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Cut hand while cutting jacket off fiber optic cable when the knife slipped and cut top of left hand. Medical treatment - stitches.
Miner unplugging the conveyor on the apron of the Dosco MK2BP #103 roadheader when a rock fell, slid down the cutting boom and struck him in the right hip dislocating the right femur bone.
Mechanic troubleshooting the vacuum system on a Fletcher roof bolter serial #2006500. Mechanic got his left middle finger caught between the drill bit and rock and recieved a laceration to the left third finger requiring 5 sutures to close.
Surface construction employee was helping erect steel sets at the mine portal. He was installing a 3 foot by 2 inch diameter spacer pipe between two sets of steel and caught his left thumb between the pipe and steel set. He received a laceration that required sutures.