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Years on record
1983–2026
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June 26, 1985 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
P & N Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS CLEANING COAL WITH HIS HIG LIFT AND HIS HAND SLIPPED OF OFF THE STERAING WHEEL AND HIS ARM WENT INTO THE STEARING WHEEL AND THE SPOKES TWISTED HIS ARM.

April 25, 1985 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
P & N Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

HE WAS CLEANING A BLOCK OF COAL WITH HIS LOADER AND HE CAME ACROSS A HARD SPOT OF COAL AND IT CAUSED HIS LOADER TO BOUNCE AND TWIST AROUND AND BOUNCED HIM AROUND IN THE CAB OF THE LOADER.

November 8, 1984 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
P & N Coal Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HIS LEFT HAND WHEN THE LEFT FRONT WHEEL DROPPED INTO A RUT AND CAUSED THE STEERING WHEEL TO SPIN VIOLENTLY ONE OF THE RIBS OF THE STEERING WHEEL STRUCK HIS LEFT WRIST.

May 25, 1983 PA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
P & N Coal Company Inc · Fall from machine

KEENER WAS RIDING ON BACK OF FLAT BED TRUCK WHILE PATCHING POT HOLES WHEN HE LOST HIS GRIP AND FELL OFF TRUCK TRUCK WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY FROM POTHOLE TO POTHOLE AT THE TIME

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