Mining Incidents in July 1997

EE WAS OPERATING A ROCK TRUCK. WHEN HE BACKED OVER A SPOIL BANK.

EE WAS ON EXCAVATOR. HE WAS IN LOOSE ROCK ON HILLSIDE. HE LOST CONTROL WHEN TRACK GOT ON ROCK. THE EXCAVATOR ROLLED PINNING THE EE UNDERNEATH.

EE WAS DRIVING DOWN THE HAUL ROAD; FROM PERONNEL ACCOUNTS AND OVSERVATION OF THE ACCIDENT SCENE, IT IS THEORIZED THAT THE DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE AND HIT THECABLE LINE BERM (4'X'4'X 3') FOR APPROX. 100', STRUCK A PORTION OF THE BERM, AND CATAPULTED OVER THE BERM FALL APPROX. 40-42' RESULTING IN THE DRIVER'S DEATH.

CONTRACTOR, MCCADDEN ENTERPRISES, WAS REPAIRING LOCOMOTIVE OWNED BY ALAMO GULF COAST RAILROAD WHEN A WHEEL AND BRAK ASSEMBLY FELL FROM BLOCKING AND STRUCK CONTRACTOR IN HEAD.

SKIDSTEER BOOM LIFTED & CAUGHT HIM IN THE CHEST. IT INJURED THE LIVER. HE INTERNALLY BLED TO DEATH.

WHILE 2 EES WERE LOADING BOREHOLE, 1 CARTRIDGE OF EXPLOSIVE BECAME LODGED. WHILE TRYNG TO DEAL WITH THE LOADGED CARTRIDGE, IT DETONATED. THE DETONATION CAUSED SIGNIFICANT BODILY INJURY TO TWO EES. THE FORCE OF THE DETONATION CAUSED ONE EE TO GO OVER THE HIGHWALL; THIS EE DIED.

A LARGE ROCK FELL FROM THE MINE ROOF IN THE INTERSECTION OUTBY THE CONTINOUS MINING MACHINE STRIKING 2 EMPLOYEES.

A LARGE ROCK FELL FROM THE MINE ROOF IN THE INTERSECTION OUTBY THE CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE STRIKING 2 EES.

A 20' CUT WAS TAKEN IN THE 7 ENTRY. THE 14-10 MINER WAS BACK OUT TO SUPPORTED TOP. THE MINE OWNER, MINE FOREMAN, ELECTRICIAN AND MINER OPERATOR WERE INSPECTING THE PAN ON THE 14-10 MINER. A HO RSEBACK 40'X20'XTO 10' WIDE AND 4' TO 5 1/2' THICK FELL ON EE.

A LARGE ROOF FALL OCCURRED THE INTERSECTION AREA AS DESCRIBED ON THE ACAMDING 7001 FORM WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF EE. WHOSE BODY WAS RECOVERED ALONG THE CONT. MINER WHERE HE WAS APPARENTL Y HELPING WITH THE CABLE AT THE TIME OF THE FALLTHIS AREA WAS PERMANENTLY SUPPORTED.

EE WAS WORKING ON THE SILVER JET WASHER HIGH PRESSURE AFTER MAKING REPAIRS TO THE WASHER. HE HAD TO REPLACE THE HUBBLE TWIST LOCK PLUG AND CABLE. HE IMPROPERLY WIRE AT WASHER CONTROL. THE 490 VOLTS 3 PHASE PLUG WAS WIRE WITH A POWER WIRE COUNNECTED TO THE GROUND WIRE PUTTING APPROX. 277 VOLTS ONTO THE WASHER FRAME AND ITS METAL ATTACHMENTS.

DRIVER WAS ATTEMPTING TO CROSS RAILROAD TRACKS WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A TRAIN.

DRIVER FATALLY INJURED WHEN TRUCK WAS STRUCK BY TRAIN AT RR CROSSING.

EE WAS ASSIGNED TO BURN AND WELD ON A BELT CONVEYOR TRANSFER. AFTER RETURNING FROM LUNCH. THE EE STARTED TO BURN METAL WHEN A SLAB OF RIB CAME LOOSE STRIKIN GHIM. CAUSING FATAL INJURIES SIZE O F ROCK 2'X4'X10'.

THE EE WAS OPERATING A FLETCHER ROOFBOLT MACHINE WHEN HE GOT HIS FINGER CAUGHT IN BETWEEN THE DRILL BOOM & SHORT ARM. THIS RESULTED IN A PARTIAL AMPUTATION OF THE RIFHT MIDDLE FINGER. THE EE R ETURNED TO WORK ON HIS NEXT SCHEDULED SHIFT. THIS IS A DEGREE 6 CLASSIFICATION, 17 NON LOST TIME, NON-INTERMEDIATE INJURY.

EE STATED THAT WHILE LIFTING ON THE CUTTER MOTOR COVER ON THE MINER HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION BEHIND THE NAVEL AREA OF HIS STOMACH. HE CONTINUIED TO WORK UNTIL 8-18-97 AND HE HAD HERNIA SURG ERY. THE INVESTIGATION WAS COMPLETED ON 10-13-97

EE WAS HOISTING A DECANTOR PLANETARY USING A 11/2 TON CHAIN HOIST. HE WAS HOLDING THE CHAIN WITHHIS LEFT HAND WHEN AN EYE BOLT BROKE, CUASING THE CHAIN TO JERK. HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER WAS CAUG HT IN THE CHAIN.

FINGERS WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN HI-VOLTAGE CABLE AND GUIDE ROLLER AS IT WAS BEING WOUND ON SPOOL. TIP OF RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER WAS AMPUTATED BEHIND NAIL BED. RIGHT FOREFINGER WAS FRACTURED AND LAC ERATED.

AFTER REPLACING SHOES ON A CRUSHER, EE NOTICED BULGE ON HIS LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN.

EE WAS CLEANING OUT OVERLOADED BUCKET ELEVATOR USED 3/4 TON LIFTING DEVICE TO RAISE BUCKET TO ACCESS BOTTOM OF ELEVATOR. WHEN ENOUGH MATERIAL WAS REMOVED, ELEVATOR ROLLED BACK. HOOK OF LIFTI NG DEVICE WAS PULLED OUT AND STRUCK EE IN LEFT EYE. EYE WAS SO SEVERLY DAMAGED IT HAD TO BE REMOVED

INJURED CLAIMS WHILE REMOVING A 3" PIPE WITH A PIPE WRENCH HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER ABDOMEN WHEN HE LIFTED THE PIPE WRENCH. HE WAS WORKING ON WET COBBER FLOOR IN THE CONCENTRATOR.

AMPUTATED DISTAL TIP OF LEFT RING FINGER WHEN THE FINGER WAS ALLEGEDLY STRUCK BY A CHAIN HOOK.

EMPLOYEE STATED: WHEN BENDING A 6' ROOF BOLT, PAIN WAS FELT TO HIS ABDOMEN. THE PAIN CONTINUED; IT WAS DETERMINED IN NO. 17 HE HAD A HERNIA. SURGERY WAS PERFORMED 11-24-97.HIS FIRST DAY AWAY F ROM WORK WAS 11-24-97. IT BECAME A REPORTABLE INJURY ON THAT DATE.

INCREASED PAIN OVER A PERIOD TIME. WENT TO DR WHO REFERRED HIM TO A SURGEON. POSSIBLE HERNIA.

WHILE TIGHTENING BOLTS ON CASE INJURED GOT HIS FINGER BETWEEN CASE & WRENCH WHEN IMPACT GUN WAS ACTIVATED IT PINCHED HIS FINGER WITH THE WRENCH.

WHILE WORKING ON THE SPOKAN CRUSHER EE LIFTED A AVILE AND STRAINED HIS SELF.

EE WAS MOVING BARRELS OF CLEAN UP A.P.T. WHEN HEFELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT GROIN.

EE STATES THAT THE TRUCK HE WAS OPERATING HIT A LARGE ROCK IN THE ROADWAY, WHICH CAUSED HIM TO BOUNCE AROUND IN THE SEAT. HE FELT A SEVERE PAIN IN THE LOWER RT QUADRANT OF HIS ABDOMEN AREA. HE WAS TRANSPORTED BY CO-WORKER TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE UNDERWENT SURGERY.

A ROD FELL FROM THE ROTATION UNIT. REACHED OUT TO PUSH IT AWAY FROM THE CONTROL PANEL AND IT CHOPPED OFF THE END OF LEFT THIRD FINGER.

REMOVING COVER PLATE ON HOSE ON BACK OF SHOVEL BUCKET TO INSTALL NEW METAL HYDRAULIC TUBE HAD SAFETY BARS IN HOLES TO REMOVE BOLTS. STARTED REMOVING SAFETY BAR TO REMOVE PLATE AND PLATES SLIP

EE WAS REMOVING ROCK FROM THE TRACK ENTRY WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS INDEX FINGER LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE 2 ROCKS EE SUFFERD AN AMPUTATION OF THE LEFT INDEX FINGER TO THE FIRST JOINT.

6" #14 PIN ON 106 DRAGLINE SLIPPED AMPUTATING END OF LEFT LITTLE FINGER MSHA RPT AMPUTATION.

EE STATED HE WAS BARRING STONE SOMETHING PULLED IN RIGHT GROIN AREA. EE INFORMED COMPANY MANAGEMENT ON 7-7-97 THAT HE WAS EXPERIENCING DISCOMFORT FROM A GROIN MUSCLE PULL THAT HE STATED OCCURE D APPROX. 2-3 MONTHS AGO. EE THEN SOUGHT MEDICALTREATMENT AND WAS ADVISED HE HAD A HERNIA WITH SURGERY SCHEDULED FOR JULY 21, 1997.

BOLT MACHINE OPERATOR LET STAB JACK DOWN AND ATRS CANOPY HIT OPERATOR ON HEAD.

AUTO MECHANIC STEPPED DOWN FROM THE PUSH ARM OF #343 RUBBER TIRED DOZER LOCATED IN THE MINE SERVICE BUILDING. THE DISTANCE TO THE FLOOR WAS 2.5-3'. THE EMPLOYEE, WHO HAS A HISTORY OF CHRONIC BACK PAIN, SUFFERED A LUMBER STRAIN.

EMP WALKING METAL STAIRS DURING RAIN. FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER EMP AND HE SLID DOWN THE REST OF THE STEPS.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING TIMBERS ON PILLAR SECTION. HE PICKED UP A TIMBER AND PULLED A MUSCLE I HIS LOWER BACK.

WHEN THE INJURED BACKED UPT TO DUMP AREA, THE ROCK TRUCK ROLLED TO THE RIGHT OFF OF DUMP AREA RESULTING IN A LACERATION ABOVE THE LEFT EYE AND A TWISTED LEFT VERTEBRAE. THIS ACCIDENT WAS NOT D UE TO THE MINER'S EFFICIENCY, SKILLS AND TRAINING AND THERE WER ADEQUATE BERMS IN PLACE AT THE DUMP AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN LONGWALL FACELINE WHEN HE HIT HIS HEAD ON A LOW SHIELD, JAMMING NECK AND RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE GOT CONCRETE MIX IN BOOT CAUSING A BURN TO HIS FOOT. INJURY TO LEFT FOOT.

WHILE WATCHING THE CONT. MINER CABLE, SLATE FELL FROM THE RIB LINE STRIKING EE ON THE HEAD, RIGHT ARM AND RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING UNTANGLE TRAILING CABLES AND WHEN HE REACHED ABOVE HIS HEAD HE FELT PAIN. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS OVEREXERTION. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQ UIPMENT WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/ SYSTEMS WAS A FACTOR.

EE AGAIN PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY.

THE CREW WAS IN THE PROCESS OF EXCHANGING THE ECCENTRIC GEARING FOR THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. THE OLD WAS COMING OFF THE MATTON TRUCK AND THE NEW WAS GOING TO BE LOADED. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING THE EYE BOLTS OT OF THE NEW ECCENTRIC WHEN HIS LEFT HEEL SLIPPED INTO THE GEARING TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE. WAS SEEN BY A PHYSICIAN ON 10-16-97 DIAGNOSIS: LEFT KNEE STRAIN. SURGERY 1-12-98/LOSING TIME.

EE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EE CHANGE SCREENS ON THE SHAKER WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL ON WALKWAY. SURFACE WAS WET DUE TO THE RAIN.

EMPLOYEE LIFTS STONE FROM 20-80# ON A CONTINUOUS BASIS. HE HAS FOUND NUMBNESS IN ARM LATE IN JULY. HE WAS SEEN BY THE NURSE AT THE JOHN C BURKE CENTER WAUPUN. AN APPOINTMENT IS BEING MADE W./D R. NAGLE, 96 S. HARRIS WAUPUN.

EE WAS GETTING DRILL STEEL OUT OF HOLE WHEN QA PIECE OF STEEL FELL TRAPPING FINGER BETWEEN DRILL HEAD AND STEEL.

ON THE LONGWALL SECTION NEAR THE TAILGATE SIDE OF THE FACE, AS SHIELD #174 WAS BEING LOWERED, A ROCK ROLLED OFF TOP OF THE SHIELD, LANDED ON THE PAN LINER, & BOUNCED OFF, STRIKING EE'S LOWER L EFT LEG, CAUSING HIS ANKLE TO BOW INWARD.

EE STEPPED OFF THE PLANT, LOST HIS FOOTING, AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

PUTTING GUARD ON MINER DROPPED GUARD ON RIGHT THUMB.

EE WAS PITCHING ROCKS INTO BUCKET. HE GRABBED ONE FROM WALL AREA AND A LARGER ROCK SLIDE DOWN ON HIS FINGERS.

AN ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN THE DIESEL SCOOP ROLLED FORWARD CAGUHT ONE EE S LEFT LEG BETWEEN CONTINUOUS MINER SIDE RAIL AND SCOOP BUCKET CAUSING FRACTURE TO EE S LOWER LEFT LEG.

EE CUTTING BELT LINE WITH UTILITY KNIOFE WHEN KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING EE'S RIGHT KNEE.

ROCK FELL BETWEEN LAST BOLT & ATRS. ROCK WAS APPROX 1" X 4' X 3'.

A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE RIB STRIKING EE ON THE RIGHT FOREARM, CUTTING HIM. SUTURES WERE REQUIRED.

KICKING BAG OFF BAGGING MACHINE & GOT FOOT CAUGHT ON BAG TWISTING FOOT.

EE WAS SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO CLEAR WET MATERIAL FROM BIN. AS HE SWUNG HAMMER HIS RIGHT THIRD FINGER STRUCK AN ANGLE SUPPORT, CUTTING IT. EE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL & FINGER WAS SUTURED, EE MIS SED 2 DAYS FROM WORK & IS NOW BACK TO WORK.

