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BROKE LEFT LEG AND LEFT ANKLE WHEN HE JUMPED OFF SHARK TANK AND LANDED ON SOMETHING TWISTING HIS ANKLE.
EE STRAIN TO LEFT HAND AND WRIST WHEN STEPPED ON LOOSE COAL AND FELL X-RAYS WERE TAKEN AND A CAST WAS APPLIED.
EE WAS GETTING OFF CRUSHER. OVER REACHED FOOTING TO GET ON STEPLADDER AND FELL CAUSING SUSPECTED CRACKED RIBS AND BRUISING TO RT SIDE.
WHILE STANDING ON A PALLETT OF ROCK DUST EE WAS HANGING CABLE AFTER THE JOB WAS DONE HE JUMPED OFF OF THE ROCK DUST TO THE MINE FLOOR AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPE DON STEEP INCLINE, FALLING DOWN HURTING LEFT HIP, LEG AND LOWER BACK.
TWISTED LOWER BACK WHILE LIFTING MUDDY 1" WATER HOSE AND SLIPPED.
INJURED SLIPPED ON STAIRS BETWEEN 3RD & 2ND FLOOR ON PREPARATION PLANT. INJURED WAS UNCONSIOUS FOR APPROX. 2 MINUTES PER WITNESS & ON-SITE EMT REPORT. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL FOR XRAY & CAT SCAN. DR . REPORTED NO INJURIES & RELEASED HIM FOR WORK. *RELEASED FOR WORK BY DR. 4/24/98.
EE TWISTED LEFT KNEE WHILE HANGING VENTILATION TUBE AND SLIPPED IN LOOSE COAL.
EE SLIPPED ON WEST SURFACE, BROKE HIS LEFT ANKLEAND SPRAINED LEFT KNEE WHILE CARRYING WATERLINE
STUMBLED ON UNEVEN FROZEN SNOW COVERED GROUND WHILE DOING SITE INSPECTION.
EE LANDED ON HIS BACK, HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM.
WHILE THROWING TRASH AWAY, HIT FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL STRIKING HIS SHOULDER AGAINST THE RETAINING WELL. BECAME REPORTABLE BECAUSE HE HAS PHYSICIAL THERAPY ON HIS SHOULER.
GOING UP BELT TAKING DOWN PIPE CHAIN WALKED UP BELT, STEPPED OFF BELT ON TO STRUCTURE AND KNEE POPPED.
ARRIVING AT SECTION POWER CENTER AT START OF PRODUCTION SHIFT, EMPLOYEE GRABBED TIMBER TO HOIST SELF UP ON LEDGE PRIOR TO SAFETY MEETING. TIMBER BEGAN TO FALL, EMPLOYEE TRIED TO STOP, RESULTIN G IN TWISTING HIS RIGHT KNEE. TORN ACL TO RIGHT KNEE. SURGERY IS SCHEDULED FOR 9-18-97.
EE WAS HANING MONROALL WHEN THE LADDER KICKED OUT. STARTED TO FALL AND CAUGHT LEFT ARM ON THE PIN THAT HOLDS UP THE MONORALL. LACERATION TO ARM. RESTRICTED DUTY EFFECTIVE 8-6-97.
HE HAD PACKED SCISSORVEYOR RAIL AND WAS SETTING IT DOWN WHEN HIS RIGHT ANKLE TWISTED OUT FROM UNDER HIM. HIS FOOT CAUGHT ON SOMETHING.
EMPLOYEE STATED SLIPPERY ON THE SNOW.
WALKING UP FACE OPERATING SHEARER WHEN STEPPED ON WEAT PLYWOOD LAYING ON FLOOR, FEED SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE HIT LERT SIDE OFRIBS ON SHIELD TOES. RETRICTED DUTY BEGAN ON 13-97.
