Mining Incidents in November 1996

WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF HANGING A CURTAIN, A COAL OUTBURST OCCURRED, FATALLY STRIKING THE EE.

EE WAS RIDING IN A SCOOP BUCKET WHEN A COAL OUTBURST OCCURRED, STRIKING HIM.

1994 INTERNTIONAL TRUCK DRIVEN BY REYMERS OVERTRAVELED ELEVATED ACCESS DRILL ROAD OVERTURNED RESULTING IN INJURIES TO REYMERS AND PASSENGER EE. EE DIED OF INJURY.

THE VICTIM WAS STANDING AT SHIELD #124 WITH HIS BACK TO THE COAL FACE WHEN A COAL OUTBURST OCCURRED. COAL LUMPS STRUCK THE VICTIM AND PUSHED HIM INTO THE SHIELDS, CAUSING FATAL INJURIES. THE S HEARER WAS CUTTING COAL AT THE TIME AND THE TAILGATE-SIDE CUTTER DRUM WAS LOCATED AT SHIELD #121. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES. ACTIVITY UNKNOWN AT TIME OF ACCIDENT.

CAUSE OF ACCIDENT UNKNOWN. NO WITNESSES. EE DROVE HAUL TRUCK INTO PIT WITH APPROX. 30' OF WATER.

VICTIM WAS OPERATING REMOTE CONTROLLED CONTINUOUS MINER IN THE #4 ENTRY. PILLAR #131 ON THE 9 LT. SECTION WHEN THE TOP STARTED WORKING IN THE ENTRY. HE WAS RUNNING FROM POSSIBLE ROOF FALL AND WAS RUN OVER BY SHUTTLE CAR WHICH HE WAS LOADING.

EMP WAS REMOVING A BOLT (1/2"DIA) FROM THE MBC DOLLEY TRAINER IN THE E-4 (022-0) SECTION. EMP STUCK RT INDEX FINGER TIP INTO THE HOLE TO PUSH BOLT OUT OF HOLE. FRAMEWORK SHIFTED ON THE DOLLY, AMPUTATING HIS RT INDEX FINGER TIP. FIRST DAY OFF 11-30-96.

EE STATED HE WAS PULLING ROCK DUST HOSE WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER STOMACH. FIRST LOST WORK BEGAN ON 12/5/96.

OIL ON FLOOR, EE SLIPPED STRAINING HIS GROIN CAUSING A HERNIA.

INJURED STARTED THROUGH DOUBLE DOORS TO FOREMAN'S CHANGE ROOM WHEN HE HEARD SOMEONE YELL; HE STOPPED. THE AUTOMATIC DOOR CLOSER BROUGHT THE DOOR CLOSED ON HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER ON THE HINGE SI DE AMPUTATING THE TIP OF THE FINGER.

EE WAS PUTTING CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE AND WATERLINE IN CABLE HOOK ON SIDE OF CUTTER HEAD WHEN ACCIDENT OCCURRED. HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE HOOK AND COAL RIB. THIS RESULTED IN A SEVERE FRACTURE & LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED AMPUTATION OF THE FINGER.

INJURES WAS HELPING TO INSTALL A CANOPY ON A SCOOP WHEN THE CANOPY FELL AND CAUGHT INJURED'S LEFT HAND AGAINST THE SCOOP FRAME. AMPUTATION OF INJURED'S LEFT LITTLE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING WHEN A LARGE PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL, SMASHING HIS RING FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND AGAINST THE MACHINNE. THE TOP JOINT OF HIS FINGER WAS NOT ABLE TO BE SAVED AND HAD TO BE RE MOVED.

THE EMPLOYEE WENT BEHIND CURTAIN TO PUT SOME ROCKS ON IT WHERE THE CURTAIN HAD BLOWED UP. THE EMPLOYEE SAW A SHUTTLE CAR COMING UP THE ENTRY AND HE STOPPED TO LET THE CAR GO BY WHEN HE HEARD T HE RIB POP AND IT FELL OFF AND KNOCKED HIM OUT ON TO THE ROADWAY ON THE OFF SIDE OF THE CAR AND THE CAR RAN OVER HIS RIGHT LEG. THE RIB ROLL WAS APPROX. 4' HIGH 10' LONG AND 4" THICK.

EE WAS TIGHTENING A BATTERY CABLE CONNECTION ON A WELDING MACHINE. HE DROPPED HIS WRENCH, WHILE HE WAS KNEELING. ATTEMPTING TO STAND. HIS LEFT RING FINGER FIRST DISTAL CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE FAN.

EE WAS ROCK DUSTING WITH THE SCOOP TRACTOR. WHILE TRAMMING THE SCOOP EE REACHED OUT FROM UNDER CANOPY TO MOVE A CABLE WHICH WAS HANGING FROM THE ROOF. HE PINCHED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEE C ANOPY AND THE ROOF.

EE WAS WALKING WITH CEMENT SAMPLES ON HIS WAY TO THE MILL LAB WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL. EE WAS WALKING ON A CEMENT FLOOR AT GROUND LEVEL

EMP WAS WORKING ON #5 DOCK, DOCKING A BAUXITE SHIP. WAS WALKING BACKWARDS TO PUT SHIP LINE ON DOLPHIN. SLIPPED AND FELL ON DOCK EXPERIENCING PAIN IN BACK. EMP IS NOT LOSING ANY TIME DUE TO THI S INCIDENT, HOWEVER, IS ON WORK RESTRICTIONS.

WHILE LIFTING STEEL PLATE IN PLACE TO WELD, IT SLIPPED AND HE TRIED TO CATCH IT. IT DISLOCATED RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE STEPPING DOWN FRON DRINNER SLED FELT HIS RIGHT KNEE BUCKLE. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK 5-2-97. EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED INJURY ON RT LEG AND RT KNEE IN CAR ACCIDENT IN 97.

EE WAS UNLOADING RAIL CARS, AS HE CLOSED THE DOOR ON A CAR, HE SLIPPED IN THE MUD CAUSING HIM TOBREAK HIS RIGHT FOOT.

EE WAS TRANSPORTING COAL FROM SURFACE JOB TO TIPPLE WHEN HE EXPERIENCED MECHANICAL PROBLEMS WHICH MADE IT NECESSARY TO PLATE HIS TOUCH IN ONE OF THE RUNAWAY RAMPS.

WHILE BARRING DOWN THE BACK, A ROCK FELL STRIKING THE MINER IN HIS HAND BREAKING HIS INDEX FINGER.

EE WORKING IN REFINERY BLDG MEZZANINE MECHANICAL ROOM TIGHTENING BOLTS AND CLEANING UP AREA. HE WAS IN A TIGHT SPACE AND TURNED HEAD TO LEFT. A VALVE STEM HIT CORNER OF LEFT EYE NEAR EDGE OF S AFETY GLASSES. THIS EYE WAS PREVIOUSLY AND HAD SOME INTERIOR REPAIR DONE AT THAT TIME. CURRENT INJURY WAS NOT APPARENT AT TIME OF IMPACT.

TWISTED LEFT FOOT STEPPING DOWN FROM SERVICE TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO PULL A BEARING OFF OF A SHAFT WHEN THE BEARING MOVED SUDDENLY AND CAUGH FINGERS IN A PINCH POINT.

EE WAS LEAVING THE CAB OF HIS TRUCK ON A LADDER MISSED THE LAST STEP & DISLOCATED HIS SHOULDER. EE RETURNED TO WORK AN THE SAME DAY OF THE INCIDENT. HOWEVER SHOULDER BECAME INCREASINGLY WORSE & WAS NOT REPORTED AS LOSS TIME UNTIL 1/7/97.

UNDER TRUCK, KNOCKED LOOSE MATERIAL INTO EYE. EE CLEANED EYE OUT. WENT TO DOC. SAT 11/30/96. GOT TWO PIECES OF METAL OUT OF EYE. WENT TO ER TO REMOVE PATCH. WENT TO EYE SPECIALIST 12/2/96, REM OVER RUST FROM EYE.

ACCIDENT ALLEGEDLY OCCURRED ON 11-29-96 AND MEDICAL HELP AND LOST TIME DIDN'T START UNTIL 3-24-97. ALLEGEDLY, WHILE HELPING SHIFT REPAIRMAN LOADTHE BACK OF THE REPAIR TRUCK, A CHAIN WRENCH WIT H A 4' HANDLE SLID OFF THE BED OF TRUCK STRIKINGVICTIM IN KNEE.

WHILE CONDUCTING HIS NORMAL DUTIES, THE EE SLIPPED IN SOME STANDING WATER, NEAR THE WASH SINK. THE EE STATED THAT HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE. EE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 3/17/97.

SUPERVISOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET A MESH HOOK TO HOOK INTO THE FRONT OF SHIELD. AS HE WAS CLEANING TIP OF SHIELD A PIECE OF ROCK FELL. CAUSE OF INJURY WAS EXPOSING BODY PARTS TO UNSUPPORTED TOP COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP WAS NOT WORN, MINER KNOWLEDGE COULD BEFACTOR, MINING EQ/SYSTEMS COULD BE FACTOR.

EE WAS MOVING THE MINER CABLE OUT OF THE WAY WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING STING IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS PULLING A CURTAIN DOWN WHEN THE LADDER FELL OVER CAUSING EE TO FALL ON HIS LEFT FOREARM.

EMP WAS RIDING IN PASSENGER SEAT OF MAINT MANTRIP. ANOTHER EMP, WHO WAS DRIVING THE MANTRIP, WASTAKING EMP INTO THE PRODUCTION UNIT AT THE STARTOF SHIFT. BOTH EMP AND OTHER EMP SAID THEY BOUNC ED A COUPLE TIMES IN SEATS WHEN THEY RAN OVER SOME BUMPS IN ROADWAY BUT NONE OF THEM WERE SERIOUS. EMP GOT OUT OF MANTRIP IN UNIT AND EXPERIENCED BURNING SENSATION DOWN LEGS. BACK DISCOMFORT.

INJURED WAS WALKING TO START A ROCK DUSTER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AS HE STEPPED OVER A PIPE.

CLIMBING OUT OF LOADER- FOOT SLIPPED, CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HAND AND FELT A PULL IN HIS BACK.

INJURED WAS WALKING WHEN A FALLING ROOF ROCK STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE HEAD & THE NECK.

EE WAS TRYING TO PULL A 6' PIECE OF DRILL STEEL OUT OF THE CRUSHER FEEDER BOX. WHILE PULLING ON THE DRILL STEEL SHE SAID THAT SHE HURT HER BACK

THE EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF OPENING WATER VALVE AND SHUTTING ANOTHER VALVE WHEN THE BOLTER MAN OPENED THE MAIN VALVE ON THE WATER OUTBY WHERE HE WAS AT. THE PRESSURE OF THE WA TER STRUCK HIM IN BOTH HIS EYES BEFORE HE COULD GET THE VALVE TURNED OFF.

EE USED SLEDGE HAMMER TO BREAK A PIECE OF SOFT DIATOMACEOUS EARTH. AS HE SWUNG THE HAMMER HE STRAINED HIS BACK

EE WAS SHOVELING HOT SAND FROM THE DRYER AND SOME SAND GOT INTO HIS SHOE CAUSING A BURN ON HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

ON HAUL ROAD.

EE TRIED TO LIFT PLYWOOD OFF DECK TO PUSH SAND OFF NORMAL PRACTICE IS TO SHOVEL SAND OFF PLYWOOD DECK NOT LIFT PLYWOOD.

HAULING CRUSHER RUN MATERIAL TO STOCKPILE AREA WHEN DUMPING MATERIAL TRUCK BED SHIFTED AND CAMEOFF TRUCK ON DRIVERS SIDE. OPERATOR GOT OUT OF TRUCK ON PASSENGER SIDE JUMPING 3-3 1/2 FT. TO GR OUND. INJURY NOT REPORTED UNTIL 12-20-96. STATEDAT TIME OF INJURY HE WAS NOT INJURED.

WORKER WAS LIFTING MINER CABLE TO GET IT OUT OF TH EWAY OF THE TRAVELWAY WHEN HE STRAINED LEFT SHOULDER. WORKER HAS NOT MISSED ANY WORK YET OR HAS NOT BEEN PLACED ON RES. DUTY BUT STARTED TO R ECEIVE CHIROPRACTOR TREATMENTS FOR HIS SHOULDER ON 12-30-96.

EE WAS TRAMMING THE ROOFBOLTER FORWARD. THE ROOFBOLTER HUNG IN TRAM PUSHING EE INTO THE RIB--EE CUT THE BOLTER OFF USING THE PANIC SWITCH. EE HAD ONE RIB BROKEN AND A SHOULDER EXTENSION ON THE RIGHT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE WORKING 2ND SHIFT WAS OUT IN THE SPARE PARTS YARD IN THE DARK EQUIPED WITH A FLASLIGHT. EMPLOYEE DID NOT HAVE THE FLASHLIGHT TURNED ON.WHILE WALKING THRU THE YARD, EMPLOYEE TRIPPED AN D FELL INTO IDLER PULLEY.

TORN ROTATOR CUFF, EXACT CAUSE NOT KNOWN. CONFIRMED WORK RELATED BY CO. PHYSICIAN. SURGERY SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 21, 1997.

EMP WAS SIMPLY GETTING OUT OF THE SEAT OF A PICKUP TRUCK WHEN HE EXPERIENCED SEVERE PAIN IN LOWER LEFT RIBS.

EE STATED WHILE TRAMMING A RAM CAR IN THE 1 NORTH SECTION THE BUMPY ROADWAY JARRED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING AROUND BELT HEAD, SLIPPED ON ICE AND HIT RIGHT KNEE ON FRAME.

STRAINED BACK WHILE STACKING 100# BAGS

THE INJURED WAS LIFTING THE MINER CABLE OUT OF THE CABLE HANGER ON THE SIDE OF THE MINER WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING DOOR ON COAL GONDOLA. WHILE SWINGING THE SLEDGE HAMMER HE FELT A "TINGLE" IN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE UNABLE TO RETURN TO WORK ON THE NEXT SCHEDULED SHIFT(SAT. NOV. 30)

SECURITY OFFICER WAS REFUELING A COLEMAN LANTERN USED FOR LIGHT IN THE BUILDING THEY WERE WORKING IN. THE FUMES GATHERED IN THE ROOM & IGNITED DUE TO AN OPEN FLAME BURNER IN THE ROOM USED FOR HEATING THE ROOM.

