACCIDENT BECAME REPORTABLE WHEN EE BEGAN LOSING TIME FROM WORK DUE TO THE INJURY.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS INSTALLING BELT STRUCTURE. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK BUT CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL HIS SHIFT ENDED AT 7:00 AM. HE DID NOT REPORT INJURY UNTIL THE NEXT DAY.

THE INDIVIDUAL WAS WALKING UP THE ENTRY TOWARDS THE SUPPLY CAR WHEN HE TRIPPED AND FELL. THERE WAS AN OFFSET IN THE PAVEMENT THAT CAUSED HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE. THERE WAS NOTHING LYING IN THE WALKWAY. AN IMMEDIATE REPORT WAS FILED ON 6-10-96. THE INDIVIDUAL DID NOT GO TO THE DOCTOR OR MISS ANY WORK DAYS UNTIL 7-8-96.

WHILE LOADING HOSE TO WATER TRUCK, HE PULLED CHEST MUSCLES.

WORKING IN 48 CVP. EMPLOYEE WAS BARRING DOWN. SLAB HIT BAR, BAR CAME UP AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN JAW. DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 6-24-96. JAW BROKEN IN THREE PLACES.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OFF CRUSHER AND HIT RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS RIDING OUT OF MINE IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK. HE HAD HISD FOOT OUTSIDE THE CONFINES OF THE BED OF THE TRUCK AND HIS FOOT STRUCK THE DOOR FRAME WHILE THE TRUCK WAS PASSING THROUGH IT.

NO. 3 TAILPIECE SECTION BELT FEEDER. EMPLOYEE WAS BUSTIN GROCK OUT OF THROAT OF FEEDER. HE SLIPPED, STEPPED ONTO BOTTOM BELT. BELT PULLED LEFT FOOT INTO TAILPIECE.

WAS PICKING UP TOOL BAG AND FELT PAIN IN BACK. WORKED UNTIL 6-24-96 WHEN HE WAS DISABLED DUE TO BACK SPASMS.

EE STEPPED OFF THE FORKLFT IN THE MUD, AND HIS ANKLE TURNED.

1 SOUTH #1 BELT DRIVE, WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN OFF DRIVE, HE AGGRAVATED LEFT KNEE.

DRIVING SCRAPER TOO FAST, HIT A BUMP AND PANICKED, HIT BRAKES TOO HARD AND SCRAPER SLID OVER THE EMBANKMENT (TRACKS PART OF SCRAPER ONLY). HIT HIS HEAD INSIDE SCRAPER. FELL FROM SCRAPER 6-8' A FTER RELEASING SEAT BELT. INJURED BACK IN FALL.

WALKING BACK TO HIS MOTOR & STRUCK HIS HEAD ON AN OLD SHUTTLE CAR SNUB.

EMP WAS TRAMMING ROOF BOLT MACHINE IN #4 ENTRY ON LUBE MAINS SECTION. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FORM ROOF AND STRUCK HIS LEFT LEG AND FOOT.

EE WAS EXITINGH HIS TRUCK AND HIT HIS LEFT HEEL HARD ON THE GROUND AS HE CAME DOWN, CRACKING BONES IN HIS HEEL.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS RIDING OUT OF MINE ON TRACTOR AND STRUCK ROOF SUUPORT MAT CAUSING CUT ABOVE LEFT EYE. SAFETY GLASSES HELPED REDUCE EXTENT OF INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS POSITIONED ON A LADDER IN THE HOPPER TO PLACE PLASTIC SHEETING WHILE PERFORMING REPAIR WORK. EMP SLIPPED FROM LADDER AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS PLUGGING LINE INTO GREASE PUMP, PISTON CAME DOWN STRIKING LEFT RING FINGER. THE IMPACT CAUSED A BREAK IN TIP OF FINGER AND LACERATION REQUIRING FOUR STITCHES.

AS THE INJURED EE WAS DRILLING THE HOLE FOR THE LAST ROOF BOLT IN THE SET UP A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK 3'X3'X6" FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT ARM CAUSING ABRASIONS AND THEN ON HIS RI GHT FOOT CAUSING FRACTURES TO THREE METATARSAL BONES.

THE WEATHER WAS RAINING LIGHTLY. GROUND WAS MUDDY. THE DRAGLINE OILER WAS STEPPING ONTO THE TRACK OF THE MACHINE. HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE FIRST STEP OF THE TRACK. THE OILER FELL BACK ON HIS FEET BUT DID NOT FALL DOWN, WHICH RESULTED IN A BACK INJURY.

WHILE GOIN DOWN A RAMP @ APPROX 5-8 MPH, EE LOST HIS DYNAMC BRAKE AND IN DOING SO, STOPPED HIS TRUCK BY HITTING A BERM. THIS RESULTED IN PAIN TO EE'S NECK AND LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AS HE TWISTED AROUND TO THROW SHOVEL FULL OF COAL INTO RAW COAL CONVEYOR . RECURRENCE OF INJURY 4-12-95.

THE DECEASED & A CO-WORKER BOTH CUSTOMER TRUCK DRIVERS WERE OUT OF THEIR VEHICLES NEAR THE SHIPPING AREA WHEN A HAUL TRUCK DROVE THROUGH THE AREA & STRUCK BOTH INDIVIDUALS. [SEE ATTACHED COPY OF FATAL]

MECHANIC WHO WAS WORKING ON AN EUCLID R-50, WAS CLIMBING DONW THE LADDER AND SLIPPED. HIS RIGHT FOOT HIT A LOWER STEP AND TWISTED.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PULL A PICKUP FROM THE MUD WITH A BULLDOZER, A HYDRAULIC LINE BURST, SPRAYING OIL AGAINST THE BLOWER, IGNITING THE OIL AND SENDING A BALL OF FLAMES TO THE SIDE OF THE DOZER WHERE EE WAS STANDING, BURNING HIM ABOUNT THE ARMS AND HEAD.

ON 6-19-96, WOKE UP WITH A SORE BACK. ON 6-20 & 6-21 IT WAS STIFF AND SORE. ON 6-22 EMP HAD TROUBLE BREATHING BECAUSE OF SORE SPOT ON BACK. 6-24EMP WAS WORKING AT THE PONDS GUIDING THE CRANE & WALKING UP & DOWN THE HILL INTO THE POND & EXPERIENCED SHORTNESS OF BREATH & PAIN IN THE MIDBACKALSO THERE WAS A BRUISE ON THE MIDBACK TO THE LEFT.

EE STEPPED OFF THE BACK STEP OF A FLOAT TRUCK ONTO A ROOT AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EE WAS CUTTING A BOLT HOLE WITH A TORCH. A PIECE OF SLAG FLEW INTO HIS LEFT EAR. HE WENT OFF ON 7-1-96, BECAUSE OF INFECTION IN HIS EAR.

INJURED FRACTURED HIS LEFT HIP WHEN HE FELL OFF THE 2ND RIGID RUNG OF A HAUL TRUCK LADDER WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO CLIMB IT WITH A MULTI-METER IN ONE HAND AND ONLY ONE HAND FREE.

EE WAS TIGHTENING THE BOLTS ON HOLDING BLACE OF DOZER. WRENCH SLIPPED, HE FELL ON FLOOR & SPRAINED THUMB ON RIGHT HAND.

