While using a drill with a wire wheel, EE was cleaning off a flanged surface. Unknowingly EE left a thin metal shim on one of the surfaces. When the wire wheel made contact with the shim. It spun it around at high speed resulting in cuts to EE's right hand.
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Frontier Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
November 2, 2024
WV · Coal
roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs)
MACHINERY
Frontier Coal Company · Struck by falling object
A bundle of bolt plates fell into the operator's deck of the bolter while tramming to another place. The plates struck EE on the hand. This caused a cut on EE's hand.
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