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GOT FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN BOLT AND ROOF AND MASHED LITTLE FINGER.
EE STATED THAT HE REACHED TO GET A BOLT AND FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK.
EE WAS BOLTING TOP IN #1 HEADING. AN UNDETECTABLE KETTLE BOTTOM FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN TWO ROOF BOLTS. BOLTS THAT WERE ALREADY SET. HIT EE ON SHOULDER.
EE WAS STANDING ACROSS MOBILE DRILL CABLE. THE DRILL WAS CHANGING PLACES. THE OPERATOR TURNED THE CABLE REEL ON, THE CABLE JERKED THE RIGHT FOOT OUT FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND INJU RE HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A SINGLE HEAD FLETCHER ROOF BOLTER. A HYDRAULIC HOSE BURST SPRAYING OIL INTO EMPLOYEE'S EYES.
A SMALL PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL HITTING EMPLOYEE ON LOWER BACK WHILE HE WA SOPERATING THE OPERATOR'S SIDE OF A DOUBLE HEAD ROOF BOLTER.
EE WAS OPERATING THE OFFSIDE OF A SIMMONS RAND DOUBLE HEAD ROOF BOLTER & INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS. HE SLIPPED AND FELL, FALLING ON CONTROLS. HE TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT HAND GRABBING THE BOOM. THE BOOM WENT UP PINNING HIS HAND AGAIST THE MINE ROOF.
EE WAS USING A D.SC GRINDER ON A PIECE OF RUSTY METAL PIECES OF THE RUST FLEW OFF AND HIT EE IN THE LEFT EYE. THE RUST CUT EYE AND HAD TO BE TAKEN OUT BY A DR.
EE WAS OPERATING THE OFF SIDE OF THE DOUBLE HEAD SIMMONS RAND ROOF BOLTER EE DROPPED HIS WRENCH HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP WHEN THE FRAME BROKE ON THE DRILL POT BOOM THE BOOM FELL ON EE PINNED HI M UNDERNEIN HE WAS BRUISED. HE HAD NO CUTS OR BROKEN BONES.
EE WAS USING A CUTTING TORCH WHILE LAYING UNDER A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. A PIECE OF SLAG FLEW INTO HIS EAR BURNING AHOLE IN EAR DRUM.
A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL HITTING EE ON TOP OF PLS HEAD IT PUSHED HIS FACE INTO THE SIDE OF THE CONTINUOUS MINER. BUSTING HIS MOUTH.
EMPLOYEE WA HELPINGON MIENRA PIECE OF DRAW ROCK ABOUT 1 FOOT SQUARE RANGING FROM 2 INCHES THEIR DOWN TO NOTHER FELL HITITNG EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT HAND CUTTING LITTLE FINGER AND BREAKING BONE AT TI P OF FINGER.
I.NAME WAS WORKING ON L.A. ROOF BOLTER STAB JACK. HE TOLD INJURED TO START THE BOLTER. INJURED'S FOOT SLIPPED UNDER BACK OF BOLTER ABOUT THE TIME I.NAME RAISED THE STAB JACK MASHING INJURED'S RIGHT FOOT.
OPERA TOR CAUGHT HIS THUMB BETWEEN DRILL STEEL & BOLTER WRDNCH PINCHING A PIECE OF SKIN OFF HIS THUMB
55061S SPOT BOLTING INTERSECTION IN NO 4 ENTRY HE WAS SETTING 4 FOOT RESIN BOLT AND 24 INCH WOODEN HEADER THE HEADER BOARD WAS TO LONG TO GO THROUGHT THE ATRS ON THE ROOF BOLTER CAUSING EE HAN 40360BE CAUGHT BETWEEN HEADER AND ATRS.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNTANGLING BOLTER CABLE. BOLTER OPERATOR DID NOT KNEW EMPLOYEE ,EE, WAS DOING SO BOLTER OPERATOR FINISHED BOLTING #4 HEADING. HE TURN ON CABLE REEL TO BACK OUT. CABLE STRUCK HIM K NOCKING HIS DOWN. HURTING HIS KNEE.
INJURED WAS OPERATING PINNER AND ATTEMPTING TO TURN PINNER WHEN HE STUBBED FOOT ON BOTTOM OF PINNER.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRAMING MINER FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER THE MINER TRAMED OVER A ROLL IN BOTTOM THROWING OPERATOR INTO TOP HURTING NECK
AS OPERATING ROOF BOLTER PIECE OF DRAW SLATE APPROX 2" THICK X 8" WIDE BY 16" LONG FELL HITTING OPERATOR ON ARM.
I NAME WAS USING A DISK GRINDER AND THE GRINDER JUMPED BACK AND CUT HIS LEFT ARM
INJURD WAS INSTALLING BOLTS FROM RIGHT TO LEFT:WAS INSTALLING SECOND BOLT AND HAD DRILED HOSE 18" AND WAS INSTALLING FINISHING STEEL WHEN ROCK FELL.