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COAL WORKER'S PNEUMOCONIOSIS.
HE WAS TRANSFERRING BRATTIC BLOCK FROM ONE BELT LINE TO ANOTHER BELT LINE WHEN HE SMASHED HIS FINGER AGAINST RAIL OF BELT HEAD.
NARROW BELT AND A WORN OUT TAIL PIECE CAUSED COAL TO SPILL AROUND THE TAILPIECE . CLEANING WHILE BELT WAS MOVING. NOT WEARING GLOVES.
CONTRACTED PNEUMOCONIOSIS.
STRAIN BACK WHI5E OPERATING MINER.
WAS RIDING IN S7OOP BUCKET, SCOOP HIT HOLE IN FLOOR FO MINING AND JARRED THIS PERSON CAME DOUBLE VISION IN ONE EYE.
SELF-RESCUER CA6GHT AGAINST RIB IN MANTRIP.
UNEVEN BOTTOM C5USED THE STIFF JACK TO SLIP ANDTHE ROPE LET I,NAME ON THE KNEE CAUSING PAIN AND SWELLING D. REPORT BRUISED KNEE.
I,NAME WAS OPER5TING THE MINER ON A STEEP GRADE WHEN HE SET THE JACK THE MINER PIVOTED AND SLID ON THE MINER OPERATORS FOOT & ANKLE CAUSING PAIN AND LOCALIZED TENDERNESS.
I NAME WAS OPER5TING A SCOOP WHILE SETTING A BELTHEAD,HE WAS PUSHING THE BELT HEAD WITH THE DECK END OF THE SCOOP.THIS IS AGAINST COMPANY POLICY.I MANE SAID HE FORGET WHICH WAY HE HAD HIS DIRC DIRECTION SWITC2 TURNED AND I NAME DECK INTO THE BELT HEAD THROWING HIS SHOULDER INTO THE TOP AND A DISLOCATION OCCURRED.
WHILE WALKING O6T TO CAR TO GET COFFEE MUG, SLIPPED AND FELL ON ICE STRAINED BACK MUSCLE.
I NAME WAS SETTING A PULL JACK FOR THE MINER AND HAD HIS HAND ON THE BOTTOM OF THE JACK.THE BOTTOM BUSTED UP CAUSING THE JACK TO SLIP AND IT CAUGHT HIS LITTLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND AGAINST THE DEAD EYE AND SMASHED IT.AT THE HOSPITAL THEY X-RAYED IT AND SAID THAT HE WOULD NEED SOME SKIN GRFTED BACK ON IT.
I NAME WAS OPERTING THE MINER.THEY WERE BELTING UP AT THIS TIME.THEY HAD THE PULL ROPE HOOKED UP TO THE SOCKET OF THE MINER AND AS HE TIGHTENED UP ON THE PULL ROPE IT CAME LOOSE AND THE SOCKET STRUCK I NAME UNDER THE LOWER LIP CAUSING A LACERATION WHICH NEEDED 7 STITCHES.
UNSAFE ACT OF THE INJURED PERSON. HE HAD HIS FOOT IN A PINCH POINT. IRREGULAR BOTTOM. ONE OF THE DRUMS OF THE MINER WAS NOT WORKING PROPERLY ANDCAUSED THE MINER TO SHIFT TO ONE SIDE QUICKLY AN D CAUGHT HIS FOOT UNDER THE MINER SEAT.