Flynn Mine Coal

EE WAS REMOVING DISCHARGE HOSE FROM WATER PUMP IN PREPARATION OF PULLING PUMP OUT OF PIT. HE LOOSENED HOSE CLAMP & SHOOK HOSE BUT IT WOULD NOT RELEASE. HE LET GO OF HOSE WITH THE INTENTION OF LOOSENING THE CLAMP FURTHER, BUT THE HOSE SUDDENLY CAME OFF OF PUMP ALLOWING MUD & WATER TO SPRAY HIM IN THE FACE AND EYES.

EMPLOYEE HAD OBTAINED A SAMPLE OF COAL AND HAD STARTED WALKING BACK TO THE PREPARATION PLANT CONTROL BUILDING. HE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF COAL LAYING INT EH PATHWAY AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.

54736YEE WAS DISMOUNTING OFF TRUCK, WHEN HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

EE CO WORKER WERE MAKING PREPARATIONS TO MOUNT TRUNION HITCH TO DRAGGING BUCKET THEY WERE CARRING TO THE THE WELDING TRUCK SO THAT REPAIR COULD BE RUDE. EE HAD TO STEP OVER OXYGEN ACCETYLENE H OSES AND ONE FOOT BECAME ENTANGLED THIS CAUSED EE TO LOSE HIS BALANCE CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS BACK.

EE WAS BEEN REPAIRING THE OK RH12 HYDRAULIC SHOVEL WHICH HAD BEEN IN THE SHOP FOR SEVERAL DAYS. HE WAS POSITIONING THE SWING BRAKE DRUM OVER THE CENTER SHAFT AND REACHED FOR A BOLT TO SECURE T HE DRUM THE DRUM STARTED TO SLIP OFF THE SHAFT A AND WHEN HE CAUGHT IT THE WEIGHT OF THE DRUM COMBINED WITH THE SWAKWARD PSOSITON HE WAS IN CAUSED HIM TO STRAIN HIS BACK.

EE WAS COMPLETING SERVICING OF 275B LOADER. HE REACHED DOWN TO GATHENER TOOLS BEFORE DISMOUNTING LOADER. WHEN HE RAISED FROM BENDING OVER HE HIT HIS BACK ON THE LIGHT BAR THAT EXTENDED FROM TH E FRAME OF THE BOOM. THIS BRUISED HIS LOWER SPINE AND LOWER BACK MUSCLES.

EMPL WAS ATTEMPTING TO FREE TURNBUCKLE ON HOIST BRAKE ON 380 N DRAGLIINE BY USING PRY BAR. A HE BEGAN TO RELEAE PRESSURE FROM PRY BAR IT SLIPPED FROM TURNBUCKLE & STRUCK HIM IN JAW & NEW. EMPL WORKED FOLLOWING TWO DAYS BUT MISSED ONE DAY AFTER SWELLING INCREASED & MEDICAL TREATMENT.

HE WAS USING COMPRESSED AIR TO CLEAR DEBRIS FROM THE INSIDE OF A DRAGLINE BUCKET IN PREPARATION FOR WELDING. AIRBORNE DEBRIS CAME UP AND UNDERNEATH HIS WELDING HELMUT THAT HE WAS WEARING. A SM ALL PIECE OF METAL IMBEDDED IN HIS EYE AND WAS REMOVED AT THE HOSPITAL.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING OTHERS PLACE CONCRETE DRAINAGE PIPE ACROSS A HAUL ROAD BED THE PIPE MEASURED 15 INCHES IN DIAMETER & 8 FT LONG WHILE LIFTING THE PIPE TO POSITION IT HE FELT PAIN IN H IS L OWER BACK THE INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A MUSCLE STRAIN IN THE LOWER BACK

EE AND ANOTHER MECHANIC WAS UNDER THE D10L DOZER REPLACING THE EQUIALIZER BAR PIN. THE OTHER MECHANIC LET HIM KNOW HE WAS LOSING GRIP OF HIS END AND DROPPED IT. EE PUSHED AWAY FROM HIS END AS HE DROPPED IT AND STRAINED A BACK MUSCLE. EE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION FROM A CHIROPRACTOR AND RECEIVED TREATMENT OVER THE FOLLOWING DAYS.

