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June 30, 2017 VA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wellmore Coal Company, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Tightening wheel on truck and ratchet slipped hitting employee in the eye causing employee to need 6 stitches.

September 18, 2007 VA · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wellmore Coal Company, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

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.

December 8, 2004 VA · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wellmore Coal Company, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting a rubber water hose to hook to a water spray bar and the knife slipped and the blade hit him on the left thumb of his hand.

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