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OPERATOR WAS BOLTING IN #5 HEADING. ROCK BROKE OFF NEXT TO ATR'S BACK TO WARE OPERATOR CANOPY HITTING OPER. ON RIGHT SHOULDER BRUSING IT. OPERATOR WAS SENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM TO BE CHECKED OUT .
VICTIM TOLD HE WAS WALKING AROUND DRILL MACHINE WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIM ON TOP OF BACK AND SLIDING DOWN. VICTIM COMPLAIN WITH SORENESS AND STIFFNESS IN BA CK.
MINER OPER. WAS MOVING MINER TO ANOTHER WORKING ENTRY. EE WAS HELPING TO KEEP POWER CABLE OUT OF WAY. EE REACHED DOWN BESIDE OF OPER. DECK TO GET CABLE. IN DOING SO, THE OPER. DECK CAM IN CONT ACT WITH FLOOR OF MINES, CATCHING HIS THUMB. BUSTING HIS THUMB, AS OF NOW, STITCHES HAVE BEEN ALL THAT IT HAS REQUIRED.
OPERATOR HAD STARTED DRILLING HOLE IN ROOF TO INSTALL ROOF BOLT WHILE DRILLING HOLE PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING VICTIM ON TOP PART OF LEG CAUSING PUNCTURE WOUND ABOUT 1 INCH LONG, RE QUIRING STITCHES. MORE OBSERVATION OF THE ROOF AREA CONCERNING LOOSE ROCK TO BE TAKEN DOWN PRIOR TO BOLTING.
RUNNING BOLTER DRILL STEEL DROPPED CATCHING RING FINGER ON L HAND
HE WAS SWINING HEAD ON DOUBLE HEAD ROOF BOLTER OUT TO INSTALL BOLT AND PLACED HIS LEFT HAND ON SIDE OF FRAME, AS HEAD SWUNG HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND ON THE END AND IT PINCHED AND OF IT OUT. CAUSING BAD PLACE ON END OF FINGER.
WHILE INSTALLING DRILL STEEL IN GUIDE OF ROOF BOLTER THE OPERATOR PLACED HIS LEFT HAND TO CLOSE TO GUIDE CLAMP. CATCHING HIS THUMB OF LEFT HAND IN CLAMP THUS MASHING HIS THUMB ON THE FIRST JOI NT AND THUMB NAIL.
HE WAS OPERATING ROOF DRILL AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT HAND IN STEEL GRASP WHEN IT CLOSED.
WE HAD BEEN WORKING ON BOLTER WHEN WE STARTED BACK BOLTING PIECE OF PINNER STEEL HAD SLIPPED INTO LIGHT BRACET WHEN EMPL STARTED TO SWING HEAD HEAD OUT STEEL FOULED BETWEEN LIGHT & TRAY & SPRA ING AROUND & STRUCK HIM ON LEFT FOREARM.
HE WAS GOING AL2NG SIDE OF ROOF BOLTER AND A PICE OF DRAW ROCK ABOUT 2 FT X 3 FT X 4 IN FELL BETWEEN BOLTS AND CAUGHT HIM ON HIS RT SIDE NEXT TO HIS RIBS
I,NAME WAS PUTTING A BOLT UP IN THE FACE, 60 INCH BOLTS ARE USED, HE HAD DRILLED ABOUT 31/2 FT OF THE HOLE AND THEN DUE TO THE HEIGHT OF THE COAL, APPROX. 9 FT, HE HAD TO PUT THE BOLT WRENCH O N TO FINISH DRILLING OTHER 11/2 FT OF HOLE. HE GOT HIS GLOVE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TWO PIECES OF STEEL WITHOUT REALIZING IT AND WHEN HE STARTED RATATION, IT JERKED HIS HAND AROUND WITH STEEL.
ROOF BOLT BIT BROKE CAUSING STEEL TO BEND AND WHEN STEEL CAME AROUND IT HIT I.NAME ON LT. ARM AND LT. HAND BREAKING A BONE ON TOP OF HIS LT. HAND AND ALSO BROKE A BONE IN HIS LT . LOWER ARM JU ST ABOVE HIS WRIST.