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WAS USING HAMMER AND PUNCH. MISSED PUNCH AND HITINDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND. CRACKED BONE IN INDEXFINGER.
ROPE CLAMP SLIPPED AND HIT EMPLOYEE'S LEFT ELBOW.
SHOVELING IN LOW SPOT LIFT UP SHOVEL BEGED TO MAN HAND ON BELT PULL BACK.
WAS HOOKING DRILL PAN TO JEEP WHEN PAN WAS JACKED UP HE DROPPED IT ON HIS HAND WHEN HE BUMPED INTO THE PAN KNOCKING IFF OFF THE PROPS.
PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT ARM AT SHOULDER, APPARENTLY WHILE CHANGING BATTERIES. DID NOT MISS ANY WORK. PUT ARM IN SLING FOR ONE WEEK.
DUST PARTICLES BLEW OFF OF METAL BY USIGN AIR HOSE TO CLEAN SURFACE. DUST OF METAL BLEW INTO HIS EYE CAUSING IRRITATION, WAS REMOVED BY EYE DR.
INDIVIDUAL [SAFETY ANALYST FOR STATE] WAS RIDING OUT OF MINE ON MAN TRIP WHEN HE UNEXPECTEDLY RAISED UP IN 28" COAL SEAM & WAS KNOCKED OFF SCOOP PAN. PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK & RIGHT ARM.
EMPLOYEE GOT HIT ON RT EYE WITH COAL PARTICLE INJURY SEEMS TO BE MINER PARTICLE EMBEDDED IN EYE CAUSING IRRITATION HE RAN ACROSS A BLOCK OF COAL THAT BUSTED EMPLOYEE WASWEARING GOGGLES THE PAR TICLE CAME IN AT THE SIDE
INJURY OCCURED AT CANFIELD ENERGY EARLIER WHEN EE WORKED THERE. HE HAS BEEN TROUBLE BY MISJURY SINCE. THIS WAS REOCCURRANCED.
HE PLACED HAND ON BACK OF SCOOP WHILE BACKING UP. THE PIN THAT HOLDS PAN ON RAISED UP CAME BACK DOWN AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND.
BLACK LUNG.
HEARING LOSS.
AN INTERSECTION INBY THE HIGHWALL 2 BREAKS FELL DUE TO HORSEBACK. THIS WAS PREVIOUSLY BOLTED BUT FELL ABOVE THE 30' BOLTS. LONGER BOLTS WERE INSTALLED. THIS FALL WAS OVER BELT LINE #1 IN 26" COAL. FALL OCCURRED WHILE MEN WERE OFF FOR WEEKEND. BELT WOULDN'T START AND FALL WAS DISCOVERED. NIGHT WATCHMAN WAS ONLY PERSON AT MINE. HE WAS IN HIS VEHICLE DURING THIS TIME.
BLACK LUNG AWARD.
BLACK LUNG AWARD.
BLACK LUNG AWARD.
BLACK LUNG AWARD.
DRILL MAN AND TAMP MAN WAS DRILLING THE FACE OF 3 LEFT BRAKE THEY DRILLED INTO AMISFINED SHOT THAT HAD NOT BEEN FOUND BY ANYONE. AT START OF SHIFT THE PLACE AND BEEN RPRESHIFTED COULDN'T HAVE BEEN SEEN. BECAUSE FO COAL THAT HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN. SCOOP DRIVER WAS IN THE PLACE UP DID NOT SEE ANY MISFIRED SHOT'S BOLTER OPERATOR BOLTED THE PLACE DIDN'T FIND ANY MISFIRED SHOT'S DRILL O
DRILL MAN AND TAMP MAN WAS DRILLING THE FACE OF 3 LEFT BRAKE THEY DRILLED INTO AMISFINED SHOT THAT HAD NOT BEEN FOUND BY ANYONE. AT START OF SHIFT THE PLACE AND BEEN RPRESHIFTED COULDN'T HAVE BEEN SEEN. BECAUSE FO COAL THAT HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN. SCOOP DRIVER WAS IN THE PLACE UP DID NOT SEE ANY MISFIRED SHOT'S BOLTER OPERATOR BOLTED THE PLACE DIDN'T FIND ANY MISFIRED SHOT'S DRILL O
COMING FROM FACE TO LADING POINT IN ELKHORN SCOOP SCRAPED HEAD ON RIB.
GETTING BOX OF EXPLOSIVES FROM MINE MAGAZINE TO PUT INTO BOX THAT TRANSPORTS EXPLOSIVES INTO MINES AND PULLED MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS IN LOWER BACK.
STOOD ROLL OF BELT ON ITS END, BELT FELL OVER.
ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR WAS TIGHTENING A ROOFBOLT AND THE WRENCH SLIPPED, CAUSIGN HIS HAND BETWEEN BOLT MACHINE HEAD AND ROOF.
TRACTOR OPERATOR HAD SCOOP PAN CHAINED TO LOADER & WAS ATTEMPTING TO REHOOK TO TRACTOR CHAIN SLIPPED & PAN FELL ON TRACTOR OEPRATORS RIGHT FOOT.
A COAL SEAM APP9OX. 15 TO 20 FEET BELOW THE SEAM BEING MINED,THE FLOOR FELL TO THE LOWER SEAM AND CONDITION CAUSED THE MINE ROOF TO BREAK,THUS,CAUSING THIS ROOF FALL.
EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY AIRBORNE COAL DAMAGE UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME