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Injured employee was helping pull continuous miner cable when the cable tightened and took EE's feet out from under EE, causing EE to fall and strain EE's right shoulder. Employee continued to work until 2/14/2025.
Injured employee stated that while walking on the HG #2 Section in the #2 entry between 55 and 56 block EE twisted EE's right knee. Employee continued to work until 5/24/2024 when EE was taken off work by a physician.
Employee was checking the sanding devices on a locomotive on the mine bottom. As they walked around the locomotive and stepped over a track rail, they twisted their right knee.
Injured employee tripped and fell while examining the slope belt resulting in a laceration to their right thumb requiring four sutures to close.
Injured employee tripped and fell while walking de-icing rollers along the Met #3 conveyor belt.
Injured employee was walking down the #2 entry of the 1st Northeast Mains working section dropping bolter cable when they stepped on a rock and fell to the mine floor, fracturing their right wrist.
Injured employee slipped off the platform of a roof bolter and caught left hand between the ATRS jack and the frame of the ATRS resulting in a fracture to hand.
Injured employee stated that while walking off the bottom area into the mine they slipped off a section of track rail and felt pain in their right calf.
Setting steel Hood/Cover over the chute on the Head House Frame.
Injured employee twisted left knee while attempting to hang a ventilation tube in the face of the #2 entry of #1 Mains. Employee continued to work until 9/20/22 when employee was taken off work by a physician.
Crossing from ground to concrete pad, injured did not get their entire foot on the pad (only the front part of the foot) and fell off the pad into a small open ditch, breaking both bones in the lower right leg.
Employee was reaching to unchain shaft jumbo drill steel, when EE unchained the steels, EE's foot slipped off edge of Jumbo and fell to the GRD and landed on EE's hands. A drill steel also fell and hit employee in back of head