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GETTING SAND ROCK OUT OF FREEDER & MASHED RIGHT HAND INDEX FINGER.
LIFTING ON ROLL BELT TO MAKE BELT MOVE WITH ONE MAN HELPING.
FELL DOWN WHILE CROSSING OVER SCOOP TO PLUG BRATTERS UP.
SHOVELING COAL ON BELT HEAD AND HURT BACK.
HURT BACK LIFTING CANOPY ON COAL DRILL.
INJURED EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN A BIG ROCK OVER; IN DOING SO HURT HIS BACK. LARGEST ROCK IN THIS AREA WOULD WEIGH NO MORE THAN 15 LBS.
AFTER ADVANCING INBY THIS AREA, IT HIS MY OPINION THAT A CRACK DEVELOPED AROUND THE ANCHORING POINT OF THE BOLTS LETTING SOME BOLTS PULL AND OTHER BOLTS BREAKING. THIS AREA IS ALSO WET AND ON A HILL. AN ADDITIONAL CAUSE TO ROOF FALL WAS GOING FROM SLATE TOP TO SANDSTONE.
OPERATOR WAS CUTTING A PLACE, AND HAD REAR OF CUTTER AGAINST RIB AND VIBRATION CAUSED LOOSE RIB COAL TO HIT HIM ON SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SCOOPING COAL AND RIB COAL AND ROCK FELL HITTING HIM.
EMPLOYEE SAID H9 WAS PULLING ROCK IN THE #1 HEADING AND STRAINED HIS BACK.