Mining Incidents in May 1997

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A BOOM TO A BELT DRIVE, WHEN A CHAIN HOIST (1 1/2 TON HARRINGTON) , CHAIN BROKE CAUSING BOOM TO SHIFT TOWARD DRIVE ROLLERS, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ACROSS BACK AND RIDING HIM DOWN, RESULTING IN A FATAL INJURY.

WHILE PREPARING TO POUR CONCRETE, CREW REPORTED ELEC PROBLEMS ON GALLOWAY. ELECTRICIAN SUMMONED.WHILE EN ROUTE, CONVEYANCE ENTERED CHAIRING PHASE ABOVE GALLOWAY. GUILLOTINE CROSSHEAD FAILED TO OPEN ON ONE SIDE. BUCKET FELL TO SHAFT BOTTOM FATALLY INJURING EMP BEFORE SLACK ROPE IDENTIFIED.EMP WAS ON BOTTOM DECK & PASSED THROUGH BUCKET WELL AT TIME BUCKET DROPPED.

VICTIM WAS DRIVING A WAGNER DIESEL POWERED SCOOP OUT OF THE MINE WHEN FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, THE SCOOP TRAVELED BACK DOWN THE SLOPE AND THE CANOPY STRUCK AN "I" BEAM ON A OVERCAST WHICH CAUS ED THE CANOPY TO DEFORM, STRIKING THE VICTIM, INFLICTING FATAL INJUIES.

FINISH PLANT SUPERVISOR WAS FATALLY INJURED WHENHE APPARENTLY CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE METAL CASE OF A SUMP PUMP THAT WAS ENERGIZED WITH 120VAC. 2 IMPROPERLY REPAIRED EXTENSION CORDS WERE US ED WHICH RESULTED IN THE METAL CASE OF PUMP BEING ENERGIZED WITH 120VAC. THIS REPORT WAS FILED WITHIN 2 DAYS OF RECEIPT OF FINAL DIAGNOSIS FROM CHIEF MED EXAMINERS OFFICE.

AT THE TIME WE WERE ON PILLAR RECOVERY. EMPLOYEE TOOK MINER UP INTO PLACE, STARTED LOADING COAL, MASSIVE FALL OCCURRED WITHOUT WARNING, TRAPPING TWO EMPLOYEES UNDER FALL. HE WAS KILLED DUE TO THIS FALL.

CRANE CABLES CAME IN CONTACT WITH POWER LINES.

WORK ACTIVITIES OF VICTIM AT TIME OF ACCIDENT ARE NOT KNOWN. BELEIVED HE WAS GOING OUT TO FLOATING PUMP TO WIRE PUMP MOTOR TO POWER CABEL. OTHER EMPS ON PROPWRTY SAW EMPTY BOAT ON POND AND WEN T TO LOOK FOR HIM. DIVERS FOUND HIM 20' FROM SHORE IN ABOUT 15' OF WATER ON POND SIDE NEAR TRUCK.

RIGHT HAND CAME IN CONTACT WITH PINCH POINT ON RETURN IDLER ROLLER ON SAND CONVEYOR UNDER PRIMARY SCREEN. FOUND VICTIM WEDGED BETWEEN CONVEYOR AND A RETURN IDLER UNDERNEATH BELT.

EE PUTTING BELTS ON FEEDER AND HANDS WERE CAUGHTIN THE BELTS.

EE AND OTHER WERE LOADING PIPE ON A UTILITY TRAILER, A PIPE THEY WERE LOADING HIT EE IN THE ABDOMEN AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN. OTHER PUSHED THE PIPE WHEN EE WAS STEPPING UP ON THE TRAILER. THIS IS WHEN THE END OF THE PIPE HIT EE. HE TOLD ME ABOUT IT AND I ASKED HIM IF HE NEEDED TO GO TO DR HE SAID IT WASNT THAT BAD. BUT HOW HE NEEDS A HERNIA OPERATION.

EE WAS SHOVELING ROCK AT REBLEND SCREENING PLANT WHEN HE LIFTED A SHOVEL FULL OF ROCK AND FELT PAIN IN LEFT GROIN AREA.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS DRIVING THE MAINTENANCE GOLF EARLY WHEN HE HIT A BUMP OF FEET A SHARP PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA.

EE WAS WORKING IN A SMALL AREA NEAR A COLUMN ON THE SIDE OPPOSITE RIGGING. THE REMAINING 2 EE'S WERE CUTTING THE WELDS ON THE RIGGED SIDE OF THE UNIT. THE LOADS APPLIED BY THE CRANE VIA THE RI GGING ( NYLON STRAPS) AND THE LIFT OF WEDGES EXCEEDED THE HOLDING POWER OF THE REMAINING WELDS, CAUSING THE WELDS TO FRACTURE, ALLOWING THE ASSEMBLY TO HINGE UP AND PIVOT COUNTER-CLOCKWISE PI

EMP WAS OPERATING A ROOFBOLTER WHEN A PIECE OF DRAWROCK FELL, HITTING THE BOTTOM THEN ROLLING BACK CATCHING HIS HAND BETWEEN ROCK AND BOLT MACHINE HEAD.

EMPLOYEE SAID HE WAS USING PRYBAR TO MOVE DIRLLS TEEL FROM BEHIND CABLE AND HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS STOMACH AREA. A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER, A KNOT CAME UP ON STOMACH BESIDE NAVEL.

REMOVING A ROCK JAM AT CRUSHER, USING HOOK TO DISLODGE ROCK, PUSHED HEMORRHOID OUT OF PLACE.

VICTIM WAS WORKING LOWER LEVEL OF YARD- FABRICATING. HE LEFT WORK AREA AND STARTED UP EMBANKMENT. LOADER STARTED DOWN EMBANKMENT. VICTIM WAS STRUCK BY LOADER BUCKET, FORCED BACK AND/OR SPUN AN D FELL TO GROUND. VICTIM'S RIGHT ARM FROM ELBOW DOWN WAS THEN RUN OVER BY LOADER.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING MINING MACHINE OUT OF #6 HEADING. MINER HELPER WAS TAKING A CURTAIN DOWN TO SET UP IN NEXT PLACE, SO MINER MAN STOPPED THE MACHINE AND PULLED SOME SLACK CABLE DOWN FROM BES IDE MAHCINE. HE SAID HE FELT A BURNING PAIN IN GROIN AREA. DOCTOR SUGGESTED SURGERY REPAIR.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A HAUL TRUCK TO THE CRUSHER AND WHILE TURNING, THE AIR RIDE SUSPENSION BROKE WHEN A BUMP WAS ENCCOUNTERED CAUSING THE SEAT TO BOTTOM OUT. * NOTE: THIS ACCIDENT DID NOT BEC OME REPORTABLE UNTIL EMPLOYEE WAS PRESCRIBED PHYSICAL THERAPY ON 7/23/97.

EE WAS UNLOADING BELT STRUCTURE FROM A FLATCAR. AS HE LIFTED A CRADLE HE FELT PAIN IN HIS ABDOMINEL AREA.

EMP WAS OPERATING A SCOOP WHEN HE CRUSHED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE CAB AND THE FRAME OFSCOOP.

A PIECE (11/2X2") OF A MOTOR FAN GUARD WAS BROKEN OFF. EE PUT HAND BY THIS AREA AND FINGER WAS HIT BY FAN BLADE

EE WAS LAYING ON HIS SIDE BURNING/CUTTING WITH A TORCH, TO CUT A CAST IRON SLEEVE FOR REPAIR TO AC CRUSHER. IRON SLAG POPPED & HOT SLAG FLEW UP IN THE AIR LANDING IN LEFT EAR TRAVELING DOWN CA NAL. THE HOT SLAG PERFORATED THE EAR DRUM & CAUSED INFECTION. IT WAS RINSED & ANTIBIOTICS PRESCRIBED EE IS SEEING A SPECIALIST BECAUSE SLAG IS STILL IN EAR & HAS LOST HEARING IN LEFT EAR.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS IN THE MILL. HE MISSED A STAIR AND WHEN HE CONTACTED THE FLOOR, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT GROIN AREA.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE PULLING PIPE, HE SUSTAINED A HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING HIS BOLT MACHINE AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT FOOT BETWEEN THE BOLTER AND THE LEFT RIB.HIS RUBBER BOOT FOLDED UP AT THE STEEL TOE CAP PARTIALLY AMPUTATING THE 2OND AND 3RD DIGITS OF HIS LEFT FOOT.

HERNIA, EE IS SCHEDULED OT SEE A SURGON ON 5-20-97.

EMP SET A MILL LINER ONTO A WOODEN PALLET AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN THE PALLET AND THE LINER.

RIGHT HAND WAS ON CABLE WHILE BLOCK WAS GOING UP, COMING OUT OF THE HOLE.

TRYING TO ADJUST THE SENSOR THE MACHINE ROLLED AROUND AND CAUGHT FINGER ON LEFT HAND AND WEDGED IT.

EE WAS REPLACING ROLLS ON ANGLE CONVEYOR. CONVEYOR STARTED AND FINGER WENT THROUGH SPROCKET & CHAIN. THIS CUT OFF HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER ABOVE THE MIDDLE JOINT.

COLLECTING SAMPLE FROM WASTE DUST SCREW AND THE TEST PORT WAS PLUGGED. HE HIT IT WITH A HAMMER AND IT SUCKED IN THE HAMMER, WHICH PINCHED THE END OF HGIS FINGER ON HIS RT HAND OFF.

THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE WORKING IN THE 1727 STOPE. AS EMPLOYEE FELL HE GRABBED FOR A MOVING SLUSHER CABLE AND HIS LEFT HAND WAS PULLED THROUGH A SHEAVE BLOCK. THIS RESULTED IN THE AMPUTATION OF 4 FINGERS ON EMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE DOES A LOT OF HEAVY LIFTING WHEN SETTING UP & TEARING DOWN THE CRUSHER. WHEN CRUSHER IS RUNNING HE IS SHOVELING GRAVEL. ALL THIS COMBINED CAUSED THE HERNIA. HE IS HAVING SURGERY ON 6- 9-97, HE HAS BEEN INFORMED NOT TO WORK 3 WEEKS FOLLOWING SURGERY.

EE AND OTHER EE WERE REPLACING 2 OUTRIGGERS ON THE SERVICE TRUCK. THEY CARRIED THE NEW OUTRIGGERS ON THE SERVICE TRUCK. THEY CARRIED THE NEW OUTRIGGERS AND THEIR SUPPORTS ABOUT 50 FT, ONE AT A TIME TO THE WASH PAD FOR PAINT. AT THAT TIME JEEE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT GROIN AREA. WHEN EE WENT HOME AT 5 PM HE NOTICED A LUMP IN HIS GROIN AREA. HE WENT TO A DR AND A HERNIA WAS CON

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE SUSTAINED A HERNIA I THE LEFT GROIN AREA WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO SLDIE/LIFT A #70 VALVE.DUE TO LACK OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EMPLOYEE AND SUPERVISOR AND DEPARTMENT, THID INJURY WAS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT TO BE NON WORK RELATED. BUT AFTER FUTHER INVESTIGATION AND EXAMINATION OF PATIENT, THIS HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AS A WORK RELATED INJURY.

EMP WAS REMOVING A LARGE ROCK FROM WALKWAY IN RECLAIM TUNNEL. ROCK SLIPPED THROUGH HIS HANDS AND HE TRIED TO HOLD IT ON KNEE. WHEN MOVING ROCK OFF KNEE HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN GROIN AREA.

EE WAS REPLACING A BEARING AT THE HEAD PULLEY. A PORTAJACK WAS USED TO MOVE TO HEAD PULLEY OUTWARD SO THAT THE PRESSURE COULD BE RELEASED AND THE SEALS COULD BE PLACED INTO POSITION. THE PORTA JACK JUMPED OUT OF PLACE AND CAUGHT THE EE'S HAND BETWEEN THE SEAL AND BEARING HOUSING.

WHILE CUTTING WITH TORCH, PIECE OF METAL FELL BETWEEN FACE & GLASSES INTO LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING MATERIAL OFF TOP OF JAW STOCKPILE WITH D8K DOZER. A LARGE ROCK ROLLED DOWN INTO CUT WHILE HE WAS BACKING UP. THE DOZER TRACK BOUNCED OVER ROCK. BACK WAS INJURED.

WHILE CLIMBING STEPS ON 980 LOADER, SLIPPED, GRABBED HANDRAIL, STRAINING NECK MUSCLES.

WHILE WALKIGN OUT OF CLINKE RSHED ON A DESCENDING GRADE, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON CLINKER BALLS. HE DID NOT FALL BUUT FELT APULL IN BACK/HIP AREA. HE DID NOT START MISSING OWRK UNTIL 6-2-97.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS CLEANING MUCK OFF THE SHUTTLE CAR TOMAKE REPAIRS WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT HAND. EE WAS TREATED AT THE ER WHERE IT WAS DETER MINE THAT HE HAD A FRACTURED HAND.

EE REPORTEDLY WAS CARRYING TWO BUCKETS OF KENNEDY SEALNAT WHEN HE FELT PAIN.

DEMAG OPERATOR WAS DIGGING IN FILL MATERIAL (HIGH FACE). FACE BROKE OFF (UNDERMINED), SLID DOWN FOOM AND HIT MACHINE AND DIRT AND ROCKS HIT CAB, BREAKING WINDSHIELD AND INJURING OPERATOR'S LEG .

HIT LEFT KNEE ON STEERING COLUMN.

BUMP HEAD ON ROOF MANTRIP.

WHILE WORKING IN UTILITY TRUCK HE WAS LIFTING A VALVE AND SLIPPED AND TRY TO CATCH IT. PULLED MUSCLES IN LEFT FOREARM.

INJURED WENT TO PUT THE BREAKER UP ON THE #3 CAR ON #2 UNIT WHEN THE BREAKER SHORTED OUT CAUSING A SECOND DEGREE BURN TO THE RIGHT THUMB AND RIGHT HAND AREA.

EE WAS GETTING DOWN OFF THE BELT WHEN HE STEPPED ON A LUMP OF COAL TWISTING HIS ANKLE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS AND KEEPING WALK WAYS CLEAN. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACT OR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCY MAYBE A FACTOR. MINING EQUIPMENT/ SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.

EMP REACHING FOR PC OF STEEL STRUCK ON HAND BY PIECE OF ROCK.

WHILE CARRYING CHIPPING HAMMER UP LADDER TO FIRST LEVEL OF CLINKER STACKER, STARTED TO SWING HAMMER UP ONTO FLATFORM, TURNED AND TWISTED LOWER BACK.

THE SCOOP OPERATOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL THE LOW BELT STRUCTURE WHEN THE TIE CHAIN BROKE ALLOWING THE STRUCTURE TO SLIP BACK AND PUSH INJURED, WHO WAS POSITIONED AT THE OTHER END OF THE STRUC TURE INTO THE HEAD DRIVE. INJURED HAD BEEN TIGHTENING DOWN THE HEAD DRIVE THAT HAD JUST BEEN INSTALLED.

