All MSHA-reportable accidents at Colowyo Coal Company L P operations in 2005. Fatalities appear first.
on 1-5-05 ee stated he slipped and fell on some snow and ice while cleaning fines around the rock crusher area and felt pain in his left shoulder. ee was taken to the dr and was released to return to full duty. on 2-15-05, ee was diagnosed and underwent surgery for a torn rotator cuff of his left shoulder.
The employee was driving a pick up on the train loadout access road. As he rounded a corner, his pick up was in the wrong lane for reasons that are not yet understood. The pick up collided with a 50 ton tractor trailer coal hauling rig. The employee in the pick up sustained a fractured left femur and right knee, as well as lacerations, contusions, and soft tissue injuries.
A scaffold collapsed while being dismantled. A welder on the lowest level fell about four feet to the ground, sustaining a lower leg fracture and damage to the ligaments in the right ankle.
While working on a LeTourneau front end loader, the employee sustained a laceration to his right middle finger that required stitches to close. The injury occurred when the employee's hand was struck by a falling hydraulic pump. The employee was released to return to full duties.
EE states he was crawling out of a Bobcat loader. He felt himself falling. While attempting to catch his balance his right hand hit the corner of the door frame. The nail on his right hand was partially torn off causing a laceration that required 4 stitches. X-ray determined a hairline fracture of the tip of the right hand thumb.
EE states that while placing a radiator into dozer, his hand was pinched between the radiator and the fan pulley on the front of the engine. EE sustained a laceration to the small finger on his small finger on his left hand that required four sutures to close.