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988B Loader was feeding chain feeder, employee was standing outside control house checking jaw. The 988 dumped a bucket of raw material on feed apron and a rock was projected out hitting employee on the lower right jaw causing laceration & fracture.

Employee was operating a CAT 250E articulating end dump. She was preparing to be loaded by a Kawasaki 80Z wheel loader. She was spotted by the loader, stopped and the loader operator loader her with 3/4" washed aggregate. She then left, dumped her load and reported that the loader jolted her in the cab and complained of neck discomfort.

OPERATOR WAS BERMING NEW PROPERTY THAT HAD PREVIOUS DIRT EXCAVATING ACTIVITY ON IT. OPERATOR WAS BLOCKING AN EXISTING RAMP. AS HE BACKED DOWN, HIS LEFT REAR TIRE DROVE OFF THE RAMP, APPROX A 2 FOOT DROP. THE WEIGHT OF THE LOADER SHIFTED TO THE LEFT REAR & THE LOADER LAID ON ITS LEFT SIDE.

9-9-00 EE CALLED IN SICK BECAUSE HIS BACK HURT. HE SAID HE COULD NOT RETURN UNTIL 9-12-00. ON HIS RETURN HIS FOREMAN ASKED IF BACK AILMENT WAS WORK RELATED. EE'S RESPONSE WAS THAT IT WAS NOT. 9-9-00, I SPOKE WITH DR. HE SAID EE HAD 2 HERNIATED DISKS. IN MEETING, EE COMPLAINED ABOUT HIS TRUCK. HE WAS GIVEN NEW TRUCK. WORKER'S COMP ACCEPTED BACK AS WORK RELATED. EE OFF UNTIL FULL REL

ON 12/30/96, EE REPORTED THAT HE MIGHT NEED TO SEE COMPANY DR BECAUSE OF SOME LOWER BACK PAIN HEHAD BEEN EXPERIENCING. HE SAID WHEN HE WAS AT HOME ON SUN 12/15, HE GOT A SORE THROAT AND FELT L IKE HE WAS GETTING SICK. HE CAME TO WORK ON MON 12/16, FEELING LIKE HE HAD THE FLU. SOME TIME DURING DAY HE NOTICED A LOWER BACK PAIN. SEVERAL DAYS LATER, FLU WAS GONE BUT LOWER BACK PAIN PER

INJURED WAS OPERATING HIS 980 C LOADER: LOADING CUSTOMER TRUCKS FROM A STOCKPILE. IT WAS A VERY BUSY DAY AND LATE IN THE AFTERNOON, HIS HAND BEGAN TO HURT. THE STEERING WHEEL KNOB AND TRANS MISSION SHIFTER ARE SUSPECT OF CAUSING PRESSURE ON MEDICAN NERVE.

CLEANING DOORS UNDER SCREEN

EE WAS OPERATING HIS TRUCK WHILE THE SUSPENSION WAS NOT OPERATING CORRECTLY. THE EXCESSIVE JARRING CAUSED LOW BACK SYNDROME. HE ASKED TO BE THE DR ON 11-18-91.

I.NAME WAS SHOV9LING MATERIAL FROM UNDERNEATH A CONVEYOR HE WAS BENT OVER AT THE WAIST TO GET UNDER THE FRAME (FROM CONVEYOR BELT TO GROUND APPROX 10FT 7IN)AS HE WAS BACKING OUT FROM UNDER CON VEYOR STILL BEN7 OVER AS ROCK 12IN IN DIAMETER PROXIMATE FELL OFF THE CONVEYOR BELT & HIT I.NAME ON THE LEFT SHOULDER BLADE (A4FT FALL PROXIMATE) HE RECEIVED BRUISED SHOULDER BLADE

I.NAME WAS SHOV9LING MATERIAL FROM UNDERNEATH THE SIMPLICITY SHAKER ONE OF THE CONVEYORS THAT FEED IT CARRIER 4IN+1 1/8IN ROCK ONE OF THOSE ROCKS FELL OFF THE CONVEYOR & BOUNCED OFF OF ANOTHER CONVEYOR BELOW 3 THEN HIT I.NAME ON THE TOP RT SHOULDER

I.NAME WAS SUPERVISING A NEW DUMP OP,I.NAME BY RIDING NEXT TO HIM IN TH EPASSENGER SEAT. THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF T H E DAY I.NAME BUMPED HIS BACK SEVERAL TIMES AGAINST THE CAB BRACING BEHIN D HIM. THE NEXT DAY HE COMPLAINED HIS BACK WAS HURTING. HE STRAINED MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK.

I.NAME & I.NAME WERE REPLACING FEEDER PADS ON FEEDER PLANT WAS DOWN ALL WEEK SO ALL ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS WERE DE-ENERGIZED IN ORDER TO REMOVE OLD PAD & INSTALL NEW ONE IT WAS NECESSARY TO MOVE FEEDER FORWARD OR BACKWARD TO GET PROPER POSITIONING THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY GOING TO DRIVE OF FEEDER WHICH IS AN ELECTRIC MOTOR THAT DRIVES A GEAR BOX USING 2 V-BELTS I.NAME GRABBED TOP ROW

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EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A 980 B CAT LOADER.HE WAS LOADING END DUMPS WITH RAW MATERIALS.AS HE TURNED HIS HEAD TO LOOK BEHIND HIM BEFORE BACKING UP HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

TRUCK WAS PARKED AT A SLIGHT INCLINE WITH FRONT OF TRUCK FACING UPWARD JIMMY PUT TRUCK IN FIRST GEAR AND LET OUT CLUTCH TRUCK JERKED FORWARD FOR A FEW FEET CALVIN HAD CLIMBED IN BED OF TRUCK A AND WAS SITTING DOWN IN BED OF TRUCK ON TOP OF OXYGEN BOTTLE NEITHER JIMMY OR SAM WAS AWARE THAT CALVIN WAS BACK THERE CALVIN FELL OUT OF TRUCK RECEIVED A BRUISED TAIL BONE AND A PINCHED NERV

PALACIOS WAS HAULING WASTE MATERIAL FROM A DRIED UP SETTLING POND TO DUMPING AREA HIS ROUTE INCLUDED PASSING OVER A ROAD BUILT ON TOP OF LEVY WHICH BORDERED A SETGTLING POND CURRENTLY BEING US ED BEING VERY CONSCIOUS OF SETTLING PONT TO HIS LEFT HE OVER COMPENSATGED BY DRIVING EXTREMELY CLOSE TO RT SIDE OF ROAD HIS TIRES BEGAN RFIDING ON BASE OF BERN AS TIRES CLIMBED HIGHER BERN BE

WAS IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING A TURN IN THE HAUL UNIT AS HE BEGAN TURNING THE STEERING WHEEL HE FELT A SUDDEN STINGING PAIN IN HIS BACK DOCTORS EXAMINATION SHOWED THAT THE EMPLOYEE STRAINED A M USCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK