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Employee was shoveling rust from the floor. EE moved a ladder to clean around it and a piece of cue decking fell causing a laceration to EE's right hand.
The injured miner was assisting a co-worker in throwing the flop gate at a head drive chute when the chain ratchet that was holding the gate came loose and allowed the gate to strike EE on the right side of the head. As the gate struck the injured miner, it knocked EE into an adjacent object causing EE to strike the left side of EE's head.
The employee was pulling on flop gate handle to close it to divert coal into screen chute. He had his hand upon the up on the side edge of chute and the gate caught and pinched his finger causing a laceration which required stitches.
EE states that he was sitting on top of picnic table conducting weekly safety meeting. As he finished meeting he jumped down quickly while leaning forward and landed with most of his weight on his right leg. He states that he continued to have problems and went to doctor. Doctor has removed him from work as of 10/28/10. He was having surgery today 10/29/10
EE had shoveled for a couple of days clearing up transfer building. Stated that he had some soreness and pain but never thought it was anything. He later went to the doctor, but did not say if was due to injury. 12/21/09 his doc took him off work & on 1/5/10 we received a letter stating that he had a strain to his left shoulder that was due to the work related injury.
Employee was lifting/loading 100 pound sample bags of coal into the the back of a pickup truck. As he was stepping with the bag he felt and heard a popping noise which turned out to be an injury to his right knee.
EE STATED HE WAS PULLING PIPE OUT OF PLANT & PULLED MUSCLE IN GROIN. EE DID NOT GO TO DOCTOR FOR COULE OF DAYS LATER & THEN WAS RECOMMENDED TO A SPECIALIST. WE HAVE BEEN AWAITING THE RESULTS O F TEST TO DETERMINE IF REPORTABLE. EE HAS NOT MISSED ANY WORK AS OF THIS DATE.