Gnadenhutten Strip Coal

WHILE OPERATING THE COAL SAMPLING CUTTER THE PUSH/PULL ROD BECAME DISCONNECTED CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE, DUE TO HIS MOMENTUM, TO STUMBLE BACKWARD STRIKIGN HIS RIGHT SIDE ON A HAND RAILING.

WHILE WALKING DOWN A WET MUDDY SLOPE THE EE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.

WHILE BLOWING CHIPS FROM A DRILLED HOLE A SMALL PIECE OF STEEL BECAME LODGED IN THE EMPLOYEES RT EYE THE EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING A FACE SHIELD BUT WAS NOT WEARING GOGGLES

WHILE TIGHTENING AN OVERHEAD BOLT ON A FRON END LOADER THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND STRUCK THE EE ON THE LEFT CHEEK BONE. THE BLOW LACERATED THE SKIN AND REQUIRED STITCHES.

WHILE TRYING TO LIFT A HYDRAULIC MOTOR WEIGHING APPROX 100 POUNDS THE EMPLOYEE STRAINED HIS BACK.

WHILE GRINDING A PIECE WITH AN ELECTRIC CIRCURLAR GRINDER A PIECE OF METAL BECAME LODGED IN THE EE LEFT EYE. A FACE SHIELD WAS IN USE WHILE GRINDING.

WHILE LIFTING A PERSONAL COMPUTER (APPROX. WT-30 LBS) FROM THE FLOOR TO PLACE IT ON A TABLE, THE EMPLOYEE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON AN UNEVEN AREA OF THE FLOOR (APPROX. OFFSET WAS 1 1/2") AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT FOOT.

AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS ENTERING THE CAB OF THE MOTOR GRADER, A GUST OF WIND CAUSED THE DOOR ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE CAB TO SWING CLOSED. THE DOOR STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS LOWER RIGHT SIDE BELOW THE RIBS.

WHILE USING A CUTTING TORCH THE EMPLOYEE FAILED TO NOTICE THAT SLAG WAS DROPPING ONTO THE HOSES CAUSING A HOLE TO BE BURNED IN THE HOSE WHEN HE PICKED UP THE HOSES AN EXPLOSION OCCURRED CAUSIN G HIS LEFT HAND TO BE BURNED

WHILE REMOVING A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON FROM THE STEEL RACK THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE WET FLOOR & FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT ELBOW

MOVING CYLINDER OF WELDING GAS IT SLIPPED FROM GRASP PULLING L SIDE OF NECK

TIGHTENING BOLT IT SLIPPED AND HIS L HAND STRUCKSHARP METAL LACER IT

THE EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER MOUNTED ON THE HIGHWALL MINER.HE WAS CARRYING A VALVE WHICH WEIGHED APPROX 20 POUNDS.WHILE PUSHING OFF WITH HIS LEFT FOOT HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT CA LF.THE EMPLOYEE FELL AND WAS CAUGHT BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE PREVENTING FURTHER INJURY.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING A WELD ON A D9H DOOR HINGE THAT HE WAS REPAIRING HE WAS WEARING GOGGLES A PIECE OF METAL FROM THE GRINDING WHEEL WENT BEHIND THE GOGGLES & ENTERED HIS LEFT EYE

THE TRUCK WAS STANDING ON A HYDRAULIC JACK WITH THE RIGHT REAR DUAL WHEELS REMOVED. THE EMPLOYEE, WHO WAS UNDER THE TRUCK, REALIZED THE JACK WAS SLIPPED AND MOVED TO GET CLEAR. HE WAS PINNED I N A CROUCHING POSITION BETWEEN THE TRUCK BED, THE REAR AXLE AND THE GROUND. THE EMPLOYEE EXTRACTED HIMSELF FROM HIS PINNED POSITION.

A ROCK FELL FROM THE HIGH WALL, SHATTERED INTO SEVERAL PIECES AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE WHO WAS IN THE PIT APPROX. 40' FROM THE TOE OF THE HIGHWALL. ONE PIECE STRUCK AND BRUISED HIS BACK AND A S ECOND PIECE FRACTURED HIS LEFT LOWER LEG.

