Employee was helping lift a 60 H.P. deep well pump to sit on a wooden block when he felt pain in his groin area.
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Showing 50 of 155A roof fall has occurred in the 1st Northwest Sub-mains at Spad 28+00. The dimensions of roof fall are 180' long, 19' wide, and 6' high.
A roof fall has occurred in the Second Southeast Mains in No. 3 entry at Spad 23+10. The dimensions of the roof fall are 50' long, 18' wide and 5' high.
A roof fall has occurred in the second Southeast Mains between No. 4 and No. 5 entries, at crosscut 32. The dimensions of the roof fall are 35' long, 18' wide and 10' high.
Employee had put golf cart on charge in golf cart charging station. As he started to walk away he hit a fire suppression nozzle suspended from mine foor which resulted in a laceration to his left ear which required 13 stitches.
Employee was installing roof bolt and as he started to raise boom to insert bolt into roof the other boom was swung hard by other operator. The roof bolt came out of the chuck and struck employee on left wrist causing pain.
Employee was installing roof bolt. Pushing roof bolt up into hole he had his left hand on the bolt. He accidentally started the rotation causing his hand to twist around the bolt resulting in a sprain to ligaments in hand and wrist.
A roof fall has occurred in the main east, No. 6 Entry, Spad 54 + 15. The dimensions of this fall are 20' long, 18' wide and 8' high.
Employee was rockdusting belt entry and rockdust hose caught on something. He jerked on hose to free it and felt pain in lower back. He did not start missing work until september 13.
Employee was changing shuttle car tire and it fell over. He and another employee were lifting the tire back upright when he felt pain in his lower right abdomen and later in his groin.
Employee was pulling shuttle car cable out of reel. He later felt pain in groin at the site of an old hernia where he had surgical repair three months ago, at a previous employer.
EE was picking up pull chain on shuttle car and twisted right knee.
EE was walking through curtain & struck his head on a roof bolt in the mine roof, jamming his neck & causing pain in his neck.
EE lifted a 5 gallon bucket that had bolts in it. (about half full). Felt pain in his lower back.
A roof fall has occurred in the second southeast mains in no. 5 entry at spad 25+20. The dimension of the fall is 40' long, 18' wide and 12' high.
Employee was in bath house and bumped against hook that holds clothes baskets aloft. Hook disengaged and empty metal clothes basket fell striking him in left eye resulting in laceration to eye lid.
Ee was climbing up on dozer and his foot slipped, causing his left knee to strike cleat on dozer track. Impact was at lower edge of left knee, resulting in severe pain.
EE was splicing cable and knife slipped, resulting in a cut on left thigh, which required five stitches.
EE had just dumped his car at feeder and was turning around in operator's compartment, when another car cable anchored next to him, jumped to the side hitting him on the right side of the head, driving his head into edge of his car canopy. Resulted in lacerations, requiring stitches.
Helping build crib with co-worker and crib block fell mashing little finger on left hand.
A roof fall has occurred int he first southeast maws, in no.1 entry inby spad 10 & 50. The dimensions of the roof fall area 50' long, 18' wide and 19' high.
EE was helping splice belt and usually a piece of diesel equipment was out of service. EE got a golf cart to use for transportation. While traveling down inclined travelway, cable broke on braking system. EE jumped off golf cart and bruised his left hip.
Employee was on his knees and in process of installing a roof bolt. When he started to get up his right knee popped and locked into one position and could not bend.
Employee was unloading pump motor from personnel carrier and had positioned himself between a shuttle car and the personnel carrier. Another shuttle car came down the entry and did not see the personnel carrier sticking out of the crosscut about 4 feet, he hit it which in turn caught the employee's leg between the equipment.
Employee was helping splice miner cable and was kneeling on the mine floor. Whe he got up his left knee popped and started hurting. He could not straighten it.
Employee was drilling hole in mine roof to install roof bolt. Lowered roof bolting machine boom temporarily catching left knee under it, resulting in a strain to knee area.
Employee was driving 14-man personnel carrier (mantrip bus) and ran over something in roadway causing him to bounce up into mine roof and hurt his neck.
Employee got off his shuttle car and sat down next to coal rib while waiting for continuous miner to move. When he got up he lost his balance and twisted right knee causing a sprain.
Employee was operating continuous mner and reached down to lift miner cable and felt pain in lower back.
A roof fall has occurred in the main east entries at spad 25 + 45 in No 1 entry. This roof fall is in the intake. The dimensions of the fall are: length 25' x width 19' and height 7'.
Employee was helping change out a set of scoop batteries and got his right thumb caught between connector on battery and arm that holds battery.
Employee was helping pick up belt and structure to put footers under belt stands to level beltline when he felt pain in lower back.
Employee was helping load pinner pot on the personnel carrier to take underground. When he and another employee lifted the pinner pot he felt pain in lower back.
Employee walked through wing curtain and lost his balance falling on self-rescuer and bruising his hip.
Employee was helping pull a shuttle car drag across mine floor to install it on a shuttle car when he felt slight pain in his groin. Employee did not start missing work until July 15, 2006.
Employee was walking a belt entry, examining the belt, and felt pain in his right hip. The pain got worse as the shift progressed. There was no incident to identify as the cause of the injury.
Pulling on cable and chains on previous shift when miner was hung, his back started bothering him. Then tonight while lifting bundle of glue from pinner, his back started hurting him bad.
Employee was working as extra man while unloading supplies. Felt pulling in lower back.
Mechanic was checking cable on shuttle car that was not picking up cable. He took cover off and moved car up because line curtian was in the way. Reel unexpectedly took up tripping him causing him to fall backwards on his rescuer.
EE was loading bolting machine with glue when he felt pinch in his lower left back. He thought he would be ok went home came back to work the next day worked approx. 1/2 shift when he began hurting bad enough he could not stand it anymore he was brought out and taken to ER by company offical.
EMPLOYEE WAS TOSSING A PACKAGE OF GLUE ACROSS THE TOP OF HIS ROOF BOLTER TO THE OTHER ROOF BOLT OPERATOR & HE FELT A PULL IN HIS ABDOMEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A BELT WITH A BELT KNIFE & AS THE KNIFE NEARED THE EDGE OF THE BELT IT CUT EASIER & WITH THE PRESSURE HE WAS APPLYING IT CONTINUED TO CUT HIS KNEE ON HIS LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRAGGING 2 ROLLERS UP BELT ENTRY & FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EE was helping mechanic splice his car cable. He had layed the cable across his knee to cut outer jacket and accidently cut his right knee.
EE was lifting a tail lift cylinder, when it slipped off his leg and caught his finger against metal.
EE was pulling with both arms on curtain, when he felt something pull in his right shoulder, causing pain.
EE hit rotation with bent steel in chuck. It came around and struck EE on his left wrist and left side of head.
A roof fall has occoured in the main east entries at spad 25 & 45 in No.5 entry. This roof fall is in the return. The dimensions of the fall are: Length 40' width 20' heigth 8'.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING (DRIVING) A 4-MAN DIESEL MANTRIP. AS HE NEGOTIATED A TURN, THE POWER STEERING FAILED AND CAUSED HIM TO RAISE UP AS HE TRIED TO TURN, RESULTING IN HIS HARD HAT STRIKING THE MINE ROOF.
A roof fall has occurred int he main east entries at spad 38 & 75 in no. 3 entry. The dimensions of the fall are: length 18', width 22', height 8'.