Mining Incidents in October 1999

AT THIS TIME THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT IS UNKNOWN. ON SAT. 10-30-99 HE WAS INSTALLING A FRONT TIRE ON A STONE SLINGER IN OUR SHOP. WE KNOW THAT THE TIRES WERE MOUNTED ON THE RIMS AND AIRED UP. WE ALSO KNOW THAT ONE TIRE WAS ON THE FRONT AXLE OF THE TRUCK. AFTER THAT, WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT OCCURRED. THE EXPLOSION WAS HEARD BY 2 PEOPLE IN THE DISPATCH OFFICE WHO RAN OUT AND FOUND HIM A

IT APPEARS EMPLOYEE WAS SCALING A PILLAR WITH A 7' SCALING BAR. THE ROCK HE WAS TRYING TO PULL WAS APPROX. 8' ABOVE THE GROUND AND CONTINUED DOWN TO JUST ABOVE THE FLOOR. WHILE DOING THIS WORK HE WAS STRUCK IN THE HEAD BY A PORTION OF THE ROCK.

CAVE IN AT UNDERGROUND MINE, SIDE WALL FELL ON EMPLOYEE.

VICTIM WAS ATTEMPTING TO CONNECT ELECTRICAL CABLES FOR A SUBMERSIBLE PUMP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE QUARRY. HE WAS WORKING AT THE SUMP AREA WHICH IS NEAR THE SOUTH HIGHWALL. ALTHOUGH NO ONE SAW A R OCK OR ROCKS HIT THE VICTIM, IT APPEARS HE WAS HIT BY FALLING ROCK. REPORTED TO MSHA IMMEDIATELY.

DECEASED FAILED TO SECURE ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCE RESULTING IN ELECTROCUTION.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF INSPECTING THE PRODUCTION SHAFT WHEN HIS LANYARD APPARENTLY HUNG UP, RESULTING IN EMPLOYEE SUSTAINING FATAL INTERNAL INJURIES FROM PRESSURE RECEIVED FROM SAFETY "O" RING BELT.

HE WAS SERVICING 25T WABCO DRIVEN BY I.NAME. I.NAME SAYS HE WAS FINISHED WITH SERVICE, THAT INJURED WAVED HIM OFF. I.NAME TURNED WABCO IN FULL CIRCLE AND WHEN HE CAME AROUND, HE SAW INJURED LY ING ON GROUND. I.NAME HAD RUN OVER HIM.

EMPOLOYEE WAS INSTALLING 6' SPLIT-SET ROCK BOLTS AND WIRE MESH IN THE LAST ROUND BLASTED WITH A JACKLEG DRILL. DURING THE BOLTING CYCLE, A MAJOR FALL OF GROUND OCCURRED AND EMPLOYEE WAS BURIED AND FATALLY INJURED.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING 6' SPLIT-SET BOLTS AND WIRE MESH FOR GROUND SUPPORT IN THE LAST ROUND BLASTED USING A JACKLEG DRILL FOR INSTALLATION OF GROUND SUPPORT. DURING BOLTING CYCLE, A MAJOR FA LL OF GROUND OCCURRED BURYING EMPLOYEE.

BOTTOM OF HI-LO BROKE WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING NEXT TO IT CLEANING OFF REBOUND FROM CABEL. FELL OFF THE DECK 80 FEET TO HIS DEATH.

THE EE WAS IN PROCESS OF WORKING A TWIST FROM A ROLL OF WIRE MESH BEING INSTALLED AT #50 SHIELD ON C-2 LONGWALL FACE IN PREPARATION FOR EQUIPMENT RECOVERY. THE INDIVIDUAL POSITIONED HIMSELF WI TH HIS BACK TOWARD THE FACE. A PIECE OF ROCK MEASURING 9'WIDE X42" HIGHX11" TO 16" THICK FELLFROM THE FACE STRIKING PERSON IN BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A RESIN BOLT AND WAS PUSHING THE BOLT UP INTO THE HOLE USING THE FEED LEVER. HE USED INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER TO ALIGN THE PLATE AND THEY BECAME PINNED BETWEEN THE ROOF AND THE PLATE. HE WAS OPERATING ON OPERATOR'S SIDE. THE ACCIDENT RESULTED IN AMPUTATING HIS LEFTAND MIDDLE INDEX FINGERS TO THE MIDDLE JOINT.(SECOND JOINT).

DURING THE INSTALLATION OF A LARGE ELECTRIC MOTOR EE STUCK HIS RIGHT LONG FINGER IN ONE OF THE MOUNT BOLTS HOLES TO CHECK FOR ALIGNMENT. A COWORER UNAWARE OF THIS, SHIFTED THE MOTOR WITH A PRY BAR RESULTING IN THE PARTIAL AMPUTATION OF THE RIGHT LONG FINGER AT THE 1ST JOINT

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING SCOOP THRU INTERSECTION. THE LINE CANVAS GOT CAUGHT ON CANOPY. HE WAS TAKING CANVAS OFF CANOPY AND EITHER TRAMMED OR TURNED SCOOP AGAINST THE COAL RIB.

WHILE LIFTING A NEW DRILL BIT EE FELT A PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA. EE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIA & WENT IN FOR SURGERY ON 7/14/00. 7/14/00 IS ALSO THE SAME TIME EE STARTED LOSING TIME

EE WAS CHANING RIP RAP SCREENS ON THE STONE PLANT, AND FELT PAIN ON LOWER LEFT ABDOMEN WHEN HERNIA SUDDENLY POPPED UP.

ON OCT 23, 1999, EE REPORTED THAT HE HAD SUFFERED A HERNIA WHILE LOADING RECOVERED BELT STRUCTURE ON A FLAT CAR IN THE 7E/MN.

WHILE CLEANING BACK MIXER FOR SHUT DOWN, OPER SHUT MACHINE OFF BUT WAS STILL COASTING WHEN HE REACHED IN TO CLEAN CHUTE. FINGER CAME IN CONTACT WITH ROTATING PADDLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A RAIL OVER THAT HAD BEEN PLACED ON A CRIB BLOCK. WHEN HE PINCHED THE RAILUP IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS GRASP CATCHING HIS HANDBETWEEN THE RAIL AND THE CRIBBLOCK.

LEFT HAND (GLOVED) WAS NEAR BAND SAW BLADE WHEN SAW WAS ENERGIZED. THE SAW BLAD CAUGHT THE LET HAND & SEVERED THE INDEX & MIDDLE FINGERS

EMPLOYEE WAS DIAGNOSED HAVING A HERNIA. EMPLOYEEALLEGES IT MUST HAVE HAPPENED SOMETIMES DURING THE 12 HOUR SHIFT ON 10-15-99, BUT COULD GIVE NO EXACT LOCATION OR INCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A FIVE GALLON CAN OF OIL FROM THE TOP OF A 55 GALLON DRUM AND SUSTAINED AN UMBILICAL HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP FUEL HOSE TO FUEL LOADERAND EXPERIENCED A NAVEL HERNIA. HE WENT TO DOCTOR ON 11/11/99 WHICH WAS REPORTED AT THAT TIME.

EE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AN ABDOMINAL HERNIA IN 5-99. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 10-11-99 WHEN HE CEASED WORK TO HAVE THE HERNIA REPAIRED. IT IS BELEIVED THAT THIS HERNIA HAS DEVELOPED OVER A PE RIOD OF TIME.

HE STRAINED A GROIN MUSCLE ATTEMPTING TO LIFT AN LHD TIRE.

EE WAS WASHING DOWN CONCRETE WITH HIGH PRESSURE HOSE. WORK CART RAN OVER HOSE BEHIND EE, JERKING NOZZLE INTO LEFT LOWER ABDOMINAL REGION. AREA BECAME SORE AND WHEN SORENESS DID NOT SUBSIDE, EE TAKEN TO DR. EXAM REVEALED LEFT INGUINAL HERNIA. POSSIBLY PRE-EXISTING BUT IMPOSSIBLE TO PROVE.

THE INJ WAS LIFTING BAGS OF ROCKDUST WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA. THE INJ DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 10/12/99

EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING WHILE STANDING ON A LADDER WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN THE UMBILCAL AREA.

REPLACING V BELTS ON DRIVE, GOT FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN BELTS AND PULLEY. ALL MACHINES WERE LOCKED OUT.

INDIVIDUAL WAS STRAIGHTENING ROOF BOLT WHILE INSTALLING IT IN THE ROOF WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING ON THE ROCKS WHEN HE WAS STANDING ON. THE ROCKS WERE WET.

HE'S A WELDER ASSISTING THE DRILLER; PULLING OUT OF HOLE. LIFTING DRILL STEEL WHEN HE FELT A PULLING AND A POP IN HIS RIGHT GROIN AREA AND RIB CAGE.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS WALKING BESIDE STAGELOADER AT TAILPIECE WHEN HE SLIPPED IN WET CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS KNEE.

TRIPPED OVER BACKWARDS. GOT DOWN OFF LOADER AND STEPPED BACKWARDS TRIPPING OVER A BOX AND HIT A CONTROL BOX IN THE LOWER BACK.

EE ALLEDGEDLY STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE PICKING UP A BAG OF ROCK DUST.

TAKING VULCANIZERS OFF OF BELT, FEET SLIPPED CAUSING EE TO TWIST BACK.

EE WAS RETURNING FROM THE RESTROOM TO HIS WORK AREA. WHEN HE STEPPED OVER SOME REBAR HIS LEFT FOOT GOT CAUGHT ON SOMETHING. HE WASNT SURE WHATIT WAS TURNING HIS BODY IN TURN TWISTING HIS RIG HT KNEE

NO DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE. COMP FORM STATES INJURED WAS HIT WITH A PIECE OF ROCK.

EE WAS CLEANING UP C-2 HEADER. TURNED FRESH WATER VALVE WITH REDUCER FROM 8" DOWN TO 4" AND 2" REDUCED TO 1" HOSE. THE 4" TEE BLEW OFF AND STRUCK INJURED IN JAW & MOUTH AREA.

EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING RUB RAILL BACK ON 10S/C WITH A SLATE BAR. THE BAR SLIPPED AND EMPLOYEE STRUCK KNEE ON S/C.

IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING THE CRUSHER PULLEY, THE PULLEY STEEL ROD CRACK AND PIECE OF THE ROD SPLIT OUT IMPACTING THE EMPLOYEE IN HIS RIGHT THIGH. THE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING AT A DISTANCE OF SIX FT FROM THE PULLEY.

EE WAS GETTING ON A FORKLIFT AND BUMPED HIS RT KNEE.

EE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE PUMPING BAGS OF RERUN MATERIAL.

WHILE WORKING ON HEADER CHUTE, EE TOUCHED HOT METAL TO KNEE CAUSING MINOR BURN USING TORCHES

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A CONTINUOUS MINER. HE WAS TRAMMING ACROSS SECTION AND PULLING MINER CABLE WITH MINER. HE PULLED SLACK DOWN #7 ENTRY AND PROCEEDED TO BACK MINER THROUGH X-CUT BETWEEN #6 AND #7 ENTRY. AS HE LOOKED BEHIND HIMSELF TO CHECK SLACK ON CABLE, THE RIGHT RIB ROLLED OFF AND STRUCK HIM IN THE BACK AND LEFT SHOULDER AREA, KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND.

EE WAS HELPING CHANGE HAMMERS IN THE HAMMER MILL AND TWISTED WRONG WHILE LIFTING A HAMMER AND STRAINED A LOWER BACK.

EE STATED HE WAS DISMOUNTING MOBILE EQUIPMENT. FOOT GOT HUNG IN STEP AND TWISTED KNEE. EE STARTED MISSING WORK 11-15-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS PERPARING TO WORK ON A 777C CAT TRUCK AND WHILE PULLING A LONG SPREADER CHAIN FROM HIS SERVICE TRUCK HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE PULLING ON THE CHAIN.

EE WAS CLIMBING THE 475 LOADER TO CHECK TO SEE IF THE HEATER WAS PROPERLY INSTALLED. EE HAD TO PULL HIMSELF UP THE LOADER, DUE TO NO STAIRS ON THE LOADER AND AS HE DID THIS HE PULLED SOME MUSC LES IN HIS LOWER BACK AS HE REACHED THE TOP OF THE LOADER.

EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING 4R CROSSCUT. SET ATRS. IT LOOSENED UP A PIECE OF ROCK AGAINST RIB. THE ROCKFELL AND CAUGHT BOLTER MAN ON LEFT LEG, BRUISINGLEG.

WHILE CHANGING SCREENS EE LOST HIS BALANCE, FELL ON THE SCREEN LANDING ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. HE ALSO STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW KNEE AND CHIN.

EE WAS CLIMBING OU TOF BOBCAT & TWISTED ANKLE

DURING ASSEMBLY INJ EE CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN NEW CONTROL PANEL & FORK OF BOBCAT CAUSING FRACTURE OF FINGER

THE EE HAD JUST COMPLETED BOLTING THE CUT, AT OUR 2 LEFT 1 NORTH DEVEOPING SETION, HIM AND THE SUPERVISOR WAS TALKING ON THE MACHINE WHEN A PIECE OF ROOF SLATE 12" SQUARE 1 1/2" THICK, FELL AN D STRUCK HIM ON THE RIGHT FOREARM. THE IMMEDIATE AREA WAS 10' HIGH.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING PANEL LID ON SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE STATED HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STEPPED BACK FROM HIS TRUCK, AS HE DID HE STARTED TO FALL AND IN DOING SO HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE AND FELL.

EE WAS PULLING & TYING REBAR & GOT INTO A SMALL AREA HE RAISED HIS HEAD & JAMMED HIS NECK AGAINST A BEAM

WHILE ASSISTING THE REMOVAL OF A VALVE IT WAS DROPPED ON LEFT FOOT BREAKING 5TH TOE OF LEFT FOOT.

INDIVIDUAL WAS TAKING SHAFT OUT OF CONVEYOR HEAD PULLEY, HE HAD THE PULLEY STANDING ON END, THE PULLEY FELL, INJURING HIS LEFT FOOT.

DRILLER WAS PUSHING BOTTOM OF DRILL PIPE INTO LOADER WITH HIS LEFT HAND. DRILL PIPE ROTATED CATCHING THUMB OF LEFT HAND IN BETWEEN THE LOADER AND THE DRILL PIPE SMASHING THE THUMB.

