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November 5, 1990 MD · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Jones Coal Inc · Struck against a moving object

WHILE OPERATING MACHINERY TO STRIP COAL IN SANDSTONE MATERIAL. LOADER HIT SOME SOLID MATERIAL CAUSING OPERATOR TO HIT KNEE ON CORNER OF DASHBOARD, INJURING KNEE.

October 2, 1990 MD · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Jones Coal Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

EQUIPMENT BEING OPERATED OVERHEATED. OPERATOR SHUT DOWN EQUIPMENT & AFTER WAITING FOR IT TO COOL TOOK OFF RADIATOR CAP WHEN HE WAS BURNED ON HAND WITH HOT STEAM. SOME GOT TRAPPED AROUND WATCH BAND ALSO.

August 15, 1990 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Jones Coal Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPL WORKING ON BRAKE CONTROL ON BULLDOZER BRAKE CONTROL FELL ON HAND CASUING LACERATION. MACHINE WAS NOT IN OPERATION AT TIME OF ACCIDENT.

October 29, 1987 MD · Coal drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Jones Coal Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJ WAS ADJUSTI3G DRILL STEEL THAT HAD SHIFTED FROM STORAGE RACK-HE WAS STRADLING LOWERED MAST AND BRACING STEEL WITH R HAND WHILE REACHING WITH L HAND WHEN STEEL SHIFTED POSITION, CRUSHING TI P OF RING FINGE9 ON RIGHT HAND

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