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EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN SEEING A CHIROPRACTOR FOR A NON-WORK RELATED PROBLEM. CAME TO US ON 8-5-96 AND ALLEGED AS WORK RELATED INJURY. WORKER'S COMPENSATION INVESTIGATED THE MEDICAL RECORDS AND ON 1 0-22-96 THEY ACCEPTED IT AS A WORK RELATED CLAIM MAKING THIS INJURY REPORTABLE.
EMP WAS DRIVING A SHUTTLE CAR AND HIT A HOLE IN THE FLOOR JARRING HIS LOWER BACK AND NECK. WAS ON HIS FIRST TRIP. WAS WEARING A SEAT BELT. DID NOT SEEK MEDICL ATTENTION UNTIL 7-29-96.
EE WAS DRIVING A COMPANY VEHICLE TO THE MINE FROM THE PRICE PARKING AREA. HE SWERVED TO MISS 2 DEER. LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE & CRASHED INTO AN EMBANKMENT. HE WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT AS REQUIRED & WAS EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE THROUGH CLOSED WINDOW.
EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING A PICKUP TRUCK AROUND ON THE SURFACE WHEN HE BACKED INTO A DRAINAGE DITCH TIPPING THE TRUCK ON IT'S SIDE. THIS CAUSED HIM TO SUSTAIN A STRAINED MUSCLE AND A CHIPPED TOOTH . SAW DR. ON 10-31-95.
EE WAS CROSSING UNDER THE BC-3 BELTLINE AT A CORVERED WALKWAY. THE TWO SECTION COVER HAD SLID ABOUT 6" APART WHICH ALLOWED A 2"X6" ROCK TO FALL BETWEEN THE TWO AND THIS PIECE STRUCK THE FALL B ETWEEN THE TWO CAND THIS PIECE STRUCK THE FALL OF THE EE HARD HAT. HE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 10-16-95.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING AN ELECTRIC SHUTTLE CAR HE DROVE OVER A COAL TIP & THE BOUNCE KNOCKED HIM INTO THE TIP OF THE CAB RESULTING IN SORE NECK COMPANY POLICY REQUIRED USE OF SEAT BELT EMPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING THESEAT BELT
INJURED WAS MUCKING X CUT WITH 31/2 WAGNER SCOOP HE CLIPPED TIMBER WITH BUCKET CAUSING TIMBER TO FULL AND WEDGE BETWEEN CANOPY ROOF AND MINE FLOOR. THE 3 1/2 SCOOP MOVE FORWARD AND THE TIMBER PINCHED THE INJURED MINER PELVIS IN CAB. DR RELEASED TO WORK, NO TREATMENT PAIN SUBSIDED THEN RETURNED RETURN VISIT TO DR AND LOST TIME ON 7-20-94.
INJURED WAS MOVING WAGNER SCOOP OUT OF X-CUT. HE STOPPED TO PUSH LUBE TRUCK UPHILL. AS HE LOOKED BEHIND HIM TO BACK UP HE RESTED HIS HAND ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE THE CAB IN THE PIVOT AREA. AS HE TURNED THE WAGNER HIS HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CAB AND FRONT FENDER OF SCOOP.
INJURED WAS DRIVING A SUPPLY TRACK HUALING CRIBS, HE CAME TO A DETOUR SET UP SO ROOF REHAD WORK COULD BE DO IN MAIN HAUL ROAD, INJURED FAILED TO FOLLOW DETOUR AND WEDGED TRUCK INTO NARROW AREA IN ENTRY.
INJURED WAS OPERATING A ELECTRIC SHUTTLE CAR AS SHE ROUNDED A CORNER GOING TO THE FEEDER SHE DROVE OFF A LIP AT A CORNER OF A RIB JARRING HER & BREAKING A TOOTH
UNKNOWN INJURED WAS DRIVING UTILITY TRUCK OUT OF THE MINE BACK BEGAN TO HURT
INJURED WAS HAULING COAL IN AN ELECTRICAL SHUTTLE CAR AFTER LEAVING FEADER, A HOLE WAS HIT, CAUSING INJURED TO BOUNCE UP JAMMING NECK AGAINST CAB ROOF
MANTRIP STRUCK BACK OF HAULER
MANTRIP CAME AROUND 90 DEGREE TURN UNDERGROUND AND STRUCK INTO THE BACK OF A SLOW MOVING SHIELD HAULER.WENT TO DR ON 04-30-92.
INJURED WAS HAULING MUCK INTO A RAMCAR, WHEN HE RAN OVER A LARGE ROCK IN THE HAUL ROAD, INJURED BOUNCED UP AND JAMMED HIS HEAD INTO THE CAB, INJURING HIS NECK.
AT THE END OF THE SHIFT, EE REPORTED BACK PAIN, HE HAD BEEN HAULING CONCRETE IN A RAM CAR ALL NIGHT BUT DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. HIS BACK WAS INJURED IN EARLY 1990 IN A OFF THE INJURY, HIS MISSED NUMBEROUS DAYS OF WORN.
INJURED WAS KNEELING BETWEEN TOP AND BOTTOM BELT HELPING INSTALL TOP IDLER ANOTHER PART OF THE SAME CREW HOOKED ONTO BELT WITH SCOOP TO PULL ENDS TOGETHER AND CONNECT BELT. AS THE BELT WAS PUL LED INJURED WAS MOVED IN TO X FRAME.
INJURED WAS DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR AND STRUCK HOLE IN FLOOR SEVERAL TIMES DURING SHIFT INJURING BACK
AFTER INSTALLING A SCRAPER ON A-2 HEAD ROLLER THE BELT WAS UNLOCKED AND STARTED FOR TESTING INJURED NOTICED SOME VIBRATION IN THE HEAD OF THE SCRAPER AND REACHED INTO THE GUARD TO FEEL HOW MUC H THERE WAS AS HE FELT THE SCRAPER A SPLICE HIT IT BOUNCING IT DOWN AND PINCHING HIS HAND AGAINST THE STOP PLATE
INJURED WAS RIDING ON SMALL TRACTOR WHEN OPERATOR ASKED HIM TO HOLD STEERING WHEEL WHILE OPERATOR PUT ON HIS GLOVES. TRACTOR HIT RUT IN ROAD CAUSING STEERING WHEEL TO SPIN & TWISTING INJURED HAND.
AS CREW GOING I3 MINE ON MANTRIP AT 1ST CORNER IN MINE TRIP OPER APPLIED BREAKS AND THEY DIDNT WORK THE PIN CONNECTS THE BRAKE PEDAL TO THE MASTER CYLINDER HAD FALLEN OUT.OPER STEERED TRIP INT O RIB TO SLOW I7 DOWN INJUREDS HEAD STRUCK MOTOR COVER.
INJURED HAD CLI4BED UP ON BELT TO REINSTALL AVENT TUBE, TO THE RETURN, THE CREW HAD TURNED BELT OFF ON REMOTE, THE FIRE BOSS CAME BY AN NOTED REMOTE WAS OFF AND TURNED IT ON STARTING BELT, INJ URED ROLLED OFF3FALLING TO FLOOR SPRAINING.
AS THE CREW WAS3HEADED OUTSIDE AT THE END OF THE SHIFT, THE MAN TRIP WENT AROUND A CORNER AND SKIDDED.AS THE OPERATOR ATTEMPTED TO REGAIN CONTROL THE TRIP HIS THE RIB.
AS THE CREW WAS3HEADED OUTIDE AT T HE END OF THE SHIFT THE MANTRIP WENT AROUND A CORNER AND SKIDDED. AS THE OPERATOR ATTEMPTED TO REGAIN CONTROL THE TRIP HIT THE RIB
CREW BOARDED MA3TRIP TO GO UNDERGROUND AS THEY DROVE DOWN MINE ACCESS ROAD A LARGE R OCK WAS STRUCK WHICH BROKE THE LEFT PITMAN ARM OF THE STEERING MECHANISM & SHEAR OFF THE BOLTS THIS CAUSED THE MAN TRIP TO3TURN SHARPLY TO THE LEFT INTO T HE HIGHWALL WHICH TURNED OVER THE MANTRIP
DRIVIGN SHUTTLE CAR INTO MINE.CAR STRUCK CRIB BLOCK IN ROAD.INJ WORKED SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE PROBLEM OCCURRED WITH BREATHING.MEDICAL CHECK SHOWED BONE SPUR RUBBING AGAINST DIAPHRAGM CAUSING ME USCLE SPASM AND BREATHING PROBLEM.AGGRAVATION OF PREEXISTING PROBLEM.
PARKED RAM CAR 3N CROSSCUT AND STARTED TO GET OUT OF CAB. I NAME HAND ON BUMPER OF ARTICURATION FOR BALANCE ABOUT HALF WAY OUT OF CAB HIS COAT CAUGHT STEERING LEVER CAUSING RAM CAR TO ARTICULA AND COME TOGET2ER AND PINCHED FINGER BETWEEN CASB & BED.
INJURED WAS SHO5ELING BELT,JUST OUTBY FEEDER A SCOOP DUMPED SOME ROCK & COAL IN TO THE FEEDER AND AS IT FEED ONTO THE BELT IT BEGAN TO BOUNCE AND CAME OF THE BELT STRICKING INJURED ON LEFT KNE E. 3
I.NAME WAS INST9UCTED TO DELIVER SOME PARTS TO A RAMCAR DRIVER COMING OUTSIDE TO GET SOME GRAVEL. I.NAME & I.NAME LOADED THE PARTS ON THE BOSS BUGGY & I.NAME WENT DOWN TO THE PORTALS. AS HE C AME AROUND THE 3TRUCK LOADOUT HE SAW THE RAMCAR JUST GOING U/G. I.NAME WENT U/G TO CATCH THE RAMCAR BUT THE OUTBY AIRDOOR WAS JUST CLOSING. HE HONKED THE HORN & FLASHED THE LIGHTS TO GET
AFTER LOADING CYCLE RAMCAR PULLED FORWARD HITTING VENT TUBES STAN LIFTED TWO TUMBES TO PREVENT KNOCKING THEM DOWN AS RAMCAR PULLED FORWARD THE BACK WHEELS SLIDE INTO A DEPRESSION MOVE REAR OF CAR TOWARDS STAN AND PINCHING HIM BETWEEN RIB
WHILE DRIVING AN EIMCO 915 WITH A LOAD OF BLOCK, DON CAME TO A FAULTED AREA WITH A STEEP INCLINE, EIMCO SLIDE INTO RIB, RUNNING OVER ABANDON WATER LINE. WATER LINE BENT IN TO RIB UNDER PRESSUR E OF TIRE AND THEN INTO CAB INJURING EMPLOYEES LEFT FOOT.