LOW SPEED CLEAN OUT CONVEYER WAS SLIPPING AT HEAD PULLEY. THIS 24" CONVEYER WAS MOUNTED TO THE FLOOR WITH THE TOP SIDE BEING LESS THAN 2 FT HIGHEMPLOYEE STEPPED UP ONTO THE BELT, USING HIS WEIGHT TO APPLY PRESSURE, WHICH STOPPED THE BELTFROM SLIPPING. WHEN BELT STARTED, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND BOTH FEET WERE CAUGHT AND PULLED UNDER IDLER.

WHILE CARRYING ROOF STRAPS EE TRIPPED OVER GOB

EE WAS STACKING 50 LB BAGS ON PALLET WHEN HE FELT MUSCLE IN BACK STRAIN.

SITTING IN DRIVER'S SEAT OF END DUMB TRUCK, REACHING OVER TO RIGHT SIDE TO RAISE AND OPEN WINDOW WHEN HIS BACK LOCKED UP.

EE WAS REMOVING EXISTING CONDUIT WHEN A PIECE OF THE CONDUIT HIT THE LADDER HE WAS STANDING ON, KNOCKING IT OUT FROM UNDER HIM. EE WAS ON THE SECOND RUNG OF THE LADDER, BUT LANDED ON HIS RIGHT WRIST.

EE CLEANING ROCKS OFF 60' BELT BY HAND STOOD UP & HURT BACK

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS HOLDING A 3" PLASTICWATER DISCHARGE LINE OUT OF SUMP BK16. 2 LT SECTION, #2 ENTRY, INBY SPAD #624. WHILE HOLDING THEPIPE OUT OF THE WAY, THE HOOK THAT WAS SUPPORTIN G THE PIPE CAME LOOSE FROM THE ROOF BOLT PLATE, AND THE WEIGHT OF THE PIPE WITH THE WATER IN IT CAUSED EMPLOYEE TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL INTO SUMP. STRAINED HIS LEFT SHOULDER WHILE HANGIN

REPORTABLE, EE WAS TAKING ROLL OF BELT OFF OF 48" BELT WINDER AND HE WAS USING BAR TO MOVE SHAFT THROUGH ROLL WHEN BAR SLIPPED AS THE BEARING ON SHAFT CAME OFF END OF BAR. HAND AND BAR HIT PER SON IN GROIN AREA CAUSING INJURY. EE FIRST SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION NOVEMBER 9 AND INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A HERNIA ON NOVEMBER 24, 1999.

EMPLOYEE AND COWORKER WERE REMOVING A SWING SHAFT OFF THE DRAGLINE. WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING THE COME-A-LONG, THE SHAFT SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO EMPLOYEE'S FOOT, RESULTING IN CLOSED FRACTURE TO 1ST AND 2ND TOES OF LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON TO US AT THIS TIME, FELL WHILE DESCENDING DOWN THE STEPS OF HIS777 ROCK TRUCK. HE DOES NOT REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT THE FALL EXCEPT HE STARTED DOWN THE STEPS. H E IS NOW BEING TREATED IN THE HOSPITAL FOR BACK PAIN AND HIS LEFT JAW. THERE IS NO INDICATION ONWHY HE FELL.

2 WORKERS WERE MOVING A WELDER ON A TRAILER. ONEWAS IN FRONT LIFTING & PULLING. THE OTHER ONE WAS IN THE BACK PUSHING. AFTER MOVING THE WELDEREE COMPLAIN THAT HIS BACK HURT

EE WAS HELPING LUBE ENGINEER ENTEREING PASSENGERSIDE OF CAB, EE WHEN STEPPING UP SLIPPED & FELL FLAT ON HIS BACK

WORKING ON PUMP, INTAKE HOSE AND CLAMP, EE WAS CUTTING INTO CLAMP TO FIND THE AIR LEAKE. WHILE CUTTING HIS SHUT SLEAVE BECAME TANGLED IN BLADE WHICH PULLED HIS HAND INTO SAW.

EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING A STEEL PLATE ON A STEEL PIPE WITH ONE HAND AND TRYING TO WELD THE PLATE INPLACE WITH THE OTHER HAND. LOWER BACK AND LEFT LEG BEGAN TO HURT. PIPE WAS OVERHEAD. NOTE: BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 11/15/99.

EE WAS STEPPING FROM ONE SCOW TO ANOTHER WHEN HS SLIPPED ON THE DECK OF THE SCOW.

EE WAS CLIMBING UP LADDER INTO HAULAGE TRUCK & FELT PAIN IN LOWER LEFT BAC

CLIMBING ON LOADER TIRE TO ACCESS OPERATORS COMPARTMENT LADDER WAS TORN OFF TO PRIOR TO EE'S SHIFT. NOT REPAIRED BY OTHER DEPT USING MACHINE

EMPLOYEE WAS FIRE BOSSING THE 2 EAST BELT WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL, TWISTING BOTH KNEES. HE HAD SURGERY ON HIS KNEES BUT DID NOT LOSE TIME. SUBSEQUENTLY HE HAS HAD PROBLEMS WITH HIS RIGHT KNEE . THE DOCTOR FAILED TO REMOVE A BONE CHIP IN HIS FIRST SURGERY. EMPLOYEE STARTED LOSING TIME FOR THIS ON 5-2-00 DUE TO ADDITIONAL SURGERY.

EE WAS DROPPING RAILRAOD CARS HE REACHED BEHIND HIM TO TIGHTEN A BRAKE AS HE STEPPED BACK TO THEOTHER PLATFORM HIS FEET SLIPPED & HE FELL APPROX8 FT & HIT THE RAIL

EMPLOYEE WAS MOUNTING BULLDOZER AND THE GRAB IRON HANDLE BROKE LOOSE, CAUSING HIM TO FALL OFF THE BULLDOZER.

INSTALLING RAILS IN TRACK ENTRY. PLACING TIES ON RAIL, SCOOP ROLLED BACK AND RAIL FELL ON RIGHT FOOT.

EE WAS RIDING THE MANLIFT IN OUR GRII PLANT. AS HE STEPPED OFF OF THE MANLIFT HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK. HE STARTED MISSING TIME ON 11-3-99. HOWEVER AT THIS TIME WE DID NOT KNOW I F IT WAS DO TO THE INJURY.

LOADING AND UNLOADING CONCRETE BLOCK INTO SCOOP BUCKET AND STRAINED LOWER BACK.

EE WAS BOLTING TOP, HE HAD INSTALLED THE OUTSIDE BOLT AND HA DLET THE CANOPY DOWN TO SWING THE HEAD INTO INSTALL THE NEXT BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK APPROX. 0-2" THICK BY 3 1/2' WIDE BY 6' LONG FELL BEHIND HIM AND STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK AND LEFT LEG.

GOING UP LADDER HAD SHARP PAIN IN RIGHT ARM.

HOSING DOWN FLOOR, WENT TO MOVE CABLE WITH RIGHT FOOT, BECOME TANGLED AND TWISTED.

INJURED WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DRAGGING THE FEEDER CRUSHER TRAILING CABLE WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER. DID NOT BEGIN MISSING WORK UNTIL 12-1-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS LAMPHOUSE CHANGE ROOM AT THE END OFHIS REGULAR SHIFT CHANGING CLOTHING. BECAUSE OF THE OVERCROWDED CONDITIONS, EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO STEP ACROSS A BENCH AND INJURED HIS RIGHT KNEE

EE WAS HOLDING A DISCHARGE WATER PIPE AND FELL STRAINING HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING STOPPING. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE NOTIFIED SUPERVISOR ON 11/02/99.

INJURED WAS CRAWLING AND OPERATING THE ROOF DRILL AND AS HE TWISTED TO REACH FOR ADDITIONAL DRILL STEEL HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS HELPING INSTALL A PLASTIC PIPE ELBOW IN THE PREPARATION PLANT. WHEN THE ELBOW BECAME LODGED HE CLIMBED UP A LADDER BELOW IT AND SUDDENLY THE ROPE ATTACHED TO THE ELBOW BROKE, CAUSING TH E PIPE TO KNOCK EE TO THE FLOOR. HE FELL APPROXMTELY 10 FEET TO THE FLOOR BELOW AND WAS STRUCK IN THE FACE BY THE PIPE.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING HIS CABLE ANCHOR AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

THE EE WAS STANDING ON THE SCREEN WHILE THEY WERE LIFTING A CROSS OVER CONVEYOR BELT. HE PUT HISFOOT ON THE CONVEYOR TO TIGHTEN THE COMEALONG AND THE SUPPORT BRACKET WELD BROKE. THE CONVEYOR SWUNG OUT & HE LOST HIS BALANCE & FELL. HE LAND ED ON HIS RIGHT SIDE ON THE SUPPORT BRACKET. HE FELL APPROX 13 FT

EE STEPPED OTU OF HIS COAL TRUCK AND STEPPED INTO A DITCH HYPER EXTENDING HIS LEG AND KNEE WHICH HE FELT SOMETHING PULL. THE BACK OF HIS LEG IS BURNING AND A KNOT CAME UP ON THE BACK SIDE OF HIS KNEE. HE LEFT EARLY FROM WORK AT 9:15 PM.

PULLING ON LARGE ROCK WITH SCOOP AND CHAIN WHEN CHAIN BROKE STRIKING HIM IN SIDE OF HEAD.

INJURED WAS DRILLING COAL, WITHDREW AUGER BARRAL WHICH WARPED AND CAUSED DRILL TO JUMP INJURED TRIED TO CONTAIN JUMPING DRILL WHILE TURNING OFF POWER AND WHILE DOING SO WAS STRUCK IN CHEEK BY CORNER OF DRILL.

REMOVING WHEEL FROM TIRE WHEN TUBE EXPLODED. THE AIR PRESSURE FROM THE TUBE BRUISED FOREARM AND CAUSED SWELLING.

EE WAS REPLACING BOLTS WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL, CUTTING EE'S LEFT HAND. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY.

WHILE CRAWLING ALONG THE LOW-LOW BELT, EMPLOYEE BUMPED HIS KNEE ON A PIECE OF LOW-BELT STRUCTURE

EE WAS WORKING ON THE COAL MILL AND TRYING TO SET A PIECE OF PIPE. THE PIPE WAS WEDGED AND SPRUNG FREE HITTING HIM.

WHILE WORKING UP & DOWN ON VENTILATION EE HURT HIS KNEE

EE JUMPED OFF THE LAST STEP OF A CONVEYOR LADDER AND HURT LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING V SLOTS IN THE ENDS OF CONVEYER BELTING SO THEY COULD RUN A CHAIN THROUGH IT TO PULL OUT OF THE ROAD. THE KNIFE BLADE BROKE OFF AND WHEN HE RAN HIS HAND OVER, HE CUT HIS HAND ON THE BROKEN BLADE.

EE WAS CARRYING A BELT SEQUENCE ROLLER TO THE FEEDER. HE LATER THAT DAY SAID HE HAD INURED HIS BACK. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL 11-2-99.

EMPLOYEE HAD WALKED 40 FT FROM THE ELEVATOR WHEN HE HIT HIS HEAD ON THE ROOF. THE LOW CLEARANCE WAS CLEARLY MARKED.

EMPLOYEE CLIMBING DOWN LADDER THAT HAD OIL ON IT, SLIPPED AND FELL INJURING BACK (HERNIATED DISC)

WHILE EE WAS ROOFBOLTING THE CANOPY HUNG UP. WHEN IT BECAME FREE IT DROPPED & STRUCK EE. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY ON 11/1/99

HE SLIPPED AND FELL, STRAINING HIS RIGHT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE SECTION MANTRIP, TRAVELING TO THE OUTSIDE AT THE END OF SHIFT. THE FRONT TIRES OF THE MANTRIP STUCK A RUT IN THE ROAD, CAUSING THE STEERING WHEEL TO SPIN. THE EMPLOYEE'S HAND WAS BETWEEN THE SPOKES OF THE STEERING WHEEL AND WAS STRUCK BY THE SPINNING STEERING WHEEL.

EE STATES, AS I WAS DRAGGING 4 STICKS OF HYDROMITE 820 4 1/2 X 25 ONTO THE SHOT, I FELT A SHARP PAIN IN MY LEFT GROIN AREA.

EE WAS BURNING USED OIL FILTERS IN THE KILN PORT HOLE AND A PUFF OF HOT GAS HIT HIM ONTHE RIGHT ARM, LEFT ARM CAUSING BURNS.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING PINNER ACROSS SECTION. HIS FIRST FINGER ON RIGHT HAND WAS INJURED WHEN CAUGHT BETWEEN CANOPY AND ROOF.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING COAL AND ROCK LUMPS FROM A BLOCKED CRUSHER. WHILE LIFTING A LUMP OUT OF THE CRUSHER, SOME MATERIAL FELL ONTO HIS RIGHT HAND, BREAKING HIS RING FINGER.

INJURED WAS PULLING ON #14 MINER CABLE WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK AND GROIN AREA. INJURED WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE. HE WENT FOR AN MRI AND TO SEE A SURGEON.

WHILE WASHING OUT THE BULT BAGGING MACHINE, HE STEPPED ONTO THE ROLLER & HIS LEG FELL THRU

WHILE WORKING ON A RADIUS BAR ON A SHOVEL DIPPEREMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A FRACTURE TO HIS RIGHT HAND WHEN THE COME-A-LONG HE WAS USING STRUCK HIS HAND.

EE WAS IN PROCESS OF OPENING HIS TOOLBOX WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

MAN WAS GETTING OFF WATER TANKER, LOST HIS FOOTING AND BEGAN TO FALL BUT HELD ONTO HAND RAIL, BUT STRAINED HIS ARM.

EE WAS USING BAR TO DISLODGE A ROCK HUNG ABOVE CONVEYOR IN CRUSHER HOPPER. HE OVERSTRESSED HIS BACK WHILE WORKING IN A CRAMPED POSITION

THE EE WAS HANGING BELT STARTER CABLE FROM A LADDER AS PUSH THE CABLE UP AGAINST THE ROOF, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. THE EE SOUGHT CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT ON 11-1-99 HIS LAST DAY AT WORK.

HOOKING UP SUPPORT FRAME, IT MOVED AND HE FELL LANDING ON BOTH FEET.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE MACHINE(DRAGLINE), WHEN HE STEPPED ON AN AIRHOSE AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.

