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WAS WORKING ON DOZIER DRIVING PIN OUT WITH TOOL PIECE OF METAL FLEW IN EYE.
WAS WELDING ON EQUIPMENT (992-C LOADER) HAD PROTECTIVE HOOD, BUT WAS WELDING A PLACE THAT WAS HARD TO GET TO.
WORKING ON DRIVERSHAFT OF TEREX ROCK TRUCK STRAINED OR BUMPED SHOULDER
EE WAS WORKING IN OUR SHOP PICKED UP A PIECE OF PIPE THEN SOMETHING POPPED IN HIS NECK CAUSED HIM PAIN
CHANGING TIRE ON POWDER TRUCK AND SMASHED FINGER.
PUTTING TEETH ON FRONT END LOADER, HE HIT PIN. IT FLEW UP AND HIT ARM.
INJURED GOT STUCK ANOTHER VEHICLE PUSHED HIM OUT HURT NECK WHEN OTHER VEHICLE PUSHED OUT
UNDER TD 25 DOZER WORKING ON TRACK CRAWLING IN AND OUT FROM UNDER.COMING OUT FROM UNDER AND HURT KNEE.
INJURED WAS INSTALLING A TRACK IN BULL DOZER HE WAS HOLDING LARGE PIN WHILE AN ASSISTANT W NAME WAS POUNDIN WITH SLEDGE HAMMER HAND SLIPPED CAUSING HAND AND PIN TO STRIKE JAW
BURNT EYES FORM REFLECTIONS FORM ARC WELDING WHILE HELPING WELDER
WAS GETTING OFF COAL SWEEPER BROOM EMPLS FOOT SLIPPED HE FELL AND HURT KNEE
EMPLOYEE COMPLAINEL WITH PAIN IN NECK. HE IS A DOZEN OPERATOR AND MOTION OF MACHINE CAUSED PAIN TO GET WORSE. HE WENT TO DR. CALLED AND ADVISED SURGURY WAS NEEDED.
EMPL WAS RIDING IN MANTRIP AT START OF SHIFT. BECAUSE OF TRACK BEING FLOODED ALL EMPL ON MANTRIP GOT OFF & WALKED BELTLINE TO SECTION FACE. AS EMPL WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM BELTLINE SHE TWIST ED HER KNEE.
EMPL ENTERED MACHINE CAB,SLIPPED & FELL INJURING WRIST.SENT TO DR,TREATED & RELEASED FOR WORK NEXT SHIFT.IN SEPT REQUESTED TO BE SENT TO DR -WRIST STILL HURTING HIM.10-17-NT TO DR,TREATED & RE 88 EXAMINED BY DR DIAG PROBLEM TO INJURY.1ST DAY OF DISABILITY 10-17-88.
A ROCK FALL OCCURRED ON 5 SECTION IN THE LAST OPEN X-CUT OF 5 ENTRY ABOUT 80 FT FROM THE FACE AREA. THE ROCK FALL WAS APPROX. 20X20X5 FT HIGH THE ROOF CONSISTS OF LAMINATED SANDY SLATE. 280 FT INBY SPAD 7544.
EMPL WORKS AS LOADER HELPER. AS LOADER WAS TRAMMING FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER, EMPL WAS MOVING CABLE. HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK AS HE PULLED ON TRAILING CABLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING CABLE ON COAL DRILL AS HE WAS CUTTING CABLE COVER HE CUT HIS FINGER THE WOUND REQUIRED SUTURES
ROCKFALL OCCURR9D SECT #6 #3 ENTRY.DISCOVERED ON 1118?. 35' X 28'X 5' LOCATED IN INTERSECTION 65'OUTBY SPAD #7377. AREA SUPPORTED ON 5' CENTERS WITH 5' JENMAR BOLTS WI7H T-BOARDS.ALSO 5-6' DOME NUT BOLTS WERE SPOTTED IN INTERSECTION .
A ROCKFALL OCCU9RED ON THE SEC #6 IN THE #5 ENTRY 80 FT INBY SPAD #7309-30FT OUTBY THE FACE. THE AREA MEASURED 95'X15'X8' AND FELL DUE TO A VELTICAL SLIP RUNNING DOWN THE RT. R.B. THE AREA WA S SUPPORTED WIT2 5 FT JENMAR BOLTS.
