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February 8, 2010
AL · Coal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Best Coal Inc · Fall from machine
Employee was preparing to service dozer. He climbed up the dozer tracks from the outside and then started climbing down the inside of the tracks when he lost his footing and fell a distance of aprox.2.5 feet.His body landed on his right hand and arm area. The trauma from hitting this area with his body caused his right hand/wrist/lower arm to swell and became painful.
June 20, 2008
AL · Coal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
OTHER
Best Coal Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Truck Driver started complaining about chest pains and numbness in his left arm and shoulder. Taken to the emergency room at Walker Baptist Hospital in Jasper, Alabama. He had possibly suffered a heart attack, kept overnight for test, transferred to Baptist Princeton hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, he is to undergo by-pass heart surgery on 06/23/08.
March 10, 2008
AL · Coal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
MACHINERY
Best Coal Inc · Struck against a moving object
Employee was operating track-hoe excavator on a pad of coal, prying rock off coal and loading rock trucks. Track of excavator got off pad, causing excavator to fall off pad (drop of aprox. 8 feet) and over onto its side. Employee was in cab (selt belt on) when excavator hit the ground, causing injury to his neck and bruising to his head, right elbow, and buttock areas.
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