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HE WAS STACKING BELT STRUCTURE, GOT HIS HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN STACKS.
EE WAS LOADING CRIB BLOCKS IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK IN SUPPLY YARD & SAID THAT AS HE TURNED TO LAYCRIB BLOCK IN THE TRUCK HE HURT HIS LOWER BACK.
EE WAS REMOVING A DRIVE CHAIN FROM AN OLD BELT DRIVE ON THE SURFACE & AS HE LIFTED & PULLED CHAIN HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS BACK. ACCIDENT NOT REPORTED UNTIL 12/21/95.
EE WAS HELPING HAND A MINER CABLE WHEN HE FELT ASTINGING SENSATION IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
EE WAS PULLING A 440 BOLT CABLE TO SUPPLY POWER TO HIS ROOFBOLTER MACHINE OVER TO PREVENT OTHE EQUIPMENT FROM GETTING ON IT AND HURT HIS BACK.
EE WAS UNLOADING OR HELPING UNLOAD A MINER CABLE OUT OF THE CONVEYOR ROOM OF A MINER WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK EE WAS ON HIS KNEES PULLING CABLE OVER TO SICLE AS IT WAS BEING UNLOA DED FROM MINER BOOM WHEN PAIN OCCURRED IN HIS LOWER BACK
HANDLING MINER CABL.WHEN MINING MOVING FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER.
TWISTED LEFT KNEE WHILE CHANGING SEATS ON SHUTTLE CAR.
CHANGING BEARING ON HEAD DRIVE TANDEM ROLLER, USING PORTAL POWER TO LOOSEN BEARING FROM SHAFT GOT FINGER ON LEFT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN SHAFT ANDPORTAL POWER WHEN SHAFT MOVED.
LOADING BELT STRUCTURE ON TRUCK OUTSIDE TO BRING INSIDE BENT OVER TO PICK UP PEICES OF STRUCTURE WHEN LIFTING UP PULLED LOWER BACK.
HIT KNEE GETTING ON OR OFF OF SCOOP CAUSING KNEE TO SWELL
TAKING 5 GAL HYD OIL CANS UP TO ROOF BOLTER BETWEEN IT & RIB TWISTING HURTING BACK
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT AS HE GOT OFF MINER TO MOVE CABLE OVER HE BUMPED HIS LEFT KNEE AGAINST CANOPY POST ON MINER DECK.
HE ALLEGES THAT ON 3-25-95 WHILE ROCK DUSTING INRETURN THAT HE HURT HIS BACK SOME WAY, HE NEVER NOTIFIED FOREMAN OR NO ONE ELSE UNTIL HIS FATHER CALLED ME ON MONDAY 3-27-95. SAID HE WAS GOING TO DR.
MIEN WAS IDLE ADN ALL EMPLOYEES WORKING WERE ENGAGED IN BULDING CRIBS FOR EXTRA ROOF SUPPORT. JUST AS HE WENT TO PICK UP A CRIB BLOCK SOMEONE ELSE HAD JUST PICKED ONE UP THAT HAD TWO MROE FRO ZE TO IT, THESE TWO BROKE LOOSE AND CAUGHT HIS THUMB AGAINS THE CRIB HE WAS GOING TO PICK UP.
EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING A BRATTICE OUTBY FACE, THE HEIGHT IS ABOUT SEVENFEET WHERE BRATTICE AS BEING BUILT. WHEN EMPLOYEE LIFTED CINDED BLOCK TO PUT ON TO ROW HE HIT TH ETOP WITH BLOCK ADN KNOCK ED DUST AND ROCK AND IT FELL IN HIS EYE.
WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING POWER MIKE ALONG WITH THREE OTHER PEOPLE WHERE PULLING THE 2/0 FEEDER CABLE THRU A STOPPING AND UP TO POWER BOX WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER LEFT BACK. HE SA ID AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSED THE PAIN GOT WORSE AND HIS BACK GOT STIFFER.
EE WAS LIFTING A DRILL POT FOR DOUBLE HEAD BOLTER TRYING TO SET IT IN PLACE BY HIMSELF WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
THIS MAN SAID ON 8-12-94 WHILE WORKING WITH 5 MORE PEOPLE HE STRAINE DHIS BACK WORKING ON BELT. HE DID NOT REPORT THIS TO ME UNTIL 8-15-94, HE WAS AT DR APPOINT AT THIS TIME, HE DID NOT TALK ANYONE OF THIS UNTIL 3 DAYS LATER IF HE WS HURT ON JOB. HE PASSED ANYONE OF THIS UNTIL 3 DAYS LATER IF HE WAS HURT ON JOB. HE PASSED BY ME THAT MORNING AND TALKED TO ME AND DID NOT REPORT TH
THIS A REOCCURENCE OF A PAST INJURY.
