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On 5-17-22 EE reported that while retracting the fuel hose after fueling equipment EE did not notice a twist in the hose. When the twist contacted EE's hand it caused EE's elbow to bend, EE felt a pop in EE's elbow. EE reported incident and has tried to work thru it. On 6-10-22 EE was seen by medical (Ortho MT) and was not released back to next scheduled shift (6-13-22)

When returning to pit empty a haul truck slid into ditch on snow packed haul road. Operator was taken to town for medical evaluation and had bruised ribs and was held out of service for 2 days

3/5/2020 EE went to ER stating they had been injured on 2/18/2020 while operating haul truck. Employer questioned claim due to time between incident and medical treatment. Asked for 3rd party determination. On 4/9/2020 Montana State Fund accepted claim as work related making it MSHA reportable.

We were informed late of injury on 05/31/2014. Employee stated he jarred his back in scraper when he ran over a large rock. Due to late reporting we waited for MT ST Fund to review and they accepted the claim as valid on 06/16/2014. Employee missed 2 work days as result of injury

Employee walking from parking lot to change room was struck by a light vehicle that was coming to change room to park. Employee was treated by Mine Rescue personnel and was transferred to County EMS personnel. EMS transported to hospital for evaluation and was admitted for observation. Employee is bruised and sore.

Injured employee lost control of a scraper on a thawing return haul road - laying the scraper onto the operators side of the machine.

After staging truck at loading face the right rear trailer strut failed as the 1st bucket load of coal was dumped into truck. The resulting severe rocking motion slammed the driver into the operators door of the tractor.

While returning to pit with empty coal hauler, employee ran into back of a scraper that was waiting for a loaded coal hauler to pass before turning off main haul road. Due to adverse weather conditions (rain, mud) the scraper's tail and can lights were not visible.

Employee was operating a wheel scraper removing interburden from above the lower coal seam. It was snowing hard and a depression in the roadway was not readily observable. A scraper tire impacted the depression resulting in pain in the employees back. He was unable to return for his next shift.