WHILE CLIMBING A LADDER ON THE HIGH WALL MINER THE EMPLOYEE LOST HIS FOOTING & FELL APPROX THREE FT TO THE GROUND LANDING ON HIS LEFT FOOT THE GROUND WAS UNEVEN CAUSING THE LEFT KNEE TO TWIST

W HILE GRINDING A WELD WIH AN ELECTRIC GRINDER A PIECE OF METAL BECAME LODGED IN THE EMPLOYEES RT EYE A SAFETY SHIELD WAS BEING WORN AT THE TIME

THE EMPLOYEE FELL FROM THE LADDER OF A LOADER. THE CAUSE WAS SPILLED DIESEL FUEL WHICH CREATED A SLIPPERY CONDITION. HE FELL ONTO THE CORNER & BUMPER OF THE FUEL TRUCK PARKED NEXT TO THE LOADE R STRIKING HIS LEFT UPPER PELVIS AND BACK BELOW THE RIGHT LOWER RIB.

LIFTING WATER PUMP

MOUNTING TRUCK SLIPPED CONTACTED SHARP PC OF METAL ON BED

WHILE CLEANING THE HIGH WALL MINING MACHIEN WITH A HIGH PRESSURE HOT WATER WASHER, THE HAND HELD HOSE BROKE SPRAYING THE EMPLOYEE'S LEFT WRIST, LEFT CHEST & LEFT SHOULDER WITH HOT WATER AND ST EAM.

WHILE HANDLING A WRENCH ON THE DRILL TABLE THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LEFT FOREARM AND ELBOW.

WHILE REMOVIG THE DRILLING BIT FROM THE DRILL STEM THE BIT FELL ON EMPLOYEES LITTLE FINGER OF THE LEFT HAND & BROKE THE BONE

WHILE CLEANING WELD WITH CHIPPING HAMMER SMALL PIECE OF METAL BECAME LODGED IN EMPLS LEFT EYE. EMPL DID NOT REPORT INCIDENT TO EMPIRE TILL 2/4/91. HE THOUGH PROBLEM WS FLASH BURN TO EYE.

EMPL CARRYING LUNCH BUCKET AND THERMOS.CLIMBING THE MOUNTING LADDER,LOST GRIP ON HAND RAIL AND FELL TO GROUND STRIKING LOWER BACK.

WHILE OEPRATING FRONT END LOADER OPERATOR BACKED OVER LARGE ROCK RESULTING IN STRAINED NECK. OPERATOR WAS USING SEAT BLET. SHOCK RESULTING FROM IMPACT WITH ROCK CAUSED NECK STRAIN.

INJURED ,OPERATING A TS24B SCRAPER WAS LOADING PREVIOUSLY MINED OVERBURDEN FROM A FLAT LEVEL AREA.TRAMMING THE MATERIAL UP A BERMED GRADE TO A DRENCHED AREA AND DEPOSITING THIS MATERIAL DOWN A SLOPE BEING RECLAIMED.UPON TURNING THE TRACTOR TO THE RIGHT TO DESCEND THE GRADE,THE LEFT REAR WHEEL RAISED FROM THE GROUND SHIFTING THE WEIGHT OF THE MATERIAL CAUSING THE SCRAPER TO UPSET.TH

WHILE LIFTING A 120 LB CAN OF GREASE THE EMPLOYEE FELT A STRAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT THIS TO HIS SUPERVISOR UNTIL 02-08-90.STATING IT REALLY DIDN'T BOTHER HIM TILL THE N.

WHILE REPAIRING WIRING ON A ROCK TRUCK THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL APPROX. 9 FEET TO THE GROUND.

WHILE USING EQUIP MOUNTED LADDER TO CLIMB ONTO SHEEL LOADER EMPL FOOT SLIPPED FROM 1ST STEP AND HE DROPPED TO GROUND LANDING ON BOTH FEED,JAMMING HIS LOWER BACK.

