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Employee was loading belt structure onto a flat car and mashed left ring finger between a bottom roller and cradle thus causing a laceration that required four stitches.
IE was assisting in taking a bad piece of cable out of the slope hoist cable. They were picking the cable up to move the cable over. As the IE raised up from picking cable up, IE felt a pain in the lower to middle back. IE did not go to the Dr until 3/16/19 & Dr could only find a possible strained muscle in IE's back. IE started missing on 3/18/19.
Employee was attempting to load a draw head from the rock duster up on top of the duster and when lifting the draw head said that EE felt and heard back pop. The draw head weighs between 100 and 150 lbs.
IE was carrying old belt structure out of the slope drive house to get rid of it from where they had stacked it on the surface after changing it out for new structure in the slope. EE and another employee lifted the structure & ee felt pain in lower back & left buttock. All that they could find wrong at the Dr. was possibly a pulled muscle.
Attempted to roll a pump motor off mantrip when I bolt on top of motor broke causing employee to lose balance falling to the ground. Employee hit hard enough causing EE to chip tooth and jam neck and back.
IE was throwing roof bolter cable over against the rib so it would be out of the way for haulage an the MN 5 section. As IE stepped forward IE felt a pain in the left knee.
Employee was dropping miner cable and water line from cab cable hanger and hook penetrated employee's glove lacerating hand between thumb and forefinger
Lifting vessel flights & carrying to 6th floor/right knee back burning and hurts
Employee was kicking at an obstruction with EE's left foot and struck EE's knee against the spill board of the 24 belt head. The employee was able to perform EE's work and was scheduled for an MRI on 12/12/18 and was kept out of work until EE sees an orthopedic doctor and is therefore off from 12/12/18
IE was assisting in the building of an overcast. As the crew lifted an I-beam IE felt a pain in the right shoulder. IE continued to work until 1/30/19 and that is when they started missed work due to this incident that happened on 10/21/2018.
Employee was pulling a 1 1/2" water line in the pit area of the slope belt when they felt a pain in the lower back.
Employee was attempting to lift a box filled with bolts when they felt a pain in the lower back.
Employee felt a pain in lower back while shoveling at the S-6 belt landing.
Employee was dropping cables in preparation for a power move. As EE dropped the cable, EE's left ring finger came in contact with a rib support (pizza pan) causing a laceration to the side of EE's left ring finger. EE did not receive any stitches, but was referred to a had specialist for further examination/ treatment. EE was allowed to return to work on restricted duty.
IE was helping on longwall recovery. IE had been sitting on the mine floor taking hoses off of shields. The material in the J-Cribs had mixed with the mud on the mine floor causing burns on IE's buttocks & back of legs. IE started missing on 5/23/2018.
IE was helping with the longwall recovery. The material in the pumpable cribs had mixed with the mud & water on the recovery face. Employee had gotten this chemical on the back of legs & buttocks. It caused chemical burns to the skin. The Dr kept EE off for 5 days due to the burns.
While shoveling the #98-A Sump located on the 5th Floor of the Prep Plant the employee felt a pain in lower back.
Crew was pulling gate box cable slack on the trollies. The cable dog got caught & broke. When the cables came down it hit the I.E. in the right ankle causing a small cut which required 3 stitches. I.E. did not miss any work due to this incident.
Employee was trying to remove a piece of rock that was resting on the drill boom. The rock flipped back and struck the end of EE's right index finger causing a laceration.
Contractor was placing the pin in the draw head to connect the locomotive to the rockduster and smashed left middle finger.
Employee had just finished drilling a roof bolt hole in the #4 entry on the #1 section. The drill steel and chuck saver detached from the drill pot and stay in the hole as EE was lowering the drill pot. The chuck saver suddenly released from the drill steel and fell approximately 3 feet striking the employee on the left hand.
