BACK GAVE WAY WHEN EE REMOVED LAGGING TO REPLACE IT WITH SHORTER LENGTH AT TOP OF 30' RAISE. EE CLIMBED DOWN RAISE & WAS TURNING CORNER AT SUBLEVEL WHEN 1' X 2' ROCK STRUCK HIM. BRUISED RIGHT SIDE & LEG, ABRASIONS.
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Showing all 10EMPLOYEE WAS SHUTITNG TRAP DOOR JUST ABOVE TUGGER WHEN A SMALL ROCK CAME DOWN AND STRUCK RIGHT LEG JUST ABOVE KNEE. MANWAY HAD JUST RECENTLY BEEN OPENED TO FACE BY REMOVAL OF BULKHEAD IN RAISE RELEASING ROCK DEBRIS. NOT ENOUGH CLEANING HAD BEEN DONE BECAUSE ONLY APPARENT SOARCE OF ROCK WAS BEHIND SETS IN MANWAY.
EE WAS BARING DOWN, SLAB HIT SIT UP TIMBER, KNOCKED IT OUT FROM UNDER HIM. AS HE FELL HE GRABED A STULL & SHOULDER GAVE OUT.
EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING TIMBERS WHEN ROCK SLAB FELL ON HEAD
BARRING DOWN LOOSE MATERIAL FROM BACK & FELL ON HAND. ROCK FELL ON EE'S HAND.
ROCK FELL OUT OF BACK & MASHED HAND.
WHILE TIMBERING3IN THE MINE ROCK FELL AND HIT HIM ON THE HEAD RESULTING IN A BROKEN NOSE
HE WAS DRILLING3IN A RAISE WHICH WAS SCALED DOWN AND FAULT GAUGE FELL OUT
ROCK FELL OUT O0 HANGING WHILE TIMBERING ROCKS FELL ON UPPER PART OF HIS BACK HE DID NOT LOOSE CONCIOUSNESS BUT COMPLAINED OF PAIN AND TENDERNESS OVER HIS RT UPPER BACK
WHILE REMOVING 6ULKHEAD IN RAISE ROCK ROLLED ACROSS RT HAND