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The employee was positioned on his knee while installing roof bolts. After installing the roof bolts, he turned around to stand up and felt a sharp pain in his lower back.
Injured was supplying roof bolts for the roof bolting machine. He was carrying roof bolts from the scoop bucket to the roof bolting machine. When he felt a sudden pain in his back.
The injured was loading belt structure. Two pieces of structure were entangled and when he tried to pull them apart, he strained his lower back.
EE and another person were loading water line. the other person dropped his end of water line causing the water line to bounce and strike the injured in the face. This resulted in broken teeth.
EE WAS MOVING A PIECE OF 3/8 METAL & MASHED LEFTMIDDLE FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING UP BELT AND TURNED TO PICK UP A RAIL AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL IT WAS DETERMINED THAT HE NEEDED SURGERY.
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING DOWN CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE, AND THE TIE CAME LOOSE HITTING HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE.