Mining Incidents in January 1999

MINING HAD JUST BEEN COMPLETED IN THE 2 LEFT CROSSCUT ON THE 4 WEST SECTION. AS EE WAS MAKING PREPARATIONS TO TRAM THE CONTINUOUS MINER OUT OF THE WORKING PLACE, A RIB ROLLED OUT OF A PROJETED FACE AREA.

IN THE PROCESS OF CLEANING THE SILO, CONTRACTOR'S SUPERVISOR ENTERED THE SILO. A LEDGE OF HARDENED CEMENT ON WHICH HE WAS STANDING GAVE WAY CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SILO. A RES ULTING AVALANCHE OF CEMENT CASCADED DOWN UPON HIM AND BURIED HIM.

IN JANUARY 1999 THE EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF NECK PAIN AFTER HE HAD BEEN OPERATING A HAUL TRUCK. HE WAS UNDER A PHYSICIAN'S CARE AND CONTINUED WORKING LIGHT DUTY. ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1999, HE UNDER WENT SURGERY TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM WITH HIS NECK. HE WAS ADMITTED TO INTENSIVE CARE A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER. HE DIED ON 10/1/99. ON 7/25/00, THE COMMITTEE DETERMINED THIS FATALITY TO BE CHARG

TURNING NEW SHAKER PAN OVER WITH BOOM TRUCK. PAN WAS STANDING ON ITS SIDE RELEASED TENSION TO RE-RIG TO THE BOTTOM TO FINISH TURNING--PAN SAT BY ITSELF FOR A FEW MINUTES--EE WALKED BETWEEN THE OPERATORS' SHACK & SHAKER--PAN TIPPED OVER--PINNED EE BETWEEN SHACK AND SHAKER.

FATAL ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN A 777D ROCK TRUCK FELL OVER THE EMBANKMENT OF A FILL AREA. THE OCCURRENCE WAS IN THE VALLEY FILL AREA OF THE C & D CUT.

THE EE WAS FOUND APPARENTLY CLEANING OUT TRAILER. HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS AND HIS COAT WAS CAUGHT IN THE GATES.

THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON THE 1625 LEVEL-3375 ACCESS. A LOADED 30-TON HAUL TRUCK BACKED INTO A SPACE OCCUPIED BY A 22 TON HAUL TRUCK COPNTACTING THE OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT AND RESULTING IN CRUS HING INJURIES TO THE OPERATOR. ER CAR WAS PROVIDED AT THE SCENE AND THE EE WAS TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO HOSPITAL. HE WAS LATER PRONOUNCED DEAD IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM.

DRILL WAS DRILLING SEPERATION. WHEN HIGHWALL BEGAN WORKING AND BEFORE DRILLER COULD LEAVE HIS EQUIPMENT THE WALL COLLAPSED FATALLY INJURING HIM.

MOVING BARRELL OF CLINKER. FELT A PULL IN GROIN. DIAGNOSED AS A AGGRAVATION OF A HERNIA CONDITION.

EE STATED THAT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REPAIR A PORTABLE WATER PUMP, THE HOUSING THAT HE WAS DISCONNECTING WAS HEAVIER THAN HE ANTICIPATED AND NOT SUPPORTED BY A SHAFT HE THOUGHT WAS IN PLACE. CAM E DOWN PINNING THE TIP OF HIS SMALL FINGER, LEFTHAND. BETWEEN PUMP FRAME AND HOUSING ITSELF.

EE ALLEGES HE WAS LIFTING SHOVELING, & PULLING WEAR PLATES INTO POSITION ALL DAY. THAT NIGHT HE STARTED FEELING PAIN IN HIS BACK &GROIN AREA

EE WAS LIFTING 4/0 HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE, FELT PAIN IN LOWER ABDOMEN.

EE WAS PUTTING 4" NYLON STRAPS AND 3/4" CHOKERS ON 65 TON LINK BELT CRAN. THE STRAPS AND CHOKERS WERE APPROX. 12', WEIGHT AROUND 10# EACH. EE SAID HE MUST HAVE TURNED WRONG OR SOMETHING.

OPERATOR WAS NOT PAYING ATTENTION, PLACED HAND IN PINCH POINT. SEVERED MIDDLE FINGER AT FIRST JOINT ON RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING CASTINGS, SPACER PIPES ANDCUT THROUGH RODS FROM BENEATH THE GRATE. WHILE LIFTING SOME OF THIS DEBRIS, EMPLOYEE FELT A PAININ HIS LOWER STOMACH. HE WAS SEEN BY A PHYSICIAN ON 02/25/99. AGAIN SEEN BY A PHYSICIAN ON 03/10/99. SURGERY SCHEDULED FOR 04/14/99. DIAGNOSIS ISA HERNIA.

EE WAS OPERATING A VEHICLE (#904-1700 LOADER), AND AFTER GETTING IN, SHUT DOOR CATCHING THE TIP OF HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER BETWEEN DOOR AND FRAME. THIS RESULTED IN A AMPUTATION OF THE TIP OF HI S FINGER BACK TO THE BASE OF THE FINGERNAIL.

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING A CANOPY ON AN ELECTRIC MUCKER WITH HIS PARTNER WHEN HE PUSHED THE CANOPY INTO PLACE, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS GROIN.

EE WAS LIFTING 6' LONG STEEL BOLTS INTO A BUCKET WHEN HE FELT A "POP" IN HIS ABDOMINAL AREA. DIAGNOSED AS A POSSIBLE HERNIA.

EE HAD END OF FINGER CUT NEEDING STITCHES TO REPLACE TIP OF FINGER. THE TIP ABOVE NAIL ON THE VERY END WAS SEVERED.

HANDLING MONO-RAIL ON 1-14-99 AND FELT PAIN IN SABDOMEN. KEPT WORKING UNTIL 5-5-99 AT WHICH TIME HE WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A HERNIA WHICH WAS SURGICALLY REPAIRED ON 5-7-99. BECAME REPORTABLE ON 5-5-99.

WAS STACKING 80 LB BAGS OF LIME. THE NEXT MORNING HIS LOWER ABDOMEN WAS SORE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SET SCOOP OVER WHEN IT WENTTHE OPPOSITE DIRECTION HE WAS PLANNING HE WAS HOLDING HIMSELF UP OUTOF THE DECK IN ORDER TO PREVENT GETTING WET IN THE SEAT. HIS LEFT HAND WAS EXTENDED BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE SCOOP DECK & WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE OUTSIDE OF THE SCOOP DECK& THE SCOOP STOP. THE END OF THE 2 MIDDLE FINGERS ON HIS LEFT HAND WERE SEVERED

EE WAS BUILDING A BLOCK STOPPING AND AS HE WAS RAISING BLOCK ABOVE HIS HEAD, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA.

WHILE EE WAS CHECKING AN AIRLOCK THE TIP OF HIS MIDDLE FINGER, LEFT HAND, GOT CAUGHT BY THE AIRLOCK 211A AND WAS CUT OFF.

EE WAS SHOVELING A PILE OF ROCK FROM REJECT CHUTE OF RAW MILL WHEN HE FELT A PULL IUN HIS STOMACH. DIAGNOSIS 7-15-99 WITH UMBILICAL WALL HERNIA.

GLOVE CAUGHT IN STEEL DOOR AS IT WAS CLOSING--SMASHED RT. MIDDLE FINGER--CUTTING OFF TIP.

THE EE, A MECHANIC, WAS PULLING WELDING LEADS OUT OF THE MUD AT WASHER PLANT - HERNIA.

EE (DRILL HELPER) WAS LIFTING AND ALIGNING THE NQ CORE BARREL INTO A 30 DEGREE UP HOLE WHEN HE FELT A STRAIN IN HIS ABDOMEN.

IT APPEARS THAT THE EE'S FEET GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MOTOR AND THE CAR STOP OF THE CAMELS HUMP.

THE INJURED STATES THAT HE WAS WORKING UNDER A SCREEN IN THE CRUSHER PLANT. HE ROLLED OUT FROM UNDER SCREEN AND HAD TO PASS OVER A METAL BAR. HE HAD TO TWIST IN AN ANGLE TO CROSS BAR AND FELT AN IMMEDIATE "POP" IN HIS CHEST.

THE EE FELT PAIN ON THE LOWER ABDOMINAL AREA. HE WAS REPORTED TO THE STATE INSURANCE COMPORATION ON 1-4-99. ON 1-15-99 WAS EXAMINE BY THE DR'S AND THEY DESPENCE HE NEEDS AN OPERATION. HE IS GO ING TO BE OPERATED ON 1-19-99.

WHILE BOLTING THE ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR HAD PUT HIS LEFT HAND ON BOOM & HIS FINGERS BECAME CAUGHTBETWEEN THE BOOM FRAME & THE BOLTER POT, CRUSHING THE MIDDLE FINGER, RING FINGER, & LITTLE FINGE R

EE TOLD ME THAT HTIS PAIN IN HIS LEFT SIDE HAD BEEN HURTING FOR A WHILE. HE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL.

POSITIONING PLATE ON THE ROOF STRAP OF BOLTER. WHEN MACHINE WAS PUT IN UP POSITION IT CAUGHT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE PLATE AND THE STRAP.

EMPLOYEEWAS REMOVING HAND RAIL AT FILTER ON SECOND FLOOR EXPERIENCED PAIN IN STOMACH.

WHILE CHANGING OUT LOAD ROLLERS LIFTING THEM IN PLACE EMPLOYEE HAD A SHARP PAIN IN GROIN AREA LEFT SIDE.

CUTTING METAL FOR #4 HEAD WHEN A PIECE OF HOT METAL WENT INTO HIS LEFT EAR CAUSING BURN.

INJURED WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS ON A HEAD PULLEY ON A CONVEYOR WHEN HE FELT A SNAP IN HIS SHOULDER. OFF FOR SURGERY 5-5-99.

EE WAS CLEANING THE BATH HOUSE AT MINE LOCATION, SPLASHED CLEANING SOLUTION IN RT EYE, AND RECEIVED CHEMICAL BURN OF CORNEA. EE QUICKLY WASHED HIS EYE WITH WATER, HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOS PITAL BY EE'S FATHER.

AFTER DRIVING PRODUCTIN VEHICLE HE FELT DISCOMFORT IN HIS BACK. HE INDICATED THAT THE ROAD HAD BEEN ROUGHT THAT DAY. HE REPORTED THE INJURY ON 2/1/99 & WAS TAKEN OFF WORK AFTER GOING TO DR

EE WAS WORKING ONTO HE 3440 LEVEL. HE WAS LIFTINGS CYLINDER WITH HIS PARTNER WHEN HIS PARTNER MOVED THE WOODEN BLOCK THE CYLINDER WAS ON. THE CYLINDER ROLLED ONTO HIS HAND. HE SUSTAINED A FRAC TURE TO THE LEFT HAND WAS TAKEN OFF THE JOB.

CAUGHT RIGHT ARM BETWEEN TOP & EQUIPMENT

ROCK FELL WHILE BOLTING TOP INJURING RT SIDE OF EE

EE AND THE FOREMAN WERE WORKING ON A SHAKER SCREEN. THE CENTER HOLDING BAR WAS WORN SHARP. EE STEPPED ON THE BAR WITH HIS RIGHT FOOT. HE WAS TAKEN TO HAZARD ARH, WHERE HE WAS TREATED AND RELEA SED.

LIFTING BEARING HOUSE.

EE WAS WORKING IN THE RETURN, NEAR A REGULATOR, CLOSE TO AN EXHAUST SHAFT. HE STEPPED IN FRONT OF THE REGULATOR OPENING AND WAS PULLED THRU. DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 2/2/99. FIRST DAY OFF WORK.

HE WAS LIFTING UP MINER CABL4E & HURT HIS BACK

ROCK FELL OFF MINER AND HIT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING ROCK TRUCK AND WAS JARRED. HE DEVELOPED PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER AND EXISTED ROCK TRUCK TO TRY TO ELEVIATE. PULLING HIMSELF INTO THE ROCK TRUCK CAUSED MORE PAIN-LOADED AGAIN. PAIN GREW MORE INTENSE. SHIFT WAS OVER AT NOON. HAD ANOTHER EMPLOYEE DRIVE EMPLOYEE HOME.

EE WAS TRAMMING MINER FROM #3 ENTRY TO #1 ENTRY. HE WAS PUTTING A SECOND ROPE ON THE CABLE WHEN HIS LEFT LEG WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN MINER BOOM & BOTTOM. EE ATTEMPTED TO MOVE BOOM OFF OF LEG WHEN T HE BOOM FRACTURED HIS LT. LEG, NEAR THE ANKLE.

BACK PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING BETWEEN K RAIL AND PIT HOPPER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND HIT HIS RIGHT ARM ON A STEEL BEAM. EMPLOYEE CUT HIS RIGHT ARM WHEN HE FELL. THE CUT REQUIRED STITCHES.

THE BUCKET ON THE LOADER DROPPED, STRIKING THE BED OF THE ROCK TRUCK EE WAS OPERATING.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS NECK WHILE OPERATING A FRONT-END LOADER. EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING THE CORNER OF HIS EYE AND JERKED TO THE RIGHT TO SEE WHAT IT WAS WHEN HE FELT A SH ARP PAIN IN HIS NECK. HE WAS TREATED AT PRO-MED CLINIC AND SENT HOME. HE WAS RELEASED TO FULL DUTY ON 2-2-99.

INJURED WAS CUTTING A HOLE IN BELT WHEN KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING LEFT HAND.

MINING HAD JUST BEEN COMPLETED IN THE 2 LEFT XCUT ON THE 4 WEST SECTION. AS EE WAS MAKING PREPARATION TO TRAM THE CONTINUOUS MINER OUT OF THE WORKING PLACE, A RIB ROLLED OUT OF A PROJECTED FAC E AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 994 LOADER. HE HIT A LARGE BOULDER WHICH MADE THE LOADER SUDDENLY STOP.EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE CHIROPRACTOR ON 01/29/99. AND WAS REMOVED FROM WORK UNTIL AT LEAST 02/09/99

A CONCRETE BLOCK SLIPPED OUT OF THE EMPLOYEE'S HAND AS HE LIFTED IT AND PINCHED HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND.

EE PICKED UP MINER CABLE AND HURT HIS BACK.

HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE WHILE SHOVELING ON THE CONVEYOR LINE.

EE STATED HE WAS PULLING ON DRIVE B ELT FOR THE #4 GIW AND FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. HAD OLD INJURY. RECEIVED MEDICAL 2-10-99 @ 1503, STARTED MISSING 2-1-99.

EE WAS A PASSENGER IN THE VAN. IT CONTAINED 4 PASSENGERS AND THE DRIVER. THE VAN WAS TRAVELLING FROM THE MINE PIT AT THE END OF NIGHT SHIFT. THE VAN HIT ANY ICY AREA AND THE DRIVER LOST CONTRO L. THE VAN ROLLED OVER 2 TIMES AND CAME TO REST BACK ON ITS WHEELS. EXCESSIVE SPEED AND LACK OF SEATBELT USE APPEAR TO BE FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.

