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EE TRYING TO RETRIEVE 5HP WATER PUMP FROM WATER/MUD HOLE IN ROADWAY. EE SLIPPED IN MUD, POSSIBLY PULLED MUSCLE OR PINCHING A NERVE IN HIS LEFT SIDE OF BACK. EE MISSED WORK 7-19 DUE TO HIS BACK INJURY.
RESTRICTED DUTY. EE PICKED UP MONSTER ROOF MATT AND EXPERIENCED SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK AREA. EE BECAME RESTRICTED ON 7-29-99.
BOUNCE OCCURRED IN THE D-2 SECT #2 ENTRY BETWEEN#54 & #55 XCUT. APPROX 40' OF RIB LINE BOUNCED OUT INTO THE ENTRY. THE DISTANCE FROM THE BOLT TO RIB WAS FROM 6'TO 8' NO INJURIES REPORTED
MIGHT NOT BE WORK RELATED, PENDING A TOTAL INVESTIGATION OF PRIOR MEDICAL. EE HAD BEEN IN BATTERY CHARGING STATION THIS DAY WORKING BATTERIES. HE WAS HAVING A HARD TIME BREATHING THAT EVENING AFTER WORK & WENT TO THE ER CLAIMING THE GASES IN THE BATTERY CHARGE STATION CAUSED HIS CONDITION. AREA WAS VENTILATED & HE SAID DOORS WERE LEFT OPEN WHEN HE WAS INSIDE
AN IGNITION OF DUST AND/OR METHANE OR HYDROCARBONS OCCURRED IN THE MAINS SECTION #1 ENTRY CROSS CUT FROM #1 TO #0.
WHILE HE WAS DROPPING TUBE, PULLED RIGHT SHOULDER OUT. WENT ON RESTRICTED DUTY ON 6-28-99.
HE WAS INSTALLING LAST BOLT IN THE PLACE WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS LEFT HAND FINGERS IN THE DRILL CLAMP ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE MACHINE. HE PULLED THE WRONG LEVEL WHICH CAUSED THE INCIDENT.
RESTRICTED DUTY, EE PULLING BRATTISH WHILE STANING IN ABOUT 1' OF MUD HURT LOWER BACK ON 4/30 EE RECD AN INJECTION IN HIS BACK & WAS RESTRICTED TO NO LIFTING, PUSHING OR PULLING OVER 30 PDS
MEDICAL REPORTABLE EE TRYING TO INSTALL A BENT ROOF BOLT CLAMP WAS CLOSED AROUND THE ROOF BOLT &AS THE DRILL HEAD WAS RAISED THE ROOF BOLT BENT MORE SMASHING EE'S HAND
OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS, TENDONITIS IN RIGHT WRIST. EE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 2-23-99..
EE DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR FROM ENTRY #5 TO #3, HIT HOLE IN ROADWAY, HITTING HEAD AGAINST TOP OF CAB. EE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 2/20/99. DID NOT REPORT TO THE COMPANY UNTIL 2/22/99.
DONALD L. DAVIS, WHILE PACKING TIMBERS UNDER APPARATUS, STEPPED BACK OUT OF THE WAY TO LET OTHERTEAM MEMBER PASS, AND TWISTED KNEE IN THE PROCESS.
EE STATED HE WAS PULLING THE ROCK DUST HOSE USING HIS LEFT LEG TO DO MOST OF WORK CAUSING A STRAIN OF THE LEFT HIP. ON 2-10-99 EE ADVISED HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HE DIDN'T FEEL HE COULD WALK OUT F O THE MINE IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. EE HAS NOT BEENALLOWED TO GO BACK INTO THE MINE AS OF THIS DATE. HE IS WAITING TO SEE A PHYSICIAN.
EE, DURING WOOD, DURING MINE RESCUE WHILE UNDER APPARATUS HE WAS UP ON A LADDER BLDG. ENTERY TEMPORARY STOPPING WHEN HE FELT HIS EYES BURNING. HE GOT DOWN OFF THE LADDER AND REALIZED HE HAD AN AIR LEAK ON HIS MASK, HE GRABBED THE HOSES ATTACHED TO THE MASK IN ORDER TO TEST FOR A LEAK AND THE HOSES FELL AWAY FROM THE MASK LEAVING EE WITH NO OXYGEN AND CAUSING HIM TO PASS OUT, AREA
RESTRICTED DUTY, EE WHILE CLEANING A BREAKER WITH A WIRE BRUSH, 3 MINERS RECD FLASH BURNS AND OR1ST DEGREE BURNS AFTER THE BREAER BLEW UP
MEDICAL REPORTABLE, WHILE CLEANING A BREAKER WITH A WIRE BRUSH, THREE MINERS RECEIVED FLASH BURNS AFTER THE BREAKER BLEW UP.
