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Haul truck driver strained back during pre-operational check of equipment.

Miner was driving a haul truck. After the second load, miner says they hit a bump, causing back pain. The validity of the claim is in dispute.

Employee reached behind the seat to retrieve the passenger side seat belt when his finger came into contact with a sharp object causing injury to his right index finger.

The injured employee was driving a service truck down into the pit to work on a loader. While driving slowly (reported to be approx. 5MPH) due to wet and rough road conditions, the employee was jarred around and said truck's seat bottomed-out, hurting his back. A Licensed Health Care Professional diagnosed the injury as: #847.2 - Sprain, Lumbar Region.

The driver was backing down an access road to the stage 4 heap leach. While backing the truck lost power causing the air brakes to weaken/fail. Near the bottom of the slope the truck began to turn side hill and rolled. The driver was belted in but received minor laceration to the top of his head from striking it in the cab.

Per statements IEE who is an experienced haul truck op. was training another EE on a haul truck. EE was on 2nd day of training as he was backing up to a loader operator had the bucket raised so the truck could be loaded, as the truck got into position apparently the bucket was dropped quickly which jarred the truck and hurt his lower back. EE is on light duty.

EE was task training on a 777 F series with another EE as the passenger.He was backing haul truck under the Cat 993 loader when the haul truck was rocked violently. He states he was catapulted by the air seat into the headliner of the cab. Other EE was in the training seat and immediately his back started hurting.

Worker pinched her right thumb in the door jam of a CAT 938G loader while opening the door to the cab. Worker was climbing into the machine when the injury occurred.

Operator drove front left tire of a ten wheeled gravel truck into a hole covered with ice causing the truck to roll on its left side.

A haul truck driver was beiginning an uphill climb in third gear. The excessive speed caused his CAT 785 seat to bottom out after cresting a hump. This resulted in a lower back strain to the driver.

A haul truck operator experienced numbing pain in his neck after a large rock, along with smaller material, was unloaded from a shovel into his truck. The large rock caused jarring which contributed to this injury.

An operator of a CAT 789C haul truck backed onto a berm which gave way at a waste dump. The haul truck and operator traveled down the slope of the dump and came to rest upside down on a lower dump. The operator was wearing the seat belt at the time of the incident. The emloyee was treated for lacerations to the scalp and released the same evening from the hospital.

Employee working on belt turned to walk away and was struck with a small particle. Debris grazed cheek and went behind safety glasses. Employee became reportable when he received prescriptions for his eye.

The employee alleges that he was sitting in a fuel truck. As he turned to engage the Power Take Off he strained his back. Management became aware that the alleged injury was a restricted work activity case on 2/16/05.

EE WAS BEGINNIGN TO TROUBLESHOOT A REPORTED STEERING PROBLEM WITH TRUCK, EE WAS SITTING IN SEATM RESTING LEFT ARM ON STEERING WHEEL WHILE REMOVING SHROUD SCREWS UNDER CONSOLE, WHEEL INDEPENDENTLY TURNED THROUGH2-3 REVS, LEFT ARM BECAME CAUGHT IN WHEEL AND WEDGED AGAINST RETARDER LEVER, ARM BROKE BETWEEN ELBOW AND SHOULDER.

An employee was operating LR9 (992 G) on the 1180 Central floor, loading 74B along the highwall. He was loading trucks and cleaning up the highwall and strained his lower back on the right side.

EE HIT HEAD ON ROOF OF TRUCK WHEN TRUCK WAS JARRED WHILE LOADING.

WHILE OPERATING A HAUL TRUCK. HIT BUMP CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

JARRED LOWER BACK WHILE DRIVING 785 B HAUL TRUCK ON A ROUGH ROAD.

WHILE DRIVING ACROSS FISH CREEK, DUMP HAUL TRUCK HIT A BUMP AND DRIVER FELT PAIN IN NECK.

DRIVING TRUCK FROM PIT, TRIED TO ADJUST MIRROR, TRUCK HIT BUMP, CAUSED LACERATION TO LEFT HAND.

WHILE RIDING IN A PICKUP IN THE PIT, THE TRUCK HIT A HOLE. THIS RESULTED IN AN INJURY TO EE'S BACK. HE RETURNED TO WORK WITH RESTRICTIONS. THE RESTRICTIONS HAVE NOT ALLOWED EE TO PERFORM HIS N ORMAL WORK DUTIES.

EE STATES HE WAS GOING TO THE LOADING PIT TO BE LOADED, WHEN THE CAB DOOR OF A B-70 BELLY DUMP JUMPED OUT OF ITS HINGES AND STARTED TO FALL. THE EE GRABBED THE DOOR HANDLE TO KEEP IT FROM FALL ING UNDER THE WHEELS AND JERKED HIS LEFT ARM.

PAIN IN UPPER BACK WHILE DRIVING BELLY DUMP OVERROUGH TERRAIN.

PRE-EXISSTING CONTITION, EMPLOYEE WAS DISPATCHED FROM THE UNION HALL AS A QUALIFIED SCRAPER OPERATOR. EE DID NOT ADVISE EMPLOYER OF HIS BACK CONDITION, AND ENTERED NO ON THE PRE-EMPLOYEMENT F ORM IN THE BACK PROBLEM SECTION. OUR COMPANY POLICY WOULD PROHIBIT OPERATING THIS TYPE OF EQUIPMENT WITH A KNOWN MEDICAL PROBLEM LIKE THIS.

STRUCK BY ROCK IN LEFT KNEE, ROCK SHOT OUT FROM UNDER FUEL TRUCK WHEELS. I WAS WALKING 20' AWAY FROM THE TRUCK.

DURING THE EARLY PART OF NIGHT SHAFT WHILETRANING A NEW HIRE DRIVER THE 773 CAT WANTS TRUCK EE WWAS RIDING ON ROLLED OVER THE EDGE OF A SHALLOW EMBANKMENT CAUSING FATAL INJURED TO THE DROVER A ND MINOR BRUISE TO EE.