EE WAS PULLING CABLE DURING SHIFT. AFTER HIS SHIFT WHEN HE HAD GONE HOM AND LAID DOWN TO REST, HE WAS AWAKENED BY A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN IN HIS NECK AND SHOULDER AREA.

INJURED WAS STANDING NEXT TO A TRUCK CRANE. WHEN THE OPERATOR BEGAN TO PUT DOWN THE OUTRIGGERS. THE OUTRIGGERS LANDED ON HIS FOOT.

EMP WAS WORKING ALON 5 RT 15 ROOM BELT WHEN THE BELT STOPPED. SHE AND 2 OTHER EMPS WERE WALKING ALONG THE BELT. HER FOOT SLIPPED IN THE MUD CAUSING HER LEFT FOOT TO STRIKE THE TAKEUP STRUCTURE

ALLEDGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHILE HE WAS PULLING ROCKDUST HOSE AND WALKING BACKWARDS, TRIPPED AND FELL. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, MINING E QUIPMENT/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (BACK SUPPORT) NOT WORN.

WHILE REPAIRING A MILL CONVEYOR, THE INJURED'S SHIN WAS BUMPED BY A FELLOW WORKER WHILE RATCHING WITH A WRENCH ON BELT CLAMPS.

EE WAS WALKING IN #3 ENTRY, SECTION 2 SOUTH, WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A ROOF BOLT. EE SUFFERED A CERVICAL STRAIN, LEFT KNEE STRAIN & A MILD CHI [?].

EE WAS CARRYING ROCKS OUT OF A SMALL DITCH. HE LOST HIS FOOTING SHIFTING HIS WEIGHT & STARTED TO HAVE BACK PAIN.

INJURED WAS HELPING ANOTHER EE INSTALL A METAL COVER [SADDLE] FOR A LONGWALL SHIELD. AS THE LIFTED THE SADDLE THE INJURED'S LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS CAUGHT IN A PINCH POINT BETWEEEN THE SADDLE & SHIELD RELAY BAR. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACUTRE TOTHE TIP OF THE LEFT RING FINGER. FIRST LOST WORK DAY WAS 8/2/97.

EE WAS CUTTING TRUCK BOX SUPPORT [TUBE & GUSSETS] FROM TRUCK BOX. AFTER ONE SIDE WAS CUT LOOSE THE EE MOVED TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TUBE & CUT IT LOOSE. WHEN THE BOX SUPPORT FELL THE SPINTED END OF THE GUSSET CAUGHT THE EE IN THE BACK OF HIS LEFT CALF.

ROCK TRUCK DRIVER BEING LOADED STEPPED OUT OF TRUCK TO STRETCH, STEPPED ON A ROCK, TRIPPED & FELL.

INJURED EMP WAS WALKING TO WAREHOUSE PARTS TRUCK TO RECEIVE HOSES THAT HAD JUST BEEN DELIVERED. AS HE WALKED BY LUBE TRUCK THAT HE WAS WORKING ON,HE EITHER TRIPPED OR STEPPED ON A ROCK IN THE GROUND CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO GROUND. THE INCIDENT RESULTED IN A SPRAIN TO HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

HE WAS MOVING STONE ON A PALLET.HE TURNED TO PICK UP ANOTHER PIECE OF STONE. HE CUT HIS RIGHT LEG ON SHIN ON A PIECE OF STONE.

WHILE REMOVING CONTROL LINE AND TELEPHONE LINE FROM ITS HANGERS EE TWISTED AND FELT PAIN IN BACK.

LEANING OVER ON CATWALK TO CUT BEARING, TWISTED BACK.

THE EE WAS OPERATING A CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A SECTION OF ROOF ROCK FELL CONTACTING HIS LEFT LOWER LEG. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE TO BOTH THE TIBIA & FIBULA BONES. HIS POSITION WAS 7 ROWS OF ROOF SUPPORT FROM THE FACE. THE ROOF HEIGHT WAS 5'. THE SIZE OF THE SECTION OF ROOF THAT FELL WAS 52" X 38" X 2" THICK.

EE SHOVELING 1B BELT ON OVERCAST.

EMP WAS PLACING A CEMENT BLOCK ONT HE LONGWALL CONVEYOR BELT TO MARK A CHANGE INT HE COAL. EMP FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EE WAS WORKING ON 14"X14" DOOR PORT REPLACING DOOR LATCH. WHOLE LATCH WAS OFF, AN AIR CANNON DISCHARGE INSIDE THE VESSEL, PUSHING DOOR OPEN AND DUSTING WORKER.

EE STATES I WAS PUSHING CENTER LIFTING CABLE TO FLOOR WITH FOOT AND KNEE POPPED. FELT LIKE A LIGAMENT WENT OUT OF PLACE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING A HOLE AND LET THE POT DOWN. THE DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF THE HOLE STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT HAND. HE WAS WORKING IN #7RIGHT BREAK.

THE EE WAS CLEANING A ROCK SPILL IN THE SECONDARY CRUSHER WITH SOME CO WORKERS. AS HE WAS SHOVELING HE TWISTED HIS BACK AND COULDN'T MOVE. HE WAS EXAMINED AT THE E.R. AND FOLLOW UP TREATMENT M AY BE NECESSARY. THE EE WAS NOT RELEASED FOR WORK.

THE EE AGGRIVATED A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION TO HIS SHOULDER WHEN INSTALLING CORRIGATED TIN SHEETS [20 GAUGE] ONTO THE SIDE OF THE FINE ORE BUILDING. A SUBSEQUENT EXAMINATION & TREATMENT FOR PER SISTENT SHOULDER JOINT PAIN HAS BEEN NECESSARY AS OF 2/5/98. THE EE HAS BEEN PLACE ON LIMITED DUTY WITH LIFTING RESTRICTIONS & PHYSICAL THERAPY WILL BE NECESSARY.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING ROCK DUST INTO A SCOOP BUCKET HE LIFTED AND TWISTED RESULTING IN A STRAIN TO THE LOWER BACK AREA.

A M-45 MACH OFF-ROAD TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED BY THE HITACHI EXCAVATOR AT THE TOP OF A RAMP LEADING INTO A SEDIMENT POND. AFTER EMPTYING A BUCKE TWAS INTO THE BED OFTH ETRUCK. THE OPEATOR OBSE RVED THE TRUCK STARTED TO ROLL BACKWARDS. THE UNATTENDED TRUCK ROLLED BACKWARDS ABOUT 15' STRIKING THE CAB OF THE EXCAVATOR, INURING THE OPERATOR.

EMP WAS DRIVING A 45 TON EUCLID.THE STEERING WHEEL JERKED CAUSING HIS RIGHT ARM/SHOULDER TO JERK.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STAIRS INSIDE OF PLANT. AS HE WAS COMING DONW STAIRWAY HE MISSED THE BOTTOM STEP CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT KNEE. ON 10-30-97 HE HAD OUTPATIENT SURGERY AND B EGAN MISSING TIME FROM WORK DUE TO KNEE INJURY.

EE STATED THAT WHILE MOUNTING 3 PULL, HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE DECK, CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND. EE ALSO STATED HE HAD GREASE ON THE BOTTOM OF HIS BOOTS.

TRAMMING BRIDE BACKWARDS CAUGHT FOOT UNDER CATS.

WHILE SETTING A TIMBER, APIECE OF SAWDUST GOT IN HIS LEFT EYE.

WAS DUMPING OIL DRAIN PAN WITH APPROX 10 GALLONS OF OIL. FELT MUSCLE PULL IN GROIN AREA. DIAGNOSIS WAS HERNIA. SURGICALLY REPAIRED 8/15/97, MEDICAL TREATMENT NOT SOUGHT UNTIL 8/4/97.

UNLOADING STEEL POSTS FROM SCOOP PULLING ON FORKS OF SCOOP TO SPREAD THEM. STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING A 125 H.P. PUMP. PUMP HAD LOST PRIME AND WAS RUNNING WITHOUT WATER. HE TOOK VALVE BONNET OFF AND STEAM ESCAPED AND BURNED HIM AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE.

TWO EMPLPOYEE WERE CHECKING A 125 H.P. PUMP. PUMP HAD LOST PRIME AND WAS RUNNING WITHOUT WATER. THE OTEHR EMPLOYEE TOOK VALVE BONNET OFF AND STEAM ESCAPED & BURNED THEM BOTH.

EE WAS AT #20 MINER, LIFTING A GUARD FOR THE RIGHT ANGLE DRIVE GEAR BOX, WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS SCRAPING SOME SLATES IN THE STEEL RACK WHEN HE FELT A POP IN HIS SHOULDER.

WHILE CLEANING UP A SCRAPYARD AREA, A HYDRAULIC CRANE BEING USED WAS SET UP WITH LITTLE ROOM BETWEEN THE EXTENDED OUTRIGGER AND SOME SCRAP METAL. EMPLOYEE CROSSED OVER THE OUTRIGGER (APPROX 3 1/2') AND WHEN HE CONTACTED THE GROUND HE LANDEDIN SUCH A WAY THAT HE TWISTED HIS KNEE CAUSING SEVERE PAIN TO HIS RIGHT KNEE.

ORIGINAL INJURY 12-26-96. STARTED MISSING TIME AGAIN 7-29-97.

AS THE EE REMOVED THE STEEL CABLE FROM THE TIMBER HEAD OA EMPTY BARGE IT SPRANG BACK. CAUSING THE EE JERK BACK AND STRIKING HIS RIGHT ELBOW AGAINST THE TIMBER HEAD.

EE WAS DOING SOME ARC WELDING & DEVELOPED FLASH BURNS TO THE EYES. THERE WAS A POSSIBLE LEAK IN THE WELDING HOOD HE WAS USING.

EE WAS HELPPING INSTALL A NEW SPEED REDUCER ON OUTSIDE BELTDRIVE. HE WAS LEANING OVER & TWISTING TO THE LEFT WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEES WERE BUILDING A BLOCK STOPPING ON THE RETURN SIDE OF THE UNIT. EMPLOYEE JUST PLACED A BLOCK ON THE WALL AND HAD TURNED TO GET MORE BLOCKS OFF THE TRAILER. EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING TWO B LOCKS TO THE WALL WHEN A SLAB OF ROCK WHICH MEASURED 6' X 5' BY 4" THICK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTSSTRIKING EMPLOYEE ON HARD HAT & SHOULDER. ROCK SLID CAUSING ABRASIONS/CONTUSIONS LEFT LEG < KNE

SLIPPED OFF DOZER TRACT - BRUISED LEFT KNEE.

THE EE WAS HELPING DRILL HOLES IN THE COAL IN ADVANCE OF MINING. AS HE WAS PUSHING ON THE DRILL HE INADVERTENLY HURT HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS HELPING TO PUT THE PINS INTHE CONVEYOR THE OTHR EE BEGAN STRIKING THE PIN WITH A HAMMERTHE HEAD OF THE HAMMER CAME OFF STRIKING EE INTHE FACE/.

EE WAS GRINDING ON A METAL HUB FOR AN EIMCO SCOOP TO REPLACE THE HUB. HE FELT DIRT IN HIS EYE. THE DR FOUND A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS RIGHT EYE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

WHILE UNLOADING CARLOAD OF 48" BELT STRUCTURE, INJURED TWISTED LOWER BACK UNDER LOAD.

EE WAS BUILDING WOODEN STEPS OVER AN OVERCAST. HE WAS HIDING A NAIL IN HIS LEFT HAND AND HITTING THE NAIL WITH A HAMMER. HE STRUCK THE TOP OF HIS LEFT HAND WITH THE HAMMER, BRUISING THE BACK O N HIS HAND, AND FRACTURING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER

EE WAS TRAMMING THE MINER INTO THE FACE. HE WAS ABOUT 20 FT FROM THE FACE WHEN A ROCK (MEASURINGAPPROX 3'X3'X11/2"THICK) FELL FROM BETWEEN THE ROOF MATS. THE ROCK STRUCK EE ON THE HEAD AND THE N HIT EE ONT HE SIDE OF HIS RIGHT FOOT AS HE WASTRYING TO JUMP OUT OF THE WAY. THE RESULTANT DR VISIT REVEALED THAT EE CONTRACTED AN ARCH SPRAINDUE TO THE INCIDENT ABOVE.

HORSE PLAYING ON MINE YARD & FELL ON SELF RESCURER.

INJURED DEVELOPED AN INFECTION IN THE RIGHT TOE DUE TO POOR CIRCULATION CAUSED BY A PREVIOUS INJURY IN 1986.

EE WA BENDING BOLTS WHEN HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. *ON RESTRICTED DUTY*

BACK PAIN - LIFTING AND PULLING ON MINER CABLE.

LIFT ROCK AND HIS BACK STARTED HURTING HIM.

EE STEPPED OFF DOZER AND TWISTED ANKLE.

EE EXPERIENCED CHEST PAIN DURING NORMAL JOB PERFORMANCE. ALL DIAGNOSTIC TESTING PROVED NEGATIVE.

EE WAS HELPING UNLOAD A PALLET OF CRIBS ( 4' WOOD) TWO PALLETS WERE STUCK TOGETHER AND HE WAS USING A BAR TO PRY APART, WHEN A BUNDLE OF WEDGES FELL, STRIKING HIM ON THE FINGER. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS. COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS NOT ADEQUATE, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, MINING SYSTEMS A FACTOR.

CLIMBING DOWN LADDER & HAD WRENCH IN HIS HAND AND SLIPPED OFF LADDER.

THE DTP WATER COUPLING BEARING ON THE LONGWALL TAILDRIVE HAD FAILED AND WORK WAS BEING DONE TO UNBOLT THE COUPLING FLANGE FORM THE CLUTCH. EE HAD HIS HAND ON THE WRENCH BEING USED TO SEE HOW M AY BOLTS WERE LEFT TO BE REMOVED, WHEN THE CONVEYOR CHAIN SUDDENLY MOVED. WHEN THIS OCCURRED THE WRENCH ALSO MOVE EE'S LEFT HAND WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE WRENCH AND THE COUPLING HOUSING. FRACT

EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING AND A PIECE OF ROCK FELL BETWEEN THE LAST BOLT INSTALLED AND THE HOLE WAS HE WAS DRILLING STRIKING HIM IN THE BACK. HE BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 7-31-97.

CLEANING OUT BEHIND CONDUIT WITH HAND & STRAINED LIAGMENTS IN HAND.

EE WAS STANDING NEXT TO A SUSPENDED ROLL OF CONVEYOR BELTING AS BELTING WAS BEING PULLED OFF THEREVOLVING ROLL. A SUPPORT CHAIN BROKE, STRIKING THE EE ON THE RIGHT LEG ABOVE HIS KNEE.