VICTIM WAS LAYING ON SHOP FLOOR UNDERNEATH CASE TRACTOR REPAIRING THE ENGINE. WHILE REMOVING A ROD CAP, HE LOST HIS GRIP ON THE CAP AND IT ROLLED DOWN THE SIDE OF HIS FACE CUTTING HIS EAR. THE LACERATION REQUIRED THREE STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING LINCOLN AIR-POWERED GREASE PUMP IN FULL 55 GALLON DRUM OF GREASE. HIS FEET BECAME ENTANGLED IN AIR HOSES THAT POWERED THE GREASE PUMP. HE FELL FORWARD STRIKING HIS TOOTH A GAINST THE HOUSING OF THE GREASE PUMP. HE LATER INDICATED THAT THE PUMP WAS AWKWARD AND HEAVY FOR ONE PERSON TO HANDLE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LEAVING DRAGLINE TO TALK TO MECHANIC WHO HAD ARRIVED AT DRAGLINE. SNOW HAD BEEN FALLING ALL MORNING AND HAD ACCUMULATED 4-5 INCHES. AS HE DISMOUNTED, HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF A PIEC E OF SHALE AND INTO A SMALL RUT CAUSING HIS ANKLE TO TWIST, RESULTING IN A SPRAIN.

A FEW HOURS AFTER SHIFT STARTED, LOADER OPERATOR DETECTED MISFIRED HOLE. VICTIM HAD BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH BLASTING SUPERVISOR AND OBSERVING PROCEDURES. BOTH SUPERVISOR AND VICTIM STOOD BEH IND THE OPENED DOORS OF TRUCK. AS HOLE WAS FIRED, FLYROCK OCCURRED AND STARTLED VICTIM. AS HE DOVE DOWN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE DOOR, CUTTING HIS SCALP WHICH REQUIRED ONE STITCH TO CLOSE.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BY CONTRACTOR'S TRUCK WHILE CONTRACTOR'S EMPLOYEE WAS UNCHAINING A LOAD OF STEEL. A PIPE THAT WAS BEING USED ON A CHAIN BOOM FLEW OFF, STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN MOUTH. RESULTI NG IN INJURY TO MOUTH AND LOSS OF 4 TEETH.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING TEETH ON DRAGLINE BUCKET. BUCKET SLIPPED ON CRIBBING BLOCKS, PINCHING EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT HAND. RESULTING IN A SIMPLE FRACTURE OF HIS INDEX FINGER AT THE 2ND JOINT AND CONTU SION TO MIDDLE FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING FRONT END LOADER CAB DOOR OPENED & EMPLOYEE REACHED TO CLOSE IT DOOR THEN CLOSED ON EMPLOYEES RIGHT THUMB

MECHANIC HAD DRIVEN SERVICE TRUCK TO AND HAD PARKED IN FRON OFTHE COAL TRUCK LEAVING 8 FEET BETWEEN THE TWO VEHICLES.AFTER STARTING THE TRUCK,DRIVER JOINED MECANIC AND TWO TOHER DRIVERS IN ARE A BETWEEN THE VEHICLES TO OBTAIN TOWELS FROM TOOL BOX OF SERVICE TRUCK.COAL TRUCK BEGAN TO ROLL DOWN SLIGHT GRADE TOWARD SERVICE TRUCK CATCHING DRIVER BETWEEN TOOL COMPARTMENT DOOR AND FRONT

EMPLOYEE WAS INSPECTING CRUSHER COAL PREPARTION PLANT WHEN A PIECE OF COAL WEIGHING APPROX. 8 POUNDS FELL FROM A VIBRATING SCREEN 15 FEET ABOVE AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD. EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A MILD CONCUSSION AND NECK STRAIN.

EMPL HAD COMPLETED CUTTING DRAG ROPE OF BE380W DRAGLINE & 2 OILERS BEGAN TO REATTACH ROPE TO DRAG CHAINS. HE RETURNED TO SERVICE TRUCK 20' AWAY WITH OXYACETYLENE EQUIP. TURNING MOMENTARILY TOWARDS REPAIR AREA HE WAS STRUCK IN EYE WITH UNDETERMINED FOREIGN OBJECT. EMP HAD JUST REMOVED GOGGLES & HAD SAFETY GLASSES IN POSSESSION.

TWO WELDERS WER9 ATTEMTPING TO DRIVE TOOTH FROM DRAGLINE BUCKET USING A BAKCINGOFF PUNCH AND SLEDGE HAMMER INJURIED EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING THE 16 INCH HANDLE OF PUNCH WHILE FELLOW EMPLOYEE STRUC IT. WHEN IT WA8 STRUCK SMALL FRAGMENT OF METAL SEPARATED FROM THE NOSE OF THE PINCH AND IMBEDDED IN FINGER. FRAGMENT WAS REMOVED AT HOSPITAL AND 6 STITCHES WERE REQUIRED PUNCH WAS IN GOOD CON

EMPLOYEE HAD FI3ISHED WELDING A CLEVIS AND WITH HELP OF ANOTHER WORKER MOVED IT OUT OF THE REPAIR SHOP BY SUSPENDING IT FROM A LONG STEEL BAR. BOTH MEN HELD RESPECTIVE ENDS OF THE BAR AND WHEN THEY REACHED T2EIR DESTINATION, THEY STOOPED TO LOWER THE BAR. INJURED EMPLOYEE RELEASED HIS END OF BAR AND HELPER RELEASED HIS END IMMEDIATELY AFTER. CLEVIS FELL OVER TOWARD CAUSING THE WELD

VICTIM WAS REPL5CING CUTTING EDGE ON KOMATSU 375 BULLDOZER AFTER POSITIONING NEW CUTTING BOLTS WHICH REQUIRED TO BE SEATED TO PREVENT TURNING WHILE TIGHTENING NUT HOWEVER WHEN APPLYING AIR IMP ACT WRENCH TO N6T THE BOTL HEAD FREED ITSELF FROM SEAT WHILE PUSHING DOWN ON BOLTHEAD HE ENGAGED IMPACT WRENCH AND BOLT TURNED WHILE IN CONTACT WITH HAND AND BEFORE IT WAS FULLY SEATED LEFT M

EMPLOYEE WAS AS8IGNED TO CLEAN A 4' X4' AREA ON THE DRAGLINE TO PREPARE FOR PIANTING.HE WAS DIRECTED TO PLACE A 6' ALUMINUM LADDER ATOP AN UP RIGHT 55 GALLON DRUM IN ORDER TO REACH THE AREA WH ICH WAS 12' ABO5E THE WORKING SURFACE.ONCE HE BEGAN CLEANING,THE FOOT OF THE LADDER SLID OUTWARD AND OOF THE TOP OF THE DRUM, AND THE LADDER COLLAPSED UNDERNEATH HIM.THE EMPLOYEE FELL AND CON

SUPV HAD DRIVEN TO SHOP TO OBTAIN REPLACEMENT PART FOR HIGHWALL DRILL.ITEM WAS HEAVY NO OTHER WORKERS IN SHOP, ELECTED TO LIFT AND CARRY PART TO TRUCK BY HIMSELF.HE STRUGGLED AND COMPLETED TAS K BUT NOTICED SLIGHT DISCOMFORT GREW OVER NEXT FEW DAYS UNTIL INTOLERABLE.

