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ACCORDING TO MSHA OFFICALS,EMPLOYEE (NAME),CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR DID NOT FOLLOW ROOF CONTROL PLANS,CUT TO LARGE A CUT AND WHEN OTHER EMPLOYEES WENT IN TO SET TIMBERS DRAW ROCK FELL OUT FRO M BETWEEN THE BOLTS AND CAUGHT (NAME) FROM THE BACK CAUSING DEATH.
EMPLOYEE HAS QUITE WORK & FILED FOR PNEUMOCONIOSIS &/OR SILLCOSIS
DRAW ROCK FELL AND HIT EE ON LEG ABOVE ANKLE APPROX. SIZE 2X21/2X11/2.
EMPOYER FIRST NOTICE OF INJURY WAS FROM DR. SHAFER. RECEIVED REPORT ON 1-22-93. RECEIVED LETTER FROM EMPLOYEE 1-22-93. ALSO TROY HUNT, SUPT. RECEIVED LETTER ON OR APPROX. 1-22-93 STATING HE HU RT HIS BACK PULLING CABLE. DID NOT REPORT THIS BEFORE LEAVING WORK.
RIB ROLLED OUT HIY IN BACK KNOCKING ME DOWN ON GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING IN A KNEELING POSITION WITH REMOTE CONTROL BOX TO CONTINUOUS MINER AND A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN BOLTS STRIKING EMPLOYEE BEHIND HEAD PUSHING BOX INTO CHEST-RO CK STRUCK HARD HAT.
EMPLOYEE PULLING DRAW ROCK BY HAND & DRAW ROCK HIT GROUND AND BOUNCED BACK ON FOOT & BRUISED FOOT.
CHANGING BIT LUGS ON JOY MINER INJURED WAS PULLING WRENCH TO LOOSEN BIT LUG SET SCREW AND STRAINED BACK.
A ROOF FALL OCCURRED INBY SURVEY STATION 01-997 NO 6 ENTERY INTAKE AIR WAY NO INJURY TO PERSON OR EQUIPMENT THE ROOF SUPPORTED A WITH 4 FT MESH ROOF BOLTS ROOF FALL OCCURRED DUE TO DETERATION OF ROOF ROOF STRATA LAMIATER WITH COAL STROKE FALL WAS 60 TO 70 FT IN LENGTH 5 TO 6 FT HIGH TO RIB.
PICKED UP MINER CABLE AND WATER CABLE USING HIS BACK
3 EMPLOYEES WERE SETTING TIMBERS AND WEDGING THETHEM. ONE EMPLOYEE TURNED HIS TIMBER LOOSE BEFORE WEDGING IT, STRIKING THIS EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF RIGHT FOOT BREAKING A BONE.
NO WARNING ON PILLAR LINE AS MINER WAS BACKING BUT OF LAST CUT ROOF CAUGHT ONE HALF OF MINER NO INJURIES OR DAMAGE.
EMPLOYEE SAID HE WAS MOVING POWER ON 08-21-89 & WHILE PULLING ON THE CABLE HE MUST HAD STRAINED HIS BACK EMPLOYEE DID NOT COMPLAIN OR REPORT THIS UNTIL 082889 CAME TO WORK ON FOLLOWING WEEK ON A MONDAY COMPLAINING WITH BACK PAIN
EMPL WAS BUILDING A BRATTICE WHEN A RIB ROLL CAME OFF SID AND EMPL STEPPED BACK OVER CINDER BLOCKS AND FELL AND THE RIB ROLL CAUGHT HIS ANKLE AND WAS BROKEN
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING BATTERIES INA 644B JOHN DEER END LOADER WHILE IN DAMP WEATHER STANDING ON THE REAR TIRE WHEN HE LOST FOOT AGE & SLIPPED & FELL. EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED WITH HIP BONE SEVERAL DAYS LATER.
WAS HANGING CUR7AIN CABLE GOT AHOLD OF BAD PLACE ON CABLE CAUSING IT TO SHOCK EMPLOYEE.THE EMPLOYEE HAD AN ACCIDENT ON 04-29-87,THERE WAS NO LOST TIME ON THIS ACCIDENT,WHERE THE EMPLOYEE HAD B EEN ELECTOCUTED3AND THE DOCTOR BELIEVED THIS HAD SOMETHINGTO DO WITH THE EMPLOYEES NERVES.
WHILE SHOTTING 8OME COAL ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES SAID HE WAS NOT INFORMED. THE SHOT WAS FIRED CAUSING SOME COAL TO HIT THE EMPLOYEE. THE COAL HITTHE EMPLOYEE CAUSING INJURY TO THE NECK, BACK AND THE LOWER PART3OF THE LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS MA5ING A BELT SPLICE AND STRAINED HISELF IN HIS GROIN AREA.
INJURED MAN WAS3OPERATING A ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN A PIECE OF DRILL STEEL BROKE AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT WRIST BREAKING HIS ARM.
EE WAS GREASING3A BELT HEAD WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW SLATE FELL & STRUCK HIM ON HIS LEFT SIDE & BROKE HIS LEFT LOWER LEG.
RECURRING INJUR2 TO BACK?
EMPLOYEE WENT T2 DOCTOR FOR A KIDNEY INFECTION & A CHEST COLD & FOUND OUT THAT THE LOADING MACHINE UNDERGROUND CAUSED BLOOD IN HIS URINE HE SAID HE HAS HAD THIS PROBLEM FOR SEVERAL YEARS
INJURED WAS STANDING BESIDE CONTINIOUS MINER WITH HIS ARM LAYING ON THE CANOPY WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF SLATE FELL FROM THE TOP STRIKING HIS LEFT ELBOW AND CHIPPING THE BONE.