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March 16, 1989 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hansford Coal Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE HURT HIS BACK WHILE DRAGGING A PIECE OF SHEET METAL TO THE HOIST. THE COMPANY IS INCLINED TO BELIEVE THAT THE EMPLOYEE IS ONLY ESTABLISHING A WORKER COMP CASE DUE TO THE LIMITED WORK SCHEDULE.

March 6, 1989 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hansford Coal Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MASHED RIGHT FOREFINGER BY A PIECE OF METAL RESULTING IN A LACERATION REQUIRING 4 STITCHES.

October 26, 1988 WV · Coal auger operator, auger crew supervisor MACHINERY
Hansford Coal Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING MECHANIC WHILE GRINDING ON A PIECE OF METAL. A FRAGMENT APPARENTLY ENTER HIS EYE AND BECAME EMBEDDED.

October 17, 1988 WV · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hansford Coal Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS HELPING EMCHANIC LOAD PIECE OF METAL INTO TRUCK WHEN GRIP ON METAL SLIPPED & EMPL FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN METAL & TRUCKS BUMPER.

August 4, 1988 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hansford Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS CHIPPING SLAG FROM WELD WITH CHIPPING HAMMER WHEN A PIECE GOT INTO HIS EYE.

April 12, 1988 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech OTHER
Hansford Coal Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON ENDLOADER WIND BLEW HIM OFF BALANCE HE GRABBED A LIGHT CORD THE CORD WAS AROUND THE ALTERNATOR WHICH WAS LAYING LOOSE AGAINST THE ENGINE ALTERATER FELL & STRUCK HIS LEFT FOOT

April 4, 1988 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS
Hansford Coal Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

PNEUMOCOISIS AWARD 5% PRESUMPTIVE NO IMPAIRMENT.

January 5, 1988 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Hansford Coal Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

2.25% AWARD FOR3OCCUPATIONAL HEARING LOSS

December 15, 1987 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hansford Coal Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMP WAS ADING H2DRAULIC OIL TO END LOADER WITH A 2 GALLON CAN. HE LIFTED OIT TO LOWER DECI WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING CATCH IN HIS BACK. HE OPERATED LOADER FOR APROX 3 HOURS WHEN HE STATED HAVING MUSCLE SPASMS A3D COULD NOT MOVE. HE WAS EXITICATED FROM LOADER AND TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL

December 9, 1987 WV · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hansford Coal Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE STATES3HE FELL OVER A PIECE OF METAL CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON HIS LEFT KNEE

December 7, 1987 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hansford Coal Company · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE CLIMBE8 UP STEP LADDER ON BACK OF TRUCK TO GET IN THE BED AND CAUGHT HIS FOOT AND FELL INSIDE THE BED LANDING ON HIS HIP

October 27, 1987 WV · Coal DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Hansford Coal Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HEARING LOSS- 134 % AWARD.

August 11, 1987 WV · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Hansford Coal Company · Struck by falling object

EMP WAS GRINDIN1 ON A PIECE OF METAL ON A BENCH, WHEN THE GRINDER CAUGHT THE METAL AND PUSHED IT OFF THE BENCH STRIKING THE EMPLOYEES FOOT

August 4, 1987 WV · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hansford Coal Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMPLOYEE WAS PO6RING LIME INTO PIPE GOING TO THICKNER TANK WHEN LIME BLEW INTO HSI EYES

May 21, 1987 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Hansford Coal Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE TRUCK 5OST BRAKE WHILE GOING DOWN GRADE TO FILL AREA TO DUMP H E APPLIED ALL BRAKES THEN JUMPED FROM HAULER THE TRUCK STOPPED APPROX. 30 FT FROM WHERE HE LANDED SERVICE BRAKE LOST DUE BROKEN OIL LIN9 ON REAR BRAKE SERVICE AND FRONT BRAKE WERE OUT OF ADJUSTMENT RENDERING THEM INEFFECTURE FRONT BRAKE SYSTEM WAS DETERMINED A RIOT SELF ADJUSTING.

