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Employee was installing rib bolts and placed hand on canopy while raising and crushed EE's left pinky between the canopy and a cable bolt head. This injury resulted in stitches and compound fracture of the tip of EE's finger.
EE was bolting top & bent a bolt causing the bolt plate to strike EE's arm causing a laceration. EE was taken to a hospital.
Employee was standing in an intersection when the continuous miner conveyor tail come into contact with the roof, which lodged a foreign obstruction into employee's eye. Employee was taken to an optometrist where they were then referred to an eye surgeon.
Employee was bolting top and was attempting get drill still out of hole and a piece of sharp rock fell from around the drill hole and cut their forearm. Employee received 4 stitches to close wound.
Employee was inserting a cable bolt into the mine roof and the bolt plate slid down and the corner of the plate cut employee's forearm.
Employee was operating a roof bolter and the coupling that joins the drill steel broke, causing the drill steel to strike EE in the nose and left cheek.