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Employee was lifting top belt conveyor structure to put on top rail and felt pain in his left shoulder.

Employee was installing roof bolts and T-3 channel and the channel slid off the ATRS and struck him on the right shoulder. Note: Employee did not start missing work as a result of this injury until 12/8/2011.

Employee had his left hand resting on the roof bolting machine divider between the roof bolt tray and glue tray and as he removed the bolt wrench from the drill pot and was placing it onto the roof bolt tray he struck his left middle finger with the bolt wrench resulting in a laceration.

Employee was installing top belt conveyor structure and as he was lifting the structure he started to fall and grabbed the belt conveyor rail and felt pain in his upper left arm. NOTE: Employee continued to work until 07-11-11 and started missing work as a result of his injury.

Employee was moving the section waterline manifold and when he placed the manifold down and against the mine rib, the manifold slipped and mashed the end of his right middle finger between the manifold and the mine rib.

EE was hanging the continuous miner cable when he felt pain in his left shoulder.

Employee was installing lift cylinder on D10 Dozer. While trying to roll over cylinder caught finger between cylinder & block on ground cutting & fracturing finger.

EE was unloading a roof bolting machine canopy jack from the maintenance truck with a chain and hoist at the surface shop. As the jack was being raised, and EE placed his hand on the jack to guide it, the jack slid through the chain and mashed his right index finger between the jack flange and the hoist hook.

EE was closing a walk through mandoor when he lost control of the door due to the air pressure and his left hand was caught between the door and the door frame.

Employee stated he bent over and picked up a 7" x 7" x 12' timber and felt pain in his right shoulder and chest.

EE was lifting a coalhauler battery lid in order to place it on another battery, when he felt pain in his abdomen. NOTE: EE did not miss work as a result of this incident until 09-29-2009.

Employee stated that he went to C-Belt Hole to get a solid steel bar to hang 1000 ft. of conveyor belt. While lifting the bar he felt pain in his lower back.

Occupational illness: Employee stated he was removing a front drive shaft fron the 851 diesel mantrip when he struck his left elbow in the drag link. on 4-30-2009, Employee was diagnosed with bursitis of his left elbow.

EE was reaching to get a roof bolt out of the tray of the roof bolting machine, when the bolt became stuck on other bolts. EE pulled on the bolt to free it and felt a pain in his right shoulder.

Making a belt move, pulling the conveyor belt through the tail piece, the clavis that attaches the wire rope to the belt puller became fouled up on the crossbrace of the v-scraper. He placed his foot on the conveyor belt to dislodge the stuck clevis. The clevis released and the belt puller and conveyor belt pulled through and caught his right foot between the cross-brace and belt.

Employee was operating the No. 187 continuous miner in the No. 9 entry and as the continuous miner was backing up, a loop of water line folded under the tail of the continuous miner. Employee stated that he stopped the continuous miner and reached down and was pulling the water line out of the way, when he felt a tearing feeling in his right shoulder.

EE stated he was dragging a section of line curtain when he felt a burning sensation in his left groin area. The incident investigation revealed that the line curtain was wet & muddy causing the curtain to be heavier than normal. EE was diagnosed with a hernia but continued to work until 8/27/07 when he started missing work as a result of this injury.

Employee stated that he was pulling up a 16' metal roof strap, lengthwise, and he was trying to hold the strap with his right hand and trying to get the resin glue into the drill hole with his left hand when he pulled something in his neck or left shoulder.

The investigation indicated that the employee was pulling on the continuous miner cable when he felt pain and burning in his right side. The employee started missing work as a result of this injury on 5-16-07.

The ee stated he was moving phone line up from a spool of wire. He was holding the spool of phone wire with his hands and while rolling the sire off the spool a sharp end of the wire cut his index finger and the top of his left hand.

EE stated that he was leaning over his tool box looking for a splice kit for the continuous miner. EE then proceeded to move a piece of metal out of the way, when he felt a burning sensation in his lower back and left leg.

