Employee was loading miner cable on the hooks on the miner, he lost his balance and put his hand on the shoe to catch himself and at the same time,the miner head came down smashing his middle right finger.
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Showing all 4Employee was jacklegging and when raising leg it stopped and suddenly raised upward striking employee in mouth and right side of face. This resulted in complex right lower lip laceration, right cheek laceration, depressed fracture anterior wall right Maxillary Sinus, fractured teeth
Building Stop Blocking. Air tugger fell causing a laceration to the front of leg down to ankle and impacted his foot.
EE was holding steel aligning it with jackleg and jackleg jumped smashing his hand into the roof.