Mining Incidents in June 1997

FOURTY FOUR YEAR OLD MALE MAINTENANCE SPECIALISTSUSTAINED FATAL INJURIES FROM AN APPARENT FALL IN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT TO THE TOP OF THE ELEVATOR. AN INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.

EMP WAS REPLACING REAR TIRE ON 988A CAT WHEEL LOADER. FENDER WAS HELD IN UPRIGHT POSITION WITH CAHIN COME A LONG. APPARENTLY CONE A LONG BROKE LETTING FENDER FALL AND FENDER STRIKING EMP ON TH E HEAD.

THEY WERE REPAIRING (PACKING) IN A LIFT CYLINDER JACK WHEN THE I-BEAM HOLDING THE BUCKET APPROX. 12' OFF OF THE GROUND SPLIT DOWN THE CENTER ALLOWING THE BOOM AND BUCKET TO FALL TRAPPING HIM. THIS RESULTED IN AN IMMEDIATE FATALITY.

EMP WAS USING A MULTIMETER TO CHECK A 480 VOLT BREAKER. A FLASH OCCURRED WHICH CAUSED 1ST, 2ND, AND 3RD DEGREE BURNS TO THE EMP. EMP EXPIRED 6-8-97 AT 1:10AM.

NO WITNESSES TO ACCIDENT. HAUL TRUCK DRIVER COMING FROM PIT NOTICED COWORKERS TRUCK BLOCKING ROADWAY. DRIVER APPROACHED VEHICLE AND OBSERVED EMPBREATHING BUT UNCONSCIOUS.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A BOULDER BRAKER AND THE BIT SLIPPED OFF A BOULDER JOLTING THE MACHINE, EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HIS ABDOMEN AND AGAIN LATER WHEN HE CLOSED THE CAB DOOR, THE PAIN CONTINUED TO GET WORSE DURING THE DAY.

EE STATES HE WAS WORKING INSIDE OF HOIST DRUM AND SLIPPED, CATCHING HIMSELF IN MIDFALL, CAUSING PAIN IN MUSCLES OF THE GROIN AREA.

WHILE LIFTING A CHAINHOIST (CHAINFALL) VERTICALLY WITH A ROPE, THE ROPE BEGAN TO SLIP. EMPLOYEE GRABBED THE ROPE AND THE SUDDEN DOWNWARD PULL/JERK CAUSED A SHARP BURNING PAIN IN THE GROIN AREA .

EE WAS INJURED ON 6/26/97 BUT DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT. ON 12/23/97 HE WAS SEEING THE DR FOR A NON-WORK RELATED PROBLEM & TOLD HIS DR HE HAS BEEN HAVING PAIN IN HIS LOWER ADBOMEN. THE DR THEN CHECKED THIS AREA & DIAGNOSED A SMALL R INGUINAL HERNIA CAUSED BY LIFTING AT WORK ON 6/26. EE PULLED A MUSCLE IN THE LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN BY PICKING UP A SHAFT OFF THE PIT HAUL ROAD.

EE WAS OPERATING A TROLLEY POWERED TRACK PERSONNEL CARRIER ON 8-5-97 SECTION TRACK WHEN BRAKES BECAME IN OPERATIVE CAUSING HIM TO RUN INTO A PARKED VEHICLE RESULTING IN AN IMBILICAL HERNIA TO HIS ABDOMEN WHICH WILL REQUIRE SURGICAL REPAIR.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CHANGE OUT (REPLACE). THE SLOPE BELT. WHILE HELPING LIFT A BELT BLOCK HE STRAINED HIS SIDE CAUSING A HERNIA HE DID NOT RECEIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT OR MISS DAYS WORK UNTIL 7 -11-97.

THE MAINTENANCE MEN WERE LIFTING A PIECE OF 12"X13' PIPE. WEIGHING ABOUT 800 LBS, WITH A ONE TON RATED HOIST. EE WAS CONTROLING THE HOIST. THE CHAIN BROKE ON THE HOIST CAUSING THE PIECE OF PIP E TO FALL APPROX 20 FT HITTING THE HAND RAIL 8 FT FROM THE FLOOR. EE WAS STARTING TO COME UP STAIRS. HE WAS ON THE FIRST AND SECOND STEP WHEN HE HEARD THE CHAIN BREAK. HE TURNED AND LEFT STAI

EMP LOST FOOTING IN A BALL MILL WHILE REPLACING LINERS. HE REACHED FOR THE BOOM ON LINER POSITIONING CRANE, CATCHING MIDDLE FINGER AND RING FINGER IN A PINCH POINT CAUSING A LACERATION ON ONE FINGER AND AN AVULSION ON OTHER.

EMP WAS TRIMMING SLATE, PUSHED SLATE TOO FAR FORWARD. PARTIALLY SEVERED MIDDLE FINGER, LEFT HANDAPPROX 1/2 - 3/4" DOWN BEFORE FIRST KNUCKLE.

ON 6-16-97 EMPLOYEE REPORTED THAT HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT INGUINAL REGION. EMPLOYEE PERFORMS LIGHT CLEANING DUTIES SUCH AS SWEEPING, SHOVELING AND PUSHING WHEELBARROWS. EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN OPE RATED ON FOR HENIA IN HIS LEFT INGUINAL REGION. NOTE:WE HAVE REQUESTED THE STATE INS. FUND CORP.INVESTIGATE THIS CASE TO DETERMINE IF THIS IS WORK RELATED OR NOT.

TAKING RIPPER OFF DOZER, PULLING PIN AND RIPPER ASSEMBLY FELL ONTO FINGER, SEVERING IT AT FIRST KNUCKLE OF MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND.

THE EE WAS LIFTING RUBBER CAP LINERS FROM A CART AND THROWING THEM INTO A SCRAP TRAY. AS HE LIFTED HE FELT A STRAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA. PAIN PERSISTED FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AND SUBSEQUENT EXAM REVE ALED A HERNIA. THEEVENT WAS REPORTED AS WORK RELATED ON 7-3-97.

THE CHAIN GUARD HAD BEEN REMOVED BY THE EMPLOYEE TO WORK LONGEST CHAIN, WAS NOT PUT BACK ON. HE HAD HAND ON CHAIN WHEN THE OPERATOR ENGAGED THE LEVER AND FINGER GOT CAUGHT ON THE CHAIN AND CRU SHED THE FINGER. THE RT INDEX FINGER HAD TO BE AMPUTATED AT THE FINGER TIP.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO DISASSEMBLE A 1-1/2" PIPE UNION, EE WAS TRYING TO BRACE THE END OF A PIPE WRENCH ON A PUMP BASE TO PREVENT IT FROM TURNING. AT THE SAME TIME A MECHANIC TURNED ON ANOTHER WR ENCH, FORCING EE'S RT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE WRENCH HANDLE AND THE PUMP BASE.

EE WAS HELPING TO HANG THE MIENR CABLE WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF A PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA.

EE FELL INTO, CONVEYOR BELT, THREW LEFT HAND UP TO CATCH HIMSELF AND CUTT OFF FINGER.

THE EE AND ANOTHER EE WERE LOADING A GAS POWERED COMPACTOR INTO A PICKUP. THE COMPACTOR WEIGHED APPROX. 100 LBS. THE EE FELT NOTHING AT THE TIME BUT WHILE TAKING A SHOWER AT HOME HE NOTICED A LUMP ON HIS STOMACH. A HERNIA WAS LATER DIAGNOSED BY THE EE DR.

THUMB BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN COAL ELEVATOR SECTION AND COME A LONG CHAIN.

HE WAS GREASING GEARS IN A 95 NW CRANE WHILE THE GEARS WERE TURNING. THE GEARS CAUGHT THE GREASE TUBE AND GLOVE AND PULLED HIS RIGHT ARM IN. TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES THERE TURNED OFF THE CRANE AND BLOCKED THE GEARS FROM FURTHER MOTION. ONE RADIOED FOR HELP AND APPLIED TOURNIQUET TO UPPER ARM. RIGHT ARM AND FOREARM WERE CRUSHED AND COULD NOT BE SAVED. AIR LIFTED TO RAMSEY MEDICAL CENTER

ON A SS HOSS BUGGY EE FINGER WAS PINCHED EITHER BY THE BUMPER OR SIDERAIL SCRAPPING THE BOTTOM WHILE HIS FINGER WAS UNDER IT OR BY SOME PINCH POINT ON THE BUGGY ITSELF

WHILE LOADING STOCK PILE TRUCK FROM BIN HE HUT HIS FINGER BETWEEN BIN AND I BEAM.

CONDITIONS NOT RELATED. TRUCK DRIVER TRIPPED TAILGATE LEVER AND LEVER HIT WRIST AND BROKE IT.

EE WAS STANDING BY CONTIN MINER WHEN ROOF BOLTERTRAMMED AGAINST HIM PUSHING EE AGAINST MINER HEAD.

HURT LEFT SHOULDER STACKING 100 LB BAGS.

EE WAS USING A HAMMER TO BREAK A ROCK WEDGED BETWEEN THE MATERIAL BELT AND THE TAIL PULLEY. THE BELT CAUGHT THE HAMMER AND PULLED THE HAND AND HAMMER UNDER THE PULLEY CAUSING A FRACTURE AND LA CERATION TO THE RT THUMB.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTIN GOUT OF VAN AT DRAGLINE TO GO TO WORK. HE STEPPED ON A ROCK WITH HIS RIGHT FOOT AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE. STRAINING IT. HIS FIRST DAY AWAY FROM WORK WAS 7-1-97.

EE WELDING HILE STANDING ON A LADDER, FOOT SLIPPED AND EE FELL APROX 12'. EE RECD STITCHES TO R ELBOW EE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 7/14/97/

EE WAS HANGING A CURTAIN IN THE 5 HEAD. AS HE WAS WALKING BACK OUT OF THE HEADING A ROCK 3'X3'X8" FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS HITTING HIM ON THE LEFT SHOULDER AND UPPER BACK.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING LOADER WHEN THE LADDER SUPPORT FAILED. THE EE LOST BALANCE AND SLIPPED APPROX. 18' LANDING WITH HIS WEIGHT CONCENTRATION ONHIS RIGHT LEG.

CLIMB LADDER TO CHECK JAW LADDER SID AND MAN FELL.

SETTING SPADS:EE SAID BACK WAS NOT HURTING WHEN HE WENT TO WORK. STARTED DURING THE DAY. HE WODKED ALL DAY AND THE NEXT TWO DAYS. WNE TO ER ON 7-4-97, THEN BACK ON THE 7TH. WAS ADMITTED TO HO SPITAL WITH BACK SPASMS.

OPERATOR WAS PERFORMING CLEAN UP DUTIES IN THE MAINTENANCE SHOP. WHILE PLACING TRASH IN THE BUCKET OF A END LOADER HE STEPPED BACKWARD AND FELL ON AN OIL DRAIN BUCKET APPROX. 14" IN HEIGHT AND 22" IN DIAMETER.

SLIPPED AND FELL ON A PIECE OF STEEL WHILE GETTING INTO CRUSHER HOPPER.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMED TO HAVE INJURED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE CLIMBING OUT OF A PRODUCT BIN ACCESSING A SIDE PORT HATCH.

EE WAS HELPING OTHER COWORKERS BRING OUT A PUMP FROM 23 MAINS. WHEN THEY GOT THE PUMP OUT TO THE TRACK HE FELT PAIN IN LEFT HIP AREA. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS OVEREXERTION DUE TO DRAGGING A PU MP A LONG DISTANCE. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR. MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP. WAS NOT WORN. MINE EQUIP. OK.

EMP PICKED UP SOME STONE. THE STONE WAS TOO HEAVY CAUSING A BACK STRAIN. HE WAS OFF OF WORK FROM 7-1 TO 7-5 AND IS RECEIVING TREATMENT.

C-6 SECTION - INJURED WAS LAYING OF THE FLOOD REMOVING A DRAIN PLUG. HIS RIGHT ARM WAS RESTING ON A CRIB BLOCK. THE RIB EXPOLDED OUT FORM ABOUT 5' AWAY. HIS ARM WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE COAL & T HE CRIB BLOCK. THE INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A TORN MEDIAL TRICED ON 7-17-97. HE BEGAN MISSING ON 7-18-97.

EE WAS CARRYING A BUCKET OF STEEL. HE TWISTED IN A MANNER THAT CAUSED STRAIN IN BACK MUSCLE.

HE INDICATES THAT HE HURT HIMSELF WHEN HE BENT DOWN TO CLEAN THE CONVEYOR ON PRIMARY #3, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE HAD COMPLAINED OFF STIFF NECK AND BACK PAIN IN PAST. EMPLOYEE WENT TO PERSONAL PHYSICIAN ON 6-30-97 AND WAS ADVISED THAT HE HAD A HERNIATED DISC.

ON 6-30-97 THE MAN WAS PULLING ON A CABLE REEL AND FELT PAIN. ON 8-20-97 HE UNDERWENT SURGERY FOR A HERNIA. BECAME AWARE OF THE CASE ON 12-30-97.

PULLING ON CABLE-PAIN IN LEFT SIDE

PUTTING EMPTY BAG ON SPOUT BAG FELL OFF. SAND CAME OUT OF SPOUT AND NURNED LEFT HAND.

PULLING ON A PIECE OF PIPE AND STRAINED STOMACH MUSCLE.

PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT LEG.

TRUCK DRIVER NOTICED THAT AGG. BIN WAS CLOGGED. EE ENTERED BIN AND FELL INTO MATERIAL. SUFFERED MINOR ABRSIONS--UNKNOWN INTERNAL.

INJURED WAS USING SLEDGE HAMMER ON RECLAIM HOPPER, AND SMAHSED END OF LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN ANGLE IRON ON FRAME OF HOPPER AND HAMMR HANDLE.

EE WAS ON LADDER. LADDER WAS NOT ON STABLE GROUND. ONE LEG OF LADDER SANK INTO GROUND. EE FELL FROM LADDER.

WHILE STANDING UNDER BALL MILL, LOOSE BALL WAS DROPPED BROM APPROX 30' STRIKING EMP ON RT SHOULDER. REQUESTED MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 6-30-97. INITIAL DIAGNOSIS WAS SPRAIN. WAS RELEASED FROM DR. EMP CONT. TO WORK BUT REQUESTED A SPECIALIST ON 8-21-97. EMP WSA ADVISED TO HAVE SURGERY FOR TORN ROTATOR CUFF.