EE WAS MOVING 6" HOPE PIPE. HAND GOT PINCHED BETWEEN PIPE & DIRT. EE WORKED THE NEXT DAY BUT DUETO LINGERING SORENESS, WAS ADVISED TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION

SUPPLYING THE CRUSHER WITH THE CATERPILLAR. HE GOT DOWN FROM THE VEHICLE TO CONFIRM SOMETHING. HE SLIPPED ON THE ARCH AND STRUCK HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS USING VISE GRIPS TO PULL BELT AND THEY SLIPPED AND HE FELL AGAINST THE MBC FRAME.

EE WAS SPLICING ELECTRICAL CABLE WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CAUSED LACERATION ON TOP OF LEFT HAND.

EE STRAINED LOWER BACK WHIL BENDING AND POSITIONING ROOF BOLTS.

WAS WASHING RIG WHEN KINDA SLIPPED/LOSS BALANCE AND SPRAYED HIS OWN FOOT. BY THE TIME HE GOT HIS STEEL TOED BOOT OFF HAD 3RD DEGREE BURNS ON FOOT (5TH & 4TH TOES). APPLIED OINTMENT & WORKED TH E REST OF THE DAY. FOOT CONTINUED TO HURT ALL WEEKEND SO HE WENT TO DR. ON 6-2- AND DR. ADVISED NOT TO WORK ALL WEEK THAT HE HAD 3RD DEGREE BURNS.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN A PIECE OF COAL RIB FELL AND STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW RESULTING IN A BRUISE AND ABRASION TO THE AREA. THE EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK AND DID NOT SEE A DOCTOR UNT IL 7-15-97 AND HE WAS TOLD THAT THERE WAS NOW ANINFECTION IN HIS ELBOW.

THE VICTIM STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING A BUCKET OF PLASTER AND PULLED SOMETHING IN LEFT HIP.

MINER WAS INSTALLING WOOD CRIBS AS ROOF SUPPORT, WHEN HE WAS STRUCK WITH LOOSE STONE.

EE WAS BENT DOWN AND WHILE PICKING UP A STONE TO PUT IN A CRATE FELT PAIN IN BACK.

EE WAS USING THE YALE FORKLIFT TO MOVE PALLETS OF CHAIN FROM THE STOREROOM TO A VILLAGE GARAGE. WHILE CROSSING THE MAIN LINE RAIL ROAD TRACK MRL ONE FORK STRUCK A HIGH POINT AND THE EE WAS THR OWN FORWARD AGAINST THE STEERING WHEEL. THE EE WAS NOT WEARING THE SEAT BELT. DR RECOMMENDED AT LEAST 5 DAYS OFF FROM WORK. A PHYSICAL EXAM DID NOT OCCUR EE REQUEST UNTIL 6-2-97.

WHILE PULLING THE TRAILING CABLE FOR THE CONTINUOUS MINER THE EMP TWISTED HIS KNEE ATTEMPTING TOCLEAR THE HAULAGE ROADWAY.

EE WAS LOADING SUPPLIES & STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS MOUNTING THE 281 CRANE WHEN HE GRABBED THE HANDRAIL WITH HIS RIGHT HAND TO SWING HIMSELF AROUND TO THE FRONT OF THE CRANE. HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF THE HANDRAIL AND EE FELL 5 1/2' TO THE GR OUND LANDING ON HIS LEFT HEEL.

EMP WAS PULLING MINER CABLE WHEN HE SLIPPED.

STEPPING DOWN OFF OF BELT CROSSOVER AND TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE WHEN SHE PUT WEIGHT ON HER RIGHT FOOT.

EMP HAD HIS HAND ON TOP OF SHEAR DRUM TO TURN ITFOR SETTING BITS. A ROCK FELL BETWEEN THE SHIELDTIP AND RIB, CATCHING HIS HAND AGAINST THE SHEARDRUM.

EE WAS SLIDING A BUCKET OF BOLTS ACROSS THE FLOOR WHEN HE FELT A SLIGHT STRAIN IN HIS RIGHT SIDEGROIN/HIP AREA. HE WAS SEEN BY A DR ON 6/1/97 DIAGNOSIS: INGUINAL HERNIA. RIGHT.

EMPLOYEE WAS BENT OVER WALKING UP BELT ENTRY WHEN HE WALKED INTO A OLD BELT HANGER LEFT FROM PULLING BACK BELTLINE DUE TO SECTION PILLARING.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING UNLOAD A S/C CABLE REEL AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ALONG SIDE BELT CONVEYOR NEXT TO RIB WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT OF THE TOP HITTING HIM ON THE BACK AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS STUNG POSSIBLY BY A BLACK WIDOW SPIDER WHILE HE WAS IN A PORTABLE TOILET.

EE WAS WALKING UP STEPS TO THE BATH HOUSE BEFORE WORK & SLIPPED & STRAINED HIS KNEE.

EE WAS LIFTING AN EMPTY CABLE REEL AND TURNED CAUSING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AREA.

THE EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HIS SHUTTLE CAR HUNG-UP ON THE REAR OF THE MINER. WHEN THE SHUTTLE CAR PULLED LOOSE, HE HIT HIS HEAD ON THE TOP OF THE OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT. HIS NECK WAS STRAINED. X -RAYS WERE TAKEN; NO DAMAGE WAS FOUND.

DRIVER OF THE TRUCK LOST CONTROL AND VEERED TO THE RIGHT OVER A BERM AND DOWN AN EMBANKMENT WHICH TURNED THE TRUCK OVER.

EE WAS TRAMMING A DRILL OFF THE 2ND CONTOUR BENCH TO GET FUEL. AS HE MANEUVERED THE CAB BY A ROCK IN THE BENCH WALL, HIS OUTER TRACK PUSHED AWAY THE OUTER EDGE OF THE BENCH. THE DRILL SLID ABO UT HALFWAY DOWN THE 12' EMBANKMENT & THEN FLIPPED "NEARLY" TO THE UPSIDE DOWN POSITION.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING A CABLE AND STEPPED FROM CANOPY TO TOP OF SCOOP AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

FELT HIS BACK POP WHILE PULLING ON THE END OF THE BELT.

MAN WAS PUSHING ASH PILE AS IT CAME OFF STAKER. STAKER WAS OFF AND OPERATOR CREATED A HIGHWALL. HIGHWALL CAME DOWN ON MACHINE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING GEAR OIL IN THE RANGING ARM WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN THE SHIELD TIP AND FACE. THE ROCK STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE LEGS. THE X-RAYS SHOWED A HAIRLINE FRAC TURE OF THE RIGHT LEG AND HE HAD A PUNTURE WOUNDON HIS LEFT HEEL.

HE WAS SETTING BITS IN THE MINER. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP APPROX. 1 THICK X 3' LONG X 2' WIDE. ROCKSTRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT HAND AND MASHED HAND AGAINST THE RIPPER HEAD. NO BROKEN BONE S. 12 STITCHES TO SEW UP CUT.

EE WAS SHOVELING RIBS IN THE #2 ENTRY AT THE FACE, HE TWISTED AROUND AND HE SAID HE HAD A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS WORKING ON BERM BY STACKOS. IT WAS RAINING AND AS HE WENT TO ENTER THE BUILDING HE SLIPPED ON CATWALK WHICH WAS WET & FELL.

EMPLOYEE WAS WASHING MATERAIL OFF OF THE CINVEYOR BELT WHE IT ROLLED BACK. THE MOVEMENT KNOCKED HIM DOWN AND TRAPPED HIM BETWEEN THE CHUTE AND THE CONVEYOR BELT.

EE WAS GETTING INSIDE OF OPEN TOP BULK CAR AND LOST FOOTING AND HAND HOLD. SLID TO BOTTOM OF CAR.

LIFTED BLOCKS, HEARD SOMETHING POP, DIDN'T FORK LIFT WAS ALRIGHT FOLLOWING DAY.

WHILE CLEANING STONE OUT FROM UNDER JAW CHUTE, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND HIT HAND.

EE WAS OPERATING A CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND NECK.

EE WAS DOWN IN THE RP09 BIN TRYING TO KNOCK DOWN SALT, TO FILL A WAITING TRUCK. A BANK OF FRESHLY RUN RP09 CAME DOWN ON TOP OF HIM AND BURIED HIM TO HIS THIGHS. BY THE TIME WITNESS HAD GOT HIM DUG OUT, THE SALT HAD BURNED HIS LEGS. RIGHT MORE THAN LEFT. WITH 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS.

INJURED WAS PULLING ON ROCK DUST HOSE, FELT PAIN IN BACK.

WHILE BOLTING TOP EE ACCIDENTALLY JAMMED HEAD INTO ATRS CYLINDER.

EE HEATED LID OF 55 GALLON DRUM. VAPOR IGNITED INSIDE CAUSING BARREL LID TO FLY UP AND STRIKE VICTIM ALONGSIDE OF HIS FACE. EE SHOUDL HAVE WASHED OUT DRUM BEFORE DOING ANY CUTTING.

EE WAS WORKING AROUND CEMENT DUST. AS THE WEATHER GOT HOTTER, HE SAW A RASH AND FELT ITCHING ON HIS CHEST AND BACK.

EMP STEPPED DOWN FROM CAB OF SERVICE TRUCK. THOUGHT HE WAS STEPPING ON FLAT GROUND BUT INSTEAD STEPPED IN A HOLE. FELL BACKWARDS AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE ASSEMBLING A ROD CONNECTIONS, THE OVERSHOT TOOL ROLLED OFF THE TOWER, STRIKING HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER. SUSTAINED CRUSH INJURY TO FINGER.

EE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF DRAWROCK WHILE SERVICING CONT MINER

WHILE INJURED EMPOLOYEE WAS SHRINKWRAPPING PALLET, LIFTTRUCK DRIVER GOT OFF HIS LIFT TRUCK. AS HE DID HE ACCIDENTLY ENGAGED TRANSMISSION INTO FORWARD GEAR, PINNING INJURED'S FOOT BETWEEN PALLE T AND FORK OF LIFTTRUCK.

AFTER DUMPING IN FEED HOPPER HE DID NOT LOWER THE BED AND HIT THE TOP OF THE TUNNEL OPENING.

EE WAS PULLING A CABLE AND FELT PAIN IN RIGHT SIDE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON THE BELT CLEARING OUT THE FEEDER WHEN THE BELT STARTED UP. THE EMPLOYEE JUMPED OFF THE BELT AND LANDED ON THE FLOOR, INJURING HIS KNEE.

DRILL STEEL BROKE WHERE TWO STEELS CONNECT, PIECE FLEW AND HIT EE'S HEAD.

EE TRIED TO MANUALLY PUSH A LOADED CEMENT BAGS PALLET WITH THE MACHINE RUNNING. HIS LEFT HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE WOOD PALLET & THE MOVING ROLLER.

BOLTING TOP IN 6 HEADING. HE POSITIONED ROOF BOLTER TO PUT IN THE DIRST BOLT IN THE FIRST ROW. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN THE RIB AND THE ATRS ON THE ROOF BOLTER. THE ROCK WAS ABOUT 18 I NCHES WIDE AND 18 INCHES LONG. IT WAS 2" THICK IN THE MIDDLE AND SHARP AROUND EDGES. IT BROKE 2 SMALL BONES IN LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING DISCHARGE LINER BOLTS FROM A MILL. WHILE USING A SPADER EMPLOYEE FELT NUMBNESS IN BOTH HANDS, PARTICULARLY RING FINGER AND PINKY.

MOVING CABLE WITH CHAIN TO MOVE BOAT OVER- CHAIN SLIPPED ON CABLE CAUSING ME TO FALL DOWN AND HIT BACK ON PICK-UP BUMPER.

HE WAS OPERATING A 560 LOADER IN THE QUARRY LOADING THE QUARRY HAUL TRUCK. THE CONTINUOUS OPERATION OF THE LOADER CAUSED HIS SORE NECK. HE WENT TO THE DR. 5-29-97. HE HAS HAD PREVIOUS BACK INJ URY ON THE JOB SO THIS AGGREVATED THE SITUATION.

STEPPED ON CLINKERS ON COOLER FLOOR AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.

2E SECTION HE STEPPED INTO A SHUTTLE CAR TIRE RUT AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE TWISTED LOWER BACKAND PULLED GROIN MUSCLE. LOST WORK DAYS BEGAN 5-29-97.

HE WAS HANDING OUT RUBBER LIFTERS THROUGH PEBBLE MILL DOOR TO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE. EMPLOYEE LOST HIS GRIP, DROPPING THE LIFTER DOWN ON HIM. THE LIFTER HIT INJURED ON RIGHT SHOULDER AND CAUSED HIM TO BUCKLE ON HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS BOLTING IN THE #4 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK GOT THROWED FROM THE DRILL POT & CUT A 4" CUT ON HIS LEFT FOREARM. THE ROCK WAS 3"X4"X1/4". IT REQUIRED 4 STITCHES.

THE EE HAD BEEN PUTTING CABLE AND A RIPPER JACK ON A MINER. WHEN HE BENT OVER TP ICK UP HIS TOOLS AND SCRAP METAL, HIS BACK TIGHTENED. HE HAD TO SIT DOWN AND WAS UNABLE TO WALK BECAUSE OF PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE WAS WORKING ON 4 SECTION.

INJURED WAS LIFTING 3 MINER CABLE TO HANG UP WHEN HE HURT HIS RIGHT ARM. INJURED CONTINUED WORKING UNTIL 6-4-97 HE WENT TO DR ON 6-4-97 AND HAS HAD ON MRI. MAY HAVE A ROTATOR CUT PROBLEM DID N OT BECAME REPORTABLE UNTIL 6-4-97.

FELL AND HIT CHEST AREA.

EE WAS CARRYING A BAG OF MATERIAL AND BENT OVER. HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT. HE WORKED ABOUT 14 TWELVE HOUR SHIFTS FOLLOWING THE INJURY BEFOR REPORTING. HE ALSO CONSULTED A DR. WITHOUT NOTIFYING T HE CO.--BOTH AR SERIOUS VIOLATION OF CO. POLICY.DUE TO THE VERY LATE REPORTING BY THE EE OF THIS INJURY, WE INVESTIGATED IT. THIS IS THE CAUSE OF LATE REPORTING.

CLEANING TOP OF CANICA, MACHINE KICKED ON GRABBING RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS GOING TO MINER IN #7 ENTRY. ON HIS WAY HE STOPPED TO LOOK AT THE REEL ON THE OFF STANDARD CAR IN #5 ENTRY. AS HE VISUALLY CHECKED THE DC CABLE, CABLE BLEW OUT, BURNING HIM ON THE CALF O F HIS LEFT LEG.

RECURRENCE OF OLD INJURY. BEGAN MISSING WORK AGAIN ON 5-28-97 AND RETURNED TO WORK ON 7-15-97.

EE WAS DRIVING WATER TRUCK HIT POT HOLE WHICH MADE STEERING WHEEL SPIN, SPRAINING LT. SHOULDER.

