While drilling a hole through a piece of angel iron, with a hand drill, the drill bit broke and struck EE's left hand.
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Showing all 5EE had his right index finger on the pot area when he raised the pot to install a roof bolt. His finger was pinched between the drill pot and the roof bolt plate.
While backing up/moving the miner, a rock that was lying on the miner fell from the miner and struck the employee on the right foot.
While lowering drill head down after setting a bolt, the bolt wrench came out of drill head and hit the roof bolter operator on the chin.
Employee suffered a laceration to his mouth when the pipe he was cutting swung loose and hit him in the face.