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ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN BOLTS WHILE INJURED WAS BOLTING #5 ENTRY.
PIECE OF SMALL STEEL/METAL CAME OF DRILL STEEL OR ROOF BOLT.
GRINDING BLOTS ON BENCH GRINDER FLAKE OF STEEL ENTERED LEFT EYE LODGING THERE. WAS WEARING EYE PROTECTION BUT ENTERED EYE UNDER EYE PROTECTION
INJURED WAS ROOFBOLTING ON SECTION WHEN A PLATE JAMMED ON BELT, INJURED REACHED TO MOVE PLATE INTO POSITION TO PUT UP BOLT WHEN BOLT BENT ALLOWING BOLTER HEAD TO RISE RAPIDLY, MAN GOT LEFT HAN D CAUGHT BETWEEN BOLTER HEAD AND MINE FLOOR PINCHING HAND.
MAN WAS DRILLING COAL PUSHING ON WAGON TYPE COAL DRILL WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER.
INJURED CAUGHT HIS LEFT ELBOW BETWEEN ATRS JACK AND ROOF OF MINE. HIS ELBOW WAS BRUISED & SWOLLEN FROM THE IMPACT. HE WAS SPOT BOLTING IN AN INTERSECTION.
SWELLING TO RIGHT KNEE DUE TO KNEELING IN CONNECTION WITH ROOFBOLTING IN LOW COAL. THIS IS AN AGGRAVATING INJURY THAT HAD BEEN BOTHERING MAN FOR SEVERAL WEEKS--SENT HIM FOR MEDICAL HELP TO DETERMINE EXTENT OF INJURY DUE BACK TO WORK 2/20/98
MAN TURNED WHILE NEXT TO MACHINE AND HIT ELBOW (LEFT) ON CORNER OF MACHINE.(FUNNYBONE STING) HE WROKED NEXT DAY BUT HAD NUMBNESS & PAIN SO HE WAS SENT FOR MEDICAL EVALUATION- RETURNE DTO WORK 10-20-97 BUT HAD REOCCURRANCE OF PAIN 10-21-97.
EE OPERATING SCOOP IN TRAVELWAY ROUNDED CORNER OF INTERSECTION AND HIS SCOOP COLLIDED WITH METAL DRILL CONTROL BOX STRIKING EE IN RIGHT SIDE OF FACE.
INJURED DRILLS FOR COAL AT FACE. THIS REQUIRES HIM TO WORK ON HIS KNEE. HE DEVELOPED SORENESS IN RIGHT KNEE AND ASKED TO HAVE IT CHECKED OUT BY A DR. WHEN CHECKED BY DR. HE APPEARS TO HAVE DEV ELOPED BURSITIS IN HIS KNEE.
POURING CONCRETE AT UNDER GROUND DUMP, MAN GOT SOMETHING IN LEFT EYE. PAIN INCREASED, SAW DR. AND FOUND OUT IT WAS SLIVER OF METAL IN LEFT EYE.
INJURED PLACED LEFT HAND ON TOP OF DUMP DOOR WHILE SCOOP WAS UNLOADING PAN OF COAL IN DUMP. LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND PINCHED IN DOOR. CUTS AND CONTUSION TO 5TH FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
INJURED WORKING AT UG DUMP BREAKING UP ROCK WITHSLEDGEHAMMER. HE STRAINED HIS SHOULDER USING THESLEDGEHAMMER.
MAN WAS GRINDING METAL IN PREPARATION TO WELD METAL. SMALL PIECE OF METAL FLEW UP AND LODGE IN MAN'S LEFT EYE.
INJURED ROCK DUSTING, WHILE DRIVING MESCHER TRACTOR, STEERING ARM HIT TOP THUS CAUSING STEERING WHEEL TO TURN SUDDENLY AND RAPIDLY HITTING INJUREDS RIGHT INDEX FINGER BY STEERING WHEEL.
