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EMPLOYEE WAS IN A DIESEL MOTOR PARKED AT THE MOUTH OF LEATHERWOOD MAINS SWITCH. EMPLOYEE REPORTED ALL BRAKES WERE SET. AS EMPLOYEE STOOD IN MOTOR DECK THE BRAKES SLIPPED ALLOWING THE DIESEL TO ROLL, CATCHING EMPLOYEE BETWEEN THE ROOF AND TOP OF MOTOR- BRUISING HIM.
EE WAS RIDING IN THE SECTION MANTRIP AT THE START OF HIS SHIFT WHEN IT COLLIDED WITH A RAIL MOTOR IN A CURVE. BOTH OPERATORS HAD FLAGGED AND SLOWED GOING INTO THE CURBE BUT EACH ASSUMED THE OT HER HAD STOPPED AT THE NEARBY TRACK SWITCH. THEYCOLLIDED WITH MODERATE SPEED CAUSING INJURY TO ONE EMPLOYEE.
INJURED AND A CO-WORKER WERE SETTING SPADS IN #5 ENTRY ( 1 RIGHT SECITON, 007-0) SPAD #546. WHILE SXETTING UP TRANSIT, A 580 EIMCO SCOOP RETURNING TO THE SECTION, SWITCHED FROM #5 ENTRY TO #4 ENTRY TO AVOID SOME BAD TOP, THEN SWITCHED BACK TO #5 ONE BREAK BELOW INJURED. THE SCOOP WAS ON 1ST POINT, AND WITH REDUCED VISIBILITY THE DRIVE RNOR HIS PASSENGERS SAW THE RODMAN, AND BUMPE
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING A OPEN LOCOMOTIVE TO THE OUTSIDE OF TURKEY NO. 4 MINE. IN AN AREA OF AMPLE CLEARENCE, HE STRAIGHTENED FROM SLUMPED TO A SITTING POSITION, BUT FAILED TO LWOER HIS HEAD WHEN THE CLEARANCE RETURNED TO NORMAL.
EE RODE OUT DIESEL MOTOR BECAUSE MANTRIP WAS INOPERATIVE WHEN THE OPEN DECKED DIESEL WENT THRU A SET OF AIR LOCK DOORS EE THOUGHT HE HAD PULLED HIS ARM BACK ENOUGH TO CLEAR BUT THE ARM CAUGHT ON THE EDGE OF THE DOOR, BRUSING IT.
54730CLEANING LOOSE COAL OUT OF SHUTTLE CAR DECK ON SECTION 005-0,CAR ROLLED AGAINST CURTAIN WHICH WAS AGAINST RIB AND CAUGHT EMPL LEFT ELBOW.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A SHUTTLE CAR ON THE 2 LEFT SECTION 005-0.THE CONSTANT BENDING OF HIS KNEES AGGRAVATED A PREVIOUSLY INJURED RIGHT KNEE CAUSING IT TO SWELL AND STIFFEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING HIS SHUTTLE CAR TO THE FACE OF #3 ENTRY ON THE 2 NORTH SECITON, 006-0. IN THE FACE WAS A MUDHOLE WITH A BURIED PIECE OF TIMBER WHICH THE EMPLOYEE RAN OVER, CAUSING THE C ARA TO THROW HIM AGAINST HE CANOPY, INJURING HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING A BUNDLE OF ROOF BOLTS ONTO A EIMCO SCOOP ON THE 005-0 2 LEFT SECTION.THE BOLTS WERE LOCATED ON A SUPPLY CAR AT THE END OF THE TRACKS AND THE SCOOP WAS PARKED WITH THE B UCKET TOWARD THE CAR.STANDING BETWEEN THE CAR AND THE BUCKET,THE EMPLOYEE WAS ATTACHING A PULL CHAIN TO THE BOLTS WHEN SCOOP ROLLED FORWARD CATCHING THE EMPLOYEE'S LEFT LEG,INURING IT.