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WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS GREASING A ROLLER, THE GREASE HOSE DISLODGED FROM GREASE FITTING CAUSWING HOSE TO CATCH IN ROLLER PULLING EMPLOYEE'S HAND INTO ROLLER.
EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HIS RIGHT HAND FINGERS BECAME WEDGED BETWEEN A WALKING STICK THAT HE CARRIES AND THE RIB. ALL 4 FINGERS ON HIS RIGHT HAND WERE LACERATED. HIS PINKY FING ER WAS FRACTUREE.
WHEN TRYING TO UNJAM THE CONVEYOR, EE GOT HIS HFINGER PINCHED BETWEEN THE CONVEYOR BELT & THE HEADROLLER RESULTING IN THE BONE AT THE TIP OF THERING FINGER HAVING TO BE TRIMMED BACK
EE DROPPED MBC CANOPY ON HIS HEAD AND JAMMED THE BACK OF UPPER NECK.
EE CRAWLED UNDER THE MOVING SLOPE BELT WHERE IT WAS NO GUARDED AND WAS OBSERVING THE MOVING BELTWHEN HE RAISED HIS ARM AND GOT IT CAUGHT BETWEENTHE BOTTOM ROLLER AND THE BELT. CAUSE OF THIS IN JURY WAS ARM GETTING UNDER A MOVING BELT. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR. PROTECTIVE EQUIP. NOT IN PLACE. MINER PROFIENCY FACTOR. MINING SYSTEMS OK.
WHILE TRAMMING AN MBC OFF CRIB BLOCK THE EMPLOYEE JAMMED HIS LOWER BACK. THE EMPLOYEE IS UNDER GOING CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT FOR THIS CONDIDITION
ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHILE EE WAS SHOVELING THE 4 NORTH TRANSFER WHEN A PIECE OF COAL FLEW OFF THE BELT STRIKING HIM ON HIS MOUTH. CAUSED OF THIS INJURY WAS BODY POSITIONING AND CONGE STED AREA. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCT A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT / SYTEMS NOT A FACTOR.
EE WAS RDING IN A BATTERY JEEP WHEN THE JEEP JUMPED TRACK AT A BAD PLACE ON THE TRACK. HE CLAIMS TO HAVE STRAINED HIS NECK WHEN THE JEEP STRUCK THE RIB. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS BAD TRACK AND NOT BEING REPAIRED IN A TIMELY MANNER. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT OK, MINER ATTITUDE A FACTOR, MINIGN EQUIP/SYSTEMS NOT A FACTOR.
EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF HAULING COAL WITH A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE HIT A BUMP IN THE ROADWAY CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS HEA ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THE CANOPY. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS ROUGH ROADWAYS AND SPEED. MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT NOT A FACTOR, COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS A FACTOR.
WHILE TRAVELING ALONG #4 BELT ENTRY, MUD SPLASHED INTO EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT EYE. THIS WAS REPORTED TO THE EMPLOYER ON APRIL 27, 1998. MEDICAL TREATMENT ONLY.
EE HIT A POT HOLE & JARRED HIMSELF & CHIPPED A TOOTH. MEDICAL NO LOST TIME.
THIS EMPLOYEE WAS INVOLVED IN A PINCH-POINT ACCIDENT. THE RESULTING INJURIES INCLUDE A BROKE ARMULNA. LACERATION AND CONTUSIONS TO THE EMPLOYEESRIGHT ARM.
WHILE THIS EE WAS TRAMMING THE SHUTTLE CAR FROM THE FACE TO THE FEEDER. HE HIT A HOLE AND BOUNCED UP AND BUT HIS HEAD AGAISNT THE UNDERSIDE CANOPY.
EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON METAL POST AND SUFFERED A SORE NECK. EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT INCIDENT TO EMPLOYEE UNTIL MARCH 3, 1998.
ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHEN THIS EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR, HIS SEAT BROKE AND HE STRUCK THE RIB. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS THE SEAT BREAKING. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINE PROFICIENCY A FACTOR MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS WAS A FACTOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET A TWIN HEAD ROOF BOLTER UNSTUCK. HE HOOKED UP A NYLON SLING TO THE BOLTER AND SHUTTLE CAR WITH A PIECE OF A ROOF BOLT IN THE LOOP. THE BOLT STRUCK HIM ON THE ARM . CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS NOT USING PROPER MATERIAL HOOK UP LOCATION. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR,PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT INADEQUATE,MINER PROFICENCY.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN A TRACK JEEP COMING OUT OF THE 2 SOUTH SECTION AND THEY WERE STRUCK BY A MOTOR. CAUSED OF THIS INJURY WAS TRAVELING TOO CLOSE TO A MOVING VEHICLE. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES AND REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/ SYSTEMS WAS OK.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A DC LOCOMOTIVE AND HE LOST CONTROL OF IT. THE MOTOR CRASHED THRU A CEMENT BLOCK STOPPING. HE HADA TRIP THAT CONSISTED OF THE MOTOR, BATTERY CAR ADN 2 FULL ROCKDUST TA NKERS. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS USING ELECTRIC BRAKE ISNTEAD OF AIR BRAK AND SAND. COMMPLAINCE WITH RULE/REGS A FACTOR, MINER PROFENCIENCY A FACTRO, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT OK.
ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO HAVE OCCURRED WHILE THIS EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN A BATTERY TRACK JEEP. THE TRACK JEEP WENT DOWN A GRADE WHERE THE RAILS WERE WET AND WHEN THE OPERATOR PULLED ON THE BRAK ES TO STOP THE VEHICLE SLID INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS WET RAILS AND TRAVELING TO CLOSE. COMPLIANCE A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT OK, MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR.
ALLEDGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHILE THE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A JOY 10 END COMPARTMENT SHUTTLE CAR. HE CLAIMS TOHAVE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE UNDERSIDER OF THE CANOPY. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS ATTITUDE AND TRAVELING TO CONDITONS. COMPLIANCEWITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR.PROTECTIVE EQUIPMETOK. MINER ATTITUDE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT\SYSTEMS OK.
EE WAS RIDING WITH ANOTHER COWORKER RIDING DOWN THE 33 MAINS TRACK WHEN THE OPERATOR OF THE JEEPTRIED THE BRAKES THEY DID NOT WORK. BOTH EE JUMPED OFF THE MOVING VEHICLE. CAUSE OF THIS INJ URY WAS THE BRAKES NOT WORKING. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR. PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS NOT WORN (KNEE SUPPORT)MINER KNOWLEDGE A FACTOR. EQUIP A FACTOR.
EE REPORTEDLY JERKED HIS NECK WHILE RIDING SKID INTO THE 1 SOUTH ROOM SECTION. PLEASE NOTE: MEDICAL TREATMENT/NO LOST WORK DAYS.
EE WAS PULLING MANTRIP SKID INTO SECTION WITH SCOOP WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON ROOF IN LOW AREA WHILE TRAMMING THRU RUN THRU CHECK.
EMPLOYEE PARKED HIS MANTRIP AT BOTTOM, SET BRAKE AND STARTED TO GET OFF THE MANTRIP, AS HE WAS GETTING OFF THE MANTRIP, THE BRAKE DISCHARGED AND THE MANTRIP DRIFTED, THE EMPLOYEES LEFT FOOT WA S BETWEEN THE HYDRAULIC BRAKE AND FRAME, HIS FOOT GOT CAUGHT HERE AND HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEES
EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR AND A WIRE HANGING FROM THE ROOF CAM IN THE OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT STRIKING HIM IN THE EYE. CAUSED OF THIS INJURY WAS NOT BENDING WIRES UP AND AWARENESS OF ROADW AYS. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS OK.
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN EIMCO MANTRIP PARKED IN A SWITCH. THE MANTRIP THAT WAS COMING OUT BEHIND THAM FAILED TO STOP AND STRUCK THE MANTRIP ON TH REAREND. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS MANTRIP OPER ATOR KEEPING HIS EQUIPMENT UNDER CONTROL. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP. OK, MINER PROFIENCY A FACTOR MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS A FACTOR.
