 On the 21st, I was notified by the while missing field office that an accident had occurred, a mobile equipment accident, and a serious injury was the result. We was signed with tech support. They came out to add professional technical assistance in the investigation. I got a call from my supervisor saying that the blasting company was going to come up and lay out a shot up in the top bench and said, OK, we'll have it ready for him when he arrives. So I drove my pickup truck up there and checked the area out. Notice that there was a lot of overburden on top of the ledge. So I noticed that everybody else was pretty busy making stone, keeping things going. And I drove down to the yard, grabbed a D6 high track, brought it up, started skimming the top, getting the excess mud and gravel off the top of the ledge. And after a while, it kept on pulling up bigger and bigger rocks. So I said, you know, the D6 here is a little too aggressive for the job, so I'll go down. I'll grab the small loader, which is an IT-14, you know, just, you know, finished skim what's left. So, you know, because it wasn't as heavy as the machine is the D6. And so I went, brought the D6 down and grabbed the IT-14, you know, checked everything out, went up to the top and started to basically plow the excess gravel. You notice more of a muddy, wet gravel. Started to plow it down the incline because there was a steep incline before you went up to the actual, the blast area that we were going to lay out. It's a steep ramp right at the top. It was shot by tech support with a hand amni-level at a 23% grade. The conditions of the ramp was rough, muddy, and slick. So I started, you know, going up and down the hill with the machine. And then I pretty much, you know, told myself, eh, let me turn around. I'll back drag it one more time. As I turned around the machine, there was on a slight incline, I would say about midway up the hill. And I started to feel the machine to start to tip over. So I had about four seconds to figure out what am I going to do here. And I decided, you know, I said, well, there's a hundred foot face over to the right of me. And you know, is the machine going to roll down over that face, you know, if it gets rolling? So I basically said, well, I'm going to jump out. So I did my seatbelt and jumped out the uphill side of the machine. And as I jumped out, the machine started turning over slowly, and I was actually walking across the steps of the machine as it was rolling like this. And I jumped onto the ground because of the steepness of the hill. I actually, the momentum actually made me slide down underneath the machine and out in front of it. And then as I was laying on the ground, I seen the machine rolling towards me and it rolled over one more time and the tires on the rear landed right on my legs. I looked down at my legs and I noticed that they were all, they were mangled, you know, and mush. But I was still, you know, I was still conscious. You know, all I could do is, you know, the first thing that came to me was the, in the beginning of the year, we saw an M-Shev video of a loader rolling on top of a guy. And that's the first thing that came to my head. That's the first thing. At that point, there was, the crusher operator had seen Paul coming out of the cab and he notified, there was a 990 cat front end loader right below it. He notified that miner on the unloader to go up and provide assistance or see what he could do. The guy that runs the primary crusher, crusher tower, he had a two-way radio. He basically radioed the main loader. It's a bigger 990 cat loader down in the pit and he came up the hill and I guided him in and he basically lifted up, I got him to lift the smaller machine off my legs and I actually pulled myself out from underneath the machine and, you know, got the safety. What happened was a welder came and they got the medical kits from the welding shop, the blanket and everything and the crew, the welder and I believe it was a truck driver, took the medical kit up there and by that time they had a contractor that was contract drilling up on the top bench and he had his medical training and between all of them they was able to provide support. But as this was all going on everybody was communicating with the main office, they get the ambulance, you know, coming and some of my fellow, you know, the employees that came up, they said, you know, calm down, take it easy, call, you know, you're going to be alright. He just waked the whole time and you got to give the man credit to have an inloader sitting on both legs, looking down knowing they're both crushed and to be able to tell the inloader guy, hey, pick it up off of me and I'll climb out from underneath it because there's nobody around here to help yet. It shows he wanted to live. As far as my rescue and all that, that was, you know, picture perfect the way it went down, you know, because the guys were trained, they knew what to do, so it does work. Training does work. Other statements we obtained during the accident investigation was from one of these friends that was there at the scene and the injured minor stated that this is what you get when you don't wear your seat belt, so that was a real powerful statement that he knew he had made a mistake at that point. Your instincts tell you certain things, but there's a lot of, there's a lot of information out there and films that prove that if you stay in the machine, you'll survive. You know, I saw the machine after it was, after it rolled over, there is like barely any damage to it at all. Roll over protection cabs is like a race car cab. I mean, they're designed and perfected. There's the strongest point on any piece of the mobile equipment. And when you look back now at Paul's accident and his statement even stated that once he looked at the piece of equipment and saw the cab and what we, we visioned and what we saw, he would have received no injuries. There was no injuries to the inside of the cab, so, you know, he made the fatal mistake though of trying to remove his seat belt and jump out while it was moving. You know, check the area out that you're working on. Use the proper machinery and, you know, I can say use your head, but, you know, I used my head and I got hurt, so you want to go with the, you want to take your time and make sure you're doing the right thing, right off the shot, you know, you don't want to rush into a hurry or do anything like that. You know, miners should help miners. People should help people. If you see a friend or somebody that's not wearing it, you should have the gumption or the nerve to look up at somebody and say, put your seat belt on. You know, we want to play football with you or we want to go play poker with you tonight. You know, so, you know, everybody's got to help, everybody's got to pitch in, but we're starting to see it in the mining industry that it's a common practice. A lot of employees still refuse to either wear them or they think the safest thing to do is they can out jump and moving a piece of equipment and time after time again, just like in this miner's case and he stayed, he thought he could do it. And you know, just time and time again, that's always the last thing. Well, I wish I'd have kept it on. Well, I didn't stay in. I didn't keep my seat belt on. Now, you know, I'm missing my legs. It does happen. I really believe Paul's number one priority in life now will be his life experiences and his thoughts on seat belts. I believe he'll be one of the best seat belt teachers in the United States because he's got proven experience and exposure to tell people and explain why seat belts should be worn. I like to tell everybody that, you know, we get the training every week, you know, every two weeks, you know, everybody else in the mining gets the training and we preach all the time about the accidents, what can happen and guess what? I've been in the business for 23 years and it happened. So don't think it can happen if you're out there because it does, it does.