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EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OUT OF MINER DECK AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE. REPORTABLE BECAUSE OUT OF WORK AS OF 7/27/98
EE ALLEGES THAT HE GOT OFF SHUTTLE CAR TO CHANGE SEATS AND DIRECTION AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE. NOTE THIS KNEE HAD A PREVIOUS INJURY AND RECENT SURGERY.
EE STEPPED UP ONTO RAM CAR TO GET A PALLET OUT OF BUCKET LOST FOOTING AND FELL ACROSS RAM CAR BUCKET HITTING RIGHT RIBS AND LEFT KNEE.
CRAWLED TO BELT LINE AND PLACED RIGHT KNEE ON WATER LINE. WEIGHT WAS PLACED ON KNEE AND SLIPPED OFF OF WATER LINE. TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.
EE WAS PRYING ON BELT CLAMPS, BAR SLIPPED CAUSING EE TO FALL AGAINST BELT STRUCTURE [FACE AREA HIT STRUCTURE]. BOTTOM WAS ALSO WET & SLIPPERY.
EE HAD JUST SERVICE THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FEEDER AND WAS TRYING TO CROSS OVER THE TAILPIECE TO SERVICE THE OTHER SIDE. WHILE ULLING LEG ACROSS, HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE.
PULLING CABLE, SLIPPED, FELL BACKWARD LANDED ON RIGHT HIP.
STANDING IN OIL BUCKET WHILE PLASTERING AND OVERCASTING, AND FLIPPED AND FELL OFF BUCKET AND TWISTED ANKLE.
EE WAS WALKING BACK TO SECTION FROM SERVICING BELT DRIVE WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER WATER LINE LAYING UNDER MUD.
DUE TO A RAIN STORM, THE EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING THROUGH THE GRAVEL YARD. HE MADE A QUICK TURN AND HIS FEET SLID CAUSING HIM TO LAND ON HIS RIGHT HAND. THE PAD NEXT TO HIS WRIST WAS LACERATED REQ UIRING 5 SUTRES. NO RULES WERE BROKEN, NO MINE EQUIPMENT WAS INVOLVED, DID NOT CONCERN SKILLS, TRAINING OR ATTITUDE, NO PROTECTIVE CLOTHING NEEDED.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING STARTER STEEL IN THE TOP AND WHILE HOLDING THE STEEL IN THE CHUCK THE STEEL BROKE IN HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE GREASING THE DOZER HE GOT SLICK MATERIAL ON HIS SHOES AND WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN ONTO THE TRACK, WHERE A PAD WAS MISSING, AND SLIPPED AND FELL FROM THE TRACK LANDING BETWEEN THE PUSH ARM AND THE ROLLER FRAME.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING READY TO GREASE A BEARING ON THE BELT DRIVE WHEN HE SLIPPED IN THE MUD & WHILE TRYING TO CATCH HIMSELF HIS LEFT HAND HIT A SHARP PIECE OF METAL ON THE SIDEBOARD OF THE TAI L PIECE CAUSING A PUNCTURE WOUND TO HAND.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED IN DITCH OUTSIDE AND MADE BY TRAFFIC, MTURNED LEFT ANKLE, FELL AND HURT CALF AND LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING NITROGEN TANK OFF SCOOP & EMPLOYEE SLIPPED & FELL CAUSING THE NITROGEN TANK TO HIT HIM ON THE LEFT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING A PIECE OF CURTAIN TO HANG AND HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON LEFT KNEE AND ALL HIS WEIGHT WENT ON THAT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE FELL OFF OVERCAST ONTO HIS BUTTOCKS.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF CATWALK ONTO BLOCK AND THE BLOCK TURNED OVER CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO TWIST LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS RUNNING TO CUT BELTLINE OFF DURING A FLASH FLOOD AND HE STEPPED INTO A HOLE CUTTING HIS LEFT KNEE ON THE DRAIN PIPE.
GETTING OUT OF SCOOP SLIPPED TWISTED R LEG
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS CHANGING THE SCOOP BATTERIES WHEN HE FELL ACROSS THE SCOOP ONTO THE BATTERY CAUSING HIM PAIN IN HIS RIBS. **EMPLOYEE DID NOT CONTACT A DOCTOR UNTIL 2/28/89 AND WAS RETURNED TO WORK ON 3/2/89.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS PULLING CABLE WHE HE SLIPPED, FELL, HURTING HIS LEFT KNEE WHEN HE HIT THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING UPPLIES AROUND THE BUGGY WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL DUE TO THE SLIPPERY BOTTOM. EMPLOYEE INJURED BOTH KNEES DURING THE FALL.
EMPLOYEE WAS LEANING XXX ON A LEDGE OF COAL OVER MORTAR BOX LEDGE BROKE AND EMPLOYEE FELL ON HIS LEFT SIDE BRUISED LEFT RIBS