Mining Incidents in October 1997

FELL FROM DREDGE OR LAUNCH RESULTING IN DROWNING.

THE EE WAS USING COMPRESSED AIR SUPPLIED BY THE LOCOMOTIVE TO CLEAN MUD FROM THE RAIL SCALE. TEN LOADED CARS WERE COUPLED TO THE LOCOMTIVE. FOUR ADDITIONAL LOADED CARS WERE PUSHED FROM THE LOA DOUT AND UNEXPECTEDLY STRUCK THE FIRST TEN. THISCAUSED THE LOCOMOTIVE TO MOVE FORWARD, STRIKING THE EE.

THE SAFETY RAILING CHAIN PREVENT ENTRY TO THE TOP OF THE JAW WAS UNHOOKED AT TIME OF ACCIDENT. EE FELL INTO THE JAW HEAD FIRST FOR UNKNOWN REASOS. HE WAS NOT WEARING A SAFETY BELT. EE WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY BOOTS BECAUSE HE WAS WORKING INSIDE OF THE SWITCH HOUSE. NO MECHICAL REASON WAS FOUND. THERE WAS NO WITNESS.

VITIM WAS EMPLOYED BY FOXFIRE ENVIRONMENTAL INC CONTRACTED BY KINDILL MINING TO PICK UP WATER SAMPLES AT REMOTE SAMPLING SITES. A 4-WHEELER ATV USED BY THE VICTIM OVERTURNED ALONG A REMOTE DRA INAGE DITCH AND LANDED ON TOP OF HIM. IT APPEARED THAT THE VICTIM ATTEMPTED TO STEER AROUND A BUSH AND OVERTURNED ON THE SIDE OF A DRAINAGE DITCH BERM. THE ATV LOOKED LIKE IT ROLLED ONCE AND

THE VICTIM WAS TRANSPORTING A DRAGLINE SWING MOTOR ON A FLATBED TRUCK WHEN THE LOAD SHIFTED AND CAME LOOSE FROM THE CHAIN TIE-DOWN AS IT PROCEEDED DOWN AN INCLINE. THE MOTOR FELL FORWARD INTO THE CAB, TRAPPING THE VICTIM AGAINST THE STEERING WHEEL OF THE TRUCK.

2 LOADERS IN PROCESS OF MOVING CRUSHER. FUEL TRUCK ARRIVED SO LOADERS SHUT DOWN TO REFUEL. AT THIS POINT, EE WALKED BEHIND THE CRUSHER AND A CONCRETE AND STEEL BACKER PLATE FELL ONTO HIM RESUL TING IN INSTANT FATALITY.

A LARGE ROCK FELL FROM THE MINE ROOF IN THE FACE AREA OF #4 ENTRY, WHERE THE CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE WAS LOCATED STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE CAUSING FATAL CRUSHING INJURIES.

EE SAID HE WAS LIFTING A LINER FOR MILL REPAIR &FELT A SHARP PAIN IN THE GROIN AREA & NOTED A SWELLING ON HIS L SIDE. EE RETURNED TO REGULAR DUTY AFTER BEING SEEN BY CLINIC. HE NEEDS SURGICAL EVALUATION FOR POSSIBLE ELECTIVE SURGERY REPAIR OF HERNIA AS PER NANCY MECHAM, FNP 11/1/97.

EE STOOPED OVER TO LIFT OVERHEAD DOOR AND PULLED GROIN MUSCLE. INJURY OCCURATE 1 DAY B/4 LAYOFF TO SEASONAL WORK. EE WAS NOT ROSTERITED OR LOST ANY TIME DUE TO INJURY. INJURY DEVELOPED INTO HE RNIA AND SURGERY IS TO TAKE PLACE ON 12-30-97. AT THAT TIME, TECHNICALLY HE WOULD BE AWAY FROM REPORTED FOR WORK IT IT WAS AVAILABLE.

PERSON WAS LIFTING CHAIN (1/2" X 20') FROM LOCOMOTIVE. WHEN HE TURNED TO HIS LEFT WHILE DRAGGING CHAIN HE FELT PAIN IN RIGHT INNER THIGH GROIN AREA. ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON SET-UP FACE OF LONGWAL L PANEL WHILE UNLOADING SHIELDS.

WHILE LIFTING HEAVY EQUIPMENT TIRE CHAINS, EMPLOYEE FELT A PAIN IN HIS STOMACH. EMPLOYEE NTOIFIED HIS SUPERVISOR ON 11-6-97 THAT HE INJURED HIMSELF. HE WAS SEEN BY THE CHALLIS CLINIC ON 11-6 --97 AND DIAGNOSED WITH AN UNBMMILICAL HERNIA. EMPLOYOEE RETURNED TO WORK ON RESTRICTED DUTY.

WHEN GETTING OFF THE D-9 DOZER MACHINE, HE FELT PAIN IN THE GROIN AREA.

INJURED PUSHED A LOAD FORWARD AND PLACED A 1/2" CABLE SLING THROUGHT AN EYE PAD IN AN ATTEMPT TO SECURE IT. THE LOAD WAS HEAVIER THAN ANTICIPATED AND IT PULLED THE CABLE BACK THROUGH THE EYE C ATCHING THE TIP OF THE RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER.

INJURED STEPPED OVER GUARD RAIL AND USED RIGHT FOOT TO GAIN LEVERAGE FOR ALIGNING A COPPER CATHODE. AS HE DID SO, INJURED'S RIGHT LOWER LEG WAS FRACTURED WHEN PINCHED BETWEEN SHEET CONVEYOR HY DRAULIC RAM AND SUPPORT STRUCTURE OF CONVEYOR.

WORKER ALLEGES HE WAS TRYING TO LIFT A STONE FROM THE CRUSHER WITH A HOOK, WHEN HE FELT A STRAININ HIS GROIN. INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A HERNIA ON THE RIGHTSIDE INJURY REPORTED 11-14-97.

BAGS WERE SEALING CROOKED, STOPPED MACHINED TO CHECK PLASTIC ON FUNNEL, PLASTIC WAS BUNCHED UP. CHECK FOR TENSION ON BELT, MIGHT HAVE PRESSED 1X OR START WHICH IN TURN CAUSED BELTS TO MOVE AND TOOK (LEFT HAND) FINGERS INTO MACHINE. EMPLOYEEPULLED FINGERS OUT AND HIS FINGERS WERE PARTIALLY CUT. TIPS OF LEFT MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING PUMP OUT OF DOZER. HE HAD ONE FOOT ON THE MACHINE AND THE OTHER FOOT ON TRACK, WHEN HE TWISTED THE WRONG WAY.

HE WAS SUPPLYING THE ROOF BOLTER WITH SUPPLIES AND NOW HAS A POSSIBLE RUPTURE.

WHILE MOVING THE LONG JOHN BACK ON THE 002 SECT EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RMEOVE A 1/2" CHAIN THAT HAD THE LONG JOHN DOLLY HOOKED TO THE FRAME OF THELONG JOHNS. THE MBC OPERATOR MOVED THE MBC UNAWA RE THAT EE HAD PLACED HIS HAND ON CAIN AND PINCHED

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE LIFTING A HEAVY METAL PLATE HE MUST HAVE INJURED HIS RIGHT GROIN. AT THE TIME THE INCIDENT WAS REPORTED ON 10-21-97 THE EE REFUSED MEDICAL ATTENTION. AFTER SEVERAL MORE A TTEMPTS TO GET THE EE TO SEE A DR WHEN THE DISCOMFORT WOULD NOT GO AWAY, THE EE SAW A DR ON 11-13-97. AT THAT TIME THE PROBLEM WAS DIAGNOESED AS A HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN ABDOMEN AREA DURING SHIFT, WHILE PULLING ON WRENCHES.

THE EMPLLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A BELT ROLLER ADN FRAME FROM A FLAT BED TRAILER WHEN THE LOAD HSIFTED WHIE SUSPENDED AND FELL ON EE CRUSHING HIS LOWER RIGHT LEG AND ANKLE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PRY OPEN A MANHOLE-PRY OFF THE MANHOLE COVER UTILIZING A SHOVEL. EE CLAIMS THAT HE FELT A PULL IN HIS GROIN. EVALUATED AT MEDICAL CLINIC WITH AN INGUINAL HERNIA.

WHILE TIGHTENING CHAIR LINER BOLTS WITH AN IMPACT WRENCH, EE CAUGHT HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN THE SOCKET AND BEARING COVER FLANGE.

EE WAS LIFTING AND MOVING SCREENS, CAUSING HERNIA UMBILICAL.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING A CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE AND WATER LINE WHEN HE HURT HIS GROIN AREA.

TWO MAINTENANCE MECHANICS WERE CHANGING THE UPPER BEARING ON THE WEST PUMP AT THE MORTON BARGE. DURING THE COURSE OF THE CHANGEOUT, ONE MECHANINC FELT PULL IN HIS LEFT GROIN. THIS WAS LATER DI AGNOSED AS A HERNIA REQUIRING SURGICAL REPAIR. THE BEARING ASSEMBLY WEIGHS 90 TO 100 POUNDS.

EE HAS BEEN UNDER A PHYSICIANS CARE SINCE HIS HERNIA OPERATION IN 1991. HE HAS EXPERIENCED BURNING PAINT DISCOMFORT IN HIS ADOMINAL REGION SINCE THE OPERATION. ON 10-9-97 HE WAS UNABLE TO CONT INUE HIS NORMAL UG WORK ACTIVITY AND IS CURRENTLY SCEDUELED FOR SURGERY.

HE WAS TURNING THE STAND OVER ON ITS SIDE FOR THE DUST COLLECTOR BLOWER. THE STAND GOT CAUGHT ON THE BASE OF THE FAN. EE MOVED THE FAN AND THE STAND SLAMMED DOWN AND STARTED TO SLIDE OFF THE P LATFORM. HE GRABBED A HOLD OF THE STAND TO STOP IT FROM SLIDING OFF. HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS STOMACH AREA. HE HAS AN APPT WITH SURGEON ON FRIDAY 10-10 AT 3:20 PM.

EE WAS STANDING ON THE BOOM OF THE CLAM CHECKING A LEAKING HOSE WHEN THE BOOM SUCKED UP CATCHING EE'S TOES BETWEEN THE WISHBONE & THE BOOM CYLINDER PACKING FLANGE. EE WAS NOT TIED OFF.

THE INJURED REACHED IN TO CLEAR A BENTONITE FEEDER & AMPUTATED THE TIP OF THE FINGER.

PRYING ON CAT TRACK WITH 6FT PRY BAR, WHEN FELT SHAPR PAIN IN GROIN AREA. RESULTING WITH HERNIA ON RIGHT SIDE.

EE WAS MOVING A COMPRESSED GAS CYLINDER WHEN HE AGGRAVATED ANE EXISTING HERNIA CONDITION.

EE WAS PUTTING CUTTING EDGES ON 980C LOADER. HE WAS LIFTING THE CUTTING EDGE PLATE SO HE COULD BOLT IT IN PLACE AND STRAINED HIMSELF. CAUSED DOUBLE HERNIAS.

EMPLOYEE HAS REPORTED NUMEROUS INSTANCES WHERE HIS HERNIA CONDITION HAD BEEN AGGREVATED OVER THE PAST 5 TO 6 YEARS- HE HAS NOW DECIDED TO HAVE OT REPAIRED SURGICALLY ON 9-29-97 AND IS OFF TO W ORK.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS RIDING A SCOOP BUCKET WHEN HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS CAUGHT BEHIND THE SCOOP RAM. EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE DR. WHO REMOVED THE LAST JOINT OF THE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING TRUSS BOLT SUPPLIES OUT OF SHUTTLE CAR. A SCOOP CAME THROUGHT CURTAIN AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE PINNING HIM BETWEEN SCOOP AND CAR. SCOOP HAD CLEARED CURTAIN BUT COULD NOT SEE INJURED EMPLOYEE DUE TO UNDULATIONS IN ROADWAY.

BELT TAIL PIECE WAS KNOCKED OFF CRIIB BLOCKS. EE WAS HELPING SET TAIL PIECE, INSTALLING CRIB BLOCKS UNDER BELT TAIL TAIL PIECE FELL OFF JACK, CAUGHT LEFT THUMB BETWEEN BELT TAIL AND CRIB BLOC K MASHED THUMB FROM 1ST JOINT OUT.

LIFTING COOKER PLATE FOR VULCANIZING BELT, HERNIA IN STOMACH

EE THINKS HE HURT HIMSELF IN OCTOBER WHILE WORKING ON A RIP RAP PLANT. HE WAS PUT ON RESTRICTED DUTY INDIFINTLY BY THE DOCTOR ON 11/10/97.

3 EAST LONGWALL - #2 TRACK ENTRY - EE SLIPPED ON SCOOP BUCKET BLADE, AFTER CUTTING THE SHRINK WRAP OFF OF A PALLET OF ROCK DUST. HE STRUCK HIS LEFT WRIST AREA ON A TRACK RAIL.

STUMBLED BACKWARDS OVER THE DRAG BUCKET IN THE MONKEY BETWEEN #3 AND 4 CHUTES.

HE WAS BITTEN BY A SPIDER ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON. SATURDAY MORNING HIS JAW AND CHEEK WERE SWOLLEN. HE HAD A SEVERE ALLERGIC REACTION TO THE BITE.

EE WAS WALKING IN THE SECTION. HE STEPPED INTO AHOLE AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE AND KNEE.

EE WAS BLOWING BOLT HOLES OUT WITH AN AIR HOSE, WHEN HE BLEW A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS EYE.

EE WALKING STEPPED WRONG WAY AND SPRAINED FOOT

A MINOR NON-REPORTABLE CUT BECAME INFECTED 6 DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT AND HAD TO BE DRAINED BY THE DOCTOR. THE INITIAL CUT ON THE KNUCKLE CAME FROM A METAL BAND THE EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING.

EE WAS USING A COME-A-LONG TO POSTION A PIECE OF STEEL WHEN THE LIFTING EYE USED TO SECURE TO COME-A-LONG FAILED & STRUCK EE ON TOP OF HIS LEFT KNEECAP.

