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WHILE RELEASING PARK BRAKE ON EIMCO TIP OF EMPL'S FINGER WAS CAUGHT IN PINCH POINT

SMASHED BETWEEN EIMCO & AIR LINE.

DRIVING TRACTOR,EMPL HIT RUT IN ROADWAY CAUSING STEERING WHEEL TO JERK,STRIKING EMPL WRIST WITH STEERING WHEEL SPOKE.

WHILE LOADING ROCK ONTO A CONVEYOR BELT, A PIECE OF ROCK KICKED BACK STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON THE ARM.

THE EMPL WALKED OUT FROM BEHIND A WATER TRUCK IN FRONT OF AN ON COMING WATER TRUCK AND WAS STRUCK BY THE SECOND TRUCK

ROCK DUSTING TRACTOR ROLLED DOWN HILL STRIKING EMP EMP DID NOT REP INJ OR LOST TIME DUE TO INJ UNTIL 11-23-88

WHILE TA6KING TO A(O THER EMP A TRACTOR ROLLED DOWN A HILL STTRIKING EMP.

WHILE TURNING 935 THE EMPLOYEE HAD HIS HAND OUTSIDE OF CAB IN A PINCH POINT. THE EMPLOYEE HAD SCHEDULED VACATION STARTING 8-23-88 SO LOST TIME DID NOT START UNTIL 8-29-889

EMPLOYEE WAS SCALING THE TOP OF RIB WITH A EIMCO FORK LIFT AND WAS STRUCK BY FALLING CAP ROCK.

WHILE DRIVING A BUS THE STEERING WHEEL JERKED STRIKING EMP. ARM WITH THE STEERING FORK.

WHILE RIDING IN MANTRIP A BUMP IN THE ROADWAY CAUSED EMPLOYEE TO PUT STRAIN ON HIS LEFT KNEE.

WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS ON TOP OF THE CONVEYOR BELT PREPARING TO SPLICE THE BELT THE BELT STARTED CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL OFF BELT AND STRIKING ROLLERS.

WHILE OPERATING A 915 EIMCO DIESEAL A PIECE OF 4 INCH ALUIMUMN PIPE WAS RAN OVER FLIPPING THE PIPE UP INTO THE CAB PINCHING LEFT LEG.

WHILE RIDING TH9 MANTRIP INTO WORK HE WAS SITTING UPRIGHT AND NOT BEING ALERT. HE BUMPED HIS HEAD ON AN ELECTRICAL JUNCTION BOX AND SPRAINED HIS NECK. HE WORKED THE WHOL9 SHIFT AND THEN HAD TWO REGUALAR DAYS OFF. ON RECHECK 6-29-87 HIS DR ADVISED FURTHER CONVALESCENCE

EMPLOYEE TRIED 7O REMOVE A LARGE ROCK FROM A RAW COAL CONVEYOR WITHOUT SHUTTING OFF THE BELT THE ROCK STUCK ON THE BELT AND HIS HAND JERKING HIS ARM HE SUSTAINED A STRAINED SHOULDER WHICH REQ UIRED 4 DAYS OF0 DURING HIS CONVALESENCE

EMPLOYEE SAW A 8TEEL PLATE ON THE RAW COAL BELT AND TRIED TO LIFT IT OFF.THE PLATE CAUGHT ON THE BELT AND SQUASHED HIS MIDDLE FINGER.IN THE FUTURE THIS EMPLOYEE WILL SHUT OFF THE BELT.HE RE QUIRED SUTUES A3D A SPLINT BUT QWAS ABLE TO RETURN TO HIS NEXT SHIFT AND PERFORM REGULAR DUTIES.

AFTER USING HIS3ELMCO TO PULL A TIEL PIECE AND THE MACHINE BUCKED AND BOUNCED THE OPERATOR COMPLAINED OF A SORE BACK WHICH WAS STIFF & PAINFULL THE FOLLOWING DAY.HE IS CURVENTLY OFF WITH A PO SSIBLE DISC PRO6LEM.

HAUL TRUCK SPUN3OUT ON ICY GRADE AS TRUCK STARTED TO SLIDE BACKWARDS DRIVER JUMPED FROM CAB TO GROUND LACERATED HANDS ON CONTACT WITH ICE AND ROCKS ON THE GROUND TRUCK SLID BACKWARDS 100 FT A AND STOPPED AGA3NST HILLSIDE ON EDGE OF ROAD NO DAMAGE TO TRUCK LACERATIONS REQUIRED SUTURES

WHILE DRIVING O6T OF THE TUNNEL HIS TRUCK HIT A BUMP AND HIS KNEE STRUCK THE INSTRUMENT PANEL.

