No 49 Coal

ACCIDENT WASN'T REPORTED UNTIL 26TH OCTOBER. EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE MOVE OIL FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER.HE PICKED UP ONE CAN OF OIL TWISTED BODY TO SET OIL DOWN INJURING LOWER BACK.

EE WAS EXAMINED FOR CLAIM APPLICATION 10-2-98 AND WAS DIAGNOSEDWITH PNEUMOCONIOUSIS. REPORT STATES CLAIMANT HAS SUFFERED SYMPTOMS ABOUT 9 YRS. WE WERE NOTIFIED 10-21-98.

STEPPED OUT OF MANTRIP. FOOT SLIPPED, TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.

EE SAID MANTRIP GOT HUNG UP IN HOLE ON ROADWAY. HE ATTEMPTED TO PICK FRONT OF MANTRIP UP. INJURED BACK.

SCOOP WAS LIFTING TAILPIECE WHEN IT FELL OFF AND COUGHT LEFT HAND.

INJURED AND ONE MAN WERE UNLOADING ROCKDUST OUT OF A SCOOP BLADE AND PUTTING IT ON #2 BELT. INJURED WAS ON HIS KNEES HANDLING THE DUST. HE PICKED UP A BAG AND SLIPPED TWISTING HIS LOWER BACK.

EE, A ROOF BOLT MACHINE OPERATOR, WAS PUTTING UP A 4' ROOF BOLT WHICH HAD TO BE BENT BEFORE IT COULD BE INSTALLED. AS THE BOLT WAS BEING INSTALLED, THE HEAD OF THE BOLT CAUGHT HIS RIGHT PINKY FINGER AS HE WAS PUSHING IT UP IN THE HOLE. HIS FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BOLT HEAD AND THE BOLTER HEAD.

INJURED & 2 EE'S WERE BUILDING A STOPPING. INJURED REACHED BEHINE HIMSELF TO PICK A CINDER BLOCKUP. WHEN HE GRABBED THE BLOCK HE TWISTED HIS WRIST.

INJURED AND FELLOW EE HAD FINISHED PUTTING A HEAD ROLLER ON 3 BELT HEAD AND WERE REMOVING THE BLOCKING FROM 2 TAIL PIECE. OTHER WENT TO THROW A CRIB BLOCK AND BEFORE HE REALIZED THAT INJURED W AS STANDING BEHIND HIM OTHER THREW THE CRIB BLOCK AND HIT EE INTHE LEFT KNEE.

GPF-EXPOSURE TO DUST.OPERATOR NOTIFIED OF 5% AWARD ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1997.

EE WAS PULLING SLACK BEHIND BELT HEAD WHILE BELT WAS SLIPPING IN POWER ROLLERS SO HE TRIED TO HELP. THE POWER ROLLER TAKE UP SLACK IT CAUGHT AND HE STILL HAD HIS PLIERS ON THE BELT AND IT GAVE JERKING REACTION.

EE WAS IN THE FUCK OF 6 AND WAS PRODEEDING TO BOLT THE TOP AND HE WAS ROUTINE. BENDING A ROOF BOLT THAT WAS IN A DRILLED HOLE TO STRAIGHTEN. IT SO HE COULD PUSH ON UP THE HOLE, BUT AS HE DONE THIS HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING INSTALLING FAN MOTOR AND WHILE TRYING TO LOAD MOTOR UP ON THE BASE IT ROLLED UP AGAINST HIS LEFT HAND AND CAUGHT HIS LITTLE FINGER.

LOADING FOUR FOOT STRAPS FOR STRAPPING ROOF ONTO THE BOLT MACHINE & WHEN HE WAS LIFTING & TWISTING THE INJURY OCCURRED.

HE WAS WORKING ON A 21 SC SHUTTLE CAR STEERING BALL ON THE LOADING END OPER. SIDE WHEEL AND BUMPED HIS RIGHT ELBOW AGAINST THE FRAME OF SHUTTLE CAR.

EE WAS WORKING ON A WHEEL UNIT ON #2 SHUTTLE CARAND HAMMERING ON BOLTS, HOLDING WHEEL UNIT ON END HIT HIS THUMB ON HIS LEFT HAND

EE WAS BOLTING TOP IN THE FACE OF 3, HIS LEFT KNEE WAS RESTING ON SOME SLACK COAL WHEN IT GIVE AWAY HE HYPEREXTENDED HIS LEFT KNEE.

EE WAS CLEANING AWAY COAL THAT HAD ACCUMULATED AROUND SECTION TAILPIECE TAILROLLER ON THE TIGHT SIDE OF BELT AS HE WAS DOING SO, HE REACHED TO BALANCE HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND ACCIDENTAL LY MISPLACE HIS HAND IN THE CONVEYOR CHUTES.

