Employee was bolting top when a piece of draw rock fell out between roof bolts and struck employee on the back. Rock measured approx. 3' x 5' x 1-8".
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Showing all 5EE was helping move a 245LN miner, when he reached for the cable, he put his left hand on the cable standoff when the back of the moner came up and caught his arm between the roof and the frame of the miner fracturing his left arm near his wrist.
He was jacking up a coal feeder when it slipped off the blocks striking his left foot. Broke his ankle.
Employee was putting a breaker in at the surface power center when something flew into and struck his eye.
Employee got out of his truck to talk to another driver. The truck he got out of started drifting. The employee jumped on the side of the cab of the truck and was partially inside the cab. This truck rolled alongside of another parked truck pinning his right leg between the door and the cab.