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June 22, 1987 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SHUTTLE CAR OPE9ATOR STATED THAT HE LIFTED HIS LEFT ARM UP TO TURN ON LIGHT SWITCH ON THE SHUTTLE CAR HIS LEFT SHOULDER BLADE AND BACK BEGAN HURTING HIM.

June 4, 1987 KY · Coal carpenter POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

LET FORKS DOWN 2N TOP OF BELT.BELT PUSHED FORKS OFF END OF LOADER ARMS.FORKS FELL TO GROUND AND FLIPPED OVER AND STRUCK INJ IN RIGHT SIDE PUSHING HIM INTO BACKHOE BUCKET.

May 21, 1987 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

ON HIS WAY TO D6MPING POINT IN SHUTTLE CAR AND AS HE WENT THROUGH CHECK CURTAIN HE COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER SHUTTLE CAR.

March 5, 1987 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

I NAME WAS OPER5TING A SHUTTLE CAR AND HIT A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY WAS BOUNCED INTO THE CANOPY OF THE SHUTTLE CAR. HURTING HIS NECK AND SHOULDER.

October 24, 1986 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

BACKING SHUTTLE3CAR OFF THE DUMP AND HIT THE RIB CATCHING HIS FOOT BETWEEN SHUTTLE CAR AND RIB, BREAKING THE TOES AND CUTTING HIS LEFT FOOT.

April 17, 1986 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

OPERATING SHUTT5ECAR AND HIT THE RIB WHEN HE WENT TO MAKE THE TURN

March 5, 1986 KY · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

I NAME WAS DRIV3NG TO LOCATION AT TOP OF HILL BEHIND PREP PLANT WITH A CHAIN TO HELP FIX A B ROKEN SLURRY LINE HIT A DEEP HOLE IN SELDOM USED ROADWAY AND BOUNCED UP AND JAMMING HIS HEAD INTO ROOF OF CAB AT 4HICH TIME HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK

July 29, 1985 KY · Coal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

DRIVING ACROSS SCALE AT SCALEHOUSE WHEN LEFT FRONT TIRE DROPPED OFF EDGE OF SCALES, CAUSING VEHICLE TO SUDDENLY STOP, THROWING INJURIED INTO WINDSHIELD.

July 18, 1985 KY · Coal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

RIDING ON SCOOP WHEN SCOOP MADE TURN HE CAUGHT HIS FOOT IN SWIVEL OF SCOOP & MASHED HIS TOES ON LEFT FOOT.

April 11, 1985 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR AS HE WAS GOING THROUGH A FLY PAD HE STUCK HIS HAND OUT TO MOVE THE PAD AND CAUGHT HIS THUMB IN A HOLE ANDPULLED HIM OUT OF THE SHUTTLE CAR HURTING HIS FOO

March 28, 1985 KY · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

EMPL SITTING ON TOP OF BATTERY OPERATED TRACTOR WHILE IT WAS SLOWLY PULLING MINER CABLE AND WAS NT WATCHING WHERE THE TRACTOR WAS GOING AND HIT HIS NECK ON HIGH LINE THAT WAS HUNG ACROSS THE E NTRY.

February 19, 1985 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

WHEN THE 2ND SHIFT ARRIVED AT THE END OF THE TRACK AND LOADED ONTO THE RUBBER TIRED MANTRIP TO BE TRANSPORTED O TO THE SECTION THEY DISCOVERED THE TONGUE WAS BROKE AND A CHAIN FASTENED THE TRI P TO THE BATTERY TRACTOR,THE SECTION FOREMAN PULLED THE TRIP BUT HE WENT THROUGH A DIP AND CAUSED THE TRIP TO BE JERKED AND INJURED I NAME NECK.

April 5, 1984 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SUBJECT WAS DRIVING A SHUTTLE CAR AND HURT HIS BACK.

February 1, 1984 KY · Coal battery station operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

SUBJECT WAS AT THE BATTERY STATION SITTING ON A PERSONNEL CARRIER WHEN ANOTHER PERSON GOT INTO THE CARRIER AND TURN IT ON, THE CARRIER THEN MOVE FORWARD BENDING THE HIS FOOT AGAINST THE FLOOR OF THE MINE, BREAKING THE SUBJECT LEFT FOOT.

June 1, 1983 KY · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

MAN WAS RIDING TRACTOR WHEN IT RAN OVER A PIECE OF COAL CAUSING HIM TO BUMP THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK HURTING IT

January 6, 1983 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Wolf Creek Collieries Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

WAS OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR AND HIT HOLE IN ROADWAY BOUNCED UP INTO CANOPY AND JAMMED NECK

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