EE WHILE CLEANING ABREAKER WITH A WIRE BRUSH, THREE MINERS RECEIVED FLASH BURNS AND OR 1 ST DEGREE BURNS AFTER THE BREAKER BLEW UP.
RESTRICTED DUTY, PIECE OF COAL FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING EE ON BACK AND NECK. EE WENT ON LIGHT DUTY 1-26-99.
MEDICAL REPORTABLE: EE WAS BENT OVER PICKING UP MINER CABLE WHEN RIB POPPED OUT HITTING HIM IN TT SIDE OF HEAD AND BODY KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND. SUPERVISOR SAID HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS FOR A MIN UTE.
MEDICAL REPORTABLE, THE BOLT HOLDING THE CHAIN TO THE PLATE BROKE, SHAIN SNAPPED BACK STRIKING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.
EE INBY SIDE OF AIR LOCK DOORS TRIED TO SHUT IT HARD ENOUGHT TO LATCH THEM AND THE LATCH HANDLE CAME AROUND & HIT EE IN THE MOUTH BREAKING ONE TOOTH & CUTTING LIP
OCCUPATIONAL ILLINESS, EE LOSS OF HEARING OVER PAST YEARS OF MINING.
FIRE, BELIEVED THAT A ROOF FALL IN THE GOB IGNITED HYDROCARBONS OR METHANE.
EE WAS TRYING TO PUT A LIGHT PLANT ON A PICKUP TRUCK BALL HITCH, WHILE LIFTING HE HURT HIS BACK& SHOULDER
EE ALLEGES HE PULLED MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK SETTING CRIBS. DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL LATER. EE WAS LAYED OFF IN THE INTERIM: NOTE CO WAS UNAWARE THAT EE WENT TO HOSPITAL ON THE 27TH & MISSED WORK THAT DAY BECAUSE HE DID NOT REPORTTHE INJURY AS AN INDUSTRIAL INJURY WHEN HE WENT TO THE ER ROOM OPERATOR WAS NOT MADE AWARE THAT THE ALLEGED INCIDENT WAS OCCUPATIONALY RELATED
MAN WAS PULLING #4 SHIELD AT HEADGATE WHEN A CHUCK OF COAL FELL HITTING HIM ON LEFT LEG BELOW KNEE.
IGNITION, EE WAS MOVING INTO HIS LAST BOX CUT (5") ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FACE. VENTILATION TUBING WAS ON THE LEFT SIDE. EE WAS TRAMMING ANDGRADING THE FLOOR INTO THE FACE WHEN THE METHANE /HYDROCARBONS IGNITED ON THE FLOOR APPROX 10'INBY LAST PERMANENT SUPPORT. EE HAD TO EXTINGUISH THE BLUE & ORANGE FLAME WITH WATER HOSE. FLAMES LASTED APPROX 2 MINS
IGNITION, AFTER CUTTING OUT THE FACE, EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN-UP AND GRADE THE BOTTOM MOVING TOWARD THE FACE. AS THE CUTTER HEAD WAS IN THE DOWN POSITION, METHANE WAS TRAPPED. EITHER HOT BI TS OR SPARKS FROM BITS STRIKING THE ROCK FLOOR IGNITED THE GAS, FLAMES LASTED FOR A DURATION OF 30 SECONDS.
LTA, EE, HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO OPEN AIRLOCK DOORS. THERE WAS ENOUGHT PRESSURE AGAINST THE DOORS THAT HE HAD TO YANK A COUPLE OF TIMES IN ORDER TO OPEN DOORS. HE FELT A POPE IN HIS LEFT ELBOW. NOTE: INJURY NOT REPORTABLE UNTIL 11-24, UNABLE TO COME TO WORK DUE TO THE INJURY.
RESTRICTED DUTY, EE WAS IN ENTRY BEHIND BOLTER APPROX. 50 FT WHEN BOLTER WAS BACKING UP. CABLE CAUGHT HIM KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND AND HURTING LEFT KNEE.
