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LIFTING ON STEEL BEAM TO PLACE ON CRIBS.PULLED MUSCLE IN UPPER BACK BETWEEN SHOULDER BLADES.
CREW SETTING BEAMS AT # 29 ON MAIN TRACK. 2 OF MEN MISHANDLES BEAM, CASUING IT TO ROLL OFF ONT EMP R. FT. STEEL BEAM WAS 6" 18'LONG . REC CUT AND BROKEN METALTARSUAL .
UNLOADING SUPPLIES ON ROOF BOLTER AND BACK STARTED HURTING TRIED TO CONT. WORK BUT PAIN BECAME TOO INTENSE COULDNT PINPOINT EXACT ACT. WHEN HURT BACK HOSPITALIZED 4-14-89 FOR PULLED MUSCLE NA D STAINED LIGAMENTS.
HE WAS HELPING TO MOVE THE MINER BACK AND STOOPED DOWN TO REACH TO MOVE A LOOP OF CABLE OUT OF THE WAY AND EXPERIENCED PAIN FROM LEFT SHOULDER BLADE DOWN HIS LOWER BACK.
CREW WAS WORKING WOOD OVERCAST AT FALL AND WERE STACKING CRIB BLOCKS UP ON OVERCAST WHICH WAS APPROX. 12 FT. HIGH. ONE OF THE CRIB BLOCKS ROLLED OFF THE OVERCAST STRIKING HIM ON THE HEAD- JAM MING HIS NECK.
HE MISSED A LOST TIME DAY ON 3-3-88. AS A RESULT OF THE INJURY WHICH OCCURRED ON 1-14-88 AND REPOTRED ON 1-26-88. HE IS STILL UNDER DOCTORS CARE FOR LUMOSOCRAL STRAIN.
I NAME WAS STAN8ING ON TOP OF THE CONTINUOUS MINER TO ADVANCE THE LINE CURTAIN WHEN HE LIFTED UP ON THE CURTAIN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK HE DID NOT REPORT TO A DR UNTIL 1 30 88 AND WAS DIAGNOSIED AS M6SCLE STRAIN THIS ALLEGED ACCIDENT 13 BEING QUESTIONED BY THE COM THAT WV COMP.
I.NAME WAS POSI7IONING A ROOF STRAP ON ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHILE SWINGING ROOF STRAP OVER TO THE OTHER OPERATOR HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK
THE INJURED WAS3PULLING A HINGE PIN OUT OF A BELT SPLICE DURING A BELT MOVE AND EXPERIENCED PAIN IN THE STOMACH AREA.DOCTOR DIAGNOSED THE PROBLEM AS A HERNIA IN THE NAVEL AREA ON 01-04-88.