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Employee was performing a maintenance operation to replace a damaged conveyor trough. While lifting the new roller assembly, the employee lost their balance and started to fall. They braced themselves against a concrete block adjacent to them and the roller assembly fell striking their right middle finger causing injury to the tendon of the finger.
On 11/29/16 at approximately 16:00 two miners had powered down the equipment and locked and tagged out the equipment. They were attempting to rotate the belt to bring the belt part number into view. While rotating the belt by hand the injured employee grasped the belt to attempt to bring it to a stop near the drive sheave pinching thumb between the drive sheave and the belt.