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February 8, 2005 KY · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDLING OF MATERIALS
New Horizons Coal Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE TOLD CO-WORKER WHEN HE REPORTED FOR WORK AT 6AM HE HAD BEEN BOWLING THE PREVIOUS NIGHT AND ON HIS WAY HOME HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER RT. ABDOMEN, HE GOT SICK TO HIS STOMACH & PULLED OFF THE ROAD. EMPLOYEE STATED HE FELT THAT HE COULD WORK. AROUND 6:30AM HE LIFTED A PRIMER BOX & THE PAIN IN HIS LOWER RT. ABDOMEN WAS SO SEVERE THAT HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.

July 29, 2002 KY · Coal truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
New Horizons Coal Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE ALLEGES HE WENT TO ASSIST WITH LOADING A LOADER BUCKET TOOTH & AS HE LIFTED & MOVED TO LOAD THE TOOTH INTO A TRUCK, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HE DID NOT MENTION THE PAIN TO HIS SUPERV ISOR UNTIL HOURS LATER AT WHICH TIME HE STATED HE EXPERIENCED PAIN AT THE SITE OF A PRIOR INJURY IN HIS LOWER BACK.

June 6, 2002 KY · Coal truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
New Horizons Coal Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE STOPPED HIS TRUCK TO GET OFF AND USE RESTROOM. HE STATED AS HE RETURNED & CLIMBED BACK INTO TRUCK HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER LT. BACK. AFTERA FEW MINUTES THE PAIN BECAME WORSE AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO LOCAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS TREATED.

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