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EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING A ROOF BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL HITTING HIM ON HIS LEFT ARM JUST ABOVE WRIST NO BROKEN BONES HAD SOME SWELLING WENT FOR EX RAY.
INSTALLING ROOFBOLT.AS HE WAS PUSHING BOLT IN HOLE,REACHED UP TO THROW HEADER BOARD WITH LEFT HAND AND CAUGHT THUMB BETWEEN HEADER BOARD AND PINNER CANOPY-BROKE LEFT THUMB.
I NAME WAS TRAMMING ROOF BOLTER FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER WHEN HE RAN OVER A LUMP OF COAL WHICH THREW HIM UP JAMMING HIS NECK EWHEN HIS HEAD HIT THE CANAPY
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ON ROOF BOLTER, WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING HIM ON HIS BACK AND LEFT HIP.
I.NAME ROOF BOLTER HELPER WAS WATCHING CABLE WHEILE I.NAME ROOF BOLTER WAS TAKING UP SLACK IN CABLE I.NAME LET CABLE JERK HIS FEET OUT FROM UNDER HIM FALLING ON HIS LEFT SHOUDLER INJURING HIS SHOULDER
ROOFBOLTER OPERATOR WAS CHECKING THE TORK ON SOME ROOF BOLTS. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN THE BOLTS HITTING HIM ON THE LOWER LEFT ARM.
OPERATOR WAS IN8TALLING THE 2ND BOLT IN THE LAST ROLL WHEN A KILABOTTOM FELL AND STRUCK HIM, PUSHING HIM AGAINST THE PINNER AND THEN TO THE GROUND.
BACKING MACHINE3OUT OF PLACE,WALKING BEHIND IT WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN 2 ROOF BOLTS HITTING HIM IN THE SMALL OR LOWER PART OF BACK.
HE WAS HELPING 2N A ROOF BOLTER THEY WERE DRILLING A 6FT HOLE USING SECTIONAL STEEL WHEN THE BIT HIT A HARD PLACE IN THE TOP AND THE INSERT BETWEEN THE 2 PIECES OF STEEL BROKE AND THE BOTTO PIECE HIT HIM O3 THE RT HAND HE WAS HOLDING THE STEEL
I.NAME CHIPPING SLAG.FROME SOME WELD HE HAD DONWE ON CUTTER WHEN PIECE OF SLAG FLEW OFF AND HIT HIM ON EYELID BURNING HIM.
EMPLOYEE I.NAME WAS HELPING ON ROOF BOLTER ON 002 SECTION AND WENT TO REAR OF ROOF BOLTER TO MAKE UP A BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF SLATE ABOUT 24" X 24" X 4" FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN BOLTS STRIKING I.NA ME ON LOWER BACK
PUTTING BOLT IN HOLE ANDPULLED HIS BACK.
A SMALL RIB ROLL FELL A LUMP OF OCAL 6\ X 18" X 4" STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON LEFT LEG & ANKLE.