VICTIM WAS MOVING THE ROOF BOLTER AND BUMPED A ROOF JACK AND IT FELL ON HIS FINGER
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Showing 50 of 53RIDING BUGGY WITH FOOT HANGING OVER SIDE RAN INTO CUTTER CHAIN CUTTER WAS PARKED IN BREAKS HE WAS GOING DOWN.
WATER COMMING THREW TOP
LIFTING BUNDLE OF BOTLS SAID HE STRAINED HIS BACK 10 ROOF BOLTS TO BUNDLE.
WAS TAKING A PIECE OF ROCK DOWN FELL ON FINGER.
THE ROOF FELL BETWEEN 2 CRIBS. MUD SEAMS AND CONVENTIONAL BOLTS WERE THE CAUSE OF THE FALL.
THE INJURED EE WAS STANDING TOO CLOSE TO A BELT JACK WHEN THE CABLE WE HAD HOOKED TOT H E BELT CAUSED THE BELT JACK TO SLIP OUT & LET THE BELT SWING OVER & HIT THE VICTIM. WHEN THE BELT H IT HIM IT KNOCKED HIM DOWN & HURT HIS KNEE.
MUD SEAMS AND MECHANICAL ROOF BOLTS CAUSEDROOF TO FALL.
THIS WAS A NOW CONTROLABLE ROOF FALL. THERE WAS A SLIP THAT RUN UP THE RIB SIDE THAT COULD NOT BE SEEN UNITL ROOF FALL OCCURRED.
EE STARTED TO INSTALL ROOF BOLT LOOSE ROCK FELL STRIKING THUMB.
SCOOP OPERATOR WAS HAULING COAL AND HE LET HIS KNEE DRAG AGAINST THE ROOF CAUSING AN ALLEDGED KNEE INJURY
PIECE OF ROCKFALL OUT FROM BETWEEN BOLTS.
OPERATOR OF COAL DRILL WAS TAKEN CABLE UP ON COAL DRILL WHEN THE CABLE CAME OVER THE SCOOP IN WHICH THE VICTIM WAS WORKING ON THE CABLE HIT THE VICTIM CAUSING THE VICTIMS HEAD TO HIT THE SI DE OF SCOOP DECK CAUSING A CUT OVER THE LEFT EYE VICTIM SAID HIS NECK WAS HURTING HIM
AN UNENTENTIONEL FALL OCCURED IN#3 ENTRY A SURVEY STATERE #809. THE FALL MEASURED 30 FT LONG 14;FT WIDE 10 FT. THICK CAUSED BY WATER COUNLAING INTOP FRAM TO CLOSE TO HOLLOW FALL NOT MOVED BUT AROUND SUPORTED BY CRIBS & TIMBERS NOT POINT OF THIS PART OF MAIN IS NO LONGER PART OF THE AIR COERRSE BEEM PUFLED ROCKS BELOW IT AND TIMBER & CRIBED OFF.
EMPL TRYING TO LIFT BOOM ON COALDRILL WITH SLATE BAR WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
WHILE PULLING ON HYDRAULIC HOSE THROUGH BOOM OF COAL DRILL THE HOSE BROKE AND RELEASED THE PRESSURE ON THE JACK THAT HELD BOOM UP AND HIS LEG SLID UNDER THE BOOM AND WHEN THE PRESSURE WAS RELE ASED THE BOOM FELL ON HIS LEFT LEG ACROSS HIS KNEE.
25\ LONG 16\ WIDE 10\ THICK 1 BREAK INBY S.S.8730.
30\ LONG 16\ WIDE 8 THICK 1 BREAK INBY S.S. 010.
30\ LONG 16\ WIDE 12 THICK INBY S.S. 3489
30\ LONG 16\ WIDE 12\ THICK INTERSECTION AT S.S. 3490.
40\ LONG 16\ WIDE 8\ THICK INTERSECTION AT S.S. 3007.
20\ LONG 16\ WIDE 6-8\ THICK #3 HEADING IN FROM.%*@*'%@ #3 HEADING IN FRONT OF S.S.3272.
