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INJURED WAS STANDING BACK BRACED AGAINST ROOF APP 42 INCH HEIGHT USING FEET TO GUIDE CABLE TO PREVENT CABLE FROM BEING PULLED INTO HAULROAD AS MINER ADVANCED CABLE BECAME TANGLED AROUND HIS FE ET TWISTING THE LOWER PART OF HIS BODY.
INJURED WAS ENGAGING A CIRCUIT BREAKER INSIDE CONTROL PANEL ON MINER INCLOSE PROXIMITY TO A SHORTED PRIMARY CONNECTION ON CONTROL CIRCUIT T RANSFORMER THE RESULTING ELECTRICAL ARC CAUSED FIRST SECOND & THIRD DEGREE BURNS TO HANDS
CAUGHT LEG BETWEEN PINNER BOOM AND RIB.
LIFTING A BATTERY CHARGER.
RIDING OUTSIDE IN MANTRIP LEANING OVER TOOLBOX-HIT BUMP-HIT TOP AND HIT RIBS ON TOOLBOX AND KNEE ON PIECE OF METAL.
EMP WAS BOLTING3A SECTION OF ROOF AND A VERY SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON HIS FINGER BREAKING THE SKIN
EMPLOYEE WAS TA4PING A SHOT AND CRAWLED UNDER AN AREA WHRE HE HE DID NOT PROPERLY PULL CAP COAL AND A SMALL SECTION OF COAL FELL ON HIS ARMS AND HANDS. WHEN EMPLOYEE JERKED HIS HANDS FREE HE CAUSED MINER AB9ASIONS ON HIS ARMS AND HANDS.
EMP WAS LIFTING3ROOF BOLTS WEIGHING APPROX 20LB. FROM A SCOOP ONTO THE BOTTOM AND ALLEGES HE FELT AS IF A "BEEE" HAD STUNG HIM, BUT WENT ON DOING HIS JOB AS ROOF BOLTER AND LIFTED A ROOF BOLT TO PUT IT IN PL5CE TO DRILL IT WHEN SEVERE PAIN STRUCK HIM IN HIS BACK
A SHOT WAS BEIN1 FIRED IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATIONS & EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS MOVING TO A NEW PLACE TO BOLT APPROX.120FT AWAY & DID NOT HEAR WARNING ALTHOUGH ANOTHER EMPLOYEE RICKY WILLIAM S WAS STGANDING3APPROX.10FT AWAY & WAS PROPERLY PREPARED FOR SHOT EMPLOYEE HAD NO APPARENT CUTS OR BRUISE ALSO EMPLOYEE WORKED THE REMAINDER OF SHIFT WITH NO COMPLAINTS
EMPLOYEE HADA N6MBER OF ABSENCES DURING EMPLOYMENT. AT APPROX. THE SAME TIME HE REPORTED THIS "ACCIDENT" HE TOLD SEVERAL OTHER EMPLOYEES THAT HE WAS PASSING BLOOD INTERNALLY FROM HELPING LIFT A CAR FROM A D3TCH. HE REPORTED NO "ACCIDENT" OR INJURY TO US AND HAS NO WITNESSES TO SUCH "ACCIDENT". THE FIRST INFORMATION WE HADAS TO AN "ACCIDENT" WAS FROM A DR. STATING HE HAD PROBLEMS W
EMPLOYEE ALLEGE8 HE WAS REMOVING COAL FROM AN AREA WITH SCOOP & HE BACKED SCOOP UP & HIT A RIB WHICH JARRED HIM AROUND ON THE SCOOP AT THE TIME EMPLOYEE CLAIMED ONLY ARM INJURY & THERE WERE N O APPARENT BRUI8ES OR CUTS
HORSE BACK IN F5CE AREA EMPLOYEE STARTED TO BOLT WITHOUT SAFETY JACK
EMPLOYEE WAS DR3LLING PLACE & STARTED MOVING TO BEGIN NEXT PLACE & IN M OVING DRILL STRAIN IN LOWER BACK OCCURRED