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EE attempted to lift DEF fluid and experienced severe lower back pain. EE requested to be taken to Hospital. MSHA Inspector interviewed EE and recommend this to be a reportable accident. EE also spoke to Superintendent and Foreman.
73 Highwall Miner inadvertently cut into an abandoned underground mine causing the HWM #73 Miner pit to become floooded
Crew was attempting to tram the Highwall Miner while victim in fork loader observed the trailing cable. From the confines of the loader 25 feet away a piece of metal from the Highwall Miner track flew through the slightly opened side glass of the loader striking the employee and causing employee to lose vision in left eye.
Employee was attempting to tighten bolts on a cutterhead module of a Highwall Miner when the wrench slipped and employee fell to the ground breaking right leg.
EE was attempting to install anchor pin and pin moved and mashed left pinkie finger between anchor pin and the Highwall Mine removing it at the first joint.
While exiting the rear of a pick up truck the employee's left foot slipped off the rear bumper of the vehicle causing him to fall to the ground.
Employee apparently entered into highwall miner hole in an attempt to retrieve a cutter chain. While at the chain, the employee was struck by rock from roof.
Holding roller chain with hammer while another employee was attempting to knock out a connecting link with a hammer and a sliver of metal struck employee under his safety glasses
While knocking pins out of the Right Angle Conveyor of the Pasco Highwall Miner with a slate bar the the pins came out causing the slate bar to strike the employee in the hand and face.