EE ALLEGES HE STRAINED HIS BACK SHOVELING THE #16 HEAD DRIVE.

EE WAS STANDING ON 16-B BELT CAPPING A POST WHEN THE BELT WAS STARTED HE JUMPED FROM A MOVING BELT AND HIT HIS LEG ONTO A PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING VALVES 2" ON HEAP LEACH PAD AND TWISTED KNEE WHILE STANDING UP. INITIAL DIAGNOSIS WAS KNEE STRAIN, DID NOT HEAL, LATER SURGERY.

EMPLOYEE HAD PREVIOUSLY ASISTED IN THE REMOVAL OF A CRUSHER BRAKER BAR THOUGH AN OPENING IN THE PRIMARY CRUSHER UPPER PLATFORM (3'X6'). EMPLOYEE PROCEEDED ON ANTOHER TASK WHICH INVOLVED DELIV ERING WEAR PLATES THROUGH THE PRIMARY CRUSHER THROAT. THE EMPLOYEE LEFT THIS POSITION AND PROCEEDED TO THE AFOREMENTIONED PLATFORM AND STEPPED THROUGH THE OPENING, FALLING APPROX 21'6" TO A L

EE WAS USING HIS POCKET KNIFE TO REMOVE INSULATION FROM ELECTRICAL WIRE & HIS KNIFE SLIPPED, LACERATINGT HIS RIGHT FOREARM.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMED TO HAVE STRAINED HIS BACK AS HE WAS LIFTING A BELT ROLLER FROM THE SUPPLY DECK OF A TROLLEY TYPE PERSONNEL CARRIER.

EE NOTIFIED CO OFFICAL ON 7-14-97 THAT HE HAD HURT HIS BACK AND WENT TO DR BUT NO MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS ADM. EE WENT BACK TO DR ON 8-1-97 AND DR TOLD HIM NOT TO WORK TIL FURTHER NOTICE. SAT 8- 2-97 WAS THE FIRST DAY OF WORK MISSED DUE TO INJURY THE DATE OF 8-1-97 WILL START THE 10 DAYS.

EE STATED HE WAS LOADING ROOF BOLTING MACHINE BENDING OVER TO GET BOLTS A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS STRIKING MAN ON BACKOF NECK, HEAD & SHOULDERS

EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY HANDLE OF 2 WHEEL CART(HAND) IN STOMACH AREA. WENT TO DR. 6-30-97, RELEASED TO RETURN TO WORK.

WHILE REPAIRING AXLW ON LOCOMOTIVE, BLOCK WAS PUSHED BACK & HIT HIM ON LITTLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND.

EE WAS ON HIS KNEES JACKING A MOTOR ON A TRUCK. WHEN HE STARTED TO GET UP OFF HIS KNEES HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RT KNEE. EE DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 7-15-97.

LARGE ROCK BECAME STUCK IN PULLY OF CONVEYOR. CRUSHER OPERATOR STRUCK ROCK WITH SLEDGEHAMMER TRYING TO DISLODGE IT. A PIECE OF ROCK BROKE OFF STRIKING HIM IN THE MOUTH.

EE HAD COMPLETED HIS WORK AND STARTED TO HIS CAR WHEN HE SLIPPED OFF THE TOP STEP TO FLOOR, LANDING ON THE SIDE OF HIS FOOT.

EE AND OTHER WERE ROOF BOLTING THE WORKING PLACE IN 1 ENTRY. THE ROOF HAD BEEN CUT HIGHER NEAR THE MIDPOINT OF THE PLACE. TO CHASE A COAL RIDER SLIP IN THE MINE ROOF. BOTH FELLOWS WERE INSTALL ING 6' LONG PINS ON A ROW SPACING OF 3'. HE WAS BOLTING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BOLTER AND HAD JUST FINISHED DRILLING THE HOLE FOR THE MIDDLE BOLT OF THE 5TH ROOF. AS HE WAS INSTALLING THE G

I WAS DOING TO 8% GRADE I WAS HEADING INTO SOME SHARP SWITCHBACKS AND DECIDE TO APPLY MY BRAKES AND SLOW DOWN BIT. BRAKE NO RESPONSE. PUMPING BRAKE. JAMMED GEARSHIFT FROM 3RD TO 2ND. JUMPED A ND LANDED ON MY RIGHT FOOT AND ROLLED ONTO MY RIGHT SIDE. I SKIDDED DOWN THE ROAD ON MY RIGHT SIDE FOR ABOUT 100 FT. CONTUSION ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD AND SCRAPES AND CUT DOWN RIGHT SHOULDER

EE STEPPED OFF D9L DOZER PUSH ARM ONTO ROCK AND APPARENTLY ROCK TURNED IN LOOSE DIRT, TWISTING EE'S LEFT KNEE. RE 0CCURENCE 7-28-97.

DISLOCATED RIGHT SHOUDLER WORKING ON PRODUCTION LINE BAGGING VOLCNIC ROCK NEAR 1.0 BAGGER WHILE SEALING BAGS SENDING THROUGH SEALER. EE FLET PAIN WHENHE WAS SEALING. HE TRIED TO SET HIS SHOU LDER BY HITTING HIS SHOULDER ON A SUPPORT POLE BY 1.0 BAGGER. EE HAS HAD PROBLEMS WITH HIS SHOULDERS SINCE BIRTH. HE SAID IT DISLOCATES FROM 20-30 TIMES A YEAR.

EE ALLEGES WHILE HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF TAKING 2 BANK AND 2 CLEAR TANK TURBIDITY OFF CAUSTIC, THE MUD TANK BEGAN TO RUN OVER. IN AN ATTEMPT TO AVOID MUD TANK RUNOVER, THE EE STEPPED HEAVILY INTO LIQUOR ON THE PAD. THIS RESULTED IN LIQUOR SPALSHING ON HIS LEGS AND DOWN HIS BOOT 2ND/3RD DEGREE BURNS TO LEFT FOOT. IT WAS FOUND THAT THE MUD TANK RUN OVER.

THE INJURED EE WAS STEPPING OFF A RUBBER TIRE DOZER WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS REMOVING A TRACK FRAM FROM D9N DOZER WHILE THE WA700 LOADER WAS HOISTING THE FRAME. EE WAS REMOVING THE PIN FROM THE STABLIZER BAR AND WHEN THE PIN CAME LOOSE THE TRACK FRAME SHIFTED, T RAPPING HIS FINGERS BETWEEN THE SLATE BAR & FRAME. AN EE WORKING NEARBYBROUGHT HIM A TORCH TO CUT THE BAR SO HE COULD FREE HIS HAND

HE WAS CLEANING THE ROCK BINS, HE WENT TO SHUT THE DOOR IT BOUNCED OVER AND CAUGHT HIS RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE IRON POST ON THE BIN, FRACTURING IT.

SEAT IN LOADER WAS LOOSE AND MOVING FORWARD AND BACK.

EE REPORTED THAT WHILE PULLING TARP OVER BERM STEPPED IN HOLE AND TWISTED RT. FOOT.

EE ALLEDGES THAT WHILE LIFTING PLATES WHEN RE-BUILDING BOTTOM OF HOPPER, HE FELT A PULL IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON BUGGY FLIGHTS WHEN BUGGY ROLLED OFF BLOCKS AND TRAPPED THE EMPLOYEE UNDERNEATH THE BUGGY BREAKING THE EMPLOYEES PELVIS IN FOUR PLACES, BONE FRAGMENTS IN BACK, AND ALSO BUSTED TUBE TO KIDNEY.

WHILE THROWING CRIB BLOCKS THRU MANDOOR, EE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

HE WAS OEPRATING A ROOF BOLTER, WHILE DRILLING A HOLE HIS FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTER HEAD ADN ARMS GOING TO THE HEAD.

YEMPLOYEE REPORTEDLY HAD HIS HAND SLIP OFF WRENCH WHILE TORQUEING TRACK BOLTS AND STRUCK TRACK TIE.

EMPLOYEE IS STATING THAT HE WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM A PUMP INSIDE TH TIPPLE. WHILE PULLING ON A BOX WRENCH THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF THE BOLT. EMPLLOYEE IS STATING THAT HE SIMPLY BUMPED THEBAC K OF HIS ELBOW AGAINST SOMETHING, CAUSING NO ABRASIONS. H CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 7-11-97 WHEN DUE TO BURSITIS HE WAS ADVISED BY THE DR TO REMAIN OFF WORK.

STEPPED OFF A TRAILER & HEARD HIS KNEE POP. WAS ON UNEVEN GROUND. CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 2/11/98 AT WHICH TIME HE HAD HIS KNEE SCOPPED. DID NOT BECOME LOST TIME & REPORTED UNTIL 2/11/98.

CHANGING HOIST CYLINDER ON 785 ROCK TRUCK. USING HOIST TO LIFT CYLINDER, CABLE BROKE CAUSING CYLINDER TO FALL ON RIGHT LEG, BREAKING BONES. BONES WERE BROKEN THROUGH THE SKIN.

CARRYING TRANSMISSION TRIPPED AND DROPPED ON FOOT.

TORCHING CORNER GOSSETS FROM BOTTOM OF DOZER BLADE. WHEN CUTTING WAS COMPLETED, GUUSSET FELL STRIKING LEFT LEG CUTTING INSIDE CALF AREA.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS HRLPING TO CARRY A DRILL BIT BASKET WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAI8N IN HIS LOWER BACK.

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EE WAS TIGHTENING CABLES ON A BARGE AND AS HE WAS PULLING A CABLE TO TIGHTEN, WITH A RATCHET, HE FELT A PULL IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS DRIVING WATERTRUCK TO FILLUP BIG DRILL WHILE ON THE QUARRY ROAD HE NOTICED HE DID NOT HAVE ON HIS SEAT BELT, HE REACHED OVER TO BUCKLE HIS SEAT BELT, RAN OF THE EMBANKMENT AND OVERTUR END THE TRUCK.

DRILLER WAS ATTACHING DRILL STEEL TO DRILL ON A HILLSIDE AND STEPPED BACKWARDS AND LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL ON HIS BACK.

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE PULLING A TIMBER FROM A THREE WHEELER, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS ARM.

DROPPED DRILL POT OF ROOF BOLTER ON LEFT KNEE WHILE PUTTING A CORNER BOLT UP AT THE MOUTH OF #10 HEADING.

BENT OVER TO PICK UP ROCK. FELT HOT STREAK RUN UP HIS BACK. DID NOT BOTHER HIM ON DAY IT HAPPENED BUT FELT BAD NEXT DAY.

EE STATED HE FELT PAIN IN RT. SHOULDER--AFTER HANDLING VENTILATION TUBING.

WHILE DRIVING A TRUCK ON THE PROPERTY, THE TRUCK HIT SEVERAL BUMPS IN THE ROAD JOLTING THE EE, CAUSING PAIN TO HIS POSTERIOR REGION. EXAMINATION BY MEDICAL DR. DETERMINED A DOUBLE HERNIA, REQU IRING SURGERY.

WHILE MOVING MINER, EE BENT OVER TO MOVE MINER CABLE AND A PIECE OF DRAW SLATE SLID OFF THE MINER HITTING THE EE ON THE TOP OF THE RIGHT FOOT CAUSING FRACTURE OF RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING UP 3 HOIST FOR USE IN MINE EVACUATION SLIPPED AND FELL INTO NT. SKIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING 3 OTHER PEOPLE TO SLIDE A PUMP ONTO A CART WHEN THE PUMP SLIDE SIDEWAYS ON THE CART AND THE DOLLY STARTED TO ROLL. EMPLOYEE HAD TO STOP IT TO KEEP IT FROM FALLING ON HI S LEGS. HE INJURED HIS BACK.

EE WAS CHISELING A STONE WITH A HAMMER & A CHISEL. A STONE CHIP FLEW UP & BECAME IMBEDDED IN HISRIGHT EYE.

EE WAS TRYING TO GET A COUPLING OFF A STEEL DRILL ROD WITH A HAMMER. A PIECE OF THE HAMMER BROKE OFF AND HIT HIM IN THE CHEST.

STRUCK ON BACK OF HAND WITH PIECE OF ROOF ROCK WHILE RESTING HAND ON BOLTER HEAD WHILE REMOVING SUCTION HOSE.

EE WAS OPERATING CONTINOUS MINER CUTTING 3RD CROSSCUT. A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK 80"X20"X1.5" STRIKING DENIS' LEFT LEG. THE RESULT A FRACTURE TO THE TIBIA AND FIBULA.

WHILE WALKING ON BULLDOZER TRACK PADS TO FUEL UP THE DOZER FUEL TANK, EE SLIPPED OFF THE GROUSER TRACK PADS AND FELL APPROX 4 FT TO THE GROUND. HE INJURED HIS LEFT KNEE AREA. A SUSPECTED BONE CHIP WAS THE RESULT OF THE FALL.

OPERATOR HAD JUST SET MINER OVER ON LEFT SIDE TOCLEAN WHEN LOWERED CUTTING HEAD, THE BITS PICKEDUP A PIECE OF ROCK FROM RIGHT END OF DRUM AND FLIPPED BACK ALONG SIDE OF MINER LANDING ON TOP OF EE'S RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING ON CATWALK AT BELT BELT TAKE UP WHEN HE STEPPED ON STEEL GRATING ON STEEL CAUSING HIM TO FALL TWISTING HIS FOOT AND ANKLE.

HE WAS CLIMBING INTO THE FRONT END LOADER TO BEGIN HIS WORKDAY WHEN WASPS CAME OUT FROM UNDER THE SEAT OF THE LOADER AND SWARMED AT HIM. HE TRIED TO WAVE THE WASPS OFF OF HIM AND FELL BACKWARD S OVER A LEVEE AND BROKE HIS WRIST UPON HIS FALL

HE STEPPED ON A BELT ROLLER THAT WAS LAYING ON THE BOTTOM OF THE MINE FLOOR AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE HAD JUST GOTTEN OFF HIS HAUL TRUCK AND WAS WALKING ACROSS THE STOPE. THE GROUND WAS CLEAR EXPECT FOR ONE ROOF MAT, WHICH HE TRIPPED ON. ASHE CAUGHT HIMSELF, HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE SEVERLY

OPERATOR WAS BOARDING TD7 FOOT SLIPPED AND LEG STRUCK DOZER FRAME.