RESTRICTED DUTY, EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING MONSTER MAT UP ON BOLTER T.R.S. BY HIMSELF, TWISTED HIS BACK CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
ROOF FALL, ROOF FAILURE OUTBY SHIELDS NO. 1, 2, AND 3. MEASURED 35'LONG X 15'WIDE X 6.6'DEEP.
HE RUNNING ROOF BOLTER, SPINNING STEEL OUT OF ROOF WHEN WRENCH CAME LOOSE FROM THE DRILL STEEL, STRIKING HIS IN HEAD.
EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF HANGING A CABLE FROM THE ROOF AND WHEN HE PULLED THE HOOK DOWN TO HAD THE CABLE A ROCK FELL THROUGH THE SCREEN AND CUT HIS UPPER LIP
EE ROOF BOLT STEEL WAS BOWED WHEN IT SPRANG BACKAND HIT EE'S RIGHT WRIST WHILE ROOF BOLTING.
EE WAS MOVING M.R.S. OUT OF PILLAR LINE AND WAS HELPING WITH M.R.S. CABLE ABOUT 30' FROM M.R.S. A PIECE OF ROCK 3' X 9' X 1' THICK FELL FROM ROOF BETWEEN ROOF SUPPORT, KNOCKING HIKM DOEN AND R ESTING ON ANKLE.
IGNITION OF DUST AND/OR METHANE.
RESTRICTED DUTY, EE WAS SIGNING PRE-SHIFT BOOK WHEN ROCK FELL FROM EDGE OF ROOF SCREEN AND HIT HIS RIGHT HAND.
INJURED WAS STANDING ON A LADDER THAT WAS ON FAIRLY FLAT GROUND AND BETWEEN 2 ROOF SUPPORTS. HE WAS TIGHTENING WEDGES APPLIED TO THE ROOF SUPPORTS. DOES NOT REMEMBER FALLING FROM LADDER.
TWO EE WERE SHOVELING AT A COAL SPILL. ONE BENT DOWN AS THE OTHER WAS THROWING SHOVEL FULL OF COAL ONTO BELT AND WAS STRUCK AT LOWER LIP AREA WITH SHOVEL.
RESTRICTED DUTY, EE WAS WALKING TOWARDS TAILGATE TO PULL PROPS WHEN BOUNCE OCCURRED. LEFT FOOT WAS STRUCK BY A ROCK THAT CAME OUT OF FACE.
EE WAS LIFTING ONE END OF A 24 FT PIECE OF IBEANTHE IBEAM ROLLED AND SMASHED HIS FINGER, EE LEFTINDEX FINGER HAS A SMALL BREAK AT THE TIP THIS ACCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED TO US UNTIL THE 30TH AT THAT TIME I TOOK EE TO BE CHECKED.
EE WAS TRYING TO SET A CRIBB IN PLACE WHEN HIS HELPER GRABBED THE CRIBB AND THE CRIBB ROLLED OFF OF EE'S SHOULDER & SMASHED HIS INDEX FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND, THE TIP O THE INDEX FINGER WA S BROKE AND NEEDED 4 STITCHES.
EE WAS TRYING TO LEFT A 20' LENGTH OF WATERLINE WHICH WAS STUCK IN THE MUD. EE HAS STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK.
EE CHECKING FOR POWER AND BLEW THROUGH METER.
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISSTING OTHER EMPLOYEE IN INSTALLING A BLOWN FUSE ON TRANSFORMER WHEN CONTROL FUSE HOLDER BLEW OUT.
MEDICAL REPORTABLE, EE, WHEN IT PICKED UP THE CHECK BLOCK TO THROW ONTO TRUCK, I BUMPED MY LEFT ELBOW ON THE TRUCK BED. NOTE: EE WENT TO THE DR. ON 8-6-98 AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH TENNIS ELBOW A ND S WEARING A BRACE.
ROOF FALL, 110 FT LONG BY 9 FT HIGH X 20 FT WIDE FROM 6 RM TO 8 TM 200 FT BELOW THE LOADING POINT.
SHUTTLE CAR DROVE OVER LIP IN THE ROADWAY, BOUNCED UP JAMMING HEAD AGAINST CANOPY CAUSING NECK TO HUR.
WHILE INSTALLING A CABLE ROOF BOLT WITH AN INGERSOL-RAND JACKLEG, THE BEARING PLATE SPUN AND HIT EE IN THE RIGHT CHEEK.