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Was cutting wire tie off of a mirror with a razor knife and cut left middle finger requiring 5 stitches.
Employee was trimming a belt splice, when the knife slipped and hit him on the inside of the left knee, causing a laceration that took 6 sutures to close.
Employee was using a utility knife to cut open a splice in a shuttle car cable when the knife slipped and cut his middle and ring fingers of his left hand causing lacerations that required approximately 8 stitches to close.
Employee was using a pry bar and mashed the right middle finger. The wound required stitches.
Using a utility knife and while trimming a piece of belt, he cut his left forearm. Treatment required stitches.
Victim was cutting plastic band on bucket of plaster when utility knife slipped and cut right leg requiring staples to close the wound.
Employee was cutting a belt with a razor type knife when it slipped and hit him on the back of the left thumb causing a laceration that required 4 sutures. Employee did not miss work.
Hand slipped on ratchet cutting left forearm, requiring 6 stitches.
The employee was trying to unstop a blockage in the tertiary cutter box and the bar being used slid into the box as the coal gave way. this pulled the employees hand toward the cutter. Employees hand caught the top roller of the teritary cutting the tip of the fifth digit on the left hand. The cutter was in operation at the time of the incident.
Employee strained himself on 4/14/2008 while working on a mini-trac. He was using a bar and when it slipped, he felt pain. He later went to a doctor and was diagnosed with a hernia and had surgery to repair on 4/23/2008.
Employee was hitting a metal shaft with a hammer when a piece of metal flew off and hit him in the mouth knocking his upper front tooth out. Employee has continued to work and has missed no days.
Chain slipped on batteries and cut left index finger, requiring stitches.
Employee was getting a crawler from under the miner using a slate bar. The crawler fell, hitting the bar, causing the bar to hit employee in the left side of the head and caused a laceration to his ear that took 7 sutures to close. Employee missed no work days.
Cutting tape off a hose and cut thumb with a knife. Injury required stitches.
Employee was striking an insert with a metal wrench and metal flew into his eye.
On Sept. 24, 2007 EE stained his back when he moved a bearing assembly he was hooking a chain hoist up to as it was lying in a pick-up truck bed. He started missing work on March 3, 2008.
Employee got the index finger on the left hand cut when he stuck it in a hole in a coal chute as a co-worker was prying with a 3/4 inch pipe trying to unstop the chute. The pipe caught his finger between the edge of the hole and the pipe. It took 5 suters to close the cut.
He was helping repair a Miner cable when as he was holding the cable he suffered a laceration to his right hand, requireing stitches.
Employee reported that while shoveling belts, his right upper arm made contact with a sharp barb on the belt structure. The wound was sutured at the local emergency room and he returned to work the same day.
Was knocking a bit out of miner with another bit and hit left thumb with hammer.
Employee was in the process of making a belt splice. He was holding the belt up with his hand and the knife cut through the belt and cut his little finger on his left hand.
While replacing a 50 foot piece of water line that supplies water to the continuous miner the injured was watching a mechanic strike the water coupler with a hammer and a piece of the hammer broke off an struck the injured on the lower left stomach area causing the metal to embed under the skin. This required 5 sutures.
Injured was positioning the pulping column in to the primary coarse sump. Column was supported by cum-a-longs. The column shifted as it was being lowered and the injured's little finger on his left hand was caught between and fractured. No days were lost, this is to report medical treatment only.
EE was helping on an old buggy splice---pulling off tape, when the tape slipped and an opened knife he had in his hand, closed up on his little finger on his right hand requiring 7 sutures.
He was working on the drive chain for the #5 Headpiece when he struck the chain with a hammer and a small piece of metal flew into his eye. Right eye.
Employee was using a utility knife to cut a piece of belt when it slipped and struck his left anterior thigh incising it. The resulting incision required 6 sutures. This is to report medical treatment only, no days were lost.
While removing bits from the head of the Joy 1415 CM the ball been hammer slipped and struck the injured on the left thumb.
The mechainc was using a screw driver to pry on a cover on a cat 345 excavator when the screw driver broke and struck him on his upper lip lacerating it. The wound required (7) sutures to repair it. No days were lost, this is to report medical treatment only.
While shoveling the overland belt tailpiece the shovel struck a piece of ice causing the shovel to bounce up catching his hand between the shovel handle and the belt cover.
Lifting jack kicked out, striking employee's right hand and caused a laceration that required stitches to close the wound.
Knife slipped while cutting tape; cut left hand. Required 3 stitches.
The injured was trimming a piece of conveyor belt that was used for a skirt in a converyor belt tailpiece, when the utility knife slipped, causing a cut to his left hand.
Employee was using a lifting jack raising the back of the bolter. Employee was lowering the bolter w/jack and jack handle came up and struck employee in the jaw.
Employee was shoveling belt and was struck by the shovel. This report was filed to abate violation #7436522.
Employee was cutting a piece of conveyor belt when he cut his right leg with a utility knife. The wound required stitches to close.
Employee was trying to free stuck coal by pounding on the truck dump bin with a sledge hammer. While swinging the sledge hammer his left hand was caught between the hammer and the side of the bin. This resulted in a laceration on the outside of his left palm that required 6 sutures. The employee was wearing gloves. This is to report medical treatment only.
The employee was tightening an overhead bolt, a piece of metal fell and lodged in the LEFT eye. The employee was wearing safety glasses.
Emp. was removing a pin from the rock vibrater by pulling with pipe wrench. The wrench slipped and caught finger against metal.
Employee was struck by a flying piece of metal as he was using a hammer. Metal was removed and stitches were needed to close the wound.
He was using a bar to install fan belt when the bar slipped and struck him on the shin. The injury required stitches.
While cutting a piece of conveyor belt with a utility knife it slipped and cut the top of his right thigh 11 sutures.
Employee was prying on an old pump bracket with a pry bar for a cyclone pump when he felt a pain in the center of his back.
Employee standy a chain w/hammer and a small piece of metal was imbedded in his right hand. Metal was removed.
Employee began missing work on 9/29 from an injury that occurred on 8/25/05. He was using a bar when the weight of the part being moved shifted and he felt pain in lower ribs and lower back.
HE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF REMOTE CABLE WITH A UTILITY KNIFE WHEN IT SLIPPED AND HE CUT HIS LEFT FOREARM. STITCHES WERE REQUIRED TO CLOSE THE WOUND.
CUTTING MINER CABLE THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUTING HIS LEFT KNEE
EE WAS CUTTING BOX WITH UTILITY KNIFE AND CUT HIS INDEX FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A BELT AND CUT PALM OF HIS HAND REQUIRING STITCHES.