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March 7, 2018 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Struck by flying object

Crew was attempting to tram the Highwall Miner while victim in fork loader observed the trailing cable. From the confines of the loader 25 feet away a piece of metal from the Highwall Miner track flew through the slightly opened side glass of the loader striking the employee and causing employee to lose vision in left eye.

September 7, 2016 KY · Coal electrician, lineman MACHINERY
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was attempting to install anchor pin and pin moved and mashed left pinkie finger between anchor pin and the Highwall Mine removing it at the first joint.

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