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EMPLOYEE WAS IN NO 4 HEADING,BACKING MINER OUTBY.HE HAD HIS RIGHT HAND ON CANOPY POST.THE LID CAME DOWN AND CAUGHT FINGERS.EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED AN UNDISPLACED FRACTURE TO THE RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER AND ALSO A LACERATION OF THE RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS DOING HIS PRESHIFT INSPECTION,NOTICED THE OUTSIDE CREEK PUMP WAS NOT WORKING.THE PUMP WAS OFF,EMPLOYEE STARTED PUMP BUT NOTICED IT WAS NOT PUMPING.WHILE INSPECTING THE PUMP HE NOT ICED THE GUARD WAS RUBBING THE COUPLING.HE TRIEDTO PUSH THE GUARD AWAY FROM THE COUPLING.IT CAUGHT THE GUARD AND THREW IT INTO HIS LEG.RESULTING IN A LACERATION.
HE WAS IN THE MAIN INTAKE HELPING I.NAME BOLT SOME TOP. I.NAME LEFT TO GET SOME DRILL STEEL. HE HAD BEEN DOWN ON HIS KNEES AND TRIED TO GET UP BT COULD NOT. HIS KNEE LOCKED UP.
EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING A MOTOR BASE USING A SLATE BAR FOR GROUND. THE MOTOR SHIFTED CAUSING SLATE BAR TO FALL- STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT SIDE OF NECK.
SETTING PRESURRE ON ROOF BOLTER BY HOLDING POT WITH WRENCH AND WHEN HE REVERSED THE POT AND WRENCH HIS HIM ON HIS LEFT SIDE.
CHANGING OUT JACK ON CANOPY OF ROOFBOLTER WHEN JACK FELL AND CAUSED HIM OT STRAIN HIS BACK
CHANGING OUT JACK ON CANOPY OF ROOFBOLTER WHEN JACK FELL AND CAUSED HIM TO STRAIN HIS BACK
TRAMMING THE ROOF BOLTER IN THE FACE AREA WHILE SITTING OUTSIDE OF THE OPERATORS DECK FROM THE REAR OF THE MACHINE AND WHEN HE TOOK UP SLACK IN THE CABLE,THE CABLE CAUGHT HIM BETWEEN IT AND A CANOPY POST INJURING HIS BACK.