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EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING AROUND THE BELT DRIVE. SHOVEL GOT CAUGHT IN DRIVE, THROWING EMPLOYEE AGAINST RIB OF THE MINE. EMPLOYEE HIT HEAD AND BACK AND SHOVEL CAME BACK AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN THE GROIN AREA. GLASSES WERE BROKEN.
FACE WAS BEING CUT WHEN IT (FACE) FELL IN PULLING ROCK BETWEEN BOLTS. ROOF BOLTS SWUNG THE ROCK INTO THE MINER CANOPY AND IT BROKE AND WENT IN ON THE EMPLOYEE.
INJURED WAS ATTEMPTING TO CROSS A BELT AT A TAIL PIECE WITH THE BELT STILL RUNNING AND FELL ON THE BELT CONVEYOR AND WAS RAN ACROSS THE DISCHARGE BOOM.
EE WAS MAKE A BELT SPLICE ON THE #2 BELT HE HAD INSTALL BELT CLAMPS & HAD CUT THE BELT INTO, THE BELT STARTED & MOVED ABOUT 80 FT. THE CLAMP CUT HIS RIGHT FOOT OFF BETWEEN THE CLAMP & A PIECE OF BELT STRUCTOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE SCOOTER, WHEN THE STEERING ARM CUAGHT HIS LEFT THUMB.
SHOVELING #3 BELT WHEN ROCK FELL OFF BELT ONTO RIGHT HAND.
MANTRIP STOPPED TO GET SUPPLIES OTHER ONE COME OUT HIT MANTRIP JOLTED BACK L SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE WAS WORKING ON A BRATTICE BEHIND THE CURTAIN AND THE SHUTTLE CAR DRIVER WENT THRU THE CURTAIN KNOCKING THE BRATTICE DOWN AND A CINDER BLOCK HIT HIM ON THE CALF OF HIS R IGHT LEG.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT THE MANTRIP WAS STOPPED & THE EMERGENCY BRAKE WAS SET & WHILE HE WAS GETTING TOOLS AT THE UNDERGROUND SHOP T HE MANTRIP BEGAN TO MOVE & HE JUMPED INTO THE DECK OF THE MANT RIP TO PUSH THE BRAKE & HE STRAINED HIS RT ARM &HOULDER
EMPL MOVING MINER CABLE FROM HAUWAY WHEN SHUTTLE CAR RAN OVER LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE HIT HOLE OR RAN OVER ROCK CAUSING JOLT TO HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING THE SHUTTLE CAR WHEN AROCK SLIPPED OFF THE BOOM OF THE MINER INTO THE DECK OF THE SHUTTLE CAR STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS DR3VING THE SCOOP WHEN HE RAN OVER A ROCK OR HIT A HOLE IN THE ROADWAY CAUSING THE SCOOP TO BOUNCE AND HURT HIS BACK.
EMP WAS DRIVING3SHUTLECAR TO MINER TO LOAD COAL WHILE GOING THROUGH FLY PAD A TIRE OR CANOPY DECK STRUCK A TIMBER CAUSING IT TO STRIKE EMP INCHEST AND SHOULDER