WHILE RIDING PA8SENGER IN AN EIMCO PERSONNEL CARRIER THE FOREMAN HAD TO BENT OVER AS THEY DROVE UNDER LOW TOP HE HELD ON TO THE RAIL ON THE SIDES OF THE VEHICLE WHILE HE WAS BENT DOWN EIMCO SL ID ON A WET RO7KY STRETCH & BUMPED AGAINST A TIMBER FOREARMS FINGER WAS STUCK BETWEEN THE RAIL & TIMBER & LACERATED

FREEZING IN THE3BRAKELINE CAUSED BRAKES ON LOADER TO MALFUNCTION IN SPITE OF KNOWING THIS THE EMPLOYEE TO THE LOADER DOWN A STEEP SLOPE OF THE REFUSE PILE & LOSE CONTROL OF THE MACHINE-HAD TO STOP IT AGAINST3A CONCRETE BASE TO A CONVEYOR BELT COLUMN

WE WERE FIRST A4ARE OF THIS ACCIDENT ON 11 17 86 AND FIRS DAY MISSED WAS 11 20 86 EMP TWISTED HIS BACK AS HSI TRUCK HIT A BUMP DRIVING OUT OF THE ROCK TUNNEL RECURENT BACK PAINS AND SPASM HAS CAUSED HIM TO M3SS WORK

EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING BY OUTSIDE RAW COAL BELT AND SAW DEBRIS ON THE CONVEYOR;HE TRIED TO REMOVE.HE HAD HIS HAND ON A PIECE OF TIMBER WHEN IT FLIPPED OVER AS THE BELT PASSED THROUGH A STEEL FRA ME INTO THE BUI5DING.THE EMPLOYEE GOT HIS R INDEX FINGER STUCK BETWEEN THE TIMBER AND A STEEL BEAM.HE INCURRED A FRACTURE AND IS STILL OFF WORK.

EMPLOYEE WAS A 1ASSENGER IN ONEIMCO PERSONNEL CARRIER.THE VEHICLE HIT A BUMP AND I NAME STRUCK AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE EIMCO.HE MISSED 2 DAYS RO RECOVER FROM BRUISED MUSCLES.

WHILE OPERATING3A HAULAGE TRUCK THROUGH THE TUNNEL THE EMPLOYEE HIT A BUMP IN THE ROAD. THAT JARRED HIM VIOLENTLY IN HIS TRUCK SEAT. THIS CAUSED A WIPLASH EFFECT ON HIS HEAD AND NECK WHICH L EFT HIM WITH A 1AINFUL CERVICAL STRAIN.

I,NAME THOUGHT 8OMEONE ELSE HAD DISCONNECTED AIR PRESSURE WHEN HE LOOSENED THE AIR HOSE FROM THE EIMCO. THE HOSE WHIPPED UNDER PRESSURE AND HIT THE EMPLOYEE IN HIS GROIN. HIS PAIN WITH WALKING KEPT HIM OFF W2RK THE NEXT DAY.

HELPING ROOFBOL7ERS INSTALL BELT HANGERS,I.NAME BENT OVER TO P.U.DRILL STEEL.AT THE SAME TIME SHUTTLE CAR PULLED SLACK OUT OF ITS CABLE WHICH WAS ANCHORED IN FRONT OF I.NAME. CABLE SWUNG INTO HIS FACE.FACE 5ND NECK INJURIES CAUSED HIM TO MISS NEXT 2 SHIFTS OF CYCLE.

MINER OPERATOR 9UNNING 12 CM BY REMOTE IN UNSAFE POSITION ALONGSIDE MACHINE IN VIOLATION OF COMPANY SAFETY RULES.HE WAS ON DOWNHILL SIDE AT TIME AND APPARENTLY SLID ON MUDDY GROUND AND PINNED HIM AGAINST TIM6ER.INCURRED ABDOMINAL/PELVIC TRAUMA REQ SURGERY AND IS STILL HOSPITALIZED.

EMPLOYEE WAS DR3VING THIS TRUCK TO THE CAR WASH WHEN ATTEMPTED TO DOWNSHIFT THE GEARBOX. HE COULD NOT GET THE TRUCK BACK IN GEAR AS IT WAS GAINING SPEED. HE TRIED THE BRAKES REPEATEDLY, BUT THEY FAILED TO 2PERATE. HE JUMPED CLEAR AND HIT HIS HEAD ON THE GROUND.

