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PUTTING BULL GEARS ON BELT HEAD GEAR SLIPPED & CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN SHAFT & BULLGEAR CRUSHING FINGER
IN THE #4 ENTRY MAKING POWER MOVE PULLING ROOF BOLTER SLACK UP WHILE LOOPING SLACK UP RIB. CORNER OF RIB ROLLED OFF HITTING EE ON LEFT LEG KNOCKING HIM DOWN. FIRST AID WAS ADMINISTERED TO EE, A SPLINT WAS APPLIED TO LEG & TRANSPORTED TO OUTSIDE WHERE EE WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL.
A BELT SPLICE CAUGHT LIGHT CORD PULLING HIM ONTO BELT.
WAS LOADING BELT IN SCOOP BUCKET AND SCOOP RAN UP ON FOOT.
WAS WATCHING MACHINE BACK UP TO LOAD PIN SUPPLYS AND TIRE RAN OVER TOE S .
UNLOADING ROCK DUST, ONE WAS TOSSED AT ODD ANGLE. FELT A TEARING FEELING IN BACK.
WATER SATURATED TOP AND WEAK ROOF AREA.
TWO EMPLOYEE OPERATING THE TWINHEAD ROOF BOLTER/ WERE PLACING A METAL STRAP ACROSS AMUD-SEAM IN #3 BREAK OPER. #1 WAS DRILLING TO PLACE THE 2ND BOLT IN THE STRAP WHEN A LOOSE PIECE OF ROCK D ROPPED FROM MUD SEAM, MISSING THE ATRS WHICH WAS WAS OPERATING THE ROCK HIT ROOF BOLTING MACHINE, THEN STRUCK EMP. #1 AND GLANCING BLOW TO RIGHT SIDE ABOVE BELT AREA, CREATING BAD BRUISE. EMP
IN PROCESS OF TAKING CAT HEAD OUT OF SERVICE AND BREAKER APPARENTLY WAS NOT OUT DUE TO POSSIBLE FAULTY MINER BREAKER.
DUE TO WET CONDITIONS OF MINE ROOF A PIECE OF ROCK FELL ON HIM WHILE IN ROUTE TO BELT HEAD. INT HE #3 ENTRY.
EE WAS OPERATING THE 1 JOY SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR SIDE CONTROLS LOADED WITH COAL ON ITS WAY TO THE BUGGY DUMP AS THE SHUTTLE CAR TURNED THE CORNER FROM 4 ENTRY TO 3 ENTRY THE EE OPERATOR MISJUD GE CLEARANCE FOR THE TURNALLOWING THE SHUTTLE CAR TO HIT THE RIB AS THE SHUTTLE CAR BURNED THE CORNER. EE WAS PINNED AGAINST THE RIB BRUISED OR BROKEN RIB BRUISED CHEST ON RIGHT SIDE OF RIB CA
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES MOVE THE CONTINOUS MINER TRAILING CABLE, WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING. HE TRIPPED, SPRINING HIS LEFT ANKLE.
EMPL WAS REMOVING THE CHARGER BATTERY CABLES FORMT HE ELKHORN SCOOP AT THE UNDERGROUND CHARGING LOCATION ONE OF THE BELLS WAS EXTREMELY HOT DUE TO A WIRE BEING GROUNDED THE MEPL SUFFERED BURNS BLISTERS ON THREE FINGERS OF L HAND INSPECTION SHOWED THAT THE ELECTRICAL CHARGING BELL WIRE WAS PULLED LOOSE INSIDE THE BELL CREATING A GROUNDING CONDITION