STRAINED BACK WHILE LIFTING A GRILLE FOR A HAUL TRUCK INTO PLACE.

EMPLOYEE WENT OT LIFT A 70 LBS BA, WHEN HE WAS RISING UP HIS BACK POPPED THE WENT DOWN & COULDN'T MOVE HIMSELF, SO SUPERVISIOR DID NOT WANT TO MOVE HIM WITH A BACK BOARD, SO THEY CALLED A AMBU LANCE, EMTS PUT HIM ON A BACK BOARD AND TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. DR SAID HE HAS A HERNATED DISK.

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF O&K SHOVEL EQUIPMENT #208. EE BEGAN WALKING TOWARDS MAINTENANCE SHO[ & EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS KNEE. EE WORKED WITH INJURY UNTIL 3/17/99 AT WHICH TIME HE HAD SURGERY

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A GRINDER ON A BENCH, WHEN A FOREIGN OBJECT FLEW INTO HIS EYE. EMPLOYEE WENT TO DOCTOR ON 02/01/99 AND WAS REMOVED FROM WORK UNTIL 02/03/99.

CRAWLING. PUT KNEE DOWN ON SMALL ROCK, TWISTING KNEE.

EE WAS CHANGING HYDRAULIC OIL IN THE CRUSHER ON THE LONGWALL STAGELOADER. HE WAS CROSSING OVER THE STAGELOADER, SLIPPED ON SOME LOOSE OIL AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON LOSE PALLETS WHILE WALKING BETWEEN C1-C2 BELTS. OFF ON 03/15/99 FOR SURGERY ON KNEE.

WAS LIFTING NOSE CONE

EE WAS USING A CABLE COMEALONG TO OPEN A CLAM SHELL GATE & REMOVE A PIECE OF TIMBER CAUGHT IN IT. THE HOOK ON THE CABLE SLIPPED, THE EE STEPPED BACK SLIPPED ON THE WET FLOOR AND FELL

EE WAS PULLING A METAL STAKE FROM THE GROUND. THE EE EXPERIENCED SHARP PAINS IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE STATED HE WAS INSTALLING TEMPORARY POWER TO CONTRACTORS TRAILERS. HE BENT OVER TO LIFT A SPOOL OF #4/4 WIRE AND HIS BACK STARTED HURTING. WEIGHT OF WIRE SPOOL IS APPROX. 50 LBS.

EE WAS A PASSENGER IN THE VAN. THE VAN CONTAINED 4 PASSENGERS AND THE DRIVER. THE VEHICLE WAS TRAVELLING FROM THE MINE PIT AT THE END OF NIGHT SHIFT. THE VAN HIT AN ICY AREA AND THE DRIVER LOS T CONTROL. THE VAN ROLLED OVER 2 TIMES AND CAME TO REST BACK ON ITS WHEELS. EXCESSIVE SPEED AND LACK OF SEAT BELT USE APPEAR TO BE FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS REACHING OUT OF A SHUTTLE CAR DECK TO MOVE CABLE AND FELT PAIN. REPORT WAS FILED LATE DUE TO INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM MR. LLEWLLYNIMPRESSION WAS MINE OPERATOR WOULD BE FILING THE REPORTS.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING AN OMEGA BLOCK. HE TRIPPEDAND TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK.

EE COMPLAINED THAT HIS FOOT WAS HURTING WHILE CARRYING TIMBER. *EE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 2/3/99 DUE TO INJURY.

HE REPORTED TO WORK AND STATED HIS STOMACH WAS UPSET BUT HE DECIDED TO WORK. LATER HE WAS WORKING ON A ESCAVATOR AND FELL EITHER BECAUSE HE BECAME DIZZY OR LOST HIS FOOTING. AS HE FELL HE ST RUCK HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON A BRACKET. HE IS TO HAVE SURGERY ON 2-3-99.

EE WAS REACHING OVER INTO A ROCK DUST TRAILOR TO PICK UP A BAG OF DUST, WHEN HE STRAINED LOWER BACK.

WET/MUDDY GROUND. EE WAS DISMOUNTING THE ENDLOADER WHEN HE SLIPPED IN THE MUD AND LANDED WRONG ON HIS ANKLE. THIS CAUSED THE EE TO STRAIN ANKLE.

A ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON HEAD AND SHOULDER WHILE ROOF BOLTING. HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL FOR X-RAY & TREATMENT. HE IS EXPERIENCING PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER AND ARM AND IS BEING TREATED FOR P OSSIBLE SHOULDER SEPERATION.

EMPTYING CONTENTS OF VACUUM PUMP, AFTER CLEANING IT OUT, HE TURNED THE PUMP ON, PREDSSURIZING IT, THE CLEAN OUT CAP WAS NOT FASTENED AND IT BLEW OFF, FRACTURING HIS NOSE. HE BEGAN MISSING WOR K ON 1-30-99.

EE FORKLIFT PULLING UP WITH PALLET TO SEW BAG'S LEFT ANKLE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN PALLET AND WORKING AREA HE GOT SCARED AND PULLED FOOT OUT WHEN DISLOCATED.

KNOCKED ROCK OUT OF GRIZZLY WITH SLEDGE HAMMER, THE ROCK BROKE AND HIT HIM IN THE FOREHEAD JUST UNDER HIS HARD HAT.

EE STATED THAT WHILE CLEANING OUT THE CAB OF THE DRILL, HE SLIPPED AND FELL OUT OF THE CAB.

MEMBER WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FROM THE BAT WING OF HIS SHUTTLE CAR WHEN THE ROCK SLIPPED AND PINCHED THE MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS ON HIS LEFT HAND. EE SUSTAINED A FRACTUR E TO THE RING FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WALKED UNDER BARRIAGE TAPE INTO AREA WHEN DISCARDED DUST COLLECTED BAGS WENT BEING THROWN. A BAG LANDED ON HIS NECK. THE BAG FELL APPROX 25'.

THE INJURIED EE WAS LIFTING A 5 GALLON ON OF OIL WHEN THE HANDLE CAME APART TWISTING HIS LEFT WRIST. SURGERY 6-24-99 LAST DAY WORK 6-23-99.

EE STEPPED DOWN FROM THE REAR ENGINE COMPARTMENTON 037 FRONT END LOADER & TWISTED HIS RT ANKLE

EE WAS GETTING OFF CRUSHER. OVER REACHED FOOTING TO GET ON STEPLADDER AND FELL CAUSING SUSPECTED CRACKED RIBS AND BRUISING TO RT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL GETTING IN BED OF PICK-UP TRUCK. NOTE: EMPLOYEE WORKED UNTIL 2-9-99 THEN STARTED MISSING TIME.

EE WAS CLEANING CAPS OFF THE SWING JAW CHIPING BACKING. HIT RIGHT EYE.

SHOVELING MINE MATERIAL FROM UNDER BELT AND HEADTHIVE HE LIFTED SHOVEL FULL AND PUT IT UPON BOLTS AND FELT PAIN IN BACK.

EE WAS USING DRILL STEEL TO POSITION A PIECE OF CARDBOARD IN FRONT OF A HOLE ON THE FLEX BOARD ATTACHED TO THE BOOM OF THE MINER. THE EE INADVERTENTLY PUSHED THE DRILL STEEL INTO THE CONVEYOR WHERE THE CONVEYOR SLIFHTS STRUCK THE DRILL STEEL CAUSING IT TO STRIKE HIM IN RIGHT SIDE.

WHILE HELPING ON MINER, A SLAB ABOUT 24"X4" FROM0" TO 4" THICK FELL FROM TOP HITTING SUBJECT ON THE LEFT LEG

EMPLOYEE OPERATING MBC IN #3 ENTRY ON #1 SECTION. MINER PUSHED LO-LO OVER. EMPLOYEE GOT OFF MBC TO HOOK CHAIN TO LO-LO. MINER OPERATOR PULLED MBC ONTO EMPLOYEES FOOT. EMPLOYEE TAKEN TO E.R . WHITESBURG. X-RAY NEGATIVE, HOWEVER DR ORDER THAT EMPLOYEE STAY OFF FOOT AT LEAST ONE WEEK.

EE WAS CHANGING OIL IN 769 B ROCK TRUCKS AND PULLED OR STRAINED BACK WHILE LIFTING BUCKETS OF OIL. THE INJURY AT THE TIME WAS NOT REAL SEVERE IT WAS FELT BY EE , BUT THE NEXT MORNING WAS WHEN THE PAIN BECAME SEVERE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING THE GRAB BAR BACK TO ITS ORGINAL POSITION WHEN HIS HAND CAME IN CONTACT WITH A PIECE OF JAGGED METAL.

EE WAS MOVING VENTILATION TUBES FROM WEST MAINS TO 14 LEFT. ON FOURTH TRIP LOADING TUBES USING RAM CAR, EE HAD ALREADY LOADED SIX TUBE, TALKED ABOUT LOADING ONE MORE. WALKED AROUND CAB SIDE, A ND EE PROCEEDED AROUND FRONT OF RAM CAR INTO XCUT. OPERATOR SAW THAT EE WAS CLEAR AND PROCEEDED TO PULL FORWARD, EE'S RIGHT FOOT WAS RUN OVER BY RAM CAR, DISLOCATING RIGHT ANKLE.

INJURED WAS TRUSS BOLTING HE WAS WATCHING TOP WHILE LOWERING DRILL AND LOWRED DRILL ON LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS OF TIME CLOCK AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

INJURED AND PARTNER HAD MOVED DOUBLE HEAD ROOF BOLTER INTO 3-4 CROSSCUT AND HAD SET THE ATRS TO BEGIN BOLTING. INJURED WAS LEFT SIDE OPERATOR.HESWUNG HIS HEAD OUT TO REPAIR DUST HOSE. AS HE MO VED IN BETWEEN HEAD AND ATRS, A SLAB FELL BETWEEN LAST BOLT AND ATRS. ROCK WAS 4 1/2'THICK X 8 FEET LONG X 4 1/2 FEET WIDE.

INJURED WAS WALKING ALONG BELT CONVEYOR SLIPPED AND FELL ON SLICK BOTTOM.

EE WAS ON SCAFFOLD DISASSEMBLING BORING MILL. FOOT SLIPPED, HAROLD FELL APPROX 9' TO FLOOR FRACTURING THORACIC VERTBRA. MUST WEAR BODY BRACE WHILE RECOVERING

EE STATED: AT END OF SHIFT AFTER HELPING CO-WORKER INSTALL HYDRAULIC PUMP ON MINER, WRIST WAS SORE AND STIFF.

LOWER BACK PAIN. WAS UNLOADING A TABLE AND STACKING ROCKS ON PALLETS.

EE WAS DESCENDING AN EMBANKMENT (MOVING FROM 1 DRILL BENCH TO ANOTHER) WHEN LOOSE MATERIAL SLID FROM UNDERNEATH HIS FEET CAUSING HIM TO FALL FACE FORWARD SEVERAL FEET DOWN THE EMBANKMENT. HE S UFFERED SCRAPES AND ABRSIONS TO HIS FACE, HANDS AND KNEES.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE STARTED ITCHING, IN THE ARM PITS, CHEST, LEGS AND BEGAN FEELING LIGHT-HEADED AND JITTERY. (NOTIFIED 04/08/99 OF LATEX ALLERGY).

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO HOOK PUMP TRAILER TO PICKUP BALL TONGUE HAD TO BE PULLED TO THE SIDE ABOUT ONE INCH FOR HITCH TO GO OVER BALL, WHEN PULLING ON TONGUE OF TRAILER LATCH ON JACK GAVE LOOSE LE TTING TRAILER ROLL FORWARD AND JACK MASHED FINGEBETWEEN JACK AND TONGUE OF TRAILER.

EE STATED: AT END OF SHIFT AFTER HELPING CO-WORKER CHANGE BAD BELT ROLLERS, BACK WAS HURTING AND STIFF.

DOZER OPERATOR BACKED OVER A ROCK AND JARRED HIS SHOULDER.

WHILE STEPPING OFF OF JEEP AT #4 PASSWAY, EMPLOYEE TWISTED RIGHT KNEE SPRAINING IT. COMPANY RECEIVED MEDICAL REPORT 05/21/99. EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK 01/29/99. HE BEGAN MISSING WORK 05/07/99

PULLING CABLE-BACK STRAIN/SPRAIN.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

EE WAS LIFTING OIL ONTO THE THREE WHEELER AND HURT HIS BACK.

SCREEN PANEL WAS SLID INTO SCREEN TO BE PLACED IN POSITION. SCREEN SLID TOO QUICK DOWN TO EE. THE SCREEN STRUCK THE SPUD BAR BEING USED TO BLOCK THE SCREEN. THE SPUD BAR JUMPED UP AND STRUCK E E IN THE FOREHEAD, CUTTING HIM.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING A THREE WHEELER WHEN HE HIT A ROCK. THE IMPACT OF HITTING THE ROCK KNOCKED THE EMPLOYEE OFF THE THREE WHEELER, INJURING HIS BACK.

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK ABOUT 3"THICK, 2'LONG, 2'WIDE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR HE BOUNCED AND HURT HIS LOWER BACK. THE EMPLOYEE WORKED THE REMAINDER OF THE SHIFT.

THIS EMPLOYEE STEPPED DOWN, OUT OF THE CAB, OF A TRUCK. HE STEPPED ONTO A ROCK WHICH ROLLER OUT FROM UNDER RIGHT FOOT, CAUSING HIS RIGHT KNEE TO TWIST. SURGERY WAS REQUIRED 2-24.

WAS REPLACING BACK WINDOW OF DOZER, STANDING ON DOZER TRACKS. SLIPPED AND FELL BACKWARD ONTO A SMALL ROCK PILE. DAMAGED KIDNEY.

2 35 TON HAUL TRUCKS WERE HAULING MUCK TO CRUSHER ON DESIGNATED ROUTES UNTIL 130 P.M. WHEN EE THE ONE INJURED IN ACCIDENT WAS EXITING ON ENTRANCE ROAD WHEN THE OTHER TRUCK WAS ENTERING AT WHIC H TIME THE TRUCK ENTERING BRAKED AND TURNED RIGHT TO AVOID LOADED TRUCK, WENT TO SLIDING AND THE BED OF EMPTY TRUCK STRUCK CAB OF LOADED TRUCK PINNING HIS LEGS INSIDE THE CAB.

EE WAS TRAMMING SHUTTLE CAR TO THE SECTION DUMNPING POINT. SHUTTLE CAR WENT SIDEWAYS INTO THE RIB AND CAUGVHT RT. ARM BETWEEN RIB AND SHUTTLE CAR DECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A LARGE SAW AND BEGAN TO STACK STONES. A PIECE SLIPPED OFF AND HIT WHERE HE WAS UNLOADING. IN TURN, THIS CAUSED HIS RIGHTINDEX FINGER TO BE LACERATED. HE RECEIVED FIVE S TITCHES.

