CHAIN COUPLING ON MINER BETWEEN SPEED REDUCER & PUMP AND WELDED CHAIN. THERE WAS ANGLE IRON TIED TO PRESSURE HOSE. WHEN OPERATOR STARTED MINER. IT THROWED ANGLE IRON INTO FACE OF ELECTRICIAN C UTTING HIM UNDER THE RIGHT EYE REQUIRING STITCHES.
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Showing all 4EMPLOYEE WAS BOLTING TOP WHEN DRILL STEEL WENT THROUGH A CRACK A PIECE OF ROCK DISLODGED FROM THE TOP AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON BACK AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN. HURTING HIS BACK.
HE WAS MOVE BACK SO THE MINER COULD GET BACK WHEN HE DID HIS FOOT GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SHUTTLE & THE RIB HIS LIGHT CORD GOT CAUGHT ON THE TRAM
REPAIRING BROKEN TRAM CHAIN, STRUCK LEFT THUMB WITH PIPE. WE WERE HITTING WITH HAMMER.