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EE was bolting the footwall area of his heading, when the slab fell into the jackleg and pushed EE against the opposite rib, causing injury to his right shoulder.
The employee was operating a 22B track mucker in a track drift heading. While mucking along the left side of the rail the mucking machine became unstable and tipped, briefly pinning the employee between the machine and rib.
Miner had completed installing a 6' resin bolt. Miner was lowering the jackleg drill. The driver hung on the installed bolt and dropped as the drill was lowered. The bolt dropped and hit the miner's little finger on his right hand which was on the drill. It struck the little finger between the knuckle and the first joint causing a fracture of the bone.
The EE was working in the surface carpenter shop cutting wood on a table saw. The cut off piece of material began to hang up in the saw blade & the EE reached for the piece of material, resulting in one of his fingers making contact with saw blade.
Removing two poles which were hooked to a crane to lift poles out of the way. The first pole was sawed off. As the second pole was being sawed, the load shifted and employee was not able to get out of the way fast enough. The pole bumped him and he fell head first into the hole dug for the replacement pole resulting in two stitches in the forehead.