PIECE OF GOB FELL & STRUCK HIS HEAD & LEFT ANKLE.

THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING W/MOVING BARGES AS HE AND HIS CO-WORKERS WERE LIFTING THE ENGINE LINE, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS NECK AND SHOULDER AND BACK.

ROCK FELL FROM TOP AND HIT EE WHILE HE WAS OPERATING THE ROOFBOLTER

EE WAS CLEARING AN AIRSLIDE CONTAINING HOT KILN DUST WITH AN AIRLANCE, WHEN SOME OF THE DUST BLEW BACK ON HIS ARMS AND NECK.

UHE WAS WALKING IN THE FACE XCUT WHEN HE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF ROCK AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE. THIS RESULTED IN A STRAIN TO THE KNEE.

EE STEPPED UP ONTO UTILITY TRAILER, SLIPPED ON WET SURFACE AND FELL INTO TRAILER-FALLING OVER RAIL-HURTING BACK. EE WAS UNABLE TO MOVE UNTIL OTHER PERSONNEL ARRIVED APPROX. 1 1/2 HOURS LATER. THEY TRANSPERTED HIM TO E.A. DR SAYS HE HAS A POSSIBLE PINCHED NERVE-IN A LOT OF PAIN.

EE WAS WORKING AT SETTING ROOF SUPPORT IN A BELT ENTRY. AS HE PICKED UP A 6' X 8' TIMBER HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. FIRST MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 2/1/99. RELEASED FOR FULL DUTY RETURN TO MED ATT ON 2/3/99-FIRST DAY OFF WORK.

ON 9-2-98, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL AGAINST A STORAGE WALL AFTER SETTING UP A RIG TO LOAD A FACE. EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK WITHOUT LOST TIME AND CONTINUED TO HAVE PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER WHICH IS BELIEVED TO HAVE OCCURRED WHEN HE FELL ON 9-2-98.

THE SECTION SCOOP STOPPED 15/W #3 #4 ENTRY AT THE REQUEST OF EE. AS HIS DID, THE MIDDLE SHUTTLE CAR WAS LEAVING THE DREDGE AREA. UNKNOWN TO THE SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR, THE BATTERY END OF THE SCO OP WAS PERTRUDING INTO THE INTERSECTION ABOUT 2 TO 3 FT. THE SHUTTLE CAR HIT THE SCOOP AND PINNED EE TO THE COAL CRIB AND THE SCOOP. COAL HEIGHT.

EE INJURED HIS RIGVHT SHOULDER AND CHEST WHILE SWINGING A 16# HAMMER. HIS FAMILY DR. TOLD HIM HE HAD A PULLED CHEST MUSCLE. THE DR. ADVISED HIM TO TAKE NEXT TWO DAYS OFF AND RETURN TO WORK MON DAY 2-1-99.

EE WAS TRAMMING DRILL UP HILL, HEARD A NOISE AND OPEN THE DOOR TO TRY TO SEE WHAT THE NOISE WAS, GOT BACK IN DRILL, DID NOT SHUT DOOR, STARTED TRAMMING UP HILL AGAIN AND THE DOOR SLAMMED SHUT, EE WAS RESTING HIS HAND ON DOOR FRAME. ACCIDENT BROKE 3 FINGERS.

DOING MAINTANCE ON CAT LOADER BOLT CAME LOOSE & BUCKET FELL ON HAND

EE WAS TIGHTENING CABLE TRUSSES WHEN HE GOT HIS RIGHT THUMB CAUGHT BETWEEN ROOF AND BOARD.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING ACROSS THE MINE WHEN HE CROSSED A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY. EMPLOYEE STRUCK HISTAILBONE ON THE SEAT. EMPLOYEE WAS LISTED A LOSTTIME INJURY.

HE WAS PINNING WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN PINS STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT HAND.

THE INJURED PERSON SAID HE WAS BENDING A BOLT WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

THE EE WAS ON THE 6TH FLOOR OF THE PLANT PREPARING TO PUT IN AN ADDITIONAL MAGNETITE BUCKET. THE FLOOR WAS HOSED DOWN TO WASH OUT ANY MAGNETITE SPILLS. HE WAS LIFTING THE LID OFF THE TOP OF TH E OVERDENSE DIVERTER. WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO TURN WITH LID, HIS FOOT SLIPPED OUT, HE WENT DOWN ON ONE KNEE, TWISTING HIS BACK.

EE WAS REMOVING A STONE FROM THE FEEDER WHEN THE DRIVER RAISE THE DUMP WITHOUT NOTICING THE EE. THE EE JUMP AND HURT HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DOING MAINTENANCE WORK ON THE CRUSHER IN THE SHOP AND HE FELL OFF LADDER OF CRUSHER - INJURING BOTH LEGS, SHINS, HIPS & KNEES. HE WAS MOUNTING A CONVEYOR BELT ON CRUSHER WHEN HE FELL OFF LADDER. CRUSHER WAS DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE WORK DURING WINTER.

EE WAS TRYING TO OPEN ACTIVATED GATE VALVE. HE WAS PUSHING IN AN UPWARD MOTION WHEN GATE RELEASED SENDING HIS ARM FORWARD (HYPER EXTENDED). HAD A PREVIOUS ELBOW INCIDENT REPORTED IN 1996.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS IN THE VAN WHERE A GRINDER WAS IN OPERATION BY ANOTHER EE. HE BELIEVES A PIECE OF METAL GOT IN HIS EYE WHILE IN THE VAN, HE SAID THAT HE DID NOT FEEL ANYTHING IN HIS EYE UNTIL THAT EVENING WHEN HE WAS AT HOME. HE TOLD HIS SUPERVISOR ON 1-29-99 THAT HE WAS WEARING HIS SAFETY GLASSES. DR. REMOVED A METALLIC FOREIGN BODY OF RIGHT CORNEA.

WHILE EE WAS WALKING TO ROCK TRUCK, HE SLIPPED ON ICE AND FELL TO GROUND CAUSING INJURY TO RIGHT LOWER BACK AND HIP.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING RAIL CARS AND WHEN CLIMBING DOWN INTO A CAR, HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON STEP INSIDE CAR AND CAUSING HIM TO BREAK ANKLE.

INJ EE FELL 7 FT TO THE CONCRETE PLANT FLOOR. FROM A MAINTENANCE CATWALK, WHILE PERFORMING A BRIEF OPERATIONAL INSPECTION. THE INJ EE WAS WITNESSED TO HAVE EXPERIENCED AN ONSET OF AN APPARENT SEIZURE ACTIVITY IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO LOSING CONSCIOUNESS & COLLAPSING, WHICH RESULTED IN THE FALL

EMPLOYEE WAS SCRAPING FROZEN SAND FROM PLANT WITH AN ACETYLENE TORCH. HIS HAND SLIPPED INTO FLAME. HE BUMED HIS LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS SPLITTING STONE WHICH WAS STANDING UP ON EDGE. SPLIT PIECE FELL AND CUT BOOT AND FOOT JUST ABOVE STEEL TOE. FOOT WAS CUT ABOUT 1/2" LONG. TENDONS WERE CUT AND HAD TO BE REPAIRE D.

MMG WAS WALKING OUTSIDE THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CRUSHER. HE SLIPPED ON ICE IN A PREVIOUSLY PLOWED AREA AND INJURED HIS LEFT SHOULDER WHEN HE FELL.

WHILE SETTING PAN ON BOTTOM, PAN BOUNCED OFF BOTTOM HITTING EE ON RIGHT FOOT.

GOING DOWN STAIRS AND JUMPED LAST TWO STEPS TO GROUND. SPRAINED BACK.

RIDING TO OUTSIDE IN MANTRIP AND NOTICED SORE PLACE ON RIGHT ARM. REPORTED AS UNKNOWN CAUSE ON SURFACE. RETURNED 1-27-99 TO WORK DAY SHIFT. ARM WAS SWOLLEN. FINISHED SHIFT AND ARM WAS SWOLLEN AND RED. ER VISIT IN PM A 1-27-99 DIAGNOISED AS CELLURTUS AND ADMITTED OR OVER NIGHT STAY. RELEASED ON 1-29-99 AND RETURNED TO WORK ON REGULAR ACTIVIITY WORK RELEASE 1-30-99.

INJURED PERSON WAS STANDING ONA 5 GALLON BUCKET HANGING A PULL CORD WHEN THE BUCKET KICKE DOUT. AS HE FELL AND LANDED HIS ELBOW APPARENTLY STRUCK THE BOTTOM. HE SUSTAINED A FRACTUR OF THE U LNA BONE IN THE ELBOW (LEFT) WHICH REQUIRED SURGERY.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING ROUTINE WORK IN THE PIT AREA WHEN THE LOADER APPARENTLY HIT A POT HOLE CAUSING THE STEERING WHEEL TO JERK SUDDENLY THEREBY YANKING ON EMPLOYEE'S LEFT ARM.

FELL AGAINST TRUCK, BRUISED RIB CAGE AREA. GET OUT OF TRUCK.

EE WAS ABOUT TO CHECK THE LOWER SECTION OF THE 1650 CRUSHER, AS HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE STEPS, ONE OF THE STEPS BROKE, AND HE FELL AGAINST THE CRUSHER WALL HITTING HIS HEAD ON THE WALL.

THIS IS AN OLD INJURY FROM 2/16/95. NERVE ACTING UP IN RIGHT SHOULDER. THIS IS A REACTIVATION OF A PREVIOUSLY REPORTED INJURY.

INJURED WAS WORKING ON THE #680 CAT LOADER WHEN HE STRUCK THE MIRROR BRACKET WITH HIS HARD HAT. THIS CAUSED A NECK STRAIN TO THE INJURED.

EE DEVELOPED A SKIN RASH IN HIS UNDERARM AREA AFTER SCREEN A BORAX PRODUCT FROM 1-16-99 TO 1-18-99. EE WAS WEARING LONG SLEEVES AND A JACKET DURING THE THE EXPOSURE. OTHER EMPLOYEES WORKIGN WITH THIS DID NOT DEVELOP ANY SKIN IRRITATIONS. ON 1-19-98 EE NOTICED A SMALL RASH UNDER HIS ARM, BUT HE DIDN'T REPORT THE RASH TO HIS SUPERVISOR UNTIL IT BECAME INFLAMED ON 1-26-99.

ELECTRICIAN PULLED A WIRE FORM ITS LUG AND IT CONTACTED ANOTHER PHASE CAUSING A SHORT AND ELECTRICAL FLASH CAUSING BURNS TO CHEST, NECK, AND FACE REGIONS.

EMPLOYEE IS STATING THAT HE SAW A CLUMP OF ROOTS (12"X6"X6"0 LAYIN GON THE CONCRETE APRON NEXT TO THE PM WAS RACK. ROOTS HAD BEEN WASHED DURING CLEANIN GOF A DIRT TRUCK. EMPLOYEE BENT OVER T O REMOVE THE CLUMP OF ROOTS AND HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO ROLL TO HIS LEFT ON THE GROUND NEXT TO APRON, WHEN HE STOOD UP HE NOTICED SOMETHING LEFT ON THE GROUND NEXT

EE TRIPPED & FELL WHILE WALKING DOWN FROM OVERCAST STAIRWAY. THE EE FEL 3-4' ONTO HIS RT. SIDE & RT. WRIST.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN A RETURN ENTRY, STEPPED ON A ROCK CAUSING EE TO SLIP TWISTING LT. ANKLE.

EE IS STATNG THAT HE WAS USING A SKIDDER TO MOVE SOME CABLE IN THE NORTH FIELD. HE ENTERED ON THE LEFT AND EXITED ON THE RIGHT. HE HAD HIS RIGHT FOOT OUTSIDE ON THE STEP, BOTH HANDS ON GRABRAI LS AND LEFT FOOT INSIDE THE CAB. HE LIFTED LEFT LEFT FOOT AND RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED ON FROZEN MUD AND HE HIT HIS CHEST ON THE FLOOR EDGE.

THE EE WAS CARRYING A BAG OF ROCK DUST AND WAS DISTRACTED BY A LIGHT BEHIND HIM. HE TWISTED TO LOOK FO THE SOURCE OF THE LIGHT AND BEGAN TO FEEL PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE DID NOT SEE A DR. OR MISS ANY WORK UNTIL 2-2-99.

EE REPORTEDLY WAS REPAIRING BELT SPILLBOARD WHEN A 4" PLASTIC WATERLINE BROKE NEARBY.

EMPLOYEE WAS PACKING AN ELECTRIC WELDER TO HIS WORKPLACE AT AN INSIDE LOADOUT TO WELD A HOPPER CHUTE WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS WASHING THE SLOPE BELT WITH A FIRE HOSE, WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LWOER BACK. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY.

WHILE WALKING DOWN THE PANLINE, EE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND UNEVEN BOTTOM AND TWISTED RIGHT FOOT.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS LFTING TOOL BAG OFF MANTRIP WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS RIGHT ARM. EE DID NOT REPORT AS OCCUPATIONAL INJURY UNTIL 3-5-99.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW CONVEYOR MOTOR FOR A 14CM15 JOY MINER. HE WAS DOWN ON HIS KNEES AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE. EMPLOYEE DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 3-2 6-99 AT WHICH TIME SURGERY WAS PERFORMED.

FORM BEING MOVED AND ONE OF THE FOUR LIFTING HOOKS WAS NOT SECURED PROPERLY.

INSTALLING MUD PUMP, USING WRENCH. WRENCH SLIPPED, FRACTURING MIDDLE FINGERTIP.

HE WAS SHOVELING ROCK OFF THE TOP OF A MINER, DURING THIS REPEATED PROCESS HIS RIGHT ARM, ABOVE AND BELOW THE ELBOW STARTED HURTING. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH TENDONITIS.

EE WAS SETTING TIMBER HE REACHED TO PICK UP A CUPBOARD WITH HIS LEFT HAND. WHILE REACHING HE PULLED A TIMBER LOOSE WITH HIS RIGHT HAND. AS HE FELL, THE TIMBER ALSO FELL AND HIT HIS LEFT ARM CA USING A FRACTURE.

WHILE SHOVELING COAL ONTO BELT. STRAINED BELT DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 3-2-99.

THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE 7000-1 DATED 4-13-98, TO SHOW ADDITIONAL DAYS LOST AWAY FROM WORK. THIS EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING ADDITIONAL DAYS ON 1-25-99 TO 2-28-99.

ATTEMPTING TO PRY A ROCK OUT OF THE JAW WITH A PRYBAR WHILE STANDING AND INJURED BACK. THE CRUSHING OPERATION WAS SHUT DOWN, AND CONTROL PANEL WAS LOCKED OUT.