1ST SCOOP (OPERATED BY INJURED) WAS DISABLED ON SURFACE. 2ND SCOOP TRIED TO PUSH 1ST SCOOP TO SPOT FOR REPAIRS. BUCKET ON 2ND SCOOP RODE OVER BUCKET ON 1ST SCOOOP STRIKING INJURED IN LEFT REAR SIDE.
INJURED WAS HAULING COAL FROM MINE FACE TO THE DUMPING POINT. A BROW OF COAL WAS HANGING FROM THE COAL RIB. INJURED HIT HIS HEAD AND FINGER AGAINST THE BROW, CUT TO RIGHT TEMPLE AND RIGHT RIN G FINGER.
INJURED WS OPERATING A MESCHER SCOOP TRAVELING UNDER A CABLE THAT WS HANGING FROM THE MINE ROOF INJURED WAS LOOKING IN THE OPPSITE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL WATCHING THE CABLE WHEN INJUREDS LEFT SHO ULDER HIT THE MINE ROOF. INJURED HAS A SMALL FRACTURE TO LEFT COLLAR BONE, BRUISE TO LEFT SHOULDER.
BLOCK OF COAL ON ROADWAY CAUSED STEERING WHEEL TO THROW MANS ARM UP-FOREARM HIT HEAD OF ROOF BOLT BRUISING FOREARM. ARM SWELLED AND WAS PAINFUL.
INJURED PLACED HIS ELBOW ON ROOF BOLTER HEAD WHILE APPLYING UP PRESSURE ON THE ROOF BOLTER HEAD PINNED LEFT ELBOW BETWEEN HEAD OF ROOF BOLTER & ROOF BRUISED TISSUE IN LEFT ELBOW NO BROKEN BONE PER XRAYS
INJURED WAS HAULING COAL FROM FACE TO BELTLINE WITH MESCHER TRACTOR INJURED TURNED CORNER TO CLOSE TRACTOR HIT RIB CAUSING INJURED'S HEAD TO HIT TRACTOR PAN OR BUCKET CUTS TO RIGHT EYE AREA ABOVE & BELOW RIGHT EYE & BRIDGE OF NOSE. INJURD REQUIRED 6 STITCHES ABOVE RIGHT EYE AND OTHERSCLEANED UP & TREATED.
INJURED WAS HAULING COAL PROM THE FACE TO THE BELTLINE WITH A WESCHER FRACTOR. INJURED HAD HIS HAND OUTSIDE OF DECK OF TRACTOR PINCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE TRACTOR DECK AND THE COAL RIB. IN JURED HAD LACERATION TO MIDDLE FINGER AND LACER ATION BETWEEN MIDDLE FINGER AND RING FINGER ON RT HAND.
MINER WAS DRIVING A MESCHER SCOOP HIT A LOOSE BLOCK OF COAL STEERING WHEEL SPUN & BROKE BONE IN HAND & FINGER
EE WAS SHOVELING & GOT COAL IN HIS EYE. DID NOT HAVE ON HIS REGULAR GLASSES OR SAFETY GLASSES.
INJURED WAS DRILLING COAL ON THIS DATE. INJURED TRYED TO PUSH A WAGON TYPE COAL DRILL OVER SOME LOOSE COAL LEFT IN THE WORKING PLACE, WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LEFT SIDE OF BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TROUBLE SHOOTING FROM SHORTING CIRCUIT WHEN THE CIRCUIT WAS ENERGIZED A FLASH OCCURRED & BURNED HIS LEFT HAND
INJURED DRILLS COAL EE STATED INURY TO LEFT KNEE AND LEFT SIDE OF UPPER LEG WAS THE WAY INJURED POSITONS HIMSELF WHILE DRILLING COAL.
INJURED WAS RIDING JEEP BUCKET, WHEN HE HIT HIS LEFT ELBOW AGAINST TH EJEEP BUCKET.
INJURED WAS DRILLING A HOLE IN THE ROOF TO INSTALL A ROOF BOLT A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL STRIKING INJURED INDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND LACERATION TO FINGER.
INJURED WAS IN A CRAWLING POSITON, PUSHING A WAGON COAL DRILL, INJURED FELT PAIN IN GROIN AREA.