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EE WAS DISMOUNTING D10N DOZER ON THE LEFT SIDE. HE WAS USING HANDHOLDS AND WAS POSITIONERFD WITH ONE FOOT ON THE PUSHARM SURFACE AND ONE FOOT ON THE PUSHARM SIDE STEP. AS HE REMOVED HIS FOOT F ROM THE PUSHARM SURFACE HIS OTHER FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE SIDE STEP. THIS CAUSED HIM TO FALL ONTO/AGAINST THE TILT CYLINDER HANDHOLD RESULTING IN INJURY.

EMPLOYEE REPORTED INJURY ON 6-22-98 AND STATED THAT SOMETIME DURING HIS SHIFT ON 6-19-98, AS HE WAS TURNING AND SITTING DOWN ON THE OPERATOR'S SEAT OF THE DOZER, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK /UPPER RIGHT HIP.

SUPERVISOR WAS HELPING AN EMPLOYEE START A CHAINSAW, AFTER MUCH EFFORT THE CAHINSAW STARTED. THEEMPLOYEE QUICKLY LIFTED THE SAW TO KEEP THE CHAIN AND BAR OUT OF THE DIRT. THE SUPERVISOR SUSTAI NED LACERATIONS TO THE END OF 2 FINGERS ON THE RIGHT HAND. THE LACERATIONS REQUIRED 3 STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A ROLLER CAP BOLT ON A CAT D-11 DOZER. UPON REMOVING TH ELAST BOLT, THE FALL TO THE FLOOR CAUSING A STRAP HOLD A MINER BOGIE TO COME LOOSE. WHEN THE BOGIE FELL THE RESU LTING IMPACT CAUUSED A BOLT TO BECOME AIR BORNE. THE BOLT STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE'S HEAD CAUSIGN A LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED STITCHES.

RAINING WITH MUDDY CONDITIONS. DISMOUNTING EX400 AND SLIPPED ON MUDDY TRACK SURFACE. PREVENTED FALL BY GRABBING HANDHOLD RESULTING IN TWISTING MOTION AND STRIKING CATWALK WITH RIGHT HIP. DEVEL OPED SOME SORENESS AND PAIN. NO INITIAL MEDICAL ATTENTION SOUGHT. 6 MOS. LATER MEDICAL DX REVEAL HERNIATED DISC WITH SURGERY AS TREATMENT.

EE WAS POSITIONING JACK STAND UNDER A EUCLID R85 END DUMP TRUCK. THE EE'S THUMB WAS PINCHED IN THE JACK STAND HOLE CAUSING A LACERATION TO THE THUMB. THE LACERATION REQUIRED STITCHES.

EE WAS FUELING MOBILE EQUIPMENT. HE EXITED FUEL TRUCK AND WALKED IN MUDDY RUTTED CONDITIONS. THE GROUND ALONG SIDE A RUT GAVE WAY, CAUSING HIM TO SLIP, TWISTING THE RT KNEE AND JARRING HIS BAC K.

EUCLID R-85 END DUMP TRUCK (#35B) DID NOT LOWER AFTER DUMPING. OPERATOR DROVE TRUCK WITH BED UP THE UPPER PART OF THE TRUCK BED STRUCK THE NIXVILLE ROAD OVERPASS. UPON IMPACT WITH THE BRIDGE, THE OPERATORS HEAD STRUCK THE STEERING WHELL CAUSING A CUT OT THE FOREHEAD WHICH REQUIRED STITCHES

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS PULLING ON A 2" X 100' SECTION OF WATER LINE AND FELT A PAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS LOWER BACK. HE CONTINUED TO WORK, KNEELING DOWN TO CONNECT THE LINES TOGETHER. WHEN HE TRIED TO GET UP HE HAD SEVERE PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK MOVING DOWN HIS LEFT LEG.

EE STATES SHE WAS USING A UTILITY STYLE RAZOR KNIFE TO CUT A 1/4" POLYMANIA ROPE OFF A SPOOL. THE ROPE WOULD NOT CUT WITHOUT APPLYING A LOT OF PRESSURE. AS SHE WAS PULLING HARD ON THE KNIFE, I T SLIPPED AND CUT THROUGH THE GLOVE SHE WAS WEARING AND INTO THE PALM OF HER LEFT HAND. LACERATION REQUIRED SUTURES TO REPAIR.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT AS HE LEFT THE LUNCH TRAILER AND DESCENDING THREE STEPS HE SLIPPED AND FELL ON ROCK AND MUD THAT HAD ACCUMULATED ON THE STEPS AND HIS BOOTS. IMPAIRMENT CANNOT BE QUANTIFI ED AT THIS TIME AS IT IS UNKNOWN

EMPLOYEE STATES: WHILE HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE CARRY A 6"X20" PLASTIC "Y" PIPE FITTING, HE FELT A BURNIGN SENSATION IN HIS GROIN AREA.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS LIFTING AND PULLING ON WATER PIPE AND PUMP PARTS. HE FELT A BURNING PULLING SENSATION IN HIS GROIN AREA. LATER HE FELT A KNOT IN HIS GROIN AREA.

EE STATES HELPING HOIST A POWER CABLE ONTO A SUPPORT. CONDTITIONS WERE VERY MUDDY. HE WAS STEPPING FROM ON TOP ON 8'12" ROUND PLASTIC WATER PIPE TO ANOTHER WHEN HE SLIPPED, FELL AND TWISTED HI S LEFT ANKLE. SPRAINED ANKLE.

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO OPEN THE COVER OVER THE HYDRAULIC TANK USING A PRYBAR TO RAISE THE COVER. THE BAR SLIPPED & COVER FELL PINNING HIS LEFT THUMB AGAINST FRAM OF MACHINE, CUTTING THUMB REQUIR ING TWO SUTURES.

EE STATES WHIEL ATTEMPTING TO PUSH THE PUSH BLOCK ON A HIGHWALL MINER. THE BLOCK WAS SEIZED WITH FOREIGN MATERIAL AND WHEN HE PUSHED IT WITH HIS LEFT FOOT, THE FORCE HE EXERTED CAUSED HIM TO L OSE HIS BALANCE AND FELL OFF THE LAUNCH VEHICLE TO THE GROUND, LANDING ON HIS LEFT LEG. FALL OF APPROX 3'. NOTE: EE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION OR START MISSING TIME UNTIL 12-11-95.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMP. REMOVE A TOOTHFROM SPARE DRAGLINE BUCKET. INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING WATCHING WHILE OTHER PERSON WAS STRIKING ON WEAR SHROUD WITH A 20 LB. SLEDGE. A SLIVER OF METAL CAME OFF SHROUD AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN CHEST. LACERATION REQUIRING TWO SUTURES.

EMPLOYEE STATES: WORKING ON BOTTOM FLOOR AT PREP PLANT. AREA WAS FLOODED WITH SLURRY. INJURED EE AND ANOTHER WERE ATTEMPTING TO UNPLUG HOSE ON PUMP. ONE EE WENT TO OTHER SIDE OF BELT TO FEED C LEANUP HOSE TO INJURED EE. INJURED EE STEPPED INTO CONCRETE DRAINAGE DITCH, FELL AND STRUCK LEFT ARM ON SOMETHING FRACTURING BONE IN FOREARM.

EMPOYEE WAS STEPPING OFF A CONVEYOR SO THE BELT COULD BE JOGED. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL. HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A METAL SPRAY BAR BRACKET KNOCKING HIM UNCONSCIOU S AND CUTTING HIS FOREHEAD ABOVE HIS LEFT EYE. REQUIRED FIVE SUTURES TO CLOSE WOUND.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS WORKING WEST OF THE SILO CLEANING OUT A DITCH TO GET WATER AWAY FROM THE RAILROAD TRACK AND THE SILO AREA. AFTER HE COMPLETED THIS HE TURNED TO GO BACK TO THE SILO AND HEARD/FELT A POP IN HIS RIGHT KNEE. POSSIBLE TORN LIGAMENT IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS MOUNTING A DOZER. STEPPED UP ON A BLADE ARM STEP WITH HIS LEFT FOOT & WAS STEPPING TO THE TOP OF THE BLADE ARM TREAD WHEN HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OF TO THE GROUND. SPRAIN TO LEFT KNEE & ANKLE & STRAIN TO LEFT HAMSTRING.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE STARTED TO CLIMB DOWN OFF HAUL TRUCK, HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE LADDER,LEAVING HIS LEFT FOOT ON 2ND STEP OF LADDER. AS HIS BODY CAME DOWN IT OVER EXTENDED THE HAMSTRIN G MUSCLE IN LEFT LEG. STRETCHING INJURY MEDIAL HAMSTRING WITH SWELLING AND DISCOLORATION. NOTE: EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL DEC. 15, 1994.

EMPLOYEE STATES CLIMBING DOWN ACCESS LADDER OF END LOADER SLIPPED ON LAST STEP & CAUGHT HIMSELFHE PULLED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER CAUSING INFLAMATION& CALCIUM BUILDUP IN JOINT. NOTE: EMPL DID NOT REPORT INJURY OR START MISSING TIME UNTIL 9-27-94.