On the morning of 9/25/06 EE reported at the end of his shift that he was having pain in his lower back. When ask if he had done anything to hurt his back. He stated that he had not, that the problem had been coming on for some time. When ask if he knew of any specific event that he was aware of to injure his back, he stated, that he did not know of anything.

Employee stated that while he was positioning a shield over the feeder breaker the shield slipped & caught his right hand between the shield and the frame.

Employee stated that he was helping set breaker timbers in no. 6 entry when he felt pain in his right side and back spasm in the lower back. Note: employee first started missing work as a result of this injury on 09-08-2006.

EE stated that while installing a new ceramic pulping column, he was doing a lot of lifting and pulling while installing the ceramic pulping column. EE stated that he felt pain in his groin area and a knot appeared in this area. **EE did not start missing work as a result of this injury until 9/5/06**

EE stated that he broke loose the main 4" water line at E2 head & removed on section. He stated that as he pulled the waterline out of the way, he felt a pop in his rt shoulder. He then helped remove add'l 4" waterline from a scoop & place it along E2 belt. He stated that as he was pulling a section of this waterline that he felt another pop in rt shoulder & pain rt shoulder blade.

EE stated he was helping set a breaker timber approx 10 1/2'L & 20" dia. The timber had been cut to length & 2 co-workers lowered 1 end to the ground from the scoop & EE & another co-worker were holding other end of timber. W/out telling EE, other co-worker lowered the timber to rest on his knee, shifting the weight to EE who experienced pain in lower back.

EE was attempting to install an oxygen tank guard tube measuring 11" o d pipe w/1/2" thick walls x 34" long on the #5 mainten. truck. EE had it supported w/a 10" long piece of 6" channel, channel iron slipped out from under the pipe before the ee could tack weld it in place causing the channel iron to strike him on the rgt thumb & index finger and hyper extended his lft thumb.

EE stated that he and other ee were loading 48" belt conveyor structure (rollers) into the back of a mantrip. His left hand was caught between the belt conveyor structure and the canopy of the mantrip, as Other ee soved the belt structure into the mantrip. EE suffered a fracture and laceration to his left middle finger. The laceration required 4 sutures to close.

Occupational illness: ignuinal hernia.

EE WAS SPREADING STRAW ON A BERM. COWORKER ROLLED A BALE OF STRAW TOWARDS EE. EE REACHED OUT TO CATCH AND STOP THE BALE AND HPEREXTENDED HIS LEFT ARM, FELT AND HEARD SOMETHING SNAP OR TEAR IN LEFT ARM ABOVE THE ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT A 10' TIMBER HAD FALLED OUT OF THE SCOOP BUCKET AND HE AND A CO-WORKER LIFTED THE TIMBER TO PUT IT BACK INTO THE SCOOP BUCKET AND AS HE LIFTED THE TIMBER HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING A HYDRAULIC PUMP INTO NO. 3 COAL HAULER AND ALIGNING THE SPLINES WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER, ARM AND CHEST.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS DROPPING THE MINER CABLE OUT OF HOOKS, USING A CABLE STICK (FORKED POLE),WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LT. SHOULDER. THERE WAS NO INCIDENT, SUCH AS A SLIP,TRIP,FALL, STRUCK- BY,STRUCK-AGAINST, ETC. RESULTING IN AN INJURY, THEREFORE BASED ON THE INVESTIGATION & MEDICAL INFO, THIS MATTER IS BEING REPORTED AS AN OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS LOADING SUPPLIES ON THE ROOF BOLT MACHINE WHEN HE FELT PAIN TO HIS LEFT GROIN AREA. NOTE: EMPLOYEE FIRST UNABLE TO WORK AS A RESULT OF THIS INJURY ON 02/06/04.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS BENDING OVER TO PICK UP SCOOP HOIST ROPE, WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND LT. LEG.

