MASHED MIDDLE RIGHT FINGER ON HAND BY MOVING 60 LB RAIL.
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Showing 50 of 54LIFTING LARGE SHOVEL FO MORTAR MIX, CAUSING SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK. WORKED 4-12-91. WENT TO DOCTOR 4-13-91.
VICTIM WAS BOLTING IN CROSSCUT FROM 3 TO 2 WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS AND BIT HIM ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER.
WALKING DOWN HILL FROM BATH HOUSE TO SHOP NOTICED SHARP PAIN IN RIGHT KNEE I DID NOT SLIP OR ANYTHING OPUT OF THE ORENARY.
WALKING UP ENTRY AND FELL AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.
BUGGY OPERATOR GOT OFF HIS BUGGY TO TURN AROUND TO CHANGE DIRECTION AND THERE WAS A ROOF BOLT HANGING DOWN FROM THE MINE ROOF ABOUT 6" WHERE SOME DRAW ROCK HAD FALLEN AWAY FROM BOLT. OPERATOR HIT HIS RIGHT EAR ON BOLT CUTTING IT.
WAS CRAWLING AND KNEE LOCKED.
REMOVING BOLT WITH SPINNER WRENCH IT SLIPPED OFF BOLT STRUCK HIM ABOVE R EYE
EMPLOYEE RT KNEE HAD SWOLLEN & COULDNT WORK ON IT WORK CONDITIONS DICTATE CRAWLING THROUGHOUT THE MINE STATED I NAME DIDNT KNOW WHERE OR HOW IT WAS HURT
SWOLLEN RIGHT KNEE.SORE PLACES ON INSIDE OF KNEES TROUBLE WALKING.SORE PLACE ON LEFT KNEE.
I.NAME HAD JUST BEEN WORKING ON DOZER AND WAS WALKING AWAY WHEN HE STEPPED IN GROUSER TRACK AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE.
SAWING TIMBER IN #1 ENTRY WITH BUCKSAW. SAW JUMPED OUT OF TIMBER, CUT INDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND. SAW HIT PIECE OF BARK, KICKED OUT OF TIMBER.
INJURED WAS BESIDE THE MBC SHOVELING WHEN THE LEAD MAN GAVE THE WORD TO MOVE THE UNITS BACK. THE INBY UNIT MOVED BACK, PUSHING THE MBC OF THE INJURED MAN BACK, CAUSING IT TO STRIKE HIM IN THE VICINITY OF THE LEFT ANKLE. HIS UNIT WAS MOVED BACK APPROXIMATELY 12 INCHES AS IT STRUCK HIM.
THIS ILLNESS WAS REPORTED ON 6-19-90 BUT NO TIME WAS LOST UNTIL 7-13-90. ON 6-19-90, I.NAME SAID THAT HIS BACK WAS BOTHERING HIM WHEN THE DOZER HE WAS OPERATING WAS GOING OVER ROCKS, ETC. THEN ON 7-12-90 HE SAID HIS BACK WAS BOTHERING HIM AGAIN AND HE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD GO TO THE DOCTOR AND HAVE IT CHECKED.
RIDING IN MANTRI WHEN REAR TIRE BLEW OUT. CAUSING LOUD BURST.
WALKING STEPPED IN HOLE KNEE POPPED OUT OF JOINT
WHILE HELPING MOVE MINER CABLE OUT OF ROADWAY,INJURED HIS BACK PULLING & LIFTING CABLE.
ONE OF CREW WAS SAWING TIMBER WITH HYD CHAIN SAW, EMPL WAS STANDING CLOSE BY WAITING TO SET TIMBER SOME SAW DUST FROM SAW HIT HIM IN EYE.
OPERATOR WAS ATTEMPTING TO SET 1ST BOLT IN 3RD ROW. AFTER DRILLING 1ST 24" OF HOLE, HE INSERTED 2ND 24" STEEL. NEEDING ABOUT 1/4" INCH TO CONNECT 2 PIECES OF STEEL, HE ATTEMPTED TO RAISE HEA D. STILL HOLDING ON TO STEEL TO CLEAN UNDER HEAD. WHEN HE RAISED THE DRILL HEAD HE PINNED HIS HAND BETWEEN STEEL AND MINE ROOF.