A ROCKFALL OCCU9RED ON THE SEC #4 IN THE #2 ENTRY 50 FT INBY SPAD #7289 MEASUREING 90 FT X 20 FT X 5 FT THE AREA WAS SUPPORTED WITH 5 FT CONVENTIONAL PINS THE ROCKFALL OCCURRED BETWEEN 12-31- 87 AND 1-1-88 A7 9:15 PM THE TIME OF DISCOVERY
A ROCKFALL FELL3ON THE SEC. #6 IN THE #4 ENTRY IN AN INTERSECTION AT SPAD #7293 MEASURING 30'X30'X6-12'. THE ROCKFALL WAS DISCOVERED AT 10:35 AM AND THE LAST TIME ANYONE WAS ON THE SECTION #6 WAS 5:30 AM 3
EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING AIR COMPRESSOR AND HURT BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING ROOF BOLTER TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PLACE HE WAS BOLTING, NEXT TO THE FOOTWALL. HE STEPPED ON A ROCK BESIDE THE FOOT WALL, THE ROCK ROLLED, AND THE EMPLOYEE FELL, TWISTING HIS ANKLE. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING POWDER FROM POWDER CAR INTO POWDER BOX ON SCOOP.AFTER FINISHING,AS HE WAS EXITING POWDER CAR,EMPLOYEE STEPPED INTO HOLE IN FOOT WALL,TWISTING HIS LEFT FOOT.
EE WAS WALKING 0ROM FACE TO FOOTWALL WHERE POWDER BOX WAS LOCATED. AS HE WAS WALKING HE STEPPED ON NAIL CAUSING PUNCTURE WOUND TO FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING AS LOADER OPERATOR. SHUTTLE CAR BECAME HUNG ON RIB BEHIND LOADER. WHEN EMPLOYEE DISMOUNTED LOADER TO ASSES SITUATION, HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED KNEE.
THE MAIN OR IMM9DICATE ROOF WAS MADE UP OF ROOF COAL. THE SECTION WAS ALSO SLABBING BETWEEN TWO PREVIOUSLY SLABBED AREAS. THE CONTINUOUS MINER WAS COVERED UP BUT WAS RECOVER AND SECTION WAS RE RETREATED AND 600 FT EXTENT OFR DAMAGE IS UNKNOWN.
EMPLOYEE AT TIM9 OF INJURY WAS WORKING AS BELT INSTGALLER AS HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF JACKING UP BELT T HE JACK SLIPPED STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON THUMB HE REPORTED THE INJURY WAS SENT TO THE DOC. TREATED & RELEA8ED FOR WORK EMPLOYEE LOST NO TIME INITIALLY HOWEVER THE T HUMB CONTINUED TO BOTHER HIM HE WAS SENT BACK T O DOC.ON AUG 121987 TENDON DAMAGE WAS DIAGNOSED & EMPLOYEE TAKEN OFF W
AS A GROUP OF E5ECTRICIANS ENTERED MINE TO BEGIN SHIFT THE MANTRIP JEEP THEY WERE RIDING DERAILED EMPLOYEES USED TWO JACKS TO RERAIL JEEP AS THEY WERE LOWERING JEEP ONTO RAIL T HE JEEP FELL FROM JACK CATCH3NG TO OF EMPLOYEES FOOT
LAMINATED ROOF 7ONDITIONS LEAD TO ROOF FALL. FALL WAS 5 1/2 FEET HIGH 24' WIDE AND APPROX. 25' LONG.
AN IGNITION OF 4ETHAD OCCURED ON THE 1 SECTION IN THE 3 FACE 125 FT INBY SPAD 6718. FACE WAS SHOT AND AS THE SHOOTER ENTERED THE 3 FACE TO REEXAMINE OF COAL THE AREA WAS WET DOWN AND EXTINQUIS ED WITH A WATER3HOSE AND WERE SAID THE BE EXTINQUISHED WITHIN 10 MIN.
