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Employee was picking up a jackleg drill after finishing drilling a knee hole when he felt a very sharp pain in his lower back.
Employee was holding onto a 2" air hose, and his co-worker opened the air valve to clean out the air line. The resulting pressure was more than employee could handle and the hose struck him in the left knee.
The miner was working in the Charlie south raise he was lifting a large timber 8" X 8" X 10' and pulled the muscles and tendons around his left elbow. The accident was not reported until 8/19/10. The employee said that his arm hurting, a lot of pain and needed to go to hospital to have x-ray.
A gardner denver jack leg drill was drop down a raise by accident, striking a miner.
The EE (miner) was loading prill into face round with a prill pot. Walking toward the prill pot and weld on top of prill pot came loose and blew prill into his face, a lot of prill.