THE FLOOR IN THE BUILDING HE WAS WORKING IN WAS MUDDY. HE WAS MOVING ONE END OF AN 8" X 8' I BEAM WHEN HE SLIPPED ON THE MUD AND FELL. THE BEAM FELL ON HIS RIGHT HAND, CRUSHING HIS THUMB.

WAS USING A BAR TO MOVE TRACK OVER AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER. WORKED UNTIL 10-29-99. WAS DISABLED ON 10-29-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING COAL BUCKETS INTO THE SLATEHOPPER SHANTY. WHEN HE LIFTED ONE BUCKET, HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS REMOVING ROCK FROM PICKING TABLE WHEN ANOTHER ROCK STRUCK HIM IN LEFT SIDE, RESULTING IN BRUISED RIBS.

EE SLIPPED AND FELL,HITTING HIS KNEE ON A ROCK. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY.

EE WAS CUTTING BREAK IN #7 ENTRY AND HAD TO MOVE CABLE. WHEN HE DID MOVE THE CABLE HE HAD PAIN IN LEFT SIDE, LOWER BACK AND LEFT LEG.

INSTALLING PIN, HIT ROTATION LEVER CAUSING HIS CGLOVE TO GET CAUGHT BETWEEN PLATE HOLE AND PIN PULLING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BACKWARDS.

EMPLOYEE WAS FITTING WOODEN CONCRETE FORMS AND FELT A PULL AND BURNING SENSATION IN HIS NECK BEHIND HIS RIGHT EAR. IT WAS DIAGNOSED AS MUSCLE STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE SAID THAT HE BENT DOWN AND LIFTED A BOXOF 36" LONG RESIN AND PUT THEM ON TOP OF THE ROOF BOLTER. HE SAID AT THAT POINT, HE FELT A TINGLE IN HIS BACK.

ROCK DUSTING IN TAKE AND GOT TO PORTAL LETTING DUSTER EMPTY UP DUST WAS PAMP, LIFTED SCREEN AND USE HAND TO PUSH DUST DOWN HOPPER AND RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER HIT AUGER. CUTTING SIDE OF FINGER.

THE EE WAS LOOSENING A SCREW OF A HYDRAULIC CYLINDER OF THE TRACKS OF A D-9 MACHINE. WHILE HE WAS PUTTING PRESSURE ON THE WRENCH, THIS ONE SLIPPED AND CRUSHED HIS LEFT HAND THUMB CAUSED A DEEP WOUND.

WHILE CHECKING THE STEERING SYSTEM, EE WAS PINNED BETWEEN THE TIRE AND FRAME. CO-WORKER TURNED THE WHEEL THE WRONG DIRECTION AND PINNED HIM.

EE WAS CLEANING 3RD FLOOR IN THE PLANT WHEN HE EXPERIENCED CHEST PAINS SHORTNESS OF BREATH & PANS IN LEFT ARM. WE IMMEDIATELY CALLED AMBULANCE &HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSP. EE WAS SHOVELING MATERIAL ONTO A PILE ON THE 3RD FLOOR OF THE PLANT WHEN HE EXPERIENCED THE PAINS. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT HE HAD CHEST WALL MUSCLE STRAIN. ON 10/28 IT WAS DETERMINED THAT HEWAS TO BE OFF WORK

EE WAS CLEANING WEST SCRUBBER & A PIECE OF DEBRIS CAME LOOSE & FELL HITTING HIS FOREARM CAUSING VERY BAD BRUISE

EE STATED HE WAS INSTALLING A CRIB BLOCK OVER HIS HEAD WHEN IT SLIPPPED IN HIS HAND CAUSING HIM TO JAM HIS THUMB. AN IMPRESSION AT THE MEDICAL CLINIC COULD NOT BE READ UNTIL THE SWELLING WASG ONE. THERE WAS NO FRACTURE OR CHIP TO THE BONE N Y

EE WAS A PASSENGER IN A MANTRIP THAT DERAILED.

HE WAS RUNNING DOWN THE WEST HILL IN THE PLANT AREA TO START WORKING ON ROCK CRUSHER, AS HE APPROACHED THE BOTTOM, HE GOT TOO MUCH SPEED AND WHEN HE TRIED TO STOP, RIGHT FOOT LANDED ON IT'S SI DE. IN WHICH CHIPPED METATARSAL ON MY RIGHT FOOT

EE WAS CLIMBING ONTO VEHICLE AND FELT HIS BACK TWIST. AT THE TIME HE CONTINUED WORKING AND NEVER WENT TO THE DR. IT WAS JUST BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION ON 11-15-99 THAT THE EE WENT HOME ON THURS 10-28-99 AND TO THE DR ON FRI 10-29-99 AND HAS NOT WORKED SINCE.

VICTIM WAS PICKING UP A WATER PUMP AND PULLED A MSUCLE IN HIS BACK CAUSING A LOWER BACK STRAIN.

EE HAD BEEN IDENTFYING SOME EXISTING WIRING. HE TERMINATED ONE OF THE WIRES AND THE OTHER BRUSHED UP AGAINST THE EXPOSED BUS BAR. THIS CAUSED A FLASH WHICH BURNED THE EE.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING TIMBERS FROM A SCOOP. HE SLIPPED AND FELL AGAINST THE SCOOP, STRIKING HISBACK.

DURING PUMP REPAIRS, FACEPLATE WAS LEANED UP AGAINST SUCTION PIPE NEAR PUMP. DURING INSTALLATION OF IMPELLER, SUCTION PIPE WAS BUMPED CAUSING FACEPLATE TO FALL OVER KNOCKING EE TO DREDGE DECK ONTO HIS LEGS. SPRAINED RIGHT WRIST AND BROKEN RIGHT LOWER LEG BETWEEN KNEE AND ANKLE.

EE AND CO-WORKERS WERE IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING LIFT TIMBERS WHEN THE LEFT HAND RIB ROLLED STRIKING EE ON THE RIGHT FOOT. HE WAS FACING THE RIB AS IT ROLLED CAUSING A FRACTURE TO HIS FOOT/ANK LE.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING A GRIZZLY, WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE TWISTED HIS KNEE.

LIFTING 75-80 LB OAK BLOCKS INTO POSITION TO JACK REAR END OF T11 UP TO REMOVE OLD TIRES AND INSTALL NEW ONES, EMPLOYEE FELT SHARP PAIN IN AND SPASM IN LOWER BACK. HE WORKED THROUGH THE WEEK AND INTO THE NEXT WEEK. ON 11-4-99, PAIN WORSENED. HE CONTINUED TO CHANGE TIRES ALL WEEK.

EE WAS A PASSENGER IN A MANTRIP THAT DE RAILED THIS EE SUFFERS FROM A CRONIC BACK CONDITION. HE HAS UNDER GONE SURGERY FOR DISC REMOVAL AND NOW SUFFERS FROM AN INOPERABLE CONDITION.

EE STATED HE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EE INSTALL A 6" PIPE AND WHEN HE LIFTED ON THE PIPE HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK WHICH RESULTED IN A TEAR IN THE NUCLEUS OF THE DISC, WHICH LATER BECAME HE RNIATED. FIRST LOST WORK DAY OCCURRED ON 12-22-1999.

BUILDING BRATTICES AND SOME PLASTIC GOT IN HIS EYES.

A MECHANIC WAS WALKING IN THE CONCENTRATOR #9 MILL FEED TUNNEL. HE STEPPED ON SOME ROCK FROM AN APRON FEEDER PLUG AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE. HE DID NOT SEE A DR UNTIL DECEMBER. HE WAS ULTIMATE LY DIAGNOSED WITH A TORN LIGAMENT AND SURGICAL REPAIR WAS RECENTLY PERFORMED.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON SIDE FRAME WHEN IT STRUCK HIS LOWER LEG.

EE HAD DELIVRED A LOADER TO THIS LOCATION. A DRILLER WAS OPERATING AN AIR TRACK DRILL WITH A TAGAIR COMPRESSOR. EE NOTICED THAT THE DRILLER WAS STRUGGLING WITH GETTING THE AIR HOSE OFF THE AIR COMPRESSOR ROCK. HE LIFTED THE HOSE FREE FROM SNAG ON THE ROCK AS THE HOSE CAME OFF THE RACK THEHOSE SHIFTED & STRUCK EE IN THE MOUTH

MINER WAS TRIMMING A PIECE OF BELT WITH A UTILITY KNIFE. KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS LEFT THUMB.

LIFTING AND PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS BACK.

EE SCRAPED HIS LEG ON A LIGHT AS HE DESCENDED FROM DOZER. STAFF INFECTION RESULTED.

EMPLOYEE WAS RESTACKING PALLETS, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

SLIP ON WET TRACK OF EXCAVATOR - INJURY TO HAND.

A CABLE FROM THE CRANE PULLED HIS FEET OUT FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL Y

EE WAS PUSHING ON A CHEATER BAR TRYING TO OPEN A RAIL CAR & STRAINED HIS BACK

EE ATTEMPTED TO LIFT A PIECE OF DOUBLE STRENGTH FLOOR GRATING. EE FELT A POP IN HIS BACK IMMEDIATELY. IT WAS A PIVOT LIFT ATTEMPTING TO GET A CHAIN UNDER THE GRATING TO LIFT IT WITH THE CRANE. WAS EVALUATED BY A PHYSICIAN ON 10/28/99. PHYSICAL THERAPY STARTED ON 11/2/99. DX: BACK STRAIN.

EE WAS HELPING ON THE CONTINUOUS MINER. HE BENT OVER TO MOVE THE C/M CABLE. HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

EE WAS HELPING FELLOW WORKERS PLACE MOTOR ONTO BACK OF TRUCK. MOTOR SLIPPED & FELL. MOTOR STRUCK EE ON LEFT FOOT. FRACTURE TO LEFT LITTLE TOE RESULTED

EE WAS LUBRICATING SCREENS AT ROCK PLANT WHEN HEEXPERIENCED EXTREME PAIN IN BOTH WRISTS.

EE ATTEMPTED TO ASSIST A SECOND EE TO POSITION A PUMP, ON TO THE FLOOR BELOW A JIB HOIST. AS THE EE LIFTED THE PUMP, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS ARM. EE WAS TREATED AT THE LOCAL CLINIC AND RETURNED TO WORK.

PERSON WAS HELPING TO UNLOAD 5X5 POSTS FROM FLAT CAR INTO SUPPLY HOLE. WHILE THROWING POSTS BACK OVER PILE HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EE WAS USING 1 1/2" WATER HOSE WASHING DOWN STOPE AREA. HOSE BURST AND HANDLE STRUCK EE ON LEFT HAND.

WAS SETTING HEINTZMAN PROPS AND BUILDING CRIBS DURING SHIFT. AT THE END OF THE SHIFT HER BACK BEGAN TO TIGHTEN. THE NEXT DAY SHE WAS TAKEN OFFWORK BY A DOCTOR.

THIS EE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE AS HE PULLED A WATER HOSE. SURGERY WAS REQUIRED ON 11/23/99.

EE'S LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF RAIL AT BUNKER. HE FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT KNEE ON RAIL. HAD TO HAVE SURGERY ON THIS KNEE.

EE WAS SHOVELING ACCUMNLATIONS ALONG THE MAIN NORTH BELT AT 117 XC WHERE TOP BELT IS ABOUT 7 FEET ABOVE MINE FLOOR. AS HE WAS THROWING A SHOVEL FULL ONTO THE TOP BELT, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT SIDE RING CAGE. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO TO ANY MINING EQUIPMENT. THE INJURY DID NOT INVLOLVE ANY COMPLIANCE WITH RULES OR RAGS, ANY JOB SKILL, PROFICIENCY, TRAINING OR ATTITUDE. EE WAS

EE WAS CARRYING WATER TO PLASTER A BRATTICE.

BOLTING TOP & GOT HIS GLOVE CAUGHT IN STEEL, TWISTED HAND

EMPLOYEE LOST CONTROL OF DRILL WHILE DRILLING. THE DRILL STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT SHOULDER.

PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL BETWEEN RIB & FIRST BOLT STRIKING EE ON HEAD AND RIGHT SIDE OF BODY.

EE WA SETTING LONGWALL SHIELD ON THE SET UP FACEWHEN HE EITHER STEPPED ON THE HIGH PRESSURE HOSEOR PULLED IT CAUSING IT TO COME ON & STRIKE HIM

EE WAS BACK DRAGGING THE SLOPE & BACKED UPON A ROCK WITH THE LEFT TRACK OF HIS DOZER. THE DOZER CAME TO A SUDDEN STOP EE SAID HE HAS STIFFNESS IN HIS NECK & BETWEEN HIS SHOULDERS

EE & ANOTHER EE WERE MOVING A BANANA SCREEN ON ADOLLY. THE LOAD SHIFTED THE INJ EE TRIED TO KEEPTHE SCREEN FROM FALLING ON THE OTHER EE.

EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING SCOOP AND STATED HE SLIPPED AND FELT PAIN IN KNEE. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK 11-2-1999.

WHILE STANDING ON TOP OF PALLETIZER IN #2 PACKAGING AREA, WORKER FELL FROM TOP OF THE PALLETIZER DOWN TO THE FLOOR.

EE APPARENTLY OVER EXERTED HIMSELF ON TWO RECENT OCCASIONS. FRIDAY 10-22, STRAINED BACK WHILE HELPING TO TRY TO INSTALL LOCOMTIVE DRIVE WHEEL CONNECTING BARS. THESE BARS ARE SEVERAL FEET LONG AND OF HEAVY GUAGE STEEL AND ARE VERY HEAVY. SUNDAY, 10-24, EE AGAIN STRAINED AREA ABOVE ONE OF HIS HIPS IN THE LOWER BACK WHILE MOVING AN OIL BARREL BY HIMSELF. HE ASKED ME TO MAKE A DR APPT

WHILE CLIMBING DOWN FROM DOZER, HE SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIS RIGHT WRIST.

REMOVING BUCKET LIP SAVER ON SHOVEL AND CAME OUT AND LANDED ON LEFT HAND.

EE WAS GETTING OUT OF SWEEPER TRUCK THAT HE OPERATES, SLIPPED ON THE STEP AND FELL INJURING HIS BACK. NOTE: FIRST DAY OFF WORK FOR THIS INJURY 12/13/99.

WHIE EE WAS CLEANING UP XCUT, HE PULLED RIGHT SHOULDER.

PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK WHILE INSTALLING CRAWLER ON MINER.

THE CABLE ON THE DRILL BROKE. WENT TO SHUT OFF THE DRILL AND THE CHAIN GOT CAUGHT AND WAS HEADING FOR THE CAB. JUMPED BACK AND INJURED LEFT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING COAL OUT OF TROUGH OF ADDCAR OF HIGHWALL MINER. THE ADDCAR ROLLED FORWARD AND CAUGHT HIS LEG BETWEEN ADDCAR AND PUSHJACK.

EE WAS GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL AND WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES. METAL PARTICLES SOMEHOW BECAME EMBEDDED IN HIS RT EYE. HE WENT TO A HOSPITAL ER LATER THAT DAY AND WAS REFERRED TO AN OPTOMETRI ST WHO REMOVED THE METAL PARTICLES.

EE TWISTED ANKLE WHILE CLIMBING DOWN FROM DRAGLINE.

EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY STRAINED HIS BACK WHEN REMOVING A TIRE FROM A SCOOPTRAM.

MOVING ROCK OFF TRACK STRAINING BACK

EE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS. EE WAS STRAIGHTENING BOLTS WITH ONE HAND INSTEAD OF BOTH. THE BOLT TWISTED CAUSING STRAIN INJURY TO EE'S RIGHT ARM.

INJURED STATED THAT HE WAS HANGING A CURTAIN IN #2 ENTRY WHEN B1 BOLTER BACK UP CATCHING HIS RIGHT FOOT UNDER THE BACK OF THE BOLTER. INJURED WENT TO THE DR. HE HAD A CONTUSION AND POSSIBLE A HAIRLINE FRACTURE AND INUJURED RETURNED TO WORK ON 10-25-99.

EMPLOYEE REPORTEDLY WAS TRAMMING SHUUTLE CAR THRU CROSSCUT, HIT HOLE IN MINE BOTTOM.

OPERATOR WAS DISMOUNTING MACHINE. WAS GETTING OFF FORWARDS. WHEN FOOT SLIPPED AND ARM WAS ABLE TO GET STUCK IN HANDLE FOR WHERE YOU GRABB TO GET ON AND OFF MACHINE-WRIST INGNERED.

INJURED AND FELLOW WORKER WERE TILTING A 5' TALL STARTER SO IT COULD BE PLACED ON PALLET. AS THESTARTER BROKE OVER THE INJURED HAD ALL OF THE WEIGHT AND SUFFERED A BACK AND ABDOMINAL STRAIN. T HE ABDOMINAL STRAIN IS DIAGNOSED AS A HERNIA.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING FROM BUCKET TO HAMMER. HE WAS TIGHTENING HOSE ON HAMMER WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF HITTING HIM ON THE RIGHT WRIST.

DRIVER EXITED TRUCK TO OBTAIN WEIGHT TICKET, MISSED BOTTOM STEP ON TRUCK CAUSING A FALL. DRIVER'S HEAD STRUCK BOTTOM STEP OF TRUCK AND FELL INTO EXTERIOR WALL AT OFFICE. DRIVER COMPLAINED OF H EAD AND NECK INJURIES. DRIVER TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE.

SHUT THUMB IN DRILL DOOR

EMPLOYEE WAS LOWERING A D.A. RAM FROM THE HANDRAIL TO THE SHIELD TOE. IT SLIPPED AND FELL, STRIKING HIM ON LOWER RIGHT LEG CAUSING A DEEP BRUISEAND TRAUMA.

EE STATED THAT WHILE DISMOUNTING FUEL TRUCK HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT AND AS HE BEGAN TO TIGHTEN THE BOLT, A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT CHEEK.

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKINGEMPLOYEE ON TOP OF THE RIGHT FOOT. THE WOUND REQUIRED ONE STITCH.

SMASHED FINGER WITH A HAMMER WHILE INSTALLING A LARGE DOOR AT THE PROCESSING PLANT.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE SHOVELING ON #4A TAILPIECE AT #130 MINE, HE SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO A PIECE OF ROCK.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS OF SCREEN PLANT PLANT, TWISTED LEFT ANKLE AND KNEE.

WAS USING A RACHET TO ADJUST TRAM CHAIN ON A LOADING MACHINE. AS HE PRESSED DOWN ON THE RACHET HE FELT AN IMMEDIATE PAIN IN HIS LOWER RIGHT LEG.

WHILE WORKING ON RIPPER HEAD, REPLACING EXTERNAL GEAR IN GEAR CASE. STRAINED LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE CARRIED 50 LB BAG OF ROCK DUST FOR 100 FT. AFTER LAYING THE BAG OF ROCK DUST DOWN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING A 54" BELT STRUCTURE WITH THE HELP OF ANOTHER EMPLOYEE. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

SUBJECT WAS HOLDING A SHAFT COUPLING FOR ANOTHER PERSON TO DRIVE ON WITH A SLEDGE. SLEDGE GLANCED OFF COUPLING AND HIT SUBJECTS LEFT HAND RING FINGER.

THE DIPPER DOOR TRIPPED AS IT SWUNG TO LOAD AND EMPTY TRUCK. MUCK HIT THE BED OF THE TRUCK, CAUSING IT TO RAISE AND THEN DROP.

EE ALLEGES HE STRAINED HIS BACK HANDLING BELT ROLLERS. (EE WORKED UNTIL NOV. 16, 1999 THEN HE BEGAN MISSING WORK.)

WHILE TRYING TO MOVE SCREEN, OTHER SCREENS CAME LOOSE PUSHING EMPLOYEE AND PINNING EMPLOYEE BETWEEN SCREENS

INJURED PARK WAS OPERATING A ROOF BOLTER PUTTING UP BOUT'S WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT FROM AROUND THE BOLT'S STRIKING HIM ON THE WRIST.

EE STATED: HELPING CO-WORKERS INSTALL CONVEYOR BELT, STANDING IN BELT ENTRY, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK (8" X 8" X 1") FELL STRIKING HIS MINE CAP.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON THE CORNERS ON TOP OF AN OPEN SHIPPING CONTAINER WHEN HE GOT HIS BOOT HUNG ON A CROSS BOW. HE BENT OVER TO FREE HIS BOOT AND SOMETHING JARRED THE TRUCK, CAUSING HIM TO FALL. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF ON THE CROSS BOW. HE THEN FELL 6 FT TO THE GROUND LANDING ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES SHATTERING HIS RIGHT WRIST.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS CLIMBING UP A LADDER TO DOREPAIR WORK IN THE PREP PLANT WHEN THE BASE OF THE LADDER KICKED OUT CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THEFLOOR BELWO

EMPLOYEE REPORTEDLY WAS LIFTINGG STEEL MANDOOR INTO SCOOP BUCKET.

WHILE WALKING THE 5TH WEST PANEL BELT, EE SLIPPED ON WET FLOOR AREA AT THE 5TH WEST PANEL BELT HEAD. NOTE: PERSON WORKED UNTIL 11-2-99, BEFORE MISSING TIME.

EE SLIPPED AND FELL FROM 3RD RUNG ON LADDER AT PUGMILL.

ROCK FELL FROM FACE STRIKING EE. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY

WHILE MOVING A PIECE OF STACKER FROM ONE MINE TOANOTHER, A LOW HANGING PHONE CABLE HAD TO BE MOVED. THE EMPLOYEE CLIMBED ONTO THE TRUCK BED TO LIFT THE CABLE OUT OF THE WAY AND TWISTED HIS LEF T KNEE.

EE STATED ON 10-21-1999 HE WAS STRAIGHTENING A ROOF BOLT. THE BOLT TWISTED CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN LOWER PART OF HIS BACK. HE WENT TO DR. AT THAT TIME OF INJURY. DR GAVE HIM THERAPY AND HE RETUR NED TO REGULAR DUTIES & SHIFT. NO LOST TIME OR RESTRICTIONS. HIS BACK CONTINUED TO BOTHER HIM. HE WENT BACK TO DR. 8-3-00. STARTED LOSING TIME ON 8-3-00.

WHILE LIFTING CHAINS TO BE INSTALLED ON EQUIPMENT, THE EE STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS WORKING ON A CREW INSTALLING A METAL OVERCAST. THE TOP PANELS HAD BEEN PLACED BUT THE BOLT HOLES DID NOT LINE UP WITH THE FRAME. ANOTHER EE PUSHED OUTWARD ON THE FRAME TO MAKE THE HOLES ALIGN. THIS CAUSED A TOP PANEL TO FALL AND STRIKE THE INJURED ON TOP OF THE HEAD.

WHEN EE LET THE BOOM ON THE ROOFBOLTER DOWN, IT CAME IN CONTACT WITH HIS FOOT. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY

EE STATED: OPERATING BOLTER IN FACE AREA, DRILLING HOLE IN MINE ROOF, AUGER BENT AND STRUCK HIS LEFT FOREARM.

INJURED CLAIMS WHILE HE WAS LEAVING THE TOP OF THE STAIRWAY ADJACENT IN THE AREA OF THE NUMBER ONE SECONDARY MILL, HE SLIPPED ON A PUDDLE OF SLURRY ON THE SECONDARY MILL FLOOR. HE DID NOT FALL OR HIT HIS BACK ON ANY OBJECT, HE TWISTED HIS BACK.

WHILE REMOVING A SECTION OF A HANGING BIN, THE CHAINFALL SECURING THE SUSPENDED LOAD FAILED ALLOWING THE LOAD TO SWING INTO THE INDIVIDUAL AND CONTACT HIM ACROSS THE KNEE AREA OF BOTH LEGS. TH IS RESULLTED IN LACERATIONS TO THE LEFT LEG AND BRUISES TO THE RIGHT LEG. NO BONES WERE BROKEN.

A LARGE ROCK ROLLED AND HIT THE LOADER BUCKET AND EMPLOYEE WAS HURT WHILE OPERATING LOADER.

A FRAME WAS BEING LOWERED DOWN AND HE PULLED ON THE FRAME AND IT SWUNG BEHIND HIM AND HE PULLED HIS LOWER BACK.

EE STATED HE WAS OPERATING SCRAPER PULLING LEVERS IN PAN TO DUMP REFUSE WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER AND ARM. EE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH 3 HERNIATED DISC IN HIS NECK AND HIS FIRST LOST WORK DAY OCCURED ON 11-10-99.

INJURED STATES WHILE STEPPING DOWN FROM LADDER, HE TWISTED BACK OPPOSITE FROM UPPER BODY. DOCTOR STATES HE HAS AN INFLAMED SCIATIC NERVE.

AFTER EMPTYING 55 GALLON DRUM OF OIL ON THE COALPILE, EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO PUT DRUM BACK ON THEPALLET WHEN THE DRUM SLIPPED AND STARTED TO FALLTO THE GROUND. EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO CATCH THE D RUM, THEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOW RIGHT HIP AND HIS BACK.

ADJUSTING THE CRUSHER WITH A HAMMER AND A WRENCH. THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN WRENCH AND THE MACHINE, PUTTING A GASH IN LEFTTHUMB.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING NEAR A PROCESSING PLANT THAT HAD BEEN SHUT DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR.HE WAS SHOVELING ACCUMULATED SND AND GRAVEL WHENTHE INJURY OCCURED. THE EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS LO WER BACK AND WAS UNABLE TO BEND HIS BACK WITHOUTCONSIDERABLE PAIN.

EE WAS ENGAGED IN HANGING UTILITY LINES IN NEW UG SHOP AREA HE LIFTED A BUCKET OF 3/16" CHAIN 50-70# TO MOVE IT ACROSS THE SISSOR DECK HE WAS WORKING ON & FELT A PAIN IN HIS UPPER LEFT GROIN AREA

A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM TOP AND HIT LEFT THIGH AREA.

EE WAS OPERATING S & S SCOOP. 3 BREAKS FROM FACE IN #6 ENTRY. A ROCK, (24" X 12" X 2.5"), FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS. ROCK FELL ON SCOOP, CORNER OF ROCK STRUCK EE IN MID CHEST.

MOVING METAL BEAM ON SCOOP BILL. METAL SLID OFF STRIKING LEFT FOOT, BENDING STEEL TOE OF SAFETY SHOE INTO LARGE TOE. EE REPORTED THE INCIDENT, BUT DID NOT THINK IT NECESSARY TO SEE A DR UNTIL 11-11-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING ENDLOADER CAB; HE HAD MUDDYBOOTS & SLIPPED ON BOTTOM RUNG OF LADDER & TRIEDTO STOP HIS FALL BY GRABBING LADDER RUNG WITH RIGHT HAND. HE HUNG HIS RIGHT ARM AND BUMPED THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS BODY AGAINST THE LOADER. HE CONTINUED WORKING THE SHIFT AND VISITED CHIROPRACTOR NEXT DAY--STRAIN THAT SHOULD HEAL DURINGWINTER LAYOFF DID NOT OCCUR. SURGERY 4/21/00.

INJURED RIDING SCOOP BUCKET TO FACE OF MINE TO START WORK. SCOOP HIT ROLL THROWING INJURED INTO TOP AND SIDE OF BUCKET. INJURY TO BACK (BRUISED)

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING TOOL BOX IN SUPPLY HOLE WHEN HE INJURED GROIN.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CLOSE THE FREIGHT ELEVATOR DOOR IN THE SMOL SILOS, THE EE LEFT HAND FINGER WERE CRUSHED BETWEEN THE 2 DOORS HALVES HE USED HIS RIGHT HAND TO PULL DOWN ON THE DOOR STRAP WH ILE HIS FINGERS FROM HIS LEFT HAND WERE ON THE LOWER DOOR HALF. HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE EXITING THE VEHICLE WHICH TOOK HIM TO THE PARAMEDICS

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE MINER SCREEN WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTS(2"X2"X2"). IT FELL, HITTING HIM ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD, NECK AND SHOULDERS. THE BOLT SPACING WAS 4' X 3' X 6' ACROSS.

HAD FLAT ON MAC 8, WENT OVER TO BELT LINE LIFTED BELT, TOOK CRIB BLOCK OUT UNDER STAND, WENT TO LIFT BELT BACK UP, FELT BACK PULL.

CHANGING OIL ON DRILL, HE SLIPPED AND HIT RIGHT ELBOW.

EE WAS LEVELING ROOFBOLTER DRILL POT. HAD A SLATE BAR, PRYING ON THE LEVELING ARM. WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED HE FELL INTO THE SIDE OF THE MACHINE, INJURY HIS RIBS.