WHILE IN PROCESS OF DISMOUNTING EQUIPMENT EMPLOYEE STRUCK BOTTOM OF CAB CAUSING LACERATION/AVULSION TO LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS SHOVELING ALONG THE 4 SOUTH BELTLINE WHILE THROWING A SHOVEL FULL OFCOAL O N BELT HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND STRUCK HISHAND ON BELT STRUCTURE. EE DID NOT HAVE ANY MEDI CAL TREATMENT NOR MISS ANY WORK. UNTIL 2-9-98 HWEN HE HAD SURGERY ON HIS FINGER.

EMP WAS TRIPPED BY S CAR CABLE. FELL ON ARM.

WHILE PULLING A COVERED MINER WITH A MINER RETREAVER, A PIN BROKE CONNECTING THE MINER RETREAVER AND CLEVAS BROKEN BY THE STRESS THE CLEVERS PIN STRUCK EE ON THE LEFT FOOT.

MAINLINE BELT 9 DRIVE, REMOVING A BELT STRUCTURE BED RAIL FROM OVERHEAD. IT WAS HUNG FROM A CHAIN WENEOS OF BEDRAIL WERE UNFASTENED IT SWUNG DOWN HITTING LEFT THUMB AGAINST TRANSFER FRAME.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING PIECE OF EQUIPMENT TO ANOTHER AREA OF MINE. TRANSMISSION BECAME DISENGAGED AND ENGINE STALLED. MACHINE WENT DOWN INCLINED ROADWAY WITH HIS BRAKES AVAILABLE. EMPLOYEE STEERE D EQUIPMENT OFF ROAD AND OVER ROCKY AREA TO STOP VEHICLE. EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN ABOUT IN CAB OF VEHICLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING CABLE FOR CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN HE STRAINED BACK.

EE WAS ASSISTING WITH INSTALLATION OF A TRACK SWITCH. WHEN HE PULLED ON A TRACK RAIL, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

2E SECTION. BUILDING A RETURN STOPPING. WHILE HOLDING A CEMENT BLOCK, HE TRIPPED OVER A METAL BAND AND FELL INTO THE STOPPING AND STRUCK LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE STOPPING AND THE CEMENT B LOCK THAT HE WAS HOLDING ONTO. LOST DAYS BEGAN ON 5-28-97.

THE INJURED WAS LIFTING A CANOPY TO INSTALL ON A CONT. MINER, WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS BENDING DOWN TO PICK UP A PIECE OF METAL TO BE CUT WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS SPREADING CALCIUM CHLORIDE FROM BAGS ONTO THE SCOOP TRAMROAD. HE BENT OVER TO OPEN A BAG AND COULD NOT GET UP.

EE AND CO WORKERS WERE IN PROCESS OF LINING BELT TAILPIECE WHEN 3/8" CHAIN BROKE STRIKING EE ON BACK OF LEFT LEG.

SUBJECT STANDING ON FUEL TANK POURING WATER IN WATER TANK & SLIPPED INJURING FOOT. CLASS 2 SPRAIN.

EE WAS WORKING IN CRUSHER FEEDER TO DISLODGE ROCKS. IN THE PROCESS OF PRYING ROCKS FREE EE WAS STRUCK ON RIGHT FOREARM BY FALLING ROCK. EE WAS TREATED FOR A MINOR ABRASION & X-RAYED & RETURNED TO WORK THE SAME DAY. THE ACCIDENT WAS TREATED AS FIRST AID & NOT REPORTED TO MSHA AT THE TIME. HOWEVER, THE EE SAID HE EXPERIENCED NUMBNESS IN THE ARM AS TIME WENT ON & SELF-REFERED TO A DR.

LOST FOOTING WHILE USING HOSE, FINGER WAS CAUGHT UNDER SHUT OFF VALVE, FRACTURING FOURTH FINGEWR LEFT HAND.

EE WAS CLEANING A CHUTE ON WEST SCREEN WHEN A PIECE UP ABOVE BROKE LOOSE HITTING HIS WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS OVER BY THE #2 DRY TANK. HE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE CLEANING OUT MUD FROM THE SLIDE. HE DUCKED UNDER THE HANDLE AND WHEN HE STOOD UP HIS BACK HURT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO ADJUS THTE FEED GATE TO THE EAST DOUBLE DECK SCREENS. WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK (LUMBAR REGION). HE CONTINUED TO WORK BUT WAS SENT TO A DR ON 6-19-97.

EE WAS DRIVING A HAUL TRUCK ALL DAY. AT THE END OF HIS SHIFT HIS BACK WAS HURTING HIM REAL BAD. HE HAD TO GO TO THE ER LATER THAT EVENING. HE WAS TOLD THAT HE HAS A RUPTURED DISC WHICH WILL RE QUIRE SURGERY.

DROPPED STEEL COUPLING ON FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING LADDER WITH A COME-A-LONG TO LIFT THE COUNTER WEIGHT TO REPLACE LAGGING ON SF4 BEND PULLEY WHEN HE HIT HIS BUTTOCKS ON ABEAM CAUSING HIS FOOT TO SLIP OFF LADDER RUNG AN D HIT HIS KNEE. AFTER THIS INCIDENT HE SPENT THE NEXT 10 DAYS WORKING IN THE COOLER ON HIS KNEES. KNEE FILLED UP WITH FLUID BUT EPLOYEE DID NOT REQUEST MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTI 6-9-97. FLUID

WHILE TURNIGN WATER VALVE OFF, HE SLIPPED AND FELL IN SUMP, PULLING MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK RT SIDE.

TRUCK STALLED ON HILL- ROLLED BACKWARD AND HIT ROCK WALL. DRIVER THROWN AROUND- HURT BACK.

SUPERVISOR WAS OPENING VALVE TO SILO 8 TO MAKE SURE CEMENT LINE WAS OPEN. HE WAS LOOSENING TOP BOLT PULLING DOWN WHEN LEFT KNEE GAVE WAY AND LOCKED HE DID NOT WANT TO GO TO DR. JUNE 30 REQUEST ED TO CONSULT A DR. EE HAS HAD PROBLEMS WITH KNEE WAS 1-6-96. HAD SURGERY ON THIS KNEE AUGUST 1995. TO SEE ORTHOPEDIC DR 7-23-97.

EE WAS CLIMBING 0N 990. HE CLIMBED UP LADDER WITH RAGS AND WASHER FLUID IN HIS HAND. EE MISSED A STEP, BUMPING HIS RIGHT KNEE. HAVING KNEE SURGERY ON 9/17/97, WILL BE OFF WORK APPROX 8 WEEKS.

EE IGNITED A CIGARETTE LIGHTER WHILE CHECKING A BATTERY ON A QUARRY TRUCK. THE BATTERY EXPLODED CAUSING LIQUID FROM THE BATTERY TO SPLASH INTO HIS FACE WHICH CAUSED BURNS TO THE FACIAL AREA. H IS LEFT EYE SWELLED SHUT AND HIS LIPS WERE SWOLLEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS WATERING THE HAUL ROADS. HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE AS HE STEPPED OUT OF THE HAUL TRUCK. ROAD SURFACE HAD RUTS, AND EMPLOYEE STEPPED INTO A RUT, CAUSING THE INJURY.

WENT TO PICK UP A PIECE OF CONCRETE BLOCK STRAINED LOWER BACK.

EE SUSPECTS A 50# BAG OF MEDIA (MAGNETITE) FELL AND STRUCK HIS HEAD & SHOULDER. EXAMINING PHYSCICIAN COULD NOT FIND EVIDENCE OF TRAUMA EXCEPTING PATIENT'S COMPLAINT OF PAIN & STIFFNESS.

BOTH DRILLS WERE BEING OPERATED IN CLOSE PROXIMITY. ONE EE WAS TAKING THE DRILL STEEL OFF HIS DRILL AND LOST CONTROL OF IT, CAUSING THE DRILL STEEL TO STRIKE EE IN THE HEAD.

EE WAS CHANGING LIGHT BULBS AT THE SLATE LINE IN THE #14 PLANT. WHEN EE WAS CLIMBING THE STEPS AT THE CROSSOVER AREA HE SLIPPED, TWISTING HIS RT KNEE.

HE WAS SHOVELING DRILL CUTTINGS FROM UNDERNEATH THE DRILL AND HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE STATED WHILE BOLTING A HIGH PLACE IN THE MINEROOF A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF, STRUCK EE RIGHT HAND CAUSING A CONTUSION TO RIGHT HAND AND MIDDLE & RING FINGERS.

EMP WAS ASSISTING TWO OTHER MINERS WITH REHANGING A CABLE. WHEN HE LIFTED THE CABLE OVER HIS HEAD HE FELT A POP AND PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMP WENT TO HOSPITAL FOR CHECK ON HEALTH. HOSPITAL REPORTED A LOW WHITE BLOOD COUNT AND INDICATED HE HAD BLOOD POSIONING. NO INDICATION FROM EMP OF ANY INJURY AT WORK, BUT REPORTED TO DR THAT HE HAD A CUT IN FINGER AND THAT HE RECEIVED IT FROM BAGGING TALC.

HE STATED HE WAS REPAIRING BRATTICE WHEN HE STUMBLED OVER LOOSE MATERIALS ON FOOTWALL. EMPLOYEE NEVER FELL- BUT WHILE GAINING HIS BALANCE STRAINED HIS BACK.

THE EE WAS CHANGING DISCHARGE ROLLER BEARINGS ON #8 BELT HEAD 002-0, WHEN RATCHET SLIPPED CAUSING EE TO HAVE PAIN IN LOWER RT BACK.

THE INJURED CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN AN 8"X16" CEMENT BLOCK AND THE FENDER OF A BATTERY SCOOP, AS HE WAS LIFTING NO BLOCKTO SET IT AND TOP OF THE FENDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON THE HEAP AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

ON KNEES MEASURING COAL & ROCK, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM TROP BETWEEN RIB & ROOF BOLT STRIKING HIM IN BACK OF RIGHT LEG.

EMP WAS INSTLLING BRAKE PADS ON A EUCLID TRUCK. WHEN HE ROTATED THE BRAKE'S CAMSHAFT HE PINCHED THE TIP OF HIS RIGHT HAND FOURTH FINGER BETWEEN THE CAMSHAFT AND ITS SECURING POST.

EE WAS STANDING BETWEEN 2 TRUCKS WHEN 1 ROLLED CATCHING HIS RIGHT LEG.

INJURED WAS USING A RATCHET TO TIGHTEN TRACK BOLTS WHEN THE RATCHET SLIPPED. INJURED S LEFT MIDDLE FINGER STRUCK A STEEL TRACK TIE.

EMP WAS STEPPING THROUGH MAN DOOR, SLIPPED ON LOOSE MATERIAL, STRAINED RIGHT KNEE AND GOT A SMALL PIECE OF CONCRETE IN RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS INSTALLING POWER SUPPLY FOR LIGHTS & STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. [NOTE: EE STARTED MISSING WORK 8/5/97]

EE WAS BEING TRANSPORTED VIA #2 SINKING BUCKET FROM THE 900 LEVEL TO THE GALLOWAY, WHEN THE BUCKET ALLEGEDLY HUNG UP AT THE TOP OF GALLOWAY NEAR THE SHAFT BOTTOM. THE BUCKET THEN FELL TO THE S HAFT BOTTOM. EE SUSTAINED MULTIPLE FRACTURE.

BOLTING TOP, PIECE OF ROCK 1'X 2'X 1 1/2 ", FELL STRIKING HIM ON NECK.

EE WAS CLEANING IN THE ROCK BELT AREA AND TRIED TO REMOVE A ROCK FROM A CONVEYOR CAUGHT NEAR A FEEDER AND THE ROCK PINCHED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE METAL FRAME.

EE SAID WHILE CARRYING AJACK FOR A BU BOOM ELEVATION HE STEPPED ON SOME UNEVEN BOTTOM AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS AND KEEPING WALKWAYS CLEAR. COMPLAINCE WITH RULE S REG WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS NOTWORN ANKLE SUPPORT. MINER PROTECINECY MABYE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT SYSTEM NOT A FACTOR.

MOVING 2" BAR WHILE WORKING ON DREDGE PUMP. DROPPED BAR ON BIG TOE OF LEFT FOOT.

EE WAS SHOVELING COAL FROM UNDER #1 BELT DRIVE ON SURFACE. WHEN HE LIFTED HIS SHOVEL HE SAID HE TWISTED HIS WRIST RESULITNG IN S SPRAIN AND DISLOCATION OF A SMALL BONE IN HIS HAND.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP, THE BRAKES HAD FAILED AND HE HIT A CHUG HOLE.

EE HAD BEEN LOADING CEMENT BAGS INTO A CEMENT MIXER, AND SPREADING CEMENT WITH IN THE FORMS WITH A SHOVEL, FOR MOST OF THE DAY. EE WAS NOT AWARE OF THE INJURY UNTIL HE ACROSE FROM SLEEP THE NE XT MORNING.

WHILE GETTING INTO EUCLID TRUCK HE SLIPPED AND GOT HIS RIGHT ELBOW CAUGHT BETWEEN THE AIR TANK AND STEP.

THROWING USED MINER BITS DOWN TO GROUND, TWISTED BACK- PULLED A MUSCLE.

EMPOLOYEE REMOVED FILL-PLUG FROM CLEAN-UP PUMP (NOT PUMPING BUT CAVITATING). SCALDING WATER SPRAYED OUT ON HIS NECK AND LEFT HAND.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING AND STEPPED OFF THE JUMBO DRILL DECK, APPROX. 14". IN THE PROCESS, HE TURNED HIS KNEE AND FELT IT POP. THIS WAS TREATED AS FIRST AID ON 5-23-97. DUE TO HIS CONDITION WORSENING, THE EMPLOYEE HAD TO HAVE SURGERY ON AUGUST 11, 1997 RESULTING IN LOST TIME AND MEDICAL TREATMENT. THEREFORE THIS IS NOW A REPORTABLE ACCIDENT.

EE WAS SETTING POST ON #1 LEFT WHEN SETTING LASTTURN POST A ROCK FELL APPROX 3' & HIT BACK OF LEG NO SKIN BROKEN THE ROCK WAS 21/2' BY 4" THICK

INJURED WAS OPERATING A CONTINOUS MINER IN THE LAST LIFT FROM A BLOCK ON A PILLARING SECTION. A PIECE OF ROCK 5' X 12-24" X 3", FELL STRIKING HIM IN THE LAP. THIS RESULTED IN A DISLOCATED AND FRACTURED LEFT ANKLE.

5/23/97 TOWARDS THE END OF HIS SHIFT HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK AND HIS LEGS.

EE'S GLOVE WAS CAUGHT IN THE DRILL STEEL. THE EE HAD JUST STARTED A NEW PLACE IN THE TOP.

EE WAS HELPING 4 OTHER EES TO PUT SIDE BOARD ON SHUTTLE CAR. AS THEY WERE LIFTING THE SIDE BOARD HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND RIGHT LEG. EE SAID HE LOST FOOTING WHILE LIFTING.

WHILE INSTALLING TIMBER SET IN EXTENSION TUNNEL, HE LEANED OVER I.NAME TO NAIL COLLAR BRACE WHEN APROX. 500 LB SLAB FELL OUT OF FACE STRIKING HIM IN BACK AND LEGS. ALSO KNOCKED I.NAME DOWN; NO INJURY WAS INFLICTED ON I.NAME.