INJURED WAS SHOVELING BELT LINE WHEN HE SLIPOPED AND FELL BACKWARDS. HE HIT HIS SHOULDER ON A FIRE HOSE OUTLET ON THE WATER \LINE. HE FRACTURED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS BETWEEN SHEAR AND FACE PULLING HUBCAP OFF H/G DRUM WHEN THE FACE ROLLED OUT. A PIECE OF COAL APPROX. 4'X2'X1' PINNED EE TO THE BOTTOM, FRACTURING LEFT LEG AND DISPLACING BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON LAUNCH VEHICLE AS ADDCARS WERE BEING PULLED OUT OF THE HOLE. HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND A TIRE WENT OVER HIS TOES.

WHILE STEPPING OFF PLATFORM ON SERVICE TRUCK, HE SLIPPED ON GREASE AND BRUISED LOWER LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING TIMBER, CHAINSAW KICKED BACK CUTTING EMPLOYEE BELOW RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS INSTALLING HANDRAILS AT TH ELIPPMAN CRUSH RWHEN HE FLET A FOREIN BODY IN HIS RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS CITTING BOLTS USING A TORCH WHEN A PIECE OF HOT METAL WENT INTO HIS LEFT EYE AROUND THE SAFETY GLASSES.

MKAING REPAIRS ON CONVEYOR BELT- SLIPPED AND SCRAPED RIGHT SHIN ON JAGGED STEEL STRUCTURE.

THE EE WAS ASSISTING TWO OTHER EE S IN SETTING CROSS BRACES TO BE WELDED FOR SAND CHUTES, WHEN A SUPPORT WHICH THE LADDER WAS LEANING AGAISNT TOPPLED CAUSING THE LADDER AND EE TO FALL FROM HEI GHT OF ABOUT 12 FEET. THE EE S RIGHT HEEL LANDEDON THE LADDER WHEN HE FELL.

STEP ON DUMP TRUCK BROKE AS EE WAS GETTING ON TRUCK. SLIPPED AND STRUCK BODY SIDE AGAINST TRUCK BUMPER ON LEFT SIDE.

CHANGING SCREENS ON SHAKER LEAN OVER HAND RAIL, AND RAIL BROKE AND HE FELL APPROX. 12' HE CRACKED ON RIB ON HIS RIGHT SIDE.

EE STATES THAT AS HE WAS GETTING OFF A TROLLEY STYLE MANTRIP HIS SHOULDERS CONTACTED THE ENERGIZED TROLLEY WIRE LOCATE AT THE SWITCH FOR THE COOK MTN. SPUT AND EAGLE 1 TRACK. THE EE WAS WEARIN G RUBBER BOOTS, THE MINE FLOOR WAS DRY, AND THE WIRE WAS PROPERLY GUARDED.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP TRACK, SLIPPED IN GOB OF GREASE ADN TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE STATED WHILE WALKING ACROSS THE SECTION HE STEPPED IN A HOLE TWISTING HISKNEE REQUIRING SURGERY.

EMP WAS PUTTING UP A VENT CURTAIN WITH A SPAD GUN. RIB CAME DOWN ONTO THE CURTAIN PUSHING THE SPAD INTO HIS FINGER AND PUSHING HIM ONTO THE MINER.

EE WAS LIFTING A CABLE AND SLIPPED ON WET UNEVEN BOTTOMS. WHEN HE FELL THE SELF RESCUER JAMMER INTO HIS LEFT SIDE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS AND WET BOTTOM CONDITIONS. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR. PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT OK, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTMES NOT A FACTOR.

PINNING TOP A PIECE OF ROCK FELL CATCHING RIGHT LOWER LEG.

EE CAUGHT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE ROOFAND THE PLATE WHILE ROOF BOLTING

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING MAKE A BELT MOVE! HE WAS USING A SLATE BAR TO UNROLL A ROL OF BELT WHEN THE SLATE BAR SLIPPED, SMASHING HIS FINGER ON THE METAL PIECE.

EE WAS MOVING MATERIAL WHEN HE EXPERIENCE PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. *EE STARTED MISSING WORK DUE TO THIS INCIDENT ON 3/16/98.

EE WAS TRAMMING A 3 WHEELER FROM END OF TRACK TO THE SECTION WHEN THE STEERING WHEEL SPUN AROUND AND STRUCK EE'S RT ARM, CAUSING A BRUISE.

EE WAS CARRING A STOPPING JACK. TRIPPED OVER A PIECE OF BELT AND FELL. JACK HIT HIM ON BACK AND SHOULDER MINE EDLE FOR VACATION FROM 6-28-97 TO 7-13-97. EE BEGAN MISSINE 6-28-97 OPERATOR RECEI VED MEDCIAL INFORMATION ON 7-16-97.

EE TOOK SCOOP TO SECTION FROM OUTSIDE WHEN HE GOT TO SECTION HE SAID HIS NECK WAS HURTING HIM. I ASKED HIM IF HE HIT HIS HEAD ANDHE SAID NO.

EE WAS JACK HAMMERING UNDER #1 CLINKER TUNNEL BELT WITH A CREW OF 4 MEN ON 6/24/97. THE AREA IN WHICH HE WAS JACKHAMMERING IS A SMALL & TIGHT AREA, WHICH EE HAD TO LIFT THE HAMMER AT A DIFFI CULT ANGLE TO REACH. EE FELT PAINFUL CRAMPS IN LOWER LEFT SIDE OF CHEST. THIS PAIN CONT BUT EE DID NOT SEEK MED ATTENTION UNTIL 7/11/97. SYMPTONS RESULTED FROM A PULLED/STRAINED MUSCLE BEHIND

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON EMPLOYEE'S LEFT SHOULDER AND NECK WHILE TRAVELING ON A BUGGY.

THE EE WAS REENTERING THE MINE AND A PIECE OF SLATE FELL STRIKING THE EE ON THE LEFT HAND CAUSING LACERATION.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING DOZER, PUSHING ROCK IN PREVIOUSLY SHOT MATERIAL,TRYING TO CORNER SOME BIG ROCKS OUT OF THE WAY. GOT A LARGE ROCK CAUGHT UNDER THE BLADE-RAISED THE BACK OF THE DOZER-ROCK SLIPPED-REAR OF DOZER ELL BACK TO ROUND-JOLTING HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS DRIVING HAULER TO REFUSE AREA, WHEN HE LOST CONTROL GOING DOWN HILL. HE RAN TRUCK INTO BURM AND TRUCK OVER TURNED.

ON 014-0 SECTION THE EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A BAG OR ROCK DUST ACROSS THE MINE TRACK, HE TRIPPED OVER A RAIL AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE AT THE SUPPLY HOLE. EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN SENT TO THE SUPPLY H OLE TO LOAD ROCK DUST AND OTHER SUPPLIES.

RAISING LADDER. LADDER SLIPPED OUTOF HIS HAND AND PINCHED HIS FINGER.

1W#3 BELT, EE PULLING A CABLE DOWN ON BELT WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK. STRAIN TO LOWER BACK. EE DID NOT STATE LOSING TIME UNTIL 7/14/97.

WHILE WALKING IN THE SHOP READY LINE AREA, THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A SMALL ROCK. THE EMPLOYEE'S FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELT A "POP" IN HIS LEFT KNEE.

WHILE HOOKING A CHAIN TO BACKHOE BUCKET FROM CONVEYOR, THE CONVEYOR MOVE AND HIT HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL IN THE BUCKET. HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

HAULING ROCK.

DRILLING HOLES IN THE CRANE FOR SOUND BUFFER. PICKED UP DRILL-MY FINGER ON TRIGGER-CORD GOT STUCK ON TRACK. LEFT FINGER HIT THE TRIGGER-DRILL DRILLED INTO RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

SHOT LEFT INDEX FINGER WITH AIR NAIL GUN.

AS EE WAS FINISHED WITH HIS SHIFT, HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM THE LOADER AND MISSED THE LAST STEP OF THE LADDER. HE FELL AGAINST THE LAST RUN WITH ALL HIS WEIGHT ON HIS LEFT KNEE. EE ALSO SUFFE RED A SMALL CUT ON THE UNDERSIDE OF LEFT FOREARMWHICH REQUIRED NO STITCHES.

WHILE GOING TO CLIMB INTO A CASE CHILOADER, EE FELL AND BUMPED HIS RIGHT LEG, HE DID NOT TELL US OF THE ACCIDENT AT THE TIME BECAUSE HE SAID HE DID NOT THINK IT WAS A BIG DEAL.

EE WAS REPAIRING A HOLE IN A BULK BAG. AS HE STEPPED OFF THE BAG HIS FOOT BECAME. TANGLED IN A STRAP CAUSING HIM TO LOOSE HIS BALANCE. HE FELL AGAINST THE SACK, INJURING HIS LEFT CHEST AREA.

EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO INSTALL SPILE PLATES ON #4 PANFEDDER SO THAT IT MAY BE WORKED ON WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN HIS GROIN AREA. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE CLINIC AND DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIA. HE RETURNE D TO WORK ON A LIGHT DUTY RELEASE UNTIL FRIDAY, JUNE 27 WHEN HE WENT IN FOR SURGERY.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS TO PORTAL (USING THE HANDRAIL) WHEN HE "SHORT STEPPED A STEP", AND FELL AND HIT HIS KNEE ON THE LANDING.

EE WAS LIFTING & FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE STATED HE WAS WORKING WITH A CO WORKER TO REMOVE A BELT ROLLER, HE WAS HOLDING ONE END OF THE ROLLER WHEN THE CO WORKER DROPPED HIS END AND MASHED HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE COMPLAINING ABOUT STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING A PORTAL BUS ON THE MAIN LINE HAULAGE WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO STOP WHEN THE WHEELS SLIPPED ON THE WET RAILS CAUSING THE PORTAL BUS TO COLLIDE WITH THE STOPPE D LOCOMOTIVE.

EE SUSTAINED AN INJURY TO HIS RIGHT HAND WHEN IT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN A CRIB BLOCK AND A BATTERY OPERATED MANTRIP THAT HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REPAIRING.

EE WAS SCOOPING IN #2 ENTRY WHEN HE GOT HIS HEAD CAUGHT BETWEEN BACK OF SCOOP AND TOP.

EE WAS PULLING UP PINNER CABLE AND STRAINED BACK AND PULLED MUSCLE IN GROIN.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE CLIMBING FROM A CELL, HE BUMPED HIS LEG ON SCRAP HAULAGE UNIT.

DUST FROM BAG SPRAYED INTO RIGHT EYE.

WAS DRIVING SMALL DUMP TRUCK HAULING FROM CRUSHER TO STOCKPILES. GOT OUT OF VEHICLE BECAUSE FELT HOT, ILL AND PASSED OUT. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WHERE BLOOD TESTS INDICATED CARBON MONOXIDE POISONIN G. DOCTORS FELT THAT EXTREME HIGH AIR TEMPERATURE, HIGH HUMIDITY AND CALM WINDS CONTRIBUTED TO BUILD-UP IN CAB OF TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR, HIT A HOLE AND HIT HIS HEAD ON THE CANOPY. HE FINISHED RUNNING THE CAR FOR THE REST OF THIS SHIFT. HE CALLED IN THE NEXT DAY TO SAY HE WAS GOING TO THE DO CTOR.

WHILE LIFTING DUST HOSE EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

SMASHED RIGHT THUMB WHILE REAARANGING PIPE ON A TRUCK. PIPE SLIPPED AND FELL, SMASHIHNG THUMB BETWEEN PIPE AND TRUCK BED.

EE ALLEGES HE WAS DRIVING A 550 DRESSER FRONT END LOADER FROM STOCKPILE TO LOAD CUSTOMER TRUCKS, AT THE END OF THE DAY HE STARTED FEELING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS LOADING A PIECE OF METAL IN A END LOADER BUCKET. EE MADE A TWISTING MOTION WHICH RESULTED IN A PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS CHANGING BRAKE PADS ON A PRODUCTION TRUCK. WHILE HE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO COMPRESS THE BRAKE PISTON, HE FELT A TWINGE IN HIS BACK. HE RECENTLY BEGAN PHYSICAL THERAPY - MEDICAL TREATEME NT.

EMPLOYEE TOLD SUPERVISOR THAT HIS BACK WAS STILL HURTING FROM A 12-11-95 FALL.

WHILE RIDING MANTRIO INTO MINES, FOOT CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO MANTRIPS INJURING RIGHT FOOT.

WHILE PICKING UP SAMPLE PAILS, HE PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK.

MUDDY AND SLICK FROM RAIN.

EE WAS TRYING TO PICK UP A 130 HAMMER WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE STATED HE WAS WORKING AT 1 RIVER SIDE FEEDER WHEN HE RAISED UP AND HIT HIS HEAD. HE FELT NUMBNESS IN JAW AND HIS NECK WAS SORE. HE SAID HE WAS WEARING A HARD HAT.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A BEARING ON A EUCLID USING A HAMMER TO MOVE THE BEARING INTO PLACE WHEN HE HIT HIS RIGHT HAND WITH THE HAMMER.

EMLOYEE STRAINED HER RIGHT TRICEP TENDON. DURING NORMAL QUARRY TRUCK DRIVING AS SHE WAS OUT OF SHAPE AND UNACUSTOMED TO USING THIS MUSCLE.

HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SET A MOTOR ON THE SCREEN SECTION OF OUR CLOSED CIRCUIT PLANT INTO ITS OPERATING POSITION WHEN THE CHAIN CAME OFF CAUSING THE MOTOR TO SWING DOWN AND HIT HIS 3RD AND 4TH F INGERS ON HIS RIGHT HAND AGAINST THE MOTOR SUPPORT. BONES WERE BROKEN IN BOTH FINGERS.

EE WAS STANDING ON ROOF BOLTER TO INSTALL A METHANE PROBE FOR CONTINUE READING OF METHANE GAS IN HIGH ROOF CAVITY WHEN HE SLIPPED, INJURING HIS LEFT LEG. NOTE: EE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 9-24- 97, WHEN HE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME AWAY FROM WORK.