EMP WAS REMOVING BELT LINE. PICKED UP A PIECE OFBELT STRUCTURE TO PUT IN COAL HAULER AND INJUREDHIS BACK.

EE WAS CARRYING TOOL BAG AND THRU THE SHIFT A COUPLE OF JOINTS OF WATER LINE FOR THE MINER, WHEN HE SAID HE FELT PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER. CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS OVEREXERTION AND GETTING HELP. MINER INCENTIVE MAY BE A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP. OK, MINING EQUIP/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR, COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS NOT A FACTOR.

EE WAS SITTING ON SHUTTLE CAR WAITING FOR THE OTHER CAR TO CLEAR THE HAULWAY WHEN THE RIB ROLLED OFF STRIKING HIM IN THE LEFT SHOULDER & HEAD--EE WAS TREATED & RELEASED AT HOSPITAL ER.

EE WAS ATTMPETING TO PICK UP A BOX OF GLUE OFF OF THE REAR OF THE ROOF BOLTER. FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK & STOMACH.

EE HAD REPLACED CONTACTS IN ELECTRIC BOX, AND FORGOT TO REPLACE COVEROVER CONTACTS THAT PREVENT ARCING WHEN HE TURNED BOX ON CONTACT ARCED FORCING BOX DOOR OPEN INTO HIS LEFT HAND SPRAIN HIS W RIST.

WORKING ON MOTOR OF CONVEYOR DRIVE OF SMALL STACKING CONVEYOR. CONVEYOR WAS NOT CONNECTED INTO SYSTEM YET. CONVEYOR FRAME WELD BROKE CAUSING JACK TO FALL INTO HEAD BOX BRUISING SIDE & RIGHT S HOULDER.

HURT HIMSELF PULLING THE TUBE AND HIS LEFT SHOULDER POPPED.

PAIN IN UPPER BACK WHILE DRIVING BELLY DUMP OVERROUGH TERRAIN.

BLOWING FUEL OUT OF CYLINDER BY CRANKING ENGINE AND IT BLEW EE'S HAND AGAINST THE MUFFLER.

EE WAS USING BRUTE STENGTH TO MOVE A SCREEN CLOTH INTO POSITION FELT PAIN IN R SHOULDER.

EE WAS WELDING AND EE AND EE NEEDED THE STINGER. EE HANDED IT TO ME TO HAND TO OTHER EE AND AS I REACHED OVER THE EQUIPMENT I BRACED MYSELF AND MY RIGHT HAND. WHEN THAT HAPPEND THE CURRENT WEN T THRU MY BODY AND BURNING MY RIGHT HAND TO THE METAL. LATER I FOUND OUT THERE WAS A BARE WIRE THAT ARCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING WAMA GUN TO CLEAN BYPASS DUCTWHEN HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING CRIB BLOCKS WHEN CO-WORKER TOSSED ANOTHER CRIB BLOCKS SMASHING EMPLOYEE'S MIDDLE FINGER AND BREAKING SAME.

EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING TIME 6-18-96 DUE TO INJURY.

INJURED WAS LOADING ROCKDUST IN SCOOP WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK AREA. INJURED WORKEDUNTIL 6-21-96 IN WHICH TIME HE WENT TO DR AND RECEIVED MEDICATION.

EE AND COWORKERS HAD TAKEN HOSES AND HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE OFF OF "DOLLY'S" ON MONORAIL AND LOADED THEM INTO BUCKET OF SCOOP. THEY WERE ALLOWING "DOLLY'S" TO FALL INTO BUCKET OF SCOOP FROM 100' C UT BACK WHEN HIS RING FINGER LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT IN PINCH POINT AS "DOLLY'S" WERE REMOVED.

INJURED WALKING DOWN #3 ENTRY ON THE MAIN NORTH 4TH WEST SECTION. HE SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EE WAS DRIVING A DUMP TRUCK WHICH HIT A HOLE IN THE ROAD. EE SAYS HE WAS WEARING HIS SEAT BELT, BUT WAS THRU AROUND THE CAB OF THE TRUCK. HE COMPLAINS OF LOW BACK PAIN.

A ROCK FELL OFF A TRUCK, EE PICKED IT UP TO MOVE IT OUT OF THE ROAD, WHEN HE DID, HE STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN THE LOWER BACK. HE WAS WEARING A SAFETY VACK SUPPORT AT THE TIME OF INJURY.

WORKING ON 1 CONVEYOR CHANGING OUT WITH BLADES. PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER PART ON BACK.

EE STATED HE WAS OPENING A VALVE AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS INTESTINE AREA.

EE HAD PARKED HIS MACHINE AFTER FINISHING LOADING TRUCKS. HE WAS SITTING IN THE CAB, WITH ENGINE RUNNING, FILLING OUT HIS LOADING FORM WHEN FIRE ERUPTED FROM UNDER HIS SEAT. EE IMMEDIATELY JUM PED FROM MACHINE. EE NOTICED OIL ON FLOORBOARD AND REVVED HIS ENGINE SLIGHTLY THAT WAS WHEN FIR ERUPTED.

MECHANIC WAS WORKING ON THE A/C. OPERATOR WAS HELPING HIM. HE SAID THAT HE STEPPED DOWN ON WALKWAY OUTSIDE OF DOOR ON RIGHT SIDE OF CAB WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT SIDE ON COVE R OVER HEAD LIGHT.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FIX A BELT SKIRT AT THE RM-9 TAILPIECE. HE WAS USING SLATE BAR TO REPOSITION THE SKIRT WHEN THE BAR CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE BELT THUS RESULTING IN THE BAR STRIKING HIS HE AD AND FACE AREA.

MAN WAS SERVICON MINER AND A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK MEASURING 2 FT BY 2 FT BY 4 IN STRUCK HIM IN BACK AREA.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL. SELF RESCUER STRUCK SMALL OF HIS BACK. HE CONTINUED TO WORK BEFORE SEEKIN MEDICAL ATTENTION. FIRST DAY MISSED WAS 8-2-96.

EMP WAS LIFTING A DRIVE LINE FROM THE GROUND UP TO HIS WAIST. THIS DRIVE LINE WEIGHS APPROX 100LBS. LATER THAT SHIFT HE COMMENTED TO HIS COWORKER HE HAD HURT HIS LOWER BACK SHILE LIFTING THE D RIVE LINE.

REMOVING DISCHARGE LINE FROM FILTRATE PUMP. WHENPIPE WAS REMOVED VACUUM BEGAN TO TURN PUMP BACKWARDS AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED. SHEAVE CAME APART,WENT THROUGH BELT GUARD HITTING EMPLOYEE IN LOWE R LEFT LEG.

EE WAS LOADING TIMBERS ON 2ND RIGHT PILLAR SECTION AND STRAINED HIS GROIN.

EE WAS LIFTING A ROCK OUT OR THE TAILPIECE AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

ROCK FELL AND HIT MAN ON RIGHT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND HIT HIM IN THE BACK.

