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WALKING AROUND BOOM TRUCK, TALKING AND NOT WATCHING WHERE HE WAS GOING. HE HIT BUMPER WITH LEG. FELL TO GROUND WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE.
WORKING ON 56 FT CRUSHER, DROPPED SCREEN, CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN 2 PIECE OF METAL, MASHED MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND AND HAD TO GET 3 STITCHES.
WAS COLLECTING A COAL SAMPLE AT STOCKPILE AREA, AREA HAD JUST BEEN WATERED DOWN FOR DUST CONTROL, SLIPPED AND GRABBED TRUCK TO KEEP FROM FALLING, STRAINED NECK, UPPER BACK, AND SHOULDERS.
EE WAS PRESHIFTING HIS DOZER. A SMALL HORNET LANDED ON HIS LEFT HAND AND STUNG HIM. HE HAD A REACTION TO THE STING WITH SWELLING OF THE LEFT HAND AND ARM.
EE REACHED TO TWIST FAN ON COMPRESSOR ENGINE TO START IT AND FELT PAIN IN BACK OF NECK. IT WAS NOT REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR UNTIL 2/20/98 AND EE DID NOT START MISSING WORK UNTIL 2/23/98
LUBE MAN BACAME DIZZY AND DISORIENTED WHILE STANDING ON DOZER PUSH ARM AND STEPPED OFF THINKING HE WAS ON THE GROUND. WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO HOSPITAL, EXAMINED, HAD CAT SCAN AND WAS RELEAS ED SAME DAY. DR FOUND NOTHING WRONG.
EE STATED HE WAS REPLACING SCREEN GRATES IN JEFFREY CRUSHER GOAT FINGER BETWEEN SCREEN GRATE & HOUSING OR THE HAMMER.
OPERATOR CLIMBER OVER LEFT REAR TIRE TO DISMOUNT 988LOADER, SLIPPED ON TIRE, FELL ON TIRE, THEN ON TO GROUND.
EE RAN OVER A ROCK WITH A DOZER AND WHEN THE DOZER CAME BACK DOWN ON THE ROADWAY, IT HIT SOLID ON THE HARD SURFACE OF THE ROAD. THIS CAUSED SHARP PAINS IN HIS LOWER BACK, THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS HIP AND HIS LEFT LEG.
EE TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED WITH OVERBURDEN WHEN ALARGE ROCK HIT THE BED & JARRED THE TRUCK CAUSING EE TO JERK NECK.
A PIECE OF STEEL FELL FROM COAL CHUTE STIRKING MAN IN BACK.
EE WAS DUMPING A LARGE ROCK. WHEN THE ROCK LEFT THE BED IT CAUSED SUCH A VIBRATION IT TOSSED THE INJURED AROUND IN THE CAB CAUSING INJURY TO HIS BACK.
EMP STATED THAT HE WAS BENDING OVER PUTTING A WATER HOSE IN A DRAIN AND RAISED UP AND HIT HIS RIGHT EAR ON A BEAM AND CUT IT.
EE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING A NEW ROLL TO PUT IN THE SAMPLE CRUSHER AND HIS LEFT HAND SLIPPED AND HIT THE WALL OF THE CRUSHER CUTTING HIS LEFT KNUCKLE.
SLIPPED ON STEPS.
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL CABLE PULL DOWN CONVERSION ON I.R. DM50 DRILL THE BRACE CAME LOOSE LETTING ROTARY HEAD DROP CATCHING FINGERS BETWEEN HEAD ANCHOR CRUSHING FINGERS & LACERATIONS TO FINGERS.
INJURED WAS HELPING MECHANIC WHEN HE RAISED UP AND HIT HIS BACK ON THE FENDER OF THE ROCK TRUCK.
EE WALKED DOWN A TWO FOOT SLOPE EMBANKMENT TO STAND IN THE SHADE TIL HIS SHIFT STARTED AND STUMBLE DON A LOOSE ROCK CAUSIGN HIM TO BREAK A BONE IN HIS ANKLE.
LOADING 50 LB BAGS ONTO TRUCK WHEN I EXPERIENCED PAIN IN MY LEFT HIP DOWN TO MY TOES.
EE WAS PRIZEN ON COMPRESSOR WITH A BAR--BAR SLIPPED AND KNOCKED EE BACK TOWARD DRILL. EE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF, FELT BACK PULL.
THE VEHICLE F-700 WENT BACKWARDS APPR 630' DUE TO BRAKE LINE FAILURE HIT THE BERMS OF HAUL ROAD "A" & ROLLED OVER. THE VEHICLE IS A TOTAL LOSS.
CLEANING FLOORS AROUND THE THICKENER SEALING FLOOR TANKS. FLOOR WAS VERY SLICK. BOTH FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM. HE FELL ONTO A 3" VALVE ON FLOC. LINE IN THE KIDNEY AREA OF LOWER BACK. LEFT HAND AND LEFT SHOULDER AND LEFT LEG INJURED ALSO.
EMPLOYEE WAS USIGN A PUNCHING BLADE TO CLEAN A CHUTE CLOGGED WITH MUD CATCHIGN HIS FINGER AGAINST CHUTE SIDE AND PUNCHING ROD HANDLE. FINGERNAIL FO RIGHT RING FINGER WAS KNOCKED LOOSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELIGN FROM UNDER NO. 3 BELT LINE. HE WAS USING A LONG HANDLE SHOVEL. THE MATERIAL STUCK IN SHOVEL, WHEN HE TRIED TO PLACE MATERIAL IN ROAD CAUSING HIM TO TWIST AT WAIST. TH IS CREATED A PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EE STARTED DOWN STIARS WITH A SHOVEL. THE SHOVEL CAUGHT HIS LEG AND CAUSED HIM TO FALL DOWN THE STAIRS STRIKING HIS RIGHT LEG.
LOADER UNKNOWINGLY DROPPED LARGE ROCK IN ROCK TRUCK EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING. THIS CAUSED DRIVER SEAT TO BOTTOM OUT CAUSING JAR TO EMPLOYEES BACK. EMPLOYEE WENT TO DOCTOR & WAS TOLD HE HAD PULLE D MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK. THIS WAS THE DOCTORS OPINION. NO X-RAYS WERE TAKEN.
INJURED WAS COMONG OUT OF CONTROL ROOM AND CAUGHT RIGHT TOE FALLING DOWN BROKE LEFT ANKLE.
ASSISTING IN MOVING OF SPEED REDUCER UP STAIRS. PULLING ON DOLLY THAT SPEED REDUCER WAS LOADED ON AND STRAINED BACK.
INJURED WAS CLEANING A ROCK CHUTE. ROCK FROM ANTOHER BELT CAME DOWN THE CHUTE AND STRUCK HIM IN THE FOREHEAD.
THE INJURED WAS AROUND 1000' FROM SHOT AREA SERVICING 992 LAODER. WAS TOLD WE WERE GOING TO SHOOT SO HE GOT UNDER LOADER. WHEN SHOT WENT OFF A ROCK HIT BEHIND LOADER BROKE UP AND A SMALL PIE CE WENT UNDER LOADER AND HIT HIM IN BACK OF HIS RIGHT LEG. NOTHING WAS BROKEN BUT IT DID BRUISE HIS CALF.
THE CO IS ONLY REPORTING AN ALLEGED DIAGNOIS OF AN ILLNESS AND IS NOT ACKNOWLEDGING THE ILLNESS ACTUALLY EXISTS OR THAT THE ALLEGED ILLNESS DIAGNOSED IS AN OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS THE CO OPERATES ITS MINES IN SUCK A MANNER IT IS DOUBLTFUL THE ALLEGE ILLNESS DIAGNOSED COULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THIS PERSON EE WITH THE CO.
INJURED EE WAS CHECKING OIL IN WATER TRUCK. HE WHAD ONE FOOT ON FENDER AND ONE FOOT ON BUMPER HIS SHOE WERE WET, HE SLIPPED AND FELL FROM TRUCK HIS RIGHT WRIST STRIKING PAVEMENT.
ALLEGED DIAGNOSIS OF HEARING LOSS.
J HOOK ON END OF CAP FALLEN IN MUD PULLED THORUGH SLEEVE IT SLUN MUD IN L EYE
THE COMPANY IS ONLY REPORTING AN ALLEGED DIAGNOSIS OF AN ILLNESS AND IS NOT ACKNOWLEDGING THE ILLNESS ACTUALLY EXISTS OR THAT THE ALLEGED ILLNESS DIAGNOSES IS AN "OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS". THE CO MPANY THEREFORE CANNOT REPORT THE CAUSE OR NATURE OF THE ALLEGED ILLNESS DIAGNOSESD. THIS OPERATES ITS MINES IN SUCH A MANNER IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT THE ALLEGED ILLNESS DIAGNOSES COULD HAVE BEEN
EMPLOYEE INFORMED OTHER EMPLOYEE OF SORE ELBOW (REFERED TO HITTING IT THE DAY BEFORE). IT WAS MENTIONED IN PASSING FORM. TWELVE DAYS LATER EMPLOYEE WAS ASKED TO OPERATO DRILL OUTSIDE(COLD WE ATHER. EMPLOYEE THEN INFORMED EMPLOYEE THAT IF THAT WAS ALL THE WORK WE COULD OFFER HIM THAT HE THEN WOULD GO HOME AND TO A DOCTOR TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HIS ELBOW. THE ELBOW HE SAID WAS INJURED
HE WAS USING A BAR TO LOCK THE LATCH ON A RAIROAD CAR DOOR WHEN A PIECE OF RUST OR METAL HIT HIM IN LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS BLOWING OFF HIS DRILL (DM50IR) DECK AFTER PRODUCTION-EMPLOYEE SAYS HE BELIEVES THIS IS THE TIME THAT A DUST PARTICLE (AIRBORN) MUST HAVE GOTTEN IN HIS PUPIL. EMPLOYEE MADE NO MENT ION OF THE "BELIEF" TILL FOLLOWING MORNING 7:00AM 6-14-91. SUPT OFFERED ESCORT TO DOCTOR, EMPLOYEE REFUSED BUT REQUESTED HE LEAVE AT NOON TO QUALITY THE EXTENT OF INJURY. EMPLOYEE LEFT AT 2:0
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT A CHUTE THAT FEEDS COAL TO A TERTIARY COAL SAMPLER.EMPLOYEE FAILED TO LOCK-OUT OR DENERGIZE THE SAMPLER.HIS HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CUTTER BAR AND FRAME OF THE CH UTE RESULTING IN LACERATION,FRACTURE OF THE DISTAL PHALANX OF RIGHT THUMB.
CO IS ONLY REPORTING ALLEGED DIANOSIS OF ILLNESS & IS NOT ACKNOLEDGING THAT ILLNESS ACTUALLY EXISTS OR THAT ALLEGED ILLNESS DIANOSED IS OCCUPATION ILLNESS. CO THEREFORE CANNOT REPORT CAUSE OR NATURE OF ALLEGED ILLNESS DIAGNOSED. CO OPERATESITS MINES IN SUCH MANNER THAT IT IS DOUBFUL THAT ALLEGED ILLNESS DIAGNOSED COULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY PERSON'S EMPL WITH THIS CO.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A NUT FROM A BOLT USING A RATCHET TOOL. THE RATCHET SLIPPED ON NUT AND EMPLOYEES INDEX FINGER ALONG WITH RATCHET TOOL HIT STEEL BEAM RESULTING IN SIMPLE FRAC TURE OF INDEX FINGER AT END JOINT.
THE COMPANY IS ONLY REPORTING AN AWARD OF BENEFITS IN A STATE WORKERS COMPENSATION CLAIM BASED ON AN ALLEGED LOSS OF HEARING AND IS THEREFORE NOT ACKNOWLEDGING OR ADMITTING THAT AN ILLNESS ACT USLLY EXISTS AND OR THAT ANY HEARING LOSS IN THIS INSTANCE IS AN OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS.THE COMPANY CANNOT REPORT THE CAUSE OF NATURE OF THE ALLEGED ILLNESS DIAGNOSED.THE COMPANY OPERATES ITS M