THE INJURED WAS WORKING ON THE BELT LINE WHEN THE RIB ROLLED AND COAL STRUCK HIS RIGHT KNEE BRUISING THE KNEE AND STRAINING MUSCLES IN THE KNEE.

EE WAS OPERATING A DOZER IN SHOT ROCK. HE ALLEGES HIS BACK STARTED TO HURT WHEN HE BACKED THE DOZER OVER A ROCK AND WAS SHAKEN. IT WAS NOT KNOW EE HAD SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF VACAT ION SCHEDULING.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING LADDER ON HIS FRONTEND LOADER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED FROM THE LADDER CAUSING HIM TO HANG FROM THE LADDER BY HIS RIGHT ARM.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING ROOF WHEN THE DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF HOLE AND HIT RIGHT FOOT CONTUSIONG IT.

EMPLOYEE CUT RIGH THUMB BEHIND FIRST KNUCKLE, 6-23-97 WHILE CUTTING CEILIGN TILE WITH BASE OF EMTAL ANGLE. LOCATION WHERE INJURY OCCURED, M&E BUILDING SHOWER HOUSE, NORTH ANTELOPE COAL. INJU RY APPEARED TO BE MINOR. EMPLOYEE RECEIVE DMINOR SURGURY FROM ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON AT GILLETTE CLINIC.

WHILE BUILDING A OVERCAST, UUSING SOLD CONCRETE BLOCK. THE EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BLOCK OVERHEAD WHEN HIS NECK AND SHOULDER STARTED HURTING. THE EMPLOYEE WENT TO A DR BUT DID NOT RECEIVE MEDIC AL TREATMENT OR MISS DAYS WORK UNTIL 7-9-97.

THE INJURED EE WAS WORKING WITH 2 OTHER MINERS IN AN ATTEMPT TO LAY. THE 6" FRESH WATERLINE UNDERGROUND. AS THEY WERE PERFORMING THEIR JOB A PIECE OF ROCK MEASURING APPROX. 30"LONG X 18" WIDE X 6" THICK ROLLED OF THE RIB STRIKING THE EE ON THE FINGER TIPS.

LOADING THE LINE WITH ROCK IN CUTTING BARN.

EE WAS WALKING OVER OVERCAST ON 3RD MAIN NORTH BELT AT HEAD AREA. AS HE STEPPED OFF STEPS OF OVERCAST, HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE STATED HE GOT SHOCKED WHEN HE REMOVED THETROLLEY POLE FROM THE TROLLEY WIRE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WORKING ON THE BRAKES ON THE MCMCO MAN BUS AND AS HE WAS DISMOUNTING THE MAN BUS HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE. *NOTE EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 11-5-97 DUE TO T HIS ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNHOOKING SLATE BLOCK TO READY FOR PROCESSING, HE PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN HOOK AND SLATE BLOCK.

AN EMULSION ROOF PROP FELL OVER AND STRUCK EE IN THE BACK.

PUTTING A CHUTE LOINER IN CHUTE--HIT HISLEFT HAND WITH A HAMMER.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A CUTTING TORCH AT NIGHT. HE WAS FURNISHED WITH SAFETY EQUIPMENT. SAID THAT HIS GLASSES HAD GREASE ON THEM, WAS REASON HE DIDN'T USE THEM.

BRUISE TO HEAD AND CHEST. PUT TRUCK INTO DITCH LINE DUE TO LOSS OF CONTROL.

HELPING MOVE A WATER PUMP AND STRAINED NECK AND BACK MUSCLES. FIRST NOTIFIED OF ACCIDENT ON 7-8. EMP HAD SCHEDULED TIME OFF FOR THE 26TH AND REFUSED TREATMENT ON THE INJURY. REPORTED BACK TO W ORK, WAS STILL HAVING SOME PAIN AND WAS ORDERED TO GET MEDICAL TREATMENT AT THAT TIME.

WHILE USING LOADER, BEGAN COMPLAINING ABOUT BACK PAIN.

SHOVELING LIME AT KILNS. LIME BLEW INTO BOTH EYES CAUSING MILD LIME BURNS.

DRIVER WAS STANDING ON PLATFORM WHILE HIS TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED. ONCE THE TRUCK WAS FINISHED HE THEN TURNED AROUND AND STEPPED OFF THE PLATFORM WHERE THE STAIRS USED TO BE. HE FELL 7' TO THE GROUND LANDING ON HIS FEET, STRAINING HIS BACK. THE STAIRS WERE TAKEN OUT FOR BLACKTOPING THE LOADING AREA.

EE WAS BUILDING KENNEDY STOPPING AND FOOT HUNG UP IN MUD AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE. EE FINISHED SHIFT AND WORKED 6-23. WENT ON DAYS OFF AND ON 6-27 HAD KNEE DRAINED AND WAS TREATED FOR AN INFECTI ON IN HIS KNEE.

WHILE PICKING UP OBJECTS, CLEANING JOB SITE, FELT PAIN IN LOWER ABDOMEN.

EE ALLEDGES THAT WHILE GRINDING WELDS DOWN ON THE DRAGLINE BUCKET, HE RECEIVED FLASH BURNS TO HIS EYES FROM A NEAR BY WELDER'S OPERATION. EE ALLEDGES THAT HE WAS WEARING PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR,(RE G. SAFETY GLASSES & A CLEAR GLASS ON HIS WELDINGHOOD.) EE WAS STILL FEELING DISCOMFORT IN HIS EYES SO ON 6-27-07 HE RETURNED TO DR WHERE THEY REMOVED METAL SPLINTERS FROM HIS EYES, CAUSING HI

ROCK FELL FROM TOPIN TRAVEL ROAD AND THIS MAN RAN OVER IT WHILE HAULING IN CRIB BLOCKS WITH 488 S&S SCOOP. HIS HEAD HIT CANOPY AND HURT HIS LOWER BACK.,

EE HAD PULLED HIS TRUCK UP TO EE'S TRUCK TO GIVEHIM SOME FOOD. THE OPERATORS GOT OUT OF THEIR CABS AND 1ST EE WAS GOING TO TOSS THE FOOD TO 2ND EE, BUT 2ND EE'S TRUCK STARTED TOROLL FORWARD 2ND EE GOT BACK IN HIS TRUCK BUT DID NOT GET HISFOOT INSIDE THE DOOR BEFORE THE OTHER TRUCK ROLLED INTO HIS. 2ND TRUCK BENT THE HANDRAIL ON 1ST TRUCK PINNING EE'S FOOT IN BETWEEN THE DOOR & CA

EE STATED HE SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WHILE TIGHTENING BOLTS ON THE SKIRT RUBBER OF THE CLEAN COAL COLLECTING BELT. HE STATED THAT AS HE WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT THE SOCKE T HE WAS USING SLIPPED OFF THE NUT CAUSING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER TO STRIKE THE EDGE OF THE BELT STRUCTURE.

EE WAS LOADING LIME TRUCKS AT THE #2 SCALE (T-342). HE STEPPED DOWN OFF A LADDER AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE. (HE SPRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE).

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE HAULING LOAD OF COAL TO PREP PLANT THE BRAKES' FAILED HE DROVE TRUCK INTO DITCH.

EE WORKS AT THE PIT SCREENING AND CRUSHING GRAVEL. HE WAS ON THE SCREEN CALLED THE POWERSCREEN USING AN IRON BAR TO CLEAN DIRT AWAY THAT WAS PACKED ON, WHEN A LARGE AMOUNT OF DIRT CAME LOOSE A ND FELL ON HIS FOOT.

EE STATES THAT HE SLIPPED AS HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN OUT OF TRUCK AND PULLED HIS RT SHOULDER. ON 7-17-97, PHYSICAL THERAPY WAS PRESCRIBED.

EE WAS HAMMERING ON A METAL PADDLE FOR THE LOG WASHER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF AND CUT HIM AND ENTERED INTO HIS SKIN IN THE RIGHT CHEST AREA.

INJURED WAS OPERATING AN ENDLOADER ON A TRACK WHEN THE ENDLOADER WAS STRUCK BY A LOCOMOTIVE.

EMPLOYEEHAD JUST FINISHED LOADING A TRUCK WITH A FRINT END LOADER. HE WAS GETTIN GOFF OF LOADER, MISSED STEP, LOST BALANCE, FELL AND LANDED ON LEFT LEG JARRING LEFT HIP AND LEG

RUNNING A S/CAR AND HIT A HOLE JARRING HIS BACK

VICTIM WAS HELPIGN INSTALL BELT STRUCTUURE, A SCOOP WAS USED OT POISITON A PLACE, SCOOP OPERATOR MOVED STRUCTURE, VICTIM'S FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO PIECES.

CUTTING RUBBER AND USING 4 LB HAMMER FOR PUTTINGWEDGES IN SCREEN. A SHORT TIME LATER NOTICED BACK GETTING SORE AND STIFF.

AFTER EMPLOYEE SHOVELED PRODUCT AWAY FROM THE TAIL PULLET AT STORAGE AND LOADING, HE REPORTED FEELING PAIN IN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE HAS A HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS.

HE JUST GOT DONE FUELING MACHINE AND WAS GETTING DOWN WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL APPROX. 6'.

WHILE PUTTING A CHOCK HANGAR ON A WELDING MACHINE, EE TURNED AROUND AND TRIPPED OVER A WELDING LEAD. EE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS HANDS. NO PAIN AT TIME OF FALL, BUT APPROX 45 MINUTES LATER WHNE ATTMEPTING TO USE AN IMPACT WRENCH, FELT SHARP PAIN IN RT FOREARM.

ON 6-11-97 EMPLOYEE CUT HIS HAND AT HIS HOME WHEN A WRENCH SLIPPED. THEN ON 6-20-97 HE BUMPED HIS HAND WHILE GETTING ON THE DOZER AND OPEN HIS PREVIOUS WOUND.

WHILE DISMOUNTING FROM REAR BUMPER OF MECHANIC'STRUCK EE MISSED STEP & FELL BACKWARDS ON HIS LEFT ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS BACK PULLING A LARGE ROCK FROM THE HEAD WHEEL AREA OF THE ROCK LINE CONVEYOR LOCATED AT THE HEAD HOUSE.

EE PICKED UP A VALVE BANKK FROM A ROOF BOLTER HE WAS REPAIRING TO LOAD IT ONTO A PERSONNEL CARRIER, WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS NECK/SHOULDER AREA. HE BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 7-7-97.

WHILE WALKING IN FRONT OF FEEDER ON UNIT #2'S BELT ENTRY THE EE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A CHAIN HANGER, JAMMING HIS NECK.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING HITACHI UH801 SHOVEL WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS UNPLUGGING A FEED PIPE. FEED STARTED TO FALL, EE STARTED TO WALK FORWARD STRUCK PIPE WITH HEAD.

MW HAULAGE ATTEMPTING TO CUT SUPPLY CAR FROM TRIO. WHILE DOING SO, WHEEL OF SUPPLY CAR ROLLED ONTO FOOT.

EE WAS LEAVING THE MORNING MEETING OF THE QUARRY GROUP WHEN HE ASKED HIS SUPV. TO TAKE HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. HE SAID HE HAD NOT BEEN FEELING WELL ALL MORNING, AND WAS AFRAID HE WAS HAVING A HEA RT ATTACK. THE PARAMEDICS WERE CALLED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED BY AMULANCE TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE UNDERWENT SURGERY TO RELIEVE RESTRICTION IN AN ARTERY.

EE WAS IN DOWN GRADE DEVELOPMENT AREA 28 MINE 213 DEV. STOPE AT APPROX. 930 AM EE ATTEMPTED TO UP RIGHT A 2 1/2" FLYGT DEWATERING PUMP. EE PULLED ON ROPE ATTACHED TO PUMP HANDLE AND FELT PAIN IN ABDOMEN AREA. PUMP WEIGHTED APPROX. 70 LBS. EE WAS SEEN BY DR DRONEY ON 6-27-97. DR REFERRED HIM TO ANOTHER DR 6-30-97 DR CRECELIUS DIAGNESED HERNIA NAVAL AREA, GOING TO HAVE SURGERY 7-22-

EE STATED THAT WHILE MAKING A SPLICE ON A CABLE HE HIT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WITH A HAMMER

EE WAS ASSISTING ANOTHER EE IN THE ACT OF CHANGING OUT A PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT AND HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. THE PAIN BEGAN AS THEY WERE POSITIONING A NEW PIECE OF BELT TO BE ADDED. THE NEW PIECE WAS ROLLED UP.

EE WAS HELPING INSTALL A 1800 X 25 RADIAL TIRE ON THE RIGHT REAR OF A 350 PAYHAULER GOB TRUCK WHEN THE TIRE BLEW CAUSING FOREIGN MATERIALS TO ENTER BOTH RIGHT AND LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING OTU OF THE BATTERY MANTRIP AT THE END OF HIS SHIFT, WHEN ANOTHER MANTRIP STRUCK THE BACK END. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS BEING STRUCK BY ANOTHER VEHICLE. COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR.,

EE HURT HIS BACK WHILE WORKING ON A DESLIME SCREEN. MEDICAL INDICATES THE EE HAS DEGRENTAIVE DISC DIESEAS.

HE WAS TAKING OFF NUT ON A REACTION PLATE BOLT WITH IMPACT, THE WOBBELY SOCKET SPUN NUT OFF BOLT AND HIT FACE.

EE WAS SETTING UP A SCAFFOLD NEAR AN OPEN HOLE. EE APPARENTLY WEN OUTSIDE OF A BARRICADE TO TIE OFF A SCAFFOLD AND LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL. EE FELL APPROX. 25' AND LANDED ONA CONCRETE FLOOR.

EE ALLEGES THAT HE HURT HIS BACK WHILE OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR. THIS WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 6-23-97.

EE WAS LIFINT ON A PRY BAR TO RAISE BELTLINE HADPAIN IN BACK

WHILE PEELING A EQUIPMENT TO BE PAINT A PARTICLEDROP IN HIS RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO LOOSEN CHAIN ON FEEDER WHEN HE ALLEGEDLY FELT A SENSATION IN HIS RIGHT KNEE. DR DIAGNOSED A PULLED LIGAMENT IN RIGHT LEG.

INJURED STEPPED OFF BELT DRIVE FRAMED AND SPRAINED LEFT ANKLE.

SLIPPED AND TRIPPED WHLE STEPPING BACKWARDS.

CLEANING OUT THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. AS HE LIFTED STONE OUT OF CRUSHER AND OVER HANDRAIL. HE PULLED MUSCLES IN GROIN.

HAUL UNIT BELLY DUM EUCLID B-70.

WAS UNTYPING TH BOTTOM OF A BULT BAG HANGING FROM A FORKLIFT WHEN THE FORKS BOUNCED AND PINCHED ARM.

A PIPE STAND FELL OVER, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT SHIN CAUSIGN HIM TO SPIN AND FALL. HE TWISTED RIGHT KNEE IN PROCESS.

MECHANIC EE INSTALLING TRACK PIN IN E-280- EXCAVATOR, PIECE OF METAL SHEARED OFF-IMBEDDED IN LEFT WRIST LACERATION.

EE WAS DUMPING JUNK & SHEET METAL INTO DUMPSTER AND INJURED HIS BACK AND GROIN.

LARGE STONE CAUGHT IN CONVEYOR. HE WEN TO MOVE IT. IT ROLLED ONTO HIS TOE.

WHILE ENTERING THE CLEAR PAD IN AREA 335 ON THE WEST SIDE TO CHECK #1 CLEAR PUMP, EE ASSUMED TH E SPENT LIQUOR ON THE PAD WAS NOT VERY DEEP. UPON STEPPING OFF STAIR TO PAD, SPENT LIQUOR ENTERE D HIS LEFT BOOT RESULTING IN 2ND DEGREE ( AND SOME SCATTERED 3RD DEGREE) BURNS TO HIS LEFT FOOT. EE'S BOOT WAS FOUND TO BE DEFECTIVE ( WAS A 16" BOOT WHICH WAS CUT DOWN TO 10 1/2 " BY EE. DEP

SAID HIS TEETH AND HIS BACK HURT. UPON QUESTIONING HE SAID HE HURT HIS BACK HELPING TO LIFT ROCKS OUT OF THE JAW CRUSHER. LATER HE SAID HE HAD BEEN CLEANING OUT FROM UNDER A CONVEYOR AND SOME ROCKS HAD BEEN THROWN OUT OF THE CRUSHER AND HIT HIM IN THE BACK. WE CONVINCED WORKER'S COMP TO PAY HIM WHICH THEY DID IN SPITE OF THE CONFUSING EXPLANATIONS BUT WE'RE STILL NOT SURE HOW HE HU

A WING FROM THE JAW WAS RIGGED AND GOING TO BE LOADED ON A FLATABED FOR TRANSPORT. WHILE THE JAW WING WAS BEING LIFTED, THE RIGGING CAME LOOSE UNDER THE PRESSURE OF THE LIFT SRIKING AN EE IN THE HEAD.

EE STRAINED GROIN (LIFTING)BECAME REPORTABLE 6/30/97. NO LOST TIME TO DATE

OPERATOR WAS CLEANING UP AROUND DROP BOX WHERE ONE CONVEYOR DUMPS ONTO ANOTHER WHILE CONVEYOR WAS RUNNING. THE TOOL HE WAS USING CAUGHT ON THE BELT THE HANDLE OF THE SCRAPER SMASHED OPERATORS THUMB AGAINST FRAME WORK OF CONVEYOR.

CONVEYOR STOPPED BECAUSE A ROCK WEDGED BETWEEN THE HEAD PULLEY AND THE CHUTE. EE SHUT OFF POWER, LOCED OUT CONTROL AND TREIED TO ROLL BELT IN REVERSE TO FREE THE WEDGED ROCK HIS FINGER WAS PIN CHED AGAINST SHEAVE.

WHILE MAKING A BELT SPLICE, THE BELT SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIS RIGHT THUMB.

EMPLOYEE WAS STNADING AT THE MOUTH OF THE ENTRY WHENA ROCK FELL BETWEEN PINS AND STRUCK HIS HEAD AND JAMMED HIS NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING COME-A-LONG TO 489 CONE CRUSHER IN ORDER OT ADJUST IT. HE WAS STANDING ON CRUSHER WHEN HE SLIPEPD AND FELL APPROX 4' LANDING IN A SITTING POSITION, ON THE MAIN FRAM OF TH E CRUSHER.

EE STATES WHILE OPERATING MBC THE BUMPING PULLING TO JERKING OF THE OPERATION OF THE MBC HAS CAUSED HIS LOWER BACK TO RT LEG TO START HURTING

EE WAS WELDING WIRE AROUND TRANSFORMER FRAME. THE WELDING HOOD LENSE WOULD NOT CLOSE ALL THE WAY. THERE WAS A SMALL GAP LEFT OPEN TO ALLOW FOR FLASH BURNS.

HE WAS SHARPENING BITS.

EE WAS HANGING MINER CABLE. CABLE WAS TIED TO A ROOFBOLT PLATE WITH METAL WIRE ON ONE END AND IT GABBED INTO THE EE S RIGHT EYE.

EE HAD FINISHED TIGHTENING WEDGE BOLTS ON SOUTH SIDE OF PRIMARY CRUSHER. I.E. SLIPPED LOSS BALANCE AND FELL APPROX 5-6 FT ONTO GROUND. I.E. WAS TREATED AT HOSPITAL FOR BRUISED HIP AND STRAINED BACK AND RELEASED THE SAME DAY.

EE TWISTED HIS ANKLE RT RESULTING IN A SPRAIN TYPE INJURY. HE WAS WALKING AND TRIPPED ON A PIECE OF LOOSE COAL.

INDIVIDUAL WAS CRAWLING ON MINE FLOOR IN 6 WEEST #3 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK GOT BETWEEN HIS KNEE AND KNEE PAD CAUSING HIS RIGHT KNEE TO HURT. A S A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT, 1 PERSON WAS INJ URED. NO EQUIPMENT WAS INVOLVED.

EE WAS SHOVELING STOCKER BELT WHEN HE HIT HIS FINGER ON GUARD GATE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING WIRE THROUGH CONDUIT WHEN HE FELT A STIFFNESS IN HIS LOWER BACK. ON AUGUST 7,1997 EMPLOYEE MISSED ONE DAY'S WORK WHE EH TRAVELED TO OKC FOR MEDICAL TESTS.

MAN HIT HOLE IN BOTTOM WITH BUGGY AND HURT HIS BACK.

WHILE CHIPPING METAL SLAG FROM A WELD BEAD ON A CAT D8 DOZER BLADE, A PIECE OF HOT SLAG DEFLECTED FROM CHIPPING HAMMER, OVER WELDING HELMET INTO LEFT EYE. WELDING HELMET AND SAFETY GLASSES WER E BEING WORN.

TEE FELT PAIN IN GROIN WHILE SHOVELING UNDER BELTS--REPORTED EVENT, KEPT WORKING--OVER PERIOD OF SEVERAL WEEKS CONDITION WORSENED--WAS CONVINCED ON 7-10-97 TO SEE DR. WHO DETERMINE A SMALL HER NIA HAD DEVELOPED.

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER OFF ALOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL. HIT THE GROUND AND DISLOCATED HIS SHOULDER.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE FUSES OUT IN A 480 V. FAN SWITCH BOX, WHEN A PHASE TO GR0UND OCCURRED.

CHANNEL LOCKS WERE USED TO SECURE A STRAP FROM A FUSION MACHINE TO A POLARIS 4X4 ATV WHEN THE EE ATTEMPTED TO PULL THE FUSION MACHINE. THE CHANNEL LOCK PLIERS CAME OFF THE STRAP AND THE HANDLE S OF THE CHANNEL LOCK PLIERS STRUCK THE EE ON THE HEAD AND NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING CRAWLER TRACTOR AND EXPERIENCED A MUSCLE SPASM IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH TENDONITIS OF THE RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING WIRE AROUND TRANSFORMER FRAM.E THE WELDING HOOD LENSE WOULD NOT CLOSE ALL THE WAY. THERE WAS A SMALL GAP LEF TOPEN TO ALLOW FOR FLASH BURNS.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING A PART ON THE MINER. HE WAS LIFTING THE PART WHEN HE RECEIVED AN INTERNAL INJURY TO THE GROIN AREA.

INJURED WAS PUTTING TERMINAL ON THE NEGATIVE LEAD ON BATTERY IN SMALL BREAKER BOX GOT NEGATIVE LEAD AGAINST POSITIVE LEAD CAUSING SPARK THAT BURNT HAND.

LAYING TRACK IN S. MAINS HEADINGS, EMPLOYEE WA SPUTTING TIES ON RAIL, HE WEN TO PULL TIE OVER TOO ATTACH TO RAIL WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN LEFT UPPER ARM.

LIFTING OF DRILL STEMS AND CARRYING BOXES OF EXPLOSIVES.

EE RECD PUNCTURE WOUND TO RIGHT THUMB WHILE ASSISTING OTHERS IN CHANGING OUT SCREENS ON THE CRUSHER.

EE WAS OPERATING DOZER WHICH WAS BEING USED TO CLEAR CONSOLIDATION COAL CO RIGHT OF WAY SPAN (ADJACENT TO ROBINSON RUN MINE #95) WHEN TREE LIMB FLEW BACK AGAINST DOZER CAGE, STRIKING EE L ARM. EE WORKED REMAINDER OF HIS SHIFT, AND SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION THE FOLLOWING DAY.

LOCATION OF ACC: 60' INBY SURVEY STATION 2438 INNO.5 ENTRY. EE WAS PERFORMING PREOPERATIONAL CHECKS (CHECKIG SCRUBBER SCREEN) ON THE SIDE OF THECONT MINER. A COAL RIB ROLLED OUT AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EE STATED HE WAS INSTALLING THE LAST ROW OF ROOF BOLTS WHEN A RIB ROLLED AND STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK OF HIS LOWER LEFT LEG.

WHILE WORKING ON A SHUTTLE CAR THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND COMPLAINED OF PAIN I HIS LEFT LEG.

INJURED OCCURRED 6-12-97 FIRST DAY OFF 6-18-97. EE WAS PULLING A ROCK DOWN WITH A SLATE BAR ROCKFLIPED LANDED ON TOP AT SLATE CATCHING HIS ARM BETWEEN SLATE BAR AND BOOM OF ROOF BOLTER. ROCK M EASURE 2FT X 2FTX 1 1/2FT IN THICK.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNSTALLING A CURTAIN ALONG A BELT LINE WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK AND CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS RIGHT KNEE. EMPLOYEE HAS CONTINUE D TO WORK MISSING NO WORK TIME, BUT HE IS NOW SCHDULED FOR ORTHOSCOPIC SURGERY FOR HIS KNEE AND WILL BEGIN MISSING WORK ON 10-6-97.

EE SLIPPED AND FELL CUTTING HIS HAND AND FRACTURING HIS LEFT RING FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING SUPPLY CAR ON TRACK USIGN VERSA TRACK, AHD SUPPLY CAR PICKE DUP WITH BUCKET, EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING 4X4 TIMBER UNDER CAR THE CAR SLIPPED OFF BUCKET VERSA TRACK HITTING THE 4 X4 TIMBER, CAUSING TIMBER TO HIT EMPLOYEE IN CHEST.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING BRUSH ON AHILLSIDE. HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS ARM. THE BARE SKIN TOUCHED POISON OAK LEAVES.

WAS GRINDING ON LOADER BUCKET AND SOMETHING FLEW OFF AND GOT IN EYE. HAD SAFETY GLASSES ON. SOMETHING FLEW UNDER THE GLASSES.

EMP WAS CLIMBING LADDER. LADDER SLIPPED CAUSING EMP TO FALL AND SPRAIN RIGHT ANKLE.

EE WAS WATCHING BELT HEADS THE OUTSIDE BELT GOBBED OFF AND EE WAS REMOVING ROCK FROM BELT HEAD WHEN HE INJURED BACK.

EE WAS HELPING MECHANIC REPAIR A DOZER WHILE A FLAT TIRE WAS BEING REPAIRED ON HIS ROCK TRUCK. THEY WERE CHANGING THE CROSS TUBE ON A DOZER AND HE WAS STANDING ON THE PUSH ARM. IT HAD RAINED D URING THE NIGHT AND THE GROUND WAS MUDDY. HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE PUSH ARM CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND. HE LANDED ON HIS RIGHT LEG AND IT TWISTED AND GAVE WAY WHEN HE STRUCK THE GROUND.

AFTER INSTALLING A NEW SEAT IN AN S-10 PICKUP RUCK, EMPLOYEE REPORTED HIS LOWER BACK WAS STIFF AND SORE.

A PIECE OF ROCK 39"X27"X3" THICK AT THICKEST POINT FELL BETWEEN THE RIB AND THE ROW OF BOLTS TRIKING EMPLOYEE ON THE HEAD AND SLID DOWN HIS ARM. HEIGHT WAS 48". X-RAY SHOWED NEGATIVE, NO MAR KS ON BODY EMPLOYEE WAS COMPLAINING OF HEADACHE. THE DR TOLD HIM TO TAK E 3 DAYS OFF FROM WORK.

INJURED WAS HWLPING TO REMOVE A SECTION OF DEGASS DRILL STEEL WHEN THE STEEL ROTATED AND INJURED WAS STRUCK BY A PIPE WRENCH.

WHILE BENDING 6' ROOF BOLTS THE EE FELT PAIN IN HIS STOMACH, PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS UPPER STOMACH.

WHILE EXITING THE TRACKMOBILE, HIS SAFETY BELT HUNG ONTO THE DOOR HANDLE OF THE TRACKMOBILE. THIS PULLED HIS LOWER BACK ON THE LEFT SIDE. HE HUNG HERE UNTIL THE DOOR HANDLE BENT, RELEASING HIM ONTO THE GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING MAINTENCE ON BELT PULLEY. HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING PULLEY GUARD TO REINSTALL IT. HIS MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK STIFENED OVERNIGHT, HE CALLED IN AND SOGHT MEDICAL T REATMENT ON JUNE 20,1997.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS LIFTING/MOVING 65-70 DOZER PADS, HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

WAS LIFTING AN OXYGEN BOTTLE AND FELT BURNING INBACK.

WHILE PICKING UP A PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE, HE TWISTED AROUND AND TOSSED IT IN THE SCOOP BUCKET RESULTING IN A LOWER BACK INJURY.

LOADING BLASTING AGENT INTO HOPPER. HURTING LOWER BACK/LEFT SIDE.

EE CLIMBED UP ON THE D11 TRACTOR TO TAKE THE HOURS METER READING AND SERIAL #. SLIPPED ON LEFT HAND STEP DUE TO MUDDY BOOTS AND HIT HISKNEE ON THE BATTERY BOX LATCH.

EE BACKED OVER A WINDOW & HURT HIS LOWER BACK AS THE DOZER BOUNCED DOWN.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING TIMBER, LIMB BROKE OFF SND CSME DOWN OIN RIGHT SHOULDER, CAUSING BRUISED SHOULDER AND CHEST.

INJURED WORKER WAS CLIMBING INTO LOADER AND NOTICED A SWARM OF BEE'S AS INJURED WORKER ATTEMPTED TO GET AWAY FROM THE BEE'S HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND LANDING ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.

ON TOP OF ROOF ON WASH PLANT PUTTING ON A ROLLER AND FOOT FELL THROUGH HOLE AND TWISTED ANKLE.

INJURED WAS ON SURFACE BOARDING THE RAIL MANTRIP TO BE TRANSPORTED TO HIS WORK AREA. HE STATED THAT AS HE STEPPED ONTO THE MANTRIP HE TWISTED HSI RT KNEE AND FELT PAIN IN THE KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF CHUTTING BELT WHEN KNIFE LSIPPED, CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO CUT HIS LEG.

INJURED WAS STANDING ON THE RT SIDE OF THE MINER AT THE BOLTER STATION. A 2 X 4 BOARD 5'LONG WITH SOME NAILS IN IT WAS HURLED AT HIM BY THE MINER HEAD. TO KEEP FROM GETTING HIT BY THE BOARD, H E PUT HIS HANDS UP AND THE BOARD HIT HIS HAND, RESULTING INJURY WAS A LACERATION REQUIRING SUTURES TO CLOSE.

WAS DUMPING HIS LOADED SCRAPER WHEN HE DROVE OVER A ROCK AND BOUNCED HARD, HURTING HIS BACK.

VICTIM WA SSPLASHED IWTH HOT WATER AND ANTIFREEZ WHIL PERFORMING MAINTANCE ON VAPORIZER.

MAN WAS GETTING INTO LOADER ON LADDER AND SLIPPED, FALLING ONTO LEFT HAND AND DISLOACTING THUMB.

EMPLOYEE DRIVING GREASE TRUCK UP HAUL ROAD RAMP FROM PIT, DROVE OVER SLICK SPOT FROM HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOST CONTROL OF TRUCK. TRUCK SLID BACKWARDS DOWN RAMP, HIT SAFETY BERM AND TURNED ON ITS SIDE.

EE WAS AIR ARCING. HE MUST HAVE ALLOWED HIS ARC TO STRIKE BEFORE HE PUT HIS HELMET INTO PROPER POSITION.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING SCREEN ON A #4 SCREEN DECK ELEV. APPRXO WAIST CHEST HIGH. SCREEN WIRE CAUGHT SHIRT CAUISNG SUDDEN LUNGE FORWARD.

HOLDING A PLASTIC JUG TO CUT OFF THE BOTTOM--THE KNIF CAUGHT--HE APPLIED PRESSURE--THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUT THROUGH THE JUG & UP INTO LEFT HAND.

MECHANIC'S TRUCK STALLED OUT AND THE TRUCK WAS TOWED BY MECHANIC'S TRAILER. HE WAS TRYING TO FIND OUT WHY THE TRUCK WOULD NOT START. HE WAS TRACING THE POSITIVE WIRE TO THE STARTER WHEN THE BA TTERY BLEW UP IN HIS FACE.

WHEN STARTED MOTOR ON GENERATOR SET, GOT FOREIGN OBJECT IN RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS MOVING FIRE HOSE. THE HOSE WAS STUCK. WHILE PULLING FIREHOSE, EE FELT PAIN IN GROIN AREA.

EE WAS IN AUTO ACCIDENT PRIOR TO HIRE WHICH RESULTED IN BACK INJURY. LIFTING ROCKS AGGRAVATED BACK INJURY.

WHILE WALKING, HE SLIPPED FELL FORWARD AND CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS HAND.

DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 4/30/98. SLID IN MUD & SPRAINED KNEE.

EE TRIPPED AND FELL CAUSING CUT ON PALM OF HAND. MEDICAL REPORT SHOW THAT DR. USED SUTURES TO CLOSE LACERATION.

EE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS STRUCK IN THE RIGHT ANKLEBY A PIECE OF PIPE THAT WAS BEING MOVED BY A FRONT END LOADER.

EE WAS PULLING CLOSURE TAPE OFF BAGS WITH HER BODY POSITION BENT AT WAIST. SHE STRAIGHTENED AND TWISTED QUICKLY WITHOUT BENDING HER KNEES CAUSING HER TO PULL A MUSCLE IN HER LOWER BACK.

EE JUMPED DOWN OFF THE HOUSING OF 5CD4 AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE ON A VALCUM HOSE WHICH WAS COVERED WITH DUST IN A DARK AREA.

EE SUFFERED UNKNOWN INSECT BITE ON LEFT LEG WHEN HE PUT ON COVERALLS AT BEGINNING OF SHIFT.

THIS EE DROVE A FUEL TRUCK THROUGH A HOLE & JARRE HIMSELF IN THE CAB, INJURING HIS NECK & SHOULDER, RESULTING IN LOST TIME.

EE WAS HOLDING A PIECE OF METAL USED TO DRIVE IN A BUSHING IN THE PUSH ARM ON A DOZER. THE EE'S FINGER WAS BRUISED FROM REPERCUSSION WHEN THE METAL WAS STRUCK BY A HAMMER BY ANOTHER EE.

EE WAS CHANGING A TIRE ON AN OIL TRUCK. AS HE LIFTED THE TIRE ONTO THE HUB HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOW BACK. DUE TO VACATION SCHEDULING IT WAS NOT KNOW EE HAS SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT.

WHEN THE EE STEPPED OFF A CONCRETE PAD ONTO GRAVELED SURFACE, HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON A SMALL ROCK. THE EE FELL ONTO HIS RIGHT SIDE-TWISTING KNEE. THIS RESULTED IN AN INJURY TO HIS RIGHT KNEE. THIS ACCIDENT WAS INITIALLY REPORTED AS A MINOR INJURY, WAS REEVALUATED (7/1/97). DAMAGE TO A LIGAMENT WAS NOTED: WHICH WILL REQUIRE SURGERY 7/16/97

EE STATED THAT HE WAS RESTING HIS ARMS ON A WINDOW SILL IN THE PREPARATION PLANT AND WAS BITTEN BY AN INSECT. THE AREA (BITE) LATER BECAME INFECTED AND HAD TO BE LANCED. THE EE DID NOT RECEIVE MEDICAL ATTENTION NOR MISSED ANY WORK UNTIL 7-21-97

DID NOT START LOSIGN TIME UNTIL 6-23-97. STEPPED IN HOLE, TWISTED ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE WORKING HE STRUCK HIS LOWER LEG ON A BENT ROOF BOLT ON THE SUPPLY BOX.

EE WAS MAKING HIS REGULAR PUMP/SEAL ROUND WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF. WHILE TURNING AROUND TO RUN THE EE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE IN WET MUDDY AREA. NOTE: EE STARTED LOSING TIME 7/1/97

EMPLOYEE WAS CROSSING MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER TO GO TO LUNCH AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE AS HE GOT OFF THE OTHER SIDE.

EMPLOYEE BENT A ROOF BOLT AND THREW IT TOWARD THE FACE WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN THE GROIN AREA. THE HEIGHT WAS APPROX. 48" HIGH.

SCOOP STUCK ON POINT, CAUGHT MAINT'S FOOT BETWEEN BUCKET, ROCK DUST PALLET.

EE TWISTED RIGHT KNEE WHEN HE HUNG RIGHT FOOT UNDER THE PANIC BAR OF THE SCOOP AS HE WASS CRAWLING OUT OF THE SCOOP.

EE WAS STANDING ON TOP OF THE BELT AND THE BELT STARTED. WHEN THIS HAPPEN HE JUMPED OFF TWISTING HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS OPERATING OFF STANDARD 21 SC SHUTTLE CAR. HAD COMPLETED BEING LOADED, WAS CHANGING SEATS, SLIPPED AND FELL. SHUTTLE CAR PINNED (R0LLED)EE AGAINST COAL RIB.

WORKER WAS CUTTING A BUCKET STAKE WHICH STANDS ABOUT 7' HIGH. WORKER FELL OFF BUCKET STAKE, AS HE FELL, APIECE OF STAKE LANDED ON HIS LEG.

WHILE CLEANING SECTION WITH SCOOP, EMPLOYEE GOT OUT OF SCOOP AND LAID HIS LEFT HAND ON SCOOP WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIS LEFT HAND.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS HOSING OFF CONCRETE SLAB, HE SLIPPED IN MUD. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF BEFORE FALLING, TWISTING HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS BURSTING ROCK WITH SLEDGE HAMMER, AND PULLED LOWER RT BACK.

EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED WELDING AT HOPPER UNDER PRIMARY FEEDER. WHILE EXITING HOPPER HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

WHILE DRIVING A 50 TON HAUL TRUCK HE HIT A BUMP CAUSING THE SEAT BELT TO PRESS INTO HIS ABDOMEN BRUISING HIS SIGMOID COLON.

631 SCRAPER REAR ENDED 12G GRADER CAUSING A JERK OF EE.

IDLER FELL FROM PLATFORM, ABOUT 8' UP, ADN EE WAS HIT ON HEAD AND SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED WHEN HE LOST FOOTING DUE TO SLICK MINE FLOOR AND FELL WHILE PERFORMING HIS PRE OPERATIONAL EQUIPMENT CHECK. EMPLOYEE WAS AWARE OF SLICKENSIDED MINE FLOOR IN AREA AND WAS S TEPPING WITH CARE BUT FLOOR HEAVE IN AREA HAD CREATED INCLINE SURFACE WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO PROBLEMS.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING OTHERS TO REPAIR THE COAL CRUSHER. EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING FLYWHEEL BY PULLING ONTO MOTOR BELTS. EMPLOYEE CAUGHT HIS LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN THE BELT AND BELT PULLEY.

EE WAS OPERATING THE SHUTTLE CAR. HE WAS POSITIONED BEHIND THE CONT. MINER. HE HAD HIS RIGHT FOOT HANGING OUT OF THE OPERATORS COMPARTMENT & HIS FOOT GOT SQUEEZED BETWEEN THE COMPARTMENT & THE MINE FLOOR.

INJURED WAS CLIMBING LADDER ON WASTE FUEL TANK #8. THE METATARSAL GUARD ON HIS SAFETY BOOT CAUGHT ON A LADDER RUNG CAUSING HIM TO FALL APPROXIMATELY 6'. AS HE FELL HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE LA DDER CAGE.

CRAWLING IN LOW COAL SEAM HAS CAUSED EMPLOYEE'S KNEES TO BE BRUISED.

TURNED HEAD QUICKLEY & TWISTED NECK.

EMP WAS STACKING 100LB BAGS WHEN THE OTHER BAGGER STEPPED IN FRONT OF HIM. TO AVOID HIM, EMP TWISTED THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AND FELT HIS SHOULDER POP.

EE WERE CHANGING REAR END IN MESCHER TRACTOR. ELECTRIC HOIST FAILED WITH TRACTOR SUSPENDED APPROX. 30". USING LOADER TO REMOVE TRACTOR FROM HOIST WHEN CHAIN SLIPPED CAUSING TRACTOR TO FALL STR IKING VICTIM ON FOOT.

EE IS COMPLAINING ABOUT PAIN TO HIS LOWER BACK ADN DOWN HIS RIGHT LEG WHICH HE FEELS WAS A RESULT OF HIS JUMPING FROM A ROCKTRUCK ON 6-16-97. DURING QUESTIONING, EE STATED THAT HE HAD SUFFERED BACK PAIN PRIOR TO THIS INCIDENT. EE IS EXPECGTED TO BE OFF WORK FOR APPROX. 30 DAYS.

VICTIM WAS REMOVING ELECTRICAL SWITCH GEAR WHEN HE THREW HIS RIGHT SHOULDER OUT.

WAS DUMPING LOAD OF GRAVEL AND TRUCK TIPPED OVERCAUSING INJURY TO LEFT SHOULDER, BACK OF NECK AND LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN FUELING THE D-9 DOZER ON THE DUMP. AS HE WAS CLIMBING TO THE CAB HE SLIPPED ON THE TOP STEP. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH ONE ARM AND TWISTED HIS LEFT LEG.

STACKING LARGE ROCKS AND SMASHED HAND BETWEEN.

GUARD FELL ON FINGERS WHEN MOVING AND PINCHED FINGERS AGAINST PULLEY.

EE WAS ON HIS WAY TO WORK, WHEN EE SLID OFF THE HAUL ROAD OVER A BRUM. HE TURNED HIS 1993, SPORT JEEP UP ON IT'S SIDE.

SUBCONTRACTOR WORKING ABOVE EE KNOCKED REFRACTORY LOOSE WHICH STRUCK THE EE.

HE WAS IN THE DINNER HOLE, ATTENDING THE MORNING SAFETY MEETING. WHILE HE WAS THERE, A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM WITH A GLANCING BLOW ON THE FACE AND HEAD AREA. IT CAUSED LACERATI ONS TO HIS FACE, FRACTURED HIS NOSE AND POSSIBLY FRACTURED HIS CHEEK BONES. THE ROCK MEASURED 2 1/2" X 44" X 25-56" IN SIZE. FIRST AID WAS GIVEN. HE WAS ADMITTED TO RALEIGH GEN HOSPITAL.