EE WAS STANDING BESIDE DECK OF MOBILE BRIDGE REVIEWING SWIS SAFE WORK INSTRUCTIONS WITH BRIDGE OPERATOR THAT HAD RELIEVED HIM, WHEN OUTBY BRIDGE WAS ENERGIZED BY ANOTHER EE. EE ON OUTBY BRIDGE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE OUTBY BRIDGE AWAY FROM 4" FREST WATER LINE, DURING THIS PROCESS THE EE AT THE INBY BRIDGE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN CANOPY OF MOBILE BRIDGE AN RIB. EE SUSTAINE INTERNAL INJURI

EE WAS DRILLING TOP (FROM OPERATOR'S SIDE) WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK/DUST STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT EYE.

BUILDING STOPPING AND PULLED A MUXLE IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER, VICTIM SAID.

EE WAS OPERATING THE MINER WHEN HE BENT DOWN TO MOVE THE MINER CABLE OUT OF HIS ENTRY. WHEN HE DID THIS, HE BEGAN FEELING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND LEFT HIP. HE WENT TO A CHIROPRACTOR.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF LADDER, TWISTING HER LEFT ANKLE.

EE HAD COMPLETED HER SHIFT AND WAS LEAVING THE PLANT. INSTEAD OF USING THE ESTABLISHED RAIL CROSSING, THE EE CROSSED THE RAILROAD TRACKS THAT RUN BETWEEN THE PACKHOUSE YARD AREA AND THE MAIN O FFICE PARKING AREA. WHILE STEPPING OVER ONE OF THE TRACKS, THE EE STRIPPED AND FELL. HER LEFT SIDE HIT ONE OF THE RAILS. EE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 6-20-96.

THE INJURED WAS ON A PLATFORM ON THE BACK OF A WATER TRUCK. AS HE WAS DISMOUNTING HIS FOOT SLIPPED FROM THE STEP. HIS ARM SLID DOWN THE HANDRAIL, AS HE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF, AND CAME IN CONT ACT WITH THE PLATFORM THE LADDER IS ATTACHED TO.THIS CAUSED A LACERATION TO HIS LEFT FOREARM WHICH REQUIRED SUTURES.

SCAFFOLDING SET ON WOODEN BED OF BOOM TRUCK WHENLEFT REAR LEG OF SCAFFOLDING FELL THROUGH ROTTENBED CAUSING SCAFFOLDING TO OVERTURN.

EMPLOYEE WAS EXTINGUISHING FIRE ON GENERATOR WHEN GENERATOR WHEN GENERATOR EXHAUST FAN BLEW EXTINGUISHING AGENT UNDER SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO EYES.

AS EE WAS SCALING DOWN LOOSE ROCK FROM ROOF, A PIECE OF THE ROOF FELL OUT AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT LEG JUST BELOW THE KNEE, CAUSING SOME SWELLING.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING STEEL FOR WASH PLANT, GOT STEEL SPLINTER IN RIGHT ARM.

EE WAS OPENING A AIR LOCK WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

CARRYING 5 GAL BUCKETS OF LIQUIFIED GYPSUM FLOOR AREA WAS WET.

CHANGING SCREEN CLOTH AND WAS LIFTING A CLOTH ONTO THE SCREEN AND BACK STARTED HURTING. EMP HAS A BACK PROBLEM FROM A PREVIOUS INJURY AT ANOTHERPLANT. THIS IS AN AGGRAVATION OF A PREVIOUS INJU RY.

HE WAS GREASING THE CRUSHER AND CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER AND LOST HIS BALANCE. HIS RIGHT LEG WENT THROUGH A RUNG AND FELL, ENDING UPSIDE DOWN, HANGING FROM THE LADDER.

EMP WAS DUMPING A TRUCK LOAD OF OFF SPEC CLINKERIN THE LOWER PARKING LOT. THE BOX WAS NOT LOWERED ON THE 10 WHEELER. EMP ATTEMPTED TO DRIVE THROUGH UNDERPASS, HITTING THE BOX, AND PUSHING CHES T AGAINST THE STEERING WHEEL. EMP CLAIMS TO HAVEBEEN WEARING HIS SEAT BELT.

EE WAS UNLOADING STEEL RAIL. ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED ONE ON HIS FOOT. FOOT WAS BRUISED.

WALKING BY SMALL ELEVATOR AND PUT MY HAND ON A RAIL AND A ROCK FELL FROM ELEVATOR BUCKET. STRUCKME ON THE LEFT HAND.

FELL OFF CONCRETE PAD 2-3' HIGH WHILE CLEANING AREA UNDER PLANT SCREENING AND CRUSHING AREA. (SECONDARY PLANT). TWISTED RIGHT HIP WHEN LANDING. COMPLAINED OF PAIN TO SUPT. HE WAS TAKEN TO CORN WALL HOSPITAL E.R. FOR TREATMENT.

EE ALLEGES WHILE TURNING A VALVE ON 3 PRECIPITATOR HE FELT SOMETHING HURT LIKE A CHARLIE HORSE INT HE TOP OF HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

JUMPED INTO RAILROAD CAR FROM TOP TO CLEAN CAR. ABOUT 4-5' JUMP.

INJURED CLAIMS WHILE WORKING IN THE CONCENTRATOR HE WAS ASSIGNED TO WORK IN THE SECONDARY BASEMENT LINE 4. INJURED CLAIMS HE WAS PULLING ON A SNUB PULLEY, CHAIN SLIPPED AND HE HURT LOWER BACK.

EE WAS ROOF BOLTING IN MAINS SECTION--#6 ROOM WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL INJURING HIS LEFT SHOULDER...

WHILE LIFTING CRIB BLOCKS, AS HE TURNED HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

STEPPED IN A CULVERT AND TWISTED THE ANKLE.

EE WAS STOMPING MUD FROM FEET WHEN SOMETHING PENETRATED BOOT AND PUNCTURED RT FOOT.

AN INTOXICATED INDIVIDUAL ENTERED THE OFFICE OF TWIN PINES AND WHEN ASKED TO LEAVE, THE INDIVIDUAL BECAME VIOLENT AND STRUCK INJURED IN FACE AND A ALTERCATION OCCURRED CAUSING INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS GATHERING SUPPLIES FOR TODAYS BLASTATTEMPTED TO LIFT 60LB BOX OF PENTEX 16 PRIMERS.SUFFERED BACK PAIN.

EE WAS USING A CUTTING TORCH WHEN A PIECE OF SLAG STRUCK RIGHT EYE FROM BENEATH HIS SAFETY GLASSES. HE SUFFERED A CORNEAL ABRASION.

EE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE THE SHUTTLE CAR BOOM JACK PIN, WHEN A PIECE OF DIRT OR COAL FELL INTO HIS LEFT EYE. HE DID NOT REPORT THIS UNTIL 3 AM, 6-18-96, WHEN HE LEFT WORK AND WENT TO ER. THEY C OULD NOT FIND ANYTHING IN HIS EYE, BUT IT WAS IRRITATED, THEY PUT A PATCH ON HIS EYE, PRESCRIPTION OF LOTAID, AND SULFACETAMID OINTMENT. HE WAS TO RETURN TO DR. ON 6-19-96.

LIFTING MINER CABLE TO PULL OUT OF ROAD FOR RAMS TO RUN BY IT AND SAID HE WAS HURTING IN RIGHT TESTICLE.

TRYING TO RECONNECT TO AN OLD INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN BACK OF A PICKUP TRUCK AND THE TRUCK RAN OVER A ROCK. EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THE JOLT AGGRAVATED HIS EXISTING BACK CONDITION.

STANDING ON CONE CRUSHR, RELEASING CHUTE, CHUTE BROKE LOOSE, SWUNG OUT ON A CHAIN AND SWUNG BACK AND HIT BOTH FEET.

TWO WORKERS WERE PUSHING EMPTY 1 TON ORE CARS. ACOWORKER PUSHED AN ORE CAR OVER THE LEG AND FOOTOF COWORKER.

I WAS HELPING OUT THE BLASTING CREW, HAULING 50# BAGS OF ANFO UP A STEEP SLOPE TO LOAD SHOTHOLES. I FELT A SHARP PAIN IN MY LOWER BACK AND I CONSULTED MY PHYSICIAN THE NEXT DAY. AN MRI SHOWED 3 BULGED DISCS IN MY LOWER BACK, ULTIMATELY REQUIRING SURGERY ON 7-3-96.

WORKER WAS BUILDING BRATTICE WHEN A ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE IN THE KIDNEY AREA.

WELDING IRON PLATE IN CRUSHER WHEN PLATE SIDE HITTING EE S FINGER RESULTING IN A LACERATION.

EE WAS STANDING UPON A RAISED PIPE TO ALLOW HERSELF TO REACH COAL DISCHARGE CHUTE THAT WAS STOPPED UP WITH ROCK DUST SACKS. AS SHE STEPPED DOWN HER FOOT ANKLE TURNED OVER CAUSING HER TO FALL. WITH ARM STRIKING FOOT WALL AS SHE ATTEMPTED TO BREAK HER FALL. ACCIDENT ACCURRED AT 40 NO. 1 HEADER.

LARGE STONES WERE ON TRAVEL-WAY OF HAUL TRUCK. VICTIME DISMOUNTED CAB TO MOVE THE STONE AND STEPPED ON ANOTHER STONE.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS CLIMBING INTO OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT OF LOCOMOTIVE WHEN BACK WAS INJURED. PRIOR TO INJURY TO BACK THE MOTOR CREW HAD UNLOADERED BATTERIES, CRIB TIES AND OIL.

EMPLOYEE INJURED HIS BACK WHILE PULLING ON A MINER CABLE.

AN INTOXICATED INDIVIDUAL ENTERED THE OFFICE OF TWIN PINES. WHEN ASKED TO LEAVE, THIS INDIVIDUAL BECAME VIOLENT, STRIKING HIM AND AN ALTERCATION ENSUED.

EE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE WALKING CAUSING CAP LIGHT BATTERY TO STRIKE HIM IN THE RIGHT SIDE HURTING HIS RIBS.

A PIECE OF MIDDLE MAN MEASURING 64" L X 6" H X 0-5" W ROLLED FROM RIB STRIKING VICTIM ON LOWER RIGHT SIDE OF BACK.

THE INJURED WAS ON TOP OF BELT AND CONT. MINER WAS PUSHING BACK ON THE LO-LO STRUCTURE, WHEN THE STRUCTURE BUCKELED AND PUSHED HIM INTO THE ROOF CATCHING HIM BETWEEN THE ROOF AND BELT STRUCTU RE.

EE HAD DISMOUNTED HAULER AFTER SHOWER OF RAIN, SLID IN UD AND FELL, TRYING TO BREAK FALL WITH RIGHT ARM. EE RECEIVED NO MEDICAL TREATMENT AND HE STARTED MISSING TIME FIRST DAY OFF 8-21-96.

EE WAS HANGING VENT TUBING WHEN A CHAIN SLIPPED CAUSING TUBING TO FALL AND STRIKE HIM IN HEAD.

EE TRIPPED OVER A HOSE AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT KNEE.

DRILLER WAS LOWERING DRILL LEVELING JACKS. WEIGHT SHIFTED ON MACHINE CAUSING JARRING OF OPERATOR AND TWISTED OPERATOR'S BACK.

OPERATOR STEPPING OFF FUEL TRUCK, MISSED A STEP AND TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF ON LADDER RAIL. RESULTED IN PULLED MUSCLE.

WAS GETTING OUT OF SCOOP AND CAUGHT FOOT BETWEENSEAT AND PANIC BAR TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE. WAS DISABLED ON 7-8-96 FOR EVENTUAL KNEE SURGERY.

EMP WAS WALKING FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER. ASHE STEPPD FROM ONE LEVEL TO ANOTHER, HE STEPPED ON A LARGE PRY BAR THAT WAS LEFT ON THE FLOOR, CAUSING HIM TO SLIP AND SPRAIN HIS RIGHT KNEE.

THE EE PICKED UP A BAG OF ROCKDUST AND RAISE UP INTO THE ENERGIZED TROLLEY WIRE AND THEN FELL STRIKING HIS LOWER BACK ON THE TRACK RAIL.

EE WAS WORKING IN SHOT MATERIAL WHEN THE DOZER RAN OVER A ROCK AND JOLTED HIM AROUND IN THE CAB.

EE AND FOREMAN WAS LIFTING BUCKET ROCK DUSTER ONTO A MANTRIP INORDER TO TRANSPORT OUT OF THE MINE. INDOING SO, EE CLAIMS THAT HE PULLED OR STRAINED BACK ( LOWER).

EMPLOYEE REPORTS THAT HE WAS LIFTING A PUMP BREAKER BOX TO HANG WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMP WAS WORKING IN THE SURFACE SUPPLY YARD REMOVING DAMAGED HANDRAILS FROM THE PANLINE. WAS USING A RATCHET AND SOCKET TO REMOVE THE BOLTS. SOCKET SLIPPED OFF THE HEAD OF THE BOLT AND EMP FELL BACKWARDS AND STRUCK HIMSELF AGAINST THE SPILLPLATE OF ANOTHER PANLINE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A BATCH OF THIN METAL PLATES. HE LOST CONTROL OF THE PLATES AND ONE S TRUCK HIS ARM CAUSING A TWENTY STITCH LACERATION.

EE APPROACHED THE TOP OF THE BOARDING LADDER OF 54 SHOVEL WHEN HE LOST HIS GRIP AND FELL APPROX. 8-10' TO THE GROUND. HE EXPERIENCED A LEFT WRIST FRACTURE AND BEGAN MISSING TIME ON 6-17-96.

2 EAST #1 LONGWALL BELT DRIVE. PUSHING ON TORQUE CONVERTER (DURING INSTALLATION) WITH LEFT FOOT. TORQUE CONVERTER KICKED AROUND AND CAUGHT FOOT AGAINST SPEED REDUCER.

CRAWLED UNDER A MACK TRUCK TO PULL THE OIL PLUG.PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK FROM OLD INJURY.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST FINISHED PARKING DOZER AT END OF SHIFT AND BEGAN TO EXIT MACHINE. HE STEPPED ONTO THE RIGHT HAND TRACK AND WALKED TO FRONT OF MACHINE. HE THEN PLACED FOOT ON BLADE BRACE ASSE MBLY BRACKET WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED. HIS LEFT FOOT CAUGHT UNDER BLADE BRACE BAR AS HE FELL BACKWARDS APPROX. 2' TO THE GROUND INJURYING HIS LEFT KNEE.

MOVING 55 GAL. OIL DRUMS FOR PRIMARY CRUSHER.

