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September 3, 1991 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Carbon Seam Systems Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS SERVICING GENERATOR & WAS TRYING TO UP-RIGHT A BARREL OF OIL WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS LOWER BACK & LOWER STOMACH

December 11, 1990 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
Carbon Seam Systems Inc · Struck by falling object

VICTIM WAS REMOVING LOCK PINS WHILE UNDER PROTECTIVE CANOPY ON FRONT OF MACHINE. ROCK FELL FROM HIGHWALL BOUNCED UNDER CANOPY & STRUCK VICTIM IN LEFT HIP.

July 11, 1988 VA · Coal MACHINERY
Carbon Seam Systems Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS IN A KNEELING POSITION WHILE WELDING ON AUGER HOLE CLEANER, WHEN EMPLOYEE STARTED TO GET UP HIS LEFT LEG WOULD NOT BEND OR STRAIGHTEN OUT.

August 3, 1983 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Carbon Seam Systems Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A LARGE SECTION OF ANGLE IRON SHIFTED ON THE LOADER FORKS TRIED TO RESTRAIN IT TWISTED LOWER BACK AND SPINE

July 14, 1983 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Carbon Seam Systems Inc · Struck by falling object

DONALD JUSTICE WAS STANDING 8 TO 10 FEET FROM THE MACHINE ROCKS WERE DUMPED OVER THE SPOIL PILE BY AN END DUMP MR JUSTICE WAS STRUCK BY ROCKS THAT WERE BUSTED WHEN THEY WERE DUMPED MR JUSTICE WAS STRUCK BY ROCK IN THE LEG ARM AND BACK

June 29, 1983 KY · Coal outside foreman, leadman MACHINERY
Carbon Seam Systems Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE INSPECTING MINNING SET UP THE POWER HEAD STOPPED BUT THEN RESET FOREMAN HAND HAND ON FRAME WHERE ROLLERS MOVE TO RESET AS THE GRIPPERS WERE RESETING THEY CAUGHT HIS RT HAND AND BRUISED I T

February 11, 1983 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Carbon Seam Systems Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE LIFTING 5 GAL BARRELS OOF HYD OIL FROM GROUND TO TOP OF BPM BILL STRAINE DHIMSELF

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