EMPLOYEE STATES WALKING INTO BATHOUSE BEFORE START OF THE SHIFT START ED TO STEP DOWN OFF LANDING AT DOOR & SOMEONE CALLED TO EMP HE TURNED HIS HEAD TO SEE WHO CALLED & SAT HIS FOOT DOWN O SID E OF FOOT STRAINING TENDONS IN FOOT LEFT NOTE THIS REPORT IS BEING ISSUED UNDER PROTEST DUE TO THIS NOT BEING A MINE ISLATED INCIDENT & OCCURRING BEFORE SHIFT STARTED

EMPLOYEE STATES HIMSELF & ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE LIFTING & PLACING THE TRAIL CABLE O THE DRAGLINE INTO HOOKS LOCATED O THE MACHINE TUB HE SAID THAT HE LIFTED WRONG & STRAINED MUSCLES IN HIS LOW ER BACK

EE STATES HE WAS INSTALLING LEFT SIDE PLATE ON FUEL TANK. HE STARTED A BOLT INTO HOLE AND AS HE REACHED FOR HIS IMPACT WRENCH THE PLATE SLID DOWN APPROX. 6INCH AND THE BOLT HEAD MASHED HIS FIN GER TIP BETWEEN 18 FT TOP OF CHAIN CASE. LACERATION REQUIRING THREE STUTURES.

EMPLOYEE STATES; HE WAS COMMING DOWN STAIRS FROM 2ND FLOOR TO GROUND LEVEL OF PREP. PLANT. HE SLIPPED ON THE FIRST STEP AND CAUGHT HIS FOOT ON THE SECOND STEP , TWISTING HIS RIGHT KNEE. STRA IN TO RIGHT KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATES: THAT DUE TO EXPOSURE TO DUST & AMMONIA NITRATE FUEL OI (ANFO) HIS RIGHT EYE WAS IRRITATED. FURTHER INVESTIGATION DETERMINED THAT SWEAT, DUST AND POSSIBLY ANFO PARTICLE GOT I NTO EMPLOYEES EYE WHILE HE WAS LOADING EXPLOSIVES INTO DRILL HOLES.

EMPLOYEE STATES: THAT HE WA SAIR ARCIN GOUT A CRACK IN A STRUCTURAL SUPPORT BEAM ON TEH DRAGLINE. A PIECE OF HOT METAL FELL INTO HIS WELDING GLOVE CUFF. AS HE PULLED THE GLOVE OFF, DUE TO C LOSE PROXIMITY TO AIR AR CELECTORDGE HE RECIEVED 2ND AND 3RD DEGREE BURNS TO LITTLE FING ERSIDE OFHIS RIGHT HAND.

EMP STATES - STEPPING DOWN OUT OF CAB OF POWDER TRUCK. PLACED HER RIGHT FOOT ON THE GROUND AND WHEN SHE APPLIED WEIGHT HE FOOT SLIPPED ON LOOSE MATERIAL/ROCK AND TRISTED HE ANKLE. SPRAIN TO RIGHT ANKLE.

WHILE CLIMBING DOWN FROM THE REAR OF A MOTOR GRADER EMPLOYEES FOOT SLIPPED ON MUDDY STEP CAUSING HIM TO SLIP & TWIST HIS LEFT KNEE. AFTER INCIDENT HE CONTINUED TO WORK ON 2/9/94 HE WENT TO DR . TO HAVE KNEE EXAMINED...HAS CONTINUED TO WORK.NO LOST TIME.

EMPLOYEE STATES: WHILE CLIMBING UP BOARDING LADDER ON 182 LAODING SHOVEL, AS HE GOT TO THE TOP AND TARTED TO STEP OVER ONTO CATWALK WITH HIS LEFT FOOT HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED OFF LADDER RUNG A ND HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL APPROX 10' TO THE GROUND.

EE STATED CLIMBING OFF HAUL TRUCK THAT WAS PARKED IN PARKING LOT BEHIND. MAIN SHOP STEPPED ON A LOOSE ROCK WITH LEFT FOOT AND AS HE APPLIED WIEGHT FOOT SLIPPED OFF ROCK TWISTING 18 FT KNEE. SP RAINING AND POSSIBLE TORN LIGAMENT IN 18 FT KNEE

EMPLOYEE STATES: WHILE REPAIRING ON A HAUL TRUCK, SOME TIME DURING THE SHIFT, HE GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGE. ON 12/4/93 HE REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR THAT FINGER WAS SWOLEN & HU RTING.

EMPLOYEE STATES: THAT A CO-WORKER WAS LIGHTING A TORCH USING HIS STRIKER, THAT WAS ATTACHED TO HIS BELT. WHEN HE LIT THE TORCH THE EMPLOYEE'S PANTS CAUGHT ON FIRE. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO THE INSIDE OF THE BOTH THIGHGS. AN AREA APPROX 6" LONG ON BOTH LEGS.

EMPLOYEE STATES SHE WAS CLEANING UP UNDER THE SILO SHE WAS SQUEEGING WATER TO A SUMP PUMP AS SHE STEPPED AROUND THE CORNER OF A CONCRETE & HER FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HER & SHE FELL STRIKI NG HER RT FRACTURED RIB LOWER RT SIDE

EMPLOYEE STATES: DRIVING WATER TRUCK OUT OF SIDE ROAD ONTO MAIN HAUL ROAD. WHEN TRUCK TRANSMISSION SHIFTED FROM 1ST. TO 2ND. GEAR, TRUCK JERKED POPPING EMPLOYEES LOWER BACK. MUSCLE STRAIN TO L OWER BACK. NOTE: EMP. HAS A HISTORY OF BACK PROBLEMS.

EMP. STATES: AFTER CLEANING IN SHOP WORK AREA, THAT CONSISTED OF PICKING UP RAGS, TRASH, ETC. & SWEEPING THE FLOOR HE FELT PAIN IN IN HIS LOWER BACK, DOWN HIS LEFT LEG & LATER DOWN HIS RIGHT L EG. HE ALSO STATED HE WAS NOT SURE WHAT HE DID TO CAUSE THESE PAINS.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING BARRELS OF GREASSE ONTO THE DRAGLINE HE LEANED A BARREL OVER TO ROLL IT OUT OF THE WAY CAUGHT HIS INDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND BETWEEN LIP OF BARREL & METAL FRAME AVULSION REQ UIRING 8 STITCHES TO PALM SIDE OF LEFT INDEX FINER

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE LIFTED A COAL HAUL TRUCK DRIVE WHEEL PLANETARY FROM FLOOR OF SHOP WITH ELECT. SHOP OVERHEAD CRANE. PLANETARY STARTED SPINNING & HE ATTMPTED TO STEADY UNIT & WAS STRUCK ON S IDE OF LEFT KNEE. LATER WHILE INSTALLING PLANETARY ON TRUCK HE WAS PUSHING ON PLANTARY USING LEFT LEG TO PUSH WITH. HE THINKS ONE OR BOTH OF THESE OCCURRANCES CAUSED INJURY TO HIS KNEE.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS SITTING UP A 55 GAL. BARREL OF GREASE, THAT WEIGHED APPROX. 450 LBS. AS HE WAS LIFTING THE BARREL HIS FOOT HUNG ON A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON, PUTTING HIM IN A STRAIN. MUSCLE STRAIN TO LOWER BACK.

EMP STATES CLIMBING ON A DOZER BY PLACING BOTH FEET ON PUSH & USING THE HAND HOLD TO PULL HIMSELF UP TO CRAWLER LEVEL AS HE DID THIS HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK ON THE LEFT SIDE POSSIBLE MUSCLE STRAIN TO MUSCLE ON LEFT SIDE UNDER RIB CAGE NOT E EMP DID NOT SLIP TRIP OR FALL NO UNNORMAL MOVEMENT OR OCCURRENCE

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS DIGGING A LARGE ROCK OUT OF THE CAST AREA WITH THE LEFT CORNER BIT OF THE DOZER. WHILE DOING THIS THE RIGHT TILT CYLINDER END BROKE ON THE BALDE RAM. THE DOZER SUDDE NLY DROPPED DOWN SHAKING THE EMPLOYEE UP CAUSING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE HAD CLIMBED UP ON 55 GAL BARRELS TO FASTEN A POWER CORD TO AN I BEAM. HE THEN ATTEMPTED TO WALK ACROSS FOUR BARRELS TO GET DOWN TO FLOOR. ONE BARREL DID NOT HAVE THE LI D ATTACHED TIGHTLY & WHEN HE STEPPED ON THIS LIDIT FLIPPED & HIS RIGHT LEG WENT INTO BARREL. TWISTED RIGHT KNEE, POSSIBLE DAMAGED LIGAMENT OR TENDON.

EMP. STATES: WHILE PICKING UP SCRAP METAL FROM FLOOR OF SHOP AND PLACING ON CUTTING TABLE, EMP. LIFTED A PIECE WEIGHING APPROX. 30 LBS. HE FELT A SLIGHT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND LATER THE PA IN GOT WORSE.

EE STATES HE WAS WALKING ON THE DRAGLINE BUCKET LIP AREA WHEN HE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF SHEET METAL THE SHEET METAL SLIPPED CAUSING TO FALL ON TOOTH BASE AREA BACKWARDS. CONTUSIONS TO LOWER CHE ST RIGHT SIDE POSSIBLE KIDNEY OR LIVER CONTUSION

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT AS HE WAS BACKING UP HIS DOZER HE TURNED AROUND TO THE RIGHT TO LOOK BEHIND. JUST AS HE TWISTED AROUND HE RAN OVER A LARGE BOULDER. HE WAS THROWN AGAINST THE SEAT & FELT A POP IN HIS CHEST AND TIGHT SIDE. CONTUSIONS TO MUSCLES IN CHEST AND RIGHT SIDE.

