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May 27, 2007 AK · Metal/Non-Metal longwall operator, chock operator, shear operator, plow operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mystery Creek Resources Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

The miner states while pulling back on jackleg machine his hand slipped off the handle and he stuck out his arm to break his fall and in doing so he dislocated his right shoulder.

July 17, 2006 AK · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mystery Creek Resources Inc · Fall down stairs

Employee was walking down a stairway in the Nixon Fork Mine's Process Mill facility. His heel slipped our from under him and he attempted to catch himself. His left hand ring finger became caught in a higher stair grating and the weight of the fall broke and dislocated the finger.

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