MOVING MINER CABLE HURT BACK.
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Showing all 8PULLING MINER CABLE ACROSS A BOOM HOLE DID NOT BEND OVER OF END OF BOOM HOLE TO LOW TOP, HIT HEAD BROW.
PUTTING TOGETHER TWO PIECES OF WATER LINE- SMASHED MIDDLE FINGER- RIGHT HAND.
USING INADEQUATE COUPLING PIN TO COUPLE CAR TO SCOOP RIGHT INDEX FINGER IS BROKEN AND LACERATED.
I NAME WAS IN PRECESS OF ALIGNING A PIECE OF BGELT STRUCTURE THE PIECE OF BOTTOM STRUCTURE HAD TURNED OVER & I NAME WAS ATTEMPTING TO RT IT WHEN STRUCTURE CAME OFF BELT ROPE CATCHING FINGER BE TWEEN ROPE & STRUCTURE
I WAS HELPING ANOTHER PERSON LOAD A DRIVE SHAFT. WE WERE DRAGING IT ACROSS A CONCRETE FLOOR PUT IT IN A SCOOP BUCKET WHICH WAS ABOUT 5 FT TOTAL DISTANCE APART WHILE PULLING ON DRIVE SHAFT I ST RAINED MY LOWER BACK DID NOTICED A PROBLEM WITH MY BACK UNTIL ABOUT 15 MINUTES LATER.
LOW SEAM MINING 40" BENDING A 4 FOOT ROOF BOLT TO INSTALL IN TOP.AS HE WAS BENDING THE BOLT,HIS HAND SLIPPED ON THE BOLT CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE AND HE FELL AGAINST CANOPY ON ROOF BOLT ER.
EMPLOYEE DRIPPED A TORQUE SHAFT ON HIS LEFT HAND BREAKING INDEX FINGER.