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MINER WAS LOADING SPLIT SET BOLTS INTO A TAM ROCK ROCK BOLTER. SOME SMALL LOOS ROCK CAME DOWN FROM HIGH ON THE RIB WALL HITTING HIS HARDHAT. HE PUT HIS HANDS UP OVER HIS HEAD AND SOME MORE PIE CES CAME DOWN. ONE OF THEM STRUCK HIS LITTLE AND RING FINGER OF LEFT HAND. IT FRACTURED THE VERY TIP OF THE BONE OF THE LITTLE FINGER.
DOING HIS NORMAL WORK, NOTICED SOMETHING IN HIS EYE, WENT TO THE DOCTOR TO HAVE IT CHECKED OUT AND REMOVED.
MINER WAS HELPING OTHER MINER BOLT W/SPLIT SETS IN UP RAMP, 1ST ROUND IN FROM INTERSECTION. MINERS HAD BARRED DOWN INITIALLY + 1 MORE TIME. WHILE INSTALLING A MAT, A ROCK APPROX. 30# CAME OUT OF BACK STRIKING HIM ON ARCH OF RIGHT FOOT. THIS BROKE A BONE IN FOOT & CAUSED LACERATION WHICH NEEDED STITCHES.
EE WAS BOLTING W/JACKLEG-WAS ON HISLAST BOLT IN MAT ON BACK. OTHER MINER HAD HALTED PREV ACTIVITY TO BAR LOOS ROCK FROM BACK. SMALL FOOTBALL SIZE ROCK CAME LOOSE. UNWAWARE, STRIKING EE ON RIGH T FOREARM CAUSING LACERATION APPROX 2"L WHICH REQUIRED SUTURES