EE STATED HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE TRYING TO DISLODGE A CRIB BLOCK, THAT WAS USED TO PREVENT MOVEMENT OF THE SERVICE TRUCK; WHILE REPAIRS WERE BEING MADE ON THE TRUCK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK WHILE LIFTING A PIECE OF METAL TO PLACE IT ON THE FORKS OF THE BOBCAT TO PLACE THE METAL ON THE METAL RACK.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING ROOF BOLTS FROMT HE BUCKET OF THE SCOOP TO LOAD ONTO THE RIGHT SIDE ROOF BOLT MACHINE WHEN HE FELT PAIN TO THE LOWER LEFT PART OF HIS BUTTOCKS. HE WAS DIAGNOSED A S HAVING A LUMBAR STRAIN.

INJURED AND OTHER EE'S WERE INSTALLING A CUTTER SHEAR CYLINDER ON THE NO. 183 CONTINUOUS MINER ON THE OPERATOR SIDE. AS THEY WERE BARRING THE NEW CYLINDER INTO POSITION. EE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWE BACK JUST ABOVE HIS HIPS.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS LIFTING ON THE END OF A 4" BY 20' METAL H BEAM WHEN HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION TO HIS LOWER LEFT ABDOMEN REGION.

EE & COWORKER WERE REMOUNTING THE VALVE CHEST DOOR ON NO. 178 CONTINUOUS MINER. THEY HAD LEANED THE DOOR AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE MINER AND WERE GETTING READY TO LIFT THE DOOR INTO PLACE BY USI NG A CHAIN HOIST. BEFORE THEY COULD HOOK THE CHAIN OF THE CHAIN HOIST TO THE VALVE CHEST DOOR, THE DOOR FELL OVER, STRIKING EE ON THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS LOADING A PIECE OF ATRS ON A PALLET WHEN HE FELT PAIN TO THE LOWER REGION OF HIS BACK. X RAYS OF HIS BACK INDICATED DEGENERATIVE OSTEOPHYTES AT MULTIPLE DISC LEVELS IN TH E LOWER THORACIC AND INT HE LUMBAR SPINE PARTICULARLY AT L3-4.

EE WAS PULLING ON FEED CHUTE ON 2ND FLOOR AND SPRAINED HIS BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE EXPERIENCED PAIN WHEN PICKING UP A LOOP OF CABLE. X-RAYS OF HIS SPINE INDICATED DEGENERATIVE CHANGES IN THE LUMBAR REGION OF HIS SPINE.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE HAD BENT OVER TO THROW A LOOP ON CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE AGAINST THE RIB IN NO. 1 ENTRY, WHEN HE FELT PAIN TO THE LOWER REGION OF HIS ABDOMEN.

EE STATED THAT HE WAS PULLING MINER CABLE OUT OF A PILLAR SPLIT IN NO 1 BARRIER BLOCK. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE. (NOTE: THIS INCIDENT IS BEING REPORTED AS AN OCCUPATIONAL INJURY, PENDING ADDITIONAL MEDICAL INFORMATION).

EE STATED THAT HE WAS CHECKING THE LIGHT SWITCH ON NO. 1 MRS JACK, WHEN THE CABLE REEL LID FELL, STRIKING HIS LEFT HAND.

EE STATED THAT WHEN HE WAS PUSHING A SIEVE SCREEN HOLDER BACK INTO PLACE, HE FELT PAIN ON TOP OF HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND DOWN HIS RIGHT ARM. EE HAS EXPERIENCED THE SAME SYMPTOMS WHILE PERFORM T HE SAME TASK IN THE PAST. NOTE:(THIS OCCURRENCE IS BEING REPORTED AS AN OCCUPATIONAL INJURY AT THIS TIME, PENDING ADDITIONAL MEDICAL INFORMATION.)

WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF ALIGNING AND COUPLING OF7200 CABLE PLUGS HE HAD TO TWIST ONE END OF COUPLING FOR ALIGNMENT. WHEN RELEASING HIS GRIP ON COUPLING HE FELT A PAIN TO HIS LOWER BACK.