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WHILE OPERATING THE #1 SHUTTLE CAR, THE EMPLOYEE RAN OVER A BAD PLACE (HOLE) IN THE BOTTOM OF HIS HAULAGE ROADWAY. HE BOUNCED UP INTO THE CANOPY OF THE SHUTTLE CAR. (NECK AND BACK INJURY).
EE WAS MOVING THE CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE OUT OF THE ROADWAY. WHEN A SHUTTLE CAR CAME OUT OF HEADING. THE CAR CABLE CAUGHT HIS LEFT LEG., PULLING HIM INTO THE COAL RIB.
EE BEING PUSHED BY A SHUTTLE CAR, WHILE OPERATING THE SCOOP TO GET UNSTUCK. THE MOVEMENT CASUDE EE'S BACK PAIN TO REOCCUR. (ATTACHED IS A COPY OF A PREVIOUS PROBLEM EE HAD WITH BACK PAIN.)
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING LOADED TRUCK DOWN 6% GRADE WHEN HE TRIED TO SHIFT GEARS AND HE COULDN'T GET IT BACK IN GEAR. HE LOST CONTROL OF TRUCK AND IT TURNED OVER IN A CURVE.
MANTRIP WAS ON ITS WAY TO THE SECTION WHEN THEY STOPPED TO FIX A BROKEN WATER LINE. WHEN MEN RELOADED TO CONTINUE ON ONE MNA GOT ON TOP OF THE BATTERIES CAUSING SEVERAL BROKEN BONES.
EE WAS OPERATING A JOY 1415CM MINER WHEN A PIECEOF DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS & THE BIGHT RIB STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT LEG & FOOT.
EE WAS DRIVING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE RAN OVER A ROCK IN THE ROADWAY. WHEN THE CAR BOUNCED, IT HURT HIS LOWER BACK.
EE STATED THAT AS HE AHULED A SHUTTLE CAR LOAD OF COAL DOWN 4 ENTRY HE TURNED INTO THE BREAK TOWARD 5 ENTRY AND RAN OVER SOME MATERIAL THAT HAD SLOUGHED FROM THE RIB. THIS CAUSED THE CAR TO BO UNCE AND EE STATED IT HURT HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING MAKE A BELT SET UP & HAD HIS FOOT UNDER THE EDGE OF SCOOP BUCKET WHEN SCOOP OPERATOR LOWERED BUCKET CATCHING HIS FOOT
EE STATES THAT WHILE LEAVING THE SECITON TO HELP SPLICE A BROKEN BELT THE SCOOP HE AND SEVERAL OTHERS WA SIN, RAN OVER A BRATTICE BLOCK CAUSING A JAR AND PAIN IN HIS LOW BAKC NO OTHER PERSONS WERE INJURED. EE WORKED APPROX 30 MIN AND REPORTED TO FOREMAN. DR RELEASED EE HAS NOT RETURNED 7-10.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT AS HE APPROCAHED THE END OFTHE 003 SECTION TRACK HE EITHER RAN OVER AN OBSTACLE OR INTO A HOLE IN MINE FLOOR CAUSING HIS BACK TO BE JARRED. X-RAYS NEGATIVE.
INJURED STATES THAT AS HE WAS TRAVELING DOWN #3 ROADWAY 001 SECTION TOWARD FEEDER A PIECE OF STAGING (STRING) USED IN SPAD ALIGNMENT CAUGHT ON SIDE BOARD OF CAR AND BROKE AS IT BROKE IT SLIPPED INTO HIS RIGHT EYE CAUSING A CORNEAL ABRASION.
INJURED STATES THAT AS HE ENTERED THE LAST OPEN BREAK #3 INTERSECTION OF 003 SECTION ON SHUTTLE CAR, HE RAN OVER A PIECE OF ROCK IN ROADWAY. STATES THAT THE ROCK EITHER FELL FROM HIS OR THE ST D CAR ON PREVIOUS TRIP. ROCK WAS NOT THERE APPROX. 4 MINS BEFORE. COMPLAINS OF LUMBAR-SACRAL PAIN. X-RAY INDICATED SLIGHT WEDGING OF T-12 POSSIBLY OLD INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING COAL WIHT A 10SC SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE HIT A POT HOLE IN THE ROADWAY, WHEN THE CAR BOUNCED, EMPLOYEE HIT HIS HEAD ON THE CARS CANOPY AND HURT HIS NECK.
ACCORDING TO INJURED PERSON HE HAD HIS HAND ON THE EDGE OF THE OPERATOR DECK. WHEN HE ENGAGED REVERSE TRAM THE DECK SHIFTED SLIGHTLY CATCHING HIS LEFT SMALL FINGER THIS WAS REPORTED TO HAVE OC CURRED IN THE 5 ENTRY OF 003 SECITON. INJURED WAS OFF WORK 3-23-95 MINES WERE IDLE 3-24 DUE TO CONTRACT DELIVERIES MISSED ONE DAY 7 SUTURES.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING PULL A JOY SHUTTLE CAR OUT OF THE WAY WHEN THE CHAIN BROKE & STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT KNEE.
