RUNNING PUSHCAT BACKED OFF SLOPE TO ALLOW SCRAPER TO PASS AND BUMPED LEFT HIP ON SIDE SEAR SHIFTING GEAR.
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Showing all 24VICTIM WAS TRAM4ING FLETCHER ROOF BOLTING MACHINE.PAN OVER A CHUNK IN ROADWAY CAUSING THE MACHINE TO "JUMP" AND JARRED LOWER BACK.
INJURED WAS DRI5LING A HOLE IN THE ROOF. HE LEFT THE DRILL STEEL IN THE ROOF AND TURNED AROUND TO GET ANOTHER LENGHT OF STEEL. THE STEEL IN THE ROOF FELL OUT AND STRUCK HIS HAND WHICH HE HAD ON TOP OF THE 8RILL HEAD.
DISCHARGE LINE 7AME OFF THE PUMP AND STRUCK I NAME ON THE RIGHT LEG. PUMP ON DISCHARGE LINE WAS PLUGGED AND UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE.
BOLTING ON FLET7HER CLOSED JAWS ON HIS HAND
I.NAME SUSTAINE8 CUT INSIDE LEFT HAND WHILE PRESSING DOWN ON CUTTING EDGE BOLT.IT SPUN WHILE I.NAME TURNING BOLT WITH IMPACT WRENCH CAUSING INJURY.
ATTEMPTING TO R9MOVE DRILL STEEL FROM DRILL HEAD.HE INADVERTANTLY PRESSED THE WRONG LEVER AND CAUGHT HIS HAND IN THE DRILL GUIDE "JAWS"
HAD BEEN WELDIN1 IN ODD POSITIONS ALL WEEK COULE HAVE TWISTED NECK OR PINCHED NERVE BECAUSE HE COULDNT MOVE NECK ON 9-13-86
INSTALLING STEE5 PLATES WHEN RELEASEING FROM CRANE STEEL SLIPPED AND JERKED HIMM POPPING KNEE AD BACK OUT OF PLACE
EE WAS PUTTING 7OMBINATION BOLT UP DRIVER. THE DRIVER DIDN'T LINE UP LINE BOLT. EE PUT PRESSURE EE PUT PRESSURE ON DRIVER CAUGHT LEFT HAND BETWEEN DRIVER & BOLT SMASHING RING FINGER & LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT3HAND.
THE TRUSS DRIVE9 SLIPPED AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE S LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING (FLETCHER REIGHT HAND SIDE) WAS ATTACHING BOLT WRENCH TO BOLT. WRENCH SLIPPED CATCHING LITTLE FINGER (LEFT) BETWEEN ROOF AND BOLT WRENCH. BROKEN LITTLE FINGER, LEFT HAND.
PIECE OF SLAG WENT DOWN EMPL LEG AND INTO BOOT CAUSING BURN ON SIDE OF LEFT FOOT.DR STATED EMPL REC\D 3RD DEGREE BURNS WITH POSSIBLE INFECTION.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING JACK HAMMER AND STEEL UP OUT OF HOLE AND GOT SHARP PAIN IN CENTER OF BACK. SHARP PAIN IN CENTER OF BACK.
ROCK FELL BETWEEN RIB & LAST BOLT ON MAT STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT LEG WENT TO SOUND ROOF POSSIBLE BROKEN LEG (LEFT)
DOZER BECAME TRAPPED IN COAL PILE,EMPLOYEE JUMPED OFF DOZER AND RAN TO THE LOAD OUT AND BACK.COAL DIST IN LUNGS.
EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING ON LEFT SIDE OF ROOF BOLTER SIDE RAIL ON THE MAST SLIPPED OUT OF ITS MOUNT AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT SIDE AND LOWER BACK.
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING NEAR THE CONTINOUS MINERS FRONT END THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WAS TRAMMING AROUND THE CORNER OF THE INTERSECTION AT THE TOPB OF THE HILL THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE L OST TRACTION AND SLID DOWNHILL WHERE IT CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEE BETWEEN THE TEMPORARY ROOF SUPPORT SYSTEM AND THE MINING MACHINE
WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON D A RAM THE SPILL PAN BROKE CAUSING THE RAM TO FALL ON EMPLOYEES FOOT
AN AIRPICK METAL CHIP ENTERED EMPLOYEES RIGHT ARM CAUSING A MINOR LACERATION
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING DECK PLATE ON CONVEYOR WHEN HE TWISTED HIS BODY & HURT HIS BACK
WHILE EE WAS REMOVING PIPE A RUSH OF COMPRESSED AIR CAUSED A LOSS OF HEARING IN HIS RIGHT EAR.
EMPLOYEE CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN DRIVER AND STEEL HOLDER OF FLETCHER.
EMP WAS ASSISTING IN MOVING CONVEYOR BELT STORAGE SYSTEM WHILE MOVING A PIECE OF STORAGE WITH AN ELKHORN THE STORAGE SLID OUT OF ELKHORN BUCKET LANDING ON EMPLOYEES RT FOOT