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ROCK FELL OFF FACE WHEN FUSE WAS PULLED TO HOOK ON TRUNK LINE.
EE WAS SCALING ROCK IN BACK AS HE APPLIED PRESSURE TO THE BAR IT BROKE OUT OF THE ROCK HE WAS SCALING HIS RIGHT ARM HIT THE RIB.
CREW HAD FINISHED GROUND SUPPORT WITHIN 2' FROM FACE & HAD DRILLED FACE ROUND & WAS PREPARING TO LOAD ROUND WHEN SOME UNKNOWN LOOSE MATERIAL SPALLED OFF FROM LEFT RIB. MATERIAL COVERED INJ EXC EPT FOR HIS FEET. HIS RIGHT ARM WAS CUT LEFT KNEE CAP SHATTERED & LEFT SHOULDER BLADE CHIPPED SCRAPES & BRUISES.
THE CREW HAD FINISHED GROUND SUPPORT WITHIN 2 FT. FROM THE FACE AND DRILLED A ROUND AND WAS PREPARING TO LOAD THE ROUND. WHEN THE MATERIAL THAT CAME OFF THE RIB HAD TRAPPED ANOTHER EMPLOYEE. INJURED ATTEMPTED TO RESCUE HIM. IN DOING SO SOME MORE LOOSE MATERIAL CAME OFF. PART OF WHICH STRUCK HIM ON THE HARD HAT, GIVING HIM THE WHIPLASH.
THIS EMPLOYEE AND HIS PARTNER WERE SCALING A ROCK. THE ROCK BROKE OUT LARGER THAN ANTICIPATED. EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO RUN AWAY FROM ROCK. ROCK STRUCK LEFT HEEL.
SCALING ROCK WHEN ANOTHER ROCK AT KNEE LEVEL FEELL AND STRUCK HIS R. FT.
THIS BLASTER WA8 LOADING ANFO PNEUMATICALLY INTO A FOURTH ROW DRILL HOLE WHEN THE ANFO HOSE LOOSENED A ROCK NEAR THE HOLE WHICH FELL FROM THE FACE ONTO THE MAN.LACERATING THE THUMB INNERSPACE OF HIS LEFT HA3D.SUTURES WERE REQUIRED FOR CLOSURE.
THIS MAN WAS LO5DING A ROUND TO BE BLASTED WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE FACE AND STRUCK HIS LEFT FOREARM CAUSING A LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED SUTURES FOR CLOSURE.
THIS MAN WAS SCALING THEFACE WHEN A ROCK BEING SCALED FELL ON THE TIP OF THE BAR CAUSING THE OTHER END OF THE BAR TO STRIKE THE MAN IN THE MOUTH, CHIPPING A FRONT INCISOR TOOTH.
BRAZLE WAS STARING TO D RILL A CORNER HOLE IN THE SECOND ROUND FOR THE HAULAGE LEVEL EAST RAISE. AS HE COLLARED THE HOLE A SMALL THIN SLAB OF ROCK LOOSENED ALONG THE HANGING WALL. WITH THE D RILL RUNNING BRAZLE REACHED UP WITH A HAMMER & KNOCKED THE LOOSE DOWN. THE ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON HIS ELFT FOOT. THE RESULTING LACERATION REQUIRED SUTURES FOR CLOSURE.
MARKING UP A FACE WHEN SMALL ROCK FELL AND HIT HIM.LACERATION ON RIGHT LEG REQ 5 SUTURES.
THIS MAN WAS STRUCK AND KNOCKED DOWN BY A ROCK WHICH FELL FROM THE RIB AT A DEVELOPMENT MUCK PILE HE WAS ASSIGNED TO SCALE FROM HE SUSTAINED CUTS TO THE BACK OF HIS NECK AND LEFT ARM WHICH REQ UIRED SUTURES FOR CLOSURE
THIS MAN WAS PUTTING PRIMERS INTO THE DRILL HOLES OF A FACE TO BE LOADED. A ROCK SLID DOWN OFF OF THE FACE AND STRUCK H IM ON THE TOP OF HIS LEFT FOOT, CAUSING A LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED THRE E SUTURES FOR CLOSURE.
A ROCK FELL FROM THE FACE WHILE THE MAN WAS LOADING A DRILLED OUT HEADING STRIKING HIM ON THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT CAUSING A BRUISE THE FOOT LATER BECAME INFECTED AND THE MAN SOUGHT MEDICAL A TTENTION /N 051083