EE CLAIMS THAT WHILE OPERATING THE SCOOP TO CLEAN UP THE BELT ENTRY HE JAMMED HS NECK AGAINST THE CANOPY. CAUSE OF THS INJURY WAS AWARENESS AND OBSERVING THE SCOOP TIRE GOING OVER A LEDGE. C OMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WASNOT A FACTOR, PROTEECTIVE EQUIPMENT OK, MINER PROFICIENCY A FACTOR,MINEING EQUIPMENT SYTEM COULD BE A FACTOR.
EE HAD HIS HAND ON TOP OF THE BLADE OF SCOOP BUCKET WHILE THE BLADE WAS BEING PULLED BACK. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS OF HAVING HANDS ON BLADE. COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCY MAYBE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS COULD BE A FACTOR.
EMPLOYEE GOT THE BU LOADER STUCK IN A HOLE. HE WAS SITTING IN THE OPR'S COMPARTMENT WHILE OTHER CO-WORKERS HOOKED UP A 1/2" CHAIN FROM A SHUTTLE CAR TO THE FRAME OF THE BU. CHAIN BROKE, STRUCK EMPLOYEE. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS IMPROPER HOOK UP. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS INADEQUATE, MINER KNOWLEDGE WAS A FACTOR.
THE INJURED EE WAS MOVING THE MINER CABLE AND WATER LINE WHICH WAS BETWEEN THE RFM AND THE RIB. THE MBC BACKED UP AND THE EE'S LEG WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE DOLLY AND THE RIB.
EE WAS TALKING INTO MICROPHONE & HE STRUCK HIS MOUTH ON MICROPHONE WHEN OPERATOR BEHIND HIM JERKED MBC. MEDICAL 7000-1 NO LOST TIME.
RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR HIT A BUMP, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND NECK. "THIS MAN DID NOT START TO LOSE TIME UNTIL SEPT. 12, 1997" FOR THIS INJURY.
EE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP AND HE RAN OVER A 2" ALUMINUM PIPE. THE PIPE BENT UP AND TRAVELED INTO THE OP0ERATOR'S COMPARTMENT GONG UNDERNEATH HIS BUTTOCKS. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS TRAVELING OVE R MATERIAL AND INSTALLATION OF CAB DOORS BEING OFF. COMPLIANCE WITH RULE/REGS WAS A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT NOT ADEQUATE, MINER PROFICIENCY.
EMP WAS ASSISTING THE HYSTER OPERATOR IN LOADING TOP BELT STRUCTURE WHEN A PIECE OF STRUCTURE SLID OFF THE HYSTER AND STRUCK HIM ONT HE RIGHT FOOT BEHIND THE MATATARSAL ON HIS BOOT.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE UNDER SIDE OF THE CANOPY OF THE SHUTTLE CAR THAT HE WAS OPERATING HE BROKE AND CRACKED TWO TEETH.CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS TRAVELING TOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS & KEEPING ROADWAYS CLEAN. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES AND REGULATION WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS OK, MINER PROFICIENCY WAS A FACTOR, MINING EQUIPMENT/SYSTEMS OK.
EE WAS RERAILING A TRACK JEEP BACK ONTO THE TRACK. IN THE PROCESS OF SLEWING THE JEEP WITH ANOTHER JACK THE VEHICLE MOVED WHICH LOOSENED THE JACK AND THE VEHILE FELL. EE HAE BOTH FEET UNDER TH E FRAME OF THE JEEP. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS. COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR.PROTECTIVE EQUIP AS OK, MINER PROFINCIENCY A FACTOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING OTU OF THE BATTERY MANTRIP AT THE END OF HIS SHIFT, WHEN ANOTHER MANTRIP STRUCK THE BACK END. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY WAS BEING STRUCK BY ANOTHER VEHICLE. COMPLAINCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS A FACTOR.,
EE WAS STANDING ON TOP OF THE BELT AND THE BELT STARTED. WHEN THIS HAPPEN HE JUMPED OFF TWISTING HIS ANKLE.
