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EE WAS REMOVING HOIST CYLINDER OFF 992-C END LOADER. HIS HARDHAT CAME OFF AND AS HE RAISED TO RETRIEVE IT, HE STRUCK HIS HEAD, CAUSING LACERATION. IT REQUIRED 8 STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING PLANTELARY YEAR IN 992 END-LOADER. IT SLIPPED AND CUT MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER OF RIGHT HAND. THIS REGUARED 4 SUTURES TO MIDDLE FINGR.
MECHANIC TRUCK ROLLED BACK ONTO HIS LEG, CATCHING LEG BETWEEN TWO BUMPERS.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING OFF BACKHOE. HIS FOOT SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO FALL.
EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING UP TO DUMP AREA, HE BACKED TO FAR AND TRUCK TURNED ON ITS TOP.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING COAL AT CONVEYOR.WHILE SHOVELING WITH TURNING MOTION,EMPLOYEE FELT NEEDELE LIKE PAIN IN MIDDLE RIGHT BACK ABOVE PANTLINE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PRYING A D-10 ROLLER AND STRAINED RIGHT SHOULDER & NECK.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF OF WATER PUMP, PULLING TENDONS IN LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF PUSH-ARM OF TRACTOR. HE STEPPED AND FELL INJURING LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING TRANSMISSION OIL OFF 992-C END LOADER. DOOR FELL ON RIGHT FOOT FRACTURING FIRST TOE.
EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING BEARING IN BELT CYLINDER OF D-10 THE RATCHET SLIPPED & ST RUCK HIS THUMB THUS RESULTED FRACTURED THUMB
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELED AT DRYER SCREEN. HIS HAND SLIPPED ON WORN EDGE OF SCREEN, CAUSING LACERATIONS TO RING FINGER OF LEFT HAND, REQUIRING 4 SUTURES.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDINT ONTOP OF FUEL TANK. HE SLIPPED AND FELL TO GROUND, INJURING BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A TRUCK. TRUCK STALLED ATTOP OF RAMP & ROLLED DOWN STRIKING BERM. TRUCK THEN ROLLED ON IT'S SIDE.
TRUCK DRIVER TURNED IN HAUL ROAD TOO FAST.
EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING HOIST, GETTING READY TO HOOK ONTO AND PICK UP AN AUGER FROM SLED WITH CABLE HOIST. HE WAS STANDING ON EDGE OF AUGER SLED WITH "UP ROPE" CONTROL IN LEFT HAND. HE SLIPPED OF EDGE OF SLED, PULLING DOWN ON UPROPE WHICH MOVED HOOK IN DIRECTION OF HOIST SPOOL. HE REACHED UP WITH RIGHT HAND CATCHING ONTO HOIST HOOK AT END OF CABLE AND RIGHT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN HOO
EE WAS REMOVING DISCHARGE HOSE FROM WATER PUMP IN PREPARATION OF PULLING PUMP OUT OF PIT. HE LOOSENED HOSE CLAMP & SHOOK HOSE BUT IT WOULD NOT RELEASE. HE LET GO OF HOSE WITH THE INTENTION OF LOOSENING THE CLAMP FURTHER, BUT THE HOSE SUDDENLY CAME OFF OF PUMP ALLOWING MUD & WATER TO SPRAY HIM IN THE FACE AND EYES.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNHOOKING PUMP TH EPUMP SLIPPED STRIKING HIS LEFT LEG. HE DID NOT SUFFER ANY FRACTURE ON INJURIES REQUIRING SUTURES, BUT HE HAS SUFFERED LOST TIME.
EMPLOYEE HAD OBTAINED A SAMPLE OF COAL AND HAD STARTED WALKING BACK TO THE PREPARATION PLANT CONTROL BUILDING. HE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF COAL LAYING INT EH PATHWAY AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING UPON STOCKPILE OF RIP-RAP THE PILE GAVE AWAY CAUSING TRUCK TO TURN UPON ITS TOP THE DRIVER STRUCK HIS HEAD CAUSING LACERATION REQUIRING SUTURES HE ALSO STRUCK RIB CAGE FRA CTURED SIX RIBS
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING FINAL DRIVE COVER ON 992-C END LOADER THE PRY BAR SLIPPED & COVER FELL ON HIS LEFT FOOT
55061S PRYING ON THE GOOSE NECK OF 637-D SCRAPER, HE SLIPPED AND FELL AND THE PRY BAR FELL IN HIS HAND.