ACCORDING TO INJURED, DURING MANTRIP FROM 003 TO SURFACE, THE SCOOP OPERATOR EITHER INADVERTENTLY ENGAGED THE RAM "IN" LEVER WHILE TRAMMING THE SCOOP. THE INJURED PERSON HAD UNKNOWINGLY PLACED HIS FINGERS IN THE PINCH POINT BETWEEN RAM AND MAIN BUCKET. X-RAY REVEALED SIMPLE FRACTURE TO DISTAL MIDDLE AND RING FINGER. BUCKET RAM MAY HAVE SHIFTED SLIGHTLY ON BUMP.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING A ENDLOADER UP TO COPELAND MINE WHEN HE MET A SCOOP COMING DOWN THE HILL HE STOPPED THE LOADER TO BACK UP AND THE AIRLINE GOING TO THE RT FRONT WHEEL BUSTED CAUSING IT TO L OSOE THE AIR PRESSURE. HE BUILT THE PRESSURE BACK UP AND TRIED TO MOVE THE LOADER AGAIN AND LOST CONTROL OF IT OR LPANICED HE JUMPED OFF OF IT AND LANDED ON HIS LEFT SIDE, BRUISING HIS LEFT A
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATINGA BATTERY RMA CAR WHEN HE RAN OVER A ROCK LAYING IN THE ROADWAY AND INJURED HIS BACK.
EE STATES THAT HE WAS NEAR A SHUTTLE CAR WHICH WAS NOT RUNNING. THE CAR OPERATOR UNEXPECTEDLY STARTED THE MACHINE AND INJURED STATES SLACK OF CABLE JERKED HIS FEET OFF MINE FLOOR. HE STATES TH E HE LANDED ON HIS LIGHT BATTERY & RESCUER INJURING LOWER BACK. RT. KNEE ALSO INJURED.
INJURED STATES THAT AS HE DROVE THE SHUTTLE CAR TOWARD THE FACE IN #3 ENTRY HE DROVE ACROSS A CRIB BLOCK LAYING IN THE ROADWAY. CAUSED A BRUISE/TRAUMA TO LWOER BACK LEFT SIDE.
INJURED STATES THAT AS THE RAILRUNNER(MANTRIP) DROPPED OFF THE RAIL AT 100 BREAK RIGHT SIDE NEAR SPINE.
ACCORDING TO STATEMENT OF INJURED THE WEST VA. ARMATURE RAIL RUNNER HE WAS OPERATING STUCK IN FORWARD POINT & HE JUMPED OUT ONTO MINE FLOOR TO PREVENT BEING IN RAIL RUNNER WHEN IT STRUCK ANOTH ER EMPTY PARKED RAIL RUNNER. THE S& S SCOOP WAS POSITIONED NEAR THE TRACK. HIS ELBOW REPORTEDLY STRUCK BUCKET.
AS EE WAS PULLING A PIECE OF LOW STRUCTURE WITH THE SCOOP, A CHAIN HOOK UNEXPECTEDLY CAME LOOSE AND THE AIRBORNE HOOK CHAIN SLAPPED BACK IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SCOOP AND THE HOOK HIT EE IN RI GHT EYEBROW/RT. CHEEK. HOOK CAUSED LACERATION THAT WAS CLOSED BY SUTURES. THE CHAIN WAS ON A CM PULLER.
ACCORDING TO INJURED HE HAD JUST DUMPED A LOAD OF COAL FROM HIS CAR INTO THE SECTION FEEDER AND AS HE DROVE AWAY HE HIT INTO A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY AND THE BOUNCE RESULTED IN BACK PAIN. THIS RE SULTED IN A DR. VISIT AND DR. SUGGESTED TIME OFFBECAUSE OF STRIN LIGAMENT POSSIBILITY.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING BELT LINE, BELT SPLICE CAUGHT SHOVEL CAUSING SHOVEL HANDLE TO STRIKE EMPLOYEE UNDER CHIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN HE HIT A POTHOLE IN THE ROADWAY AND SUBSEQENTLY FELT A KNOT IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN.
55000EE WERE TRYING TO LOCATE A BLOWN HYD HOSE EE WAS WORKING ON TOP OF BRIDGE WHEN EE ACCIDENTLY HIT CONVEYOR SWITCH WITH HIS KNEE INJURYING EE LOWER BACK RT RIBS & PULLED MUSCLES
EE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHEN A PIECE OF COAL BECAME WEDGED BETWEEN THE TRAN PEDAL AND FLOOR. THE PEDAL BECAME STUCK CAUSING EE TO HIT RIB. THE IMPACT JARRED HIS LEG BUT OF THE DECK CAUS ING THE EE S FOOT TO BECAME WEDGED BETWEEN RIB AND SHUTTLE CAR.
ACCORDING TO INFORMATION GATHERED FROM HIM THE PUMP MOTOR WAS GIVING OFF AN ODOR AND WAS HOT. AFTER APPROX. 15 MIN. EXPOSURE HE BECAME NAUSEATED AND PARKED THE SCOOP. EE WAS TAKEN TO DR. FOR E XAMINATION DIAGNOSIS-SMOKE INHALATION.