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November 30, 2025 UT · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
Fossil Rock Resources, LLC. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Bolter operator drilling roof. When adding pusher steel, stumbled / slipped and put uncontrolled feed pressure up while right hand was still around the steels EE was marrying. This caused the steels to bend toward the mast, pinching EE's right ring finger between the steels and the feed cylinder. This caused a skin avulsion roughly 3/4" x 3/4" at the tip of the finger.

August 10, 2024 UT · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler MACHINERY
Fossil Rock Resources, LLC. · Struck by powered moving object

Employee was operating the left side of roof bolter, when the canopy got hung up in the roof mesh, they tried lowering the canopy and it would not come down, then they tried lowering the whole boom and it broke loose abruptly striking their hard hat/head against the canopy.

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