CONTRACTED PENUMOCONIOSIS FROM COAL DUST.
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Showing all 15HE WAS TRANSFERRING BRATTIC BLOCK FROM ONE BELT LINE TO ANOTHER BELT LINE WHEN HE SMASHED HIS FINGER AGAINST RAIL OF BELT HEAD.
NARROW BELT AND A WORN OUT TAIL PIECE CAUSED COAL TO SPILL AROUND THE TAILPIECE . CLEANING WHILE BELT WAS MOVING. NOT WEARING GLOVES.
CONTRACTED PNEUMOCONIOSIS.
UNEVEN BOTTOM C5USED THE STIFF JACK TO SLIP ANDTHE ROPE LET I,NAME ON THE KNEE CAUSING PAIN AND SWELLING D. REPORT BRUISED KNEE.
I,NAME WAS OPER5TING THE MINER ON A STEEP GRADE WHEN HE SET THE JACK THE MINER PIVOTED AND SLID ON THE MINER OPERATORS FOOT & ANKLE CAUSING PAIN AND LOCALIZED TENDERNESS.
I NAME WAS OPER5TING A SCOOP WHILE SETTING A BELTHEAD,HE WAS PUSHING THE BELT HEAD WITH THE DECK END OF THE SCOOP.THIS IS AGAINST COMPANY POLICY.I MANE SAID HE FORGET WHICH WAY HE HAD HIS DIRC DIRECTION SWITC2 TURNED AND I NAME DECK INTO THE BELT HEAD THROWING HIS SHOULDER INTO THE TOP AND A DISLOCATION OCCURRED.
WHILE WALKING O6T TO CAR TO GET COFFEE MUG, SLIPPED AND FELL ON ICE STRAINED BACK MUSCLE.
I NAME WAS SETTING A PULL JACK FOR THE MINER AND HAD HIS HAND ON THE BOTTOM OF THE JACK.THE BOTTOM BUSTED UP CAUSING THE JACK TO SLIP AND IT CAUGHT HIS LITTLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND AGAINST THE DEAD EYE AND SMASHED IT.AT THE HOSPITAL THEY X-RAYED IT AND SAID THAT HE WOULD NEED SOME SKIN GRFTED BACK ON IT.
I NAME WAS OPERTING THE MINER.THEY WERE BELTING UP AT THIS TIME.THEY HAD THE PULL ROPE HOOKED UP TO THE SOCKET OF THE MINER AND AS HE TIGHTENED UP ON THE PULL ROPE IT CAME LOOSE AND THE SOCKET STRUCK I NAME UNDER THE LOWER LIP CAUSING A LACERATION WHICH NEEDED 7 STITCHES.
FRAGEL ROOF WITH LAMINATED SHALE. SOME WATER WAS FOUND SEEPING THRU THE ROOF. FALL WAS ABOUT 18 TO 20\ WIDE, 70\ LONG, 2\ TO 3\ THICK.
UNSAFE ACT OF THE INJURED PERSON. HE HAD HIS FOOT IN A PINCH POINT. IRREGULAR BOTTOM. ONE OF THE DRUMS OF THE MINER WAS NOT WORKING PROPERLY ANDCAUSED THE MINER TO SHIFT TO ONE SIDE QUICKLY AN D CAUGHT HIS FOOT UNDER THE MINER SEAT.
WHILE THE MINER OPERATOR (W.H.) WAS BACKING THE MINER OUT OF A BREAK IN FAST FEED HE CAUGHT HIS ANKLE BETWEEN THE MINER SEAT AND A STIFF JACK THAT HAD BEEN SET TO CLOSE TO THE MINER BY A FELLO W EMPLOYEE CAUSING A CRUSHING WOUND TO THE RIGHT ANKLE (NO BONES BROKEN) BRUISING AND SWELLING.
FAULT IN ROOF.
WHILE RIDDING BELT LINE TO THE AREA OF WORK HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET OFF OF THE BELT SLIPPED IN SOME MUD WHICH CAUSED HIM TO STRADDLE THE STRUCTURE ROPE RESULTING IN A HERNIA OF THE GROIN