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January 12, 1988 KY · Coal scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
Murphy Elkhorn Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

WHILE TRAVELING3THUR A FLY CURTAIN IN THE #7 ENTRY OF THE SCTION TRAVELING ON A SAND S TRACTOR HIT A ROCK AND JARRED HIS BACK RESULTING IN THE INJURY.

January 13, 1987 KY · Coal scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
Murphy Elkhorn Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

ON THE EVENING 8HIFT AT 700 PM THE OPERATOR OF THE 484 SCOOP WHILE HAULING COAL RAN OVER A HALF HEADER AND DROVE HIS HEAD INTO T HE TOP.

November 14, 1986 KY · Coal scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
Murphy Elkhorn Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

I,NAME STATED T2AT HIS HIP HAD BEEN BOTHERING HIM FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS AND ABOUT 1:00 PM ON 11-14-86 WHILE OPERATING THE 484 TRACTOR HAULING COAL HE RAN OVER A PIECE OF ROCK IN THE HAUL ROAD AN D IT JOLTED HIM3AND A SEVERE PAIN WAS FELT IN HIS HIP AND RIGHT LEG.

August 12, 1986 KY · Coal scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
Murphy Elkhorn Coal Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

WHILE OPERATING3A 484 SIS SCOOP THE OPERATOR HIT HIS HEAL ON THE ROOF WHEN THE SCOOP WENT OVER A HUMP IN THE MINE FLOOR.

July 10, 1986 KY · Coal drill helper MACHINERY
Murphy Elkhorn Coal Company Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS SP2TTING A DRILL TRUCK. HE WAS STANDING UNDER THE MAST OF THE DRILL TRUCK WHEN A METAL COLLAR (20 INCH DIAMETER, APPROX. WEIGHT 55 POUNDS) FELL FROM THE END OF THE MAST AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE O3 THE HEAD, FRACTURING HIS SKULL.

September 24, 1984 KY · Coal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Murphy Elkhorn Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A HYDRAULIC HOSE BURSTED ON THE 265 LEE NORSE THAT I,NAME WAS OPERATING AND WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE DECK HE PULLED THE MUSCLES IN THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK, AS STATED BY HIMSELF

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