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EMPL WAS USING PRESSURE CLEANING DEVICE ON A FEEDER BREAKER WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE.HIT LEFT SHOULDER ON TOP OF FEEDER BREAKER RESULTING IN PULLED MUSCLES AND SORENESS OF LEFT SHOULDER.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING FROM ONE ENTRY TO THE OTHER WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE 14CM-3 CONTINUOUS MINER TRAILING CABLE TWISTING HIS RIGHT ANKLE CAUSING DAMAGE TO HIS TENDON IN RIGHT ANKLE.
THE EE WAS CLEANING AROUND THE 6 BELT TRANFER POINT WHEN HE WAS STARTED BY A NOISE COMING FROM THIS BELT TRANFER POINT CAUSING THE EE TO FALL OVER AN ARCHORING DEVIE AT THE TRANFER POINT CONTR IBUTING TO THE INJURY OF THE EE S LEFT LEG.
MAN WAS SHOVELING BELT AND WHILE SHOVELING SOME MUD, MAN STUMBLED AND CAUGHT HIMSELF ON BELT ROPE CAUSING A HAIRLINE FRACTURE ON RADIUS BONE.
THE CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR WAS RUNNING THE MINER WITH A REMOTE BOX. WHILE MOVING THE MINER CARRYING THE BOX, HE STUMBLED AND FELL, JAMMING HIS THUMB INTO THE REMOTE BOX AND FRACTURING HIS T HUMB.
MAN WAS WALKING TOWARD MAN TRIP CAR AND STUMBLED & FELL AS HE FELL HE REACHED UP AND GRABBED A ROOF PLATE WHICH HE TURN AT HIS FINGER.
INJURED PERSON WAS GETTING OUT OF MAN-TRIP, WHEN HE SLIPPED AND SPRAINED HIS KNEE.
THIS MAN WAS BENDING OVER TO MOVE MINER CABLE WHEN HE FELL IN MUD HOLE TWISTING HIS BACK THIS MAN WORKED 2 MORE WEEKS BEFORE INJURY BECAME SERIOUS ENOUGH TO TAKE OFF FROM WORK.
SLIPPED AND FELL ON POST IN TRACTOR, ATTEMPTING TO GET IN DECK INJ TO LOWER BACK
MAN FELL HITTING UPTHRUST LEVER WHICH PINNED FINGER TO TOP ON ROOF DRILL HEAD.
THIS MAN SAID HE TWISTED HIS KNEE AS HE WAS WALKING IN MINE