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Miner was collaring hole looked up and small rock aprox 2in fell striking miner in the mouth. Miner was wearing appropriate PPE, area was clear of visible loose rock, area was bolted from the back to the face visible scaling had been done , housekeeping was good.
Miner was bolting when small rock came down and hit his left ring finger. Miners 5-point card shows that he had scaled the area prior to performing work.
While bolting the back, miners drill bit came off the end of his steel and landed in a puddle beyond the last row of bolts. The miner went past the last row of bolts to retrieve the drill bit and was hit with rock that fell out of the back.
While drilling uppers in the 220 stope, miner looked up at his drill steel and hole when a rock fell from the drill hole area and struck him in the nose and mouth.
Put split set in one hole of the roof mat. Scaling bar that was holding mat up slipped and mat hit a rock that dislodged it. Rock fell down hitting miner in the lip and arm causing a laceration on both.
EE was hanging welded wire to shot crete the back for ground control when a sharp rock fell thru the screen striking EE on the right cheek at the corner of his mouth. EE stated he was fine and stopped the bleeding with a butterfly band-aid. After EE's shift He went to the local Urgent Care for evaluation and received 2 stitches.