WHILE MOUNTING THE STEP TO ENTER HIS MACHINE HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND. HE WAS CARRYING HIS DINNER BUCKET AND WATER JUG. HE DID NOT USE THE BOTTOM CABLE STEP AND SLIPPED ON THE FIRST SOLID STEP ABOVE THE GROUND.

I WAS GRINDING ON A PIECE OF PIPE WHEN THE GRINDER CAUGHT AND THE GRINDING WHEEL, WHILE STILL IN MOTION, HIT MY LEFT ARM AND STOMACH.

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A LADDER INSTALLING PLASTIC PIPE IN PREP PLANT THE BASE OF THE LADDER SLIPPED OUT & HE FELL 12FT TO 15FT TO A CONCRETE FLOOR THE EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A BROKEN LEFT THUM B & A DEEP CONTUSION TO THE RT SHOULDER

WHILE OPERATING AN AIR IMPACT WRENCH THE AIR HOSE BROKE AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE IN THE LEFT EYE.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO STEP OVER A STEEL AIR LINE APPROX KNEE HIGH,EMPLOYEE CAUGHT FOOT ON PIPE AND FELL ONTO STEEL GRATING STRIKING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

THE TRUCKER, I,NAME, DROVE HIS TRUCK INTO THE STOCKPILE AREA, STOPPED, AND WAS PREPARING TO BACKUP. THE CAT 988B LOADER WORKING AT THE STOCKPILE BACKED INTO THE RIGHT DOOR OF THE TRUCK CAB. TH E DRIVER WAS THROWN AGAINST THE DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR OF THE CAB BRUISING HIS LEFT SIDE.

WHILE RETRACTING THE AUGAR CARRIAGE, THE CRANE HOOK CAUGHT ON THE MOVING CARRIAGE, BREAKING THE CRANE MAST. THE FALLING CRANE ASSEMBLY STRUCK THE OPERATOR IN THE HEAD AND KNOCKED HIM TO THE GR OUND.

WHILE USING A CABLE ATTACHED TO A FRONT END LOADER TO REMOVE LARGE PIECES OF ROCK FROM THE SALEM AUGER,THE CABLE CLAMPS SLIPPED ALLOWING THE HOOK TO PULL FREE.THE HOOK GRAZED THE INJURED'S FOR E HEAD AND A CABLE CLAMP ASTRUCK HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.

EMPL SLIPPED AND CAUGHT LEFT FOOT BETWEEN AUGER CARRIAGE AND CARRIAGE STOP.THE MIDDLE TOE WAS BAROKEN AND TOE NEXT TO LITTLE TOE WAS LACERATED.

I SLIPPED & FELL WHEN CLIMBING DOWN FROM CAB OF A 50 TON ROCK TRUCK LANDING ON & CHIPPING A BONE IN MY RGT KNEE.

WHILE WORKING O3 BLOWER FAN THE PRY BAR SLIPPED CAUSING A STRAIN TYPE INJURY TO THE LEFT SIDE IN THE RIB AREA.

EMPL STANDING O3 LOADER BUCKET ARM CROSS TUBE DOING MAINTENANCE.HE SLIPPED & FELL STRIKING LEFT SIDE ON BUCKET TILT ARM.

SPRAIN ON LEFT 5NKLE CAUSED BY STEPPING ON A ROCK WHEN DISMOUNTING FROM A PICKUP TRUCK.

STRUCK ON RIGH7 SIDE (RIBS) WITH A PIECE OF FLY ROCK FROM AN OVER BURDEN SHOT LACERATION AND BRUISES

WHILE HELPING WITH DRAGLINE REPAIR, VERTICAL SWING SHAFT WITH PINION & BEARING ATTACHED (APPROX. WT 500 LB.) FELL ON LEFT HAND COMPLETELY CRUSHING LEFT RING FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A FILTER ON A DOZER & WAS STANDING ON THE TRACKS. WHEN HE TURNED TO GET OFF TRACK HE SLIPPED & FELL TO THE GROUND INJURING HIS RIGHT FOOT.