MLCMining Incidents in 2005

It was snowing heavily and employee was walking down a ramp when he slipped and fell causing a fracture to his leg.

Employee stated he was cleaning around a coal belt and was walking around a tail pulley with a shovel in his hand and his feet slipped out from under him.

Employee stated while walking down a ramp he slipped and felt pain in his right knee. Employee received conservative treatment until 11/17/05 when he had surgery and began losing time from work.

Employee stated he was swinging a sledge hammer when he hit a piece of angle iron and it deflected off and hit him in the head causing a fracture to a facial bone. He was advised to stay off work.

WHILE RAKING SPALLS HIS RAKE SLIPPED OFF A SPALL AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND INJURING HIS ROTATOR CUFF. *ORIGINAL ON-LINE EDoc # 236556*

Employee was standing on a bar trying to close a slide on a railcar and he slipped causing pain to his left lower leg. The doctor placed restrictions on him that could not be met so he began missing time from work.

While descending a verticle, fixed ladder the employee stated he fell the last three ladder rungs and landed on his wrist. His right wrist is fractured.*orginal on-line EDoc # 195425.*

Employee stated while pulling lance burners out the oil flashed and burned his hands and face. He received second degree burns.

Tightening a bolt on a scaler, wrench slipped, bolt sheared in half.