WHEN CHANGING THE DRILL STEEL HE FELT PAIN IN CHEST BUT CONTINUED TO WORK AFTER RESTING 5-10 MINS 11 AM. RESCUE WAS CALLED APPROX 1 PM PAIN INCHEST WORSENED. EMERG ROOM DR SAID EMP SHOULD NOT WORK FOR 24 HRS. STRAINED MUSCLE.

PUTTING BED CABLE UP ON TRUCK 13940.

EE WAS PULLING THE DRILL UP HILL IN MUD WIHT A D88 DOZER. WHEN THE CHAIN BROKE. THE CHAIN WRAPPED AROUND EE'S LEFT SHIN CAUSING A CUT AND BRUISING.

THE WASH DOWN HOSE ON THE MINER ACCIDENTLY WAS TURNED ON WHICH THREW A PIECE OF ROCK STICKING RIGHT EYE.

JEEP EE WAS OPERATING DERAILED. HE GOT OUT OF THE JEEP AND KNELT DOWN ON BOTH KNEES. EE COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN UP.

EE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS AND TWISTED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING RAM CAR MOTOR ON CAR. THERE WAS OIL IN UT BUCKET AND EMPLOYEE FELL SPRAINING LEFT AND RIGHT SHOULDERS.

EE WAS MOVING PAST #3 BELT HEADER WHEN HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

SEE ATTACHED DESCRIPTION: EE & CO-WORKER WERE INTHE PROCESS OF ADDING A NEW SECTION OF VENTILATION TUBING. WHILE HOISTING IT INTO PLACE WITH AN AIR TUGGER LOCATER ON THE COLLAR, IT HUNG UP ON A WALL BRACKET. EES WERE USING A PRY BAR TO DISLODGE IT, WHEN THE VENT TUBING ABRUPTLY BROKE LOOSE & SPRANK UPWARD. BOTH EES WERE STRUCK BY THE RELEASED TUBING. EE SUSTAINED HEAD INJURIES.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN #3 ENTRY OUTBY, FACE AREA 1SW. SECTION AT SPAD #6579. A SMALL ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING HIM ON RIGHT SHOULDER. Y

EMPLOYEE HAD A PISTON IN A VICE AND WAS PULLING ON AN END WRENCH. THE PISTON SLIPPED OUT OF THE VICE. THE EMPLOYEE LOST HIS BALANCE, FELL BACKWARDS AND STRUCK HIS LEFT RIB CAGE ON THE PIT RAIL ING.

PUTTING A NEW ADJUSTING BOLT IN THE TAIL PULLEY & A PIECE OF DEBRIS GOT IN L EYE. EE CONATINUED TO WORK THE FULL DAY & TOWARDS EVENING THE PAIN BECAME INCREASING WORSE. AT 9:10PM EE WENT TO TH E ER AT CARIOU COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. FOREIGN BODY WAS REMOVED & EYE PATCHED. TYNENOL #3 WAS GIVEN FOR PAIN. NO PERMANENT DAMAGE TO EYE APPEARED TO BE DONE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING COAL AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK. HAS HISTIRY OF BACK PROBLEMS. DIAGNOSED WITH LUMBAR SPONDYLOARTHROSIS.

HE PICKED UP A PALLET AND TWISTED AROUND AND HURT HIS BACK.

HAUL TRUCK (769C) ROLLED BACK OFF A SAND PILE WHILE PREPARING TO DESCEND PILE AFTER DUMPING.

EE STATED THAT SHE RUN OVER ROCK IN ROADWAY STRIKING HER HEAD AGAINST CANOPY STRAINING NECK.

STEPPED OFF DOZER ONTO A ROCK & TWISTED KNEE.

AN OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR CAME ON SITE TO HAUL OUT A LOAD OF ROCK. ON THE WAY OUT LOADED HE LOST AIR PRESSURE ON A STEEP HILL & HAD A TRUCK RUN-AWAY. HE TIPPED THE TRUCK OVER ON A CURVE DUE TO EXC ESS SPEED. THE ACCIDENT WAS CAUSEAD BY MECHANICAL FAILURE & DRIVER INEXPERIENCE. HE WAS TREATED AT THE HOSPITAL & RELEASED.

PORTOPOWER RAM SLIPPED OUT OF HAND AND HIT EE IN THE MOUTH.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST COMPLETED AN INSPECTION OF MODIFICATIONS MADE TO A CATERPILLAR 24H MOTOR GRADER AND WAS MOVING TO DISMOUNT THE MACHINE. WHILE CROSSING FROM A STEP ON THE MACHINE'S HYDRAULIC TANK TO A 6-FOOT STEP LADDER, EMPLOYEE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL TO THE CONCRETE FLOOR BELOW.

REMOVED EX400 RADIATOR CAP & ANTIFREEZ SPURTED ON RIGHT SIDE OF EE'S FACE AND ON RIGHT HAND. 2ND-3RD DEGREE BURNS ON RIGHT CHEEK AND RIGHT HAND.

EMP WAS CLIMBING LADDERS MANY TIMES ON 7-26 AND AGGRAVATED HIS BACK.

WAS OPERATING HAUL TRUCK WHEN SMOKE FILLED CAB. BATTERY "HOT" WIRE SHORTED AND CAUGHT FIRE INSIDE BATTERY BOX- AS WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER STRUCK "SHIN" AGAINST LADDER RUNG.

AS HE WAS TURNING THE STONE & THE TABLE MOVED IN TOWARDS THE SAY & IN WENT HIS THUMB.

AS EMPLOYEE USED HIS RIGHT KNEE TO PUSH A SHOVEL INTO A PILE OF LOOSE MUCK. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

WHILE SHOVELING MATERIAL OFF OF CONVEYOR, EMPLOYEE STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON BUCKET GREASING D-8 CAT. BUCKET BROKE AND EMPLOYEE FELL BACK LANDING ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. EMPLOYEE STATES HE HAS BRUISED SHOULDER.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM POWER CENTER TO DINNER AREA. HE TRIPPED OVER A ROCK FALLING ON HIS RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE HAD CHEST PAIN APPROXIMATELY 1/2 HOUR AFTER HANDLING HATCH COVERS ON FURNACE, PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED NOT TO BE WORK RELATED. NOW ACCEPTED BY WORKERS COMP AS WORK RELATED.

EE WAS HOOKING A SLING UP TO A LENGTH OF 16" PIPE. AS HE TURNED HIS BACK ON THE PIPE IT ROLLED. THE PIPE ROLLED UP ON HIS PELVIS AREA & FRACTURED HIS HIP.

SEE ATTACHED: EE WAS SCRAPING HOPPER & HER BACK STARTAED HURTING. EE REPORTED THIS TO SUPERVISOR. EE WAS TAKEN TO ER DUE TO THE TIME OF THE INJURY. DR AT ER SAID NOT TO WORK OF 2 DAYS, GAVE A PRESCRIPTION, LIFTING RESTRICTIONS OF -5 LBS, LIMITED USE OF R HAND. EE WORKS ROTATING SHIFT, LOST NO TIME, WAS SENT TO CO DR. WHERE EE COMPLINED OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT PAINS INCLUDING R SHOULDE

EE WAS HELPING OTHER EE REPAIR FRONT END ON LARGE TRUCK AND PICKED UP SPINDLE WEIGHTING 70 #. FELT TWINGE IN RIGHT LEG.

EE WAS THROWING 50 POUND BAGS INTO A PRESSWELL. EE HAD JUST TOSSED ON BAG INTO TAHE WELL & WAS TURNING TO REACH FOR ANOTHER WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOW BACK.

EE WERE USING A STEEL BAR & FORKLIFT TO PUSH OUT THE SCREW BARREL FROM A FULLER PUMP. THE EE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE END OF THE BAR AND THE FORKLIFT SURFACE

EE WAS WELDING BRACES FOR A SAFETY PLATFORM WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL BACK ON SHAKER WALL.

SEE ENCLOSED DR'S REPORT: EE STATES THAT THERE WAS SOME TYPE OF FOREIGN MATERIAL, POSSIBLY METAL SHAVINGS FROM A GRINDER, WHICH ENTERED HIS LEFT EYE ON 7/28.

WHILE CARRYING A BOX OF NAILS TO TELEPHONE AREA BACK STARTED HURTING.

EE TRIPPED ON A METAL GRATE IN FRONT OF THE SUPERINTENDANT'S OFFICE AND FELL BENDING BACK TWO FINGERS. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS. COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, MINER PR OFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WASOK, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS GOING TO LOADER PIT TO SERVICE EQUIPMENT. TRUCK STALLED, CAME DOWN HILL BACKWARDS HITTING HILL AND TURNED OVER ON IT'S SIDE.

NORMAL WORK CONDITION. HE WAS COMING DOWN THE STAIRS FROM THE SWITCH HOUSE TO TURN WATER ON. HIS LEFT LEG WAS ON THE GROUND, WHILE HIS RIGHT HAND WAS ON THE RAILING. HE TWISTED HIS BODY TO THE RIGHT & HIS KNEE TWISTED.

SCOOPING RIB, WHEN LOOSE PIECE OF COAL ROLLED OUT INTO DECK OF SCOOP.

RIDING IN MANTRIP WHEN THE TROLLEY POLE CAME OFF AND STRUCK INDIVIDUAL ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD INJURING NECK.

WHILE SERVICING THE SECTION FEEDER, EE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING A 5 GALLON CAN OF OIL.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING TIMBER ON BUCKET OF TRACTOR WHEN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE DROPPED TIMBER, SMASHING EE'S HAND INTO BUCKE TCYLINDER, CAUSING EMPLOYEES THUMB TO BE INJURED.

WHILE HANGING A POWER CABLE, EE SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF COAL OR ROCK & SPRAINED HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS MOVING THE MINER CABLE IN #6 ENTRY. WHEN HE GRABBED THE CABLE TO PULL IT TO THE RIB, HE FELT SEVERE PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

SEE ATTACHED DESCRIPTION: EE & CO-WORKERS WERE IN THE PROCESS OF ADDING A NEW SECTION OF VENT TUBING. WHILE HOISTING IT INTO PLACE WITH A TUGGER LOCATED ON THE COLLAR, THE TUBING ALLEGEDLY HUN G UP ON A WALL BRACKET. EES WERE USING A PRY BARTO DISLODGE IT, WHEN IT ABRUPTLY BROKE LOOSE. THEY WERE BOTH STRUCK BY THE RELEASED TUBING AS IT SPRANK UPWARD. EE SUSTAINED SEVERE HEAD & FACI

SLIPPED AND FELL.

EE WAS DRILLING THE HOLE FOR THE 3RD PIN WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK MEASURING 24"X28"X7" FELL AND STRUCK THE EE ON THE LEFT ARM.

EE WAS HANGING LIFELINE IN THE 1 SOUTH RETURN AND HE SLIPPED ON MUD BOTTOM AND FELL. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS AND MUDDY CONDITIONS. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIV E EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS OK.

PULLING A PIECE OF DRISCOLL PIPE AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS RIGHT LEG ON A MOUNTED TOOL BOX IN A PERSONELL CARRIER WHEN THE PERSONELL CARRIER DERAILED.

EE WAS COUPLING 12" HDPE PIPE TO 12" VALVE. PIPE WAS LIFTED INTO PLACE WITH FORKLIFT. EE KICKIED PIPE TO LINE IT UP. THIS CAUSED PIPE TO POP UP & HIT EE IN THE FACE, CUTTING ABOVE HIS EYE & KN OCKING EE BACKWARDS INTO ANOTHER PIPE, CAUSING ALACERATION TO THE BACK OF HIS HEAD ALSO.

INJURED CLAIMS HE WAS WALKING DOWN STAIRWAY IN PIT DRIVER TOWER. WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THE LAST LANDING FROM THE BASEMENT HE STEPPED ON THE 1ST STEP TO GO DOWN AND HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

THE MINER WAS STANDING ON THE BUMPER OF THE ROCK TRUCK CLEANING THE HEADLIGHTS, AFTER CLEANING ONE SIDE, THE EE STARTED WALKING ACROSS THE BUMPER TO THE OTHER SIDE, THE EE REACHED FOR THE HAND RAIL BUT INSTEAD CAUGHT HOLD OF A MAGNETIC RADIO ANTENNA THAT GAVE WAY CAUSING THE EE TO FALL TO THE GROUND.

WHILE EE WAS FIRE BOSSING MINE A PIECE OF SLATE FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING EE ON TOP OF HIS HEAD RESULTING IN A CERVICAL SPRAIN. WORKS OWL SHIFT CAME OUT EARLY TO FIRE BOSS.

INJURED WAS WALKING DOWN TRACK ENTRY AT END OF SHIFT TO GET INTO PORTAL BUS. STEPPED IN HOLE IN MINE FLOOR. HEAD KNEE POP.

EE WAS OPERATING OVERHEAD CRANE & SAID EXPOSURE TO DUST IRRATED HIS EYES. HE STAYED HOME DURING NEXT SHIFT. NO FIRST AIDE WAS SOUGHT AT PLANT ON DATE OF OCCURANCE OR MEDICAL TREATMENT SOUGHT THE DAY HE STAYED HOME.

WHILE TIGHTENING SHIM BOLTS AT PLANT 2 AREA WITH SLEDGE HAMMER, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMP SAID HE WAS PUTING ENGINE OIL IN ROCK TRUCK.WHEN HE FINISHED HE CLIMBED DOWN LADDER TO BOTTOM STEP AND THEN JUMPED TO GROUND AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN GROIN AREA.THE DISTANCE FROM BOTTOM STEP TO GROUND IS APPROX 40".

EE STATED THAT HAS HE WAS GETTING OFF A DOZER HE WAS MAINTAINING, HE FELL INJURING HIS LEFT SHIN AND KNEE.

EE STATED HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO UNBLOCK #6 RIVER SIDE CHUTE AT RIVER TIPPLE WHEN HIS RIGHT HAND GOT CAUGHT IN THE CHUTE GATE AS IT CLOSED.

EMP WA CARRYING TIMBER WHEN SHE STEPPED IN HOLE AND TWISTED RIGHT LEG. BECAME REPORTABLE 8-5-97.

THE MAN AND A HELPER WERE TRYING TO REMOVE A BEARING FROM A SHAFT. THE MAN WAS HOLDING THE SHAFT AND THE HELPER WAS HITTING THE BEARING WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. THE SLEDGE BOUNCED OFF THE BEARING AND HIT THE MAN ON THE RIGHT WRIST.

