Eagle Creek #11Coal

Operator of a 777C Rock truck came into contact with a berm located in the haul road and claimed pain in back.

Employee was putting anti-freeze in a 980 H end loader. He slipped and fell approximately four feet to the ground. Landing on his left leg which resulted in broken femur.

Occupational hearing loss.

Cutting metal with torches and slag metal fell inside his boot and burnt his toe on his left foot

Mechanic fell about 6 feet while working on customer-owned equipment. D11R. He lost his balance when he grabbed the filter bonnet which had been loosened. He fell on the tracks and landed on his right side. On the day of the incident, he finished his shift, bu awoke with his right arm stiff and swollen and his right hip and wrist sore.

Employee was pushing rock on drill bench, rock became caught under blade raising dozer off ground and dropping suddenly, operator felt pain in lower back.

Cutting metal platting plate flexed upwards strking miner in the face injuring nose, and mouth area requiring stiches.

The driver was coming off the hill in a loaded coal truck and he jumped out of the truck.

Injured employee was using a hydraulic boom to hold a hydraulic pump in place on a D 11 dozer. The boom control was beside him on the dozer, when he inadvertently activated the lower switch and lowered the boom onto his back.

Employee stepped down from a dozer onto an object resulting in injury to right foot. Diagnosed as Plantar Fasciitis.

Employee tripped on fuel hose while fueling his truck and fell against side of pickup truck.

As employee was exiting from under a 992G endloader, he raised and struck the access ladder with his head.

Employee was pushing shot rock to the 1800 excavator when one track of the D 10 bulldozer he was operating climbed on top of a large rock. When backed off the rock the dozer fell quickly causing the employee to hit his head and shoulder against the cab of the dozer.

Employee was pulling up access ladder on 1800 Excavator, when ladder stopped abruptly. After working approximately 30 minutes, the employee started hurting in his neck area, then radiating down his leg. Employee worked until dinner shutdown, notified foreman of pain in his neck and leg. Employee was the transported to hospital by ambulance.

Injured employee was operating a 992G endloader loading rock trucks. He was loading parallel with the shot, undercutting the shot material and some rock rolled into the cab resulting in contusions to the left hand and right knee. He had been instructed on two previous occassins to load perpendicular to the shot material.

Injured employee was using a crane to hold a step on a 992G loader. The hook slipped, catching the employees left thumb between the hook and the step, causing a laceration to the thumb.

Employee was replacing o-ring between wheen and tire ring lock when the slate bar he was using to pry the ring away from the wheel slipped resulting in the employee's finger being pinched between the wheel and lock ring.

The boom on the powder truck was swung in the wrong direction striking the employee in the head and shoulder.

Employee was running a D5G Dozer. Was working on underbrush in the valleyfill, was helping the 330 excavator, when a rock got under the dozer and turned him over. He went over a 20' ledge landing on its top, then rolling back onto its tracks. He has a small cut to the right side of his head and some pain in his left shoulder.

Employee was pushing with the D5 Cat Dozer. While backing up, he ran into a tree causing the dozer to shake very hard. He said he hit so hard it caused pain in his neck. He didn't feel like he needed to go have it checked, he just applied heat to it, said he just wanted to file it in case it got worse.

Operating dozer. EE was back-dragging the road at valleyfill #3 when he backed over a rock. EE said he didn't see the rock. When the dozer dropped down off the rock, EE said he had whiplash of the neck.

EE was pushing overburden in shot and a rock rolled into his run behind him, while he was backing up to make another push, He ran over the rock because he said he didnt see it, causing him to be shook violently.

EE parked his drill very close to the highwall, we assume to mark the drill holes. When getting back into the drill, he slipped and fell approx. 75' off the highwall. He broke his femur and has massive injuries to his left eye. His condition is still being evaluated.

EE was drilling & needed to rack dirt off of shot hole. He got the hoe attached to the back of drill, pulling it to the front. It got hung up; he pulled harder, straining the muscles in his neck.

Employee was working on a 1100 Komatsu excavator installing a press pin. The press slipped smashing his right hand and index finger.

Using the Jack-Hammer to break up rocks stuck in the rock crusher the jack-hammer slipped between the two rocks and pinned finger between the hammer and the rocks.

Muddy conditions caused steps on ladder to become slick when employee was exiting 777 D Rock truck to receive cleaning supplies from lube truck when he slipped on lower steps striking his head on lube truck.

Propped ladder up on 5110 track to climb on to service at 5:00 am. Ladder slid in mud lost footing hitting right chin and knee on track causing knot and swelling approx. 1 hr later contributing factor, mud, oil, grease, and water.

Occupational hearing loss EE quit without notice june 5, 2004. he filed a west virginia workers compensation hearing loss claim 11-16-04.

EE WAS POUNDING A PIN IN PLACE ON THE DRILL. HE WAS USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO DO THIS. HE HIT HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND WITH THE SLEDGE HAMMER, SMASHING THE END OF HIS FINGER.

While helping mechanic, emp. spilled Mineral Spirits on his right thigh, he did nothing at that time, 1 hour later he washed the area, but it had burned his skin by this time.

