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INJURED WAS SHO5ELING TOP OF TAIL PIECE AND SHOVEL HIT BELT TAKING SHOVEL WAY BELT WAS TRAVELING AND PUSHING SHOVEL HANDLE INTO MINE TOP CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN TOP AND SHOVEL HANDLE.
INJURED WAS GET7ING A ROCK OFF OF SHUTTLE CAR THAT WAS DUMPING ON TAIL PIECE WHEN ROCK SLIPPED MASHING HIS FINGER ON TAILPIECE.
MY HELPER AND I3WAS UNLOADING A PIECE OF METAL OFF OF TOP OF MESCHER TRACTOR AND MY HELPER LET HIS END GO BEFORE I WAS READY AND MASHED TOW FINGERS AGAINST TRACTOR
ROOF FALL #6 ENTRY RETURN SMALL ROLL.NO ONE INJURED.FALL MEASURED 12\LONG X 20\WIDE X 18-36\\ THICK.ALL ENTRIES TIMBERED AND CRIBBED OFF.
VICTIM WAS SIFTING ROOF JACK ONTO PINNER WHEN HIS BACK STARTED HURTING.
PINNER CREW WENT INTO #6 HEADING AND VISUALLY CHECKED AND SOUNDED TO IT LOOKED AND SOUNDED O.K. PINNER HELPER PROCEDED TO SET SAFETY JACKS HAD STARTED TO FIRST JACK WHEN PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FEL L KNOCKING HELPER DOWN AND PINNER OPER. ALSO. ROCK MEASURED 82"X72"X3\-31/2".
PINNER CREW WENT INTO HEADING TO PIN IT THEY CHECKED TOP VISUALLY AND SOUNDED TI THE TOP APPEARED OK PINNER HELPED PROCESSED TO SET SAFETY JACK WHEN PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL KNOCKING HIM DOWN A AND RIDING PINNER OPERATOR DOWN
VICTIM STATED I WAS GETTING OFF OF SHUTTLE CAR TO GO TO POWER CENTER TO PUT MY BREAKER IN WHEN SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND BEFORE I COULD MOVE, BIGGER PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND HIT ME ON HEAD AN D RIGHT SHOULDER
THE CREW WAS RETURNING TO OUTSIDE AT END OF THEIR SHIFT ON MAN TRIP SCOOP WHEN SCOOP HIT A HOLE AND BOUNCED VICTIM INTO ROOF AND HURT HIS BACK B VICTIM DIDNT GO TO DR IMMEDIATELY BUT WAITED UN TIL THAT NIGHT
AT ABOUT 1030AM BILLY E BOYD WAS GETTING ROCK OFF TAIL PIECE AND HAD A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK THE LONGER HE WORKED THE WORSE IT HURT HE WORKED REST OF SHIFT AND PART OF SHIFT ON 030983