Mining Incidents in April 1999

IN THE SOUTH MAINS A ROOF FALL MEASURING APPROX 30'X35'X10' THICK TAPERING TO 0 OCCURED IN THE LAST INTERSECTION OF THE #2 ENTRY WHILE DEVELOPING THE FIRST OUT OF THE #2 CROSSCUT. THE ROOF FA LL ENTRAPPED THE VICTIM AND RESULTED IN FATAL INJURIES. A CONTINUOUS MINER ADN SHUTTLE CAR WERE INVOLVED IN THE FALL.

VICTIM WAS OPERATING A D9L DOZER WHEN A VOID COLLAPSED ENGULFING THE MACHINE CAUSING FATAL INJURIES.

EE WAS WORKING ON THE ROD OF THE RIDE CYNDER OF THE CATERPILLAR 769C HAUL TRUCK USING AN ACETYLENE TORCH TO HEAT THE BROKEN NITROGEN VALVE. AN EXPLOSION OCCURRED CAUSING THE 113 LB ROD TO BE E XPELLED FROM THE CYLINDER STRIKING THE EE IN THESTOMACH CAUSING FATAL INTERNAL INJURIES.

2" IRON PIPE CAME LOOSE FROMA UNION JOINT AND THE OTHER END WAS THREADED INTO AN ELBOW AND WHEN IT CAME LOOSE THE PIPE APPROX 4' TO 6' LONG ACTED LIKE A JET PROPULSTON AND THE PIPE ROTATED LIK E A FAN AND IT HIT THE EE IN THE HEAD CAUSING DEATH FROM HEAD TRAUMA. PIPE WAS CONNECTED TO AIR COMPRESSOR.

THE VICTIM AND A CO WORKER WERE CLEANING THE BALSTED AREA AT THE TOP OF A 10-FOOT DIAMETER ORE PASS. THE COWORKER WAS WEARING FALL PROTECTION WHILE WORKING AT THE EDGE OF THE ORE PASS. THE VIC TIM WAS WORKING NEAR THE ORE PASS WITHOUT FALL PROTECTION. THE COWORKER LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL. THE VICTIM ATTEMPTED TO CATCH HIM AND FELL INTO THE ORE PASS, A DISTANCE OF 150 FEET.

EE WAS LIFTING AN ELECTRIC MOTOR ONTO THE BED OF A TRUCK. HELP WAS AVERABLE IE. CRANE OR EXTRA MAN BUT EE CHOSE TO DO JOB BY HIMSELF.

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A CABLE BELL IN THE MINE PIT FOR THE #59 SHOVEL. HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON SOME LOOSE ROAD MATERIAL AND HE EXPERIENCED GROIN PAIN. LATER, THIS WAS DIAGNOSED AS A SMALL HERNIA R EQUIRING RECENT SURGICAL REPAIR.

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING A 4D BATTERY ON A STANDBY ENGINE RACK. HE FELT A PULL IN HIS RIGHT GROIN AREA. WENT TO DOCTOR ON 05/03/99. HAD HERNIA SURGERY ON 05/13/99. BECAME REPORTABLE ON 05/17/99 FR OM THE STANDPOINT OF RESTRICTED DUTY.

EE WAS WALKING FROM WORK AREA TO LUNCH & TRYING TO SKIP A MUD AREA, MOVE TOWARD THE ONCOMING LOADER WHICH HIT HIM WITH THE BUCKET PINNING THE LEFT LEG WITH THE GROUD

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A JACKING FIXTURE IN PLACE ON THE 1370 DRAGLINE, A-LEG SAFETY CABLE BRACKETTO PULL THE A-LEG BACK DOWN IN PLACE FOR WELDINGEMPLOYEE WAS ON STEP LADDER ABOUT 3' HIGH. HE TO OK A SPACER WEIGHING 20 LB, AND HE REACHED OUTWARD AND UPWARD TO PUTIN PLACE. AFTER IN PLACE, HETOLD HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HIS BACK AND STOMACH HURT. A BULDGE APPEARED.SAW DOCTOR. MISSED TIME.

AS THE EE ENTERED THE NORTH SIDE OF THE PUMP SHOP, A GUST OF WIND PREVENTED THE DOOR FROM CLOSING. HE GRABBED THE EDGE OF THE DOOR TO PULL IT CLOSED. AS HE DID, ANOTHER GUST OF WIND SLAMMED TH E DOOR SHUT, PINCHING HIS FINGERS BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE DOORFRAME. THE EE WAS GIVEN FIRST AID ON SITE AND TRANSPORTED TO ELKO. AS THE RESULT OF INJURY, THE EE LOST THE TIP OF HIS LEFT MIDD

EE WAS UNHOOKING A WINCH TRUCK CABLE HOOK, HE SAW SLACK IN THE LINE AND PLACED HIS HAND ON THE CABLE TO PULL IT OUT AND THE CABLE RETRACTED PINCHING/SEVERING THE END JOINTS OF MIDDLE 3 FINGERS LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS SWINGING A 20LB SLEDGE HAMMER TO KNOCK IN A RAW MILL GRINDING MILL DOOR WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT GROIN. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 05/11/99. EMPLOYEE HAD CORRECTIVE SURGERY P ERFORMED ON 05/11/99.

LIFTING CONE UP TO GET DUSTRING OFF. THE CONE WAS ALREADY OUT OF THE PLANT. DUST RING FELL CRUSHING RIGHT PINKY FINGER TIP

EMPLOYEE AGGRAVATED A PRE-EXISTING MEDICAL CONDITION WHILE GREASING A VIBRATOR. THE RESULTING HERNIA CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO START MISSING WORK ON 5-26-99.

NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS.

WORKER LAID DOOR SUPPORT SHAFT ON EDGE OF CONVEY9OR, IN PROCESS OF PUTTING SHAFT BACK IN PLACE IT CAUGHT MOVING IDLER & BELT PULLING SHAFT & HADN THROUGH IDLER.

EMPLOYEE AND TWO CO-WORKERS WERE BLASTING A HUNGCHUTE. THE CHARGE WAS SET, PRIMER TIED, CUT AND THEN LIT. THE EMPLOYEE TOOK THE OTHER END OF THEFUSE AND WAS CRIMPING IT TO MAKE IT POP. HE NOTI CED THE FUSE HAD A PRIMER ON IT. HE STARTED TO THROW IT AND IT WENT OFF.

WHILE TRYING TO UNBURY A PRIMER LEAD FACE A SLABON THE LEFT ARCH CAME DOWN, STRIKING EMPLOYEE.

THE LOADER OPERATOR PARKED THE LOADER NEAR THE FACE AND GOT OFF THE LOADER TO INSPECT HE THE HEADING AND FACE WHEN A ROCK CAME DOWN, SMASHING RIGHT HAND.

HANGING 10" PIPE MOBILE CRANE WAS BEING USED TO LIFT AND POSITION THE 10" PIPE W/BOOM. THE RIGGER SIGNALED TO THE CRANE OPERATOR TO RELEASE SLACK IN THE CABLE. SLACK WAS APPARENT, AND THE RIGG ER REACHED UP TO PULL MORE SLACK. THE CABLE SUDDENLY TIGHTENED, CATCHING THE RIGGER'S MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS.

WORKER WAS ATTEMPTING TO ADJUST THE HOPPER FEED CONVEYER BELT WITHOUT TURNING OFF THE SCREEN POWER SOURCE. THE WORKER WAS DRAWN INTO THE RETURN SIDE OF THE BELT WHICH RESULTED IN THE AMPUTATIO N OF THE RIGHT ARM AT THE ELBOW AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNHOOKING A 1/2 INCH WIRE PULLING CABLE FROM THE BACK OF A RUBBER TIRED DOZER. THECABLE WAS TWISTED AND AS THE EMPLOYEE MOTIONED THE DOZER TO MOVE FORWARD HE CAUGHT HIS LEFT RING AND LITTLE FINGERS IN A LOOP OF THE TWISTEDCABLE, PULLING THE MUSCLE, NERVES, AND SKIN AWAYFROM THE BONE. HE WAS HAVING SURGERY TO TRY TO SAVE FINGERS.

EE WAS MOVING A DEWATERING PUMP (30-35 LBS.) AND SUFFERED A POSSIBLE HERNIA.

EE STATED HE HELPING INSTACE VENILATION TUBING THE SCOOP WAS LIFTING THE SLIDER AND EE LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT AGAINST AND FRAME OF SCOOP. GUARDS WERE WELDED TO ELIMATE PINCH POINT.

EE WAS PUSHING THE TORCH SET UP THE RAMP WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN GROIN AREA.

EE WAS TRYING TO DISLODGE ROCK FROM MOUTH OF JAW CRUSHER WITH A SPUD BAR. ROCK BROKE AS EE WAS PYING BAR BACK HE STRUCK HIMSELF WITH THE BLUNT END OF THE BAR INT HE NAVEL AREA. AGGRAVATING A P RE EXITING CONDITION RUPTURED UMBILICAL CORD.

EE THINK PULLING/LIFTING HERNIA STOMACH.

HE WAS RESEALING THE DRUM MOTOR. HE WAS USING HIS LEFT HAND TO BALANCE HIMSELF AS HE LEANED OVER TO GIVE DIRECTION TO LINE UP THE DRUM MOUNT. THE DRUM FELL OFF THE JACE AND HIS FINGER WAS SHEA RED OFF.

WHILE PLACING SIDES ON SCREW CONVEYOR, A DRIFT PUNCH SLIPPED, CAUSING WING WALL TO STRIKE EMPLOYEE'S FINGER AGAINST SCREW CONVEYOR.

EE WAS OPERATING CONTINUOUS MINER BY REMOTE CONTROL WHEN ROCK FELL BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON NECK AND SHOULDERS.

THE EE STATED HE WAS OBSERVING ANOTHER EE WORK WHEN HE SHIFTED HIS WEIGHT HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS TRAVELIN GTHE ROADWAY FORM SECITON CHARGING STATION TO THE SECITON, WHILE OPERATING A SCOOP WHEN HE RAN OVER A ROCK IN THE ROADWAY, BOUNCING HIM AGAINST THE CANOPY, IT RESULTED INTO LOW BACK STRAIN. HE IS STILL BEING DIAGNOSED, FUTURE APPT WITH SPECIAL .

TIGHTENING A U-BOLT ON MANTRIP WHEN HE STRAINED HIS SHOULDER AND ELBOW.

STANDING ON CATWALK OF QUARRY TRUCK TO KNOCK MUD OFF RETURN ROLLER ON ROCK BIN. HAMMER CAUGHT IN BELT & PULLED ARM IN BETWEEN RETURN ROLLER & BAR ABOVE CONVEYOR BELT. RECEIVED CRUSHING INJURY TO LEFT ARM, NO BROKEN BONES. SOME NERVE DAMAGE BELIEVED.

EE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN A TRACK RAIL BEING UNLOADED AND THE WATERLINE.

INJURED WAS CLEANING ROCK BETWEEN SHIELDS WHEN A ROCK FELL BETWEEN SHIELDS AND STRUCK INJURED ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER AND RIGHT KNEE.

INSTALLING A REAR TURBO ON AN OHT, WEIGHT 65 LBS APPROX. BED COULD NOT BE RAISED TO USE A CRANE DUE TO ENGINE NOT OPERABLE.

INDIVIDUAL WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE. WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE STEP WHICH WAS BENT HE SLIPPED AND HIT HIS TAIL BONE ON A PIEE OF METAL.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE STEPPING DOWN FROM TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL. HIS RIGHT LEG BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CROSSING OVER A CONVEYER BELT USING THE BELT CROSSOVER. HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN HITTSIDE LAYING OUT SHOT FOR BLASTING. HE SLIPPED, TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF FROM FALLING WHEN HE FELT A TWINGE OF PAIN IN HIS NECK.

MOVING SEPARATOR WITH PRYBAR. PULLED SOMETHING IN BACK.

EE WAS LOADING A SHOT. HE TURNED AROUND, STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

PICKING UP BELT STRUCUTURE LOADING IT IN PUSHOUTCAR, STANDING IN WATER, WHEN HEW AS LOADING STRUCTURE IN CAR HIS FEET SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TOLOSE HIS BALANCE TWISTING HIS LOWER BACK

EE WAS CARRYING TOOLS FROM ONE AREA OF THE MINE TO ANOTHER WHILE HE WAS GOING THRU THE MANDOOR HE HURT HIS LOWER BACK

THE EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT A DIESEL TRUCK ARRIVED TO THE PLANT AND HIS SUPERVISOR GAVE HIM INSTRUCTIONS TO UNLOAD IT WITH THE EXCAVATOR. THE EMPLOYEE WAS DOING IT AND HE GOT OUT OF THE EXCAVAT OR TO TIE THE TANK WITH A CHAIN. THERE WAS AN IRON SHEET THAT HE USED TO SUPPORT HIMSELF TO JUMPT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EXCVATOR BUT THE IRON SHEET MOVED AND HE INJURED HIS LEFT HAND.

INJURED PERSON WAS HELPING PUT BELTS ON FAN ON THE SURFACE, WHILE DOING THIS HE WAS PULLING ON BELTS AND HIS BACK STARTED HURTING.

WHILE WORKING ON A INDEX PART EE FELT A TEAR IN HIS ABDOMEN. NO LIFTING INVOLVED. RECEIVED REPORT SHOWING EMPLOYEE HAS A HERNIA.

EE WAS OPERATING THE CONT MINER WHEN A LARGE ROCK FELL ON THE HEAD OF THE MINER. SLAMMING THETAIL INTO THE ROOF WHEN IT CAME DOWN IT HIT EE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS HARD HAYT

EE HAD LOADED 950 LOADER ONTO FLAT BED TRAILER .WHEN HE STEPPED OUT OF LOADER HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO GROUND.

IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT AN INCIDENT WHICH OCCURRED ON 7/4/96 IS A REPORTABLE ACCIDENT. THE EE WAS STANDING ON THE 3RD RISER OF A 6' STEP LADDER USING AN OXYGEN/ACETYLENE TORCH. HE COMPLETE D THE TASK & AS HE WAS DESCEDNING THE LADDER HISFEET BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE TORCH HOSES & HE FELL STRIKING HIS BACK AGAINST A PUMP. THE EE DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 4/23/97 HE WAS RELEASED TO

EE WAS STEPPING ON GOLF CART HANGINING PINNER CABLE, SLIPPED, FELL & TWISTED LEFT FOOT & ANKLE

WHILE WORKING ON THE GUILLOTINE, A STONE FELL OFF AND HIT EMPLOYEE'S FOOT.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS HELPING LIFT A PIECE OF METAL UP TO BE HUNG UP FOR BACK BOARD AT NEW DRIVE. HE SAID IT STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING UPTHE BACK BOARD.

INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A PIECE OF DRAWROCK FROM THE BRIDGE AND AS HE WAS LIFTING THE ROCK, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE WAS UNLOADING PARTS WHILE STANDING ON THE TAILGATE OF A PICKUP TRUCK. HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL--LANDING ON HIS LEFT SIDE IN TURN, BREAKING HIS LEFT ARM. HE WAS TAKEN TO ER.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE TRAVELING IN SCOOP, APIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLT AND RIB, STRIKING HIM ON HARD HAT AND LIGHT.

INJURED WAS WALKING NEAR THE HEAD GATE WHEN HE FELL ON LOOSE BELT STRUCTURE LYING IN THE WALKWAY. HE STRUCK HIS LEFT HIP AND ELBOW. NO TIME WAS MISSED UNTIL SURGERY WAS PERFORMED ON LT ELBOW O N 9-16-99.

LIFTING AN OVERHEAD DOOR HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS MANUALLY UNLOADING THE RUBBER TIREDPIPE WELDING MACHINE. AS MACHINE WAS COMING OFF THE TRUCK, THE EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING AWAY AND TRIPPED OVER THE PIPE HE WAS PREPARING TO WELD. THI S CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS ANKLE.

THE EE STATED THAT AS HE WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR, REACHED BEHIND HIM TO ROLL A ROCK OFF FENDER HE FELT PAIN IN CHEST AREA.

EE WAS HELPING UNTABLE DISTRIBUTION BOX CABLE WHEN HE DEVELOPED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE WENT TO THE DR ON 4/30/99 & MISSED HIS NEXT SCHEDULED SHIFT ON 5/3/99

EE WAS CLOSING CROSS BAR ON BOBCAT WHEN HE PINCHED HIS LEFT THUMB BETWEEN CROSS BAR & FRAME CAUSING A MASHED THUMB

EMPLOYEE CLEANING CARS STRAINED WRIST CLIMBING DID NOT GO TO DR TILL 5-11-99.

WELDING ON FEEDER BOX FOR 1 SCREEN CLIMBING DOWN TO GET MORE WELDING RODS. GRIP CONVEYOR WITH HAND TO LOWER HIMSELF TO WALK DECK-FELT PAIN IN BACK AND HIP.

EMPLOYEE WORKING FROM A LADDER ON AN UNSTABLE SIURFACE, LADDER FELL AFTER EMPLOYEE UNTIED LADDEREMPLOYEE BROKE LEFT WRIST, LEFT KNEE CAP AND SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BESIDE THE CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE, OPERATOR SIDE WHEN A RIB ROLL HIT HIM. THIS PUSH HIM DOWN AND INTO THE SIDE OF THE MACHINE. THE EMPLOYEES INJURIES RESULTED IN FRACTURED PELVIS, LEFT ARM, LEFT UPPER LEG AND ANKLE.

EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF KNOCKING THE PIN OUT OF AN EQUALIZER BAR. WHEN THE PIN CAME OUT, THE DOZER SAT DOWN CAUSING THE BAR TO STRIKE HIM IN HIS LEFT KNEE. DR DIAGNOSED THE INJURY AS BEING A BRUISE.

EE WAS HELPING AT THE CONE CRUSHER AND SLIPPED. HE HIT HIS RIGHT SIDE ON A STUD AND FELT PAIN IN HIS RIB CAGE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DRAGGING A SUBMERSIBLE PUMP INTO MAIN R-1 INTAKE ENTRY TO REPLACE PUMP #99. WHILE DRAGGING PUMP, EMPLOYEE FELT A PAIN IN HIS ABDOMEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A STONE WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN A PIECE OF THE HAMMER BROKE OFF. THE STRIKING PART OF THE HAMMER ENTERED THE FOREARM OF THE EMPLOYEE. A PUNCTURE WOUND WAS CAUSED TO FORE ARM BY PENETRATION OF METAL FRAGMENT.

HAD LIGHT RAIN AT BEGINNING OF SHIFT. WEATHER HAD CLEARED & ROAD HAD BEEN DRIED UP. HAULERS WERE BACKING UP RAMP PUTTING WALL BACK. DOZER HAS PUSHING LOADS OFF DUMP. AFTER HAULER DUMPED DOZER PUSHING LOAD AND A ROCK FELL INTO TRACK BEHIND DOZER. OPERATOR DID NOT SEE THE ROCK, BACKED UP DOZER, CLIMBED UP ON ROCK AND SLID OFF SIDE OF ROCK JARRING OPERATOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS ALIGNING WEDGE IN DUMP SOCKET ON DRAG LINE BUCKET HE GOT HIS FINGER CAUGHT IN WEDGEWHILE OTHER EMPLOYEE PULLED THE SLACK OUT OF DUMP BUCKET (CROWS FOOT) EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING CABLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROOF BOLTING ON A C/M SECTION. STATED HE BEGAN EXPERIENCING LOWER BACK PAIN BUT COULD NOT RELATE IT TO A SPECIFIC INCIDENT. SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION AFTER END OF SHIFT.

EE WAS PACKAGING CEMENT IN BAGS WHEN HE STARTED TO FEEL PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE DID NOT REPORT THE INJURY TO HIS SUPERVISOR OR OTHER PERSONNEL. ON4-28-99 HE REPORTED TO OUR MEDICAL PERSONNE L OF HIS INJURY AND WAS SENT TO THE STATE INSURANCE FUND. THE CASE IS PENDING INVESTIGATION BY THE STATE INSURANCE FUND TO DETERMINE IF IT IS JOB RELATED.

EE REPORDEDLY WAS LIFTING A BAG OF ROCK DUST, TURNED AND TWISTED KNEE.

WHILE PARKING THE CONVEYER CHAIN THROUGH THE METER WITH A WIRE ROPE, THE WIRE ROPE BROKE AND STRUCK MR COOK IN HIS NOSE AND LEFT CHEEK.

EE WAS BENT OVER CLEANING GRAVEL OFF THE DROP DECK TRAILER WITH ARMS EXTENDED WHEN HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS OPERATING A JOY 10 SC SHUTTLE CAR. THE MINER OPERATOR SIGNALED SC OPERATOR TO BACK UP TO MOVE MINER TO SECOND PASS. THE SHUTTLECAR OPERATOR BACKED THE CAR INTO A PARKED SHUTTLECAR. HE W AS MASHED BETWEEN THE SIDEBAORD OF THE PARKED CAR AND THE STEERING WHEEL OF THE CAR HE WAS OPERATING. EE SUFFERED NO BROKEN BONES BUT WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR BRUISED LIVER.

WHILE BUILDING PERMANENT STOPPING WITH CEMEMTN BLOCS, THE EE TURNED AROUND TO GET ANOTHER BLOCK AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. STRAIN.

PULLING ON ATRS RING AND EXPERIENCED PAIN IN BACK.

GOING AROUND SHUTTLE CAR WITH A 5 GALLON BUCKET OF OIL.

EE WAS DOING REPAIR ON PIECE OF STATIONARY EQUIPMENT WHEN HE WAS FINISHED HE STEPPED APPROX 3FT TO THE GROUND & TWISTED HIS ANKLE

COMPLAINED OF IRRITATION IN LEFT EYE- CAUSE UNKNOWM.

THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED OUT OF THE MAN TRIP AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE, SPRAIN.

PULLING ON BELT STRUCTURE PAIN IN BACK.

ROCK TRUCK BREAKING UP RAMP TO UNLOAD TRUCK HITSOFT SPOT ON RAMP WAS READJUSTING TRUCK ON SOFT SPOT & TRUCK ROLLED OVER ON RIGHT SIDE

EE WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF END LOADER AND THOUGHT HE WAS ON THE BOTTOM STEP AND LET GO OF THE HAND RAIL, HE MISSED THE BOTTOM STEP AND FELL TO THE GROUND.

EE WA PREPARING TO LOOSEN A BOLT ON A CRUSHER WHEN HE DROPPED A SOCKET. WHEN HE BENT OVER TO PU THE SOCKET THE RATCHET ENTERED A SMALL HOLE IN THE MACHINE AND KICKED THE RATCHET OUT HITTING EE WRIST

PIECE OF STEEL UNDER TIRE OF 85 TON TRUCK- THE EMPLOYEE TRIED TO PULL IT OUT FROM UNDER TIRE, FELT SUDDEN PAIN IN GROIN AREA.

INJURED GOT SOMETHING IN LEFT EYE WHILE HELPING ELECTRICIAN WORK ON CABLE TO MINER.

EMPLOYEE WAS BLOWING DRILL HOLES WITH BLOW PIPE.ACCIDENTLY BUMPED LEVER- HOSE CAME ON, BLOWING EYES FULL OF MUCK.

EE SAID HE WAS PULLING MINER CABLE AND HURT HIS BACK. HE NEVER TOLD ME ANYTHING ABOUT IT UNTIL HE CALLED IN ON THE 5-3-99. THIS CO. IS NOT ADMITTING HE GOT HURT ON THE JOB. DID NOT BECOME REPO RTABLE UNTIL 5-3-99.

EE WAS REACHING OVER THE SIDE OF THE ROOF BOLTER TO GET SOME PINS, THE OPERATOR TRAMMED THE ROOFBOLTER FORWARD CATCHING EE'S FOOT WITH THE TIRE OF THE ROOF BOLTER.

INJURED WAS REACHING OVER HEAD PUTTING GUARDING ON CABLE WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS UPPER BACK RESULTING IN A PULLED MUSCLE.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED THAT WHILE HE WAS STRIKING RUBBER TIRED DOZER BLADE WEAR PLATES, WITH SLEDGE HAMMER, THE BLADE FELL ON HIS LEFT FOOT, PINCHINGOUTER LEFT SIDE OF FOOT BETWEEN THE GROUND AND L OWER PART OF BLADE. EMPLOYEE STATES THAT ENGINE AND TRANSMISSION WERE REMOVED FROM UNIT. BLADE WAS TIED WITH CHAIN TO HOLD IN PLACE. EMPLOYEE IN TURN STRUCK BLADE WITH HAMMER AND CHAIN BROKE.

EMPLOYEE GOT INSIDE CAB TO START WORK, MACHINE (TRUCK) WAS PARKED ON SLOPE AND DOOR WAS BEING OPENED TO GET INSIDE, DOOR CLOSED ON MIDDLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND BRUISING LAST JOINT OF FINGER.

WHILE TRYING TO PULL TARP OF TRAILER OVER LOAD, WIND CAUGHT TARP AND DRIVER OF TRACTOR-TRAILER FELL OFF TOP OF TRAILER APPROX 12'.

EE WAS LIFTING OBJECTS TOO HEAVY FOR ONE PERSON. ANOTHER EE NOTICED AND WENT TO HELP HIM FROM THEN ON.

RUBBED BACK OF HAND ON GRINDING DISC.

EE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK WHEN SHOVELING ONTO MOTHER BELT.

EE RAN INTO A ROOF BOLT IN THE ROOF & JAMMED HIS NECK. HE BECAME REPORTABLE LOST TIME INJ 5/8/99

STEPPING OUT OF WATER PULL--ONTO DIRT--BACK PULLED WHEN HE TURNED.

EE WAS DRIVING HIS TRUCK UNDERGROUND. HE HIT A BUMP WHICH CAUSED HIM TO BOUNCE UP. HE STRUC HIS HEAD ON A PIPE

EMPLOYEE REPORTED FLASH BURNS TO BOTH EYES AFTERWELDING RAW WATER TANK. WOKE UP IN THE NIGHT AND BOTH EYES WERE BURNING SO EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT THE HOSPITAL.

EE TOOK BOLTER CABLE DOWN FROM HANGERS. HE WAS STARTING ON CABLE WHEN HE HIT THE CABLE REEL TAKEUP HE WAS STANDING ON CABLE & HE WAS THR0WN OFF STRIKING HIS SHOULDER

WHILE TAKING A MAT OUT OF THE DOZER FLOOR, EMPLOYEE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.

LEAVING MINE LSOT FOOTING AND FELL AGAINST SHUTTLE CAR.

WHILE OPERATING FLETCHER R.B. A ROCK FELL AND STRUCK THE OPERATOR.

EE TWISTED R KNEE WHEN GETTING OUT OF LOW TRAC.

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER TO GET A SCREEN RUBBER. HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE SCREENING PLANT LADDER WHEN HE LOST HIS HAND GRIP ON THE LADDER. HE FELL APPROX SIX FEET, LANDED ON THE GROUND, A ND BROKE HIS RIGHT HEEL IN THE PROCESS.

EE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE DRIVE BELTS AND SHEAVE WHILE MANUALLY TURNING THE TUNNEL CONVEYOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ALONG THE MAIN LINE BELT, HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS BACK.

ROCK FELL EXTENDING BACK BETWEEN 2ND ROW OF BOLTS STRIKING INJURED ON LEFT SIDE.

LOADER OPERATOR WAS OPERATING A LOADER HE NORMALLY DOESN'T OPERATE. THIS PARTICULAR LOADER RIDES ROUGHER THAN THE ONE HE OPERATES, AND HE DEVELOPED A STIFF NECK. HE REPORTE DTHS TO ME ON 4-29- 99. I SENT HIM TO THE DR. THE DR. TOLD HIM HE HAD PULLED A NECK MUSCLE. HE TOOK ONE DAY OFF AND REPORTED BACK TO WORK AT FULL CAPACITY.

WAS ADJUSTING CONE CLUTH ON CRUSHER 1-02, STEPPED THROUGH PLATE OPENING DURING CRUSHER REPAIR.

MECHANIC WAS WORKING IN CAB OF D9L DOZER SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING HIS LEFT KNEE.

BENT OVER TO PLACE ROCK ON PALLET AND LEFT KNEE GAVE AWAY.

EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF LOWERING GUARD DOWN ON BELT LINE INJURED FINGER TIPS AND WRIST WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY INJURED OFF THE JOB.

THIS INJURY IS A RECURRANCE OF A BACK PROBLEM WHICH ORIGINATED WHILE WHILE OPERATING A CAT LOADER 988 IN THE PIT AT CASTLE HAYNE ON 4/27/99. THIS WAS A FIRST AID BACK SPRAIN THAT HAS CONTINUED TO CAUSE PROBLEMS. THE DR. PUT HIM OUT OF WORK PENDING FURTHER NOTICE.

CONTRACTOR MECHANIC WAS GETTING OFF A D10 DOZER LOST HIS GRIP FROM THE HAND RAIL SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO HURT HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EE & 2 OTHER EE'S WERE LIFTING A MOTOR ON A BRIDGE & LIFTED IN A POSTION THAT TWISTED HIS BACK. DR'S REPORT WAS THAT HE HAD A PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK

THE DRIVER GOT OUT OF HIS TRUCK AT THE BINS TO GET HIS REMOTE CONTROL AND WHEN HE TRIED TO CLIMB THE LADDER TO GET BACK IN HIS TRUCK, HE SLIPPED AND LOST HIS GRIP AND FELL TO THE GROUND, FORMI NG A KNOT BETWEEN HIS SHOULDER BLADES.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD JUST STEPPED UP TO THE MINER OPERATOR, AND A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOFSTRIKINH HIM ON THE HEAD.

WORKING ON #2 RAW MILL. HIT HEAD AND TWISTED NECK AND SHOULDER AREA. SURGERY 12/14/99 OFF WORK AS OF THEN.

EE WAS UNDERGROUND SETTING A PUMP. HE SLIPPED AND FELL HURTING HIS BACK.

ON 4/26/99 EE STATED HE STRUCK HIS RIGHT KNEE AGAINST A WATER JACK WHILE CRAWLING TOWARDS THE #3 SHIELD. HE CONTINUED TO WORK WITH A SORE KNEE UNTIL 5/4/99 WHEN HE WENT TO SEE A DOCTOR. HE WAS THEN SENT TO ANOTHER DR (ORTHPED). STILL TRYING TO GET A DIAGNOSIS AS OF 5/13/99.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE BOTTOM SCREEN ON THE JCI BY CLIMBING IN ON UNDER BELT. HE MOTIONED TO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE, THE SIGNAL WAS MISUNDERSTOOD, THE BELT WAS STARTED WITH EMPLOYEE ON THE BEL T. HE WAS CARRIED AND PINNED UNDER THE BRACE.

WHILE TRAMMING WITH ROF BOLTER, ROOF BOLTER RAN INTO EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS RERAILING A TRACK ROCKDUSTER. AS HE WAS LOWERING THE LIFTING JACK, THE JACK TWISTED, CAUSING THE JACK BAR TO STIKE HIS RIGHT HAND. HE SUFFERED A FRACTURE TO HIS RIGHT THUMB.

WHILE BENDING OVER TO PU A DRIVE SHAFT EE STRAINED HIS BACK MUSCLES

MECHANIC WENT TO MINE TO WORK ON A CAT 980G--WHILE MOVING A BLOCK TO THE MACHINE IN ORDER TO WORK ON IUT, EE WENT TO SET THE BLOCK & FELT A SNAP IN HIS BACK. EMT ONSITE TREATED HIM.

EE JUMPED ONTO THE GROUND FROM A LOADER. WHEN HE LANDED HARD ON HIS FEET HE INJURED HIS GROIN AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTACHING A 10WT OIL WIGGINS WHEN SHE FELT BACK PAIN MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS SOUGHT AND EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN OFF WORK ON 4-29-99.

WHILE CLIMBING UP END DUMP LADDER EE FELT A TWINGE IN HIS LOW BACK/BUTTOCKS WHEN HE REACHED FOR THE THIRD RUNG

AS INJ SQUATTED TO REMOVE A WHEEL CHOCK, HE FELTA SNAP IN HIS KNEE. DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL HE HAD SURGERY ON HIS KNEE 7/12/99

REPLACING HOIST CABLE CR88 ACC REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR 5/7/99

EE WAS RUNNING A JACK HAMMER ON THE ASH RING AND EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN.

WHILE TURNING POT OVER THE SUPPORTING BLOCK KICKED OUT AND ALLOWED POT TO FALL.

EMPLOYEE SAID HE HURT HIS STOMACH THREE OR FOUR WEEKS AGO WHILE WORKING ON EQUIPMENT. HE HAD BEEN PULLING WHILE WORKING ON TRUCK TODAY WHEN HE SUDDENLY COLLASPED IN PAIN.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS SHOVELING ON BELT LINE WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. NOTE: EE WAS INJURED ON 4-26-99 AND CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 5-9-99 AND STARTED LOSING DAYS FROM WORK ON 5-1- 99.

EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME ON 4/26/99.

WHILE WORKING ON #2 LW FACE EE BENT DOWN TO ADVANCE SHIELD AND FELT RIGHT KNEE LOCK UP WHE TWISTED.

EE'S BACK IS WEAK FROM MORE THAN 15YRS OF MANUALLABOR. EE WAS PREPARING FOR WORK WHILE PREPARINGHIS BACK WAS HURTING, EE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK WHEN HE WENT INTO THE SUPPLY TRAILER TO GET GLOVE S. EE WENT UG TO BOLT TOP. ABOUT 9AM HE CALLED OUTSIDE FOR A RIDE. EE CAME OUTSIDE & LEFT THE PROPERTY TO SEE HIS DR

INJURED WAS BOLTING ROOF. HE WAS WEARING RUBBER GLOVES AT THE TIME. HE STATED THE STEEL GOT HOT AND DRIED THE GLOVE, STICKING TO IT AND TWISTING HIS HAND WITH THE ROTATION.

THE INJURED DID NOT SHOW UP FOR WORK FROM 4/26/99 ON. THE CO. FINALLY TALKED TO HIM ON 4/29/99. HIS TAILBONE WAS VERY SORE, HE HAD NO EXPLANATION FOR WHAT CAUSED IT BUT HIS NORMAL JOB ACTIVITI ES.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING ROCK TRUCK ON BACKFILL. AS HE WAS BACKING UP TOWARD BERM, FILL COLLAPSED UNDER THE TRUCK. THE TRUCK TURNED OVER AND ROLLED OVER HIGHWALL INJURING DRIVER'S LEFT LEG.

ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN BOLT STRIKING EE ON HEAD HURTING NECK & BACK

EE WAS CHANGING A DAMAGED HYDRAULIC. HE WAS PRYING A STAPLE LOCK OUT TO FREE THE HOSE WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT BICEP, SHOULDER AND NECK.

HE WAS OPERAQTING OUR #2 21SC SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE ALLOWED THE OPERATOR'S DECK AREA TO RUB AGAINST THE COAL RIB AND COAL/ROCK FELL ON HIS LOWER LEFT LEG.

HIT BY CRIB BLOCK.

WHILE LIFTING A GATE WITH ANOTHER PERSON, WHEN THE GATE SLIPPED TRAPPING 4TH AND 5TH FINGERS ON RIGHT SIDE. LACERATION TO PINKY FINGER, SUTURES NECESSARY.

EE WAS PUSHING A CONCRETE BUCKET & TRIPPED OVER A NAIL BOX, FALLING ON RIGHT WRIST TRYING TO CATCH HIMSELF

EE WAS PULLING UP A SHIELD WHEN A ROCK FELL BETWEEN THE SHIELD BOUNCED OFF A HYDRAULIC HOSE & HIT HIS HAND

EMPLOYEE DROPPED BELT STRUCTURE ON FOOT.

AN EMPLOYEE FELL AND I BEAM ROLLED ON LEG (NO INJURY RESULTED) INJURED EMPLOYEE LIFTED THE BEAM AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

THE EE WAS CARRYING 60 LB BAGS OF CEMENT INTO THE PRIMARY CRUSHER BUILDING. DURING THE COURSE OF THE JOB HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN THE GROIN ON 4-28-99 A HERNIA WAS DIAGNOSED AND SURGERY IS BEIN G CONSIDERED. THE EE RETURNED TO WORK.

EE WAS HOLDING STEADY A GEAR THAT WAS SETTING ON A LEDGE PRIOR TO INSTALLATION. THE GEAR SLIPPED OFF OF LEDGE TURNING OVER AND LANDING ON EE'S FOOT. NO BONES WERE BROKEN BUT UNSURE ABOUT OTHER INJURY TO HIS FOOT.

EE WAS UNLOADING ROCK OUT OF FEEDER AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE GETTING OUT OF THE FEEDER.

EE WAS CARRYING (2) 5 GALLON BUCKET OF OIL AT THE SAVE TIME. INJURED WAS NOT REPORTED UNITL 4-26-99.

INJURED WAS STEPPING UPON A PLATFORM WHEN HIS LEFT ANKLE TURNED.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED HE HURT HIS LEG WHEN EXITING HIS TRUCK(HAUL-BACK) AT QUITTING TIME.

THE MUCK CAR THE EMPLOYEE HAD JUST UNCOUPLED MAYNOT HAVE BEEN SECURED PROPERLY. HE TURNED HIS BACK ON IT AND WAS STRUCK FROM BEHIND WHEN IT BEGS

EE STATED HE WAS PULLING A STAPLE LOCK OUT OF THE HYDRAULIC BLEED PLUG AND THE PLUG STRUCK HIS RIGHT THUMB.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS TIGHTENING WHEEL LUGS ON SCOOP WITH A 3/4" DRIVE RATCHET WHEN THE STUD BOLT SLIPPED IN HUB CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACK ON RIGHT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS KNEE WHEN HE SLIPPED SHOVELING ON A BELT CONVEYOR.

EE PICKED UP A STAGELOADER CHAIN AND FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS FOREARM. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURYT 4-27-99.

EE WAS WORKING ON A SCREEN DECK REPLACING BROKENBAR, CUTTING, WELDING, GRINDING & PIECE OF METAL WENT UNDER SAFETY SHIELD LODGED IN LEFT EYE.

THE EE WAS MOVING THE BELT TAIL WHEN A ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN TRUSS HARDWARE, STRIKING EE ON BOTH HANDS. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY.

TWISTED RIGHT KNEE MOVING MINER CABLE AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE COMPLAINED OF LEFT LEG PAIN FROM HIP DOWN, BAD HEADACHE AND NAUSEA. PHONED WORK ON 4/26/99 EE HAD BEEN HOSPITALIZED DR. STATED SPIDER BITE.

CARRYING FEEDER PLUG & PULLING CABLE, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS SPREADIG GRAVEL AND AS HE CROSSED THE ROAD, HE WAS JARRED WHEN HIS DOZER RAN OVER AROCK IN THE ROAD.

EE WAS CLIMBING INTO TRUCK AND FELL AS HE WAS DOING SO. DIAGNOSED WITH SPRAINED WRIST. THE EQUIPMENT AND GROUND CONDITIONS WERE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. THIS ACCIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED HAD HE TAKEN MORE CAUTION CLIMBING INTO TRUCK.

PUTTING STONE ON PALLET FELT SHARP PAIN IN RIGHT LOWER GROIN AREA-KEPT ON WORKING -IT GOT WORSE.

AS EE WAS LIFTING GARBAGE BAG OUT OF BARREL, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT THE DRYER FEED CHUTE AT GRANUSOL LINE #1 HE WAS IN OUT WITH A BAR AND HAMMER. EMPLOYEE MISSED THE RODAND HIT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WITH THE SLEDGE HAMMER. LEFT WOR K AND RECEIVED MEDICAL ATTN.

EE ALLEDGES HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE WHILE ROOFBOLTING.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLOSING LID ON RAIL CAR DOOR, WHEN HE PULLED LOWER BACK MUSCLE.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED HE WAS USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO STRIKE A TRACK LINK ON A D11 CATERPILLER DOZERWHEN A SLIVER OF STEEL STRUCK HIS FOREHEAD.

EE STATED HE WAS REACHING FOR ROOF BOLT WHEN A ORANGE J-HOOK IN HIS OVERALLS HIT DRILL LEVER, CAUSING CLAMP TO CATCH HAND. EE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 10-8-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING CABLES WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS, STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE SHOULDER.

ATTEMPTED TO STAND UP HYDRAULIC CYLINDER WHEN "GLAND" CAME DOWN AND CAUGHT EDGE OF THUMB.

EE STUMBLED FORWARD AND WAS PINNED BETWEEN THE WHISKER AND THE RIB.

EE WAS FACING UP 2 BARGES WITH A WIRE CABLE THAT SLIPPED THROUGH HIS RIGHT HAND CUTTING HIS FINGERS.

EE & EE WERE WORKING ONT HE JUMBO DRILL. IT HAS A BEAM TO WALK ON. EE WENT TO GET SOME BOLTS FOR THE PART THEY WERE WORKIN GON & WHEN HE TURNED TO GO BACK HE FELL OFF THE BEAM. EE LANDED ON HIS RIGHT SIDE.

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING INJURED CAUSING FRACTURED LEFT ARM AND FRACTURED VERTIBRAE.

INJURED AND CO-WORKERS WERE IN PROCESS OF REPLACING AIR PADS ON AIR SLIDE. AS THEY WERE BOLTING AIR SLIDE INNTO PLACE. IT SLIPPED STRIKING INJURED ON LOWER LEG.

EE WAS TRYING TO GET STEEL OUT OF CHUCK ON BOLTER WHEN CANOPY CAME DOWN STRIKING R INDEX FINGER

EE WAS OPERATING THE MINER LOADING RAMCAR WHEN A ROCK FELL OFF AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FREE UP A LOCK DOWN FK CEMENT PUMP ON #2 FINISH MILL. HE USED A 24" ALUMINUM PIPE WRENCH ON THE MOTOR SHAFT WITH A CHEATER BAR APPROX. 3' LONG. AS HE PULLED THE WREN CH, THE WRENCH HANDLE BROKE AND HE STUMBLED BACKWARDS CAUSING HIM TO FRACTURE AND SLIGHTLY DISLOCATE HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

WHILE IN SHOWER AT EAST PORTAL BATH HOUSE EE CUAGHT HIS LEFT LITTLE TOE IN A HOLE WHERE FLOOR TILE WAS MISSING NOTE EE STARTED LOSING TIME FOR THIS INJURY ON 5/7/99

EE WAS TRANSPORTING ACETYLENE & OXGYEN CYLINDERSIN THEIR CART TO PERFROM A TASK ON CRANE #2. WHEN HE PASSED OVER A RAMP HE SLIPPED & LOST HISBALANCE. TO AVOID OVERTURNING THE CART HE HAD TO STRUGGLE WITH IT. THIS LATTER CAUSED A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER

EE JACKING MANTRIP UP JACK SLIPPED MASHED FINGER.

TRAVELING TO SECTION, HEAD HIT ROOF WHILE RIDING ON MANTRIP

HAD LOWERED JACKS ON MINER TO BEGIN MINING. WAS REACHING FOR THE REMOTE CONTROL BOX WHICH WAS SETTING ON MINER WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT FROM A CLAY VEIN AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HANDS. STRAP S WERE 33" APART.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE #40 ROOF BOLTER, WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE AREA BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS AND THE RIB LINE. THE ROCK EMPLOYEE ON THE HEAD AND THE AREA OF THE BACK.

EE WAS WORKING WHEN HE NOTICED HIS LEFT THUMB AND WRIST HURTING. THE PAIN BECAME SO INTENSE HE DECIDED TO SEE A DR. HIS INJURY CONSISTED OF A DISLOCATION OF HIS LEFT THUMB.

MOVING A LADDER

EMPLOYEE WAS DIRECTED BY MANAGEMENT TO MAKE A GUARD OUT OF A PIECE OF OLD SAND SCREEN AND HE INFORMED MANAGEMENT THAT HE HURT HIS BACK PICKING UP THE SCREEN.

WAS OUTSIDE OF MINE CLIMBED OUT OF SCOOP AND SAID BACK HURT.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A 10" X 10" X 8" CAP, WHEN HE FELT A MUSCLE PULL IN HIS BACK.

HOOKING CABLES TO PORTABLE CONVEYOR MACHINE WAS MOVED TO CENTER LOAD EXCAVATOR JERKED CABLE AND TIPPED OVER CAUSING MAN TO FALL, RESULTING IN PULLED NECK MUSCLE. MAN LOST 2 DAYS AND RETURNED T O WORK IN GOOD CONDITION.

EE ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB STEPS ON CAT 990 FRONT ENDLOADER MISSED THE HANDRAIL AS HE STEPPED UP & LOST HIS BALANCE & FELL BACKWARD TO THE GROUND. HEFELL ON HIS ELBOW &BACK

OPERATOR WAS RUNNING AN ESQUVATOR AND PULLED MUCSCLE IN HIS BACK.

TALKING ON TELEPHONE DURING ELECTRICAL STORM. OUTSIDE IN MINE OFFICE.

HE TOLD THE MINE FOREMAN THAT HE HAD FELL ON THE ROOF BOLTER DURING HIS SHIFT, AND THAT HIS LEG AND BACK WAS HURTING.

WHILE PULLING ON A HYDRAULIC HOSE HE FELT PAIN AND SOMETHING PULL IN HIS GROIN AREA.

TWO MECHANICS WERE REINSTALLING LOWER BURNERS INTHE LINE 1 PELLET FURNACE COMBUSTION CHAMBER. THE BURNER WAS SUSPENDED BY A COME-A-LONG AND MANUALLY INSERTED. PUSHING/PULLING INVOLVED. WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN WHICH HE BELIEVES THIS JOB CONTRIBUTED TO. THEENTIRE ASSEMBLE WEIGHED 100 POUNDS, BUT WAS SUSPENDED FROM ABOVE.

EE WAS ON TOP OF A CRIBBED AREA, HIS FCOOT CAUGHT ON AN OBJECT, HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL TO MINE FLOOR, OVEREXTENDING LEFT HAND & WRIST.

DRIVING A BUGGY TO SECTION WENT THRU BARN DIP NOT GET DOWN ON BUGGY WENT INTO LOW TOP HIT RIGHT SHOULDER ON TOP.

2ND LEVEL PREP PLANT-EE WAS HELPING PUT EB-36 DRYER TO TOP BACK ON AND IT WOULD NOT GO BACK IN PLACE. EE MOVED THE TOP TO POSITION IT OVER PINS AND IT SLIPPED DOWN ON MACHINE AND PINNED HIS FI NGER CAUSING A CRUSHING INJURY TO HIS LEFT INDEXFINGER.

HE SAID HE TOLD OUTSIDE MAN TO CUTOFF BOTTLES OUTSIDE. HE FIGURED THAT BOTTLES WERE OFF SO HE STARTED UNDOING HOSES FROM TORCH BARRELL. AT TIME HE REALIZED BOTTLES WERE NOT OFF SPARKS FROM WOR KER ABOVE DROPPED TO HIS LEVEL AND IGNITED ACTYLENE AND OXYGEN IN WHICH BURNT INSIDE KNEES AND AROUND THIGHT.

BELT CLAMP LANDED ON EE'S FINGER WHILE UNFASTENING CLAMP.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE TORE A STOMACH MUSCLE WHEN HE PICKED UP A BOX OF EXPLOSIVES.

INJ WAS OPERATING A CONT HAULAGE UNIT (BRIDGE) & WAS TRAMMING TO NEW LOCATION. THERE WAS VERY MUDDY CONDITIONS & INJ ATTEMPTED TO DUCK WALK RATHER THAN CRAWL & TWISTED LEG IN DOING SO

STEPPED UP ON A 18" BOX TO GET A BETTER VIEW OF THE SCRAP YARD & STEPPED ON A ROCK WHEN GETTING DOWN & THE ROCK ROLLED THEREFORE SLIPPING & SPRAINING ANKLE & LEG

EE WAS CHANGE A LIGHT IN WASH PLANT FROM A 20' EXTENSION LADD WHEN THE TOP OF LADDER KICKED OUT AWAY FROM WALL & HE FELL ONTO A WATER PUMP.

EE WAS ON A PIN IN THE TONGUE OF THE ROADWAY DRAG. THE BAR SLIPPED AND EE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND NECK. NOTE: EE WENT OFF WORK FOR A SHOULDER OPERATION ON 5-10-99.

INJ WAS INSTALLING A 6FT ROOF BOLT & AS HE WAS PUSHING THE BOLT UP INTO THE HOLE, HE HIT HIS TORATION LEVER & THE BOLT SWUNG AROUND & STRUCK HIMIN THE ARM

WORKER WAS HELPING REMOVE FUEL TANK FROM DRAGLINE WHEN WEIGHT SHIFTED AND SLIPPED OUT OF SLINGS.FELL ABOUT TWO FEET AND PINNED WORKER'S LEG TO GROUND.

ROCK ROLLED FROM PILE HITTING LEFT LEG.

CUSTOMER CONTRACTED TRUCK DRIVER FELL FROM HIS TRUCK WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REACH A TARP CORD. INJ WAS AN EE OF ROSE CARTAGE UNDER CONTRACT WITH BETHLEHAM STEEL. A TARPING STATION WITH FALL PROTE CTION IS PROVIDED AT THIS OPERATION. TRUCK DRIVERS ARE INSTRUCUTED TO USE THIS STATION FOR TARPING. WE REQUEST THIS INCIDENT NOT BE CHARGED TO THIS OPERATION

STEPPED OFF A CONVEYOR BELT LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ABOUT 2 1/2 OR 3 FOOT.

EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A LACERATED LEFT EYE BALL, WHEN STRUCK BY A PIECE OF COAL THROWN FROM SHEARER CUTTING HEAD.

EE WAS RIDING A MANTRIP UNDERGROUND. THE MANTRIP BOUNCED AND HE HIT HIS KNEE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE MANTRIP. HIS KNEE WAS BRUISED & SWOLLEN.

EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING SUPPLIES WHEN HE HE INJUREDHIS RIGHT KNEE. HE DOES NOT REMEMBER ANY SPECIFIC OCCURANCE CAUSING INJURY, BUT HIS KNEE STARTED HURTING DURING THE SHIFT.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO UNLOAD DRILL STEEL WHEN HE TURNED AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RIGHT LEGAND HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS CARRYING A BUCKET OF BOLTS WEIGHING APPROX 45 LBS DOWN A FLIGHT OF STEPS, EE CLAIMS HIS BACK GIVE & THEN FELT A STINGING PAIN IN HIS MIDTO LOWER BACK

WHILE OPERATING LOADER, HITTING BUMPS, THE SEAT WOULD KEEP BOUNCING CAUSING JOLTING OF LOWER PART OF BACK.

A WRENCH SLIPPED, PINCHING EE'S LITTLE FINGER ON THE LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE WRENCH AND THE HEAD FRAME. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY.

EE STATED HE WAS WALKING UP THE TRACK SLOPE TO COUPLE MATERIAL CARS TO BONNIE CAR WHEN HE SLIPPED & STRUCK HIS RIGHT KNEE. 1ST LOST WORK DAY OCCURRED ON 4/29/99

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SKAT TRAK SKID LOADER OVER UNEVEN GROUND, HE WAS JOSTLED WHEN HE HIT A BUMP AND INJURED HIS BACK.

HE WAS WALKING BELTS LINE A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS AND HIT HIS HEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING ON A MANTRIPWHEN IT SCRAPED THE RIB CAUSING A PIECE OF RIB COAL TO FALL ON HIS LEG. EMPLOYEE WENT TO GET AN X-RAY WHICH INDICATED A BRUISE ONLY.

PINCHED HAND BETWEEN FINGERS IN CHAIN HOOK

WHILE MAKING HIS INSPECTION ROUNDS, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED BUT CAUGHT HIMSELF BEFORE HE FELL. ON 04/27/99, EMPLOYEE WENT TO DOCTOR AND WAS REMOVED FROM WORK UNTIL 05/04/99. HE WAS ALSO PRESCRIBED 3 WEEKS OF PHYSICAL THERAPY.

EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER AND STEPPED OFF THE LAST RUNG ONTO AN AIR HOSE. THIS CAUSED ANKLE AND KNEE TO TWIST. REPORT RECEIVED MUCH LATER THAT EE EVENTUALLY WENT AND HAD ARTHROSCOPY ON KNE E.

EE WAS PULLING ON A CHAIN TO HOOK TO SOME FREIGHT THAT WAS IN A CARGO VAN. PULLING THE CHAIN STRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING ON A 992 ENDLOADER. WHEN SHE LIFTED HER RIGHT LEG UP TO THE CABLE STEP, THELEG WOULD NOT SUPPORT HER AND SH PUT ALL HER WEIGHT BACK ON TO HER LEFT LEG ON THE GROUND. THE S TEP WAS FAILY HIGH AND EMPLOYEE IS SHORT. EMPLOYEE DID NOT SLP OR FALL.

HE WAS SITTING BESIDE ROADWAY WAITING FOR THE OTHER ROOFBOLTER OPERATOR TO MOVE THE BOLTER TO NEXT WORKING PLACE. A PIECE OF ROCK MEASURING 2" AT THICK END & A FEATHER EDGE BY 16' WIDE STRUCK HIS HARD HAT MOVING THE HAT DOWN HIS LEFT FOREHEAD CAUSING AN ABRASIVE CUT TO HIS FOREHEAD AND LEFT UPPER LIP.

TWO PEOPLE WERE REMOVING PIECE OF STEEL PIPE FROM UNDER BELTLINE. ONE END OF PIPE WAS UNCHAINED AND PERSON LET IT GO AND IT SWUNG OVER AND CHAIN SLID OFF OTHER END, PIPE FELL AND STRUCK PERSON ON TOP OF LEFT FOOT JUST ABOVE STEEL TOE CAUSING INJURY TO FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ALONG THE LONGWALL FACE. HE WAS WEARING HARD PLASTIC KNEE PADS. AS HE KNELT DOWN, HIS KNEE PAD SLIPPED ON A METAL SURFACE. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL INTO THE METAL S TRUCTURE OF THE L/W SHIELD.

EE WAS CLEANING OUT A SPLICE TO REMOVE A PIN. BELT BLOCKS CAME OFF ALLOWING EMPLOYEE TO BE PUSHED INTO TOP BELT STRUCTURE. EMPLOYEE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS CLEANING AN IRON CANAL USING ANOTHER IRON INSTRUMENT, WHEN BOTH IRON OBJECTS MADE CONTACT, THIS CAUSED CRAMPS AND PAIN TO EMPLOYEE'S ARMS AND HANDS.

EE FOREMAN WAS LIFTING TIMBERS ON SOUTH MAIN SECTION AND STRAINED LOWER BACK, TIMBERS WERE 6" X 6" X 10' IN LENGTH.-MISSED 3 DAYS WORK AND RETURNED ON 4-26-99.

SLIPPED ON WET 200 MESH AS HE WAS GETTING OUT OF LUBE TRUCK, FELL AND HIT BACK ON RUNNING BOARD.

THE EE CLAIMS THAT HIS WORK ACTIVITIES ON 4-20 CAUSED STRAIN ON HIS LOWER BACK. HIS WORK TASK CONSISTED OF PICKING UP REBAR AND OTHER OBJECTS.

EE STATES THAT WHILE LIFTING A 6" STEEL PIPE, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK RESULTING IN A LUMBAR STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING HIGH LINE CABLE.

DRILL HELPER WAS CHANGING BITS AND MASHED HIS FINGERS.

EE WAS TURNING A ROLL OF BELT BY HIMSELF. EE TWISTED HIS BODY AS HE TURNED THE BELT. EE COMPLAINED OF LOW BACK PAIN. EE RESTED A WHILE, AND FINISHED THE SHIFT. EE WORKED NEXT SHIFT, BUT WAS UN ABLE TO WORK AFTER THAT. 4/23/99 EE SAW DOCTOR WHO TOLD HIM TO STAY OFF WORK DUE TO STRAINED LOW BACK MUSCLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING BACK OF TRUCK. EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING UP AND TRIPPED OVER PIPE.

WHILE FEEDING SANDPLANT WITH PIT TRUCK, EE HIT A SANDY BERM WHILE MAKING A RIGHT HAND TURN CAUSING DRIVER TO LOOSE STEERING WHEEL FROM HIS HANDS. TRUCK TURNED ALL THE WAY RIGHT AND FLIPPED OVE R ON DRIVER SIDE.

EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING THE DOZER CABFOR THE START OF LUNCH BREAK. HE STEPPED WITH HIS LEFT FOOT ONTO THE DOZER TRACKS WHILE HOLDING THE HAND RAIL WITH HIS LEFT HAND. WHEN REACHING WITH RIGHT HAN D FOR HAND RAIL, HIS WEIGHT SHIFTED AND HIS LEFTLEG SLIPPED. HIS RIGHT KNEE STRUCK THE RIDGE ON THE TRACK, FORMING A DEEP BRUISE TO HIS RIGHT KNEE.

PUTTING NEW SLIDES CHUTES IN, SLIDE GATE SLID OUT & SENT EE FALLING TO THE FLOOR, HITTING HEADON CEMENT WALL. CAUSED NECK STRAIN SORE THE NEXT DAY

EE WAS HELPING REINSTALL B CRUSHER UNIT ON B SAMPLER WHEN HE GOT HIS LEFT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN THE UNIT AND THE CHUTE.

PULLING LOAD OFF CAG AND LOAD DERAILED. IN TRYING TO JUMP CLEAR, FELL OVER PUMP MOTOR AND LANDED ON RIGHT ELBOW/SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A STUMP OFF A TREE WHEN THETREE FELL ON THR EMPLOYEE'S LEFT FOOT.

CLEANING OUT FEEDER, WAS JAMMED UP, ROCK FELL DOWN FROM INSIDE & LANDED ON LEFT FOOT.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO ACCESS HIS MOBIL HIGHLIFT WITH HIS LUNCH PAIL IN HIS HAND. HE LOST FOOTING, FALLING TO THE GROUND.

CHANGING LEFT LIFT CYC ON 992C CAT LOADER STEPPED FROM FENDER TO CATWALK AT CAB HIT HEAD ON MIRROR JAMMING NECK & BACK

EE WAS LETTING DOWN A SIMPLEX ROOF JACK. THE LATCH FAILED TO CATCH AND CAUGHT EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT THUMB. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE WORKING ON A JOY MINER, THE FRONT COVER CAME DOWN STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE HEAD CAUSING PAIN TO HIS NECK AND BACK. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 5-15-99.

THE EE TURNED AORUND TO PICK UP A ROOF BOLT AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE (STRAIN).

WHILE WALKING IN THE TRACK ENTRY, EE SLIPPED ON A ROCK AND HIT HIS R KNEE AND HIP.

INJURED EE WAS WATCHING ANOTHER EE REPLACE CLAMPS ON A CONVEYOR BELT WHEN THE CLAMP CAME OFF STRIING THE EE IN THE LIP.

EE WAS STANDING ON THE BACK OF AN ELEC. CART DUMPING TRASH CANS. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND JUMPED OFF OF THE CART SPRAINING HIS R/KNEE.

EMPLOYEE HAD STOPPED DRILLING AND PARKED THE HIGHWALL DRILL IN ORDER TO WORK ON THE CHIP DEFLECTOR. AS HE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM THE LADDER THE BOTTOM STEP TO THE GROUND WAS SEVERAL FEET AND HE HAD TO HOLD ON TO THE HANDRAIL IN ORDER FROM HAVING TO JUMP OR LAND HARD ON THE GROUND. IN DOING SO HE APPARENTLY STRAINED HIS SHOULDER (PLEASE SEE ATTACHED).

OPENING UP A SLAB STEPPED & FELL ON LEFT FOOT

EE WAS LIFTING A PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE ON 4-0999 AND HAD A HERNIA. HE DID NOT REPORT THIS UNTIL 4-19-99.

EE WAS PULLING ON FEEDER CABLE WHICH WAS AROUND BLOCK OF COAL. HE SAID HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK

EE WAS SHOVELING & STEPPED ON SOME COAL SLIPPINGAND TWISTING HIS BACK

BACK STRAIN MOVING BOX OF ROOF BOLT GLUE.

INJURED WAS HELPING PUT BROKEN BELT TOGETHER WHEN CHAIN BROKE AND BAR STRUCK EE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD.

PERSON WAS HELPING TO BUILD CANOPY AT FALL AREA, WHILE OTHER PERSON WAS USING SLEDGE HAMMER TO STRAIGHTEN UP STEEL POST THE CANOPY SHIFTED AND FELL. INJURED PERSON WAS STRUCK ON LOWER LEG AND ANKLE BUT ONE OF THE BOARD FROM TOP OF CANOPY, THE OTHER PERSON WAS NOT INJURED.

EE WAS STARTING UP LADDER ON TRUCK, HE HAD TO STOP TO TAKE BREAK--WHEN HE STARTED BACK UP LADDERHE HAD A SHARP PAIN IN BACK. THIS APPEARS TO BE REOCCURENCE FROM INJURY ON 1/21/98

EE WAS REACHING INTO THE BACK TOOTH BED OF THE RUN TRUCK TO THROW OFF USED TEETH, WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER. DX: SHOULDER STRAIN, PHYSICAL THERAPY STARTED ON 4/26/99. MEDICAL DE TERMINATON TO BE WORK RELATED MADE ON 5/18/99.

EMPLOYEE WAS SERVICING A KAMATSU FRONT END LOADER. HE TURNED TO THE SIDE AND STRUCK HIS ELBOW ON THE HYDRAULIC TANK CAUSING BRUISING AND SWELLING.

WORKING ON A 994 DIFFERENTIAL, AXLE FELL FROM DIFFERENTIAL, THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO GEARS AND WAS SMASHED.

EE WAS HELPING INSTALL TRACK WAS USING A BAR TO SLEW TRACK WHEN HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE. *EE MISSED NO WORK. FIRST DAY MISSED DUE TOP THIS INJURY WAS 7-20-99.

EMPLOYEE THINKS HE MAY HAVE HURT HIS BACK WHILE PICKING UP A COL SAMPLE BAG,(APPROX. 50LB.). HE FELT A TWINGE IN HIS BACK SOMETIME SATURDAY AFTERNOON 04/17/99. IT DEVELOPED INTO SORENESS BY MO NDAY MORNING ON 04/19/99. HE BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 04/19/99.

EE WALKED BETWEEN SHIELDS, DRAW ROCK FELL AND STRUCK EE ON ANKLE/FOOT. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY.

EE WAS CHANGING GOVERNOR ROPE ON ELEVATOR. HE HAD THE ROP HALF-HITCHED WITH A CLOTH ROPE TO PULL SLACK IN GOVERNOR ROPE. THE ELEVATOR ROPE BECAM TANGLED ON BOTTOM OF ELEVATOR AND THE EE TRIED TO FLIP THE ENTANGLED PART OF THE ROPE LOOSE. WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO FLIP THE ROPE, THE HALF-HITCH SLIPPED AND THE SLACK IN THE GOVERNOR ROPE FELL& STRUCK THE EE'S LEFT HAND, CATCHING HAND BETWE

AFTER INSTALLING ROOF BOLT AND CHANNEL FROM A FULL FACE MINER, MINOR WALKED BACK SND STOOD BESIDE THE CM OPERATOR. A ROCK 84" LONG AND 30" WIDE AND 7" THICK BROKE OFF AT THE MOST INBY CHANNEL AND HIT THE END OF THE VENTILATION TUBES. THE TUBES FELL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD.

A STUMP FELL OUT OF ROOF KNOCKING MAN AGAINST THE RIB AND STRIKING HIM ON RIGHT LEG, CAUSING A FRACTURE JUST ABOVE THE ANKLE. THE STUMP WAS 36" IN DIAMETER, 5" ON ONE SIDE TAPERING TO 1" ON OPPOSITE SIDE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING 1" BY 18" PLATE ON STAGE LOADER. PLATE SLIPPED AND EMPLOYEE GRABBED PLATE TO KEEP IT FROM FALLING, FELT PAIN IN RIGHT ELBOW. FIRST SEEN BY DOCTOR 4/23/99.

EMPLOYEE ARRIVED AT WORK WHICH HAS A BROKEN INSIDE DOOR HANDLE. HE ATEMPTED TO OPEN THE DOOR BY REACHING THROUGH WINDOW, BUT WAS UNABLE TO. HE THEN CLIMBED OUT WINDOW AND INJURED HIS BACK. HE DID NOT REPORT INJURY OR SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 04/24/99. BACK STRAIN.

EE WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF OF THE LOADER ONTO UNLEVEL GROUND HIS FOOT WENT UNDER HIM

BOSS TOLD EMPLOYEE TO PUT THE HERKONDIZER ON 966 LOADER, BUT FIRST TAKE A CHAIN AND LIFT UNITON A BLOCK SO IT WOULD BE EASIER TO INSTALL. HE DID NOT DO AS INSTRUCTED. THE LIFTING DEVICE HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE ANKLE.

THE EMPLOYEE AND MECHANIC WERE REPAIRING THE BULLDOZER TRACKS. AS THE EMPLOYEE REACHED TO PICK UP A HAMMER, THE MECHANIC TURNED HOLDING A LIT TORCH. THE FLAME BURNED AND BLISTERED ALL THE SKIN ON THE BACK OF THE EMPLOYEE'S HAND.

THE DRIVER WAS PREPARING TO ENTER TRUCK COMPARTMENT WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS HAND IN DOOR HANDLE AND TWISTED AND SPRAINED HIS LEFT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING LOADED SHUTTLE CAR TO THE FEEDER. EMPLOYEE GOT HIS HARD HAT CAUGHT BETWEENTHE SHUTTLE CAR AND THE ROOF, INJURING HIS NECK.

PUTTING SPACER RING ON TIRE. SLIPPED IN MUD AND TWISTED BACK.

PUT WRENCH ON BOLT TO SPIN IT - WRENCH SLIPPED AND HIT LT WRIST.

WAS OPERATING A SCOOP AND CAME AROUND THE CORNER AND RAN INTO A SHUTTLE CAR CAUSING HIM TO JAM HIM NECK. STARTED MISSING TIME 4-27-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A CABLE WHEN A KINK IN THE CABLE HIT HIS HAND.

SPOTTING CORNER OF FIRST TURNED BREAK #8 ENTRY PUT OUTSIDE BOLT UP WHILE SWINGING HEAD IN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK 17"X14'X1" THICK FELL STRICKING HIM ONT EH RIGHT HAND. CUTTIN GHIS THUMB.

ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR WAS BOLTING THE #4-#5 CROSSCUT WHEN HE STEPPED ON A ROCK WITH HIS RIGHT FOOT. HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE SPRAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE. EE FINISHED HIS SHIFT AND STARTED OFF WORK O N 4-20-99.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST HUNG A PINNER CABLE IN THE HANGER WHEN THE PINNER OPERATOR STARTED PINNER WITHTHE REEL ENGAGED. THIS RESULTED IN THE HANGER BEING JERKED OFF THE RIB AND THE END OF THE HANGER WENT THROUGH EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING BUILD SEALS. HE WAS USING APIPE WRENCH TO TIGHTEN A 4" ELBOW. HE ALLEDGED HIS CHEST WAS BRUISED WHEN HIS FEET SLIPPED AND HE FELL DOWN ON THE PIPE WRENCH. EMPLOYEE BEGAN M ISSING WORK DUE TO HIS INJURY ON 04/19/99.

A LOADER OPERATOR WAS PUTTING A BUCKET OF SHOT ROCK ON THE EUC WHEN HE CAUGHT THE TOP OF THE BED AND ROCKED THE EUC CAUSING EE TO JAM HIS MOUTH SHUT, WHICH BROKE A TOOTH ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HI S MOUTH.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING DUST OUT OF POT ON FLETCHER ROOF BOLTER MODEL RRZ-15 SERIAL # 87019. HAD RIGHT HAND ON TOP OF POT. HIT WRONG LEVER AND PINNED HAND TO TOP.

EE STEPPED DOWN OFF THE BACK OF A ROOF BOLTER ONTO SOME LOOSE MATERIAL AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. PAIN PERSISTED AND HE HAD PHYSICAL THERAPY. A 7000-1 WAS SENT IN WHEN HE BEGAN TREATMENTS. HIS KNEE IS NOW GOING TO REQUIRE SURGERY AND HE WILL BE OFF WORK. HE WILL HAVE SURGERY ON 6/11/99.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UNDER A MOVING CONVEYOR WITH A HOE. HOE CAUGHT THE MOVING CONVEYOR AND THRUST THE EMPLOYEE'S HAND INTO AN IDLER. EMPLOYEE FAILED TO TURN OFF CONVEYOR AND LOCK OUT THE SYS TEM, WHICH IS STANDARD PROCEDURE. ALL SAFETY FEATURES WERE IN PLACE AND WAS CORDONED OFF.

EE WAS OPERATING A #291 BULL DOZER. HE WAS BACKING OFF A BAUXITE PILE AND BACKED OVER A 4' DROP OFF. DURING THE TASK HE CREATED THE DROP OFF. HE JAMMED HIS BACK WHEN MACHINE DROPPED. HE WAS TA KEN OFF WORK 5/4/99.

EE WAS THROWING ROOF BOLTS BUNDLE INTO THE BOLT TRAY OF A BOLTING MACHINE. BUNDLE BOUNCED UP PINCHING LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN BUNDLE AND SIDE GUARD OF BOLT TRAY. EE WAS WEARING GLOVES.

EE WAS CARRYING TRASH TO DUMPSTER. STEPPED OVER WELDING LEAD AT SAME TIME THAT OWNER OF THE WELDING LEAD PULLED ON IT CAUSING HER TO TRIP, FALL AND STRIKE HER KNEE ON THE FLOOR.

LONG AND SHORT STONE SLABS WERE LOADED TOGETHER.LIFTING SLINGS WERE TOO FAR APART. THE SLABS BUCKLED AND A PIECE OF STONE BROKE OFF AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE RIBS.

EE WAS HANGING THE WIRE FRO EQUIPMENT CABLES, WHEN HE WAS HIT IN THE RIGHT EYE WITH A WIRE CAUSING REDNESS

BOTTOM OF A HI-SPEED COUPLING COVER FELL AND SLID DOWN EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT LEG.

EE WAS WALKING DOWN STAIRS ON #1 UNLOADER. HE SLIPPED ON ROCK WHEN HE REACHED GROUND LEVEL. HE STOPPED THE FALL BY USING HANDRAIL. HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND RIGHT THIGH. HE WAS PRESCRIBED MULTIPLE PHYSICAL THERAPY. HE ISNOT LOSING TIME AND IS NOT ON WORK RESTRICTIONS. INJURY WAS INITIALLY A FIRST AID VISIT AND EVENTUALLY REQUIRED PHYSICAL THERPY.

RETRACTING GANGWAY AFTER LOADING TRUCK, RETRACTING PULL ROPE BROKEN, EE PULLED FROM BOTTOM BROKEN SECTION OF ROPE. UPON DOING SO, HE STRAINED HIS BACK. LOWER BACK MUSCLE STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE HAS A FOREIGN BODY IN HIS EYE. HE IS NOW MISSING WORK.

EE WAS WALKING ACROSS UNIT, WHNE HE STEPPED IN A HOLE, STRAINING RIGHT KNEE.

ON 4-16 EE RECEIVED A FIRST AID INJURY. ON 6-15 EE RECEIVED SECOND INJURY TO THE SAME LEG; (BUMPED IT) IT WAS DETERMIBNED TO BE AN ABCESS ON THE BONE. HE WAS TREATED FOR THIS INFECTION.

ACCORDING TO EE, HE STOPPED AT STORE, WHEN HE WENT TO GET BACK IN THE TRUCK, HE STRAINED HIS LEG. HE SAID HE WAS NOT SURE HOW IT HAPPENED. HE SAID HE FELT PAIN GO DOWN HIS LEG (LEFT) WHILE CLI MBING INTO THE TRUCK.

A TIMBER FELL ON EMPLOYEE'S FOOT.

EE WAS IN #2 ENTRY OF 4E/MN. HE HEARD A PIECE OF ROCK BREAK OVER HEAD. AS HE MOVED TO DODGE THE FALLING ROCK HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE. EE HAD SURGERY ON THE KNEE ON DEC 10,1999. HE BEGAN MISS ING TIME ON THAT DATE.

INJURED WAS STANDING AND TALKING WITH THE FOREMAN FOR THE ON-COMMING SHIFT WHEN A PIECE OF DRAWROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK. THE ROCK MEASURED 18"X 12" X 0-4"THICK. HIS FIRST LOST WORK DAY WAS 7/12/99, THE DAY HE WAS TO RETURN TO WORK AFTER A TWO WEEK SHUT DOWN.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN CAB OF TEREX 4066C HAUL TRUCK WORKING ON THE THROTTLE CONTROL. WHEN ATTEMPTING TO PULL HIS LEFT ARM OUT, EMPLOYEE SCRAPED HIS ARM ON A BOLT.

CHANGING BOLTS IN ROCKBOX OVER JAW. HOOKED UP THE OVERHEAD HOIST TO ROCKBOX ON ORDER TO LINE UP BOLT HOLES. THE HOIST WAS HOOKED UP INPROPERLY CAUSING IT TO SLIP AND HIT INJURED IN THE MOUTH, RESULTING IN AN ACCIDENT.

A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP NEAR THE RIB STRIKING THE EE ON THE LEFT TEMPLE Y

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO OFFICE. EMPLOYEE SLIPPEDAND FELL IN HALLWAY, FRACTURING BONE IN LEFT ARM

EE WAS LIFTING (WITH ASSISTANCE) A LARGE BAG OF SAND OF A TRAILER WITH A RAMP. EE ATTEMPTED TO CLOSE DOOR ON TRAILER WHEN RAMP SWUNG AROUND HITTING HIS LEFT HEEL AND KNOCKING HIM DOWN.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A SLATE BAR GETTING ROCK OFF CONTINUOUS MINER. WHILE PULLING ON BAR, A KNOT ROSE UP ON THE MIDDLE FINGER OF THE RIGHT HAND.

INJURED WAS OPERATING A CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN A LOADED SHUTTLE CAR LEAVING MINER CAUGHT A PULL ROPE AND/OR A LOOP IN THE WATERLINE. THIS ACTION CAUSED THE INJURED TO BECOME ENTANGLED IN THE CA BLE AND CAUSED A SLIPPING ACCIDENT RESULTING IN A SPRAIN TO HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS WALKING INTO NORTH "A" BELT LINE AREA AND JAMMED HIS HEAD AGAINST A WATER LINE INJURING HIS NECK.

EMPLOYEE JUMPED FROM BED OF TRAILER, DID NOT USE LADDER PROVIDED, SPRING LEFT ANKLE.

INJURED STATED THAT AS HE WAS ON HIS KNEE'S MOVING MINER CABLE OUT OF ROADWAY, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA. HE WILL BE TAKING THERAPY.

TAKING A KNOT OUT OF A MINER CABLE AT A CORNER OF INTERSECTION AND A RIB ROLLED OFF AND HIT HIM.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PULL A 10" PIPE INTO A SLEEVE WITH A CHAIN AND A CRANE, THE CHAIN SLIPPED DOWN THE PIPE LETTING THE BLOCK SWING AND HIT HIS FOREARMS.

EE WAS STRUCK BY A ROCK APPROX. 12"X10"X2" THICK AS HE WAS INSTALLING DRILL STEEL IN CHUCK. HIS HAND WAS PINCHED AGAINST CHUCK HEAD.

WHILE CHANGING ROLLERS ON 18-A CONVEYOR INJURED JUMPED OFF CONVEYOR TO CHG. ROLLLER ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE. IT CONTINUED TO BOTHER HIM AND ON 5-17-99 HE HAD SURG EY. LAST DAY WORKED WAS 5-16-99.

EE WAS MOVING 55 GAL OIL DRUM THAT WERE FILLED WITH WASTE OIL. HE WOULD LOWER DRUMS DOWN AND THEN ROLL THE DRUMS IN THE THE LOADER BUCKET. AFTER DRUMS WERE MOVED TO A DIFFERENT LOCATION, EE WO ULD THEN SET THEM BACK UP TO A VERTICLE POSITION. HIS BACK BECAME SORE AFTER THIS WORK AND WAS TOLD TO TAKE SOME TIME OFF.

EE WAS LIFTING AND PUSHING ON A STEERING CYLINDER ON A 988B FRONT END LOADER WHEN HE RECEIVED A HERNIA. HE WANTED TO CONTINUE WORKING AND DID NOT SCHEDULE SURGERY UNTIL 1/18/00.

EE WAS HAULING IN STANDS INTO BELT DIRT OF PANEL 716, TRACTOR UNDER BELT TO INSTALL STRUCTURE ON BELT LINE. BACKED TRACTOR OUT CAUGHT HEAD ON BELT, BELT PUSHING HIM BACK AND PUSHING HIM DOWN I NTO SEAT OF TRACTOR. EE DID NOT GO OFF WORK UNTIL.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO MOVE A 400 LB ROLL OF CONVEYER BELTING WITH A HAND TRUCK. EMPLOYEE FELL ON HIS LEFT KNEE CAP WHICH WAS FRACTURED WHEN IT HIT THE ASPHALT. HIS KNEE CAP WAS OPERATED ON.

EE WAS STACKING 50# BAGS. HE PLACED HIS HAND ON TOP OF THE BAG AS IT CAME DOWN A SET OF ROLLERS, HIS HAND SLIPPED ON THE GLUE ON TOP OF THE BAG, AND THE BAG HIT HIM IN THE CHEST. LATER HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE CRACKED RIBS.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS WORKING ON VALVE BLOCK AND HAND SLIPPED, FELL OVER AGAINST FRAME.

THEY HAD PUSHED A COLUMN OF STONE OVER AND WERE PLUGGING THE COLUMN INTO BLOCKS. AS EE WAS HITTING THE PLUGS WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER THE COLUMN SPLIT. THE COLUMN MOVED A LITTLE CAUSING EE TO FALL TO HIS KNEES. HE CONTINUED TO WORK THE REST OF THE DAY BUT MISSED WORK NEXT DAY. HE LEFT EARLY THE NEXT DAY (FRIDAY) AND MISSED SATURDAY WITH A SORE KNEE.

WHILE LOOSENING HACKSAW VISE, EMPLOYEE FELT A PULL IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER MUSCLE. ON 04/30/99, EMPLOYEE WAS PRESCRIBED FOUR(4) WEEKS OF PHYSICAL THERAPY.

HE THREW AN OLD BEARING HOUSING ON TO A SCRAP METAL PILE. HE STIRRED UP SOME WASPS OR HORNETS AND THEY WENT UP HIS LEFT SHIRT SLEEVE STUNG HIM SEVERAL TIMES.

MINER WAS SITTING ON A ROLL IN BOTTOM WHEN MINER OPERATOR WAS MOVING CABLE AND HIS FOOT WAS TO CLOSE. MINER TREATED ON ROLL AND SET ON FOOT.

EE WAS WELDIUNG IN THE PRIMARY QUARRY CRUSHER HOPPER AND HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

WORKER WAS FREEING A BAG CAUGHT IN A PACKAGING CONVEYOR WHEN HE SLIPPED AND THE CONVEYOR CAUGHT HIS ARM.

WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF DUMPING A LOAD OF MATERIAL FROM HER HAUL TRUCK, EE SUSTAINED A NECK AND LOWER BACK STRAIN WHEN THE TRUCK SHE WAS OPERATING CAME OFF OF THE GROUND.

DURING A CRUSHER LINER CHANGE, THE INJURED WORKER ATTEMPTED TO LIFT AND REMOVE THE MANTEL CAP 200 LBS FROM THE CRUSHER, BY SLIDING IT TO HIS RIGHT. WHEN THE CAP CLEARED THE TOP OF THE MANTEL, IT DROPPED, SMASHING THE INJURED WORKERS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE CAP AND THE SIDE OF THE CRUSHER.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A CONTINUOUS MINER. A RIBROLLED, STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN THE RIGHT HAND AND RIGHT LEG. THIS RESULTED IN A BROKEN RIGHT THUMBAND A FRACTURE TO THE RIGHT LOWER LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A LATTICE GIRDER SECTION OUT OF A LOADER BUCKET WHEN HE SAT IT DOWN ON TEH INVERT IT SHIFTED AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT SHIN CAUSING AN ABRASION TO HIS LEG. ABRASION BECAME I NFECTED ON 4-18-99, EMPLOYEE WENT TO HOSPITAL.

WHILE LIFTING FRONT END OF WHEELBARROW, IT SLIPPED CATCHING EE'S THUMB IN THE TIRE ASSEMBLLY. IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING HIS HAND BACK, HE TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK. A TRIP TO MEDICAL INDICATED HIS THUMB WAS BROKEN. HIS THUMB WAS OPERATED ON FORA CHIP AND HE IS RECEIVING CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT FOR HIS BACK. OPERATION 0N 4/23 WAS ONLY DAY OF WORK MISSED.

EE WENT INTO SOLUTION TANK TO REPLACE OLD FLOAT. HE STEPPED OFF LADDER TO PUT FOOT INTO SOLUTION. SOLUTION WAS DEEPER THAN HE THOUGHT & HE SLIGHTLY FELT HOT SOLUTION. AS HE STARTED TO CLIMB LA DDER, HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE PUT BOTH FEE INTO SOLUTION THAT RAN INTO HIS BOOTS. HE CLIMBED TO THE TOP OF SILO TOOK OFF HIS BOOTS, SPRAYED THEM WITH COLD WATER, APPLIED ANTISEPTIC & GAUZE TH

EE IS AN MECHANIC, HE WAS REPLACING THE TABLE BUSHING ON DR-1. HE WAS ON THE DRILL DECK, THE OPERATOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO RAISE THE STEEL WHEN THEY HEARD A POP. THE PULL DOWN CHAIN HAD BROKEN RE LEASING IT AND IT FEEL AND STRUCK EE ON THE BACK, SHOULDER AND HIP. X RAYS FOUND ONE BROKEN RIB. HE HAD BEEN REALWED TO RETURN ON 4-20-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND CRUSHER UNIT TO CHECK THE ENGINE OIL AND SLIPPED OR LOST HIS FOOTINGAND GRABBED THE FRONT OF THE RADIATOR TO KEEP FROM FALLING TO THE GROUND.

EE WAS WALKING A ROCK BACK AND FORTH WHEN IT BROKE IN HALF. A PIECE OF THE ROCK FLEW UP AND HIT EE IN RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM POWER CENTER SREA TO RETURN TO HIS SCOOP PARKED NEARBY. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM TOP, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON BACK AND NECK AREA.

WHILE THE EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF OF THE REAR OF THE REAR STEPS OF HIS MAINTENANCE LUBE TRUCK,HE TRIPPED.

WHILE CUTTING BOLTS OF A FRAME AND STANDING ON ALADDER, FIRE SUPPRESANT SYSTEM CAME ON, COVERINGEMPLOYEE'S CUTTING GOGGLES. WHILE EMPLOYEE TRIEDTO GET OFF LADDER, HE FELL BACKWARD HITTING HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING ON TO CAR TO CHECK COMPRESSION, FOOT SLIPPED AND TWISTED KNEE. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK 4-16-99.

EE HAD FINISHED DRILLING AND STEPPED OFF HIS EQUIPMENT. HE SOMEHOW STRAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE. THIS DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL 4/23 WHEN HE SAW THE DOCTOR AGAIN AND WAS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY .

EMPLOYEE WASBURNING OVERHEAD. SPARKS CAUGHT SHIRT ON FIRE. EMPLOYEE WASN'T AWARE OF SHIRT BURNING AND DID NOT KNOW IT UNTIL HIS SKIN WAS BURNT.

OPERATOR WAS BEGINNING TO DRILL A HOLE. HIS GLOVE GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROTATION MOTOR & THE DRILL STEEL

EE MASHED THE HEEL OF HIS RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN THELOW LOW STRUCTURE & THE MBC HE WAS OPERATING. EEWAS RESTING HIS FOOT ON THE TOP EDGE OF OPERATORS DECK WHEN HE PUSHED THE LOW LOW HIS FOOT GOT BETWEEN THE STRUCTURE & THE MBC

EE WAS OPERATING THE ROOF BOLTER WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS & STRUCK HIM

A PIECE OF ROCK FELL HITTING MAN ON ARM.

EE WAS PUTTING SIDE PANELS ON A LOADER WHEN A DOOR ON THE TOP CAME DOWN AND STRUCK HIM ON THE SHOULDER CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HEAD ON THE MACHINE.

EE WAS HOOKING AIR HOSE UP TO HYDRAULIC OIL TANK. THE AIR REGUATOR BLEW APART AND STRUCK EE IN FOREHEAD.

THE INJ WAS PLASTERING BRATTICES WHEN PLASTER FELL INTO HIS RIGHT EYE

ELECTRICIAN WAS WELDING ON THE MBC, EE SET DOWN IN THE AJOINTING CROSSCUT TO EAT DINNER WHILE HE WAS SETTING INT HE CROSSCUT, HIS LEFT EYE WAS BURNT FROM THE ARC OF THE WELDER.

EE REPORTEDLY WAS RE POSITIONING THE DRILL BOOM TO THE INSIDE BOLT LOCATION AND HAD HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE BOOM WHEN ROOF SCALE FELL STRIKING HIS GLOVES RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ALONG RAIL TRACKS WHEN HE STEPPED ONTO A PILE OF DIRT AND OTHER DEBRIS. EMPLOYEE FELT A PAIN IN THE BACK CALF AREA OF HIS RIGHT LEG.

DOING NORMAL DUTIES. NOTHING UNUSUAL. PICKING UP AND MOVING 50# BAGS OF PIGMENT, LOADING BLENDER WITH PIGMENT FOR SLURRY BATCHES. LOWER BACK STARTED HURTING AND WENT HOME AT ABOUT MIDNIGHT. BA CK HAS BEEN BOTHERING HIM FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS.

EE WAS TRYNG TO PRY A ROCK OUT OF THE JAW WHEN THE PRY BAR SLIPPED & HIT HIS KNEE. EE HAD A BRUISED LEFT KNEE

WHEN THE HEAD GATE PUSHED, BELT STRUCTURE GOT JAMMED INTO THE TAILPIECE. THE BELT CAUGHT THE STRUCTURE RAIL AND THREW IT AGAINST THE PHONE THAT EE WAS TALKING ON. THE PHONE HIT EE.

IN THE SOUTH MAINS A ROOF FALL MEASURING APPRXO 30'X35'X10'T TAPERIN GOT 0 OCCURRED IN THE LAST INTERSECTION OF THE #2 ENTRY WHILE DEVELOPING THE FIRST CUT OF THE #2 CROSSCUT. THE ROOF FALL E NTRAPPED THE VICTIM AND RESULTED IN CUTS, BRUISES AND ABRASIONS TO THE VICTIM. A CONTINUOUS MINER AND SHUTTLE CAR WERE INVOLVED IN THE FALL.

THE EE AGRAVATED AN OLD BACK INJURY. RE-OCCURANCE OF AN OLD INJURY. (STRAIN) THERE WAS NO NEW EVENT TOWARD THE EE'S INJURY. HIS BACK HAD BEEN BOTHERING HIM FROM THE EARLIER INJURY, LIFTING A M INE SUPPLY CAR COUPLER.

EE REPORTEDLY WAS STRUCK IN ABDOMEN BY SLACK HYDRAULIC HOSE WHILE DRILLING IN 1 RIGHT 1 NORTHSECTION

EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED SHOWERING AT THE END OF HIS SHIFT. WHILE DRESSING HE STRUCK HIS RIGHT FOOT ON A BENCH BRACE.

EE WAS LIFTING BULL GEAR ONTO BELT HEAD WHEN HIS R FOOT SLIPPED. EE PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING #3 ENTRY AND STEPPED IN A HOLE AND LOST FOOTING CAUSING BOTH KNEES TO BUCKLE UNDER.

WHILE REPLACING A REAR END IN A SERVICE TRUCK. THE INJURED WAS LIFTING AND FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT GROIN AREA.

EE EXPIERENCED SHOVELING BELT.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A TRANSMISSION COVER PLATEON A CAT D8L. HE WAS USING A SMALL COMBINATION END WRENCH. AS HE PUT PRESSURE ON WRENCH IT SLIPPED OFF AND WHEN IT DID HIS RIGHT ELBOW STRUCK THE SIDE OF FRAME. ELBOW SWELLED UP AND SOME FLUID BUILT UP. WILL RETURN TO DOCTOR AT END OF MONTH FOR CHECKUP.

EE WAS BOLTING ROOF TOP; WHILE BENDING BOLT, EE LOST HIS BALANCE AND HIT HIS FACE & THROAT AGAINST CANOPY POST ON FLETCHER PINNER.

EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY A HAMMER WHILE MAKING A BELT SPLICE.

EE HAD HIS HAND ON PINNER HEAD. WHEN HE PUSH SUMP LEVEL THE HEAD OF THE PINNER MASHED HIS LEFT THUMB.

EE SAID HE WAS PICKING UP 10-15 ROOF BOLTS LOADING ON ROOF BOLTER--STRAINED LOWER BACK.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS HELPING MOVE FEEDER CABLE WHEN HE FELT A IRVING IN THE GROIN AREA. EE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 4-27-99 WHEN HE CONSULTED A DR. EE IS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY 5-7-99.

9C SECTION MINER WAS STUCK IN SOFT BOTTOMS, A FORK SCOOP WITH A WINCH WAS USED TO HELP PULL MINER. THE FORKS WERE UNDER THE MINER BUMPER & SPRUNG OFF & STRUCK HIM IN LEFT LEG & LEFT RIB AREA.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS, HE HIT A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY AND HIS HEAD HIT THE TOP OF THE CANOPY ON THE SHUTTLE CAR, PULLING MUSCLE IN HIS NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING A REPAIR TO REPLACE THE LEAKING SEAL OF THE HYDRAULIC TANK SITE GLASS. DURING REPLACEMENT OF COVER, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WASASSISTING THE INJURED WORKER. DURING LIFTING, THE EMPLOYEE FELT A PINCH TO HIS LOWER LEFT SIDEBACK.

HOT WATER & STEAM SPURTED ON EE'S R LOWER LEG

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING A COAL CHUTE WITH AN AIR LANCE AND BUMPED HIS ELBOW ON THE HAND RAIL.

WHILE BOLTING IN 4 RIGHT X-CUT IN LOWER THAN USUAL CONDITIONS, EE WAS BENDING A SIX FOOT BOLT AND FELT A PULL OR TWINDGE IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING UNIT SCOOP, HE FLIPPED ROOF BOLTER CABLE OUT OF THE WAY, INJURING LEFT SHOULDER AND LEFT HIP. THIS IS A REOCCURANCE OF OLD INJURY THAT WAS DATED 11-3-98.

EE WAS PULLING A FEEDER CHAIN ONTO THE BACK OF A FLATBED TRUCK. HE WAS TURNING HIS BODY WHILE PULLING THE CHAIN AND FELT HIS KNEE POP. HE WAS EXAMINED IN HOUSE AND WAS TREATED WITH ICE AND ADV IL, THINKING IT WAS ONLY A MUSCLE STRAIN. WHEN, AFTER 2 MONTHS THE PAIN DIDN'T ABATE, SAW AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON WHO DX A TEAR OF THE POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT. WORKED UNTIL 6/23.

EE WAS REBUILDING INTERIOR WEAR PLATES ON LOADER BUCKET. EE WAS GRINDING AND A WELDER WAS WELDING NEXT TO HIM. EE RECEIVED FLASH BURNS TO BOTH EYES.

EE WAS HANGING CABLE IN #6 ENTRY BEHIND DOUBLE BOOM PINNER DOUBLE BOOM TURNED CATCHING EE'S FOOT UNDER BACK CORNER OF BOLTER, SMASHING FOOT

EE WAS DRIVING A WEDGE AND BULL PIN OUT OF COLUMN SPLICE AND IT EJECTED THE WEDGE HITTING THE INSIDE OF LEFT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE JOY 6LS SHEAR. A ROCKWAS THROWN FROM THE SHEAR HEAD AND STRUCK HIM ONHIS LEFT FOOT. X-RAYS WERE TAKEN BUT NOTHING WASBROKEN IN FOOT.

PUT BOX OF GLUE ON PINNER - HURT LOWER BACK.

EE STATES HE WAS WALKING ALONG 4 NORTH CRIBLINE ENTRY WHEN HE TWISTED HIS RT. KNEE. CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 4-21-99 (WENT OFF WORK 4-21-99)

CARRYING A BUCKET OF WATER AND SLIPPED GOING DOWN THE SLOPE TO THE CONCRETE STRUCTURE.

EE CLIMBED ON SCREEN TO CHECK OF COURSE, PLANT WAS NOT IN OPERATION AND LOST BALANCE AND FELL ONTO GROUND (6FT) LANDING ON HIS FEET-FRACTURED ANKLE

EE WAS LAYING JACK LEG DRILL DOWN TO CHANGE OUT LEG PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK. WENT TO DR & STARTED LOSING TIME 4/16/99

WHILE REMOVING THE ROLLBACK ARM PIN THE CHAIN SLIPPED CAUSING THE ROLLBACK ARM TO SUDDENLY DROP. CAUSING LACERATION ON THE RIGHT THUMB OF THE EE

EE WAS PICKING UP A BUNDLE OF #8 REBAR (10 IN A BUNDLE). EE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND SAID HE HAD TWISTED HIS BACK. EE WAS SENT TO DR..

WHILE WALKING EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A CRIB AND FELL TO FOOTWALL TWISTING RIGHT KNEE AND STRIKING LEFT ARM.

WORKING ON DOZER BLADE, WAS HIT IN LEFT ARM WITH SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN HEAD CAME OFF.

WHILE ROOF BOLTING, SMALL ROCK FELL ON FOOT.

EE WAS OPERATING D9N BULLDOZER NEAR A DEMAG 185 BACKHOE LOADING A CAT 777 TRUCK. THE DOOR OF HIS DOZER WAS OPEN WHEN A SMALL ROCK BOUNCED INTO THE CAB AND STRUCK HIM IN THE EYE.

EE INJURED HIS RIGHT ELBOW WHEN HIS SHIRT CUFF GOT CAUGHT BY THE BELT. EE WAS SHOVLING #4 BELT ON #1 SECTION. EE HAD HIS SLEEVES ROLLED UP, BUT THE RIGHT CAM DOWN. THE BELT CAUGHT THE CUFF OF THE RIGHT SHIRT SLEEVE AND PULLED EE'S ELBOW INTO THE BELT.

EMPLOYEE WAS DROPPING GOOSENECK TO LOAD BACKHOE TO MOVE TO PIT. EMPLOYEE(DRIVER) HAD SEPERATED NECK FROM TRAILER AND ATTEMPTED TO FOLD OVER RAMPS TO GROUND AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

WHILE RIDING ON GOLF CART, SMALL ROCK FELL ON LEFT HAND & RIGHT KNEE. 2 DAYS OFF ANTICIPATED.

EE WAS CHECKING WATER FLUID. HE TURNED TO CLOSE COVER WHEN HE SLIPPED ON OILY SURFACE AND FELL ON EXCAVATOR AT THAT TIME THE ENGINE COVER FELL ON HIS LEG.

EE STATED HE WAS BACKING 3 WHEELER DOWN SUPPLY ROAD AND BACK INTO RIB. THE FORCE PUSHED HIM INTO THE BACK OF THE SEAT HURTING HIS BACK AND NECK.

EE WAS PULLING ROCK AND PLACING ON PALLET. HE TWISTED HIS KNEE WHILE DOING THIS.

EE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF THE MANLIFT BUCKET ONTO THE MILL LEVEL OF THE FINISH MILL BUILDING & STEPPED ONTO A CHUNK OF HARDENED CEMENT

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE 3440 LEVEL. HE HAD STEPPED OFF A LADDER AND SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT KNEE. TREATMENT WAS SOUGHT AT THEHOSPITAL 0N 04/15/99 AND WAS RELEASED TO RETURN TO WORK. ON 04/19/99 EMPLOYEE SAW A SPECIALIST AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITHA CARTILAGE TEAR AND LIGAMENT INJURY TO THE LEFT KNEE. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN OFF THE JOB AND IS NOW A LOST TIME INJURY.

WHILE EE WAS GOING DOWN STAIRS OF COARSE TAILS POCKET, HE MISJUDGED A STEP AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE. EE MISSED ONE SCHEDULED DAY OF WORK. (4/16)

USING WRENCH TO LOOSEN PIPE AT #1 SCRUBBER. WRENCH SLIPPED, EE FELL BACKWARDS INTO GUARD RAIL.

EE STATES HE WAS LIFTING A BOX OF RESIN TOLOAD UPON THE ROOF BOLTER WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED RESULTING IN A STRAIN OF THE LUMBER AREA OF THE BACK

CHANGING CHAINS ON THE PIPELINE FLOATS. HIT HEAD ON BUCKET OF BACKHOE WHICH WAS HOLDING CHAINS.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING A HOLE FOR ROOF BOLT, A RICK FROM BETWEEN EXISTIN GBOLTS FELL OUT AND HIT EMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT ARM ABOVE THE ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE 3570 LEVEL. HE HAD EMPTIED THE TRANSFER RAISE IN A RAISE STATION. WHILE CLOSING THE DOOR, A SMALL ROCK FELL DOWN THERAISE, THROUGH THE RAIL MAT AND STRUCK HIM ON TH E RIGHT EYE. HE SUSTAINED AN INJURY TO THE RETINA AND A BRUISE BEHIND THE EYY, CAUSING HIM TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK.

PULLING AN EXTENSION VENTILATION TUBE TOWARD THE FACE. A SPAD SET INTO THE COAL RIB WAS USED TO HOLD THE SLIDER AGAINST THE RIB AND IT PULLED OUT WHILE HE EXTENDED THE TUBE. THE TUBE SWUNG OVE R AND STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD. HE EXPERIENCED BLURRED VISION CAUSED BY A DETACHED RETINA OF THE RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS WORKING AROUND #3 BELT CONVEYOR. HE STEPPED ACROSS BELT LINE. HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON MINE FLOOR STRIKING RIGHT SHOULDER BELT WAS STOPED AT TIME OF ACCIDENT.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CUT A WIRE INTO ON A LO-TRAC LOCOMOTIVE WHEN HE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS FOREARM.

WHILE HANGING MINER CABLE THE EE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

PIECE OF SMALL STEEL/METAL CAME OF DRILL STEEL OR ROOF BOLT.

GOING INTO BIN TO SWEEP BIN STEPS BROKE & HE FELL INTO BIN

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING COAL SPILLAGE ALONG A BELT CONVEYOR. AS HE RAISED A SHOVEL FULL OF COAL HE FELT PAIN IN HIS ABDOMEN.

SEVERAL EE'S WERE REMOVING OLD LANDING IN THE MILL AREA. AS THE SUPPORT BRACE WAS CUT FREE, THE LANDING TWISTED AND FELL DOWNWARD. THE REMAINING SUPPORTS WERE CORRODED, CAUSING THE PLATFORM TO FALL APPROX 9'. THE INJURED SLIPPED OFF THE LANDING AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT KNEE AND ANKLE. AN EXAM WAS NECESSARY AND SWELLING AND PAIN PERSISTED FOR DAYS.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE TWISTED HIS BACK PULLING CABLE. EMPLOYEE HAS HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK 4-12-99.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE TRACK OF 3099 DRILL. HISWEIGHT SHIFTED CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE WALKING AND STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST A PIPE ON THE MINE FLOOR.

INJURED WAS POUNDING ON BOTTOM DUMP CLINKER R.R. CAR HOPPER. WHEN LOAD BROKE FREE IT PULLED HAMMER DOWNWARD AND STRAINED RIGHT SHOULDER. INJUREDCONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL SURGERY DATE OF 10-14-99 .

EE WAS WELDING ON A 6" SPIRAL PIPE OVERHEAD WHEN HOT SLAG ENTERED UNDER HIS WELDING HOOD AND THROUGH THE TOP OF HIS SAFETY GLASSES AT THE EYEBROW.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING 4 FT STEEL CHANNEL PC OF A 12 FT STIFFENING SPIDER IN KILN. CHANNEL IS 12 INCH- RUNNING HORIZONTAL, 81" HIGH AND WELDEDON END. 10" WELD IS CUT & CHANNEL IS MOVED TO TRANSPORT FROM KILN, WHEN THE REMAINING 8 FT PC DROPS, STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN RIGHT LEG.

WHILE STANDING IN MUD THE EE TURNED AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE.

WHILE WALKING AROUND WATER HOLE, SLIPPED AND SPRAINED KNEE.

WAS HANGING A VENT TUBE AT THE FACE. A SHUTTLE CAR'S AUTOMATIC FIRE SUPPRESSION DISCHARGE AND THE DRY CHEMICAL POWDER BECAME AIRBORNE. THE EE INHALED SOME OF THE POWDER AND CLAIMED THAT HIS LU NGS WERE BOTHERING HIM.

WHILE CONDUCTING A PATROL OF THE SAFETY TRAINING ROOM THE SUBJECT SLIPPED ON AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT THAT WAS LYING ON THE FLOOR. (MAY HAVE BEEN A PEN OR PENCIL). THE SUBJECT LOST HIS BALANCE A ND FELL ONTO A CHAIR AND THEN ONTO THE FLOOR. THE SUBJECT STATED THAT HE DID NOT TURN ON THE LIGHTING IN THE TRAINING ROOM PRIOR TO OR AFTER THE INJURY.

EE WAS PUTTING SUPPLIES ON BOLT MACHINE AND BOLTER OPERATOR TRAMMED BOLTER FORWARD RUNNING ON TOP LEFT SIDE OF EE'S LEFT FOOT, CUT FOOT AND FRACTURED LEFT HEEL.

WHILE XRAYING HOIST ROPE TOP OF SERVICE CAGE HUNG ON 5/16 INCH WIRE ROPE STRETCHED ACROSS SHAFT AS A SAFETY LINE. ROPE BROKE & WHIPPED AROUNDEE'S RIGHT ANKLE RUPTURING ACHILLES TENDON

EMPLOYEE'S CO-WORKERS WERE PREPARING TO LOAD BELT STRUCTURE ON LOWBOY WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. EE WAS WALKING BESIDE THE TRACK AS HIS CO-WORKERS PULLED THE LOWBOY INBY A 12 TON LOCOMOTIVE. THE CORNER OF THE LOWBOY STRUCK HIS LEFT LEG RESULTING IN A FRACTURE TO THE TIBIA AND FIBIA. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO CHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER WHERE SURGERY WAS PERFORMED. DEG 03, CLASS 12

EMPLOYEE WAS THREADING WIRE ROPE THROUGH THE BELT DRIVE TO PULL BELT IN WITH. HE CRAWLED UPON THE #2 BELT TO GT A HOLD OF THE ROPE AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE. EMPLOYEE DID NOT MISS WORK UNTIL 04/26/99.

EE INJURED HIS ARM AND SHOULDER WHILE BEATING THE STEEL AGAINST THE POT ON THE ROOF BOLTER.

WHILE CLEARING A BLOCKAGE OF MATERIAL FROM A PROBE ON THE DISCHARGE SIDE OF THE STANDARD CRUSHEREMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK ON THE RIGHT CHEEK BY THE PRYBAR HE WAS USING. THIS CAUSED A LACERATION TO T HE CHEEK ABOUT 3 TO 4 INCHES LONG,REQUIRING SOMESTITCHES.

WHILE PULLING ON A WELDING CORD THE INJURED SLIPPED AND FELL OFF A SCISSOR PLATFORM.

EE WAS BOLTING IN XCUT BETWEEN NO.6 AND NO.7 ENTRY, A PIECE OF ROCK 2' X 4' X 3" THICK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS HITTING HIM ON RIGHT FOOT.

EE WAS OPERATING SCRAPER-ROUGH WET MUDDY CONDITIONS-DROPPED TIRE INTO SINKHOLE, JARRING BACK BADLY, RUPTURING DISC.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING A LOADER IN THE STRIP PIT. HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF MOVINGA LARGE BOULDER OUT OF PIT. THE ROCK SLIPPED OFFTHE LOADER BUCKET CAUSING LOADER TO BOUNCE. THE OPERATOR'S SEAT BOTTOMED OUT CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO BE JARRED SIDEWAYS. HE DID NOT SEE DOCTOR UNTIL 04/22/99. INJURY NOT REPORTABLE UNTIL HE INCURRED FIRST LOST WORKDAY ON 05/04/99.

THE EE WAS RIDING IN THE REAR SEAT OF A TRACKMOBILE THAT WAS TRAVELING DOWN THE TRACK TO PICK UP A LOADED SET OF COAL CARS. THE OPERATOR STRUCK THE CARS AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED THROWING THE IN JURED EE INTO THE INSIDE FRAME OF THE CAB. HE LACERATED HIS LEFT EAR.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF LOADING BLAST HOLES WHEN A ROCK FROM THE ROOF FELL. THE ROCK FELL HITTING THE MINER IN THE UPPER PART OF HIS BACK.

THE INJURED EE WAS CLEANING THE PREHEATER SKIP RAILS WHILE ANOTHER EE WAS BREAKING UP THE HARD MATERIAL WITH A HAMMER. THE INJURED EE PUT HIS LEFT HAND INTO THE AREA THAT THE OTHER EE WAS HITT ING WITH THE HAMMER AND WAS STRUCK. HE SUFFERED CONTUSION TO HIS INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED A SWOLLEN NECK AND NUMBENSS IN LEFT ARM. IT WAS BELIEVED TO BE A NON-WORK RELATED PROBLEM UNTIL 4-29-99, WHEN WE SENT HIM TO THE DR HE HAD BEEN TO A CHIRO ON HIS OWN & WAS TOLD THAT THE INJURY HAPPENED OVER TIME FROM CHANGING TIRES.

EE WAS GETTING OFF MANTRIP HE SLIPPED & FELL EE STATED THAT HE HURT HIS BACK

EE WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE ON A FLAT CAR OUTSIDE OF MINE. HE HURT HIS LOWER BACK WHEN HE BENT OVER AND PICKED UP A PIECE OF STRUCTURE UP.

EE STATED HE WAS PACKING-UP PULLING ROCKDUST HOSE TRIPPED ON OMGA BLOCK TWISTING LEFT KNEE. EE STARTED MISSING WORK 4-13-99. THIS IS THE 4TH LOST TIME INJURY FOR THIS EE.

OPENING A RAILCAR HATCH/LID; WHEN IT STUCK-PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER RIGHT BACK.

CONTRACTOR WAS CLIMBING FROM BACK OF HAUL TRUCK, HE HAD ITEMS IN HAND AND STEPPED ONTO LADDER, THE LADDER SHIFTED CAUSING HIM TO FALL 9 FEET TO GROUND.

WHILE HANGING CABLE IN 7" MUD EE RAISED LEG UP AND FELT KNEE POP.

A CONTRACTOR'S EE FELL OFF SOME SCAFFOLDING WHILE INSTALLING A GAS LINE IN THE MILL. THE EE ENDED UP WITH A BROKEN WRIST ALTHOUGH THE DR RELEASED HIM FOR LIGHT DUTY THAT SAME DAY

EE WAS GETTING ONTO A GOLF CART WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED. HE FELT SOME PAIN IN HIS RIGHT KNEE. EE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTIOPN UNTIL 4-16-99 AND WAS NOT DIAGNOSED AS BEING A WORK RELATED INJUR Y UNTIL 4-22-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS SCALING TOP WHEN A STRAY ROCK FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT FOOT. THE INJURY RESULTED IN A THREE PLACE FRACTURE OF HIS RIGHT FOOT.

EE HELPING PUT CUTTING HEAD JACK ONTO A THREE WHEELER ON #1 SECTION. COAL IS 40 TO 42 INCHES, JACK WEIGHS 250 TO 300 LBS. EE INJURED HIS LOWER BACK WHEN HE LIFTED ONE END OF THE JACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHELVING SKIDS. HE WAS STANDING BETWEEN FORKLIFT AND ANOTHER SKID. DRIVER OF THE FORKLIFT WAS NOT OBSERVING EMPLOYEE PROPERLY. THE EMPLOYEE GAVE VOICE DIRECTIONS TO FORKLIFT DRIVE R BUT HE THOUGHT HE HAD MORE ROOM. FORKLIFT DRIVER PROCEEDED FORWARD, NOT SEEING EMPLOYEE AND HIT EMPLOYEE'S LEG WITH FORKLIFT. POSITION OF EMPLOYEE WAS NOT IN THE SIGHT OF FORKLIFT DRIVER.

WHILE STACKING 50 LB. BAGS OF ROCK DUST, HE TWISTED HIS KNEE. MGMT. BECAME AWARE ON 1-27-2000 THAT HE LATER RECEIVED THERAPY DUE TO THIS INCIDENT.

CUTTING ROCK AND MINER ROCKED AND DROPPED DOWN, HURTING HIS BACK.

THE EE SAID THAT HE WAS MOVING A ROCK WHEN HE HURT HIS BACK, BUT WHEN HE LEFT THE MINE HE LOOK & WALKED OK AND DIDN'T GO TO THE DR UNTIL AFTER HE HAD MISSED 3 DAYS WORK.

EE STEPPED OFF PLATFORM 8" ELEVATION AND BEINGER WALKING ON CONCRETE FLOOR OBSTRUCTED WITH 100 LB. BARITE SACKS. EE TWISTED AND SPRAINED HIS LEFT ANKLE AS HE ATTEMPTED TO WALK OVER OBSTRUCTION .

EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING THE DOOR ON A RAIL CAR WITHA PRYBAR. HE PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE PRYBAR AND THE BRAKE ROD.

HE LIFTED AN ELECTRIC MOTOR TO PUT IT IN THE CAT BACKHOE BY HIMSELF. HE WAS TOLD NOT TO LIFT IT HIMSELF.

ROCK WAS BRING LOADED INTO THE 777, HAULER, THE IMPACT OF THE ROCK HITTING IN THE HAULER BED HOOK EE CAUSING NECK PAIN.

CRUSHING OPERATION WAS DOWN EE S PERFORMING MAINTENANCE, EE HOLDING STEEL FOR WELDER NEGLECTED TO AVERT EYES AND WAS FLASH BURNED.

INJURED EE INJURED LEFT SHOULDER WHILE PUNCHING OUT SURGE BIN AT CRUSHER. DID NOT GO TO DR TILL 6-9-99, DID NOT MISS ANY WORK UNTIL SURGERY ON 9-2-99.

EE WAS HELPING REPAIR BLADE CYLINDERS ON D7 DOZER WHEN HE STARTED TO DISMOUNT THE TRACKS HE WAS STANDING ON. UPON DISMOUNTING HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIUM TO FALL ON THE TR ACKS ON HIS BACK. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS OIL, GREASE AND RAIN. EE TAKEN LOCAL ER, XRAYS NEGATIVE BUT BACK BRUISED.

STEPPING OFF OR GETTING DOWN OFF MACHINE (TRACK TYPE EXCAVATOR), EE STEPPED ON A CLOG OF DIRT WITH HIS LEFT FOOT, TWISTING HIS ANKLE & FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY A WOOD POST WHILE REACHING FOR A WEDGE. CAUSE WAS AWARENESS. RULES/REGS WERE NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP A FACTOR.

OPERATOR WAS DUMPING MATERIAL FROM HAUL TRUCK & ROCKS BECAME LOGED IN TRUCK BED WHEN ROCKS FELL OUT OF THE TRUCK BED THE CAB OF THE TRUCK BOUNCED SPRAINING OPERATORS BACK

EE WAS LIFTING A DECK PLATE INTO POSITION ON AN ELEVATED WALKWAY. HE TWISTED HIS BACK & FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK

WHILE MAKING SAFETY ROUND, EE WS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER AT RAW FEED SILO/ SUSTAINED INJURY TO BACK.

B2#3 ENTRY AT FACE. WORKING ON SUCTION LINE LINE OF BOLTER AND HAND WAS CAUGHT N T LITTLE FINGER AND RING FINGER.

WHILE OPERATING HIS SCRAPER, A PUSH DOZER HIT THE SCRAPER PUSH BLOCK HARD, JARRING THE INJURED CAUSING BACK PAIN AND STRAIN.

THE 11 CM MINER NEEDED REPAIR TO CONVEYOR. THE CABLE WAS LAID OVER THE RIPPER HEAD AND BACKED UP TO EMPTY THE CONVEYOR. INSTEAD OF TURNING CONVEYOR WRAPING CABLE AROUND HEADS THE CABLE ENTRAMC E BOX PULLED BROKE BOLTS AND WELD CATCHING JACK BETWEEN BOX AND VALVE CHEST.

WHILE MOVING IN EQUIPMENT, EE'S RIGHT LEG GOT PINNED AGAINST CONVEYOR.

PICKING UP RIPPER HEAD JACK, LOST HIS BALANCE WITH THE JACK WHEN HE PICKED IT UP, LOSING HIS BALANCE, THUS TWISTING HIS BACK.

EE WAS PULLING A BLOCK CURTAIN DOWN HIS FEET SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO FALL STRAINING HIS UPPER AND LOWER BACK.

PUSHING A WHEEL BARREL FULL OF MUD & TWISTED HIS BACK

ROCK STOPPED IN CHUTE AND A ROCK JUMPED OVER THE END OF CHUTE AND HIT EE ON HARD HAT AND STRAINED NECK.

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING A DOZER. STEPPED OFF THE GROUND AND TURNED HIS ANKLE.

EE FELL OF SCREEN PLANT

EE WAS WORKING ON RAIL BULK CARS HE STEPPED FROM ONE CAR TO THE ORTHER OVEREXTENDING & PULLED A TENDON IN LEFT LEG

NO TIME GIVEN FOR THIS ACCIDENT. EMPLOYE HAS HADBACK PROBLEMS FOR OVER TWO YEARS. THIS IS NOT A NEW ACCIDENT, RATHER, A CONTINUATION OF AN OLD PROBLEM.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING TIRES WHEN HE HURT HIS BACK.

FRACTURE LEFT WRIST.

RIDING MANTRIP TO WORK SITE, MANTRIP DERAILEDJARRING EMPLOYEE'S BACK AND LEFT LEG. EE WALKED 400 FT. TO MINE EXIT AND DROVE HIMSELF TO BOON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

CLEANING BELT HEAD WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL AND CRACKED RIBS