EMP WAS HOOKING A CHAIN TO A SHIELD, WHEN THE CHAIN TIGHTENED IT HIT EMP ON RT KNEE.

TRYING TO REMOVE STEEL BEAM FROM JAW CRUSHER. BEAM GOT STUCK IN THE FEED HOPPER AND LIFTED THE HOPPER. HIS LEFT FOOT GOT CAUGHT AND HE ALSO HURT HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND WRIST.

ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE PIECE OF STEEL FROM MAG. SEPERATOR TRASH CHUTE. PIECE OF ANGLE IRON DROPPED FROM ABOVE AND CRUSHED LEFT FOREFINGER.

EE WAS USING A SCREWDRIVER TO SCRAPE AN OLD PATCH FROM A BLOWER. THE SCREWDRIVER BLADE CONTACTED THE MOVING BLOWER ROTOR. THE SCREWDRIVER FORCED DOWNWARD CATCHING EE S RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN THE HANDLE AND SUPPORT.

EE WAS ON CRUSHER ASSISTING WITH ADJUSTMENT. CHAIN WAS HOOKED TO EYE OF CRUSHER AND BEING LIFTED BY LOADER. EE PLACED HIS HAND ON CHAIN NEAR SIDE OF THE CRUSHER CATCHING FINGER. DAMAGER WAS AV ULSION NAILBED AND SKIN--3RD FINGER OF LEFT HAND. THE TOP PART OF FINGER UP TO THE FIRST KNUCKLE WAS PARTLY GRINDED. BOTTOM PART OF FINGER INTACT. NO BONE CUT. SKIN GRAFT DONE.

FLASH BURNED EYES WHILE WELDING.

EE WAS WORKING ON CONTINUOUS MINER. HE REMOVED A RETAINING PLATE, LAID THE PLATE AGAINST HIS LEFT LEG PAIN DEVELOPED.

WELDING ON WIRE FEED MACHINE. FLASH CAUSED DAMAGE TO EYES.

EMP WAS CLEANING #7 ROADWAY AND WAS GETTING READY TO ROCK DUST WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS AND RIB AND HIT HIM ON HIS NECK,SHOULDER AND BACK.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND INJURED HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING A PUMP FROM THE PINNER.

EE WAS SHOVELING MUCK UP AROUND A BELT TAILPIECE. HE STEPPED ON A CEMENT BLOCK, AND TWISTED HIS LEFT FOOT.

WHILE ROOF BOLTING TOP, WORKER SLIPPED OFF BOTTOM AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.

OFF WORK DUE TO SAME PROBLEM AS ORIGINAL 9-12-96INJURY.

EE WAS SHOVELING BELT OUTBY THE TAILPIECE, SPLICE CAUGHT SHOVEL & JERKED HIM AROUND & TWISTED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A TWIST FROM A PUMP HOSE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMP WAS CARRYING A BELT STAND FROM THE B-2 LONGWALL BELTLINE THROUGH AN OPEN CROSSCUT NEAR THE HEADGATE. HAD SAT THE STAND DOWN ON THE MINE FLOOR NEAR THE MONORAIL AND THEN PROCEEDED TO THE OT HER SIDE OF THE MONORAIL TO PICK IT UP AGAIN. WHILE PICKING THE STAND UP THE SECOND TIME HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN BACK AND HIP. CHIROPRACTOR TREATMENTS STARTED 6-26-96.

EE WAS HELPING LOAD AN AIR COMPRESSOR INTO A TRUCK, WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING STRAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA.

EE WAS HANGING CABLE, WHEN ANOTHER EE WAS RUNNING TAKE UP REEL AND DID NOT KNOW THAT THE OTHER CEE WAS HANING THE CABLE. CABLE HIT EE ACROSS FOREHEAD NOSE CAUSING EE TO FALL BACKWARD LANDING O N TAILBONE.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS DISMOUNTING A TRACTOR USING THE APPROPRIATE HANDHOLDS. WHILE STEPPING ONTO PUSHARM AND CHANGIN HANDS ON GRABRAIL HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED ON DOZER TRACKS. HE FELL ONTO THE P USHARM AND CVAUGHT HIS LEFT LEG & HIP BETWEEN TRACKS AND PUSHARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING TRIPLE GATE CHUTE CHOKE, BUT FAILED TO DEENERGIZE AIR CANNONS. CANNON FIRED THROWING MATERIAL IN HIS FACE.

INJURED STATED HE WAS OPERATING DOZER. INJURED HIS BACK WHILE OPERATING DOZER. RAN OVER SOME LARGE ROCKS, JARRING OPERATOR.

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE HE WAS DOING CLEAN UP WITH A SHOVEL NEXT TO THE CONVEYOR A ROCK FELL FROM THE CONEYOR AND HIT HIM ON THE TOP PART OF HIS LEFT FOOT.

CLIMBING STEPS FROM STEDMAN TO UPPER MILL, HIT TIP OF RIGHT FOOT ON STEP CAUSING A CONTUSION.

EMP WAS COMING DOWN STEPS FROM TOOL TRAILER WHILE CARRYING A TRUCK AXLE AND TRIPPED AND FELL, HURTING HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS SERVICING MINER. WHILE CARRYING A BUCKET OF OIL TO THE OTHER SIDE OF MINER, HE WALKED INTO MINER TAIL HURTING HIS NECK.

EE WAS USING FORLIFT TO PLACE ITEMS DOWN. WHEN WEIGHT AND OR PRESSURE WAS REMOVED OFF OF THE FORKLIFT IT CAUSED FORKLIFT TO SWING AROUND. SLIDE SIDEWAYS AND HIT EE. HE DID HTINK HE WAS CLEAR F ROM THE MACHINERY.

HELPING TO LIFT TRASH CAN AND PULLED OR STRAINEDA MUSCLE.

TEH 2132 CREW WAS ON THEIR WAY OUTSIDE AT THE END OF THEIR SHIFT. AT A LOW AREA IN THE MINE ROOF, EE FAILED TO GET HIS HEAD DOWN LOW ENOUGH AND STRUCK A SUPPORT BEAM. HIS FAILURE TO FOLLOW SAF E WORK PROCEDURES RESULTED IN AN INJURY. HE SUSTAINED A MINOR LACERATION ON THE HEAD.

EE WAS WALKING AROUND A SHUTTLE CAR TO MAKE REPAIRS. HIS FOOT BECAME ENTANGLED IN A PIECE OF VENTILATION CURTAIN. THE CURTAIN CUASED HIM TO FALL. HE TRIED TO BREAK HIS FALL BY STICKING OUT HIM ARM. IN DOING SO HE SUPPERED A DISLOCATED SHOULDER AND STRAINED LEGAMENTS.

EE DISCONNECTED AN AIR HOSE, WITHOUT TURNING OFF THE AIR SUPPLY, CAUSING A BLAST OF AIR WHICH FORCED DIRT & DEBRIS UNDER THE SKIN OF HIS RIGHT HAND.

HAND ON BLADE OF SCOOP. BLADE WAS DRAWN IN BY OPERATOR AND MASHED EMP'S FINGERS BETWEEN BLADE AND BUCKET.

EE WAS OBSERVING INSTALLATION OF SOUTH BELT DRIVE. FRESH WATER LINE BLEW APART--KICK BACK, STRUCK EE IN RIGHT KNEE.

GIBCO TRUCKING DRIVER WAS TARPING HIS SEMITRUCK ALONG MINE ACCESS ROAD. WHEN HE ROLLED THE TARP OVER FROM GROUND LEVEL, A FEW TIE DOWN STRAPS DID NOT COME OVER THE SIDE. THE DRIVER CLIMBED UP ON THE SIDE OF THE TRAILER TO THROW THE STRAPS OVER AND FELL OFF. THE DRIVER COULD HAVE REACHED THE STRAPS FROM GROUND LEVEL USING A METAL POLE ON THE TRUCK.

INJURED WAS TIGHTENING A PIPE WITH A PIPE WRENCHWHEN IT SLIPPED, CUTTING HIS LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND.

EE WAS CHANGING BATTERIES ON THE NO.2 RAM CAR WHEN JUMPER GROUNDED CAUSING A FLASH FIRE THAT BURNT HIS LEFT HAND. ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON SECTION WEST 1.

HURT GROIN AREA OF BODY WHILE SHOVELING BENTONITE.

EE WAS EXITING THE REAR OF A POWDER TRUCK AFTER COLLECTING HIS PERSONAL BELONGINGS. EE MISJUDGED HIS FOOTING AND FELL TO THE GROUND. EE LANDED ON HIS LEFT ELBOW AND WRIST.

ALLEGED INJURED WANTED OFF TO PLAY IN BASEBALL GAME, NOT ALLOWED TWO WEEKS IN A ROW. TOOK DAYS OFF CLAIMING INJURY. RETURNED TO WORK ON THE 17TH, LEFT AT NOON & NEVER RETURED. TOLD WORKERS HE PLAYED IN TOURNNMENT AND DIDN'T CARE IF HE GOT FIRED BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO COLLEGE. HE WAS NOT FIRED BECAUSE OF ACCIDENT. HE TOLD FELLOW WORKER'S IF HE DIDN'T RETURN THAT HE QUIT.

EE STATES THAT HE HURT HIS RIGHT ELBOW WHILE CLIMBING INTO THE CAB OF A SCOOP. HE STATES THAT HE STRUCK HIS ELBOW AGAINST THE GAUGE BOX. HE STQATES THAT HE BRUISED HIS RIGHT ELOBW. EE WAS SEEN BY DR. AT TIME OF ACCIDENT. DR. RELEASED HIM TO WORK. ON 7-3-96, EE WAS EXAMINED AGAINS BY DR. AND GIVEN AN INJECTION IN THE RIGHT ELBOW.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOWER A METAL SHIELD COERING THE CONTINUOUS MINER SCRUBBER DUCT WHEN THE SHIELD FELL ON THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT HAND RESULTING IN A CONTUSION TO HIS RIGHT HAND.

INJURED HAS A PRE-EXISTING BACK INJURY THAT OCCASSIONALLY RESULTED IN SHARP LOWER BACK PAIN DURING THE COARSE OF CONDUCTING RROUTINE WORK ACTIIVITIES AT THE PREPARATION PLANT. INJURED HAS REM

WELDING WITH WELDER BESIDE HIM. BURNS SUSTAINED FROM OTHER WELDER. EYES RECEIVED BURNS.

EE STATED HE WAS IN AXLE BOX ON 20 TON TRUCK, HOOKING UP LOEADS ON WHEEL MOTOR. WAS LAYING IN UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION PULLING WIRES TO HOOK UP.

EMP WAS UP ON A LADDER CLEANING MATERIAL FROM THE LOG WASHER WHEN A LARGE ROCK OR CLAY BALL FELLAND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD, CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE A FRONT TIRE ON POWDER TRUCK WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS LEFT FORE FINGER BETWEEN WHEEL RIM AND HUB, TAKING OFF FINGERNAIL AND SPLITTING FINGER ABOUT 1 1/2 INCH.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING SCRUBBER ON MINER. THE COVER FELL ON HER FINGERS AND WHEN SHE GOT DOWN SHEE STRAINED HER BACK.

CAUGHT LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN A STEEL RAIL AND THE MINE ROOF. WAS TAKING MONORAIL DOWN IN A WORKED OUT AREA.

EE WAS RIDING THE FRONT OF A SKID STEER LOADER. HE FELL OFF AND AS MACHINE PASSED BY HITTING HIM HE WAS INJURED.

TIGHTENING BOLT AND FOOT SLIPPED OFF LADDER LOST BALANCE AND FELL.

PUTTING PIN IN DRAW BAR. SCOOP MOVED CAUSING PINTO PINCH LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN PIN AND TRANSFORMER, CAUSING LACERATION REQUIRING 10 SUTURES.

LOADING 2 BOXES OF RESIN AND INJURED BACK.

EMP WAS RIFING ON A TRACK JEEP AND WHEN THE TROLLEY POLE JUMPED OFF THE TROLLEY WIRE A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF AND STRUCK EMP ON THE KNEE. CAUSE OF ACC WAS LOOSE MATERIAL. COMPLIANCE W/RULES/REGS NOT A FACTOR, MINER ATTITUDE MAY BEA FACTOR AND SPEED OF TRAVEL. MINING EQUIP/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQPT WAS OK.

WAS GETTING OUT OF COAL TRUCK, SLIPPED AND WHEN STEPPED ON PAVEMENT TWISTED ANKLE. LEFT ANKLE.

HE WAS WORKING WITH A PARTNER INSTALLING A CHUTE LINER WEAR PLATE AND AS THEY WERE LIFTING THE WEAR PLATE INTO PLACE THE MAGNET WAS ACTIVATED AND PULLED THE WEAR PLATE TO THE MAGNET PINCHING I NJURED S HAND.

EE WAS GETTING ON EAST PORTAL CAGE. HE WAS PULLING ON CAGE DOOR, LATCH HUNG WHILE PULLING ON DOOR AND CUT LITTLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

AS EE WAS SHOVELING ON BELTLINE, HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMP ALLEGES WHILE STANDIGN BETWEEN #4 AND #6 PRESSES HE REMOVED HIS PPE(GLASSES) TO WIPE SWEAT FROM FACIAL AREA WHEN CAUSTIC SPLASHED INTO HIS RIGHT EYE. EYES WERE FLUSHED FOR APPROX 30 MIN TH EN EMP WAS TRANSPORTED TO HOSP FOR TREATMENT.

WAS TRYING TO MOVE 50 GALLON DRUM PULLED BACK MUSCLE.

WHILE CLEANING OUT A CONCRETE MIXER DRUM USING A JACKHAMMER, ONE PIECE DISLEDGE ABOVE HEAD & FELL STRIKING HEAD KNOCKING OFF HARD HAT & CUTTING HIS HEAD. THE CUT REQUIRED 5 STITCHES WHICH ARE CLOSE TO THE HARD HAT LINE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO WEAR HARD HAT SO LOST TIME HAS RESULTED.

WHILE FUELING UP COMPRESSOR TRUCK, EMP SLIPPED OFF THE MACHINE AND FELL OFF THE SIDE OF THE TRUCK. HEIGHT OF FALL WAS APPROX 4 FEET.

