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COMEALONGS HOOKED TO POST POST PULLED OUT & STRUCK HIM IN BACK.
SETTING LARGE PUMP WHILE HANDLING SLIPPED ON WET SLICK BOTTOM RESULTING IN RUPTURE OF RIGHT GROIN.
OPERATING A SCOOP TRACTOR & MUD SPLASHED UP GOING UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES GETTING MUD IN HIS RIGHT EYE.
STATE ROAD SLIP CAME OVER ONTO HIGHWALL AND CAVED IN THE CANOPY OVER THE BELT LINE.
BUILDING A CRIB OUT OF WET CRIB BLOCK SPLASH MUD IN THE RIGHT EYE. EYE BECAME IRRITATED AND BURNING.
APPROX 10 AM ON 9/28 IW AS LOADING CONVEYOR CHAIN FOR MINER IN SCOOP BUCKET & FELT SHARP PAIN LOWER GROIN AREA WHEN I GOT HOME I HAD KNOT ON LEFT SIDE I CALLED DR SHE MADE ME APPOINTMENT FOR T HE FOLLOWING MONDAY..
PULLING PORTABLE ROCK DUSTER HIT A HOLE & IT STOPPED SUDDENLEY HURT HIS SHOULDER.
RAN OVER ROCK IN ROAD HIT HEAD ON ROOF STRAINED NECK.
I.NAME MISSED WORK 3/15 THROUGH 3/21/89 THEN CALLED ME ON THE PHONE AND TOLD ME HE HURT HIS BACK WHILE PERFORMING ATHE DUTY AS MINER HELPER SAID HE HURT HIS BACK MOVING THE MINER CABLE. HE IS STILL OFF AS OF THIS DATE 3/24/89. I HAVE HAD NO INFORMATION AFTER 3/32/89.
INJURED BACK MARCH 7, 1981. THIS IS A REOCCURRANCE OF OLD INJURY. POURING OIL OUT OF A GALLON JUG INTO A GEAR REDUCER AND BACK SLIPPED OUT OF PLACE. PINCHED NERVE SEEMS TO BE AFFECTING ELBOW A ND KNEE. OLD INJURY- SLIPPED ON CAT WALK ON ICE AND INJURED BACK.
CREW BACKED OUT3OF FINAL PUSH-OUT OF BLOCK TO PUT OIL IN MACHINE HAD STARTED TO TRAM BACK UP TO COAL WHEN ROOF STARTED TO FALL.NO WARNING FROM TIMBERS IT JUST CAME DOWN ALL AT ONCE.NO ONE HURT AND LITTLE DAM5GE TO EQUIP-HH265-5E60.
AREA DOING MINER OVER PITTSBURGH GOB ROOF BROKE UP TOO BAD TO SUPPORT WITH ANYTHING.
SEVERAL UNINTENIONAL ROOF FALLS ABOVE THE BOLT ANCHORAGE OCCURRED ABOVE 16 ROOMS OUTBY THE FACE OF IDLE 1LT SEC. THESE ROOF FALLS ACROSS THE SIX ENTRIES DUE TO THE PITTSBURGH COAL BED BEING RE TREATED UNDERNEATH THESE ENTRIES THE 1LT SEC. HAS BEEN IDLE FOR APPROX. 7 YEARS AND THE ENTRIES HAD NO ROOF FALLS PRIOR TO THE RETREAT WORK IN THE PITTSBURGH COAL BED.
UNINTENT ROOF FALL OCCURRED PERIOD WHEN WORKERS ARE LAID OFF AND DURING THE NIGHT BETWEEN 10 5 83 AND THE MORNING OF 10 6 83
UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL IN INTERSECTION 5 BREAKS OUTBY SECTION LOADING POINT.
UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL.MINER REMOVED WITH SHIEVE BLOCK AND TACKLE.
FALL DUE TO FREEZING & THAWING OF WATER IN ROCK STRATA.