EE STATED HE WAS INSTALLING TROUGHING IDLER, SLIPPED & FELT PULL IN LOWER BACK. SAW COMPANY DOCTOR ON 1/10/97. FIRST LOST TIME DAY 3-13-97.

GETTING OUT OF SCOOP & TWISTED BACK.

EE WAS RAKING THE KVS KILN DOWN. WHEN IT PUFFED BACK PUFFING OUT LIME HITTING THE EE IN THE LEFT EYE.

EE WAS HAULING ROCK IN A 773B ROCK TRUCK. HE BACKED THE TRUCK TO TURN AND BACKUP TOO FAR ON THE BRIM. IT BROKE OFF & THE TRUCK ROLLED BACKWARDS EE HEAD HAD A CUT & HE HAD A BRUISED SIDE & LEG

KNEE PADS SLIDE DOWN OFF OF KNEE.

THE DRIVER WAS TRAVELING DOWN A HILL AND WHEN HE GOT HLAF WAY DOWN THE HITT THE DRIVER WAS TRYING TO SHIFT GEARS AND WHEN HE DID HE COULD NOT GET THE TRUCK BACK IN GEAR AND LESS CONTROL OF THE TRUCK CAUSING THE DRIVER TO HIT A GUARD RAIL AND OVERTURN.

WHILE MOPPING FLOOR, SHE MADE A SUDDEN TURN AND THEN FELT A BURNING IN LEG.

BENT OVER TO MOVE PIECE OF IRON. FELT PAIN IN BACK. LATER BENT OVER FOR WELDING LEAD. HURT LIKE HELL.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING STARTED UP WHEN KNEE POPPED PUT. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1996.

EE SLIPPED, HURTING FOOT.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT ON 11-26-96 HE BENT OVER TO MOVE A HOSE BRIDGE AND STRAINED HIS BACK. SEE ATTACHED LETTER.

EMPLOYEE OPENED DOOR TO CONTROL HOUSE AND FELT PAIN ON LEFT SHOULDER/BACK.

ROCK FELL BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS, STRIKING EE ON LEFT FOOT. THIS ACCIDENT DID NOT BECOME LOST TIME UNTIL 12/02/96

THEY WERE INSTALLING A BUTANE PIPE NEAR THE ROCK BIN. HE WAS LOOKING UPWARD DURING INSTALLATION AND A PIECE OF METAL FELL IN HIS EYE.

#3 KILN WAS DOWN, EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING OLD CHUNCKS OF PLASTIC FROM DUMP POCKET WITH A PRY BAR. HE DECIDED TO CLIMB ON SOME OF THE MATERIAL THAT WAS DUMPED ON THE FLOOR 18" HIGH. HE SLIPPED AN D FELL OVER WHILE HIS FOOT REMAINED STATIONARY, THUS FRACTURING HIS ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON METAL. EMPLOYEE LANDED ON HIS BUTTOCK. EMPLOYEE DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 3-28-97.

EMP ALLEGES SLIPPED WHILE WALKING ON DRAGLINE RAMP.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A BAG USED BY A QUALITY CONTROL DEPT. THAT WAS FILLED WITH STONE. THIS BAG OF STONE WAS BEING USED AS A WEIGHT TO HOLD A WOODEN STANDARD IN PLACE, BLOCKING OFF THE 3/4" C LEAN STOCKPILE.

VICTIM SLIPPED ON ROCK AND FELL, TWISTING LEG AND ANKLE.

EE WAS CHANGING FILTERS ON HIS CATERPILLAR WHEN HE BEGAN TO SLIP ON SOME ICE. HE MOVED HIS RIGHT ARM TO CATCH HIMSELF AND FELT HIS SHOULDER SLIP OUT OF JOINT. HE DID NOT FALL ON THE ARM. EE RE PORTS SHOULDER DISLOCATION TWICE IN THE PAST, BUT NEVER AS EASILY AS THIS.

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM HAUL TRUCK. HE SLIPPED WHEN HE GOT TO THE BOTTOM STOP AND FELL TO THE GROUND. DRY CONDITIONS.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING CUTTING EDGES AND WHEN HE FINISHED HE STOOD UP AND HAD PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. THIS BECAME REPORTABLE WHEN EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE DR. AND WAS PUT ON RESTRICTED WORK.

EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE RAN OVER SOMETHING IN THE ROADWAY CAUSING HIM TO BOUNCE UP INTO THE CANOPY CAUSING THE INJURY.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OFF FACE AND A PIECE OF METAL OR COAL GOT INTO EYE.

EMP WAS OBSERVING THE LOCATION OF THE MINER CABLE, WHEN A PIECE OF ROOF SALTE (1'X 6"X 8") FELL,STRIKING ON RIGHT FOOT (INSTEP). THE ROOF WAS WET, NO ADVERSE ROOF CONDITIONS WERE ENCOUNTERED, AND EMP WAS IN A SUPPORTED AREA.

EE FELT "TWINGE" IN BACK WHILE DRESSING AT BEGINNING OF SHIFT. LATER, WHILE HANDLING DRILL/SHOVEL POWER CABLE, HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK. (IN THE MINE PIT).

EE WAS BOOSTING A LOADER WHEN A SPARK OCCURRED AT THE BATTERY AND THE BATTERY EXPLODED. EE WAS AWAY FROM THE BATTERY BUT BATTER ACID SPRAYED ONTO THE EE'S FACE AND EYES. EE'S EYES WERE IMMEDIA TELY FLUSHED WITH WATER AND HE WAS TAKEN TO LOCAL ER FOR FOLLOWUP TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO CARRY CONTRETE FILLER FORMS (APPROX 80#) DURING COARSE OF DAYS WORK. DID NTO RETURN TO WORK UNTIL 12-3&4. DID NOT REPORT AN INJURY UNTIL 12-9-96 CONTAINUES TO BEE OFF W ORK AT THIS DATE.

EE WAS WORK ON A CANNON ROOF BOLTER CHANGING THE RADIATOR WHEN HE FINISHED THE JOB, HE HUNG HIS FEET AND FELL ABOUT 4 FT AND BROKE BOTH ARMS FIRST DAY MISSED WAS 12-02-96

HAND SLIPPED OFF SIDE OF LEVER AND HIT SIDE BAR ON FORKLIFT.

EE WAS CLEANING BELT WHEN SHOVEL GOT CAUGHT IN BELT.

EE WAS MOVING A CAST IRON POT & PINCHED RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN ANOTHER POT RESULTING IN A PARTIAL AVULSION.

EE WAS EXTENDING FLAP GATE AND FABRICATING DEFLECTORS, WHEN METAL RUST FELL INTO HIS EYE.

WHILE CLIMBING A LADDER TO MAINTAIN AN OVERHEAD CRANE, THE EE STATED THAT HE BUMPED HIS RT KNEE AGAINST FLOOR DECKING AT THE TOP OF THE LADDER EXTENDING ONTO THE CRANE DRIVE FLOOR.

EMP HAD BEEN CHECKING HIS BACK UP CURTAINS. CAUGHT A RIDE WITH AN EMPTY UNI-HAULER BACK TO FACE.UNI-HAULER WENT THROUGH DIP AND END OF TRAILER BED HIT MINE FLOOR. EMP GOT HIS HAND CAUGHT BETWE EN TRAILER BED AND MINE FLOOR.

EE PARKED PICK-UP TO WALK AROUND ROOF FALL. SLIPPED IN MATERIAL ON MINE FLOOR. WHEN HE FELL, HE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF & IN THE PROCESS INJURED BOTH OF HIS HANDS & HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE HE WAS ADJUSTING A DRILL WITH THE DRILL PRESS, IT FELL, PINCHING WITH THE DRILL PRESS THE SMALL FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND CAUSING A CUT.

I WAS JUMPING FROM BELT CROSSOVER TO FOOTWALL TO AVOID BEING STRUCK BY A BROKEN SLOPE BELT. I STRUCK TRACK RAIL WHEN I LANDED.

EE WAS GETTING DOWN FROM BAGGING MACHINE TO REMOVE A BAG THAT WAS HUNG IN THE CONVEYOR. AS HE WAS DESCENDING THE LADDER, HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE THIRD RUNG FROM THE FLOOR (33 1/2") AND HE LOST HIS BALANCE. HE FELL WITH ALL HIS WEIGHT(260+ LBS.) ON THE LEFT LEG AND FELL TO THE FLOOR.

EE NOTICED BRIDGING AT TRANSFER POINT FROM APRONFEEDER TO INCLINED BELT CONVEYOR. DEENGERGIZED APRON FEEDER ONLY. WHILE DISLODGING OBSTRUCTION A ROCK ROLLED DOWN THE INCLINE BELT [ENERGIZED] & STUCK HIS HAND. HAND WAS BETWEEN OBSTRUCTION ROCK & DECENDING ROCK.

EMP ALLEGES THAT WHILE CLEANING A 4" HEADER PIPETHAT FEEDS MAG SEPERATOR #181 HE CUT HIS LEFT HAND. STATED THE BOLT HE WAS USING GOT CAUGHT ON THE MAG DRUM AND WHEN HE TRIED TO PULL IT OUT IT PULLED HIS HAND AGAINST LIP OF WATER BOX. WOUND REQUIRED 5 SUTURES.

WHILE HANGING THE CABLE ON THE MINER HEAD, THE MINER MAN RAISED THE PAN BEFORE THE HELPER COULD GET HIS LEFT HAND OUT OF THE WAY.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM THE OPERATOR'S CAB OF A WATER TANKER, USING THREE POINTS OF CONTACT. HE PLACE HIS LEFT FOOT ON SOME SURGE STONE. AS HE PUT THE WEIGHT OF HIS BODY ON HIS LEFT FOOT, HIS FOOT TURNED OVER.

EE OPERATING LOADER REMOVING MATERIAL FROM MUCKPILES, EXPERIENCED JOLT OF PAIN IN NECK AREA.

WORKING IN FLYASH HANDLING FACILITY GOT FLYASH IN BOOT. TREATED AT DR. WHO RECOMMENDED NO WORK UNTIL 12-2-96.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING ROCK OUT OF THE KELLICOKEE PIT. HE WAS PRYING ON A LARGE ROCK WHEN THE ROCK FELL OUT OF HIS BUCKET CAUSING THE LOADER TO ROCK BACK AND FORTH. HE SAID HIS BACK WAS NOT HURT ING AFTER IT HAPPENED BUT AFTER THE SHIFT WAS OVER IT STARTED HURTING.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING(BELT CONVEYOR), WORKING ON RIB SIDE. A ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN ROOF BOLT AND THE RIB HITTING EMPLOYEE ON HEAD AND LEFT LOWER LEG.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE STRUCK A HOLE CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HEAD ON CANOPY.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON THE BOTTOM DECK OF #4 SCREEN. EMPLOYEE STOOD UP AND HIT RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE WAS CLEAR CUTTING FOR SEDIMENT POND CONSTRUCTION. CUT A SMALL TREE. AS TREE WAS FALLING, EE'S FOOT SLIPPED, ALLOWING WEIGHT TO TWIST, FRACTURING RIGHT ANKLE AND LOWER LEG.

(FDM 5-19-97) FOOT SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING ONTO DOZER, CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL BACKWARD ONTO GROUND INJURING LOWER BACK AND LEFT LEG. ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON 11-25-96 BUT HE DID NOT START MISSING WORK DUE TO THE INJURY UNTIL 5-19-97.

EE WAS STEPPING THROUGH A MANDOOR AND HIS FOOT CAUGHT ON A STOPPING ANGLE CAUSING HIM TO FALL. AS HE FELL HE GRABBED THE DOORFRAME WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, STRINING HISRIGHT UPER ARM.

ACCIDENT OCCURRED BY ENGAGING DISCONNECT WITH STARTER ENGAGED (IN THE "ON" POSITION). EE HAS SECOND DEGREE BURNS ON HIS FACE BACK TO HIS LEFT EAR AND CUTS, AND THIRD DEGREE BURNS TO HIS RIGHT HAND FROM FLASH BURNS WHEN DISCONNECT EXPLODED.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING A PIPE COUPLING LOOSE WHEN THE 2 PIPES HELD TOGETHER BY THE COUPLING PROBABLY REALEASED. ONE OF THE PIPES STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE CHIN KNOCKING HIM BACKWARD ONTO THE MINE FLOOR. THE INCIDENT RESULTED IN A BRUISE TO THE CHIN AND A BACK STRAIN.

EMP WENT TO OPEN THE SLIDE CHUTE ON #6 LIME TANKAND WHEN HE DID HE JERKED ON THE SLIDE AND WHEN IT DID NOT MOVE BECAUSE IT WAS STUCK HE STRAINEDHIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS UNPLUGGING CHUTE, MATERIAL & WATER BROKE LOOSE & CAME DOWN CHUTE & HIT BELT. MUD, ROCK, & WATER BLEW EVERYWHERE, KNOCKING EE OFF CONVEYOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN CONTROL ROOM AT BOTTOM OF PRODUCTIONSHAFT. THE GUIDE ROPES WERE BEING LUBRICATED. THE FUMES FROM THE LUBRICANT CAUSED DIZZINESS AND OTHER INHALATIONAL ILLNESS.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON A BELT ROLLER THAT HE WAS HELPING INSTALL ON A BELT DRIVE AND SPRAINED HIS BACK.

EE TOOK A BREAK AROUND 10:00PM TO EAT. AFTER EATING HE WENT TO WORK ON THE BAGGER AND AFTER LIFTING AROUND 10-15 BAGS HE FELT SOMETHING PULL INHIS ABDOMEN AREA.