WHILE WORKING ON 1757 CRANE RADIATOR, EE TWISTED HIS KNEE WHEN APPROACHING MACHINE. REASON FOR LATE REPORT: EE WAS TREATING FOR KNEE PROBLEMS PRIOR TO REPORTING INCIDENT, INVESTIGATION REQUIR4 ED TO DETERMINE WORK RELATEDNESS OF KNEE PROBLEMS.

EE WAS PLACING BELT SKIRT ON CONVEYOR BELT. HIS FOOT SLIPPED, HITTING HIS LEG ON THE HAND RAIL.

FOREMAN HANDED HIM A HOT SCREEN WHEN THEY WERE CHANGING SCREENS ON THE CRUSHER. EE WASN'T LOOKING AT WHAT HE WAS HANDED AND BURNED HIS HAND.

THIS EMPLOYEE FELT PAINS IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AS HE DROVE RAILROAD SPIKES WITH A SPIKE HAMMER.

AT FACE XC #2 TO #3 IN 3G. STANDING IN WALK THRUBOLTER, LEFT RIB ROLLED OUT ONTO BOLTER CAUSING AND AVULSION TO RIGHT HAND.,

EE WAS ROOF BOLTING IN THE FACE OF 2 RM. HE WAS INSTALLING THE PIN CLOSEST TO THE RIB WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF A ROCK LAYING ON THE FLOOR. THE ROCK WAS ABOUT 3" THICK. THE MOVEMENT OF HIS FOOT OFF THE ROCK CAUSED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK,THE DR SAID HE HAD A PINCHED NERVE. EE HIS HAD A HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS.

EE ALLEGES WHILE MOVE A 1' X 5' X 1/4" PLAT STEEL RAMP (WEIGHT APPROX. 100#) HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SIDE.

WHILE MAKING A BELT MOVE, EE PULLED ON BELT STRAINING HIS BACK.

ON 3G SECTION WHILE STANDING IN WALK THRU BOLTERPIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM AND ANOTHEREMP. WORKED 6-14-15-96 AND WAS DIAGNOSED ON 6-15-96 WITH 4 FRACTURED RIBS.

WELDING ON GRIZZLY BARS. CHIPPING OFF AREA WHERE WELDING. PIECE OF WELDING WENT INTO RIGHT EYE. WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING CABLE IN A TIN SHACK WHEN HE PASSED OUT AND HIT HIS HEAD.

EE STATED HE WAS GETTING OUT OF MOBILE BRIDGE THE GATE WAS UP AND HIS LIGHT BATTERY MADE THE GATE DROP. CATCHING HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE GATE AND THE FRAME OF THE MBC.

MAN CLIMBED DOWN LADDER OF CRUSHER PLATFORM, STEPPED ON A ROCK. ROCK ROLLED OUT FROM UNDER FOOT TWISTING RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE REMOVING ROCK FROM FEEDER WHEN ROCK FELL OFF FEEDER GLANCING ACROSS EMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND.

ROCK LODGED IN JAWS OF CRUSHER. USED A HAMMER TOBREAK IT UP. ACTION CAUSED EXTREME PAIN IN LEFT WRIST. GIVEN PRESC. FOR PAIN AND INFLAMMATION. APPLIED A CAST TO IMMOBILIZE FOR 4-6 WEEKS. EXTRE ME SPRAIN POSSIBLE INTERIOR DAMAGE TO LIGAMENTS A PARTICLE FLOATING IN JOINT.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES WHILE HELPING LIFT KILN BRICKING EQUIPMENT ACROSS CONVEYOR BELT THE EQUIPMENT FELL ON HIM.

MOVING MINER TP #7 HEADING PULLING CABLE OUT OF ROADWAYS AND PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.

SHOVELING PLANT ON KNEES AND TWISTING WHEN INJURY OCCURRED.

NO ACCIDENT. WAS WALKING UP A FLIGHT OF STEPS AND BACK DISLOCATED BACK FROM PREVIOUS INJURY 2 YEARS AGO.

EE WAS SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER. HAMMER HEAD CAUGHT EDGE OF GRATING. MOMENTUM CAUSED HAND TO HIT OBJECT BEING HAMMERED.

TAKING DOOR OFF OF FEEDER DOOR FELL ON RIGHT FOREARM. BRUSING HIS ARM.

RIGHT HAND CAUGHT ON BAGGER MACHINE CLAMP.

HE WAS DRILLING ROCK WITH A JACKHAMMER AND DROPPED THE JACKHAMMER ON HIS LEFT FOOT.

EE STEPPED TOWARD BOLTER TO CUT WIRE ON BUNDLE OF BOLTS AS MACHINE WAS TRAMMING FORWARD. EE WAS OPPOSITE SIDE OF OPERATOR, HE PLACED HIS FOOT IN THE PATH OF THE BOLTER TIRE. ROOF BOLTER RAN OV ER HIS FOOT CAUSING FRACTURE.

THEY WERE STRIPING DIRT, ONE GOING UP HILL, ONE GOING DOWN. HIT EACH OTHER. OPERATOR ERROR. DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT EXTENSIVE. IMPAIRMENT TO PERSON NONE.

EE SAID HE WAS WAITING ON MINER TO CUT CROSSCUT THROUGH AND A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON RIGHT ANLGE HE SAID IT BUSTED OPEN WOUND THAT HE HAD ON 5-31-96 SEPERATE INCIDENTS.

EMP WAS RUNNING SCOOP. HAD BACKED UP AND WAS WAITING ON OTHER SCOOP WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK, ABOUT 2' ROUND AND 3" THICK, FELL ON HIS RIGHT LEG.

EE WAS GETTING OUT OF BUCKET AT SHAFT COLLAR--SLIPPED & TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CHANGHE A SHEAR JACK HOSE ON #3 MINER. HE TWISTED AROUND TO GET SOME TOOLS OFF THE MINER WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN HIS LOWER BAKC. DR. THINKS HE HAS A PINCHED NERVE. HE SENT HIM TO A CHIROPRACTOR.

TRYING TO RECONNECT TO AN OLD INJURY.

LOADING MINER CABLE ON HOOKS OF MINER FELT SHARP PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF DRAWROCK APP. 8" THICK WHILE ALIGNING THE MACHINE.

EE WAS RELEASING BRAKE ON RAILCAR WHEN HE REPORTED LIMESTONE DUST OR DIRT FELL INTO HIS EYES EYES BECAME IRRITATED DUE TO, I SUSPECT, RUBBING EE DID NOT SEE A DR HOWEVER MISSED THE FOLLOWING D AY BY CALLING IN WITH IRRITATED EYES.

WHILE EE WAS GETTING LOADED WITH MATERIAL THE TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING BOUNCED FROM THE WEIGHT OF THE MATERIAL BEING LOADED. THIS CAUSED STRAIN TO BE PUT ON EE NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING MUD FROM A HOLE AND CAUGHT HIS HARDHAT ON AN OVERHEAD STRINGLINE. WHILE TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE STRINGLINE, THE EMPLOYEE TWISTED HIS BACK AND IMMEDIATELY FELT A SHARP P AIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS HELPING REPAIR CONTINUOUS MINER HE WAS HELPING LIFT RUB RAIL INTO POSITION WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE RUB RAIL AND THE CONTINUOUS MINER.