54736YEE WAS DISMOUNTING OFF TRUCK, WHEN HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BESIDE COAL CONVEYOR PICKING UP AND REMOVING PIECES OF ROCK FROM COAL GOING UP CONVEYOR FROM AUGER HOLE TO TRUCK. A LUMP OF COAL ROLLED DOWN THE CONVRYOR CATCHTING EMPLOY EE'S LEFT 5TH FINGER BETWEEN IT AND ANOTHER LUMP OF COAL.
EMPL LOWERING SUCTION HOSE.THE HANDLE CAME LOOSE AND STRUCK EMPL IN MOUTH CAUSING LACERATION IN MOUTH WHICH REQUIRED SUTURES.
EE CO WORKER WERE MAKING PREPARATIONS TO MOUNT TRUNION HITCH TO DRAGGING BUCKET THEY WERE CARRING TO THE THE WELDING TRUCK SO THAT REPAIR COULD BE RUDE. EE HAD TO STEP OVER OXYGEN ACCETYLENE H OSES AND ONE FOOT BECAME ENTANGLED THIS CAUSED EE TO LOSE HIS BALANCE CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS BACK.
EMPL WAS SETTING A PUMP.STEPPED UPON A BRACE? TO LOWER THE SUCTION HOSE.THE BRACE BROKE AND CAUSING EMPL TO JAR HIS BACK STRIKING GROUND.
CHANGING FILTERS IT FELL STRUCK UNDER THE L EYE
EE WAS BEEN REPAIRING THE OK RH12 HYDRAULIC SHOVEL WHICH HAD BEEN IN THE SHOP FOR SEVERAL DAYS. HE WAS POSITIONING THE SWING BRAKE DRUM OVER THE CENTER SHAFT AND REACHED FOR A BOLT TO SECURE T HE DRUM THE DRUM STARTED TO SLIP OFF THE SHAFT A AND WHEN HE CAUGHT IT THE WEIGHT OF THE DRUM COMBINED WITH THE SWAKWARD PSOSITON HE WAS IN CAUSED HIM TO STRAIN HIS BACK.
EE WAS COMPLETING SERVICING OF 275B LOADER. HE REACHED DOWN TO GATHENER TOOLS BEFORE DISMOUNTING LOADER. WHEN HE RAISED FROM BENDING OVER HE HIT HIS BACK ON THE LIGHT BAR THAT EXTENDED FROM TH E FRAME OF THE BOOM. THIS BRUISED HIS LOWER SPINE AND LOWER BACK MUSCLES.
EMPL MASHED CHAIN TO PULL PUMP OUT OF PIT. WHEN DISCONNECTING CHAIN HAND SLID OVER BURR ON CHAIN CAUSING LACERATION TO INDEX FINGER OF LEFT HAND REQUIRING 6 SUTURES.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING ROLLER TO D-10 CAT DOZER. HE STRAINED MUSCLE IN SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING COAL AND TWISTED HIS BACK. THIS RESULTED IN 3 PULLED LIGAMENTS AND AN INFLAMED MUSCLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A TWISTED CHAIN. WHEN CUT WENT THROUGH IT CAUSED CABLE TO PLOP. THE EMPLOYEE JUMPED OUT OF THE WAY AND STRUCK HEAD ON RIPPER TOOTH OF TRACTOR. ALSO CABLE WHIPPED LEG AND C UT LEG.
EMPLOYEE REACHED INTO RAG BARREL TO GET RAG TO CLEAN HANDS. HE WAS BITTEN BY A SPIDER.
EE WAS CHANGING BRAKES ON SCRAPER SNAP RIGN CAME OFF AND STRIKING RIGHT ARM. HE SUFFERED LACERATION TO ARM REQUIRING THE STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRAGGING ? DOWN DOCK TO HAVE WELDED IN BARGES. HE FELL BACKWARD OVER TREE LIMBS JARRYING LEFT SHOULDER.
AN AUGER HOLE BLEW OUT EITHER DUST OR GAS.FRAGMENTS OF COAL AND ROCK STRUCK GROUNDSMAN.
A GAS OR DUST EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN AUGER HOLE IN 7820 PIT.