EE HAD BEEN BENT OVER WALKING IN LOW COAL, HE TURNED TO STAND UP IN A HIGH AREA AND FELT PAIN IN MIDDLE AND LOWER PART OF HIS BACK. 013 SECTION (STRAINED) PULLED MUSCLE.

DURING THE COURSE OF HIS NORMAL JOB DUTIES EE REINJURED A PRE-EXISTING BACK INJURY. HE WAS UNABLE TO WORK HIS REGULAR SHIFT ON 5-23-97.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED JOINT PAIN AND SWELLING AFTER WORKING ON DIFFERENTIAL OF #16 HAUL TRUCK.

EE WAS REPAIRING TAILS LINE WITH POURED CEMENT. RESTRICTED MOVEMENT CAUSED WORKING IN KNEELING POSITION. PPE BEING USED WAS EXTENSIVE BUT CAUSED IRRITATIONS. MINER CONTACT WITH CEMENT IRRITATE D THESE AREAS.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PICK UP AN AXE. AS HE DID THIS, HIS SHOULDER STRUCK AND DISLODGED A TIMBER. THE HALF HEADER AND CAP WEDGE THAT WERE USED TO INSTALL THE TIMBER STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT SID E OF HIS NECK. THEY FELL APPROX. 2'. I AM REPORTING THE RESTRICTED DUTY AS A RESULT OF HIS INJURY.

THE EMPLOYEE DISCOVERED A LEAK IN A PIPE ON THE SECONDARY VESSEL RETURN LINE. HE PROCEEDED TO THE 2 1/2 FLOOR, WHERE HE CRAWLED UNDER THE HANDRAIL AND WALKED 15 FEET OUT ON A BEAM TO THE PIPE. HE TAPED THE PIPE AND TURNED TO WALK BACK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO THE LOWER FLOOR. THE EMPLOYEE SUFFERED SIX BROKEN RIBS ON HIS RIGHT AS A RESULT OF THIS ACCIDENT.

HE WAS LIFTING A MOUNTED 1100X22 TIRE TO STAND UP AND ROLL IT OFF OF WHITE 700 FORD FLATBED. HAD SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

GOING INTO SCALE HOUSE AT LUNCH--TURNED ANKLE IN LOW PLACE AT SCALES.

REMOVING ELEVATOR DOOR TO CLEAN. LIME BLEW INTO BOTH EYES--CAUSING BURNS TO BOTH EYES.

THERE WAS TROUBLE WITH THE SCREENING PLANT. EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CHECK THE FUSE, PULLED IT OUT, IT ARCHED CAUSING A SMALL EXPLOSION.

EE CLAIMS HE FELT PAIN IN THE GROIN AREA WHLE HEWAS LIFTING ROCKS AND P0WER CABLES OVER THE CORNER OF THE POWER DROP AT THE WEST PIT POWER DROP NORTH SIDE

EE ATTEMPTED TO SECURE AN AMMONIA HOSE WHICH HADCAME LOOSE. WHLE ON LADDER EE FOOT SLIPPED HE REACHED WITH LEFT ARM TO CATCH HIMSELF & STRAINED MUSCLES. EE JUST RETD TO WORK FROM SHOULDER SURGERY TO THE SAME SHOULDER

HE WAS HELPING A CO-WORKER WHEN HE WAS HANDED A HOT TORCH HEAD ASSEMBLY WHILE IT WAS HOT.

EE WAS OPERATING A 992C #228.28 AND WAS STRIPINGROCK OFF OF #4 COAL IN THE WEST END OF THE 2570 PIT. THE FRONT WHEELS OF THE ENDLOADER DROPED OFF THE EDGE OF THE #4 COAL SEAM INTO AN 18" DEPRESSION. THE ENDLOADER TILTED FORWARD AND THE OPERATOR JUMPED APPROX 20' TO THE GROUND

THE MECHANIC WAS REPAIRING THE ELECTRICAL WIRIGN ON THE REAR SECTION OF THE WATER TRUCK USING A PORTABLE LADDER TO PERFORM THE TASK. WHEN HE STARTED TO CLIMB DOWN, HE SHIFTED HIS WEIGHT ONTO A LADDER WHICH FELL WITH HIM. THE LADDER FELL ON HIS LEFT ANKLE AND FOOT.

EE OPERATING REMOTE CONTROL ON MINER WHEN THE SHUTTLE CAME TOWARD MINER, IT CAUGHT A ROCK & PUSHED IT AGAINST EE'S LEFT FOOT & FOOT WAS BETWEEN ROCK & COAL.

THE EE WAS OPERATING A 3 WHEELER. THE MACHINE HIT A ROCK CAUSIG THE FRONT WHEEL TO TURN RADICALLY WHICH IN TURN CAUSED THE STEERING WHEEL TO SPIN STRIKING THE EE ON THE RIGHT HAND. HE BEGAN LOSING TIME ON 6/9/97.

EE WAS HELPING REMOVE A MOTOR OFF A GEAR CASE. HE WAS HOLDING THE NUT WITH A PAIR OF CHANNEL LOCKS AND WHEN THE BOLT LOOSENED, THE CHANNEL LOCKS SLIPPED AND HIS FINGER CAUGHT ON THE FLANGE OF THE MOTOR, LACERATING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER, REQUIRING 10 STITCHES.

INJURED TWISTEDHIS RIGHT KNEE WHILE HE WAS MOVING 1 MINER ON 2 UNIT OVER AGAINST THE RIB. HE WENT TO THE DR ON 5-23-97 AND AGAIN ON 5-28-97. HE DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT TIL 5-28-97.

EMP WAS OPERATING A LINE TRUCK TO SET A POWER POLE. BUTT OF POLE WAS ON GROUND IN FRONT OF TRUCKWHERE EMPS WERE LOCATED. TIP OF POLE WAS IN AIR SUPPORTED BY WINCH LINE. POLE HOLE WAS ON PASSEN GER SIDE OF TRUCK MIDWAY BACK. EMP WAS FACING POLE BUTT AND REACHING BEHIND TO OPERATE CONTROLS.MOVED CONTROL WRONG WAY WHICH BROUGHT TIP OF POLE BACK TOWARDS HIM INSTEAD OF AWAY FROM TRUCK.

EE STATED SHE HURT LEFT FOREARM AND BACK WHEN PUTTING BREAKER IN FOR #3 BELT ON 1 DEV.

ELECTRICIAN WAS DOING A ROUTINE INSPECTION OF UNDERGROUND PUMPING EQUIPMENT WHEN MECHANICAL REPAIRMEN ERRONEOUSLY OPENED A PIPE FITTING ON A WATER DISCHARGE PIPE. THIS ACTION CAUSED A RUSH OF WATER TO HIT ELECTRICIAN CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HISFOOTING.

PAN OPERATOR HIT A HOLE IN HAUL ROAD, BOUNCED ON SEAT CAUSING LUMBAR STRAIN.

EMP WAS ON DISCHARGE BELT WHILE IT WAS IN MOTION. WHEN BELT REACHED ROLLER BED HIS LEFT FOOT WASPULLED DOWN INBETWEEN THE BELT AND THE ROLLER BED.

INJURED WAS UNLOADING A 7200 CART OFF OF THE BLADE ON A SCOOP CAR. THE 7200 CART SHIFTED AND PINNED HIS RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN THE PAVEMENT AND TEH 7200 CART.

THERE WAS TROUBLE WITH THE SCREENING PLANT. EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CHECK THE FUSE, PULLED IT OUT, IT ARCHED, CAUSING A SMALL EXPLOSION.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLOSE ENGINE COMPARATMENT DOOR WHEN BOLT CAME LOOSE OFF OF DOOR

HE WAS OPERATING A 50 TON EUCLID DUMP TRUCK WITH TWO OTHER TRUCKS DURING THE DAY SHIFT. AT APPROX. 9:25 AM WHILE RETURNING FROM THE QUARRY CRUSHER TO THE NORTHEAST HIGHWALL, HEADING EAST DOWN THE HAUL ROAD, HE FAILED TO NEGOTIATE A CURVE. HE STRUCK A DITCH BERM OFF TO THE LEFT OF THE NORMAL ROADWAY, TRAVELING UP AND OVER THE ROUGH TERRAIN. LACERATION TO HEAD AND CONTUSIONS TO HIP A

EE WAS OPERATING MINE & A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING EE ON RT. KNEE & LEG, CAUSING CONTUSIONS TO KNEE & LEG.

EE WAS LIFTING A CRUSHER SCREEN AT THE PLANT WITH 2 FELLOW WORKERS WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

WAS REPLACING A PIECE OF WOOD IN BREAKER AND CUTHIS FINGER ON A RUSTY NAIL.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO UNLOAD A BUNDLE OF BOLTS, A PIECE OF ROCK DISLODGED FROM THE ROOF AND STRUCK THIS EMPLOYEE ON THE HAND.

WHILE PULLING BELT STRUCTURE OVER THE STRUCTURE FOLDED UP AGAINST THE TOP STRIKING HIM ABOVE HIS EYE AND PINNING HIS HAND AGAINST THE TOP.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING INTO THE INTAKE TO CHECK A PUMP. HE STEPPED UP ON AN OMEGA BLOCK AND HIS RIGHT KNEE POPPED AND WOULDN'T STRAIGHTEN OUT.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING THE MINER FROM ONE ENTRY TO THE NEXT. AND WHILE STRETCHING OUT THE CABLE SLACK, THE TENSION ON THE HUNG CABLE CAUSED A NYLON HANGER TO BREAK. THE METAL HOOK FLEW 25' TH ROUGH THE AIR CAUSING THE INJURY.

EE WAS CARRYING A 80 LB BAG OF CEMENT AND STATED THAT WHEN HE RAISED THE CEMENT TO LOAD ONTO THE SCOOP, HE FELT PAIN IN RT SHOULDER AND RT SIDE OF HIS BACK.

EMP AND TWO HELPWER WERE WORKING ON TRANSMISSION. EMP LET OFF TOO MUCH ON RED DEVIL CAUING TRANSMISSION TO FALL. EMP HAD LEFT HAND BETWEEN TRANSMISSION AND BELLHOUSING.

EMP WAS PULLING LEVERS. SAID LEVER WAS STUCK. PULLED HARD AND SOMETHING POPPED IN TOP OF LEFT SHOULDER.

INJURED WHILE WALKING OUT OF ROTARY CEMENT KILN SLIPPED ON SMOOTH STEEL SURFACE WHERE REFRACTORY HAD BEEN REMOVED AND SPRAINED INSIDE TENDON OF RIGHT LEG.

EE STATES HE HIT HIS LEFT KNEE ON TRACTOR COMPARTMENT. BEGAN LOSING TIME 12/16/97.

EE WAS WORKING UNDER A FILTER PRESS IN TIGHT QUARTER TRYING TO LIFT A 12" PIPE. DUE TO IMPROPER RIGGING BECAUSE OF THE CLOSE QUATERS THE EE PULLED A MSUCLE IN HIS SHOULER. THE EE CONTINUED TO WORK HIS SHIFT UNTIL HE WENT HOME APPROX. 1 WEEKLATER. EE THEN WENT TO A DR OFF SITE.

WHILE OPERATING A WATER TRUCK, THIS EMPLOYEE TURNED ON THE HEATER/BLOWER AND DUST FLEW INTO HER EYE, RESULTING IN A CORNEAL ABRASION WHICH CAUSED A DOCTOR TO RESTRICT HER FROM WORK.

AT END OF SHIFT EE NOTED SOME DISCOMFORT IN BACK AREA AFTER PALLETIZING 50# BAGS DURING THE SHIFT.

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO REMOVE WHEEL CHOCKS FROM COAL TRUCK AND EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT BACK. RESULTED IN STRAINED MUSCLE TISSUE BETWEEN HIS RIBS.

ON 5-21-97 EE WAS USING A SLATE BAR WHILE WORKING ON A PUMP IN THE PREPARATION PLANT. THIS RESULTED INTO AN INJURY TO HIS LEFT SHOULDER WHICH WAS DIAGNOSED AS A STRAIN AT THAT TIME. THIS HAS N OW BEEN DIAGNOSED AS A TORN ROTATOR CUFF AND EE IS NOW MISSING WORK DUE TO THAT INJURY.

GETTING PINNER STEEL OUT OF HOLE, ROTATING HD AND STEEL, USING LEFT HAND TO HOLD STEEL. BURR ON BASE OF PINNER STEEL CAUGHT GLOVE TWISTING HAND.

EE WAS CARRYING A STEP LADDER AND SLIPPED. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 6-4-97 AND IS DIAGNOSED AS A DEGENERATIVE DISC ON 6-11-97.

LIFTED BLOCK OF GRANITE OUT OF OPEN PIT INCORRECTLY. CRANE FELL INTO THE QUARRY.

EE STATES THAT HE STEPPED INTO A DRILL HOLE, SLIPPED AND FELL STRAINING HIS RIGHT KNEE.

CONTRACTOR WAS BUILDING DECK IN REAR OF OFFICE AND REMOVED STEPS FROM REAR DOOR. EE WAS REPORTING TO WORK AT 16:00 AND STEPPED OUT BACK DOOR AND FELL APPROX 3 FT ONTO GRAVEL GROUND.

EE STATED WHILE LOADING MATERIAL--HAND DRILL ON VEHICLE--FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN DRILL AND FRAM.

WHILE SETTING TIMBERS ON PILLAR WORKS, COAL POPPED OFF THE RIB, STRIKING THE EE IN THE EYE.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP TO REMOVE BELT & STRUCTURE FROM A WORKED OUT AREA. EE STATES THAT HE RAN OVER A PIECE OF STRUCTURE WITH THE SCOOP CAUSING THE STRUCTURE TO FLIP UP & STRIKE HIM IN THE BACK & BACK OF HIS HEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PRYBAR TO LOOSEN ROCKS THAT HAD BECOME WEDGED IN A CRUSHER FEEDER. ONE OF THE ROCKS FELL, STRIKING THE PRYBAR. EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK IN THE CHEST WITH THE PRYBAR.

MUSCLE SPRAIN FROM LIFTING AND SHOVELING TAIL PULLEY SCREEN PLANT NUT IN PRODUCTION AFTER 1730

WHILE DRIVING THE MAC-8 BATTERY TIRED MANTRIP TO THE END OF THE TRACK FORM THE FACE, HE DROVE INTO A ROUGHT PLACE IN THE MINE BOTTOM ON THE ROADWAY CAUSING THE STEERING WHEEL TO TURN SWIFTLY A ND STRUCK HIS LEFT ARM. (BRUISED) 013-0 SECTION.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING THE FUEL LEVEL IN A D8 DOZER AND DURING THE PREPARATION CHECK HE TWISTED HIS KNEE.

EE STATES THAT HE HIT HIS ELBOW ON THE CAGE OF A SHUTTLE CAR. HE TALKED TO HIS BOSS BUT DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT. ON 6-18-97 HIS ARM WAS HURTING, SO HE WENT TO HIS PRIVATE DR WHO RECOMMENDE D LIGHT DUTY. ON 6-19-97 HE WAS SEEN BY THE NORTH FORK CLINIC. THE DR FELT THAT HIS RIGHT ELBOW HAD BEEN BROKEN.