EE WAS HANGING POWER CABLE, WHEN HE WAS CRAWLING TO THE NEXT HANGER, HIS HAND WAS PLACED DOWN ON THE POWER CABLE. HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF THE CABLE TURNING HIS WRIST.

EE WAS PULLING SHUTTLE CAR CABLE BY HAND WHEN HE STRAINED LOWER BACK

WHILE SCALING THE MINE ROOF OUTBY THE 013-0 SECTION NEAR THE SECTION TRACK SWITCH, A PIECE OF ROCK THAT EE WAS PULLING DOWN STRUCK HIS FOOT WHICH WAS ON THE MINE TRACK. BRUISED LEFT FOOT.

EE WAS GOING THROUGH AIR-LOCK. STEPPED ON CRIB WHEN HE CAME THROUGH INBY DOOR & TWISTED KNEE.

SLIPPED ON CONVEYOR SPRINGS LAYING ON THE FLOOR.

EE WAS STANDING BESIDE THE MINER IN #7 ENTRY, HITTING ON A HINGE PIN IN THE HEAD OF THE MINER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL STRUCK HIM IN HIS RIGHT EYE.

SPRAINED LOWER BACK.

EE WAS HAMMERING A PIN ON DRAGLINE #1. WHILE HAMMERING, HE WAS IN A TWISTED POSITION. HE FELT A PAIN TO HIS LOWER BACK. AT FIRST IT WAS NOT PAINFUL BUT AFTER 5 HOURS OF WORKING IT STARTED BOTH ERING HIM. EE WILL HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED BY HIS PHYSICIAN "NO WORK FOR 2 WEEKS" FROM 7/28/97 TO 8/11/97.

EE WAS ASSISTING WITH THE ASSEMBLY OF A D11 DOZER. WHILE PULLING ON A STEEL BAR ASSISTING IN REMOVING A STEEL PLATE FROM THE UNDERSIDE EE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS DRIVING CAT HAUL TRUCK BACKING UNDER LOADER. LOADER OPERATOR ACCIDENTALLY MOVED HOIST LEVEL INTO FREE FALL MODE AND DROPPED THE BOOM WITH A FULL BUCKET ONTO THE SIDE OF HAUL TRUCK, THE IMPACT JARRED THE OPERATOR OF TRUCK QUITE SEVERLY WITH A WHIPPLASH EFFECT.

LOOSENING BOLTS TO REMOVE THE CUTTING EDGE FROM A LOADER WHEN BOLT SLIPPED LOOSE AND CUT THE PALM OF THE HAND.

WAS PERFORMING HIS DUTY ON ROOF BOLTER, HIS JOB CLASSIFICATION, WHEN A ROOF BOLT SLIPPED OUT OF CHUCK STRIKING HIS 1ST FINGER ON RIGHT HAND LACERATING IT AND POSSIBLY BREAKING IT.

THE EE WAS BREAKING ROCK AT THE LONGWALL STAGELOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL. HE WORKED BUT ON MONDAY JULY 28 HE COULD NOT WORK BECAUSE OF PAIN IN THE BACK AND RIGHT LEG. HE BECAME REPORTABLE ON JULY 28.

EE WORKING IN THE MORENCI SECONDARY CRUSHER HIT HIS HARD HAT ON A LOW STRUCTURAL BEAM. THE EE STRAINED HIS NECK WHEN THIS HAPPENED.

WHILE BENDING OVER TO PICK UP SOME MATERAIL EMPLOYEE TWISTED HIS KNEE. **EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN ON JULY 25,1997 DUE TO CONTINUING PROBLEMS.

EMPLOYEE PULLED CABLE TO POWER CENTER. WHEN HE GOT TO POWER CENTER HE FELL TO HIS KNEES AND SAID HE HURT HIS BACK.

EE WAS COMING DOWN OFF DOZEN, SLIPPED & FELL TO GROUND.

HE WAS PULLING A 4-1/2' DRILL STEEL OUT OF A DRILL HOLE WITH DRILL ATTACHED. THE STEEL HUNG IN THE DRILL HOLE WHEN HE WAS PULLING IT OUT.

THE EE HAD ATTEMPTED TO PICK UP THE CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE OFF THE MINE FLOOR WHEN A COAL ROCK RIB ROLLED OFF STRIKING THE EE. THE RIB INJURED THE EE LEGS AND CAUSED A FRACTURE TO THE L-4 VERT EBRA. THE EE HAD A SHORT STAY IN THE HOSPITAL AND HAS BEEN RELEASED. THE ACCIDENT RESULTED IN LOST DAYS.

INDIVIDUALS HAD LIFTED A PUMP FLOAT STAND OUT OF A SUMP AND PLACED IT ON THE MINE FLOOR. THE INJURED CLIMBED UP ON THE STAND AFTER HE HAD TESTED IT TO SEE IF IT WAS SECURE. WHEN HE UNHOOKED IT FROM THE CRANE IT STARTED TO FALL AND HE JUMPEDAND WAS PARTIALLY THROWN IN THE AIR AND LANDED ON THE GROUND APPROX. 10 FT BELOW.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING ROUTINE MAINTENANCE AND SOME REPAIRS ON THE POWERSCREEN. HE SLIPPED AND FELL APPROXIMATELY 5 FEET TO THE GROUND. HE SUSTAINED MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS AND A BROKEN WRIST.

EE WAS WORKING UNDER THE BELT LINE AND WIND BLEW A PIECE OF METAL AND DIRT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS CROSSING MOBILE BRIDGE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL, HURTING HIS RIGHT ANKLE AND LEFT LOWER ABDOMEN.

WHILE PULLING ON WHEEL AT RECLAIMER BUILDING, PULLER R SIDE RIB CAGE MUSCLES.

EE WAS HELPING CARRY A 2'X2'X8'WOODEN FIRST AID BOX UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS. HE WA POSITIONED ON THE ONE END BY HIMSELF. AFTER PLACIN THE BOX DOWNON THE FLOOR, THE EE COMPLAINED OF LOWER BACK PA IN PROMPLTY AFTER STANDING UP.

ADVANCING LOADER INTO FACE STRUCK A ROCK WITH LOADER BUCKET WHICH STOPPED THE LOADER. ON THE IMPACT WITH THE ROCK THE EE RIGHT KNEE STRUCK THEDASHBOARD.. (ORIG WAS NOT CONSIDERED REPORTABLE CONDTION HAS OT IMPROVED. DR IS RECOMMENDING CORRECTIVE SURGERY 2/13/98)

EE IS AN EE OF D.H. CAMPBELL INC. (CONTRACT HAULERS). EE WAS HAULING HIGHWALL MINE ADDCARS TO A DIFFERENT PIT AREA. AS HE STEPPED UP ON THE TRUCK, HE SLIPPED & FELL. HE HIT THE GROUND, BRUISIN G HIS BACK AND KIDNEYS.

EE HAD CLIMBED UP ON THE SIDE OF BAGGER TO TOP OF TANK. HE HAD A HANDHOLD WITH HIS LEFT HAND NEAR THE BUTTERFLY VALVE ACTIVATING ARM. WHEN THE BAG ON BAGGER WAS FULL THE BUTTERFLY VALVE CLOSED . THE ACTIVATING ARM CAUGHT TIP OF EE'S LEFT THUMB.

WHILE GREASING PRIMARY BEARING HE TRIPPED ON HYDRALIC LINE & FELL ABOUT 12' TO LANDING BELOW SPRAINING HIS LOWER BACK & LEFT FOREARM.

MAINTENANCE ON HI-LIFT

EE WAS GOING DOWN STAIRWAY LEADING TO SUMPS WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED . AS HE WAS FALLING, HE CAUGHT THE HANDRAILS UNDERNEATH HIS ARM.

ON 2H OPERATING DD0 BOLTER, WELD BROKE ON BOOM CAUSING BOOM TO STRIKE ON HEAD CAUSING CONCUSION; OFF WORK 7-25-97 FOR POST CONCUSION SYNDROME.

OPERATING CONTINUOUS MINER IN X-CUT BETWEEN #2 +3 ENTRY. A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTER HITTING ON LEFT SIDE OF HEAD AND LEFT KNEE.

WHILE MOVING UP SHIELDS ROCK FELL BETWEEN #64 & #6 AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE'S LEG WAS CAUGHT BY THE UNANTICIPATED MOVEMENT OF A CONVEYOR BELT WHILE HE WAS BREAKING A ROCK THAT WAS WEDGED IN THE TAKE-UP PULLEY. THIS RESULTED IN A RIGHT LEG FRACTURE.

EE WAS STEPPING AWAY FROM THE BATTERY HAULER BATTER ACROSS A BRACE AND STEPPED IN A HOLE TWISTING HIS LEFT ANKLE.

INJURED WAS CHECKING LIGHT WIRE ON DOZER--FELL OFF DOZER HURT LOWER BACK.

BOBCAT TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. CRACKED RIB & BRUISEDSHOULDER

EE WAS REMOVING A ROCK FROM THE DUMP WHEN ANOTHER ROCK SLID DOWN ON HIS FINGER.

STEPPED DOWN FROM DOORWAY GOING TO OUTSIDE OF BUILDING. STEPPED ON WATER HOSE WHICH ROLLED & CAUSED RIGHT ANKLE TO TURN.

PINNER MAN WAS WALKING INTO #4 HEADING HIT HIS HEAD ON SMALL BROW, HURT HIS NECK.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE RIGHT SIDE OF A DOUBLE BOOM ROOF BOLTER AT AN OVERCAST CONSTRUCTION SITE. AFTER COMPLETING INSERTING A ROOF BOLT, A ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE RIB AND A ROOFBOLT AND STRUCK THE CANOPY AND THEN HIS RIGHT FOOT CAUSING A FRACTURE TO THE RIGHT FOOT.

PLUGGED STELL WHILE DRILLING (DRILL ROD) USING CENTRALIZER ARM, AND HAMMERING WITH MACHINE, CUASING PIECE OF STEEL TO CHIP OFF. ADMITS OWN MISTAKE.

MUSCLE SPASM IN BACK. NO ACCIDENT OCCURRED, HE JUST BENT OVER AND STOOD UP AN SAID HIS BACK HURT. HE WAS NOT LIFTING OR MOVING ANYTHING AT THE TIME.

EE WAS CHANGING OIL IN DIFFERENTIAL IN 122100 LOADER, USING CHEATER PIPE ON WRENCH TO REMOVE DRAIN PLUG.

EMP WORKED AT DORA 7 MINE AND WAS TRANSFERRED TODORA #6 MINE. WHILE WORKING AT D#7 HE BUJPED HISKNEE ON THE LO BELT STRUCTURE. HE WORKED UNTIL 7-24 AND HAD TO GET IT OPERATED ON.

EE WALKING ON LINER AFTER A THUNDERSTORM. EE SLIPPED AND FELL DUE TO WATER ON LINER MATERIAL.

EE WAS TAKING PUMP MOTOR OUT OF PINNER WHEN HE FELT & HEARD HIS SHOULDER POP.

CONTRACTOR, MCCADDEN ENTERPRISES, WAS REPAIRING LOCOMOTIVE OWNED BY ALAMO GULF COAST RAILROAD WHEN A WHEEL AND BRAE ASSEMBLY FELL FROM BLOCKING AND STRUCK CONTRACTOR IN HEAD. INJURED EE WAS AS SISTING CONTRACTOR AND INJURED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A BOULDER WITH A CABLE WHEN THE BOULDER SHIFTED CAUSING THE CABLE TO STRIKE EMPLOYEE. EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED CONTUSION TO CHEST AND JAW.

THE EE STATED THAT HE INJURED HIS BACK WHEN HE WAS ACTING RELIEF FOREMAN & WAS DRIVING IN FRONT OF THE CRUSHER & SAW A METAL BED LINER LAYING ON THE GROUND FOR A 170 WABCO HAULTRUCK. THE EE ST ATED THAT HE STOPPED & LOADER THE BED LINER INTOTHE BACK OF THE PU THAT HE WAS DRIVING, DROVE TO THE MAINTENANCE SHOP & UNLOADED THE LINER BY HIMSELF. THE EE DID NOT FILL OUT AN INJURY REPORT

EE WAS OPERATING HYDRAULIC SHOVEL WHEN THE AIR OPERATED SEAT SHOCK ABSORBER BOTTOMED OUT CAUSING OPERATORS SACRUM TO BE BRUISED.

EE WAS STANDING AT #1 SHIELD WAITING FOR PAN TO PUSH. THOUGHT HE WAS STANDING ON DRIVE BUTWAS ONCLEVIS, WHEN IT RAMMED OUT CAUGHT FOOT BETWEEN CLEVIS AND DRIVE. HE LEFT FOOT WAS CRUSHED.

JUST FINISHED CUTTING A 4" PIECE OF 12" CHANNEL IRON AND WAS PUTTING ON MY TRUCK WHEN LOST HIS FRIP AND IT FELL ONTO MY LEFT FOOT.

EE WAS HANGING CABLE IN THE #1 ENTRY ON THE 001 SECTION. WHILE HANGING THE CABLE HE SLIPPED AND FEL ON A PIECE OF ROCK BRUISING HIS KNEE AND SHOULDER. HE FINISHED THE SHIFT AND THEN WENT TO TH E DR.

REVISED REPORT, STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN 7/23/97.

A-10 SET-UP - INJURED TURNED A HIGH PRESSURE HYDRAULIC VALVE ON THE BLOW-UP HOSE TO BLOW THE SHIELD UP & THE HOSE JERKED CAUSING HIM TO FALL. THE JERK CAUSED HIM TO LOOSE HIS BALANCE & FALL. H IS WRIST WAS FRACTURED TRYING TO BREAK THE FALL.HE WORKED 3 DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT. BEGAN MISSING 7-28-97.

WHILE RIDING ON 3WHEELER THE EE LEG WAS STICKING0UT OF THE SIDE OF THE 3 WHEELER AND WAS CAUGHT AGAINST THE RIB.

THE EE WAS SCALING DOWN RIB AND SAW A BIG PIECE FALLING. HE BACKED UP QUCKLY AND STRUCK A BIG ROCK WITH HIS LEFT FOOT AND CALF. HE WORKED UNTIL JULY 28 AND BECAME A REPORTABLE LOST TIME INJURY . THE DR RECOMMENDED HE BE OFF THE FOOT A FEW DAYS.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT SHE WAS PULLING SOME STUCK MATERIAL OUT OF A CONVEYOR WHEN THE MATERIAL CAME LOOSE. SHE FELL BACKWARDS HURTING HER UPPER LEFT LEG AND BACK.

WAS SCREENING BENTONITE WITH LOADER. THE BOUNCING IN LOADER HURT BACK.

