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As the employee was washing off the back end of the Launch Vehicle used for Highwall Mining, the employee was walking down a set of steps on the Launch Vehicle when the employee stepped on the water hose being used causing foot to roll over sideways.
While installing the next ADDCAR (belt car) in line while mining, the injured employee and another employee was attempting to connect a de-energized 995 volt line connector. During this process, the line connector was inadvertently dropped onto the injured employee's hand which struck against the ADDCAR being installed.
The injured employee was pulling on a section of 250 MCM power cable and connector on an Addcar being installed on the Launch Vehicle when EE felt a "pop" in the right shoulder. This incident was not reported until 7-4-17.
At approx. 9:15am, co-worker noticed ee slumped forward in the cab and told another ee about what had seen. An ee went to the loader to check on ee and immediately started CPR. While doing CPR, EMS was called and ee was removed from the cab. EE was then taken to the hospital where ee was pronounced dead of Natural Cause Cardiac Arrest.
The injured employee was rolling up a power cable for a stacker belt with a co-worker when EE turned back and proceeded to trip over one of the co-worker's feet. While falling to the ground, EE twisted right foot causing injury.
While handling the electrical connector for an Addcar, the employee dropped it on the car with left hand in between the connector and the car; causing injury to the middle finger.
While attempting to free an air hose coupling from the spooling eye of the reel with a pair of pliers, the hose unexpectedly continued through the spooling device; pulling the employee's hand along with the hose before the pliers could be released. A finger of the left hand likely hit the spooling device or the air hose and caused the tip of the finger to be over-extended.
After the employee exited a pickup truck, his footing was lost on snowy ground causing him to fall; striking his head on the ground.