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EE WAS WALKING AROUND ROOF BOLTER AND SLIPPED, AND FELL ONTO SELF RESCUER, HURTING HIS BACK.
EE WAS WALKING BELT AND AT BREAK 24 HE SLIPPED ON ICE AND FELL HURTING HIS BACK & HIPS.
EE WAS PULLING ON BELT CLAMP ROPE ON #3 BELT AND BELT CLAMP SLIPPED, AND HE FELL BACKWARD ONTO MINE FLOOR, HURTING HIS BACK.
EE WAS CARRYING A BAG OF ROCK DUST UP BELT #2 AND STEPPED IN A HOLE AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE. EE STARTED MISSING WORK ON 2-4-03.
EE WAS STANDING ON BATTERIES IN THE BACK OF SCOOP WHILE GETTING OFF OF SCOOP, FEET SLIPPED CAUSING EE TO FALL TO GROUND HURTING LEFT LEG.
CARRYING BAG OF SAND TO SAND TRACK, HE GOT FOOT CAUGHT IN TRACK TIE AND WHILE CATCHING HIMSELF FROM FALLING, TWISTED AND HURT BACK.
EE WAS TRAMMING MOBILE ROOF SUPPORT, & WAS WALKING BACKWARD, & STEPPED IN HOLE & TWISTED LEFT KNEE.
EE WAS ROCK DUSTING #4 BELT AND WALKING BACKWARD AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE ON UNEVEN BOTTOM.
EE WAS WALKING THROUGH WATER BETWEEN #2 AND #3 CROSSCUT ON SECTION AND STEPPED IN HOLE, CAUSINGWEIGHT TO SHIFT SUDDENLY, BRUISING HIS RT. FOOT.
PULLING ON MINER CABLE WHILE MINER WAS SETTING OVER AND SLIPPED AND FELL, TWISTING BACK, PULLING MUSCLE IN BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO BATTERY CHARGING STATION TO GET SCOOP, AND STEPPED IN HOLE AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.
CREW WAS MOVING SECTION AND HE STEPPED IN OIL AND FELL AGAINST RIB, HURTING BACK AND NECK AND RIGHT ARM AS HE SLID DOWN RIB.
EE WAS WALKING TO MANTRIP AND STUMBLED AND FELL LANDING ON BLOCK HAMMER HE WAS CARRYING AND BRUISED RIBS.
WHILE WATCHING S/C PULLING UP MINER CABLE WITH A ROPE, EE NOTICED THE ROPE SLIPPING SO HE PUT HIS FOOT ON THE ROPE AND WHEN IT TIGHTENED UP IT CAUSED HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND FALL.
OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS - CARPAL TUNNEL.
STEPPED ON A PIECE OF COAL AND HURT RIGHT LEG.
EE HAD KNEE SURGERY ON HIS RIGHT KNEE. SAID TH AT IT HAS BEEN GIVING OUT ON HIM AS HE WALKS. AS HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE ENTRY HE TWISTED HIS KNEE, THIS IS A EXACERBATION OF HIS PREVIOUS INJUR URY(RECURRENCE). HIS DR. SAID IT WAS SAME INJURYAND HE HAS A LOT OF ARTHRITIS IN HIS KNEE.
JUMPED OUT OF A SUPPLY MOTOR AND HURT HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
EE TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE WHEN HE STEPPED OFF SCHOOL BUS AT SUPPLY YARD AT MINE PORTAL.
EE WAS CROSSING OVER 4 A BELT LINE AND STEPPED IN BETWEEN TWO WATER LINES AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.
EE WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE ONTO SUPPLY CAR AND SLIPPED AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE.
EE WAS PULLING MINER CABLE OUT FROM UNDER GOB AND FEET SLLIPPED AND HE FELL BACKWARD ONTO MINE FLOOR AND HIS BACK STRUCK A BIG LUMP OF COAL.
EE WAS LOADING BOX OF RESIN GLUE ONTO TRAY OF ROOF BOLTER AND STEPPED INTO ROADWAY GOB AND TWISTED BACK.
HE WAS STEPPING OFF STEPS ON SCHOOL BUS AND SLIPPED AND FELL HURTING HIS NECK AND BACK.