EE WAS ELECTRICALLY SHOCKED BY A MAGNETIC STARTER & ELECTRICAL WIRING HOOKED UP BY THE ELECTRIC UTILITY COMPANY - CP&L. CPL EE WAS ABSENT MINDED & DISREGARDED INSTRUCTIONS AS TO HOW ELECTRICAL CONNNECTIONS SHOULD HAVE BEEN WIRED. EE, AFTER BEING SHOCKED, FELL BACK ON THE FLOOR & REINJURED A PREVIOUSLY INJUJRED RIGHT SHOULDER.

THE EE REMOVED THE RADIATIOR CAP ON ON OVERHEATED DIESEL SCOOP WHICH SPRAYED HOT WATER ON HIS FACE, NECK, & RIGHT ARM.

MOVING TRUCK IN A TIGHT SPOT. THE STEERING WHEEL WHIPPED BACK CATCHING RT FOREARM. DISABILITY BEGAN 8-23-97. EE RETURNED TO WORK 10-31-97.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS HAULING WATER INTO PIT AREA, WHILE GOING DOWN A STEEP INCLINE, HE ATTEMPTED TO DOWN SHIFT, THE TRUCK WAS GOING TOO FAST FOR THE BREAKS TO STOP. EMPLOYEE RAN TRUCK INTO A HIGH WALL.

INJURED WENT TO CHECK RADIATOR ON A MANTRIP WHEN THE RADIATOR CAP BLEW OFF BLOWING HAT WATER ON TEH LEFT SIDE OFHIS FACE,NECK AND SHOULDER AREA.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE BENT OVER, NOT LIFTING ANYTHING, AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

WORKING ON TRACK MEIDA MAINS,, SOCKET SLIPPED OFF TRACK BOLT AND HIT RIGHT HAND ON RAIL AND METAL TIE.

EE WAS PULLING ON BAR TO PULL PIN OUT OF HAMMERS. THE BAR SLIPPED & CAUSED PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER & DOWN HIS ARM. EE STARTES LOSING TIME 11/3/97.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AND FOOT SLIPPED, HE FELL AND LANDED ON DUST CONVEYOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING TRACK ON A D10N. RING FINGER ON LEFT HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN PADS WHEN CABLE BROKE ON BOOM TRUCK AND TRACKS FELL. EMPLOYEE HAS NOT RETURNED TO WORK.

EMPLOLYEE, OPERATING ENGINEER, WAS DRILLING AT VULCAN MATERIAL, MCCOOK. THERE WAS SHOT ROAD ROCK AND CHIPS IN THE WAY. HE WAS SHOVELING TO KEEP AWAY FROM DRILL AREA ON JULY 23, 1997 AT APPROX. 10:30 AM. AND IN DOING SO HURT HIS LOWER BACK. HE FINISHED DAY WITH HURT BACK. THE NEXT DAYS HEWORKED 7/24 & 7/25 ON A HYDRAULIC DRILL @ A DIFFERENT LOCATION. HE WAS OFF WORK 7/28 & SAW DR.

CLIMBING DOWN FROM TOP OF TRUCK AND GOT CAUGHT AND FELL OFF TRUCK.

HANGING SHUTTLE CAR CABLE UP, PIECE OF GOB FELL & STRUCK LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHLE STEPPING OFF OF TRUCK AND LANDED ON HIS BACK.

EE WAS HANGING A CAR CABLE WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF TOP COAL ALONG THE RIB FELL HITTIN GHIM ON THE SHOULDER, HE DID NOT GO TO DR UNTIL 8-8-97 HE DID NOT RECEIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT AT THE TIME. HE WENT BACK FOR DIAGNOSITC TESTING MRI ON 9-26-97.DIGANOSED A DRN ROTOR CUFF STARTED MISSING DAYS WORK 10-3-97.

55 GAL OIL BARREL MASHED HAND BETWEEN BUCKET AND BARREL CAUSING FINGER TO BE CUT.

EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF MEASURING BLAST HOLE DISTANCEDS FOR THE SHOT HE HAD BEEN DRILLING. AS HE WALKED ACROSS THE DRILL BENCH. HE STEPPED INTO A CRACK CAUSING HIM TO FALL. HE WAS TAKEN TO HA ZARD ARH WHERE HE WAS X RAYED AND RELEASED. HIS DIAGNOSIS WAS A POSSIBLE PULLED MUSTLE IN HIS LOWER BACK. EXPECTED TO RETURN TO WORK ON 7-28-97.

2 E SECTION HE PICKED UP A CEMENT BLOCK TO BUILD STOPPING. AFTER PICKING UP CEMENT BLOCK HE TURNED TO PLACE IT ON STOPPING AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS BOLTING THE FIRST CUT IN LEFT CROSSCUT NO1 ROOM, ABOUT THE 3RD ROW OF BOLTS, WHEN A ROCK FROM TOP OF RIB, MEASURING 4FT X 1FT X 6IN FELL HITTING EE KNOCKING HIM DOWN PUSHING FOOT UNDE R BOLTER, POSSIBLE BREAKING IT.

EE WAS INSTALLING 2"X9"X18" WEAR PLATES. WHEN HE WAS LIFTING ONE HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT GROIN HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIA AND WENT OFF FOR SURGERY ON OCT 21,1997.

EE HURT BACK PULLING ON MINER CABLE IN BELT HEADING. FELT SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK. REPORTED TO SECTION FOREMAN AT 9:30PM. WENT TO HOSPITAL.

ON 12-18-97 THIS EE BEGAN MISSING TIME FROM WORK DUE TO AN AGGRAVATION OF AN OLD INJURY OF 7-23-97 TO HIS BACK. HE HAD SPINAL SURGERY ON 1-4-95 AND RETURN TO WORK WITH RESTRICTIONS ON 6-5-95. HE WAS INSTALLING A 18"X18" PLYWOOD COVER ON AN ELECTRICAL TRAY WHEN HE REINJURED IT.

WHILE TRYING TO FIX A SCRAPER, SLIPPED AND ALL OF WEIGHT WENT ON ANKLE CAUSING A SPRAIN.

HYDRALIC HOSB RUPTURED ON R60 ECULID RESULTING IN BODY COMING DOWN TO HARD HURTING DRIVERS NECK.

EE WAS LIFTING THE END OF A TORCH CART WHEN HE HSTRAINED HIS BACK.

EE STATED HE WAS WALKING ALONEG THE SE BELT, DRAGGING A WATER HOSE. HE STEPPED ON A BELT ROLLER, WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FALL AGAINST THE RIB. HE HIT HIS LT. ELBOW. HE CONTINUED TO WORK AND SAW DR . ON 7-30.

EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 7-23-97. HE WAS DIAGNOSED OF/HAVING DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE OF THE LOWER BACK.

WALKING TO MAN TRIP-SLIPPED ON LSICK BOTTOM AND TWISTED KNEE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PLACE BLOCK UNDER LEG ON FRAME OF EQUIPMENT DOORS. HE WAS BENDING DOWN AND STARTED TO LIFT UP FRAME AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

BUMPED LEG

EE WAS OUTBY SECTION ON SOUTH MAINS AT 27 BLK. IN X CUT 4 TO 5 AT 1 BELT, WHEN EE ALLEGES HE TURN AND STEPPED ON A PIECE OF PLASTIC UP IN WALKWAY CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS ANKLE AND FALL TO THE GROUND. EE WAS X RAYED AT HOSPITAL AND HAD A FRACTURE TO HIS ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING ALONG THE CONVEYOR BELT AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROCK DUSTING (ON A IDLE SECTION) WHEN HE WALKED AROUND A CORNER HE TIRP ON A ROCK, CAUSING HIM TO FALL STICKIG HIS CHEST ON THE BOTTOM.

WHILE WALKIN IN HIGH TO EMPLOYEE DID NOT OBSERVED LOW AREA. WALKING INTO LOW AREA HEAD FIRST I JURING NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS STRAIGHTENING A ROOF BOLT TO INSTALL IT. HE EXPERINCED PAIN BELOW HIS RIGHT SHOULDER BLADE.

EE STATED HE FELT PAIN IN KNEE--WHILE SHOVELING BELT.

FELL OFF LOADER WHILE GREASING BUCKET PINS.

EE WAS OPERATING BRIDGE CARRIER. DRAW ROCK FELL & HIT EE ON BACK.

ON 7-22-97, EE WAS PERFORMING HIS USUAL DUTIES AS A CONTINOUS MINER HELPER, WHEN HE STEPPED ON A LUMP OF COAL AND REINJURED HIMSELF.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS CLEANING POLUTION DIRT OUT OF HOSE AND HE STARTED FEELING PAIN IN HIS BACK WHILE HE WAS REMOVING DUST CAUSING A STRAIN TO HIS MIDDLE BACK.

EE WAS CLOSING A WATER VALVE WITH A PIPE WRENCH. THE WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING THE EE TO FALL BACKWARDS, LANDING ON HIS BACK & SHOULDER. EE DID NOT WANT MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 7/25/97 AT WHICH T IME THE INJURY BECAME REPORTABLE. PHYSICIAN DIAGNOSED MUSCLE SPAZMS.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING OBSTRUCTION FROM CRUSHER CHUTE WHEN MATERIAL DISLODGED AND MASHED HIS LEFTRING FINGER AND BROKE THE TIP.

EE WAS FUELING BACKHOE WHEN HE GOT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE. HE DID NOT THINK ANYTHING WAS WRONG BUT LATER IN THE EVENING IT REALLY STARTED HURTING SO HE WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM. THEY REMOVED A SMALL OBJECT FROM HIS EYE AND REFERED HIM TO A EYE CLINC.

LEFT MIDDLE KNUCKLE CUT BY A PIECE OF FLYING STEEL, BY A NEARBY EE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING TRUCK AND HIT CHUG HOLE CAUSING STEERING WHEEL TO SPIN, HITTING RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING BOLT WITH WRENCH WHILE USING IMPACT ON NUT. WRENCH SPUN LOOSE & STRUCK HIM.

EE WENT TO THE HOSPTIAL TO HAVE X RAYS OF HIS RIGHT ANKLE TAKEN. THIS WAS RECURRENCE OF THE ACCIDENT 7-25-97 WHEN AN EE ON A FORKLIFT WAS MOVING A BOX OF 10 LB BAGS AND WHILE BACKING OUT, THE BOX ON THE LIFT CAUGHT EE S RIGHT FOOT. HE HAS HAD SWELLING FROM TIME TO TIME SINCE THEN.

EE LIFTED MAT CHAIN IDLER FOR SR508 MINE PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET OUT OF THE CAB OF A SCOOP. HE WAS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION AND WHEN HE PUSHED WITH HIS LEFT FOOT HE STRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS CLIMBING LADDER ON A GO TON TRUCK, WHEN TRUCK STARTED TO SLIDE ON MUD. EE JUMPED OFF TRUCK IN REAR OF TRUCK TIPPING OVER.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER AREA WHILE SPLICING A WATER HOSE. EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN A ROW BOAT.

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK APPROXIMATELY 3 1/2 WIDE 4 LONG 4" THICK FELL FROM RIB AND BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS ON HIS SHOULDERS AND BACK. CASUING A FRACTURED VERTEBRATE.

A ROCK FELL OUT OF THE TOP & STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT HEEL. THE REASON FOR DELAY ON THIS REPORT WAS WAITING ON MEDICAL & THE MINE WAS DOWN FOR 2 WEEKS VACATION PERIOD.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING A RUB RAIL OFF SO HE COULD CLEAN DEMISTER ON MINER ALONG WITH THE OPERATOR. WHEN THEY DROPED THE RUB RAIL AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON LEFT FOOT.

INCREASE IN USUAL ACTIVITY PATTERN CONTRIBUTED TO THORACIC SPRAIN WHILE SHOVELING.

EE WAS USING A AIR ARC WELDER TO CUT A PIECE OF METAL WHILE MAKING REPAIRS TO A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. AS HE WAS CUTTING HE EVENDENTLY ENCOUNTERED SOME RUST BUILD UP THE SLAG POPED AND STRUCK EE IN THE RIGHT EYE. THE EE WAS WEARING A HOOD TYPEEYE PROTECTION.

EE WAS HOOKING ROPE FROM MINER CABLE TO MINER WHEN LEFT TRAM DROPPED OUT ON MINER, CAUSING MINER TO SWING SIDEWAYS STRIKING EE KNOCKING HIM AGAINST RIB.

EE LIFTING BUGGY CABLE WHEN FELT HE COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN UP.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING OUT AN AIR BLOWER. BENT OVER TO TAKE OUT 2" THREADED NIPPLE FROM OLD BLOWER AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE FELL FROM A LADDER INJURING HIS RIGHT ANKLE AND RIGHT KNEE.

INJURED EE WAS DISMOUNTING HIS TRUCK. HIS LEFT FOOT POINTING TOWARDS THE FRONT OF TRUCK AND TWISTING TOWARDS THE BACK OF TRUCK CAUSING THE LEFT LEG TO TWIST IN A RESTRICTED AREA BREAKING THE T IBIAL BONE.

EE HAD STARTED CLEANING RAILCARS HE TOOK A STEEL BAR WEIGHING APPROX. 15 LBS AND STARTED OPENING BOTTOM SLIDES ON A RAILCAR IN THE TWISTING MOTION OF OPENING THE SLIDE HE STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING CHUTE WITH LOADER AND BOOM. HE SPUN AROUND ITNO THE CORNER OF THE BOOM WHICH CAUSED A CUT OR PUNCTURE ON HIS HEAD.

EE EXPERIENCED PAIN AFTER THROWING MINER CABLE OUT OF THE ROADWAY

EE WAS MOVING THE MINER CABLE OUT OF THE ROADWAY WHEN THE CABLE EXPLODED ABOUT 3' AWAY FROM HIM. THE CONCUSSION FROM THE EXPLOSION HIT EE IN THE NECK AND THROAT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING A STEELL PLATE INTO PICKUP TRUCK AND THE LOAD WAS TOO HEAVY.

DENVER WAS CLIMBING LADDER TO CAB OF 85 TON EUCLID ROCK TRUCK AND TWISTED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING WHEN HE SAID HE SEEN A PIECE OF ROCK FALL FROM THE ROOF AND HE WAS TURNING TO CRAWL AWAY FROM BOLTER WHEN HE TWISTED HIS KNEE. HE FINISHED HIS SHIFT.

LIFTING (PICKING UP) PIECES OF CONDUIT PIPE.

EMPLOYEE STARTED TO SIT DOWN AT HIS DESK WHEN SEVERE PAIN OCCURRED IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS HELPING A MECHANIC PICK UP A CUTTING EDGE FOR A BULLBOZER BLADE AND SPRAINED STRAINED HIS ARM BACK.

