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The injured was plastering a stopping when some liquid off of the plaster splashed in between his safety glasses and his face getting into his left eye. The injured was prescribed prescription eye drops.
Employee was helping install belt structure when his leg gave way and employee started to experience pain. As he was driving home, he experienced pain again when pressing the brake pedal. A subsequent MRI showed no acute findings for the lower back area but noted degenerative changes. Note: This employee has a record of several occasions with experiencing back pain
Employee reached down to pick up a C/M Cable and felt pain in his lower back.
Employee was working with concrete and some concrete mix got into pant legs and boots causing some burns to employee's legs and feet.
The injured was unloading roof bolt plates from the scoop bucket causing him to strain his lower back.
Employee was loading a tracking node into a track vehicle and strained his lower back. We received written notification on 12/30/15 that the employee has begun missing work because of this injury.
The injured got the tip of his pinky finger caught between the concrete stopping blocks he was loading into a scoop bucket and the top edge of the scoop bucket. The injured was wearing metacarpal gloves at time of the incident.
Employee was loading Kennedy overcast panels and a panel slid off the flat car striking his foot. He continued to work but the pain persisted after stepping in a hole at home while splitting fire wood. He went to the doctor on 5-11-14 and was diagnosed with a fractured fibula. He began missing work on 5-12-14 and notified the mine site on 5-23-14.
Contractor was plastering a stopping and the plaster splashed behind his safety glasses and into his eye. He flushed his eye and continued working but later his eye became irritated. He later went to the hospital. The hospital flushed his eye and prescribed Maxitrol Antibiotic drops.
Employee stated that while loading a communication and tracking node, he strained his back. Employee went to the dr on 2-28-14 and was placed off of work until 3-3-14. He did not report the incident to the mine site and turned in vacation days for his days lost. The mine site was notified by workers compensation on 3-10-14 that an accident had occurred.
Employee was removing a piece of draw rock from the top of the miner to work on the lights. While moving a rock, the employees fingers were struck by a piece of rock lying on the miner. His ring finger was cut requiring stitches and was fractured requiring a surgical pin to repair.
Employee was lifting a timber and strained his neck. After further review of workers compensation records this incident has been reconsidered. Upon further consideration this incident/injury having been deemed compensable, this incident is being reported as a lost time injury.
Employee was pulling on a piece of line curtain and strained his back. He went to the Dr and was given a pain medication and muscle relaxer. He rtw the next day but was not allowed to work due to the influence/impairment of the medication. Upon further consideration and this incident being deemed compensable, the incident is being reported as a lost time injury.
A block was knocked off of the top of an airlock door and it struck the employees left ring finger. Upon further review of workers compensation records, it was determined that the employees finger was fractured and this injury was compensable.
The injured was loading track ties onto the railcar when he was struck on the ankle by a track tie resulting in a fracture.
The injured picked up one side of a roll of typer to throw it out of the way and felt a pain in his left elbow. He went to his family chiropractor on 04/06/2013 who referred him to an orthopedic specialist on 04/19/2013. The orthopedist diagnosed him with a torn bicep tendon and scheduled him for surgery on 04/25/2013. The injured didn't start missing work until 04/25/2013.
The injured stepped between the frame of the roof bolter and the man-up platform while supplying roof bolt plates. This resulted in an muscle strain to his lower back. The injured wasn't diagnosed until Wednesday, July 25th.
The injured was pushing a rub rail closed on a continuous miner and smashed his right index finger between the locking pin and the frame of the machine.
Employee was hanging highline and pulled something in shoulder.
Carrying a bag of glue and hand popped.
The injured was helping install a ram jack on a scoop and smashed his right hand between the ram jack and crib blocks.
Miner operator was cutting in the No 2 entry when his cable was sliding under the miner. The operator hooked the cable with his right heel of foot to pull the cable out of the way. He felt a sharp pain going down the side of his right leg.
Employee was removing a nut from a piece of all thread rob that had been hit on the end with a hammer. The employee reached down and grabbed the bolt resulting in a laceration.
Employee was removing a shuttle car tire. As the tire fell of the lugs, it struck the employee in the right ankle resulting in a fracture.
On the above date, EE was working on the company 610 scoop checking permissibility. He had finished adjusting the brakes and was putting the shield back on. As he pulled the shield, he felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen. He went to the doctor on Monday and was diagnosed with a hernia.
EE was loading scoop with waterline and heard a popping sound .
The injured was trying to remove a discharge line from a feed box. The line shifted as it cleared the opening in the feed box, smashing the injured's right thumb. He was diagnosed with a laceration and fracture at CAMC General, where he received approximately 15 sutures to close the wound.
EE states that his back gave out after bending over to pick up a piece of angle. As EE was bent over, he twisted to pick up ac-clamp. When he stood up he suffered muscle stain to his lower back. EE worked light/restricted duty for 3 days and returned to full duty 2/27/09.
Injury was in the process of setting a belt head when the head became caught on a belt chain. The injured tried to free the head by using his hands. This resulted in a caught between injury that resulted in fracture to the left index and right index and middle fingers
Injured was in the process of changing out metal in the back of the raw coal chute, as he installed the new peices of metal his finger was pinched between the handrail that his hand was resting on and the metal he was installing.
Injured was in the process of helping to set timbers on a pillering section. The injured and a co-worker had set a timber and were begining to set another, when the first timber fell, striking the injured on the right ear. This resulted in 11 sutures.
Inured was in the process of moving Miner cable on 3-18-08, left work without reporting incident. Injured had a doctor?s visit on 04/23/08 with Dr. Frederick Armburst in which he was diagnosed with a intervertebral Disk Injury that was musculoligamentous in origin.