EE WAS OPERATING A FRONT END LOADER WHEN THE LOADER WENT ACROOS A GROUND DEPRESSION. JOLTING THEWORKER AND APPARENTLY CAUSING HIS BACK DISCOMFORT.

INJURED WAS BLDG A CONCRETE BLOCK STOPPING WHEN A BLOCK FELL AND HIT INJURED ON RIGHT FOREARM CAUSING A FRACTURE.

INJURED EE INDICATED THAT WHILE HE WAS INSTALLING A CHAIN TO THE EQUIPMENT, THE PIP HE WAS UTILIZING SLIPPED, FALLING ON HIS RT HAND, RING FINGER.

THE INJURED WAS STRUCK BY A ROCK ON THE UPPER RIGHT LEG AS HE ATTEMPTED TO EXIT THE MINER CANOPY. THE ROCK FELL APPROX. 7 FT. IT FIRST STRUCK THE CANOPY AND THE INDIVIDUAL SECONDLY. A BRUISE O F THE UPPER RIGHT LEG RESULTED.

EE WAS TEARING DOWN OVERCAST WHEN I BEAM DROPPEDCATCHING RING FINGER BETWEEN I BEAM & CONCRETE BLOCK SMASHING RING FINGER

EE WAS TRAMMING A SHUTTLE CAR HIT A BUMP IN THE ROADWYA, WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE SEAT CAME OFF THE HOLDER AND HE JARRED HIS BACK. CAUSED OF THIS INJURY WAS LOCKING MECHANISM ON SEAT INOPERATIVE . COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS INOPERATIVE, MINER KNOWLEDGE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIP/SYSTEMS A FACTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS TESTING VOLTAGE ON POWER CENTER. 480 VOLTAGE!

FUELER/GREASER CLIMING TEREX TRUCK TO CHECK OIL LEVELS AND FOOT SLIPPED OFF LADDER AND EMPLOYEE HURT RIGHT LEG AND LOWER BACK WHEN HE FELL TO GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING ALONG BELT #23 CONVEYOR AT SOUTH ENTRANCE OF SCREENHOUSE. WHEN EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON THE CATWALK GRATING APPROX. 20 FEET FROM SCREENHOUSE, IT GAVE WAY AND EMPLOYEE FELL APP ROX. 6 FEET TO THE GROUND. IT APPEARS THAT THE SIDE RAIL HOLDING THE GRATING HAD BEEN BENT CAUSING GRATING TO SHIFT AND FALL.

UNLOADING PLYWOOD OFF BARGE. CUT LEFT MIDDLE FINGER ON WIRE AT THE BASE OF FINGER REQUIRING SUTURES.

SHOVELING OUT MATERIAL THAT SPILLED FROM UNDER THE HAMMER MILL CONVEYOR BELT.

AS THE EE WAS ROOF BOLTING THE 3 LEFT BREAK ON THE 001 SECTION, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL AND STRUCK THE EE ON THE BACK.

THE EE AND A CO WORKER WERE REPLACING A WELDING MACHINE IN THE CORNER OF THE SHOP. A BOB CAT NINI LOADER WAS BEING USED TO HOIST THE WELDER. THE OPERATOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT THE LOAD WHEN H E INADVERTENTLY DROPPED THE BUCKET WHICH STRUCK THE INJURED. THE BUCKET CONTINUED DOWNWARD AND PINNED THE EE TO THE FLOOR. BRUISING TO HIS CHEST AND TORSO OCCURRED.

DURING NORMAL DAILY CLEANUP, THE EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A SMALL PIECE OF CONCRETE. IT BROKE AND CAUSED HIM TO LOST HIS BALANCE AND FALL.

TRAMMIGN SHUTTLE CAR TOWARD FEEDER, CAR RAN INTO COAL RIB, SQUEEZING LEFT HAND AND FINGERS.

EE STATED WHILE PULLING ON VENTILATION SLIDER THAT WAS STUCK INSIDE VENTILATION TUBING SLIP AND FELL EE STARTED MISSING WORK 5-23-97.

OIL CAN JAMMED WHILE OILING CRUSHER, REACHED INTO GET CAN WHEN BELTS ENGAGED AND CRUSHED HAND.

VICTIM WAS BENT OVER RIDGE RAIL WELDING CROSSMEMBERS ON. LOOSE PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN 2 BOLTS AND RIB ONTO HIS BACK PINNING HIM ON TOP OF THE RAIL, CUTTING OFF HIS AIR SUPPLY AND INJU RING HIS BACK.

EE REPORTED THAT HE STARTED TO DROP A DRILL FLAG BESIDE A HOLE HE HAD JUST DRILLED WQHEN HE HIT HIMSELF IN THE EYE WITH THE FLAG WIRE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES BUT THE WIRE WENT UP UNDER THE GLASSES FRAME.

FELL THRU GRID AT PLANT.

DRILLER WAS IN CAB OF DRILL. HELPER WAS PUTTING SUB AND 6 3/4" FINGER BIT ON DRILL STEEL. AFTER SLIGHTLY HAND-TIGHTENING THE SUB, OPERATOR STARTED SLOWLY ROTATING DRILL STEEL. BIT AND SUB ROLL ED OVER AND CROSS-THREADED, CATCHING HELPER'S SHOE AND PANT LEG. SHOE WAS TORN AND PANT LEG TWISTED AROUND SUB. HELPER RECEIVED A SPRAINED ANKLE AND BRUSH BURNS BEHIND CALF AND BEHIND KNEE.

EMP WAS DRILLING A TEST HOLE IN ROOF TOP. WHEN FINISHED HE LOWERED THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE. MACHINE ROLLED FORWARD CATCHING FOOT AND ANKLE.

EE WAS IN PROCESS OF PULLING OFF A SPOOL SOME HOSE TO MAKE UP SOME EXTRA HYDRAULIC HOSES. HE WAS STANDING IN A CROSSCUT NEAR THE SECTION SHOP TRUCK &IN FRONT OF THE SPOOL OF HOSE. HE TWISTED & TURNED HIS BODY AS HE GRABBED THE END OF THE HOSE & WAS PULLING SOME OF THE HOSE OFF. HE FELT A POP IN HIS RIGHT KNEE AS PART OF THIS MOTION. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE SURFACE BY MINE MANAGER

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING ROCK OFF OF #6 BELT LOCATED IN 7 WEST SECTION AT THE FEEDER DUMPING POINT. AS HE WENT TO PULL A PIECE OF ROCK OFF THE BELT, HE TRIPPED PUTTING HIS LEFT HAND DOWN TO CATCH H IMSELF. THE ROCK FELL HITTING HIS LEFT HAND.

INJURED WAS ASSISTING THE CREW CHAIN HOIST AND MOVE THE HIGH VOLTAGE COLLECTOR RING AND FRAME INTO PLACE. WHILE USING THE PRY BAR TO LIFT THE LOWER FRAME INTO PLACE, THE BAR SLIPPED, TILTING T HE TOP FRAME WHICH FELL ON HIS LEFT HAND, BREAKING HIS INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS.

INJURED WAS HELPING MOVE THE ROOF BOLT MACH ACROSS THE SECTION AND WAS PULLING THE TRAILING CABLE OUT OF MUD WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

INJURED SLIPPED ON RAIL WHILE WALKING AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS INSIDE PALLETIZER AT BLDG 420 TO REPATTERN THE BAGS AND WAS WORKING IN A NA WKWARD POSITION THROUGHOUT MORNING. HE BEGAN TO HAVE PAIN IN HIS BACK AND REPORTED TO THE PLANT DISPENSARY FO R TREATMENT. ON 5-21-97 HE WAS PLACED ON A WORK RESTRICTION AND ON 5-22-97 HE WAS PUT OFF WORK. HE IS SCHEDULED TO HAVE BACK SURGERY ON 6-4 FOR A HERNIATED DISC.

AFTER FUELING LOADER EMP WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING BY STAGELOADER WHILE IT WAS BEING PUSHED. THE STAGELOADER KNOCKED TIMBER WHICH STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT SHOULDER CAUSING HIM TO FALL. WHILE FALLING, HE TRIED TO CAT CH HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT ARM CAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL 2 BLOCKS INBY INTAKE PORTAL. HE LANDED ON RIGHT ARM. HE SAID HE THOUGHT HE BROKE HIS ARM. THE MAINT BOSS TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. THEY X-RAYED IT AND TOLD HIM IT WAS ONLY SPRAINED. HE HAS NOT RETURNED TO WORK. HE SAID HIS BACK HURTS ALSO THE DAY AFTER ACCIDENT.

EE WAS PULLING ON A PIPE WHICH CAME LOOSE AND HIT HIM IN THE FORHEAD JUST BELOW THE RIM OF HIS HAT.

EE WAS UNLOADING MATERIAL, HE STEPPED DOWN FROM SCOOP BUCKET ONTO AN UNEVEN SURFACE AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE. EE WORKED 5/20/97. GOT VERBAL FROM EE OVER TELEPHONE ON 5/28/97 THAT HE WAS OF F FOR ANKLE. EE RETD 6/4/97 TO WORK WITH DR. RELEASE. LOST DAYS MAKING THIS REPORTABLE.

THE EE HAD FINSIHED CUTTING A PLACE AND WASMOVING TO THE NEXT LOCATION. EE PARKED HIS HAULER IN THE CROSSCUT TWO BREAKS OUTBY THE FACES. HE WAS WALKING AROUNDHIS HAULER INSPECTING IT AND CLEAN ING ANY LOOSE MATERIAL OF IT. HE STOPPED AT THE BATTERY END OFFSIDE LIGHT TO CLEAN LOOSE COAL OF IT. A PIECE OF COAL FELL OUT OF THE RIB STRIKING EE ON TOP OF HIS HAND WHICH HE WAS NEXT TO HI

EE STATED HE WAS HELPING TO REMOVE A 200 HP MOTOR FROM THE #1 SMALL COAL PUMP WHEN HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT. EE DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT UNTIL 6-3-97, AT WHICH TIME HE WAS SENT TO A SPECIALIST AN D DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIATED DISC. FIRST LOST WORK DAY OCCURED ON 6-4-97.

EE WAS CLEANING OUT COAL BEND FEEDER, THEN JUMPE. HE SPRAINED HIS RT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE SITTING IN DUMP TRUCK BEING LOADED WHENLOAD JARRED TRUCK, MOVED EMPLOYEE AROUND IN SEAT.

EE WAS PULLING UP BELT STRUCTURE IN MUD, HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE PULLED HIS GROIN. EE DID NOT START LOOSING TIME TIL 7-10-97, DUE TO SURGERY.

LOADING OFF AT SHOVEL, WHEN A PIECE OF DIRT FLEW IN THE WINDOW AND WENT IN HER RIGHT EYE.

INJURED WAS LOADING SUPPLIES OUTSIDE, WIND BLEW FOREIGN OBJECT IN EYE.

EE WAS OPERATING THE MINER WHEN HE BENT OVER TO LIFT THE MINER CABLE OUT OF THE SHUTTLE CAR ROADWAY. WHEN HE WENT TO TURN AND LAY THE CABLE AGAINST THE RIB, HE BEGAN FEELING PAIN IN HIS MIDDLE BACK AND DOWN HIS LEGS. THIS INDIVIDUAL HAS A HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS. HE IS CURRENTLY SEEING A CHITOPRACTOR.

5C. LIFTING SHUTTLE CAR TIRE OFF A SUPPLY CAR AND FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK. PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK. LOST WORK DAYS BEGAN 5-27-97.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS DRIVING A SPAD INTO TEH MINE RIB WITH A HAMMER WHEN HE HIT HIS MIDDLE FINGER.

WHILE OPENING TRAIN CAR DOOR, EMPLOYEE FELT POP IN LOWER BACK. CAR DOOR WAS HARD TO OPEN. EMPLOYEE CONTINUED TO OPEN TRAIN CAR DOORS UNTIL HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND DOWN RIGHT LEG.

ROCK FELL WHILE BOLTING TURN IN ON LOWER BACK WHILE INSTALLING CORNER BOLT.

CHECKING FOR CRACKS IN BARGA USING WIRE BRUSH AND TORCH GOT BRUSH CAUGHT IN GLOVES CUFF, TORCH FELL OVER ON GLOVE BURNING HAND.

WHILE CLEANING CONVEYOR, LEANED TOO FAR FORWARD, OVERCORRECTED AND FELL BACKWARD, SPRAINING LEFT ANKLE, BRUISING RIGHT SHIN.

EE SLIPPED ON A WET SLICK MUDDY FLOOR. EE STARTED LOOSING TIME ON 5-24-97.

INJURED STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE CHANGING OXYGEN BOTTLES ON THE WELD TRUCK.

EMP STATED WHILE HANDLING MATERIAL, STEPPED IN HOLE TWISTING BACK.

EE INDICATES THAT WHILE HE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EE REMOVE AN AIR VENT, IT BECAME TOO HEAVY AND FELL ON HIS LEFT HAND, INJURING RING AND PINKY FINGER.

EE WAS PULLING ELECTRIACL CABLE THROUGH THE REVOLVING FRAME. EE WAS TAKENOFF WORK 7/15/97 CUASING INJURY TO BECOME REPORTABLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS ON A CRUSHER WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE LOST HIS BALANCE CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

STEPPED OFF C-FRAME AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

EE WAS MAKING REPAIRS TO COAL HOPPER. CHANGING POSITIONS TO CONATINUE WELDING & SLIPPED OFF OF BEAM. EE WAS WEARING A SAFETY BELT HOWEVER DID NOT HAVE CHANCE TO HOOK UP BEFORE HE SLIPPED.

EMPLOYEE WAS OEPRATING A RAM CAR AND RAN OVER SOME FIRECLAY IN THE ROADWAY AND BUMPED HIS HEAD INSIDE TO CANOPY RESULTING IN NECK PAIN. HE CTONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 7-3-97 AND IS NOW OFF GETT ING THERAPY.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING WHEELBARROW WHEN EMPLOYEE STRUCK HEAD ON ROOF-CHANNEL.

WHILE ROOF BOLTING ON UNIT #1. THE INJURED WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING THE TOP PORTION OF THEDRILLSTEEL, WHEN HE WAS STRUCK ON THE RIGHT WRIST AND FOREARM BY THE BOTTOM SECTION. (THE POD WA S STILL ROTATING).

PULLING A MINER CABLE WITH A SHUTTLE CAR.

WHILE TIGHTENING BOLTS ON A 2ND SET OF STAIRS, A COMPLETED SET OF STAIRS TIPPED OVER AND HIT HIS CALF.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES WHILE DRIVING A QUARRY HAUL TRUCK HE HIT A HOLE IN THE ROAD AND HURT HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN DOING OVERTIME WORK IN THE REPAIR DEPARTMENT FOR SEVERAL WEEKS PRIOR TO THIS A CCIDENT.

