Mining Incidents in February 1998

A FATAL ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN A ROCK MEASURING 12" WIDE X 12" HIGH X 50" LONG FELL FROM THE RIB AT THE MINE ROOF. THE ROCK STRUCK THE EE NEAR THE SHOULDER AREA FORCING HIS HEAD AGAINST THE CO NTINUOUS MINER LOCATED IN THE AREA. THE VICTIM SUSTAINED MASSIVE HEAD INJURIES WHEN HIS HEAD STRUCK THE CONTINUOUS MINER.

NORTHWEST INDUSTRIAL SERVICES INC. EMPLOYEE EE ENTERED CRC PROPERTY WITHOUT NOTICE OR CONTACTING CRC SECURITY AND WAS REMOVING CRC-OWNED EQIPMENT WITHOUT CRC AUTHORIZATION. EE WAS USING A CUT TING OTRCH WITHOUT SUPERVISION OR PROPER EQUIPMENT (CRANE) TO PARTIALLY CUT THE STEEL SUPPORT BRACING FROM THE HEADFRAMME OF THE #3 SHAFTHOUSE ON CRC PROPERTY. WHILE MAKING THE CUT THE STEEL

EE WAS PUSHING MATERIAL WHEN THE DOZER HE WAS OPERATING BACKED INTO THE SLURRY IMPOUNDMENT. THE DOZER WAS COVERED BY 15' TO 20' OF SLURRY FOR APPROX. 48 HOURS. MEDICAL EXAMINER REPORTS IMMEDIA TE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS ASPHXIA.

THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING A VOLVO BM-A30J, 30 TON TRUCK HAULING MILL TAILINGS. HE WAS RETURNING EMPTY DOWN A HAUL ROAD WITH A 20% GRADE AND LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK.THE TRUCK RAMMED THROUGH A 7-FOOT HIGH BERM AND DOWN TO AN ACCESS RAMP, APPROXIMATELY 15 FT BELOW. HE HAD COMPLETED EIGHT LOAD CYCLES PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT. THE VICTIM WAS WEARING A SEAT BELT.

EMPLLOYEE IN 60' HIGH REACH GETTING TOOLS DOWN FROM JOB ON C-330 BELT, WHEN A GUST OF WIND TURNED THE HIGH-REACH OVER WITH EMPLOYEE IN MAN BASKET.

WHILE WAITING FOR LOADER, VICTIM CLIMBED SAND PILE AND STARTED HAND SHOVELING CONCRETE SAND INTO THE BACK OF HIS TRUCK. WHILE SHOVELING, THE PILE MOVED AND BURIED THE VICTIM BEHIND HIS TRUCK .

EE FOR UNKNOWN REASONS PLACED HIMSELF AT OR JUST INBY THE LAST ROW OF BOLTS WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK APPROXIMATELY 8' X 5' X 11" FELL STRIKING THE EE ON THE HEAD.

EE STATED WHILE PULLING ON PUMP DISCHARGE LINE FELT PAIN IN GROIN. EE STARTED MISSING WORK ON JULY 30, 1999. FROM WHAT DR. REPORTS STATES COULD HAVE CAUSED A HERNIA.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE FROM THE SUPPLY CAR EE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT GROIN AREA.

RECENT HEAVY RAINS ALLOWED WATER TO ENTER THE EQUIPMENTS DIESEL ENGINE THROUGH ITS EXHAUST SYSTEM. THIS WATER CAUSED A HYDRAULIC LOCKUP OF THE ENGINE AS IT WAS PERCHED UPON ONE OR MORE CYLINDE R PISTONS. THE FUEL INJECTOR UNITS WERE REMOVED TO ALLOW THE WATER TO BE PUMPED OUT OF THE CYLINDERS BY TURNING THE ENGINE WITH ITS ELECTRIC STARTER. VICTIM WAS SITTING ON THE MACHINES HYDRAU

EE WAS WALKING TO THE SCALE ROOM TO PUNCH OUT AND SLIPPED ON SNOW AND FELL AND A RUPTURE RESULTED. NOTE: THIS REPORT WAS NOT FILED EARLIER BECAUSE EE DID NOT GET MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 5/26/9 8 NO LOSS TIME UNTIL 5/27/98

PUTTING TOOL BOX AWAY. INJURED WAS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION DUE TO LOCATION OF LOCKER. HE TWISTED HIS BODY, STRAINING HIS BACK & GROIN AREA.

LIFTING BELT STRUCTURE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS FANS BELT ECT. HAD TERRIBLE PAIN IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF GROIN AREA.

EE WAS INJURED WHILE REPLACING A BROKE DRILL STEEL ON A REEDRILL. AS THE EE WAS INSTALLING THE NEW DRILL STEEL, IT APPEARS HIS CLOTHGING BECAME ENTANGLED WITH THE DRILL STEEL.

EMPLOYEE REPAIRING GRATING AT #5 DORRCO FILTER. DURING REPAIR EMPLOYEE PLACED HAND AND FINGERS AROUND NOTCHED AREA OF HANDRAIL. PLUG ON FILTER CREATED PINCH POINT BETWEEN ROTATING FILTER AND H ANDRAIL NOTCH. FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN HANDRAIL NOTCH AND FILTER. CAUSED AMPUTATION OF FINGER TIP. EMPLOYEE IS LOSING WORK DAYS.

EMPLOYEE WAS MUCKING. A ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HISRIGHT INDEX FINGER. PART OF FINGER WAS AMPUTATED

EE WAS SHOVELING AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN THE LEFT SIDE OF THE GROIN AREA. HE DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT TIL THE 21ST. HE WORKED TWO DAYS AFTER HIS ACCIDENT AND THEN MISSED TWO SHIFTS. WHEN HE RETURNED ON THE 21ST HE HAD A LIGHT DUTY RELEASEFROM HIS DR. SINCE WE HAD NO LIGHT DUTY WORK FOR HIM AND HIS PROJECT WAS NEARLY OVER HE WAS LET IN GO.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL HI-PRESSURE PLUG IN BOTTOM OF TRACTOR BLOWER, IN THE DARK & IN AN ATTEMPT TO INSERT PLUG STUCK INDEX FINGER, L HAND, INTO PLUG HOLE WHERE IT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN HOL E LIP & BLOWER ROTOR, AMPUTATING TIP. HE HAD SHUT DOWN TRACTOR & BLOWER & BLED AIR FROM FRUEHAUF TANK. HE FAILED TO REALIZE THAT LINE FROM TANK TO BAG HOUSE, WITH TRACTOR BLOWER DOWN, CAUSED

A FRONT END LOADER WAS LOWERING A LONGWALL RAM JACK RECEIVING GLAND TO THE GROUND. THE GLAN DSLIPEPD OFF THE FORKS OF THE END LOADER AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE'S FOOT.

EMPLOYEE STATES: ON 2-2-98 I WAS LIFTING TWO 40 LB BAGS OF WET HYDROMITE AND I BEGAN TO FEEL PAIN IN MY RIGHT SIDE OF GROIN WHEN BENDING OVER- A BURNING SENSATION IN GROIN AREA AND RIGHT TESTI CLE. THE PAIN GOT WORSE THAT NIGHT.

COME-A-LONG CAME LOOSE AND HIT HIM ON HEAD. EYE INJURY. DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 6.15.98.

FOOT SLIPPED OFF STEP WHILE EXITING ENGINE COMPARTMENT OF DRAGLINE CAUSING A SEVERE SIDEWAYS TURNING OF THE ANKLE. SEVERE RIGHT ANKLE SPRAIN.

WHILE THE EE WAS FIXING HIS CHAIR WITH THE LEVER UNDER IT, THIS SUDDENLY WENT DOWN CATCHING HIS RIGHT HAND FIFTH FINGER MAKING A CUT 1/3 DEEP.

EE WAS PULLING ON SCREEN TO LIFT OUT OF HOPPER & STRAINED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS ASSISTING IN THE SETTING OF LARGE WOODEN TIMBERS IN THE B-S LONGWALL TRACK ENTRY. WHILE DOING THIS HE EXPERIENCED SOME PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER(RIGHT). ON MAY 10, 1999 EE BEGAN TO MISS WORK DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND THAT ABSENCE IS NOW BEING ATTRIBUTED TO THE INJURY OF 2/28/99.

LOOSENING BOLT WITH WRENCH. BOLT BROKE LOOSE AND WRENCH CUT RIGHT HAND LITTLE FINGER.

EE WAS BUILDING A CRIB UNDER A FEEDER. A CRIB TIE THAT WAS BEING HANDED TO HIM SLIPPED FROM HIS HELPER'S GRASP, FELL, & CAUGHT THE EE'S R LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN THE CRIB & THE FALLING TIE. STAR ATAED MISSING TIME 3/5/98 WHEN FINGER DIAGNOSED WITH FRACTURE & NAIL WAS REMOVED.

EE OPERATING DOZER WAS PUSHING ON ROCK WHEN THE CORNER OF THE ROCK BROKE. ALLOWING BLADE TO SLIP OFF AND CAUSING DOZER TO LUNGE FORWARD STRAINING EE NECK.

GOING THROUGHT A DROP CURTAIN WHEN HE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND JARRED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING BOLTER NEAR RIB, BOLTER SLID SIDEWAYS, CAUGHT HIM BETWEEN RIB AND BOLTER.

EE WAS STARTING DOWN THE FLIGHT OF STAIRS JUST OUTSIDE OF THE OPERATORS CAB. ON HIS FIRST STEP DOWN HIS RIGHT FOOT DIDN'T LAND SOLIDLY ON THE STEP BELOW AND HE FELL BACK. THE LOWER RIGHT LEG SLID BETWEEN THE STEPS AND WHEN HIS BODY WEIGHT FELL BACK, HIS LOWER RIGHT LEG AND ANKLE WERE TWISTED. HE RECEIVED A BROKEN RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING CONVEYOR Q'S BELT. HE AND A CO-WORKER WERE PULLING AT ONE OF THE ENDS OF THE BELT TO MAKE THE ENDS MEET. AS HE WAS PULLING AND WALKING BACKWARDS, HE STEPPED IN A BIN FEE DER, LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL.

EE WAS LIFTING ON BREAKER BARS, EXTENDED HIS BODY WEIGHT UP ON HIS TOES AND PULLED HIS RIGHT CALF MUSCLE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF A FRONT END LOADER. AS HE STEPPED DOWN OFF THE LADDER HE MISSED A STEP, WAS WEARING COTTON GLOVES AND HANDS COULDN'T HOLD ONTO THE LADDER AND HE FELL BACKWARDS APP ROX. 3 FEET RESULTING IN BRUISES. HIS FIRST DAY LOST WAS 3/2/98.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING JAW CRUSHER OPERATOR TO REMOVE SOME ROCKS FROM JAWS.AS THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING A ROCK EMPLOYEE SLIPPED CATCHING HIS FOOT BETWEEN 2 ROCKS. ROCK SHIFTED AND CRUSH

ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHEN THIS EMPLOYEE FELL WHLILE ATTEMPTING TO PUT THE POST IN A HOLE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS, OVEREXERTION AND MUDDY CONDITIONS. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/ REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS NOT WORN, MINER PORFICIENCY A FACTOR, MINING EQUIP/SYSTEMS A FACTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ALONG BELT TRANSFER AREA WHICH HAD A BRIDGE BUILT DUE TO MUDDY CONDITIONS. THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON THE WOODEN BRIDGE MATERIAL.

INJURED STATED THAT AS HE WAS MOVING MINER CABLE OUT OF ROADWAY IN #5 ENTRY OF 002-0 SECTION, A RIB ROLL STRUCK HIM ON HIS LEFT LEG. IT RESULTED INTO A FRACTURED ANKLE, 2 FRACTURED TOES AND A FRACTURE TO A BONE ON TOP OF THE FOOT.

EE WAS OPERATING A GRADER. ONE OF THE AIR DIFFUSERS CAME LOOSE ON THE HEATER IN THE OPERATOR'S CAB. HE ATTEMPTED TO RE-INSTALL THE DIFFUSER WITHOUT SHUTTING OFF THE SMALL SQUIRREL CAGE BLOWER FAN & CONTACTED IT WITH HIS FINGER, SUFFERING THE INJURY LISTED BELOW. HE WAS UNAWARE THAT THE FAN WAS MOUNTED INSIDE THE HEATER BOX. THE FAN IS RECESSED DEEP IN THE BOX & IT IS RARE THAT THIS

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN ROOF BOLT AND DRILL HEAD.

WHILE PACKING A 13HP FLIGHT PUMP WITH A BAR THE PUMP SLID DOWN ON THE BAR CAUSING THE WEIGHT TO SHIFT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING SEAT BELT ON DOZER. REACHED UNDER THE SEAT AN LEANED INTO THE ARM REST AND FELT PAIN IN SIDE.

THE OPERATOR WAS PUTTING UP BOLTS WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM RIB, HITTING HIM IN LOWER BACK

PERSON WAS SHOVELING SAND/DIRT FROM UNDER A CONVEYOR WITH A SQUARE POINT SHOVEL AND STRAINED HISBACK TO CAUSE PAIN AND DISCOMFORT ENOUGHT TO GO TO A DOCTOR WHERE XRAYS WERE TAKEN AND NO INJURY FOUND PAIN PILLS MUSCLE RELAXANT PILL AND TOLD TO GET PHYSICAL THERAPY.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A BENT LOOSE RAIL THAT WAS LAYING BETWEEN THE TRACK. HE MADE AN ATTEMPT TO FLIP THE RAIL OUT FROM BETWEEN THE TRACKS WHEN IT FLIPPED BACK AND STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT FOOT.

EE HAD USED THE METAL SHEAR TO CUT FOUR SMALL PIECES OF SQUARE PLATE. HE WENT AROUND TO BACK OF THE SHEAR TO RETRIEVE HIS PLATES. THEY HAD FALLEN TOWARD THE FRONT OF THE MACHINE. HE KNELT DOWN ON HIS LEFT KNEE ON SOME STEEL PLATE THAT HAD BEEN LEFT FROM A PREVIOUS SHEARING JOB. HE HAD TO REACH UNDER THE SHEAR WHILE KNEELING ON HIS LEFT KNEE. FELT PAIN. SEEN BY DR 2/28/98. L KNEE ST

SLIPPED & FELL--JAMMED RIGHT WRIST.

EE WAS HAULING COAL FROM THE FACE TO THE FEEDER USING A JOY 10SC END DRIVE SHUTTLE CAR. WHILE TRAMMING TOWARD THE FEEDER, THE EE REPORTS THAT THE SHUTTLE CAR STRUCK A DEPRESSION IN THE ROADWAY CAUSING HIM TOBE THROWN INTO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE OPERATOR'S CANOPY. THE OPERATOR SUFFERED A SPRAINED NECK AS A RESULT.

WHILE INSTALLING A CYLINDER ON A 773-B TRUCK, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK, HE FELT IT WOULD GO AWAY, BUT IT DID NOT.

EE WAS RUNNING ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR AND RAN BOLTER WHEEL OVER HIS FOOT. REPORTABLE-LOST TIME- STICHES, FRACTURE

WHILE SUPPORTING TOP IN #6 HEADING, ROCK FELL (DRAW ROCK) STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE CARRYING A WATER PROP(SUPPORT JACK) FELT PAIN IN BACK.

EE WAS LIFTING CRIB BLOCK OUT OF SCOOP BUCKET AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

WAS CHECKING HAMMERMILL OUT TO SEE IF IT WAS RUNNING COULD NOT SEE IF IT WAS RNNIGN AND COULD NOT HERE IT. PUT HAND INSIDE GUARD AND DRIVE BELTS GRABBED HIS HAND AND PULLED IT IN. AS OF THIS DATE THIS IS WHAT WE THINK POSSABITY HAPPENED.

CLEANING WALL AND MOVING BIG ROCK WIHT EXCAVATORAND JARRED HIMSELF WHILE MOVING BIG ROCK AND HURT LOWER BACK.

EE STEPPED OFF LADDER ONTO V-BELT ON FLOOR, TURNED FOOT & FRACTURED BONE IN FOOT.

EE WAS MOVING A ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE STEPPED IN A DEPRESSION IN THE MINE FLOOR AND TWISTED HIS HIP & BACK. HE BEGAN MISSING WORK DAYS ON 3/2/98

INJURED PARTY WAS PICKING UP A WOODEN PALLET ON THE 2-26-98, TURNED TO THROW IT IN FRONT END LOADER, FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN LOWER BACK. THOUGHT IT WAS A PULLED MUSCLE. BECAME REPORTABLE 3 -16-98 TO MSHA.

EMPLOYEE WAS THROWING A PIECE OF TOP BELT STRUCTURE THRU A HOLE IN OVERCAST WALL WHEN HE CAUGHT LEFT LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND ROOF MASHING END OF LITTLE FINGER OFF.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LN243 ROOF BOLTER IN #4 RIGHT BREAK WHEN HE SET THEA.T.R.S. A ROCK BECAME DISLODGED FROM THE TOP AND SLID DOWN THE BOOM, STRIKING HIS LEGS.

WAS MOVING MINER CABLE AND WATER HOSE OUT OF TRAM ROAD. HIS FOOT SLIPPED INTO TIRE TRACK RUT AND HIS KNEE TWISTED. HE CONTINURED TO WORK REGULAR WORK UNTIL 8-4-98, WHEN HE HAD SURGERY ON HIS K NEE.

BULK BAG STRAP TORE AND BAG FELL ON PALLET AGAINST LEG.

WHILE CHANGING SEATS ON SHUTTLE CAR TWISTED ANKLE AND HURT BACK.

EE WAS DRIVING A 50 TON QUARRY TRUCK ON A CONCRETE ROAD & WHEN HE APPLIED THE RETARDER TO SLOW DOWN, THE VEHICLE SLID SIDE WAYS INTO THE BERM & STOPPED SUDDENLY RESULTING IN MUSCLE STRAINS.

EE DRILLING HOLE TO INSTALL BNOLTY WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK SLIPPED FROM TOP AND SLIDE DOWN CANOPY.

OPERATING PERMISSABLE RIDE, HIT ROCK AND STEERING WHEEL CAUGHT RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

1 EAST BELT EE WAS DRAGGING HOSE AND STEPPED IN A HOLE AND HIS RIGHT KNEE TURNED IN TOWARDS THE LEFT KNEE. HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

THE INDIVIDUAL WAS HELPING TO INSTALL A MOTOR IN AN S&S, 488 SCOOP. HE WAS USING A SLATE BAR TO PRY THE MOTOR UP. HE WAS KNEELING ON THE SLATE BAR WITH HIS BACK AGAINST THE TOP. THE TOE HOLD H E HAD WITH THE BAR SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE. HE HIT THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE & BODY AGAINST THE FRAME OF THE SCOOP. HE CRACKED THE FACIAL BONE NEXT TO THE LEFT EYE SOCKET & S

EE WAS ROLLING A ROLL OF CONVEYOR BELTING AND SPRAINED HIS BACK.

WORKING HAUL ROAD INTO PINT AND RAN OVER LOOSE ROCKS.

EE WAS LIFTING AN EXTENSION LADDER & FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LEFT SIDE LOWER ABDOMEN, HE ALSO HAD THE FLUE AT THE SAME TIME. HE THOUGHT IT TO BE THE FLUE. LATER, THE FLUE WENT AWAY, TH E BURNING SENSATION DIDN'T. BURNING SENSATION WORSENED. HAD OUT PATIENT SURGERY ON 5/6/98.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN THE #1 ENTRY AND HE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS POOR ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS AND AWARENESS. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR , PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS NOT WORN (ANKLE SUPPORT), MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.

EMPLOYEE STATED SHE WAS GOING DOWN STAIRS WHILE CARYING A TRAY TO LAB WHN SHE WENT TO STEP ON LANDING AND HER BACK WENT OUT.

EE STEPPED OUT OF COMPANY SERVICE TRUCK & TWISTED HIS R ANKLE. INCIDENT HAPPENED AS HE HAD REMEMBERED HE DIDN'T SHUT ONE OF THE SERVICE TRUCK TOOL DOORS.

STEPPING OFF LADDER AND SLIPPED TURNING RIGHT ANKLE. ANKLE HAS TORN LIGAMENTS AND CHIPPED/BROKEN BONE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING BELT AND COMPLAINS ABOUT HIS BACK HURTING. CAME TO WORK AT 7A.M. AND LEFTMINE AT 9A.M.

TRIPPED ON A POWER CABLE & STRUCK HEAD & NECK ON EQUIPMENT.

WAS GETTING OFF DOZER AND FOOT STUCK IN MUD AND TWISTED KNEE AND TORE LIGAMENTS IN LEFT KNEE.

PULLING DOWN A BENT 7 FT RESIN BOLT AND STRAINED HIS SHOULDER.

MOVING ROCK OUT OF WAY TO INSTALL A ROOF SUPPORT CRIB. ROCK HE WAS TRYING TO MOVE SLID & CAUGHT HIS THUMB BETWEEN ANOTHER ROCK.

CUTTING BOLT ON D11 CUTTING EDGE, BOLT BROKE & STRUCK THE GLASS SHIELD ON HELMT. GLASS BROKE/SHATTERED CAUSING CUTS AROUND EYES

EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PICK UP 42" BUTTON ROLLER IN2 LEFT BELT HEADING. SHE SAID SHE STRAINED HER LOWER BACK.

EE WAS ENTERING THE OPERATING DECK OF A SCOOP WHEN HE TWISTED HIS BACK. EE FINISHED THE SHIFT AND NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL THE AFTERNOONOF THE NEXT DAY.

EE WAS EXAMINING THE BLEEDR AIRCOURSE FOR THE MAIN NORTH EAST SIDE BLEEDERS. HE WAS WEARING RUBBER BOOTS. WHILE WALKING THE BOOTS RUBBED THE SKIN FORM BOTH SMALL TOES. MINE WATER GOT INTO THE BOOTS EXPOSING RAW SKIN TO WATER, THIS RESULTED IN THE INFECTION OF BOTH SMALL TOES

WHILE WALKING TO SERVICE TRUCK, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.

WALKED THROUGH A WATERHOLE. SLIPPED AND HURT KNEE STARTED LOSING TIME 3-4-98.

DRIVER WAS DRIVING ACROSS QUARRY FLOOR GOING TO GET A LOAD OF ROCK WHEN HE CROSSED A SMALL LOW DITCH IN ROAD, HE MUST HAVE HIT HIS HEAD ON RIGHT SIDE OF CAB THEN THREW HIM TO LEFT SIDE WHERE H E HIT THE DOOR GLASS WITH HIS HEAD THEN LET THE TRUCK ROLL TO A STOP.

EE WAS MOVING BARGE INTO DOCK WHEN THE ROPE SNAPPED STRIKING HIS LEGS.

B-12 X CUT 2 TO 1 AT 16 WALL-A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF, SLID DOWN A PILE OF FALLEN MATERIAL AND STRUCK HIM IN THE LOWER RIGHT LEG. HE RECIEVED A NON-DISPLACED BROKEN 3 RD METATARSAL O N THE RIGHT FOOT. HIS FOOT WAS PLACED IN A CAST.

WHILE AN EE WAS WELDING ON A DRAGLINE BUCKET RIGGING DRAG HITCH PIN AND WAS LIFTING THE PIN WITH A BAR TO REPOSITION IT, THE PIN ROLLED OFF THE TABLE AND STRUCK THE EE ON THE SHIN OF HIS RIGHT LEG. RESULTED IN FRACTURING HIS LEG.

DEBRIS [MUD & ROCK] FELL OUT OF THE HIGHWALL & STRUCK EE IN THE BACK.

PIN BEING DRIVEN THROUGH DOZER TRACK-PIECE OF METAL SPLIT OFF AND WENT INTO NECK.

DOZER OPERATOR STEPPED DOWN FROM CAB ONTO THE SIDE ARM AND SLIPPED, HITTING HIS KNEE ON THE SIDE ARM.

EE WAS CUTTING A SECTION OF 6" I BEAM 20 FT IN LENGTH. EE BENT OVER TO MOVE BEAM BY HAND. AS HE STRAIGHTENED UP HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND DOWN HIS LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OVER THE GUARD RAIL,ONTO AN 18" WIDE LEDGE,LOST HID FOOTING AND FELL 8' DOWN TO PRIMARY CRUSHER FLOOR,BOUNCED AND FELL 2'.

INJURED PARTY WAS SQUATTNG BESIDE MINER IN THE #8 ENTRY IN THE NEW RET ROOM SET UP WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN PINS STRIKING INJURED PARTY ON RIGHT HEEL. ROCK WAS ABOUT 3"OR 4" THIC K 2'LONG 1' WIDE.

EMPLOYEE WAS SANDING RAIL BY HAND AND THE RAIL RUNNER SLID BACKWARDS AND CAUGHT HIS BACK BETWEENTHE TOP AND THE MOTOR.

STRETCHING OVER BOLT MACHINE PUTTING UP STRAPS.

HE STARTED TO CROSS A BELT AND THE BELT STARTED THROWING HIM TO THE OTHER SIDE INTO A PILE OF ROCK.

EE WAS SHOVELING OFF "TOES" ON LONGWALL SHIELDS WHEN HE STRUCK HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON THE PANLINE. NOTE: EE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 3/16/98 WHICH WAS HIS FIRST DAY OFF WORK.

EE WAS USING A SCALING MACHINE TO SCALE THE RIBS WITH. THE HAMMER HIT THE ROOF A LARGE PILE FELL ON THE BOOM. WHEN THIS HAPPENED IT JARRED HIM AROUND IN THE CAB AND HIS BACK STARTED HURTING HI M.

INJURED'S LEFT FOOT GOT STUCK IN THE MUD WHILE WALKING AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE WHEN TRYING TO TAKE A STEP.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS ROOF BOLTING IN THE #4 RIGHT BREAK WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK APX 6-8' LONG X 3' WIDE X 5" INCHES THICK FELL FROM THE ROOFBETWEEN ROOF BOLTS. THE ROCK STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS PELVIC AREA. EE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM WHERE HE WAS XRAYED WHICK SHOWED NO BROKEN BONES. EE WAS KEPT AT THE HOSPITAL FOR OBSERVATION.

INJURED WAS ASSISTING WITH THE RETORGUEING OF A TRUCK TIRE WHEEL. THE RATCHEL SLIPPED AND CAUSING HIM TO FALL AGAINST THE TRUCK TIRE. THE CAUSED A SMALL CUT AND BRUISE.

WHILE EE WAS PULLING MOBILE ROOF SUPPORT CABLE FROM UNDER RIB ROLLS HE STRAINED HIS LOWER GROIN

INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET A PIECE OF ROCK OFF THE #3 MBC WHEN ANOTHER ROCK HIT INJURED AND MASHED HIS RING AND LITTLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND CAUSING A LACERATION TO BOTH FINGERS AND A FRA CTUR TO LITTLE FINGER.

WHILE REMOVING STEEL PIPE, IT FELL ON FINGERS (LEFT).

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING LIMESTONE,BUMPED RT. THUMB ON METAL.

EE WAS DRIVING THE COAL TRUCK BETWEEN THE PIT AND THE STOCKPILE. HE HIT AN OVERSIZED ROCK IN THE HAUL ROAD AND IT BOUNCED HIM OUT OF THE SEAT. WHEN HE LANDED, HE TWISTED HIS BACK.

LIFTING UP 12" PIPE 4' LONG TWISTED BACK.

EE LANDED ON HIS BACK, HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS LOADING LEVEL WIND ASSEMBLY ONTO MECHANIC 3-WHEELER. HE SAID HE PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT SIDE OF CHEST.

EE TURNED HIS ANKLE & FELL.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK ROLLED OFF THE RIB & STRUCK HIM IN THE LOWER BACK. HE CONATINUED TO WORK UNTIL 10:30PM WHEN HE LEFT THE MINE TO GO TO THE DOCTOR. X-RAYS SHOWED NO FRACTURES. EE WAS TREATED FOR BRUSING& SENT HOME.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO ASCEND HIS DOZER AT THE START OF HIS SHIFT. HIS FOOT SLIPPED & HIS KNEE HIT THE PUSH ARM,DID NOT FALL TO GROUND AS OTHER FOOT WAS ON THE GROUND. WORKED ENTIRE SHIFT WITH MINOR DISCOMFORT.

WAS INSTALLING BUSHING IN THE H-FRAME OF A 980C CAT LOADER. WHILE USING A PORT-A-POWER WITH SHIMS TO PRESS THE BUSHING IN,GUIDE PLATE WAS TAPPEDWITH HAMMER TO ASSURE ALIGNMENT BEARING OR SHIM SPLINTERED OFF,PROPELLONG METAL FRAGMENTS INTO ABDOMINAL AREA AND LEFT LEG.

EE WAS STACKING 42# CASES OF CLUMPING LITTER ON A PALLET. WHEN HE TURNED TO STACK HE FELT HIS BACK POP. HE COMPLETED HIS SHIFT AND WENT TO THE CHIROPRACTOR.

EE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM MACHINE, SLIPPED & FELL STRIKING SIDE OF MINER.

INJURED & 2 EE'S WERE BUILDING A STOPPING. INJURED REACHED BEHINE HIMSELF TO PICK A CINDER BLOCKUP. WHEN HE GRABBED THE BLOCK HE TWISTED HIS WRIST.

CLEAVING A BLOCK AND WENT TO TRHOW THE SLATE TRASH AWAY A PEICE OF SLATE SLIT HIS RT FOREARM OPEN.

AFTER WELDING ON A TRANSMISSION, EMPLOYEE WASS SCRAPPING IT FREE OF DIRT AND GREASE. EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED DISCOMFORT WHEN SOMETHING LODGED IN HIS LEFT EYE.

EE WAS WORKING ON HIS KNEES INSIDE THE TRACTOR CAB & WHILE SHIFTING AROUND HE FELT HIS LOWER BACE MUSCLES PULL. EE SPENT TOO LONG A TILME IN A STRAINED POSITION.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A PIECE OF BELT RUBBER WITH A RAIL RUNNER WHEN HE WENT UNDER A CROSSBAR ACROSS THE TRACK ENTRY & HE RAISED UP TO MAKE SURE RUBBER WAS STILL CHAINED UP & WHEN HE DID THIS H E ROOFED HIMSELF AGAINST HEADER.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS WORKING TOGETHER WITH 2 EE OF CONSOLIDATION COAL CO TO MOVE OIL CIRCUIT BREAKERS WHEN INJURY OCCURRED. SPECIFICALLY, INJURED WAS WALKING BESIDE LOAD BORNE ON YARD CRANE W HEN BINGER CHAIN SLIPPED & LOAD SHIFTED, ONE CORNER OF IT FALLING TO THE GROUND & TRHOWING UP LIMESTONE FRAGMENT WHICH STRUCK HIS LEG.

THE SLABS ON GANG 7 FELL AGAINST THE WALL. THEY PUT CHAINS AROUND THE SLABS AND WERE USING A CHAIN HOIST TO PULL IT UP STRAIGHT AGAIN, EE WAS USING THE CHAIN HOIST WHEN A FOREIGN OBJECT WENT I NTO HIS EYE. HE CONTINUED WORKING AND DID NOT REPORT INCIDENT TO HIS FOREMAN. THE NEXT DAY HE CALLED OFF, SAID HE WAS GOING TO THE DR FOR HIS EYE.

THE INJURED WAS PULLING THE BRAKES OFF AN S&S SCOOP. HE REACHED TO PULL THE CALIPER PIN OFF THE BRAKES AND FELT A BURNING PAIN IN LT. ARM.

INJURED WAS HELPING TO DISMANTLE AN OVERCAST WHEN A PLATE DROPPED AND HIT INJURED ON THE HARD HAT.

THE EE WAS KNOCKED DOWN BY A CAR CABLE THAT WRAPPED AROUND HIS RIGHT LEG ALLEGEDLY FRACTURING IT.

HE WAS ROCKDUSTING TOP IN 1 HEADING WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL HIT HIM IN HEAD AND LEFT SHOULDER.

ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHEN THIS EE CLAIMS TO HAVE HIS BACK WHILE SLIDING A BOTTOM ROLLER UNDER THE BELT DURING A BELT MOVE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS & IMPROPER H ANDLING PROCEDURES. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP [BACK BRACE] WAS NOT WORN, MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR, MINING EQUIP/SYSTEMS OK.

EE WAS ASSISTING WITH REPAIRING A CONVEYOR BELT. EE WAS USING A KNIFE TO CUT THE BELT & AS HE CUT THROUGH THE BELT THE KNIFE CUT HIS RIGHT THIGH.

EE WHILE HELPING TO INSTALL A PIECE OF STEEL IN TEH BOKET W/A LANDY SLIP AND FALL. HITTING THE BORDER OF THE GORET BRAKING ARE RIP IN HIS CHEST.

WHILE CLEANING ORE OUT OF THE TRUCK DUMP (1-1 GRIZZLEY) THE WIND BLEW THE PLASTIC DOORSTRIPS INTO THE WORKER'S FACE. SHE FINISHED HER SHIFT AND WORKED 3/4 DAY THE FOLLOWING DAY. THEN WENT TO D OCTOR WHO SAID SHE COULDN'T WEAR A RESPIRATOR FOR A FEW DAYS.

EMPLOYEE HAD A PREVIOUS STRAINED LUMBER INJURY AND STEPPED DOWN TO A LOWER LEVEL AND REINJURED HIS LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE DR. 3-4-98 AND STAYED OFF 3 DAYS

WHILE UNPLUGGING THE LOADING CHUTE,FUGITIVE DUST PARTICLES GOT IN HIS EYES.

WHILE REMOVING A ROCK FROM 13-C HEAD DRIVE HOPPER, THE EE STRAINED HIS BACK

INJURED STATED WHILE USING A 20 LBS SLEDGE HAMMER TO ADJUST 5 KILN TRUNION ROLL. THE SLEDGE HAMER SLIPPED OFF OF THE ADJUSTING BAR AND HIT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN CLINKER TUNNEL AND STEPPED ON CHUNK OF CLINKER CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS BACK.

HANDLING TORCH, BURNED THROUGH GLOVE.

SNOWED NIGHT BEFORE-STEPPED CLEARED BUT FORZEN NEXT TO -STEPPED ON ICE AND FELL.

EE #1 [INJURED EE] WAS STANDING BY A TABLE IN UG OFFICE AREA. EE #2 WAS DIRECTING EE #3, A FORKLIFT OPERATOR, WHO WAS PULLING A DRAG. THE FORKLIFT CAUGHT THE CORNER OF THE TABLE WHICH MOVED & STRUCK EE #1 IN THE LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAND SCLAING OUT OF AMADOR HIGH SCALER WHEN A LARGE SLAB 10' LONG 7' WIDE AND 24' WIDE THAT HE WAS TRYING TO SCALE OFF RIB CAME DOWN AND STRUCK OUT RIGGER OF THE MACHINE. THE MACH INE WENT DOWN ON THAT SIDE AND THE EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN OUT OF THE BASKET. HE WAS WEARING A FALL PROTECTION HARNESS AND WAS SECURED TO THE BASKET BY A 3' LANYARD.HE RECEIVED A FRACTURED SKULL

THE INJURED WAS GETTING ROCK DUST OF 2 PIG BELT WHEN HE TRIPPED IN TO THE CROSSOVER ON BELT LINEINJURING HIS CHEST.

ON MAY 27, 1998 THE EE REQUIRED SURGERY ON HIS LEFT KNEE WHICH WAS INJURED ON FEB 24, 1998 BY A PIECE OF RIB COAL WHICH ROLLED OUT AND STRUCK HIM ON THE KNEE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE OUT THE TRUNION ON THE UNIT 85 ROTARY BREAKER. THE BALL & TRUNION SWUNG AROUND AND CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE DRIVE CHAIN AND BALL. THIS RESULTED IN A BROKEN FINGER AND LACERATED FINGER.

EMPLOYEE STATED TO ME OVER THE PHONE THAT DURING THE SHIFT ON 2-24-98 HIS KNEES WAS HURTING HIM. THE NEXT MORNING WHEN HE GOT UP HIS RIGHT KNEE WAS SWOOLEN AND HE WENT TO BUCKINGHAM GENERAL HO SPITAL AND WAS TREATED BY DR. X-RAYS GIVEN AND NO BONES WAS BROKEN.

EE STATED WHILE STEPPING DOWN FROM DINNER SLED AT STARTED OF SHIFT-FELL ON KNEES. EE HAS PAST HISTORY OF KNEE PROBLEMS DUE TO CAR WRECK.

EE WAS CHANGING DRILL BIT WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS HELPING CO-WORKER SAW A MINE TIMBER WITH A BOW SAW. THE BOW SAW CAUGHT ON A WOOD SPLINTER & BOUNCED ACROSS THE TIMBER STRIKING INJURED ON HE INDEX FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND. INJURED RECEIVED 7 SUTURES IN HIS FINGER & HAS NOT YET RETURNED TO WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A TRUCK TO THE COAL LOADING AREA WHEN HE STRUCK A POTHOLE,CAUSING HIS ENTIRE UPPER TRUNK TO HAVE PAIN.EMPLOYEE STATED PAIN EXTENDED FROM LOWER BACK TO SHOULDERS,HEAD,NECK, ARMS AND INTO FINGERS.

EE WAS HELPING HAND SCALE WHEN A LARGE SLAB 10' LONG, 7' WIDE AND 24' THICK, THE THEY WERE TRYING TO SCALE OFF RIB, CAME DOWN AND STRUCK THE OUTRIGGER OF THE MACHINE. THE MACHINE WENT DOWN AND EE WAS THROWN FROM BASKET. WEARING FALL PROTECTION. RECEIVED A LACERATION TO THE HEAD AND SOME BRUISING TO THE BODY. MACHINE POSITIONED PROPERLY.

LOADING A LONGWALL SHIELD ONTO A SHIELD DOLLY USING A SCOOP CAR. THE DUCK BILL OF THE SCOOP CAME OFF THE DOLLY SUDENTLY, CAUSING THE SCOOP TO BOUNCE. HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE CANOPY.

EMPLOYEE MOVING SHUTTLE WHEEL WHEN FELT PAIN IN BACK THE WHEEL AND THE EMPLOYEES KNEES HIT WHEEL AND ELBOW HIT SCOOP BUCKET.

EE WAS UNLOADING TIES FROM A FLAT ON THE 3530 LEVEL, T MAIN, WHEN ONE OF THE TIES SLIPPED CAUSING HIS RIGHT RING FINGER TO BE SMASHED BETWEEN THETIE AND THE FLAT. HE SUSTAINED AN OPEN FRACTURE TO THE RIGHT RING FINGER. IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THIS WILL BE A LOST TIME ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO STEP FROM A LADDER ON A FUEL TANK ONTO A LOWBOY WHEN HE FELL DUE TO THE DISTANCE FROM ONE STEP TO THE OTHER.

EE WAS HELPING INSTALL BELT STRUCTURE WHEN A TOP STAND SLIPPED AND CAUGHT THE MIDDLE FINGER ON THE RIGHT HAND.

PERSON WAS PUTTING UP WIRE TO HANG VENTILATION TUBING IN FACE. PERSON HAD RAN ONE END OF TUBING THROUGH ROOF MAT WHEN OTHER END SPRANG UP FROM BOTTOM AND WENT UNDER THE SAFETY GLASSES AND STRU CK HIM IN THE LEFT EYE.

EE WAS CLEANING JAM, WHERE SAND HAD ACCUMLATED IN BOTTOM OF SILO. WHILE EE HAD HAND IN THE AIR GATE, EE 2 GOT A HI LITE AND TURNED SWITCH TO CLOSE THE AIR GATE, NOT KNOWING THAT EE 1 WAS CLEAN ING JAM.

EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING THE SECURITY BUILDING WHEN HE SLOPPED STRIKING HIS BACK ON THE CONCRETE BLOCKS. THE CONCRETE BLOCKS WERE USED AS STEPS AND WERE NOT SECURED. RAIN AND MUD WERE A POSSIBLE C ONTRIBUTING FACTOR, ALONG WITH POOR HOUSEKEEPING

PUTTING NEW ROLLERS ON 150' BELT AND HIT KNEE ON CATWALK.

CLEANING OUT UNDER TROUGHING ROLLERS, HAND WENT BETWEEN ROLLERS AND BELT.

EMPLOYEE SAT ON BUCKET OF DEGREASER RECIEVED CHEMICAL BURN ON BUTTOCKS.

LOADER BECAME STUCK ON SLICK SNOW AND EMPLOYEE CLIMBED DOWN TO GET HELP. HE SLIPPED ON THE PACKED SNOW AND FELL ON HIS BACK.

CLIMBING UP PERMANENT LADDER ON FRONT OF EUCLID REACHED FOR LAST HAND HOLD ABOVE WINSHIELD AND MISSED, LOST BALANCE AND FELL OFF MACHINE BACKWARDS 8-10' TO CONCRETE FLOOR.

WHILE CLIMBING ONTO DOZER TO FUEL IT, HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. DISLOCATED HIS KNEE.

EE WAS SHOVELING IN A SURGE TUNNEL, WHEN HE FELT A POP IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS BENT OVER TO LOOSEN A PULL STRAP - STRAINED HIS BACK. [FIRST DAY LOST WAS 2/25/98]

EE WAS HELPING TO CHANGE CONVEYOR IDLERS, DURINGTHIS MAINTENANCE ACTIVITY METAL WENT INTO HIS EYE. HE WAS USING A HAMMER TO LOOSEN THE IDLERS.

MOVBING BELT ROLLER IN LOW TOP STRAINING LOWER BACK OR PULL MUSCLE.

TTHE BUNKER NEEDED FLIGHTS INSTALLED ON THE OFF TRACK SIDE CONVEYOR. THE FLIGHTS WEIGH ABOUT 20# EACH AND MUST BE HAND CVARRIED TO THE REAR OF THE BUNKER FROM THE TRACK. EE HAD LIFTEDF SEVERAL FLIGHTS & HANDED THEM TO ANOTHER EE WHEN HE TURNED TO HAND THE FLIGHT OFF HIS FEET BECAME STUCK IN THE MUD CAUSING HIS LOWER BACK TO TWIST AND HAVE PAIN.

EE WAS DRIVING A COMPANY DUMP TRUCK. EE PULLED OUT IN FRONT OF ANOTHER VEHICLE.

ICY STEP ON HAUL VEHICLE. DRIVER SLIPPED DID NOT REALIZE HERNIA UNTIL ONE MONTH LATER.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSERTING PIN INTO RIB IN #1 PLACE. WHILE GUIDING PIN INTO RIB WITH RIGHT, PIN A HARD SPOT CAUSING WRENCH TO KICK TO ONE SIDE CATCHING RIGHT RING FINGER BETWEEN WRENCH AND PIN.

REOCURRANCE EFFECTIVE 2-23-98. FROM 1994 INJURY.

THE EE WAS INJURED WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN THE RIB & 1ST ROOF BOLT HITTING HIM & PUSHING HIM DOWN. [ROCK MEASURED 8'L, 4'W, 4"THICK] 002 SECTION.

INJURED WAS UNLOADING 8' LONG MINING TIMBERS FROM A MINE RAIL SUPPLY CAR. HE STATED THAT AS HE STARTED TO LIFT ONE OF THE TIMBER, HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK AREA. INJURED HAS CON TINUED TO WORK HIS REGULAR SHIFTS STATING HE THOUGHT HE WOULD BE ALRIGHT. THE INJURY CONTINUED TO WORSEN & HE WENT TO VISIT A DR ON 3/4/98 & HAS STARTED TO MISS WORK.

EE WAS HANDLING 47 LB. BAGS OF CEMENT. UNLOADING A FLAT SUPPLY CAR, WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

AT THE MAIN WEST SECTION IN THE INTERSECTION OF #5 ENTRY,OUTBY THE POWER CENTER THE EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CARRY A 4"X30' ALUMINUM WATER LINE WHEN HE STEPPED IN THE MUD,SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT KNEE ON THE MINE FLOOR CAUSING PAIN IN THE LEFT KNEE AND UPPER BACK.

EE WAS IN THE WORK BOAT TRAVBELING FROM THE EAST BAN TO THE WEST DREDGE, AS HE WAS GOING UP RIVER THE BOAT MOTOR WAS HOOKED BY THE UPRIVER CABLE OFF THE EAST DREDGE AND CAUSED THE BOAT TO FLIP UPSIDE DOWN AND SINK.

EE WAS HELPING MECHANIC REPAIR REAL COMPARTMENT AREA. EE HAD HIS LEFT ARM RESTING ON TOP & EDGE OF CABLE REEL WHEN THE LID FOR THE CABLE REEL COMPARTMENT FELL PINCHING HIS LEFT ARM BETWEEN THE EDGE OF CABLE REEL & LID.

EE STATED HE HIT RIGHT HAND AGAINST FRAME OF MANDOOR GOING THRU DOOR BENDING FINGERNAIL EE WAS WEARING GLOVES.

EE DRILLING HOLE IN ROOF WRIST HIT DRILL STEEL.

EMPLOYEE CAME BY THE PIT OFFICE COMPLAINING ABOUT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE STARTED UP DOZER AND WHEN CLIMBING DOWN STEPPED ON SNOW COVERED STEP AND SLIPPED AND FELL. HIS FEET WENT OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL BACK HITTING HIS BACK ON THE STEP.

EE REPORTS THAT WHILE BENDING 4' BOLTS, HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK.

WHILE REMOVING BOLTS FROM PIPE FLANGES THE EE MASHED THE TIP OF HIS RIGHT LITTLE FINGER. THIS WAS HIS DILE HAND HE HAD THE AIR RATCHET IN HIS LEFT HAND AND GRABBED THE BOLT W/HIS RIGHT HAND. H IS HANDS WERE WET DUE THE WATER COMING OUT OF THE PIPE THAT WERE BEING DISMANTLED/ SMALL LACERATION AND A BROKEN BONE AT THE LIP OF THE RIGHT LITTLE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING THE CABLE AND WATER HOSE OFF THE CARRYING HOOK WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND GROIN AREA.

HE WAS CLIMBING ON TO THE BED OF THE WATER TRUCK WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.

USING HAMMER TO CLEAN MATERIAL OFF THE FRAME OF A CONVEYOR, THE BELT CLIPS CAUUGHT THE WRIST OF THE SHIRT PULLING HIS ARM RAPIDLY AGAINST THE ROLLER FRAME, BREAKING HIS ARM.

WHILE PUTTING HER BACKPAC IN THE PASSENGER SIDE DOOR, THE DOOR CLOSED CAUSING GRACE'S LEFT THUMBTO BE CAUGHT IN THE DOOR. GRACE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 4/18/97 RETURNED 11/3/97 AND STARTED LOS ING TIME 2/23/98

THE EE HAD TAKEN THE RIGHT REAR WHEEL OFF AN M-35 TRUCK & THE WHEEL FELL OVER & PINNED HIM BETWEEN THE WHEEL & A BOBCAT BUCKET.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THE LONGWALL RETURN AIR COURSE, THERE WAS AN AREA THAT WAS WET AND SLICK, HE SLIPPED AND FELL.

AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT IT WAS SNOWING. AS THE EE EXITED THE MINE FORKLIFT, HE SLIPPED ON SNOW COVERED ICE AS HE STEPPED TO THE GROUND. HE FELL ON HIS RIGHT ARM & SIDE. HE WAS EXAMINED BY MINE EMT & CONT WORKING. DUE TO SORENESS HE WENT TO A DR. THE NEXT DAY & WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A PARTIAL ROTATOR CUFF TEAR.

EE WAS HANGING A 201-M POWER CABLE WHEN HE STEPPED UPON THE BASE [APPROXIMATELY 18" HIGH] OF THE CABLE STANDARD & FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A CRIB BLOCK ALONG BELT WHEN RIGHT FOOT CAUGHT BETWEEN BBARLD WALK AND PAVEMENT, CAUSING HIM TO FAR FORWARD.

EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN DINNER HOLE. TRAILING CABLE FOR CONTINOUS MINER,WAS LAYING ON MINE FLOOR IN AREA. A SHUTTLE CAR TRAMMING ACROSS ENTRY CAUGHT THE CAR CABLE AND WATER HOSE AND PULLED IT ACROSS THE ENTRY. EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO GET OUT OF THE WAY OF THE CABLE.CABLE KNOCKED HIS FEET OUT FROM UNDER HIM.HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF OF TRUSSBOLTER AND HIT HIS LEFT KNEE ON CONTROL PANEL.

SLEDGE HAMMER HEAD BROKE OFF HANDLE, HIT IN MOUTH AREA. CUT TONGUE, REQUIRED STITCHES.

EE WAS WRENCHING A FLANGE TOGETHER WHNE A PLASTIC WELD IN PIPE FAILED CAUSING WELD TO GIVE WAY. PRESSURE HIT RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS HELPING THE MECHANIC INSTALL A CENTER PININ THE SPRING ON THE FUEL TRUCK WHEN THE TRUCK SHIFTED STRIKING THE EE'S HEAD. THE EE RECEIVED LACERATIONS IN THE HEAD AREA REQUIRING STITCHES.

EMPLOYER WAS RIDING IN SCOOP BUCKET WHEN HE JARRED HIS BACK EMPLOYEE BEGAN MISSING WORK 4.9.98.

EMPLOYEE SPRAINED KNEE WHILE WALKING STEPPED ON LUMP OF COAL THAT TURNED.

EE WAS BOLTING THE ROOF TOP & THE STEEL BOLT BENT & SWUNG AROUND & HIT HIS RIGHT HAND.

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL HITTING EMPLOYEE IN FOOT JUST BEHIND STEEL TOE. BROKE 2 TOES AND CUT ONE. EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING A BOLT WHICH DISLODGED A PIECE OF ROCK.

WHILE REPAIRING A PUMP AT THE PREP PH. EE PULLED ON WRENCH, WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE FELL AGAINST I BEAM.

OPERATING R.B. ROCK FELL BETWEEN LAST ROW OF BOTS & T BAR HITTING HIM ON LEFT HIP & BACK

ROLL OF BELT WAS HANGING ON A CHAIN FROM A HIGHLIFT. THE ROLL WAS LET DOWN, HIT ON THE ROPE. EE WAS MAKING A BELT SPLICE AND THE ROPE WAS MASHED DOWN AGAINST HIS BACK AND HIP.

REMOVING CABLE COVERS OFF OF LONGWALL FACE CONVEYOR. COVER SLIPPED & HE TRIED TO CATCH IT INJURING HIS HAND.

EE WAS TRAMING SCOOP IN NO 8 ENTRY WHEN HE TRAVELED OVER LEDGE IN BOTTOM AND HIS HEAD HIT ROOF

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE CROSSING 16-A BELT HE STUMBLED FELL AWKWARDLY WITH HIS WEIGHT LANDING ON HIS LEFT FOOT.

HE WAS MOVING CABLE BACK WITH A SCOOP. WHEN HE TURNED TO WATCH THE MINER CABLE SLACK, THE SCOOP TRAMMED OVER IS RIGHT FOOT CAUSING A SEVERE BRUISE.

PULLED DRAW ROCK & MOVED PINNER UP AND SET T BARA PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON HIS LEFT HAND

EE WAS KNOCKING BRATTICE WITH SLEDGE HAMMER & TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

INJURED PERSON HAD LEADER SOME CRIBBING AND RAILS ONTO A SUPPLY CAR AS HE WALKED AROUND THE CAR HE RAISED HIS HEAD UP INTO A RAIL JAMMING HIS NECK. HE SUSTAINED A MUSCLE STRAIN OF NECK WHICH R EQUIRES THERAPY.

INJURED WAS LOADING RAIL WHEN HE FELT A STINGIGNSENSATION IN HIS RIGHT GROIN AREA. INJURED BEGANMISSING WORK ON 3-11-98 DUE TO A HERNIA OPERATION.

EE WAS GRINDING STEEL WITH A GRINDER WHEN A PIECE OF STEEL FLEW INTO HIS RT EYE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES WHEN ACCIDENT OCCURED.

EE LOADED GRAVEL ONTO A HALF SIZE DUMP TRUCK THE TWO CUSTONERS LEAPED FROM THEIR LOADED PARKED TRUCK AND RAN UPON THE LOADER AND JERKED OUR EE OFF THE LOADER AND BEAT HIM.

EE WAS REMOVING BEARING AND HOUSING FROM SHAKER AS HE WAS HEATING HOUSING IT CAME OFF FALLING ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.

WHILE HOOKING UP A CHAIN TO RAISE A SECTION OF FACE CONVEYOR HE SLIPPED & FELL & LANDED ON HIS KNEES.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING LADDER ON TRUCK TO CHECK AUTOMATIC TARP FOR MALFUNCTION. HIS FOOT SLIPPED, HE FELL OFF TRUCK ONTO BLACKTOP FRACTURING FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING A ROOF BOLT ON THE POT WHEN THE PIN BOARD SLID DOWN THE PIN AND MASHED HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER.

INJURED PERSON WAS HELPING CHANGE A TORQUE SHAFT ON THE MINER. A RIB ROLL CAUGHT THE RIGHT FOOT AGAINST THE MINER FRAME. POSSIBLE BROKEN BONE IN RIGHT FOOT.

EE STRAINED BACK WHILE LOADYING HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS ONTO PALLET. EE LOST ONE DAY ON 2/24/98 & AGAIN FROM 2/26/1998 THRU 3/2/1998 WHEN HE RETURNED TO WORK.

COMING DOWN STEPS AT S-1, SLIPPED ON A STONE AND FELL. NO TREATMENT SOUGHT UNTIL 2/25/98 - NO RESTRICTIONS KNOWN UNTIL 3/11/98.

WHILE DRIVING TRUCK,, HIT POT HOLE IN ROAD

HE WAS CLEANING (SHOVELING) AROUND THE 2ND SOUTH BELT TAIL. THE AREA WAS WET, HE SLIPPED AND DROPPED THE SHOVEL. THE SHJOVEL STRUCK A ROLLER ADN THE HANDLE FLIPPED UP A STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND ( BACKSIDE). THIS CAUSED A CONTUSION.

EE WAS RIGGING A BELT WINDER FOR A LIFT. THE WINDER TIPPED FORWARD WHEN THE SLACK IN THE LINE BECAME TAUNT. EE JUMPED FROM THE CONVEYOR UPON WHICH HE WAS STANDING TO THE GROUND BELOW, APPROX. 11 FT.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SLATE BAR TO PRY DOWN LOOSE ROCK FROM THE MINE TIP. WHEN ROCK FELL IT KNOCKED THE SLATE BAR INTO EMPLOYEE.

FELL OFF ENDLOADER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A 2' STEP LADDER, METAL SIDE BRACES GAVE WAY CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL TO GROUND. SUSTAINED BACK INJURY. WE ARE UNABLE AT THIS TIME TO QUANTIFY THE DAMAGE.

EE SLIPPED A WET PIECE OF METAL AND FELL TO FLOOR, JARRING HIS BACK. DUE TO UNAVAILIABITY OF A DR, HE DIDN'T SEE SPECIALIST UNTIL2-26-98. AT WHICH TIME HE WAS PRESCRIBED BED REST. THUS BECOMIN G LOST TIME.

WHILE EE WAS PERFORMING HIS NORMAL DUTIES AS A MINER OPERATOR, EE BUMPED HIS SIDE/HIP AREA ALONG THE MBC UNIT. EE DID NOT MISS ANY WORK HOWEVER WE RECEIVED CHIROPRACTIC MEDICAL REPORTSA ON 4-2 THAT HE IS NOW SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT, THEREFOR MAKING THIS ACCIDENT A MEDICAL.

WHILE WORKING ON REPLACING WIRE ROPE ON 4600 DRAGLINE, EE SLIPPED IN MUD & TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

ALIGNING POWER PLANT HITCH WITH TRUCK HITCH. CAUGHT LEFT THUMB BETWEEN HITCHES.

ON THE MAIN WEST SECTION, X-CUT #6 TO #7, EE WAS HANDLING THE MINER CABLE AS THE MINER WAS BEING BACKED UP. HE STEPPED IN THE MUD & BOTH FEET SLIPPED CAUSING A JERKING MOTION CREATING PAIN IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LOWER BACK & NUMBING DOWN THE RIGHT LEG TO THE FOOT.

EE WAS GOING TO PUMP "ELECTOLYTE CRUD" & AS HE WALKED TOWARD THE SETTLER HE TRIPPED & GRABBED THE WAND CAUSING IT TO COME UP OUT OF THE SETTLER & SPLASHED HIM IN THE FACE WITH ELECTROLYTE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES BUT THE SOLUTION RAN DOWN UNDER THEM. EE FLUSHED HIS EYES & WAS TAKEN TO ER FOR IRRIGATION. AFTER REFERRAL TO OPTHOMOLIGIST EE WAS GIVEN 1 DAY NO WORK & PRES EYE DRO

WHILE USING A ROCK DRILLER AND DRILLING INTO A ROCK FACE THE VIBRATION CAUSED A 10-14 INCH ROCK TO FALL OFF AN 8 FT CLIFF ABOVEE AND LAND ON HIS FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNCOVERING COAL PILES. HE WAS PULLING A TARP OFF OF THE PILE. WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

WAS LIFTING ELECTRIC MOTOR WHEN CHAIN CAME LOOSE AND STRUCK HIM ON SHOULDER AND WRIST. ACCIDENT HAPPENED BECAUSE CHAIN WAS IMPROPERLY HOOKED.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING UP THE BELT WITH A PIPE. A PAIN WENT FROM BOTH LEGS AND HAD TO DROP THE THE PIPE.

HE INJURED HIS KNEE WHILE TURNING TO THE LEFT AND WHILE GETTING OUT OF THE LUBE TRUCK.

INJURED FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK WHEN HE TURNED TO HAND A BOX OF GLUE TO A CO WORKER.

EE WAS TRAMMING CONT. MINER OUT OF #2 FACE WHEN A ROCK FELL, CATCHING BOTH LEGS UNDER IT. OCCURRED AT #2 ENTRY - MAMS - 100' INBY SPAD #492.

INJURED STEPPED IN A HOLE AND TURNED HIS KNEE

INJURED EE WAS WELDING ON THE 14 CM MINER IN A KNEELING POSITION. AS HE RAISED UP HE FELT EXTREME PAIN IN HIS RIGHT KNEE. THE MINE FLOOR WAS UNEVEN AND MUDDY IN THE AREA WHERE HE WAS WORKING.

WHILE GETTING ROCK OUT OF FEEDER, GOT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN ROCK AND ROOF. BREAKING BON EIN RIGHT HAND.

THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A CHROME BUMPER OF A TRUCK. HE SLIPPED AND FELL 2 FEET LANDING ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR. HE DID NOT GO TO A DOCTOR UNTIL 3.26.98.

WHILE WALKING INTO 1 EAST ROOMS SECTION, EE SLIPPED AND STRAINED A LIGAMENT IN HIS LEFT THIGH AREA.

EE REACHED TO TWIST FAN ON COMPRESSOR ENGINE TO START IT AND FELT PAIN IN BACK OF NECK. IT WAS NOT REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR UNTIL 2/20/98 AND EE DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 2/23/98

PULLING BAR TO LIFTED BELT.

WHILE CONDUCTING AN INSPECTION UNDERGROUND, EE LEANED OVER TO REMOVE A ROCK FROM THE WALKWAY. HIS KNEES WERE STRAIGHT WHEN HE LEANED OVER, HIS KNEE GAVE WAY AND HE COLLASPED ON THE GROUND. SUR GERY WAS PERFORMED IN ALBUQUERQUE, NM ON 2-21-98. HIS PHYSICIAN ANTICIPATES HE WILL BE OFF WORK APPROX 2 MONTHS.

EE WAS OPERATING ROOF BNOLTER. EE WAS BENDING ROOF BOLT TO INSTALL IN MINE ROOF. HIS GLOVE BECAME ENTANGLED WITH BOLT CATCVHING HAND BETWEEN SCISSOR FRAME & FRAM OF ROOF BOLTER BREAKING LEFT F OREFINGER.

DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 3-4-98 SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING HIP.

THE OPERATOR WAS INSTALLING RESIN BOLTS WHEN HE GOT GLUE IN HIS LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING WHEN HE SLIPPED DAMAGING HIS KNEE.

SLIPPED WHILE PUTTING SAFETY PIN IN CONVEYOR LIFT CYLINDER CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE KNEE AREA.

EE WAS WORKING ON THE 3570 LEVEL, P13S, RELIEVING & CATCHING THE BACK. AS SOME LEAGGING CAME OUT, LOOSE MUCK CAME DOWN. THE MUCK HIT AN ELECTRICAL WIRE THEN BOUNCED & HIT THE EE IN THE LEFT FO REARM. 3.5 CM LACERATION & CONATUSIONS TO LEFT FOREARM.

EE WAS STANDING ON CAT WALK REMOVING SCREENS WITH 2 OTHER EE'S. HE WOULD REST THE FT.X FT SCREENON THE SIDE AND THE HANDRAIL THEN CHANGE GRIP ONTHE SCREEN AND TOSS IT OVER THE HANDRAIL ONTO TH E GROUND. EE FELL THROUGH THE LADDER WAY ACCESS TO THE GROUND, EXACTLY 8FT.

THE SEAT IN THE TRUCK WAS LOOSE LETTING THE SEAT GO BACK AND FROTH IRRITATING THE EMPLOYEE'S BACK.HE WAS UNDER TREAMENT TO LESSEN THE PAIN FOR THE NEXT WEEK.

EE WAS TRYING TO START THE CONVEYOR BELT WHICH SPANS TWO STACKING TUBES AND THE BELT/CATWALK COLLAPSED TO THE GROUND. HOWEVER, EE WAS NOT SITURATED ON THE SECTION WHICH FELL HE WAS SEVERAL FEE T FROM THIS AREA. THE FORCE OF THE BELT COLLAPSIING CAUSED THE EE TO FALL.

INJURED WAS HELPING HANG A WING CURTAIN WHEN A PIECE OF TIE WIRE SCRATCHED HIS RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS SWINGING BOOM OUT ON DOUBLE BOOM AND FELLBACKWARDS. HE REACHED UP AND GRABBED CANOPY. THECANOPY HIT A PIN HANGING OUT OF ROOF, CUTTING HIS FINGER.

ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHEN THIS EE WAS TRYING TO PLACE A CRIB BLOCK BETWEEN THE FEEDER & THE TAILPIECE. HE LOST CONTROL OF THE CRIB. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS, NOT WEARING GLO VES, & MUD CONDITIONS. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS NOT ADEQUATE, MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS OK.

EE WAS HELPING OTHER WORKMAN LIFT A 5X7 WOODEN SUPPORT (CROSSBAR) ACROSS THE 1ST MAIN NORTH BELT. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

SHOVELING COAL ALONG BELTWAY & PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER & ARM,COMPLETED SHIFT. DIAGNOSIS WAS ROTATOR CUFF TEAR LEFT SHOULDER,,BY BRUCE F. HAUPT M.D..

THE EE WAS TRAMMING ROOF BOLTER UP A HILL WHEN THE ROOF BOLTER SLIPPED SIDEWAYS, CATCHING HIS LEFT ARM & FRACTURING IT 3" ABOVE THE WRIST.

HELPING CARRY 18"VENT TUBE, STEPPED INTO DEPRESSION IN MINE FLOOR CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT ANKLE CAUSING A SPRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS ENTERING CEMENT KILN ON AN EXTENSIN LADDER, MISSTEPPED COMING OFF LADDER & TURNED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EE INDICATES THAT WHILE HE WAS MOVING AROUND SOME READY MIX CONCRETE BAGS TO STACK THEM ON A PALLETE, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN ON HIS BACK(WAIST). AFTER THIS THE CONVEYOR STOPPED BECAUSE AN EXCESS OF BAGS ON THE CONVEYOR BELT, AND WHEN IT RESTARTED THEY (SACKS), FELL ON HIM AND HE FELT THE PAIN MORE SHARPLY.

WHILE SHOVELING GRAVEL & MUD FROM OUT BUILDING, STRAINED BACK.

WHILE REPAIRING TIRE OF U-32 [WATER TRUCK], WHILE TAKING BOLTS OF TIRE THE SAME FELL ON HIS RIGHT LEG INJURING HIMSELF.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WLAKING OUT OF HIS WORK AREA WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL OVER A ROCK.

EE WAS RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE RAN OVER A PIECE OF COAL OR ROCK CAUSING HIM TO BOUNCE ON THE COAL RESULTING IN INJURY TO BACK.

WAS CARRYING STONE TO BE PLACED ON PALLET. INJURY NOT REPORT TO SUPERVISOR. EMPLOYEE THOUGHT HE WAS HAVING KNEE PROBLEMS. BACK INJURY WAS NOT REPORTED TO COMPANY UNTIL WEEK OF MAR. 9TH 1998. E MPLOYEE WENT TO DOCTOR AND IS BEING TREATED FOR HERNIATED DISC.

A BOLT CAME LOOSE ON THE CATWALK AND GAVE WA. EE WAS WALKING ON IT AND FELL TO THE GROUND ABOUT 10 FEET. HE BRUISED THE LEFT CHEST CAVITY.

EE STARTED A FIRE IN A BARREL. UNKNOWING SOME ONE HAD PUT A CAN OF STARTING FLUID IN THE BARREL. CAN EXPLODED CAUSING A FLASH FIRE.

MISSED STEP ON TRUCK AND FELL TO GROUND.

INJURED AND FELLOW EE HAD FINISHED PUTTING A HEAD ROLLER ON 3 BELT HEAD AND WERE REMOVING THE BLOCKING FROM 2 TAIL PIECE. OTHER WENT TO THROW A CRIB BLOCK AND BEFORE HE REALIZED THAT INJURED W AS STANDING BEHIND HIM OTHER THREW THE CRIB BLOCK AND HIT EE INTHE LEFT KNEE.

THIS SO CALLED ACCIDENT WAS NEVER REPORTED TO ME. THE CLINIC CALLED AND SAID EE GOT INJURED ON 2-18-98. HE WAS THE FOREMAN AT THIS TIME. HE DIDN'T FILL OUT AN ACCIDENT REPORT. HE WORKED 2 DAY S AFTER THE 18TH. I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS ACCIDENTOCCURED OR HOW EE KNEW ANY ACCIDENT WAS TO BE REPORTED AT THE TIME IT HAPPENED, AND ACCIDENT REPORT TO BE FILLED OUT.

AT 7-S TRACK AREA, EE WAS UNLOADING A SHEARERE SPRAYBAR, SLIDING IT OFF A METAL SURFACE OF A FLAT CAR WHEN HE GOT HIS LEFT RING FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BAR AND THE METAL SURFACE HE WAS SLIDI NG IT AROUND ON.

WHEEL BEARING AND ROTOR ASSEMBLY WAS PICKED UP BY EMPLOYEE AND HURT BACK AT THE MID POINT ON LEFT SIDE.

EE HAD USED THE SECTION SCOOP TO CARRY SOME BOLT SUPPLIES UP TO THE BOLTER. HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A BOX OF ROOG BOLT GLUE WHICH WAS LAYING IN THE BUCKET OF THE SCOOP. HE DOES NOT RECALL TWIS TING, JUST STRAIGHT LIFTING, AT THAT MOMENT A SHARP PAIN HIT HIM IN HIS LOWER BACK ON THE RIGHT SIDE. THE DR. SAID EE HAD INJURED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS LIFTING ROOF STRAPS OFF OF A SUPPLY CAR TO PLACE INTO A ANITHAS BUKET AND FELT A MUSLCE PULL IN STOMACH.

EE WAS OPERATING ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE BOLTER HEAD & THE TOP.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING FROM #1 MILL TO #3 MILL. MUD WAS ON THE WALKWAY, CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

WHILE GETTING OFF OF THE CRANE EE SLIPPED AND FELL CAUSING A STRAIN TO HIS RIGHT KNEE.

CLIMBING OFF CONVEYOR ONTO THE PLATE FEEDER, FEET SLIPPED OUT AND CAME TO REST ON HOPPER, RESULTING I STRAINED BACK AND LOST WORK DAYS.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON THE STEP OF THE R-35 CHECKING THE ANTI-FREEZE. EMPLOYEE TURNED AROUND AND STEPPED DOWN TO THE BUMPER AND SLIPPED AND FELL.

REMOVING ROCK THAT WAS LODGED BETWEEN DECK AND FRAME OF MINER. WHILE REMOVING BLOCKS EE PUT HADN BETWEEN FRAME OF MINER AND OPERATOR DECK, CATCHING RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN FRAME AND DECK OF MINER.

INJURED PERSON WAS STANDING BESIDE MINER WHILE LOADING COAL. A SMALL ROCK CAME OUT OF MINER HITTING HIM ON RIGHT LEG.

LOOSENING SCREEN RAILS BY TAKING A DRILL STEEL TO PRY WITH, HOLDING DRILL STEEL IN PALM OF HAND, THEN CUTTING AND INJURING HIS HAND.

MOVING ROCK OFF OF TAILGATE AND TAILGATE SLAMMED SHUT.

EE STRUCK THE FRAME OF THE MANTRIP CAR & INJURED HIS BACK.

GOT OUT OF LOADER TO SHUT DOWN PLANT. ROCK BOUNCED OFF OF SCREEN DECK & STRUCK PERSON IN THE HEAD. HARD HAT WAS NOT WORN. RECIEVED 10 STITCHES IN THE HEAD.

EE WAS WELDING ON THE MILL SCREW CONVEYOR REPARING A SHAFT BREAK. HE ASKED FOR IT BE BE TURNED ON TO CLEAN SYSTEM OUT SO HE COULD WELD ON BOTTOMWHILE IT WAS RUNNING HE PUT HIS HAND INTO SCOOP MATERIAL AWAY, HIS GLOVE WAS CAUGHT AND IT PULLED HIS ARM IN AND BROKE HIS FOREARM. THIS WAS A SAFETY VIOLATIO ON EE'S PART.

INJURED FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND RIGHT LEG WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF A 4" PIPE WHILE WALKING A BELT.

EE WAS LIFTING 6" X 6" X 5' SQUARE PROPS, ON TO SUPPLY TRAILOR. HE STRAINED THE MIDDLE LEFT SIDE OF HIS BACK.

BUMPED HEAD ON LOW HANGING PIPE.

DRIVING WATER TRUCK. TANK CAME LOOSE AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN BACK, STRAINING BACK.

INJURED WAS CHECKING PERMISSIBLITY ON EQUIPMENT AND CO WORKER WAS A HEMPTING TO GET BOLT OUT A BUMPER A CAR USING A HAMMER AND CHISEL INJURED EE WALKED BEHIND CONROLLER AND A SLIVER A METAL PE NETARATED LEFT EYE. THE SAFETY GLASSES EE WAS WEARING WERE NOT FILTER WITH SIDE SHIELDS AND IT IS THOUGHT THAT THE METAL CAME IN AT PRISE.

INJURED PERSON WAS LIFTING THE MINER TRAILING CABLE DURING A MOVE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN NIGHT SIDE OF GROIN AREA. HIS DECTOR STATED THAT HE PULLED STRAINED LEADERS IN RIGHT GROIN AREA.

EE WAS OPERATING A ROOF BOLTING MACHINE ON THE 24 1/2 EAST GATE SECTION. HE WAS BRINGING RILL STEEL OUT OF THE DRILLED HOLE. BAD TOP FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT HAND AND FOREARM.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING A FEED CHUTE WHEN THE SHOVEL WAS HIT BY SOMETHING. THE HANDLE OF THE SHOVEL WAS FORCED BACK AND STRUCK HIM IN THE JAW.

BATHROOM DOOR SHUT WHILE FINGERS WERE IN DOOR.

EE REPORTED THAT A PORTION OF A LOAD OF TOPSOIL STUCK IN THE BED OF HIS TRUCK AND THE FRONT RAISED AS HE WAS PULLING UP. THE LOAD BROKE LOOSE CAUSING THE FRONT TO COME BACK DOWN SUDDENLY, JARRYING HIM IN THE CAB. EE DID NOT SEEK MEDICALATTENTION UNTIL 2/21/98

EE WAS CHANGING A REAR SPRING ON A MINE CART AND LIFTED ON THE REAR END OF THE CART, SPRAINING HIS HIP.

PUTTING CONV CHAIN BACK TOGETHER ON MINER GOT R-HAND CAUGHT ON CHAIN AND CUT BETWEEN THUMB AND FOREFINGER.

HE WAS STANDING IN FRONT OF A CURTAIN AND A SCOOP CAME THROUGH AND HIT HIM.

LIFTED METAL MESH GUARD OF AT BELT TAKE-UP TO INSPECT SPLICE, FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS UNLOADING ROCKDUST FROM THE BELT HE FELT PAIN IN THE LOWER PART OF HIS STOMACH.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE GETTING OUT OF A BOBCAT LOADER. EMPLOYEE INJURED HIS LEFT HIP.

STEPPED ON A BLOCK OF COAL AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

EE LEFT JOB AT 3P.M. TO SEE HIS DOCTOR ABOUT PAIN IN LEFT HIP AND LEG. HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT TIME OR DAY PROBLEM WAS CAUSED UNLESS RIDING IN ROCKTRUCK SEAT STARTED SORENESS. SEAT HAD BEEN CK BY MAINTENANCE AND FOUND TO BE OK. EE IS STILL UNDER MEDICAL EVALUATION.

EE STATED WHILE HANDLING TUBING--THE TUBING BOUNCED BACK STRIKING EE ON LT. THUMB.

EE WAS REMOVING A BELT ROLLER OFF A BELT. HE MASHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE ROLLER AND THE ROOF AS HE LIFTED IT OFF BELT.

EE WAS UNLOADING TIMBERS AND HURT HIS BACK

AFTER EMPLOYEE GOT A ROCK OUT OF THE HEADER, HE STEPPED ON HIS RIGHT KNEE GAVE AWAY, TWISTING HIS KNEE.

THE INJURED STATEDS THAT WHILE HE WAS ADJUSTING A MACHINE, A COWORKER HIT HIM WITH A PIECE OF METAL PLATE AND FROM THIS A PIECE OF STEEL SEPARATED, BURYING ITSELF IN HIS LEFT FOREARM.

EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME 2-17-98.

INSTEAD OF GETTING A LADDER, EE CHOSE TO STAND ON AN UNSAFE OBJECT WHICH TIPPED AND HE FELL TO THE FLOOR HITTING HIS HEAD AND RIBS.

WHILE SHOVLEING BELT, THE EE STRAINED HIS BACK.

THE MEN WERE OPENING THE MILL DOORS TO BRING IN MARBLE WHEN A MICRO BURST OF WIND PUSHED ONE DOOR INTO THE INJURED EMPLOYEE.THE DOOR CAUGHT HIS HAND NEXT TO THE FRAME AND CUT HIS CHEEK. NO STI TCHES WERE REQUIRED. THE HAND WAS X-RAYED AND ITWAS NOT BROKEN,ONLY BADLY BRUISED.

EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING STAIRS FROM TOP OF PELLETIZER AND SLIPPED ON WET STEPS INJURING BACK. EMPLOYEE SUFFERED PAIN/STIFFNESS IN BACK AND LEGS DUE TO SPRAINED MUSCLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING SCRAPER ON THE EDGE OF AN OVERSURDENN PILE, DUMPING MATERIAL. HE HAD DUMPED ROCK MATERIAL THERE PREVIOUSLY. HIS BOWL WAS TOO HIGH AND HE WAS TRAVELING TOO FAST TO CONTR OL THIS MACHINE. A TIRE SLIPPED OVER THE EDGE STEERED DOWN THE PPILE TO CORRECT BUT HIS BOWL KEPT LIDING SIDEWAYS AND WOULD NOT STRAIGHTEN OUT. THE MACHINE SLOWLY ROLLED AT THE BOTTOM STRAI

THE INDIVIDUAL WAS ON HIS KNEES MOVING ROCK DUST & AS HE TWISTED TO HIS LEFT, HIS LEFT KNEE CAME OUT OF PLACE. THE INDIVIDUAL WENT TO THE DOCTOR ON 3/2/98 & IS GOING TO HAVE SURGERY ON THIS KN EE. HE HAD MISSED NO WORK WITH THIS INJURY UNTIL 3/3/98.

THE INJURED STATES THAT WHILE HE WAS DRILLING A SCREW WITH AN AUGER, HE WAS USING A LOST OF FORCE, AND HE HURT HIS LEFT FOREARM. HE RECEIVED A SEVERE WOUND FROM THE AUGER.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN SORNE STEPS HIS LEFT POPPED AND HE FELT PAIN IN IT AND IT STARTED TO SWELL. HE THINKS THAT HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS KNEE.

TURNED TRUCK OVER WHILE DUMPING. FELL AGAINST INTERIOR DOOR & SPRAINED ARM.

EE FILLING 40# BAG ON SACKING LINE & STARTED GETTING LOWER ABDOMINAL PAINS.

INJURED WAS TRAMMING A CONATINUOUS HAULAGE UNIT WITH LEFT HAND RESTING ON THE CONTROL LEVERS. THE UNIT WENT INTO A LOW PLACE & THE INJURED'S LEFT ELBOW CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE ROOF. THIS RESU LTED IN A CRUSHING POSITION OF HIS LEFT ARM & CAUSED A DISLOCATION OF HIS LEFT WRIST.

WHILE WALKING TO HOOK LOAD UP TO BOOM TRUCK, SLIPPED ON 2 1/2' HIGH STEP, CAUSING HIS LEFT FOOT TO COME DOWN ON GROUND RATHER HARD. THIS CAUSED HIS FOOT & TOES TO BECOME BRUISED & SWOLLEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS ADDING OIL TO EXIBOD EXCAVATOR WHEN HE FELL ON THE DECK OF THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. EMPLOYEE INFROMED SUPERVISOR THAT HE HAD INJURED HIS HAND. HE WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPIT AL BY A COMPANY EMT.

INJURED WAS PREPARING TO LOAD HIS TOOL BOX ON TO THE MANTRIP TO TRAVEL UNDERGROUND. HIS STATES THAT WHEN HE BEGAN TO LIFT THE TOOL BOX, HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. INJURED CO NTINUED WORK HIS REGULAR SHIFTS AND DID NOT START TO MISS WORK UNTIL 2-21-98 AND HAS A DR. APPOINTMENT FOR 2-24-98(THIS IS FIRST VISIT TO DR.)

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO FUEL POWDER TRUCK.HE STEPPED OUT OF FUEL TRUCK AND HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE WET STEP RESULTING IN A FALL TO GROUND.HE BRUISED HIS BACK WHEN HE LANDED ON GROUND.

EE WAS SPREADING TOPSOIL, SCRAPER RAN OVER A ROCK CAUSING A JOLT TO LOWER BACK. (DID NOT REPORT UNTIL 2/25/98) EE WENT TO DR ON 2/25/98 FOR OTHER REASON, HOWEVER, REPORTED TO MANAGEMENT HE HAD HIS BACK CHECKED ALSO. THIS DELAYED CLASSIFICATION OF INJURY.

CLIMBING OFF RTD AND MISSED ONE STEP, FELL TO THE GROUND ON BACK.

STRAINED BACK WHILE INSTALLING OIL TRUCK ON LUBE TRUCK.

EE WAS OPERATING A ROOF BOLTING MACHINE IN A FRESH CUT OF COAL. HE WAS PALCING A DRILL STEEL INTO THE DRILL HEAD WHEN STONE FELL FROM THE TOP. STONE SMASHED HIS LEFT HAND AGAINST THE DRILL HEA D. HIS LEFT RING FINGER AND LEFT MIDDLE FINGER WERE FRACTURED. HIS LEFT HAND WAS BRUISED AND LACERATED.

INJURED WAS TRAVELING TO THE SURFACE IN THE MANTRIP RAILRUNNER WHEN THE RAILRUNNER LEFT THE TRACK ON A CURVE AND STRUCK A COAL RIB.

A ROCK WAS THROWN BY THE SHEARER DRUM AND STRUCK EE ON LEFT FOOT. BROKE FOOT.

THIS EMPLOYEE GOT A WOODEN SPLINTER IN HIS HAND AS HE TORE DOWN WOODEN CONCRETE FORMS.

WHILE INSTALLING ROOF SUPPORT, A ROCK FELL IN FRONT OF THE ATRS AND SLID BACK HITTING THE OPERATOR ON THE RIGHT ANKLE. INJURED WAS TAKEN BACK TO THE LUNCH AREA AND TREATED WITH ICE PACKS.

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE UNTYING KNOTS IN CHAINS, A CHAIN FELL & HIT HIS WRIST.

FORGOT KEYS, CUT LOCK OFF TOOL BOX, A CAN OF WD 40 BLEW UP. BLEW DIRT AND OIL IN EYES.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED WHEN HE PICKED UP HIS TOOL BOX TO PUT IT IN THE THREE WHEELER.

ON THE MAIN WEST SECTION, WAS PICKING UP HIS TOOL BAG. USING A TWISTING MOTION TO PLACE IT ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER HE FELT PAIN IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS LOWER BACK AND SOME NUMBNESS IN HIS RIGH T LEG.

CLIMBING OFF DOZER STEPPE3D INTO A HOLE TWISTED BACK.

WHILE HELPING TO LIFT A CRUSHER PART (BLOW BAR WEIGHT 165 LBS) IT SLIPPED OUT OF LEFT HAND DROPPING TO THE CONCRETE FLOOR WITH HIS RIGHT HAND UNDER IT. IT SMASHED HIS RING FINGER AND LITTLE FI NGER TEARING THE SKIN OFF HIS LITTLE FINGER.

18' PIPE WAS BLOWN APART AT DRESSER COUPLING. EE WAS POSITIINGZ LADDER TO REPAIR. PUMP STARTED BACK UP AND EE WAS STRUCK BY SOME SLURRY.

INJURED WAS TRAVELING TO THE SURFACE IN THE MANTRIP RAILRUNNER WHEN THE RAIL RUNNER LEFT THE TRACK ON A CURVE AND STRUCK A COAL RIB.

HE WAS LIFTING UP ON A GRAVITY WIPE WHILE INSTALLING IT ON THE CONVEYOR, TWISTED HIS BACK AND FELT SOMETHING PULL.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A BOX OF RESIN ONTO ROOF BOLT MACHINE. AS HE WAS LLIFTING THE BOX OF RESIN, HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS LOWER BACK. THE ONLY DAY HE MISSED FROM WORK WAS 2-2 0-98.

INJURED WAS TRAVELING TO THE SURFACE IN THE MANTRIP RAIL RUNNER WHEN THE RAILRUNNER LEFT THE TRACK ON A CURVE AND STRUCK A COAL RIB.

EMPLOYEE WAS MEASURING NEAR THE WORKING FACE WHEN A FALL OF GROUND OCCURRED. AS THE EMPLOYEE REACTED TO THE GROUND FALL,HE RAN INTO THE LEFT RIB,STIKING HIS HEAD-EMPLOYEE HAD NO CONTACT WITHTH E ROCK.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING ON A LEVER TO RAISE A SET OF BOLTERS WHNE HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOIWER BACK.

THIS 7000-1 FORM IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE 7000-1 DATED 05/03/96 TO SHOW ADDITIONAL DAYS AWAY FROM WORK DUE TO INJURY SUSTAINED ON 04/29/96 FROM 2/17/98 TO 02/19/98.

EE WAS CAUGHT ON THE LEFT SIDE OF NECK, WITH A SHUTTLE CAR CABLE.

INJURED WAS HELPING REMOVE 36" BELT STRUCTURE DURING BELT PULL BACK. HE STATED AS HE STARTED TO PICK UP A PIECE OF TOP STRUCTURE HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. INJURED WORKED THE REMAINDER OF HIS SHIFT AND WORKED THE NEXT TWO(2) DAYS BEFORE STARTING TO MISS WORK ON 2-19-98.

EE WAS PULLING ON CONVEYOR BELT, DURING A BELT UP WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS BOLTING TOP, HE DROPPED BOOM ON KNEE.

INJURED WAS HOLDING TAILGATE OPEN ON COAL TRUCK WITH LEFT HAND WHEN TAILGATE SLIPPED & STRUCK RIGHT HAND, CAUSING INJURY TO RING FINGER. INJUREDWAS CLEANING COAL OFF OF TAILGATE. INJURED WAS N OT WEARING GLOVES. THS WAS NOT PART OF REGULAR JOB REQUIREMENTS

EE WAS WORKING ON CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIS RT ANKLE.

EE REPORTEDLY WAS STRUCK BY ROOF SCALE OFF OF CANOPY. PLEASE NOTE: EE DID NOT BEGIN LOSING TIME FROM WORK UNTIL 2/23/98

HE WAS KNEELING BESIDE POWER CENTER WHEN PIECE OF GOB FELL FROM ROOF AND HIT BACK OF LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING HOPPPER ON F.C.T. AND BUMPED HIS LEFT ELBOW.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED WHEN HE TURNED AROUND AND WALKED INTO A ROOF BOLT PLATE SPARINING HIS NECK.

INJURED WAS TRAVELING TO THE SURFACE IN THE MANTRIP RAIL RUNNER WHEN THE RAILRUNNER LEFT THE TRACK ON A CURVE AND STRUCK A COAL RIB.

INJURED WAS TRAVELING TO THE SURFACE IN THE MANTRIP RAIL RUNNER WHEN THE RAILRUNNER LEFT THE TRACK ON A CURVE AND STRUCK A COAL RIB.

PULL STEEL 18' OUT OF HOLE. DRILLS ALL THE WAY UP. KEY IN LOWER SPROCKET BROKE DRILLS DROP ON HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A PAIL OF STEEL BITS INTO A TRUCK WHEN HE HURT HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON SLICK CONCRETE NEXT TO THE KILN BUILDING.

AT THE END OF THE MECHANICS SHIFT THE EE TRIPPED ON THE STEP GOING INTO THE CHANGE ROOM, LANDING ON HIS LEFT KNEE. THE MECHANIC REPORTED TO HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HE TRIPPED AND FELL THE FOLLOWIN G DAY 2-16-98-THE FIRST DAY OF LOST TIME.

THE EE ALLEGEDLY STRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE WHILE PUTTING A CAR BACK ONT HE SLOPE TRACK.

EE WAS LIFTING EQUIPMENT AND STRAINED BACK AND NECK. ACCIDENT WAS REPORTED TO THE FELDSPAR CORP MANAGEMENT BUT WAS NOT THOUGHT TO BE SERIOUS. A LATER VISIT AND TO THE DR. SHOWED A NEED FOR AN OPERATION AND THE ACCIDENT BECAME REPORTABLE ON ON THE FIRST LOST DAY WHICH WAS 8-6-98.

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM PAN, HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE WET MUDDY GROUND, CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS RIGHT WRIST. SPRAIN RIGHT WRIST.

INJURED WAS TRYING TO WAL AROUND WATER HOLE AND SLIPPED ON A ROCK AND FELL

EE WAS HELPING PULL LONGWALL CONVEYOR CHAIN THROUGH A TAIL DRIVE. A SHIELD MOVER, CABLE & SHEAVE WERE BEING USED TO PULL THE AFC CHAIN. THE SHEAVE CAME LOOSE, ALLOWING IT AND/OR THE CABLE TO S TRIKE THE EE ON THE HEAD, NECK & CHEST AREAS. THE EE RECEIVED A FRACTURE TO THE SKULL AS WELL AS A LACERATION TO THE SCALP. EE IS A LOST TIME INJURY.

CONTRACTOR ALLEGES (NOT AN EE OF THE CO) THAT WHILE HE WAS HOISTING A STEEL BEAM ACCOMPANIED BY 2 C0-WORKERS, THE RIGHT HAND POINTER FINGER WAS CAUGHT AGAINST THE BEAM. FIRST AID WAS RECEIVED AT MEDICAL CENTER AND A HOSPITAL LOCATED IN TOWN

EE WAS GETTING BELT ROLLERS OFF OF MAC-8 AND PUTTING THEM IN 2 BELTIRE AS HE WAS LIFTING ONE IT GOT TANGLED IN ANOTHER ROLLER HE JERKED IT AND THE HOLLERED OUT AND FELL TO GROUND SAYING HE HAD HURT HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRAGGING CABLE WHEN HE PULLED HIS LOWER BACK RESULTING IN A STRAIN OF THE LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF 16 INCH DRISEE PIPE WITH A CHAINSAW AND HAS HIT IN THE LEFT LEG WITH THE PIPE WHEN HE CUT THROUGH IT.

WAS REMOVING BLOCKING ON A UNIT WHEN A METAL B BLOCK USED AS A SPACER HAD HUNG. WHEN IT WAS KNOCKED OUT IT HIT EE ON RIGHT KNEE CAP

EE WAS COMING THROUGH AIR LOCK DOOR & THE DOOR CLOSED. THE DOOR HIGH ENOUGH TO ENTER COMPARTMENT OF THE OPERATOR.

EE STATES THAT WHILE DISMOUNTING FROM RAM CAR HE STEPPED ON STEEL DRAG AND TWISTED HIS FOOT AND FELL CAUSING HAIRLINE FRACTURE TO RT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS RECOVERING BELT SUPPLIES FROM THE OLD WORKS AND AFTER DISCONNECTING THE WATER PIPE AND DRAGGING IT BACK HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LOWER BACK "LEFT SIDE".

EE STATED THAT HE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL THROUGH THE ATRS AND STRUCK HIM ON HIS RIGHT FOOT CAUSING A LACERATION THAT REQUIRED 7 STITCHES.

INJURED WAS REPAIRING A PLOW CHAIN WHEN A FALLING ROOF ROCK STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT LEG.

EE WAS LOADING LIME HOPPER CAR WHEN HE TRIPPED ON THE DOOR AND FELL FROM THE TOP OF THE CAR. SEVERE CUT TO HEAD AND LARGE LUMP ON HEAD.

PULLING WIRE EMPLOYEE ASSUMED INJURY TO WORK RELATED.

LIFTING ROCK OFF BELT

DRAGLINE OPERATOR HAD LEFT LEG RESTING ON BRAKE PEDAL. WHEN HE ACTIVATED CONTROL LEVEL CAUSING BROKE PEDAL TO KICK. CAUSING KNEE TO STRIKE DASHPANEL, MACHINE IS MANUAL CONTROLED CAT AIR ASSIT ED.

EE WAS FOUND LYING ON THE GRATING IN THE WALKIWAY BY FILTER BAGGING AREA. HE HAD APPARENTLY PASSED OUT & FELL BACKWARDS HITTING HIS HEAD ON THE GRATING, RESULTING IN A SCALP LACERATION & SKULL FRACTURE. [POSSIBLE UNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDIDTION].

EE REPORTED A FIRST AID INJURY (MUSCLE STRAIN) ON 2/13/98 FROM CATCHING HIMSELF AFTER LOSING HIS BALANCE. IN JULY, HE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION AND WAS RELEASED WITH RESTRICTIONS BY A PHYSICIAN

TWISTED HIS BACK AS HE WAS TIGHTENING T BOLTS ON 19 COOLER.

IT WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT, EE FEELS DISCOMFORT ON HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS KNOCKING BRATTICE WITH SLEDGE HAMMER AND HURT BACK. EE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 3-26-98.

WHILE CLEANING MATERIAL OUT OF HOPPER, EMPLOYEE'S FINGER WAS LACERATED AS HE PULLED A LOOSE ROCK OUT.

THE EE WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM THE 966D, WHEN THE WRENCH WOULDN'T MOVE HE PUSHED ON IT WITH HIS FOOT. THAT IS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT LEG. HE DIDN'T SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 2/23/98.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING A HOSE WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED AND HE CUT IT ON A CLAMP.

CREW WAS MUCKING. WHEN LEAD MINER BELLED BUCKET OFF OF STEADY AND AT THE SAME TIME INJURED BENT OVER TO PIC UP A PIECE OF CHALK AND WHEN HE RAISED UP, HIS HEAD HIT THE BUCKET.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON LEFT SIDE OF MINER WHEN A RIB ROLL (ROCK) FELL PINNING HIS LEFT LEG AGAINST MINER AND ROCK. ROCK MEASURED 57"X31"4"THICK.

EMPLOYEE ALLEDGES THAT HE TRIED TO LIFT AN I-BEAM AND HE FELT A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK PULL.

RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR. BOUNCED UP AGAINST CANOPY HURT BACK & NECK.

INJURED WAS USING A 1/2 BOARD TO HELP GET A CARRIER TO GO THRU A SWITCH. AS HE PLACED THE 1/2 BOARD UNDER THE CARRIER THE CARRIER MOVED CATCHING HIS THUMB BETWEEN THE 1/2 BOARD & CARRIER.

EE STATED HE MOVED BOLTER UP FOR NEXT ROW OF BOLTS. WHILE WALKING BACK TO BOOM, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT AND HIT HIM IN BACK KNOCKING HIM DOWN. RIGHT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN ROCK AND SIDE OF B OLTER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP IN ELECTRICAL SHOP. HE PICKED UP A WIRE SPOOL WEIGHING APPROX. 80LB. AS SOON AS HE PICKED IT UP EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN. EMPLOYEE WENT IN FOR SURGERY ON MAR. 24 AND STARTED MISSING TIME THEN.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS WORKING IN SPOILS LEVELING MATERIAL. AS HE WAS BACKING UP IN THE PUSH SLOT THE TRACTOR HE WAS OPERATING ROLLED OVER A ROCK CAUSING EE TO JARR HIS NECK.

THE 2800 SHOVEL WHICH LOADING OVERBURDEN INTO ROCK TRUCKS APPARENTLY STRUCK A NON DETONATED HOLE CAUSING AN EXPLOSION WHICH INJURED THE EMPLOYEE.

FELL OFF A LADDER AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. STILL OFF WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING SLEDGE HAMMER TO REMOVE A LODGED BOULDER FROM PROCESSING PLANT WHEN LEFT FOREARM BEGAN TO CRAMP. PINCHED NERVE.

EE WAS RUNNING TD25 DOWN ON ASH COVER OVER ROCK DID NOT REPORT ANY INJURY TO FOREMAN UNTIL 2/26/98

INJURED A FELLOW WORKERS WERE RECOVERING BELT STRUCTURE AND HAD JUST FINISHED PUTTING STRUCTURE THRU A MANDOOR. WHEN INJURED ATTEMPTED TO GO BACK THRU THE DOOR TO RECOVER MORE STRUCTURE. THE A IR VELOCITY BLEW HIM TO THE MINE FLOOR.

SWEEPING WEST A BELT WHEN HE BUMPED HIS NECK INTO A LOW HANGING CHANNEL. EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THIS TIME. BUT STARTED LOSING TIME ON 3-10-98.

EE WAS WORKING IN A CROUCHED POSITION ON THE CONVEYOR CHAIN OF A CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN HE STOOD UP HIS KNEE WAS LOCKED UP. WENT TO DR THE NEXT DAY, TO FIND OUT THAT HE HAD & TORN MENISCUS IN H IS KNEE.

EE STRAINED HIS LEFT KNEE GETTING OUT OF THE MANTRIP. *BEGAN MISSING WORK 2/25/98.

EE WAS DRIVING AN ARTICULATING END DUMP HAULING REFUSE FROM THE COAL PREP TO THE PIT. ON THE RETURN TRIP HE HIT A POTHOLE IN THE ROAD CAUSING A BACK SPRAIN. HE WAS WEARING HIS SEAT BELT.

INJURED PARTY WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLT S IN THE 8 ENTRY OF THE 1 SOUTH PANEL ON THE 1 UNIT, WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE FELL OUT OF ROOF STRIKING THE INJURED PARTY ON THE LEFT HIP AND LEFT ANKLE. TH E PIECE OF SLATE WAS ABOUT 4' WIDE 4' LONG AND 4" THICK.

1 RIGHT, 4NORTH HEADGATE SECTION--MAN WAS STANDING BETWEEN DINNER TABLE AND MINE RIB TALKING TO ANOTHER PERSON WHEN THE MINE RIB FELL FROM BEHIND HIM STRIKING HIM IN THE LOWER PART OF THE LEG.

WHILE STEPPING DOWN FROM THE METAL SKIRT RAIL ON THE SPREADER BELT, HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING OFF THE SECTION AFTER HIS FIRST SHIFT WHEN HE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND CRILLED HIS ANKLE AND FOOT. EE SAW A DR ON 2-13-98 WHO STATED THAT INJURY TO EE S FOOT MAY HAV E BEEN PRECEISTING FROM A CONDITION OF CLUB FOOTTHAT EE HAD EXPERIENCED IN THE PAST.

THE EE WAS STRUCK ON THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT WHILE UNLOADING MATERIAL FROM A SUPPLY TRANSPORT.

WAS STANDING ON JAW PLATFORM WORKING AT CONVEYOR BELT, TURNED TO WORK AT FEEDER WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FLEW UP FROM JAW AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE.

A COLLISION OCCURRED BETWEEN A MANTRIP & A SUPPLY CAR. EE WAS OPERATING THE MANTRIP. HE BEGAN MISSING WORK 3/23/98.

A COLLISION OCCURRED BETWEEN A MANTRIP AND A SUPPLY CAR. EE WAS IN MANTRIP

EE STEPPED BACK FROM THE PLATFORM AT THE DRILL HEAD TO GET PLATES FOR THE ROOF BOLTS. A ROCK FELL FROM AN AREA BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS AND STRUCK THE TOP OF HIS HAND, WHICH WAS RESTING ON THE M ACHINE.

EE WALKING BEHIND MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL THAT DROPPED HOT WELDING ROD FALLING ON EE.

EE WAS USING A MANDASEAL MACHINE. THE WAND STOPPED UP CREATING BACK PRESSURE WHICH BLEW THE END OFF OF THE SPRAYER HANDLE, STRIKING HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE WITH THE SEALANT AND THE WAND.

EE WAS LIFTING A ROCK TO MOVE IT WHEN THE ROCK BROKE. THE EE ATTEMPTED TO HOLD THE ROCK FROM FALLING ON ANOTHER EE AND FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

CREW PUTTING UP CRUSHER. HE WENT UP CONVEYOR TO ADJUST OR FIX BELTS. AS HE REACHED THE TOP OF THE CONVEYOR, IT WENT OVER CENTER (BALANCE) AND TEH CONVEYOR MOVED BACKWARDS. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL OFF THE EAST SIDE OF CONVEYOR AND POSSIBLY HITTING A STEEL I-BEAM ON THE WAY TO THE GROUND. FALL WAS APPROX. 12-15'.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED OUTSIDE AND FELL ON THE TRACK. STRUCK HIS LEFT KNEE. NOTE: EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK DUE TO INJURY ON 2-27-98.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A DRILL STEEL OUT OF THE MINE ROOF THAT WAS STUCK IN THE ROOF. HE SUFFERED A STRAIN TO HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. NOTE: EMPLOYEE WORKED UNTIL 4-27-98 BEFORE MISSING TIME.

A COLLISION OCCURED BETWEEN A MANTRIP & A SUPPLYCAR. EE WAS IN THE MANTRIP

EE WAS WORKING UNDER LOADER AND DIRT FRAGMENTS FELL WAS WASHING OFF LOADER AND DIRT AND GREASE SPRAYED BACK IN EYE AREA.

WHILE PULLING A CRIB BLOCK FROMUNDER DOZER, EE SMASHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE CRIB BLOCK & BACK OF DOZER BLADE CUTTING THE FINGER.

EE WAS PUTTING BOLT IN HOLE, STARTED TO STRAIGHTEN BOLT AND PULLED SOMETHING IN RIB CAGE ON RIGHT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A 4' ROOF BOLT. WHEN HE REACHED FOR THE UP LEVER HE PUSHED THE ROTATION LEVER INSTEAD, SPINNING THE BOLT. HIS GLOVE CAU GHT ON THE BOLT PULLIN HIS PINKY FINGER SIDEWAYS CAUSING DISLOCATION.

EE FELL TEN FEET FROM PLANT FRAMEWORK WHILE CLEANING OUT CLOGGED PIPE. LEG STRUCK EDGE OF METAL TANK. LEG WAS CUT ON BACK SIDE ABOVE KNEE JOINT. WOUND WAS CLEANED AND REPAIRED. EE SENT HOME.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO TRAM #4 BRIDGE AWAY FROM A TIGHT RIB, WHEN HE MISTAKENLY TRAMMED IT THE WRONG DIRECTION & PINNED HIS HAND BETWEEN FRAME OF BRIDGE & COAL RIB.

THE EE WAS DRILLING HOLES IN A CONCRETE BLOCK WHILE STANDING ON A 6' LADDER. THE LADDER COLLAPSED CAUSING THE EE TO FALL ON HIS LEFT FOOT & ANKLE.

EE WAS WALKING BESIDE RAIL AND RAM CAR HIT RAIL AND HIT EE ON LEFT FOOT.

EE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EE TO LIFT A PIECE OF IRON WEIGHING APPROX 100 LBS FROM A GROUND POSITION TO SHOULDER HEIGHT FOR INSTALLATION

WORKING ON SCREEN. SLIPPED ON ICE AND FELL ABOUT 18 FEET ON CONCRETE FLOOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON A 8' STEPLADDER TAKING A MEASUREMENT ON THE CONE CRUSHER SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND USIN G AHARNESS AND LANYARD FOR FALL PROTECTION. AS HE WAS DESCENDING THE LADDER HE RELEASED THE LANYARD AND WHE APPROX 4' FROM THE BOTTOM THE LADDER SUPPORT FAILED AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND. HE SUSTAINED A FRACTURED RIGHT WRIST.

INJURED WAS PREPARING LOWER HIMSELF ONTO A CONVEYOR TO PUT A BELT COOKER IN PLACE. HE GRABBED A BLOW PIPE INSTEAD OF THE HANDRAIL AND FELL.

WHILE REMOVING A SIDE GRILL FROM A TORO HAUL TRUCK, HE INJURED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE WAS INSTALLLING SKIRT BOARDS ON THE BELT. WHEN THE RACHET SLIPPED AND SHE HIT HER RIGHT ELBOW ON THE BELT STRUCTURE. DID NOT LOOSE ANY TIME UNTIL 5/4/98.

INJURED WAS OPERATING A CAT 657 E. SCRAPER WHEN HE FELT IT START BOUNCING AROUND & TOSSED OPERATOR AROUND IN THE SEAT/SEAT BELT. MACHINE WAS FOUND TO HAVE LOW HYDRAULIC OIL IN COSHION HITCH.

EE WAS OPERATING 265LNORSE MINER. THE MINER TRAVELLED OVER A KNUCKLE OR HUMP CAUSING THE FRONT OF THE MINER TO GO DOWN QUICKLY WITH THE BACK OFMINER GOING UP QUICKLY CAUSING THE EE OPERATOR HEAD TO HIT THE TOP OF ROOF RESULTING IN A COMPRESSION INJURY TO THE BACK.

EE WAS REPAIRING A HEAD DRIVE MOTOR WHEN THE CHAIN SECURING THE MOTOR BACK SLIPPED AND ALLOWED THE MOTOR TO PIN EE'S HAND BETWEEN THE SHAFT AND TORQUE CONVERTER COUPLING. EE BECAME A LOST TIME ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS TYING THE ELECTRIC BLASTING WIRES ACROSS THE FACE IN THE POWDER RIGS WORKING PLATFORM. HIS PARTNER RAISED THE PLATFORM AS EMPLOYEE WAS DOING THIS. THE ROOF HAD AND OVER HANG AND E MPLOYEE BUMPED HIS HEAD AGAINST IT.

CAUGHT 10X20 SCREEN IN TOP OF BOOT AND TRIP AND CUT TIPS OF BOTH FINGERS. 8 STITCHES IN RIGHT HAND (FINGER) 5 STITCHES LEFT HAND (FINGER)

ORIGINAL ACCIDENT 3-14-91. EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME AGAIN ON 2-11-98 DUE TO CONTINUING PROBLEMS.

EE NOTIFIED SCALE STAFF OF AN ALLEGED BACK INJURY HANDLING STEEL GRATING. HOWEVER, EE REPORTED THE ONSET OF PAIN OFF WORK AND INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT WITNESS WAS NOT AT WORK AT THE TIME OF THE A;;EGED INCIDENT. THE CAUSE OF THE INJURY WAS DETERMINED TO BE NON-WORK RELATED. AFTER DELAY IN RECEIVING AND REVIEWING MEDICAL RECORDS AND TESTIMONY OF ANOTHER EE, INCIDENT DID OCCUR.

WHILE TRAMMING SCOOP GOT HEAD IN TOP AND TWISTED NECK.

HAULING HEAVY CLAY MATERIL TO BUIDE DIKE IN RAW WATER LAGOON. OPERATOR WAS DUMPING ON AN APPROX 4:1 SLOPE. SUSPECTED CAUSES: RATE OF SPEED TO HIGH; SCRAPE BOWL ELEVATED EXCESSIVELY; OPERATOR T URNED NOSE OF MACHINE UP HILL. A PRE-OPERATION INSPECTION OF THE MACHINE WAS PERFORMED BY OPERATOR.

EE WAS WATCHING BREAKER BOX ON BATTERIES, WHEN HE GOT OFF THE SCOOP THE SCOOP ROLLED BACK STRIKING THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT FOOT (HEEL). FRACTURE TO RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS SERVICING HIS FRONT END LOADER #5422. IN PREPARING TO GREASE THE UPPER TILT CYLINDER PINS HE ATTEMPTED TO STEP FROM THE CAB LEVEL PLATFORM TO THE STEP ON THE RIGHT FRONT FENDER. E MPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE STEP AND FELL 7' TO THE GROUND STRIKING THE STEP WITH HIS LOWER BACK. RECENT RAINS AND FOGGY CONDITIONS MADE ALL PLATFORMS, STEPS AND LADDERS SLIPPERY.

WHILE LIFTING S/C FENDER TO PUT ON TOP OF SCOOP HE FELT PAIN IN BACK AND STOMACH.

EE WAS OPERATING THE ROOF BOLTER AND A ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP AND THE EE MOVED HIS HAND TO AVOID THE ROCK AND IN DOING SO HE HIT HIS HAND ON A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON ON THE SIDE OF THE ROOF BOLTE R, FRACTURING AND CUTTING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

EE STATED HE WAS INSTALLING A LOAD SPRING IN "A" VESSEL REFUSE VIBRATOR, AND THE SPRING FELL OUT HITTING HIS (LEFT) SHIN AND FOOT.

HE STEPPED DOWN INTO UNDERPASS AND THOUGHT HE STEPPED ON A NAIL BUT NOTHING WAS THERE.

DRILLER MOVED DRILL TO NEW AREA AND WAS REMOVING SAFETY STRAP FROM AROUND STEEL RACK.

FIXING CRUSHER PICKED UP SOME METAL AND PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS INSTALLING ROLLERS ON A CONVEYOR BELT NEAR A JUNIPER BUSH. BRANCH OF BUSH HIT HIM IN EYE AND PUNCTURED RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS GETTING ON BACK OF DOZER, FOOT SLIPPED & FELL ON SHOULDER.

PICKED UP A 10 GALLON OIL CAN AND STRAINED BACK.

STEPPING OFF LOADER, PUT LEFT FOOT ON BOULDER & TWISTED ANKLE.

CLIMBING UP AND DOWN SCAFOLDING, SLIPPED AND FELL. IN THE A.M. HOURS, THE SCAFOLDING HAD SOME ICE ON IT THAT MADE IT SLICK. CHEST WALL CONTUSION.

ST LEO ROOF BOLTING, STARTER STEEL HUNG UP IN ROOF, STEEL CAME LOOSE FROM ROOF CATCHING EE LEFT HAND BETWEEN STARTER STEEL AND SECOND (DRIVER) STEEL.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING BELT STRUCTURE ON A CAR BY HAND. EE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER. *EE STARTED MISSING WORK DUE TO THIS INJURY ON 10/13/98.

JUMPED OFF PLATFORM OF DRILL, LANDING IN MUD TWISTED HIS ANKLE. APPARENTLY A ROCK WAS UNDER THE MUD (NOT VISABLE) AND FOOT ROLLED OFF ROCK.

A SHALE BROW FELL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON TEH SHOULDER AND BACK. HE WAS THROWN INTO THE ROOF BOLTER CAUSING A LACERATION TO HIS CHIN AND LEFT HAND.

EE WAS HELPING TO UNLOAD MATERIAL FROM A FLAT CAR. HE SLIPPED OFF THE SURFACE OF THE FLAT CAR AND FELL TO THE GROUND HE RECEIVED A FRACTURE TO HIS LEFT ANKLE.

EE IS STATING THAT HE SUFFERED A HERNIA WHILE PULLING A TRAIL CABLE OFF THE TUB HOOKS ON THE 8900 DRAGLINE. EE DID NOT REPORT A HERNIA TO MGMT. UNTIL 9-24-98 AND WAS NOT CVONFIRMED UNTIL 10-6- 98. EE IS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY 10-13-98.

EE WAS CLEANING CLINKER WITH A SHOVEL IN THE HAMMERMILL 1 & 2 IN A UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION. WHILE HE WAS PERFORMING THE TASK HE BEGAN TO FEEL PAIN IN HIS BACK.

BENT OVER TO PICK UP ROPE (?) & BACK POPPED

EE WAS GETTING ON TOP OF A CRUSHER TO CLEAN OUT CHUTE. HIS FOOT SLIPPED, HE STARTED TO FALL, CAUGHT HIMSELF TO KEEP FROM FALLING AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

CHANGING DRILL STEEL BIT, CAUGHT FINGER UNDER AUGER BETWEEN AUGER AND THE MACHINE FRAME.

ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHEN THIS EMPLOYEECLAIMS TO HAVE STEPPED INTO A CRACK AT THE BELT DRIVE, LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL STRIKING SHOULDER. CAUSE OF THIS INCIDENT WAS AWARENESS AND PRO PER SHOES. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT NOT ADEQUATE, MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS OK.

EE WAS OPERATING HIS SHUTTLE CAR WHEN A SUSPENDED ROOF BOLTER CABLE WAS FLIPPED DOWN BY THE SHUTTLE CAR IN FRONT OF EE'S SHUTTLE CAR. THE CABLE FOWLED HIS HEAD TO HIS SHOULDER INJURING HIS NEC K.

EE WAS LOADING A BOX OF GLUE ONTO A BOOM WHEN HE ALLEGEDLY STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS LOOSING A CELL LINE ON A TIMBERHEAD TO OPEN A HOLE IN THE HARBOR FOR A JUMBO BARGE. THE CELL LINE CAME UNRAVELED, WHIPPED AND STRUCK THE EE ON THE RIGHT HAND.

TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE SAFETY BENCH ONTO THE CAB SHIELD OF THE TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP THE #4 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN PINS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD,CHEST AND LEGS.

THE EMP. WAS INJURED WHEN HIS LEG BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SCOOP BATTERY TRAY AND THE THREE WHEELER HE WAS ON.

PUTTING U ROOF BOLTS, WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT FROM BEHIND CANOPY HITTING MAN ON SHOULDER AND HIP

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP A 5 GALLON CAN OF OIL WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE HAS A HISTORY OF BACK PAIN.

SHOVELING GRAVEL OUT OF THE CRUSHER BUNKER & SLIPPED ON UNSTABLE GROUND.

THE EE ALLEGEDLY STAINED HIS NECK WHILE SHOVELING.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE REMOVED THE LID WHICH OCVERES THE OIL ON CRUSHER #5 WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED, THE LID FELL AND HIT HIM IN THE LEFT CALF LEG AREA. HE CLAIMS HE CONTINUED TO WORK FOR A COUPLE O F HOURS. THEN HIS LEG BEGAN TO GIVE HIM PAIN. HE WAS SENT TO THE DR FORM WORK AND THE DR FOUND THE AREA IN QUESITON HAD A BRUISE ON IT.

CAME OUTSIDE TOLD ME HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING- BACK STARTED HURTING WAS GOING TO DOCTOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND LEGS. SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT AND SUBSEQUENTLY BEGAN LOSING TIME ON 2-19-98 AT WHICH TIME IT BECAME REPORTABLE.

EE WAS NEAR THE DC SECTIONALIZER WHEN A TROLLEY HANGER WENT TO GROUND AGAINST A STEEL BEAM. SPARKS WERE GENERATED NEAR THE SECTIONALIZER. THE EE MOVED TO GET AWAY & HE FELL.

EE WAS USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO KNOCK A HOLE IN A STOPPING FOR A VENT PIPE. AS HE SWUNG HE FELT A POP IN HIS BACK.

EE STATED HE WAS HOOKING UP AN AIR HOSE TO THE AIR COUPLING OF A 785 CAT ROCK TRUCK WHEN HE FELTA SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. THIS WAS DUE TO HIM BEING IN AN AKWARD POSITION.

WHILE WORKING ON THE DREDGE, A 12' PIECE OF METAL DROPPED AND LANDED ON LEFT FOOT BREAKING LEFT BIG TOE.

WHILE LOADING A BAG OF ROCK DUST LIFTING TWISTED AND FELT PAIN IN BACK.

EE WAS LIFTING A NITROGEN BOTTLE IN TRUCK. BOTTLE BEGAN TO FALL & EE CAUGHT IT WITH HIS ARM THAT HE HAD BROKEN SEVERAL WEEKS EARLIER AT HOME. HEARD A "POP". ARM HAD RE-BROKEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A ROOF BLOTER AND AS HE WAS MAKING UP A ROOF BOLT FOR INSTALLATION A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON THE FACE AND HEAD.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A TIRE ONTO ARIM FOR MOUNTING. HE HAD BEEN CHECKED OUT BY CO DR AND WAS GIVEN FULL DUTY WITH NO LIMITATIONS. HE REINJURED HIMSELF WHILE HELPING MOVE FURNITURE FOR A F RIEND. HE WAS RECHECKED BY DR 9-15-98 WITH A SPECIALIST AND THEY DETERMINED THAT THE STOMACH MUSCLE HAD NOT PROPERLY HEALED. SURGERY WILL BE NEEDED TO REPAIR TORN STOMACH MUSCLE ON 10-8-98.