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EE was installing a roof bolt, reaching for drill steel accidentally bumped rotation causing drill steel to hit left wrist & left forearm.
EE was fixing suction hose on the bolter. The hose had gotten stuck under the stab and was stuck. EE was trying to dislodge the hose and EE's bolt partner came to the controls. Instead of raising the stab the partner lowered the boom catching EE's fingers in a pinch point.
Two employees were filling the Fletcher roof bolter with hydraulic oil utilizing the power fill function, they activated the cable reel by mistake causing the cable to strike EE as EE was walking past the bolter.
Employee was loading miner cable on the hooks on the miner, he lost his balance and put his hand on the shoe to catch himself and at the same time,the miner head came down smashing his middle right finger.
Employee was jacklegging and when raising leg it stopped and suddenly raised upward striking employee in mouth and right side of face. This resulted in complex right lower lip laceration, right cheek laceration, depressed fracture anterior wall right Maxillary Sinus, fractured teeth
Building Stop Blocking. Air tugger fell causing a laceration to the front of leg down to ankle and impacted his foot.
EE was holding steel aligning it with jackleg and jackleg jumped smashing his hand into the roof.