EE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS CLIMBING OFF A D-9 DOZER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND HIT HIS BACK AGAINST THE DOZER

EE WAS SWEEPING BELT CONVEYOR P'S HALL WHEN HE KNOCKED DOWN A SHOVEL WITH HIS BROOM. THE SHOVEL FELL AND ITS HANDLED HIT HIS TESTICLES. NOTE: WE HAVE REQUESTED THE STATE INSURANCE FUND CORPORA TION TO INVESTIGATE THIS CASE TO DETERMINE IF THE INJURY IS JOB RELATED.

WHILE CLEARING ROCKS OUT OF GRIZZLEY ON FEEDER WAS USING A SLEDGE HAMMER. THE HAMMER BOUNCED OFFROCK AND PINCHED LEFT HAND BETWEEN FEEDER FRAME AND THE SLEDGE HAMMER.

EMP WAS CLEANING OUT THE INSIDE OF S2 SCREEN WITH AN AIR LANCE. MATERIAL MOVED AND PINNED HIS LEFT FOOT AGAINST AIR LANCE.

EE CLAIMS HIS BACK BECAME SORE DRIVING A PRODUCTION TRUCK.

EE WAS MOVING A PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE INSIDE THE MINE WHEN HE EXPERIENCED LOWER BACK PAIN. AFTERWARDS HE CONTINUED TO KEEP HIS REGULAR WORK SCHEDUTE BUT AT A LATER TIME HE DECIDED TO SEEK ME DICAL TREATMENT WHICH UNDER DR'S ADVICE REQUIRED TIME OFF TO LET THE MUSCLE STRAIN HEAL. BECAME REPORTABLE ON 12-27-96.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING THE SECTION MECHANIC IN REPAIRING THE CONVEYOR CHAIN ON THE SHUTTLE CAR. EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING THE CHAIN WITH A WRENCH WHEN HE FELT A STRAIN IN HIS RIGHT LOWER BACK. E MPLOYEE FIRST SAW CHIROPRACTOR ON 12-10-96.

WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING 8"X8" TIMBERS ON LONGWALL. THE INJURED STRAINED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

HIT LEG ON PIECE OF STEEL WHILE CLEANING SCALES.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS PULLING DOWN A CURTAIN WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS WORKING AT 1075 LEVEL USING A 4" GRUNDER, A SPARK FELL BETWEEN THE SAFETY GLASSES AND MY EYE AND BOUNCED IN MY LEFT EYE.

WALKING BELTLINE WHEN HIS LEFT FOOT BECAME STUCK IN MUD. WHEN HE PULLED IT LOOSE HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT KNEE ON AN UNKNOW OBJEWCT AND TWISTING HIS BACK.

EE WAS PRYING OFF A HAUNCH PANEL, WHEN THE BURKE BAR SLIPPED & HIS HIAND BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN THAT & THE WALL.

EE STATED THAT WHEN HE BENT OVER TO MOVE A PULL CABLE HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMP REPORTED OFF WORK ON 12-2-96,ALLEGES HE HAD PAIN IN LOWER BACK FROM ACCIDENT HE HAD ON HIS LAST SHIFT HE WORKED ON 11-22-96. WHILE SETTING TIMBERS ON 5 LT SECTION AT #29 PILLAR BLK. EMP DE CLARED HE HAC BEEN SICK WITH INFLUENZA AND THOUGHT BACK PAIN WAS FROM SICKNESS AND THAT WAS THE REASON HE DIDN'T REPORT ACCIDENT UNTIL 12-2-96.

4 NORTH-HEADGATE MINER SECTION. MAN WAS PULLING LOADER CABLE FROM UNDER MINER CABLE NEAR THE FACE AREA. A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN CHANNELS HIT HIS SHOULDER AND HIT HIS RIGHT FOOT

THE INJURED EE & ANOTHER FOREMAN WERE OBSERVING THE REMOVAL OF ROCK FROM AN OVERCAST CONSTRUCTION SITE. THE SCOOP MOVED AWAY FROM THE SITE & THEINJURED EE THOUGHT THE SCOOP WAS LEAVING THE ARE A. HE STEPPED ONTO THE ROCK PILE & ATHE SCOOP CHANGED DIRECTIONS & BUCKET OF THE SCOOP HIT INJURED EE'S L LEG.

WHILE TIGHTENING PIPLINE BOLTS WITH A 36" RACHET THE SOCKET SLIPPED OFF BOLT AND EMPLOYEE FELL FORWARD CATCHING HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT ARM AND HAND.

EE WAS MOVING A BUCKET OF BOLT. HE WAS CARRYING IT WITH BOTH HANDS BETWEEN HIS LEGS, WHILE SCOOTING IT ACROSS THE FLOOR. HE DID NOT NOTICE ANY DISCOMFORT UNTIL LATER THAT NIGHT.

EE WAS WALKING UP THE STAIRS AT THE SCALE HOUSE & A STAIR BROKE. SHE FELL THROUGH THE STAIR & TWISTED HER BACK & KNEE.

EE ATTEMPTED TO DRIVE HAUL ROAD TRUCK UNDER AN OVERPASS WITH THE BED OF THE TRUCK IN A DUMP POSITION. THE BED HIT THE BRIDGE, BRINGING THE TRUCK TO A STOP AND FORCING THE CAB TO HIT THE UNDERS IDE OF THE BRIDGE. THE EE WAS WEARING SAFETY BELTS.

EE STEPPED ON FIST-SIZED STONE WHICH CAUSED HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE & TRIP OVER USED HAMMERS WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FALL.

EE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER IN THE BLDG WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE LADDER RUNG, AND HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS ARM TO STOP HIM FROM FALLING.

EE HAD JUST LIFTED SEVERAL BUCKETS OF WATER TO THE SECOND FLOOR LANDING AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS NECK AND BACK. EE WAS TREATED AT THE HOSPITAL AND GIVEN RESTRICTED DUTY. HE DID NOT REPORT BACK F O HIS NEXT SHIFT.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN THE STEPS FROM THE STORE ROOM. HE WAS NOT CARRYING ANYTHING, DID NOT TRIP ORSTUMBLE. DOUBLED OVER, THINKING HIS HIP WENT OUT. LIMPED SOME BUT WAS NOT LIMPING WHEN HE LEFT F ROM WORK. SAID THAT HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS UPPER RIGHT LEG.

THE VICTIM WAS CHANGING DRILL STEEL WHEN HE GOT HIS RT INDEX FINGER CAUGHT. THE FINGER WAS BROKEN AND REQUIRED STITCHES.

GETTING OFF DOZER, SLIPPED ON PUSH ARM.

WHILE LIFTING MANTLE WITH CRANE, EE WAS TRYING TO STABALIZE IT WITH HIS HANDS, THE 6 TON MANTLE PINCHED HIS R HAND BETWEEN THE MANATLE & A BELT WHICH WAS SITTING NEXT TO IT.

EE WAS FIRE BOSSING THE BELTS, WALKING ALONG #2 BELT, CAUGHT RIGHT EAR ON ROOF BOLT - CUTTING EAR FROM SKULL OUT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING ROOF BOLTS, HAND SLIPPED AND CUT RIGHT HAND.

INJURED WAS PULLING ON CABLE WHEN CABLE GOT HUNG ON TOOL BOX AND HE JERKED CABLE AND PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.

EE WAS REMOVING CAT HEAD FROM POWER BOX.

EE WAS PULLING A PIECE OF WATER HOSE THRU A SMALL HOLE IN STOPPING. HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

PUT MINER HEAD ON FOOT. CHANGING BITS ON CONTINUOUS MINER AND HAD REMOT BOX ON TOP OF MINER, LET HEAD DOWN ON REMOTE BOX ON RIGHT FOOT.

EE WAS DRILLING HOLE IN TOP WHEN STEEL BROKE NEXT TO BASE OF STEEL CATCHING EE'S LEFT INDEX FINGER & MASHED FINGER NAIL & END OF FINGER OFF.

UNTANGLING WATER LINE AND MINER CABLE. OVEREXTENDING WHEN HE BENT DOWN AND FELT PAIN IN THE LOWER LEFT SIDE OF HIS SIDE.

EE STATED THAT DURING A SECTION MOVE HE WAS TAKING A HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE OUT OF THE HANGER WHEN HE UNCLIPPED THE HANGER THE CABLE CAME DOWN & CAUGHT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE CABLE & H ANGER.

EE SAID HIS LEFT KNEE HAD BEEN GIVING HIM TROUBLE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. THIS OCCURRED FROM CRAWLING ON HIS KNEES DUE TO HIS OCCUPATION & LOW COAL SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN THE MINES. EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR, TURNING AROUND IN SEAT & SAID HIS KNEE POPPED.

OPERATOR WAS CLIMBING OFF THE DOZER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND.

PINCHED THUMB WHILE BLOCKING FEEDER.

EE WAS SETTING ROOF BOLTS, PINCHED RIGHT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN BOLT STEEL.

EMPLOYEE DRILLING HOLE W/ AIR DRILL. WHILE BLOWING HOLE, FOREIGN MATTER ENTERED EYE.

WHILE REMOVING SCHARF RAIL A SUPPORT BOLT CAME OUT OF THE ROOF. THE RAIL FELL & THE EE STUCK HIS BACK AGAINST THE BELT.

OPERATING FRONT END LOADER WHEN HE TWISTED HIS KNEE.

EE WAS ROCK DUSTING THE BELT ENTRY. HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK WHEN LIFTING A BAG OF DUST.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STAIRS BETWEEN THE PARKING LOTS AND HE STEPPED ON A POP CAN AND FELL DOWN. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS NOT HOLDING ONTO HAND RAILS AND AWARENESS. COMPLAINCE WIHT RULES/ REGS WAS A FACTOR. PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER INCENTIVE COULD BE A FACTOR, MINIGN EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.

THE EE WAS PILING 50 LBS BAGS AT NO.2 PACKER STATION WHEN HE NOTICED A SWELLING OF HIS RIGHT WRIST. THEE E S RIGHT WRIST WAS ALSO VERY TENDER AND HURT TO MAKE CONTACT WITH.

EE STATED THAT HE SUFFERED BACK STRAIN WHILE OPERATING A HAUL TRUCK. HE ALSO CLAIMED THE SEAT WAS DEFECTIVE AND ROAD CONDITIONS WERE POOR.

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN WORKING IN THE BACK WALKWAY NEAR #25 SHIELD. HE NOTICED THAT THE COAL WAS STARTING TO BACK UP IN THE FACE CONVEYOR AND MOVED TO A LOCATION BETWEEN #25 AND #26 SHIELD. AS HE S TARTED TO MOVE TOWARD THE FRONT WALKWAY, A LUMP OF COAL 6"X6"X6" BLEW OFF THE FACE STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN THE RIGHT ARM.

MINER OPERATOR WAS CAUGHT IN BETWEEN MINER AND RIB WHILE TRAMMING MINER. THIS CAUSED INJURY TO PELVIC. ACCIDENT WAS INVESTIGATED BY WVEP AND MSHA INSPECTOR. ALL FUNCTIONS OF MINER REMOTE WERE CORRECT. OPERATOR WAS IN AN UNSAFE POSITION WHILE TRAMMING MINER.

WHILE PUSHING THE PANELING ON LONGWALL-1 THE INJURED SLIPPED ON THE FOOT OF A SHIELD. HE CONTINUED TO HOLD THE PAN PUSH LEVER AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT FOREARM.

EE UNLOADED TRUCK AND PROCEEDED TO STEM HOLES. WHILED SHOVELING STONES THE EE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND DOWN HIS LEG.

EE WAS CLEANING & MOVING PALLETS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE DIDN'T REPORT ANYTHING UNTIL 11-26-96. WENT TO DR 11-27-96. NO LOSS TIME AS OF YET.

CLOSING DOWN FOR THE DAY AND EE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE DUMP TRUCK AND SLIPPED ON THE STEP OF THETRUCK, AND REPORTED THE NEXT DAY THAT HE HAD HURT HIS BACK.

SHOVELING CRUSHED MATERIAL FROM PLATFORM. FELT PAIN IN CENTER BACK.

EMP STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING A POST AND PLACING THROUGH AIR LOCK DOORS WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LOWER LEFT ARM.

MECHANIC WAS CLIMBING OUT OF #803 LUBE VAN CAB. HE SLIPPED AND FELL OFF THE BOARDING STEP, INJURING HIS BACK.

EE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE SECTION, SLIPPED & FELL IN THE ROADWAY, TWISTING HIS RIGHT KNEE.

INJURED WAS KNOCKING A STOPPING WHEN HIS RIGHT LITTLE FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN FALLING BLOCK AND A MANDOOR.

WHILE SHOVELING GOB FROM AROUND SHIELD FEET ON LONGWALL-2, THE INJURED FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE STATED, AFTER HOISTING A MOTOR IN PLACE HE PLACED HIS HAND ON THE STEEL ROPE, THE MOTOR ROLLED PULLING THE ROPE MUD HIS FINGERS WERE PINCHED.

MINER WAS LEAVING WORK, STEPPED OFF THE SIDEWALK AND SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE ON WAY TO HIS VEHICLE.

EE WAS WALKING TOWARD FACE AREA FROM MAN BUS WHEN HE STEPPED ON A CONCRETE BLOCK PARTIALLY SUBMERGED IN MUD CAUSING LEFT KNEE TO TWIST

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD PULLED HTE HAULER FORWARD AND GOT OUT TO CLOSE, THE REFUSE BIN GATE, THE HAULER DRIFTED FORWARD. THE EMPLOYEE TRIED TO GET BACK INTO THE HAULER TO STOP IT. HE GOT HIS LEFT LEG CAUGHT BETWEEN THE HAULER DOOR AND THE SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR THE CATWALK LOCATED ADACENT TO THE HAULER CAUSING A CONTUSTION TO HIS LEFT LEG.

EE WAS WATCHING AS A BED WAS BEING LIFTED OFF MACK TRUCK WHEN CHAIN HOOK SLIPPED & CAME OFF STRIKING EE ON LEFT SIDE OF FACE BREAKING CHEEK BONE.

BUMPED SHIN ON A BOLT CAUSING A SLIGHT ABRASION.

EE PULLED ON SHOVEL THAT WAS IN COAL SPILL & FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

SHOVELING SALT ALONG A CONVEYOR BELT.

