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I,NAME CALLED FROM LONESOME PINE HOSPITAL AND SAID THAT HE HAD SEEN A DOCTOR BECAUSE HIS KNEE HAD BEEN BOTHERING HIM FOR YEARS. HE SAID THAT THE DOCTOR SAID HE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE HIS KNEE OPER ATED ON.
EMPLOYEE WAS BEING TRANSPORTED TO FACE AREA OF MINE IN AN S&S 484 SCOOP BUCKET AND STATED HE WAS INJURED WHEN THE SCOOP RAN OVER A ROUGH AREA ON THE MINE FLOOR.
EMPL SHOVELING LOOSE COAL AT SECTION BELT TAILPIECE.AS HE ATTEMPTED TO GET UP FROM KNEELING POSITION,STRUCK HEAD ON MINE ROOF FORCING NECK TO ONE SIDE.BLOW RESULTED IN NECK SORENESS -INABILITT Y TO TURN HEAD TO LEFT.
ELECTRICIAN WAS PUSHING CABLE THRU CONDUIT INTO POWER CENTER WHERE BREAKERS HAD 440 POWER ON THEM ELECTRICIAN ASKED I NAME TO PULL END OF CABLE AND KEEP IT FROM TOUCHING BREAKERS WHICH HAD POW ER ON THEM CABLE TOUCHED TOP OF BREAKER CAUSING A FLASH OF FINE WHICH RESULTED 2ND AND 3RD DEGREE BURNS TO RIGHT HAND AND WRIST.
EMP INJ RING FINGER OF R. HAND WHILE CHECKING OIL IN PERS. VEHICLE THE INJ OCC WHEN EMP FINGERTIP WAS CAUGHT BY FALLING HOOD A(D RESULTED IN BROKEN FINERTIP AND LOSS OF NAIL.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A ROOF BOLTER IN 38 INCH COAL WHILE ATTEMPTING TO WALK IN A SQUATTING POSITION HE SLIPPED AND CAUGHT HIS BODY WEIGHT ON HIS RIGHT KNEE THE RESULTING INJURY CONSISTED OF SORENESS AND STIFFNESS OF THE KNEE JOINT REQUIRING MEDICAL ATTENTION.
END OF CHAINWHICK STRUCK RIGHT LEG ON SHIN. HAD X-RAY. BRUISED NEXT TO BONE.
NATURAL CAUSES MAN DIC OF A HEART ATTACK FOR CORNER REPORT.