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Miner was engaged in maintenance activities with the witness. Witness had handed employee a rubber rail which EE threw down. EE then grabbed a loose metal rail which shifted and the witness heard a thud. The witness looked onto the catwalk and saw the injured employee laying on the catwalk with hand on the back of head but did not see how the injury was incurred.
Employee was working alongside two other employee's replacing a gear box on a head pulley that fed into the hopper of the tail section of the next conveyor, in which employee was standing. Employee when working became disoriented, circled in place and fell over, falling off the area he was standing and landing on his head and neck.