WAS PICKING UP TRASH AND CUT HAND ON METAL BAND.
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Showing 50 of 118EE LIFTED A BAG OF ROCK DUST AND STRAINED HIS BACK. REPORTED BECAUSE EE WAS ON RESTRICTED DUTY AND LATER MISSED WORK.
EE WAS LOADING STRUCTURE IN THE RAM CAR & TWISTED BACK
EE WAS TRAVELING THROUGH BRATTICE DOOR, DOOR CAME LOOSE, FELL OUT OF BRATTICE AND HIT EE S LEFT HAND CAUSING A LACERATION.
EE WAS HANGING MINER CABLE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN BOTH WRISTS AND LOWER BACK. EE OUT OF WORK
EE WAS GETTING IN SCOOP AND HIT HIS ELBOW.
EE WAS LIFTING AND STACKING BAGS OF ROCK DUST AND FELT PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA.
EMLOYEE LIFTED BAG OF ROCK DUST (APPROX 50 LBS) AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
CARRYING BAG OF ROCK DUST AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EE WAS UNPLUGGING BATTERY RECEPTICAL IN A LOW AREA AND WAS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION AND STRAINED HIS BACK. REPORTABLE BECAUSE EE WAS UNABLE TO RETURN TO WORK.
EE WAS PUTTING BOLT IN HOLE, STARTED TO STRAIGHTEN BOLT AND PULLED SOMETHING IN RIB CAGE ON RIGHT SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING OIL INTO THE RAM CAR AND TWISTED LEFT SHOULDER.
EE WAS CHECKING BATTERIES FOR WATER, LIFTING LIDS TO PUT BACK ON AND STRAINED BACK.
EE WAS PUTTING A BOTTOM ROLLER IN TAILPIECE AND JUST TRIED TO MOVE THE TAILPIECE OVER INTO PLACE WHEN HE FELT A REAL SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT LOWER BACK CAUSING HIM TO GO TO HIS KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS THROWING CRIB BLOCK UP BESIDE BELT LINE TO BUILD CRIBS IN BAD TOP AREA AND PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK. *REPORTABLE BECAUSE IS LOST TIME ACCIDENT*
EE PICKED UP A BAG OF ROCKDUST TO LAY ON TOP OF TRINKLE DUSTER & PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER PART OF BACK WHEN EXTENDING ARMS TO LAY DUST ON TOP OF DUSTER.
EE WA BENDING BOLTS WHEN HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. *ON RESTRICTED DUTY*
EE WAS HELPPING INSTALL A NEW SPEED REDUCER ON OUTSIDE BELTDRIVE. HE WAS LEANING OVER & TWISTING TO THE LEFT WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS STRAIGHTENING A ROOF BOLT TO INSTALL IT. HE EXPERINCED PAIN BELOW HIS RIGHT SHOULDER BLADE.
EE WAS HANGING MINER CABLE. CABLE WAS TIED TO A ROOFBOLT PLATE WITH METAL WIRE ON ONE END AND IT GABBED INTO THE EE S RIGHT EYE.
EE TWISTED RIGHT KNEE WHEN HE HUNG RIGHT FOOT UNDER THE PANIC BAR OF THE SCOOP AS HE WASS CRAWLING OUT OF THE SCOOP.
EMP WAS THROWING TIMBERS DOWN TOWARD FACE (YO YOING). WHEN HE REACHED TO GET NEXT TIMBER, A TIMBER WAS ALREADY IN ROUTE AND HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER GOT SMASHED BETWEEN THE TWO TIMBERS.
EMP WAS WORKING ON SHUTTLE CAR AND THE REEL GEARCOVER FELL FROM THE TOP OF THE SHUTTLE CAR AND LANDED ON LITTLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND.
EE WAS LIFTING WATER LINE TO MOVE A 30 HP PUMP OUT INTO THE WATER AND STRAINED GROIN AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING COVER OVER SCRUBBER AND MASHED RING FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
EE WAS THROWING MINER CABLE OUT OF ROADWAY AND PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS THROWIGN ROCK DUST THROUGH DOOR AND TWISTED OR PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
EMP WAS SHOVELING BELT AND FOUND A LARGE ROCK LAYING ACROSS BEL BETWEEN CHAINS. TRIED TO PRY ROCK OFF OF BELT WITH SHOVEL, SHOVEL BROKE, SO HE TRIED TO PULL, TUG AND LIFT ROCK AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. EMP DID NOT SEE DR UNTIL 1-9-97 ANDWAS PUT ON RESTRICTED DUTY AT THIS TIME.
