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COMPANY GEOLOGIST WAS CONDUCTING AN UNDERGROUND TOUR OF INACTIVE MINE WORKINGS WHILE INSPECTING A VEIN EXPOSURE INSIDE ON OPEN STOPE A ROCK DISLODGED FROM THE ROOF BACK & STRUCK THE GEOLOGIST ON THE LOWER BACK MINE WAS NOT IN PRODUCTION AT THE TIME
EMP WAS INSTALL3NG TIMBER IN THE MAIN HAULAGE DRIFT BACK, WHERE A PILLAR HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY REMOVED AND A CONNECTION HAD BEEN MADE TO THE UPPER ABANDONED WORKINGS, WHILE THIS WORK WAS BEING D ONE SOME MATERI5L BECAME DISLODGED STRIKING THE TIMBERS BEING INSTALLED KNOCKING THE INDIVIDUAL DOWN
EMP WAS INSTALL3NG TIMBER IN THE MAIN HAULAGE DRIFT BACK WHERE A PILLAR HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY REMOVED AND A CONNECTION HAD BEEN MADE TO THE UPPER ABANDONED WORKINGS WHILE THIS WORK WAS B9ING DONE SOME MATERIAL BECAME DISLODGED STRIKING THE TIMBERS BEING INSTALLED KNOCKING HIM DOWN
EMPL INSTALLING38'' X 8'' POST IN TIMBERED MANWAY WHEN HE HIT FINGER WITH AN AXE.
THE INJURED WAS3A CONTRACTOR DOING THE MINE SURVEYING. AT THE TIME OF INJURY HE HAD GONE OUTSIDE OF THE MINE TO TAKE A WORK BREAK. DURING THE WORK BREAK HE WAS SLIDING DOWN A SNOW FIELD ON HIS FEET WHEN A SU8DEN STOP CAUSED HIS LEG TO BREAK. THIS INJURY WAS UNRELATED TO HIS WORKER CONTRACT WITH GOLD STAR MINING CO.