EE WAS WORKING ON STARTER ON BUS. WRENCH STRUCK HIS RT FINGER. DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 11-13-99.

THE INJURED WAS TAKING DOWN A PIECE OF 4" WATERLINE PIPE WHEN THE PIPE SLIPPED AND HIT HIM ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD INJURING HIS NECK.

HE SAID HE BUMPED HEAD ON ROOF BOLT.

EE SPENT MOST OF WORK DAY FITTING PARTS AS WELDING WORK WAS BEING DONE IN THE SAME AREA. EE RAISED HIS FACE MASK FREQUENTLY DURING THE DAY. WHILE AT HOME THE SAME EVENING EE NOTED HURTING WATE RING EYES. EE WENT TO DR THE FOLLOWING AM & WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING MINOR FLASH BURN TO EYES

EE WAS OPERATING FORKLIFT. HE STOPPED TO EXIT THE LIFT & TIE A SUPERSACK IN FROM OF HIM TO THE LIFT. WHILE HE WAS TYING THE SACK THE LIFT MOVED FORWARD STRIKING & PINNING HIM BETWEEN THE LI FT & THE SUPER SACK. THE LIFT WAS RUNNING WITH PARKING BRAKE DISNEGAGED & FORKS APPROX 9 " OFF THE GROUND EE STATED HE HAD PUT LIFT IN NEUTRAL.LIFT TRAVELLED APPROX 3FT BEFORE STRIKING EE FLO

EE STATED THAT HE WAS RIDING IN PORTAL BUS FROM 4-SOUTH MAINS TO THE HONEY RUN PORTAL. WHEN ARRIVING AT THE 4-NORTH EMPTY SWITCH HE ATTEMPTED TO GET OUT OF THE BUS IN A HURRY TO TAKE SHORT CUT TO MAN CAGE. WHILE GETTING OUT HE CAUGHT HIS FOOT ON BUS CAUSING HIM TO FALL OUT HEAD FIRST AND WHILE ATTEMPTING TO BREAK HIS FALL HE HIT HIS HAND ON SHARP OBJECT.

EMPLOYEE HAD JUST DUMPED LOAD OF ROCK, WHEN HE WAS DESCENDING RAMP, THE BRAKES FAILED CAUSING THE TRUCK TO STRIKE BIG ROCK AND ACCORDING TO EMPLOYEE BOUNCE SIDEWAYS. EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS SLAMMED AGAINST DOOR AND STEERING WHEEL, CAUSINGRE-INJURY TO THE BACK. WE QUESTION EMPLOYEE'S INJURY CLAIM.

REPORTED SHOULDER PAIN AFTER USING A 1 1/2 TON COME ALONG ON 9-25-99 AT 11:00 P.M. EE TRIED TO CONTINUE WORKING BUT WHEN THE SHOULDER PAIN WAS NOT SUBSLIDING. HE WAS SENT TO A PHYSICIAN AND RE MOVED FROM WORK.

WHEN CHECKING TO SEE IF WATER TRUCK SPRAY WAS SUFFICENT, TRIPPED ON ROCK AND FELL.

EE WAS KNOCKING CRIBS BACK INTO ALIGNMENT WHILE NAOTHER EE HAD FORKS OF LOW TRACK SET AGAINST SAME CRIB. A ROCK FELL AND STRUCK EE L. UPPER LEG.

EE STATED THAT HE HAD COMPLETED HIS PRE-SHIFT EXAMINATION AND WAS COMMING OUT OF MINE IN NO.41 MANTRIP JEEP. WHEN HE REACHED 1 WEST MAINS SWITCH HE WAS TURNING THE TROLLY POLE IN A LOW AREA AN D HE STRUCK HIS KNEE ON THE PARK BRAKE HANDLE CAUSING HIM TO FALL TWISTING HIS KNEE.

WHILE CLEANING ROCK OFF MINER EE MADE A MIS STEP& FELL OFF MINER

INJURED AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE BRINGING BOOM ATTACHMENT TO STORAGE AREA. BOOM ATTACHMENT CHAINED ONTO BUCKET OF FRONT END LOADER. BOOM WAS LAID ON THE GROUND. WHEN LIFTING BOOM HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE DRY TAKING A SHOWER. HE SLIPPED AND FELL. HE DID NOT REPORT A STRAINED GROIN UNTIL 12-30-1999 WHEN HE CALLED ON EE AND EXPLAINED HE WAS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY ON 1-3-00. HE APPARENTLY HAD A HERNIA REPAIRED SOMETIME AGO AND WHEN HE FELL, IT TORE SOME OF THE STITCHING.

EE INJURED HIS LOW BACK PRYING BELT APART WITH SLATE BAR TO INSTALL ROLLERS.

EE WAS STEPPING UP ONTO BULLDOZER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE, TEARING THE LIGAMENTS IN HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

INJ WAS REMOVING PACKED CEMENT FROM #6 DUST COLLECTOR WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL STRAINING HIS SHOULDER WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO CATCH HIMSELF. DID NOT BECOME REPORTABLE UNTIL HE STARTED MISSING WORK DUE TO SURGERY ON 7/31/00

EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN A GOLF CART WHEN A ROCK FELL BETWEEN RIB AND PIN STRIKING HIM ON HIS RIGHT THIGH.

EE WAS USING HOLE RAKE TO CLEAN UNDER CONVEYOR BELT HOLE RAKE GOT CAUGHT IN ROLLERS PULLLED RIGHT HAND PINCHING FINGER TIPS

EE STATED THAT HE WAS BOLTING ROOF TOP. WHILE BENDING BOLT, HE SLIPPED AND HIT HIS FACE/RIGHT EAR AGAINST BOLT.

EMPLOYEE PULLED DOOR OFF OF AN UPRIGHT TOOL BOX (IT WAS LOCKED). WHEN HE PULLED DOOR DOWN A PIECE OF METAL THAT WAS LEANING AGAINST THE TOOL BOX FELL ON HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER.

EE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE NO 4 ENTRY. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD.

WHILE RELEASING A C CLAMP EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT THUMBWAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CLAMP AND THE ROOF DECK. THIS WAS CAUSED BY THE CLAMP SPRINGING BACK WHEN THE DISCHARGE PIPE WAS BEING REMOVED. EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE DOCTORS AND WAS REMOVED FROM WORK.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING WATER TRUCK & HAD A MUSCULAR BACK STRAIN

EE WAS ON LADDER WHEN THE WRUNG BROKE AND HE FELL BACKWARD CATCHING HIS LEG ON ANOTHER WRUNG.

EE WAS HELPING ELECTR8ICIANS ROLL A R/C TIRE AND IT ROLLED ON EE'S RT. FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS ON A LADDER HANGING LINE CURTAIN BESIDE ROOF BOLTER. AS THE BOLTING MACHINE MOVED, AN S-HOOK ON ROPE CABLE HANGER CAUGHT LADDER ANDPULLED IT OVER. EMPLOYEE FELL AND INJURED RIGHT HAND AND GROIN.

RUNNING A SCOOP, CLEANING GOB IN OLD WORKS, AND GOT HIS LEFT ARM CAUGHT IN RIB.

EMPLOYEE AND ANOTHER WERE INSTALLING A LARGE PUMP ON THE UNDERSIDE CHASSIS OF A FUEL TRUCK. THE EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING THE PUMP UP INTO PLACE WHENHE OVEREXERTED, STRAINING THE MUSCLES IN HIS CHE ST(PECTORAL). SUBJECT DID NOT RECOGNIZE THIS FORONE WEEK, WHEN HE WAS BEING TREATED FOR A CHEST COLD.

EE WAS RUNNING A GUNNING MACHINE. THE COMPRESSED AIR LINE SEPARATED AND STRUCK EE ON THE SIDE OF HIS FACE. GUNITE MACHINE WAS BRAND NEW. APPEARS TO BE MANUFACTURING ERROR.

INJURED PARTY'S BATTERY LIGHT WENT OUT, AS HE WAS CARRYING A BELT NAIL BOARD. HE TRIPPED, FALLING BACKWARDS ON DRAW ROCK AND THE NAIL BOARD STRUCK HIM ACROSS THE CHEST.

EE HAS ALLEGED WORK RELATED CONDITION CALLED TENNIS ELBOW FROM OPERATING A DOWN HOLE DRILL. THIS CONDITION WAS ORIGINALLY TREATED AS A FIRST AID BUT IT HAS NEW BECOME A REPORTABLE INCIDENT.

HELPING ANOTHER EE LIFT SCREEN. OTHER EE LET SCREEN SLIP OUT OF HIS HANDS AND LEFT EE HOLDING UP THE WEIGHT OF SCREEN.

LIFTING LID BACK ON DRILL.

WHILE OPERATING 3 WHEEL MANTRIP STEERING NOB WASWRENCHED OUT OF EMPLOYEE'S HAND STRIKING HIM FORCEFULLY ON RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER CAUSING BRUISEAND STRETCHED LIGAMENTS.

THE DAY SHIFT HAD LOADED LOOSE ROCK INTO COAL CARS AT THE TRACK LOADING POINT BUT FAILED TO CLEAN UP AFTER THE LOADING WAS DONE. AFTERNOON SHIFT HAD SUPPLIES BROUGHT IN TO LOADING POINT AT BEG INNING OF THE SHIFT. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO UNLOAD SUPPLIES FOR THE GRADE JOB THE EE PICKED UP A BAG OF CALCIUM AND TURNED TO WALK AWAY WHEN HE SLIPPED IN THE LOOSE MATERIAL TWISTING HIS KNEE.

WHILE PULLING ROCK OFF THE MINER, EE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE HIT A BUMP IN THE TRAVEL ROAD AND STRAINED NIS LOW BACK. 2NSM TRAVEL RD 95 TO 96 X-CUT.

EE WAS REACHING FOR A MINE TIMBER &FELT PAIN HIS BACK

INJURED HAULING PAN OF COAL FROM FACE TO DUMP. PIECE OF ROCK 3'X3'X2" CAME OUT OR TOP BETWEEN RIB AND BOLT AND FELL ON INJURED CATCHING HIM ON HEAD AND LEFT FOREARM.

EE WAS GRINDING WELDS ON STEEL. EE PAUSED FOR A MOMENT LIFTED FACE SHIELD AND SMALL AMOUNT OF DUST STIRRED UP BY THE GRINDING CAME INTO CONTACT WITH HIS RIGHT EYE CAUSING SLIGHT CHEMOSIS OF TH E EYE.

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS TRAMMING DIESEL MULE. HE PLACED HIS HAND BETWEEN BELL AND CANOPY POST. HETURNED SHARP AND MASHED FINGERS ON RIGHT HAND.

WHILE TRAMMING GOLF-CART MANTRIP INTO SECTION CART BECAME STUCK. EE WAS PUSHING VEHICLE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. EE FINISHED SHIFT, WORKED THE NEXT DAY THEN WENT TO CHIROPRACTOR AND ST ARTED MISSING TIME ON 10-20-99.

EE WAS RIDING MANTRIP & WAS ON HIS WAY OUTSIDE WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL & HIT EE IN THE LEFT EYE

EE WAS ENTEREING THE CAB OF THE YELLOW LOCOMOTIVE WHILE IT WAS PARKED INSIDE THE CAR DUMPER. AS HE WAS ENTERING IT WAS DIM INSIDE & HE STEPPED IN A HOLE THAT WAS CREATED WHEN THE INSPECTION COVER HAD BEEN REMOVED IN THE FLOOR

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING THE COUPLER ON THE 7200 CABLE CAR WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE STEPPING OUT OF MOTOR, SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF BELT IN WALKWAY CAUSING HIM TO TWIST RIGHT KNEE.

WHILE SHAKING OUT IRON FOR A NEW BUILDING, A PIECE OF IRON THAT WAS NOT IN A STABLE POSITION SLID. A SPUD WRENCH THAT HAD BEEN STUCK IN A HOLE IN THE PIECE THEN PIERCED INJURED'S RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE AND CO-WORKERS WERE EXTENDING BEAMS ANDSETTING PROPS UNDER THEM. EMPLOYEE LANDED ON HANDRAIL WHILE SHIELD WAS BEING LOWERED. HE GOT HISFINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN HANDRAIL AND SHIELD.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN SLOPE TO MINE SITE BEFORE HIS SHIFT BEGAN. HE SLIPPED AND INJURED HIS KNEE WHICH HAS BEEN INJURED IN PAST.

THE EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE OPERATING AROOF BOLTING MACHINE. THE EE WORKED UNTIL 10-24-99. THE EMPLOYEE'S LOST TIME BEGAN ON 10-25-99.

AIR LINE WAS NOT HOOKED UP AT BOTH ENDS. WHEN AIR WAS TURNED ON, THE AIR HOSE WHIPPED AROUND ANDSTRUCK EMPLOYEE ON HAND CAUSING A LACERATION.

EMPLOYEE WAS ROCKBOLTING WITH A JACKLEG DRILL WHEN A 5-6 LB. ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON HIS HARD HAT AND UPPER LIP. HE WAS SEEN BY A DOCTOR ANDWAS RELEASED TO FULL DUTY. ON 10/27/99 EMPLOYEE CONTACTED THE COMPANY AND STATED THAT HE WAAS HAVINBG HEADACHES AND MEMORY LOSS. HE WAS SEEN BY A NEUROLIGIST ON 10/28/99 AND HAS NOT RETURNED TO WORK.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT BLOCKS WHILE IN A SEATED POSITION. EE COMPLAINED OF SORENESS AND STIFFNESS TO LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING OUT ANVELS ON A ISC CRUSHER. WHEN HE WENT TO LIFT ONE OUT, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A ROCK THAT CLOGGED UP THE JAW CRUSHR WHEN IT CAME UP IT ROLLED BACK ONTO EMPLOYEE INJURYING EMPLOYEE'S KNEE.

EE STATES THAT WHILE CHANGING EXHAUST FAN IN DRAGLINE, THE FAN HOUSING FELL ON HIS LEFT FOOT CAUSING FRACTURE.

EE WAS DOINBG MAINTENANCE UPON THE LOADER & STARTED TO LOSE HIS BALANCE. HE THREW HIS ARM BACK TO REGAIN H IS BALANCE. WHEN HE DID THIS, HIS SHOULDER POPPED CAUSING PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER. EE D ID NOT FALL.

EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR HE RAN OVER A PICE OF ROCK IN THE HAUL ROAD. THIS CAUSED HIM TO BOUNCE UP & HIT THE CANOPY HURTING HIS NECK. HIS NECK CONTD TO BOTHER HIM & ON 10/20/99 HE WE NT TO THE DR

EE WAS WORKING ON EXTENSION LADDER. REMORTARING AND LADDER SLIPPED AND EE JUMPED OFF OF LADDER TO GROUND.

CHECKING ENGINE OIL LEVEL ON DRILL, IN BENT OVER POSITION, WHEN HE RAISED BACK UP HEAD STRUCK DRILL MASK.

EE WAS PICKING UP GLOVES BESIDE SCOOP WHEN WHEN ANOTHER EE STARTED MOVING A SCOOP AND RAN OVER INJURED EE'S FOOT.

PIECE OF ROCK FELL APPROX 11' STRKING EE ON SHUOULDER & LEFT FOOT

LAYING ON TOP OF SCOOP WORKING. FELL OFF AND HITAND HIT RIGHT ELBOW.

EE WAS DRAGGING A PIECE OF WATER LINE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND HIT HIS LEFT HAND ON A ROCK. *BEGAN MISSING WORK ON 11/9/99 - DIAGNOSED WITH A CRACKED BONE IN HIS LEFT HAND.

INJURED AND FELLOW EE WERE UNHANGING ROCK IN JAW. FELLOW EE THREW SMALLER ROCK TO PUSH OUT JAMMED ROCK. THROWN ROCK STRUCK INJURED'S HAND BETWEEN THUMB AND INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE PICKED UP A BUCKET (50 LB) OF BULK MATERIAL, TURNED TO PLACE IT INTO A BARE HOLE, WHEN HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING A ROOF BOLT AND STRAINE DHIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH A CREW THAT WAS MOVING A TAILPIECE TO THE C-2 LONGWALL SECTION. THE LOWBOY BEING USED TO TRANSPORT THE TAILPIECE DERAILED AND THE CREW WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUT IT BACK ON TO THE TRACK USING AIR BAGS AND LIFTING JACKSEMPLOYEE USING A LIFTING JACK THAT KICKED OUT AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT ARM AS THE LOWBOY WAS BEING RAISED. FRACTURE IN LEFT ARM.

OTHER STOPPED AT THE DIESEL STATION TO MAKE CHECK, WHEN EE HAD STARTED TO GET OF TO MAKE CHECK FOR OTHER. OTHER THINKING HE HAD THE RIDE IN NEUTRAL STARTED TO TAKE HIS FOOT OFF THE CLUTCH. THE RIDE JUMPED FORWARD AS EE STARTED TO GET OFF. THIS CAUSED EE TO TWIST HIS KNEE AND ANKLE.

EE REPORTED PULLED BACK MUSCLE FROM LIFTING 25 BLB TAIL PULLEY GUARD. EE FINISHED SHIFT. WENT TO DR NEXT MORNING. TAKE OFF REST OF DAY. GO FOR XRAY 10/20/99. VISITED DR AGAIN 10/21/99 TO STAY OFF UNTIL AT LEAST NEXT VISIT ON 10/25 @ 9 AM.

STANDING ON LEFT TRACK ON THE D7 DOZER (WET TRACK) FOOT SLIPPED.

E-2 SECTION WHILE BUILDING A STOPPING EE AND PICKING UP A CONCRETE HOOK ABOVE HIS HEAD TO PUT IN THE COURSE OF WALL AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND LEFT LEG. INVESTIGATION WAS BEGI N ON 10-20-99 AND COMPLETED 11-2-99 AFTER DISMOISSION WERE CONCENDED WITH THE ATTENDING .

EE WAS BENT OVER PLASTERING WALLS AND ALLEDGEDLY STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING OUTSIDE LUNCH ROOM PULLINGOFF COVERALLS AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS UNHOOKING ROCK FROM DOG HOOK. WHEN ROCK WAS RELEASED - THE ROCK CAME BACK ON HIS LEG. ROCK WAS BEING LOADED ONTO DUMP TRUCK.

EE WAS HIT IN THE KNEE BY ROCK. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY

EE ALLEGES THAT WHILE KNOCKING A PIN OUT OF 703 PAN, HIS HAMMER HEAD BROKE AND A PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO HIS LEFT FOREARM.

REWIRING SWITCHES FOR CONVEYER, WAS WIRED WRONG WHEN MAIN WAS ENGAGED A FIRE BALL CAME OUT OF THE BOX AND BURNED HIS RIGHT ARM FROM THE ELBOW TO THE SHOULDER.

EE RE-INJURED HIS SHOULDER BY CLOSING A VALVE ON #3 FILTER IN OUR GRID PLANT. EE HAD A INJURY ON 11/5/95 SURGERY 6/17/96 AND ONCE AGAIN RE-INJURED R SHOULDER. EE STARTED MISSING TIME 10/22/99.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO CHANGE CONCAVES IN THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. HE REMOVED HIS SAFETY GLASSES TOCLEAM THEM. AS HE WAS PUTTING THEM BACK ON, HE POKED HIMSELF IN THE EYE WITH THEM, SEVERELY SCRA TCHING HIS CORNEA.

THE OVERHEAD CABLE OF A HOIST BROKE WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A GEAR, CAUSING GEAR TO FALL AND HIT HIM ON HIS RIGHT THIGH.

THE EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK WHILE PULLING A BELT THROUGH A TAIL.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING OXYGEN TANKS UNDERGROUND ANDPULLED MUSCLE IN UPPER ABDOMEN.

THIS WAS NOT REPORTED TO US UNTIL 1-00. RUNNING BACKHOE AND JUMPED OFF & TWISTED KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING SLACK ON THE MIDDLE SHUTTLECAR TO MOVE THE ANCHOR, WHEN THE CABLE BECAME TANGLED WITH ANOTHER CABLE. WHEN HE PULLED, IT JERKED HIM BACK AND HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS GRO IN AREA. HE TRIED TO CONTINUE TO OPERATE HIS SHUTTLE CAR BUT STATED THAT IT HURT WHEN HE HIT BUMPS IN THE ROADWAY.

EE WAS STRUCK ON THE HEAD, BACK AND LEG BY A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK THAT FELL FROM BETWEEN THE PINS AS HE AND HIS BUDDY WERE TRAMMING THE ROOF BOLTER OUT OF THE PLACE. THE PIECE OF ROCK WAS TRIANG GULAR SHAPE AND MEASURED APPROX 3' X 4' X 3".

INJURED'S RIGHT LEG WAS HIT BY A TRACK SWITCH HANDLE AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO THROW THE SWITCH.

EE WAS RUNNING THE LEFT DRIVE CAR AND HE RAN OVER A LOOSE ROOF BOLT. IT CAME UP AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE.

THIS REPORT IS BEING COMPLETED UNDER PROTEST. ITIS A RESULT OF CITATION NUMBER 7185926. I DO NOTVERIFY THAT THIS INCIDENT HAPPENED. A TIMELY INVESTIGATION COULD NOT BE DONE. EMPLOYEE ALLEGES T HAT HE CAUGHT TIP OF HIS LITTLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN BELT RAIL AND ROLLER FRAME WHILECHANGING OUT BELT. IT OCCURED ON 10/16/99. HE INFORMED HIS FORMAN ON 10/17/99.

EE TOOK ONE STEP FROM A STANDING POSITION WHEN HIS ANKLE GAVE WAY.

ON 10-16-1999 AN EE WAS LOADING ROOF RESIN ON ROOF BOLTER. WHEN HE FELT A PULLING AND BURNING IN HIS BACK HE WENT TO A DR. BUT DID NOT MISS ANY WORK UNTIL 1-14-00. ON 1-18-00 A DR. REMOVED A H ERNIATED DISC FROM EMPLOYEES BACK AND A LUMBAR LAINECTOMY (SUB-MAINS SECTION).

*BECAME LOST TIME ON 11/8/99 WHEN EE BEGAN MISSING WORK. AT BOTTOM OF SERVICE SHAFT, EE WAS DOING ELECTRICAL EXAMINATIONS WHEN HE STEPPED ACROSS A WATER HOLE AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS SHOVELING MUD FROM AREA BEHIND A SCOOP EJECTOR BLADE. EE EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN WHILE SHOVELING

EE WAS CLEANING AT HAMMER MILL #2. WHEN HE WALKED DOWN THE STAIRS HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON CLINKER CAUSING HIM LEFT WRIST AND BACK PAIN.

EE HIT HIS LEFT KNEE WITH THE BOLT MACHINE HEAD.

BOLTER OPERATOR WAS BOLTING WITH HIS KNEES ON THE MINE FLOOR, WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK DISLODGED FROM THE ROOF BEHIND HIM 4" THICK X 18" LONG X 12" WIDE STRIKING HIM ON THE BACK OF HIS ANKLES. RES ULTING IN A SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE WITH A HAIRLINE CRACK & BREAKING HIS LEFT ANKLE.

HE WAS LIFTING A BLADE TO PUT BACK ON DOZER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS STOMACH. HIS STOMACH STARTED HURTING WHENEVER HE TRIED TO LIFT OBJECTS AND A BULGE APPEARED, WHICH HE COULD FLATTEN WITH HIS HAND. PULLED STOMACH MUSCLES CAUSING HERNIA. HAD SURGERY ON 10/26/99.

EMPLOYEE WAS JOSTLED IN A MINE JEEP WHEN IT WRECKED AFTER IT HIT A ROCK ON THE TRACKS.

ON 10/15/99, EE WAS HELPING TO HOOK THE SWIVEL HEAD ON THE DOZER BLADE TO BEGIN DRAGGING THE HIGHWALL WHEN HIS LEFT KNEE POPPED OUT OF THE SOCKET. HE WAS ABLE TO PUT HIS KNEE BACK IN PLACE. HE CONTINUED TO WORK WITHOUT RESTRICTION BUT CONTINUED TO EXPERIENCE PAIN. MRI INDICATED TEAR TO THE MENISCUS. HE WORKED WITHOUT RESTRICTION UNTIL SURGERY ON 12/16/99 WHEN LOST TIME BEGAN.

EE WAS HAULING A LOAD OF OVERBURDEN FROM PIT TO DUMP AREA USING 50 TON HAUL TRUCK WHEN HE GOT TO DUMP AREA & STARTED TURNING AROUND TO DUMP HE RAN INTO HOLE OR RUT CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HI S HEAD ON CAB COOR. INJ RESULTED IN BRUISED HEAD

TRACTOR JUMPED OUT OF GEAR ON A STEEP SLOPE AND HE JUMPED OFF AND HIT THE GROUND.

EE WAS OPEATING A MRS ON #3 SECTION IN #8 ENTRY WHEN A RIB ROLL FELL HITTING HIM ON THE BACK & UPPER BODY

EMPLOYEE WAS CRAWLING OUT BY THE L.O.B. IN THE NO.1 ENTRY. WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK MEASURING 3" THICK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS AND STRUCKEMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT LEG.

EE WAS INSTALLING TRANSMISSION ON A 992C CAT LOADER. WHEN CLIMBING DOWN FROM THE FENDER, HE SLIPPED 2ND SPRAINED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

CHANGING IMPACTOR BARS. TRYING TO FLIP OFF MACHINE, IMPACTOR BAR SLIPPED AND CRUSHED FINGER.

THE STAB JACK FELL DOWN AND HIS PINKY FINGER GOT CAUGHT.

EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING MINER CABLE AND GOT HIS FOOT CAUGHT IN A LOOP OF CABLE. HE WAS DRAGGED 15 TO 20 FEET.

WHILE EE WAS ROOF BOLTING A PIECE OF ROCK APPROX 1 FT DIAMETER O-2 1/2" THICK, FELL OUT AND STRUCK HIM ON BACK OF HEAD, CAUSIGN A SMALL CUT.

LOAD TIMBERS IN A SCOOP SAID HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK

SOMETHING BURN'T UP IN A POWER CENTER AND THE EE WAS RIGHT BESIDE IT ON THE OFF RIDE AND HE WENT BACK AND HIT THE EMERGENCY STOP BUTTON.

BEGAN LOSING TIME 10/15/99

EE CLAIMED HE WAS MOVING TRAILING CABLE FOR 7800DRAGLINE, WHILE IT WAS WALKING BACKWARD. WHEN HE LIFTED THE TRAILING CABLE AND TOOK FOUR STEPS, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN TO HIS LOWER LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING METAL WHEN A GRINDING PARTICLE BOUNCED BEHIND HIS SAFETY GLASSES, INJURINGHIS RIGHT EYE.

WHILE MOVING CRANE, EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PICK UP OUTRIGGER PADS AND STRAINED HIS BACK.

EE WAS CUTTING ROCK ON THE HYDRAULIC CUTTER AND LAID HIS HAND BE KIND THE ROCK ON THE ROLLER. WHEN THE ROCK SPLIT IT CAUSED IT TO JUMP BACK WHICH PINNED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE ROLLER AND ROCK. I T BROKE HIS RING FINGER AND SMASHED THE MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND.

TWISTED ANKLE STEPPING ON A VALVE

HE SLIPPED ON ROOF BOLTER AND CAUGHT HIMSELF BY GRABBING THE TRAY, HURTING HIS SHOULDER. HE CONTINUED TO WORK WITHOUT MEDICAL TREATMENT UNTIL 3-28-00, AT WHICH TIME HE BEGAN TO MISS WORK DUE TO THE INJURY.

EE WAS WASHING UNDER #3 BELT WITH HIGH PRESSURE WATER HOSE. NOZZLE ON END OF HOSE DISCONNECTED FROM HOSE CAUSING WATER HOSE TO HIT EMPLOYEE IN FACE AND HEAD.

EE WAS EXAMINING THE SLOPE BELT AND LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL AND FRACTURED HIS RIGHT HAND.

EE STATED HE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING THE ATRS AND HIM IN THE BACK. EE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS KEPT FOR OBSERVATION WITH NO FRACTURE OR LACERATI ONS.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING HAMMER TO HAMMER A SLIDE INTO BIN #23 SPOUT, WHEN LIME FROM THE SPOU FELL INTO HIS EYES.

THE VICTIM WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A ROCK FROM THE COAL CONVEYER, LOCATED AT THE REFUSE PICKINGTABLE, WHEN A LARGE CHUNK OF COAL ROLLED BACK DOWN THE CONVEYER STRIKING HIS THUMB AGAINST THE ROCK.