EMP. STATES: HE WAS REMOVING A 2" DIAMETER BEARING FROM A BAND SAW WHEEL. HE WAS USING A 3/4" LONG X 3/8" DIAMETER TIP, PUNCH, AND A #803 HAMMER. WHILE HITTING THE PUNCH A METAL CHIP BROKE OFF THE TIP OF THE PUNCH AND STRUCK & LODGED IN EMP. LEFT FOREARM.

EMP STATES WHILE CLIMBING DOWN BETWEEN THE BLADE AND RADIATOR ON A DOZER,HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE TILT CYCLINDER CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS STRIKING HIS LOWER BACK AND LEFT SIDE ON THE CYCL INDER.MUSCLE STRAIN TO LOWER BACK AND SOFT TISSUE INJURY TO LEFT SIDE.

EMP STATES SHE WAS PLACING A BOX OF PRIMERS INTO THE STORAGE BOX ON THE POWDER TRUCK.AS SHE BENT OVER THE DOOR TO PLACE BOX INSIDE BOX SHE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HER LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS ASSEBLING A D9-L RIPPER CYLINDER AT THE WORK BENCH IN THE SHOP. HE LIFTED A PISTON WEIGHING APPROX. 50 LBS. TO ALIGN IT ONTO THE ROD & FELT A PULL/PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES; THAT HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE ACCESS STEPS TO GET OFF THE DRAGLINE. HIS LEFT BOOT HEAL CAUGHT ON UPPER STEP & HIS TOE CAUGHT ON THE NEXT STEP DOWN & WHILE ATTEMPTING TO TAKE AN OTHER STEP HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE, THAT HE HAD PREVIOUSLY INJURED & REINJURED SAME.

EE STATES WAS ATTEMPTING TO FUEL A HAULAGE TRUCK. AS SHE PICKED UP THE NOZZLE THE COILED UP FUEL HOSE CAUSED HER TO TRIP DID NOT FALL AND WAS THROWN BACKWARDS JERKING UPPER BODY CAUSING INJURY TO LOWER BACK. MUSCLE STRAIN TO LUMBAR AREA OF ARE OF BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES WAS LIFTING A PUMP HOUSING BEARING ONTO A WORK BENCH.WHEN HE PICKED UP THE HOUSING HE FELT A POP AND PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.PINCHED NERVE IN LOWER BACK.

EMPL CRAWLING AROUND ON TOP OF DECK SUPPORT FRAME OF COAL VIBRATOR SCREEN,PUT EXCESSIVE PRESSURE ON RIGHT KNEE CAP AREA AND STARTED EXPERIENCING PAIN & SWELLING.DAMAGED CARTILAGE.

CLIMBING OFF DRAGLINE TRIPPED ON CORD FELL INJ R KNEE

DISMOUNTING DOZER FOOT SLIPPED OFF TRACK HE STARTED FALLING OTHER EMP PREVENTED HIS FALL

PULLING ON BARREL OF GREASE FOOT SLIPPED CAUGHT SELF FROM FALLING FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK

MOVING DRAGLINE BUCKET WEDGE THROWING IT UNDER BENCH MASHED BETWEN THE WEDGE AND TIP OF BENCH

A DRAGLINE WAS REMOVING OVERBURDEN FROM COAL SEAM & DETONATED AN UNSHOT CAST PRIMER WITH THE BUCKET PRIMER WAS MASHED BETWEEN RT CORNER OF THE BUCKET THE TOP OF THE CORNER BUCKET TOOTH & THE R OCK BEING LOADED INTO THE BUCKET

WHILE OPERATING A SCRAPER PUSHING ANOTHER SCRAPER OVER A TOPSOIL STOCKPILE ANOTHER SCRAPER TRAVELING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION STRUCK THE CAB OF THE INJURED EE HE WAS THROWN AROUND VIOLENTLY IN T HE CAB OF SCARPER AND RECEIVED THREE BROKEN RIBSON LEFT SIDE.

EMPL STATED WHILE HELPING CHANGE DUST FILTERS ON D75 DRILL HE LOST BALANCE & FELL STRIKING LEFT SIDE ON BUMPER OF WELDING TRUCK. EMPL WAS STANDING WITH ONE FOOT ON TRUCK BUMPER & OTHER ON DRIL L TRACK. FRACTURED #7 RIB ON LEFT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE LUBRICATING FITTINGS UNDER A HAUL T RUCK HE RAISED UP & BUMPED HIS HEAD ON THE RT DRIVE RADIUS ROD & JAMMED HIS NECK NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION AT C7 CERVICAL LEVEL

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS LOCATED ON DECK OF DRILL LIFTING A DRAILL STEEL CAP WEIGHING APPROX 75LBS HE SLIPPED ON MUD BUT DID NOT FALL THIS SUDDEN MOVEMENT STRAINED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK

DUE TO HEAVY THUNDER STORMS AND LIGHTNING THE 3RD SHIFT DRILL CREWS DID NOT ENTER THE SHOT AREA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SHIFT(11:00PM ON 03-21-01).THE LIGHTNING KEPT THEM OUT OF THE AREA UNTIL APPROX 5:30AM.UPON RE-ENTERING THE DRILL PATTERN EMPLOYEES DISCOVERED THAT ONE LOADED HOLE HAD BEEN STRUCK AND DETONATED BY LIGHTNING.

EMPLOYEE STATES STANDING BEHIND A POWDER TRUCK OPERATING THE BIN DOOR CONTROLS.A HYDRAULIC LINE LOCATED TO HER LEFT DEVELOPED A PIN HOLE AND SPRAYED HYDRAULIC OIL,STRIKING HER ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FACE AND GOT SOME OIL IN HER LEFT EYE CAUSING PAIN.

HE BENT DOWN TO UPRIGHT A BOX SITTING ON DECK OF DRILL CONTAINING A DRILL BIT. WHILE LIFTING ON BOX HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. EE ELECTED TO BE TREATED BY A CHIROPRACTOR INSTEAD OF A MEDICAL .

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS HOLDING A SHORT 3/8" PIPE WITH A PIPE WRENCH WITH RIGHT HAND AND WAS PULLING ON A 9/16" BOX END WRENCH WITH LEFT HAND WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS WRIST. FRACTURE TO BONE IN LEFT ARM AT WRIST.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS DISMOUNTING #041 POWDER TRUCK WHEN HE FELT A POP IN HIS LEFT HIP. HE STATES HE WAS USING THREE POINT CONTACT AND DID NOT SLIP OR FALL, WAS DISMOUNTING PROPERLY. PAIN IN LEFT HIP AND LEG.

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE MOUNTIN A D-11 DOZER HIS FEET AND HANDS SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS, TO THE GROUND. HE REACHED OUT WITH HIS LEFT ARM TO CATCH HIS FALL AND TWISTED, STRAINED MU SCLES AND BRUISED ARM ABOVE AND BELOW HIS ELBOW.

SUDDENLY THE CAB OF THE TRUCK BURST INTO FALMES. EMPLOEYE OPENED THE CAB DOOR ON THE DRIVERS SIDE AND REACHED IN TO OBTAIN THE CLIPBOARD HOLDING SHOOTER REPORTS. SUDDENLY FLAMES ENGULFED THE INSIDE OF THE CAB. HE SAID FLAMES ROLLED ACROSS THE SEAT TOWARD HIM. ACCORDING TO EVERYONE PRESENT THE CAB OF THE POWER TRUCK WAS IMMEDIATELY ENGULFED IN FLAMES. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT ALL

EE STATES ATTEMPTING TO STRAIGHTEN DAMAGED CAB DOOR ON DRILL SHE GOT FINGERS OF LEFT HAND BETWEEN DOOR AND DOOR FRAME INJURING SAME CONTUSION TO INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER LACERATION REQUIRING NI NE SUTURES TO PALM SIDE OF RING FINGER ALL ON LEFT HAND.

HE WAS CRAWLING THROUGH BULKHEAD OPENINGS IN TH E TUB OF THE DRAGLINE. HE STRUCK HIS LEFT LEG ON A PEICE OF ANGLE IRON WELDED ON THE WALL CUTTING HIS LEG. LACERATION TO LOWER LEFT LEG REQUIR ING 3 SUTURES.

WASHING DOWN PLANT STEPPED BACK IN A HOLE IN FLOOR FELL STRUCK HER L FOREARM ON TOE BOARD LACERATING 6 STITCHES Y

IN LOWER CONTROL ROOM ON DRAGLINE SITTING WITH BACK TO DOOR JUST INDSIDE OF ROOM OTHER PERSON OPENED DOOR LON G FINGER ON R HAND WENT IN DOOR AM DOOR SHUT TAKING THE TIP OFF PER CO.

HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT AND DUMP A CAN OF TRASH INTO TRASH DUMPSTER. CAUGHT AND MASHED FINGER BETWEEN EDGE OF TRASH CAN AND LIP EDGE OF DUMPSTER. FRACTURED FINGER OF RIGHT HAND.

