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Employee was laying on the shop floor underneath the #10 Wagner LST 25X removing the bolts from the axle support plate. As the last bolt was removed, the plate fell to the ground and smashed EE's left index and middle fingers. 7 stitches were required on the left index finger and 6 stitches were required on the left middle finger.

The employee was at the #5 drive area at #38 X-cut. He was removing a drive. He was on the in by side of the 25-X. The 25-X oper was backing up, EE reached for the winch hook that was on the tip of the fork. The fork was also on top of the drive arm. He didn't realize the forks were on top of the arm. The forks fell and hit him on top of the right foot on the steel toe

The employee was preparing to help make a belt splice. He grabbed the template for the splice. He had it resting on the splice board when it slipped the pin slid through the template and caught his finger. Resulting in a laceration to his left ring finger on the tip.

The employee was applying whip checks to the hoses at the head-gate area of the LW. When he pulled the staple the back pressure popped the #13 valve out of the connection and struck him on the left ring finger. Resulting in a fracture to that finger.

The employee was dropping miner cable from the mine roof, the miner cable had tension on it. As it came down it bent the employee over backwards and to the side. Resulting in a strain in his mid to lower back on the left side.

While shoveling silt onto the #2 main line belt, employee's left shoulder started hurting. After approximately another hour shoveling and the pain worsening, EE was brought outside and transported to the clinic where he was diagnosed with an acute muscle stain in left shoulder. He was given a cortisone shot and a prescription for a muscle relaxer & released to return to work.

Dropping a Kennedy overcast panel down. The first course of block had been removed. They were attempting to move the panel when it dislodged a piece of the wall(approx. 4 block) that fell striking employee on the right hand. Resulting in a fracture to the little finger and a laceration to the right wrist.

The employee was preparing to swap base lift hoses. He was waiting for the shearer to pass and he had his hand on top of the base lift. When the shearer came passed. They pushed the pan over and the base lift moved on the relay bar moving the base lift forward pinching his finger between the bolt and the base lift bracket.

The employee had a drill steel stuck in the roof. When he pulled on it to get it out the steel came down on his finger smashing it between the steel and the drill box. Resulting in stitches and a small fracture to his right little finger.

The employee was lifting a Kennedy panel off of the top of a damaged overcast. When he put his hand up and over the top of the panel, there was a metal shard on the top side of the Kennedy. He placed his hand on the piece of metal and it penetrated his leather glove and caused a deep puncture to the palm of his left hand below his thumb.

EE and his partner were putting up a metal mat. The mat was bent and they were trying to get it to stay on the TRS. The mat fell and struck EE in the right middle finger. Resulting in a 1" laceration. He was transported to Castle Dale Medical Clinic were he received 4 stitches. He was released to return to work on his next available shift.

An employee was installing a compressor for a 25x shield hauler. He had the compressor in place an was preparing to mount it to the machine, when it rolled on it side and smashed his finger against the frame of the engine. Resulting in a laceration to the right index finger on the pad. Taken to medical clinic where they glued the laceration.

While building a Kennedy stopping the employee had just raised one of the panels, he remembered that he needed a drain pipe under the panel. When lowering the jack the panel stayed up. While removing the jack the panel collapsed, falling against his left hand, cutting his left small finger. He was diagnosed to have received a Laceration which required 7 stitches.

Employee was attempting to change the wench on the #9 Wagner 25X in the surface shop. As he removed the last bolt, the wench slid back and smashed his left hand between the wench and the frame and cut his hand. 10 stitches were required to close the wound. EE was released to return to work.

2 employees were changing a top roller in the tail piece in 22nd West. While attempting to install the new roller, the roller slipped and smashed injured miners right hand between the roller and the frame structure of the tailpiece, resulting in a fractured Scaphoid bone in the right wrist.

Employee was setting up the #3 face in 22nd West. He was preparing to install a ventilation tube (that was laying on the ground) into the existing ventilation tube that was hung from the mine roof. He noticed that the vent tube needed to be turned end for end and as he reached & lifted the tube and spun it around, he felt a sharp pain in his lower back. Released for modified work.

