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July 31, 1990 KY · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Granny Rose Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EXPLOSIVES. A BLASTING ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT APPROXIMATELY 2:00 PM ON 7/31/90 ON THE 001-0 SECTION AT GRANNY ROSE COAL CO., NO. 3 MINE, ID 1516719. THREE EMPLOYEES WERE FATALLY INJURED.

July 31, 1990 KY · Coal driller operator Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Granny Rose Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EXPLOSIVES. A BLASTING ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT APPROX. 2:00 PM ON 7/31/90 ON THE 001-0 SECTION AT GRANNY ROSE COAL CO., NO. 3 MINE, ID 1516719. THREE EMPLOYEE'S WERE FATALLY INJURED IN THE ACCIDE NT.

July 31, 1990 KY · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Granny Rose Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EXPLOSIVES. A BLASTING ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT APPROX 2:00 PM ON 7/31/90 ON THE 001-0 SECTION AT GRANNY ROSE COAL CO., NO. 3 MINE, ID NO. 1516719. THREE EMPLOYEES WERE FATALLY INJURED IN THE ACCI DENT.

July 31, 1990 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Granny Rose Coal Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

GOT DOWN ON SMOKE. (SMOKE FROM THE USE OF EXPLOSIVES. SEE FATAL #'S 37-39)

August 19, 1987 KY · Coal driver, jeep driver, tractor operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Granny Rose Coal Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

THE VICTIM WAS 2PERATING A RUBBER TIRED TRACTOR ATTACHED TO A SHOP MADE BUCKET ON THE HAULROAD WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON THE TRACTOR 27X14X3 IN THICKNESS AS THE TRACTOR MOVED THE ROCK FELL IN THE DECK TR5CTOR PINCHING HIM IN THE STOMACH FATABLITY INJURY HIM.

May 1, 1987 KY · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Granny Rose Coal Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING TO HIS VEHICLE AND TRIPPED OVER A SMALL STONE LYING ON THE GROUND. WHEN HE TRIED TO BREAK THE FALL HIS RIGHT ARMY STRUCK THE GROUND AND WAS BROKEN ATT HE THUMB .

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