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As the employee attempted to remove cattle from the mill site, a cow "charged" the employee. The employee jumped off an embankment to avoid the cow and injured his heel as he landed on the roadway. Accident did not involve compliance issues, mine equipment or mining system, or miner related skills training or attitude. Required PPE was utilized at the time of injury.
Miner was stepping down onto the last rung of the ladder on the CAT 988B Loader (equip#2746), when the weld of the rung broke. Miner fell approximately 2 feet to the ground on his back, followed by his head. Miner felt ok to work and 2 hours later he felt dizzy. Miner taken to the medical clinic to get checked.
Miner stepped off Tower 23 concrete slab onto uneven ground, when he fell and twisted his left knee and over extended his right foot. Miner fell on same level.
While putting away 1/4" screens for 3&4 bottom decks, employee was on one end of the screen bending down and co-worker on the other. Employee, in the process of standing up, tripped on the wood that is used to keep screens off the ground. As he started to fall backwards, he caught himself before falling to the ground. In the process, he twisted his back
While descending on a fixed ladder from conveyor 54 down to the rooftop of Air Separator 1 (AS1), EE was unaware of the last 2 rungs that were missing (26" gap), as he continued down, he had to catch himself from falling onto the rooftop of AS1 and injured his right shoulder. Employee continued to work and thought the pain would go away. On 4/3/13 EE sought medical treatment.
While walking down C31 catwalk with a empty 1-gallon paint can in his left hand, about 10-15 feet from the head box, employee slipped and broke his fall by holding onto the handrail. EE did not feel any immediate pain. Later on that night employee felt pain to his lower back.
EE was taking trash from mill to dumpster outside of property fence using the forklift while dumping the trash some fell out. He parked and dismounted the forklift and was putting trash into the dumpster when he slipped in the mud and fell to the ground impacting his ribs on the top of a fork. The doctor cleared him for work on 5-23 which was his next scheduled shift.