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Mechanic was under a dozer looking for a leak on the equalizer bar. Once the mechanic found the problem, EE went to crawl out from underneath the dozer EE used EE's arm to assist self in getting up. In this process EE's left shoulder dislocated from the socket.

Dragline operator cut the tip of finger while reinstalling a lower hoist chain pin during a PM. Dragline Operator's ring and pinky fingers were pinched under the pin's locking collar cap, with the ring finger taking most of the injury. The tip of the ring finger was cut off with only slight pinch damage to the pinky.

Grass fire was started when a 230,000 volt transmission line fell to the ground in the highway 314 right of way. The fire spread to mine property in the pond 24 pit 16 area of the mine. Local fire departments and mine personnel contained the fire. Fire was extinguished. No injuries or damage to property.

Grass fire along Highway 314 spread from highway right of way on to mine property in the B/C section of pit 11. Fire was contained with local fire departments and mine personnel and equipment. No injuries. Highway right of way fence posts burned. Unknown how fire started on the highway right of way.

Due to high winds and extremely dry range conditions, a broken insulator and associated wind slap arc on the West Decker main feed 345Kv power line initiated an approximately 500 acre grass fire. Decker Mine personnel along with local fire fighting resources brought the fire under control at 5:30 PM.

Installing pin in spreader bar for dragline rigging, pin started in hole and was not down completely reached to grab pin, then grabbed pin and pin fell into hole completely, which entrapped ring & middle finger, causing them to be smashed. Went to hospital where X-rays showed no breaks, but did result in nine stitches to ring finger.

All evidence indicates that a bird got into a 34,500 kV overhead power line near the West Decker prill silos. The resulting incineration of the bird resulted in approximately 50 acres of native rangeland being burned. Other than 2 power poles being charred, no structures or equipment were near the fire.

When the pin was backed out of a rear trailer strut, it swung free & struck the employee in the lower lip.

Injured employee crushed left little finger between the flat bed pickup rail and replacement dragline bucket tooth that ee was loading into the truck bed.

Driven by high winds, a power line disconnect switch located at pole #80 on the N side of pit 15 - arced igniting dry grass. When the fire was discovered a 657 scraper, 16G blade and wildland truck contained and extinguished fire in 1 hour 10 minutes.

After the coal shot was initiated, the dust cloud ignited into a large fireball & with gusting winds ignited native grasses/timber to the Southeast of the pitwall. The water truck & wild land fire truck were staged appropriately but the gusting winds carried hot embers from the fireball onto native grasses & the resulting fire spread very quickly.

While climbing aboard a Euclid CH-150, the employee stumbled to the ground when one of the rubber straps for the boarding steps broke. Decker Coal is filing this form under protest, as no injury resulted from this incident. Decker Coal has to file this 7000-1 form in order to abate a citation resulting from a miners complaint on 12/20/2016.

While inspecting the bin level measuring system on a prill storage silo the injured employee suffered facial and skull lacerations when the unsecured manhole cover fell on to the employees head. Injuries would have been more severe had the injured employee not had EE's hard hat on.

In preparation of a dragline cable move, injured employee cut the top of EE's left hand with a "retractable" blade utility knife while cutting a plastic zip-tie that was securing the cable ends. The resulting cut required medical attention and six stitches to close the wound.

Operator bounced over a large chunk of coal & hurt back/knee. Operator came in at end of shift & told supervisor about the incident. Operator did not need request medical attention at that time. Several days later operator went to doctor for sore knee. Decker Coal is filing this form under protest due to the extenuating circumstances related to this incident.