All MSHA-reportable accidents at Peabody Natural Resources Company operations in 2004. Fatalities appear first.
ON 8/11/04 EE LIFTED AN 80 LB. SWIVEL HEAD ATTACHMENT SEVERAL TIMES WITHOUT PAIN BUT WHEN HE GOT OUT OF HIS VEHICLE AT HOME, HE FELT PAIN TO HIS LOWER BACK. HE REPORTED THE PAIN THE NEXT DAY. THE DOCTOR ALLOWED HIM TO CONTINUE WORKING BUT ON 8/25 WHILE STARTING TO CLIMB A HAUL TRUCK LADDER, HE FELT PAIN AGAIN. ON 9/2 AN MRI SHOWED DISC AND FACET DISEASE AND FACET ANTHROPATHY.
INJURED RT. KNEE WHEN LIFTING ENGINE HOOD DURING A PRE-OPERATIONAL INSPECTION OF A FUEL/LUBE TRUCK. THE PREFERRED LOCATION TO RAISE THE HOOD IS DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE TRUCK. WHEN EE PULLED THE HOOD FORWARD TO OPEN THE HOOD, IT TRAVELED PAST NORMAL OPEN POSITION FORCING EE TO THE GROUND. THIS WAS DUE TO A RETAINING PIN THAT APPARENTLY VIBRATED OUT OF THE CABLE/SPRING DEVICE.
LIFTING EYE USED TO HOLD PAN STRIPPED OUT OF THREADS ALLOWING BELLY PAN TO PIVOT AND HIT EE IN THE LEFT KNEE.