WORKING AROUND TRUCK SLIPPED IN MUD GRABBING TRUCK TWISTED LOWER BODY STRAIN TO LOWER BACK

INSTALLING DRIVELINE HAUL TRUCK HELD BY ROPE ATTACHED TO CRANE ON TRUCK CRANE RAISED THE DRIVELINE CAME UP CAUGHT LITTLE FINGER ON R HAND MAHSING FINGER CUT 4 STITCHES

WELDING SCREENS AND WEARPLATES IN AWKWARD POSITIONS PAIN IN HIP AND LEG

HOLDING LOADER CROWD BRAKE ASSEMBLY,HAD TAKEN IT OFF DRUM AND IT RELEASED WITH AIR PRESSURE.OPER ASKED IT HE COULD RELEASE AIR PRESSURE AND INJ EMPL SAID YES BUT HAD THUMB & HAND IN AREA WHERE BRAKE BAND ATTACHES TO AIR CYLINDER.AS AIR WAS RELEASED,CYLINDER RETRACTED CATCHING EMPL RIGHT HAND AND THUMB.LACERATION REQ SUTURES.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS ARC AIRING WEAR PLATES OFF A D-11 DOZER BLADE HE HAD ARCED 3/4WAY AROUND THE CENTER PLATE & WAS CHECKING THE TOP WHEN THE PLATE BROKE LOOSE AT THE TOP & STRUCK HIM IN TH E HEAD KNOCKING HIM OFF THE BLADE BACKWARDS STRIKING LEFT ELBOW & ROBS ON A CRIB BLOCK LACERATION OVER LEFT EYE AN LEFT ELBOW REQUIRING STITCHES & CONTUSIONS TO LEFT RIB CAGE

REMOVING FILTER FROM CANISTER TAB BENT CAUSED F HAND TO SLIP MIDDLE FINGER ON R HAND CUT ON SHARO EDGE OF FILTER 2 STITCHES

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS LOCATED ON THE BED OF A WELDING TRUCK STANDING ON TOP A TOOL BOX CHECKING THE FUEL LEVEL IN A WELDING MACHINE. HE TURNED AND STEPPED DOWN ONTO BED OF TRUCK AND HIS AN KLE TWISTED/GAVE AWAY UNDER BODY WEIGHT. SPRAIN TO LEFT ANKLE. NOTE: EMPLOYEE DID NOT SLIP, TRIP OR STEP ON SOMETHING.

EMP STATES WALKING A CROSS TRUCK LOT BEHIND MAIN SHOP STEPPED ON UNLEVEL GROUND TWISTED RIGHT LEG INJURING RIGHT KNEE SPRAIN TO RIGHT KNEE NOTE EMPLOYEE HAS PREVIOUSLY INJURED THIS KNEE & HAD KEEN OPERATED ON & OCCASIONALLY REINJURES THIS KNEE

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE WELDING ON DRAGLINE BUCKET WEAR PLATES HE WAS SITTING OVER A HOLE IN THE NEXT PLATE HEAT FROM WELDING CAME THROUGH HOLE CAUSING 2ND & 3RD DEGREE BURN TO HIS LEFT HIP NOTE EMP DOES NOT HAVE FEELING IN THIS AREA OF HIP DUE TO PREVIOUS SURGERY THUS HE DID NOT KNOW HE WAS BURNED UNTIL TAKING HIS CLOTHES OFF AT HOME

EMPLOYEE STATES STANDING ON DRILL DECK HOLDING ONTO WENCH CABLE WHILE WALKING BACKWARD.STEPPED ON ANGLE BRACE SLIPPED.GRABBED HOLD OF HANDRAIL TO STOP FALL,BUT STILL FELL TO DECK.PULLED MUSCLE IN UPPER RIGHT ARM FROM BEING STRETCHED/PULLED.

EMPL WAS WORKING IN LOWER FRAME OF DRAGLINE WHEN ELECTRICITY WENT OFF. HE HAD FLASH LIGHT THAT HE USED TO GET OUT OF LOWER FRAME. ONCE OUT LAYED IT DOWN & WALKED ACROSS TO OPPOSITE SIDE OF MAC HINE IN FRONT OF HOIST DRUM IN DARK. HE TURNED LEFT THINKING HE WAS AT SWING MOTORS BUT INSTEAD WAS AT STAIRS LEADING DOWN INTO LOWER FRAME. HE FELL DOWN STAIRS APPROX 10' TO MACHINERY DECK L

EMPLOYEE STATES: ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A WEDGE FROM A DRAGLINE DRAG CHAIN REPAIR LINK. HE WAS STRIKING THE WEDGE WITH A 16# SLEDGE HAMMER. UPON STRIKING THE HEAD OF THE WEDGE, A PIECE OF STEEL SLIVERED OFF THE EDGE OF WEDGE HEAD AND STRUCK HIM IN UPPER INSIDE PORTION OF HIS LEFT EAR AND LEDGED. REQUIRED FOUR STITCHES TO CLOSE WOUND.

OPERATING DOZER PUSHING ROCK & DIRT.BACKED UP OVER SOME LARGE ROCK WHICH JARRED DOZER CAUSING WHIPLASH INJURY TO NECK.EMPL SOUGHT MED ATTENTION 1-29-90.

CLIMBING OUT OF CAB OF EXPLOSIVE TRUCK, FACING FORWARD. HER FEET SLIPPED OFF ACCESS STEPS AND SHE FELL TO THE GROUND TWISTING RIGHT ANKLE AND FOOT. SPRAIN TO RIGHT ANKLE AND STRAINED LIGAMEN TS AND TENDONS TO ANTERIOR SIDE OF RIGHT FOOT.

EMPLOYEE STATES CLIMBING DOWN OUT OF CAB OF SCRAPER AS HE PLACED HIS WEIGHT ON HIS LEFT LEG HE FELT HIS LEFT KNEE POP TWO DAYS LATER HIS KNEE STARTED HURTING & SWELLING TORN CARTILAGE IN LEFT KNEE

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING REMOVE A BROKEN TOOTH TIP FROM THE DRAGLINE BUCKET. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE STRUCK THE TOOTH WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER AND A SLIVER OF METAL CAME OFF THE TOOTH AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE IN HIS RIGHT SIDE. METAL WAS SURGICALLY REMOVED AND REQUIRED TWO STITCHES.

CLIMBING DOWN OFF TRUCK LOST GRIP ON LADDER , FELL 6' TO GROUND. LANDED ON R HEEL R WRIST CHIPPING BONE IN HEEL FRACT BONE IN R WRIST.

EMPL STATES OPERATING A DOZER LEVELING SPOIL WAS BACKING UP AND RAN OVER SEVERAL LARGE ROCKS WHICH CREATED A JOLT TO OPERATOR HE FELT HIS NECK POP MUSCLE STRAIN TO CERVICAL AREA OF BACK

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING STRINGS FROM A BALE BUSTER FLALES. AS THE KNIFE CUT THROUGH THE STRING THE MOMENTUM OF THE CUTTING ACTION CAME ACROSS TO EMP. RIGHT HAND CUTTING THE INDEX FINGER AT THE KN UCKLE. REQUIRED FOUR SUTURES.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF WIRING DRILLED HOLES TOGETHER TO SHOOT. HE STRADDLED A PILE OF HOLE CUTTINGS TO HOOK A CAP TO THE DOWN LINE. THE GROUND WAS MUDDY AND IT WAS RAINING. HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED IN THE MUD AND HE FELT HIS KNEE TWIST. SPRAIN TO RIGHT KNEE.

EMPL STATES ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE TREE LIMB FROM HOOD OF DOZER THAT HAD FALLEN ONTO DOZER WHILE CLEARING TIMBER LIMB WAS WEDGED AND APPARENTLY UNDER PRESSURE WHEN EMPL PULLED IT LOOSE LIMB STRU CK HIM ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD LACERATING SCALP REQUIRING SIX STITCHES

EMPLOYEE STATES: WAS CHANGING MOTOR BRUSHES ON DRAGLINE. HAD TO KNEEL TO REACH SOME OF BRUSHES. AFTER SHIFT EMPLOYEE NOTICES SWELLING TO LEFT KNEE. HAD TO HAVE FLUID REMOVED FROM KNEE.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE CARRY A PIECE OF ROUND METAL 6"DX18"L,WEIGHING APPROX 112 LBS.STARTED HAVING PAIN IN UPPER PORTION OF BACK,BETWEEN SHOULDER BLADES AND MUSCLE STRAIN T O LOWER BACK.NOTE" EMPLOYEE DID NOT START MISSING TIME FROM WORK UNTIL AUGUST 16,1989.

DRIVING BEARING RACE OUT OF HAUL TRUCK WHEEL SMLALL CHUNK OF RAC BROKE OFF AND STRUCK EMPL IN RIGHT FOREARM LODGING IN HIS ARM.

EMPL PLACED HIS HAND ON THE DRILL HEAD UNAWARE THAT HIS LITTLE FINGER ON THE L HAND WAS ON THE SPLINED SLIP SHAFT THE DRILLER ALSO UNAWARE THAT HIS FINGER WAS IN A PINCH POINT RAISED THE DRILL HEAD CATCHING EMPL FINGER BETWEEN DRILL HEAD AND SHAFT STOP BROKEN AND LACERATED LITTLE FINGER ON L HAND

EMPLOYEE STATES; WAS STANDING OBSERVING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE USE AN AIR WRENCH AND SOCKET TO REMOVE A NUT. THE SOCKET CAME OFF THE AIR WRENCH AND BOUNCED AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE CHIN. LACERATIO N APPROX. 2" LONG REQUIRING SIX SUTURES.

