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EMPL MOVING ROCK WHEN ANOTHER ROCK FELL FROM ROOF SMASHING RIGHT HAND BETWEEN 2 ROCKS CAUSING CONTUSION TO RIGHT HAND.
WHILE OPERATING THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE, A ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT HAND CAUSING A CONTUSION AND ABRASIONS.
EMPL UNLOADING 4INING MATERIALS STRAINED LEFT LOWER BACK LIFTING BAG OF ROCK DUST.
WHILE ATTEMPTIN1 TO REMOVE A REOCK THAT FELL ON MINER-THE ROCK FEL L ON VICTIMS'S RIGHT ANKLE AND LEFT HEEL CAUSING A SPRAON TO RIGHT ANKLE.
DURING ROOF BOL7ING OPERATIONS, THE EMPLOYEE WAS SUPPLEMENTING SUPPORT WHILE HANDLING METAL STRAPS THE EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A LAERATION TO HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER WITH TENDON INVOLVEMENT.
EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING BOLTING SUPPLIES FROM 484 S & S SCOOP ONTO A 300 GALIS BOLTER THE SCOOP WAS PARKED ON A GRADE AND SHIFTED FORWARD DOWNGREADE, MASHING EMPLOYEE S RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN BOLTER AND SCOOP BUCK9T. COMPOUND FRACTURES TO BIG TOE OF RIGHT FOOT.
EMP (MINER HELP9R) WAS INSTALLING BITS IN A 1028 JEFFERY CONT MINER WHEN A SLUG OF ROOF FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS AND STRUCK INDIVIDUAL ON THE FRONT OF HIS RIGHT LEG CAUSING A CONTUSION
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 POSTIONED BETWEEN A 300 GALIOUS BOLTER AND A 484 SCOOP--- TRANSFERING SUPPLIES FROM ONE TO THE OTHER, WHEN A THIRD PIECE OF EQUIPMENT--21 SHUTTLE CAR TRAMMING ACROSS THE SECTI ON HIT THE SCOO1 CAUSING INJURY TO HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT7EMPTING TO ENTER CAB COMPARTMENT OF LOADER WHEN HE STRUCK HIS LEFT KNEE ON OPEN DOOR CAUSING A CONTUSION TO LEFT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING A CINDER BLOCK LOADING A MINE CAR. EMPLOYEE DID NOT MISS WORK FOLLOWING SAID INJURY TIL 2-4-86.
EE WAS ATTEMPTI3G TO MOVE A POWER CABLE FOR A C/M WHICH WAS MOVING FROM ONE HEADING TO ANOTHER WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPL ATTEMPTING3TO HAND MINER CABLE WITH 4'' CABLE HANGERS AND THE CABLE SLIPPED OUT OF HANGER DEFLECTING HANGER AND STRIKING EMPL IN EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET SPARE PARTS FROM A REAR SIDE TRAY ON A 300 GALIUS BOLTER IN A CROUCHED POSITION LEANING ON BOLTER WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FEEL FROM BETWEEN ROOF SUPPORTS STRIKING E
EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RESET A CONTROL BREAKER TO A BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE LOST HIS GRIP CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS INDEX FINGER AGAINST THE BREAKER LEVER
EMPL REMOVING PERMANENT STOPING AND AS HE REMVOED A 8\\ X 16\\ CINDER BLOCK ,ONE FELL STRIKING EMPL ON TOP OFHIS FOOT.
QUESTIONABLE WHETHER THE INJURY OCCURRED ONMINE PROPERTY. EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS NOT SURE WHEN OR HOW - BUT HIS BACK STARTED BOTHERING HIM WHILE HANDLING MINE TIMBER.
VICTIM CROUCHED ON KNEE REMOVING HEATING UNIT FROM ADJACENT PARKED VEHICLE AS TRUCK BACKED UP IT RAN OVER ANKLE AND CALF OF RIGHT LEG WITH RIGHT FRONT TIRE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO TIGHTEN BOLTS ON ROTARY SPEED REDUCER WITH A WRENCH WHEN HE FELT PULL IN LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN AN AREA OF THE PREP PLANT WHERE THERE HAD BEEN RECENT CONSTRUCTION WHEN HE BUMPED HIS HEAD INTO AN I BEAM. THIS AGGRAVATED AN OLD NECK INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS POSITIONING THE TRAVELING CABLE OF A 1028 JEFFEREY MINER WHEN HE NOTICED SOME PAIN IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLIMB A C & O RAILROAD COAL CAR WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTAGE DUE TO WET WEATHER (RAINY DAY) STRIKING HIS LEFT HAND ON LADDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A TIMBER WHEN HE TURNED, AND CAUGHT HIS FOOT. THIS TWISTED HIS BACK, AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN THE LOWER BACK.
LIFTING AND MOVE METAL PIPE-DROPPING PIPE-SMASHING FINGER BETWEEN PIPE AND GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN AN EMBANKMENT WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING THE EMPLOYEE FELL TO THE GROUND WHICH CAUSED A BRUISE ON THE LOWER LEFT SIDE OF HIS BACK
SUPERVISOR EMP WAS BREAKING AN OVERSIZE PIECE OF ROCK WITH SLEDGEHAMMER HE LOST HIS GRIP ON THE HAMMER AND STRUCK THE MIDDLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND AGAINST A RAIL