CONTIN. MINER WAS COMPLETELY COVERED BY ROOF FALL. INVESTIGATION REVEALED UNDETECTED ROOF SLIP THAT WAS 20' WIDE 8' TO 2' THICK & UNDETERMINED LENGTH THAT FELL WHILE NO ONE WAS WORKING IN VIC INITY.
PULLED MUSCLE IN SHOULDER WHILE INSTALLING PUMP MOTOR.
SETTING BOLTS A PART ROOF FELL BETWEEN THE T BAR OF ATRS AND THE SAFETY POST HITTING OPER ON HEAD AND L ARM
REMOVING BELT CLAMPS HITTING WITH HAMMER, PC OF METAL CAME OFF HIT HIM IN L ARM
TIGHTENING JACK ON BELT CONVEY JACK SLIPPED A NOTCH, JACK AHNDLE STRUCK HIM IN RIBS
TRAINING BELT BY TIGHTEWNING L JACK ON TAIL PC JACK JUMPED TOOTH HANDLE OF JACK FLEW BACK HIT CHEST BRUISING CHEST MUSCLES ACROSS UPPER IBS ON L SIDE
THE INJURED WAS WALKING DOWN THE HILL TO THE SHOP FROM THE BATHHOUSE SLIPPED ON ICE AND FELL, FLOLDING LEFT LEG BACK UNDER BODY CAUSING INJURY TO LEFT KNEE.
I.NAME WAS LOADING CABLE ON THE BOOM OF AN 11CM JOY MINER WHEN HIS LEFT HAND WAS PINNED BETWEEN THE ROOF AND THE MINER BOOM. THIS CAUSED DAMAGE TO THE BACK OF HIS LEFT HAND.
INJURED WAS LOADING MINER CABLE WHEN MINER MOVED UNEXPECTEDLY STRIKING MINER IN RIGHT KNEE & KNOCKING HIM DOWN. KNEE LATER SWELLED & INJURED REQUIRED MEDICAL ATTENTION.
HE NOTIFIED ME OF SORENESS DEVELOPING IN THE PALM OF HIS LEFT HAND AND A LOCKING OF THE TENDONS ON HIS RING FINGER ON OR ABOUT 2-1-89. SINCE THAT TIME, THE SORENESS AND TENDON LOCKING HAVE WOR SENED. TO DATE, HE HAS NOT MISSED ANY WORK AS A RESULT OF THE CONDITION, BUT THE WORSENING MAY HAVE DEVELOPED FROM HIS CONTINUOUS OPERATION OF A REMOTE CONTROL PANEL ON A CONTINUOUS MINER.
AS THE MANTRIP SLED WAS BEING PULLED UNDERGROUND IT EVIDENTLY HIT ROUGH MINE FLOOR AND MOVED SIDEWAYS WHILE MOVING AROUND A CORNER.THE INJURED REPORTED HE SLID OFF OF THE SEAT LANDING ON HIS P OSTERIOR AND LEFT FOREARM.THE INJURED REPORTED A PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND LEFT HIP SHORTLY AFTERWARD.HE WAS TAKEN OUTSIDE AND TO A MEDICAL FACILTIY.
I NAME WAS IN THE PIT WAITING TO BE LOADED BY THE 992 LOADER NAME LOADER OPER WAS PARKED TALKING TO THE DOZER OPER WHILE WAITING I NAME HEARD A OISE IN THE TRUCK HE THEN WALKED TO THE LF WHEEL OF THE TRUCK WHILE STANDING UNDER THE TRUCK JUST IN FT OF THE WHEEL OF ROCK APPROX 18" DIAMETER ROLLED FROM THE PILE OF OVERBURDEN AND STRUCK I NAME LEFT LEG
DRIVING PUNCH BETWEEN SHIMMS ON RIPPER HEAD CHAIN TAKE UP HANDLE OF HAMMER CUAGHT IN CLOTHING CAUSING HAMMER TO MISS PUNCH AND FINGER STRIKING PUNCH BETWEEN HANDLE OF HAMMER CUTTING FINGER.
WHILE WORKING ON CONTINUOUS MINER(TAKING OUT TRAM MOTORS)INJURED PERSON SAID HIS LOWER BACK BEGAN TO HURT FOR NO APPARENT REASON,HE MADE NO SUDDEN MOVES OR LIFTED ON ANY THING HEAVY.