EE'S WERE WORKING ON SCAFFOLDING 4 1/2' OFF OF FLOOR UNDER 9RT BELT. WATER AND SLUDGE COMING OFF OF BELT SATURATED AND WEAKENED PLANKING. PLANKING BROKE AND SENT EE'S TO FLOOR. EE LANDED ON OT HER'S KNEE.
INJURED SPRAINED HIS LEFT ANKLE WHEN HE WAS GETTING OUT OF THE SCOOP. RESTRICTED DUTY BEGAN 9-4-96.
EMPLOYEE FELL ON HIS LEFT HAND AND FRACTURED IT.HE PUT DOWN HIS HAND TO BREAK HIS FALL WHEN HE SLIPPED. RESTRICTED DUTY BEGAN 8/6/96.
EE STATES HE WAS HANGING WIRE FOR TUBING AND WALKING OUT WHEN HE STARTED TO FALL. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF BY GRABBING THE BOLTER WITH HIS RIGHT HAND AND OVEREXTENDAD HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. RESTRICTED D UTY WILL COMMENCE WHEN HE RETURN TO WORK.
EE SLIPPED ON MUD ON STEEP SLOPE WHILE CARRYING A PUMP. THE PUMP LANDED ON HIS LEFT HAND WHEN HE FELL.
CARRYING BELT ROLLER IN MUD. FOOT GOT STUCK IN MUD AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE. BECAME REPORTABLE ON 2-10-97 WHEN ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY WAS PERFORMED. RESTRICTED DUTY BEGINS 2-14-97.
INJURED WAS LOADING ROCK DUST INTO THE DUSTER WHEN HE STEPPED IN A SLIGHT DEPRESSION IN THE MINEFLOOR. HE TWISTED HIS BACK WHILE TRYING TO CATACH HIMSELF TO KEEP FROM FALLING.
CRANE OPERATOR WAS STEPPING ONTO CRANE AND HIS HAND SLIPPED ALLOWING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS. HIS RIGHT FOOT STAYED IN STEP RESULTING IN TWISTING HIS RIGHT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED INTO A HOLE AND TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE EXAMINATION REVEALED THAT THE ANKLE WAS FRACTURED AND HE WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY EFFECTIVE 3-6-96.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OVER BELT THAT HAD BEEN PULLED UP THE ROADWAY THROUGH THE MUD. HE SLID ON THE BELT AND FELL DOWN, TWISTING HIS LEFT KNEE. HE RECEIVED INITIAL TREATMENT AT TIME OF INJURY AND WAS RELEASED FOR FULL DUTY WORK. THE KNEE HAS CONTINUED TO BOTHER HIM. HE WAS SEEN BY A DR.ON 3-26-96 AND WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY AT THAT TIME.
INJURED STEPPED OUT OF THE MANTRIP AND SLIPPED ON ICY GROUND. HE GRABBED THE DOOR HANDLE TO CATCH HIMSELF AND TWISTED HIS UPPER BACK. HE DID NOT REPORT THE ACCIDENT OR REQUEST TREATMENT UNTI L 1-29-96.
WHILE WORKING ON A NEW LOADOUT FACILITY, AN IRONWORKER WAS MOVING FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER. HE SLIPPED AND STRADDLED A BEAM, GRABBING HOLD OF A WELDING LEAD. WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE WELDING LEAD WENT SLACK AND THE MAN SWUNG ONE LEG OVER THE BEAM AND JUMPED 8' DOWN, BUMPING HIS ELBOW AND KNEE ON THE WAY DOWN.
TRIPPED OVER SOME REBAR MATERIAL.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A TOOL BOX AND HE STEPPED INTO A HOLE. HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LEFT CALF MUSCLE. DIAGNOSIS IS A TORN CALF MUSCLE. INJURED WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY EFFECTIVE 9-1-9 5.
EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING A BULLDOZER WHEN HE MISSED THE STEP AND FELL. HE INJURED HIS LOWER BACK ANDTAILBONE.
INJURED WAS HELPING ANOTHER PERSON TO CARRY BELTSTRUCTURE WHEN HE STEPPED IN A HOLE AND STRAINEDHIS BACK. HE WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY 8-26-95.
INJURED WAS WALKING DOWN THE BELT ENTRY WALKWAY WHEN HE STEPPED ON AN OLD PIECE OF BELT AND SLIPPED AND FELL.
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A BUCKET OF HYDRAULIC OIL WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED INTO A HOLE. HE HYPEREXTENDED HIS RIGHT KNEE. THIS BECAME REPORTABLE 8-24-95 WHEN PHYSICAL THERAPY WAS PRESCRIBED.
WHILE HANDLING EMULSION LINE EE TRIPPED AND PULLED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A LADDER WHEN THE LADDER FELL OVER. INJURED STRUCK HIS LEFT SIDE AGAINST THE BELT STRUCTURE AND HURT HIS RIBS. HE WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED DUTY.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON A STEP LADDER (5 FOOT LADDER) AS HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER.
EE WAS WALKING AROUND THE TRUCK WHEN HE SPRAINED HIS ANKLE WHEN HE STEPPED ON UNEVEN SURFACE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ANSWERING THE PHONE IN THE TAILGATE SHIELD WHEN HE SLIPPED WHILE STANDING ON THE SHIELD TOE. HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.
INJURED SPRAINED HIS L ANKLE WHEN HE STEPPED TO UNEVER GROUND WHILE EXITING THE SCOOP. EE WAS EXAMINED BY A PHYSICIAN ON 4/17/95 & PHYSICAL THERAPY WAS PRESCRIBED. POHYSICAL THERAPY COMMENCED ON 4/21/95. EE IS PERFORMING REGULAR WORK DUTIESWHILE TAKING THERAPY.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A WATER HOSE WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL BACKWARDS. HE BROKE HIS FALL BY CATCHING HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT ARM AND JAMMED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. INJURY BECAME REPORTABLE ON MAY 7, 1995 WHEN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON ARRANGED FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY. NO REPORTABLE MEDICAL CARE WAS RECEIVED UNTIL THERAPY STARTED.
INJURED SLIPPED OFF A SHIELD TOE & WHEN HE TRIED TO CATCH HIS BALANCE, HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE.
INJURED WAS MOVING A 55 GALLONDRUM OF ANTI-FREEZE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HISKNEE. NO REPORTABLE CARE HAS BEEN RECEIVED, BUT EMPLOYEE WILL RECEIVE SURGERY IN 1995. ORTHOPEDIC DIAGNOSIS W AS RECEIVED 2-27-95.
WHILE DUSTING THE BELTLINE, HE STEPPED ON UNEVEN FLOOR, TWISTING HIS ANKLE. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY TWISTED HIS ANKLE, BUT DID NOT RECEIVE MEDICAL CARE. THE PHYSICAN THAT HAS BEEN TREATING EMPLOYEE SINCE THAT TIME HAS RECOMMENDED SURGERY & IS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY 2/24/95. HE CONTINUES TO WORK FULL DUTY WITH A BOOT BRACE. HE HAS HAD SEVERAL AGGRAVATIONS SINCE THAT TIME.
WHILE SHOVELING COAL OUT FROM UNDER THE BELT LOOSE COAL SLIPPED UNDER HIS FOOTING CAUSING HIS KNEE TO BEND THE WRONG WAY CAUSING PAIN BECAME REPORTABLE AS OF 09-0894 WHEN EMPLOYEE WAS PLACED O N RESTRICTED DUTY
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS BACK (SLIPPED IN WET CEMENT). INCIDENT BECAME REPORTABLE 7-13-94 WHEN EMPLOYEE RECEIVED PHYSICAL THERAPY.
INJURED WAS WALKING DOWN THE LONGWALL FACE WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELT A POP IN HIS LEFT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE SLIPPED & FELL HE JAMMED HIS SHOULDERS BY TRYING TO CATCH HIS FALL WHEN HE PUT HIS HANDS DOWN