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Employee was installing a roof bolt when it kicked back and struck his wrist.
Employee was straightening a bent bolt, put it in the head of the bolt machine and accidentally hit the rotation. The bolt had a burr that caught his glove and wrapped his hand around.
Employee misjudged edge of coal pile, dozer nose dived off coal pile. Front and right door glass broke, a piece hit his right leg. Injury required staples.
Employee had been working on cutting out deck on vibrator. While he was going in and around deck to cut bolts he strained his back. Employee did not report accident until 05/19/2014, he worked 5/20 and 5/21 then went to the doctor which scheduled him off work for 5/22 and 5/23. Due to holidays there was no work scheduled for this employee until 5/26/14.
Employee was working in 3R crosscut approximately 45'-50' from miner which was cutting top in #3 entry.
Employee was using an impact gun & socket. When a pin came out of the socket, it struck the palm of employee's Left hand, resulting in a puncture wound that required suturing.
Employee was bolting top when his drill steel got hung up. As he reached to take the wrench out of the drill pot the steel fell striking him on the hand.
Employee was bolting at the bottom of the slope. He was trying to get a plate up over the drill guide when it caught his finger.
Employee was using a bolt wrench, swung and hit his index finger against canopy with wrench.
Employee inadvertently activated the rotation causing the roof bolt to spin and strike his wrist.
Employee was repositioning a piece of metal to get punch back out when he got the end of his thumb caught on the guard on the iron worker.
Employee was struck by rub rail handle that broke as a result of being caught on tailpiece. Injury required stitches.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING LOADING EQUIPMENT( A VULCANIZING PRESS) ONTO OUR TRUCK. THE PRESS WAS 3'OFF THE GROUND WHEN THE EMPLOYEE WAS GUIDING THE PRESS AWAY FROM THE RAILING TO PREVENT FROM HITTING WHEN THE STRAP BROKE .THE PRESS CAME DOWN THE Employer's LEGS THEN LANDING ON BOTH ANKLES AND FEET.
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Employee was installing a roof bolt when the bolt kicked out and struck his arm.
Employee inadvertently hit a paint can with his drill steel causing it to burst and cut his arm.
Employee was swinging the boom of roof bolter out to put up a rope bolt. As he was swinging the boom, his left hand was on the canopy and as a result his fingers were mashed between the canopy and the top.
Employee was attempting to tie beams to the top when a jack slipped out causing the beam to fall. As the beam fell, it struck him and caused him to fall back into the scoop bucket injuring his back.
On January 18th, 2010, the accident victim reported to his supervisor that on January 16th, 2010, he had become injured when he was backing up his dozer and it struck the ground forcefully, injuring his neck and upper back area (between his shoulder blades). The injured employee then began missing work as a result on January 19th, 2010.
Employee felt pain in his right shoulder when he was installing the roof bolt into the drill chuck.
Employee was using a grinder when it caught on a boss block and kicked back contacting his left forearm. Injury required 7 stitches.
Employee was installing a roof bolt when he felt pain in his left shoulder.
Employee dropped rock duster on his right hand, crushing & lacerating his middle finger.
A bulldozer became lodged on a tree stump, causing it to overturn when operator tried to remove it.
Employee was operating a Fletcher Double Head Roof Bolter when his glove got caught between two pieces of drill steel and he carelessly started the drill head rotation. The injury resulted in a laceration to his little finger on his left hand and required 4 stitches to close the wound.
Employee caught right thumb between hydraulic jack and ATRS.
An old beech tree log was laying on the ground. Employee was cutting brush around log when it started to roll and rolled over on him, trapping him under the log.
Employee borrowed an additional slate bar off the roof bolter to help clean drawrock off miner. When employee returned the slate bar the roof bolter operator inadvertently caught his right foot under the back bumper. Injury resulted in a fracture. Employee started missing 09-10-08.
Employee was operating a roof bolter in the #3 entry and he hit his left arm on a roof bolt plate. Injury resulted in 9 stitches.
Employee was in the operator's deck backing the Fletcher Roof Bolter out of the #8 heading, when he got his Left ring finger caught between a trailing cable and the frame of the roof bolter, causing a laceration that required stitches.
Employee twisted his back while crawling over to the center line. Employee started missing 04-14-08.
Employee was installing a roof bolt and when he pushed it up, the bolt bent. He then tried to spin the bolt and it whipped around with the plate, striking him on the forearm. Injury required 13 stitches.
Employee was putting a plate on a roof bolt and struck his middle finger on his left hand against a sharp object on the roof bolter. Injury required 4 stitches.
Employee was bolting when a piece of draw rock fell striking him on the lower left leg. Injury resulted in a compound fracture.
The employee was bolting the #7 break when his drill steel became lodged in a hole, then came loose unexpectedly, striking the ring finger of his left hand. The incident resulted in a lacertaion that required stitches.
Employee was watching another employee excavate a footer, to watch for a ground cable and conduit, when the backhoe bucket struck him knocking him down. He struck his chin on something causing a laceration.
The injured employee was crawling toward the roof bolt machine when his left foot slipped off the coal and became caught underneath the wheel of the machine.
The pin on the truck end of the duster worked out, allowing the duster to set down on the wheels. The duster was being jacked up to see what needed to be done to correct the problem when the jack creeled over and the duster struck the employee on his left foot resulting in a fracture.
Employee was hanging cable in the #4 entry on right side of bolter, with back turned away from bolter. Coworker was backing bolter out of the #4 entry and watching the cable on the left side of the bolter. Coworker never saw employee and backed over his foot and lower leg.
Excavator rolled off work bench when out slope failed. Employee suffered broken ribs and lacerations.
Employee was installing roof bolt in hole and had push part of the bolt up into the hole when he dropped head of bolter down to finish pushing bolt up, the bolt fell back out of the hole striking employee on his left index finger, resulting in a fracture to the end of his finger.
Employee was drilling hole for roof bolt when his glove became entangled with the drill steel, winding his left index and middle fingers around the drill steel.
Employee was tramming miner across section when rock fell off miner striking employee on left ankle resulting in a fracture.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS POSITIONED OUTBY THE 2ND ROW OF BOLTS & WAS BOLTING THE TOP IN THE NO.3 LEFT CROSS-CUT. WHEN THE ATRS WAS LOWERED, A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL & STRUCK HIS FOOT.
A ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE RIB AND BOLT AND ONTO THE EMPLOYEE'S FOOT AND ANKLE.
Drill steel became lodged in top, employee attempted to put wrench on drill steel and slipped hitting up lever catching index and middle fingers on right hand between wrench and drill steel. (required 11 stitches)
INJURED EE TOLD THE WITNESS THAT HE WAS GOING TO MOVE THE CABLE CROSSER. HE DID NOT HEAR HIM AND ACCIDENTALLY RAN OVER HIS RIGHT HAND WITH A ROOF BOLTER WHEEL.
EMPLOYEE REPORTED SEVERE BACK PAIN WHILE OPERATING A BULLDOZER.
Employee was split tramming single head roofbolter when he slew the machine around it bumped him on the left hip.
ADVERSE ROOF. * EMPLOYEE HIT WITH FALLING ROCK WHILE ROOF BOLTING *