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EMPL WAS PULLING ON PRY BAR TO LOOSEN BRAKE BOLT WHEN BAR SLIPPED & EMPL PINCHED THUMB. EMPL MISSED NO WORK DAYS HOWEVER MGM'T WAS NOT MADE AWARE EMPL HAD FX. BONE IN HIS THUMB UNTIL 7/1/88.
INJURED WAS USING A LONG BAR TO UNCOUPLE EMPTY COAL CARS AT THE ROTARY DUMP THE BAR SLIPPED AND HE SPRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS USING ON 15 INCH CRESCENT WRENCH TO LOOSEN A FITTING ON A DRILL HEAD ON FOR A BOLTING MACHINE. THE WRENCH DIPPED FROM FITTING AND STRUCK HIM ON THE UPPER LIP LACERATING IT SUTURES WERE REQUIRED.
INJ WAS USING A MANUAL HOIST TO MOVE AN ESCAPE CAPSULE AWAY FROM THE INTAKE SHAFT. THE HANDLE OF THE HOIST JERKED OUT OF HIS HAND AND STRUCK HIM IN THE FACE. BRUISING HIS NOSE AND BROKE OFF
INJURED WAS WIN8ING UP SAFTY CABLE ON HOIST CAR AT BOTTOM OF SLOPE TRACK AS HE WAS USING MANUAL REEL TAKE UP TO TIGHTEN ROPE HE PINCHED HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN HANDLE ON TAKE UP AND A STEEL BAR THAT 4AS LAYING ON TOP OF THE HOIST CAR. FINGER WAS LACERATED FOR ABOUT ONE INCH. SUTURES WERE NEEDED TO CLOSE LACERATION.
INJURED WAS SWI3GING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO HIT ANOTHER MALLER HAMMER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO TIGHTEN A NUT ON THE UNNER HEAD OF A MINING MACHINE. WHEN SLEDGE HAMMER HIT HAMMER A PIECE OF METAL FLEW FROM ONE OF TH9 HAMMERS & LODGED IN LEFT THIGH OF INJURED.
INJURED WAS USI3G A STONE BAR TO PRY ON A COUNTERWEIGHT PULLEY OF THE SIDE SLOPE BELT STONE BAR SLIPPED ENDS OF THE RT RING AND RT MIDDLE FINGERS WERE PINCHED BETWEEN STONE BAR AND METAL FRAM E OF STEPS 3
INJ USING HAND 4RENCH TO LOOSEN BOLTS ON RUBBER SKIRTING FOR DEWATERING SCREEN AT PREP PLANT.WRENCH SLIPPED AND INJ HIT ELBOW ON BOLTS IN SCREEN.BRUSIED RIGHT ELBOW.LATER HAD TO HAVE BRUISED A REA LANCED OPEN3TO REMOVE BLOOD COLLECTED IN BRUISED AREA.UNABLE TO WORK AFTER CUT OPEN.
INJURED WAS USI3G HOIST TO LIFT A PIECE OF METAL INJURED WAS USING RT.HAND TO TWIST HOIST HOIST TWISTED CATCHING RING FINGER & SMALL FINGER ON RT.HAND SPRAINING THEM EMPLOYEE CONTINUED TO WORK AFTER ACCIDENT 0INGER DIDNOT RECOVER PROPERLY MEDICAL ATTENTION GIVEN ON 052987 LOST TIME AFTER THIS
WHILE USING RAT7HET & SOCKET RATCHET BROKE AS HE WAS PULLING HANDLE BACK TWOARD HIM AND FELL BACKWARDS SUDDEN MOVEMENT CAUSED PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS USING A SLATE BAR TO CLEAR OFF READ OF CONTINOUS MINING MACHINE WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS ASSISTING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE IN JACKING UP CONTINUOUS MINER SHOVEL WITH 10TON LIFTING PIK WHEN JACK SLIPPED INJURED RAMMED HIS HEAD INTO MINER DRUM SHAFT.
INJURED WAS BENT OVER HOSING DOWN UNER SLOPE BELT TAIL-PCE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK 052485 LIFTING CRIB BLOCKS
INJURED WAS SCALING ROOF AND PULLED STONE BAR DOWN ON HAND, STRIKING WRIST, ALSO TWISTED ROOF.
INJ WAS TAKING OUT BELT CONVEYOR ROPE LINE AND REMOVING BOLTS WHEN WIRE ROPE JERKED PULLING BACK
ADKISTOMG BP T BLOCK ON ROOF BOLT IN RAGGED TOP WHEN POSITIONING BOLT BLOCK, BLOCK MOVED CATCHING FINGER AGAINST RAGGED TOP.
INJURED WAS USING ROKE COME A LONG TO UNLOAD AN ELECTRIC MOTOR CABLE SKUN LATCHING INDEX FINGER AND LEFT CONTUSION TO INDEX FINGER.
INJ RECEIVED LACERATION TO RING AND LITTLE FINGER FROM A HOCK BILLTED KNIFE THAT WAS HANGING DOWN FROM BELT ON A HOOK KNIFE CAME PARTIALLY OPEN WHILE INJURED WAS SHOVELING COAL FROM AROUND F FEEDER WHEN HE RECEIVED LACERATION TO FINGERS
INJURED WAS PULLING A 5" X 7" CROSSBAR OUT OF SHUTTLE CAR WITH CHAIN WRAPPED AROUND DRILL STEEL TIMBER AND DRILL STEEL FELL ON INJUREDS FOOT CAUSING PUNCTURE WOUND OF 4TH TOE AND LEFT FOOT
EMP WAS USING HAND KNIFE TO CUT MARNOT OUT OF THE NO 2 VORSIN AT PREPARATION PLANT THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING HIS RT INDEX FINGER REQUIRING 4 SUTURES
PIECE OF METAL IMBEDDED IN INJURED\S LEFT EYE WHILE WORKING AS A TRACKMAN USING A SLEDGE.
INJURED WAS CONNECTING TWO PIECES OF TROLLEY WIRE BY DRIVING IN SPLICE WITH AN AXE WHEN A FRAGMENT FLEW INTO TYE