EMPL RELOCATING MINERS 1ST AID STATION.LIFTED ONE END OF STATION OVER TAILGATE OF PICKUP TRUCK THEN PUSHED OTHER END.WHEN STATION CLEARED TAILGATE LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN LID AND TAILGATE.PARTIAL AMPUTATION OF TIP BET3WEEN TIP AND 1ST JOINT.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS WALKING ACROSS SHOP FLOOR,STEPPED ON AN AIR HOSE,THE HOSE ROLLED FROM UNDER HIS HEEL CAUSING HIM TO SLIP.THE SUDDEN JOLT CAUSED SUDDEN PAIN TO HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPL CUTTING LID OUT OF 5-GAL PLASTIC BUCKET USING POCKET KNIFE.KNIFE SLIPPED AND HE CUT LOWER RIGHT LEG PUNCTURE WOUND REQ 2 STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE STATES:STANDING ON PLATFORM ON SIDE OF SCRAPER.REACHED WITH LEFT HAND AND GRABBED A HOLD OF HAND HOLD ABOVE CAB.HIS FEET SLIPPED AND HE CAUGHT HIS WEIGHT WITH LEFT ARM CAUSING MUSCLE STRAIN TO UPPER LEFT ARM.

EMPL BENT OVER AND WALKED UNDER SHOP TRUCK HOIST-51"HIGH.AS HE STRAIGHTENED FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK-MUSCLE STRAIN TO LOWER BACK.

EMPL STATED HE WAS LOADING A GREASE PUMP ONTO THE BED OF THE SUPPLY TRUCK HE SLIPPED ON ICE LOST HIS BALANCE AND NEARLY FELL HE CAUGHT HIS 3RD FINGER ON HIS L HADN BETWEEN THJE GREASE PUMP AND A METAL BOX ON THE TRUCK CUITTING HIS FINGER LACERATION REQUIRING SIX STITCHES

ATTEMPTING TO HOIST DRILL CABLE ON SET OF OVERHEAD PORTABLE CABLE CROSSINGS. CABLE WAS PULLED TIGHT EMPL LIFTED CABLE TO PLACE NYLON STRAP ON CABLE. EMPL SAID SHE WAS IN HURRY & JUST DID NOT T AKE TIME TO OBTAIN SLACK IN CABLE OR HELP. STRAINED MUSCLE OR PINCHED NERVE IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES WAS CLEANING WINDSHIELD ON END LOADER, SLIPPED AND FELL OFF LOADER ONTO COAL RIB. FALL OF APPROX. 8 FEET HE LANDED ON HIS FEET FIRST THEN FELL TO THE GROUND BREAKING HIS FALL WITH HIS OUTSTRETCHED HANDS.

EMPL CLIMBING OFF CAT D-4 DOZER FEET SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO CRAWLER OF DOZER THEN FELL TO GROUND.CONTUSIONS,SWELLING & PAIN TO LEFT HIP & THIGH.

EMPLOYEE STATES, WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CLIMBING OFF THE DRILL BY WAY OF ACCESS STEPS LOACATED ON BACK OF DRILL CAB. STEPPED ON BOTTOM SWINGING STEP AND FOOT SLIPPED OFF STEP. EMPLOYEE FELL T O GROUND AND LANDED ON BOTH FEET WITH A HARD JOLT. RECEIVED A COMPRESSION TYPE CAUSING CONTUSIONS, PAIN AND SWELLING TO HER RIGHT HIP.

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE OPERATING A D-11 DOZER PUSHING OVERBURDEN HE STRUCK A LARGE BOULDER WITH THE BLADE CORNER BIT. THE DOZER TWISTED SIDEWAYS SUDDENLY JARRING HIM IN THE SEAT. UPPER BODY TWI STING MOTION. MUSCLE STRAIN AND POSSIBLE RUPTURED DISC IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES: WAS SHARPENING HIS POCKET KNIFE PRIOR TO CUTTING SOME ROPE. HE MISSED THE SHARPENING STICK AND STRUCK HISLEFT INDEX FINGER AT THE THIRD KNUCKLE. 1" LACERATION REQUIRING STITCH ES.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE AND ANOTHER MECHANIC WERE LOADING A TOOL BOX WEIGHING APPROX. 150 LBS. INTO THE BED OF A UTILITY TRUCK. HE SUDDENLY FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE HAS A HISTORY OF RECENT BACK TROUBLE INCLUDING TWO BACK SURGERIES.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS CUTTING AN APPLE USING HIS POCKET KNIFE. HE CUT THROUGH THE APPLE AND CUT HIS HAND. LACERATION TO PALM OF LEFT HAND REQUIRING THREE STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS IN THE TUB OF THE 8750 DRAGLINE. HE WAS HOLDING NUTS ON SWING SEGMENT BLOLTS WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TIGHTENED THE BOLTS FROM ABOVE USING AN AIR WRENCH. EMPLOYEE TURNED TO PICK UP ANOTHER WRENCH AS OTHER EMPLOYEE SPUN THE BOLT AND NUT WITH AIR WRENCH. A SEMI-HARDENING AGENT (DEVCON) WAS SLUNG FROM BOLT AND SOME CAME PAST EMP. SAFETY GLASSES AND GOT INTO HIS

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE WALKING & CARRYING A COAL SAMPLE ACROSS BOTTOM FLOOR OF PREP.PLANT EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON AN ACCUMULATION OF GOB-REFUSE ON FLOOR & HE SLIPPED EMP.SAID WHEN HE SLIPPED HE FEL T A PULLING IN HIS LEFT KNEE INTERNAL DERANGEMENT OF LEFT KNEE

EMPLOYEE STATES: WAS USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO DRIVE A PIN. THE HAMMER HANDLE BROKE AND A WOOD SPLINTER CUT HIS HAND. LACERATION TO LEFT HAND BETWEEN THUMB AND 1ST FINGER REQUIRING TWO SUTURES.

HE WAS STANDING APPROX. HALF WAY ALONG THE PUSHARM ON A D-11 DOZER. HE TURNED TO CLIMB BACK ONTO THE DOZER AND LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL OFF DOZER TO THE GROUND, DISTANCE OF APPROX. 4'. FRACTU RES TO TWO RIBS ON RIGHT SIDE AND TO LEFT SHOULDER. SPRAIN TO RIGHT KNEE. PARTIALLY COLLAPSED RIGHT LUNG.

EMPLOYEE STATES: CLIMBING DOWN OFF A FLATBED TRUCK USING HANDHOLDS AND A SWINGING CHAIN STEP. WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE CHAIN STEP IT SWUNG BACK UNDER THE TRUCK'S BUMPER CAUSING OVEREXTENSIONS OF HIS LEG. MUSCLE STRAIN TO UPPER LEFT LEG (HAMSTRING MUSCLE).

EMPLOYEE STATES: WHILE REMOVING A BRAKEN WINSHIELD FROM A PICKUP TRUCK HE CUT HIS RIGHT THUMB, REQUIRING THIRTEEN STITCHES (13).

USING 1 1/2" WATER HOSE TO WASH DOWN FLOOR OF PREPARATION PLANT. SHE PULLED ON HOSE TO MOVE TO ANOTHER AREA. HOSE HUNG ON SOMETHING SO SHE PULLED HARD & HOSE CAME LOOSE SUDDENLY CAUSING HER TO STRIKE HER HAND & WRIST ON HANDRAIL PIPE. CONTUSIONS & SWELLING TO WRIST & BACK OF LEFT HAND.

EMPL STATED HE WAS ASSISTING ANOTHER EMPL CHANGE TOOTH TIP ON DRAGLINE BUCKET. HE STEPPED BACK APPROX 15' WHILE OTHER EMPL BROKE TIP LOOSE FROM ADAPTER U SING SLEDGE HAMMER. HE STRUCK TOOTH ON TIP & SLIVER OF METAL CAME OFF OLD TOOTH & STRUCK EMPL IN UPPER RIGHT ARM. LACERATION REQUIRING STITCHES.

EMPL STATED WAS IN PROCESS OF REPLACING CONVEYOR SIDE PANEL IN PREPERATION PLANT. WAS USING PRY BAR & GUIDING PANEL WITH LEFT HAND. BAR SLIPPED & PANEL FELL PINNING LEFT HAND BETWEEN CONVE* YOR SIDE & BOTTOM OF CONVEYOR. THIS RESULTED IN SOFT TISSUE INJURY TO BACK OF LEFT HAND. NOTE : CONVEYOR SIDE WEIGHS APPROX 85 LBS.

