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August 1, 2008 PA · Coal miner, prospector, nec POWERED HAULAGE
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company · Fall from machine

Day shift foreman found an ATV Saturday morning on job site wrecked. Informed Tamaqua police. MSHA supervisor requested a 7000-1 form.

April 18, 2008 PA · Coal welder (shop) POWERED HAULAGE
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was using a boom truck to lift a steel plate when he set it on the truck it slipped, He went to grab it, cut his wrist.

July 5, 2006 PA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company · Struck against a moving object

Truck driver was hauling stone and overturned his truck. He has no recolection of the accident. I\The accident was immediately reported to MSHA.

November 6, 2005 PA · Coal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor POWERED HAULAGE
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHILE PREFORNING SECURITY, EMPLOYEE STOP TO TALK TO ATV RIDERS, AS THEY WERE LEAVING ONE OF THEM RAN OVER HIS RIGHT FOOT CAUSING A BAD SPRAIN.

May 1, 2000 PA · Coal brakeman, roperider, car runner, spotterman, snapper, trip rider, car rider, flagman POWERED HAULAGE
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS MOVING A RAIL CAR INTO A LOADING POSITION WHEN HE STRUCK HIS BODY AGAINST THE RAIL CAR, INJURING HIS LEFT ARM, LEG AND SIDE.

April 4, 2000 PA · Coal truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS DRIVING HIS ROCK TRUCK OVER ROUGH ROADS AND WAS BOUNCING IN THE SEAT OVER SEVERAL HOURS WHEN HE BEGAN TO HAVE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF A HEART ATTACK.

March 20, 2000 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS LOADING SOIL FROM THE TOE WHEN HE STRUCK AN U8NSCEEN ROCK WITH THE LOADER. EE WAS BOUNCED FOREWARD AFTER THE UMPACT. EE WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT.

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