Miller Creek Mine-Jenlin PitCoal

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM TRUCK TO BUS WHEN SHE TRIPPED OVER OWN FOOT AND FELL, HURTING LEFT WRIST

EE WAS BEING LOADED BY A CAT 992D FRONT END LOADER AND CLAIMED THAT A LARGE ROCK WAS DROPPED IN THE BED OF THE END DUMP HE WAS DRIVING. THE LARGE ROCK CAUSED THE TRUCK TO SHIFT. EE CLAIMS THAT WHEN TRUCK SHIFTED HE TWISTED HIS BACK.

EE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH DEGERATIVE DISK DISEASE WITH EXACERBATION. THIS EE IS AN END DUMP DRIVER AND THE PHYSICIAN CONCLUDED THAT DRIVING THE END DUMP AGGRAVATED HER LOWER BACK AND RECOMMENDED T HAT SHE NOT DRIVE THE END DUM UNTIL SHE IMPROVES

EE WAS REPAIRING A CAT 785 END DUMP FRAME WHEN AN ERRANT PIECE OF METAL FROM A CO-WORKER'S GRINDER LODGED IN HIS LEFT EYE. HE WAS STANDING WITH HIS BACK TO THE CO-WORKER'S GRINDING AND HE WAS ALSO WEARING CUTTING GLASSES. DISCOMFORT WAS MILD AT FIRST AND THEN BECAME WORSE. HE WAS SEEN AT THE E.R. WHERE PHYSICIAN REMOVED OBJECT AND PRESCRIBED EYE DROPS.

ON 6-17-02 EE NOTIFIED HER PIT SUPERVISOR THAT SHE HIT A BUMP IN THE HAUL ROAD AND STRUCK HER LEFT KNEE ON THE STEERING COLUMN OF THE CAT 785 END DRUM SHE WAS DRIVING EE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH IN THE ENGINEERING TEC PICK TRUCK SO PROF. CAR COULD BE ADMINSTERED. DR EXAMINED EE'S KNEE AND HE RELEASED HER TO RETURN TO WORK ON 6-18-02 WITH RESTRICTED DUTY

EMPLOYEE WAS RESIZING HYDRAULIC HOSE ENDS. PIN RELEASED FROM HOSE IT PINCHED LEFT THUMB BETWEEN HOSE END AND RESIZING PIN CREATING A LACERATION ON THE LEFT THUMB.

INJURED WAS JUMP STARTING A LIGHT PLANT WITH JUMPER CABLES HOOKED FROM THE WELDER ON A SER- VICE TRUCK TO THE BATTERY OF A LIGHT PLANT. AS HE DISCONNECTED THE JUMPER CABLES FROM THE LIGHT PLANT BATTERY IT ARKED, CAUSING THE BATTERY TO EXPLODE. HE HAD CHEMICAL EXPOSURE TO HIS (R) EYEAND FACE. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL(ER) WHEREHE WAS EXAMINED. RELEASED BACK TO WORK W/O RESTR

ON 10-01-01 SHE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM THE WATER TRUCK AND TWISTED HER RIGHT ANKLE. AT THAT TIME THE REPORTED INJURY WAS TREATED AS A FIRST AID CASE. ON 10-2-01, SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND EXAMINED BY DR. HER ANKLE WAS X RAYED, THE RESULTS WERE POSITVE CHIP FRACTURE. SHE WAS REFERRED TO THE APS SPORTS CLINIC, FOR APPT SHE WAS SEEN DR AND WAS RELEASE TO RE