EE WAS WORKING MOVING ROCK OFF A ROOF FALL BY HAND WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. NOTE THIS IS AN AGGRAVATION OF AN INJURY WHICH INITIALLY OCCURRED ON 6-30-97 WHEN THE EE HURT HIS BACK W HILE LIFTING A DRAWBAR. AT THAT TIME THE EE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION OR MISS ANY WORK. FIRST DAY OFF WORK 7-22-97.

HE WAS RUNNING A LOADER AND HIT A DITCH IN THE ROAD CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS HEAD ON THE TOP OF THE LOADER.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS WALKING TO THE LUNCH ROOM WHEN HE STEPPED INTO A HOLE. HE STATES THAT THE STEP DOWN WAS 18" OR SO. HE STATES THAT STEPPING INTO THE HOLE CAUSED HIM TO TURN HIS BACK AT AN UNUSUAL ANGLE. HE ALSO TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE WHEN HE STEPPED INTO THE HOLE.

EE STATES WAS LIFTING BELT ON EXTRACTOR W/CHAINFALL. TURNED AROUND AND JUMPED DOWN TO DECK AND FELT PAIN IN NECK. COULDN'T TURN HEAD.

DISMOUNTING PROM EMI TRAVEL ON THE PROVIDE S TO PS, EE SLIPPED AND GRABBED ONTO THE HANDLE ATTACTED TO THE SIDE OF THE CAB THUS STRAINING HIS SHOULDER RESULTING IN AN INDENTIFIED CONDITON KNOW N AS A TORN ROTASEL CUFF.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING A BOTTOM BELT ROLLER WHEN HIS FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BELT RAIL AND BRACKET, PINCHING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

WHILE HAMMERING A PIECE OF METAL BROKE OFF AND LODGED IN LEFT FOREARM.

EE LEFT THE DREDGE PUMPING, GOT INTO A MOTOR BOAT TO GO OUT ON PIPELINE TO UNTANGLE TAIL ROPE. THE DREDGE CHOKED OFF AND WHEN HE LOOKED TOWARD THE DREDGE, HE DIDN'T SEE THE PIPELINE SWINGLING TOWARD THE WORK BOAT. HIS RT HAND WAS BRACED ON THE SIDE OF THE WORK BOAT WHERE THE PONTOON AND WORK BOAT CAME TOGETHER MASHING HIS RT THUMB.

JUMPED OUT OF SUPPLY TRAILER & TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

EQUIPMENT OPERATOR WAS STANDING ROLLS OF INSULATION OFF A DELIVERY TRUCK. ONE ROLL WAS NOT BALANCED GOOD & IT FELL BACKWARD JERKING EE'S RIGHT ARM. HE CONTINUED TO WORK AT HIS REGULAR OCCUPATI ON UNTIL 7-30. TESTS REVEALED HE TORE THE RIGHT BICEP LIGAMENT.

EE WALKING OXY/ACETYLENE CART DOWN HILL BY RUBY SHOP, STEPPED ON SMALL ROCK & TWISTED BODY SIDEWAYS.

STEPPED OFF CONVEYOR BELT WITH PUMP IN HAND & HURT BACK.

EMPLOYEE REMOVED SAFETY GLASSES IN ORDER TO WIP SWEAT FROM EYES THEN STEPPED OUT OF CONTROL HOUS WITHOUT PUTTING GLASSES ON AND WAS STRUCK IN LEFT EYE WITH 1/2INCH ROCK CAUSING LACERATION ON C ORNEA.

EE WAS WELDING PLATE & WELD BROKE, PLATE FELL & STRUCK HIM.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING A D10-N TRACK DOZER. HE STEPPED FROM THE PUSH ARM TO THE GROUND AND STEPPED ON A ROCK.

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EMPLOYEE WAS USING A PIPE WRENCH TO PULL ON RADIATOR BOLTS AND SPRAINED WRIST.

BOLTING TOP AT OVERCAST, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM TOP HITTING LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WENT TO GET UP ON BELT WITH KNEE'S TO PULL JABCO AND STEPPED OFF AND HIS LEFT KNEE TWISTED. HE FELT SOMETHING POP AND FELT PAIN.

THE EE WAS POSITIONED NEAR THE RIGHT INBY CORNER OF A FOUR WAY INTERSECTION WATCHING A CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE [INBY] CUT COAL WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK MEASURING APPR OXIMATELY 2' X 6' X 2" THICK BROKE LOOSE FROM THE ROOF & CONTACTED THE INJURED ON THE NECK & BACK. THE SEAM HEIGHT WAS APPROX 6.5' HIGH. THIS RESULTED IN CONTUSIONS TO THE LEFT RIB CAGE.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A 6' LADDER HANGING CURTIAN. THE LADDER WAS ON UNEVEN MINE FLOOR AND TIPPED OVER. HE LANDED ON TOP OF THE LADDER HURTING HIS RIGHT ANKLE, RIGHT RIB AND LEFT WRIST.

EE PULLED A CURTAIN DOWN THAT WAS SPADDED TO A RIB. DURING THE PROCESS HE SUFFERED A LOW BACK STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BESIDE AND OFF TO ONE SIDE OF JAW CRUSHER WHICH WAS PLUGGED WITH A LARGE CHUNK OF CONCRETE. AN EXCAVATOR WAS PICKING THE PIECE OF CONCRETE OUT OF THE CRUSHER. IT COULD NO T PICK THE PIECE UP HIGH ENOUGH. IT WAS THEN SENT THROUGH AGAIN. A PIECE BROKE OFF & WAS FLUNG BY THE BULL WHEEL. PIECE HIT EMPLOYEE IN HEAD. HESPENT NIGHT IN HOSPITAL & WILL BE OFF UNTIL 8/9

WHEN HOOKING UP PUSH TRAILER TO MATERIAL TRACTOR EE WAS REMOVING BLOCK FROM UNDER TOUNGE OF TRAILER WHEN THREE POINT HITCH DROPED ON FOREARM CAUSING OPEN FRACTURE OF FOREARM.

EE WAS LIFTING 100# BAGS OF MATERIAL AND PLACING THEM ON A PALLET WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHILE WALKING ALONG THE BELT WITH A SHOVEL IN HIS HAND WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER A ROLLER OR SLIPPED ONTHE ROLLER LAYING ALONG THE RIB AND FELL BACKWARDS. CAUSE OF THI S INJURY WAS AWARENESS AND CLEAN WALKWAYS, COMP PLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR,MINING EQUIP/SYSTEMS OK

ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHILE EMPLLOYEE WAS RATCHING A CHAIN HOIST TO RAISE MATERIAL IN PLACE AT 11 TO 12 TRANSFER. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS OVEREXERTION. COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS WA S NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQIPMENT WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS COULD BE A FACTOR.

INJURED CLAIMS HER RIGHT HAND GOT SWOLLEN ADN SORE ESPECIALLY HER LITTLE FINGER AND THE ONE NEXT TO IT. CAUSED FROM HOLDING ONTO THE SHOVEL CONTROL STICK.

WHILE CLIMBING OVER AXLE ON 495 SHOVEL, EMP PLACED HAND ON GREASE THAT WAS COVERED WITH DUST, CAUSING HIM TO SLIP AND FALL TO GROUND (APPROX 4) LANDING ON LEFT HIP AND SIDE, RESULTING IN LOST TIME.

A PIECE OF METAL WAS PROPELLED BY OUR LAWNMOWER AND PUNCTURED EE'S RIGHT FOOT. THE PIECE OF METAL APPROX THE SIZE OF A GRAIN OF RICE.

TRUCK DRIVER DRIVING FOR FELDSPAR TRUCKING CO AND CONTRACTED TO GEORGIA IND. MINERALS OF DEEP STEP GEORGIA TO USG AT SPRUCE PINE NC SLIPPED OUT OF INCLINED TRAILER BED INTO MICA PIT SUSTAINING CONTUSIONS TO LOWER LEFT LEG AND LOWER BACK. FOR UNKNOWN REASONS BED OF TRUCK RAISED TO FULL HEIGHT WHERE DRIVER WAS WASHING OUT TRAILER ALLOWING DRIVER TO SLIDE OUT OF TRAILER THROUGH OPEN T

WAS PUSHING PUMP HOSE IN WATER AND RAN PIECE OF WHIRE IN FINGER.

EMP WAS CHANGING AN OUTER AIR FILTER ON A DRILL.A CALL CAME ACROSS RADIO FOR HIM. WHILE WALKING TO HIS PICKUP HE STEPPED INTO A DRILLHOLE WITH LEFT FOOT. WHILE TRYING TO STAND UP HE STRAINED H IS RIGHT FOOT. HE WORKED FOLLOWING DAY AND THROUGH 7-25-97.

INSTALLING A BEARING AT HEAD PULLEY OF CONVEYOR #8 BERING SLIPPED OFF HIS HAND. SMASHING IT AGAINST BEAM.

EE STATED WHILE HANDLING A PIECE OF VENTILATION TUBING FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

INJURED HAD BEEN HANDLING AND SETTING THROUGOUT THE SHIFT AND DEVELOPED A PAIN IN HIS LEFT RIB AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS DUSTING WHEN HE LIFTED A BAG OF DUST. WHILE TURNING AROUND HE CLAIMED TO INJURE HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING ONT EH FACE CONVEYOR WITHOUT A WELDING HOOD. HE SUFFERED 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO THE FACE. EMPLOYEE FINISHED HSIFT AND DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTON UNTIL 72-1-97.

EE WAS IN SQUATTED POSITION WORKING ON ROCK DRILL HAMMER. REMOVING COLLAR FROM BROKEN BIT BY TAPPING WITH SHOP HAMMER, CAUSING METAL FRAGMENT TO PUNCTURE SCROTUM AND TESTICLE.

EE WAS LIFTING A WOOD BLOCK (APPROX 20LBS)ONTO A TRAILER WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE BLOCK AND THE EDGE OF THE TRAILER. THIS REQUIREDA NUMBER OF STITCHES & SOME TIME OFF DUE TO A BROKEN FINGER.

WHILE ROOF BOLTING A PIECE OF ROCK APPROX. 18" X 18" X 4" THICK FELL, STRIKING THE EE'S LEFT THIGH. IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET OUT OF THE WAY HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. HE REPORTED THE ACCIDENT ON 7-23.

THE EE WAS CLEANING COAL IN THE PIT WHEN A ROCK FELL OUT OF THE WALL AND HIT THE RIPPER OFF THE 16G GRADER. WHEN THE ROCK HIT THE RIPPER IT MADEA BIG NOISE AND EE JUMPED AND TURNED HIS HEAD AT THE SAME TIME

EE WAS WALKING OVER TO GOLF CART TO GET HIS LUNCH OUT AS HE WAS LEANING OVER TO PICKUP HIS LUNCHTHE BATTERY EXPLODED--EE IS ALSO HAVING A RINGING SOUND WHICH HE IS GOING TO HAVE CHECKED.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING SHEAVES ON CONVEYOR DRIVE, WORKING OFF OF 10' LADDER SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL INJURING HIS WRIST.

INJURED WAS JOSTLED WHEN HIS SHUTTLE CAR HIT A HOLE IN THE MINE FLOOR.

PRIOR TO JULY 18TH EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING CORN IN A FIELD THAT HAD JUST BEEN SPRAYED WITH PESTICIDES. A RASH DEVELOPED ON HIS BODY THAT SAME DAY. ON JULY 18TH EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK WITH RASH AND HAS SINCE NOT BEEN ABLE TO COMPLETELY CLEAR IT UP. DOCTORS NOW SAY THAT HE HAS A SEVERE CONTACT ALLERGY TO THE COMPONENTS OF CEMENT- POSSIBLY POTASSIUM DICHROMATES. DOCTORS SAY THAT THE C

WHILE REPAIRING ON A 4" WATER LINE, EE WAS STRUCK ON LEFT LEG BY WATER LINE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A LARGE ROCK FROM THE CONVEYOR BELT WHICH RESULTED IN HIS GLOVE GETTING CAUGHT AND CUT HIS LEFT ARM.

HE WAS WORKING ON A FEEDER WITH A SLATE BAR. THE SLATE BAR JERKED HIS ARM AND INJURED HIS SHOULDER. HE CONTINED WORKING REGULARLY UNTIL SURGERY WAS PERFORMED 10-7-97.

EMPLOYEE WAS ALLEGEDLY STRUCK BY A ROCK WHICH FELL FROM THE ROOF.

REMOVING PUMP FROM WATER HOLE, PUMP WAS STUCK IN MUD, CAUSING PUMP TO BE STUCK.

EE ALLEGES TO HAVE GOTTEN FOREIGN BODY IN RIGHT EYE WHILE RUNNING PLANT. HE DID NOT REPORT INCIDENT TO ANYONE. WENT TO OPHTHALMOLOGIST 2 DAYS LATER.

HANDWRITING SCALE TICKETS (TICKET PRINTER WAS NOT WORKING). SITTING ON STOOL AND TWISTING TO HAND OUT TICKETS.

ROOF BOLTERS WERE IN THE PROCESS OF BENDING ROOF BOLTS FOR INSTALLATION. WHEN EMPLOYEE SAID HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

ASSISTING CO-WORKER TO MANTRIP WHEN KNEES GAVE AWAY CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

ALLEGEDLY FELL THROUGH CAT WLAK. ACCIDENT UNDER INVESTIGATION.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS RUNNING TO TURN BELT OFF. IT WAS OVERFLOWING WITH ROCK, HE SLIPPED AND HIT KNEE ON STEEL GRATE CAUSING A BRUISE TO HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS LOOSENING COMEALONG OFF TAIL PULLYE SHAFTSHAFT POPPED UP AND JERKED COMEALONG CAUSING HANDLE TO STRIKE EE UNDER LEFT EYE.

EE WAS CLIMBING LADDER ON 992 ON TO BEGIN WORK US LOADER OPERATOR EE FELT PAIN MID LOW BACK EE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL NEXT SHIFT.

EE WAS TURNING DOZER AROUND AND WHEN HE TURNED TO LOOK BEHIND HIM HE TWISTED HIS BACK.

WAS WALKING TO HER CAR IN THE PARKING LOT AT THE END OF THE SHIFT WHEN STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HER ANKLE. SHE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL SHE WAS REQUIRED TO HAVE SURGERY TO REPAIR A TORN TE NDON.

EE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE CAB OF AN9L TO TAKE HIS BREAK, A5 HE STEPPED DOWN TO 1ST STEP HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF STEP HE GRABBED FOR HANDRAIL. HE TWISTED AROUND AND HIT HIS RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD ON H ANDRAIL AND SPRAINED HIS LEFT ARM.