EE WAS SWINGING RUB RAIL BACK INTO PLACE AFTER WORKING ON THE SCRUBBER SYSTEM AND COMPLETELY CLEANING IT OUT, HE AHD TO LIFT THE RUB RAIL UP SOEM TO PUT IT BACK IN BRACKET TO PUT PIN THROUGH I T TO HOLD IT IN PLACE. WHLE LIFTING RAIL UP IS WHEN THE STRAIN OCCURRED.

EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING CABLE OFF THE 21SC SHUTTLE CAR BECAUSE IT WAS OUT OF TIME, SO HE PUT HIS FEET AGAINST THE FRAME AND PULLED WHICH RESULTED IN THE CAUSE OF HIS BACK STRAINS. THIS INJURY OCC URRED TWO BREAKS OUTBY FACE OF NUMBER FOUR.

EE WAS PICKING UP A BAG OF ROCK DUST IN THE #4 FACE AREA TO DUST THE CUT THAT HAD BEEN BOLTED AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN THE RIGHT RIB CAGE, HE WAS EXPERIENCING BREEATHIGN DIFFICULTY.

INJURED WAS BOLTING NO 6 HEADING AND PUTTING UP A BOLT WITH A STRAP AS HE STARTED THE ROTATION THE STRAP CAME AROUND AND STRUCK HIM IN THE HEAD.

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN #3 HEADING. HAD LEFT HAND ON BOLT. TURN DRILL ROTATION ON CATCHING HIS GLOVE, TWISTING LEFT HAND AROUND ROOF BOLT.

EE WAS STARTING THE 2ND ROW OF BOLTS IN #3 HEADINGA ND HAD DRILLED APPROX 12" WHEN A ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN TRS AND WHERE HE WAS DRILLING/HITTING HIM ON CAP AND SLIPPED DOWN HIS RIGHT ARM.

WAS BOLTING IN FACE #3 INSTALLING BOLT RT RIB. A PIECE OF LOOSE ROCK FELL ON RT FOOT, HURTING RT BIG TOE JOINT.

EE'S JOB WAS TO SHOVEL SECTION BELTS AS NEEDED. HE HAD SHOVELED APPROXIMATELY 12' IN DISTANCE WHEN HE SAID HE HURT HIS BACK.

THE EIMCO 3510 ROOF BOLTER WAS IN 2 TO 1 CROSSCUT/T-BAR WAS SET. THE ROOF LOOKED GOOD NOT CRACKS. DAVID WAS ON THE OEPRATOR SIDE, HE WAS RAISING THE DRILL HEAD/WITH DRILL STEEL IN-LACE, TO S TART DRILLING A HOLE. THE DRILL STEEL NEVER TOUCHED THE TOP. HE WAS STARTING THE FIRST HOLE ON LEFT SIDE. WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK CAME DOWN.

EE WAS OPERATING THE OFF-SIDE OF A DOUBLE HEAD EIMCO ROOF BOLTER/INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS/HE HAD PUT BOLTS BEHIND HIM/THAT WERE TO BE USED HE TWISTED AROUND WHILE ON HIS KNEES TO GET A ROOF BOLT TO INSTALL-HE FELT A SUDDENTIGHTENING IN HIS LOWER BACK

WHILE TRAMMING THE MINER INTO COAL, THE MINER DRIFTED TOWARD RIB DUE TO WET/SLICK CONDITIONS, CATCHING HIS LEG BETWEEN MINER AND RIB.

EE WAS CLEANING NO. 4 RT BK WITH SCOOP SCOOP HIT SOME ROUGH ROCK BOTTOM BOWING THE SCOOP UPWARDS RAISING EE TOWARDS THE ROOF WHERE HE HIT HIS HEAD.

EE STATEDHEHAD NEARLY FINISHED DRILLING A 3FT HOLE FOR A ROOF BOLT INSTALLATION WHEN DRILL POT (HE THOUGHT) BRUSHED THE ROOF & SOME UNIDENTIFIED PARTICLE WENT INTO HIS LEFT EYE THERE WERE NO V ISIBLE SIGN OF INJURY EE WAS NOT FOLLOWING COMPANY RULES/SAFETY PROCEDURES HE WAS NOT WEARING EYE PROTECTION

SCOOP OPERATOR WAS CHEANING ROAD LEADING TO THE TAIL PIECE IN THE #4 ENTRY. MAKING A TURN FROM #4 TO THE #3 ENTRY, THE OPERATOR DID NOT ALLOW ENOUGH ROOM FOR THIS TURN. HANGING CLOSE TO THE RI B, THE OPERATOR CAUGHT HIS LEFT EAR & LEFT SIDE OF THE HEAD ON SOME LOW HANGING COAL.

THE INJURED PERSON WAS HANGING CURTAIN IN FACE NEAR THE REAR OF MINER. HAVING HIS BACK TOWARDS THE MINER, SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR COULD NOT SEE WORKER, AND SLIGHTLY CAUGHT THE WORKER IN HIS BACK WITH THE END OF THE SHUTTLE CAR.