Employee said he opened the radiator cap on D11R dozer before letting it cool down enough, hot fluids spewed causing 1st and 2nd degree burns on his right arm, the right side of his chest and the right side of his face under his eye.

Driver turned truck to the right too quick into berm of curve causing truck to overturn.

Injured and two other mechanics were steam cleaning the swing motor on the PC650. They had to remove a panel of PC650 to get to the swing motor which they placed on hood of PC650. The panel then fell off hood and hit employee in calf of right leg. He was transported by ambulance to Logan Regional Medical Center.

EE WAS CLIMBING UP A LADDER TO GET ON THE GREASE TRUCK, LADDER GAVE WAY AT THE BOTTOM CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO GROUND LANDING ON HIS LEFT LEG.

EE was helping welder weld cutting blade on the grader, while cutting off the old blade a piece of metal from the blade came off and hit the tire, bounced off the tire and hit ee on the right thigh.

WALKING ALONG A COAL BERM ON THE MINE SITE, STARTED SLIDING, LOST BALANCE AND FELL CAUSING A LEG FRACTURE.

EE was moving the 6"" water pump at pond 3, he was talking the discharge hose loose, it stuck he pulled hard on it. causing it to come loose at once causing him to fall backwards with it, he hurt his left hand, left leg and ankle. said it was just sore and did not want to see a dr. he told the mine manager about it the next evening at approx. 4:30 pm.

EE was finishing for the day, while leavihng job site, came around curve he announced on cb where he was located a coal truck was coming up the hill at curvey #4. ee got stopped but coal truck could nt stop and hit ee vehicle head on causing ee airbag to deplay him in the nose the right leg on the dash.

Employee picked up oxygen tank by the lid, it come off hitting employee in lower lip, cutting his lip inside, the lid was to big and didn't fit the tank proper he went to logan regional healthcore, he got 4 stitucehs in lower lip, was told to return to work on 6-2-03.

EE WAS STANDING ON TOP OF A 6'STEP LADDER WHILE WORKING ON THE ROCK TRUCK WHEN THE STEP LADDER SLID OUT FROM UNDERNEATH HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL DOWN THE LADDER. WEATHER CONDITIONS WHERE COLD & ICY, AFTER HAVING APPROX. 5""OF SNOW THE DAY BEFORE. NOTE: EE WORKED THE NEXT DAY.

TWO ROCK TRUCKS (A 785 & 777) COLLIDED AT BOTH LEFT CORNER ON DRIVER'S SIDE OF CABS.

EE SAID THAT HE HAD PICKED UP 2 40-50 LB. WET BAGS OFF THE TRACK AND CARRIED THEM OVER TO THE DRILLED HOLES, HE SAID; THAT HE HAD SET ONE OF THE BAGS DOWN TO DUMP THE OTHER BAG AND WHEN HE TURNED TO PICK-UP THE 2ND BAG AFTER DUMPING THE 1ST HE HAD A SHARP PAIN GO UP HIS BACK. DAMAGE TO HIS BACK UNKNOWN AS OF YET.

OPERATOR SAID THAT IT WAS A FREAK ACCIDENT IN THAT HIS FEET GOT TANGLED UP IN THE STEP. (RAINSTORM MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO A HURRIED EXIT FROM MACHINE.) STEPS WERE INTACT AS IN NEW FACTORY CON DITION. HUMAN ERROR APPEARS TO BE THE CAUSE OF THIS INJURY IN THAT AS LATE AS 7/22/02 SLIPS AND FALLS/3 POINTS OF CONTACT WAS OUT MONDAY MORNING SAFETY MEETING FOCUS.

EE SAID THAT HE TIRNED TO THE RIGHT WHILE SITTING IN HIS DOZER TO LOOK OUT THE DOZER WINDOW AND THAT HE BEGAN HAVING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK, HE HAD BEEN OPERATING THE D10 FOR ABOUT AN HOUR, WITHOUT ANY PREVIOUS DISCOMFORT. HOSPITAL TREATED HIM FOR MUSCLE SPASM AND GAVE HIM A MUSCLE RELAXER AND TOLD HIM TO COME BACK TO WORK ON MON 7/22/02.

LIFTING CONNECTOR BLOCK INTO PLACE BETWEEN BLADE AND PUSHARM. PULLED RIGHT LOWER BACK MUSCLE.

DOZER OPERATOR WAS PUSHING THE TOP ROCK FROM THE PRODUCTION SHOT ABOVE THE COLBURG SEAM WHEN HE JARRED HIS BACK, STRAINING THE LEFT SIDE. HE WAS WEARING HIS SEATBELT. HE FAILED TO REPORT THE I NCIDENT UNTIL THE DAY HE CAME BACK TO WORK.

SLIPPED WHILE STRADDING A HANDRAIL ONT HE NO2 DML INERSOL DRILL HE WAS TAKING A SHORTCUT FROM ESTABLISHED WALKWAYS. THE EE AALLEDGED THAT HE SUSTAINED GROIN OR TESTICLE INJURY.

CLIMBING ON A 988G LOADER, BOOTS WERE MUDDY CAUSING RIGHT FOOT TO SLIP AND TWISTED KNEE.