THE MINER WAS WORKING UNDER A FLOOR IN THE RAISE & BENT OVER TO PICK SOMETHING UP. HE RAISED BACK UP & FORGOT ABOUT THE FLOOR & HIT HIS HEAD, JAMMING HIS NECK.

EE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE INSTALLING FRONT DIFFERENTIAL ON CATERPILLAR 992C LOADER.

EE WAS REMOVING TRANSMISSION FROM CAT 16G MACHINE. WAS UNDER MACHINE WORKING WHEN A 5 FOOT BAR FELL FROM MACHINE AND HIT EE IN HEAD. MISSED 1 DAY OF WORK.

SCRAPER GOING SOUTH UP RAMP, LOST POWER & ROLLED BACK THROUGH A 6' BERM & DOWN A 30' INCLINE. ROADS WERE DRY, CLEAR VISIBILITY, CLEAN GLASS, TEMP 28 DEGREES. OPERATOR WAS WEARING SEAT BELT & W AS NOT EJECTED FROM SCRAPER. SEAT BELT & SEAT WEER IN GOOD CONDITION. FRAME OF SEAT WE BELIEVE IMPACTED OPERATOR'S LEG & CAUSE FRACTURE OF LOWER RIGHT LEG.

SHOVELING LOOSE CEMENT & HIT SOME HARD CEMENT. FELT WRIST SNAP.

EE WAS MINING THE CROSSCUT FROM #9 ENTRY TO NO. 10 ENTRY. HE HAD MADE HIS FIRST RUN CLEANING UPT HE CUT AND STARTING HIS B RUN. FOR SOEM UNKNOWN REASON A COAL BROW 18'X2' ROLLED OUT AND STR UCK EE.

CLEANING MATERIAL FROM PIPE COMING INTO PUMP. PULLING MATERIAL OUT OF PIPE LINE. THE MATERIAL CAME LOOSE AND HIS RIGHT WRIST HIT AGAINST THE EDGE OF THE IMPELLER OF THE PUMP.

EE WAS PUSHING A CART WHICH HAD THE CYLINDER RESTINGON IT. THE CYLINDER TIPPED AND PINNED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE CYLINDER & THE CART

AS OUR EMPLOYEE CLIMBED OUT OF A TRUCK, HIS HEEL CAUGHT ON THE EDGE OF A DEEP RUT AND HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

INJURED STATED THAT HIS SAFETY VEST CAUGHT ON HEATER AS HE WAS STEPPING OFF LADDER. HECAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT ARM PULLING MUSCLE.

LIME DUST FROM CALCIMATIC TRANSFER BELT TO 600 TON BIN FELL IN HIS EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING ROCK ON TOP OF HILL. HE STEPPED ON LEDGE AND LOST HIS FOOTING AND SLID DOWN THE HILL.

WHILE EMP WAS REMOVING A STRUCTURE BOLT THAT WASLOCKED UP, HE PULLED HARD AND TWISTED HIS BODY, INJURING HIS LOWER BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE LONGWALL TAIL. WHEN THE TAIL WAS MOVED, A HYDRAULIC HOSE AND VALVE LYING ATOP THE BELT TAIL WAS INADVERTENTLY TURNED ON CAUSING THE HOSE TO WHIP AND STRIKE THE EE

CUTTING METAL OUT OF CONE CRUSHER. WHILE USING WELDER, GOT A FLASH BURN TO EYES.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST DRILLED A BORE HOLE AND THE STEEL WAS STILL IN THE HOLE. HE BENT DOWN TO STUFF A RAG INTO A DIFFERENT HOLE (ALREADY DRILLED). HE STOOD UP TO TALK TO SOMEONE AND WHEN HE TURNE D AROUND AGAIN HE CUT HIS EYELID ON THE STEEL STILL IN THE HOLE.

EE WAS HELPING TO MOVE BELT STRUCTURE. HE WAS THROWING BELT STRUCTURE THROUGH MONORAI. THE STRUCTURE HUNG ON MONORAIL CHAIN CAUSING IT TO WHIPLASH. WHEN IT DID, IT CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE ROLLER & THE MONORAIL CHAIN.

EE WAS DRILLING A HOLE FOR A ROOF BOLT, BIT BROKE OFF THE DRILL STEEL. THEN DRILL STEEL BECAME JAMMED AGAINST THE BIT AND BECAME BENT AND SWUNG AROUND AND STRUCK INJURED ON FINGER.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM SHUTTLE CAR COMPARTMENT & HE SAID HE SLIPPED ON MINER AND WATER LINE CABLE. WHEN THIS HAPPENED HIS LEG WENT UNDER S/CAR COMPARTMENT. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS. COMPLIANCE W/ RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP WAS OK, MINER INCENTIVE COULD BE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.

WHILE WORKING ON DOZER, HE REACHED FOR A TOOL AND SLIPPED. HE FELL DOWN BETWEEN THE TRACKS LANDING ON HIS LEFT LEG, TAILBONE & RIGHT HIP.

OPERATOR WAS EXTEMDOMG THE BOOM & DID NOT SEE BLOCK & TACKLE COME AGAINST THE TOP - IT SNAPPED WITH EE IN MAN BASKET. EE SUSTAINED BROKEN COLLAR BONE.

WHILE WALKING, CAUGHT FLAP OF METATORSAL BOOT ONBEAM IN WALKWAY, TWISTED RT KNEE. HAS NOT WORKEDSINCE 11/20/96. INCORRECTLY REPORTED ON 12/3/96 AS OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS.

EE WAS STANDING BESIDE THE CONTINOUS MINER, AS IT WAS CUTTING COAL, WHEN A COAL OUTBURST OCCURED, STRIKING THE EE.

ROCK FELL ON FOOT [RIGHT] INSIDE OF MINER.

THE EE WAS OPERATING THE SCOOP WHEN A COAL BUSRT OCCURRED, STRIKING HIM.

EE WAS HANGING ONTO A PARTICALLY BUILT CRIB & WAS TRYING TO GET ANOTHER CRIB BLOCK ON TOP & HE FELT PAIN IN HIS CHEST MUSCLES. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS OVEREXERTION & THE INCENTIVE TO GET A LA DDER. COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP. OK, MINER INCENTIVE COULD BE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.

WHILE WALKING THE FACE AREA ON THE LONGWALL-1 THE INJURED SLIPPED OFF OF A SHIELD FOOT AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED, HE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN A RIB ROLL STRUCK HIM ON HIS LEFT SIDE OF HIS BODY.

EE STATES HE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF SCOOP. THE BACK OF THE SEAT BROKE CAUSING HIM TO FALL OUT. HIS L KNEE CAUGHT ON CONTROLS.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS OBSERVING THE CONTINUOUS MIENR AS IT WAS CUTTING COAL WHEN A COAL OUTBURST OCCURRED, STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE.

EMP WAS WALKING ALONG #5 BELT BEATING ROLLERS WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING RIB, INJURING UPPER BACK, SHOULDER AND CHEST. REPORTED TO ME ON 11-25-96.

THE EE WAS OPERATING THE CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A COAL BURST OCCURRED & STRUCK HIM.

EE WAS PULLING A PIECE OF BELT WHEN HE HIT HIS LEFT EAR ON A BELT HANGER.

THE INJURED AND A FELLOW WORKER WERE UNLOADINNG WOODEN TRACK TIES FROM A CAR AND STANDING THEM AGAINST THE RIB, WHEN A TIE FELL FROM UNDERNEATH THE ORE. THEY WERE UNLOADING, AND STRUCK HIM ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT.

CUTTING PLASTIC OUT OF HYDROLIC CYLINDER WITH POCKET KNIFE. KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT LEFT THUMB.

EMPLOYEE LIFTED HOOD ON 769-B HAUL TRUCK AND TOOK A PAIN IN MIDDLE OF BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN BLEEDER ENTRY WHEN HE STRUCK THE CORNER OF A BROKEN ROOF CHANNEL THAT WAS HANGING DOWN.

INJURED WAS USING THE ROAD HOSE ON THE #5 MINER TO WASH OUT FROM UNDER A JUNCTION BOX ON SIDE OFMINER WHEN THE HANDLE GOT HUNG TURNING WATER PRESSURE WIDE OPEN PUSHING TRASH OR DIRT OUT & A PI ECE HIT THE INJURED IN RIGHT EYE CAUSING SWELLING & REDNESS. THE INJURED WAS WEARING HIS SAFETY GLASSES.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AN EXTENDED OUTRIGGER OF OUR CRANE. AREA AROUND OUTRIGGER WAS VERY MUDDY. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED IN THE MUD AND FELL BACKWARDS.

MINER WAS USING A WINCH AND SHEAVE WHEELS TO LOAD A LEG JACK INTO A SCOOP BUCKET. THE LEG JACK BECAME STUCK PLACING STRESS ON THE SHEAVE WHEEL. THIS CAUSED THE SHEAVE TO BREAK AND MINER WAS ST RUCK BY A PIECE OF SHEAVE WHEEL.

WHILE LIFTING A ROD MILL FEED CHUTE LINER, EE FELT A PULL IN LOWER BACK.

SAID HE SLIPPED & FELL WHEN GETTING OUT OF TRUCK TO FUEL UP. HE SIAD HE HAD ONE FOOT ON THE GROUND & SLIPPED.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING COAL ON BELT LINE AND THE SHOVEL KICKED BACK KNOCKING OUT FRONT TEETH.

EE JUST FINISHED DRILLING HOLE. HE WAS LOWERING DRILL HEAD, AND FELL TOWARDS THE MACHINE, CAUSING DRILL HEAD TO GO BACK UP. PINCHING LEFT HAND BETWEEN SIDE OF DRILL HEAD AND SAFETY JACK.

EE STATES WHILE ROLLING PIPE OFF TRUCK RACK, HIS RT FINGER BECAME ENTRAPPED UNDER PIPE, AVULSING SKIN FROM FINGER.

EMPLOYEE STRUCK LEFT KNEE WITH BELT STRUCTURE.

WALKING TO BELT HEAD & SLIPPED & FELL IN MUD HURTING HIS BACK.

PRY BAR SLIPPED FROM FRAM3E. INJURED RIGHT LEG--SHIN.

EE AND A COWORKER WERE PUTTING UP CHAIN LINK ON THE RIB. WHEN THE COWORKER TRIED TO REPOSITION THE CHAIN LINK WITH THE PICK ON THE BOLTER BOOM, IT SLIPPED OFF THE PICK, CAUSING THE DRILL STEEL TO COME LOOSE, STRIKING THE EE ON THE HEAD. THE EE SUSTAINED CUTS AND BRUISES TO THE HEAD, AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A CONCUSSION.

WHILE CLEANING OFF THE BED OF THE SHOVEL RUN TRUCK, EE REACHED TO HOOK A CHAIN TO A SCRAP LIP SHROUD AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. DIAGNOSIS LOWER BACK PAIN SECONDARY TO SPRAIN/SPRAIN.

EMP WAS CLIMBING ON CAT INSTALLING RADIATOR. SLIPPED ON WET BLADE AND BUMPED KNEE ON TRACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN CONVEYOR BELT REPLACEMENT, STANDING ON CONE CRUSHER STRUCUTRE, GUILDING BELT ONTO CONVEYOR, SLING CHAIN ON BELT HANGER LSIPPED, SIDE OF BELT DROPPED, CAUSED EMPLOYEE TO LOSE BALANCE AND FALL APPRXO 7' TO THE GROUND ON FLAT OF BACK.

EE SLIPPED WHILE GETTING OFF DOZER. HE STEPPED OFF & SLIPPED OFF TRACKS, GRABBED WITH RIGHT HAND & TORE MUSCLE IN RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS AT A ROOF FALL LOCATION WITH HYDRAULIC STOPER WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL HOLDING DRILL

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING MINE TIMBERS AND OTHER MATERIALS. HE SLIPPED OFF A UNDER NAILED LAGGEN. HE FELL 18 FEET TO A SLUSHER DRIFT.

THE OPERATOR WAS CARRYING ROOF SUPPLIES TO THE ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL WITH ROOF PLATES IN HIS HAND WHICH CAUSED HIM TO CUT HIS FINGER.

EE WAS PULLING ON CURTAIN & HURT HIS LEFT SHOULDER

DRAGGING BOTTOM ROLLER, FELT PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER AND NUMBNESS IN ARM.

EE WAS LOADING MINER BITS INTO MANTRIP AND FELT PAIN IN UPPER BACK AND SHOULDER. HE DOD NOT SEEK MUDICAL ATTENTION AT OUR DISPENSARY. A WEEK LATER HE SAW A DR., WHO DID AN MRI SHOWING A TEAR I N HIS ROTATOR CUFF. HE SAID IT WAS CAUSED OVER TIME AND NOT FROM A SINGLE EVENT.

LIFTING BELT STRUCTURE. TURNING, TWISTING BACK, BACK BECAME STIF LONGER HE WORKED.

EE WAS BENDING OVER TO PICK UP A CRIB BLOCK & STAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

APPROACHING LADDER TO CLIMB UP BOTH FEET SLIPPEDAND HE LANDED ON HIS LEFT SIDE, CAUSING INJURY TO HIS LEFT SHOULDER

EE WAS GRINDING A SHIM ON A GRINDING WHEEL WHEN HE ACCIDENTLY GRINDED HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

EE HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED AS TENDONITIS OF RIGHT SHOULDER AS OF 3/21/97 RESULTING FROM AN OLD INJURY OCCURRING ON 11/19/96. EE HAS BEEN PUT ON WORK RESTRICTIONS AS OF 3/21/97, BUT IS NOT LOSING AN Y TIME.

EE WAS OPERATING LEFT SIDE BOOM OF ATRS TWIN BOON ROOFBOLTER. THE MACHINE HAD JST BEEN TRAMMED INTO A 201 UNSUPPORTED CUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING IT. THE MACHINE IHAD THE ATRS PROPERLY PRESSURIZED TO INSTALL THE 1ST ROW OF BOLTS AT CLOSER BOLT SPACING WHEN A SECTION OF UNSUPPORTEDROOF 20'L, 4'TO10'WX2"-12" THICK CAME DOWN STRIKING THE EE INTHE LEGS. RIGHT LEG BROKEN. 1ST DAY

THE INJURED WAS INSTALLING A PUMP MOTOR INTO A JOY SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE CAME INTO CONTACT WITH AN EXPOSED LEAD ON THE CAR - POWER NOT DISCONNECTED TO CAR.

