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Employee was drilling out a bogey pin with a hand held drill. The drill got caught on a bur and caused the drill to shift and come out of his hand and strike his left knee. Cause of injury was lack of attention. Miner proficiency may have been a factor. PPE, company rules or mining equipment was not a factor.

Setting up an hose to blow out filters, has he laid down the hose, the coupler came un-hooked striking him in the mouth (lip). Cause of this injury was not making sure coupler was fully coupled. Compliance with rules/regs was not a factor, personnel protective equip. not a factor, miner attitude and proficiency could be a factor, mining equip/systems not a factor.

Employee was greasing the boom of a Cat 988F endloader with an air greaser. When the grease jerk would not take any more grease, he attempted to pull off the grease hose and it ruptured in his hand. The line pressure injected grease into his thumb. The thumb had to be operated on to remove the grease. Lost time injury.

EE was in an enclosed cab of an excavator, loading rocks into the bed of an articulated truck when the rocks accidentally fell from the bucket causing them to fracture. Random flying rocks crashed through the wind shield hitting ee in the knee. He was treated and released for severe bruising of his knee at trinity medical center .

Employee was pulling the slack on the power cable for the conveyor car on the Addcar Highwall Miner. He stepped onto the rail of the launch to pull the power cable however he placed his ankle between the hydraulic car pusher and conveyor car, allowing his ankle to be caught between the pusher and car. Fractures of the ankle, tissue damage.

Employee stated that he was pulling the pin that connects conveyor car to conveyor car on the highwall miner launch. He placed his right foot between the car and the car pusher. As he pulled the pin, the car pushed forward and pinned his foot between the pusher and the car.

Employee was hauling overburden in an end dump to the truck dump. As the end dump was waiting to back to dump berm, he was struck by the ripper of a dozer as he was backing off the dump. The collision jolted the end dump operator and he stated later that his neck was getting stiff.