Colosseum Mine Metal/Non-Metal

CHANGING TIRES KNEELING IN FRONT OF TIRE WITH WRENCH REACHED DOWN TO PICK IT UP

LOADER BUCKET STRUCK HEADACHE RACK OF TRUCK WHILE SPOTTING TO LOAD.DRIVER OF HAUL TRUCK WRENCHED HIS BACK.REPORTED 5-23..THERAPY PRESCRIBED NOT TAKEN BY EMPL.

EE WAS PREPARING TO MOVE THE ELECTRIC PUMP TO MAKE WAY FOR THE BLAST. THE DISCHARGE LINE 4 INCH WAS FULL OF WATER APPROX. 75-100 HEAD AND HAD NOT BEEN DRAINED BY HIM WHEN THE HOSE WAS RELEASED WATER PRESSURE CAUSED IT TO WHIP. THE 3 LB CAME-LOCK FITTING STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT FOREHEAD INJURIED ARE. SERIOUS SKULL FRACTURE OVER LEFT EYE FOREIGN OBJECT PENETRATION BY PIECE OF HARD HAT

EMPL WAS OPERATING 4000 GAL WATER TRUCK 89-9 & WAS ATTEMPTING TO RMOVE ROCK LODGED IN BETWEEN REAR DUAL TIRES. HE TRIED TO MANUALLY PULL ROCK OUT & SEPERATED COLLARBONE. HE WAS REATED ON 2/22/ 91. HE RETURNED TO CLINIC ON 2/25/91 BECAUSE MEDICATION MADE HIM NAUSEOUS. HE WAS REEVALUATED & PHYSICAL THERAPY WAS PRESCRIBED.

EMPL WAS WORKING ON TRANSMISSION OF R2707 992 C OADER. HE LOST FOOTING SLIPPED & STRUCK KNEE ON TRANSMISSION PUMP. HE DECLINED TREATMENT. ON 2/19/91 HE WAS ORDERD TO GO TO DR ON 2/20/91. DIAGN OSIS IS BURSITIS/TENDONITIS IN RIGHT KNEE PHYSCIAL THERAPY PRESCRIBED.

EMPL WAS ATTEMPTING TO UNPLUG DTH BIT ON DM45 DRILL. HE WAS USING PROHIBITED METHOD PUSHING BIT SHARPLY INTO HAMMER. HE CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN BIT & CHUCK COLLAR.

TEMPLOYEE AHD RELIEVED HIMSELF OVER SIDE OF TRUCK. HE ATTEMPTED TO REENTER CAB, AND THE WIND CUAGHT THE CAB DOOR. HE STATED HE TRIED TO CATCH THE DOOR, MISSED, STEPPED ON A SMALL ROCK ONT HE CATWALK AND FELL OVER THE EDGE, APPROX. 12" TO GROUND. (NOTE: EMPLOYEE HAD COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN PRIOR TO START OF SHIFT. WE BELIEVE THIS INJURY IS NOT JOB RELATED).

EMPL WAS OPERATING ECM 350 AIRTRACK DRILL. WHILE CHANGING STEEL HE CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN STRIKER BAR & COLLAR.

EMPL WAS USI;NG PIPE WRENCH TO REMOVE ELBOW FROM TANK. WRENCH SLIPPED & EMPL LOST BALANCE FALLING BACKWARD. HE REACHED BACK TO CATCH HIMSELF& HAND HIT METAL BRACE ON ANOTHER TANK CAUSING 3 CM LACERATION ON LEFT PALM. APPROX 8 STITCHES WERE REQUIRED TO CLOSE WOUND.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING FRONT END LOADER TRUCKS FROM 09-16-90 ROUGH RIDE OF LOADER APPEARS TO HAVE AGGRAVATED AN EXISTING BACK CONDITION EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT PAIN UNTIL 7 DAYS AFTER FIRST PA IN APPEARED EMPLYEE HAD BEEN OFF FOR 2 DAYS PRIOR TO REPORTING THE INJURY & CALLED IN PRIOR TO START OF SHIFT THIS MAY NOT BE A JOB RELATED INJURY INJURY IS BEING REPORTED DUE TO THERAPY TREA

EMPLOYEE WAS CRUSHING USED OIL FILTERS FOR DISPOSAL.HE WAS HOLDING A FILTER WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND USING A SLAG HAMMER TO PUNCH VENT HOLES IN THE FILTER.HE STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND WITH THE POINT OF THE HAMMER CAUSING A PENETRATION WOUND APPROX1/4" TO 1/2" DEEP BETWEEN THUMB AND INDEX FINGER.

EMPL STATES HE WAS MOVING PIECE OF SCRAP METAL & STRAINED BACK. INJURY WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL 4/24. THERE WAS NO INDICATION OF INJURY PRIOR TO 7/24 & NONE WITESSED ACCIDENT. DUE TO DELAY & TO QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER INJURY WAS JOB RELATED NO DETERMINATION WAS MADE AS TO WHETHER INJURY WAS REPORTABLE. ON 7/11 DECISION CAME TO REPORT.

ACCIDNET HAPPENED ON THE 5540 LEVEL IN THE SOUTH PIT. 207-1 LOADER WAS LOADING WASTE MATERIAL INTO 71-7 HAUL TRUCK AND DRIVER WAS JARRED WHEN THE FIRST LOAD OF MATERIAL WAS LOADED INTO THE TRU CK.

#73-7 TRUCK WAS LOADED ON 5540 BENCH 2 BUCKETS OF LOOSE MAT'L WERE LOADED, THEN A LARGE BOULDER WAS LOADED ON REAR AND PUSHED OVER REAR AXLES. TRUCK PROCEEDED UP 11-15% RAMP. FRONT END CAME OF F GROUND DRIVER EASED OFF THROTTLE. TRUCK CAME BACK DOWN DRIVER HIT THROTTLE AGAIN THROWING TRUCK TO POINT WHERE IT WAS RESTING ON REAR OF BED AND BUTT OF TRUCK (VERTICAL TO GROUND) DRIVER RE

EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING HOIST HOOK UP HOLDING ONTO HOOK AT THE SAME TIME. EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING HOIST CONTROLS AND NOT THE HOOK. THE HOOK CAUGHT ON A PROTRUSION ON THE TRUCK PINCHING THE EMPLOYEE 'S FINGER BETWEEN THE HOOK AND TRUCK BODY. THE TIP OF THE FINGER WAS LATER AMPUTATED.

A APPROX. 10:00, HE INFORMED THE BLADE OPERATOR THAT HE WAS HAVING CHEST PAINS AND TROUBLE WITH CONGESTION OF HIS CHEST. THE PIT SUPERVISOR WAS NOTIFIED AND HE WAS TAKEN TO THE COLOSSEUM MEDIC AL ROOM - EVALUATION MADE- WAS TAKEN VIA AMBULANCE TO THE HOSPITAL IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA.

ON OILER MAINENANCE MAN STARTED-UP & MOVED THE LOADER IN REVERESE AND BACKED UPON THE HOOD OF A 1988-3/4 TON CHEVORTET-PU THAT HAD BEEN PARKED BEHIND THE LOADER BY THE ELECTRICIAN ON DUTY. APP ROX. AMOUND OF DAMAGE $350.00 EST.

THE OPERATOR OF HAUL TRUCK WAS PARKING THE UNIT AT THE SHOP AREA READER LINE AND A PAINT GUN AND PAINT HAND BEEN LEFT ON FORKLIFT PALLET NERAR THE LINE THE RIGHT FRONT TIRE OF TRUCK CRUSHED PA INT GUN AND PAINT BUCKETS.

AT 11:00AM OTHER EMPLOYEE CALLED VIA RADIO (MAYDAY) THAT I,NAME WAS ON THE DUMP AND WAS HAVING SEVERE CHEST PAINS AND THAT AMBULANCE TO E.M.T.S WERE NEEDED.-TREATED FOR HEART ATTACK AND RELEAS ED.

SORE BACK FROM DRIVING HIS HAUL TRUCK OVER UNEVEN ROUGH TERRAIN. DR HELD HIM OFF WORK UNTIL BACK PROBLEM CAN BE CHECKED OUT

EMPL DUMPING SCRAP IRON INTO BIN WHEN PIECE OF IRON SHIFTED AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER.CUT WAS 1/2" LONG AND FAIRLY DEEP.WOUND REQ 4 STITCHES.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT ON A HYDRAULIC HOSE WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED OF THE BOLT HEAD. WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED THE DOWNWARD FORCE HE WAS EXERTING CAUSED HIS ARM TO COME DOWN HARD ON THE EDGE OF AN OIL CATCH PAN. THE EDGE WAS SHARP ENOUGH TO CUT HIS ARM NEAR THE WRIST. THE CUT REQUIRED SEVERAL STITCHES TO CLOSE UP.

HE WAS ATTACHING THE TRUCK BED SAFTEY CABLES TO THE BED OF HAUL TRUCK. WHILE UNSCREWING THE PIN FROM A CLEVIS, HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER ON A BURR THAT WAS STICKING UP ON THE THREADS. THE SHARP B URR CUT HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS REACHING FOR A PART ON THE WAREHOUSE SHELF WHEN HE OVEREXTENDED HIS BACK & PULLED A MUSCLE THE SHELF WAS ABOUT ONE FOOT ABOVE HIS HEAD ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT QUITE MAKE IT TO THE PAR T HE WAS REACHING FOR HE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN FOLLOWED BY GREAT DISCOMFORT

DRIVER WAS DISMOUNTING HIS HAUL TRUCK WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND CONDITIONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE INCIDENT WAS A HOLE IN THE DECK THAT THE DRIVER TRIPPED OVER AND LOST HIS B ALANCE

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING AN 85 TON HAULAGE TRUCK WHEN A LOADER OPERATOR DUMPED SOME LARGE ROCK IN HIS TRUCK THE ROCK CAUSED THE TRUCK TO JOSTLE & THE DRIVER WAS UNPREPARED FOR THE SUDDEN MOVEMEN T THIS CAUSED HIM TO SPRAIN HIS BACK & NECK Y

HAUL TRUCK OPER. SUFFERE D SEVERE BACK MUSCL E STRAIN WHEN HE TWISTED HIS BODY SO T HAT HE COULD LOOK OUT LEFT HAND WINDOW TO CHECK ON CORRECT POSITION AT DUMP. IMPAIRMENT TOCONSISTS OF ACKU TE PAIN IN BACK MUSCLR NAD RESTRICTED MOVEMNET.

EMPLOYEE REMOVED GREASE PUMP AND EMPTY BARREL FROM HIS SERVICE TRUCK HE THEN WALKED OVER TO BARREL STORAGE AREA AND LIFTED 125 POUND GREASE BARREL ONTO HIS SHOULDER AND RETURNED TO HIS SERVI CE TRUCK WHERE HE LIFTED THE BARREL FROM HIS SHOULDER AND INSTALLED IT IN THE BRACKET ON THE TRH TRUCK AND FINISHED INSTALLING IT.

IMPROPER USE OF3HAND TOOL. EMPLOYEE USED HAND GRINDER TO CLEAN CRACK IN HAUL TRUCK BED PRIOR TO WELDING. GRINDER STUCK IN CRACK , THE HANDLE CAME UP AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN CHIN.