EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A UNILOADER CLEANING UP SLATE, WHEN THE LOADER BUCKET DROPPED TO THE GROUND UNDER A FULL LOAD, RAISING THE REAR WHEELS. THE EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO BRACE HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT FOOT, BUT SLIPPED AS HE RAISED THE BUCKET,CATCHING HIS FOOT BETWEEN THE FRAME AND THE BUCKET. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURED RIGHT LEG.
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April 28, 1989
VA · Coal
warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator
POWERED HAULAGE
Wellmore Coal Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
August 17, 1983
VA · Coal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
POWERED HAULAGE
Patrick Coal Corp · Struck by flying object
OPERATING AN ENDLOADER A SCRAP OF METAL WAS BLOWN IN MY EYE
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