WHILE BOLTING, AUGER BENT, SLAPPING LEFT HAND.
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Showing all 5EE WAS PINNED BETWEEN THE BOLTER BUMPER AND THE RIB, CRUSHING HIS RIGHT LEG BELOW THE KNEE.
Installing a curtain board on the mine roof with roof bolting machine, when on side operator pressured ATRS against roof, the floor jack pressed employees right foot into the mine floor. His right foot suffered a contusion from the middle to the distal end.
While roof bolting the drill steel plugged up; once cleared we began to raise the drill steel to the roof. When the steel struck the roof a clod fell and the steel bent and snapped back striking his left hand.
Employee was hit in the face with a piece of steel.