THE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING MAN-TRIP ON WAY OUT SIDE WHEN TIRE ON MAN-TRIP HIT A OBJECT CAUSING STEERING WHEEL TO SPIN AROUND CATCHING LEFT WRIST & FINGER.
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Showing all 27THE EE WAS OPERATING BUGGY & HIT A HOLE CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS HEAD ON CANOPY. THIS CAUSED MUSCLAR STRAIN TO HIS NECK.
THE EE WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR AND A PIECE OF COAL GOT INTO EE S EYE.
BEING TRANSPORTED IN A TRAILER USED AS A MANTRIPHIT SEVERAL HOLES IN ROADWAY CUASING EE TO BE BOUNCED ABOUT.
PERSON WAS TRAMMING BRIDGE CONVEYOR BACK OUT OF #4 HDG AND SAID HE GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN RIB AND CONVEYOR UNIT.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING LOADED COAL TRUCK DOWN MINE ACCESS ROAD WHILE PASSING AN EMPTY COAL TRUCK DRIVING TOO CLOSE TO BERM AND SOFT ROAD GAVE WAY CAUSING TRUCK TO TURN OVER (WEATHER WAS RAINING AND ROAD SOFT).
EE WAS BEING LOADED WITH ROCK APPROX. SIZE 12X4X3 WHICH WAS 2ND BUCKET LOAD BY ENDLOADER WHEN EE RADIOED LOADER OPERATOR THAT HE HAD BUSTED HIS SPLEEN LOADER OPERATOR STATED THE TRUCK WAS NOT SHOOK BY ROCK OUT OF THE ORDINARY. EXAMINTION OFROOM SHOWED EXISTING PROSTIATE PROBLEMS AND WAS DETERMINED BY THE DR NOT TO BE AS RESULT OF INCIDENT WV STATE INSPECTOUR INVESTIGATION.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP AND THE CANOPY STRUCK A ROOF STRAP WHICH THEN ENTERED THE OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE IN THE HEAD.
ROOF JACKS HAD BEEN PLACED ON MANBUS TO TAKE UNDERGROUND AND WHILE TRAVELING THROUGH FLY CURTAINS, ROOF JACKS SLID AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE NECK AREA.
WHILE OPERATING SCOOP IN 2 HEADING OF MAIN SECTION EE HAT WAS FALLING OFF AND HE REACHED TO GET IT WHILE SCOOP WAS STILL MOVING RESULTING IN HIS HAND BEING CAUGHT BETWEEN MINE ROOF AND HAT.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING SCOOP. HIS KNEE WAS HIGHER THAN THE OPERATORS COMPARTMENT AND STRUCK THE TOP IN A LOW PLACE IN THE ENTRY. AVERAGE COAL HEIGHT IS 36".
EMPLOYEE TRAMMING #3 BRIDGE, IT BECAME HUNG UP IN SOFT MINE FLOOR, #4 BRIDGE CAT PADS RAN OVER HIS LEFT FOOT. FOOT WAS BRUISED AND SORE BUT NOT BROKEN, PROBABLY SPARINED ALSO.
SCOOP WAS MOVING AND OPERATOR HIT LEGS AND HEAD AGAINST ROOF, HURTING HIS BACK.
ELECTRICIAN WAS DRIVING A 3 WHEELER, WHEEL HIT HOLE AND CAUSED ARM TO HIT TOP.
EE WAS OPERATING THE MANTRIP THE KNOB ON THE STEARING WHEEL CAME OUT OF HIS HAND WENT AROUND AND STRUCK THE TOP OF HIS HAND.
SCOOP OPERATOR JAMMED HEAD AGAINST TOP
WHILE RUNNING A SCOOP IN 36" COAL CLEANING UP #2 HEADING, ROOFED THE SCOOP AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT KNEE.
CONTINUOUS HAULAGE BRIDGE WAS TRAMMING THROUGH INTERSECTION TOWARD FACE SCOOP HIT BRIDGE KNOCKING IT INTO OPERATOR.
BRIDGE WERE BEING ADVANCED TO FACE AREA & BRIDGEMAN TURNED TO LOOK OUBY & INBY BRIDGE PULLED BRIDGE ON RIGHT FOOT.
HE WAS OPERATING HIS BRIDGE VERY CLOSE TO THE RIB AND ANOTHER BRIDGE PULLED HIM INTO THE RIB.
STEERING TURNED SUDDENLY WHEN TRUCK HIT A HOLE IN ROAD AND DRIVER HAD HIS HAND INSIDE WHEEL. FRACTURED DRIVER'S RIGHT HAND.
PIT WAS DRY, GOOD VISIBILITY, OPERATIOR HAD LOADER IN SECOND GEAR BUSTING COAL, HIT THE COAL THAT WAS NOT BUSTED, THEW OPERATOR INTO STEERING WHEEL BRUISING OPERATORS LEFT SIDE.
PRELL BIN OVER TURNED WITH INDIVIDULA ON TOP. BIN IS 30' TALL BEING FILLED FROM TRUCK INJURED WENT TO TOP. BIN OVERTURNED.
RUN INTO RIB WH3LE RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR.
WATERING ROAD W3TH LOADER. SAID BREAKS WENT OUT. ROLLED OVER HALL.
HELPING DROP 5 9MPTY RAIL CARS HE FELT CARS WERE OUT OF CONTROL AND JUMPED TO GROUND
WHILE OPERATING SHUTTLECAR HIT BUMP IN HAULRAOD AND HIT HEAD ON CANOPY AND BACK OR SEAT