EE HAD JUST FINISHED FUELING D8 TRACTOR AND DISMOUNTED TRACTOR IMPROPERLY BY JUMPING TO THE GROUND FROM THE TRACK OF THE D8.

EE WAS SHOVELING ON THE RAW COAL STOCKPILE - CLEANING COAL FROM AROUND THE STRUCTURE WITH RIGHT FOOT LOWER THAN LEFT FOOT WHEN BACK WAS INJURED WHILE THROWING COAL TO HIS RIGHT.

EE WAS STANDING BY REAR OF BOOM TRUCK CLEANING MOTOR SHAFT ANOTHER EE LET DOWN STABILIZER THAT LANDED ON EE FOOT.

EE WENT TO ASSIST ANOTHER EE IN PUSHING IN JAW PLATE WHILE PLATE WAS AGAINST THE WALL AT HIGH PRESSURE, HE ASKED THE SIGNAL MAN ATO BOOM DOWN SLOWLY. PLATE SNAPPED DOWN, CATCHING HIS FINGERS.

EE WAS PUSHING AN 8' BOLT INTO A DRILLED HOLE & THE COUPLER CAUGHT THE T-5 CHANNEL. WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE BOLT BENT & THE WRENCH FLEW & STRUCK HIM ON THE FACE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS KNOWLO EGE. COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTORPROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER KNOWLEGE COULD BE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS WAS NOT A FACTOR.

1994 INTERNATIONAL TRUCK DRIVEN BY EE OVERTRAVELED ELEVATED ACCESS DRILL ROAD & OVERTURNING. ANOTHER EE WAS A PASSENGER IN TRUCK AND RECEIVED FATL INJURIES.

STEPPED ON LOOSE LID ON LOADER. LEG WENT BETWEENLOADER LID THAT GOES OVER LOADER TIRE.

EXCAVATING & LOADING BUCKET @ BOTTOM OF SHAFT. ROCK FELL FROM DIPPER STRIKING EE ON HAND.

WORKING WITH PIPE AND IT HIT LEG.

OWNER WAS STEPPING UP ON CRAN, PAD WAS SITTING ON OUTRIGGER. HE STEPPED ONTO PAD & SLIPPED BACKWARDS CAUSING HIM TO HIS HIS LEG & HIP ON THE OUTRIGGER & THE FELL TO THE GROUND. HE SUSTAINED A MINER CUT & BRUISE. THE FALL WAS APPROX 3-4 FEET.

EE HAD BEEN USING A JACKHAMMER SEVERAL DAYS PROIR TO 11-18 AND HAD SORE WRISTS AND ARMS. NOW AS HE WAS USING A SLEDGE HAMMER HIS LEFT WRIST BEGAN TO HURT AND SWELL.

EE MOVING MINER CABLE WHEN CABLE ARC CAUSING BURNS.

EE COLLAPSED ON A RAMP LEADING TO A CRUSHER. INVESTIGATION INDICATED THAT EE MAY HAVE STEPPED ON AN OVAERSIZED ROCK, TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE.

EXTREME ICE CONDITIONS - EE WAS GOING FROM THE SHOP TO THE PLANT - SLIPPED ON ICE FELL BACKWARDS - LOWER BACK WENT OUT OF PLACE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING BATTERY TERMINAL WITH STEEL BRUSH. RESIDUE FROM BATTERY GOT INTO EYE.(HE WAS IN SHOP-OUTSIDE)

EE WORKING IN 31576. GETTING OUT OF LHD AND STEPPED ON ROCK, TWISTING LEFT HIP AND LEG. SOUGHT TREATMENT 11-25-96.

UNKNOWN

STEPPED OFF LOADER, TWISTED ANKLE

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS TAKING A PULLEY OFF A CHAIN. WHEN HE LIFTED PULLEY AND SAT IT DOWN HE FELT BACK PAIN.

THE EMPLOYEE WHILE HANGING LINE CURTAIN IN THE NO. 2 ENTRY OF THE 001-0 SECTION. THE ROOF BOLTER OEPRATED BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE, WSA TRAMMED FOORWARD OVER THE VICTIMS RIGHT FOOT.

EE WORKING ON STONE WHILE IT WAS ON LIFT TRUCK FORK. STONE SLID OFF FORKS AND LACERATED LEFT FOOT.

AT THE END OF THE SHIFT EE WALKED AROUND THE END OF HIS SHUTTLECAR TO SHUT THE BELT SWITCH OFF. HE STEPPED IN A HOLE TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE. EE CONTINUED TO WORK THRU 1-28-97. ON 1-29-97 HE HA D SURGERY TO REPAIR A PARTIALLY TORN LIGAMENT MAKING THIS AN LTA.

STACKING COPPER--PUSHED A PIECE OF COPPER THAT WAS STICKING UP; HAND SLIPPED & HIT WALL--SPRAINED INDEX FINGER & TORE SOME LIGAMENTS.

ON MONDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1996, EE WA SOPERATING A CONTINUOUS MINER ON HADGATE III NO. 1 ENTRY, WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK MEASURING APPROX 32"LX32"WX4"T FELL OUT BETWEEN THE THIRD AND FORTH BOLTS. TH E ROCK HIT EE IN THE LOWER EXTREMITY CAUSING A PELVIC FACTURE AND RIGHT FOOT FRACTURE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE CARRYING REPLACEMENT ROLLER FOR 11A GP SCREEN, FELT SHARP IN MIDDLE OF BACK.

EE STATES HE WAS CLEANING COAL-BACKED INTO HOLE. BOUNCED & JARRED HIM AROUND. HURTING HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED AS HE DISMOUNTED FROM #24 JEEP HE SLIPPED AND FELL BACKWARD ONTO THE JEEP AND BRUISED HIS BACK.

EE WAS HELPING HOOK UP A ROCKDUSTER TO A SUPPLY JEEP. THE JEEP LUNGED CATCHING HIS RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR ROCK FROM BETWEEN BELT AND IDLER ON CONVEYOR #13. REACHED IN BEHINDSTEEL MESH GUARD, GLOVED RIGHT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN IDLER AND BELT. PULLED HAND AND FOREARM INTO PINCH POINT BEFORE RELEASED. BELT LINE WAS RUNNING. BRUISED HAND AND FOREARM. DR. EXAMINED AND RELEASED EMPLOYEE TO RETURN TO WORK 11/20.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING A BOILER TO INSTALL A TARP. THE EMPLOYEE USED HIS ARMS TO PULL HIS BODY INTO A DIFFERENT POSITION. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK AREA AFTER MOVING HIS BODY.

WAS FILING UP DOZER WITH FUEL. AFTER FUELING WASCOMMING OFF DOZER WHEN LOST FOOTING AND FELL INTO PUSHARM. LEG WENT BETWEEN PUSHARM AND DOZER HURTING LEG OR KNEE AND HEAD STRUCK GROUND.

EE WAS REACHING ACROSS CONVEYOR TO WIPE OFF THE PHOTO EYE THAT COUNTS BAGS AND SHUTS DOWN THE POWERED BELT. AT THIS TIME, HIS RIGHT ARM CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE CONVEYOR BELT AND PULLED HIM OF F BALANCE. TRYING TO REGAIN HIS BALANCE, THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CONVEYOR BELT AND METAL ROLLER RESULTING IN LACERATIONS TO HIS LITTLE, RING, AND MIDDLE.

EMP WAS IMPROPERLY LIFTING A 50LB BAG OF SALT AND EXPERIENCED SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER AND MIDDLEBACK.

GARDEN PLANT EE WAS HOLDING A PIPE WRENCH AS A BACKUP FOR AN ELECTRIC IMPACT WRENCH WHEN THE PIPE WRENCH TURNED AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER 1 ST JOINT.

MANTRIP JUMPED OFF TRACK. EE WAS USING RAILROAD JACK TO LIFT TRIP UP. JACK JUMPED OUT, KNOCKING EE BACK ON A CRIB BLOCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING POWER CABLE OVER DIESEL PUMP. WHILE HE WAS MOVIGN THE CABLE HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND LEFT LEG.

EE HAD JUST SHUT DOWN #6 FURNACE. WHEN WALKING TO THE WEST END CONTROL PANEL, HE SLIPPED & FELL. THE AREA WAS WET & MUDDY, IT HAD BEEN RAINING THE EVENING BEFORE.

EE WAS GREASING THE P & H CRANE BUCKET ON THE SAND GRIZZLY WHEN HE SLIPPED ON A ROCK & SCRAPED HIS RIGHT LEG BELOW THE KNEE.

EMPLOYEE OPERATED (#84) LOADER HIS ENTIRE SHIFT TO LAOD TRUCKS. NOTHING UNUSUAL OCCURRED, EXCEPT THAT HE STARTED TO DEVELOP SOME MINOR BACK PAIN. OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, SYMPTOMS PROGRESSED A ND HE WAS TAKEN OFF WORK FOR A BACK STRAIN WHICH WAS ATTRIBUTED TO THIS INCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ROCK BETWEEN REAR TIRES OF A ROCK TRUCK. HE WAS USING ONE HAND.WHEN THE ROCK DISLODGED IT FELL ON HIS FOOT. A DOCTOR RESTRICTED HIM FROM WORK.

HE WAS CLEANING BOWL FOR 7' CONE CRUSHSER WITH GRINDER AND WIRE BRUSH. A RUST PARTICLE GOT INTO HIS LEFT EYE.

INJURED STATED HE PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS CHEST WHILE RIGGING MACHINE.

REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP HAMMER AND A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL OFF RIB AND HIT TOP OF RT HAND. EE STARTED MISSING WORK ON MONDAY, NOV 18, 1996.

WAS PULLING A 54" ROLLER THRU A DOOR. HE JERKED THE ROLLER TO CLEAR DOOR AND THE HOOK ON THE END OF THE ROLLER CAUGHT THE DOOR FRAME, HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 3-24-97 WHEN THE DR. TOOK HIM O FF DUE TO MUSCLE ATROPHY.

WHILE WALKING ALONG THE FACE OF LONGWALL-1 THE FACE RASHED AND FELL ACROSS THE PANLINE. WHEN THE COAL HIT THE CABLE RACK IT BROKE INTO SEVERAL PIECES. ONE THESE CHUNKS HIT THE INJURED ON THE R IGHT KNEE (CONTUSION).

EE WAS ON THE 2615 LEVEL, SLIDING IN A CONTROL BOARD WHEN THE MUCK CAME DOWN, HIT THE CONTROL BOARD & PINNED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE WALL & THE CONTROL BOARD. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN SPRAIN STRAIN RIGHT HAND. HE RELEASED FOR WORK WITH RESTRICTIONS.

EE USING DUMP TRUCK TO TRANSFER MATERIAL WAS TRAVELLING UP RAMP AREA WHEN TRUCK STALLED WHILECHANGING GEARS. LOST POWER, TRAVELED BACKWARD, STRUCK BERM AND OVERTURNED

EE WAS PULLING BOLTER STEEL FROM ROOF WHEN TOP SECTION OF STEEL STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND, POSSIBLE FRACTURE.

WORKING ON PANLINE, HAD SCREWDRIVE IN A COMEALONG TO HOLD IN PLACE. SCREWDRIVE BROKE AND COMEALONG CAME DOWN ON LEFT HAND.

EMP WAS UNBLOCKING FEEDEER. STEPPED ON LUMP OF COAL AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EE WAS ON 52T. SECTION, #4 HDG. HANGING UP MINER'S CABLE ACROSS HDG. WHEN HE ALLEGES HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK. EE DIDN'T REPORT THIS ACCIDENT 11-20-96 AT START OF SHIFT. WORKED HIS REGULAR SHI FT. REPORTED OFF NEXT REGULAR SHIFT 11-21-96. EEWORKED FOUR REGULAR SHIFTS BEFORE TAKING OFF FORHIS ACCIDENT OR REPORTING THIS ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS PULLING ON MINER CABLE AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EE WAS CARRYING SOME MOTOR OIL TO PUT IN A SHIELD HAULER. HE SLIPPED ON A SNOWPACKED AREA AND FELL TO THE GROUND. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE TO HIS RIGHT LOWER LEG.

EE WAS REMOVING CABLES OFF OF THE CABLE HOOKER ON THE MINER WHEN THE CABLE MASHED HIS LEFT HAND.

EE WAS HANGING A SECTION OF MONO RAIL WHEN HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS REMOVING SOME GLOOR GRATING TO GAIN ACCESS TO A WORK POSITION. EE WAS BURNED ON THE BACK OF HIS LEFT HAND BY SOME HOT SLAG AND RADIANT HEAT FROM HIS BURNING TORCH. EE OPENED HIS BLISTER WOUNDS AND DRAINED THE FLUIDS.

EE WAS USING A SINGLE ACTING PUMP TO OPERATE A DOUBLE ACTING CYLINDER. PRESSURE BUILT UP ON ONE SIDE OF THE CYLINDER CAUSING A HYDRAULIC FITTING TO FAIL BLOWING THE CHECK BOLT AND SPRING THROU GH THE EE'S HAND.

INJURED FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK WHILE CARRYING A TOOL BAG DOWN A SET OF STAIRS.

EE WAS LIFTING A RUB RAIL ON MINER WHEN HE FELT PAIN DOWN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND ARM.

EE WAS OPERATING A ROCK TRUCK AND WAS BEING LOADED IN A PIT AREA. AS THE LOADER WAS PLACING A BUCKETFUL OF MATERIALINTO THE BED, THE BOOM SUDDENLY DROPPED AGAINST THE BED RAIN, JARRING THE E E.

EMP WAS SHOVELING BELT AND FELT PAIN IN HIS HIPS

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED TAKIN GDOWN VENTILATION TUBING. STRAIN RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE STARTED MISSING WORK AGAIN ON 11/16/96-RTN TOWORK 11/27/96.

