OPERATING ROOF BOLTER STEEL HIT HIM ON ARM.
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Showing all 18THE BOLTER OPERATOR MOVED THE BOLTER INTO POSIT ION TO INSTALL THE FIRST BOLT. HE REACHED AROUNDTHE MACHINE TO MOVE THE STEERING LEVERS AND HIS ARM WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MACHINE AND THE COAL RIB.
2 POT BOLTING WHERE A TWO BOLTS HAD BEEN DIS-LODGED & ATRS BROKE ROCK LOOSE FROM BOLTS
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 300 GALIS ROOF DRILL A PICE OF DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF THE HOLE HE WAS DRILLING AND HIT ON HIS LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING HIS RIGHT FOOT TO HOLD THE MINER CABLE AWAY FROM THE MINER, EMPLOYEES RIGHT FOOT WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN MINER AND MNE FLOOR, MINER GOT RIGHT FOOT BRUISED.
OBESRVING TOP CONDITIONS AND WATCHING MINER CUT COAL ENTRY ON PILLAR SECTION, HE WAS STANDING IN THE RIGHT BREAK THRU WHEN RIB POPPED OUT STRICKING HIM ON RIGHT LEG. BROKE HIS RIGHT LEG JUST BELOW THE KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING A HOLE TO INSTALL ROOF BOLT. THE DRILL STEEL BROKE AND PULLED LEFT SHOULDER OUT OF SOCKET.
INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS, GOT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN 2 PIECES OF ROOF PLATES, BROKE THUMB ON RIGHT HAND AND CUT MIDDLE FINGER.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 TRAMMING THE ROOF BOLTER UP TO THE FACE WHEN THE ROOF BOLTER WAS TRAMMED OVER A ROCK IN THE ROADWAY WHICH CAUSED THE MACHINE TO RAISE UP AND THE EMPLOYEE WHO WAS IN THE OPERAT ER COMPARTMENT 7O HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST THE MINE ROOF.
EMPLOYEE WAS PR9PARING TO BOLT #3 HEADING A PIECE OF ROCK FELL DOWN HIS BACK ROCK FELL BETWEEN BOLTS
EMPLOYEE WAS IN8TALLING ROOF BOLTS IN FACE AREA WHENMOVING ROOF BOLTED FROM ONE BOLT TO ANOTHER HE PULLED THE BOLTER HEAD INTO HIS CHEST, RESULTING IN CRACK RIB.
EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG BOLTER HEAD TO PUSH BOLT UP IN BOLT HOLE GOT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN BOLTER HEAD AND ROOF RESULTING IN BRUSTED FINGER ON LEFT HAND
EMPL REPAIRING 7ABLE,PULLING OFF CABLE WITH WINCH? STRAINED BACK MUSCLE.
INJ OPERATING C4 WHEN HE GOT FLOATING OPERATORS DECK ON TRAILING CABLE WHILE ATTEMPTING TO FREE CABLE HE PLACED HIS HAND IN UNSAFE POSITION UNDER THE DECK WHEN THE CABLE WAS PULLED FROM UNDERN EATH THE DECK,D9CK FELL ON HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMMING DOZER AND RAN OVER A SMALL ROCK LAYING IN THE ROAD DOZER FELL OFF OF ROCK JARRING HIS BACK
INJURED WAS DRILLING A ROOF BOLT ANCHOR HOLE FORA RESIN BOLT, WHILE DRILLING TO MUCH UP PRESSURE WAS APPLIED TO THE MACHINE HEAD CAUSING THE RESIN DRILL STEEL TO BOW OUT AND STRIKE INJURED ON WRIST.
INJURED WAS TRAMMING ROOF BOLTED TO NEXT ENTRY TO BE BOLTED WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS LEG BETWEEN ROOF BOLTER AND RIB
E OF THE DRILL STELL, THE DRILL STEM BROKE AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE END OFTHE BROKEN DRILL STEM STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT THUMB, CUTTING END OF THUMB OFF.