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HH WAS SITTING DOWN WAITING FOR CUTTING MACHINE TO CHANGE PLACE AND STARTED TO GET UP, WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP, HITTING HIM ON THE LEFT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR TO FEEDER TO DUMP COAL.EMPLOYEE HIT HOLE IN HAUL WAY CAUSING HIM TO HIT AGAINST CANOPY OF SHUTTLE CAR.
EMPL USING ROOF BOLT TO BOLT TOP OF MINE.WHILE BOLTING,ROCK BROKE AWAY FROM TOP AND STRUCK EMPL RIGHT INDEX FINGER CAUSING BREAK AT 1ST JOINT.
EMPL OPERATING SHUTTLE CAR.LOADER WAS LOADING IT ,CHAIN THREW A ROCK WHICH HIT RIGHT HAND.
EMPL WAS DRIVING PIN THAT HOLDS TRANSMISSION IN PLACE WITH 3# HAMMER WHEN THUMB WAS STRUCK BY HAMMER.
EMPLOYEE WAS MAKING A BELT SPLICE. AFTER SPLICE WAS MADE AN EMPLOYEE THAT ASSISTED HIM, PICKED UP A HAMMER TO TIGHTEN A BRAD. I.NAME LEFT RING FINGER WAS IN THE WAY OF THE HAMMER THAT STRUCK H IM.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY STATES THAT A ROCK FELL ON HIM WHILE WORKING ON BELTLINE APPROX. 20 FT BEHIND 2 BELT DRIVE THE ROCK WAS APPROX. 2 INCH THICK 3 FT SIDE AND 18 INCH LONG EMPLOYEE SAID HE CAME OUTSIDE AND TOLD THE TWO 2 OUTSIDE MEN. AT LUNCH TIME THEN WENT BACK INSIDE MINES AND FINISHED OUT HIS SHIFT.
WHILE INSTALLING A COAL CARRYING BELT I.NAME WAS PULLING THE BELT WITH A PAIR OF CHANNEL LOCK PLIERS HE AT THIS TIME EXPERIENCED A TWINGE IN HIS BAKC WHICH LATER DEVELOPED INTO A SEVERE PAIN
A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN THE BOLTS IN A BOLTED AREA, STRICKING THE FOOT AND LOWER LEG OF THE INDIVIAUL.
DAMPING DOWN BE5T .BELT SPLICE CAUGHT EMPL HAND PULLING IT INTO ROLLER.
WHILE ROOF BOLT3NG IN THE FACE AREA A PIECE OF LOOSE SCALE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING TRHE ROOF BOLT OPERATOR ON THE LEFT HAND.