WHILE TIGHTENING A BOLT ON SCOOP WRENCH SLIPPED OFF BOLT HEAD STRIKING HAND ON FRAME OF SCOOP KNOCKING LITTLE FINGER OUT OF JOINT ON RT HAND
A ROOF BOLT STICKING DOWN FROM MMINE ROOF ABOUT 5"TO 6" THE INJURED THOUGHT HE SHOULD BEND THE BOLT SO NO ONE WOULD COME WALKING BY AND STRIKE THEIR HEAD ON THE BOLT,SO TAKING THE WRENCH FROM HIS MACHINE HE STRUCK THE BOLT WITH WRENCH AND THE WRENCH BOUNCED BACK STRIKING HIM ABOVE THE RIGHT EYE.
INJURED WAS SITTING IN FOLDING CHAIR OPERATING MINER BY REMOTE CONTROL ON 4 LEFT SECT.NO 5 ENTRY APPROX.20FT.INBY LAST CROSSCUT WHEN DRAWROCK FELL FROM RT.SIDE OF ENTRY STRIKING HIS HEAD & LE FT SHOULDER HITTING & BREAKING HIS LEFT ARM AREA WAS BOLTED
MISSED ROAD AND WENT OVER WALL
INJURED WAS BLOCKING CATS ON FEEDER BEING BADED INTO LOW BOY HE ATTEMPTED TO MOVE A WATER BLOCK AFTER TELLING THE OPERATOR IT WAS OK TO ABOVE THE FEEDER AS HE DID SO THE FEEDER WAS TRAMMED THE CAT MOVED A WOODEN BLOCK THAT STRUCK THE INJURED THUMB TEARING A SECTION OF SKIN AND TISSUE FROM THE INSIDE OF HIS LEFT THUMB.
INJURED BACK WHILE WORKING ON POTS FOR MINER IMPROPER LIFTING STRAINED LOWER BACK
INJURED WAS PUT7ING OIL IN S CAR,THE CAR DRIFTED FORWARD PINNING HIS LEFT LEG BETWEEN THE OIL DRUM AND CAR AND LOWER RIGHT LEG.
INJURED WAS ATT9MPTING TO HAND LOAD PART OF A CONTINUOUS MINER CONVEYOR CHAIN ONTO A WOODEN PALLET WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE INJURE8 HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING CINDERBLOCK ONTO TOP ROW IN STOPPING.APPROXIMATELY 6 1/2' FROM FLOOR OF MINE.APPARENTLY AS HE WAS LIFTING AND TURNING AT THE SAME TIME A NERVE WAS PINCH ED IN THE BACK 7AUSING SAID INJURY.
BOLTER OPERATOR3WAS SETTING A 636' EPOXY BOLT,THE BOLT WASN'T SHUVED COMPLETY AGAINST THE MINE ROOF LACKING ABOUT 8'AND HUNG OPERATOR TRIED SPINNING THE BOLT,WHILE PUSHING WITH HEAD OF BOLTER.
TURNED LEFT FOO7 WHILE GETTING OFF OF END LOADER
WHILE UNROLLING3PHONE WIRE, A COIL OF WIRE SPRUNG UPWARD AND HIT THE EYE OF THE EMPLOYEE.
WHILE HELPING O3E OTHE MAN LOAD A DRUM OF OIL INTO BACK OF PERSONEL CARRIER THE INJURED EE BEING COMPLAINING OF LOWER BACK PAIN.
I,NAME WAS HELPING OTHER EMPLOYEE CLEAN A CLINE TRUCK GETTING READY TO INSTALL AN ENGINE IN THE SAME. OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE STEAM JENNY AND I,NAME WALKED UP TO THE TRUCK-OTHER EMPLO YEE TURNED & THE SPRAY FROM THE JENNY DEFLECTED & SPRAYED INTO HIS FACE.
LIFTING TRAM CHAIN OF 11 CM AND DEVELOPED A HERNIA
I NAME WAS HOLDING RUBBER 1" HOSE TO FEEL SAME 20% CAUSTIC SODA INTO A TREATMENT FEED PIPE FORTREATING ACID MINE WATER. THE SOLUTION SPLAHED INTO PIPE THEN INTO HIS FACE. INJURY WAS POSSIBLE S EVERE DAMAGE TO FACE AND EYES. FIRST ADJU CLINCAL AND DR TREATMENT APPARENTLY PREVENTED SERIOUS INJURY.
REMOVING DRILL STEEL FROM HOLE & CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN STEEL & HEAD OF BOLTER 5TH FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.