HE JUST TURNED AROUND ON HIS KNEES AND PULLED A LIGIMENT.
VICTIM WAS PULLING CABLE OFF CUTTING MACHINE REEL & GOT A PAIN IN THE LOWER BACK.
PLACE WAS CUT & HE WAS TAMPING PLACE PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL & CAUGHT RT FOOT & BACK.
HE WAS HAMMERING A STAKE IN THE GROUND AND HIT HIS FINGER WITH THE HAMMER
VICTIM STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE PLACING POWDER IN POWDER BOX
LOADING PLACE GETTING READY TO SHOOT WHEN BUMPED KNEE AGAINST ROCK LAYING ON BOTTOM.
MAN WAS GETTING IN SCOOP AND OPERATOR DROP BUCKET AND SLID UNDER BUCKET
SHOT FIRER SHOT BREAK THROUGH HE THOUGHT HE WAS FIRING THE #3 HEADING.
TRAM LEVER STUCK DOWN AND BOLTER HEAD HIT OPERATOAR IN THE RIBS.
OPERATOR WAS CUTTING A PILLAR THROUGH WHEN THE RIB ROLLED OVER ON HIS LEFT LEG, BREAKING HIS LEG JUST ABOVE HIS ANKLE.
WAS CHANGING BATTERIES ON SCOOP & CABLE DRUG HIM OUT OF SCOOP
PIECE OF ROCK FELL OFF RIB,HIT HIM ON SIDE OF FACE AND LEFT FOREARM.
PIECE OF SLATE FELL WHILE HE WAS TAMPING PLACE TO SHOOT AND HIT HIM ON LEFT SHOULDER AND LEFT KNEE.
WHILE RIDING IN SCOOP BUCKET, SCOOP HIT A HOLE RITCH CAUSED THE SCOOP BUCKET TO BOUNCE. WHEN IT DID HE LANDED ON HIS FOOT CAUSING HIM TO SPRAIN HIS ANKLE.
SCOOP HIT BOLTING MACHINE WHILE MECHANIC WAS WORKING ON IT AND PUSHED BOLTER OVER FOOT-LEFT FOOT.
WAS LEANING ON SCOOP WITH HAND ON BACKN OF DIPPER, OPERATOR PULLED DIPPER BLADE BACK ON HIS FINGER. A
TRAMMING SCOOP AND HIT HEAD ON PINBOARD OR HEADER BOARD.
#2 SCOOP COME AROUND A CORNER AN HIT ON RIGHT FOOT.
WAS CHANGING PIN OUT OF BUCKET JACK ON SCOOP JACK FELL MASHING FINGER
PUTTING IN BUCKET JACK PIN AND MASHED FINGER BETWEEN THE BUCKET AND THE JACK
REACH TO REMOVE ROCK FROM TAILPIECE AND ANOTHER ROCK FELL FROM OTHER BELT AND HIT ON BACK OF RIGHT HAND.
HE BUMPED HIS KNEE BY CRAWLING.
OPR. SCOOP IN #4 HD. WHEN HE HIT A DIP IN THE BOTTOM CAUSING HIS SELF TO BOUNCE AGAINST THE LEAVES HITTING HIS SELF IN THE GROIN.
HE WAS RUNNING HIS SCOOP IN 8 HD IT WAS LOW WHEN HE CAME TO THE FACE AFTER A BUCKET OF COAL HE HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST THE TOP CAUSING TO KNOTS ON EACH SIDE OF HIS HEAD
HE WAS UNLOADING ROCKDUST OFF OF TRUCK AND STRAINED HIS BACK
CUTTING A PIECE OF BELT OUT OF CUTTER CHAIN WHEN HIS HAND SLIP CUTTING HIS HAND ON A BIT
INJ WAS INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN #3 ENTRY 001 SECTION WHEN PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING EMP ON ARM RESULTING IN WHAT WAS FIRST DIAGNOSED AS A BRUISE AND LATER FOUND TO BE A FRACTURE THE MIS DIAGNOSIS IS WHY THIS IS LATE
PULLED SWITCH BOX AND BOX CAUGHT ON FIRE.