GENERATOR WAS NOT MAKING VOLTAGE AND EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING THE BREAKER WITH A VOLT METER WHEN THE BREAKER FLASHED FIRE BURNING EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT HAND AND FOREARM.

EE HE WAS STANDING ON THE FLOOR WASHING OUT THE FINE REFUSE CHUTE. WATER AND COAL BROKE LOOSE AND KNOCKED DOWN DOWN AS IT CAME FROM THE CHUTE. EE KNEW HE WAS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE A FRONT OF CHUTE .

EE WAS CLEARING LARGE ROCKS FROM FEEDER PAR WITHPRY BAR. PRY BAR SLIPPED OFF CATCHING LEFT INDEXFINGER BETWEEN BAR & PLATE OF HOPPER.

DURING A SURVEYING OPERATION IN VALLEY FILL #3 A LOWER BACK INJURY OCCURRED WHILE CARRYING AN APPROXIMATELY 20 POUND SURVEYING INSTRUMENT ON BACK, CAUSED BY SLIPPING ON LOOSE ROCK.

THE INJURED WAS SHOVELING MUCK AROUND THE BELT HEAD WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

WAS GOING TO GET 922 CAT LOADER AND JUMPED OVER HANDRAIL AND LANDED WRONG.

EE ASSENDED THE SIDE OF SUPORT TOWER OF LATTICE CONSTR TO UNHOOK A CHAIN. UPON HIS DECENT HE LOST HIS GRIP DUE TO SWEATY HANDS. EE FELL 10 FT EE HAS BROKEN FIBULA BONE-RT LEG AND FRACTURED ANKLE RT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN IMPACT WRENCH TO TIGHTEN BOLTS ON A PUMP WHEN THE BOLT BROKE CAUSING A TWISTING INJURY TO HIS WRIST. EMPLOYEE CONTINUES TO WORK HIS NORMAL JOB AND ON 4-3-98 BEGAN LOSING TIME AWAY FROM WORK DUE TO SURGERY TO REPAIR HIS WRIST.

WHILE PUTTING TOOTH (STEEL) ON A LOADER SHANK, PIECE OF TOOTH (STEEL) CHIPPED OFF AND BECAME EMBEDDED IN RIGHT THUMB.

EE WAS ON TOP OF THE STOCKPILE TRUCK KNOCKING A CLAMSHELL LOOSE UNDER A BIN AT PHASE II. AS HE WAS CLIMBING BACK INTO THE CAB OF THE TRUCK HE SLIPPED AND FELL FROM THE TRUCK LANDING ON HIS FEE T AND STRAINING MUSCLE IN HIS LUMBAR REGION CLAMSHELL WAS REPLACED AND TRUCK'S CATWALK IMPROVED.

EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN MINER OPERATOR'S CAGE WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS AND HIT HIM ON THE TOP OF THE LEFT FOOT.

THE INJURED EE WAS ASSISTING THE ELECTRICIAN IN THE TASK OF PICKING UP HIS HEAD TOOLS AFTER MAKING REPAIRS TO A SHUTTLE CAR. AS SHE RAVED UP A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE ROOF BOL TS STRIKING HER ON THE UPPER BACK, KNOCKING HER TO THE MINE FLOOR ROCK MEASURED 3'X3'X".

GREASING CONVEYORS WITH AIR GREASER. HOSE GOT CAUGHT IN TAIL PULLEY. HAND WAS TWISTED IN GREASE HOSE & TAIL PULLEY.

THE EE WAS PERPARING TO CHANGE A HEAVY DRILL BIT WHICH NORMALLY IS A TWO MAN JOB. AS HE LIFTED THE BIT HE AGGRIVATED A PRE-EXISTING BACK CONDITION. THE EE WAS UNABLE TO RETURN TO WORK & AN APP OINTMENT FOR BACK TREATMENT WAS SCHEDULED.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED UP ON LOADER AND FELT A STING ON HIS LOWER RIGHT SIDE. A BRUISE APPEARED IN THE AREA. (DIAGNOSED AS SPIDER BITE)

EE CONTACTED RISK MGT DEPT [WORKERS' COMP] COMPLAINING OF SHOULDER PROBLEMS. EE WAS REFERRED TO NEAREST MEDICAL FACILITY. AFTER BEING EXAMINED BY A PHYSICIAN, EE WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY FOR 1 MONTH WITH NO OVERHEAD OR SHOULDER LIFTING

EE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE MOVING BOTTOM DECK GATES.

STEPPED THE WRONG WAY ON EITHER A ROCK OR A MOUND OF DIRT & TWISTED KNEE.

SUPER SACK SLIPPED OFF SCALE KNOCKING EE DOWN ON HIS BACK AND CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE THE BACK OF HIS NECK ON MACHINE BEHIND HIM CAUSING SORE BACK & NECK.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE PULLING A PIECE OF ROCK THE ROCK FELL ON END OF SLATE BAR, CAUSING BAR TO STRIKE HIM UNDER THE NOSE AND UPPER LIP. EMPLOYEE WENT TO DR. ON 8-11-97, WORKED UP TO THEN. AFT ER RECEIVING INFORMATION FROM DR. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT EMPLOYEE WAS OFF WORK DUE TO INCIDENT ON 7-17-97.

MOVING PINNER HEAD & HIT RIGHT KNEE.

ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHILE EE WAS CARRYING ROCKDUST BAGS 50 LB AND GLUE BOXES 25 LB FROM THE SCOOP TO THE FACE AREA. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS OVEREXERTION. COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR. PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS WORN BACK SUPPORT, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.

WHILE USING TORCHES TO CUT LOOSE BEAMS UNDER BELT HEAD, THE TORCHES BLEW RUST OFF OF BEAM AND INTO LEFT EYE.

EE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS STRUCK ON HIS HAND BY A PIECE OF DRAWROCK WHILE UNLOADING ROCK DUST FROM A SCOOP.

ON THE NO. 1 BELT ON 1 DEVELOPEMENT NORTH, EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING COAL AND PUTTING IT ON THE BELT WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EE WAS HELPING TO UNLOAD AN ARCH OFF FLAT CAR TO PUT ON RAM CAR WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON RIPPER MOTOR WITH A SLATE BAR AND THE BAR CAME LOSE STRIKING EMPLOYEE UNDER CHIN.

EE WAS PULLING FEEDER CABLE AROUND BLOCK OF COAL & SPRAINED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING PRY BAR TO HELP UNPIN TRAM MOTOR ON 10SC. EMPLOYEE WAS KNOCKING PIN OUT WITH A HAMMER WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE WEB OF LEFT HAND. 1ST DAY OF RESTRICTED DU TY WAS 7/17/97.

HAULING SPLICE BOX ON 4 WHEEL BUGGY. SPLICE BOX RUB RIB CAUGHT EMPLOYEES ANKLE BETWEEN SPLICE BOX AND BUGGY.

EMPLOYEE SHOVELING #5 BELT. AFTER APPROXIMATELY (4) HOURS OF SHOVELING THE EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AREA. POSSIBLE RECURRENCE OF SEPTEMBER, 1991 BACK INJURY.

EE STATED WHILE HANDLING & HANGING A PIECE OF VENTILATION TUBING-CHAIN BROKE CAUSING TUBING TOSTRIKE EE ON SHOULDER.

LEAVES AND DEBRIS HAD COLLECTED AORUND FAN SHROUD OF DOZER. EE ATTEMPTED TO CLEAR AREA WITH ENGINE RUNNING AND LEFT RING FINGER WAS STRUCK BY FAN BLADE RESULTING IN LACERATED, BROKEN FINGER.

AFTER WASHING DOWN A DRIFT ROUND THAT HAD BEEN BLASTED AT THE END OF THE PREVIOUS DAYS SHIFT, TWO MINERS WERE HAND SCALING THE BROKEN MATERIAL. WHILE SCALING. LOOSE MATERIAL FELL, FROM BEHIND THE MINER KNOCKING HIM OFF HIS FEET ONTO A MUCK PILE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LEAVING THE BUILDING TO GO HOME AND SHE FELL AND BROKE HER RIGHT WRIST. SHE STATED THAT SHE DID NOT SLIP OR TURN HER ANKLE IN THE FALL, SHE JUST STEPPED ON A ROCK AND FELL. SHE CA UGHT HERSELF WITH HER HAND AND HER WRIST BROKE.

ROCK FELLOUT BETWEEN PINS, HITTING EE ON TOP OFHEAD AND JAMMING HIS NECK.

EE RUNNING ACROSS CATWALK AT CRUHSER, STEPPED ON A 5/8" BOLT LAYING ON CATWALK, TWISTING ANKLE AND CAUSING SPRAIN.

WHILE LOADING/HANDLING BELT STRUCTURE EE. TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE CAUSING PAIN. HE CONTINUED WORKING HIS REGULAR JOB UNTIL 8-27-97 AT WHICH TIME HE HAD ARTBSCODIC SURGERY TO REPAIR A DAMAGED ME DIAL MENISCUS.

WHILE WALKING UP A SET OF STAIRS, EE TWISTED HIS RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BATTERY CELL AND TWISTED ARM.

OPERATOR TWISTED BACK WHILE REFUELING DOZER.

HE ALLEDGES THAT WHILE WORKING ON THE CLEAN COAL PILE, THE DOZER BACKED OVER A SMALL BERM OF CLEAN COAL, JERKED HIM IN THE CAB, CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS NECK AND BACK. HE MISSED 2 DAYS OF WOR K AND IS OFF UNTIL 8-4-97 ON VACATION.

WHILE WASHING BALL SCREENER WITH A HIGH PRESSURE HOSE, WATER CAME BACK INTO EMPLOYEE'S EYES.

EE WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN THE INJURY OCCURED. HE WAS SWINGING THE HEAD OF HIS BOLTER OUT WHEN HE TRIPPED ON A PIECE OF SLATE CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON HIS KNEE AND HIP.

DRIVER WAS INFLATING TRUCK TIRE ON FLOOR OF SHOPWITH SAFETY CHAIN APPARENTLY IN PLACE - RETAINING RINGS ON TIRE APPARENTLY SLIPPED OFF & ALLOWED TIRE TO DEFLATE INSTANEOUSLY - RINGS HIT MAN'S ARM CAUSING BROKEN UPPER ARM, FRACTURED PELVIS &LACERATIONS.

SEE STTACHMENT: WHILE REPAIRING THE TRACK ON A D-7 A PIN 1" X 12" USED TO CONNECT THE TRACK WAS STRUCK WITH A 10# HAMMER. INJURED WAS OBSERVING THE PROCESS WHEN A PIECE OF METAL CAME OFF THE P IN & STRUCK HIM IN THE CHEST. HE WAS EXAMINED & TAKEN TO A MEDICAL DOCTOR. THE FRAGMENT WAS REMOVED. BOTH EES WERE WEARING EYE PROTECTION.

FINGERS MASHED BY SCALING BAR EE WAS BARRING ROCK STITCHES REQUIRED BEGAN LOSING TIME 7-17-97.

MANPOWER EMPLOYEE OPENED THE GATE ON A CHUTE UNDER THE SILOS. NO STONE CAME OUT. HE THEN CLIMBED UP THE STEPS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE TRUCK TO STRIKE THE CHUTE TO START THE ROCK FLOW. DURI NG THIS PROCESS HE SLIPPED OFF THE STEPS ON THE TRUCK. HE FELL BETWEEN 34 INCHES AND 58 INCHES FROM THE SIDE OF THE DUMP TRUCK TO THE CONCRETE FLOOR BELOW.

EE WAS ASSISTING HIS SUPERVISOR TO CLOSE A VALVE USING A PLUG WRENCH AND HAMMER. WHILE HOLDING THE WRENCH IN PLACE THE SUPERVISOR WAS TAPPING IT WITH A HAMMER TO LOOSEN. WRENCH SLIPPED AND CAU HGT EE'S LEFT RING FINGER BETWEEN VALVE AND WRENCH. FRACTURE TO TIP OF LEFT RING FINGER.

STUCK HAND IN RETURN ROLLER AND ARM BECAME STUCK IN BELT. RIGHT ARM SUFFERED EXTENSIVE CONTUSION AND ABRASIONS NO FRACTURE.

EE WAS CLEARING A JAM-UP IN THE PACKAGING LINE, WHENTHE AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT STARTED. HIS FOOT WHICH WAS ON SOME FRAME WORK, SLIPPED GETTING CAUGHT ON A CONVEYOR BELT, WHICH PULLED IT BELOW A R ETURN IDLER BRUISING THE ANKLE AND LEG UP PAST HIS KNEE.

WELDING ON 100' STACKER

WHILE EXITING CONCENTRATOR LOWER REPAIR BAY ELEVATOR, SHE WAS STRUCK BY CAGE GATE ON HER HEAD.

I WAS STACKING BAGS AND WHEN I LIFTED ONE OF THE BAGS I HEARD SOMETHING SNAP. THE NEXT DAY MY SHOULDER HURT TO THE POINT WHERE I WASN'T ABLE TO LIFT MY ARM.

EE WAS ASSISTING CO WORKER REMOVING A METAL STOPPING. AS THEY WERE PULLING DOWN ONE OF THE LAST THREE PANELS (LEFT INBY CORNER)A PIECE OF RIB SLATE 60" X 15" X 20", FELL FROM THE TOP CORNER, S TRIKING HIM ON THE RT UPPER LEG AND HIP.THE AREAWAS APPROX 12 FT HIGH, 26 X-CUT BETWEEN 8 AND 9 ENTRY OF 1 NORTH 3 RT SECTION.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE 3440 LEVEL. HE AND HIS PARTNERS WERE CLEANING UP ON THE SHAFT BOTTOM ADJACENT TO A BOREHOLE. EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A ROCK WHEN HIS PARTNER ACCIDENTLY STRUCK EMPLO YEE'S HAND WITH ANOTHER ROCK. THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A DEEP LACERATION, RIGHT HAND, WHICH REQUIRED SURGERY. HE IS OFF THE JOB.

EE WAS ON HIS WAY TO HAVING A DRUG TEST TAKEN DUE TO VEHICLE ACC HE HAD JUST HAD. IT WAS EXTREEMLY HOT OUTSIDE. HE WAS SWEATING AND RUBBED HIS EYE WITH HIS HAND. HAND HAD EMULSION ON IT AND IT GOT INTO HIS EYE. HAVING TROUBLE SEEING, SO HE WENT TO NEAREST HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.

