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WORKING HAUL ROAD INTO PINT AND RAN OVER LOOSE ROCKS.
EE WAS ALIGNING A BALL ONT HE END OF THE STRUT WITH THE BOOM OF THE SERVICE TRUCK. THE BALL SLIPPED OUT AND HIT FINGER AGAINST GROUND. THE BALL WEIGHS APPROX. 200 LBS. AND FELL APPROX. 6 INCHE S.
WHILE DRILLING A HOLE TO INSTALL A ROOF BOLT. HE LET HIS POT DOWN TO CHANGE DRILL STEEL THE STEEL FELL OUT OF THE HOLE HE HAD DRILLED AND STRUCK HIM ON HIS FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND.
LET OFFSIDE DRILL POT DOWN ON HIS RIGHT KNEE.
HE WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN #6 RIGHT BREAK. HE HAD PUT UP THE FIRST RIB BOLT AND WAS PREPARING TO PUT UP THE SECOND BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE ROW OF BOLTS HE WAS INSTALLING AND THE ROW OUTBY. THE ROCK FELL ON THE TRAY OF THE BOLTER AND SLID OFF ON THE LEFT FOOT OF THE ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR.
OPERATOR FAILED TO KEEP FOOT CLEAR OF PINNER FLOOR JACK.
EE WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN A SLUG OF ROCK FELL OFF THE RIB AND STRUCK HIM ON THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT.
HE WAS PUTTING UP A ROOF BOLT; IN DOING SO, HE WAS USING A WRENCH TO TWIST HIS STEEL OUT OF THE HOLE. AS HE WAS TWISTING THE WRENCH, IT SLIPPED OFF HIS STEEL AND HIT HIM OVER HIS RIGHT EYE, MA KING A CUT ABOUT 2" LONG ALONG HIS EYEBROW.
EMPLOYEE HAD EQUIPMENT ON AN INCLINED GRADE. HAD SHUT DOWN THE ENGINE AND LOCKED BRAKES. HE WAS DISMOUNTING THE MACHINE BY WAY OF THE LEFT TRACK OF THE DOZER, WHENT HE DOZER MOVED AND CAUGHT T HE OPERATOR BETWEEN THE RUNNING BOARD AND TRACK OF THE MACHINE, PINNING HIM TO THE MACHINE. EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A DISLOCATED RIGHT HIP AND FOUR TRAVERSE FRACTURED LUMBAR.
HE WAS CUTTING TREES IN HOLLOW FILL CHAIN SAW KICKED OUT OF TREE HITTING HIM IN THE INSIDE PART OF HIS RIGHT KNEE.