PULLING CABLE THRU DRAGLINE SOCKET, SLIPPED OUT HIT MAN IN CHIN, CAUSED, CUT AND CHIPPED TEETH.

5 NORTH TRACK MANTRIP LOCATION - STEPPING OFF 49 JEEP [TROLLEY OPEN MANTRIP] IN A FORWARD POSITION, ONTO A LOOSE STONE ON THE MINE FLOOR CAUSING HIS FOOT TO TWIST & STRAIN HIS R ACHILLES TENDO N.

VICTIM WAS STANDING ON GRIZZLEY OF PORTABLE CRUSHER BARRING GRAVEL AND SLIPPED OFF GRIZZLEY BAR,TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF THEN FELL OFF SIDE OF CRUSHER.

CATCHING BARGE THAT WAS COMING ALONG SIDE OF DREDGE. SLIPPED IN MUD ON DECK. FELL ON KNEE.

THE EE WAS REPLACING THE DIGGING POINTS ON THE 331 LOADER AS HE HIT THE POINT WITH A HAMMER TO REMOVE IT A PIECE OF METAL FLEW OFF AND HIT HIM IN THE THIGH.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE CLIMBED OVER A HANDRAIL AND ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB DOWN THE STEEL SUPPORTS TO THE NEXT LEVEL WHEN HE LOSTHIS FOOTING AND FELL TO THE GROUND. HE STATES THAT HE DID NOT USE THE STAIRWAY BECAUSE OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE BLOWING OFF DUST AND DIRT IN THE ARA. HE HAS A COMPRESSION FRACTURE OF THE BACK, A FRACTURE OF THE RIGHT HEEL, FRACTURE OF LEFT WRIST, AND MULTIPLE F

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO TAKE THE INSPECTION DOOR OFF THE #1 IC BIN AND THE CEMENT INSIDE FORCED THE DOOR AGAINST HIS LEFT FRONT THIGH AND HIT HIS BACK AGAINST A PIPE.

BENDING A BOLT.

EE WAS UNLOADING 777 HAUL TRUCK TIRES OFF TRACTOR TRAILER. TIRES WERE LOADED BY YOKOHAMA IN FOUR ROWS 3 TIRES PER ROW STANDING UPRIGHT ON TRAILER. EE WAS USING A TIRE TRUCK BOOM HANDLER TO UNL OAD TIRES AND WAS REPOSITIONING THE TRUCK. TRANSPORT DRIVER RELEASED THREE TIE DOWN STRAPS ON THE SECOND ROW AND WALKED TO FRONT OF TIRE TRUCK EE STEPS OUT OF TIRE TRK. WHEN OUTSIDE TIRE TOPP

EE STEPPED ON WET PIECE OF BELT CAUSING HIM TO SLIP AND TWIST HIS LEFT KNEE.

EMP WAS CLEANING OUT HOPPER ON ROCK DUSTER AND HIS GLOVE GOT CAUGHT IN ROCK DUSTER AUGER.

EMP WAS USING A LIFTING JACK TO RETRACK A WRECKED EQUIPMENT CARRIER AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE PICKED UP WHEEL BARROW FULL OF BRICKS AND HURT BACK.

EE WAS HELPING SET PROPSETTER TIMBERS WHEN SHE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HER LEFT KNEE AND SIDE ON THE MINE FLOOR.

EMP WAS HELPING CHANGE AN ELECTRIC MOTOR IN A SCOOP. FELT A PAIN IN LOW BACK AS HE USED A PRY BAR TO ALIGN THE MOTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING GRINDER. SMALL PIECE OF METAL IN LEFT EYE. EMPLOYEE CONTINUED TO WORK, SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION 11-18-96.

THE EE WAS HELPING LOAD STEEL RAILS ONTO A FLATCAR. THE RAIL WERE PICKED UP ON THE FORKS OF A 25X. HE ATTEMPTED TO SLIDE THE RAILS BY HAND & THEY SLID ON THE FORKS & STRUCK HIS RIGHT KNEE, CAU SING A CONTUSION TO RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS PINNING IN #3 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL & STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT CALF SHIN. [NOTE: REPORTED AS LOST TIME INJURY ON 11/22/96].

REAR END BROKE ON COAL TRUCK AND ALLOWED IT TO RUN AWAY AND TURN OVER. ROAD GRADE OF 11%, AVERAGE BERMS OF 3'+ AND ADEQUATE BASING. DRIVER DID EXCELLENT JOB OF PUTTING TRUCK IN APPROPRIATE BER RM AND DITCH.

INDIVIDUAL WAS CHANGING THE FINGER GATES ON #6 CONVEYOR AND ONE SET OF THE GATES FELL ON HIS HAND. THERE WERE NO ABRASIONS ON HAND. LATER THAT EVENING HE SAID THAT HIS HAND STARTED TO SWELL. W ENT TO CLINIC NEXT MORNING AND HAD X-RAY TAKEN. RESULTS: NEGATIVE. NO FRACTURES, ONLY BRUISED.

EE WAS LEAVING CRUSHER CONTROL HOUSE APPROX 10AM. WHILE WALKING DOWN STEPS, EE ALLEDGELY SLIPPED ON 2ND OR 3RD STEP & SLID DOWN TO PLATFORM. EE HELD BOTH HANDS ON HANDRAIL AS HE SLID. IT WAS R AINING AT THE TIME. DID NOT INFORM FOREMAN UNTIL2 OR 3 WEEKS LATER. IN MARCH OF 1997 INFORMED THAT HE WAS HAVING BACK PROBLEMS DUE TO THE ABOVE.

THE INJURED WAS LIFTING A BAG OF ROCKDUST WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT WRIST.

EE LIFTED A GUARD OFF 6 A/P BIN FILLING SCREW & THEN TWISTED TO SET THE GUARD DOWN. HE FELT HIS LOWER BACK "POP". THE GUARD WEIGHED APPROX 15 POUNDS.

WHILE EE WAS IN THE TRUCK, ANOTHER EE CLOSED THE DOOR ON EE RIGHT HAND

EMP SUSTAINED INJURY WHILE DRIVING DOZER. EXACT TIME AND LOCATION CANNOT BE DETERMINED.

EE WAS REPLACING AIRSLIDE PUMP. THE CHOKER SLIPPED ALLOWING PUMP TO FALL ON HAND.

RIB ROLL - COAL CAUGHT EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CARRY PUMP FROM TRACK TO PUMP SITE LATE INTO SHIFT. HE STATED TO HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HIS BACK HURT.

EMP CLAIMS HE INJURED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE ASSISTING IN LIFTING 6" DISCHARGE HOSE.

WHILE SCALING ROCK IN UNDERGROUND MINE A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF HITTING HIM ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER CAUSING SEVERE BRUISES TO RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A CABLE OFF A 6" WATER PUMP. EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO SEE IF CABLE WAS CUT INTO AND TOOUNCHED LEFT HAND WITH TORCH. BURN TO LEFT HAND.

SWITCHING TO A DIFFERENT LOADER. FELL GETTING OUT OF LOADER AND HURT BACK AND RIBS.

INJURED WAS BOLTING HAD SET BOLTER TO DRILL WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING BACK. PIECE OF ROCK WAS APP 38X38" 4" THICK TO OF EATHER EDGE CAUSING SPINAL FRACTURE LUMBAR REGION L.

EE PUTTING BOLT IN ROOF OF MINES WHEN PIN WRENCHSLIPPED FROM BOLT & STRUCK EE ON LEFT MIDDLE FINGER. THIS WAS NOT REPORTED TO ISLAND FORK UNTIL 12/9/96.

EE WAS REPLACING A FUEL FILTER ON ENGINE OF LOCOMOTIVE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN HE HAD TO CLEAN OUT DRILL HEAD & LEFT THE DRILL STEEL IN HOLE. THE DRILL STEEL DROPPED OUT OF HOLE AND STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND. 6-E SECTION.

EE WAS HELPING INSTALL A METAL IMPACT PLATE BETWEEN #1 & #2 FEEDERS. A GAP NEEDED TO BE FILLED BETWEEN PLATE. EE WAS PRYING ON METAL TO FILL GAP. PRY BAR SLIPPED AND STRUCK EE'S KNEE. EE START ED MISSING WORK DAYS ON NOV. 20, 1996.

WHILE COMING DOWN THE STAIRS OF SCREEN PLATFORM THE MAN SLIPPED AND FELL DOWN.

EE STRUCK THE MONORAIL WITH HIS HEAD AND STRAINED NECK.

A PIECE OF SLATE FELL & STRUCK EE ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER

WHILE DRIVING HIS JCI TRUCK UNDERGROUND, HE HIT A BUMPS IN THE ROAD. THIS JARRED HIS BACK.

THE WORKER WAS OPERATING A UNILOADER DIGGING DOWNHILL INTO A PILE OF WASTE MATERIAL. ON ONE PASSHE OVERLOADED THE BUCKET CAUSING THE REAR END TORISE. UPON EMPTYING THE BUCKET, THE REAR CAME BA CK TO THE GROUND CAUSING THE EE TO BE STRUCK AGAINST THE CHEST PROTECTOR.

EMP WAS REPAIRING CLUTCH ON SMALL DREDGE WITH ANOTHER EMP. AFTER REPAIRS, THEY STARTED THE ENGINE WITHOUT REPLACING GUARDS TO CHECK ALIGNMENT. THEY SAW THAT THE BUSHINGS NEEDED TO BE RETIGHTEN ED AND DISENGAGED THE CLUTCH TO TIGHTEN BUSHINGS. WHILE TIGHTENING, OTHER EMP BUMPED CLUTCH CAUSING IT TO ENGAGE AND SWINGING THE WRENCH THAT STRUCK EMP.

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A ROCK FROM THE GROUND AND SLIPPED AND FELL CUTTING LEG.

BUILDING A STOPPING. OVEREXTENDED WHILE BENDING DOWN TO PICKUP A CONCRETE BLOCK. STRAINED LOWER BACK. BEGAN LOSING TIME 11-18-96.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING WITH ROOF BOLTING. WHILE HE WAS MAKING UP BOLTS AND PLATES A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS AND CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE MACHINE AND ROCK.

EE WAS OPERATING A ROOF BOLTER ON 003 SECTION. HE WAS DRILLING A HOLE FOR SECOND BOLT IN A ROW 8' FROM FACE WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW SLATE MEASURING 3' X 5' X 4" FELL OUT AND HIT EE ON HIS LEFT L EG. ROCK WAS REMOVED AND EE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.

EE ALLEGED WHILE WORKING IN FCC CATALYST PIT HE TWISTED HIS KNEE. HE WAS LATE IN INITIALLY REPORTING THE ACCIDENT. IT WAS A FIRST-AID ONLY CASE IN 11/96. ON 14 JULY 97 HE SAID THAT THE KNEE WA S SWOLLEN & PAINFUL. HE STATES HE DID NOT REINJURE IT, THAT IT HAS BEEN STIFF & SORE SINCE 11/96. HE HAS NOT INFORMED ANYONE OF THIS CONDITION.

FELL OFF SCRAPER, LANDED ON SHOULDER.

EE WAS USING A PORTABLE DITCH WITCH TO TRENCH DRIP LINE IN ON THE HEAP LEACH PAD. THE TRENCHER SANK INTO THE MUCK AND HE WAS LIFTING ON THE TRENCHER TO FREE IT AND STRAIN HIS BACK.

EE WAS GOING TO FILL HYDRALIC TANK ON 988 CAT LOADER. HE PLACE HIS LEFT FOOT ON THE LADDER S FIRST RUNG AND HIS RT FOOT ON THE EXIT PLATFORM. HE THEN REMOVED THE CAP TO THE TANK WITH HIS RT HA ND LACERATION ON THE EXIT PLATFORM. HE SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING HIS HEAD ON A UNISTRUT METAL SUPPORT.

DEMOLITION WORK ON SANDPLANT. PIECE OF METAL FLIPPED OVER KNOCKING EE FROM PLATFORM.,

EE WAS SITTING AT BENCH AND A PIECE OF SLATE FELL HITTING HIM ON THE HEAD AND LEG.

EE WAS RIDING OUTSIDE ON THE MANTRIP AND HE STRETCHED OUT HIS RIGHT LEG AND GOT IT INTO THE TOP. THIS TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

MOUTH OF SLOPE, STEPPED IN HOLE WHILE CARRYING BELT ROLLER. STRUCK PAVEMENT WITH LEFT HAND WHILE HOLDING ROLLER WHEN HE FELL.

EMP STEPPED OUT OF A TRUCK AND STEPPED ON A FROZEN RUT OF DIRT AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS LIFTING HEAVY CUTTING STONE. SHE BROKE SOME "VEINS" IN HER WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING A SHOT CRETE MACHINE ON S3W, AT THE 2120 SERVIOR. THE DUST GOT INTO HSI RIGHT EYE, BURNING THE CORNEA.

EE DISMOUNTED THE TRACTOR USING 3 POINT CONTACT WHEN SHE PUT HER FOOT ON THE GROUND SHE TURNED HER ANKLE.

CARRYING BELT STRUCTURE WITH FELLOW EE AT STEPS AT CATWALK HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND CAUGHT ON STEP, EE FELL BACKWARDS TWISTING RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS LIFTING A BUCKET LIFT JACK FOR A SCOOP WHEN HE PULLED HIS BACK.

EE WAS CARRYING A PIECE OF METAL AND WALKING UNDER A CONVEYOR FRAME. EE DUCKED HIS HEAD TO GO UNDER FRAME AND RAISED HIS HEAD TO SOON AND BUMPED HIS HEAD ON THE FRAME.

MINE HELPER WAS MOVING CABLE, MACHINE TWISTED CATCHING RIGHT KNEE BETWEEN MACHINE AND RIB.

TRIPPED OVER A CABLE. FELL AND PUSHED ARM INTO SHOULDER. DISLOCATED SHOULDER.

EE ALLEGEDLY STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE STOCKING ROOF BOLT PLATES ONTO THE ROOF BOLTER.

GETTING MATERIALS READY FOR THE WELDER TO WELD ON THE CRUSHER FEEDER. RECEIVED FLASH BURNS TO EYES.

