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Employee was inserting a roof bolt into the mine roof using the roof bolter to push the bolt into the hole. He was using his left hand to guide the bolt into the hole and got his middle finger pinched between the mine roof and the bolting machine.
EMPLOYEE BUMPED ROOF WITH SCOOP, CAUSING A ROCK 1 1/2 X 18 X 24 INCHES TO FALL STRIKING HIS FACE AREA. COAL HEIGHT 28 TO 30 INCHES.
EE WAS ON THE OFFSIDE OF THE TAILPIECE WHEN THE SCOOP CAME IN TO DUMP COAL HITTING THE TAILPIECE PUSHING IT OVER ON HIS RIGHT LEG BRUISING THE RIGHT KNEE. HE WAS ASKED IF HE WANTED TO GO TO HO SPITAL BUT HE REFUSED.
DRIVING PERSONNEL CAR, RAN INTO A CURTAIN BOARD WITH THE CURTAIN ON IT. THIS IN TURN PUSHED HIS HEAD ONTO HIS NECK AND CRUSHED HIS VERTEBRAE.
WAS MOVING THE BOLTER MACHINE & THE BOLTER DECK CAUGHT HIS RT KNEE & PINNED IT AGAINST THE RIB. CAUSED A BRUISED INJURY TO RT KNEE.
HE UNPLUGGED THE BATTERIES ON THE PERSONNEL CAR #2 BEFORE TURNING THE CHARGER OFF IN WHICH IT, THE PLUG IN, CAUSED A SPARK. GAS FROM A 6 VOLT BATTERY ARCHED BLOWING DIRT & DEBRIS IN HIS LEFT E YE.