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The belt was in the process of coming to a complete stop, when the injured person reached toward the drive roller pulling him into the moving belt, causing him to strike an I beam and guarding around the belt head.
The injured person was traveling outside on a 3 wheeled personal carrier and hit a sink hole, which resulted in the injured person hitting his head against the mine roof, injuring his neck and back. We were made aware that he was going to see a doctor on 12/02/2010, resulting in this filing date.
Riding mac-8 inside, he was sitting on knees with back toward the top when a roof bolt hooked his bibs pulling him off the mac-8.
Riding 3 wheeler vehicle through a check curtain and got left ear ring caught in the curtain and cut ear.
Employee was riding three wheeler, struck head against low place in mine roof, causing injury.
Employee was checking centerline for continuous miner when struck by mobile equipment.
Employee was operating a Fairchild 35c scoop, ran over roof bolts lying on mine floor, causing roof bolt to fly up striking employee in left eye.
Employee was riding man trip underground, raised up, striking portal canopy.
Employee was pinned against coal rib by shuttle car.
Employee was pulling cable with a battery powered personnel carrier, ran over something and his head contacted the roof resulting in a neck injury.
Injured employee was pulling the miner cable out of the way with his foot and a shuttle car came around the corner and hit his foot.
Injured employee was using a hydraulic boom to hold a hydraulic pump in place on a D 11 dozer. The boom control was beside him on the dozer, when he inadvertently activated the lower switch and lowered the boom onto his back.
Employee was operating a shuttle car tramming to the feeder, had his left elbow outside of the operators deck and caught arm between shuttle car and coal rib.
Employee was traveling on a battery powered railrunner, drop his cap light, raised up and struck two guarded high voltage cables that crossed the track with his head.
Employee was tramming a Mac-8 rubbered tired mantrip to the charger and struck the rib dislodging a piece of rock that struck his right hand.
Injured employee was in a scoop being pushed out of the roadway when his bucket slipped off the other scoop bumper resulting in a back injury from the impact of the scoop falling.
Injured employee was operating a 992G endloader loading rock trucks. He was loading parallel with the shot, undercutting the shot material and some rock rolled into the cab resulting in contusions to the left hand and right knee. He had been instructed on two previous occassins to load perpendicular to the shot material.
He was backing down #4 and was turning into #4 & #3 crosscut and ran over a crib block and it threw his knee and head into the top.
The boom on the powder truck was swung in the wrong direction striking the employee in the head and shoulder.