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INSTALLING ROOF SPLIT SETS FOR GROUND SUPPORT IN HEADING. SMALL ROCK CAME OFF BACK STRIKING MACHINE & DRILL STEEL. BOUNCING OFF MACHINE STRIKING LEFT ARM CAUSING EMPL T SFALL BACKWARDS LANDING ON SELF RESCUER.
DRILLING ROOF SPLIT SET HOLES CAUSING LOOSE SUPPORTED BACK TO FALL.AREA IN DRIFT WAS BEING REBOLTED DUE TO BROKEN WIRE AND BASKETS.SOME OLD SPLIT SETS WERE RUSTED OFF UP IN THE HOLES 12"TO16" ALLOWING ROCK TO FALL.
EMPLOYEE WAS PROBING ORE NEAR BACKHOE TURNED AND EMPLOYEE FELT SOMETHING HIT HIS FACE. INVESTIGATION SHOWED THAT ROLLERS AND TRACKS ON BACKHOE WERE OUT OF ALIGNMENT AND SLIVERS OF METAL WERE B EING SHEARED OFF. A PIECE OF METAL FLEW OFF TRACKS AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN LEFT CHEEK OF FACE. THE METAL WAS EMBEDDED IN THE FLESH AND REQUIRED A DOCTOR TO REMOVE IT.
MOVING R AISE BORDER MACHINE WHEN STEEL CHANGED SWUNG AROUND HITTING EMPLOYEES LEFT LEG ON BACK SIDE OF UPPER CALF SENT TO DR ON 090589 & 090789LEG DID NOT IMPROVE
PULLING STEEL FROM HOLE PULLED MACHINE BACK LEG SLID F ORWARD FINGER GOT CAUGHT IN PINCH POINT MACHINE AND JACK LEG
MINER MAKING UP BELTS WHILE PARTNER DRILLING HOLES IN BACK.SLAB FELL FROM BACK ONTO DRILL STEEL KNOCKING MACHINE FROM MINERS CONTROL AND DOWN MUCK PILE WHERE MACHINE LANDED ON I.NAME FOOT.TAKE N TO HOSPITAL FOR X-RAYS GIVEN PAIN MEDICATION RX.
CUTTING OFF OLD BOLTS WITH TORCH BOLT FLIPPED OVER WITH SHARP EDGE STRIKING FINGER AND LACERATION TO KNUCKLE AREA. APPARENT INFECTION.
DRILLING & BOLTING MACHINE GOT OUT OF BALANCE WHEN PLLING OUT OF HOLE. HE SLIPPED WHILE TRYING TO BLANCE MACHINE. INITIAL EXAM RESULTED IN RETURN TO WORK SUBSEQUENT EXAMS IN 1988 RESULTED I N BEING PLACED ON LOST TIME STATUS FOR REHABILITATION.
MINER WAS MUCKING FACE OF HAULAGE DRIFT-HAD FINISHED RIGHT SIDE AND DRILLED OUT.WAS FINISHED EFT SIDE TO DRILL LIFTERS WHEN SLAB PEELED FROM RIGHT SIDE.SLAB STRUCK MUCKING MACHINE AND BROKE IN TWO PARTS.ONE PART CAME OVER THE BUCKET AS HE WAS LIFTING IT STRUCK HIM ON LEFT SHOULDER,SLID DOWN THE RIB AND STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK OF THE LEG.
MINER WAS DRILLING FACE ROUND WHEN SMALL ROCK FROM TOP OF FACE FELL STRUCK STEEL & BOUNCED OFF STRIKING MINER ON LEFT ELBOW. HE WAS REFERRED TO DR WHO EXAMINED HIM & RELEASED HIM BACK TO WORK SUBSEQUENT EXAM RESULTED IN PLACEMENT ON LOST TIME STATUS.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING RUST OFF OF A WATER VALVE WITH A HAND HELD GRINDER. A FLAKE OF RUST WAS BLOWN INTO HIS EYE FROM A GUST OF WIND. AFTER RUBBING HIS EYE, THE FLAKE OF DUST BECAME EMBEDDED I N THE EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN3THE PROCESS OF COLLERING UP A HOLE FOR BOLTING. A ROCK FELL FORM THE BACK AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS GU3DING DAMPER (MACHINERY) WHICH WAS BEING HOISTED DOWN 1.5E DRIFT. WHILE THE DAMPER WAS BEING MOVED, IT BECAME UNBALANCED AND TIPPED OVER CENTER PINNING EMPLOYEE BETWEEN DAMPER A ND RIB. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS GR2UND SUPPORTING WITH 6' SPLIT SETS (BOLTING) USING 300 DRILL MACHINE & LEG. VIBRATION OF DRILL LOOSENED GROUND AND A SLAB ROLLED OVER, EMPLOYEE TRIED TO GET OUT OF THE WAY, LOST HIS FOOTING AN8 STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMP WAS DRILLIN1 TIGHT RIBS OFF THE MUCK PILE. A SLAB OF ROCK CAME OFF THE RIB HITTING THE DRILL STEEL. THE LEG KICKED OUT FROM UNDER MACHINE. PINNING HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN MUCK PILE AND MACHI
EMP DRIVING LOA8ER FROM SHOP TO REG WORK PLACE IN 4 WEST STOPE AREA.LOADER BUCKET HIT RIB AT INTERSECTION WHILE TURNING CORNER.THIS BENT A BOLT,TORE WIRE MESH LOOSE AND RELEASED SMALL SLAB AND LOOSE MATERIAL3OVERHEAD WHICH FELL STRIKING EMPL.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING OUT FOR LIFTER WHILE HIS PARTNER WAS DRILLING.A SLAB CAME OUT OF FACE AND CAUGHT THE MACHINE AND PINNED EMPLOYEE AGAINST RIB.
EMPLOYEE WAS DR3LLING HOLES FOR ROCK BOLTS WITH A JACKLEG, WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE DRILL MACHINE AND THE JACKLEG FELL ON HIM.
EMP WAS HELPING3ANOTHER MINER BOLT RIBS WITH MATS USING 300 IR MACHINE AND JACKLEG EMP WAS CHANGING DRILL STEEL WHEN HE GOT THE LITLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MACHINE AND THE STEEL 3
EMP WAS DRILLIN1 HOLES FOR ROCK BOLTS. HE WAS REMOVING DRILL STEEL FROM THE MACHINE WHEN AN OLD ROCK BOLT BROKE OFF FROM THE PLATE AND A 8" BOLT HIT HIM ON THE LEFT FOOT, AS WELL AS SEVERAL S MALL ROCKS 3
EMPLOYEE HAD JU8T FINISHED DRILLING A HOLE & WAS PULLING DRILL MACHINE OUT OF THE HOLE WHEN HE SLIPPED & HIS HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DRILL MACHINE & THE LEG
EMPLOYEE HAD JU8T FINISHED DRILLING AND WAS PULLING DRILL STEEL OUT OF THE HOLE,WHEN THE DRILL MACHINE BECAME OFF BALANCE.EMPLOYEE TRIED TO HOLD MACHINE BUT HIS HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN LEG AND AND DRILL MACHI3E.FRACTURED LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND AND FLEXOR TENDON REPAIRED.
EMPLOYEE WAS DR3LLING HOLE IN BACK FOR ROCK BOLT-HAD FINISHED HOLE AND WAS BRINGING MACHINE AND 8' STEEL OUT WHEN THE STEEL CAME OUT OF MACHINE AND FELL DOWN STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT INDEX F INGER. 3
SURFACE-CAR SHOP EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING CHAIN IN HOOK, AND EMPLOYEE STARTED RAISING HOIST, TRYING TO GO UP SLOW, BUT PUSHED BUTTON INTO THE FAST MODE. MANGLED THIRD FINGER OF LEFT HAND.
MR. SEKULA WAS TRYING TO CLEAN OUT THE AIR HOLE IN THE DRILL BIT WITH A PIECE OF WIRE WITH THE DRILL ON. THE WIRE CAUGHT HIS GLOVE TWISTING HIS ARM AROUND THE DRILL STEM, CAUSING A FRACTUAR E OF THE LOWER RIGHT ARM.