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WHILE ATTEMPTING TO DISLODGE A HUNG-UP SCOOP SIAD SCOOP SLID OFF OF CRIB BLOCKS RESULTING IN A JOLT WHICH SUPPOSEDLY CAUSED A BACK INJURY TO VICTIM, AS REPORTED TO US BY VICTIM.
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE STUCK CONNECTING PIN VICTIMS FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN SAID PIN & CONNECTING LINK JOINING SCOOP & MANTRIP VEHICLE.
WHILE INSTALLING ROOF BOLT PIECE OF ROCK INEXPLICABLY FELL & STRUCK VICTIM ON RIGHT SIDE OF BACK CASUING MINER BRUISES & CONTUSIONS.
VICTIM WAS STRUCK BY THE REAR OPERATOR SIDE OF ROOF BOLTING MACHINE. THE TRAM LEVER GOT HUNG IN TRAM POSITION BY A ROOF BIT. VICTIM WAS PINNED BETWEEN MACHINE AND COAL RIB RESULTING IN A BROKE N RIGHT ULNA AND RADUIS AND RIGHT EIGHTH RIB.
THE INJURED WAS PULLING ROCK DOWN WITH A SLATE BAR WHEN A ROCK SLID DOWN THE BAR AND TWISTED HIS WRIST.
HOLDING CURTAIN FOR ELECTRICIAN TO BRING SCOOP THRU INTERSECTION.#2 BUGGY TRAMMING TO MINER.ELEC & EMPL FLAGGED IT ASSUMING IT WAS STOPPING,SCOOP CONT THRU IT.SC HIT SCOOP KNOCKING BUCKET INTO EMPL PINNING HIM AGAINST RIB.
I,NAME HAD JUST BENT A ROOF BOLT WHEN HE SUDDENLY TURNED AND PULLED HIS NECK.
I.NAME CRAWLING BESIDE SHUTTLE CAR CABLE WHEN IT GROUNDED OUT AND BURNT HIS LEG.
HE STEPPED OUT OF MANTRIP BEFORE IT STOPPED AND HE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN SUPPORT POLE AND THE MANTRIP.
THE INJURED WAS PLASTERING A STOPPING WHEN HE CAME IN CONTACT(LEFT KNEE) WITH FASWELL STOPPING BOND.INFECTION OF HIS LEFT KNEE RESULTED FROM RHIS CONTACT.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING AS ROOFBOLTER HELPER. WAS BENDING 5' BENDABLE ROOFBOLTS, INSERTING IN HOLE AND BENDING BACK. INJURED BACK DURING PROCESS OF BENDING BOLTS.
ROOF FALL (UNINTENTIONAL) ABOVE ANCHORAGE AT INTERSECTION ONE BREAK OUTBY SPAD #406 IN #2 HEADING OF 1ST. NORTH MAINS. NO INJURIES OCCURRED.
EMPL TAKING LOOSE A WATER LINE COUPLING WHEN IT CAME APART IT SPRUNG UP HITTING HIM ACROSS BRIDGE OF NOSE.
A ROCK FALL OCCURRED IN THE #2 ENTRY INBY SPAD 1071 APPROX. 6 FEET THICK, 20 FEET LONG, 18 FEET WIDE.
MINE IS IN BE STATUAS. ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED DRING A PERIOD WHEN WATER WA BEING PUMPED. EXCT DATE AND TIME OF ROOF FALL IS UNKNOWN. ROOF FALL OCCURRED APPROX. 40 FEET INBY THE NO. 2 PORT AL AND IS APPROX. 10 FEET WIDE, 60 FEET LONG, 5 FEET THICK.
INJ WAS WALKING INTO AN INTERSECTION TOWARD PARKED 488 S&S SCOOP, AND WHILE DOING SO TOLD THE SCOOP OPERATOR TO PULL THE SCOOP FORWAD S OME, AT ABOUT THIS SAME TIME, A SHUTTLECAR CABLE REEL TIGHTENED ITS CABLE UP WHICH I NAME WAS STRADDLED AND HIT HIS LEG KNOCKING HIM OFF BALANCE TOWARD MOVING SCOOP I NAMES FOOT SLID UNER THE MOVING WHEEL OF SCOOP CAUSING TOES TO BE RUN OV
ALLEGED STRAIN 7O BACK I.NAME TOLD HIS FOREMAN ON THIS SHIFT THAT HE FELT BAD THOUGHT HE WAS GETTING FLU & GOT AN ASPRIN FROM HIS FOREMAN I.NAME DID NOT REPORT GETTING HURT AT THIS TIME I.NAME WIFE PHO3ED THE MINE AT APPROX 200PM FOLLOWING EVENING STATING THAT HE WAS SICK & WOULD NOT BE OUT TO WORK THAT HE HAD THE FLU ALLEGED INJURY SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAPPENED BY HELPING TO LIF