EE was the MN2 take-up shoveling and washing with a hose. EE was shoveling a large amount of gob and when lifting it to the belt, felt a sharp pain to lower back. EE continued to shovel and stated aggravated back even more.
Employee was assisting another miner in moving a piece of metal from the offside of the stageloader to the walkway side of the stageloader when employee felt a pain in employee's right shoulder.
Employee was lifting a full oxygen cylinder when ee felt something "pop" in lower back.
EE was removing a slider on the 18 east section when EE felt a strain to lower back. EE proceeded to go to get a grease gun to grease the miner, and upon returning the grease gun, EE's back pain became more intense. EE informed the section foreman that EE needed to seek medical help for back strain.
Employee sustained an injury to left knee while working on the mine track on 09/18/2017. The employee did not begin to miss work until 04/16/2018 due to the injury sustained during the incident.
EE was lifting a bottom roller in the longwall belt entry from the muck when ee felt a strain in lower back. EE was taken to Brookwood medical center for assessment and released.
Bottom of the dump, Muck area. Employee was cleaning the area when accumulations returned back down the belt and employee had water and muck up to the waist. When trying to remove themselves from the muck, they felt a strain in their lower back and right ankle.
Employee was pulling on the Continuous Miner trailing cable in order to get it out of the way of the continuous miner. EE strained left shoulder while doing so. *** Employee worked normal schedule until ee was taken of work on 12/13/2017.
Employee was using a 1 1/2" wash down hose, employee bent over to wash out from underneath the slope belt, as employee stood upright employee felt a pain in employee's lower left back.
Employee was cleaning a trash pump, as employee lifted up on the pump felt a sharp pain in groin area.
Employee received a laceration on ee right index finger when it was smashed while lifting a heavy object on the 9L Plow Head Gate.
Employee was picking up trash by hand and throwing into dumpster when employee struck employee's left elbow on the fork lift frame assembly.
EE was unloading roof bolt plates and roof bolts from the cage when they felt a sharp pain in their hand and swelling about 30 minutes later.
Crew were loading I-beams across the belt line. EE attempted to lift the beam by self to place on the belt line.
Employee felt a pain in EE's lower back as EE attempted to twist and throw an airbag onto a rail mounted motor.
Employee was restocking the supply tray with 6"x 6" roof bolt plates on the Fletcher Walk-Thru roof bolter ee was operating. EE was carrying 2 bundles of roof bolt plates to the supply tray. EE lost balance. This caused the 2 bundles of roof bolt plates to smash right index finger.
EE was attempting to move a 2 inch air pump from 59 cross-cut on the belt line to the sump.EE thought the air line and depressurized and attempted to move out from the belt area. When moving the pump, the air line came off of the pump, which caused EE to lose balance and fall into the old structure and rollers, causing a sprain to right wrist and right knee.
Employee felt a pain in the back as EE moved a bottom roller out of the roadway.
Employee was loading a bottom roller onto #2 man bus, while setting a roller down it slipped out of employee's right hand smashing left little finger between the roller and man bus.
Employee was lowering ventilation tubing from the mine roof when EE felt a pain in left shoulder.
Employee was using a concrete block to knock a hole in a ventilation stopping and smashed left ring finger.
While replacing filter sector, the sector slide back from its resting spot. Employee attempted to grab it but while doing so felt a pull and pop in right shoulder.
Employee was struck in the arm with plow chain while assisting in putting the plow chain back together.
While changing scoop batteries an attempt resulted in the batteries positioned improperly on the forks of the scoop. The operator lifted the batteries and prepared to back against the rib. The injured employee was standing at the back of the scoop. EE flagged operator to stop. While getting jumper out of the way batteries slid off end of forks falling onto employees left foot.
EE and the evening belt crew were making a belt splice on MN2. EE was releasing the belt clamps from side of the belt, while the other side had been released, which resulted in left thumb being struck by the belt clamps. EE was taken to the hospital for evaluation, which resulted in gluing of the affected area, along with 2 stitches placed.