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Years on record
1983–2026
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October 10, 1985 IN · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Contract Mining Inc · Struck against a moving object

I.NAME WAS MOVING SCRAPER & WAS COMING TO A ??? TYPE ON HIGHWAY. A PICKUP TRUCK FAILED TO STOP FOR FLAGMAN CAUSING I.NAME TO STOP & I.NAME IN THE 2ND SCRAPER RAN INTO THE REAR OF THE 1ST SCR APER.

October 10, 1985 IN · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Contract Mining Inc · Struck against a moving object

I.NAME WAS MOVING HIS SCRAPER FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER ON THE HIGHWAY WHEN THE LEAD SCRAPER STOPPED & I.NAMES SCRAPER RAN INTO THE REAR OF THE LEAD SCRAPER.

December 5, 1984 IN · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Contract Mining Inc · Fall onto or against objects

SNAPP WAS STEPPING FROM ONE END DAMP TO THE OTHER AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL AGAINST THE FENDER SPLITTING HIS FOREHEAD ABOVE LEFT EYE.

January 27, 1984 IN · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Contract Mining Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE EMPLOYEE INSTALLED A STEERING WHEEL KNOB ON HIS TRUCK HIS TRUCK SLID ON FROZEN DIRT CAUSING THE STEERING WHEEL TO SPIN THE STEERING WHEEL KNOB BHIT THE EMPLOYEE ON HSIR GHT FOREARM

December 8, 1983 IN · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Contract Mining Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING HIS TRUCK AS USUAL IN 121283 HE REPORTED THAT HE JURT HIS BACK DRIVING IN HIS TRUCK HE SAYS HE RAN OVER A ROCK ON 120883 AND INJURED HIS BACK INT EH LUMBAR AREA

October 29, 1983 IN · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Contract Mining Inc · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING DIRT INTO END DUMP WITH 988 LOADER. EMPLOYEE WAS NOT PROPERLY WATCHING THE HIGH WALL. SOME DIRT FELL THROUGH WINDSHIELD INTO CAB.

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