Employee strained his right shoulder while attempting to tighten a hydraulic fitting on the Eimco 975 in the surface shop. EE was taken to the Doctor, examined & a MRI was ordered & he was released to return to work, EE continued working until 7/23/2013, at which time he underwent surgery to repair torn muscles in his right shoulder.

Employee was taking the angle iron rails off of a Kennedy stopping at x-cut 25 in 20th West, so the stopping could be removed. As he went to throw a rail aside, the rail caught his right leg and cut his leg. 10 stitches were required to close the wound.

The employee and 2 other employees were attempting to place a monorail dolly onto the monorail system at x-cut 26 in 20th West. When the dolly slid into place, it smashed his right thumb between another dolly already installed. 6 sutures were required to close the laceration on the right thumb. 2 prescriptions were also prescribed.

Employee picked up a 4" aluminum pipe that was approximately 4 foot long. As he attempted to toss the pipe along the rib at x-ct 75 in the left mains, his glove snagged a sharp burr on the end of the pipe resulting in a laceration to his little finger on left hand. 8 sutures were required to close the wound.

Injured employee and another employee were carrying a 60" bottom belt roller on their shoulder, up the slope on the 2nd West belt entry at x-cut #2. As the employee stepped over a small roll in the mine floor, he felt a sharp pain in the middle of his back.

Employee was lifting a 5 gallon bucket of hydraulic oil into the bed of an Isuzu pickup truck when he felt a sharp pain in his lower back. He was initially examined by a doctor on 2/26/2013 and diagnosed with a back strain and released to return to work. He returned to the Dr. on 4/29/2013 for a follow-up and was placed on light duty pending an MRI.

Employee was attempting to remove the cover from the exhaust filter housing on the #9 25X located at x-c 37 on #5 road when the cover slipped out of his grip and smashed his left thumb resulting in the thumb nail being removed, a laceration (4 stitches and a fracture to the bone in the tip of the thumb.

On 2/11/13, Employee strained his lower back as he was attempting to lift the end of a vent tube into place in the #2 entry of 21st West. EE reported the incident to his foreman and continued working all of his shifts until 2/25/13, at which time he went to the Dr. and was instructed to be off from work until a MRI could be conducted and evaluated.

On 1/11/13 the employee claims that as he was walking down the slope in 2nd West intake from the last open x=cut towards the transformed, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right groin. The employee continued working his scheduled shifts until 1/29/2013 at which time he had surgery to repair the hernia. This injury became a lost time injury as of 1/29/20123.

The employee and two others were installing 60" top roller clusters in the new belt line in the 1st West Mains section. As they lifted the cluster, it slipped from the injured employees hand and as he tried to catch the roller cluster, his right ring finger was smashed between the roller cluster and another roller cluster that was laying on the ground.

Employee was working on the 17-2 battery scoop in the 1st West Raises section. As he attempted to place the cover on top of the machine into place, when he lifted the cover and twisted to slide it into place, he felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder.

After the employee exited from the Isuzu mantrip # 23-22, as he slammed the door shut on the mantrip, he smashed his index finger on his left hand in the door resulting in a laceration to the finger which required 10 stitches and also fractured the tip of the bone on his index finger.

The injured employee was roof bolting in the face of the #1 entry of 10th East section. After drilling a hole, he was attempting to insert a tube of resin into the drilled hole and as he reached above his head he heard a pop and felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder.

Employee was retrieving 4" pipe from the belt line in16th East and stacking the pipe in xc #16 when he stepped on a board and a nail penetrated thru his rubber boot and the nail punctured the bottom of his left foot. The ER doctor bandaged the wound and advised that he take 1 day off from work.

Employee was cleaning the area in the dog leg of 15th East in preparations of a seal to be installed. Employee attempted to move a rather large piece of rock from the area when he felt a sharp pain in his lower back. He finished his shift and 5 days later, on 7/30/2012 he claimed to not be getting better and asked to see a doctor.