EMP STTED THAT HE WAS STANDIG ON THE FRONT BUMPER AND FRONT TIRE OF THE LUBRICATIO TRUCK ADDING ANTIFREEZE TO THE RADIATOR WHEN HE CLIMBED OFF TRUCK HE SLIPPED AND FELL BACKWARDS TO T HE GROUND HE USED HIS LEFT HAND TO CATCH HIMSELF THE IMPACT FRACTURED THE ULNA BONE IN HIS LEFT FREARM

EMPL CLIMBING INTO BASKET ON GROVE CRANE.DUE TO GROUND SLOPING IN FRONT OF CRANE OPERATOR UNABLE TO LOWER BASKET ALL THE WAY TO GROUND.EMPL HAD TO PULL HIMSELF UP ON OUTSIDE OF BASKET.FOOT SL IPPED AND HE WAS HANGING FROM SIDE OF BASKET BY HANDS.THIS JERKING ACTION CAUSED LOWER BACK INJRURY

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A 5 GAL. WATER JUG FILLED WITH WATER AND ICE ONTO THE SHOE OF THE 8750 DRAGLINE.THIS LIFT WAS FRON THE GROUND TO APPROX. HEAD LEVEL, 5-6'. EMPLOYE E RECEIVED A MUSCLE STRAIN (POSSIBLE MUSCLE TEAR) TO HER LEFT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE DRIVING A COAL HAUL TRUCK OUT OF PIT INCLINE THE WINDSHIELD OF THE TRUCK GFOGGED UP ON THE INSIDE OF THE CAB THE DRIVER ATTEMPTED TO CLEAR THE WINDOW WHIME CONTINUING TO DRIVE THE TRUCK THE STRETCHING NOTION CAUSED MUSCLE STRAIN TO HIS NECK AND RIGHT SHOULDER

EMPLOYEE STATES: WASHING PARTS IN A BUCKET OF SOLVENT. HE WAS WEARING RUBBER GLOVES. SOLVENT GOT INSIDE THE RIGHT GLOVE AND EMPLOYEE CONTINUED TO WASH PARTS. AFTER A WHILE EMPLOYEE TOOK THE GLOVES OFF AND CONTINUED TO WASH PARTS IN SOLVENT. THE DOCTORS DIAGNOSIS WAS CONTACT DERMATITIS TO HIS RIGHT HAND.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT AFTER EATING SUPPER EMP. WAS CLIMBING BACK ONTO HIS DOZER HE HAD MUD ON HIS BOOTS AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED HE FELL AGAINST FRAME OF MACHINE INJURING MUSCLES ON HIS RIGHT SIDE

EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE DRIVING TRUCK OUT OF PIT ALONG ACCESS RAMP STRUCK ROCK LYING IN ROADWAY THROWING EMPLOYEE UP AGAINST ROOF OF TRUCK CAUSING INJURY TO NECK AREA MUSCLE STRAIN TO NECK

WHILE REPAIRING ON A D-11 DOZER, HE WAS SITTING ON THE DOZER TRACK. WHEN HE TWISTED AROUND, HE STRUCK HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON THE FRAME OF THE DOZER. OVER THE NEXT THREE DAYS HE, ON OCCASION, STRUC K HIS ELBOW WHICH CAUSED CONTINUOUS AGGRAVATION. ON 5-10-88, HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR WHO DIAGNOSED A SMALL FRACTURE ON THE RIGHT PROXIMALULNA.

EMPLOYEE STATED ON 2-28-88 HE SPRAINED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK WHEN HE STEPPED ON A 8 IN PUMP HOSE COVERED WITH FROST AND SLIPPED AND FELL ON 3-17-88 WHILE LIFTING ON ONE END OF A HAUL TRUCK FR ONT STABILIZER BAR SO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE COULD PIN IN HE INJURED HIS LOWER BACK HE WENT TO DR ON 3-18-88 AND WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING ACUTE LUMBAR SPRAIN

HE HAD LOADED A CATERPILLER D-11 DOZER ONTO LOWBOY FOR TRANSPORTING TO THE REPAIR SHOP DUE TO THE WIDTH OF THIS DOZER PUSH ARMS HANG OVER SIDES OF THE LOWBOY IT IS APPROX.6FT FROM ARM TO THE G ROUND EMPLOYEE CLIMBED OFF THE DOZER ONTO THE PUSH ARM & JUMPED TO THE GROUND CAUSING INJURY TO THE LOWER BACK FROM THE JAR EMPLOYEE HAS A PRIOR HISTORY OF BACK TROUBLE

ON 2-17-88 HE WAS USING A 20 LB SLEDGE HAMMER TO DRIVE KEEPER PINS IN THE TEETH ON THE BUCKET OF THE 3270 DRAGLINE A KNOT APPEARED ON HIS ABDOMEN THAT LATER WENT DOWN HE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THAT TIME ON 2-29-88 WHILE CLIMBING ON TO THE GROVE HYDRAULIC CRANE THE KNOT REAPPEARED CAUSING HIM PAIN HE WENT TO DR WHO DIAGNOSED THAT IT WAS A INGUINAL HERNIA

EMPLOYEE STATES3CARRYING CRANE LEVELING JACK PAD FROM WELDING TRUCK TO REAR OF CRANE DUE TO DARKNESS EMPLOYEE STEPPED INTO A DEEP TRACTOR RUT AND TWISTED HIS LEFT LEG AND LOWER BACK MUSCLE ST RAIN AND POSSIB5E PINCHED NERVE IN LOWER BACK

HE WAS HELPING 7HANGE AIR FILTERS IN THE DUST COLLECTOR SYSTEM ON A DRILL. HE HAD TO BEND OVER INTO THE DUST HOPPER TO REACH THE FILTERS. HE SAID THAT HE THOUGH BEING IN THAT POSITION HURT HIS BACK. 3

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING LOAD A 12 FT. ALUMINUM BOAT INTO THE BED OF A PICKUP. THE PICKED UP THE FRONT OF THE BOAT BY A HANDLE, WITH HIS KNUCKLES ON TOP OF THE HANDLE. TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES LIFTED T HE REAR OF THE 6OAT. THIS CAUSED THE FRONT OF THE BOAT TO PINCH/PULL HIS FINGER AND KNUCKLE, CAUSING SPRAIN TO MIDDLE FINGER AND LARGE KNUCKLE ON LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING MOVE A PUMP HOSE AND ELECTRIC CABLE.HOSE AND CABLE BECAME HUNG ON A ROC,IT PULLED HIM FORWARD WHILE HIS FOOT REMAINED LODGED BETWEEN TWO ROCKS,TWISTING LEFT ANKLE.SPRAIN A ND POSSIBLE NER5E DAMAGE TO LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATES3HEWAS MOVING HIS TOOL BOX ACROSS THE SHOP WHEN ONE WHEEL OF TOOL BOX DROPPED INTO A HOLE BESIDE THE METAL RAIL IN SHOP FLOOR. THE TOOL BOX TIPPED OVER ONTO EMPLOYEE AND CUT THE TOP OF HIS LEF7 INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE STATES4 HE WAS HELPING REPLACE A GUARD OVER A HOIST MOTOR COUPLING ON A DRAGLINE. HE SQUATTED UNDERNEATH A WALKWAY AND WAS USING A PRY BAR TO LINE UP THE GUARD. BEING IN A AWKWARD POS ITION PRYING ON3THE BAR CAUSED HIM TO HAVE A PULLED BACK MUSCLE & A PINCHED NERVE IN HIS NECK. HE HAD TO HAVE SURGERY FOR THE PINCHED NERVE ON 1-13-88.

EMPLOYEE STATES3HE WAS PULLING HIS ROLL AROUND TOOL BOS ACROSS THE SHOP FLOOR. THE BOX ROLLED AGAINST HIS LEFT ANKLE CAUSING HIM TO FALL. CONTUSION TO BACK OF LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATED3HE WAS INSTALLING THE PIN IN THE FRONT RADIUS ROD ON A HAUL TRUCK.THE ROD WAS BEING HELD IN PLACE BY A SCREWDRIVER.AS THE PIN WAS BEING DRIVEN IT HIT THE SCREWDRIVER AND KNOCK ED IT OUT,ALLOW3NG THE ROD TO FALL STRIKING HIM ON TOP THE RIGHT FOOT JUST BEHIND THE HARD TOE,CAUSING SWELLING AND PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING CHANGE A DEFECTIVE AIR QUICK COUPLER LOCATED ON THE AIR SYSTEM AT PREPARATION PLANT,IN THE RUN-OF-MINE TUNNEL.THE LINE PRESSURE HAD NOT BEEN SHUT OFF,EMPLOYEE WAS AWARE OF THIS BUT LOOSE3ED THE FITTING WITH A WRENCH THEN WITH HIS LEFT HAND HE REACHED TO WIGGLE THE COUPLER.IT SUDDENLY CAME OFF AND AIR PRESSURE BLEW RUST PARTICLES AND DIRT OUT OF AIR LINE UNDER

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING BREAK UP A LARGE LUMP OF COAL THAT WAS STUCK IN SHUTE. HE WAS DRIVING A PRY BAR THROUGH THE LUMP TO BUT IT UP. HE WAS PULLING THE PRY BAR OUT OF THE COAL. WHEN IT SUDDENLY CAM E LOOSE TH9 BAR STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS HEAD. SUSTAINED A 1 INCH LACERATION TO SIDE OF HEAD REQUIRNG 6 STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE STATES3HAD GONE AFTER A LOAD OF BULK EXPLOSIVES WAS ON HIS WAY BACK TO DRILL VIA MAIN ACCESS ROAD THERE WAS A BAD PLACE IN THE ROAD & HE HIT THE PLACE WITH POWDER TRUCK & REINJURED HI S BACK EMPLOYEE3HAD ALREADY TRAVELED THIS SAME ROADTWICE BEFORE THIS NIGHT EMPLOYEE HAS A CONTINUING HISTORY OF BACK INJURIES THAT REOCCUR QUITE FREQUENTLY

EMPLOYEE STATES3IN THE PROCESS OF CLIMBING THE ACCESS LADDER ON THE 992 CAT. END LOADER HE SLIPPED AND FELL FROM THE TOP RUNG OF THE LADDER TO THE GROUND AND STRUCK BOARDING LADDER ON LUBE TRU CK THAT WAS SIT7ING BESIDE THE END LOADER. HE WAS CARRING A HOSE IN ONE HAND AND WEARING RUBBER BOOTS. RECEIVED ONE FRACTURED RIB AND BRUSIED ONE LUNG.

EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A BATTERING RAM TO REMOVE BOLTS FROM A BULL GEAR ON THE DRAGLINE HOIST MACHINERY. THE RAM GLANCED OFF ONE OF THE BOLT HEADS AND PINCHED HIS SMALL FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND BE TWEEN THE RAM H5NDLE AND A BEARING CAP STUD.

EE STATES PRIMI3G WATER PUMP BY LEANING OVER HANDRAIL AROUND EDGE OF PUMP FLOAT & FILLING A PLASTIC 5 GAL BUCKET WITH WATER, LIFTING UP OVER HANDRAIL & POURING WATER INTO PUMP BOWL. APPROX WE IGHT OF BUCKET 3S 43#. EE HAD PREVIOUS BACK INJURY DR DIAGNOSED THIS AS REINJURY OF HIS BACK MUSCLE STRAIN.

WAS WALKING ALO3G BELTLINE TO SAMPLE HOUSE. AS SHE STEPPED INTO HOUSE SHE HEARD A NOISE & AS SHE TURNED TO CHECK NOISE, WHILE STILL WALKING, SHE STEPPED ON A WELDING ROD LYING ON METAL FLOO R THAT ROLLED U3DER HER FOOT CAUSING HER TO LOOSE HER BALANCE FALL & S TRIKE HER RT ELBOW ON THE FLOOR FRACTURING SAME & STRIKING HEAD ON EITHER METAL TOE BOARD OF FIRE EXTINGUISHER CASUING

EE STATES WHILE3CRANKING ON HAND WENCH TO RAISE AN ELECTRIC PUMP UP INTO A FLOAT HE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN H IS BACK & LEFT SIDE THAT HE HAD PREVIOUSLY INJURED.

EMPLOYEE STATES4 HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO POSITION A 100 TON HYDRAULIC JACK INTO A POSITION TO JACK UPPER CONTOR PIN IN ON 988 END-LOADER.HAD TO GET INTO AWKWARD POSITION AND IN DOING SO ST AINED MUSCLES I3 LOWER BACK.EMPLOYEE HAD A HISTORY OF LOWER BACK PAIN.

EMPLOYEE STATED4HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CARRYING METAL PLATES VARYING IN WEIGHT FROM 75 TO 109 LBS.INTO COMPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE 3270 DRAGLINE TUB.IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THIS HE HAD TO CL IMB THROUGH BUL5 HEAD OPENINGS BETWEEN COMPARTMENTS.DUE TO THE SMALL SIDE OF THESE OPENINGS HE HAD TO GET IN AWKWARD POSITIONS TO GET THROUGH THESE OPENINGS.THIS PROCESS CAUSEDD A MUSCLE STRA

EMPLOYEE STATES4OPERATING A 120 TON HAUL TRUCK.HEADED BACK TO PIT EMPTY.DRIVER HIT A WET/SLICK AREA OF HAUL ROAD.TRUCK TRACTOR JACK KNIFED AROUND INTO BED OF TRUCK,CAB STRUCK TRUCK BED DOING E XTENSIVE DAMAGE3TO CAB AND EMPLOYEE WAS SHOOK UP INSIDE AND RECEIVED A MUSCLE STRAIN TO MIDDLE OF BACK.NOTE:EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING SAFETY BELT.

EMPLOYEE STATES4HE LIFTED HIS TOOL BOX FROM THE BACK OF A WELDING TRUCK.HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK AS HE LOWERED THE BOX TO THE GROUND.EMPLOYEE SAID THE BOX WAS NOT TOO HEAVY FOR HIM.POSSIBLY ON UNLEVEL GRON8 WHEN LIFTING.MUSCLE STRAIN TO MIDDLE PORTION OF BACK.

EMP STATES, WHI5E AIR ARCING (WELDING ON DRAGLINE BOOM FOOT TRUSS EMP GOT SOMETHING IN HIS LEFT EYE

EMPLOYEE STATES3ATTEMPTING TO PLACE A 11/8IN SOCKET ON AN IMPACT WSRENCH SOCKET WAS NOT AN IMPACT SOCKETE IT HAD A CHROME FINISH ON OUTSIDE & HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN USED ON AN IMPACE WRENCH & CHR OME FINISH WAS 0LAKING OFF HE MISTGAKELY HIT TRIGGER ON WRENCH & SPUN SOCKET IN HIS BARE HAND CAUSING A LACERATION TO PALM OF LEFT HAND THAT REQUIRED THREE STICHES

EMP STATES: WAS3ATTEMPTING TO TIGHTEN BOLTS ON HAUL TRUCK AIR COMPRESSOR. HE WAS KNEELING UNDER TRUCK IN A CONTINUED SPACE. HE TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE WHILE POSITIONING FOR BETTWR ACCESS HE HEAR HIS KNEE POP BU7 DID NOT HAVE ANY PAIN UNTIL HE ATTEMPTED TO GET OUT OF BED THE NEXT MORNING AND COULD NOT HARDLY WALK ON THIS LEG

EMPLOYEE STATES4OPERATING DOZEN PUSHING ROCK.CONTINULLY BUMPED ELBOW ON ARM REST OF DOZER SEAT BRUISE TO LEFT ELBOW AND FLUID BUILD UP ON ELBOW EMP.WORK UNTIL 14-21-87 THEN TOOK OFF AND WENT T O DOCTOR ON 4/23/87.EMP.STATED HE WAS NOT POSITIVE ON WHEN AND HOW HE INJURED HIS ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE STATES4WAS PULLING 25KV 35OMCM POWER CABLE OUT OF ELECTRICAL SWITCH BOX.HE HAD A HOLD OF I NAME GRIP ON CABLE & WHEN CABLE CAME OUT OF BOX IT FLIPPED & HIS GLOVE CAUGHT ON THE I NAM E GRIP & PULLED3MUSCLE IN HIS RIGHT FOREARM.

EMPLOYEE STATES4LIFTING A SECTION OF PIPE HANDRAIL WITH THE HELP OF ANOTHER EMPLOYEE.AS THEY WERE LIFTING THE HANDRAIL,HE TWISTED HIS UPPER BODY AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RIGHT LOWER BACK A REA.SECTION OF 9AIL WEIGHED APPROXIMATELY 35 LBS.

EMPLOYEE STATES4USING HIS KNEE TO HELP ALIGN AND HOLD HEAVY PUMP PART DURING AN OVERHAUL OF A RECIRCULATING PUMP.EMPLOYEE STATED THAT AREA AROUND KNEE WAS SORE AND BRUISED WHEN HE GOT HOME TH AT NIGHT.ON 2/15/87 EMP.KNEE WAS SWOLLEN AND AREA WAS KNUMB.DOCTOR TOLD EMP. TO TAKE OFF WORK BUT EMP. DID NOT THINK IT WAS NECESSARY,BUT COMPLIED WITH DOCTORS ORDERS.

EMPLOYEE WAS DR3VING BOLT OUT OF A SWING SEGMENT ON THE DRAGLINE USING A SHORT HANDLED 20LB.SLEDGE HAMMER.THE HAMMER GLANCED OFF BOLT AND PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN HAMMER AND A METAL EDGE OF THE SWING GEAR 8EGMENT.

EMPLOYEE STATES4 CLIMBING INTO SUPPLY TRUCK. WHEN HE SHUT THE DOOR IT STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW. CONTUSION, SWELLING REQUIRING REMOVAL OF FLUID ACCUMULATION FROM ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE STATES3USING STEAM JENNY TO WASH OFF PUMP TRUCK. SLIPPED ON ICE COVERED CONCRETE PAD, FELL AND INJURED LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES3HE WAS ASSISTING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE IN PLACING CRIBBING TIRES UNDER THE OUTRIGGER OF A 300 TON CRANE. HE WAS DOWN ON HIS KNEES PICKING UP ONE END OF TIES AND PITCHING THEM INTO POISITION. TIE8 WIEGH APPROX. 100 POUNDS TOTAL WEIGHT. EMPLOYEE INURED HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES3WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ANOTHER EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTING TO DRAG A SECTION OF PUMP HOSE FULL OF WATER ONTO A PUMP TO HOOK IT UP IN DOING SO EMPLOYEE STRAINED OR TORE MUSCLE LOOSE FR OM RIB ON LEFT 8IDE OF CHEST

EMP WAS LIFTING3OUTRIGGER JACK PAD ON HYDRAULIC CRANE. PAD MADE OUT OF ALUMINUM AND WEIGHS ONLY 40 LBS. EMP FELT A STINGING/BURNING PAIN IN GROIN AREA, DR DIAGNOSED AS RIGHT INGUINAL HERNIA

EMPLOYEE WAS RE1LACING THE TOOTH ON A DOZER RIPPER, USING A 4 POUND SLEDGE HAMMER TO DRIVE THE KEEPER PIN. WHEN EMPLOYEE STRUCK THE PIN A GLANCING BLOW A SLIVER OF METAL CAME OFF PIN AND STRU CK EMPLOYEE ON 7HE LEFT HAND. FOREIGN OBJECT INBEDDED IN HAMD REQUIRED SURGICAL REMOVEL.

