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PUTTING ON WORK3COVERALLS IN CHANGE ROOM FELT STRAIN IN UPPER BACK-NECK PORTION OF BODY....DIDNT REPORT IT AS ACCIDENT AT THE TIME.8 DAYS LATER EXPERIENCED MORE PAIN IN UPPER NECK AND CONTINUI NG TO RIGHT SID9 RIB CAGE AREA.IS SEEING MEDICAL DR AND IS BEING TREATED FOR MUSCLE SPASMS.

EMP WAS WORKING3ON A TIE ROD OF A FIFTY TON COAL HAULAGE TRUCK LOOSENING A LOCK NUT WHICH WAS FROZE ON HE AND ANOTHER EMP WERE USING A CHEATER BAR ON THE FROZEN PART WHEN THE INJ EMP FELT A STRAIN IN MIDDL9 OF RT SIDE OF BACK INJURY DID NOT BOTHER EMP UNTIL 2 DAYS LATER ON HIS DAYS OFF EMP WENT OT SEE CHIROPRACTER AWHO STATED HE WAS HAVEING MUSCLE SPASMS IN TURN CAUSED PINCHING

EMPLOYEE WHILE 4ORKING TO REMOVE A RADIATOR FROM 637D CATERPILLAR SCRAPER STRAINED HIS BACK ACCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL FOLLOWING WEEK 021386 AT WHICH TIME EMPLOYEE WENTTO SEE CHIROPRACTER FOR TREATMENT E4PLOYEE SAID HE FELT A LITTLE SORENESS BUT DID NOT THINK ANYTHING OF IT AT THE TIME RADIATOR SHROUD & SMALLER PARTS OF RADIATOR APPARENTLY CAUSED STRAIN & DISPLACEMENT OF EMPLO

AN EMPLOYEE WHI5E STRIPPING OVERBURDEN FROM COAL IN PUSH PULL OPERATION SUFFERED DISPLACEMENT OF VERTABRAE IN MIDDLE OF HIS BACK HIS SCRAPER WAS THE SECOND SCRAPER IN PUSH PULL OPERATION & AS THE FRONT SCRPE9 REMOVED A LARGE PIECE OF OVERBURDEN WHICH WAS FROZEN & HE TRAVELED OVER SAME AREA HIS SCRAPER WHEEL DROPPED INTO CREATED HOLE (21/2FT) WHICH IN TURN CAUSED TOP PART OF FRAME

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A 637D SCRAPER TO REMOVE A BELLEY PAN TO ALLOW ACCESS TO ENGINE TO PERFORM REQUIRED WORK TO BE DONE. HE WAS REMOVING BOLTS TO ALLOW PAN TO COME DOWN WITH AN AIR IMPACT WRENCH. AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE THE LAST BOLT THE BELLEY PAN FELL JAMBING HIS HAND AGAINST THE IMPACT WRENCH SPRAINING HIS RIGHT WRIST. THE EMPLOYEE WAS INSTRUCTED AND WARNED TO

I.NAME PERFORMING TASK OF REMOVING OVERBURDEN OFF COAL BED WITH 4 OTHER SCRAPERS COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER SCRAPER ON RAMP AREA..CAUSING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO HYDRAULIC TANK,HOSES,FENDER AND MIRROR ON RIGHT SIDE OF SCRAPER OPERATED BY I.NAME.THE OTHER SCRAPER DIDNT HAVE ANY DAMAGE AT ALL.THERE WERE NO INJURIES FROM ACCIDENT.

I NAME WAS OPERATING A 50TON REAR DUMP TRUCK WAS HAULING COAL OUT OF MINED PIT AREA.AFTER BEING LOADED HE BEGAN HIS ASCENT UP A 525\LONG RAMP OUT OF PIT AREA.WHEN HE REACHED THE 400\-425\ AREA ON THE RAMP THE DRIVER STATED THAT THE TRUCK ENGINE POWERED OTU AND HE APPLIED THE BRAKES TO HOLD THE TRUCK ON THE RAMP.THE BBRAKES COULDN\T HOLD.

LOWER BACK, HIP, LEG OF EMPLOYEE AGGRAVATED BY DOING AN ASSIGNED TASK OF OPPERATING A FRONT END LOADER LOADING COAL.

INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON AN ASSIGNED TASK OF GRINDING SHARP EDGES OFF PC OF STEEL WHICH WAS IN A VISE NEAR WORK BENCH ANOTHER EMPLOYE WHO WAS WORKING ON WORK BENCH HAD SET DOWN CYLINDR AL SHAFT ON WORK BENCH WHICH ROLLED OFF WHILE HE WAS WORKING WITH ANOTHER OBJECT WHICH HE WAS WORKING ON IN SAME AREA SHAFT THAT ROLLED OFF WORK BENCH & STRUCK EMPLOYEE THAT WAS WORKING ON PRO

I NAME WAS PERFORMING HIS T ASK OF REMOVING OVERBURDEN ON A 637 D CATERPILLER SCRAPER WHEN HE REPORTED HAVING A SORE BACK HE WAS SUBJECT TO NORMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS HE WENT TO A PHYSCIAL WH O CONTRIBUTED THE SORENESS IN HIS BACK TO STRAINED MUSCLES IN THE MUD AND LOWER BACK AREA.

I NAME WAS STRIPPING OVERBURDEN FROM COAL WHEN HIS SCRAPER GOT STUCK DUE TO THE WET CONDITIONS CAUSED BY RECENT RAINFALL HE COULD NOT FULLY OPEN HIS DOOR TO GET OUT OF VEHICLE AND USED THE SI SIDE STEP TO GET DOWN FROM CAB HE USED FRONT OF MACHINE EXIT WHILE GETTING OFF HE PUT HIS HAND ON THE BOTTTOM SIDE BAIL STOP AND FRAME WHILE BAIL WAS COMING DOWN TO ITS LOWERED POSITION HIS

KELLER & REHLING WERE REPLACING CUTTING EDGES ON A SCRAPER. REHLING HAD JUST BROUGHT ONE OF THE REPLACEMENT EDGES TO T HE WORK SITE & KELLER WAS TO HOLD THE CUTTING EDGE UP WHILE REHLING WAS R ETUENING A WHEEL CART BACK TO ITS PROPER PLACE. KELLER TRIED TO LAY THE CUTTING EDGE DOWN ALONE WHEN EDGE BOTTOM SLIPPED OUT & LANDED JUST ABOVE STEEL TOED BOOT.

DAVE REILLEY LOWER BACK WAS STRAINED WHILE LIFTING A 12 VOLT BATTERY THAT WAS BEING PUT INTO SCRAPER. BATTERY WEIGHT WAS 151 LBS THERE WERE TWO OTHER EMPLOYEE\S NEAR BY WHICH COULD HAVE HELPED LIFT THE BATTERY IN PLACE HAD THE INJURED EMPLOYEE ASKED FOR HELP. EMPLOYEE HAD A PREVIOUS LOW BACK INJURY IN WHICH HE HAD FAILED TO GET HELP BRUISE PROPER LIFTING EQUIPMENT OF WHICH HE WAS W

A CAT 637D SCRAPER AND A COAL HAULAGE TRUCK COLLE PERFORMING THEIR ASSIGNED TASKS THE TRUCK SUSTAINED A BENT FRAME MEMBER AND THE ONLY DAMAGE TO THE SCRAPER WAS A BROKEN HYDRAULIC COUPLING THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT INVOLVED BOTH MACHINE OPERATORS UNAWARENESS OF THE OTHER HEAVY EQUIP INWORK AREA REFLECTING THEIR JOB SKILLS AND ATTITUDE

HE RECIEVED A 2 ND DEGREE BURN TO ONE INCH AREA ABOVE HIS LEFT ANKLE THE INJURY HAPPENED FROM HOT SLAG WHICH HAD BOUNCED OFF OF EQUIPMENT OF FLOOR WHILE AND THERE EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN AIR ARC ON THE MAINTAINENCE OF A DOZER BLADE. THE SLAG LODGED ON THE TOP OF LEONARD BOOT NEAR HIS ANKLE AREA. HE RECIEVED MEDICAL ATTENTION BEACAUSE OF LOCALIZED SWELLING.