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June 4, 1993 TN · Coal Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

VICTIM WAS TRAVELING NORTHBOUND ON I-75 WHEN FLYING MATERIAL STRUCK THE VECHILE IN WHICH HE WAS A PASSENGER RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES. THE FLYING MATERIAL WAS DIRT OR MUD WHICH WAS DISPELLED FROM A SURFACE MINE WHICH WAS IN THE PROCESS OFBLASTING THIS MATERIAL WAS THROWN APPROX. 240 FT FROM THE BLAST SITE TO THE VECHILE. CHARCEABILITY IS BEING LOOKED INTO.

March 8, 1993 TN · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

HE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE CARRYING A WATER PUMP. THE OTHER EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND HE HAD ALL THE WEIGHT CAUSING HIM TO PULL A MUSCLE IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER.

November 19, 1992 TN · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc · Struck by powered moving object

EE WAS WORKING ON HIACTCHI SHOVEL WHEN THE HYDRALIC BRAKE LEAKED OFF OF A PICKUP TRUCK PARKED BEHIND THE SHOVEL AND IT ROLLED FORWARD STRIKING HIM AND INJURING HIS RIGHT LEG. HE WAS SENT TO HO SPITAL WHERE HE RECEIVED TREATMENT AND WAS RELEASED THE NEXT DAY.

February 11, 1992 TN · Coal assistant mine foreman, assistant mine manager POWERED HAULAGE
Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

I NAME HAD BEEEN WORKING ON TRACK REPAIRING FUELLINKAGE AS HE RETURNED TOOLS TO HIS TRUCK THE DRIVER OF THE REPAIRED TRUCK ACCIDENTALLY STEERED HIS VEHICLE INTO I NAME TRUCK HE WAS PINNED BET WEEN A DOOR & T RUCK BRUISING HIS BACK SHOULDER & HIPS

November 6, 1991 TN · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc · Fall from machine

INJURED LOST HIS BALANCE AND TO KEEP FROM FALLING ON HIS FACE HE JUMPED OFF THE SHOVEL TO THE GROUND.HE DID NOT THINK HE WAS HURT AND DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION.HOWEVER HIS LEG CONTINUED T O GIVE HIM PAIN AND ON NOV 15 HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR FOR TESTS.INJURED WENT TO THE DOCTOR ON FRIDAY MORNING AND RETURNED TO WORK IN THE AFTERNOON.

March 16, 1990 TN · Coal HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

I.NAME LIFTING PUMP FROM DRILL TECH AND STRAINED HIS BACK.DIDNT THINK HE WAS HURT ENOUGH TO REPORT IT TO FOREMAN.PAIN INCREASED AND ON 3-22 CONSULTED DR.WHO GAVE HIM PAIN MEDICINE,TOLD HIM CO ULD RETURN TO WORK NEXT DAY. Y Y

October 28, 1989 TN · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc · Struck by rolling or sliding object

DOZER DISLOCATED ROCK WHICH ROLLED ON FOOT.

September 27, 1989 TN · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS USING 20 LB SLEDGEHAMMER TO DRIVE PIN IN DOZER TRACK. HE HURT BACK.

April 7, 1989 TN · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc · Struck by rolling or sliding object

FAN BLOWER OF KOMATSU 155 DOZER BLEW WOOD IN EMPLS EYE.

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