EMPLOYEE HAD MASHED FINGER ON 07-16-91 DID NOT SUFFER ANY LOST TIME IT BEGAN TO BOTHER HIM ON 08-08-91 HE WENT TO DR & IT APPEARED TO BE FRACTURED HE HAD GOT IT TAIL GATE OF TRUCK HE HAD MINER SURGERY 08-12-91 IS NOW SUFFERING LOST TIME
EMPL WAS ATTEMPTING TO FREE TURNBUCKLE ON HOIST BRAKE ON 380 N DRAGLIINE BY USING PRY BAR. A HE BEGAN TO RELEAE PRESSURE FROM PRY BAR IT SLIPPED FROM TURNBUCKLE & STRUCK HIM IN JAW & NEW. EMPL WORKED FOLLOWING TWO DAYS BUT MISSED ONE DAY AFTER SWELLING INCREASED & MEDICAL TREATMENT.
ELECTRIC CABLE HAD SHORTED AND EMPLOYEE CAME INTO CONTACT WHILE SHOVELING COAL UNDER THE BELT.
HE WAS USING COMPRESSED AIR TO CLEAR DEBRIS FROM THE INSIDE OF A DRAGLINE BUCKET IN PREPARATION FOR WELDING. AIRBORNE DEBRIS CAME UP AND UNDERNEATH HIS WELDING HELMUT THAT HE WAS WEARING. A SM ALL PIECE OF METAL IMBEDDED IN HIS EYE AND WAS REMOVED AT THE HOSPITAL.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING OTHERS PLACE CONCRETE DRAINAGE PIPE ACROSS A HAUL ROAD BED THE PIPE MEASURED 15 INCHES IN DIAMETER & 8 FT LONG WHILE LIFTING THE PIPE TO POSITION IT HE FELT PAIN IN H IS L OWER BACK THE INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A MUSCLE STRAIN IN THE LOWER BACK
OPERATOR OF 777 CATEPILLAR TRUCK HAD JUST DUMPED THE THIRD LOAD OF THE SHIFT.NOTIFIED BY NEARBY DOZER OPERATOR THAT A FIRE HAD STARTED UNDERNEATH THE TRUCK,HE LEFT THE TRUCK SAFELY.2 NEARBY ME CHANICS TRIED TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE WITHOUT SUCCESS AND TRUCK WAS TOTALLY ENGULFED.IT WAS LATER DETERMINED THAT A HYDRAULIC HOSE HAD FAILED,SPRAYING OIL ON THE TURBOCHARGER.DUE TO BACK PRESS
INJURED EMPLOYEE AND FOREMAN WERE POSITIONING PLANETARY COVER ONTO BOLT STUDS. EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HIS HANDS WERE GREASY AND MUDDY AND THAT LIGHT RAIN HAD BEEN FALLING. AS THEY BROUGHT THE CO VER INTO POSITION, INJURED EMPLOYEE LOST HIS GRIP AND THE COVER FELL, CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE COVER EDGE AND A STUD. THE RESULTING LACERATION REQUIRED SIX STITCHES.
EE AND ANOTHER MECHANIC WAS UNDER THE D10L DOZER REPLACING THE EQUIALIZER BAR PIN. THE OTHER MECHANIC LET HIM KNOW HE WAS LOSING GRIP OF HIS END AND DROPPED IT. EE PUSHED AWAY FROM HIS END AS HE DROPPED IT AND STRAINED A BACK MUSCLE. EE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION FROM A CHIROPRACTOR AND RECEIVED TREATMENT OVER THE FOLLOWING DAYS.
EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING NORMAL DUTIES AS DOZER OPERATOR BY RIPPING AND PUSHING OVERBRUDEN.AS HE STOPPED FOR HIS LUNCH BREAK HE NOTICED SOME MODERATE PAIN IN HIS BACK.HE CONTINUED WORKING AND A T THE END OF HIS SHIFT HE NOTICED THE PAIN HAD INCREASED.HE INFORMED HIS SUPERVISOR OF HIS CONDITION AND SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION.INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS MUSCLE STRAIN.INJURY WAS CAUSED BY TU
EMPLOYEE WAS BREAKING DRILL PIPE LOOSE,WRENCH SLIPPED AND STRUCK IN THE RIB ON LEFT SIDE.THIS RESULTED IN A CONTUSION AND SPRAIN TO RIB CAGE.
PULLING ON CABLE