Big Sandy River Dock: 1 recorded fatality Coal

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ELECTRICAL WIRE WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED AND LACERATED INDEX FINGER ON RIGHT HAND. FIVE STITCHES TO CLOSE.

VICTIM FELL APPROXIMATELY FOUR FEET TO THE GROUND FROM A CATWALK THAT WAS BEING CONSTRUCTED.

EMPLOYEE TRIED TO DRIFT EMPLY BARGE DOWN RIVER BY HIMSELF.

EMP TRIED TO PULL A PIECE OF SHOT WIRE FROM THE FINES BELT TAILROLLER WHILE BELT WAS RUNNING.

AFTER WORKING ON THE D-9 ROLLER FRAME, FELT BACK PAIN AFTER LIFTING AND PUSHING ROLLERS.

EE WAS TIEING LOWER SLIDE LINE ROPE TO A BARGE.

EE WAS SITTING ON AN EMPTY BARGE. HE TRIED TO PUT THE TEMPORARY SLIDE SLINE ON THE SLIDE CABLE WHEN THE WIND BLEW THE BARGE AGAINST THE TRI TIES CAUSING HIS LEG TO BECOME CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BA RGE AND THE TRI TIE.

EMPLOYEE WAS ADJUSTING SPRING HANGER BOLT WHEN WRENCH SLIPPED OFF HEAD BOLT AND THEN HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS NOSE CUTTING ABOVE THE NOSTRIL.

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTIGN DOWN TWO BARGES, IN HIGH WATER, WHEN A ROPE CAME BACK ADN HIM EMPLOYEE IN THE BACK OF THE LEG.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE LIFT A CAPSTAIN MOTOR

EMPLOYEE WAS IN OFFICE TRAILER TRYING TO OPEN A POP CAN WITH A KNIFE THE KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT HIS ARM

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON FEEDER BREAKER LIFTING PIECES OF METAL

EMPL WORKING ON FEEDER BREAKER DOWN IN A TUNNEL.BACK PLATE OF FEEDER BREAKER FELL AND HIT FEET.

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING WET COAL ON THE FEED BELT FROM THE FLOOR.

HE WAS WORKING ON RAIN BIRDS & HEATED PIECE OF METAL. HE HIT METAL WITH HAMMER TO BEND METAL & PIECE OF METAL IN RIGHT EYE.

WAS PULLING ON BARGE ROPE AND PULLED LOWER MUSCLES IN BACK.

DIGGING COAL OUT OF AUGER.

WENT TO FLOP // GATE THAT GOES TO YARD AND HURT HIS BACK.

INSTALLING NEW WATER LINE TO WATER COOLER. COOLER WAS PLUGGED OFF. EMPLOYEE SHUT OFF WATER VALVE AND DISASSEMBLED WATER LINE BUT ENOUGH PRESSURE WAS STILL IN LINE TO CAUSE CLOROX TO GET IN HIS EYES.

EMPLOYEE WAS STOPPING BARGES WITH BARGE ROPE. THE ROPE BROKE HITTING EMPLOYEE IN THE THIGH AND GENITAL AREAS.

SHOVELING WET COAL,TWISTED AROUND WITH SHOVEL OF COAL.PULLED LOWER BACK.

MOVING BARGES DOWN STREAM WHEN HIS HAND GOT CAUGHT IN A CLEVIS ON THE SLIDE LINE CABLE.

MAN WAS HELPING REPAIR FRONT BUMPER TO YARD DUMP TRUCK HE WAS USING A PORTABLE HAND GRINDER WEARING BURNING GOGGLES WITH FLIP UP LID GRINDING MATERIAL FLEW INTO EYE

HIT HEAD ON CROSS BRACES CLEANING AREA

CLEANING AROUND BELT ON RIVER LINE.

EMPL CLEANING AROUND BELT WHEN LUMP OF COAL FLEW OFF BLET AND HIT RIGHT FOREARM.

BRACKET HELD PLATFORM LADDER BOROKE CAUING PLATFORM TO SWING OUT AWAY FORM FIXED LADDER CASUING HIM TO FALL TO GROUND HITTING R. SHOULDER.