WHILE WALKING ON BACKHOE THE EMP SLIPPED AND FELL CAUSING STIFFNESS IN NECK AND UPPER TORSO. BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 5-22-97.

EMP WAS CLEANING A HYDRAULIC VALVE IN SPRAY TOWER #1 WHEN A METAL DOOR CLOSED AND THE EDGE STRUCK HIS RIGHT HAND MIDDLE FINGER.

EMP WAS IN THE DINNER HOLE EATING WHEN A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN.

EE WAS HANDLING I-BEAMS FROM AN OVRCAST. AS HE WAS LAYING THE BAM DOWN HIS FINNGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BEAMS RESULTING IN SWELLING AND CONTUSION TO THE FINGER NEAR THE KNUCKLE. THIS EVENT OCC URRED ON SATURDAY 51-7-97. HE DID NOT REPORT TO WORK FOR MONDAY'S SHIFT 5-19-97 BECAUSE OF THE PAIN IN HIS FINGER. HE SAW THE DR ON MONDAY AND RETURN TO WORK FOR TUESDAY'S SHIFT 5-20-97.

EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING 7' BOLTS ND ALLEDGES HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. THIS BECAME A REPORTABLE INJURY ON 5/23/97 WHEN HE MISSED HIS NEXT SCHEDULED WORK SHIFT.

EE WAS REMOVING GARBAGE ALONG E1 020-0 SECTION INTAKE HAULAGEWAY. WHILE PULLING ON A BROKEN METAL BAND, WHICH WAS UNDERNEATH FIVE 6" SOLID CONCRETE BLOCKS, THE BAND SPRUNG OUT, AND THE BAND ST RUCK THE EE RIGHT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING HANG CM CABLE. THE CABLE HANGER FAILED CAUSING THE CABLE TO FALL FARCING HIS HAND AGAINST A RIB BOLT AND STRAINED MUSCLES IN HIS RIGHT FOREARM. THIS BECAME A REPORTABLE IN JURY ON 5/23/97.

HE WAS ASSISTING THE OFFSIDE RB OPERATOR IN THE INSTALLATION OF ROOF BOLTS WHILE BOLTING IN THE HIGH TOP. WHEN THE OPERATOR LET THE DRILL MAST DOWN TO INSTALL THE WRENCH HIS TOES WERE CAUGHT B Y THE DRILL MAST AND PINNED BETWEEN THE MAST AND THE DRILL MAST GUIDE.

EE STATED HE WAS OPERATING THE CONTINUOUS MINER AND A ROCK FELL ON HIS HEAD AND BACK.

HE WAS MOVING 50 LB BAGS OF SODA FROM A PALLET TO A MIXING HOPPER, OPENING THE BAGS AND DUMPING THEM INTO THE HOPPER STRAINING HIS MIDDLE TO LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS IN PATH OF REAR TRACTOR TIRE OF REVERSING 70-TON DART HAUL TRUCK.

EE WAS CLEANING LOADER-SLIPPED ON STEP-FELL TO GROUND.NO INJURY REPORTED AT THIS TIME. ON 5/27 HE WENT TO PERSONAL DR FOR BACK PAIN-PAIN PERSISTED TILL MRI DONE 7/24/97-REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR ON 7/28/97 THE MRI SHOWED A SLIPPED (HERNIATION)DISC/NERVE. MUST HAVE HAPPENED ON 5/17/97 FALL/SLIP

DISMOUNTING A CHERRY PICKER. FOOT SLIPPED OUT OF STEP. CAUGHT FULL BODY WEIGHT AFTER DROPPING APPROX. TWO FEET, WITH ARMS. PULLED MUSCLES IN NECK. WENT TO DR 5-17. CHECK ON 5-19. DECIDED TO GE T A SECOND OPINION ON 5-20. DR SAID COULD RETURN TO WORK. ON 5-21 WENT TO ANOTHER DR WHO SAID NEEDED TO REST MUSCLES UNTIL AFTER MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. RETURNED TO WORK 5-17-97.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING TAIL GATE OF HAUL TRUCK AT PIT. CAUGHT FINGER IN TAIL GATE.

INJURED WAS ALIGNING THE BELT IN THE TAILPIECE WHEN A ROCK MEASURING 12" X 18" X 3" FELL AND STRUCK INJURED DIRECTLY ON TOP OF THE HARD HAT.

EE WAS HELPING REPLACE BROKEN REFUSE FLIGHT CONVEYOR. A PIECE OF METAL WAS WEDGED AND EE DROPPED METAL ON LEFT THUMB, BREAKING BONE.

EE ALLEDGES HE STRAINED HIS BACK INSTALLING TAILPIECE ROLLER. NOTE: EE WORKED UNTIL 5-29-97 AND THEN HE STARTED MISSING TIME.

WHILE STEPPING IN TO SIT DOWN IN A SHUTTLE CAR HE TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK. THE SHUTTLE CAR WAS NO IN OPERATION.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING A BRATTICE. WHILE LEVELING BLOCKS HE STRUCK HIS PINKY FINGER CAUSING A LACERATION TO FINGERNAIL.

EE WAS PASSING BELT RAIN ACROSS BELTLINE & A PIECE OF ROCK ON THE BELT STRUCK HIS HAND RESULTINGIN A LACERATION

EE WAS A MEMBER OF OUR CREW WORKING UNDERGROUND. A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF WHICH WEIGHED APPROX 60 LBS. THE ROCK STRUCK HIM ON TOP OF HIS HEAD. EE RECEIVED A COMPACTION FRACTURE TO HIS VERTEBR AE.

ROCK SLID OFF MINER, HIT GROUND AND TURNED OVER ON HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EE WAS PREPARING TO USE A CUTTING TORCH. WHEN HE LIT THE TORCH, IT BLEW UP IN HIS FACE BURNING HIS EYES.

HE STATED THAT HE STARTED HAVING BACK PAIN WHEN HE STARTED DRIVING NEW HAUL TRUCK. STATED WHEN HE HIT A BUMP IT WOULD JAR HIS BACK, FOUND CENTER PINS BAD ON TRUCK, SHUT IT DOWN TO REPLACE.

5 C SECTION, HE WAS WALKING PAST THE CRUSHER & SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF ROCK & STRUCK HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON THE JUNCTION BOX COVER CAUSING SWELLING.

EE WAS OPERATING A PORTAL BUS COMING OUT OF THE LONGWALL SECTION. HE WAS FOLLOWING A MOTOR WHICH WAS PULLING ANOTHER MANTRIP. THE MOTOR STOPPED AND THE EE'S MANTRIP RAN INTO THE BACK END OF TH E SECOND MANTRIP CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS FACE ON THE FRAME OF THE OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT OF THE MANTRIP.

WHILE STEPPING DOWN FORM BULLDOZER EMP STEPPED ON UNEVEN GROUND AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS UNLOADING TRACK RAILS FROM CAR WHEN HE PICK UP ON A RAIL THE RAIL SLID FORWARD CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN TO RAIL AND CAR.

THE EMPLOYEE FELT PAINS IN HIS BACK AFTE OPERATING A JACKHAMMER. HE WAS BREAKING CONCRETE TO REMOUNT A CRUSHR. HE WORKED UNTIL 8-1-97 WHEN HE LOST TIME.

INJURED SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF WET BELT WHILE WLAKING DOWN THE BELT LINE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO OPEN THE TAILGATE ON A DUMP TRUCK TO LET THE TAILGATE LOCK RELEASE, SO THAT THE TAILGATE WOULD THEN LOCK PROPERLY. IN DOING THIS, ONE HAND SLIPPED OFF AND THE WEIGHT OF TH E TAILGATE PULLED HIS OTHER HAND INTO THE BED ATTHE PINCH POINT, WHICH ENDED UP PULLING THE TOP OF HIS FINGER OFF FROM THE NAIL DOWN.

STEPPING OFF THE FORKLIFT--TWISTED KNEE.

EMP WAS USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO PUT IN BUSHINGSINTO A TRUNION OF THE MINING MACHINE, STRAINING HIS BACK.

THE CO FEELS THAT NO ACCIDENT OCCURED THEREFORE THIS REPORT IS ONLY BEING MADE TO COMPLLY WITH COAL MINING REGULATIONS SET FORTH BY MSHA.

EE STATED WHILE MOVING A TRAILING CABLE, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE MINE ROOF AND STRUCK HIM ON TOP OF HIS HARD HAT.

MECHANIC WAS CUTTING ONT EH HUB OOF A WHEEL WHICH WAS REMOVED OFF A FRONT END LOADER. HE FAILED TO DEFLATE THE TIRE. HEAT FROM THE CUTTING PROCESS THEN EXPANDED THE AIR INSIDE HTE TIRE CAUSI NG THE SIDE WALL OF THE TIRE TO FAIL.

EE ALLEGES HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE HANGING H8IGH VOLTAGE CABLE.

HE WAS CHANGING THE SCREEN ON K-1 SHAKER. HE HAD REMOVED THE OLD SCREEN AND WAS PULLING THE NEW SCREEN UP INTO PLACE. THE SCREEN SLIPPED, HURTING HIS BACK.

WE HAD A MASSIVE ROCK FALL ON A PILLAR SECTION RESULTING IN TRAPPING TWO MEN.

EMP WAS PULLING MINER CABLE WHEN NYLON PULL STRAP BECAME TIGHT. NYLON STRAP BROKE STRIKING EMP ON OUTSIDE OF RIGHT HAND FRACTURING BONE.

EE WAS PLACING BAGS ONTO BAG FLATTENER CONVEYOR & TRIED TO RETRIEVE AN IMPROPERLY PLACE ONE. HAND WAS CAUGHT IN CONVEYOR BELTS. HE WAS ABLE TO HIT THE STOP SWITCH & REMOVE HIS HAND/ARM FROM TH E EQUIPMENT. SUFFERED CONTUSIONS AND ABRASIONS TO LEFT HAND AND ARM.

CLEANING A CAST IRON BELL HOUSING WHEN IT FELL OFF THE STAND. HE CAUGHT IT WITH HIS RIGHT HAND SO IT WOULD NOT BREAK WHEN HE CAUGHT IT. IT PULLED A TENDON IN HIS WRIST.

EMPLOYEE GETTING IN/OUT OF EQUIPMENT.

INJURED WAS RIDING IN A PORTAL BUS. THE BUS SPLIT A TRACK SWITCH WHILE TRAMMING TO THE WORKING SECTION. THE BUS DERAILED AND STRUCK A MOTOR (LOCOMOTIVE) THAT WAS PARKED IN THE TRACK SPUR.

THE EE WAS CLEANING BELT WHEN THE SHOVEL HE WAS USING BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BELT & ROLLER JERKING HIS RIGHT ARM. THE INJURED EE WORKED THRU 6/3/97.

WHILE INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS A PIECE OF ROCK BROKE OFF BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS HITTING HIM ON BACK AND NECK.

WAS INSTALLING A WOPER AND FELL OFF A LADDER HITTING HIS KNEE ON A TURNBUCKLE.

EE WAS LIFTING SHUTTLE CAR TIRE WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF BACK INJURY.

EE WAS FREEING UP THE PULL TAG WHILE THE BELT WAS BEING SPULLED THRU THE TAILPIECE AND HE CUT HIS LITTLE FINGER RIGHT HAND, ON THE PULL TAB.THIS REQUIRED 5 SUTURES.

EMP CLIMBED UP ON TRACKHOE TO GIVE ANOTHER EMP A MESSAGE. WHEN SHE STARTED TO CLIMB DOWN SHE SLIPPED AND FELL. WHEN SHE LANDED ON THE GROUND, ONHER FEET, IT BROKE HER LEG AND ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE HAD HIS LEFT HAND UNDER THE SLATE HE WAS TRIMMING, THEREFORE HE DID NOT KNOW WHERE HIS FINGERS WERE COMPARED TO THE SLATE.

EMPLOYEE CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE MINE BELT LINE (CONVEYOR BELT) AND A ROOFER BRACE WHILE REMOVING A PIECE OF ROCK. 013-0 SECTION BELT LINE. SUSTAINED A BROKEN FINGER AND LACERATIONS TO HIS HAND.

RIB ROLLED OFF WHILE EE WAS OPERATING THE MINER & STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT FOOT. BROKEN FOOT

THE EE WAS CLIMBING DONW FROM BOB CAT LOADER. HE HIT A LERER WHICH CAUSED THE BUCKET TO HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT FOOT.

EE WAS STRUCK IN BACK OF LEG BY A BOTTOM RETURN BELT ROLLER, WHEN HANDLING ROLLERS.

CLAIMANT WAS GETTING OFF EUCLID. AS HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE LADDER OF THE EUCLID HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND, HURTING HIS NECK.

EMP WAS BACKING DRILL OUT OF #3 ENTRY WHEN A STACK OF RIB PLATED SLID OFF OF MATERIAL TRAY STRIKING EMP ON RIGHT FOOT. EMP STARTED MISSING WORK ON 5-19-97.

EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING OVER TO INSTALL FRONT SHACKLE BOLT IN SPRING ON RIGHT FRONT OF DUMP TRUCK.

WHILE OPERATING CLARK 275 FRONT END LOADER, HIT A LARGE ROCK ON ROAD THAT FELL FROM BUCKET. STEERING WHEEL SPUN AND JOLTED LEFT ARM. OPERATOR WENT TO DOCTOR ON MAY 29 BECAUSE LEFT SHOULDER WAS BOTHERING HIM. DOCTOR SAID TO STAY OFF WORK FOR 1 WEEK FOR SHOULDER TO HEAL.

EE WAS TRIMMING A PIECE OF CON EYOR BELT AND STUCK BLADE INTO LEG REQUIRING STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A BOX OF PRIMERS TO PLACE ONTO EXPLOSIVES TRUCK. STRAINED ABDOMEN.

EMP ALLEGES THAT HE STEPPED OUT OF A SCOOP AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKEL. NOTIFIED SUPERVISOR DURING THE FOLLOWING SHIFT AND DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 5-20-97. HIS ALLEGED INJURY BECAME REPORTABLE ON THAT DATE. I AM REPORTING THE DAY HE MISSED WORK.

EE WAS USING A TORCH CUTTING OFF METAL BLOCKS ON 3 KILN WHEN THE SPARKS CAUGHT HIS FLANNEL SHIRT ON FIRE AND HIS SHIRT WASN'T TUCKED IN.

WHILE WORKING AT THE END OF A STONE SPLITTING MACHINE EE FELL AND THE STONE HE HAD HIT HIS RIGHT ARM.

CABLE FROM CRANE CAME UNHOOKED FROM FAR SIDE WHEN HOIST PRESSURE WAS APPLIED CAUSING BELT TO TOPPLE TO ONE SIDE, FALLING ON LEG.

WELDING OVER CONCRETE WITH CORRECT BOOTS & FELL INTO IT MAKING HIS FOOT BURN.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING DRILL STUB FROM UNDER TRAILER CAUSING DAMAGE TO BLOOD VESSELS IN RECTUM. DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTL 5-20-97. FIRST DAY OFF FROM WORK 5-21-97.

