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November 23, 1994 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL DOWN ON BAR IN ORDER TO CLOSE RAILROAD CAR DOOR AND ALLEGED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND SIDE.

September 30, 1993 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED EMP WAS USING GAS CHAIN SAW TO FALL 12IN DIAMETER SANDING TREE HAVING MADE FINAL CUT IN TREE AS IT FELL A GRAPEVINE ENTWINED IN TREE & LEADING TO GROUND STRUCK EMP THUS KNOCKING HIM TO GROUND WHERE HE LANDED ON A NEARBY TREE STUMP RSULTING IN CONTUSIONS TO RT TRICEP

June 21, 1993 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE & COWORKER WERE USING A CAT 935C TRACK LOADER EQUIPPED W/A WINCH TO ATTEMPT TO PULL ONE END OF A 1600FT LENGTH OF 6IN PLASTIC PIPE OUT OF SMALL LAKE INJURED EMP HAD ERRONEOUSLY ATTACH ED THE PULLING ROPE TO AN ALUM BRACKET USED TO ATTACH 18IN DIA PLATIC FLOAT TO THE PIPE UPON RETRIEVING PIPE FROM LAKE ALUM BRACKET BROKE THUS CATAPULTING THE PLASTIC FLOAT IN DIRECTION OF IN

June 3, 1993 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE ADN TWO CO-WORKERS WERE INSTLALING 3" STEEL WATER LINE ABOVE A COVERED BELT CONVEYOR HEIGHT ABOVE GROUND APPROX 6'. WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF CLIMBING DOWN FROM TOP OF BELT CONVEYOR EM PLOYEE JUMPED TO THE GROUND FROM A HEIGHT OF APPROX 3 FT AND TWISTED LEFT KNEE JOINT.

August 11, 1992 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

42957 A SPUD WRENCH TO LOOSEN BOLTS. BOLT LOOSENED SUDDENLY CAUSING SPUD WRENCH TO STRIKE HIM IN THE MOUTH. LOOSENED RIGHT UPPER FRONT TOOTH AND KNOCKED OUT THE FILLING.

July 27, 1992 KY · Coal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger MACHINERY
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Struck against a moving object

61207ULLING A G.I. BOOM TRUCK UP ALONGSIDE ANOTHER VEHICLE THAT NEEDED BOOSTING OFF. WHEN HE TRIED TO STOP THE G.I. BOOM TRUCK, THE BRAKES FAILED, CAUSING HIM TO GO OVER AN EMBANKMENT.

July 20, 1992 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Struck by falling object

54736YEE WAS USING A CHAIN SAW TO CUT A TREE & TREE FELL IN AN UNINTENDED DIRECTION THUS FALLING ON EMPLOYEES HAND

July 13, 1992 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Fall from machine

AS THE INJURED EMPLOYEE AND CO-WORKER(WITNESS) WERE BEING LIFTED INA WORK CAGE ATTACHED TO THE BOOM OF TH EDIGGER DERRICK TRUCK, THE ATTACHMENT PIN FOR THE CAGE BROKE THERE BY ALLOWING THE CAG E AND THE EMPLOYEE'S TO FALL SIX FEET TO THE GROUND. THE SAFETY ROPE HAD NOT BEEN CONNECTED TO PREVENT THE CAGE FROM FALLING. ALSO THE CAGE HA DBEEN CONSIDERABLEY OVERLOADED W/TOOLS AND EQUI

June 18, 1992 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HE WAS TIEING CHOKER ON STEEL THAT WAS BEING UNLOADED OFF A TRUCK. STEEL WAS BEING HOISTED OFF TRUCK BY A CRANE. THE LIFTING AND STRAINING TO TIE CHOKERS ON STEEL, CAUSED HIKM TO HAVE HEMORR HOID PROBLEMS.

June 3, 1992 KY · Coal electrician, lineman MACHINERY
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED WAS DRIVING GROUND RODS INTO THE GROUND & INADVERTENTLY GOT HIS L INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE DRIVING TOOL & THE ROD WHICH RESULTED IN A LACERATION REQUIRING 13 STITCHES

December 4, 1991 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

SUPERVISOR & TWO EMPLS WERE PREPARING TO MOUNT PIN ON BUCKET TO BOOM ALREADY LOWERED OF DIGGER DERRICK TRUCK. AS SUPERVISOR ATTEMPTED TO POSITION 1 TON FLATBED TRUCK CARRYING PIN ON BUCKET INJ EMPL WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TIP OF BOOM & FLATBED TRUCK WHEN HE SUSTAINED SEVERE INTERNAL ABDOMINAL INJ. INJ EMPL SUCCUMED IN OPERATING ROOM OF HOSPITAL.

September 2, 1991 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Struck by falling object

EE TURNED TO SPEAK WITH OTHER OPERATOR MOVED DRILL. STEEL FELL FROM RACK STRIKING HIM ON LEFT SIDE OF HEAD AND SHOULDER, KNOWKCING HARD HAT OFF AND CAUSING HIM TO FALL. SWELLING AND BRUISE WER E CAUSED AT BASE OF NECK AND SHOULDER. X RAY WERE MADE SHOWING NO BROKEN BONES.

February 27, 1991 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON LOOSE COAL AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE TUNNEL CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS FOOTING. EMPLOYEE FELL ON HIS RIGHT SIDE.

December 12, 1990 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DISCONNECTING THE HOOK OF A 1/2" DIAMETER WIRE ROPE WINCH CABLE ON A CATERPILLAR D6D DOZE BEING USED AND PULL BRUSH IN A LAND CLEARING OPERATION. DUE TO A TWIST ED CONDITION OF THE WIRE ROPE, AS THE EMPLOYEE DISCONNECTED THE CABLE HOOK IT SLIPPED FROM HIS HANDS, STRIKING HIM INT EH MOUTH AND DISLOCATING LEFT INCISOR.

September 28, 1988 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING COAL IN A STOCK PILE USING A D-9 DOZER WHEN THE COAL SHIFTED UNDERNEATH THE DOZER CAUSING A HOLLOW SPOT THE DOZER SLID INTO THE HOLE THE EMPLOYEES ARM HIT THE WINDSHIELD AN D ROLL BAR RESULTING IN A SPRAIN TO HIS R T WRIST AND ARM

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