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Airing tire on a coal truck. Air pressure hit EE in the face causing him to fall backwards and hitting his head causing a small fracture.
Miner stepped off his truck and missed the bottom step. He did not fall. Pulled muscle.
Unit #10 truck coming from 9 pit Job #7 when truck stalled on him. Started rolling back. Driver jumped from truck.
The foreman turned and exited the pick-up truck and upon placing his feet upon the ground, he experienced pain in his lower back and the front of his thigh that radiated downward past his knee.
The lube technician was placing a 5 gallon bucket of lube oil onto the cargo area of the Mack lube truck, and when he sat the bucket down, he experienced a sudden throbbing pain & numbness in his right index finger & the back of his right hand that radiated up his forearm to & including his elbow.
The D11R Dozer operator was pushing in the shot material, and was prying a rock loose on the sandstone bottom when one track of the dozer lifted up releasing from the rock and bringing the dozer back down onto the track jarring the operator and causing pain in his lower back & hip area.
The operator was descending the grade, attempted to shift from 5th to low side 5th gear in the 8 speed coal truck and states that the truck did not go into gear so he attempted to shift back to 5th and states it didn't take so he attempted to shift to 8th gear, it didn't take gear so he drove the truck up an embankment and the truck turned over on to the driver's side door.
Employee was operating a D9L bulldozer and he states that the seat belt was aggravating his right groin. He had right inguinal hernia repair surgery in March 2013 and went back to work in early June. He had noticed increasing pain in his right inguinal area with swelling and ? numbness.