St. Clair Strip Coal

EE BACK UP TO DUMP A LOAD OF COAL REFUSE AT THE COAL REFUSE SITE. HE SET THE PARKING BRAKE AND TRIPPED THE TAIL GATE USING HIS LEFT HAND. HIS LEFT HAND AND ELBOW WAS PUSHED INTO THE CAB OF THE TRUCK.

EE WAS CLEANING OFF SIDE BOARDS ON THE DUMP BED OF A GOB TRUCK AFTER DUMPING COAL REFUSE. WHILE CLIMBING DOWN THE LADDER ON THE SIDE OF THE DUMPBED HIS GLOVE GOT CAUGHT. WHEN HE TRIED TO FREE HIS GLOVE HE FELL APPROXIMATELY 4' TO THE GROUNDLANDING ON HIS BACK.

EE WAS DESCENDING THE HAUL ROAD AT THE NORTH AMERICAN PIT, WITH A LOADED TRUCK, WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE AND WENT OVER AN EMBANKMENT, CAUSING THE TRUCK TO OVERTURN AND THE COMING TO REST ON ITS WHEELS.

EE WAS PUTTING A PIN IN A HYDRAULIC JACK WHEN HE CUT AND MASED LEFT THUMB.

EE JUMPED FROM D-5 DOZER AND STEPPED INTO A HOLE TWISTING RIGHT ANKLE.

EE STOPPED LOADER TO TALK TO PIT FOREMAN, WHILE DISMOUNTING THE LOADER HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF THE HAND RAIL ON THE LADDER CAUSING HIM TO FALL APPROX. 5' TO THE GROUND. EE LANDED ON HIS BACK. HE WAS UNABLE TO GET UP UNDER HIS OWN POWER. AN AMBULANCE WAS SYNNIBED TI TRANSPORT HIM TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL.

EE WAS JACKING UP PUMP TRAILOR WHICH WAS TO BE HITCHED TO A TRUCK. THE SWITCH LEVER ON THE JACK SLIPPED INTO THE DOWN POSITION WHICH ALLOWED THE PUMP TRAILOR TO LOWER THE JACK HANDLE PUSHED TH E EE S HAND INTO THE PUMP CAUSING THE INJURY.

DESCENDING COULDNT CONTROL THE TRUCK AND JUMPED OUT

MOVING LIGHT PLANT WITH CAHIN, HOOKING CHAIN TO L RING ON PLANT. BUCKET OF LOADER DRIFTED DOWN CATCHING R ARM OF HIM AGAINST LIGHT PLANT DEEP CUT ON R FOREARM

MECHANIC WAS REMOVING STEEL TOOTH FROM A RIPPER SHANK WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER WHEN A PIECE OF STEEL FROM THE TOOTH ENTERED THE UPPER LEFT LEG

FIAT ALLIS 4 LB. DOZER 1722 EQUIPED WITH A RIPPER WAS BACKING NORTH TOWARD THE PAN DUMP AREA. A CAT 657 PAN WAS DUMPING A LOAD OF TOP SOIL. THE PAN OPER. WAS LOOKING BACK AND WHEN HE FINISHED DUMPING HE MADE A RIGHT TURN TO GO UP THE HILL. THE DOZER OPERS DID NOT SEE THE PAN DUE TO THE ANGLE HE WAS BACKING. THE RIPPER ON THE DOZER WNNT INTO THE CAB OF THE PAN.

EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING ONE END OF A 4 X 8 X 1/2 SHEET OF METAL THEY WERE REMOVING THE METAL FROM THE METAL RACK THE SHEET OF METAL SLIPPED AND FELL ABOUT 4 INCHES AND LANDED ON TOP OF EMPLOYEE S RT FOOT CAUSING A BRUISE

EMPLOYEE WAS MEASURING A BARGE DEPTH WHILE HE WAS WALKING ON THE BARGE BETWEEN CHECK POINTS HE BUMPED HIS KNEE ON A BULKHEAD

EMPLOYEE WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN THE CRUSHER BUILDING ON THE 2ND FLOOR NEAR THE STEPS GOING TO THE THIRD FLOOR. NO INJURIES WERE VISIBLE. DURING THE PAST NINE YEARS, HE HAS SUFFERED BLACKOUTS AND CONVULSIONS APPARENTLY AS A RESULT OF AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING TO SLIDE A BARGE COVER INTO PLACE ON A LOADED BARGE.THE BARGE COVER WENT INTO PLACE AND PINCHED HIS LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS CA9RYING A SHEET PLATE UP THE STAIRS IN THE PREP PLANT WHEN HE SLIPPED ON A STEP AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE

VICTIM, A MECHA3IC, WAS REMOVING THE RADIATOR FROM 41B FIAT ALLIS DOZER HE AHD THE RADITAOR LOOSE AND PICKING UP WITH A HOIST WHEN IT BECAME STUCK HE USED A PRY BAR TO LOOSEN THE RADIATOR THE RADIATOR DISLOD1ED AND STRUCK THE MECHANIC IN THE FOREHEAD CAUSING A SEVERE LACERATION

OP WAS MOVING AN EMPTY PAN BETWEEN 2 PITS. HE STARTED DOWN A SLOPE ON WET GRASS. HE APPLIED BRAKES CAUISNG THE PAN TO SLIDE SIDEWAYS & JACKKNIFE. HE SLID 9\ IN JACKKNIFE. TH OP THEN DROPPED THE BOWL. THE LEFT FRONT CORNER OF THE BOWL DUG INTO THE DIRT CUAISNG THE PAN TO ROLL OVER TWICE.

MECHANIC WAS WORKING ON A D-9 DOZER NEXT TO A 6 TO 8 FT EMBANKMENT OF DIRT A CLUMP OF DIRT CAVED AWAY AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE RT LEG AND HE FELL AGAINST THE SERVICE TRUCK THIS EMPLOYEE HAD A PREVIOUS INJURY TO HIS RT LEG ON 6-28-82 WHICH WAS CAUSING THE MUSCLE IN HIS RT THIGH TO HEMORRAGE

OPERATOR WAS SPREADING TOP SOIL WITH A DOZER. THE TOP SOIL WAS PILED NEAR THE TREE LINE, THE OPERATOR HAD BACKED INTO THE SAME SPOT IN THE TREE LINE FOUR OR FIVE TIMES A TREE LIMB APPARENTLY CAUGHT ON THE ROPS WHEN THE DOZER MOVED FORWARD IT CAUSED A WHIPPING ACTION THE LIMB KNOCKED A REAR WINDOW OF THE DOZER INTO THE DOZER OPERTATOR CUTTING THE OPERATOR LEFT ARM

EE WAS USING A DRILL HOLE SAW ATTACHMENT. HE WAS DRILLING A 3 3/8 HOLE THRU INSULATED SIDING. AS HE DRILLED THRU THE SAW CAUGHT CAUSING THE DRILL TO TWIST. BEFORE HE COULD RELEASE THE TRIGGER THE DRILL TWISTED HIS RIGHT HAND BREAKING 2 BONES IN H IS HAND.

CLIMBING OFF CASE BROOM TRACTOR.SLIPPED AND FELL ON FROZEN GROUND INJURING HIS BACK.FOOT SLIPPED OFF STEP ON TRACTOR WHICH CAUSED THE FALL.STEP APPEARED TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION.

EMP WAS UNLOADING 6" CHANNEL IRON, 20\ LONG FROM A FLAT BED TRUCK ALONG WITH ANOTHER EMP HE LIFTED THE IRON OFF THE TRUCK AND LAID ONE END ON HIS THIGH TO CHANGE HIS HOLD ABOUT ONE HOUR LATER HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE HIS THIGH WAS SWER SWELLING HE APPARENTLY RUPTURED AN ARTERY IN HIS THIGH WHILE HANDLING THE CHANGE IRON

USING UTILITY KNIFE.KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT LEFT HAND NEAR BASE OF THUMB.

DOZER OPERATOR WAS BACK FILLING A PIT ON RECLAMATION HE WAS PUSHING A FULLL BLADE OF DIRT WHEN A HYDRAULIC LINE BLEW IT APPARENTLY BLEW FLUID ON THE MANIFOLD CAUSING A FIRE IN THE BELLY PAN TH E OPERATOR COULD NOT PUT THE FIRE OUT WITH THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER A LOCAL FIRE DEPART WAS CALED IFIRE WAS CONFINED TO ENGINE COMPARTMENT AND DASH

WITNESS WAS CLEANING THE PAINT SPRAYER WITH ACETONE THE VICTIM CAME ALONG GRABBED THE SPRAY GUN AND PUT A NEW TIP ON IT IMPROPERLY THE VICTIM THE PRESSED THE TRIGGER SINCE THE TIP WAS NOT INS TALLED PROPERLY THE WITNESS HAD ADVISED THE VICTIM TO LEAVE THE PAINT SPRAYER ALONE

EMPLOYEE HAD EXITED THE DOZER AND WAS STANDING ON THE PUSH BAR WITH HIS LEFT HAND ON TRHE GRAB RAIL NEAR THE SIDE OF DOOR. THE WIND BLEW THE DOOR SHUT. THE DOOR CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEES GLOVE AND PULLED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER INTO THE DOOR FRAME MASHING THE FINGER.

HOISTING FLIGHTS-160 LBS-FROM DRAG TANK AT WASH PLANT.HOIST HOOKED INTO ...PLAYTE WELDED TO A BEAM-INSTALLED FOR THIS PURPOSE 3 YRS AGO.HOIST HOOK HOOKED THRU HOLE IN PLATE.PLATE BROKE ALLO WING HOIST TO FALL ABOUT 6\ AND STRUCK EMPL ON HEAD.EMPL HARD HAT PREVENTED SERIOUS INJURY.