EE WAS MANUALLY PUSHING A BOLT INTO THE HOLE. HE OVER EXERTED AND INJURED HIS BACK.

EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR. HE PUT HIS HAND ON TOP OF HTE CANOPY. THE CAR WENT OVER A BUMP AND WENT UP SMASHING HIS RIGHT POINTER FINGER.

THE INJURED WAS WALKING UP THE BELT LINE TO THE SECTION WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER AN ANCHOR PIN AND FELL, AND DISLOCATED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

TWISTING LEG TO FREE FROM MUD--AND STRAIN RT. KNEE--EE HAD KNEE SURGERY IN APRIL, 98 ON SAME LEG. EE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 10-25-99.

EE WAS STANDING BEHIND SCOOP AFTER HELP CHANGING BATTERIES. HE THOUGHT SCOOP WAS GOING FORWARD, BUT OPERATOR WENT BACKWARDS STRIKING HIM ON LEG.

OPERATING SCOOP MOTOR TREE GROUNDED, CAME IN CONTACT WITH LEFT HAND.

ONE COMPANY MAINTENANCE MAN AND TWO CONTRACTOR ELECTRICIANS WERE WORKING AT A 600 AMPS DISCONNECT BOX WHEN AN EXPLOSION INSIDE THE BOX BURNED ALL THREE PEOPLE. THE COMPANY EE RECEIVED 2ND & 3R D DEGREE BURNS ON HIS ARMS, TORSO & LEGS. ONE CONTRACTOR RECEIVED 2ND & 3RD DEGREE BURNS OVER 45% OF HIS BODY & THE OTHER CONTRACTOR RECEIVED 2ND OR 3RD DEGREE BURNS ON ONE HAND.

UNLOADING RAILS WHEN RAIL FELL ONTO SLATE BAR, MASHING LEFT FOOT.

EE WAS CLEANING PACKING STATION #1 AREA. WHEN HE MOVED A CEMENT BAG PARTICLES FELL INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.

EE WAS RUNNING SCOOP WHEN HE HIT A HOLE & JARREDHIMSELF

10 C SECTION INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT AS HE WAS PUSHING THE BOLT UP INTO THE HOLE HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN RIGHT SHOULDER. MRI REVEALED A DAMAGED MUSCLE TO ROTATOR CUP. LOST WORK DAYS BEGAN 10-18-99.

EE WAS DISMOUNTING A 660 SCRAPER AFTER FUELING IT. AS HE STEPPED DOWN TO CATCH THE BOTTOM STEP HE MISSED IT & CONTD HIS MOTION DOWN TO THE GROUND. HE ROLLED HIS ANKLE AT THAT POINT HE FELT AT THE TIME THAT IT WASN'T BAD, BUT THE NEXT AM HE CALLED IN & WENT TO THE DR

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN #3 ENTRY I A1 BUTT. HE SLIPPED AND FELL, TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE, JARRED HIS LOWER BACK AND NECK, AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON THE BOTTOM. HE RETURNED TO WORK HIS NEXT S CHEDULED SHIFT. ON 10-22, THIS EMPLOYEE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION.

WHILE DRILLING A HOLE HE REACH UP AND GOT A HOLD OF THE STEEL AND PUSHED LEVER WRONG WAY PINNING HIS HAND BETWEEN HEAD ON BOLTER AND ROOF.

EE REMOVED GUARDS TO CLEAN OUT AROUND PULLEY. EE DID NOT LOCK OUT PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AND GOT ARM CAUGHT BY PULLEY. EE BROKE LEFT ARM.

WHILE WELDING A PIECE OF SLAG WENT BETWEEN HIS SHIRT AND COVERALLS WHICH THEN CAUGHT ON FIRE.

PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN BOLTS, HITTING EE ON R LEG AND SHOULDER.

EE WAS DRILING TOP TO PUT UP MIDDLE BOLT ON FIRST ROW-SMALL PEFRE DRAW ROCK FELL HIT HIM ON SHOULDER.

EE WAS EXITING THE CAB OF THE DOZER. HE HAD HIS HAND ON THE DOOR FRAME WHEN THE WIND BLEW THE DOOR SHUT AND CAUGHT HIS FINGERS BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE FRAME.

EE FELL ABOUT 10 FEET ONTO HIS ELBOW WHILE PLACING BALES OF STRAW.

EE WALKING IN TO THE BOOM OF A BOOM TRUCK.

EE HANGING MINER CABLE. ROOF BOLTER STARTED MOVING MOVING ITS CABLE. THE ROOF BOLTER'S CABLE CAUGHT EE FEET, TRIPPING HIM. HE FELL TO MINE FLOOR, STRIKING HIS SELF-RESCUER AGAINST HIS HIP.

IN THE KOMATSU (LOANER) ON THE 5/8 PILE AND TURNED TO LOOK BEHIND SO HE COULD BACK UP AND BACK WENT OUT.

EE WAS INSIDE THE TAIL OF THE CONTINUOUS MINER INSTALLING A CUTTER BOOM AND TURNED AND BUMPED HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE CORNER INSIDE OF THE TAIL.

EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING WITH A 2X4 PIECE OF LUMBER. HE STEPPED BACK AND OFF OF WALK AND FELL, HITTING HIS LEFT SHIN AND LEFT UPPER CHEST ON A BLOCK WALL.

EE WAS LOOSENING RADIATOR CAP ON LOADER. PRESSURE UNDER THE CAP BLEW BACK INTO HIS FACE CAUSING HIM TO FALL OFF OF THE LOADER. HE LANDED ON HIS LEG.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS PULLING A DA CYLINDER OUTOF THE BED OF A TRUCK. THE CYLINDER WAS CRADLED IN THE PALMS OF HIS HANDS. AS HE ATTEMPTED TO DROP THE CYLINDER, A FITTING CAUGHT ON HIS LEFT GLOVE PULLING HIM DOWN TO THE GROUND CAUSING PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER.

EE WAS TRYING TO CHANGE SCREEN BY HIMSELF CAUSING LUMP TO FORM ON LOWER STOMACH Y

DOING REPAIR WORK ON A LOADER BUCKET. THE BUCKET SHIFTER AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO HIT HIM SO HE JUMPED BACK AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE CAUSING A STRAINED KNEE.

DRIVER STARTED MOVING HIS UNIT FORWARD. INJURED WAS STANDING NEAR THE REAR OF THE TRACTOR. UNIT MOVED OVER HIS LEFT FOOT CAUSING A BROKEN ANKLE.INJURED WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. DRIVER HAD JUST P UT HIS TARP ON HIS TRAILER AND WAS DOING PAPERWORK IN CAB PRIOR TO MOVING THE UNIT FORWARD AND DID NOT SEE INJURED.

EE SLIPPED IN MUD. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY OCTOBER 15, 1999.

EE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS IN A SUB ASSEMBLY FOR A BELT SCRAPPER. HE SLIPPED OFF A BUCKET HE WAS STANDING ON AND STRAINED HIS LEFT HIP. EE RETURNED TO WORK BUT ON 11-20-99 HE REAGGRAVATED HIS HIP USING A STOPER DRILL AND MISSED 3 DAYS WORK.

EE WAS FOLLOWING THE MANTRIP FROM THE SECTION TOWARD THE OUTSIDE. THE MANTRIP COULDN'T GET UP THE DIP IN THE TRIP SO EE WAS PUSHING THEM UP. THE MANTRIP DROPPED OUT OF POINT AND ROLLED BACK DO WN THE HILL AND STRUCK THE FLAT CAR IN FRONT OF EE CAUSING EE TO BE JARRED INSIDE OF THE MOTOR.

EE WAS PLACING DRILL ON 6FT. STEEL, MISSED STEEL, MASHED RIGHT RING FINGER BETWEEN DRILL AND STEEL.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING PALLET OF DRINKING WATER AT 1RIGHT TRACK SWITCH FROM SUPPLY CAR WHEN HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

PULLING ON COMEALONG THAT WAS ATTACHED TO BELT ROLLER & STRAINED LOWER BACK

CROSSING BELT TAIL HIS FOOT SLIPPED HE STRAINED LOWER BACK

EE ALLEGED THAT HE DROPPED BELT STRUCTURE ON HISKNEE THEN LATER SAID HE FELL & HURT THE KNEE & HIP. ACCIDENT IS UNDER PROTEST IT WAS HIS 2ND SHIFT BACKI FROM A LAY OFF

SUPERVISOR WAS EVALUATING WORK THAT HAD TO BE DONE TO CHANGE OUT A DEFECTIVE CONVEYOR BELT ROLLER WHEN HE STEPPED ON A NEW ROLLER IN THE WALKWAYCAUSING HIM TO FALL TOWARDS AND AGAINST THE MOVI NG CONVEYOR BELT.

WHILE SETTING TIMBERS ON BELT LINE, TURNED AND STUMBLED BACKWARDS FALLING ON RIGHT HAND INJURING RIGHT WRIST.

THE MAN WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF OF SHAKER SCREEN HAD FOOT ON DRIVE BELT GUARD, WHICH SLIPPED IN DRY CONDITIONS, AND BANGED LEG AGAINST HANDRAIL. THE PLANT WAS SHUTDOWN, GENERATOR POWER WAS OFF. NO EQUIPMENT WAS RUNNING. PLACED ANT-SKIN MATERIAL IN AREA.

HOSE CAME OFF OF BAGGING MACHINE FILLED AIR WITH DUST. EMPLOYEE HIT HEAD ON FORKLIFT. INJURY WAS TO EYE AREA, BLACKED EYE. EE WENT TO DR., WAS TOLD NOT TO WORRY ABOUT IT, COME BACK IN TWO WEEK S.

EE WAS REMOVING A SUMP PUMP IN THE NORTH SAND DAM TUNNEL & FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK FIRST DAYMISSED 1013/99

EE IS ASSIGNED TO CEMENTING CREW TO PLUG & ABANDON WELLS IN THE FIELD. THIS TASK INVOLVES LIFTING OF 100LB CEMENT SACKS TO A HOPPER OVER THE COURSE OF 8 HRS. HE HAD BEEN COMPLAINING OF MINOR PAIN BUT ON 10/12/99 PAIN GOT WORSE. HE HAS PAININ RIGHT ARM & SHOULDER. HE SUFFERED THIS KIND OF ACCIDENT BACK IN 1/99. HE HAS POSSIBLE CERVICAL DAMAGE

EE WAS JACKHAMMERING MUD RING FROM KILN WHEN SECTION CAME LOOSE AND STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT SIDE OF HEAD.

THE EMPLOYEE HAD PUT A WATER HOSE INTO A CAN TO FILL IT WITH WATER AND THE HOSE BLEW OUT STRIKING HIM IN THE EYE.

AT END OF SHIFT EE CLIMBED OUT OF HAULAGE TYRUCK& SLIPPED ON LAST RUNG OF LADDER DISLOCATED LEFTSHOULDER

EE WAS LIFTING ROOF JACKS FROM A FLAT CAR UP TO THE BELT LINE WHEN HE FELT PAIN AND A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE FINISHED THE SHIFT AND WENT TO THE DR. THE NEXT DAY. THE DR. PRESC RIBED PRESCRIPTION PAIN MEDICATION.

EE SAID HE WAS USING A BAR TO MOVE TRUCK OVER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING A DUST HOSE ON THE ROOF BOLTER WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE MIDDLE FINGER OF THE LEFT HAND, CAUSING A COMPOUND FRACTURE TO HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE STEPPING DOWN FROM SUPPLY TRAILOR TO MINE FLOOR, HE FELT PAIN IN LEFT HIP AREA.

PULLING JACKET OFF FEEDER CABLE & IT CAME LOOSE & FELL BACK ON LEFT FOOT

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS REPLACING RADIATOR ON EXCAVATOR. THE TRIGGER THAT LOWERS THE WINCH MALFUNCTIONED CAUSING IT TO LOWER TO QUICKLY. HE TRIED TO GRAB THE RADIATOR AND HURT HIS LOWER BA CK. SUPERVISION WAS NOTIFIED ON 10/20/99.

THE INJURED EE PULLED MUSCLE TO LEFT SHOULDER, HANGING MOBILE ROOF SUPPORT TRAILING CABLE.

MAN WAS SHOVELING BELT, HE STOPPED TO GET A DRINK OF WATER. HE SET DOWN BESIDE OF RIB AND A PEICE OF ROCK AND COAL ROLLED OFF RIB AND HIT HIM ON SHOULDER.

WORKER WAS MAKING A SPLICE ON THE SURFACE STACKER BELT AND WHILE CLIMBING DOWN OFF THE BELT HE TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK. HE ELECTED TO GO TO THE CHIROPRACTOR TO RECEIVE HIS FIRST LOWER BACK ADJ USTMENT WHERE HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIATED DISC AND PINCHED NERVE. WAS TOLD TO STAY OFF WORK UNTIL 10-18-99.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF BOLTING UP THE HANGING WALL OF A RAISE , THE BACK WAS BOLTED. HE SEEN SOME ROCKS SLIDE OFF THE FOOT WALL. HE JUMPED OUT OF THE WAY AND IN THE PROCESS HE SPRA INED HIS RIGHT KNEE AND ANKLE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SUE HIGH PRESSURE WATER HOSE & HAD HOSE NOZZLE CLOSED. PRESSURE CAUSED HOSETO BURST, THEN HOSE WHIPPED VIOLENTLY & NOZZLE STRUCK EE'S LEFT HAND RESULTING IN FRACTURE

DESCENDING DOWN A LADDER ON A HIGHWALL DRILL, WHEN THE BOTTOM STEP BROKE AND HE HIT HIS SIDE ON THE UPPER PART OF THE LADDER.

THE EE WAS WALKING FROM THE TRUCK SHOP TO HIS VEHICLE IN THE PARKING LOT WHEN HE STEPPED ON A SMALL ROCK AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE. EE IS AN ONSITE E.M.T. AND WAS RESPONDING TO A SITE MEDICAL CALL WHEN HIS INJURY OCCURRED.

EMPLOYEE HAD PARKED THE SERVICE TRUCK IN FRONT OF THE GARAGE. HE DISMOUNTED THE TRUCK AND ENGAGED THE PTO. HE NOTICED THAT THE TRUCK BEGAN TO MOVE SO HE SPUN AROUND AND JUMPED BACK INTO THE C AB.

EE WAS SHOVELING ROCK IN SCREENING BIN WHEN A PIECE OF METAL FELL FROM THE BIN & STRUCK HIM ON THE HAND

EE WAS MAKING UP BOLTS TO BE INSTALLED IN THE TOP. HE WAS WORKING BY THE SIDE OF THE MACHINE WHEN A ROCK 3"- 1" THICK BY 4' BY 5' FELL FROM THE LAST ROW OF BOLTS OUTBY TO THE NEXT TO LAST ROW OF BOLTS THAT HAD JUST BEEN INSTALLED. THE ROCK HIT THE MACHINE BREEAKING INTO PIECES. ONE OF THE PIECES HIT EE CAUSING THE INJURY.

EMPLOYEE FELL WHILE TRAVELING THROUGH A MANDOOR.

EE WAS GETTING OFF HIS SCRAPER. WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN, HE STEPPED ON A MUD BALL AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. HE HEARD A POP AND HIS KNEE STARTED SWELLING.

EE GOT OFF OF THE HIGH LOADER AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED BETWEEN THE DOCK BARGE AND THE SAND BARGE. HE FELL AND HURT HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS WALKING ALONG BELT WITH GREASE GUN, MUST HAVE TWISTED, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK ON 10-11-99. ON 10-14-99 EE WAS SHOVELING ON BELT. AS HE PICKED UP SHOVEL HAD SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

HAD JUST COMPLETED LOADING A BELLY DUMP TRUCK. WALKED OVER TO DUMP TRUCK TO CONTINUE HAULING MATERIALS TO STOCKPILE. STEPPED UP ON TO TRUCK AND GRABBED GRIP HANDLE. FELT PAIN IN HIPS AND BACK WHILE STEPPING UP.

TWO EMPLOYEES WERE ATTEMPTING TO HND LOAD AN ATRS JACK ONTO A SMALL PERSONNEL CARRIER TO TRANSPORT IT OUTSIDE. THE JACK SLID OFF THE SIDE OF THECARRIER, CAUSING THE INJURED EMPLOYEE TO LOOSE H IS BALANCE AND FALL.

STANDING ON THREE STEP LADDER, LEGS SUNK DOWN INBOTTOMS, LADDER TILTED AND EMPLOYEE FELL OFF LANDING ON LEFT FOOT WHICH TURNED UNDER, CAUSING FRACTURE TO LOWER FIBULA, LEFT LEG.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM LOADER, SOMETHING PINCHED IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING PUMP. HE WAS PUSHING THE PUMP IN PLACE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.

EE BUMPED BACK ON TRUCK ALLEGED. EE WORKED FOR 2 DAYS AFTER ALLEGED INJURY AND DID NOT REPORT ANY INJURY. EE FAILED TO RETURN TO WORK ON 10-14-99. EE NOW STATING SYMPTOMS BEGAN 10-15-99. THE O PERATOR VEHILCES T IS QUESTIONABLE AND AN INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING.

STARTED TO COLLAR A HOLE 3/4 ARCH RIGHT RIB, SLAB SLIPPED OUT OF RIB, HIT THE DRILL AND CORNER OF CONTROLS, SMALLER PIECE BROKE OFF AND LANDED ON RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING CABLE MACHINE TO CHANGE PLUGFROM ONE BROKEN OUTLET TO A GOOD OUTLET AND STRAINED HIS LEFT SHOULDER/ ARM.

EE STATES THAT SHE WAS STANDING NEXT TO PUMP WHEN HOSE COUPLING BROKE LOOSE AND STRUCK HER ON RIGHT LEG CAUSING FRACTURE BELOW KNEE.

HE WAS CLIMBING OUT OF THE EUCLID TRUCK, SLIPPED ON THE STEPS AND FELL ON HIS KNEE. THE STEPS WERE WET AND MUDDY WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE INJURY. THE RIGHT KNEE WAS BADLY BRUISED AND SWOLLEN.

EE STATED HE WAS BENT DOWN WORKING ON HOIST BRAKE WHEN HE GOT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS HIP

10C SECTION HANDLING METAL ROOF STRAP OFF MINER, AS HE SHOVED STRAP ACROSS MINER HE FELT PAIN IN MIDDLE OF HIS BACK. REOCCURRANCE OF INJURY WITH LOST WORK DAYS BEGINNING 7/31/00.

EE WAS LOADING 55 GALLON BARREL OF OIL INTO SKIDSTEER BUCKET TO BE PLACED INTO OIL SHED. EE PULLED BACK ON TOP OF BARREL TOO FAR & LOST BALANCE BARREL FELL ON RIGHT KNEE

EE WAS STANDING ON DOOR OFF HEADFRAME DOOR OPENED PINNING LEFT FOOT UNDER DOOR.

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING OFF OF PLATFORM APPROX 3 1/2' OFF FLOOR, LOST BALANCE AND FELL TO MINE FLOOR LANDING ON HEAD AND RIGHT SHOULDER. REQUIRED SUTURES TO HEAD.

EE WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM STAIRWAY AND HIS RIGHT BOOT HEEL CAUGHT ON EXPOSED DOOR EDGE CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

TAKING BOLT OFF AND WRENCH SLIPPED OFF AND MY RIGHT ARM HIT A WIRE MESH GUARD AND PUNCTURED A HOLE IN MY ARM.

GARDEN PLANT-EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IS HIS RIGHT BACK SIDE AREA WHILE HE WAS PULLING AN EMPTY WASH DOWN HOSE UP THE UNIT 30 REFUSE CONVEYOR IN ORDERTO WASH OUT THE DRIP PAIN.

EE WAS HANGING MINER CABLE & FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK, CAUSING A BACK STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING A BOOM HOLE WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK MEASURING 12" BY 12" BY 2" THICK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD AND SIDE OF THE FACE. HE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THIS TIME AND WAS TREATED AND RELEASED. AT 10-25-99 HE WAS ADVISED BY HIS DOCTOR TO NOT RETURN TO WORK.

EE SAID HE WAS LIFTING HYD PUMP FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

INJURED WAS DRILLING A HOLE TO INSTALL A ROOF BOLT WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT HAND INJURED JERKEK ARM BACK STRIKING ELBOW AGAINST MACHINE.

EE WAS TRYING TO DISLODGE A ROCK ON THE NO.2 FEEDER BY LIFTING A CONTROL BOARD AND HURT HIS BACK.

EE FEELS SHE STRAINED HER NECK WHILE WORKING IN TOP GAS COMPARTMENT. NO SPECIFIC TIME OR EQUIPMENT GIVEN.

EMPLOYEE STRUCK A BREAKER BAR WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER, BREAKER BAR FLEW UPWARD AND STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND.

WAS WELDING ON THE HOPPER FOR THE DRYER & BURNEDBOTH EYES. IT WAS RAINING & WATER GOT ON FRONT OF SHIELD & REFLECTED AGAINST IT & BURNED BOTH EYES

EMPLOYEE WAS DIGGING OUT CHUNKS FROM #2 CLINKER SILO, #2 FEEDER, USING A CHIPPING GUN. A LARGE PIECE OF MATERIAL FELL ON EMPLOYEE AND THE CHIPPING GUN BECAME STUCK. HE PULLED ON GUN TO REMOVE IT AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE WAS WORKING IN CONCENTRATOR. PIPE GALLEY WHEN HE SLIPPED. WHEN HE REACHED OUTTO CATCH HIMSELF, HE FELT PULL IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EE WAS STANDING IN MUD , TRIED TO STEP OUT AND TWISTED KNEE. EE HAD PRIOR KNEE PROBLEM IN 1997. EE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 10/12/99.

EE WAS MOVING 25# BAGS OF PRODUCT TO REBUILD A LAYER WHEN HE FELT LOWER BACK PAIN.

EE WAS PERFORMING CLEAN UP AT SECONDARY PLANT WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO HELP IN THE REPLACEMENT OF CURTIN LINERS IN THE IMPACT CRUSHER. EE STATED HE LIFTED ONE OF THE CURTIN LINERS 10" X 15" X 3", APPROX 130 LBS, BY HIMSELF UP TO THE MACHINIST. HE DID NOT NOTICE ANY IMMEDIATE PAIN. LATER THAT EVENING & NEXT MORNING EXPERIENCED PAIN. 0N 10/12/99 DIAGNOSED COMPRESSION FRACTURE OF SPINE.

EE WAS WORKING ON A IMPACT IN THE BAR AREA AND WHILE WELDING HE BUMPED HIS RIGHT ELBOW. THE ELBOW BECAME SWOLLEN AND INFLAMED.

MAN WAS HELPING TO PULL CABLE IN SECTION. AS SCOOP TRACTOR WAS TRAMMING HE PUT OUT HIS FOOT TO DRAG CABLE OUT OF THE WAY, AND CAUGHT HIS FOOT AGAINST THE KITCHEN OF THE SCOOP. NOTE: HE WAS NOT SCOOP OPERATOR, BUT STANDING BESIDE IT.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS WHILE SHE WAS OPENING A DRAWER OF AN OFFICE DESK IN THE FOREMAN'S OFFICE, A CAN OF ELECTRA-CLEAN WHICH WAS IN THE DESK, WAS HOT ON THE NOZZLE CAUSING SPRAY TO GO INTO HER RIGHT EYE.

EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN HANGING AND PULLING A ROOF BOLTER CABLE WHEN HE FELT A PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK.

SUNNY DAY. HE WAS GETTING DOWN FROM LOADER. SLIPPED ON THE STEP, HIT THE SIDE OF HIS JAW ON LADDER.

EE WAS ON THE ROOF OF THE DMII ROTARY DRILL SHOWING AN EE A CABLE THEY WERE REPAIRING. EE SLIPPED WHILE DESCENDING THE DRILL AND FELL TO A LOWER LEVEL, LANDING ON A METAL DECK. Y

TRIPPED ON A ROCK AND FELL, HE BROKE LEFT WRIST.

EE WAS MOVING PUMP. WHILE PULLING ON PUMP, EE STRAINED BACK AND SHOULDERS.

INJURED WAS OPERATING ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE TURNED SUDDENLY TWISTING HIS KNEE.

EE WAS RUNNING THE MINER WITH THE REMOTE BAY. WHEN HE FELL PUSHING THE LEVER AND THE MINER TURN AND HIT HIM.

WAS SHOVELING MATERIAL FOR APPROX 10 MINUTES. HE RETURNED TO PLANT AND COMPLIANED OF PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. IT SEEMS, ACCORDING TO EMPLOYEE TO BE FROM A PREVIOUS HIGH SCHOOL INJURY THAT H AS BEEN AGGRAVATED.

HE WAS CARRYING TOOLS & CRAWLING UP * DOWN A LADDER ATTACHED TO A CRUSHER SCREEN. THE LADDER WAS WET & MUDDY & HE SLIPPED & FELL 2' BACKWARDS HITTING HIS HEAD ON A CONVEYOR & CABLE.

EE WAS TRYING TO MANUALLY MOVE THE WELDING CART. AS HE MOVED THE CART, THE JACK STAND COLLASPED AND THE TONGUE OF THE CART FELL ON THE EE'S FOOT. THE SAFETY STAND WAS NOT PUT DOWN.

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING DRILL TRIMMING BLOCKS. COWORKER FOUND HIM LYING ON QUARRY FLOOR. EMPLOYEE HAD THREE FRACTURED RIBS IN LEFT RIB CAGE.

EE SAYS WHILE HE WAS OPERATING A LOADER, HE STRAINED HIS LOW BACK HE TOLD DISPATCH THAT HIS BACKPROBLEMS WERE FROM A PREVIOUS ACCIDENT. THE FIRST WE KNEW THAT HE WAS CLAIMING AN L & I CLAIM IS WHEN THE STATE CALLED FOR INFORMAION ON 11/1/99

DRAGGING VENTILATION TUBE TO FACE. SHE STEPPED ONTO COAL PILE AND FELT HER RIGHT KNEE STRAIN. SHE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL NOVEMBER 16, 1999 WHEN SHE UNDER WENT ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY.

WHILE OPERATING THE JOY SC EMPLOYEE HIT A BUMP CAUSING A JAR TO EMPLOYEE'S BACK.

EE WAS LIFTING OBJECTS DURING A BELT MOVE AND FELT PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A ROCK, HE STRAINED HIS UPPER BACK. HE DID NOT START LOSING TIME UNTIL 10/13/99.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A BELT IN A LOADER #988 WHEN HE PULLED OUT THE TENSION BELT TO INSTALL THE BELT. THE BELT SUDDENLY LOOSENED ANDPINCHED TWO FINGERS (INDEX AND MIDDLE) IN HIS RIGHT HAND.

SLIPPED AND FELL AND HIT ELBOW ON SHUTTLE CAR.

A CO-WORKER GRABBED EMPLOYEE FROM BEHIND AND AS HE STRUGGLED TO GET FREE THEY FELL INTO A ROOF BOLTER A FEW TIMES. THE EMPLOYEE THEN FELT A POP IN HIS RIBS.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING AROUND A ROLL OF BELT. HE GOT HIS LEFT FOOT CAUGHT UNDER A BELT BED RAIL AND FELL TO THE SIDE. HOWEVER, HIS FOOT WAS CAUGHTAND COULDN'T BEND WITH HIM, CAUSING HIS LEG TO B REAK, ABOVE THE ANKLE, BUT BELOW THE KNEE.

EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK IN THE RIGHT ANKLE BY A TRAILING CABLE AND KNOCKED TO THE PAVEMENT.

EE WAS WORKING IN THE FACE OF SOUTH MAINE SECTION ON SATELLITE ROOF BOLTER. HE HAD HIS HAND RESTING ON STOP PLATE FOR BOLTER. THE BOLTER WAS PULLED BACK AND CAUGHT HIS HAND/FINGER AGAINST PLAT E.

WALKING UP SLOPE (#1 BELT) SLIPPED AND FELL INJURED RIGHT SIDE AND LEG.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE PLACING 1/2" HYDRAULIC HOSE IN TRAY STEPPED IN HOLE- STRAINED BACK. EMPLOYEE STARTED MISSING WORK 03-15-2000.

EE SLIPPED AND FELL, WALKING UP THE SLOPE. EE BECAME A LOST TIME INJURY 10-28-99.

EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A 2' AIR PUMP FROMA JEEP ON THE NORTH MAINS TACK HAULAGE, WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HIS LAST DAY WORKED WAS 10/08/99.