EMPLOYEE WAS FILLING WET HOLE BAGS WITH SHOVEL WHEN HE TURNED TO PUT THE SHOVEL OF DUST INTO THEBAG. HE SAID HE HURT HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEE DOCTOR. ON 03/17/99 EMPLOYEE WENT TO SEE DOC TOR FOR HIS BACK PROBLEM.

EE WAS USING A 3/4" BREAKER BAR REMOVING TRANSMISSION FILTERS FROM A HAUL TRUCK STRAINING HIS LOWER BACK

AS EE WAS DRIVING A STABLER COAL HAULER HE HIT AROCK IN THE ROADWAY WHICH CAUSED THE HAULER TO BOUNCE WHEN THE HAULER BOUNCED IT CAUSED THE EE TO BE JAMMED INTO THE SEAT & THEN STRUCK THE UND ER SIDE OF THE CANOPY THIS INCIDENT CAUSED HIM TO STRAIN HIS LOWER BACK. EE CON'T TO WORK WHILEGOING TO TREATMENT AFTER THE INCIDENT

BRUISED KNEES CAUSED BY CRAWLING IN LOW COAL SEAMS

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING IN HEADER HOLE WAITING ON BOLTER OPERATORS TO FINISH BOLTING, WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT OF TOP, STRIKING HEAD AND MID BACK. THIS INJURY CAUSED NUMBNESS OF LEFT ARM.

INJURED WAS BARRING TIRES OFF FLAT CARS, WHEN HIS BACK STARTING HURTING.

INJURED HAD LEFT #3 ENTRY AND WAS WALKING IN THE 3-2 XCUT WHEN ROOF ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT LEG, BACK, AND SHOULDER.

EE WAS STRUCK ON THE RIGHT FOOT BY A PIECE OF ROCK OFF OF THE BRIDGE.

EE WAS HELPING 3 OTHER MEN PULL RAILS OUT OF OLD MINING WORKS SO SCOOP COULD CLEAN UP WHEN HE LATER COMPLAINED OF LOWER BACK PAIN.

EE STATED HE WAS HANGING LINE CURTAIN IN THE FACE AREA WHEN A PIECE OF LOOSE RIB ROLLED OVER AND STRUCK EE ON HIS RIGHT LEG JUST ABOVE HIS ANKLE. THIS RESULTED IN A BRUISE AND CONTUSION. FIRST LOST WORK DAY OCCURRED ON 2-4-99.

WHILE MOVING A SMALL ROCK FROM CHAIN IN A JEFFREY 506 BRIDGE, EE STRAINED BACK MUSCLE DID NOT THINK IT WAS SERIOUS FINISHED THE SHIFT DID NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT, AFTER HE SAT HOME HE STAR TED HAVING PAIN IN BACK. WENT TO DR 1/26/99

EE WAS SITTING HIKS DINNER BUCKET ON TOP OF POWER CENTER WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM TOP STRIKING ELECTRICAL PLUG. THE PLUG FELL OUT & STRUCKTHE TOP OF RIGHT FOOT. THIS PLUG STRUCK HIS FOOT BEHIND METATARSAL PROTECTION

EMPPLOYEE RECEIVED INJURY TO HIS BACK WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK STRUCK HIM. EMPLOYEE WAS TREATED AT E.R. WHITESBURG. INJUIRY CONSISTS OF COMPRESSIONS FRACTURE T-12 AND RIB.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO SET 6 IN "I" BEAMS ON WALLS FOR AN OVERCAST. AS HE WAS SLIDING BEAM ALONG, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PACKING CRIB BLOCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL IN THE MUD HOLE CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING BREAKER POSTS ON A PILLAR LINE. WHILE SWINGING A HAMMER, HE STRUCK HIMSELF ON THE THUMB. EMPLOYEE WORKED UNTIL 01/29/99. HEREPORTED OF WORK WITH AN INFECTION OF THE THUMB

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING ON A MAN-TRIP. AS HE STARTED TO SIT DOWN, HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE FELT PAIN N LOWER BACK WHILE LIFTING BOLTS.

EE WAS BREAKING APART BELT STRUCTURE. IN AN ATTEMPT TO LOOSEN A PORTION OF STRUCTURE. EE USED HIS FOOT. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY, EFFECTIVE JAN 29.

EE CLAIMS THAT HE HAS SUFFERED A STRAINED BACK FROM THE SEAT IN THE TRUCK HE OPERATES. ALL THE OTHER EES WHICH OPERATE THIS PIECE OF MACHINERY SAY THE SEAT IS FINE.

THE EMPLOYEE BENT DOWN TO LIFT A PALLET OF EMPTY BAGS THAT HAD TURNED OVER. IN DOING SO, HE PULLE DSOMETHING IN HIS BACK. HE WENT HOME AND MADE AN APPOINTMENT WITH A CHIROPRACTOR WHO DID ADJ USTMENTS AND STATED THAT THE EMPLOYEE HAD KNOCKED HIS HIP OUT OF PLACE.

EE WAS HOLDING UP A PIECE OF MONORAIL, TWISTED HIS BODY AROUND TO GET AT BELT CHAIN WHEN HIS LEFT KNEE POPPED OUT OF PLACE.

THE EE WAS LIFTING AKILN TORCH OUT OF #3 KILN HOOD WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

WHILE DOING CHECK ON CONVEYOR IN U-9, ALUMINZ DUST BECAME THICK CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO EXIT AREA. HE TRIPPED AND FELL ON LEFT MIDDLE FINGER.

DRAW ROCK FELL ON LEFT HAND.

TREVINO PIT DRAGLINE #2 WHILE REPAIRING DRAGLINE BUCKET, REMOVAL OF THE DRAG CABLE. WHILE PULLING THE CABLE IN A JERKING MOTION IT THEN HIT HIS RIGHT FOOT CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE. PUTT ING HIS WEIGHT ON THE RIGHT LEG CAUSING HIM TO HAVE A SPRAIN RIGHT ANKLE.

EE WAS KNOCKING BEARING OFF AND A PIECE OF SLAG BOUNCED BEHIND GLASSES AND INTO L EYE.

INJURED WAS WALKING BEHIND SCOOP THAT WAS DRAGGING A RAIL THE SCOOP BRUSHED AGAINST RAIL KICKING IT TOWARD SCOOP WHICH STRUCK THE INJURED MAN KNOCKING HIS FEET OUT FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM T O FALL ON HIS LEFT WRIST CAUSING A FRACTURE.

INJURED PERSON WAS HELPING ELECTRICIAN REMOVE A PANEL LID FROM A SHUTTLE CAR AND THE LID WAS DROPPED ON HIS HAND.

A MINER CABLE CAUSED MAN TO FALL ON HIS SELF RESCUER.

WHILE OPERATING WD600 KAMATSU RUBBER TIRED DOZER TO CLEAN SPREE ROCK FROM ROADWAY, EE TWISTED AROUND IN HIS SEAT TO LOOK IN BACK OF UNIT TO BE SURE IT WAS CLEAR TO BACK UP.

STEPPED UP ON STACKER TRAVEL TIRE TO GREASE BEARING ABOVE HEAD. BOOTS WERE MUDDY AND FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM STRIKING HIS BACK AND BUTTOCKS ON STACKER DRIVE SPROCKET, CUTTING BUTTOCKS OPEN.

INJURED WAS REPLACING HOSE INSIDE OF SHIELD WHEN HE STARTED TO GET OUT HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK. *EE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 1/25/99 DUE TO PROBLEMS. **WE WERE NOTIFIED ON 3/2/99 THAT T HE EE WAS TAKEN OFF WORK.

EE WAS ROTATING SIEVE SCREEN IN PREP PLANT. SIEVE DROPPED FROM MAOUNTING BRACKET WHILE EE WAS IN CONTACT WITH SCREEN. EE STRAINED LT. ARM & CHEST MUSCLES.

EE STATED HE WAS SQUATTING DOWN TO PICK UP A TILT JACK ON SCOOP WHEN HIS RIGHT KNEE POPPED. THIS RESULTED IN A CARTILAGE TEAR TO HIS KNEE. FIRST LOST WORKDAY OCCURRED ON 2-18-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING A G-16 MOTOR CRAGER. WHEN EMPLOYEE PLACED RIGHT FOOT ON THE GROUND STEPPED ON ROCK CAUSING HIS ANKLE TO TWIST.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE STEPPED ON AN AIR HOSE AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE. ON 2-22-99 HE ASKED FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION AND A MEDICAL DR PRESCRIBED A KNEE BRACE.

EE WAS PULLING A BELT AND STRAINED HIS LEFT SIDE.

EE INJURED HIS BACK WHILE MAKING A BELT SPLICE.

WHILE WORKING HOSE ON CONCRETE TRUCK, HOSE JERKED & PULLED BACK MUSCLE AT TIME OF INJURY, EE DID NOT FEEL US IF HE NEEDED MEDICAL TREATMENT. ASKED TO SEE DR ON 2-4-99.

WHILE REPAIRING A BROKEN TRACK PAD ON THE 579 DRILL, EE WAS STRUCK BY A CABLE THAT BROKE CAUSING A FRATURE TO HIS LEFT ARM.

EE & ANOTHER EE OF MERAMEC WARRIOR HAULING COMPANY WERE REMOVING A ENGINE FROM A MANITAWOC CRANEENGINE WAS STUCK ON SOMETHING AND WOULD NOT COMEOUT OF THE CRANE, THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT CAME LOOSE & SPRANG OUT, KNOCKING HIM BACKWARDS OFF THE CRANE

EMKPLOYEE WAS PINNED AGAINST THE RIB BY MBC. BRIDGE WAS BACKING AND EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BY STAND-OFF WHEN OPERATOR DID NOT SEE HIM. X-RAY WAS NEGAATIVE, EMPLOYEE BRUISED RIGHT SHOUDLER AREA.

EE WAS TIGHTENING THE LUG NUTS ON A SHUTTLE CAR AND TO DO THIS HE WAS APPLYING DOWN PRESSURE ON A 3/4" RACHET. AN INTERNAL PART OF THE RACHET MECHANISM GAVE WAY LETTING THE TOOL JERK DOWN CAUS ING THE INJURY. HE FINISHED THE SHIFT AND WENT TO THE DOCTOR THE FOLLOWING DAY.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS USING 2 HAMMERS TO KNOCK BARREL OFF MINER CABLE WHEN A PORTION OF HAMMER FLEW OUT AND STRUCK HIS TOP HAND. EE DID NOT REPORT INJURY UNTIL 2-5-1999. STARTED MISSING WORK.

THE EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO OPEN #1 TAILINGS PUMP AT THE #1 MILL. THE NUT WOULD NOT BREAK FREE SO THE EE STATES THAT HE USED A BREAKER BAR AND THEN FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE STATED TO ME THAT HIS LEFT SHOULDER WAS HURTING DUE TO CARRYING TIMBERS. EE STARTED LSOING TIME 1/29/99 DUE TO PROBLEMS WITH SHOULDER

EE WAS SITTING ON MINE FLOOR WATCHING ANOTHER EE USE A TORCH WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING THE EE ON HIS LEFT LEG.

WHILE OPERATING HEADGATE DRUM ON SHEAR, A LUMP OF COAL WAS THROWN BY DRUM, STRIKING INDIVIDUAL ON LEFT SIDE OF KNEE. HAD PAIN AND A BRUISE. EXAMINED BY DOCTOR AND FOUND TO HAVE TORN CARTILAGE.

THE EE WAS LIFTING A 6"X8"X16" WOOD CROSSBAR AND BEGAN TO FELL PAIN IN HIS LOCK. THE SECTION RESULTED IN A LOW BACK STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A BAR TO UNPLUG A CHUTE, WHEN HE JAMMED HIS THUMB INTO THE CHUTE.

WHILE EE WAS STANDING ON HANDRAIL BESIDE SCREEN CHECKING SCRRENS FOR MUDE, HE SLIPPED AND FELL APPROX. 11' TO GROUND, LANDING ON HIS HEELS FRACTURING BOTH LEFT AND RIGHT HEEL.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS HELPING BOLT A OVERCAST WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK KNOCKING HIM FORWARD CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HAND ON ROOF DRILL.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE CHECKING OUT SUPPLY HE TRIPPED AND HURT HIS LEFT SHOULDER. STARTED MISSING WORK ON 4-30-99.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING WATER IN SCOOP BATTERIES WHEN HE STEPPED ON A SLICK ROCK CAUSING HIS LEGS TO FLY OUT FROM UNDER HIM. HE REACHED WITH LEFT ARM TO BRACE HIS FALL, LEAVING HIM WITH A BRO KE LEFT WRIST.

CUTTING BOLTER CABLE WITH KJNIFE, THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CAUGHT LEFT INDEX FINGER. REFER TO CITATION/ORDER NUMBER 4367720.

EE WAS CARRYING BELT STRUCTURE FOR A BELT MOVE. HE TRIPPED OVE SOME LOOSE COAL AND FELL CATCHING HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE BELT STRUCTURE AND A PIECE OF ROCK.

EE WAS CARRYING AFC FLIGHTS FROM A CAR TO THE HEAD DRIVE WHEN HE STEPPED IN A HOLE & TWISTED HISBACK. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY 2/5/99

EE STATED THAT HE HAD BACKED THE CONTIUNOUS MINER UP TO LET THE BOLT MACHINE THROUGH AN INTERSECTION. WHEN THE BOLT MACHINE GOT IN THE INTERSECTION IT BECAME STUCK. EE WENT TO THE BOLTING MACH INE AND BEGAN SWINGING THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE./THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE TO ATTEMPT TO FREE IT. THE BOLT MACHINE BEGAN TO TRAM THEN SLID TOWARD EE PINNING HIM BETWEEN THE CONTINUOUS MINER AND

A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN PINS STRIKING HIM ON SHOULDER, BACK THEN ON LEFT LEG AND FOOT. HE RECEIVED LACERATION TO LEFT LEG THAT REQUIRED STITCHES.

EE WAS HOLDING COUPLER OF SUPPLY CAR TO ALIGN IT UP WITH COUPLER OF MOTOR. FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN COUPLER WHEN MOTOR MOVED FORWARD.

EE WAS WALKING NEAR THE POWER CENTER, STEPPED IN HOLE AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

MECHANIC WAS DISMOUNTING DOZER WHEN RT FOOT SLIPPED AND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE FRAME AND THE TRACK OF THE DOZER. MECHANIC FELL BACKWARD OFF MACHINE AND WAS SUSPENDED IN AIR BY RT LEG.

WORKING ON DREDGE USING COME-A-LONG FOR REMOVAL-COME-A-LONG SLIPPED AND HIT HIS KNEE.

EE LIFTED A BAG OF ROCK DUST AND STRAINED HIS BACK. REPORTED BECAUSE EE WAS ON RESTRICTED DUTY AND LATER MISSED WORK.

EE CLIMBED UP ON THE RAISE BORE PLATFORM. HE SLIPPED AND FELL, LANDING ON HIS RIGHT HEEL.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A ROCK TRUCK, HE WAS LIFTING AN ABLE AND PLANETARY WHEN HE DROPPED IT ON HIS LEFT FOOT.

COWORKER WAS ON TOP THE DRAGLINE REPAIRING THE EXHAUST WHEN EE CAME FROM INSIDE THE DRAGLINE AND TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD SLIPPED ON THE FLOOR AND HAD HURT HIS BACK.

EE WAS LEAVING WORK AFTER SHIFT DURING SEVERE WEATHER WHEN TREE WAS BLOWN OVER ONTO EE'S VEHICLE. EE WAS TRAPPED IN VEHICLE BUT SUSTAINED ONLYFRACTURE TO FOREHEAD & PULLED MUSCLES IN NECK & SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING SLOPE BELT, WHERE HE STEPPED OVER LOOSE ROCK AND SPRAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE. THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 03/03/99.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING NUTS FROM STUDS ON CRUSHING EQUIPMENT WHEN THE LARGE AIR WRENCH THAT HE WAS USING BEGAN TO FALL. EMPLOYEE STRAINED SHOULDER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO HOLD ONTO AIR WRENCH.

EMPLOYEE SAW SMOKE COMING FROM WIRING IN ENGINE COMPARTMENT - SPRAYED FIRE EXTINGUISHER & BREATHED FIRE EXTINGUISH FUMES.

HOOD ON A 980G BUCKET LOADER HAD TO BE LIFTED. ELECTRIC MOTOR WAS BROKEN- A TWO MAN JOB. WHEN HE WENT TO CLOSE HOOD, HE DIDN'T HAVE HELP. THE HOOD SLIPPED OUT OF HANDS AND SLAMMED DOWN ON TOP OF RIGHT FOOT.

EE WAS HELPING PULL LEG JACKS, DA RAMS AND SPROCKETS OUT OF HEADGATE WITH SCOOP AND BELT CHAIN WHEN BELT CHAIN BROKE AND HIT EE ON RIGHT EAR AND RIGHT FOREARM.

WAS CLOSING DOOR IN DRILL CAB-SLAMMED DOOR ON FINGER.

WHILE INSTLALING A METAL OVERCAST HE WAS LIFTING A 10 TON CAPACITY JACK ONTO THE TOP OF THE OVERCAST. HE FELT DISCOMFORT IN LOWER BACK. HE CONTINUED TO WORK HIS NORMAL JOB UNTIL 2-1-99.

HE WAS CARRYING A BOX OF PRIMERS AND COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN.

WHILE WORKING IN 3700 LEVEL EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE A 600 POUND GRIZZLY WHEN IT FELL ON HIM AND BROKE HIS LEG.

EE NOTIFIED THE COMPANY ON 1-21-99 THAT HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LOWER BACK PAIN. HIS PAIN DEVELOPED OVER THE SUMMER OF 1998. EE BEGAN CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENTS IN AUGUST OF 1998 WITH NO COMMENT TO HIS EER. IN DEC 98' HE SAW AN ORTHOPEDIC M.D. WHO BELIEVED HIS PAIN WAS WORK RELATED. SEVERAL WEEKS LATER MARCH 99 HE REMEMBERED THAT HE HAD HAD A ROUGH LOAD ON OR ABOUT JUNE 21 98.

HELPIGN LOAD OBECT INTO TRUCK, MADE WORNG MOVE.

EE WAS STANDING ON BUMPER OF SERVICE CAR INSTALLING SHUTTLE CAR ANCHOR. WHEN HE STEPPED OFF BUMPE TO MINE FLOOR HE INJURED FOOT.

EMPLOYEE DID NOT USE PROPER LOCK-OUT / TAG-OUT PROCEDURES, OPEN CLEAN OUT DOOR CAUGHT ON EMPLOYEE'S LOOSE GLOVE-WHEN HE TRIED TO FREE THE GLOVE HI FINGER GOT CAUGHT INTO AUGER CAUSING HIM TO R ECEIVE A BROKEN FINGER WITH A CUT ON IT ALSO.

ROCK FELL FROM ROOF BETWEEN BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON HEAD AND LT LEG.

EES WERE WORKING INSIDE BAGHOUSE AT AN ELEVATION OF 70'. AN AERIAL LIFT WAS BEING USED TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE BAGHOUSE DOORS. PROCEDURE CALLED FOR LIFT BASKET TO BE POSITIONED AT THE OPENING TO ALLOW FOR SAFE ACCESS FROM THE BASKET GATE. BEFORE BASKET WAS FULLY INTO POSITION, EE DISCONNECTED HIS HARNER LANYARD, REACHED OUTSIDE OF THE BASKET AND GRABBED THE OVERHEAD DUCT FLANGE. HE T

EE WAS CLEANING ON THE 6N BELT WHEN HE BEGAN FEELING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. EE BECAME A LOSTTIME INJURY.

STEPPED ACROSS 4" WATER LINE AND SLIPPED. TWISTED LEFT KNEE. ACCIDENT BECAME LOST TIME ON 4-27-99.

EE WAS PERFORMING DUTIES OF PLANT MAINTENANCE WHEN HE SUSTAINED PAIN TO THE LEFT SHOULDER & ELBOW

THE EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE INJURED HIS RIGHT WRIST, WHILE HAMMERING ON A STEEL DRUM WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. HE DID NOT STRIKE HIS WRIST AGAINST ANYTHING BUT HIS WRIST WAS SORE AFTER HE WAS DONE . LEFT SITE AND SEEN A DR ON 1-27-99 WILL HAVE A TORN LIGAMENT OPERATED ON 2-4-99.

WHILE SHOVELING EE FELT A SHARP PAIN GO THROUGH HIS RIGHT FOREARM AND HIS ARM AND FINGERS BEGAN TO TINGLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF SCOOP WHEN HE HIT HIS LEFT ELBOW ON THE RIB OF THE SCOOP.

EE WAS DRIVING PAST AN AREA WHERE LOADERS AND DOZER WERE OPERATING ON TOP AT THE HIGHWALL ADJACENT TO THE ROADWAY. A ROCK FELL OFF THE HIGHWALL AND BOUNCED THROUGH THE DRIVERS. SIDE WINDOW STR IKING HIM IN THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FACE. PRELIMINTARY DR REPORT IS THAT POSSIBLY A BONE IN THE LEFT EYE AREA IS BROKEN.

EMPLOYEE RESET BREAKER AT SUB STATION WHEN THE FUSES BLEW. THE NOISE CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO UMP/FALL FROM 4' PLATFORM TO THE GROUND. HE THOUGHT HE HAD BEEN SHOCKED BUT NO EVIDENCE COULD BE F OUND OF THAT. PREVIOUS HISTORY OF BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEART PROBLESM CONTRIBUTED TO HIM MISSING 2 DAYS.

EE STATED HE TWISTED HIS KNEE WHEN HE HOPPED DOWN FROM CV1 CONVEYOR, APPROX 4 FT IN HEIGHT. HE TWISTED WHEN HE LANDED ON AN UNEVEN SURFACE. EE WILL HAVE APPROX 6 TO 10 WEEKS BEFORE RETURNING T O WORK.

BOLTING TOP IN #8 LEFT BK. HE HAD PUT UP 2 ROWS OF ROOF BOLTS, NO SPUT UP. THE OUT SIDE ROOF BOLT & STARTED RILLING THE HOLE FOR THE SECOND BOLT INT EH 3RD ROW. A PIECE OF ROCK SCALED OUT FRO M THE TOP APP 10"LX8"WX1/2" THICK STRICKIGN HIM ON HIS LEFT WRIST.

EE WAS HANDLING ROOF BOLT RESIN BOXES.

MAN WAS PICKING UP MINER CABLE TO MOVE OUT OF ROAD WHEN HE PULLED THE MUSCLE IN BACK.

EE WAS REPLACING A SIDE SHIELD ON THE CONTINUOUS MINER. IN THE PROCESS OF PERFORMING THE JOB THE EE WAS REQUIRED TO MOVE UP AND DOWN FREQUENTLY. DURING THE COURSE OF THIS ACTIVITY, HE TWISTED. *THIS ACCIDENT BECAME REPORTABLE WITH SURGERY ON 4/30/99.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE HURT HIS LEFT SHOULDER WHILE ROOF BOLTING IN PANEL A9N. HE DID NOT TELL HIS SUPERVISOR ABOUT IT. HE WENT TOT HE HOSPITAL ON 1-24-99 FOR TREATMENT ON LEFT SHOULDER. THIS WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION UNTIL NOW.

TWISTED LEFT KNEE.

EE STATED THAT HE STRAINED HIS BACK LOADING STRUCTURE INTO A SCOOP BUCKET

ONE EMPLOYEE WAS HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE TRACTOR OVERHEATING. EE STOPPED TO HELP. EE TOUCHED THE RADIATOR CAP AND THE CAP BLEW. HOT WATER SPEWED OUT ONTO EE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE WALKING ACROSS BRIDGE AT #7 HOOD, HE STEPPED FROM THE BRIDGE INTO SOME MUD AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT HIP AND RIGHT LEG.

DRIVING A RAM CAR HE RAN OVER A ROCK IN ROADWAY AND JAMMED HEAD INTO TOP OF CAB HURTING HEAD, NECK ADN LEFT UPPER ARM.

THE EE WAS WELDING THE FEEDER FOLLS WHEN ANOTHER EE TOLD HIM TO MOVE THE POSITION OF THE ROLL. THE WAS PULLING OUT THE BELT AND HIS PINKY FINGER GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BELT AND THE DAMPER.

STANDING ON DOZER TRACK, WAS KICKING OUT MUD FROM THE HARD BAR. STEPPED ON PUSH RAM WHICH WAS SLICK & FELL, LANDING ON WRIST.

EE WAS KNEELING BESIDE CAR, PREPARING TO START SHIFT DRIVING CAR. MECHANIC WAS MOVING GOLF CART OUT OF WAY OF MANTRIP, BACKED INTO EE WITH CART.

EE STATES HE WAS MOVING A BLANK AND HURT HIS BACK IN MILL #1.

HAND CAUGHT IN TAKEUP PULLEY OF CONVEYOR BELT

EE WAS HANDLING THE CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE AND STATED HE EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN.

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A PILE OF LOOSE SCRAP ROCK IN ORDER TO RETRIEVE A DRILL THAT HAD FALLEN OFF THE LEDGE. AS HE WAS CLIMBING, HE SLIPPED IN THE LOOSE MATERIAL AND FELL ABOUT 4'.

UNDER FOOT WAS ICY AND SLIPPERY, EE HAD LOADED TORCH CART INTO THE BUCKET OF THE LOADER. EE WAS ROLLING BUCKET BACK TO HOLD CART IN BUCKET, WHEN HE SLIPPED ON ICE AND GRABBED THE TOP EDGE OF T HE BUCKET TO KEEP FROM FALLING AS BUCKET WAS BEING ROLLED BACK AND HIS HAND SMASHED BETWEEN TOP OF BUCKET AND THE PIVOT ARM.

EE STATED HE WAS MOVING A WOODEN PALLET AND FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK. PAIN WAS LOCATED WHERE EE HAD PRIOR SURGERY.

AFTER WELDING OVERHEAD FOR HIS ENTIRE SHIFT, HISBACK STARTED TO HURT

EE HAD JUST ARRIVED AT THE MAINTENANCE YARD TO SEE IF HIS ROADGRADER WAS REPAIRED AND READY TO USE. AS HE APPROACHED OTHER EE, A STEEL HEIGHT ADJUSTOR BLOCK, LOCATED ON A LOADED TRAILER, FLEW OUT OF ITS NORMAL POSITION AND STRUCK EE IN THE CHIN, CAUSING TWO HAIRLINE FRACTURES. THE ADJUSTED BLOCK IS USED TO INSURE ROAD CLEARANCE FOR THE TRAILER WHEN IT IS LOADED. THE PROCESS OF LOAD

EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING LOADED BY OTHER EE WHEN A ROCK CAME OUT OF OTHER EE'S BUCKER AND STRUCK THE OFF SIDE OF EE'S TRUCK. EE WAS THROWN INTO THE DRIVERS DOOR. COMPLAINED OF PAIN TO HI S LEFT SIDE AND BACK. AN MRI IS PENDING AT THIS TIME.

EE REPORTEDLY SLIPPED AND FELL IN THE ICE IN THE SUPPLY YARD WHILE LOADING TRACK RAILS.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PURGE A NEW PROPANE GASE LINE. HE DID NOT BELIEVE HE HAD PROPANE IN THE LINE, WHEN HE ACTUALLY DID. AN ELECTRIC WATER HEATER IN THE ROOM APPARENTLY CYCLED, SPARKING AND IG NITING THE PROPANE WHICH WAS LAYING ON THE FLOOR, RESULTING IN FACIAL AND HAND BURNS.

NO SPECIFIC INJURY AT WORK, HE REPORTS BACK MUSCLES BEGAN TO GO INTO SPASMS AND HAD GOTTEN WORSE AFTER SLEEPING.

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON FOOT WHILE HE WAS SERVICING THE POT ON THE 14-5 MINER. DRAW ROCK WAS ABOUT 1 FOOT SQAURE AND 1/2 " THICK.

BREAKING OUT OLD TRUNK LINE WITH IMPACT TOOL. NUT FLEW OUT OF SWIVEL SOCKET, STRUCK UNDERSIDE OF PIPE AND HIT EE IN JAW.

EE WAS ON A 2 YARD MUCKER. HE HAD FINISHED MUCKING AND WAS BACKING AWAY FROM THE FACE. A SLAB FELL AND LANDED ON THE BACK OF THE MUCKER SEAT. IT GRAZED HIS SHOULDERS, NECK AND BACK OF HIS HEAD . AS HE MOVED THE MUCKER AND THE SLAB SLID OFF, HE TWISTED HIS BACK.

MEMBER WAS INSTALLING A 42" RESIN ROOF BOLT IN 54" SEAM HEIGHT. HE PUSHED THE BOLT UP WITH THE FRONT OF THE DRILL POT THEN HE LET THE HEAD DOWN TO PUT THE BOLT IN THE POT. HE REOTATED THE POT TO SEAT THE BOLT. A FACTORY I.D. TAG WAS ATTACH ED TO THE BOLT WITH WIRE. WHEN HE ROTATED THE POT THE WIRE CAUGHT IN THE FINGERS OF HIS LOBED LEFT HAND AND TWISTED IT BACKWARD. MEMBER SUSTAINE

CUTTING WIRE TIES WITH POCKET KNIFE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS HAND SEVEN STITCHES TO TOP OF LEFT HAND BETWEEN THUMB AND INDEX FINGER.

PERSON WAS CLEANING UP RIB ROLL ON HOIST TRACK. HE PICKED UP ROCK AND WHEN HE STEPPED BACK HIS FOOT CAME DOWN ON TRACK ROLLER AND HE LOST BALANCE AND TWISTED HIS BACK. AFTER TWISTING HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

WHILE EE WAS HELPING ON A JOB, HE TURNED TO LEAVE WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER RIGHT CALF. EE SENT TO DR ON 2/19/99 AND WAS REMOVED FROM WORK FOR 3 WKS & PRESCRIBED SOME PHYSICAL THERAPY

THIS EE WAS LYING AN A CONVEYOR BELT/BIN, WATCHING EE CLEAN OUT ANOTHER BIN, THE EES POWERED UP THE BIN THEY HAD BE CLEANING WHEN THE CRUSHER OPERATOR HIT THE WRONG BUTTON CAUSING EE TO FALL O FF OF THE BELT TO THE GROUND. EE SUFFERED A COMPRESSED VERTEBRA IN THE MIDDLE BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS BUILDING BRATTICES WHEN HE DROPPED A CONCRETE BLOCK ON HIS FOOT.

THE ROD IN FORD PICKUP BROK, DISABLING STEERING. TRUCK STRUCK BLOCK WALL. EE'S LEFT LEG HIT AN ATTACHMENT ON THE DASH, CAUSING A CUT.

SLIPPED ON ICE, TWISTED TO AVOID FALLING. FELL DOWN AND SPRAINED LOWER BACK.

WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF DISMOUNTING A TRACK DOZER, EE WRENCHED HIS LOWER BACK./

EE STATED THAT HE WAS HELPING REMOVE VENTILATION TUBES FROM XCUT TO SET UP BATTERY CHARGING STATION. WHILE LIFTING AND CARRYING A VENT TUBE, HE STEPPED IN A HOLE TWISTING HIS BACK AND RIGHT LE G.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING ENDLOADER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF STEP-RESUTLING IN AN APPROX 5FT FALL

EE WAS INSTALLING A NEW SEAT IN A PETERBILT TRUCK. THE EE'S BACK MUSCLES SEIZED UP DURING THE AWKWARD LIFT. ON MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 199 WAS THE FIRST TIME I WAS NOTIFIED OF THIS INJURY.

EE WAS PUSHING A SMALL FAN WHEN LOOSE ROCK UNDER HIS FEET CAUSED HIM TO SLIP, FRACTURING A BONE IN HIS LEFT FOOT.

AFTER PUTTING CABLE ON BOLTER, MINER TRAMMED BACK CATCHING INJ BETWEEN RIB AND PAN OF MINER CAUSING HAIRLINE FRACTURE TO PELVIS AND 1 VERTEBRE

EE WAS STANDING ON HEAD PULLEY TO WASHOUT BOX BETWEEN #1 &#2 CONV-HE SLIPPED FALLING INTO 4'WX5'LX4'D BOX RESULTING IN BRUISING INNER THIGH & PULLED GROIN MUSCLE

EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING CABLE WHEN HE GOT SOMETHINGIN HIS EYES. HIS EYES WERE WASHED OUT BUT EMPLOYEE STILL CONTINUING TO HAVE DISCOMFORT. CONSULTED THE EMERGENCY ROOM WHO DETERMINED THE FOREIGN MATERIAL WAS RUST.

EE WAS WORKING CARRYING CEMENT BLOCK APPROX. 500' FOR A WALL. WHILE WALKING BACK, EMPTY HANDED, THROUGH AN AREA OF WATER, SHE STEPPED ON A RIAL, SLIPPED AND FELL.

EE AND HIS SUPERVISOR WERE PREPARING TO MOVE THE DEWATERER. EE WAS STANDING ON THE FRAME AND ATTACHING A CHAIN TO THE TUBS WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL INTO THE MACHINE CAUSING THE TUBS T O ROLL, AND A SPOKE TO STRIKE HSI HEAD. HE RECEIVED SEVERE CUTS TO THE FRONT AND BACK OF HIS HEAD. HE WILL LIKELY BE OUT OF WORK FOR A WEEK. HE REMAINED CONSIOUS AND ALERT.

STEPPING FROM CAB OF 4500 TO ROOF--TOK ONE STEP--BACK POPPED.

MANUALLY PLACING WOODEN PALLET ON BULK BAGGER. EE SCRAPED KNEE CAUSING SPLINTERS. EE ENDED UP W/AN INFECTION.

WAS GOING TO HOOK UP CHAIN ON TAILPIECE AND PULLED IT, AND MUD FLEW UP IN HIS FACE. MUD GOT IN LEFT EYE AND COULD NOT REMOVE IT.

DOING MAINTENENCE WORK ON ELECTRICAL BATTERYS, STEPPED OFF STAIRWELL AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE - LIGHT DUTY.

WHILE WORKING AROUND ROCK AND SCOOP INJURED TWISTED KNEE AND UNABLE TO STRAIGHTEN IT OUT. IT WENT FOR A MRI AND SEES SURGEON ON 1-27-99. HE RETURNED TO WORK ON HIS NEXT REGULAR SCHEDULED SHIF T.

EE WAS STANDING IN THE BUCKET OF LOADER PUTTING SKIRT RUBBER UNPLACE AND LOADER MOVED SMASHING HIM BETWEEN BUCKET AND CONVEYOR.

EE STATED THAT WHILE HANGING MINER CABLE, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER.

WHILE SHOVELING AROUND A CONVEYOR BELT ROCK OR DIRT GOT IN RIGHT EYE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES. REVEIVED PRESCRIPTION EYE DROPS.

EE WAS CARRYING 3 GALLONS OF WATER & TRIPPED ON TORN CARPET AT THRESHOLD OF DOORWAY FALLING & HURTING RIGHT KNEE

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING PLOUGH RUBBER ON BELT. DROPPED A NUT AND JUMPED DOWN TO GET IT. LANDED ONR OCK WITH LEFT FOOT. SPRAINING ANKLE.

EE WAS OPERATING SCOOP WHEN HIS LEFT KNEE GOT AGAINST THE MINE ROOF-THIS FORCED HIS LEG DOWN IN THE SCOOP DECK CAUSING INJURY TO HIS ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO MOVE A PUMP FURTHER INTO THE WATER HOLE WHEN HE FELL, STRIKING HIS BACK ON A ROCK IN THE WATER.

EE WAS CUTTING BOLTS OFF TO CHANGE TRA. A PIECE OF HOT SLAG FELL INTO HIS LEFT BOOT & BURNED HIS FOOT BEFORE HE COULD GET THE BOOT OFF

EE WAS CHANGING STUDS IN CAR HUB, TIRE FELL OFF STRIKING EE S RIGHT ANKLE.

THE INJ WAS DISCONNECTING THE DUSTER HITCH FROM THE EIMCO BUCKET WHEN THE HITCH CAME LOOSE FALLING ON THE INJURED LEFT FOOT-BRUISING THE TOP OF HIS LEFT FOOT

WHILE PERFORMING CLEANING WORK IN VIBRATOR NO.2 AREA AND RECEIVED LACERATION IN THE LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A COAL LOADER WHEN HE HITA DITCH IN A COAL PIT.

EE WAS OPERATING A DART COAL TRUCK AND THE LEFT FRONT TIRE HIT A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY, JARRING THE OPERATOR AND CAUSING A BURNING SENSATION IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING ROCK OFF OF SHAKER WHEN HE FELT LOW BACK PAIN.

INJURED S RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN A RAIL AND PORTAL BUS AS HE HELPED LAY THE RAIL ON THE BUS.

PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN SHIELD STRICKING EE ON TOP OF HAND. THE EE WAS NOT WEARING GLOVES.

PUTTING BELT ON SAW WITH RELEASING TENSION ON BLADE USING HIS FOOT, BELT TENSION PUSHED HIS FOOT INTO GUARD.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A SPREADER BAR THAT WEIGHTS APPROX 10 LBS, TO REPOSITION THE DRAGLINE TRAIL CABLE. AS HE LIFTED THE BAR, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. THE EMPLOYEE WAS HOSPITA LIZED OVERNIGHT AND DID NOT RETURN FOR HIS NEXT SCHEDULED SHIFT.

EE WAS PICKING UP A SMALL PIECE OF STEEL PLATE WITH HIS RIGHT HAND. AS HE WAS PICKING IT UP HE STEPPED FORWARD ONTO THE PIECE OF STEEL AND INJURED THE JOINTS OF HIS 5TH FINGER.

EE WAS GOING DOWN VERTICLE STEPS LEADING TO THE DREDGE BILGE AS IF THEY WERE STAIRS. SLIPPED OFFCAUSING HIM TO FALL. STEPS HAVE GRATING ON THETMBUT WERE SLIGHTELY WET & OILY. EE SORE ON RIGHT SHOULDER, NECK & UPPER RIGHT ARM

VICTIM AND ANOTHER WERE WORKING ON TAKING OUT THE REVERSING SHAFT OF DRAGLINE, WHEN SHAFT CAME LOOSE THE VICTIM GRABBED THE SHAFT AND THE SHAFT HIT A PIECE OF METAL PINCHING THE VICTIM'S FINGE RS IN BETWEEN. THE OTHER EE HAD TOLD THE VICTIM TO STEP AWAY JUST BEFORE THE INCIDENT OCCURED.

EE WAS MAKING BELT SPLICE. HE WAS USING A BELT KNIFE, WHEN HE PULLED ON THE KNIFE HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

WALKING ON WET FLOOR, SLIPPED & FELL CAUGHT RIGHT ARM STRAINED ELBOW

EE SLIPPED CLIMBING DOWN FROM BACK OF TRUCK AND HIT HIS KNEE.

EE STATED THAT HE HELPING LOAD CONVEYOR BELT ONTO FLAT CAR. WHILE PULLING THE BELT TO CENTER OF CAR HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS DRILLING CABL BOLT HOLES. WHILE HE WAS ADDING ANOTHER SECTION OF STEEL, HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. THE STEEL WAS APPARENTLY STUCK IN THE HOLE AND HE PLACED HIMSELF IN AN AWKWARD POSITI ON WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE THE STEEL.

PULLED MUSCLE GETTING INTO TRUCK.

OPERATOR UPSET 50 TON EUCLID TRUCK. HIS EXPLNATION WAS THAT HE FELL ASLEEP, GOT IN GRAVEL ON SIDE OF ROAD AND TRUCK FLIPPED OVER.

4-E LONGWALL RECOVERY A 3 SECTION PIECE OF PANLINE WAS DISCONNECTED FROM THE RELAY BARS & SEPARATED FROM THE MAIN PANLINE. THIS SECTION OF PANLINE WAS PULLED BACK FOR CLEARANCE & HIS RIGHT LO WER LEG WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE END RELAY BAR CLEVIS & THE PANLINE. RESULT OF INJURY WAS HAIRLINE FRACTURE TO FIBULA.

EE HAD NOT STARTED WORK YET. EE GET OUT OF HIS CAR AND SLIPPED ON A PATCH OF ICE WHILE WALKING TO THE SCALE HOUSE EE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF ON THE BACK OF HIS CAR WITH HIS ARMS IN FRONT OF HIM AND FELL ON THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK..

EE GOT UP ON TAILWHEEL OF SIMPLICITY SCREEN CONVEYOR COVER PLATE WHILE SPRAYING BELT DRESSING ON THE TUNNEL BELT AT THE HEADWHEEL. HIS HAND GOT CAUGHT AND WAS PULLED AROUND THE HEADWHEEL SECTION

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP BOARDS FROM A PALLET OF BOARDS IN A SCOOP BUCKET WHEN A BAND HOLDING THE BOARDS, CAME UP AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN LEFT EYE.

EMPLOYEE WAS GOING DOWN STEPS WHEN HE SLIPPED ON SOME ICE, HE FELL STRIKING RIB CAGE AGAINST BELT RAILING. CAUSE OF INJURY IS AWARENESS. RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR.

EE WAS WELDING ON A DECK OF A RUBBER TIRE, AND AS HE WAS DESCENDING THE LADDER HE SLIPPED

FEED BROKE FREE FROM SEPARATOR AND FLEW IN HIS FACE AND EYES.

EE WAS EXITING MECHANIC'S TRUCK AFTER AN ICE STORM. HIS FEET SLIPPED TO HIS RIGHT, WHILE HE STILL HAD A HOLD OF THE CAB HAND HOLD. THE RESULT WAS A TWISTED BACK. THE EE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 2/13/99. AT THIS TIME THE OCCURENCE BECAME REPORTABLE, DUE TO STARTING MISSING WORK UNDER DOCTORS CARE.

EE LIFTING BAG OF SAND PAIN IN BACK.

EE WAS PERFORMING HIS REGULAR DUTIES AS SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR. WHILE DRIVING THE SHUTTLE CAR, EE PINCHED HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE CAB FRAME AND THE COAL PILLAR. APPRENTLY, EE WAS HOLDING ON T HE FRAME OF THE CAB, WITH HIS HAND OUTSIDE THE CAB.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON LOADING RAMP, TWISTING HIS LEFT ANKLE. THE FLOOR WAS WET DUE TO RAIN BLOWING IN THROUGH OPEN LOADING DOOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING STARTED ON 777A TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL OFF OF LADDER AND HIT HIS LEFT SIDE.

EE MOVED A PALLET WITH A HYDRAULIC PUMP DRIVE THAT WAS IN HIS WORK AREA AND STATED THAT HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. WHEN HE RETURNED TO WORK ON 1/18/99 HE STATED THAT HIS BACK WAS VERY S ORE. EVALUATED BY A PHYSICIAN ON 1/18/99 AND TAKEN OFF WORK. MISSED ONE DAY = 1/21/99.

EE WAS OPERATING OUR GROVE BOOM LIFT TOWARD AN OUTSIDE STAIRWAY, IN ORDER TO PERFORM SOME WELDING. THE FRONT LEFT TIRE OF THE BOOM LIFT SUNK IN SOFT GROUND, DROPPING MANBASKET HE WAS IN AND MO VED IT FORWARD. WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE BOOM OF A STATIONARY CRANE & RAILING OF MANBASKET STRUCK EE'S LEFT LEG. THIS CAUSED A COMPUND FRACTURE A LITTLE ABOVE THE KNEE ON THE BACK OF THE LEG.

CREW WAS UNBOLTING PUMP & MOTOR FROM BARGE, BECAUSE OF UNEXPECTED MOVEMENT EE WAS PINNED BETWEEN MOTOR AND BARGE BRACE.

EE WAS OPERATING A JACKHAMMER TO REMOVE OLD CASTABUE. AS HE MOVED FROM ONE AREA TO ANOTHER, HE STEPPED ON AN ANCHOR STUD PROTUDING FROM DEBRIS. THE ANCHOR PUNCTURED HIS BOOT & FOOT

EE WAS CHOPPING A HOLE IN ICE TO PUMP WATER, SLIPPED INTO HOLE AND FELL SIDEWAYS AND BACKWARDS.

EE WAS PUSHING O9N A COAL LINER AT THE 2N5M BELT HEAD. HE STRETCHED HIS RIGHT FOOT AND LEFT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RIGHT HEEL.

EE WAS REMOVING ROOF BOLTER CABLE FROM HANGER ON ROOF. SHUTTLE CAR CAUGHT CABLE AND PULLED TIHGHT KNOCKING HIM TO MINE FLOOR.

TROUBLE SHOOTING AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM IN #1MBC, RIGHT FOREFINGER CAME IN CONTACT WITH LIVE WIRE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A CONCRETE BLOCK & TWISTED, STRAINING LOWER BACK. PROBABLE MUSCLE PULL.

EE MISSED BOTTOM STEP ON LOADER LADDER. PAIN IN BACK.

INJ WAS REACHING UP & PULLING DOWN ON A STEEL ROD TO TIGHTEN SCREWS ON CEMENT VALVES WHEN HE FELT A STRAIN IN HIS BACK

HE WAS LOADING SUPPLIES ON TO THE BACK OF THE ROOF BOLTER, THE CABLE REEL WAS ENERGIZED AND THE CABLE WAS BEING WOUND UP, STRUCK HIS RT. LEG AND KNEE. THIS RESUFLTED IN A CONTUSION AND STRAIN TO THE RIGHT KNEE.

MAINLINE TRACK NEAR 1 NORTH. LIFTING "I" BEAM OFF SUPPLY CAR, LOST CONTROL, AND CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN "I" BEAM AND THE FRAME OF THE SUPPLY CAR.

WHILE CONNECTING A 6" PIPE HE HIT HIS FOOT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER. WENT TO DR ON 1-27-99, BEFORE THIS APPT THERE WAS NO LOST TIME.

HE WAS LIFTING THE 7200 VOLT CABLE TO HANG IT AND DOING SO HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER. THIS RESULTED IN A STRAIN TO THE LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS STANDING ON BACK OF HI-RANGER TRUCK. AS EE STEPPED TOWARD THE BUCKET HE TRIPPED OVER THE SIDE OF THE TRUCK, FALLING TO THE GROUND AND LANDING ON HIS HIP.

WHILE WELDING ON A DUST COLLECTION PIPE, HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE DUST COLLECTION BOX CAUSING NECK STRAIN.

WAS REPAIRING A TIRE AND IT BLEW UP AFFECTING HIS LEFT HAND.

DRILL OPERATOR STEPPED OFF DRILL ONTO ICE AND TWISTED ANKLE.

CAUGHT RING FINGER IN TAILGATE OF TRUCK.

WHILE EE WAS TOSSING BRICK IN THE KILN, HE NOTICED HE HAD A PULLING SENSATION IN HIS MUSCLES OF HIS RIGHT ARM. THE PAIN EXTENDED TO THE RIGHT SHOULDER AND LOWER RIGHT SIDE OF HIS RIB CAGE. HE IS SEEKING MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 1-18-99.

EE REPORTED THAT HE RUBBED HIS EYE WITH A GLOVED HAND CAUSING SCRATCH TO L. EYE.

THE EE WAS CLEANING SNOW & ICE OFF THE STEPS WHEN HE SLIPPED & PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK

EE OPENED THE BOTTOM CLEAN OUT DOOR ON #5 PREHEATER TIRE CHUTE WITH GLOVED HAND. HOT MATERIALS FELL INTO GLOVE CUTT FROM ABOVE CLEAN OUT DOOR BURNING WRIST AND THUMB AREA OF RIGHT HAND.

EE WAS CHANGING THE TEETH ON THE GRINDER HEAD. HE MISSED THE BAR AND HIT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER WITH THE HAMMER & CRUSHED THE BONE.

LEAVING LOADER, CLIMBING DOWN LADDER, MISSED LAST STEP PULLED MUSCLE IN RIGHT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE STATED SHE WAS STANDING AT LOADING POINT WHILE ANOTHER RAMCAR WAS UNLOADING. THE CAR PULLED OFF OF THE STAMLER AND SHE WAS STANDING TO CLOSE AND THE TRAILER END OF THE CAR STRUCK HER LEFT KNEE, RESULTING IN POSSIBLE CARTILAGE DAMAGE.

EE WAS PULLING DUMP LEVER ON 35 TON EUCLID WHEN HE FELT SOME DISCOMFORT IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER RESULTING IN PROBABLE MUSCLE PULL

WHILE CLEANING OFF THE GRIZZLY BY HAND THE INDIVIUAL STEPPED DOWN WRONG, OR INTO AN OPENING AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

REPAIRING OIL LEAK ON LEFT SHEAR JACK OF CONT MINER. LOST FOOTING, SLIPPED & WENT DOWN IN FRONT OF LEFT CAT & SHOVEL. STRAINED LEFT KNEE

EE WAS OPERATING LOADER IN ESCAPE TUNNEL IN VICINITY OF LINE 6 OR LINE 7. HE WAS BACKING OUT OF THE TUNNEL AND THE LOADER CANOPY CONTACTED A SHEET METAL DUCT HANGING FROM THE R5OOF OF THE TUNN EL. THIS CAUSED THE LOADER TO SUDDENLY SLOW DOWN & STOP AND IN THE PROCESS, EE'S LOWER BACK WAS JOLTED. ELECTED NOT TO SEEK MED. TX UNTIL 1-25-99. DX.LS STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS JACKING ON A RED-DEVIL COME-A-LONG. HA DHIS LEFT HAND RESTING ON SPILL PLATE RAIL. COME-A-LONG LET GO FROM IT SECURED END AND HIT LEFT HAND, FRACTURING LEFT THUMB.

EE WAS USING A WIRE FEEDER OUTFITTED WITH ./075 HARDWIRE. HIS RIHGHT ARM SLIPPED AND HE CONTACTED HIS LEFT WRIST WITH THE WIRE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING SKIRT BOARD RUBBER UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS WHEN HE APPARENTLY PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS UPPER RIGHT LEG.

EE WAS FUELING UP A DIESEL PUMP WHEN HE FELL BACKWARDS AND CAME DOWN ON HIS TAIL BONE CAUSING DISLOCATION AND SLIGHT FRACTURE.

EE STATED: HE WAS TRYING TO TAKE GREASE CAN OFF OF GREASE WORM,PULLING UP ON CAN WHEN IT CAME LOOSE TWISTING HIM AND HURTING HIS BACK & LEFT KNEE

EE TIGHTENING BOLTS ON VEAT EXHANGER. BOLTS WERE NEAR FLOOR. EE STOOD ON PIPE WRENCH HANDLE, HIT FOOT SLIPPED OFF, AND HE INJURED HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK UP FROZEN CIAL IN THE SLOPE AND JAMMED HIS RIGHT FOREARM. EE IS A LOST TIME INJURY.

EE WAS HELPING TWO OTHER EES HAND LOAD "H" BEAMS ONTO SCOOP BUCKET. EE'S FOOT SLIPPED WHEN HE STEPPED IN SCOOP BUCKET TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING A TRUCK WITH SCRAP METAL A PIECE OF PIPE ROLLED OFF THE TRUCK AND HIT EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT ANKLE.

EE AND A COWORKER WERE CHANGING A TIRE ON A MACK TANDEM TRUCK. THEY PLACED THE TIRE ON THE TRUCK AND RELEASED THE JACK, WITH THE JOB FINISHED, AND AS EE WALKED AWAY, THE TIRE BLEW OFF THE RIM, STRUCK THE SIDE OF THE MECHANIC'S TRUCK. A PIECE OF THE RIM AND TIRE THEN STRUCK EE ON HIS BACKSIDE. STITCHES WERE REQUIRED TO REPAIR A LACERATION ON LEG.

EE REPORTEDLY WAS GETTING OUT OF TRAM COMPARTMENT WHEN HE FELT PAIN. PLEASE NOTE: DID NOT LOSE TIME UNTIL JAN. 25, 1999.

DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 1/19/99 MOVING RAILS OVER TO RIB & RAIL ROLLED ONTO FOOT BROKE TOE

EE WAS BARRING DOWN A ROCK. THE ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIS LEFT UPPER ARM.

EE WAS TRAMING ROOF BOLTER WHEN HE FELL OFF SEATHOLDING ONTO TRAM LEVER & RAN OVER HIS LEFT FOOT

EE STATED HE WAS PULLING AND LIFTING ON A 4" PLASTIC WATER LINE AND FELT PAIN IN THE LOWER GROIN AREA. CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 1-20-99 THEN REPORTED ACCIDENT.

IN PROCESS OF THREADING THE AUGER THROUGH THE GUIDES EE CAME INTO CONTACT THE AUGER AS IT TURNEDSHE REC'D LACERATIONS TO THE HEAD & BRUISES & CONTUSIONS TO HER RIGHT SHOULDER & BACK

SURFACE UTILTIYMAN WAS WALKING FROM STORE ROOM IN SUPPLY YARD TO WAREHOUSE AND SLIPPED ON EXTREMELY ICY SURFACE. HE DISLOCATED LEFT ELBOW AND STOVED SHOULDER AND NECK.

HE WAS CLEANING THE BELT TAIL AT 183 CROSSCUT ON THE MAIN EAST BELT. HE WAS PICKING UP SOME ROCK THAT HAD FALLEN OFF THE BELT AND IN DOING SO HE FELT A PULL IN HIS RIGHT GROIN AREA. THIS RESUL TED IN A STRAIN TO THE GROIN.

THE INDIVIDUAL WAS MOVING A DOLLY LOADED WITH ROOF DRILL BITS. AS HE CROSSED A GRATE COVERED DRAIN IN THE LAMP ROON, THE DOLLY TILTED TO ONE SIDE. HE ATTEMPTED TO HOLD THE DOLLY FROM TIPPING B UT HIS FOOTING SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT KNEE. INJURED HAD SURGERY AND BEGAN MISSING WORK ON MAY 19, 1999.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS OPERATIN GROOF BOLTER MACHINE WALKING BACK TO OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT, ROCK FELL FROM ROOF, STRUCK EMPLOYEE'S LEFT LEG AND ANKLE. CAUSING FRACTURE TO ELFT LEG & ANKLE.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM DRILL THAT WAS PARKED AT READY LINE. BOTTOM RING OF LADDER WAS TOO FAR FROM GROUND. EE TRIED TO SIDE-STEP TO HUB OF TRACK & SLIPPED. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF BUT FELT A RIP/PO P IN ABDOMEN. WORKED FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS UNTIL PAIN CAUSED HIM TO REPORT IT TO SUPT. ER DR EXAMINED & DETERMINED IT WAS A HERNIA. RELEASED HIM TO RETURN TO WORK.

WHILE BEING LOADED AT THE 519 SHOVEL, THE SHOVEL DIPPER HIT THE BACK OF THE HEADACHE BOARD OF HER TRUCK CAUSING PAIN TO THE NECK AND BACK AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING 4' RESIN PINS IN THE ROOF, WHEN A SECTION OF ROCK FELL STRICKING HIS RIGHT LEG.

EE JERKED ON A HEAVY DOOR AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE FELT OKAY FOR A FEW DAYS, BUT THEN NOTICED INCREASING PAIN IN HIS BACK AND NUMBNESS AT TIMES IN HIS FOOT. HE WENT TO THE DR 2-5-99

AN EE, HE WAS OPERATING CRANE, FILLED WITH BALLS TO PUT INTO #2 FINISH MILL WHEN THE BUCKET HIT EE S RIGHT HAND.

LADDER TIPPED WHEN EE WAS STARTING DOWN.

EE HAD CUT A SECTION OF HOUSING LOOSE FROM A PRODUCT COLLECTOR AS HE WAS PREPARING TO REMOVE THESECTION IT MOVED UNEXPECTEDLY AND PINNED HIS FINGER BETWEEN AN ANGLE IRON HANDLE & A CATWALK-RES ULTS A BROKEN FINGER TIP AND 5 STITCHES ON LEFT RING FINGER

EE ALLEGES THAT UPON COMPLETION OF FILLING AN OIL TANK ON THE BACK OF HIS SERVICE TRUCK, HE WALKED AROUND IN FRONT OF HIS TRUCK AND SLIPPED ON THE ICE AND FELL BACKWARDS.

EE WAS REMOVING BARREL OF OIL FROM SERVICE TRUCK AND INJURED WRIST. INITIALLY FELT WRIST WAS JUST SPRAINED BUT BY MIDDLE OF MARCH STILL FEELING PAIN & STIFFNESS. WAS SEEN BY A DOCTOR ON 3/23/9 9 AND PUT OFF WORK PENDING SURGERY TO REPAIR LIGAMENT DAMAGE.

WALKING BACK TO TRAM PINNER. TRIPED AND FELL.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON MINER CABLE & EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN ON 1-13-99. EMPLOYEE WORKED UNTIL 2-21-99 AT THIS TIME INJURY BECAME REPORTABLE DUE TO LOST TIME.

EE WAS CLEANING OUT AN INSERT ON A 12CM27 WITH APICK HAMMER WHEN A PIECE OF THE HAMMER BROKE OFF AND STRUCK HIM INTHE FACE (LEFT EYE)

EE WAS TRYING TO MINER A ROCK MEASURING 18" THICK 4' WIDE 3' LONG INJURY LOWER BACK.

THE ELECTRICAL EE WAS STANDING ON HIS ELECTRICALVEHCILE WORKING ON THE COMMUNICATION WIRE. WHEN HE FINISHED HE STEPPED ON THE PROPEL PEDAL WHICHHAD BEEN LEFT IN REVERSE. THE VEHICLE WAS CHOCKE D WITH WOULD NOT ALLOW THE VEHILE TO LUNGE IN REVERSE BUT HE LOST HIS BALANCE & HAD HIS LEFT FOOT UNDET THE SEAT-HIS BODY WENT FORWARD & HE HYPEREXTENDED HIS KNEEE

EE WAS CHECKING FOR HIS HMR REPORTS. FELL ON THE ICE, BREAKING HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EE STATED HE STRAIGHTEN OUT ROOF BOLT. HE JERKED AND THE BOLT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS GRIP CAUSING HIM TO HURT BACK.

WHILE BOLTING CROSS CUT 3-4 IN 1 EAST RMS., THE EE HAD HIS FOOT BETWEEN THE BOTTOM & THE FOOT JACK. HE LOWERED THE FOOT JACK ONTO HIS FOOT. HE SUFFERED 3 FRACTURED TOES

EE WAS DIGGING WITH BAR AND BANGED ELBOW AGAINST SIDE OF CONVEYOR RAIL

EMPOYEE WAS STEPPIN OUT OF A MANLIFT WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ELECTRIC CORD JUNCITON BOX CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND LAND ON HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EE WAS CLIMBING ONTO A CATERPILLER 777 ROCK TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE 1ST RUNG OF THE LADDER & FELL BACKWARDS ONTO THE GROUND

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF OF A D8N DOZER WHEN HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE. FIRST LOST WORK DAY OCCURED ON 5-18-99.

EE CLIMBED DOWN THE LADDER OF THE 992D LOADER, SET HIS LUNCH PAIL DOWN AND WHEN HE STRAIGHTENED UP, HIS BACK STARTED TO HURT.

EE WAS SETTING IN A SQUAT POSITION, WHEN HE STARTED TO STAND UP HE HAD A PAIN IN HIS RT HIP AND LEG.

EE WAS WALKING FROM BATHHOUSE TO SHOP TO PREPARE TO GET MANTRIP. HE TOOK A SHORT CUT ACROSS ICY GROUND AND SLIPPED ON ICE, BRUISING HIS RIGHT SIDE AND LOWER BACK AREA. X-RAYS NEGATIVE-ALLEGEDL Y BRUISES SUSTAINED.

EE STATED: HE WAS WORKING ON SUCTION HOSE ON POT, DRAW ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON BOTH HANDS WHLE THEY WERE ON TOP OF POT.

PINNER HAD PUT UP ONE ROW OF BOLTS WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN THE ROW OF BOLTS & RIB PINNING HIM AGAINST THE PINNER.

WAS MOVING HIGH VOLTAGE TO HOOK ONTO A LOCOMOTIVE AND FELT A PAIN IN THE RIGHT SHOULDER. CONTINUVER TO WORK UNTIL 5-25-99 WHEN THE DR TOOK HIM OFF WORK.

EE WAS SHOVELING A PILE AROUND CRUSHER. EE FELT A POP OR PULL OF HIS LOWER BACK WHILE SHOVELING. DIAGNOSIS--L-S SPRAIN.

SOME FALSE ROOF FELL ON THE LOADED TRACK HAULAGE NEAR 6 FACE. THE INJURED WAS PULLING A TRIP OF LOADS TO THE TIPPLE WITH A 50 TON MOTOR, BY THE TIME HE CAME TO COMPLETE STOP, HE HAD PLOWED THR U THE DEBRIS THAT WAS ON THE HAULAGE, BRUISING HIS RT SIDE.

EE SLIPPED WHEN LADDER RUNG BROKE. SPRAINED HIS SHOULDER. EE SAW A DR. AND RELEASED FOR FULL DUTY SAME DAY(1/13/99). SHOULDER CONTINUED TO BOTHER EMPLOYEE, WHO HAD NOT LOST TIME NOR WAS ON RES TRICTED ACTIVITY. EE WAS FINALLY TAKEN OFF WORK BY DR. ON 9-20-99 AND REMAINS OUT A PRESENT TIME.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE LIFTING HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE DRIVING A POWER MOVE, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

INJURED AND COWORKERS HAD 2 SCOOPS LOADED WITH TIMBERS & WERE PREPARING TO TAKE THEM TO THE PILLAR LINE. INJURED WAS STANDING BETWEEN THE SCOOPS WHEN COWORKER STARTED ONE OF THE SCOOPS. WHE HE STARTED THE SCOOP, THERE WAS A SUDDEN MOVEMENT WHICH CAUGHT INJURED BETWEEN THE SCOOPS FRACTURING BOTH TIBIAS & DAMAGING BLOOD VESSELS IN HIS LEFT LEG.

EE, A LABORER TRAINED AS A HYDRATE OPERATOR SINCE 3RD WEEK OF EMPLOY & HAS WORKED IN THIS CAPACITY, WAS CLEARING A STOPPED-UP CHUTE THAT CARRIES MATERIAL FROM THE HYDRATE DRUM TO THE MILL FEED SCREW USING A STEEL ROD WHEN HIS LEFT HAND STRUCK THE METAL PARTITION SEPARATING THE DRUM FROM THE CHUTE. THIS WAS THE RESULT OF THE UP/DOWN MOTION HOLDING HEAVY OBJECT. REQUIRED 6 STITCHES.

EE STATED HE WAS CLIMBING UP ON A D-9 DOZER ON GOB PILE, WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE ICE, CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS LT ARM, CAUSING HIM TO PULL HIS LT SHOULDER.

EE WAS CLIMBING IN A BELT CHUTE & ATTEMPTED TO CATCH HIMSELF AS HE SLID

EE WAS ADJUSTING A SCREEN ON A SECONARAY SCALPER. HE REACHED ACROSS THE SHAFT WHEN HIS CLOTHING BECAME IN TANKLED. EE SUFFERED A STRAINED RIGHT ELBOW REQUIRED 3 VISITS TO PHYSCIAL THERAPY EE W AS SUSPENDED A 2 WORKING DAYS FOR FAILURE TO ELBOW POPP SAFETY PREVIOUS.

EE WAS OEPRATING MINER, RIB ROLLED OFF AND STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT SIDE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET A ROOF BOLT IN THE HOLE. WHILE STRAIGHTENING IT HIS HAND SLIPPED, THE ROOF BOLT ASSEMBLY SPUN AROUND. EE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS RIGHT SIDE.

EE WAS TAKING SUPPLIES TO THE SECTION IN A SCOOP. EE HAD LEFT HAND RESTING ON THE BUMPER BLOCK WHILE TURNING A SHARP RT WITH THE SCOOP. EE'S INDEX FINGER AND MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND GOT SERIOUSLY MASHED BETWEEN THE BUMPER BLOCKS ON THE SCOOP.

FRONT END LOADER OPERATOR CB RAWLS WAS ALLEDGEDLY RETRIVING FUSES FOR ANOTHER LOCATION OUT OF THE ABANDONED SF-4 PLANT COMPRESSOR CONTROL BOX AT APPROX. 745 A.M. AFTER THE FUSES WERE OUT AND O N TOP OF ANOTHER ADJOINING CABINET, HE WAS IN FRONT OF THE 480V, DISCONNECT WHEN THE INTERIOR LOCKING NUT FOR THE SECONDARY WIRING SUDDENLY FELL ONTO THE ENERGIZED PRIMARY FEED CAUSING A PHAS

APPROX 8 IN OF SNOW HAD FALLEN THIS DAY MAKING THE PARKING LOT SLIPPERY. SNOW REMOVAL STEPS WERE BEING TAKEN AND ANTI SKID BEING PUT DOWN BUT RATE OF SNOWFALL TOO GREAT TO KEEP AHEAD OF.

EE IS OUR PLANTMAN FOR CAUSING CREW #6. HE WAS CHECKING FLUID LEVELS BEFORE STARTING UP MACHINERY. EE MOUNTED THE HAMMER MILL ENGINE AND REACHED OUT TO TURN THE RADIATOR CAP. AS HE DID THIS HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK. THE WEATHER WAS VERY COLD AND MAY HAVE CONTRIBUED TO HIS INJURY. EE WAS OFF 3 DAYS.

EE WAS HAND SPLITTING A SLATE ROCK USING A HAMMER AND CHISEL. A PIECE OF SLATE SHIPPED OFF, WENT UNDER THE RIM OF THE SAFETY GLASSES AND ENTERED HIS RIGHT EYE.

THE RUB RAIL ON THE MINER FELL STRIKING THE EE ON THE LEFT FOOT.

EE STATED THAT HE HAD PICKED UP A HEAVY COAL SAMPLE FROM THE #12 MINE LOADED IT INTO A PU TRUCK TOOK IT TO THE CRUSHER BLDG AND UNLOADED IT INTOTHE BLDG. AS HE WAS LIFTING THE SAMPLE TO DUMP INTO THE COAL CRUSHER, HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AREA. WENT TO DR ON 1/14/99 AND WASPUT ON SOME WORK RESTRICTIONS(LIFTING, PUSH/PULLLIMITS)

EE WAS USING TURNBUCKLE TO SNUG UP BELT. IN DOING THIS, HE STRAINED MUSCLES IN SHOULDER.

EE WAS WORKING INSIDE THE HOUSE ON A 1370 DRAGLINE WHEN THE POWER WENT OFF CAUSING DIM LIGHTING CONDITIONS. HE WAS TRYING TO WALK OUT OF THE MACHINE BY THE SETS. AS HE WAS GOING DOWN SOME STEP S, HOOKED THE HEEL OF HIS SHOE ON A BOLT HEAD SECURING THE FLOOR PLATE, CAUSING HIM TO FALL FORWARD THROWING ALL HIS WEIGHT ON HIS KNEE.

EMPLOYEE ROLLED TRUCK TIRE UP RAMP AND LEANED IT ON THE MONORAIL HOOK. HIS LEFT HAND POINTER FINGER GOT PINCHED BETWEEN THE TRUCK TIRE BEAD AND MONORAIL HOOK.

EE STATED HE INJURED HIS BACK WHILE MAKING A BELT SETUP. HE WAS HANDLING BELT ROLLERS AND PULLING ON BELT TO BE INSTALLED. I WAS UNAWARE OF THE INJURY TO THE EE UNTIL 1-20-99, WHEN EE CAME TO MY OFFICE TO FILL OUT THE REPORT. HE SAID HE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 1-19-99. EE WAS TERMINATED ON 1-20-99.

CAUGHT SMALL RIGHT FINGER WHILE REPLACING DRIVE BELTS ON SCREENING PLANT

EE WAS HANGING LINE CURTAIN THAT HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY TORN DOWN. THE SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR WAS PULLING OUT FROM THE MINER AFTER BEING LOADED GOING, TO THE FEEDER. THE SHUTTLE CAR SLID OVER STRIK ING EE IN THE LOWER BACK AND RIGHT LEG.

PUSH BUTTON ON POWER CURVE CONVEYOR BELT STUCK WHILE PULLING BELT FORWARD CAUSING EE TO PINCH HIS LEG BETWEEN PLATE ON BELT AND PALLET OF STONE ON TRUCK. EE SUSTAINED BRUISE TO LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING SCOOP WHEN A PIECE OF RUST GOT INTO RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS BOLTING TOP IN #1 HEADING. AN UNDETECTABLE KETTLE BOTTOM FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN TWO ROOF BOLTS. BOLTS THAT WERE ALREADY SET. HIT EE ON SHOULDER.

EE FELL DOWN 2ND FLIGHT OF STAIRS BY OIL SHACK WHEN FALLING RIGHT FOOT GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN STEPSEE FELL ON LEFT SIDE OF BODY

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING WIRE WELDER TO JOB AND FELT A PAIN IN SHOULDER.

EE WAS LOADING CRIB BLOCKS AND DROPPED ONE ACROSS HIS FOOT.

EE WAS DESCENDING STEPS, MISSED STEP, FELL FORWARD STRIKING KNEE ON CONCRETE.

EE REPORTEDLY WAS STRUCK BY ROOF MATERIAL ALONG THE RIGHT RIB LINE WHILE PREPARING TO GET A HEADER BLOCK FROM THE SIDE OF THE MACHINE.

EE WAS PICKING UP A 50# BAG OF SAND WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK

EE STATED THAT HE WAS LOADING ROOF BOLTS ONTO CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING BOLTS OFF SHAKER DECK SLIPPED AND FELL INTO DISCHARGE CHUTE-LANDED ON AND DISLOCATED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EE STATES: BENT DOWN TO CUFF A CORD, SLIPPED IN MUD AND FELL ON A KNIFE BLADE.

THE INJURED WAS CHANGING A TRACTION MOTOR ON A RAIL RUNNER. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN A BOLT WITH A WRENCH. AS HE WAS PULLING ON THE WRENCH HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS NECK. 1ST DAY OFF 2-22-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING OTHERS IN CHANGING A MOTOR ON THE CRUSHER WHEN HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN LOWER STOMACH. THIS RESULTED IN A PULLED MUSCLE.

EE WAS REPLACING LINKS ON U-4 PAN CONV. WHEN HE SLIPPED ON SOME PELLET, HURT HIS BACK. HE HAD HOSED THE AREA EARLIER IN THE SHIFT.

EE WAS SITTING IN SEAT CALLING OUT REPORT WHEN CABLE PULLED FROM SUB AND CAUGHT LEFT BY METALTARSAL AND PULLED FOOT SIDEWAYS

EE CLAIMS THAT HE HURT HIMSELF ON 1-12. WE HAAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF THIS.

WHILE WALKING TO PARKING LOT AT END OF SHAFT, HE SLIPPED AND FELL.

EE SAID HE WAS SHOVELING ON OFFSIDE #4 BELT, JUST INBY #4 BELT DRIVE. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL, HITTING HIM ON LEFT SHOULDER AND LEFT ARM. ROCK CUSE TO BREAK HIS ARM.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FREE A ROCK STUCK IN CRUSHER JAW BY PLACING A CHAIN & HOOK AROUND IT WHEN ANOTHER ROCK FELL FROM FEEDER LANDING ON HIS LOWER BACK & HIPS. HE DID NOT WAIT UNTIL AREA & EQUI P. WAS SECURE BEFORE HIS ATTEMPT TO FREE THE ROCK.

WALKING ON FROZEN GROUND AND SLIPPED ON SOME ICE AND FELL ON HIS SHOULDER CAUSING A STRAINED SHOULDER.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS FUELING A 992 C LOADER WHEN THE FUEL HOSE CAUGHT ON THE LOADER FRAME. EE GAVE IT A PULL AND WHEN IT CAME LOOSE, HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

WHILE EE WAS SETTING A SINGLE PROP, A ROCK FELL, STRIKING EE. EE IS A LOST TIME INJURY.

EE SLIPPED AND TWISTED KNEE WHILE SPLICING BELT.

INJURED CLAIMS WHILE REMOVING LINERS IN PRIMARY HILL NO 2, THE NIGHT POST ON THE PAR MACHINE BROKE OFF THE MACHINE AND HIT EE ON HIS HARD HAT. THE IMPACT OF THE POST HITTING INJURED KNOCKED HI M TO THE FLOOR.

EE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 1/11/99 HE WAS DIAGNOSED HAVING NECK PAIN-CERVICAL SPONOLOSIS C-6-C-7

EE WAS GETTING OFF LOADER AND THEN STEPPED ON A ROCK AND HURT HIS LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS ARC WELDING THE 21B DISCHARGE CHUTE WHEN SOMETHING ENTERED THE TOP & BOTTOM OF HIS HELMET AND SAFETY GLASSES. EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE DR AND WAS REMOVED FORM WORK UNTIL 1-13-99.

EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR AND RAN OVER A ROCK IN THE ROADWAY. EE WAS THROWN INTO ROOF OF CANOPY.

WHILE WELDING SPIRALS ON TANK SCREW, EYES WERE BURNED. THE WEATHER WAS BRIGHT AND SUNNY. EE STATED THERE WAS A GLARE INSIDE THE WELDING HOOD.

THE INJURED WAS HELPING TO CLEAN UP A ROCK FALL WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND BOUNCED AND HIT HIM ON THE LT. KNEE.

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A PIECE OF ROCK FROM THE TOP OF THE CONTINUOUS MINE RWHEN IT FELL ON HIS FOOT.

EE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN LOWER ADOM. AREA CONTUED TO WORK WENT TO DR 2-1-99-STARTED TO MISS WORK 2-2-99.

WHILE HANDLING WATER LINE THE EE SLIPPED ON THE WET BOTTOM AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE