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OPER RF BOLTER MACHINE STARTED TO SET DRILL STEEL WHEN PC OF ROCK FELL HIT MIDDLE FINGER ON L HAND.
I.NAME HAD JUST FINISHED DRILLING A HOLE AND HAD HIS HAND LAYING ON THE BOLTER HEAD THE DRILL STEEL FELL OUT OF THE HOLE AND MASHED THE RING FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND
I.NAME WAS HELPING THE BOLTER OPERATOR BY HOLDING THE BOLT STEEL UNTIL HE GOT THE STEEL STARTED IN THE MINE ROOF WHEN I.NAME TURNED LOOSE OF THE STEEL AT THE SAME TIME THE BOLTER OPERATOR APPL IED UP PRESSURE ON THE BOLTER HEAD BUCKLING THE STEEL CAUSING IT TO HIT I.NAME ON THE FOREARM
I. NAME WAS HELPING BOLT AN AREA WHICH AD FALLEN OUT. DUE TO THE EXCESSIVE HEIGHT A 5 FOOT WRENCH HAD TO BE USED BETWEEN THE MACHINE AND DRILL STEEL. WHILE DRILLING UP PRESSURE WAS APPLIED, THE WRENCH BUCKLED STRIKING I. NAME ON THE FOREARM.
BOLTING IN #3 E3TRY CAUGHT HIS THUMB BETWEEN TO PIECE OF BOLT STEEL.
WHILE BACKING R2CKDUSTER AROUND CORNER, HE HAD HIS HAND ON GUARD POST AND ROCKDUSTER JACKKNIFED UP AGAINST GUARD POST CUTTING HIS THUMB.
INSTALLING ROOF3BOLTS IN TOP CAUGHT FINGER BETEWEEN BOLT PLATE & HALFHEADER
RUNNING BOLT MACHINE. WAS TIGHTENING BOLT WHEN SOME UNKNOWN OBJECT FLEW STRIKING ACROSS LEFT EYE. SCRATCHED LEFT EYE MADE A LACERATION ABOVE & BELOW LEFT EYE.
ROOF BOLTING HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN ROOF BOLTER HEAD.
EMP WAS PULLING CABLE WHEN HAND SLIPPED AND GLOVE GOT CAUGHT IN DRIVE SHAFT OF JEFFREY MINER TWO MIDDLE FINGERS RECEIVED LACERATIONS AND WERE MASHED