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EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING TOP DRILL STEEL CAME APART STRUCK IN EYEBROW.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A ROOFBOLTING MACHINE, WHEN HIS GLOVE GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DRILL HEAD AND DRILL STEEL. EE STARTED ROTATING STEEL AND TWISTED ARM AROUND STEEL.
OPERATOR WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS AND METAL STRAPS. WHILE PUSHING THE BOLT UP INTO THE TOP HE DISCOVERED HE HAD LEFT HIS DRILL STEEL ON THE DRILL HEAD. WHEN HE REACHED TO GET THE DRILL STEEL IT BECAME STUCK AGAINST THE CANOPY, MASHING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.
INJURED HAD COMPLETED INSTALLING BOLTS IN FACE AREA OF #8 ENTRY AND WAS WALKING BESIDE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN RIB ROLL OCCURED STRIKING INJURED ON HEAD AND LEFT FOOT.
INJURED WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN FACE AREA WITH TWIN HEAD BOLTER WHEN ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING INJURED IN LOWER BACK AREA.
PUT PULL ROPE ON MINER. ROPE STARTED TO SLIP. PUT HIMSELF BETWEEN MINER BOOM AND RIB. TOLD MINER TO PULL, MINER BOOM PINNED HIM AGAINST RIB.
A PIECE OF ROCK CAME LOOSE WHILE DRILLING HOLE STRIKING HIM IN THE FACE, CUTTING HIM NEAR HIS RIGHT EYE. (REQUIRED STITCHES).
LOADING CABLE ON MINER, TOLD MINER TO MOVE HELPER STOOD THERE, MINER KICKED SIDEWAYS STRIKING HELPER ON RIGHT KNEE.
INJURED WAS ROTATING DRILL STEEL EXTENSION STEEL WHILE PUSHING INTO DRILL HOLE WHEN GLOVE GOT CAUGHT IN JOINT WHERE DRILL STEEL CONNECTS. THE TWISTING MOTION OF THE STEEL CAUSING INJURY TO RIG HT THUMB. THE INJURED STATED THAT HE KNEW INJURYNO HAVE HAD HAND ON STEEL WHILE IN TOTATING REPREATED 2-6-01.