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PERSON WAS WALKING UP BESIDE BOLTER TO HANG ROLL OF WIRE SCREEN UP ON TRS WHEN CAP ROCK 4 FT X 14" X 9" THICK FELL FROM TOP OF RIB COAL AND STRUK HIM ON RIGHT LEG FORCING HIM PARTIALLY UNDER M ACHINE CAUSING INJURY TO LEG.
PERSON WAS SETTING SHIELDS ON LONGWALL FACE, HE WAS WALKING ALONG BETWEEN HEAD AND TAIL DRUMS SETTING THE SHIELDS WHEN FACE ROLL OCCURRED AND PIECE OF CAP ROCK CAME ACROSS SHEAR AND HIT PERSON ON TOP ON LEFT FOOT.
STANDING BESIDE MINER RIB ROLLED STRUCK STRUCK PERSON ROCK INJ HAND
SETTING JACK AND RIB ROLLED AND STRUCK JACK AND KNOCKED INJURED DOWN JACK FELL AND HIT INJURED IN THE KNEE.
PERSON WAS HOLDING 4" WATER LINE UP WITH 6 FT DRILL STEEL SO COUPLER COULD BE REPLACED RIB ROLL CAME DOWN ON WATER LINE 20 FT INBY AND KNOCKED DRILL STEEL OUT OF HANDS AND STEEL CAME DOWN ON T OP OF FOOT.
INJURED WAS SHOVELING AT TAILPIECE WITH HIS BACK TO RIBLINE HE CAUGHT RIB FALLING DOWN OUT OF CORNER OF EYE & JUMPED TO GET OUT OF WAY WHEN DOING SO HE FELL TWISTING RT KNEE
A FACE ROLL OCC6RRED WHICH CAME ACROSS THE PANLINE AND STRUCK INJURED ON THE LOWER LEG.
INJURED WAS INS7ALLING ROOF BOLT (INSIDE ROW)WHEN HE WAS STRUCK ON THE LEFT LEG AND FOOT BY A RIB ROLL.
PERSON WAS GREA8ING FITTING ON LONGWALL CRUSHER WHEN RIB ROLLED IN AND STRUCK PERSON AND KNOCKED HIM AGAINST FRAME OF CRUSHER CAUSING INJUREY.
INJURED WAS SHOVELING UP A RIB ROLL ALONG A BELTLINE WHEN HE SAW SOME MORE LOOSE MATERIAL HE P DOWN THE LOOSE MATERIAL AND A PORTOR OF IT STRUCK HIT ON THE RIGHT KNEE.
THE SUBJECT WAS PREPARING TO INSTALL A RIB BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF RIB ROLLED OUT AND STRUCK HIS LEFT FOOT. BRUISES AND SWELLING OF THE FOOT RESULTED.
VICTIM WAS RIB BOLTING AT THE TIME OF INJURY HE STARTED TO PUSH THE BOLT INTO THE HOLE WHEN THE BOARD TURNED HE WALKED OVER TO STRAIGHTEN THE BOARD AND A PORTION OF COAL RIB AND ROCK BINDER FE LL AROUND THE BOLT AND STRUCK HIM ON THE LEG
A COAL RIB ROLLED OUT BETWEEN RIB BOARDS AND STRUCK THE INJURED PERSON ON THE LOWER RIGHT LEG THIS RESULTED IN A HAIRLINE FRACTURE TO THE TIBIA OF THE RIGHT LEG
THE INJURED AND TWO OTHER WORKMEN REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP MINER CABLE WHEN A PORTION OF CABLE RIB AND CAP ROCK FELL UNEXPECTEDLY AND KNOCKED THE VICTIM UNCONSIOUS, PINNING HIM BRIEFLY
WHILE HANGING THE MINER CABLE A PIECE OF RIB ROLLED OUT STRIKING THE VICTIM ON THE LEFT SIDE THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE OF THE LEFT FOREARM AND A LACERATION TO THE LEFT THIGH
INJURED WALKED ALONG SIDE A RAW CAR WHICH WAS BEING LOADED WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A RIB-BROW ROLL. THIS HAPPENED DURING THE LOADING OF THE FIRST CAR OF THE 2ND RUN OF THE 2ND CUT IN RM #6 OFFEN TRY #1 ON C-4 SECTION. VICTIM SUFFERED FRACTURES OF RIGHT LEG, SHOULDER AND COLLAR BONE AND LACERATIONS TO HEAD AND RIGHT LEG AND BRUISES.
INJURED PERSON WAS DOING MAINTENCE WORK ON CONT. MINER ON IDLE SHIFT. WHILE BENT OVER AT MINER THE RIB ROLLED IN AND STRUCK PERSON IN BACK CAUSING INJURY TO BACK. 4 BROKEN BONES ON VERTIBRA WH ERE MUSCLES ATTACK TO VERTBRA.
SCALING DOWN LOOSE COAL RIB ALONG BELT WALKWAY WHEN MORE RIB FELL BEHIND STRIKING EMPL AND BREAKING LEG.