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Employee left miner with shuttle car and hit 2 potholes in roadway and hit head against canopy of shuttle car and hurt EE's neck. Employee work up to 8/22/2024 and doctor took EE off work for two weeks.
Employee was installing 5'foot bolt in drilled hole. As EE was pushing the bolt into the resin pack, EE gave an upward shove and felt sharp pain from their right hip to the middle of the lower back. Employee was walking and did not need any assistance.
Injured Employee was bolting with another employee when employee's steel stopped up. Employee grabbed a piece on pinner steel and hit the stopped-up steel. The drill bit came off and hit injured employee in the mouth and busted EE's upper lip and broke a couple of teeth. Employee received stitches to their lip.
The electrician was in the conveyor of the #5 shuttle car lowering the canopy when a piece of draw rock fell and struck their right foot pinning it against a conveyor flight. The injured employee worked up till 10/2/2023
Roof fall on right return 1 break outby spad #753 The roof fall did not impede travel or disrupt ventilation. The fall is 20x20 and above anchorage area was bolted with 4' foot fully grouted resin bolts in May of 2007. The fall was discovered on weekly, and area was timbered off.
Roof fall occurred adjacent to the track entry on #3 belt and the high lines was caught under it, the fall was 90'feet long 4' to 6' feet high and 18' to 20' feet wide.
Employee was stepping up onto raw scales ramp and strained or sprained left knee. Employee worked up till 10/13/2022
Glove got caught between drill chuck and drill steel while trying to get steel out of hole
Was operating bolt machine when rock fell striking employee in lower back. Was taken to hospital and checked, bruised, wrote off work until 8/30/2021.