EMP WAS WORKING WITH OTHER WELDERS CHANGING THE BUCKET ON THE 1570 B-E DRAGLINE. SOMETIME DURINGTHE SHIFT, A PARTICLE LODGED IN LEFT EYE. DID NOT NOTICE IMMEDIATELY WHEN THE PARTICLE ENTERED E YE BUT DURING THE EVENING AFTER SHIFT, THE DISCOMFORT INCREASED. WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

EMP WAS WALKING UP A TWO STEP SET OF STEPS WHEN HE TRIPPED AND FELL. TRIED TO BREAK HIS FALL BY CATCHING HIMSLEF WITH RIGHT HAND, FRACTURING HISRIGHT WRIST.

EE WAS STANDING IN AREA ADJACENT TO STAGELOADE RWHEN A ROCK FELL BETWEEN CHANNELS STRIKING EE ON BACK OF HEAD AND ON LEFT FOOT.

INJURED PERSON WAS LOADING DRAGLINE TOOTH TIPS FROM A PARTS DOCK INTO A VEHICLE. WHEN SETTING A TIP DOWN HE PINCHED HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN ONE TOOTH TIP AND ANOTHER. EACH TOOTH TIP WEI GHTS APPROX 150 LBS. THIS PINCHING ACTION CAUSED A LACERATION TO THE FINGER DRAGLINE TOOTH TIP FOR 1570-W.

EMP WAS REMOVING FAN FROM ENGINE, IN A CROWDED CONDITION DUE TO ENGINE BEING INSIDE OF A TRAILORAND REMOVING FAN WITH HIS BODY BETWEEN SHROUDINGWHEN FAN KICKED BACK AND CAUGHT HIS HEAD BETWEEN SHROUDING AND FAN CUTTING RIGHT EAR.

EMP STATED THAT HE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS ON STAGELOSDER WHEN HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE CLEANING THE WINDOWS ON HIS 773A CATERPILLAR ROCK TRUCK HE SLIPPED AND FELL ABOUT 10 FT TO THE GROUND. HIS BOOTS WERE MUDDY AND WET, IT HAD RAINED THE NIGHT BEFORE.

INJURED WAS JOINING RAILS; LIFTING RAILS W/SLATE BAR & SLIDING BAR FORWARD W/ WEIGHT OF RAIL ON BAR. BAR SLIPPED CAUSING WEIGHT TO FALL ON KNEE.

WAS SCREENING STOKER SAMPLE AND PUT HAND ON SCREEN TO PUSH COAL AWAY FROM SIDE OF SCREEN AND CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN FRAME AND VIBRATING UNIT.

THEY WERE STRIPPING DIRT, ONE GOING UP HILL, ONE GOING DOWN. HIT EACH OTHER. OPERATOR ERROR. DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT EXTENSIVE. IMPAIRMENT NONE TO PERSONS.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING MINER CABLE WHEN HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT. EMPLOYEE CONTINUED WORKING AND THE PAIN IN HIS BACK BECAME WORSE.

EMP STATED HE WAS CARRYING BAG OF ROCK DUST THROUGH MUD AND WATER, WHEN HE STRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE.

TWISTED RIGHT KNEE WHILE MOVING MINER CABLE.

EE STATES THAT HE HEARD HIS BACK POP WHILE HE WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE INTO A SCOOP.

INSTALLING ROLELRS ON DOZER. ROLLER CAME LOOSE AND FELL ON RIGHT ANKLE.

EE WAS TAPPING OUT A FITTING ON THE HEAD MOTOR WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK (1-1/2" BY 1-1/2" BY 4") FELL FROM BETWEEN THE PINS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT ELBOW.

SPECK OF DUST LODGED IN RIGHT EYE CAUSING BLURRED VISION, SWELLING AND IRRITATION. OPERATOR WEARS CONTACT LENSES. OPERATOR TURNED IN SIGNED REPORT ON 6-25-96.

EMP WAS CARRYING 2 IMPACT WRENCHES AND COMING AROUND DISCHARGE END OF SCREEN WHEN HE TRIPPED ON A PIECE OF PIPE THAT WAS USED TO MOVE DISCHARGE CHUTE OUT OF NORMAL CLOSED POSITION.

CUTTING STONE TRIED TO CATCH CLOTH LEFT HAND AND BENT LEFT INDEX FINGER BACK BROKE LEFT FINGER HAD SURGERY IN JUNE 19TH WELL RETIRED TO WORK RIGHT OUTBY JULY 1 1996.

ANOTHER EE DROPPED A ROCK ON EE'S FOOT. HIS FOOT WAS FRACTURED, 5TH TOE, LEFT FOOT. HE IS OFF OF WORK UNTIL 6-24-96.

EE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS ON MINER HEAD, AND HURT BACK.

EMPLOYEE STEPPING OVER BLET STRUCTURE, FELL AND TWISTED ANKLE.

EE WAS OPERATING A JOY CONTINUOUS MINER IN THE A0Z PANEL BY MEANS OF REMOTE CONTROL WHEN A SLABOF RIB FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT ANKLE. THISRESULTED IN A FRACTURE TO THE LEFT ANKLE.

INJURED WAS DRILLING HOLE WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE FELL AND HIT ARM.

EE SAID THAT HE WAS TRAMMING TO THE MINER WHEN HE RAN OVER SOME ROUGH BOTTOM WHICH BOUNCED HIM UP & HE CAME DOWN ON HIS BATTERY LIGHT.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS HELPING TO LIFT A PIPE WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE ASKED FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 7-2-96 AND WASTOLD TO STAY OFF WORK.

HE WAS WORKING ON A DUST BOX IN X-CUT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL BETWEEN PINS STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT EAR AND RIGHT LEG.

INJURED AND 3 CO WORKER WERE INSTALLING 60 IN. CONTINENTAL BELT STRUCTURE BEHIND THE 2 BELT TAKE UP.THE BELT RAILS AND FRAMES HAD BEEN INSTALLED. THE TOP STRUCTURE THEY WERE INSTALLING WEIGHED 173 LBS AND ALL 4 EE WERE CARRYING THE STRUCTURE 2 ON EACH SIDE. THEY HAD INSTALLED APPROX. 15 TOP ROLLERS AND WERE PREPARING TO PICK UP ANOTHER. INJURED STATED THAT WHEN THEY STARTED TO PICK

THE INJURED WAS CLEANING RUN WHEN SCOOP HIT RIB CAUSING HIM TO BOUNCE UP IN THE SEAT AND HIT HIS BACK WHEN HE CAME DOWN CONTINUED WORKING BUT IT CONTINUED GETTING WORSE SO HE WENT TO DR ON 6-1 7-96. X RAYS SENT OFF. DONT KNOW IF IT IS A BRUISED KIDNEY OR BACK MUSCLE.

ORIGINAL ACCIDENT 11-22-94. STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN 6-12-96.

EE WAS DRAGGING A VENTILATIONTUBE UP TO INSTALL AT THE FACE AND WHILE HE WAS DRAGGING THE TUBE HIS CO WORKER MOVED THE SLIDER AND IT CAME APART STRIKING VICTIM. CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS COMMU NICATION WITH CO WORKER COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/ REGS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT OK. MINER INCENTIVE COULD BE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIP/SYSTEMS COULD BE FACTOR.