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HURT HIS BACK WHILE SHOVELING BELT
Loading belt rails on mini track and rail dropped in mud splashing in his left eye and cutting his eye.
Lifting belt structure onto mini truck forks when he had sharp pain in lower back.
Employee and co-worker carried a bottle of oxygen approximately 25 feet and loaded it into a service truck, a lift of approximately 3 feet. During the lift he felt a burning in the lower right side of his back.
HE WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE AND MASHED HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND AGAINST THE SCOOP BUCKET.
LIFTING TIMBERS AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
Working slack back on cable and hurt lower back. Was pulling cable.
Reoccurance of old back injury while shoveling belt.
REOCCURANCE OF OLD BACK INJURY (LIFTING BELT STRUCTURE).
EE WAS INSTALLING MOTOR SUPPORTS ON A LOADER HE HAD TO REMOVE THE STEPS TO DO THIS JOB. HE EXITED THE LOADER AND GO A WRENCH AND AS HE RE-ENTERED THE LOADER HE HIT HIS HEAD ON ONE OF THE META L BRACKETS THAT THE STEPS BOLTED TO.
THE END OF THE AUGER HAD BROKEN OFF ON THE HIGHWALL MINER AND THE EE GOT INTO THE BASE FRAME AND LIFTED THE END OUT. THE END WEIGHED APPROXIMATELY 40 TO 50 POUNDS.
EE WAS WORKING ON A TORQUE ON A DOZER AND WHEN HE WAS ENTERING THE BELLY PAN AREA HE HIT HIS LT. KNEE ON A METAL BRACKET.
EE ROLLED A 55 GALLON DRUM OF ANTIFREEZE INTO THE BUCKET OF A LOADER. HE ROLLED THE DRUM APPROX.3'. AT THE END OF HIS WORK SHIFT (5 PM) HE WAS COMPLAINING OF HIS BACK HURTING.
EE WAS GOING TO ENTER HIS HAULAGE TRUCK AND AS HE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND AND EXTENDED HIM SELF TO REACH THE FIRST RUNG ON THE LADDER HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS RIGHT LOWER STOMACH.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING LOAD HOLES WITH BULK POWDER. THE LAST HOLE HAD BEEN LOADED AND HE WAS EMPTYING THE CHUTE. HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE AUGER INSIDE OF THE CHUTE AS HE WAS EMPTYING IT. AMPUTATION, CUT BOTH INDEX AND MIDLE FINGERS AT MIDDLE JOINTS.
I WAS WAITING FOR THE TRUCK TO GET LOADED AND WHEN IT WAS I STEPPED OUTSIDE THE DOOR TO PUSH UP THE TARP WHEN I DID THE RAIL OF THE TARP KNOCKED OFF A ROCK A LUMP OF COAL OFF THE TOP OF THE TR UCK ONTO MY HEAD.
A TIRE FOR A POWDER TRUCK HAD FALLEN OVER FROM A FUEL TANK THAT IT HAD BEEN LYING AGAINST. AS EE WENT TO PUT IT BACK UP HE HURT HIS BACK. EE WAS ALSO INJURED (HIS BACK) ON 1-17-02 AS HE WAS HO LDING A BAR THAT HAD A MOTOR ON IT. THIS ACCIDENT ON 1-17-02 WAS REPORTED TOO.
EMPLOYEE AND HIS HELPER WAS HOLDING A SLATE BAR WITH A TRAM MOTOR FOR A D45 DRILL HANGING FROM IT AND WAS BEING LINED UP BY ANOTHER HELPER. AS HE WAS HOLDING THE SLATE BAR HE FELT A PAIN IN HI S BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING THE FINAL DRIVE OFF OF A 992 LOADER TO REPAIR THE BREAKING SYSTEM. THE FINAL DRIVE WAS HOOKED TO A HOIST ON THE SERVICE TRUCK. WHEN THE FINAL DRIVE CAME LOOSE IT SLIPPED AN D CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEE'S HAND BETWEEN THE DRIVE AND THE FRAME OF THE LOADER.
EE WAS GOING TO ENTER A 785 CAT ROCK TRUCK AND WHEN HE STEPPED ON A SET OF CHAIN STEPS THEY WENT UNDER THE BUMPER OF THE TRUCK CAUSING A STRAIN ON HIS A STOMACH.