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October 10, 2023 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
ARC Kentucky Resources, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Injured Employee was bolting with another employee when employee's steel stopped up. Employee grabbed a piece on pinner steel and hit the stopped-up steel. The drill bit came off and hit injured employee in the mouth and busted EE's upper lip and broke a couple of teeth. Employee received stitches to their lip.

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