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Employee was hauling supplies into the mine. They encountered a hill on 3 belt track entry. They derailed near the bottom of the hill and their arm struck the canopy post in the cab.
As the middle bridge was being added in, the back carrier trammed up and came in contact with the cribs that had the bridge cribbed up and caused the bridge to slide over striking EE.
EE and the scoop man were going to get the maintenance insert and some oil to take to the miner to service it. EE got in the bucket of the scoop between the insert and the ram. The scoop man backed up the heading and pulled up into 4 right to turn. As they pulled forward the insert contacted the rib, pushing it into EE.
Employee was attempting to align a bolt in a reducer that they were installing on the carrier. They attempted to move the reducer with the scoop to align the hole. The scoop bucket slipped causing the plunger of the bucket to strike employee's hand against the bolt.
Employee states that EE was operating a shuttle car. EE dumped at the feeder and as EE was returning to the miner, EE hit a "bump" in the roadway causing EE to strike EE's head against the canopy of the car, resulting in pain in EE's neck and back area.
Miner failed to lock out/tag out conveyor while installing deicer spray bar brackets
Employee was hauling supplies at which time the motor derailed and they felt pain in neck/back.
Employee was riding a rubber tire mantrip and right knee was sticking out from the perimeter of the vehicle and struck the rib causing a dislocated femur and pelvis fracture.
Riding to section in a Mac 12 rubber tire mantrip. While making a turn toward section the Mac 12 hit rib catching SCSR storage box shoving it onto a fire extinguisher and the fire extinguisher hit employee's hand. The right hand palm was cut requiring 6 stitches
Employee was tramming a shuttle car to the feeder and struck a corner/rib and caught left arm between the car deck and rib.
Employee was riding on a rubber tired mantrip buggy and his foot caught the corner of a coal rib and it fractured his leg just above the ankle.