WHILE REMOVING A 18,000 GALLON EMPTY WATER TANK.. EE WAS CUTTING A BUSHING OFF OF THE REAR TANK MOUNTS, WHEN THE BUSHING WAS CUT LOOSE THE TANK SHIFTED ABOUT 4" AND SQUEEZED EE BETWEEN THE T ANK AND THE TIRE. THE TANK WAS SUPPORTED BY THE CRANE. EE RECIEVED BRUISING.

WENT TO WORK AWAY AND FOOT GOT STUCK BETWEEN TIRE AND GROUND AND AS HE FELL HIS ARM HIT THE MANLIFT WHICH CAUSSSED THE INJURY.

STANDING TOO CLOSE TO SOMEONE ELSE WELDING.

1. THERE WAS NO WITNESS TO THE ACCIDENT. 2. EE COULD NOT EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED. 3. EE IN AREA HE WAS SPECIFICALLY INSTRUCTED TO AVOID AT ALL TIMES. 4. EE APPARENTLY CAUGHT COAT SLEEVE IN SHART ON TAIL PULLEY CAUSING BRUISES & FRICTION BURNS TO HIS RIGHT ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING SAND FROM DOCK BARGE WITH LAODER. HEHIT PORT HOLE AND CAUSED LOAODER TO COME TO A STOP CAUSING HIM TO JAMB HIS HAND, AND WRIST.

EE SCALING TOP, GOT F/O IN EYE.

EMP SAID THAT WHILE HE WAS GETTING OUT OF SCOOOPOPERATING COMPARTMENT HE FELT PAIN IN BACK. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS BACK SPASMS. COMPLIANCE W/RULES/REGS WAS NOT FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQ OK, MINE R INCENTIVE COULD BE FACTOR AND EQ DESIGN. MININGEQ/SYSTEMS COULD BE FACTOR.

HELPING TO INSTALL SHIMS ON MINER TRACK.

EE WAS REMOVING CHAINS FROM A TRUCK WHEN HE FELTA "POP". SECONDS LATER HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.HE HAS A BULGING DISC.

EE WAS WALKING UP STAIRWAY FROM PARKING LOT TO SHOP BUILDING WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE STEPS & FELLON HIS LEFT SIDE RESULTING IN SORE RIBS & BACK.

EE WAS GETTING OFF FORK LIFT WHEN HIS APRON SUSPENEDR CAUGHT THE GEAR SHIFT & PULLED IN INTO REVERSE. WHEN FORF LIFT BACKED UP, EE'S ANKLE & FOOT WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE WHEEL & A PALLET.

INSTALLING ROOF BOLT & GLOVE GOT CAUGHT ON ROOF BOLTERHEAD AND TWISTED WRIST

HE WAS CLEANING THE DOOR WINDOW WHILE THE BED WAS COMING DOWN. HE CAUGHT HIS HEAD BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE ROCK PROTECTOR.

CLOTHING CAME IN CONTACT WITH A PROPANE HEATER. CLOTHING CAUGHT ON FIRE, BURNING THE BACK OF BOTH LEGS AND THREE FINGERS ON THE LEFT HAND.

COLLISION BETWEEN HAULAGE TRUCK AND CO CAR AT WAHS PLANT AREA INTERSECTION OF SERVICE/HAUL ROADS.

WHILE CLEANING OUT MATERIAL BINS, SOMETHING SNAPPED IN HIS ARM (WRIST).

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND TRUCK (WHICH WAS PARKED). HE SLIPPED ON PATCH OF ICE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF AND STRAINED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

EMPLYEE WAS USING A SET OF COME-A-LONG TO GET SLACK IN THE BELT FOR A SPLICE. HIS THUMB GOT CAUGHT ON THE RACKET GEAR LETTING PRESSURE OFF THE COME-A-LONG.

EE WAS WORKING ON #2 SECTION BELT LINE WHEN SHE SLIPPED AND FELL AND STRAINED HER LOWER BACK ADN SPRAINED HER LEFT ANKLE. NOTE: THIS EE WAS INJURED ON 11-12-96 AND WORKED UNTIL 3-22-97 WHEN SH E BEGAN LOSING TIME AWAY FROM WORK.

EE WAS PUTTING CABLE ONTO 1430 TOWER HORNS. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS NECK WHILE LIFTING CABLE. DIAGNOSIS: CERVICAL PAIN AND STRAIN. HE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.

EE FELL AND BRUISED RIGHT ELBOW . HE CONTUED TO WORK UNTIL 11-18-96 AT WHICH TIME HE WEN TO THE DR. FOR PAIN IN ELBOW. THE DR. DIAGNOSED THE PROBLEM AS "EPICONDYLITIS" WHICH RESULTED FROM ACCU MULATIVE ACTIVITY AND REPEATED MOTION INVOLVING THE BRUISED ELBOW.

PULLING 3 1/2" PIPE OUT OF WAY OF FORKLIFT. FORKLIFT CAUGHT END OF PIPE AND FLIPPED IT UP. PIPE LANDED ON HAND AND FINGERS. SMASHED THEM BETWEEN PIPE AND 6" H BEAM AT BACK OF BENTOMAT LINE. BR OKE MIDDLE AND RING FINGER IN LEFT HAND.

HE WAS TAKING POPSIT VALVE OFF TANK 4 BECAUSE 2 CYLINDER WAS PLUGGED. POPSIT VALVE HAD PRESSURE ON IT AND LIQUID FUEL WASTE FLEW UNDER SAFETY EQUIPMENT AND GOT IN HIS RIGHT EYE.

JUMPED IN RAM CAR & TWISTED LEFT ANKLE AND FOOT,HEARD IT POP.

EE WAS PUTTING OIL IN THE OILER WHEN HIS PARTNER LOWERED THE SCISSOR DECK. WHEN THE DECK REACHED THE BOTTOM OF THE CYLE, THE STOP JARRED EE S LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING UP THE SAFETY CHAIN FROM THE DIESEL WELDER TO THE BUMPER OF HIS TRUCK WHEN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE LOADED A BOTTLE OF ACETYLENE INTO THE TRUCK.THIS EMPLOYEE THEN LOST CONTROL OF THE BOTTLE AND THE BOTTLE FELL AND STRUCK THE OTHER EMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND. FIRST DAY OUT 11-13-96.

EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING OVER A COMBINATION TIRE SO THAT HIS CO-WORKERS COULD LINE UP A FISH PLATE. UPON WORKING ON THIS A SCOOP CAME ALONG AND BUMPED THE RAIL FORCING IT OVER THIS EMPLOYEE'S LEG. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER INCENTIVE COULD BE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIP/SYSTEMS OK.

EMPLOYEE WAS JACKING A 10 TON GOODMAN LOCOMOTIVE BACK ON TRACK WITH A SIMPLEX JACK WHICH SLIPPED FROM UNDER THE MOTOR. EMPLOYEE LOST HIS BALANCE AND CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT HAND-JAMMING HIS WRIST.

EE WAS RAISING THE PIPELINE FROM THE BARGE TO DRAIN IT. THE DR HAS NOT RETURNED MY CALL YET TO TELL ME WHAT WAS DAMAGED OR INJURED.

TRUCK WAS JARRED WHILE BEING LOADED. EE WAS LOOKING UP AND DIRT FROM HEADLINER FELL INTO EYES.

WHILE WORKING INSIDE MINE, EE WAS STRUCK ON FOOT BY PIECE OF FALLING ROCK.

WHILE PUTTING IN RIB PINS IN NO. 1 PLACE, JERKED A DRILL STEEL OUT OF HOLE AND FELT PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMP WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER FORM THE GOB TRUCKS OPERATOR COMPARTMENT. FOOT SLIPPED OFF BOTTOM STEP CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND TWIST HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OFF OF TRUCK THAT HE DOESN'T NORMALLY DRIVE. THE STEPS WERE HIGHER THAT HIS TRUCK AND HE TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

CHANGING PUMP ON LEFT SIDE OF ROOF BOLTER WAS TURNIGN PUMP TO GET LEIGN UP, A TAG ON PUMP CAUGHT HIS FIGNEER AND CUT IT.

EE WAS DRIVING THE ROCK TRUCK UP ONE EMBANKMENT WHEN THE FRONT END CAME OFF THE GROUND CAUSING HIM TO LOSE CONTROL. THE TRUCK TURNED ON ITS SIDE & HIS LEFT (THIGH) STRUCK THE STEERING WHEEL CA USING SUBSTANTIAL BRUISING.

IT IS ALLEGED THAT WHILE HAULING SUPPLIES, THE EE HEAD WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SCOOP AND THE TOP OF THE MINE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGH THE PIPE TUNNEL BETWEEN THE FINE CRUSHER BUILDING A THE CONCENTRATOR BUILDING WHEN HE STRUCK HIS FOOT AGAINST PIPE SUPPORT RESULTING IN A FRACTURE TO HIS RIGHT SMA LL TOE. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING STEEL TOE BOOTS.

INJURED WAS LIFTING A IMPELLER WHEN HE FELL A PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA. OFF FOR SURGERY.

EE WAS GRINDING ON THE CRUSHER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL FLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

WHILE MOVING HYDRAULIC JACK AROUND, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK BUT CONTINUED TO WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING UP CANVAS AND WAS PINCHED AGAINST THE RIB BY THE CABLE TENDING ARM ATTACHED TO THE MINER.

EE WAS PLACING A PIECE OF GRATING WHICH WAS LIFTED BY A COMEALONG. HE PULLED INTO PLACE STANDING SIDEWAYS AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM CRANE WHEN HE STEPPED ONTO SLIPPERY TRACKS. HE SAID HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND LANDED ON THE TRACK AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

THE EE STATES THAT HE WAS WASHING THE MINER. HE WAS STANDING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE MINER REACHING TO TURN OFF THE WATER WHEN A CHUNK OF COAL 18" X 10" X 2" STRUCK HIS LEFT THIGH. HE WAS TRA NSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO THE DELTA COUNTY HOSPITAL, CHECKED AND RELEASED.

DRILLING AND CHECKING THE BRICK'S FOR HIGH'S IN THE HILO, HOT CEMENT GOT INTO BOOT AND BURN EMPLOYEE ON ANKLE.

EE WAS BENDING DOWN TO OPEN A MANDOOR TO CRAWL THRU WHEN HE FELT SHARP & BURNING PAIN IN HIS LOWER MID BACK & RIGHT LEG AREA

IT WAS RAINING. CUTTING DITCH WITH 375 KOMATSU DOZER. STEPPED OFF EQUIPMENT. MUDDY - SLIPPED, FELL ON PUSH ARM ON DOZER BEFORE ENDING UP ON GROUND ON BACK. INJURED BACK.

WHILE CLEANING DRILL STEEL MASHED FINGER.

EE WAS PULLING THE HANDLE FOR THE GATE ON THE BROKEN COAL [SIZE] LOADOUT CHUTE WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AREA.

EMP WAS STANDING ON CONVEYOR AT TRANSFER POINT CLEANING OUT FROZEN MATERIAL. WHEN FINISHED, EMP WALKED ON BELT TO GET DOWN BUT SLIPPED ON BELT AND FELL TO GROUND.

UNLOADING REBAR WITH CHOKER AND EXCAVATOR LOAD SHIFTED, CHOKER CAME LOOSE, KNOCKED VICTIM TO GROUND.

INJURED PERSON UNEXPECTEDLY STEPPED IN A HOLE IN BOTTOM WHICH PLULLED HIS LEFT FOOT. HE SUSTAINED A SPRAIN TO LEFT FOOT. THERE WAS NO PROPERTY DAMAGE.

EMP WAS ROOF BOLTING ON THE RT SIDE OF BOLTER INCROSSCUT BLOW THROUGH. HAD JUST INSTALLED ROOF BOLT CLOSEST TO RIB. AS HE WAS LOWERING DRILL BOOM, OPERATING CONTROLS WITH LFT HAND, HAD A 53" S TARTER DRILL STEEL IN RT HAND, TOP OF DRILL STEEL CAUGHT IN GUARD ON SIDE OF DRILL BOOM AND BOTTOM OF DRILL STEEL WEDGED INTO TOP OF RT FOOT ABOUT 1" BEHIND STEEL TOE PROTECTION. DOWN FORCE P

CUTTING AN EDGE ON MOTOR, CUT THUMB ON SHARP BOLT.

EE WAS HELPING RERAIL A WRECKED MANTRIP VEHICLE WITH A LIFTING JACK WHEN HE ALLEGEDLY STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON THE 2890 LEVEL WORKING A HANG-UP WHEN HE TWISTED SIDEWAYS AND HIS BACK STARTED TO HURT.ON 11-20-96 THIS OFFICE WAS NOTIFIED THAT ON 11-15-96 EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN OFF THE JOB FOR A LUMBAR STRAIN.

RUNNING A ROOF BOLTER. PINNER STEEL SLIPPED OUT OF CHUCH, STRUCK HIM ON LEFT HAMD. BROKE MIDDLE FINGER - LEFT HAND.

EE WAS FOLLOWING ANOTHER TRUCK 10 WHEELER DOWN A STEEP GRADE WHEN COMING UPON OTHER VEHICLE TO FAST EE DOWN SHIFTED AND KILLED ENGINE. RESULTING OF HITTING OTHER TRUCK IN REAR. HIS RIGHT KNEE WAS INJURED. OTHER DRIVER WAS NOT INJURED.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS SECTION WHEN HE FELL ONTO ONE KNEE. WHEN HE STARTED TO RISE TO HIS FEET HE WAS STRUCK WITH SEVERE PAIN TO THE NECK AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING ELVATOR USING CONTROL BOX. FUSE BOX SHORTED OTU AND PANEL HIT EMPLOYEE INF ACE. BROKE NOSE. CONTROLS BURNED HANDS.

DAMPNESS, SMOOTH LADDER RUNGS, AND SMOOTH SOLED SHOES. EE FELL 15 FT WHEN HE SLIPPED ON TOP RUNG OF LADDER. HE BOUNCED OFF OF CAGE SURROUNDING THE LADDER.

WHILE WORKING IN THE SHOP ON A GEAR THAT WAS LAYING ON BLOCKS, HE STEPPED OFF BACKWARDS ANDSLIPPED ON A PIECE OF METAL.

PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK WHILE SHOVELING.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING DOWN THE TRACK, PIPE FELL HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE SIDE OF HEAD, DROVE HIS HEAD INTO RAILRUNNER, PIPE THEN SWUNG AWAY CAME BACK AND DROVE EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF RAILRUNNER.

DRILLER WAS GETTING DRILL LINED UP TO DRILL A HOLE. AS IT (DRILL) WAS MOVING FORWARD THE DRILLERS FOOT SLIPPED INTO SPACE BETWEEN TRACK DRIVE SPROCKET. A PIECE OF MATERIAL ONTRACK FORCED FOOT IN SMALL SPACE. DRILL SMASHED THE LAST DIGIT ON RIGHT FOOT. TIP OF TOE WAS REMOVED. NO PERMANENTDAMAGE OR IMPAIRMENT.

EE WAS PICKING UP A PIECE OF CUTTING STOCK TO BRING OVER TO THE PALLET. SHE SLIPPED AND DROPPED THE STONE ON HER FOOT. SHE WAS WEARING A METAL TORSEL GUARD.

EE STRAINED BACK LIFTING CEMENT BLOCKS.

EE WAS VACUMMING UNDER SILOS AND FELTATWITCH IN HIS BACK 11-11-96. 11-12-96 WHILE VACUMMING FELT SORE STOPPED 11-13-96 EE COULD NOT PUT UNTON LEGS GET IN A CAR. TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL FROM HI S HOME BY AMBLANCE.

WHILE REPAIRING CRUSHER EE SLIPPED ON PIECE OF METAL BENDING KNEE SIDEWAYS CAUSING IT TO BREAK.

GREASING CONVEYORS. WIND BLEW SAND IN EYE.

THE EE STATED THAT HE WAS PARTICIPATING IN A SAG MILL RELINE WHEN HE SLIPPED ON ROCKS AND GRINDING BALLS AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE PLACED SAMPLE BUCKETS ON LOADING DOCK. WIND BLEW LIME INTO EYE.

VICTIM RECEIVED 'FLASH' BURNS TO BOTH EYES WHILE ASSISSTING A WELDER. VICTIM EXPERIENCED NO MAJOOR DISCOMFORT UNTIL 2300 (ABOUT 7 HRS AFTER END OF SHIFT). AT THAT TIME VICTIM WAS TAKEN TOT E H EMERGENCY ROOMM, TREATED AND RELEASED. VICTIM WAS OFF WORK FOR TWO DAYS.

A PALLET OF 6" CONCRETE BLOCKS SLIPPED OFF TOP OF ANOTHER PALLET CONCRETE BLOCK --- CAUGHT EE'S THUMB RIGHT HAND BETWEEN TWO PALETS CONCRETE BLOCK --- CAUSING FRACTURE TO RITGH THUMB.

EE WAS PLACING TENSIONER ON THE CABLE BOLT WHEN THE PIN BOARD SPLIT AND STRUCK EE UNDER THE LEFTEYE, NOSE AND FOREHEAD.

EE WAS THROWN INTO THE MINE ROOF BY THE UNEXPECTED MOVEMENT OF A MATERIAL CAR THAT HE WAS STANDING ON. HE SUFFERED A STRAIN TO HIS NECK STARTED MISSING WORK ON 12-6-96.

#4 HARDINGS DRIVE OUTBOARD BEARING LOOKED DIFFERENT THAN NORMAL. EE REACHED DOWN TO FEEL BEARING. BEARING WAS VERY HOT 150DEGREES F AND BURNED PALM OF LEFT HAND

CLIMBING UP THE ENDLOADER TO GET INSIDE & FELL ON ICE ON THE STEPS.

WAS LIFTING MINER CABLE UP TO TIE UP AND STRAINED HIS BACK AND SIDE.

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE CLIMBING UP A FIXED LADDERUNDER #2 BANK TROUGH IN AREA 335 THAT HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE RUNG & HE DESCENDED APPRO 3 RUNGS. EE SUSTAINED STRAIN/SPRAIN TO HIS RIGHT FOOT. [UNDER DR CARE]

EE WAS LOADING TRUCK WITH 140 MESH LIMESTONE. SOMEONE HAD LEFT PART OF THE COVER OFF THE END SECTION OF THE LOADOUT SCREW CONVEYOR. THE PPART CONVRING THE AREA WHERE THE SHAFT (FOR THE SLY T ING) IS CONNECTED TO THE END OF THE CONVEYOR, EMPLOYEE SOMEHOW GOT ARM NEAR THIS SHAFT AND HT EBOLT CONNCTING THE SHAFTS CAUGHT THE CUFF OF HIS COAT PULLING HIS ARM AROUND THE SHAFT. HE PULLED

EE WAS SHOVELING COAL FROM UNDER NO. 1 BELT AND PLACING THE COAL ON THE BELT. THE COAL WAS WET AND HEAVY. AS HE LIFTED A SHOVEL OF COAL ONTO THE BELT HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS MOVING A PNEUMATIC ROCK DRILLO BACK ONTO THE SHOT PATTERN. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN THE DRILL AROUND, BUT TURNED TOO SHARPLY, JACKKNIFING THE DRILL & COMPRESSOR, AND CAUGHT HIS LOWER L EFT LEG BETWEEN THE DRILL & COMPRESSOR, CAUSING A PUNCTURE WOUND.

EMP CLAIMS HE STRAINED RIGHT ELBOW WHILE USING ACABLE HOIST, WHILE PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES AT THE WET MILL PROCESS.

EMPLOYEE LOST FOOTING AND FELL AGAINST THE HAND RIAL ON THE TROMMEL DECK CAUSING INJURY TO HIS RIBS.

EE REPORTED THAT HE WAS USING A SHORT LADDER TO CLIMB DOWN OFF OF THE CRUSHER IN EAST HOPPER. HE REPORTED THAT THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER MOVED, CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL TO THE F LOOR(APPROX 3FT). ONTO HIS BACK LANDING ON A 1"WATER HOSE.

EE WAS CHANGING SCREENS ON THE WET PLANT WHEN THE HATCHET HE WAS SUING SLIPPED OFF THE BOLT HE WAS REMOVING & HE HIT HIS ELBOW. THE HIT DIDN'T BOTHER HIM, BUT STAPH HAD SETTLED IN THE JOINT SW ELLING THE ARM & CAUSING PAIN.

INJURED STATED HE WAS WALKING ON Q DECKING ON 3RD FLOOR. HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING RIGHT KNEE ON A NELSON STUD IN FLOOR.

THE EE ALLEGEDLY WAS PLACING A BOOM HINGE IN FOR A CONT MINER ON THE TOP OF THE MACHINE WHEN HE EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN

THE INJURED EE WAS KNELLING DOWN TO TIGHTEN THE BOLTS ON THE LONGWALL STAGE LOADER CONVEYOR WHEN HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED, CAUSING HIS KNEE TO STRIKE A FLIGHT.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING HOSE ON LOWER SECTION OF BOOM WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE CAUGHT WITH HIS RIGHT ARM TO KEEP FROM FALLING.

VICTIMGOT HIS FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN A V BELT AND PULLEY CAUSING A LACERATION REQUIREING SUTURES.

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING UNIHAULER WHEN HE LAID HIS FOOT UPON TOP TO REST LEG. WHEN LEAVING DUMPING POINT, HE FORGOT TO REMOVE HIS FOOT FROM TOP OF UNIHAULER CAUSING HIS FOOT TO BE CAUGHT BETWEEN TOP OF UNIHAULER AND ROOF.

WORKER AND ANOTHER EE WERE REPLACING THE CUTTING EDGE ON A SCRAPER PAN. IN DOING SO, ONE WORKER WAS HOLDING THE SCRAPER BLADE IN PLACE AND OTHER WAS REPLACING EDGE. INJURED WORKER EXPERIENCED PAIN IN GROIN AREA WHILE DOING THIS JOB.

STEPPING OF FEXCAVATER AND CAUGHT PANT LEG ON EXCAVATER, CAUSING HIM TO DO THE SPLINTS AND PULLING A MUSCLE IN THE GROIN. APPROX 1 1/2 FOOT FALL.

BACKING UP THE HILL IN A COAL TRUCK AND HE HEARD SOME THING POP AND HE PULL BACK UP AND IT TURN OVER.

EE WAS WORKING WITH TRACK BOLTER. EE WAS BENDING A 10' LONG ROOF BOLT FELT PAIN IN BACK.

WHILE LOADING A ACEYLENE TANK IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK HE FELT SOMETHING IN HIS SHOULDER.

AS THE INJURED WAS ENTERING THE LONGWALL FACE FROM THE HEADGATE, HE STRUCK HIS SHOULDER ON THE END OF A PRESSURE HOSE THAT WAS HANGING ON THE NO.1 SHIELD.

CLIMBING UP LADDER ON LOADER & STRAINED RIGHT KNEE.

EMP STEPPED SIDE WAYS OFF A BOX. TWISTED ANKLE, FALLING BACKWARDS ONTO HER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE LOWERED HIS BASKET IN THE BATHHOUSE TO CHANGE CLOTHES FOR HIS SHIFT. HE WAS STANDING UNDER BASKET AND FELT SOME DIRT FALL IN HIS FACE. HE DID NOT FEEL ANY DISCOMFORT IN HIS EYES AT THIS TIME. 1 HR. INTO HIS SHIFT A COWORKER NOTICED A SPEC IN HIS EYE. TRIED TO FLUSH IT. WENT TO DR. 11-09-96 & FOUND PIECE OF METAL W/RUST. DR. GAVE PATCH. RETURNED 11-11-96.

WHILE TRANSPORTING BOTTLED AND CAN DRINKS FROM BASEMENT TO UPSTAIRS KITCHEN, EMP PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT LEG, APPROX FIVE INCHES ABOVE KNEE.

4 SOUTH SECTION AT THE END OF THE TRUCK, EE WAS TAKING A CANOPY OFF A SHUTTLE CAR WITHH CRIBS AND A 10-TON JACK THE CANOPY TETERED AND FELL OFF THE ACK ADN S-CAR STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT FOOT.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN THE SLOPE BELT MAKING EXAMINATION WHEN SHE SLIPPED & FELL, FELT PAIN IN RIGHT KNEE. EE CONT TO WORK NORMAL DUTIES UNTIL LOST WORK DA YS BEGAON ON 12-5-96

FOOT SLIPPED WHEN HE WAS GREASING IMPACT CRUSHER (Q116), FELL BACKWARDS (ABOUT 6') AND LANDED ON A ROCK WHICH INJURED HIS TAILBONE.

EE WAS BEATING A METAL KEY TO TIGHTEN THE BLADES FOR CUTTING OUR STONE. HE MISSED THE KEY WITH THE HAMMER SWINGING IT INTO THE AIR. AT 8:30 PM EE SAID HIS ARM HURT AND HE LEFT WORK.

AS EE WAS HAULING COAL FROM CONTINUOUS MINER TO FEEDER, THE SHUTTLE CAR RAN THROUGH ROUGH AREA OF ROADWAY. THE BUMP IN ROAD CAUSED EE TO BOUNCE INTO CANOPY ROOF.

EE WAS DRILLING A HOLE WHEN ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON LEFT SHOULDER. ROCK CAME DOWN FACE AREA BACK ALONG RIB IN BETWEEN ATRS AND RIB WHERE PERSON WAS BOLTING.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS DROPPING MINER FROM THE ROOF AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

17 E LONGWALL FACE GOING FROM #99 TO #100 SHIELDHAD HAND ON HANDRAIL, ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN SHIELD HITTING LEFT HAND-BROKE BONE-RING FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGHT CROSSCUT AND A ROCK FELL HITTING HIM ON THE LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM THE DOZER, WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ASTRADDLE THE PUSH ARM OF THE DOZER. HE SKINNED THE CALF OF HIS RIGHT LEG. HE ALSO BRUISED THE INNER THIGH. AND THE TAIL BONE.

EE WAS WALKING IN #2 ENTRY & STEPPED IN A HOLE, FELT A PINCH IN HIS BACK. LATER ON SHIFT, A DRILL STEEL WAS STUCK IN ROOF AND HE JUMPED OUT OF WAY WHEN IT BECAME FREE AND FELT BACK PAIN. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS STANDING ON HEAD OF BOLTER.

EMP REPORTED THAT HE JAMMED HIS NECK WALKING TO FACE (WALKING UNDER LOW TOP). STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST ROOF. EMP STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN ON 11-8-96, DUE TO CONTINUING PROBLEMS. ORIGINAL ACCID ENT DATE 4-3-93.

WHILE CHECKING OIL ON THE DOZER HE SLIPPED AND FELL LANDING ON HIS FEET. HE WAS STANDING ON THE TRACK OF THE DOZER. THE IMPACT WAS SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO CAUSE PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK AREA.

EE PREFORMING REGULAR JOB OF MOTORMAN, WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LOWER BACK & BACK OF LEFT LEG. MEDICAL ASSESSMENT REVELED "LUMBAR DISC SYNDROME."

FEET SLIPPED OFF SCAFFOLDING, WORKER FELL BACK ONTO THE HANDRAIL, DAMAGING HIS BACK & RIBS.

EE STATED THAT SHE TURNED HER FOOT WHILE GOING THROUGH A BRATTICE DOOR.

EE WAS REMOVING SOME ROCK FROM THE TRACK, WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT WRIST. HE DID NOT GO TO THE ER UNTIL 11-9-=96. THEY XRAYED HIS WRIST AND PUT IT IN A SPLINT.

EMPLOYEE WAS STRAIGTENING AND LEVELING STRUCTURE ON #7 BELT. HE AHD STRUCTURE JACKED UP WITH A BUMP JACK. THE JACK SLIPPED OUT CATCHING EMPLOYEES FINGR BETWEEN BELT STRUCTURE AND MINE BOTTOM.

EE WAS PULLING SOME BELT THROUGH THE STAGELOADERWHEN HE NOTICED BACK PAIN.