WV-1 Surface Mine: 49 MSHA citations Coal

BLOWING DIRT OFF TOP OF ENGINE WITH AIR HOSE, A PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO LEFT EYE.

WHILE PERFORMING CPR ON CO-WORKER HE BECAME PHYSICALLY EXHAUSTED AND WAS TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO 3 RIVERS MED CENTER WHERE HE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED.

AFTER BEING CHECKED ON SITE FOR CHEST PAIN EE WENT INTO FULL ARREST WHILE IN ROUTE TO MEDICAL FACILITY BY PRIVATE VEHICLE. EE REFUSED TO BE TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE.

OPERATOR STATED THAT HE HEARD A POP (POSSIBLE BLOWED HOSE) AND SAW GLOW FROM FLAMES ON THE WINDSHIELD. OPERATOR STATED THAT FIVE EXTINGUISHERS WAS USED IN FIGHTING THE FIRE BUT FIRE DEPT HAD T O BE CALLED. NO ONE WAS INJURED.

PATIENT WAS CUTTING A TREE & WHEN IT FELL IT MADE CONTACT WITH ANOTHER TREE CAUSING 1ST TREE TO KICK BACK KNOCKING EE DOWN & PINNING HIM TO THE GROUND. EMPLOYER FREED EE & TRANSPORTED HIM TO L OGAN GENERAL HOSPITAL BY PRIVATE VEHICLE. PATIENT DID NOT RECEIVE ANY ON SCENE EMT TREATMENT.

AFTER CHECKING 992 LOADER EE WAS DESCENDING DOWN LADDER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED FROM BOTTOM STEP. EE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF BUT HAND SLIPPED BETWEEN STEP & BODY OF MACHINE CAUSING LEFT WRIST TO BE SPRAINED.

LOADER DROPPED A LARGE ROCK IN BED OF TRUCK CAUSING DRIVER TO BE JOLTED HARD. EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF HEAD NECK AND BACK PAIN. EMPLOYEE STATED THERE WAS BLEEDING FROM THE RECTUM. EMPLOYEE LE FT AND WENT TO LOGAN GEN. HOSP. WHEN HE DISCOVERED THE BLEEDING. THE JOLT BROKE COUNTER INSIDE OF TRUCK ALSO.

EE WAS DECENDING ROCK TRACK AFTER HIS SHIFT WHEN THE LADDER FOLDED BACK UNDERNEATH TRUCK CAUSING EE TO FALL CAUSING A POSSIBLE HIP INJURY. THE WEATHER WAS WET AND MUDDY. EE DID NOT GO TO MEDIC AL FACILITY AT THE TIME AND DID NOT RECEIVE ANY MEDICAL TREATMENT ON SCENE. PT TOLD HOSPITAL HE HAD MUD ON HIS SHOE CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

LOADER WAS LOADING TRUCK & DROPPED ROCK IN TRUCK BED CAUSING A POSSIBLE RUPTURE TO TRUCK DRIVER. EE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY ON SCENE MEDICAL TREATMENT BUT DID GO TO THE DR ON FRI 6/23/00. IT WAS N OT REPORTED AT THE TIME & NO REPORT WAS FILLED OUT UNTIL TUES 6/27/00. EMPLOYEE MISSED 6/23/00 & 6/26/00.

EE WAS CLEANING LOOSE ROCK FROM HIGH WALL WHEN APIECE OF ROCK CAME LOOSE & FELL ONTO SPOIL, BOUNCING BACK THRU THE WINDSHILED HITTING EE IN HIS LEFT LEG

EE WAS STARTING TO GET INTO HIS DRILL AND HE PUT HIS FOOT ON THE 1ST STEP AND WHEN HE PULLED HIS WEIGHT UP HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE STEP CAUSING HIS LEG TO TWIST ON IMPACT WITH THE GROUND. THE INJURY WORSENED AS TIME WENT BY CAUSING EE TO SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT. EE TOLD THIS TO THE BOSS.

INJURED WAS SAWING LOGS. HE ASKED ANOTHER TO ASSIST HIM BY TAKING THE CHERRY PICKER AND LIFTING THE LOG SO HE COULD GET HIS SAW UNSTUCK. THE SECTION HE WAS CUTTING BROKE OFF AND THE PART BEING LIFTED BY THE CHERRY PICKER SWUNG TOWARD HIM. HE MOVED BACK. HIS LEG WAS NOT CLEAR OF THE LOGS. AS HE STEPPED BACK, HIS LEFT LEG GOT WEDGED BETWEEN 2 LOGS & HE FELL BACK, BREAKING HIS LEG.

ALIGNING POWER PLANT HITCH WITH TRUCK HITCH. CAUGHT LEFT THUMB BETWEEN HITCHES.

GPF-OCCUPATIONAL NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS.

EE WAS CLIMBING LADDER ON 992 ON TO BEGIN WORK US LOADER OPERATOR EE FELT PAIN MID LOW BACK EE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL NEXT SHIFT.

ON ABOVE DATE & TIME, EE WAS CHANGING OUT A 5 GALLON WATER JUG. WHILE LIFTING A FULL 5 GAL JUGSHE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LEFT WRIST. EE CONT TO WORK SHIFT BUT NOTICED THE PAIN GETTING WORSE. ON 5/5/97 EE WENT TO LOGAN GEN HOSP FOR DIAGNOSTIC TO DETERMINE SEVERITY OF INJURY. SHE HAS A SLIGHT TEAR IN THE LEFT WRIST MUSCLES & LIGAMENT

EE WAS CLEAR CUTTING FOR SEDIMENT POND CONSTRUCTION. CUT A SMALL TREE. AS TREE WAS FALLING, EE'S FOOT SLIPPED, ALLOWING WEIGHT TO TWIST, FRACTURING RIGHT ANKLE AND LOWER LEG.