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Operator had left hand on canopy jack while lowering canopy. His left pinky got smashed between cylinders.
While tramming a bolter from one entry to another from the deck. EE held his hand up outside the canopy to remove the flypad obstructing his view and trammed the roof bolter with his left hand exposed and crushed his hand between the canopy of the deck into the rib.
EE was utilizing the top of a battery box on a DBT scoop as a stable platform to support his notebook while he was writing notes. The roof bolt operator was unaware of EE's location when he started tramming the roof bolter forward. The roof bolting machine was trammed approximately 10 feet forward when the bolter struck EE from behind.