EE BENT DOWN TO LIFT A CRIB BLOCK FROM THE GROUND. AS HE WAS STARTING TO STAND UP WITH BLOCK IN HIS HANDS, HE FELT HIS BACK POP CAUSING PAIN TO HIS MID TO LOWER BACK.
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Showing all 34EE HAE BACK AND RIGHT LEG PAIN BELIEVES INJURED BACK WHILE LIFTING BELT STRUCTURE. EE HAS ARTHRITIS.
EE WAS LOADING 36" BELT INTO SCOOP BUCKET WHEN HE PULLED MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EE DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT TO FOREMAN OR ANYONE ELSE ON HIS SHIFT EE CALLED THE MINE SEVERAL DAYS AFTER THE ACCIDENT TO REPORT THAT HE HAD HURT HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING BELT STRUCTURE NO WAY TO VERIFY ACCIDENT.
EE STATED THAT WHILE SHOVELING BELT TAILPIECE, HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE SHOVELING BELT HE SPRAINED BACK.
LIFTING ON MINER CABLE, STRAINED BACK.
LIFTING & SETTING TIMBERS ON PILLAR LINE, HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.
RUPTURE WHILE LIFTING OXYGEN TANK OFF OF MANTRIPRIDE
PULLING BATTERY PLUG OUT OF SET OF BATTERS ON 482 S&S SCOOP STRAINED BACK.
HE PICKED UP THE MINER CABLE & PULLING IT OUT OF THE WAY HAD A PAIN IN HIS SIDE.
INJURED WORKER WAS MOVING PIECES OF LOOSE ROCK BY HAND WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OVER ON HIS HAND.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A PIECE OF ROCK FROM THE TOP OF THE CONTINUOUS MINE RWHEN IT FELL ON HIS FOOT.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A METAL SHIELD (COVER) FROM A CONTINUOUS MINER WHEN IT FELL ON HIS FOOT.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING ROLLS OF 1 1/4" WATER ONTO SUPPLY CAR WHEN HE STRAINED HIS GROING AREA.
INJURED PERSON WAS LIFTING SHUTTLE CAR CABLE ANCHOR DEVICE WHEN HE STRAINED STOMACH MUSCLE.
INJURED PERSON WAS LIFTING A BUCKET OF MINE SEALANT WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
WHILE WORKING ON A PILLAR SECTION LOADING TIMBERS ALSO MOVING THEM, EE LEFT HAND WAS STRUCK BY AROLLING TIMBER FROM THE TIMBER PILE HE WAS WORKING ON THE BLOW TO HIS HAND CAUSED A FRACTURE TO HIS LEFT THUMB
INJ EE WAS CLEANING SHUTTLE CARDECK WHEN HE STRUCK HIS ARM AGAINST PIECE OF SHARP METAL
INJURED WAS REMOVING LID FROM BUCKET OF MINE SEALANT WHEN SEALANT SPLASHED INTO HIS EYE.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A SPEED REDUCER WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING SCOOP OUT OF THE MINE IN THE #3 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING EMPLOYEE.
EE WAS CLEANING BELT 4 HEAD SAID HE HURT HIS BACK.
AS REPORTED ON 4-22-98, EE WAS WORKING WITH A BELT MOVE CREW ON THE AJ MAINS SECTION. DURING THEMOVE HE STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING BELT AND STRUCTURE ONTO A SUPPLY CAR.DURING THIS JOB HE STRAINED HIS LOWER TORSO.
EE WAS UNLOADING BELT STRUCTURE OUT OF A SUPPLY CAR. WHILE LIFTING HE STRAINED HIMSELF IN THE LOWER TORSO OF HIS BODY.
RUNNING A TIE-LINE SURVEY IN LOW COAL PACKING A WILD 1600 TRANSIT AND EMPLOYEE HURT HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING METAL STRAPS - A STRAP BOUNCED UP AND HIT EMPLOYEE.
WHILE PUSHING ROCK OFF MINER EMPLOYEE'S HAND SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO BEND HIS LITTLE FINGER BACK ON RIGHT HAND.
THE MINER OPERATOR WAS CLEANING HIS SCRUBBER ON HIS MINER. DURING THE CLEANING HE TURNED HIS BODY AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING ON A TRAILOR FOR A 270 TRACTOR AND STRAINED HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT THIS ACCIDENT UNTIL 11-15-93 AND ALSO STATED THAT THIS WAS ALL HE COULD THINK OF THAT CAUSED INJURY.
WHILE PULLING UP EXTRA CABLE AND REHANGING THE CABLE THE BACK AND LEGS STARTED HURTING AND WAS UNABLE TO WORK THE NEXT DAY.
INJURED WAS HOLDING TONGUE OF SUPPLY CAR WHILE COUPLING TO SCOOP. TONGUE SLIPPED OFF OF SCOOP ONTO GROUND, CUTTING FINGER.
BENDING RF BOLT, STRAINED MUSCLE IN BACK