HE WAS GOING TO TURN OVER TWO SECTIONS OF GUARD RAILS THIS PUT BODY IN A STRAIN AND PULLED HIS BACK

WAS GOING TO ATTACH THE WELDER TO THE BOBCAT. PICKED UP WELDER AND IT ROLLED FORWARD AND CAUSGHT THE RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN THE WELDER AND BOB CAT BUCKET.

DRIVING GREEN DUMP TRUCK WHICH WAS BEING LOADED BY FRONT-END LOADER LUMP OF COAL FELL FROM BUCKET & HIT HIM ON THE ARM T HIS PUNCTURED A HOLE IN HIS ARM R EQ UIRING THREE STITCHES

MAN WAS WALKING BESIDE OF ROADWAY NEXT TO GUARD RAIL AND TRIPPED ON A BLOCK OF COAL AND FELL INTO GUARD RAIL AND CUT HIS LEG. IT WAS QUITTING TIME AND HE WAS WALKING TO HIS CAR. HE WAS NOT WAT CHING WHERE HE WAS GOING.

BENT OVER TO PICK UP A STAMLER FLIGHT CHAIN.

GRATING ON THE CATWALK APPROACHING RIVER LOADOUT WAS LOOSE & WORKER STEPPED THRU GRATING & INJURED HIMSELF HE WAS TAKEN TO KINGS DAUGHTERS HOSPITAL IN ASHLAND KY HE WAS TREATED& RELEASED & DIA GNOSED AS HAVING TORN LIGAMENTS IN HIS RIGHT KNEE

HE WAS REMOVING31 1/2" NYLON ROPE FROM TIMBER HEAD WHEN ROPE SLIPPED & THE UP PRESSURE FORM THE 3/4" CABLE CAUGHT HIM UNDER CHIN RESULTING IN A BROKEN JAW.

I.NAME AN EE WA8 PULLING ON ROPE THAT LEAD TO WENCH TO BARGE & STRAINED HIS BACK.

HE JERKED THE C2AIN OUT FROM UNDER THE PIECE OF STEEL AND ANOTHER PIECE FLEW UP AND HIT HIM IN THE NOSE. REQUIRING STITCHES IN HIS NOSE.

(STEPS MADE OF 1RATING THAT LEAD TO RIVER) I.NAME AN EMPLOYEE FELL ON STEPS AFTER LEAVING BRAGE THAT HE HAD JUST FINISHED DRAFTING

I.NAME WHILE PR2SPECTING ON COLUMBIA PROPERTY WAS STUNG BY A BEES. HE HAS AN ALLERGY TO BEE STINGS. HE WAS TAKEN TO MED CENTER FOR TREATMENT.

I NAME WAS WALK3NG ALONG SIDE OF BARGE WHILE IT WAS TIED TO DOCK AND ACCIDENTALLY BRUSHED HIS HAND ALONG SIDE OF IT WHICH SKINNED HIS HAND. A MINOR INJURY WHICH ONLY REQUIRED A BAND-AID.

STEPPED ON A PI9CE OF STEEL ON RIVER BANK WALKING BACK FROM BARGE. INJURED RT FOOT.

LEFT FOOT WAS T9APED IN CLOSING DOORS. LEFT FOOT AND TOES HAD LACERATIONS, DR PUT SPLINT ON THE FOOT AND SAID TO ELIVATE.

WHILE CUTTING SPLICE FOR BELT LINE. POCKET KNIFE SLIPPED ON CORE IN BELT LINE. WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING R HAND & THUMB & THIS REUQIRED STITCHES. HOWEVER EE LOST NO WORK DAYS & WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO W ORK THE SAME DAY OF T HE INJURY OCCURRED.

STRAINED VERTBRA IN LOWER BACK

WHILE WENCHING 2 BARGES DOWN RIVER, 2 ND BARGE CUAGHT ON TRI-TIE, PULLING CABLE AND I NAME LEFT HAND INTO WENCH THERE WAS ONE INJURY HE SUSTAINED A FRACTURED INDEX FINGER AND CRUSHED THE BON E MIDDLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND.

BARGE #DM 1512 BROKE LOOSE FROM THE SLIDE LINE AT P&C BIG SANDY RIVER DOCK DUE TO SWIFT WATER THERE WAS ONE INJURY. I NAME SUSTAINED A FRACTURED LEFT THUMB. WHEN THE THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN A NYLON ROPE AND THE BARGE IN AN EFFORT TO SECURE THE BARGE.