EMP SAID HE WAS GETTING IN DECK OF MINER WHEN HEHIT HIS RIGHT KNEE ON SIDE OF DECK OF MINER.

WHILE GETTING OFF PIG TO HOOK CHAIN TO LO-LO THE EE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

ROCK ROLLED OFF MAIN CONVEYOR ON PRIMARY PLANT STICKING EE ON TOP OF FOOT.

EMP WAS USING TORCH TO CUT A PIECE OF METAL FROMCRUSHER. THE METAL FELL AND STRUCK EMP ON RIGHT ANKLE.

EE WAS LIFTING A 50 LBS BAG AND STRAINED IT.

EE WAS LEAVING WORK IN A COMPANY VEHICLE TIRE BLEW AND VEHICLE ROLLED.

HE WAS POSSIBLY TIGHTENING THE BELT ON THE CONE CRUSHER AND THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF BOLT AND HE FELL OFF CONE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO PONTIKI NO. 2 MINE TO WORK THIS SHIFT. HE WAS MINER HELPER AND WAS FLOATING OUT THE MINER OPERATOR FOR LUNCH. WHILE OPERATIGN THE CONTINOUS MINER, HE MOVED THE MINER CABLE OUT OF THE WAY AND STRAINED HIS LEFT SHOULDER TO BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE SETS IN A BOOTH TO WATCH THE PLANT. TO GET TO THIS BOOTH, THERE ARE STEPS TO WALK UP AND DOWN. HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THESE STEPS, CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

HE WAS OPERATING RAIL-RUNNER DRAW ROCK FELL HIT HIM.

EMPLOYEE WAS GOING TO BEND OVER AND MOVE MINER CABLE OUT AF HAUL WAY WHEN A SMALL BROW FELL-STRIKING HIM ON THE SHOULDER & BACK. ( BROW HAD A PIECE OF COAL APPROX. 14" IN DIAMETER, AND WHEN CO AL STRUCK BOTTOM BROKE UP.)

TWISTED WRIST WHILE HOLDING CYLINDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON THE BOTTOM FLOOR OF PREP PLANT, MIXING WATER PLUG, FOR A PATCH. WHEN HE FELT A SLIVER METAL PUNCTURE HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW OR WHEN THIS OCCURED, BUT MOST LIKELY WHILE CLEANING DRYER BOXES.

EMP STATED THAT WHILE HE WAS ROOF BOLTING IN A LOW HE WAS WORKING IN A BENT OVER POSITION AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS USIGN AN AIR LANCE, 20'L TO KNOCK DOWN A BUILD UP IN THE FINE ORE BIN. HE STRAINED HIS BACK, AN AGGREVATION OF A PREVIOUS INJURY. CHIRO CARE WAS NEEDED AND A FOLLOW UP TREA TMENT MAY BE NECESSARY.

THE EMPLOYEE REPORTED TO A NON-AUTHORIZED CLINIC ON 6-14-97 WITH EYE IRRITATION DUE TO CUTTING OR WELDING ON A JOB SITE.

EE WAS USING A SLEDGEHAMMER TO REPAIR A CONVEYOR WHEN HE INADVERTENTLY STRUCK HIS FINGER WITH THE HAMMER.

INJURED WAS OPERATING A JEEP ON THE SURFACE AND RAN INTO A PARKED 50 TON MOTOR.

HE WAS PUTTING PLUG BACK IN RANGING ARM, WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF SLIF DOWN RANGING ARM AND A PIECE OF ROCK STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT CHEEK AND THE BACK OF THE NECK.

VICTIM AND REPAIR CREW WERE FINISHED THEIR SHIFT AT WORK. THEY WERE IN THE SHOP CLEANING UP AND WASHING THEIR HANDS WHEN SOMEONE PUSHED THE BUTTON TO CLOSE THE SHOP DOORS. AS THE DOORS WERE SL OWLY COMING DOWN, SOMEONE SAID THE DOOR WAS GOING TO HIT A PARKED TRUCK. EMPLOYEE RAN TO STOP THE DOOR. THERE WAS OIL LEAKING FROM CYLINDER IN THE DOORWAY, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ANF FELL IN.

EMP WAS REPAIRING DRAG LINK ON CRANE WHEN HIS ARM CAME IN CONTACT WITH TORCH.

EE WALKED UNDER AREA OF TORCH CUTTING A 2" CHANNEL IRON STRUCK EE IN RIGHT SHOULDER AREA.

EMP WAS OPERATING ROOF BOLTER AND FINISHED BOLTING A FACE. BEGAN HELPING ANOTHER ROOF BOLTER PUTBOLTS TOGETHER WHEN HE NOTICED HIS FOOR BEGAN HURTING. EMP IS UNDECIDED AS TO WHAT HE DID TO ALL EGEDLY CAUSE A FRACTURE OF HIS LEFT FOOT WHILE ON THE JOB.

JACK HAMMER WAS STUCK, TRIED TO PULL IT OUT.

FELL OFF SCREEN 2 LANDING ON LEFT ARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING EMULSION HOSE OUT OF A PILE. WHEN HE PULLED ON THE HOSE IT CAME OUT SUDDENLY. HE FELL BACKWARDS STRIKING HIS LEFT ELBOW ON THE MINE FLOOR.

EMPLOYE PULLING CABL EXPERIENCED TINGLING IN LOWER BACK.

EMP ALLEGES THAT AFTER COMPLETION OF LOADING A RIVER BARGE THAT HE JUMPED FROM BARGE BECAUSE IT STARTED MOVING. WHEN JUMPING EMP STATES HE LANDED AND FELL TO HIS KNEES. EMP WORKED UNTIL 6-17-9 7 IN WHICH HE DEPARTED IN AFTERNOON FOR DRS APPOINTMENT.

EE WAS SHIFTING A GEAR ON THE DRIVE WITH A ROCK BAR. THE ROCK BAR SLIPPED OUT AND HE FELL BACKWARDS AGAINST THE 6-TON LOCOMOTIVE. HE WAS ALSO HITTING THE GEAR WITH A SLEDGE AT THE SAME TIME.

SEVERAL CUTS MADE IN SPPORT STRUCTURE. INJURIED EE WAS POSTIONED UNDER METAC, WHEN STRUCTURE FAILED FALLING AGAISNT EE. INJURING SPINE.

EMPLOYEE WAS KNOCKING VENTILATION POSTS OUT IN TEH #3 HEADING. AFTER KNOCKING POST OUT, LOOSE ROCK FELL AND RODE EMPLOYEE TO THE MINE FLOOR. RESULTING IN A FRACTURED SCAPULA (RIGHT) AND STITCH ES IN THE RIGHT EAR AND UPPER LIP.

A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE MINE ROOF AND STRUCK EE ON THE BACK OF THE NECK.EE WAS ROOFBOLTING IN THE 2ND SOUTH PANEL #1 ENTRY.

WAS REMOVING ROCK FROM FEEDER. WHEN HE MOVED ONE ROCK, ANOTHER FELL IN ITS PLACE AND HIT HAND.

EE WAS PACKING PIN BOARDS FROM THE BACK TO THE FRONT OF THE BOLTER, WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW FELL CAUSING HIM TO FALL & STRAIN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE NOTIFIED COMPANY OFFICIALS 6-24-97 THAT HE HAD HURT HIS BACK AND WEN TOT THE DR ON THE 6-19-97 AND THAT HE HAD A STRAINED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK. WENT BACK TO THE DR ON 6-27-97 AND DR TOO K HIM OFF WORK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. COMPANY WAS ON VACATION 6-28 THRU 7-5.

RAINING WITH MUDDY CONDITIONS. DISMOUNTING EX400 AND SLIPPED ON MUDDY TRACK SURFACE. PREVENTED FALL BY GRABBING HANDHOLD RESULTING IN TWISTING MOTION AND STRIKING CATWALK WITH RIGHT HIP. DEVEL OPED SOME SORENESS AND PAIN. NO INITIAL MEDICAL ATTENTION SOUGHT. 6 MOS. LATER MEDICAL DX REVEAL HERNIATED DISC WITH SURGERY AS TREATMENT.

EE WAS STEPPING OFF OF A LADDER IN THE PLANT WAREHOUSE WHEN HE OVERSTRETCHED HIS KNEE. ON 11-14. HE BEGAN LOSING TIME DUE TO SURGERY TO REPAIR THIS INJURY.

ON 6/13 EMPLOYEE WAS UNTYING A ROPE FROM THE TOP OF A LADDER WHEN THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER KICKED OUT CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON THE GROUND.

HE WAS CHIPPING A ROCK AND A PIECE OF THE CHISEL IMBEDDED IN HIS LEFT LEG. HE RECEIVED TREATMENT AT CALUMET MEDICAL CENTER.

WORKIGN ON SCOOP AND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN DRIVE SHAFT ADN TRAM MOTOR.

ROCK FELL FROM MINE ROOF LANDING ON ROOF BOLTER, SLID DOWN BOOM STIRKING EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT FOREARM & RIGHT SHOULDER.

VICTIM STRUCK A PIN WITH A HAMMER, PART OF THE PIN SHEARED OFF STRIKING THE VICTIM IN THE THIGH.

EE ALLEGES THAT AS HE WAS RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR IN BELT ENTRY OF 002 SECTION, CAR HIT A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY AND JARRED THE CAR. EE SAID HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS BACK. EE SAID HE WENT TO THE DR ON 6-16-97 AND AFTER EXAMINATION WAS TOLD HEHAD AN ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN. EE DID NOT REPORT THIS ACCIDENT UNTIL 6-19-97. AFTER HE HAD BEEN TERMINATED.

EE SLIPPED WHILE DESCENDED WHEEL LOADER AND STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW AGAINST HAND RAIL OF STEPS.

EE WAS LIFTING CABLE FOR CONTINOUS MINER AND PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS RT SHOULDER.

WHILE WALKING DOWN A SET OF STEPS OUT OF THE SUPPLY TRAILER ON THE SURFACE, HE SLIPPED FALLING ON RIGHT ELBOW. JAMMING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

OPERATOR WAS NOT AT CONTROL STATION WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURED, BUT WAS AT A PINCH POINT AREA AT THE FRONT OF HIS MBC. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET BACK TO HIS CONTROL STATION. THE MBC WAS PUSHED T O THE SIDE WHERE HE WAS CAUGHT IN THE CRAWLING POSITION.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING ANFO INTO ANFO POT- DEVELOPED SORE BACK. BEGAN LOSING TIME 6-15-97.

INJURED'S FOOT SLIPPED WHILE STEPPING OFF A CONTINOUS MINER CAUSING HIS LOWER BACK TO TWIST.

WHILE INSTALLING LINERS IN THE #3 ROD MILL, THE CRIBBING SHIFTED CAUSING THE LINER TO SLIDE OFF OF THE ROLLERS LANDING ON TH EMPLOYEE FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPIGN ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR INSTLAL BOLTS WHEN A ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN RIBAND FIRST BOLT STRIKIGN HIM ON THE ARM. HE RECEIVED 3 STITCHES FROM THE ACCIDENT. HE WAS ALREADY SCHEDULED OFF WORK ON TEH 13TH. HE RETURNED TO WORK ON THE 16TH NO LOST TIEM ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE HIT BY PC DRAW ROCK.

DURING ROOF BOLTING OPERATIONS THE OPERATOR HAD SET UP HIS ROOF BOLTER TO START BOLTING THE ROOF WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL AND STRUCK THE OPERATOR IN THE FRONT OF HIS HARD HAT.

ALLEDGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHILE EE WAS HELPING PULL UP SLACK MINER CABLE AND HE FELL STRIKING HIS KNEE AND ANKLE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO WORK ENVIRONMENT.

EE WAS TRAMMING SCOOP AND GOT TO CLOSE TO RIB I WANT LOOKING AT HIS BUCKET, HE JAMED HIS HEAD INTO RIB.

EE WAS GATHERING UP VENTILATION TUBES AND WHILE HE REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP A TUBE, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING ON THE BACK HIS HEAD. CAUSED OF THIS INJURY WAS PORPER EXAMINATIO N ROOF/RIBS AND PULLING DOWN DOUBTFUL MATERIAL COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT OK, MINER PROFICIENCY MAY BE A FACTOR, EQUIP/SYSTEMS

STRAINED BACK WHILE DOING MACHINE MAINTENANCE.

EMPLOYEE DID NOT USE STEPS PROVIDED AND FELL ON SLICK HILL.

EMP WAS MOVING A PUMP OUT OF THE PIT WHEN A ROCKFELL FROM THE HIGHWALL AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE OF LOWER BACK.

EE WAS GETTING ON D-11 TRACTOR TO CHECK FLUID LEVELS AND LIGHTS. AFTER CHECKING HE DISMOUNTED AFTER GETTING OFF THE TRACTOR, HE FELT BACK PAINWHEN GETTING ON & OFF THE TRACTOR, HE HAD TO REA CH FOR THE HANDHOLD. THERE WAS NO SLIP OR FALL.

EE HAD JUST FINISHED HIS PRE-SHIFT INSPECTION OF ROCK TRUCK. HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP HIS LUNCH BUCKET AND COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN UP.

EE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE A STEEL FROM THE HOLE BY HAND. IT WOULDN'T COME LOOSE, SO HE RAN THE CLAMP UP TO SET IT FREE. HIS HAND WAS ON THE STEEL WHEN HE PUSHED THE LEVER, AND THE CLAMP CLOSED O N HIS HAND.

EE WAS REACHING UNDER CANOPY TO RAISE CANOPY WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER/NECK.

EE WAS TURNING MAN TRIP AROUND IN 40" COAL & HIT SIDE OF HEAD ON A ROOF PLATE.

EE'S HEAD CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE CEILING OF HIS HAUL TRUCK. EE ALLEGES THIS CAUSED HIM TO HAVE A PINCHED NERVE IN HIS NECK.

AT THE TIME THE INJURY IS BELIEVED TO HAVE OCCURRED, EE WAS REPLACING THE FAN HUB ON A CATERPILLAR 793 OFF HIGHWAY TRUCK. REPLACING THE FAN HUB REQUIED EE TO WORK FROM UNDER THE TRUCK. WHILE U NDER THE TRUCK, DEBRI DIRT ETC DISLODGED FROM THE UNDERSIDE OF THE TRUCK AND ENTERED EE S LEFT EYE.

WAS WALKIGN AND FOOT SLIPPED BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF METAL. CUT RIGHT AND LEG ANKLES.

LOADER CAT 980-B OPERATOR WAS MOVING AROUND SOME PARTS AT THE MAIN REPAIR SHOP AREA WHEN ITS ENGINE STOPPED AND STARTED SLIDING DOWNHILL ON THE ROADWAY THAT GIVES ACCESS FROM THE REPAIR SHOP T O ROAD PR 174 IMPACTING THE GATE. HE SUSTAINED A CUT ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FOREHEAD. HE WAS WEARING SEATBELT.

TRUCK WAS DUMPING RAW COAL @ TRUCK DUMP HOPPER. TRUCK PULLED AWAY FROM TRUCK DUMP WITH BED UP CAUSING TRUCK TO TIP ONTO IT'S RIGHT HAND SIDE. TRUCK DRIVER COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN LOWER BACK. HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE.

INJURED WAS WORKING AT THE 21' CRUSHER REPACKING THE OIL PUMP, WHICH ENTAILED REPEATED UP AND DOWN STAIRS.

EE WAS PUTTING DOG HOLES IN ROCK WITH PLUG DRILL AND DRILLED HIS RT INDES FINGER WITH PLUG DRILL.

HE WAS LOADING BARRELS ONTO A BOBCAT. HE GRABBED THE BARREL TO SPIN IT AROUND AS IT SPUN AROUND IT GRABBED AHOLD OF HIS GLOVE AND CUT HIS LEFT THUMB WHICH REQUIRED 9 STITCHES.

EE WAS USING A PUNCH ROD AT WEIGHT HOPPER AT WET PLANT TO DISLODGE AN UNSHREDDED KNOT. EE HIT THE LOP OF HOPPER AND MASHED HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

EMP STATED HE WAS BOLTING TOP AND A ROCK FELL ONRIGHT FOOT. THE LACERATION REQUIRED SUTURES.

HOOKS USED TO LIFTED GRANITE BLOCK WERE SWINGING EE GRABBED THEM TO HOOK GROUTE PAN TWISTED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

WHILE OPERATING LOADER EQUIPMENT EE RAN OVER ROCK.

EE GOT OFF THE SLOPE CAR MANTRIP AND RETRIEVED A ROLL OF WHITE CURTAIN OFF THE DOLLYCAR. WHILE WALKING UP THE STEPS OF A 3 STEP CATWALK THE EE STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

OPRATOR WAS GETTING OFF HIS DOZER. THERE WAS WET MUD ON TRACKS AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM.

2 NORTH SECTION. EE WAS CHANGING A DRIVE MOTOR ON THE OPERATORS SIDE OF A CONTINOUS MINER. THE DRIVE MOTOR WAS BEING HELD IN PLACE WITH A SLATE BAR. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL ALIGNING BOLTS, THE SLATE BAR SLIPPED AND THE MOTOR FELL, PINCH RT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE MOTOR AND THE RIB PROTECTION. THE RESULTING INJURY WAS A LACERATION TO THE RT INDEX FINGER. REQUIRED 6 SUTURES TO C

STARTED LOSING TIME 6-17-97. WHILE MOUNTING A DC DRIVE UNIT FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EE "ROOF BOLTLER OPERATOR" IN HIS NORMAL WORKINGCYCLE HE WAS BENDING A ROOF BOLT & APPARENTLY DISLOCATED HIS ARM. THE COAL IS 32" TO 34" ROOF BOLTS MUST BE BENT TO INSTALL IN TOP.

EMPLOYEE WAS KNOCKING A TIMBER WHERE THE P.C. WAS TO BE PUT AND FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND HIPS.

EMPLOYEE WAS RETURNING PARTS TO STORAGE, WHEN IN SLIPPED ON SOMETHING ON THE FLOOR, CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN MANTRIP IT HIT A HOLE IN ROADWAY, JARRING EMPLOYEE, HURTING HIS NECK, TO UPPR BACK.

UNLOADING 60LB RAILS FOR CAR, RAIL SLIPPED HITTING MAN ON RIGHT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROCKBOLTING. UNDER SUPPORTED GROUND, ONE MAN WAS PUTTING A BOLT DRIVER ON THE UMBO STRIKER BAR. WHILE BENT OVER A ROCK FELL FROM THE BACK, DEFLECTED OFF THE GROUND SUPPORT AND S TRUCK HIM ON THE BACK OF THE NECK.

HE WAS STEPPING INTO A ROWBOAT TO INSTALL AN OUTBOARD MOTOR. BOAT SLIPPED OUT INTO WATER CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE 7 HE FELL ONTO BANK. HE HIT SOMETHING CAUISNG HIS LEFT SHOUDLER TO DISL OCATE.

EE STATES WALKING FROM WATERPUMP PLATFORM TO PLANT TOWER AND TWISTED FOOT.

EE WAS HELPING MOVE FEEDER. HE HAD CONNECTED CABLE TO #5 TRANSFORMER BOX. WHEN HE ENERGIZED BREAKER FOR FEEDER. THE FEEDER BREAKER BESIDE IT BLEW OUT, CAUSING BURN TO RIGHT HAND. WHEN BOX WA S EXAMIND IT REVEALED INSULATORS ONTOP OF BREAKER HAD FAILED. BOX WAS REMOVED FROM SERVICE AND BROUGHT OUTSIDE.

EE WAS RUNNING A D-9 TRACTOR BUILDING ROAD, WHEN SOMETHING FOREIGN OBJECT WENT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

EMP WAS OPERATING THE ROOF BOLTER. WHEN HE TURNED TO PICK UP A BOLT AND PLATE, A ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS ALREADY INSTALLED AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT FOOT.

EE WAS TAKING DOWN ABOUT 5' OF AIRSLIDE WHEN A PIECE BROKE LOOSE & FELL. HE TRIED TO PUSH IT ASIDE AND THE SLIDE PULLED HIS SHOULDER AND HIT HIS KNEE. HE REPORTED TO THE PLANT DISPENSARY & WAS TREATED FOR A SHOULDER STRAIN. HE HAS CONTINUED TO HAVE PROBLEMS AND ON 8-1 WAS PLACED ON A WORK RESTRICTION.

EMPLLOYEE WAS STACKIGN BLOCKS, FELT STRAINED INSIDE.

FUEL TRUCK DRIVER FELL FROM D9 DOZER WHILE CLIMBING FROM MACHINE.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING HIS SHUTTLE CAR TOWARD THE CONT. MINER. THE SHUTTLE CAR ENCOUNTERED SOME UNEVEN BOTTOM WHICH JARRED THE OPERATOR, STRAINING HIS UPPER BACK AREA.

SEEMS TO BE ACCUMULATION FROM WORKING ON LOADER.

WHILE HE WAS SHOVELING DRILL CHIPS FROM UNDER A DAVEY DRILL MODEL M8. THE 2" AIR PIPE ON THE DRILL MAST BROKE OFF FALLING DOWN HITTING HIM ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER.

TAKING OFF RODS AND GRABBED A ROD THAT WAS NOT TOTALLY UNSCREWED TRIED TO LIFT AND TURN ROD AND PULLED HIS BACK.

WHILE WORKING ON MOTOR OF TD25 DOZER HE SLIPPED AND LANDED WRONG ON HIS RIGHT LEG.

WHILE LIFTING A MOUNTING PLATE FOR WEBASTO HEATER, EMP CLAIMS HE HURT HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE PUTTING A BARREL OF GREASE ON HIS DRILL, THE EE BUMPED HIS HAND WITH NO RESUTLING PAIN ORAPPEARANCE OF DAMAGE. THE NEXT DAY AT WORK, THE HAND STARTED SWELLING & GETTING PAINFUL. LATER THAT DAY, THE DR DIAGNOSED BLOOD POISONING.

WHILE TRYING TO LOOKON TOP SHELF OF NEW LOCKERS--EE STOOD ON BOTTOM SHELF AND LOCKERS (EMPTY) TOPPLED ON HIM.

TAKING BELT STRUCTURE APART BELT FELL STRIKING RIGHT FOOT ON TOP.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING THE IMPELLER FROM THE HEAVY MEDIA VESSEL PUMP. THE CHAIN WHICH WAS SECURING THE SHAFT BROKE WHEN PRESSURE WAS APPLIED TO THE CHEATER PIPE BEING USED TO LOOSEN THE IMP ELLER. THE EMPLOYEE FELL BACKWARDS STRIKING HIS HEAD ON A METAL CLAMP ATTACHED TO A PIPE CAUSING HEAD AND NECK INJURIES.

RECEIVED FLASH BURNS TO EYES WHILE ASSISTING A WELDER FABRICATING A HOPPER.

EE WAS USING HI-LO TO LOAD BINS, STEPPED OFF W/OUT ENGAGING EMERGENCY BRAKE & HI-LO ROLLED. LEFT FOOT GOT CAUGHT BY WHEEL & WAS FRACTURED.

WHILE CHANGING AN AIR TANK ON WELDING TRUCK, THETANK SLIPPED AND CAUSED THE EE TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL OFF THE TRUCK. THE EE FELL APPROX 3 FT TO THE GROUND.

RAM CAR HIT INJURED IN BACK WHILE OPERATING MINER.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS HELPING LIFT MINER CABLE AND WATER HOSE UP INTO CABLE HANGER WHEN HE EXPERINCED PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING DRILL STEEL IN DRILL POT WHEN A SLAB OF ROCK FELL HITTING HIM ON FOREARM AND HAND.

HAD WIRE HANGING CABLE, WIRE STUCK IN LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING ROCKS FROM STALLED CRUSHER. HE TOSSED A ROCK ASIDE BUT THE ROCK TUMBLED BACK STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT LEG.

STEPPED ON PLASTIC SACK AND LEFT FOOT SLIPPED. RIGHT LEG BUCKLED AND KNEE CAME DOWN ON FLOOR.

THE CONTINUOUS MINER HAD MOVED TO 1 HEADING IN ROOM Y AND WAS SET UP TO START CUTTING THE MINER HELPER HAD JUST WALKED AROUND THE CORNER OF 1 TO 2 CROSSCUT AND WAS STANDING APPROX. 60' INBY S S 1276 WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE FELL FROM THE RIB, STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT LOWER LEG. BROKE 2 BONES IN THE FOOT.

ROUTE III SECTION LAST OPEN CROSSCUT BETWEEN #3 AND 4 ENTRIES. EE HAD JUST FINISHED HELPING ROOFBOLT A CROSSCUT &BACK HIS MACHINE UP. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIS HEAD &NECK.

EE FELT SLIGHT PA9N IN EYE AND REDNESS, DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.

EMPLOYEE SHUT LID TO WATER TANK ON THUMB.

EMP WAS GETTING OFF OF THE GRADER. HE SLIPPED AND GRABBED ONTO THE HANDRAIL INJURING WRIST.

THE EE HAD COMPLTED REPAIRS ON A MAN LIFT ON THE#18 SHOVEL. AND AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RELEASE THE MAN LIFT FROM ITS LOCKING PIN THE MAN LIFT DROPPED DOWN CAUSING HIM TO LOOSE BALANCE AND FALL TO THE GROUND.

EE WAS USING THE WATER BLASTER TO BREAK A FORUTHSTAGE TOWER PLUG. WHILE STEPPING UNDER THE LANCE, HOT MATERIAL CAME OUT OF THE PORT, STRIKING THE EE ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD AND BACK.

EE STATED THAT WHILE TRYING TO STEP #4 ID FAN SHAFT FROM TURNING WITH A 1"X 2" BOARD, HE USED A PIPE WRENCH. HE STATED THAT HE DIDN'T GET HIS HAND OUT IN TIME AND THAT THE PIPE WRENCH SPUN AROUND AND CAUGHT/HIT HIS RIGHT HAND CUTTING & BREAKING HIS LITTLE FINGER AND THE FINGER NEXT TO IT. POWER WAS OFF TO THE FAN & LOCKED OUT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING PARTS WITH A WIRE WHEEL WHEN A PIECE OF WIRE BECAME LODGED.

A PIECE OF ROCK 2'W, 3'L, 1-2" THICK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS STRIKING EMP ON HEAD.

EE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLT, WHEN THE PIN BOARD AND PLATE FELL AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT RING FINGER.

EE & PARTNER WEREMAKING A BELT SPLICE. EE WAS FEELING NAILS TO SEE IF PROPERLY SEATED. PARTNER DIDN'T SEE EE'SHAND & HIT HIM WITH HAMMER. HURRYING TOO FAST TO GET BELT SPLICED.

EE ALLEDGES THAT WHILE SERVICING A LOADER HE SLIPPED AND MISSED A STEP BUT GRABBED A RAILING AND PULLED MUSCLES IN HIS BACK AND NECK.

PERSON INJURED WAS MOVING ROCK (APPROX 2'X2'X4"0 OUT OF WAY FOR BOLTER, STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING AN OVERBURDEN DRILL IN THE PIT DURING A RAIN STORM WHEN LOOSE MATERIAL FELL FROM THE HIGHWALL STRIKING THE DRILL.

UNLOADING METLA BUIDLING FROM TRAILER AND GOT CAUGHT UNDER CORNER OF BUILDING AND SMASHED RIGHT HAND.

EE CLAIMS THAT WHILE PICKING UP A 2 FT METAL MANDOOR AND TRYING TO MOVE A CEMENT BLOCK WITH HIS FOOT, HE HURT HIS BACK. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS NOT CLEANING WORK AREA PRIOR TO WALKING IN IT. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES & REGS WASW A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP WAS NOT WORN (BACK SUPPORT), MINER PROFICIENCY MAY BE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIP/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.

BOLTING TOP IN LOW COAL, AHD TO BEND BOLT TO GET IN HOLE, WHEN HE TRIED TO STRAIGHTEN BOLT BACK UP, HURT LOWER BACK. THIS REPORT WAS MADE KNOWN TO TEAYS BY EE 7-1-97.

WHILE OPERATIN CONT. MINER, ROCK FELL ON VICTIMS' FOOT.

LOADING MINER BITS ON DAOLLY AND STRAINED BACK.