EMPLOYEE WS WORKING ON FEEDER AND CUT MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND CAUSING LACERATION.

THEY HAD JUST LAID A SLAB DOWN ON A SET OF ROLLERS USING AN OVERHEAD CRANE. INJURED AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE EACH USED A BAR ON EACH CORNER TO LIFT HALF THE SLAB TO REMOVE THE CHAIN ATTACHED TO TH E OVERHAED CRANE. AS INJURED DID THIS HE CLAIMS TO HAVE HURT HIS BACK. HE LEFT WORK AT 9:00AM

THE EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGIGN A DISCHARGE PAN IN THE SAG MILL. IN THE PROCESS, HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING THE PAN TO DISLODGE AND SLIDE ABOUT 6". WHEN THE PAN SLID, IT PINNED HIS LEG AGAINST THE SAG SHELL RESULTING IN A FRACTURED LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHUTTING DOWN LOADER TWISTED HIS ANKLE AND HE HIT HIS CHEST IN A HEADLIGHT GUARD ON LOADER. HE DID NOT THINK HE WAS HURT UNTIL HE STARTED COUGHING ON 11-8-97 & HAD PAIN. HE WENT T O THE HOSPITAL FOR X-RAYS AND HE HAD A CRACKED RIB. EMPLOYEE IS TO RETURN TO WORK 11-13-97.

EE WAS HANGING A VENTILATION CURTAIN AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE DRILLING THE BACK IN 5875 STOPE, THE MINER WAS CHANGING OUT HIS DRILL STEEL FROM AN 8' STEEL TO A 10' STEEL WITH ONE HAND WHILE TRING TO HOLD AND MAINTAIN THE BALANCE OF THE JACKLET WITH HIS OTHER HAND, WHEN HE TWISTED AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS HELPING TO REMOVE A WATER PUMP. WHEN HE LIFTED THE PUMP, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS TO HAVE EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN AS HE BENT TO PICKUP A WOODEN PALLET FROM A PLATFORM SCALE.

WHILE USING A SKILL SAW CUTTING SKIRTING FOR THE OFFICE TRAILER, A METAL FRAGMENT GOT IN HIS EYE CAUSING DISCOMFORT.

EE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EE (THE REPAIRMAN) PUT CAT HEAD IN ON JOY MINER. EE GOT FINGER HUND BETWEN CAT HEAD AND LATCH ON RECEPTABLE.

EE WAS HELPING MINER MOVE TO ANOTHER ENTRY. WHILE DOING THIS HE PUT HIS HAND DOWN TO MOVE CABLE. THE MINER OP DID NOT SEE HIM AND DROPPED THE HEAD ON HIS FINGER.

DOXER BACKED UP.GOT OFF COUNTER ON EDGE OF SHOT AND ROLLED OVER TOWARD WALL.

INJURED WAS ADVANCING SHIELD WHEN 1 1/4" HOSE BURST AND PRESSURE FROM HOSE STRUCK EE IN BACK KNOCKING HIM INTO PANLINE SPILL BOARD.

EE STATED HE WAS WALKING TO FACE AREA AND STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE. FIRST LOST WORK DAY OCCURED ON 10/31/97

CLAIMANT WAS PULLING BACK ROCKS ON FEEDER TO CRUSHER WITH FRONT END LOADER, A VERY LARGE ROCK BECAME UNWEDGED AND AIR BORN BOUNCING BACK INTO WINDSHIELD OF LOADER AND HITTING CLAMANT IN CHEST AND JAW.

EE WAS SWEEPING OUT MCC RM, DUST IRRITATED EYES. EE WASHED EYE OUT WITH WATER. EE S EYE CONTINUE TO BE IRRITATED OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. EE WAS TAKEN TO THE DR ON 11-3-97. DR DIAGNOSED AS CONJUNCTIVITIS CAUSED FROM RUBBING EYE WITH UNCLEAN HAND.

AFTER REVIEW OF 97 LOST TIME INJURIES: A LOST TIME INJURY OCCURRED ON 10/30/97, COPY OF 7000-1 COULD NOT BE FOUND. A 7000-1 IS SUBMITTED. EE STATED WHILE TRAVELING ACROSS BLOCK WALL, 3 BLOCKS HIGH ON SOUTH MAIN BELT #2 AT 69XC SLIPPED & FELL ON RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING A RUB RAIL ON MINER WHEN THE LARGE SCREW DRIVER SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS BACK.

VICTIM TRIPPED OVER BUGGY CABLE TURNING ANKLE.

EE WAS HELPING INSTALL TAILGATE ON 773 CATERPILLAR TRUCK. HE WAS STANDING ON A PORTABLE WORK PLATFORM, USING A PRY BAR TO MOVE THE TAILGATE INTO POSITION. THE PRY BAR SLIPPED, HE LOST FOOTING AND FELL DOWN STAIRWAY OF WORK PLATFORM.

CAME OUT OF A BUILDING, STEPPED ON A ROCK. THE ROCK TURNED SIDEWAYS CAUSING THE RT ANKLE TO TURN AND TWIST.

INDICA EL EMPLEADO QUE CUANDO SE IBA A MONTAR EN EL FINGER SINTIO UN FUERTE DOLOR EN LA PARTE BAJA DE LA CINTURA, ADEMAS EN EL HOMBRO DEL BRAZO DERECHO.---THE EMPLOYEE STATED WHE HE WAS GOING TO GET ON/MOUNT THE MACHINE HE FELT A SHARP PAIN

EE WAS DESCENDING DRILL WHEN HE MISSED A STEP & FELL BACKWARDS APPROX 4-5'. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A FRACTURE OF HIS L-5 SPINE.

EE WAS PULLING MANTRIP SKID INTO SECTION WITH SCOOP WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON ROOF IN LOW AREA WHILE TRAMMING THRU RUN THRU CHECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING A BUGGY. AS HE WENT AROUND A CORNER, HE LOOKEDD OFF AND RAN INTO THE BACK OF A SCOOP.

PUSHING CAR WITH SUPPLIES. SUPPLIES SLIPPED AND HIT HIM ON HEAD.

VICTIM WAS REMOVING A RETURN ROLLER. HE DROPPED THE ROLLER AND IT FELL ON THE TOP OF HIS FOOT CAUSING A BRUISED FOOT.

WALKING TO A SCOOP AND HIT HIS HEAD ON A ROOF BOLT HANGING DOWN IN LOW COAL.

EMPLOYEE WAS LFITNG A ROLLER B PACKET AND HIS BACK STARTED HURTING.

PUTTING UP ROOF BOLT, GRABBED DRILL STEEL. STEEL HAD A SMALL SPUR ON IT. CAUGHT IN GLOVE, CATCHING HAND, RESULTING IN BROKE LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND.

HE WAS IN A SITTING POSITION WHEN HE TRIED TO MOVE A DRIP PAN LINER. HE FELT A STRAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE REPORTEDLY WALKED INTO OFFSET IN MINE ROOF. NOTE: EE DID NOT LOSE TIME UNTIL NOV 21, 1997

EE WAS REMOVING SIDE SHIELD TO GAIN ACCESS TO BUSTED HOSE. RIB ROLLED OVER STRIKING EE OVER ANKLE.

PULLING DOWN DOOD ON CLARK FORK LIFT WHEN EE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

WHEN EE AND ANOTHER EE PULLED A PALLET OUT FROM UNDER SOME BUCKET CUTTING EDGES, THE EDGES FELL DOWN ON EE'S RT FOOT, SMASHING HIS BIG TOE NEXT TO IT.

EE WAS OPENING AIR VALVE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE MUD RELAY TANK WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF THE VALVE CATCHING HIS RIGHT LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN THE WRENCH & THE FLANGE. X-RAY SHOWED HAIR FRACTURE OF RIGHT LITTLE FINGER.

HE ENCOUNTERED LOW TOP CONDITIONS AND WAS BOUNCED AGAINST THE MINE ROOF INJURING HIS HEAD AND NECK.

EE WAS HELPING LOAD PIN MATERIAL ON BOLTER WHILE MINER WAS MOVING. EE AND ANOTHER EE PICKED UP FOUR CHANNELS AND HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS BACK.

HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE FELL AND HIT THE EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER ALLEGEDLY STRAINING IT.

WHILE RIDING MAN TRIP TO SECTION EE FELT PAIN IN LOWER LEFT BACK FROM SNATCH AND JERK OF TRACK.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED EXPERIENCING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AFTER ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A FULL BOX OF RESIN CARTRIDGES. THE BOX CONTAINED 20 RESIN CARTRIDGES 40" IN LENGTH AND WEIGHED APPROX. 34 LBS.

EMPLOYEE WAS CRAWLING AND RIGHT KNEE STARTED SWELLING.

EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING THE BACK OF THE SEAT OF A D-7 DOZER. HE PLACED HIS RIGHT HAND UNDER THE SEAT BACK AND LEFT HAND ON TOP OF THE SEAT BACK. HE JERKED THE BACK 3 OR 4 TIMES AND FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT ARM.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WALKING TO NO. 4 MRS TO TAKE DOWN THE CABLE WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL BETWEEN THE RIB AND BOLTS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD, SHOULDER AND LEG.

EE WAS LIFTING AN OLD CROSS BAR OUT OF A MUDDY AREA BEING CLEANED & STRAINED HIS BACK.

SPRAIN/STRAIN MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK WHILE WORKING IN LOW COAL AND RIDING AND EXITING MANTRIP.

INJURED WAS MOVING HIS DRILL RIG FORWARD, WHEN THE DRILL RIGH CAME IN CONTACT WITH A DRILL STEEL, WHICH WAS STICKING OUT OF A HOLE. THE STEEL WAS FORCED BACK BY THE DRILL RIG. THE STEEL SLAPPE D BACK & STRUCK INJURED BELOW THE RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING HOT AIR OIL FURNACE IN PREP PLANT. WHEN HE LIT FURNACE FOR A TEST, THE FURNACE BACKFIRED AND BLEW DEBRIS IN HIS EYES.

1E SECTION LOADING RAMP, HE SET A 5 GAL BUCKET OF OIL, DOWN & THEN TURNED TO MOVE & TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE. ALL OF HIS WEIFHT WAS ON R FOOT. FRACTURE TO ANKLE, TIBIA & FIBULA. * LOST WORK DAY S BEGAN 10/30/97.

STRAINED BACK WHILE STACKING 100 LB BAGS.

EE WAS USING JACKHAMMER--STEEL TO HAND SCALE BUILDUP AND STRUCK ANGLE BRACE WITH FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING METAL ON A CRUSHER WHEN A PIECE OF HOT SLAG FELL OFF INTO HIS BOOT BURNING HIS FOOT.

EE WAS STANDING BACK AWAY FROM AREA WHERE WELDING OF PIPE WAS ACTIVE. SPARKS FROM WELDING ACTIVITY CAUGHT CUTTING TORCH ON FIRE, EE REACHED OVEFWITH GLOVE TO PUT OUT THE HOSE IGNITED.

HE WAS GETTING OUT OF ROAD GRADER. WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN ON THE GROUND, HE STRAINED LOWER BACK & GROIN MUSCLE.

ATTEMPTING TO LOWER A 15 FT. PIECE OF 1 1/4" PIPE FROM 8 FOOT IN THE AIR. THE PIPE FELL AND TRAPPED RIGHT HAND BETWEEN PIPE AND A PIECE OF LUMBER.

1E LONGWALL RECOVERY, WHILE PULLING #1 SHIELD, THE BACK END OF THE SHIELD PUSHED A CRUB INTO A SUPER POST. THE POST KICKED OUT & STRUCK EE IN LEFT SHOULER CAUSING FRACTURE TO LEFT SHOULDER BLA DE. LOST DAYS BEGAN 10/29/97.

MAN STATES HE STARTED TO PICK UP 6" WATER VALVE TO PUT ON 2-WHEEL CART AND FELT PAIN IN LOW BACK TO MID-BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF CAB OF SERVICE TREUCK WHEN HE STEPPED ON UNEVEN GROUND CAUSING HIM OT STUMBLE. THIS CAUSED HIM TO HAVE A SORE BACK.

DRILLING 45 DEGREE ANGLE TRUSS BOLT HOLE. PINNER STEEL HUNG IN HOLE GOT FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN WRENCH AND PINNER STEEL. POSSIBLE BROCE OR DISLOCATED RING FINGER OF RIGHT HAND. TRY TO GET STEEL OUT OF ROOF. NOTE DID NOT MISS UNTIL 11-19-97.

HAUL ROAD WAS QUITE SOFT. INJURED WAS DRIVING TO PIT TO BE LOADED. HE TOOK A WIDER THAN USUAL LINE & SOFT ROAD CAUSED TRUCK TO PULL. HE TRIED TO CORRECT BUT CONTINUED TO PULL. AS HE CONTINUED TO CORRECT ANOTHER TRUCK CAME IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION. WHEN TIRES TOOK HOLD TRUCK WAS SENT INTO PATH OF THE OTHER (LOADED) TRUCK. COLLISION CAUSED EMPLOYEE TO SUFFER CUTS/BUMPS. OTHER DRIVER OK.

DURING LONGWALL MOVE ON TEARDOWN ROOM THE INJURED PERSON WAS REMOVING PTO WANDER LEADS FROM SUPPORT ADN WAS STRUCK IN FACE BY PRESSURIZED FLUID FROM THE PTO PORT.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT FROM UNDER A PILE OF MUCK AND FELT PAIN IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK WHEN HE TRAMMED A DIESEL SCOOP INTO A POTHOLE AND THE FRAME BOTTOMED OUT.

LIFTING BELT STRUCTURE STAND TO HANG ON CHAIN. FELT PAIN IN LOWER ABDOMEN. INJURED BEGAN LOSING TIME FROM WORK 11-17-97. THIS WAS ORIGINALLY A FIRST AID INJURY REQUIRED SURGERY, DIAGNOSED POST INJURY DATE.

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF A DOZER. HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON THE TRACKS AND LANDED WITH HIS BACK ON THE TILT CYLINDER.

HE WAS OEPRATING THE MINER WHEN A ROCK SLID OFF THE HEAD AND CAUGHT HIM ACROSS THE TOP OF THE RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE ALLEDGES HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE CARRYING CONCRETE BLOCKS. NOTE EMPLOYEE WORKED UNTIL 12-15-97 THEN HE STARTED MISSING WORK.

ON D-MAINS SECTION THE EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CARRY A VENTILATION TUBE TO THE FACE TO HANG. AS HE WAS CARRYING IT OVER A SMALL BIT OF COAL AT THE MINER HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL AGAIN ST THE BOOM OF THE MINER RESULTING IN CRACKED RIBS AND A BRUISED LUNG.

EE STATES THAT WHILE ROOF BOLTING, HE BENT A ROOF BOLT DURING INSTALLATION AND BOLT HIT HIS CHIN CAUSING CUT REQUIRING SUTURES.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON SCREEN PLANT MOTOR. AN OBJECT ENTERED HIS LEFT EYE.

EE WAS CLEANING ROCKS OUT OF THE CRUSHER, WHEN A ROCK FELL DOWN, STRIKING HIM IN THE BACK.

TWISTED KNEE WHILE BOLTING TOP.

CHANGING OLD BROOM ON SWEEPER, THREW BROOM IN DUMPSTER. BROOM CAUGHT EDGE AND MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.

EE STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN ON 10-27-97, DUE TO CONTINUING PROBLEMS FROM 1-6-96 ACCIDENT.

WAS CLEANING CONVEYOR BELT, TOOL WAS PULLED IN,EMPLOYEE WAS PULLED IN WITH IT.

WHILE INSTALLING TIRES IN A DUMP HOPPER AND BEING OFF WITH CABLE, A SHARP PIECE OF CABLE OUT HIS FINGER.

EE STARTED MISSING WORK AGAINS 10-27-97. HE TRIED TO RETURN TO WORK ON 10-28-97, AND PERFORMED HIS NORMAL DUTIES ONLY THREE HOURS AND THEN FOUND IT NECESSARY TO RETURN HOME.

THE EMPLOYEE STATED HE HAD MOVED THE MINER CABLE OUT OF THE ROADWAY WHEN A PIECE OF MINE ROOF FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT SHOULDER.

SHE WAS PUTTING AWAY OFFICE SUPPLIES AND PUSHED A BOX WITH HER LEG, STRAINING HER BACK.

COAL TRUCK WAS INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT WITH ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL IN HIS PERSONAL VECHICLE ON HAUL ROAD.

WHILE WALKING IN THE GRAVEL PIT HE STEPPED IN A HOLE STRIANING HIS BACK ON 10-27-97. ON 10-29 HE STATED HE STEPPED OUT OF THE SKIDTEER IMPROPERLY, RE-INJURING HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS GOING TO CHECK OUT AN OIL LEAK ON A HYDRAULIC HAMMER. WHEN CLIMBING THE STAIRS, HE SLIPPED ON OIL THAT HAD LEAKED ON THE STAIRS CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS HEAD AND TWIS T HIS BACK AND NECK.

EE WAS GETTING OFF LOADER. SLIPPED ON LADDER & FELL CAUSING INJURY.

WHILE LOADING A TRUCK AT THE RAIL LOAD OUT AREA OF THE #14. PLANT THE EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS RIGHT LEG ON AN I BEAM. EMPLOYEE ALSO FELL THROUGH THE FLOOR WHERE THE FLOOR WAS WEAKENED FROM AGE. EM PLOYEE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 2-3-98.

EE WAS ASSISTING AN OUTSIDE TECH REP IN ADJUSTING THE 57FC CONE CRUSHER, USING A COME-A-ALONG. AFTER TIGHTENING THE COME-A-ALONG AS FAR AS IT WOULD GO, HE WAS INSTRUCTED BY THE TECH REP TO USE A CHEATER PIPE OVER THE HANDLE OF THE COME-A-ALONG TO TIGHTEN IT FURTHER. THE COME-A-ALONG BROKE AND THE CHAIN BACKLASHED, STRIKING THE EE IN THE RT ARM.

INJURED WAS TIEING TAKE UP PULLEY TO GROVE CRANE TO BE LIFTED HE PULLED BACK UP OUT OF THE HOLE TO LET THE TAKE UP BE LIFTED, & STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE SLIPPED ON GRATING OF STAIRWELL IN TRANSFER TOWER AREA. LEFT INDEX FINGER WENT THROUGH GRATING AND BODY WEIGHT WENT THE OTHER WAY, LACERATING FINGER AT MID KNUCKLE.

STONE FELL ON WORKER'S L SHOULDER @ 1PM. HE HAD PARAKED EXPLOSIVE TRUCK & WAS IN THE PROCESS OF WALKING TO FELLOW WORKER [DRILLING IN LM401IR HYDRAULIC DRILL]. HE PHONED IN INJURY AT 3PM AFTER SHOULDER BEGAN TO SWELL & HURT. HE DID TELL FELLOW WORKER WHEN HE GOT TO DRILL THAT HE HAD JUST BEEN HIT BY FALLING [1] STONE. MINE PERSONNEL TOOK HIM TO HOSPITAL ER & LUDWIG EXPLOSIVES PERSO

WHILE TAKING THE VALVE OF OF A PUMP, HE PULLED HIS BACK.

EE STATES WHILE LIFTING DRILL RODD FROM RIG DECK, HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS UNLOADING RAILS OFF THE RAIL CAR WHEN THE ROCK BAR SLIPPED AND HE FELL BACK AGAINST THE JEEP.

ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHILE EE WAS PULLING A DRILL STEEL OUT OF THE HOLE IN THE ROOF THAT WAS STUCK. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS OVEREXERTION, COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WRIST SUPPORT NO WORN, MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE STEPPING OVR CABLE HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE HAS LONG HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS. WE QUESTION THE ACT OF WALKIGN AS BEING AN ACCIDENT BUT CHIRO DIAGNOSIS OF SP RAIN/STAIN HAS BEEN DETERMINED TO SUBSTANTIATE SUFFICIENT GROUND FROM SUBMITTLE OF THIS QUESTIONABLE INJURY.

EE WAS WORKING LOADING OLD CONVEYOR BELT ONTO FLATCARS USING A LOCOMOTIVE, WIRE ROPE, AND ROPE GRABS TO PULL THE BELT THE ROPE GRAB SLIPPED OFF THE BELT AND STRUCK THE EE ON THE RIGHT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING DOZER AND SLIPPED STRIKING LOWER LEFT SIDE OF BACK.

LOADING CABLE REEL ON A FLAT CAR AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE IN THE MUD.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY A PIECE OF ROCK WHICH FELL OUT BETWEEN BOLTS AND HIT HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BACK. THE X-RAYS WERE NEGATIVE BUT THE EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK ON OCTOBER 28, 199 7.

OPERATOR WAS CHANGING SEATS IN 21 S/C JOY SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE SAID HE PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT SHOULDER.

5-16-94 ORIGINAL ACCIDENT. EMPLOYEE STRAINED ACHILLES TENDON IN LEFT FOOT SOMETING DURING THE SHHIFT. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN OFF WORK AGAIN ON 10-27-97 DUE TO CONTINUING PROBLEMS.

EE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE OPERATOR'S DECK OF SCOOP WHEN HIS RIGHT LEG SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO HYPER-EXTEND.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE PANLINE (FACE) AND STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A LOW SHIELD, JAMMING HIS NECK. FIRST LOST WORKDAY OCCURRED ON 11-4-97.

HIT HIS HEAD ON THE TOP WHILE OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR. THE RESULTS WAS PULLED NECK MUSCLES.

EE WAS PULLING MINER CABLE AND STRAINED BACK.

CAUGHT LEFT HAND BETWEEN ROOF BOLTER HEAD AND TOP SMASHING THUMB.

EE LET HEAD OF BOLTER DOWN ON FOOT.

EE WAS RETURNING OUT OF XCUT ON OFF TRACK SIDE WITH BROOM IN HAND WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING WHILE STEPPING DOWN OFF BANK. THE BANK WAS WET & EXTEMELY SLIPPERY. THE FALL CAUSED A CONTUSION TO LO WER BACK.

EE STATED HE WAS SHOVELING ALONG THE BELT LINE WHEN A ROCK STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT ARM. HE CONT'D WORKING UNTIL SWELLING OCCURRED THE NEXT DAY.

EE RUN ENDLOADER DOWN TO HOLE AND LOADED TWO LOADS OF CANS AND BROUGHT THEM UP ON HILL.

WALKING AWAY FROM MACHINE AND SLIPPED ON ROCKS.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING FEED NEW BELT THRU AN OVERCAST TO BE PULLED ONTO THE EXISTING BELT CONVEYOR. HE FELT A SNAP IN HIS LOWER BACK. NOTE: EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION NOR MISS WORK UNTIL 11-13-97.

EMPLOYEE WAS SCALING DOWN LOOSE ROCK. A ROCK STRUCK THE SCALING BAR AND HIS RIGHT HAND, CUTTING HIS RING FINGER. REQUIRED STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING OR CHECKING A FUSE IN THE DISCONNECT BOX AND APPARENTLY CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE MAIN FEED LINS TO THE FUSE BLOCK. EMPLOYEE HAD A SCREWDRIVER AND PLIERS IN HIS HAND AT TH E TIME AND THINKS HE STUCK THE TOOL IN THE BOX CAUSING THE SHORT BETWEEN THE TWO PHASES.

WHILE CHANGIN A HYDRAULIC LINE ON HYDROSER, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED IN SPILLED HYDRAULIC OIL. THIS AGGREVATED AN INJURY TO HIS KNEE THAT WAS CAUSED ON 6-96 AND 7-19-94. ON 12-3-97 HE BEGAN LOSING DAY S FROM WORK AS A RESULT OF SURGERY TO REPAIR HISKNEE.

DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 11-6-97. RAN OVER ROCK WHILE OPERATING SCOOP. STRAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING READY TO SPLICE A BELT HE NOTICED THAT THE BLADE ON THE BELT CUTTER WAS BENT. HE WAS HOLDING THE BLADE WITH HID LKEFT HAND WHEN HE HIT TH EBLADE WITH A HAMMER IT CUT HIS L EFT THUMB, IT REQUIRED 4 STITCHES.

THE MAN WAS USING A LIFT JJACK TO PLACE A DERAILED MANTRIP ON TRACK. THE LIFT JACK SLIPPED AND CAUGHT THE MAN'S LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE JACK AND THE MANTRIP.

INJURED FELL WHILE WALKING DOWN A CATWALK & LANDED ON HIS BACKSIDE. INJURED DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 11/1/97.

INJURED WAS CONDUCTING A PRE-OPERATIONAL CHECK OF A ROAD GRADER(MAINTAINER) SHE WAS PREPARING TO OPERATE. AS EMPLOYEE TRAVERSED THE WALKWAY TO THE CAB, SHE LOST HER BALANCE AND FELL APPROXIMA TELY 40 INCHES TO THE GROUND. INJURED SUFFERED AFRACTURE OF THE ACROMION AT THE BASE FROM THE BAOF THE SCAPULA, NON-DISPLACED. INJURED WAS PRESCRIBED MEDICATION WHICH NOT PERMIT RETURN TO WORK

HE WAS INSTALLING A WATER PUMP ON A 994 LOADER WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

WHILE CLEANING ROCK OFF MINER PULLED A PIECE OFFAND IT FELL AND CAUSED THE END TO RAISE AND CATCH HAND IN TOP CAUSING IT TO GET CUT AND MASHED.

HANGING CURTAIN IN #3 ENTRY WITH 8' LADDER. WHILE THE ROOF BOLTER COMPLETED CUT & STARTED BACK OUT THE XCUT WHEN THE OPERATOR ENERGIED THE REEL TO TAKE UP THE CABLE THE CABLE STRUCK THE LADDER & KNOCKED EE OFF THE LADDER & TO THE GROUND. HE LANDED ON HIS RESCUER.

EE WAS INSTALLING A CONVEYOR MOTOR ON THE 14CM CONTINUOUS MINER. WHILE PRYING WITH A BAR, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. RECEIVED DETAILS ON

EMPLOYEE PARKED HIS MANTRIP AT BOTTOM, SET BRAKE AND STARTED TO GET OFF THE MANTRIP, AS HE WAS GETTING OFF THE MANTRIP, THE BRAKE DISCHARGED AND THE MANTRIP DRIFTED, THE EMPLOYEES LEFT FOOT WA S BETWEEN THE HYDRAULIC BRAKE AND FRAME, HIS FOOT GOT CAUGHT HERE AND HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEES

EMPLOYEE STUMBLED OVER A ROCK AND CAUGHT HIMSELF BEFORE THE FALL. HE FELT A PAIN IN LEFT SIDE AND CHEST AREA. EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 11-5-97.

EE WAS PULLING DOWN LOOSE ROOF WITH A SLATE BARPULLING DOWN. WHEN ROCK BROKE BAR CAME DOWN QUICKLY AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT THUMB BETWEEN THE BAR ANDTHE CANOPYOF THE ROOF BOLTER.

EE PLACED HIS HAND ON TOP OF PINS BOARDS THAT WERE SITTING ON A ROOF BOLTER WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL BETWEEN PINS & STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM THE SCOOP WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE LIFTING AN IRON ROD ONTO A TOOL BOX, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS NECK AND RT SHOULDER.

WHILE LIFTING A JACKLEG AND MACHINE INTO LOADER BUCKET EMPLOYEE EXPERINED PAIN IN HIS ABDOMINAL AREA. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIA.

WHILE DRILLING A HOLE TO INSTALL A ROOF BOLT (OUTSIDE) A ROCK FELL FROM THE ATRS BACK TO THE CANOPY. HE RAN OUT FROM UNDER CANOPY AND THE ROCK SLID OFF STRIKING HIM. HE HAD SURGERY TWICE ON HI S NECK AS THE RESULT OF A CAR WRECK A FEW YEARS AGO. HE SAW HIS SPECIALIST 11-4 WHO DETERMINED HE SHOULD STAY OFF FROM WORK UNTIL HE SEES HIM AGAIN 12-5.

EE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF BETWEEN BOLTS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT ARM AND NECK.

EE WAS ON SHORE HELPING TO HOLD A BARGE IN PLACETHE TUGBOAT PULLED ON THE BARGE WHILE THE EE WAS HOLDING ONTO THE CABLE. THE CABLE SNAPPED AND STRUCK THE EE IN THE HAND.

EE WAS WALKING FROM THE SLAB TILTER TO A SPLITTING MACHINE. AS HE TURNED THE CORNER HE STEPPED TO CLOSE TO A PALLET OF STONE. HIS LEFT FOOT CAUGHT ON THE PALLET CAUSING HIM TO TRIP. HE LANDE D ON HIS RIGHT SIDE. HE CONTINUED WORKING AND WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM AFTER WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING MASTER CYLINDER AND WHEN HE CHECKED THE DRUM, FLUID SHOT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

ROCK FELL OUT FROM AROUND HOLE INJURED HAD JUST DRILLED IN ROOF AND HIT CANOPY BUSTING UP AND SLIDING OFF ALL SIDES. ONE PIECE FELL OF FRONT SIDE HURTING HIM ARM AND CAUSING A LACERATION.

WHILE CARRYING BRICK RING (KILN #1) UNDER PLATFORM, TO FRONT PLATFORM. WITH 4 OTHER MEN, RING TIPPED. STRUCK LEFT SHOULDER RESULTING IN CONTUSION.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING OIL INTO THE RAM CAR AND TWISTED LEFT SHOULDER.

EE STATES HE WAS USING A PRYBAR TO DISLODGE A TANGLED SECTION OF BUCKET ELEVATOR AS IT WAS BEING LIFTED WITH A CRANE, SECTION BROKE FREE & SENT BAR FLYING, STRIKING EE'S JAW.

OPRATING 980 CAT END LOADER IN QUARRY PIT-LARGE BOULDER SLID DOWN MUCK PILE AND HIT SUSPENDED LOADER BUCKET RAISING REAR OF LOADER OFF GROUND AND SLAMMIGN VIOLENTLY TO GROUND JARRING OEPRATOR. OEPRATOR EXPEERIENCING STIFFNESS AND SORENESS, ESPECIALLY IN RIGHT SIDE AND LOWER BACK.

POSITIONED HOSE INTO TOP OF RAIL CAR, THEN TURNED TO EXIT TOP OF CAR, TRIPPED ON HATCH AND FELL TO TOP OF CAR BREAKING FALL WITH HAND. EMPLOYEE HOOKED TO FALL RESTRAINT DEVICE THAT PREVENTS FA LL FROM CAR TO GROUND. SPRAINED LEFT WRISTAND ELBOW.

EE WAS LIFTING PIPES FOR WATER PUMPING WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN TO HIS BACK. ** PLEASE NOTE: AT THE TIME OF INJURY, EE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT. ON 11/3/97 HE WENT THE DR & HAS BEEN OFF SINCE THAT DATE.

PICKED UP A BAG OF ROCK DUST AND TWISTED THE WRONG WAS AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WAITING HIS TURN TO FILL A BIG BAG OF LIME ON A FINGERLIFT TRUCK HE WAS OPERATING WHEN HE FELT A FOREIGN BODY IN HIS LEFT EYE.

WAS CLEANING AND UNPLUGGING HOPPER- HE WAS STANDING ON A ROCK AND MOVED ANOTHER ROCK AND THE ROCK HE WAS STANDING ON FELL AND HE FELL AGAINST THE HOPPER- ( THE LOWER RIGHT LEG FELL AGAINST HTE HOPPER)

WHILE PERFORMING HIS NORMAL DUTIES AS A R BOLTEREE'S LEFT KNEE LOCKED UP AFTER EE HAD AN MRI DONE THE RESULTS SHOWED A SPRAIN/TORN CARTLIDGE.

EE JERKED NECK HWILE DRIVING TRUCK; TRUCK SLID ON WET ROAD AND WENT INTO DITCH.

EE WAS STRUCK BY THE BLADE OF THE MAGNER DIESEL SCOOP, CAUSING A COMPOUND FRACTURE TO HIS LEFT LOWER LEG BELOW THE KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED. HE REACHED WITH HIS RIGHT HAND TRYING TO CATCH HIMSELF AND HIS HAND WAS CAUGHT IN PIN STEEL.

EE WAS LIFTING 20 FILTER ONTO WAREHOUSE SHELF, WHEN HE EXPERIENCED A PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER.

WHILE GRINDING METAL SNAPS ON CONVEYOR BELT; PIECES OF METAL FLEW UP IN LEFT EYE.

ROUGH ROADWAY, HAULING COAL AND HIT A HOLE AND COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN AND KIDNEYS HURTING.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING A DOZER IN THE SHOT ROCK WHEN HE BACKED OVER A LEDGE AND D0ZER SLIPPED SIDEWAYS AND DROPPED 1 TO 2 FT ONTO GROUND. THIS CAUSED THE DOZER TO JAR THE EE. EE WENT TO DR FOR KIDNEY STONE BUT DR TOLD HIM THATINJURY WAS A TRUAMA TO RIGHT KIDNEY AND WAS CASUDD BY HIS WORK. REPORTABLE WHEN INJURY REPORTED BY EE ON 10/31/97

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGH A CROSSCUT AND SLIPPED AND FELL ON HAND FRACTURING HIS FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND.

EE STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN DUE TO THIS INJURY ON 10-23-97. ORIGINAL WAS 11-05-95.

EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING BRIDGE DOWN BELT LINE AND THE WAY HE WAS HOLDING THE CONTROLS CAUSED HIS ELBOW TO GET CAUGHT IN THE TOP AND CRAMMED HIS ARM INTO THE CONTROLS BREAKING HIS WRIST.

EE TURNED AROUND AND STRUCK HEAD AGAINST ROOF , STRAINING NECK.

HAD HEAD OUTSIDE OF CANOPY, STRUCK WITH CANOPY.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRING TWO PAILS OF BOLTS DOWN AN INCLINE WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS RIGHT KNEE. HE BEGAN LOSING TIM EON 12-1-97 DUE TO SURGERY TO REPAIR HIS KNEE.

CHANGING TOP DECK SCREEN. STEPPED OFF SCREEN ONTO WORK PLATFORM THAT HAD STONE SPILL ON IT. HE STEPPED ON LARGE STONE AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR AND A WIRE HANGING FROM THE ROOF CAM IN THE OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT STRIKING HIM IN THE EYE. CAUSED OF THIS INJURY WAS NOT BENDING WIRES UP AND AWARENESS OF ROADW AYS. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS OK.

CRUSHER FORMAN AND LOADER OPERATOR WERE PUTTIN GREBUILT FEED PLATE IN FEEDER. FOREMAN SAID I'M GOING TO KICK THE JAMED PLATE. EE NEVER HEARD HIM SAY THIS OR COULDN'T REMOVE HIS HAND QUICK EN OUGH. FORMAN KICKED THE PLATE AND EE DIDN'T HAVE HIS HAND OUT OF THE WAY. IT CUT HIS HAND. TOOK 8 STITCHES TO REPAIR HIS HAND. LOSS OF ABOUT 2 DAYS AS OF REPORT DATE.

WHEN EE FINISHED THE BLASTING, HE SLIPPED & FELT A STRONG PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS TRAMMING 270 S&S RAM CAR TO FACE IN THE LAST OPEN CROSSCUT BETWEEN #2 & #3 ENTRY WHEN PIECE OF DRAW SLATE APPROX 12" X 18" BY 1" TO 1.5" THICK. EE WAS TAKEN TO BUCHANAN GENERAL HOSPITAL , GRUNDY, VA. EE HAD 4 STITCHES IN LACERATION IN LEFT EAR.

EE STATED HE WAS SHOVELING BELT TAILPIECE & HURT HIS BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE STEP OVER THE MINER CABLE (THE MACHINE WAS TRAMMING)HE SLIPPED FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT KNEE AGAINST THE BOTTOM. HE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 11-06-97 HIS LAST DAY WAS 11-05-97.

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM LOADER, SLIPPED AND FELL OFF LADDER TO GROUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON A 922 LOADER DURING SERVICING OPERATION WHEN HE FELL THUS HITTING HIS ARM ON THE LOADER.

EXAMINING BELT LINE ON MOVING MANT RIP LOW COAL SEAM LAYING DOWN WITH HEEL OF LEFT LEG RESTING ON FRAME MANTRIP RAN OVER UNSEEN HOLE BOUNCING LEFT LEG DOWN FACING KNEE JOINT BACKWARD BEYOND LI MIT CAUSING TEAR OF THE CARTILEDGE HAD TO HAVE SURGERY ON 3-2-98.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP SPILLED MATERIAL. HE FEILLED THE 6 CU FT WHEEL BARROW TO OVER CAPACITY AND WAS ROLLING TO DUMP, WHEN THE WHEEL BARROW TILTED. HE TRIED TO UP THE WHEEL BARROW BY USING HIS LEFT LEG. HE FELT A PULL IN HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON TRUCK WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL LOSING HIS BALANCE AND TWISTING HIS ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING BELT A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND HIT HIM ON THE SHOULDER. WILL BE OFF 3 DAYS ACCORDING TO DR.

EE WAS RAKING COAL SPILLAGE AWAY FROM THE V SCRAPER OUTBY THE #5 BELT TAIL PIECE AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON AN 8" STEEL BEAM. DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 11/19/97

I TURNED TO MY LEFT AND HIT A BELT GUARD COVER ON MY LOWER KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRAGGING #5 BELT AND STRUCK HIS HEAD ON CO MONITOR MOUNTING PIPE.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUT A BOLT THROUGH THE ARM OF A GRAPPLE. WAS UTILIZING A SLEDGE HAMMER IN ORDER TO SEND THE BOLT THROUGH. FELT PAIN IN HIS ABDOMINAL MUSCLES. WORKED WITH INTERMITTEN T PAIN UNTIL 11-3-97.

DRAINING CONTAINTED FUEL IN 35GAL TANK, LIDE OPENED STEPED ON LID CAUSED IT TO SLIDE STRIKING FEET MADE EE LOSE BALANCE FALLING OVER SIDE OF TANK STRIKING CONTAINMENT AREA AND THEN THE GROUN D

THE EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BAGS OF ROCK DUST AND PLACING THEM THROUGH A MAN DOOR WHEN HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LOWER BACK AND RIGHT LEG.

EE WAS SHVELING WET CLAY ON THE HEAP LEACH PAD. ON 10/29/97 EE INFORMED HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HIS LEFT ARM/ELBOW WAS SORE FROM SHOVELING. HE SUBSEQUENTLY WENT TO A DR ON 11/3/97 WHO DIAGNOSED A STRAIN. MINERAL RIDGE WAS NOT INFORMED OF HIS VIIST TO A DR UNTIL 11/18/97

INJURED STARTED MISSING WORK ON 10-24-97 DUE TO BACK PAIN.

CLIMBING ON & OFF CONVEYOR WHILE REPAIRING BELT. "EE HAS NOT CONTACTED US SINCE THE INJURY, WE DO NOT KNOW THE STATUS OF THIS INJURY".

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON D-10 DOZER. HE WAS GETTING OFF DOZER, FOOT SLIPPED AND LEG WENT BETWEEN TRACKS AND PUSH ARM CAUSING FRACTURE TO KNEE.

EMPLOYEE HOLDING MINER PAN UP BY PUSHING DOWN WITH SLATE BAR ALLEGES PAIN IN BACK.

EMPLOYEE DUG INTO SURFACE WITH LOADER BUCKET ANDCAUSED LOADER TO STOP ABRUPTLY-EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING SEAT BELT BUT FORCE OF SUDDEN STOP CAUSED HIM TO HIT THE STEERING WHEEL WITH RIBS.

WHILE CLEARING AWAY SCRAP IRON, EMPLOYEE FELT TUGGING SENSATION IN LOWER BACK.

HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PLACE A ROLL OF 12/4 CABLE WEIGHING APPROX. 40 LBS ON TOP OF A MANTRIP CANOPY(ABOUT SHOULDER HIGH). HIS SHOULDER POPPED LOUDLY AS HE LIFTED THE CABLE.

EE WAS STANDING BESIDE MINER WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS EAR & SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING SX PLANT WHEN HE BACKED UP AND BUMPED THE BACK OF HIS HEAD AND NECK ON A SUPPORT BEAM.

EMPLOYEE CALLED IN SICK ON 10-24 AND 10-27-97. LATER IN THE DAY ON 10-27-97, HE CALLED HIS SUPERVISOR AND REPORTED HE HAD STRAINED HIS BACK ON 10-23-97 WHILE CLEANING UP AROUND THE PACKAGING L INES IN THE PACKAGING DEPT. HE SAW A CHIROPRACTOR ON 10-27-97 AND REMAINS OFF WORK. MAY RETURN IN TWO WEEKS.

EE WAS DRIVING A PIN OUT OF A DIFFERENTIAL WITH A 6 FT PIPE. WHEN PIN CAME OUT, DIFFERENTIAL FELL ON LOWER PART OF RT ARM. THIS BROKE WRIST IN 2 PLACES.

WHEN HELPING WELDER, EE WAS FLASHED WHEN WELDER STRUCK ARC.

AT BOTTOM OF B SHAFT AT ROCKDUST HOLE INJURED WAS CARRYING A HYD. JACK WHEN HE TURNED HIS RIGHT ANKLE. THE AREA HAD A SMOOTH FLOOR.

WHILE WELDING ON NOSE OF KILN, HOT MATERIAL CAUGHT RIGHT HAND AT BASE OF THUMB.

EE WAS DRILLING MINE ROOF WHEN A PIECE OF DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF HALE AND STRUCK EE ON RIGHT HAND.