WORKSHOP WAS EN7IRELY DESTROYED BY FIRE OF AT PRESENT UNKNOWN ORGIN. 2 PICK UPS SPARE PARTS, MAINTANCE AND WELDING EQUIPMENT ETC WE ARE ALSO DESTROVED AT THE TIME OF THE FIRE, NO EMPLOYEE S WE RE WORKING AND 7HE LAST WORK SHIFT HAD ENDED 30 HRS. PREVIOUS TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE FIRE BY A PASSER BY BECAUSE OF COMPLETE DESTRUCTION T IS NOT KNOWN HOW OR WHERE THE FIRE STARTED. WE ARE

DRAGLINE OILERS3ROUTINELY CHECK WATER LEVELS IN COOLING SYSTEMS OF DRAGLINES EVERY SHIFT.VICTIM ADVISED BEFORE INJURY THAT THE ENGINE WAS OVERHEATING.AS HE LOOSENED READIATOR CAP TO RELIEVE PR ESSURE,CAP WAS 0ORCED OFF AND HOT WATER WAS EXPELLED FROM RAD. AND ONTO SHOULDER AND ARM OF VICTIM.IT WAS LEARNED THAT CAP WOULDNT ALWAYS RELIEVE PRESSURE WHEN PARTIALLY UNSCREWED...REPLACE W

OPERATOR WAS BR5KING & LOWERING BUCKET OF FRONT-END LOADE WHEN INJURY OCCURRED, AS FORWARD MOVEMENT OF LOADER WAS SLOWING TO A COMPLETE STOP, DOOR OF CAB SWUNG FORWARD TO CLOSE. AT THE SAME TI ME THE OPERATOR3ANTICIPATING THE STOPPING OF THE L OADAER, PLACED HIS L HAND ON THE DOOR FRAME TO RISE FROM THE SEAT. FINGER WAS CUT & B RUISED WHE

VICTIM WAS ASSI1NED TO CLENA COAL SEAM TOP WITH HAND SHOVEL WHIEL REMVOING SHALE FROM FACE OF SEAN HE LIFTED A PARTICULAR HEAVY PIECE OF SHALE AND WALKED ABOUT 20 FT TO SPOIL SIDE TO DISPOSE OF IT AS HE STE1PED UP ON RIDGE OF CLAY HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIANING HIS LOWER BACK WHILE SHALE DIRECTLY CAUSED THE SLIP AND BACK STRAIN CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE IMPROPER FOOTING AND DECISI

VICTIM WAS TIGH7ENING LUGNUTS OF A WHEEL BY USING A WRENCH & SOCKET. HE SLIPPED AN ALUMINUM PI E OVER HANDLE FOR ADDED LEVERAGE & FROM A STANDING POSITION USED HIS FOOT TO FORCE DOWN THE WREN CH & PIPE. HIS 0OOT SLIPPED OFF THE PIPE DUE TO MUDDY CONDITIONS. THE WRENCH RECOILED & SENT THE PIPE UPWARD STRIKING IN MOUTH. INJURIES SUSTAINED WERE A CUT LIP & A CHIPPED TOOTH.

EMP WAS SEARCHING FOR 5 GALLON OPEN PLASTIC BUCKET TO AID IN PUMPING OPERATION IN PIN. HE COULDNT LOCATE ONE AND THEREFORE DECIDED TO MAKE A SUITABLE CONTAINER FINDING A 55 GALLON DRUM HE FIRS T CHECKED FOR RESIDUAL FLUIDS. FINDING NONE HE CHECKED FOR POSSIBLE ODORS COMING FROM THE BAREL. SATISFIED THAT THE BARREL WAS CLEAN HE LAY THE BARREL ON ITS SIDE AND STOOD AT THE BOTTOM END.

WIRE ROPE SPOOL WAS IN FRONT-END LOADER BUCKET WHEN VICTIM CUT RESTRAINING WIRE FROM ROPE END. AS ROPE UNWOUND, SPOOL TURNED SLIGHTLY AND CONTINUED TO UNWIND. AS ROPE END MADE 3RD REVOLUTION, IT STRUCK VICTIM ACROSS NOSE. INJURIES WERE LIMITED TO A FRACTURED NOSE AND ASSOCIATED ABRASIONS. INJURY DID NOT RESULT FROM NONN-COMPLIANCE OF REGULATIONS BUT FROM POOR JUDGEMENT ON PART OF V