EE was operating a continuous miner. He was cutting the bottom ledge of rock out from the edge of the #9 intersection, (continuous miner was in the last open crosscut between #8 and #9). The crosscut was on a downward grade, and when he start the cutter head and placed it in the bottom, the miner slew around and struck him with the conveyor boom. EE was not in the ""RED Zone"".