EE SHOVELED CONCRETE & STRAINED HIS BACK. EE LATER HAD SURGERY & BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY ON 2/28/98.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A FINGERLIFT TRUCK IN MILL #12 AREA WHEN HE STARTED TO FEEL PAIN IN HIS BACK.

PRIMARY ROCK STACKER FELL FROM CRUSHER OPERATOR WAS MOVING FROM #1 FEEDER TO #2 FEEDER, FALLING ON 8YD, HITTING RAMS JUST BEHIND THE BUCKET SLAMMING THE 8YD OPERATOR BACK & FORTH IN CAB.

EE WAS STEPPING OFF THE LADDER AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS MOVING HIS TOOLBOX FROM BAY 12 TO BAY 11 IN THE TRUCK SHOP. WHILE HE WAS PULLING ON THE TOOLBOX HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE WAS SEEN BY A PHYSICIAN ON 10/23/97, DIAGNOSIS: ACUTE LS S TRAIN. HE BEGAN TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN JAW CRUSHER STRUCTUREWHEN A ROCK FELL OUT OF FEED ONTO HIS LEFT HAND, BREAKING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE REMOVING A BELT CLAMP, THE BELT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO JERK HIS ARM AWAY. HE THEN JUMPED OVER THE BELT AND A FEW DAYS LATER HIS SHOULDER HURT. HE BEGAN LIGHT DUTY O N 11-3-97.

LET PINNER HEAD DOWN ON BOLT AND PLATE AND PLATE FLIP OVER AND CUT FOOT.

EE STATED HE FELT PAIN IN RT. FOREARM PULLING ON A HOSE.

INJURED FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK WHILE LIFTING A PIECE OF PIECES OF PIPE.

WORKING ON CONE AND SMASHED FINGER (RIGHT 2ND FINGER)

WHILE LOADING 500 MCM CABLE ON THE H/G OF OLD 1LW EE FELT PAIN AT CENTER AND BASE OF NECK. EE DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 10-30-97.

EMPLOYEEWAS GREASING HIS BRIDGE WHEN THE OTHE RBRIDGES CALLED FOR THE BRIDEGES TO MOVE, THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT GET BACK IN HIS BRIDGE FAST ENOUGH,THE BRIDGES MOVED BACKWARDS CATCHING THE INJURED 'S LOWER LEG BETWEEN THE BRIDGES AND THE RAPID HAUL- EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A FRACTURE OF THE LOWER RIGHT LEG.

THE INJURED WAS WALKING BESIDE BLET WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

WALKING DOWN HILL, SLIPPED, FELL-LANDING ON RIBS.

OPERATOR RELIEVING REGULAR OPERATOR FOR LUNCH BREAK. FELL FROM CAT WALK GETTING INTO CAB OF END DUMP TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UNDER THE #3 DUST COLLECTOR BASE WHEN HE SLIPPED IN MUD AND STRAINED HIS BACK. HE SAW A PHYSICIAN WHO PRESCRIBED HIM TO WORK LIGHT DUTY.

EE WAS UNPLUGGING A ROCK BOX WHEN 2 ROCKS FELL BFROM THE BOX. THEFIRST STONE HIT HIM ON THE BACK CAUSING HIM TO LEAN FORWARD; THE SECOND ROCK STRUCK HIS HAND AS HE HAD GRIPPED THE SHELF OF THE ROCK BOX AS A RESULT OF THE FIRST STONE.

ON 5 DEV LONGWALL SECTION BETWEEN JACK#90 AND # 95 ONTHE JACK LINE. A ROCK FELL AND STRUCK EE ONLEFT KNEE/

EE STARTED TO DRILL HOLE WITH ROOF BOLTER WHEN AROCK FELL FROM TOP HITTING HIM ON RIGHT ARM

PULLING UP ON PAIR OF CHANNELOCKS, THEY SLIPPED AND HIT RIGHT HAND ON BELT STRUCTURE. EMPLOYEE MISSED 10-23-97 10-27-97THRU10-30-97 11-4-97 DUE TO PROBLEMS WITH HIS HAND.

THE INJURIED WAS EXITING THE MANLIFT BASKET & STEPPED ON AN EDGE OF A SLAB OF CONCRETE CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS ANKLE & FALL TO THE GROUND. HE WAS WEARING BIFOCALS & DID NOT REALIZE THERE WAS A HEIGHT DIFFEENTIAL BETWEEN THE SLAB & THE GROUND. HE ALSO EXITED FACING THE INCORECT WAY - FACE OUT INSTEAD OF FACE IN WHILE DESCENDING A LADDER. HE ALSO HAD ONE HAND FULL OF TOOLS & ONLY HE

EE WAS SECENDING A ROCK PILE WHEN HIS RIGHT FOOT TWISTED. HE SUSTAINED A FRACTURE TO THE 5TH MEDIOTARSAL BONE.

EE WAS WORKING ON THE 14CM9 MINER CONVEYOR CHAIN. THE BLOCKING SHIFTED AND HURT HIS THUMB.

EE ALLEGEDLY INJURED HIS BACK HELPING MOVE A LIGHT POWER SUPPLY BOX (WEIGHING APPROX. 50-60#) A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 5'. COWORKERS INDICATED THAT EE DID NOT INDICATE IN ANY WAY HE WAS INJURED.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING MINER CABLE AND WATER HOSE OUT OF CABLE HANGER WHEN THE CABLE DROPPED STRIKING HIM ON LEFT SHOULDER.

LEAD ON FRAME [...] & HAND WAS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY. HE WAS WORKING ON A LIGHT SWITH. ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHILE TROUBLE SHOOTING ON SWITCH. HE TEMPORARILLY TOOK GLOVES OFF TO SWITCH AMPUNATOR WHEN INJURY OCCURRED.

EE WAS TAKDING SAMPLES OF MATERIAL WHEN HE STRAINED LOW BACK AREA. WHILE SHOVLEING MATERIAL OFF 4 SCALE STRAINED LOW BACK.

HE WAS LEANING OVER 51 BELT BREAKING FLEXCOS WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS STARTING A HOLE TO INSTALL A ROOF BOLT. AS HE TWISTED THE DRILL, A PIECE OF COAL DISLODGED AND STRUCK HIM IN LEFT EYE.

INJURED WAS PULLING CABLE OFF OF SHUTTLE CAR REEL. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS SIDE. EE BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 10-22-97.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING GOFER FROM SECTION TO TRACK, THE GOFER HIT A ROCK IN ROADWAY CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO STRIKE HEAD AGAINST TOP. THIS GOFER IS A 2 MAN MANTRIP AND THERE WERE 5 MEN ON IT.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A COAL HAULER IN THE 1LMW SECTION INTHE LAST SET OF ROOMS. INJURED STATED THAT HE DID NOT RECALL AN INCIDENT THAT INJURED HIS BACK OTHER THAN NORMAL COAL HAULER OPERATIO NS.EMPLOYEE SAID THAT NECK AND BACK ARE STIFF AND HURT. DR. GAVE HIM RELEASE FOT THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK THE NEXT DAY.

FEEDER DOOR FELL ON EE AS HE WAS TRYING TO DISLODGE A ROCK IN THE HOPPER.

EE WAS COMING DOWN THE STAIRS, TRIPPED ON THE CORD & FELL 4 STEPS, HITTING HIS CHEST, RIBS & KNEE.

ROCK CAME OFF END OF MINER CHAIN AT DISCHARGE END AND STRIKING CAR OPER IN SIDE AFTER BOUNCING OFF S.C.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING WITH 2 CANS OF OIL AROUND THE CONT. MINER AND HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND SLIPPED AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT GROIN AREA. DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 10- 30-97.

EE WAS BENT OVER ON KNEES WORKING ON LEFT SIDE OF CONVEYOR MOTOR WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF. IT MEASURED 2-1/2" WIDE X 4" LONG, 0-4" THICK.

HE WAS PUTTING PIN INTO ROOF. HE DIDN'T NOTICE THE NUT WAS MISSING. THE PIN BROKE AT BEND CAUSE IT WAS STUCK IN THE CHUCK. HE WAS TRYING TO SPIN IT TO GET IT OUT BY SPINNING IT.

LIFTING A 10LB BOX OF RESIN HURT BACK

CUTTER OPERATOR WAS BRINGING LOOSE COAL. ROCK FROM RIGHT SIDE OF RIB IN #4 HEADING WHEN MATERIAL DOWN & SLATE BAR WAS KNOCKED OUT OF HAND & STRUCK HIM ON TOP OF RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING U-JOINT ON WATER TRUCK AND KNOCKED SOME DIRT AND METAL INTO HIS EYE.

EE WAS HIT ON THE HEAD WHEN A REMOVABLE JIB FROMCRANE FELL HITTING EE ON HEAD, STRIKING HEAD, FACE & SHOULDER.

HE WAS CHANGING A 35 DEGREE IDLER ON #8 BELT AND ALLEGEDLY EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN HE HAS A HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING BOLTS BACK INTO THE BOTTOM FLANGE OF #1 PRECIPATATOR WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL APPROX. 4TO 5 FEET. THE PLATFORM USED WAS WITHOUT HANDRAILS. THE PLATFORM WITH HANDRAILS TO B E USED FOR THIS JOB TASK WAS NOT USED. LOCATION ALL STANDS 4' OR GREATER HAVE TO HAVE HAND RAILSINSTALLED.

FLANGE FELL WHILE FITTING PIPE, FINGER CUT ON BACK SIDE OF PIPE. 3/4" OF LEFT INDEX FINGER NEARLY SEVERED.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON BACK SIDE OF ENDLOADER BUCKET WHILE GREASING LINKAGE ON ENDLOADER BUCKET. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF AND HE FELL AROUND 4 TO 5 FEET LANDING ON LEFT HIP.

EE WAS WALKING TO SCALE TO WEIGH A PALLET AND THERE WAS A SMALL STONE STICKING UP MAKIN GTHE TERRAIN UNEVEN AND CAUSED EE TO TRIP AND TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE.

MAN WAS CLIMBING OUT OF BOBCAT WHEN FOOT SLIPPEDON WET METAL CAUSING HIM TO SLIP AND STRADDLE BUCKET OF BOBCAT. HIT INNER LEFT LEG CAUSING BRUISE TO VEIN. WAS WET AND MUDDY CONDITIONS.

WHILE PULLING SHOVEL TRAILING CABLE WITH A INSULATED CANE HOOK, THIS EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN. A DR. RESTRICTED HIM FROM WORK.

EMPLOYEE IN HOPPER, STEPPED ON ROCK TWISTING ANKLE TO ONE SIDE. HIS LEG BENT BACK UNDER HIM AND DISLOCATED HIS KNEE.

WHILE TRYING TO PRY TWO STICKS FROM UNDER FUEL TANK ON A BULLDOZER, THE INJURED SLIPPED OFF THE REAR OF THE DOZER AND FELL TO THE GROUND STRAINING AN ANKLE AND HIS BACK.

STRAIGHTENING OUT 1" BAR, BAR ROLLED & PINCHED FINGER BETWEEN BAR & GROUND.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON STEPS BREAKING HIS ANKLE.

COMING DOWN STAIRS WHEN FOOT GOT CAUGHT IN BETWEEN THE STAIRS. THE FOOT PULLED OUT OF THE BOOT BOOT STAYED STUCK AND FELL DOWN THE REMAINING STAIRS.

EMPLOYEE WAS KNOCKING A PIN OUT OF A TRACK PAD ON THE MINER WHEN HE HIT HIS LEFT HAND WITH THE HAMMER. HE MASHED ONE OF HIS FINGERS WITH THE HAMMER.

EE WAS DRIVING HIS LOADED INT'L 180 PAYHAULER WEST ON THE RAMP TO THE CRUSHER AND OTHER EE WAS DRIVING HIS EMPTY INT'L PAYHAULER EAST ON THE RAMP TO BE RELOADED WITH MATERIAL. AS THEY PASSED E ACH OTHER ON THE THIRD LEVEL OF THE RAMP, THEIR CABS STRUCK EACH OTHER.

EMPLOYEE WAS SPLICING BELT, WHEN THE CABLE THAT WAS HOOKED TO THE ANGLE IRON ON THE BELT BROKE FORCING THE ANGLE IRON BACK ON THE EMPLOYEE'S LEFGS, CAUSING CONTUSIONS TO BOTH FEMURS.

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN SCALING LOOSE MATERIAL DOWN AND WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL ONE LAST ROCK RIGHT IN THE FACE. THE ROCK BROKE OFF AND THE EMPLOYEE STUMBLED BACK AND SAT DOWN ON BACK OF ROOFBOLTER. HE STATED HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK. WHEN HE TRIED TO GET UP HE COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN UP.

THE EE WAS LIFTING A SHEET OF METAL WHEN THE CHAIN CAME UNHOOKED AND IT FELL ON BOTH OF HIS FEETHE WAS WEARING STEEL TOE SHOES.. WORKING IN THE BINS.

EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED AS HE TRIED TO CLEAN OUT A CHUTE FROM REVERSING CONVEYOR TO NO. 3 CONVEYOR. EMPLOYEE'S LEFT FOOT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN HEAD PULLEY OF REVERSING CONVEYOR AND ITS GEAR REDUCTIO N BOX.

PUSHING OUT LINER BOLTS WITH JACKHAMMER AND GUIDE SLEEVE. JACKHAMMER CAME OUT OF GUIDE SLEEVE EMPLOYEE TRIED TO GRAB CHUCK STEEL AND HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN CHUCK STEEL AND MILL SHELL.

EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN EIMCO MANTRIP PARKED IN A SWITCH. THE MANTRIP THAT WAS COMING OUT BEHIND THAM FAILED TO STOP AND STRUCK THE MANTRIP ON TH REAREND. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS MANTRIP OPER ATOR KEEPING HIS EQUIPMENT UNDER CONTROL. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP. OK, MINER PROFIENCY A FACTOR MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS A FACTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE IN LIFTING A 32" X 27" X 1/2" PLATE APPROX. 75 LBS TO PLACE INTO THE DISCHARGE CHUTE OF A CLINKER SILO. THEY HAD LIFTED THE PLATE ABOUT WAIST HIGH WH EN EMPLOYEE FELT A PULL IN HIS BACK WHICH WAS LATER DIAGNOSED AS A LUMBAR STRAIN.

EE WAS DRIVING HIS EMPTY INT'L 180 PAYHAULER DOWN THE RAMP TO BE LOADED ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE RAMP. ANOTHER EE WAS DRIVING HIS LOADED INT'L 180 PAYHAULER WEST UP THE RAMP TO UNLOAD AT THE CR USHER. AS HE CAME TO THE THIRD LEVEL WAS PASSINGOTHER EE, THEIR CABS STRUCK EACH OTHER.

INJURED EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE AND TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE LIFTING THE TEST WEIGHT FOR A NEW CONVEYOR SCALE INTO POSITION. INJURED EMPLOYEE TOLD THE OTHER TWO EMPLOYEES TO RELEASE THE TEST W WEIGHT TO HIM TO PLACE IN ITS CRADLE. WHEN THE LOAD WAS RELEASED TO HIM, HIS LEFT THUMB WAS MASHED BETWEEN TEST WEIGHT AND ITS CRADLE.

EE WAS USING A UNIT LOADER FORK LIFT TO LOAD A TRUCK. WHILE STEERING THE FORK LIFT, EE FELT A POP AND SHOCKING SENSATION IN THE LEFT ELBOW ANDARM.

WHILE USING A 3/4 AIR WRENCH ON A BOLT TO REMOVE A COLLETT FROM 988-7 LOADER BUCKET WHEN THE COLLETT SPUN AND HIS FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BOLTS AND CUT HIS FINGER.

HE WAS CRAWLING INSIDE CR#5 SCREEN. WHILE CRAWLING INSIDE HE HIT HIS ELBOW ON THE ASSEMBLY INSIDE THE SCREEN SHAFT HOUSING.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING INTO SHANTY, DOOR WAS 1/2 OPEN. AS HE WALKED THROUGH DOOR, HIS HEAD HIT DOOR.

CINDER BLOCKS WERE BANDED & WHEN BAND WAS CUT A CINDER BLOCK ROLLED OFF & STRUCK RIGHT FOOT.

EE REPORTED THAT HE WAS DISMOUNTING A LOCOMOTIVE & WHEN HE CONTACTED THE GROUND HE WRENCHED HIS RIGHT KNEE. [THIS ACCIDENT DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL 2/13/98]

EE WAS PULLING A PIECE OF ROCK FROM THE MINE ROOF AND A PIECE FLIPPED UP AND HIT HIM OVER TOP OF THE RIGHT EYE.

THE EE WAS PINNING TOP & WHILE HE WAS DOING THIS HE SOMEHOW STRAINED/OR TWISTED HIS KNEE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF MANTRIP AND TWISTED HIS KNEE AS HE DID THIS.

EE WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM A 150# FLANGE BY FLAME CUTTING. THE FLANGE IS LOCATED ON A 16" PULVERIZED COAL PIPE. WHEN THE LAST BOLT WAS CUT THE FLANGE AND A SHORT SECTION OF 16" PULVERIZED COAL PIPE DROPPED (THESE WERE HELD SUSPENDED BY A CHAIN FALL.) A CLOUD OF DUST FELL FROM A PORTION OFTHE ABANDONED COAL DUCT, THE CLOUD OF DUST SURROUNDED THE EE AND WAS IGNITED BY THE ACEYTELENE

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM FREIGHT DELIVERY TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL INJURING HIS RT ARM AND SHOULDER. THE EE HAS HAD NO LOST TIME FROM THE INJURY UNTIL 3-16-98, WHEN SURGERY WAS REQUIRED . THE EE HAS NOT RETURNED TO WORK AS OF THE DATE OF THIS REPORT.

ON 2H #2 ENTRY HIT IN LT EYE BY TIE WIRE BEING USED TO SUPPORT HI VOLTAGE CABLE TO ROOF, CAUSING PUNCTURE TO EYE.

EE WAS STANDING AT PRIMARY JAW IN AREA OF LUBE PUMP. HE REACHED TO CHANGE VEE BELT OF PUMP HE AND IN SO DOING STRAINED AND PULLED MUSCLE ON LEFT SIDE OF CHEST AREA.

EE WAS USING SLEDGE HAMMER TO BREAK UP LARGER LUMPS OF COAL ON FEEDER BELT.

MOVING JACKLEG UP THE DECLINE AND FELL ON IT.

EE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS SHOVELING THE BELT LINE AND HAD STOPPED TO REST WHEN THE RIB ROLLED AND STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK AND LEGS AND BACK OF HIS HEAD. EE STATED AT THE TIME OF THE ACC HE WAS ON LY SCRATCHED AND DID NOT NEED TO SEE A DR. EE WENT TO EMER THE FOLLOWED WITH DR VISIT IN WHICH HE COMPLAINED OF NUMBNESS AND TINGLING IN HIS FINGERS UNK PRIOR TO VISITING DR EE STATED THAT HE

INJURED WAS INJURED WHEN TAILMAN WAS PUSHING TOO HARD AND FAST. HE LOST HIS HAND HOLD ON THE TUBE. IT JERKED HIS ARM AND HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK AND RT SHOULDER. IT WAS DIAGNOSED AS A TORN ROTATOR CUFF THAT WAS SURGICALLY REPAIRED . INFOMATION WHICH WAS USED TO DETERMINE REPORTABILITY WAS OBTAINED ON 4-3-98.

CLEANING WINDOW ON D10 DOZER. SLIPPED AND FELL TO GROUND.

EE DROPPED COUNTER WEIGHT OFF BELT TIGHTENER ON RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING CONCENTRATE FILTER SECTION WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN GROIN-HE CONTINUED TO WORK. HE SAW A DOCTOR ON 11-11-97 FOR A PRE-OPERATION PHYSICAL AND WILL HACE SURGERY ON 11-11-97.

ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHILE THIS EE WAS WORKING ON THE #1 MAINLINE BELT CLEANING MUD AND SLOP. WHILE HOSING STRUCTURE MATERIAL SPLASHED OFF AND INTO HIS FACE. A PIECE OF DIRT GOT INTO HIS EYE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS AND USING PROPER EYE PROTECTION (GOGGLES). COMPLAINCE OK, MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT A FACTOR.

INJURED AND FELLOW WORKER WAS DRYPPING DOWN BELT STRUCTURE. INJURED WAS IN PROCESS OF PULLING BOTTOM ROLLER FROM EAST TO WEST SIDE. AS HE STEPPED OVER BELT RAIL HE STRUCK HIS LEFT KNEE AGAINST BELT RAIL.

EE WAS CLIMBING LADDER ON ROCK TRUCK. HE LOST FOOTING AND HAND HOLD AND FELL TO THE GROUND. LANDING ON HIS FEET. CAUSING INJURY TO BOTH ANKLES AND RIGHT WRIST.

LEAVING DINNER HOLE TO WALK BELTS, TRIPPED OVER WOODEN PALLET, FELL, LANDING ON CRIB BLOCK STRIKING LEFT SIDE RIB CAGE AREA.

EMPLLOYEE WAS REPLACINGA CLUTCH ON A CONTINUOUS MINER. HE LIFTED THE CLUTCH AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS USING BOLT CUTTERS TO CUT LOCK OFF TOOL BOX, STRAINED RIGHT ELBOW.

LIFTING, PUTTING IN BELT ROLLER, LIFTING WITH LEGS TO FAR APART & STAINED BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO CLOSE TAIL GATE ON HAUL TRUCK, GOT LEFT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN BED AND TAIL GATE. CRUSHED AND CUT MIDDLE FINGER (FRACTURED)

EE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER TO ENTER MILL #12 WHEN HE SCRAPED HIS RIGHT ARM AGAINST THE MILL'S MANHOLE ENTRANCE AND REOPENED AN OLD WOUND.

OPERATING BACKHOE, STEPPED OFF MACHINE ONTO MATS WHEN LEFT FOOT WENT BETWEEN 2 MATS CAUSING HIM TO FALL. X-RAYS TAKEN SHOWED NO BROKEN BONES OR TORN LIGAMENTS. DR. RECOMMENDED HE STAY OFF FOOT FOR 24 TO 36 HOURS, AS NEEDED, THEN RESUME DUTIES AS USUAL, NO RESTRICTIONS.

INJURED WAS UNLOADING CONCRETE BLOCKS WHEN HE FLET HIS KNEE POP OUT OF IT SOCKET. HE COULDN'T GET IT BACK IN AND IT STARTED HURTING AND SWELLING UP. HE WENT TO THE DR. IT MAY HAVE SOME TORN LEGIMENTS.

EE SUSTAINED AN OFF THE JOB NECK INJURY 9/18/97. EE REPORTS THAT HE AGGREVATED THE PRE-EXISTING INJURY AT WORK ON 10/19/97, WHILE LIFTING A PROPANE TANK. ON 11/4/97 THE EE RECEIVED AN MRI WHIC H DIAGNOSED A HERINIATED DISK. SURGICAL INTERVENTION & WORK COMP CLAIM APPORTIONMENT ARE PENDING.

WORKING ON CABLE REEL - SC OPER STARTED SC, PINNING EE AGAINST RIB WITH CABLE.

EE WAS DRIVING SCOOP TO UNIT, RAN OVER SOMETHING IN THE ROAD CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS HEAD ON THE SCOOP CANOPY AND JAMMING NECK.

HE WAS REPAIRING BROKEN CAT PAD ON BOLTER & WAS USING A PRYBAR & STEPPED ONT IT & IT SMACKED HIM IN THE MOUTH.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BAGS OF CHEMICALS AND STRAINED HIS BACK AND SHOULDER WHILE DOING THIS.

EE AND OTHERS WERE REMOVING DEBRIS FROM A ROTARYDRYER FIREBOX ON 10/19/97. EE DOES NOT RECALL ANY SPECIFIC EVENT BUT HAD AN IRRITATED RIGHT EYE IN THE MORNING OF 10/20/97.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING MOVE CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE WHEN ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN THE BOLTS, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON THE HEAD AND BACK. THE EMPLOYEE BECAME REPORTABLE OCTOBER 28, 1997, LOST TIME INJURY .

INJURED WAS WALKIGN ALONG D-5 BELT IN THE DAVIS SEAM WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS BACK CAUSING SORENESS.

IT IS BELIEVED THAT WHILE WORKING ON A DRAGLINE, THE INJURED GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS EYE.

WHILE PULLING ON TOP PART OF STRUCTURE, HE PULLED CHEST MUSCLE (STRUCTURE STILL BETWEEN BELT)

WHILE DRILLING A HOLE FOR ROOF BOLT, A ROCK CAME OUT OF FACE HITTING HIM ON THE ARM AND FOOT.

EE WAS HOLDING A PIN WHILE COWORKER WAS HITTING IT WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER. THE PIN WAS MISALIGNED AND EE WAS TRYING TO ADJUST IT WHILE COWORKER WAS SWINGING AND COWORKER COULD NOT STOP MASHING EE 'S THUMB BETWEEN THE PIN AND A BEARING.

EE WAS WORKING ON AIRSTARTER AND WAS CHECKING AN AIR LINE. AIR ENTERED HIS HAND THROUGH A CUT AND WENT UNDER THE SKIN.

EE WAS HELPIGN SET TIMBERS AT THE NUMBER FOUR HEADING WHEN A COAL RIB ROLLED AND HIT HIM IN THE UPPER BACK AREA. THE COAL HEIGHT WAS APPROX. 40" HIGH.

EE WAS FEEDING THE PLANT WITH TEW633 SCRAPER HE DROVE OVER A BU;MP AND IT JARRED HIS BACK

EE WAS GREASING A HEAD ROLLER SHAFT AGED HAND ON GUARD. GUARD HAD A 3" & 20" HOLE AGAINST SHAFT EE SUBSTRAINED AND LACERATION.

WHILE EXITING THE CRUSHER COAL ROM BELT BUILDING THE WIRE ROPE STEP BROKE AND EE FELL 3 FEET. THE FALL RESULTED IN EE HAVING A SPRAINED BACK MUSCLE.

EE WAS CLIMBING UP INTO CAB OF WHEEL LOADER WHEN HE SCRAPED HIS RT LEG ON THE CAB PLATFORM. THE SCRAPE BECAME INFECTED.

EE WAS PICKING UPA BUCKE TOF ROCKS IN THE LAB.

EE WAS STANDING ON CATWALK, CLAMPING TOGETHER OLD & NEW CONVEYOR BELT. HE THEN HAD A SEIZURE & FELL ONTO THE CATWALK HITTING HIS HEAD.

A PIECEOF CLOD FELL FROM THE MINE ROOF AND STRUCK EE ON THE LEFT HAND RING FINGER.

EE WAS PICKING MUD FROM MATERIAL COMING UP NO1 FOOD CONVEYOR WHEN HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

EE STATED HE AND TWO OTHER EE S WERE LIFTING A RUB RAIL TO BE REPLACED ON THE CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE PULLING WHIELDS THE EE STEPPED ON A RELAY BAR, SLIPPED, AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

BACKING COAL DRILL UP AND CAUGHT LEFT BETWEEN COAL DRILL AND CUTTER BAR.

HELPING TO REMOVE BLOCK STOPPING. BLOCK OUT AND ROCK FELL STRIKING EE ON SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE IS STATING THAT HE HAD SQUATTED DOWN TO LOOK AT THE AUTOMATIC FEED OF A WELDING MACHINE. AS HE STRAIGHTENED UP HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS KNEE. HE WAS NOT LIFTING OR PULLING ON ANYTHING.

EE AND ANOTHER EE WERE TRYING TO CHANGE THE TRIPCABLE. INJ EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUT THE CABLE BACK INTO THE CROWS FOOT WHEN IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND AND HIT HIM IN THE FOREHEAD. EE HAD TO HAVE 9 STITCHES DO TO HIS LACERATIONS.

EMPLOYEE WAS CRAWLING ON HIS KNEES WHEN THE END OF HIS SHIFT CAME HE FOUND HIS KNEE HAD SWOLLEN.