AN IGNITION OF 4ETHANE OCCURRED ON THE SEC 1 IN THE FACE X CUT LEFT THE 4 XCUT LEFT WAS SHOT AS THE SHOOTER RETURNED TO EXAMINE THE SHOT PLACE THE X CUT THE FACE WAS BURNING THE FLAMES WERE EX EXTINGQUISHED W3TH FIRE HOSE IN APPROX. 15 MIN THE XCUT WAS TURNED TO LEFT ABOUT 28 FT FROM A POINT 80 FT INBY SPAD 6740 THE FACE IN THE STRAIGHT WAS DRIVEN INBY THE X CUT 10 FT OR INBY SPAD
A ROCKFALL OCCU9RED ON THE #4 SECTION IN AN INTERSECTION OF THE #3 PLACE, 70 FEET WEST OF SPAD #6648. THE AREA OF THE ROCKFALL MEASURING 40 FEET LONG, 23 FEET WIDE, 10 FEET HEIGHT. THE AREA WAS SUPPORTED W3TH 8 FEET TAB NUT BOLTS WITH WOODEN COLLAZS.
THIS AREA IS IN3AN EXTREMELY LAMINATED IMMEDIATE ROOF AREA. THIS IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE PRIMARY CONTRIBUTOR TO THE ROOF FALL. THE FALL OCCURRED IN THE #3 FACE AND INTERESECTION. DIMENSIONS AR E 8'-10' HIGH, 30' LONG, 25' WIDE. PRIMARY SUPPORT WAS 8' TAB NUT BOLTS.
EMPL OPERATING 8HUTTLE CAR.AS MACHINE WAS TRAVELING DOWN RUNWAY,IT HIT A HOLE CAUSING INJURY TO BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING AS HELPER ON ROOF DRILL. AS HE WAS PUTTING A PIN IN A HOLE, A PIECE OF THE BROW FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON THE ARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING AS TRACKMAN HE & THREE OT HER EMPLOYEES WERE LIFTING TRACK RAIL TO PUT IT IN PLACE AS T HEY WERE LIFTING RIIL EMPLOYEE FELT BURNING SENSATION IN LOWER ABDOMEN
EMP WORKS AS RO2F BOLTER HIS MACHINE WAS DOWN BECAUSE OF A BLOWN HYDRALIC HOSE THE ELECTRICIAN WORKING ON IT HAD SET A ROF JACK UNDER THE BOM IN ORDER TO REPLACE HOSE WHEN REPAIRS WERE COMPLE THE ELECTRICIAN3RAISED THE BOOM WHEN HE DID THIS THE ROOF JACK FELL EMP TRIED TO CATCH THE JACK THE WEIGHT OF JACK HYPEREXTENDED HIS ELBOW
EMP WAS ENGERIZ3NG START BUTTON ON A D.C. AIR COMPRESSOR. THE SWITCH WHEN PRESSED SHORTED CAUSING BURN TO THUMB
EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NGING OUT HYDRAULIC PUMP. THE OLD PUMP, BEING OILY, SLIPPED FROM EMPLOYEE S GRASP AND CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN PUMP AND T BOARD.
WHILE CLOSING K3IFE BLADE FINGER CAME IN CONTACT WITH BLADE RESULTING CUT REQUIRED SUTURES TO CLOSE
OPERATOR WAS ST9PPING OFF OF LOADER & FELL APPROX 8' TO THE GROUND.
WHILE SHOVELING3COAL FROM UNDER BELT,EMPLOYEE STRAINED BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS HO3STING A LARGE CYLINDER AND THE CHAIN SLIPPED CAUSING THE CYLINDER TO SMASH DOWN ON HIS HAND.
WHILE LIFTING B5G OF ROCK DUST EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN B ACK
WHILE CARRYING 5 CRIB TIE,EMPLOYEE'S FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO LOSE BALANCE,STRAINED BACK.
OPERATOR WAS ST9PPING OFF OF MACHINE TO SERVICE IT AND STRAINED MUSCLES IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING TURNED ANKLE
PULLING DOWN OL8 CURTAIN
WHILE TAKING HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE OUT OF HANGER EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO RT HAND