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EE was bolting. He had drilled the hole with the top steel and when he let the boom down to add the bottom steel, the top steel fell out of the hole and struck him on the cheek and ear, causing a laceration.
EE was installing a 6' glue bolt using a 2' wrench to push the bolt into the hole. The bolt bent and the wrench came off of the head of the bolt and struck him in the upper lip causing a small cut requiring 3 stitches.
EE was hand dusting a cross-cut when he backed into a roof bolt plate. The plate cut the back of his neck, requiring 9 stitches.
Employee was in the process of helping get a pin steel out of the pinner pot. Another operator was helping him. The operator did not know where he was because he was concentrating on the pin a nd chuck. For some unknown reason EE put his hand on the boom, the same time the other operator was raising the boom and caught his hand between the boom and short arm on the bolter.
Employee was attempting to dislodge a pinner steel that was hung in the roof. He for some unknown reason had his hand at the steel that was in the roof when he accidently hit his boom lever in the upward position causing him to mash his left hand between the roof and the bolter pot.
EE was helping move the miner from #3 entry to #2 entry. He was on the corner of the #2 entry, they had put the pull strap on the head/bit of the miner to push the cable up into the face when the bit came out hitting him on the chin and collar bone.