EE WAS TAKING TIRE OFF THE SHUTTLE CAR AND REACHED TO GRAB TIRE AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.
EMP WAS DOWN ON KNEES AND REACHED TO MOVE MINER CABLE. COULD NOT RAISE BACK UP. WAS PUT ON BACK BOARD AND BROUGHT OUTSIDE.
EE WAS TAKING A REAR END OUT OF A BIG GATOR UTILITY VEHICLE AND AMSLL PIECE OF WELD WAS HOLDING REAR END IN GATOR. THE WELD BROKE AND THE REAR END FELL HITTING EE S RIGHT LEG. ONE POINTED AREA OF THE REAR END CAUSED A PUNCTURE WOUND APPROX. 1"X1"X1" DEEP.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING MINER CABLE WHEN HIS BACK BEGAN TO HURT. EMPLOYEE CONTINUED WORKING AND THE PAIN IN HIS BACK BECAME WORSE.
EE WAS STANDING UP SHOVELING GOB INTO SCOOP BUCKET AT FACE TAILPIECE. WHILE SHOVELING HE INJURED HIS BACK. HE THOUGHT HE TWISTED OR PULLED A MUSCLE IN LOWER PART OF HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ANCHOR TAILPIECE WITH ANCHOR PINS AND TURNBUCKLE. THE EYE OF THE TURNBUCKLE BROKE, ALLOWING THE TAILIECE TO SLING AROUND EMPLOYEE DOWN.
EE BENT OVER & PICKED UP CRIB BLOCK, FELT PAIN IN BACK.
EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN ABSENT FROM WORK ON 07-26-95 WITH AN INFECTION IN HIS GROIN AREA HE WAS ROOFBOLTING BENT A BOLT & HE FELT A TINGE OF PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA EMPLOYEE GOT VERY SICK & FAINT FEE LING ALONG WITH THE PAIN NO RULES BROKEN NO EQUPMENT INVOLVED JOB SKILLS MINER PROFICIENCY TRAINIG ATTITUDE OR CLOTHING WAS NOT AN ISSUE HERE
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING MINER ACROSS SECTION PULLED MINER CABLE & FELT SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLIGN MINER CABLE OVER AND FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A ROOFBOLTER IN #1 SECTION, MOVING A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK BY HAND, THOUGHT HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN LOWER ADOMINAL AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING POWER, HANGING POWER LINE, WHEN HE RAISED HIS ARMS, HE FELT SOMETHING TEAR IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE SPREADING ROCK DUST HIS BACK STRARTED HURTING
EMPLOYEE WAS BENT OVER PULLING THE MINER CABLE & WHILE PULLING HE PULLED A MUSCLE I THE UPPER LEFT LEG NEAR THE GROIN AREA
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING A FEDERAL MINE INSPECTOR THROUGH THE MINES WHEN HE CAME UPON A LARGE ROCK THAT HAD FALLEN INTO THE TRAVEL-WAY, AND AS HE ATTEMPTED TO LIFT THE ROCK OUT OF THE WAY HE STRAIN ED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A SPEED REDUCER ON THE FEEDRE ON HIS KNEES & HE PUSHED THE REDUCER INTO PLACE & HIS RT KNEE POPPED HE WAS UNABLE TO FINISH THE SHIFT
EE WAS INSTALLING A PIECE OF METAL OVERCAST AND IT SLIPPED AND HIT HIS LEFT FOOT.
EE WAS PUTTING UP A ROOFBOLT AND SOMETHING FLEW IN HIS LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LAYING MINER CABLE OUT OF THE HAULWAY ONTO THE RIB AND HAD PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING PEDESTAL PIN IN JACK & TRYING TO ALIGN HOLE WITH HIS FINGER THE JACK SLIPPED & HIT INDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND
DISCONNECTING WATERLINE PRESSURE CAUSED HIM TO JUMP HIT R EAR ON ROOFBOLT
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING ROCK FROM THE HAULWAY AND FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER RIGHT BACK. EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HIS BACK HAD BEEN BOTHERING HIKM THE PRIOR WEEK.