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EE, scoop operator was assisting the electrician in putting on a shuttlecar tire. The tire was leaning against the frame of the shuttlecar. EE was apparently sitting against the rib when the tire fell over striking EE on the lower left leg. The accident occurred in the #5 entry, outby the face area, feeder line.
Employee stepped on a floor drainway gate and twisted right knee
Was installing a shear jack on the 14-15 CM. Hand was pinched between the jack and pan.
Employee had finished bolting No. 2 Left, and was crawling back to deck to move roof bolter. Right knee popped.
EE was tramming the scoop, the bucket of the scoop hooked the pump cable that was hung damaging the cable. EE got out of scoop to hang the cable and when EE grabbed the cable EE got an electrical shock.
Welding and got fragment in eye.
A roof fall occurred in No #5 last open crosscut. Extanded into No. 5 to 4 crosscut. The fall was 8 ft high, 20 ft wide, 60 ft in length. The continuous miner was caught under the fall.
A roof fall occurred in No #3 intersection. Four to eight ft high, 20 ft wide, 30 ft in length. It was cribbed off.