EE SAID HE WAS PREPARING TO MOVE FEEDER UP FOR BELT MOVE BEFORE MOVING FEEDER HE TOOK 500FT OF FIRE HOSE (11/2IN )WHICH WAS ROLLED UP ON A 3/4IN ROD & SUSPENDED FROM ROOF WITH TWO WIRES & PUT ON FEEDER TO BE MOVED UP WITH FEEDER THIS WAS ONA FRIDAY NIGHT & HE SAID HIS BACK STARTED HURTING OVER WEEKEND HE NEVER REPORT ED ACCIDENT TO ME UNTIL 06-01-96 & SA ID HE DID NOT REMEMBER EXAC
EE ALLEDGES THAT HE WAS LOADING ROCK DUST IN SCOOP BUCKET AT AROUND 7:00PM AS HE GOT DOWN TO LAST BAG OF DUST & HE WAS PUTTING ON SCOOP IT FELL BEHIND COVER ON WHEEL HE REACHED OVER TO PULL BA GS OF DUST OVERT & FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS B ACK
HE AND HIS CREW OF MEN WERE MAKING BELT MOVE ON SECTION. HE SAID AS HE LIFTED BELT UP TO PUT STRUCTURE IN, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.
HE WAS LIFTING MINER CABLE UP ON SIDE OF MINER WHEN HE FELT BURNING IN HIS LOWER BACK.
HE WAS BENDING A ROOF BOLT THE BOLT TURNED HE SAID IT PULL ARM & SHOULDER
HE WAS HELPING MECH. WORK ON BUGGIE REEL CHAIN. HAD LID PROPPED UP AND LID FELL DOWN CUTTING LIP.
EE & EE WAS CHANGING A CANOPY JACK ON A BOLTER EE SAID HE HURT HIS BGACK NOT THEN HE TOLD ME THE NEXT DAY ABOUT HIS BACK HURTING HE WENT TO DR
HE WAS CHANGING OUT BELT STURCTURE ON #1 BELT, WHILE PULLING OUT A PIECE OF STRUCTURE FROM THE SCOOP HE TWISTED AROUND COMPLAINING ABOUT THE PAIN IN HIS BACK.
HE WAS WORKING ON BRAKE SYSTEM ON SHUTTLE CAR AND AS HE GOT UP TO MOVE OVER FROM SQUATTING POSITION HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT LEG.
HE HAD WALKED OVER TO TURN WATER VALVE ON GOING TO SPRAYS ON HEADDRIVE, AS HE BENT OVER HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER PART OF HIS BACK.
HE WAS SHOVELING BELT. SAID HE PICKED UP A ROCK AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
HE WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE
EE WAS PLASTERING BEATTICE AND GOT MINE SEALENT IN EYE.
HE WAS LIFTING BELT STRUCTURE STRAIN HIS BACK.
HE WAS LIFTING ON SHUTTLE CAR CABLE LAYING IT OUT OF ROADWAY.
WAS PULLING EXTRA MINER CABLE UP FROM BEHIND POWER CENTER AND LIFTING IT UP TO HANG FROM ROOF OF MINE.
LIFTING AND MOVING 5FT TIMBERS FROM ONE SPOT TO ANOTHER TO BE SET.
SAID HE WAS GETTING OUT OF SCOOP DECK AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.
85061S HELPING A MINER HELPER PICK MINER CABLE UP AND LAY OVER OUT OF ENTRY,AS HE PICKED CABLE UP HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AREA.
85081D BENT OVER TO PICK UP TIMBER, AS HE RAISED UP TO A TURNING POSITION TO SET TIMBER UP, HE SAID HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AREA.
75926N LOADING ROCK DUST INTO SCOOP DIPPER AND TWISTED BACK.
HE WAS SHOVELING COAL FROM UNDER BELT DRIVE HE TOLD ME HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN LEFT SIDE WHEN HE PICKED SOME OF COAL UP TO PUT ON BELT LINE HE WORKED REST OF 06-023-92 WENT TO DR 06-03-92
BACK INJURY. HE WAS PUTTING A INJECTOR JACK ON A 488 SCOOP. HE LEFT IT UP TO PUT HOSE ON. HE SAID HE FELT PULL IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING BUILDING SEALS LIFTING CINDER BLOCKS MIXING CEMENT ETC WORKED ALL SHIFT CALLED IN NEXT MORNING REPORTED KNOT ON STOMACH
EE WAS HANGING A MINER CABLE WHEN HE SPRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK EE WORKED FOR ONE WEEK BEFORE HAVING TO BE OFF.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A MINER CABLE & WATER LINE OUT OF LAST OPEN BREAK TO MOVE HIS ROOFBOLTER TO NEXT PLACE
WAS PULLING BELT UP TO SECTION- LOST BELT FROM UNDER SCOOP BATTERIES- TWISTED BACK WHILE TRYING TO PUT BELT BACK IN SCOOP.
MECHANIC WAS GETTING TOOLS OUT OF LARGER TOOL BOX TOOL BOX HAD HEAVY LID - HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP TOOL BOX HE SAID HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN THEBACK OF HIS HEAD.
ROOF BOLTER MAN WAS HANGING CABLE AND SAW SCREWDRIVER LAYING IN HAULWAY, TURNED AROUND TO PICK UP AND LAYED ON PINNER AND FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS BACK.
INJURED WAS HELPING THREE MORE MEN CHANGE A FOAM FILLED TIRE ON A SHUTTLE CAR. HE AND TWO MORE MEN LIFTED THE TIRE AND ROLLED INTO POSITION. LATER HE SAID THAT WHILE LIFTING THE TIRE HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN HIS GROIN AREA.