Highwall Energy Company · Flash burns (welding)
TWO EMPLOYEES WERE WELDING AT THE SAME TIME ON METAL BOXES. SOMETIME DURING THIS PERIOD ONE EMPLOYEE BURNT HIS EYES.
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June 11, 2002
VA · Coal
laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Highwall Energy Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE WAS INSTALLING A GENERATOR ONTOP THE HIGHWALL MINER. THE GENERATOR WAS HUNG FROM A TRUCK HOIST. AS IT WAS BEING LOWERED THE GENERATOR STARTED SPINNING. WHEN THE EE WAS TRYING TO STOP THE RO TATION HE STEPPED INTO THE HOLE WHERE THE GENERATOR WAS TO SET.
Highwall Energy Company · Contact with hot objects or substances
EE WAS CUTTING ON A PIECE OF METAL WITH A SET OFTORCHES AND THE METAL POPPED AND A PIECE WENT UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND INTO HIS LT. EYE.
February 23, 2002
VA · Coal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Highwall Energy Company · Fall from machine
EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING A LOADER AND AS HE WAS COMING DOWN THE LADDER HE MISSED A STEP AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
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