EE STEPPED OFF THE REAR OF A DOUBLE-BOOM FLETCHER ROOF BOLTER ONTO UNEVEN FLOOR, AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE. FIVE DAYS LATER THE INJURY WAS AGGRAVATED AND BECAME REPORTABLE WHEN EE WAS WALKING AND TRIPPED ON LOOSE COAL REINJURING THE ANKLE AND UNABLE TO WORK.

EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME MAY 14, 1997.

DROPPED WRENCH WHILE WORKING ON A CONVEYOR. WENT TO GRAB WRENCH, CONVEYOR STARTED, CAUGHT THUMB BETWEEN WRENCH AND AN ANGLE.

PULLING ON ROCKS IN FEEDER, HAND SLIPPED AND FINGERNAIL CAUGHT TEARING IT LOOSE.

RE-OPEN OF 11-4-96 ACCIDNET. INJURY TO RIGHT KNEE.

WORKING ON DUMP SHIVE, POUNDING ON CHISEL, PIECE OF METAL FLEW OFF AND HIT ABOVE RIGHT EYE CAUSING LACERATION REQUIRING STITCHES.

THE INJURED EMPLLOYEE WAS OPERATING #7 CRICKETT(JEEP) ON THE EMPTY TRACK TRAVELING SLOWLY TOWARD THE PREP PLAT WHEN HE RAN INTO A 8 TON SUPPLY (#2) TRAVELING SLOWLY IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. THIS CAUSED THE VICTIM TO STRIKE HIS LEFT ELBOW AGAINST THE CONTROL PANEL AND THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS HEAD AGAINST THE WINDSHIELD.

EE STEPPED OFF A TRAILER INTO A HOLE & ROLLED HIS FOOT SIDEWAYS

EE WAS HELPING LOAD STEEL PIPE AND INJURED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS 4 1/2 X 3 1/2 X 0-7" THICK, HITTING HIM ON LEFT HIP AND LEG IN #2 ENTRY. WE WERE PULLING PILLARS AT THIS TIME.

AFTER CLEANING PREHEATER TOWER WAS INPROCESS OF REMOVING HELMET AND LOOKED UP WHEN DUST FELL IN LEFT EYE. WHICH CAUSED IRRITATION.

HE WAS FILLING A FUEL TANK FROM A FUEL TRUCK WHEN THE TANK ON THE TRUCK SPLIT, SPILLING THE FUEL. HE GOT FULL OF FUEL CAUSING HIM TO FALL OFF FUEL TRUCK TO THE GROUND.

RIB ROLLED AND HIT HIM IN THE BACK.

A NEW INJURY - TRIED TO ATTACHED TO PREVIOUS INJURY.

PERSON WAS WALKING ACROSS LONGWALL FACE TOWARDS THE SHEAR AND LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL AT #65 SHEILD CAUSING INJURY TO RIGHT SHOULDER. PERSON BEGAN TO MISS TIME ON 6-9-97 FOR SURGERY TO SHOUL DER.

EE WAS CHECKING FLUID LEVEL ON FINAL DRIVER PLUG WAS TIGHT. WHEN PLUG CAME FREE HIS HAND HIT FINGER.

EMP WAS CARRYING OMEGA BLOCK FROM TRACK TO THE BELT ENTRY. HE FELL CAUSING HIS RIGHT HAND TO JAM INTO THE MINE FLOOR.

WHILE CHECKING SPLICES IN BELT EE HAD GUARD IMPROPERLY SECURED HE PLACED HIS FOOT BETWEEN GUARDS ON DOLLIE RAIL AND BELTTAKE UP DOLLIE ROLLED OVER HIS FOOT.

THE MINER WAS BACKING UP OUT OF A PLACE EE WAS WATCHING THE MINER CABLE TO PREVENT IT FROM BEING RUN OVER HE TOOK HIS FOOT AND PULLED THE MINER CABLE TO ONE SIDE. AFTER THIS EVENT HE NOTICED A TIGHTENESS AND PAIN IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS GROIN. HE COULD NOT RECALL ANY OTHER EVENT THAT PUT ANY STRAIN ONHIM THAT SHIFT. HE THOUGHT THE DISCOMFORT WOULD GO AWAY AFTER FEW DAYS HE STATED

EE WAS MOVING BOLTER SUPPLIES THRU A MAN-DOOR WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE FININSHED HIS SHIFT & WORKED THE NEXT DAY. HE ASKED TO SEE A DR BECAUSE THE DSCOMFORT CONT IN INCREASE HE WENT TO DR ON 5/15/97 & DR PLACED HIM OFF WORK FOR 3 DAYS TO REST HIS BACK. THE BOLTER SUPPLIES WAS FOR A BOLTER DOING REHAB WORK IN THE MAIN WEST RETURN ENTRIES.

EE STATED HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A CABLE BOLT HEAD WHILE WALKING ON SECTION AND LATER RAN THROUGH A POT HOLE WHILE OPERATING RAM CAR AND JARRED HIS NECK. AFTER NUMEROUS TESTS WERE CONDUCTED HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIATED DISC. DUE TO MEDICAL TREATMENT OF HIS CONDITION, EE WILL LOSE 3 WORKDAYS TOTAL AT 1 WEEK INTERVALS BEGINNING 6-3-97. (ONE DAY PER WEEK.)

VICTIM WAS HELPING SPLICE CONVEYOR BELT WHEN HE SAID HE STRAINED BACK BY PULLING ON PULL ROPE.

THIS MAN WAS LIFTING A BOX OF GLUE AND HE STUMBLED AND FELL, STRIKING HIS HEAD ON TEH FRAME OF HTE ROOF BOLTER ADN THEN HE COMPLAINED OF LOWER BACK PAIN.

BOLT MAN'S RIGHT ARM GOT CAUGHT WITH ROOF BOLT WHILE TAKING BOLT TO TOP. ARM IS PROBABLY BROKE.

HE WAS PULLING A FEEDER CABLE AND FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 5-28-97 WHEN HE WAS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY.

EE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE A BUCKET TOOTH FROM A CAT 980 LOADER. HE WA USING A HAMMER TRYING TO LOOSEN THE TOOTH WHEN A PIECE OF METAL BROKE LOOSE AND HIT HIM IN THE STOMACH. 1/4" PIECE OF METAL LODGED IN HIS STOMACH AND NEEDED TO BE SURGICALLYREMOVED ON AN OUTPATIENT BASIS.

EMP WAS UNLOADING BELT STRUCTURE FROM A WAGON. WINCH ON SCOOP WAS BEING USED TO DO THIS. WINCH ROPE HOOK SLIPPED FROM THIS EMPS HAND AND CAUGHT HIS RT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND HOOK.

EE WAS PULLING TRACK CLEANER TO JOB SITE WHEN HE SAW MOTOR PIN FOR TRACK CLEANER COME OUT OF MOTOR AND THE TONGUE OF TRACK CLEANER CAME LOOSE. INJURED NOT SURE IF TRACK CLEANER TONGUE OR TRACK CLEANER WING HIT HIM ON LEFT SID OF FACE AS TRACK CLEANER WAS DERAILING.

HE WAS STANDING ON TIPPLE FLOOR WAITING FOR LOAD OF COAL. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE LIFTED LID ON TIPPLE BEND, LET FALL AND HIT HIM ON FOREHEAD NEAR SCALP- SMALL LACERATION ON FOREHEAD.

EE STATED WHILE HANDLING OMEGA BRATTICE BLOCKS FELT PAIN IN BACK.

EE WAS CLOSING DOORS ON RAILROAD CARS, WHEN THE METAL BAR HE WAS USIGN SLIPPED AND STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT LOWER LEG.

EE WAS THROWING BELT STRUCTURE THROUGH A HOLE IN A CINDER BLOCK STOPPING. ONE OF THE BLOCKS FROM THE STOPPIGN FELL OUT STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT HAND AND THUMB. HE DID NOT MISS WORK. HOWEVER , HE HAS BEEN ASSSIGNED RESTRICTED DUTY. I AM REPORTING THE RESTICTED DUTY DAYS.

DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 3.30.98. WHILE SHOVELING STRAINED BACK.

VICTIM WAS SWINGING BOLTER BOOM WHILE STILL HOLDING DRILL STEEL IN HAND--HAND STRUCK CANOPY.

EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BELT LINE ADN A TIMBER (BRUISED RIBS).

THE OEPRATOR EE STARTED UP THE LADDER TO GET ON THE MACHINE HIS FOOT SLIPPED, HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL. IT HAD BEEN RAINING.

EE REPORTED THAT HE WAS DISCONNECTING AN AIR CHIPPER FROM AN AIR HOSE (3/8" DIA.) BY OPERATING THE QUICK DISCONNECT WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS THUMB.

EMP INFORMED MANAGEMENT O FPAIN IN LEF SHOULDER AND DOCTORS CONCLUDED IT MAY BE WORK RELATED.

EE WAS OPERATING A ROCK TRUCK AND WAS BEING LOADED BY A HYD. SHOVEL. A ROCK FELL OFF THE BUCKET AND STRUCK THE TOP OF THE TRUCK. THE EE ALLEGES THE ROCK JARRED HIM CAUSING INJURY TO HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING ROOF TRUSS RODS. THE GUN SPUN STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT WRIST.

EMPOLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY A HAMMER WHILE SPLICING BELT. WAS MOVING SPLICING TOOL WHEN SECOND INDIVIDUAL INADVERTENTLY SWUNG HAMMER STRIKIGN HIS LET HAND.

EE SAID HE THOUGHT HE STRAINED HIS BACK CLIMBING IN AND OUT OF SCOOP.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF 40 ACRE SCREEN PLANT AND HE SLIPPED ON WET MUD DUE TO RECENT RAIN, FALLING DOWN HE FRACTURED THE BONES IN HIS LOWER RIGHT LEG.

EE STATES THAT ON 5/13/97 HE SLIPPED WHILE MOVING A LARGE SCREEN INJURING HIS PELVIS. EE ALLEGESTHAT THIS INJURY RESUSLTED IN BLOOD CLOTS THAT MOVED INTO HIS LEFT LEG AROUND 6/2/97

EE WAS PREPARING A NEW ROOM SET UP. HE WAS REQUIRED TO MOVE A TIMBER BY HAND & AS HE WAS SLIFTING THE TIMBER HE STRAINED HIS BACK

WHILE GETTING A STARTER OUT OF THE BACK OF THE BED OF A TRUCK, EE STRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE. EE DID NOT LOSE ANY TIME FROM WORK. EE HAS STARTED LOSING TIME ON 6-19-97.

EE STEPPED INTO A HOLE AT THE BOTTOM OF STEPS IN WAREHOUSE.

YWE WERE BUILDING A BLENDING PLANT SITE SETTING A 3/X3/X6" SLAP OF CONCRETE WITH A CHAIN AND HYDRO EXCUATOR. WHEN SLAB WAS IN PLACE EE UNHOOKED CHAIN BUT COULD NOT REACH IT TO REMOV EXCARATOR OPERATOR RAISED, BOOM PULLING CHAIN HOOK CAUGHT CORNER OF CONCRETE CAUSING IT TO TOPLE.

EE WAS SUPPORTING LARGE STONE WHILE SECOND EE REACHED FOR STONE WEDGE. EE STEPPED BACK TO BRACE HIMSELF SLIPPED AND WAS OVERPOWERED BY THE WEIGHT OF THE STONE. HE FELL TO THE GROUND WITH STONE LANDING ON LEG.

2 EMPLOYSS WERE INSTALLING 8" DIAMETER SUCTION PIPE ON THE SOUTH HEAD PUMP AT DIGESTION. THE BOLTS WERE BADLY MISALIGNED. INJURED WAS USING A PRY BAR (ALIGNMENT BAR) TO ALIGN THE FLANGE BOLT H OLES. HE WAS PULLING ON THE PRY BAR WHEN HIS BOOTS BEGAN TO SLIP ON THE CONCRETE PAD. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL BACKWARDS LANDING ON THE PAD.

WHILE EE WAS WORKING W/A PNEUMATICK TRACKDRILL AT THE QUARRY AND PERFORMING THE NORMAL TASK OF THE JOB, SAID TRACKDRILL HIT HIM ON HIS RIGHT FOOT INJURY THE SMALL TOE.

WHILE UNLOADING SOME BLADES, WHICH HE WAS CARRYING IN HIS LOADER, THE SAME SLIPPED AND PINCHED A RIGHT HAND FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING HUB OVER AND CAME BACKWARDS ON LEFT INDEX FINGER, CUTTING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

DISMOUNTED/JUMPED OFF RAIL CAR AFTER PLACEMENT AND LANDED ON LEFT FOOT WRONG.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS HELPING LOAD A ROOF DRILL ON A TRUCK, HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A WOODEN CRIB BLOCK AND EXPERIENCED PAIN BETWEEN HIS SHOULDER BLADES. EE FINISHED HI SHIFT AND HAS NOT MIS SED WORK UNTIL 6-16-97 (HIS FIRST DAY OFF).

EE WAS TAKING BELTS OFF PULLEY ON DUST FAN MOTOR AND ROLLED HIS FINGER BETWEEN BELT AND PULLEY SMASHING HIS LITTLE FINGER.

EE WAS WORKING AS THE HELPER FOR ANOTHER EE THATWAS OPERATING A MICON DRILL UNIT. THE OPERATOR WAS DRILLING A 12' BELT HOLE TO INTALL A CABLE BOLT. THE INJURED EE WAS USING HIS LEFT HAND ATT EMPTING TO LINE UP & ATTACH A 2FT EXTENSION TO THE SCROLL AUGER ALREADY IN THE BOLT HOLE. THE DRILL UNIT SURGED UPWARD & HIS HAND CAUGHTON THE SCROLL AUGER & WAS PUSHED INTO THE EDGE OF THE

EE SAID ANOTHER EMPLOYEE E THREW A CUT OFF SOFT DRINK BOTTLE WITH SMALL AMOUNT OF GREASE IN IT ON HIS NECK ABOUT 4' DOWN. EE SAID WIND BLEW BOTTLE OVER EDGE STRIKING EE.

EE STEPPED OFF 2"X10" BOARD LEFT LAYING FLAT ON DDA-7 TANK CATWALK AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

SUPERVISOR CLAIMS THAT WHILE STEPPING DOWN OFF A RIDGE HE SLIPPED AND STEPPED ON UNEVEN SURFACETURNING OVER HIS FOOT. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWAREMENSS AND HAVING PROPER ON STEPS. COMPLIANC E WITH REGULATIONS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS TOO, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR MINING EQUIPMENT SYSTMES COULD BE A FACOTR

EE WAS WALKING AROUND HEADGATE WHEN HE STEPPED ON A DUKE, SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO A PIECE OF PLYWOOD, STRAINING HIS BACK.

THE EE WAS OPERATING A CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A LARGE PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE BOOM AND CONTACTED HIS RIGHT LEG NEAR THE CALF. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE TO THE FIBULA BONE.

THE EE WAS TRAVELING TO THE BOTTOM ON A GOLF CART WHEN THE OVERHEAD DOOR CAME DOWN AND HIT HIM IN THE FACE ALLEGEDLY CUTTING AND BRUISING HIS NOWE AND MOUTH.

EE WAS THROWING ROCK APPROX. 2' LONG 50 LB ON TH BELT TIRED TO CLEAR WATERLINE CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN PIPE AND ROCK.

EMP ALLEGES MUSCLE SPASMS IN LOWER BACK AND SHARP PAINS WHILE DRIVING TRUCK IN THE HOLE.

EE WAS CARRYING DEGAS LINE PUTTING THRU HOLE IN BRATTICE WHEN EE TURNED AND FELT A PAIN IN HIP.

SETTING TIMBERS ALONG BELT LINE. STRAINED OR PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

WENT TO PULL INNER TUBE AND HIT RIGHT LEG ON WIRE LINE MOTOR AND SMASHED FINGER INBETWEEN OVERSHOT AND DRILL FRAME.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING MUD AND STRAINED BACK DUE TO WEIGHT OF MUD.

EMP WAS ASSIGNED TO REPLACE THE AIR PASSAGE SCREEN IN BALL MILL. EMP WAS SWINGING A 8LB SLEDGE HAMMER TO REMOVE OLD BOLTS. GRIND BALLS IN MILL IN WHICH HE WAS STANDING ON MADE FOOTING VERY UNS TABLE. EMP LOST BALANCE WHEN BALLS SHIFTED UNDERHIS FEET.

EE WAS DOWN ON BOTH KNEES WELDING. WHEN HE TURNED AROUND TO GET A WELDING ROD HE FELT PAIN IN RIGHT SIDE OF LOWER BACK.

HE WAS MOVING SCOOP 1ST LINE OUTBY IN #3 ENTRY AND HIT HIS HEAD ON MINE ROOF. HE PUSHED THE BUCKET LEVER THE WRONG WAY.

EMP DROPPED FLAPPER VALVE ASSEMBLY ON HAND DURING INSTALLATION.

EE WAS SHOVELING WET COAL AND MUD AND WHEN HE WENT TO THROW A SHOVEL FULL ON BELT HE FELT A PULL IN HIS BACK WITH SOME PAIN. CAME BACK AND TRIED TO WORK THE NEXT DAY BUT IT BOTHERED HIM TOO M UCH. SO HE WENT TO DR. AND WILL BE OFF A FEW DAYS.

HE WAS HELPING TO MOVE AUGER FLIGHTS SO THAT THE FLIGHTS COULD BE PULLED UP BY AN ENDLOADER. HE ALLEGES THAT HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL DOWN. HIS HAND WAS THEN CAUGHT BETWEEN THE FLIGHTS. HE DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 5-19-97.

PUSHING ON HAMMER AT CHIP PLANT WITH LEFT LEG. EMPLOYER WAS NOT TOLD OF INJURY UNTIL 5-14 AND EE WAS DIAGNOSED ON 5-23 WITH A RUPTURED GROIN.

COMING FROM CASTEEL MINE TO VIBURNUM MILL DRIVING A ORE TRUCK EMPLOYEE BIT A DIP IN THE ROAD. HIS RIGHT ARM PULLED TO THE RIGHT ABRUPTLY CAUSING PAIN IN RIGHT ELBOW. TOOK EMPLOYEE TO DR. BOARD WINE, HE MADE A INCISION IN RIGHT ELBOW AND PACKED ELBOW WITH GAUZE.

EMPLOOYEE CLAIMS HE BUMPED HIS ELBOW ON DOZER D-8L (CAT).

WIND BLEW DOOR SHUT ON LOADER PINCHING HAND & FINGERS.

PUT TRUCK IN GEAR AND IT DID NOT ENGAGE. TRUCK WAS TRAVELING DOWNHILL AND TURNED OVER ON THE PASSENGER SIDE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WALKING #8 BELT, WHEN HE WENT THRU AIRLOCK INBY #27 CROSSCUT, HUNG LEFT FOOT ON BOARD, FELT PAIN IN LEFT HIP.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHILE DRIVING THE REFUSE TRUCK HE HIT A HOLE AND JARRED HIS NECK. CAUSE OF THIS ACCIDENT WAS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND SPEED.

EE WAS WORKING AT THE FACE HANGING CURTAINS WHENHE FELT SOMETING IN HIS EYE. EE RINSED EYE OUT AT WORK BUT IT STILLKEP BOTHERING HIM. AFTER SHIFT EE WENT TO GOOD SAM ER. THEY SAID THEY COULD N OT FIND ANYTHING IN EYE, BUT EYE APPEARED TO BE RED & HAD A SCRATCH. EE WENT TO SEE DR NEXT DAYAND DR SAID EYE APPEARED TO HAVE SMALL BLISTER ONIT & IT WOULD TAKE COUPLE OF DAYS BEFORE IT STA

EE SAT DOWN ON THE RAIL OF THE SPILL PLATE A LARGE ROCK THEN STRUCK HIS BACK AS THE ROCK WAS MOVING ON THE LONGWALL PAN LINE

STEPPED OFF TRACTOR TWISTED ANKLE.

EE WAS STEPPING INTO A JEEP TO SERVICE THE BATTERIES. AS HE DID, HE STRUCK HIS RIGHT KNEE AGAINST A LIFTING HOIST MOUNTED ON THE JEEP.

EE EXITED THE BUILDING, STEPPED DOWN TO CHECK A FAN, THE HOPPER HORN SOUNDED, HE TURNED TO STOP AND SLIPPED-FELL ON STEP. IT HAD RAINED AND STEPHAD MUD AND GRAVEL OVER ON IT.

EE WAS PUSHING A DOLLY ACROSS PARKING AREA WHILE IT WAS RAINING. HE WALKED INTO A PARKED VEHICLE STRIKING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER VECHILES SIDE MIRROR AND FALLING ONTO PAVEMENT. HE DID NOT REPORT I NCLUDENT UNTIL 5-30-97. FOLLOWING EVALUATION ANDMRI IT WAS DECIDED SURGERY WAS NEEDED.

HE WAS CUTTING A BOLT TO REMOVE A ROLLER WITH A TORCH AND CAUGHT HIS PANT LEG ON FIRE BURNING HIS LEG.

EE WAS BEGINNING TO OPERATE 992 LOADER AND IT WAS RAINING. HE WAS WALKING ON THE BACK BUMPER OF LOADER, HIS FOOT SLIPPED, HE GRABBED FOR THE HANDRAIL AND RAIL BROKE. EE FELL TO THE GROUND CUTT ING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER AND BRUISING HIS HIP.

ON 5/12/97 EE WAS DRIVING A HAUL TRUCK & AS A RESULT OF THE BUMPY [THIS INJURY WAS INITIALLY TREATED AS A NON-OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH INJURY] ROAD/RIDE, HE DEVELOPED PAIN IN HIS NECK, BACK & SHOUL DER. ON 1/22/98 THE WORKERS' COMP COURT JUDGE ISSUED THIS A TEMPORARY DISABILITY.

HANGING CURTAIN FOR VENT. TWISTED AROUND PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON THE BOTTOM CROSS BEAM OF THE SUPPORT STRUCTURE OF THE CRUSHER, TH EBEAM SITS 16" ABOVE GROUND. HE WAS WELDING A SUPPORT ARM ON A DISCHARGE CHUTE, HE SLIPPED THEN CAUS ING HIS FOOT TO TWIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP AND RAN OVER A ROCK. THE SCOOP BOUNCED AND JARRED THE OPERATOR IN THE DECK.

EE WAS PUSHING SCREEN ONTO HOOKS, SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING LEFT SIDE OF BACK ON CABLE HANDLER.

EMP WAS REMOVING A BATTERY COVER FROM A MANTRIP AND LOST HIS GRIP. EMP STUMBLED BACKWARDS AND TWISTED HIS BACK, RESULTING IN A STRAINED BACK.

EE WAS WORKING WITH ANOTHER EE TO CLEAN THE GUNNING MACHINE. EE STUCK HIS FINGER INSIDE THE GUARD & CLIPPED THE END OF HIS FINGER OFF

EE STATED HE JUMPED DOWN ON SOME LOOSE MATERIAL AND TWISTED KNEE.

EE WAS TRAVELING (WALKING) TO THE HEADGATE AREA OF THE LONGWALL. AS HE DID, HE STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST THE MONORAIL RESULTING IN PAIN TO HIS NECK. HE CONTINUED TO EXPERIENCE PAIN RELATED TO TH IS EVENT.

THE INJURED WAS RAISING THE CENTER SECTION AUGER OF THE CUTTING DRUM ON A 12CM-15 JOY MINER WITH A PAIR OF COME-ALONGS. THE CHAIN SLIPPED, CAUSING THE DRUM TO FALL, WHICH STRUCK HIM ON THE LEG

A SHOVEL OPERATOR WAS SWINGING A FULLY LOADED BUCKET TOWARDS THE SPOTTED HAUL TRUCK WHEN AN UNEXPECTED DROP IN OPERATING AIR PRESSURE ON THE SHOVEL CAUSED THE MAIN MOTOR TO SHUT DOWN AND ALL T HE BRAKES TO SET. DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE SHOVEL WAS AT FULL SWING SPEED WITH A LOADED BUCKET IT CONTINUED TO SWING. THE HEEL OF THE BUCKET STRUCK THE UPPER CENTER PORTION OF THE TRUCK BOX B

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING TRANSMISSION FILTER ON 980 LOADER. STRAINED BACK.

WHILE HOLDING LADDER FOR ANOTHER EMP, RUST AND COAL DUST FROM CLEANING AREA TO BE WORKED ON ENTERED LEFT EYE CAUSING IRRITATION.

EE WAS WALKING NEXT TO DRILLING RIG WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL, HITTING HIS HAND ON A METAL TROUGH USED AS A DITCH TO MOVE MUD AND CUTTINGS FROM HOLE TO PIT. AT THE TIME, THE GROUND WAS WET AND SLIPPERY DUE TO RECENT RAIN.

EE STATED HE TWISTED RT LEG WHILE HANGING CURTAIN. EE STARTED MISSING WORK 5-12-97.

ROCK FELL STRIKING EE ON SHOULDER AND ANKLE ROCK FELL FROM BACK RIB

HE WAS PULLING ON A WRENCH TO TIGHTEN THE MOTOR ON THE SCREEN DECK AND PULLED HIS LOWER BACK, RUPTING TWO DISKS IN HIS BACK.

BUILDING WOODEN BRIDGE OVER SUMP, RIGHT HAND AND ARM HAS NUMBNESS DUE TO DRIVING NAILS.

WHILE HANDLING 6" STEEL I BEAMS THE END OF WHICH WERE SETTING ON A CRIB BLOCK, I BEAM SHIFTED AND FELL ON EMPS FOOT CAUSING BRUISING AND SPRAIN.

ALLEGED FLUID INGESTION.

EE WAS EXITING THE LOADER WHEN HIS LEG SLIPPED & CAUGHT ON RUNG ON LADDER.

A KETTLE BOTTOM FELL FROM THE TOP STRIKING EMP ON HEAD, RIGHT ARM AND RIGHT LEG RESULTING IN A FRACTURE TO ANKLE AND LEG.

EMP WAS COVERING A STOCK PILE WITH A TARP. HE TOSSED A CAR TIRE ON THE STOCK PILE TO HOLD DOWN THE TARP. PULLED A MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK. RECEIVED TREATMENT ON 5-16-97.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE OPENING TOOL CABINET HE TURNED AND HIT HIS FOOT ON CONDUIT, TWISITING KNEE. FIRST LOST TIME DAY WAS 8-15-97.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A WRENCH AND HE STUMBLED AND THE WRENCH STRUCK HIM IN THE FOREHEAD. THE LACERATION REQUIRED 14 STITCHES.

WHEN ATTEMPTING TO SET CULVERT WITH DOZER, EMPLOYEE STEPPED OVER CULVERT AND SLIPPED IN A HOLE UNDER THE DOZER. THE DOZER SETTLED IN SOFT DIRT AND PINCHED FOOT.

INJURED EE WAS TIGHTENING PULL DOWN CHAIN ON HIGHWALL DRILL. THE EE WAS USING A SOCKET AND BAR TO TIGHTEN NUT. HE WAS PUSHING FORWARD WITH THE WEIGHT OF HIS BODY ON THE BAR. EITHER THE BAR ON SOCKET, SLIPPED ALLOWING EE TO LUNGE FORWARD UNTIL HE STRUCK THE DRILL MAST WITH HIS HEAD, FACE, FIRST.

WAS PUTTING ROPE ON HEAD SO MINER OPERATOR COULDPUSH SLACK UP ON MINER CABLE. EE PUTHIS HAND OVER ON EDGE PAN OF MINER OPERATOR. RAISE PAD ON MINER & EE GO HAND BETWEEN PAN & STOP ON MINER HEA D.

EE WAS CHANGING OUT PUSHOUT JACK AT THE END OF TRACK AT SPAD 2549 WHEN HE LIFTED THE END OF IT & FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS WORKING IN THE #4 ENTRY AT THE FACE WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP STRIKING HIS LEFT LEG FRACTURING HIS FIBULA AND PULLING THE LIGAMENTS IN HIS LEFT ANKLE.

SOMETIME WHILE DOING PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE ON A CAT 793B OFF HIGHWAY TRUCK EE RECEIVED A PUNCTURE WOUND TO THE MIDDLE OF HIS RIGHT HAND. BY THE NEXT MORNING THE FINGER WAS RED AND SWOLLEN I NFECTED.

EMP WAS HAULING COAL IN A 21 SC FROM FACE TO FUMP. HIT HIS HEAD ON ROOF IN #2 ENTRY, 1 BREAK INBY DUMP.

EMP WAS CLEANING BELT WIPINGS UP ALONG #1 BELT JUST INBY DRIFT MOUTH. ATTEMPTED TO KNOCK SOME MUD FROM BOTTOM ROLLER AND SHOVEL WENT THROUGH IT WITH A STRONG JERK THROWING HIS BODY AGAINST STR UCTURE. REPORTED AS HAVING A FRACTURED ELBOW AND2 INJURED KNUCKLES ON HAND AND PULLED MUSCLES IN SHOULDER.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS AT PREP PLANT LOADOUT WHEN HE SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL STRIKING HIS ELBOW ON STEPS.

BENT OVER TO PICK PIECE OF IRON UP AND INJURED UPPER BACK BETWEEN SHOULDER BLADES.

EMPLOYEE WA STANDING ON A PILE OF STONES (WHICH HE HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED NOT TO DO) AND WAS CARRYING A STONE TO PUT IT INTO A CRATE AND FELT A PAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS BACK.

FELL ONTO A DIRT BANK WHEN TURNED A POWER SWITCHON. DIDN'T NOTICE ANY INJURIES. DIDN'T MISS ANY WORK AND DIDN'T REQUIRE MEDICAL ATTENTION. 5-9-97 - RIGHT ARM HURTING. WENT TO DR FOR PAIN AND W AS TOLD TO REST RIGHT ARM UNTIL 5-14. DR SAYS HURTING COULD BE FROM FALL IN DEC 1996.

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL AND HIT EE ONT HE LEFT SHOULDER, CAUSING A BRUISE.