December 9, 1986 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hansford Coal Company · Struck against stationary object

EMP WAS WORKING2 PERFORMING MAINTENANCE WORK, ON ENDLOADER NEAR THE CAB OF THE ENDLOADER WHEN HE RAISED UP AND STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A MIRROR BRACKET CAUSING A LACERATION TO HIS HEAD WHICH REQUIR ED SUTURES TO C5OSE

November 20, 1986 WV · Coal tipple/top lander/skip dumper operator, binman, topman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hansford Coal Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE STATED HE FE5L TO THE FLOOR STRIKING HIS LEFT KNEE & ELBOW.

August 13, 1986 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hansford Coal Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS PU5LING PINS ON AUGER AND COMPLAINED OF DOUBLEPINY BACK PAIN.

July 18, 1986 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hansford Coal Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE DID NO7 STOP BELT TO REPLACE BROKEN PIN ON FEEDER HE STEPPED ON BELT LINE AND WAS THROWN INTO WALKWAY.

February 4, 1986 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hansford Coal Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMP WAS HELPING3THE MECHANIC CHANGE A TIRE ON A T RUCK. THEY WERE LIFTING THE TIRE FROM THE GROUND WHEN SOMETHING GAVE IN THE EMPLOYEES RIGHT ARM

January 10, 1986 WV · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hansford Coal Company · Fall from machine

EMP WAS SERVICI3G ROCK TRUCK PRIOR TO SHIFT. WHILE ON TRUCK HE SLIPPED AND FELL FROM TRUCK TO THE GROUND

December 20, 1985 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hansford Coal Company · Fall from machine

EE STEPPED OFF 9AIL CAR & TWISTED ANKLE WHILE CROSSING BETWEEN RAIL CAR.

December 10, 1985 WV · Coal car dropper, car shake out operator POWERED HAULAGE
Hansford Coal Company · Struck against stationary object

EMP WAS DROPPIN1 TWO LOADED RAIL CARS WHEN BRAKES FAILED AND BOTH OF HIS LEGS STRUCK RAIL CAR UPON IMPACT OF OF CARS STRIKING PREVIOUSLY DROPPED CARS

September 19, 1985 WV · Coal tipple/top lander/skip dumper operator, binman, topman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Hansford Coal Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS STRIKING REFUSE FILTERR WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED DOWN THE HANDLE AND HIS FINGER WAS MASHED BETWEEN HANDLE AND FILTER SECTOR STRAP.

July 29, 1985 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hansford Coal Company · Fall from machine

EMP STATES HE FELL OFF WATER TRUCK WHILE INSTALLING HOSE TO REPLENISH WATER SUPPLY THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO CONFIRM THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY A JOB RELATED INJURY EMP LEFT MINE SITE ON HIS OW

September 12, 1984 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Hansford Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE OPERATING A DOZER WAS BRUSHING A CROP LINE WHEN A TREE LIMB CAME BACK AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT THIGH

June 10, 1983 WV · Coal auger helper HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hansford Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMP SQUATTED DOWN TO PLACE A CRIB BLOCK UNDER AUGER WHILE LIFTING CRIB BLOCK HIS KNE GAVE OUT

March 10, 1983 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hansford Coal Company · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

EMPLOYEE COAL REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER WAS AT PREP PLANT WAITING FOR HIS TRUCK TO BE LOADED WHILE WAITING BE DECIDED TO PICK UP A SLEDGE HAMMER CLIMB UP ON TOP OF HAND RAIL OF LOADING PLATFORM AND STRIKE REFUSE CHUTE CHUTE WAS NOT CLOGGED AND THIS ACTION WAS UNNECESSARY NO EMPLOYEE HAD EVER BEEN INSTRUCTED OR OBSERVED DOING THIS AT BEFORE EMPLOYEE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND

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