EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING CABLE, HE STOOD UP TO PULL CABLE AND TWISTED KNEE WHILE DOING SO.
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Showing all 13EMPLOYEE HAD COMPLETED SHOVELING 14 CUTS OF COAL, HE THEN SAT DOWN TO EAT HIS DINNER AND WHEN HE WETN TO GET BACK UP HE WAS EXPERIENCING SEVERE BACK PAINS.
WHILE PULLING BOLTER STEELS OUT OF MINE ROOF, EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED LOWER BACK PAIN.
WHILE CHANGING BATTERIES ON SCOOP EMPLOYEE HAD HIS LEFT FOOT UNDER THE BATTERY WHEN THE BATTERY WAS BEING DROPPED
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING RAILS FOR LOW BELT HIS RIGHT HAND GOT TWISTED CAUSING SPRAINED WRIST
TERRY ABRAMS WAS PULLING OUT THE HOIST ROP EON THE MINER BRIDGE AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWSRE RT SIDE
EMPLOYEE WAS THROWING A SET OF BELT CLAMPS AND WRENCHED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING TIMBER - AS HE WENT TO THROW A PROP HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE PROP AND A STANDING TIMBER
WHILE PULLING ON A HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE HE STRAINED HIMSELF, EXPERIENCING PAIN IN THE LOWER PART OF HIS BODY.
WHILE BENDING A 3\ ROOF BOLT, ROBERT PLACED ONE BETWEEN THE ROOF BOLTER AND THE GROUND (WEDGING IT INTO PLACE) TO BEND IT. WHILE DOING IT HE HURT HIS BACK.
THE TROLLEY POLE CAME OFF THE WIRE THE EMPLOYEE REACHED UP FOR THE POLE AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE POLE AND THE X-BAR
SAM WAS PULLING ON THE BRIDGE CHAIN THE CHAIN GOT TIGHT AND THE SUDDEN STOP INJURED HIS BACK
GREG WAS CHANGING A STEEL ROPE WHILE PULLING IT OUT OFTHE DRUM THE ROPE CAME FREE SLAPPING GREG IN THE FACE HE REALIZED THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HIS EYE BUT THE NAKED EYE COULDNT SEE IT IT WAS A PIECE OF STEEL FROM OFF OF THE ROPE SEVERAL DAYS LATER THE STEEL STARTED TO RUST CAUSING SWELLING AND PAIN