EE WAS HELPING CHANGE OUT BELT STRUCTURE. HE LIFTED THE WIRE THAT HOLDS THE STRUCTURE UP, FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE SETTING PROPS. HE CONTINUED TO WORK, BUT STARTED MISING TIME ON10-28-97.

EE WAS HAMMEIRNG A STEEL PLATE WHEN HE FELT A OBJECT STRIKE HIS LEFT WRIST. EE WAS SENT TO THESTATE INSURNACE FUND ON 10/21/97 FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE TRUCK AND STEPPED ON FOREIGN OBJECT, TWISTING LEFT ANKLE.

WORKING ON THE MINER, BUMPED HIS RIGHT KNEE AGAINST A GUARD ON THE SIDE OF THE MINER.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE TOOK HIS LEFT FOOT TO MOVE FEEDER CABLE FROM ROADWAY AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE.

MAKING SHUTTLE CAR SPLICE. WHILE STRIKING BRADDING CVONECTOR TOOL WITH HAMMER, THE EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS LEFT THUMB WITH HAMMER.

WHEN COMIGN BACK FROM GETTING A GRASE GUN FROM BEHIND THE LOADER CAB, HE REACHED FOR THE TOP GRAB HANDLE ON THE LOADER CAB. BUT HE GRABBED TH EOPEN CAB DOOR, WHICH SWUNG OPEN, CAUSING HIM TO FALL OFF THE LOADER.

ON 10/17/97 AT APPROX 9PM LOADER/UNLOADER EE WASIN NORTH LIME LOADOUT LOADING RAIL CARS. BECAUSES THE LATCH ON TOP RAIL CAR WAS STUCK, SHE KICKED IT. THE DOOR SPRUNG OPEN THE THE LIP OF THE LI D FELL ONTO TOP OF HER LEFT FOOT JUST BEHIND HERSTEEL TOE. XRAY REVEALED A FRACTURE OF THE 2ND TOE OF THE LEFT FOOT. DR TAPED TOE-OFF WORK

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON LOADER TIRE ATTEMPTING TO DO REPAIRS HE SLIPPED BACKWARD AND FELL STRIKING BACK ON FENDER BREAKING TWO RIBS.

RIDING IN BACK (BOX) OF PICKUP, DRIVER ACCELERATED FAST CAUSING PASSENGER IN BOX TO BE THROWN AGAINST TAILGATE.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED THAT SHE WAS DISMOUNTING FORD TRACTOR USED TO PULL COMPACTOR WHEN SHE STUMBLED ON UNEVEN GROUND CAUSING HER TO FALL BACKWARDS.SHE ATTEMPTED TO CATCH HERSELF WITH RIGHT ARM.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE WHEN HE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF ROCK LYING IN MUD AND WATER.

EE WAS WALKING BESIDE A LOW BOY & STEPPED ON A SLICK ROCK, FALLING & TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

MECHANIC WAS INSTALLING THE DRIVE CHAIN ON "A" ROLL SCREEN IN THE PELLET PLANT. HE CUT HIS LEFT [5TH] FINGER WHEN IT WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE MOTOR DRIVE BELT & SHEAVE. RECENTLY, A BONE MASS [L ESION] WAS DETECTED & SURGICALLY REMOVED & LOST TIME WAS INCURRED.

EE WAS OPERATING THE LOADER ON BUMPY ROAD CONDITIONS.

THE EE WAS OPERATING THE RIMPULL SLATE TRUCK AT A RATE OF SPEE DTOO GREAT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL ALSO THE EE DID NOT HAVE HIS SEAT BELT ON.

EMPLOYE WAS MOVING ONE RAIL OF THE TRACK OVER TO BE COUPLED WITH OTHER RAIL. THE EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SLATE BALL FOR THISPROCESS AND WHEN THE SLATE BAR SLIPPED THE EMLOYEE FELL AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

CONVEYOR FILLING UP WITH ROCK AND PACKING ROCK BENEATH IT. EMPLOYEE SHUT IT DOWN & BEGAN DIGGING OUT. EQUIP. HAD TRIPPED & KICKED OUT SO EMP WENT TO START BELT. IT WOULDN'T START SO EE PUSHED RESET BUTTON. EE SHUT OFF MAIN BREAKER IN FUSE BOX & OPENED DOOR. EE CHANGED 1 FUSE & FLIPPED BREAKER ON. DID NOT WORK- TURNED SWITCH OFF, OPENED BOX & GRABBED FUSE-BOX ENERGIZED-EE REMBERS NO

EE WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE ON BELT ALONE AND HE TWISTED TO THROW BELT ROLLER ON THE BELT AND FELT PAIN, IN HIS LOWER BACK AND HIP. EE DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 10-20-97.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED THAT HE FELT BACK PAIN WHEN HE STEPPED TO GROUND WHE HE DISMOUNTED A 637 CAT. SCRAPER.

THIS EE WAS MUCKING SHAFT BOTTOM WITH AN LGD WHEN HE CHANGE DIRECTIONS, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS NECK. HE BECAME DISABLED IN NOVEMBER.

WHILE CLEANING UP ON MOTOR PEDESTAL, SLIPPED ON OIL AND TWISTED BACK.

THE ROOF BOLTER PULLED UP IN #3 HEADING. EMPLOYEE SCALED A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK ON OPERATOR SIDE. HE STEPPED BACK TO RAISE ATRS AND A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN LAST 2 ROWS OF BOLTS STR IKING INJURED (OFFSIDE) PUSHING HIM BACK TURNINGHIS LOWER LEFT LEG.

EE WAS PULLING POWER CABLE FOR ROOF BOLTERS. CALL SECTION FOREMAN TO REPORT THAT HE HAD STRAIN OR PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK. EE WAS TRANSPORTED TO BUCHANAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR X RAY AND WAS RELEA SED AND SENT HOME.

WHILE CLIMBING DOWN FROM WHEELED PAYLOADER, THE EE SLIPPED FROM LADDER & LANDED HARD ON HIS FEET. HE STATES THAT HE JAMMED HIS LOWER BACK.

TRYING TO LIFT VERY HEAVY OBJECT IN A LOW CONFINED AREA.

STOCKPILING, HIT A POTHOLE.

THE ELECTRICIAN WAS LIFTING THE RUB RAIL BACK ONTO THE MINER WHICH RESULTED IN A LIFTING INJURY LATER DETERMINED TO BE A HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A DC PUMP AND FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLLOYEE WAS TALKING TO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AND AS HE TURNED TO WALK AWAY, HTI HIS HEAD ON AN OVERHEAD PIPE.

LIFTING ROCK AND STRAINED BACK (LATER REPORTED TO FELLOW EMPLOYEE THAT HE FELL OUT OF TREE AT HOME.

EE UNLOADING PIPE OFF OF TRACKHOE ONTO LOWBOY (FLATBED). TRACKHOE JERKED, THROWING EE OFF OF TRUCKBED.

TIGHTENING BOLTS ON ROTARY BREAKER.

EE WAS WALKING NEXT TO THE RETURN CONVEYOR, WHEN A STONE THREE TO FOUR INCHES IN SIZE FELL APPROX. TWENTY FEET FORM THE CONVEYOR AND LANDED ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT. LEFT FOOT WAS BRUISED ONT OP AN D MIDDLE TOE WAS BROKEN. EE WAS WEARING STEEL TOED BOOTS WHEN THIS HAPPENED, ROCK HIT JUST BEYOND STEEL TOE.

EE WAS WASHING LOADER. HE SLIPPED ON WET DECK AND PUT HIS LEFT HAND OUT TO CATCH FALL AND STRAINED TENDONS 2ND JOINT OF LEFT THUMB. NOT IMPOROVE, THE THUMB WAS OPERATED ON 12/29/97 EE HAD VACA TION SECHEDUED FOR 12/29/97. HIS FIRST DAY OFF AWAY FROM WORK WAS 12/31/97/

EE WAS JUMP-STARTING CRANE WHEN THE CRANE DOOR SLAMMED SHUT AGAINST EE, KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND.

EE WAS LOADING 50 LB BAGS OF ROCKDUST ON PALLET, HE SAID HE SHIFT POSITION TO LOAD ANOTHER ROW SLIPED AND LOST FOOTING AND FELL TO GROUND ON LOADING DAY.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNCOUPLING CARS. WHEN HE OPENED KNUCKLE IT ROLLED AHEAD, BRAKES DIDN'T HOLD AND HE PINCHED HIS LOWER RIGHT FOREARM. IT WAS BADLY BRUISED.

EE WAS WALKING IN BELT ENTRY WHEN HE STEPPED ON SLICK AREA AND SPRAINED RT ANKLE WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED.

SCRAPING RUSTY PAINT OFF THE S-60.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CLEAR BOULDERS FROM PLUGGED IMPACT CRUSHER AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. HE WENT TO THE DR. ON 10-21-97 & WAS SENT BACK TO WORK-NO INJURY FOUND. WHEN IT DIDN'T GET ANY BETTER AN MRI WAS DONE ON 11-12-97. THE REPORT DATED 11/14/97 SHOWS TORN LIGAMENT IN HIS KNEE. EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN OFF WORK SINCE 11/13/97.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING SHOVEL CABLE (ELECTRICAL) INTO CABLE BOAT. AND FELT TIGHTNESS IN HIS BACK.

STOVES CAN BE LAIDEN WITH SAND WHEN DRAFTS OCCUR. THE DRAFTS CAN CARRY THE LIGHTEST SAND PARTICLES CAUSING THE MINOR EYE IRRITATION.

EE WAS NOT FOLLOWING STANDARD PROCEDURE OR REPAIR PRACTICES WHEN REMOVING A RIM FROM A LOADER TIRE HE HIT HIMSELF WITH THE 12 LB HAMMER HE WAS USING.

EE STATED HE RAN OVER COAL RIB WHILE OPERATING SCOOP, AND JARRED HIS BACK.

LOADING 89 ISC ANVILS SHOES INTO PICK UP TRUCK WHEN LIFTING PULLED MUSCLES IN ABDOMEN.

WAS THROWING A 35" BELT ROLLER THROUGH A DOOR. THE ROLLER HIT THE TOP OF THE DOOR FRAME AND BOUNCED BACK, HITTING HIM ON THE FOOT.

THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON A MUDDY ROCK AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE PARKED DRILL NEAR WIND ROW OF ROCKS ONTO INTERSECTION. HE EXITED THE DRILL AND ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE ROCK NEAR TIRE OF MACHINE BY HAND. IN DOING SO HE MOVED THAT ROCK CAUSIGN ONE ABOV E TO ROLL DOWN STRIKING HIM ON TARSUS AREA OF HIS RIGHT FOOT. HEIGHT OF WINDROW WAS APPROX 3'. THE RESULT WAS BROKEN BONE IN FOOT AREA BEHIND STEEL TOE OF BOOT.

BOLTING ROOF IN THE MINE, WHILE STRAIGHTENING ROOF BOLT OUT A KNOT POPPED UP ON WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING BOBCAT AND CLEANING AREA AROUND BIN ELEVATOR AT SCALE HOUSE. EMPLOYEE LEFT ENGINE RUNNING AND GOT OFF BOBCAT TO SHOVEL MATERIAL INTO THE BUCKET. AFTER FILLING BUCKET, EM PLOYEE STEPPED BACKWARD OVER THE BUCKET TO GET INTO CAB. WHEN HE PLACED HIS RIGHT LEG INTO THE CAB, THE BUCKET SHOT UP PINNING HIS UPPER BODY AND LEFT LEG AGAINST CAB ROOF AND BUCKET.

OPERATING DIESEL MANTRIP. STATED HE RAN OVER ROUGH SURFACE CAUSING INJURY TO LOWER BACK. THIS FORM IS BEING SUBMITTED ONLY TO ABATE CITATION. WE DO NOT FEEL THAT AN INJURY OCCURRED ON COMPANY PROPERTY.

WHILE INSTALLING DRILL STEEL INTO ROOF A STEEL SLIPPED CATCHING HIS FINGER CAUSING A LACERATION.

EMPLOYEE NOTIFIED ME ON 10-24. EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS LIFTING METAL OFF RAIL CAR. BACK OF METAL FELL THROWING EMPLOYEE AGAINST SIDE OF MINE.

EE WAS PULLING UP ON A PIECE OF TIN SIDING. EE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK SHOULDER. EE WORKED THE REST OF THE SHIFT, THEN WENT TO THE DR. THE NEXT DAY.

EE WAS DESCENDING STEPS TO TRAVEL TO HIS WORK AREA WHEN HE SLIPPED AND BEGAN TO FALL TO THE GROUND. EE GRABBED A HANDRAIL TO STOP HIS FALL. EE TWISTED HIS BODY DURING THE FALL. EE DID NOT STRI KE THE GROUND.

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER OF 988B PAIN HIT HIMAS HE STEPPED FROM LADDER TO GROUND.

STARTED LOSING TIME 10-15-97.

SPLICING LONG BALLEST BELT, CUT LEFT HAND WITH BELT KNIFE.

THE CONTINUOUS MINER WAS STUCK IN THE #3 ENTRY BECAUSE THE ENTRY HAD PITCHED DOWNWARD CAUSING A RATHER STEEP HILL THAT WAS SOFT AND SLICK. EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN DOWN ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES PLACING CRIB BLOCKS UNDER THE MINER TO ATTEMPT TO PULL IT OUT. THEY WERE READY TO PULL THE MINER SO EMPLOYEE GOT UP & STARTED TO WALK TO SAFE LOCATION.WHILE WALKING HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN R. KNEE.

EE RAISED ENGINE COVER ON A DIESEL/MANTRIP AND THE COVER FELL STRIKING EE S LEFT HAND.

EE & ELECTRICIAN COMPLTED REPAIRS ONTHE CRUSHER AT COAL TIPPLE. AS EE WAS ABOUT TO CLIMB THE CATWALK RAMP, HE SLIPPED ON SOME LOOSE COAL FELLAND CAUGHT HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE 1ST STEP OF THE RAMP.

WHILE WALKING BELTS, EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING PIECES OF PROPS THAT WERE IN THE WALK WAY. HE TWISTEDLOWER BACK(LEFT SIDE)

EE STATED THAT HE WAS HELPING PULL A TRACK RAIL WHEN HE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF LOOSE COAL TWISTING HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS WALKING ON SOME GROUT AND SLIPPED & FELL ON HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKIGN AROUND MINER WHEN HE FELL AND HIT HIS BACK ON THE MIENER CABLE HANGER.

EE WA REPAIRING A BATTERY CABLE THAT WAS LOOSE. HE SPRAYED THE BATTERY BOLT WITH A PENETRATING OIL. SO IT COULD BE TIGHTENED UP. AS HE SET THE PENETRATING CAN DOWN ON TEH BATTERY, IT FELL OV ER AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH POSIT8IIVE POST AND SHORTED OUT. THE CAN BURST CAUSING THE BURN. ZEP 45 WAS THE PENETRATING OIL AND IT IS A TALL CAN. SPRAY CANS WILL BE KEPT CLEAR OF BATTERY.

LONGWALL SECTION ON A COAL RUN FROM TAIL TO HEAD AT JACK #54 THE TAIL DRUM THREW A PIECE OF ROCK OUT OF PANLINE WHICH STRUCK INJURED ON LEFT HAND.

EE WAS CLEANING GRIZZLEY FEEDER. HE ATTEMPTED TO PUSH A ROCK BEYOND HIS PHYSICAL ABILITY, CAUSING LOWER BACK STRAIN & BULGING DISCS.

EE SLIPPED GETTING DOWN FROM CONVEYOR AFTER MOVING PIN UNDER MILL, INJURING HIS BACK.

EE WAS CLEARNING A SAWTABLE OF ROCK AND WENT TO LAY ONE DOWN ON THE FORKS OF A FORKLIFT. THEROCK SLIPPED AND HAS MOVED HIS HAND TO GET A BETTER GRIPAND WHEN IT LANDED ON THE FORKS SMASHING HI S FINGER BETWEEN THE FORK AND ROCK. IT GOT THE END PART OF HIS LEFT RING FINGER AND SLIT THE NAILBED OF HIS FINGERNAIL REQUIRING SOME STITCHES AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS HELPING TO INSTALL A BOTTOM ROLLER ON A DOZER. AS HE WAS PICKING UP AN AIR WRENCH [IMPACT WRENCH] TO TIGHTEN UP THE ROLLER, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLNG UP SLACK IN A CABLE WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LEFT KNEE. STARTED MISSING TIME ON 2-16-98 FOR KNEE SURGERY.

EE WAS USING A SPRAY HOSE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND HIT HIS ELBOW ON ASTEEL BEAM.

ROCK FELL FROM TOP HITTING EMPLOYEE IN NECK AND HEAD.

EE WAS SHOVELING OUT MAIN CRUDE FEED HOPPER & STRAINED HIS BACK.

WORKING ON SCRUBBER WITH HAMMER & HIT OWN INDEX FINGER.

EE WAS GETTING OFF MAN BUS WHENF HE STEPPED ON A PLASTIC DISCHARGE WATER LINE. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OUT AND HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS DRIVING A DOZER. THE JARRING IN THE CAB CAUSED A PINCHED NERVE IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE HAD LOST TIME AND CHIRO VISITS, CONSTITUTING MSHA REPORTABILITY.

A PIECE OF SLATE (3"X2'X4') FELL AND HIT EMPLOYESS LEFT SHOULDER CAUSING A BRUISE.

EE PICKED UP A PIECE OF METAL AT WEST A HEADER AND HURT HIS BACK.

EE WAS FIREBOSSING SLOPE BELT WHEN HE FELT A POP IN HIS KNEE.

MAN WAS BUILDING CRIBS ALONG #7 BELTLINE A PIECE OF ROCK 13" X 17" X 3" THICK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS HITTING EMPLOYEE ON BACK OF HEAD AND NECK.

EE WAS LIFTING A PIECE OF GRAVEL SCREEN CLOTH OUT OF A FRONT END LOADER BUCKET. HE SAID HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. EE WAS TAKEN IN FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT AND TREATED FOR A MUSCLE STRAIN.

EE WAS OPERTING A REMOTE CONTROL MINER, WHILE WALKING BACKWARDS HE TRIPPED OVER A PIECE OF STONE AND TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE.

MINER WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS. AS HE INSTALLED AND LOWERED THE DRILL UNIT TO THE MINE FLOOR HIS LEFT FOOT WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN THE MINE FLOOR AND DRILL UNIT.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS INSTRUCTED TO CHECK T-8 CONVEYOR. THE EMPLOYEE WAS DECENDING THE FIXED LADDER AND FELL APPROX. 6 FEET TO THE CAT WALK BELOW.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE OF SUPPLYING ROOF BOLTER WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM TOP HITTING HIM ON NECK AND SHOULDER. THIS WAS REPORTED 1-20-07.

EE WAS UNLOADING PLANT FLATBED TRUCK OF HOLEPLUG, WHEN A BEE LIT ONE HIS ARM. WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO BRUSH IT OFF, THE BEE STUNG HIM ON ARM AND NECK.

EE WAS CHECKING CABLE ON SHUTTLECAR BY RAISING UP THE LID OVER THE CABLE REEL. THE LID FELL DOWN STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT WRIST.

EE STATED HE WAS UNLOADING BELT STRUCTURE OUT OF SCOOP BUCKET. WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

STEPPED IN HOLE IN MINER FLOOR FELT PAIN IN KNEE. WORKED 02-16-98. DIAGNOSED WITH TORU LIGAMENTS IN LT KNEE. SURGERY WEEK OF 2-23-98.

AS EE WAS LIFTING A FIBER BLOCK WHILE CONSTRUCTING PIERS EE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE BEGAN LOSING TIME ON THE NEXT SCHEDULED SHIFT ON10/17/97

WORKING ON WATER PUMP, SLIPPED FELT SHARP PAIN THROUGH LOWER BACK.

EE WAS CARRYING A PHONE THROUGH A MANDOOR AT AN OUTBY TRANSFORNER WHEN HE SLIPPED ON LOOSE COAL ON AN UNEVEN SURFACE. EE LEFT FOOT HAS HAD PAST EXTENSIVE SURGERIES, THIS ACTION STRAINED SOFT T ISSUE RESULTING IN LOST DAYS.

LIFTING 25 LB. FILTER AND SETTING IT DOWN ON TRUCK.

EE HIT SELF WITH HAMMER WHILE CHANGING TIRE.

PINCHED SMALL FINGER BETWEEN MINE RAIL & WHEEL OF RAIL CAR.

FELL OFF LOADER IN THE DARK WHILE GETTING DOWN LADDER PL 45.

INJURED WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE IN TO A SUPPLY CAR WHEN INJURED FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK. INJURED AT THIS TIME IS BEING TREATED FOR PULLED MUSCLE.

EE WAS HELPING INSTALL A VERTICAL OVERFLOW PUMP WHEN THE PUMP SLID SIDEWAYS SMASHING RIGHT RING FINGER BETWEEN PUMP AND METAL I BEAM.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS TRAMMING ROOF BOLTER TO FACE, AND WAS STRUCK ON THE LEFT LEG BY RIB ROLL.

EE WAS CARRYING A BRAKE ASSEMBLY FOR DRAGLINE, SLIPPED AND FELL INJURING RIGHT SHOULDER. INJURYCONSISTED OF BRUISES &SORENESS.

EE SUFFERED MUSCLE STRAIN IN THE LOWER BACK. EE DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 10/16/97. THERE WERE TWO LIFTING INCIDENTS THE EE RECALLS ON 10/14/97. 1. HE MOVED CRIB BLOCKS AFTER DOZER REPAIR. 2. LI FTED BATTERY INTO BATTERY TRAY ON END LOADER. EESUFFERED A PIN AT TIME OF OCCURRANCE.

THE EE WAS PREPARING TO DRILL A HOLE ON LEFT RIB SIDE. AS HE STARTED TO DRILL A PIECE OF ROCK 3 1/2'X4' FELL PINNING HIM IN A KNEELING POSITION. THIS ROCK HAD TO BE LIFTED UP FOR THE EE TO BE PULLED OUT.

DRIVING THE SCOOP TRHOUGH A CROSSCUT. THE BOTTOMS WERE UNEVEN. THE SCOOP STRUCK A HOLE AND IT BOUNCED CAUSING EE TO STRIKE HER HARD HAT AGAINST THE FRAME OF THE CANOPY. THIS CAUSED A STRAIN TO THE NECK.

EE WAS BOARDING THE MANTRIP TO LEAVE THE MINE AS HE TURNED TO SIT DOWN HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL STRIKING HIS BACK AGAINST THE STEEL POST DIVIDING THE TWO COMPARTMENTS.

EE WAS WELDING NUTS ON BROKEN BOLTS TO BE EXTRACTED AND REPALCED WITH NEW ONES. HE WAS WORKING ON THE POINT SHEAVES OF 8200 MARION DRAGLINE. THE BOLTS WERE SATURATED WITH GREASE. WHEN HE WELDE D THE NUTS ON THE BOLTS A PIECE OF METAL OR GREASE POPPED UP IN HIS LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS WHILE PULLING THE FEEDER CABLE UP THE BELTLINE IN MUD AND WATER HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS AND KEEPING WALKWYAS IN TRAVELABLE CONDITION. COMPLIANC E WITH RULES/REGS IS A FACTOR PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (ANKLE SUPPORT) NOT WORN, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS OK.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING CINDERS AWAY FROM FURNACE AND STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE DOING THIS.

HE WAS SANDING BLASTING TRAILER & THE SAND BLASTING HOSE CAME ACROSS HIS HAND.

EE WAS WALKING PAST THE CONTINUOUS MINER. AT THE SAME TIME, THE WATER SUPPLY HOSE, FOR THE MINE BURST. EE RAN TO GBET AWAY FROM THE WATER SPRAY & FELL. HE TWISTED HIS KNEE RESULTING IN A SPRAI N. HE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 10/16/97.

EE LOST 10-14-97, 10-15-97, DUE TO CONTINUING PROBLEMS WITH OLD INJURY OF 01-26-95.

HE WAS GETTING THE CUTTER OVER USING THE HYDRAULIC BOOM AND SET THE OPERATOR'S DECK ON HIS BIG TOE.

EE WAS CHGING A SHUTTLE CAR TIRE. WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO ALIGN THE TIRE HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. THIS REPORT WAS DELAYED PENDING RESULTS OF AN ON GOING INVESTIGATION.

A ROCK IN A SHUTTLE CAR LOADED WITH COAL CAUGHT A MRS CABLE THAT WAS HANGING ON THE MINE ROOF. THE CABLE HIT EMPLOYEE AND TURNED HIM UP. HE HIT THE GROUND ON HIS RIGHT SIDE. HE COMPLAINED OF R T. LEG HURTING.

EE WAS INSTALLING A DOOR AT THE 49 PUMPS, WHEN HE PICKED UP THE DOOR HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

WAS LIFTING GRATES OUT OF COOLER PIT WHEN I FELT MILD TWINGE OF PAIN AFTER COFFEE BREAK BACK STIFFENED UP AND FELT TENDER.

EE WAS CARRYING A ROLL OF TELEPHONE AND FIRE SENSOR WIRE, IN A BENT OVER POSITION WHEN SPRAIN OCCURED. THE EE CONTINUED WORKING AND FINISHED HIS SHIFT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING ELECTRIC MOTORS AND PULLING ON MOTORS WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

PULLING SHOT PUMP TO HOOK TO D-4 DOZER STRAINED LOWER BACK.

INDIVIDUAL WAS DRIVING ON S&S TRACKTOR. HE WAS PULLING A TRAILOR LOAD OF ROCK DUST IN THE 6 WEST SECTION. HE WAS MAKING A LEFT TURN TO GO INTO #3 ENTRY WHEN THE TRAILOR JACK KNIFED. HIS ARM GO T CAUGHT BETWEEN TRACTOR & SUPPLY TRAILOR. AS A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT [1] PERSON WAS INJURED.

EE WAS OBSERVING A ROCK BEING PULLED OFF CONT MINER. AS TENSION WAS APPLIED TO NYLON STRAP AROUND ROCK, PIECES OF ROCK BROKE OFF, STRIKING EE.

INDIVIDUAL WAS WALKING ON SECTION WHEN HE STRUCKHIS HEAD ON THE MINE ROOF. BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 10-29-97.

HIT FORK OF A LIFT ON THE TOP OF MY HEAD CAUSING CONTINUAL HEADACHE AND NECK PAIN HARD HAT WAS BEING WORN.

WHILE DRILLING A SLAB OF STONE WITH A BBD-12D AIR DRILL, A PIECE OF THE SLAB CAME OFF & HIT HIS LEFT FOOT ABOVE HIS STEEL TOE BOOTS.

EE WAS BENDING OVER REMOVING ROCKS FROM UNDER AND BETWEEN GRADER BLADES AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEES REPLACING BOOM ON EXCAVATOR. PIN BROKE, EMPLOYEE JUMPED WHEN BOOM FELL. STANDING ON THE BUCKET TO HOOK BOOM ONTO IT - BOOM FELL & HE JUMPED.

HE WAS INSTALLING BOLTS IN THE ROOF WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING 3-WHEEL PERSONNEL CARRIER TRANSPORTING A SCRUBBER MOTOR TO THE CONTINUOUSMINER. THE MOUNTING BRACKET FOR THE SCRUBBER HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM MINER AND SET ALONGSIDE MINER . THE THE PROCESS OF POSITIONING 3-WHEEL PERSONNEL CARRIER NEXT TO MINER SO SCRUBBER MOTOR COULD BE TRANSFERED TO MINER, PERSONNEL CARRIER BUMPED MOUNTING BRACKET, MOUNTING BRACKET FLIPPED OV

EE TWISTED KNEE WALKING DOWN STEPS.

EE WAS REMOVING ROCKS FROM A CONE CRUSHER WITH ANOTHER EE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.