EE WAS BOLTING X CUT 2-1 IN NORTH MAINS WHEN HE COMPALINED OF PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE WAS WALKING FROM CONVEYOR TO TOOL TRAILER WHEN HE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND FELL WHICH CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS RIGHT KNEE.

A 20'CUT WAS TAKEN IN THE #7 ENTRY. THE 14-10 MINER WAS BACKED OUT TO SUPPORTED TOP. THE MINE OWNER, MINE FOREMAN, ELECTRICIAN AND MINER OPERATOR WERE INSPECTING THE PAN ON THE 14-10 MINER. A "HORSEBAC" 40X40' TO 10' WIDE AND 4' TO 51/2' THICK FELL ON EE.

WALKING OFF COAL PILE AT FACE, SLIPPED AND FELL CAUSING FRACTURE TO LT FIBULA ABOVE ANTIE.

LIFTING A BOX FROM A SHELF, BOX FELL AND PUSHED THUMB INTO HIS EYE

EE SLIPPED ON STEP WHEN CLIMBING UP INTO STOCKPILE TRUCK AND FELL TO GROUND LANDING ON LEFT KNEE WITH WEIGHT OF BODY CAUSING INJURY.

EE LIFTED A SECTION OF DRILL CABLE OVER A ROCK IN THE GROUP II AREA OF THE MINE PIT. HE FELT SOME APIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. AFTER NUMEROUS VISITS TO MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, HE WAS DIAGNOSED W ITH THE DISORDER LISTED IN SECTION #21

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE PINCHED A NERVE IN HIS HIP WHILE SITTING IN THE HOIST OPERATOR'S CHAIR OPERATING THE SLOPE HOIST.

WALKING AROUND FULL FACE MINER WHILE PREPARING TO BOLT, WALKED OVER PILE OF COAL AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE ON LUMP OF COAL. CONTINUED TO WORK FELL CAPACITY UNTIL 8-26-97 WHEN SURGERY WAS DONE.

AS EE WAS UNLOADING THE CAN ON SCRAPER THE GROUND GAVE WAY AND THE SCRAPER ROLLED OVER TO THE RIGHT. BECAUSE OF EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES OF TRYING TO PIECE TOGETHER THIS ACCIDENT I AM FILING THIS LATER PER FRED SAUCE.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE A PUMP OUT OF THE MUD AND STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING FROM MANTRIP STATION TO SECTION WHEN HE STEPPED IN HOLE TWISTING HIS LOWER BACK.

FOREMAN AND EE WERE USING A HAMMER AND PINCH TO REMOVE TEETH ON DRAGLINE BUCKET, PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO EE S WRIST.

EE STATED HE LIFTED A 5 GALLON CAN OF OIL AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE ALLEGES HE TURNED TO CLIMB LADDER TO JAW CRUSHER CAB AND HE TWISTED HIS BACK.

CUTTING FLANGES ON ROLLER, A PIECE OF SLAG FLEW IN RIGHT EAR.

RIASED ARM BY HEAD WHILE STANDING UNDER CONVEYOR AND CLOTHES CAUGHT IN BELT ROLLERS.

RIB ROLLED & HIT EE ON TOP OF SHOUDER (MIDDLE)

EE WAS HOLDING A 3" FLEXIBLE RUBBERHOSE WITH HIS RIGHT HAND AND USING A RAZOR TYPE UTILITY KNIFE WITH HIS LEFT HAND. THE UTILITY KNIFE SLIPPED ON THE RUBBER HOSE AND STRUCK THE PALM SIDE OF HI S THUMB RIGHT HAND. A 3/4" LACERATION WAS INFLICTED.

EE WAS ON DISCHARGE BELT OF CRUSHER PLANT DOING MAINTENANCE WHEN OTHER STARTED THE BELT AND EE FLEW OFF END.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT AREA AND WAS MOVING TIRES TO ANOTHER AREA WHEN HE PULLED MUSCLES IN BACK.

THE INJURED WAS MOVING SOME DRAW ROCK BY HAND WHEN HE FELT A BURNING IN HIS LEFT SIDE.

STEPPED ON CRIB BLOCK ANS TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.

EE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS ON SHAKER AT DREDGE AND SAND FELL FROM ABOVE HIM AND GOT INTO HIS EYES.

WHILE REMOVING A SECTION OF BROKE TREE THAT HAD GOTTEN OVER THE TOP OF THE BLADE HIS THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TOP OF THE BLADE ADN THE TREE CAUSING A SEVERE CUT TO HIS LEFT THUMB.

A PIECE OF METAL HAD BECOME STUCK ON THE MAGNET THAT IS INSTALLED ON THE HILL BELT TRANSPORTING COAL OUT OF THE PIT. THIS WAS CAUSING COAL TO SPILL OFF THE BELT AND THE EE ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE THE METAL WITHOUT STOPPING THE BELT. A SPLICE ON THE BELT STRUCK HIS ARM AND CUT LEFT FOREARM

EE WAS HELPING WORK ON A MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER WHEN HE HIT HIS RT KNEE ON THE FRAME OF THE MACHINE.

EE STATED HE WAS THROWING THE TRACK SWITCH AT 16 CC WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER. EE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 7-22-97 WHEN HE SAW DR AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A SPRAINED SHOULDE R.

EE WAS WALKING ON A WET FLOOR AS HE STEPPED OVERA PIPE ABOUT 4" OFF THE GROUND HE SLIPPED AND FELL HURTING HIS BACK. HE REPORTED TO THE FOREMAN AND DECIDED TO KEEP WORKING. ON 7/18/97, HE LEFT TO GO TO THE DR AT 8:15AM BECAUSE IT HURT TOO MUCH. THE DR PUT HIM OFF OF WORK

A LARGE ROOF FALL IN THE INTERSECTION OF #2 ROOM OFF #7 ENTRY OF THE SOUTH MAINS AT APPROX. 0+70. THE FALL MEASURED APPROX. 40' HIGH, 20' WIDE, 25' LONG, COVERING THE MINER OPERATOR FROM HEAD TO HIS WAIST. A LARGE MUD STREAK WAS PRESENT AT THE TOP OF THEFAL. THIS AREA WAS PERMANENTLY SUPPORTED.

EE WAS FINISHING ROLLING UP WING CURTAIN WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK STRUCK RIGHT FOREARM.

WHILE DRAGGING STEEL ARCH BEAM, BEAM GOT CAUGHT. INJURED EE MOVED BEAM, WINCH FREED UP, CAUSING BEAM TO TURN OVER, THROWING INJURED EE OFF BALANCE.

A 20' CUT WAS TAKEN IN THE 7 ENTRY. THE 14-10 MINER WAS BACKED OUT TO SUPPORTED TOP. THE MINE OWNER, MINE FOREMAN, ELECTRICIAN AND MINER OPERATOR WERE INSPECTING THE PAN ON THE 14-10 MINER. A HORSEBACK 40'X20'XTO 10' AND 4' TO 5 1/2' THICK FELL ON EE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND PLANT WHEN HE STEPPED ON A LARGE ROCK TWISTING HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF A TRACKER APPROX 1 1/2" TO GROUND AND STRANED HIS GROIN. EMPLOYEE IS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIA ANDIS HAVING IT REPAIRED.

EE WAS CARRYING TOOLS OUT OF BELT TOOL ROOM DOOR & STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE DOOR JAM, JAMMING HIS NECK & SHOULDER. RESULT WAS CERVICAL STRAIN.

A 20' CUT WAS TAKEN IN THE 7 ENTRY. THE 14-10 MINER WAS BACKED OUT TO SUPPORTED TOP. THE MINE OWNER, MINE FOREMAN, ELECTRICIAN AND MINER OPERATOR WERE INSPECTING THE PAN ON THE 14-10 MINER. A HORSEBACK 40'X20'XTO 10' AND 4' TO 5 1/2' THICK FELL ON EE.

EE WAS PULLING CABLE, STARTING A POWER MOVE. THE CABLE WAS TO GO THROUGH THE 5 CROSS CUT STOPPING. HE WENT TO GET THE CABLE FROM THE BOTTOM.

WELDING BOOM OF EXCAVATOR, LOST FOOTING ON STEP LADDER, FELL BACKWARD ONTO THE GROUND

SLIPPED ON TRACK WHILE GETTING OFF OF HIS DOZER AND LANDED ON HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN THE #2 ENTRY AND HE SLIPPPED IN MUD AND WATER CAUSING HIM TO FALL. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS AND KEEPING WALK WAYS CLEAR OF DEBRIS.

ALLEDGEDLY EMPLOYEE WAS ON TOP OF A RAILCAR, PUSHING THE BULK SLINGER INTO THE RAILCAR TO LOAD THE CAR. WHILE PUSHING HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION BETWEEN HIS SHOULDER BLADES. ON 7-14-97 HE CON TACTED MYSELF TO SAY HE WAS HURTING REALLY BAD AND WANTED TO SEE DR. WE SENT HIM TO DR. & DR. SAID MAYBE HE PULLED A MUSCLE OR STRAINED BACK. NOTHING SERIOUS. LIFTING RESTRICTIONS 1-2 WEEKS.

6EE WAS USING AHOSE TO WASH DOWN SLURRY ON THE LINE 1 SLAB. AS HE WENT TO MOVE THE HOSE, HIS HANDS SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO LEAN BACKWARDS AND HIS RIGHT ELBOW STRUCK AN I BEAM CROSS MEMBER. THI S RESULTED IN A LOSS OF TIME.

EE WAS PULLING ON ROLLS OF FLY PADS IN THE WAREHOUSE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER NECK AND SHOULDER AREA.

EE WAS PICKING UP A RIPPER TOOTH, WHEN HE WENT TO SET IT DOWN, HE SMASHED HIS FINGER TEARING OFF PART OF HIS FINGERNAIL, WHICH WAS REMOVED LATER BY A DR.

EE WAS CHANGING SCREENS AND SOME DIRT FELL IN HIS EYE.

THE INDIVIDUAL WAS HELPING TO REMOVE A JOY MINER VALVE BANK FROM THE DECK OF THE OIL CAR WHEN HE BEGAN FEELING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. INDIVIDUAL DID NOT MISS ANY TIME WITH THIS INJURY UNTIL 7 -30-97.

WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF PLASTERING A BLOCK STOPPING, THE INJURED REACHED TO GET SOME PLASTER & FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LEFT SHOULEDR. [UNDER INVESTIGATION SINCE 7-15-97]

AT THE EE SWUNG THE DRILL HEAD BACK IN, HE GOT HIS 2 RING/MIDDLE LEFT FINGERS PINCHED BETWEEN THE DRILL STEEL AND THE WOODEN HEADER BLOCK OF ROOF BOLT THAT HE HAD JUST INSTALLED.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN THE LOWERING OF THE DRAGLINE BOOM FOR REPAIRS TO DRAGLINE. AS HW WAS DISMOUNTING FROM THE PLATFORM ON THE DRAG MAST, HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS LEFT K NEE ON THE TOP STEP OF THE PLATFORM.

EMLOYEE WAS HITCHING A CHAIN ON STONE AND HIT HIS HEAD ON TH BUCKET OF THE EXCAVATOR PULLING A MUSCLE IN HIS NECK.

EE WAS BEGINNING TO MOVE FEEDER CABLE AND STRAINED LOWER BACK.

EE FELL OFF LADDER WHILE WORKING ON GRADNULAR CRUDEBINE.

CHANGING DRIVE BELTS ON #2 CLEAN COAL SCREEN COMALONG SLIPPED RESULTING IN HITTING LEFT ELBOWON MOTOR SUPPORT FRAME.

EE PULLED LEFT SHOULDER WHILE CLIMBING A LADDER. EE IS LOSING TIME DUE TO THIS INCIDENT.

USING 1/2" DRILL WHEN CORD WENT BAD PUSHED TRIGGER & DRILL TOOK OFF THE CORD BECAME ENTANGLED AROUND RIGHT HAND CAUSING A HAIRLINE FRACTURE TO THE RIGHT HAND.

EE WAS DRAGGING A 10-5 CONDUCTOR POWER CABLE FOR A PROSSER PUMP. AFTER DRAGGING THE CABLE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME, HE BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE SOME LOWER BACK PAIN. ON 10-7-97 33 BEGAN TO MI SS WORK FOR WHAT HAS NOW BEEN DIAGNOSED AS A HERNIATED DISC AT L5-S1 AREA OF HIS BACK.

SLIPPED WHILE GETTING DOWN OUT OF 500 KOMOTSU LOADER HIT THE STEPS OF LOADER IWTH RIGHT ARM AND RIBS. BROKEN MIRROR PIECES GOT INTO EE'S ARM. EE'S BOOTS WERE MUDDY AND THIS COULD HAVE CONTRI BUTED TO HIM SLIPPING.

WHILE CLIMBING DOWN LADDER FROM THE FUEL TANK ONT HE YARDER, EE SLIPPED & FELL & TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE (WHEN HE WAS TAKING FOOT OFF LADDER TO STEPON THE GROUND.)

EE WAS BOLTING THE TOP. HYDRAULIC FITTING BROKE CAUSING CANOPY TO FALL ONTO EE'S HEAD & NECK.

A OIL SPILL OCCURED SO HE GRABBED A 55 GAL. DRUM THAT HAD ABOUT A 1/4 DRUM OF FLOOR ANY LEFT. HE WENT UNDER TRUCK AND STARTED POORING FLOOR. HE FELT A PULL AND PAIN IN LEFT LOWER BACK AREA.

INJURED TWISTED HIS BODY WHILE REACHING FOR A PIECE OF DRILL STEEL AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS REMOVING SCRAP METAL WHEN HE FELT HIS BACK POP. ALLEDGED ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON 7/13/97, BUT WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 7/14/97 AND BECAUSE OF CONTINUING PAIN, AFTER RETURNING FROM SCHEDULED DAYS OFF, HE WENT LOST TIME ON 7/24/97.

EE WAS CLEANING BELT 12 DISCHARGE CHUTE TO BELT 13 WITH A BAR. WHILE POKING THE CHUTE HE STRUCK HIS LEFT FOREARM ON THE HANDRAIL, CAUSING A CONTUSION.

WHILE ASSISTING ANOTHER EE MAKE A BELT SPLICE, THE INJURED'S RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS STRUCK BY A HAMMER.

EMPLOYEE FELT HE HAD GOTTEN FLASH BURNS TO HIS EYES WHILE WORKING WITH & AROUND WELDERS. (MUST HAVE OCCURRED SOMETIME BETWEEN 4PM.-3AM. ; 7/13 &7/14

EE WAS WALKING UNDER BELT OVERCAST, RAISED UP AND BUMPED HEAD. THIS WAS THE EE'S FIRST SHIFT BACK AFTER VACATION.