TRIED TO STRAIG2TEN PUSH-RAM RIDING DOWN FACE CONVEYOR WHEN TIP OF IT STUCK ON PLOW AND IT SWUNG OUT AND DOWN INTO LEFT LEG.SUSTAINED FX'S TO LEG AND REQ SURGICAL REDUCTION.

MOVING MONORAIL3WHEN IT FLIPPED OVER AND HE COULDNT GET HIS FOOT OUT OF THE WAY IN TIME.SUSTAINED BRUISED FOOT AND WAS OFF 3 DAYS TO LET SWELLING SUBSIDE.

THE MINER OP WA8 HELPING MOVE THE LOADER & WAS POSITIONING A WOODEN CAP BLOCK ON T HE GROUND UNDER THE LOADER. THE LOADER CAUGHT THE BLOCK BEFORE HE KNEW IT HIS HAND WAS BEING CRUSHED AGAINST THE FLOOR. TH9RE WERE NO FRACTURES A LACERATION ON THE INDEX FINGER REQUIRED SUTURES.

WHILE OP HIS BU1GY IN THE CAB EE DROVE OVER A TIMBER HE COULD NOT SEE & T HE WHEEL "TIDDLY-WINK"IT INTO THE CAB DOOR. EE SUSTAINED BRUISED RIBS WHICH KEPT HIM OFF WORK ABOUT 7 DAYS.

WHILE WATCHING 7HE LOADING OF A TRUCK INSIDE THE ROCK TUNNEL THE EE WAS STRUCK IN THE LEG BY A ROCK KICKED OUT BY A LOADER TIRE. THE LEG WAS BRUISED & A KNEE LIGAMENT WAS SPRAINED.

WHILE CHAINING 6P TENSIONER TO BELT DRIVE THE BELT DRIVE WA TURNED ON AND BEFORE I.NAME COULD GET HIS HANDS OUT, THE CHAIN PINCHED IT AGAINST A FRAM. HE INCURRED AN OPEN CRUSH INJURY, WHICH R EQUIRED SUTURIN1 HE REPORTED FOR WORK THE FOLLOWING SHIFT

EMPLOYEE WAS RE1AIRING A SWITCH TO A STRIKE BELT WHILE ANOTHER MAN WENT TO SHUT OFF POWER HE GOT ATARTED HE INADVERTENTLY STEPPED ON THE BELT WHILE HOLDING THE ENDS TO THE SWITCH LINE HE HAD N OT CONFIRMED TH5T THE POWER WAS OFF THE LEADS CAME INTO CONTACT AND STARTED THE BELT WHICH PULLED HIM INTO A CROSSOVER AND KNOCKED HIM TO THE GROUND

WHILE SHOVELING3UNDER A BELT TO CLEAN-UP BELT LINE A ROCK ON CONVEYER BELT BOUNCED OFF A ROLLER & RICOCHETED ONTO EMPLOYEES RT FOOT PENETRATING BEHIND STEEL CAP OF BOOT EMPLOYEE INCURRED A CLO SED FX OF GREA7 TOE & IS EXCUSED FROM WORK AT THIS TIME

A BUS BEING DRI5EN TO THE MINE ROLLED OFF THE EDGE OF A MINE ROAD AND THE EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING ON THE LEFT SIDE HE HAD A LUNCH BOX FALL DOWN INTO HIS HEAD CUAISNG A BRUISE AND A LATERIAL WHIPLA SH INJURY CERVI7AL STRAIN TO HIS NECK.

WHILE DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR EMPLOYEE STATED HE FELT PAIN IN HIS GROIN. AND RIGHT TESTICLE. THIS WAS LATER FOUND TO BE DUE TO A HERNIA EMPLOYEE HAD AN OPERATION ON 9-25-85 AND WILL BE OFF AN ESTI MATED 6 WEEKS.

EMP WAS RIDING TO THE COMPANY BATHHOUSE IN CO. BUS THE BUS RAN INTO SOME DEEP RUTS & BUMPS CAUSING MEN IN THE BACK OF THE BUS TO BUMP THEIR HEADS. WHEN FIRST REPORTED THIS EMPLOYEE DENIED HE WOULD BE WANTING MEDICAL ATTENTION. AFTER MISSING WORK A FEW DAYS LATER WE LEARNED THIS WAS DUE TO SOME PRE-EXISTING BACK PROBLEM AGGRAVATED BY THE INCIDENT

EMPL HOOKING CHAIN ONTO LW SHIELD BEING MOVED OUT OF FACE.EMPL DOWN ON HANDS AND KNEES.EIMCO OPERATOR BROUGHT MACHINE IN NOT KNOWING MAN WAS THERE AND STARTED TO SET HIS BUCKET DOWN ON TOP OF HIM.INJ EMPL MADE NO EFFORT TO SIGNAL TO OPERATOR OR GET OUT OF HIS WAY.

