VICTIM CAME TO OFFICE AT MINE SITE COMPLAINING OF BACK PAIN. THOUGHT HE HAD KIDNEY STONES. TOLD HIM HE COULD GO HOME TO GO TO EMERG ROOM. VICTIMCALLED BACK AND NOTIFIED SUPV. THAT HE DID NOT H AVE KIDNEY STONES THAT DRS THOUGHT HE STRAINED HIS BACK. NO PERMANENT DIAGNOSIS HAS BEEN MADE ASOF DAY OF FILING REPORT.
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Showing all 9THE VICTIM WAS HELPING THE MINE CREW PULL BACK THE NO. 2 CONVEYOR BELT WHEN HE INJURED HIS LEFT SHOULDER. HE WAS TUGGING ON THE CONVEYOR BELT AT A SPLICE TO INSTALL A BELT PIN.
VICTIM SAID HE PULLED ROCK OFF BOOM OF MINER AND TWISTED KNEE. VICTIM NEVER REPORTED IT UNTIL 4-10-95. HE CALLED BACK AND SAID DR. WANTED HIM TO SEE ANOTHER DR. NEVER CALLED BACK ABOUT INJURY UNTIL 4-14-95. SAID 2ND DR. THOUGHT HE HAD LIGAMENTS PULLED IN LEFT KNEE. EMPLOYEE GREASING MINER NEVER SEEN EMPLOYEE GET HURT.
VICTIM SAID HE WAS BENDING BOLTS TO BE SET AND HURT BACK.
VICTIM SAID HE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE HANGMINER CABLE IN INTERSECTION AND TWISTED BACK WHILE HOLDING CABLE UP. VICTIM WORKED REST OF SHIFTAND NEVER REPORTED UNTIL NEXT DAY.
ROCK WAS ON BELT AND EE WAS GOINT ROCK OFF BOLT WHEN HE SAID HE HURT HIS BACK.
VICTIM NEDER REPORTER ACCIDENT UNTIL 8-20, VICTIM WAS ABSENT FROM WORK 8/17, TO 8/23. VICTIM SAID HE REMOVED KETTLE BOTTOM FROM HAULAGE WAY AND PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK HE CAME BACK TO WORK 8 -23- AND RANCAR TOP APPROX. 1 HR OR 60 MIN SAID HE COULD NOT WORK HIS BACK WAS STILL HURTING.
INJURED WAS HELPING MAKE A BELT MOVE WHEN HE WAS INJURED. HE WAS LIFTING THE BELT TO PUT INA PIECE OF BELT STRUCTURE WHEN THE INJURY OCCURRED.
PULLING WATER LINE PULLED MUSCLES IN SHOULDER