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The forklift pushed the cutter head up to the miner to be hooked up when the fork pulled out he didn't realize his toes were under the head which fell down a couple of inches resulting in mashing all 5 toes. No bones were broken just mashed.
We were in the process of tearing down miner to move to another job. The strap holding the hoses & cables to the reel broke causing the cables & hoses to fall off of reel scraping down victim's back causing scratching & bruising.
Ground person instructed highwall miner operator to push beam forward. Ground person reached to remove debris (dirt) as the beam was approaching the cutting head to be latched together. The ground person reached in before operator could stop forward motion and retracted.
We were mining 630' under the mountain there was a rock fall ont he head when we tried to drill it out the latches brase on beam lowering 18 beams and the mines heard 63rth undergound.