WHILE PUSHING MANTRIP RAIL CAR BACK ONTO THE RAILS AFTER IT RODE ONTOP OF THE DEADSTOP TIE AT THE END OF THE TRACKS, THE TIE BROKE AND THE CAR ROLLED BACK INTO THE EMPLOYEE AS HE TURNED AWAY I T PUSHED AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.

MINER HELPER WAS TRIPPED BY A MINER CABLE THAT HAD BEEN CAUGHT BY THE SHUTTLE CAR AND PULLED TOWARD THE LOW RIB THE EMPLOYEES ANKLE WAS MILDLY BRUISED AND SPRAINED THIS EMPLOYEE HAS A LOW TOLE RANCE OF PAIN AND WORK AND TOOK TWO DAYS OFF AFTER SEEING THE ER PHYSICIAN TWICE TO GET A MEDICAL RELEASE FROM WORK

EMPLOYEE LIFTED A ROCK ONTO THE CONVEYOR THAT FEEDS INTO THE ROCK CRUSHER AND CAUGHT HIS RT FINGER BENEATH TEH ROCK AND MASHED IT AGAINST ANOTHER ROCK ON THE CONVEYOR A LACERATION AND MINOR F RACTURE OF THE DISTAL TUFT OF THAT FINGER WERE SUSTAINED REQUIRING SUTURES

WHILE OPERATING 10SC CAR OVER SOME BUMPS AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED. THE OPERATOR WAS BOUNCED AROUND IN THE CAB OF HIS SHUTTLE CAR AND SPRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. THE EMPLOYEE IS MISSING WORK PENDIN G FURTHER TESTS.

WHILE FOREMAN WAS LOOKING FOR MISFIRES AT THE TUNNEL FACE AN EIMCO LOADER UP HE TURNED THE BUCKET TOWARD I,NAME AND COULD NOT SEE HE WAS SQUEEZING HIM AGAINST THE RIB. I,NAME SUSTAINED NUMEROU S INJURIES CAUSING A LOST TIME ACCIDENT.

THE FIREBOSS WAS RIDING ON THE BRAKE CAR WITH THE ROPE-RIDER COMING UPHILL ON THE MAN-TRIP. THE TRIP DERAILED AND THE ROPE-RIDER MOVED, TO BELL THE HOIST TO STOP THE TRIP ACCDIENTLY HITTING TH E FIRE BOSS\S FACE IN THE MOTION. THE ROPE RIDER HAS BEEN COUNSETTED ON HOW TO HOLD THE RAPPER IN THE CORRCT HAND TO AVOID TURNING TO REACH THE WIRES.

I,NAME WAS GUIDING AN EIMCO FRONT END LOADER CARRYING A LARGE FAN MOTOR THROUGH THE TUNNEL. THE OPERATOR WAS DEPENDING ON JOHNS SIGNALS AS HIS IVISBILITY WAS BADLY RESTRICTED HE KEPT THE BUCKE T LOW SO HE COULD SEE HIM. AS HE DROVE FORWARD, ON I,NAME SIGNAL, THE BUCKET BOTTOMED OUT ON TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT BECAUSE OF THE UNEVEN GROUND. HE INCURRED A FRACTURED FOOT.

AS THE CREW WAS DEPARTING THE MINE ON THE HOIST OPERATED MANTRIP, THIS EMPLOYEE LEANED AGAINST TXX AN IMPROPERLY INSTALLED GUARD RAIL WHICH SLIPPED OUT OF ITS HOLES. THE MAN FELL OUT AND FELL BENEATH THE EDGE OF THE CAR WHICH SQUEEZED HIS BODY BETWEEN IT AND THE GROUND, HE SUFFERED VARIOUS CONTUSIONS AND WAS KEPT A DAY IN THE HOSPITAL FOR OBSERVATION ONLY

FOREMAN & SOME OF HIS CREW WERE SHOVELING TO CONTROL SPILLAGE AT THE TAILPIECE. AS HE BENT DOWN TO SHOVEL SOME COAL AN ABJECT FLEW FROM THE TAILPIECE & STRUCK THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE. HE WOR KED THE FULL SHIFT & LATE THAT EVENING NOTICED A DEPRESSION ON HIS FACE-LATER DIAGNOSED AS A FRACTURED CHEEKBONE. THE REQUIRED SURGICAL RECONSTRUCTION & FOR THIS EE IS OFF WORK.