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January 25, 2023 VA · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Ramaco Resources Land Holdings, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was using a handheld chain ratchet set to hold one side of a pre-wet shaker screen as EE was changing a feed end spring on the shaker. In the process of changing the spring, the hook broke on the ratchet set resulting in the employee's hand to get caught between the spring.

October 6, 2017 VA · Coal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Ramaco Resources Land Holdings, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was using a metal pipe to dislodge material from a sweeper truck and caught middle left finger between pipe and a fender on truck.

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