DRIVING CABLE R9EL TRUCK ACROSS DRAGLINE BENCH AT SLOW RATE OF SPEED. FRONT WHEEL OF TRUCK STRUCK HOLE OR ROCK AND JARRED DRIVER AROUND IN CAB. AFTERWARDS EMPLOYEE FELT SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BAC K. 3

EMPLOYEE STATES3WHILE SWEEPING FLOOR OF BATHHOUSE EMPLOYEE RAISED UP UNDER METAL POST AT END OF BENCHS, STRIKING HIS RIGHT SIDE.

WALKING ACROSS 5EVEL DRILL BENCH. STEPPED ON SMALL ROCK WITH LEFT FOOT. FOOT SLIPPED OFF SIDE OF ROCK TWISTING ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATED3WALKING ON CATWALK AROUND CAB OF 992-C END LOADER STEPPED ON WASHER LYING ON WALKWAY SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING RT KNEE ON HEADLIGHT ASSEMBLY SOFT TISSUE INJURY TO RIGHT KNEE

CLIMBING ONTO D9ILL USING ACCESS LADDER.LADDER UNG AND WHEN EMPL PLACED WEIGHT ON BOTTOM SWINGING STEP LADDER FALL AND LOWER SOLID RUNG OF LADDER STRUCK TOP OF RIGHT FOOT.CONTUSIONS TO INSTEP OF RIGHT FOOT.3

EMP STATES WAS 5IFTING OVERHEAD DOOR ON RT REAR SIDE OF LUBE TRUCK THE DOOR DID NOT GO ALL THE WAY UP SO I NAME PULLED IT DOWN TO GIVE IT A HARDER PUCH IN DOING SO THE DOOR CAME BACK DOWN HARDER AND FAST9R THAN EXPECTED AND GUIDE PIN LOCATED ON BOTTOM AT DOOR P UNCTURED PALM OF LEFT HAND REQUIRING 4 STITCHES TO CLOSE

EMPLOYEE STATES4 IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING FACTORY MADE LIFTING SLING FROM HOOK OF GROVE CRANE. HAD REMOVED ONE END AND WAS REMOVING OTHER END. SECOND END WAS IN A BIND AND WHEN IT CAME OFF H OOK IT STRUCK E4PLOYEE ON THE UPPER LIP. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED 3 INCH LACERATION REQUIRING STITCHES TO CLOSE.

EMPLOYEE STATES4 HIMSELF AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A BEARING RETAINER FROM THE HITCH ASSEMBLY OF A HAUL TRUCK. SECOND PERSON WAS USING A CHISEL AND HAMMER TO PRY RETAINER APART. WHEN EM1LOYEE STRUCK CHISEL IT FLEW AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ACROSS THE BRIDGE OF THE NOSE, CAUSING 3 INCH LACERATION REQUIRING EIGHT STITCHES TO CLOSE.

EMPLOYEE STATES3ATTEMPTING TO PICK UP DRILL STELL BREAKER WRENCH FROM FLOOR OF WELD SHOP TO PLACE ON WORK BENCH STRAINED MUSCLES IN MIDDLE AND LOWER PORTION OF BACK WRENCH WEIGHS APPROX 150 LB

USING A CUTTING3TORCH TO CUT BOLTS LOOSE FROM HITCH ON HAUL TRUCK SPARKS FROM CUTTING OPERATION STARTED A FIRE AT LEFT FUEL TANK EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING TRUCK TO PUT OUT FIRE AND MISSED LOWER STEP ON ACCESS 5ADDER AND FELL LANDING ON RIGHT FOOT CONTUSION AND SWELLING TO FOOT AND ANKLE.

EMPL. WAS LOADI3G A WIRE ROPE 3/4 INCH X 8 FT INTO BED OF 3/4 TON PICK UP TRUCK A LOOSE STAND OF CABLE CUT THROUGH THE GLOVE EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING, CUTTING THE PALM OF HIS LEFT HAND, CAUSING A 1 1/2 INCH LAC9RATION REQUIRING FOUR STITCHES.

HE WAS LOADING 8CRAP METAL INTO A HAND CART MADE FOR HAULING PIPE & METAL. HE THEN STARTED PLACING SCRAP METAL IN UNDER PART OF CART. WHILE THROWING METAL PIECE HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN ME TAL AND 2X12 WO2DEN BOARD HE HAD PLACED ACROSS THE TOP SECTION OF THE CART.

EMP WAS CLIMBIN1 UPON REAR OF SCRAPER TO START REAR ENGINE, WHEN HE STEPPED ON SWINGING CHAIN STEP AND APLLIED HIS WEIGHT THE STEP BROKE. EMPLOYEE FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON FRAME OF SCR APER. 3

EMP SHUTTING OF0 DIESEL PUMP IN PIT. FLASHLIGHT BEING USED FOR LIGHT SUDDENLY QUIT WORKING. EMP. CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE AIR SHUT OFF LEVER & THROTTLE LINKAGE, FRACTURING THE TIP OF MIDD LE FINGER OF LE0T HAND.

EMP STATES USING A RAZOR TYPE KNIFE TO STRIP INSULATION FROM VECHICLE WIRING THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUTING EMPLOYEES 1ST 2ND AND 3RD FINGERS ON LEFT HAND

EMPLOYEE STATES HE STEPPED ON TOEBOARD AROUND WO WALKWAY ON SHOE OF DRAGLINE FOOT SLIPPED OFF BOARD AND TURNED HIS LEFT ANKLE POSSIBLE TORN LIGAMENTS AND TENDONS

EMPLOYEE STATES PLACING 12 V BATTERY INTO MINE ELECTRICIANS TRUCK LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL AGAINST FIRE EXTINGUISHER BRACKET ON SIDE OF TRUCK FRACTURED 9TH RIB ON LEFT SIDE OF BODY

CLEANING GREASE FROM AROUND SWING SHAFT IN LOWER FRAME OF DRAGLINE.KNEELING ON FLOOR AND WHEN MACHINE REVERSED IT'S SWING MOTION HE LOST BALANCE AND FELL AGAINST WALL CUTTIN GLLEFT EAR.

EMP WAS IN THE PROCESS OF STONING THE ARMATURE OF AN ELECTRIC MOTOR ON THE DRAGLINE A BUILDUP OF COPPER SHAVING CAUSED A SHOT BETWEEN TWO BRUSHE HOLDERS CAUSING THE MOTOR TO FLASHOVER EMPLOYEE RECEIVED 1ST AND 2ND BURNS TO BACK OF RIGHT HAND

EMPL HELPING 2 OTHER EMPL LIFT 2 1/2\\ DIA STEEL CABLE TO HOOK ONTO SLED.EMPL FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK WHEN HE LIFTED.HE REC\D TORN MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

EE STATES OPERATING A CAT SCRAPER STOPPED & CLIMBED OUT OF CAB ONTO DECK IN FRONT OF CAB WIND BLEW DOOR OF CAB SHUT ON EES FINGERS OF RIGHT AHND SMASHING THEM.

EMPLOYEE STATES: WORKING UNDER DRAG DRUM ON 8750 DRAGLINE. WAS IN THE PROCESS OF HOOKING SHACKLE UP TO END OF DRAG ROPE. CALLED TO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO GIVE HIM THE PIN FOR THE SHACKLE. THE OTH ER EMPLYEE THREE THE PIN DOWN TO HIM AND THE EMPLOYEE FAILED TO CATCH THE PIN AND IT STRUCK HIM IN THE MOUTH, CUTTING HIS UPPER LIP.

EMPLOYEE STATES: USING A CUTTING TORCH TO CUT WELDS LOOSE HOLDING A BELLY PAN ON A SCRAPER. WAS KNEELING TO ONE SIDE OF PAN. HAD CUT ALL WELDS LOOSE ON ONE SIDE OF PAN & HAD STARTED ON THE OTH ER SIDE WHICH HAD THREE WELDS HOLDING IT. CUTTHE FIRST WELD AND THE OTHER TWO BROKE ALLOWING THE PAN TO FALL & BOUNCE. STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF THE LEFT KNEE, CUTTING SAME.

REPAIRING ON DRILL AND BUMPED RIGHT ELBOW ON A HANDRAIL LATER IN SHIFT WAS PULLING ON A WRENCH AND FELT SOMETHING POP IN THE SAME ELBOW HE RUPTURED A BLOOD VESSEL IN HIS ELBOW CAUSING SWELLING AND PAIN.

LIFTING SCRAP METAL FROM INSIDE VIBRATOR WHILE LEANING OVER DRIVE MECHANISM.METAL BECAME HUNG AND EMPL PULLED HARD ON IT AND RUPTURED HIMSELF.RUPTURE TO LOWER ABDOMEN.

EMPLOYEE STATES; WALKING ACROSS PARKING LOT BETWEEN BATHHOUSE AND REPAIR SHOP. STEPPED ON A LOOSE ROCK, LOST HER BALANCE AND FELL. LACERATION ABOVE LEFT EYE. ABRASIONS TO LEFT CHEEK AND FORE HEAD, BRUISE TO UPPER THIGH ON LEFT LEG.

EMP STATES RIDING IN BACK SEAT OF MANTRIP VEHICLE VEHICLE STRUCK SEVERAL ROUGH PLACES IN ROADWAY BOUNCING HIM AGAINST ROOF OF VEHICLE SEVERLA TIMES FRACTURE TO VERTEBRA IN LOWER BACK