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December 7, 1994 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

HE SAID HE WAS RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR AND IT HIT A HOLE AND JARRED HIM BAD IN THE BACK SAID IT MADE HIM HURT ALL OVER.

November 22, 1993 KY · Coal scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TRAMMING SCOOP DOWN #1 ENTRY, HE SAW A OIL CAN, LAYING ON THE RIB. HE SLOWED DOWN TO PICK UP THE CAN AND WHEN HE GRABBED IT, THE CAN CAUGHT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCOOP AND PULLED HIS ARM BACK.

November 20, 1993 KY · Coal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RECOVER HIS SHOVEL WHEN HANDLE HIT HIM ON THE CHEEK.

September 13, 1993 KY · Coal scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

MAN WAS TRAMMING SCOOP TO OUTSIDE. HE RAN OVER A ROCK BOUNCING HIM UP & WHEN HE CAME DOWN HE STRUCK HIS BACK.

July 17, 1993 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

RIGHT DRIVE SHUTTLE CAR IOPERATOR WAS HAULING COAL WHEN HE WAS STRUCK IN FOREHEAD BY STRAP HANGING DOWN FROM ROOF

June 29, 1993 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR WAS HAULING COAL TO FEEDER, CABLE THAT WAS HUNG CAME DOWN AND CAUGHT HIM ON NECK.

December 14, 1992 KY · Coal scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

MAN GOT BETWEEN MAC-8 AND 3 WHEELER, MAC-8 WAS BRING REPAIR, MAC-8 JUMPED IN REVERSE CATCHING HIS LEG IN BETWEEN THEM.

August 10, 1992 KY · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

24778 CABLE CAUGHT LEG OF PERSON AND PULLED LEG.

January 17, 1992 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Struck by powered moving object

ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR WAS IN FRONT OF MACHINE WHEN FOREMAN BACKED INTO HIM WITH PERSONNEL CARRIER

August 25, 1991 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Fall from machine

SHUTTLE CAR OPT. WAS REUTRNING TO MINER AND WHERE BUGGY HAD HIT TO ROOF BOLT FELL OUT, CAUGHT LEG.

August 2, 1991 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Black Dragon Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

BUGGY MAN WENT TO CHANGE SEAT AND TWISTED KNEE.

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