The employee was loading mono-rail trucks onto a trailer. He had loaded 14 trucks onto the trailer and as he went to load the 15th mono rail truck, he felt a sharp pain in his lower back.

Employee was hand loading roof bolts from the bucket of the section battery scoop onto the roof bolting machine. As he bent over to pick up the 3rd bundle of 3 bolts, he felt a sharp pain in his lower back. Employee was diagnosed to have sustained a lower back strain.

Employee was attempting to place the duct tube into place on the scrubber of the longwall crusher in the 15th East set up section, when the duct tube slipped and smashed his right hand resulting in a laceration on the right pointer finger which required 6 stitches.

Employee was working on the surface in the upper yard connecting 20 foot lengths of 6" plastic pipe together. As the employee bent over, he felt a pain in his lower back. Employee was diagnosed at the ER as to have sustained a back strain and instructed by the doctor to be off from work for 72 hours.

Employee was injured while unloading 8"X8"X7' square set from a material trailer. As the employee reached for a square set that was on the deck of the trailer, another square set fell from the pile and smashed his left thumb between the 2 square sets. 5 sutures were required to close the laceration.

Employee initially injured his right shoulder while emptying a trash can in the surface shop on 1/12/2012. EE was examined by a doctor, diagnosed to have sustained a strain shoulder and released to return to work. On 10/9/12 he went to the doctor to be re-examined. Was referred to an orthopedic surgeon, and then had surgery on 1/25/2013. Became a lost time as of 1/25/2013.

EE was attempting to unplug a 5hp flight pump, as he went to lift a shovel full of silt, he felt a sharp pain in his back between his shoulder blades. EE was diagnosed as to have sustained a possible pinched nerve.

EE was attempting to install a new tram motor on a shuttle car when the motor shifted and smashed his right index thumb and severed the thumb between the fingertip and the first knuckle. 16 stitches were rquired to re-attached the tip of the thumb to the thumb.

Employee was standing between two 6 1/2 foot omega cans that were lying on the mine floor and as the can setter operator went to retrieve another can, the cans were rolled together thus smashing both of the employee's leg.

Employee was moving crib blocks from a cross cut. As he lifted a crib block and threw it up on the rib, he felt a pain in his lower abdomen. He continued working for a couple of hours but the pain kept getting stronger.

EE was bending a roof bolt to install in a low spot along the rib, when he felt a sharp pain in his right elbow.

While helping 2 mechanics remove the radiator from a Wagner LST5 diesel scoop, the radiator slipped and smashed the injured employee's right index finger requiring 10 stitches.

Employee was attempting to move a 5hp Flyght pump from a water hole that had been pumped down. The employee lifted the pump about waist high when he lost his grip on the pump handle and the pump landed on the top of his left foot resulting in the fracture of a small bone in his foot.

EE strained his right wrist while hanging the roof bolter cable in the mains section. EE was re-evaluated by a doctor on 4/30/2011, at which time he was referred to an orthopedic surgeon and ordered to be kept off of work.

EE was lifting a bottom roller into the hanger bracket on the #2 main line belt, he felt a pop in his right shoulder. Employee was taken to the ER and released to return to work. As a result of a follow-up visit with an orthopedic surgeon on 4/27/11, the EE was placed on restricted duty by the Dr awaiting an MRI. There is no work available to comply with the restrictions.

Employees were retrieving 20 foot sections of dust pipe. As one of the employees dropped his end of the pipe onto the ground, the other end of the pipe flipped up and stuck the victim in the mouth thus creating a laceration to the lower lip which required 8 stitches.

Person was removing a chain from a belt top roller the chain sliped and hit him in the left leg just below the knee

Employee was injured on 3/8/11 when he was struck in the left knee by the end of a 20' piece of 6 inch aqua pipe that was being pulled around a corner. Employee continued working until 6/15/2011, at which time he had surgery on his knee.

EE was walking at x-cut 72 in #2 entry of 14th west when he caught his left ear on a damaged roof screen that was hanging down. 6 stitches were required to close the wound.