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December 24, 1986 IA · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey POWERED HAULAGE
Superior Coal Company · Struck against stationary object

EMP WAS NOT WAT7HING WHER HE WAS GOING AND RAISED HIS HEAD INTO A CROSSBAR WHILE RIDING OUT OF THE MINE ON THE BELT

March 15, 1985 IA · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
Superior Coal Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

I NAME WAS PREPARING ONE END OF SECRED CABLE FOR SPLICING HE WAS SITTING SEVERAL FT FROM THE RIB AND I N THE PATH AT A SHUTTLE CAR THAT WAS USING THE CROSSCUT FOR PASSING WHEN THE SHUTTLE CAR DRIVEN BY I NAME PULLED INTO CROSSCUT HE HAD HIS FOOT RAN OVER AND AS HE REACHED TO PUSH HIMSELF AWAY, ALSO HAD HIS HAND RAN OVER.

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