EE WAS OPERATING THE FEEDER TO PULL BELT WITH WHEN THEY STARTED THE BELT A 5/16 CHAIN BROKE. WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE FEEDER SUDDENLY MOVED TO THE RIGHT PINNING VICTIM AGAINST THE FEEDER AND SOL ID. CAUSED OF THIS INJURY WAS USING UNSAFE MATERIAL CHAIN COMPLAINCE WITH RULES REG WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP OK, MINER KNOWLEDGE A FACTOR, SYSTEM FACT.
ALLEDGED ACCIDENT WAS TO OCCUR WHILE DRIVING THE REFUUSH TRUCK DURING HIS SHIFT. HE STATED THAT HIS BACK WAS STIFFENING UP THROUGH OUT THE SHIFT AND WHEN HE GOT HOME HIS DISCOMFORT INCREASED. HE CLISM THAT THE BOUNCING OF THE TRUCK CAUSED THIS STRAIN. CAUSE OF THIS INJURY IS UNKOWN, COMPLIANCE OK, MINER PROFICIENCY FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIP OK, EQUIP OK.
THE EE WAS OPERATING A 3 WHEELER. THE MACHINE HIT A ROCK CAUSIG THE FRONT WHEEL TO TURN RADICALLY WHICH IN TURN CAUSED THE STEERING WHEEL TO SPIN STRIKING THE EE ON THE RIGHT HAND. HE BEGAN LOSING TIME ON 6/9/97.
EE WAS TRAMMING A SHUTTLE CAR HIT A BUMP IN THE ROADWYA, WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE SEAT CAME OFF THE HOLDER AND HE JARRED HIS BACK. CAUSED OF THIS INJURY WAS LOCKING MECHANISM ON SEAT INOPERATIVE . COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WAS INOPERATIVE, MINER KNOWLEDGE A FACTOR, MINING EQUIP/SYSTEMS A FACTOR.
EMP WAS OPERATING A SCOOP WHEN HE CRUSHED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE CAB AND THE FRAME OFSCOOP.
THE EE WAS CLEANING BELT WHEN THE SHOVEL HE WAS USING BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BELT & ROLLER JERKING HIS RIGHT ARM. THE INJURED EE WORKED THRU 6/3/97.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT WHILE DRIVING THE REFUSE TRUCK HE HIT A HOLE AND JARRED HIS NECK. CAUSE OF THIS ACCIDENT WAS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND SPEED.
EE WAS ON TOP OF THE BELT WELDING ON A BELT CHUTE. THE BELT MOVED AND HE JUMPED OFF THE BELT AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. CAUSE OF THE INJURY WAS ANOTHER EE TRYING TO START THE BELT.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF SCOOPING A X-CUT OUT PRIOR TO A MOVE ON WEEKEND. THERE WAS GOB AND LOOSS BLOCK TO SCOOP OUT OF X-CUT. WHLE PUTTING DOWN PRESSURE ON SCOOP BUCKET, CAUSED KITCHE N COMPARTMENT TO RAISE CATCHING EMPLOYEES HEAD BETWEEN COMPARTMENT AND ROOF.
EE WAS RE-RAILING A 10 TON BATTERY MOTOR BACK ONTO THE TRACK. HE USED A 10 TON SIMPLEX JACK TO PUSH THE MOTOR OVER. WHEN THE MOTOR STARTED TO GO, THE SIMPLEX JACK FELL AND STRUCK HIS FOOT.
EE TWISTED HIS BODY AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS TO OCCURR WHILE OPERATING HIS SHUTTLE CAR GOING THRU ROUGH ROADS. HE SAID THE SHUTTLE CAR FELL INTO A RUT AND WHEN THIS HAPPENED HE STRUCK HIS HEAD AGAINST THE CANOPY. CAU SE OF THIS INJURY WAS AWARENESS AND FILLING IN HOLES ON TRAMROAD. COMPLIANCE WITH RULES/REGS WAS NOT A FACTOR. PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT NOT WORN (BACK SUPPORT). MINER PROFICIENCY.