ROCK TRUCK DRIVER WAS COMING OUT OF PIT. WHEN A FORK CAME OFF HIGHWALL HITTING IN DITCH. THAT WAS FULL OF MUD. CASING MUD TO SPLATTER DRIVER ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 13
- Years on record
- 1992–1993
- Latest incident
- Oct 1993
Reportable incidents
13 on file1993 · 11 incidents
GOT TANGLED IN C.B. ANTENNA WIRE AND FELL TO THEGROUND AND LANDED ON HIS HIP AND BACK.
OPERATOR WAS COMING DOWN A HILL AND SAID FETERDER WENT OUT HE HIT BERM THEN CROSSED ROAD AND WENT OVER THE OTHER BERM CAUSING TRUCK TO TURN OVER.
PREPARING TO REPAIR BRAKE ON REAR OF C-70 SERVICE TRUCK HAD LEFT REAR WHEELS OFF GROUND & UNBOLTED WHILE LIFTING OFF FELT PAIN IN BACK LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF LOADER AFTER DARK HE JUMPED OFF OF BOTTOM STEP LANDING ON A ROCK CAUSING INJURY TO HIS RT FOOT
WHILE LOADING A ROCK TRUCK, PICKED UP A LARGE ROCK IN THE BUCKET OF LOADER CAUSING THE BACK END OF LOADER TO COME OFF THE GROUND. AS HE STARTED TO LET BUCKET DOWN THE LARGE ROCK ROLLED OUT OF BUCKET, CAUSING THE BACK END OF THE LOADER TO HIT THE GROUND HARD. OPERATOR SSAID THIS INJURED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING TIE ROD END. WHILE HAMMERING ON THE TIE ROD END PART OF IT CAME OFF & HIT RIGHT THUMB RESULTING IN A LACERATION TO THE TOP OF THUMB.
WELDING ON EXCAVATOR BUCKET, HE PICKED UP A PIECE OF METAL TO PUT IN WELDING TRUCK. THE METAL FELL ON HIS LEFT HAND RESULTING IN A CUT ON HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE, WAS CLIMBING UP LECTRA HAUL LADDER TO START TRUCK. IT HAD RAINED THE NIGHT BEFORE AND TRUCK WAS SETTING IN MUD HOLE FROM RAIN. EMPLOYEE HAD STEPPED IN MUD BEFORE CLIMBING UP LADD ER AND HIS FEET SLIPPED FROM UNDER HIM ON THE LADDER CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO SLIP AND FALL. EMPLOYEE GRABBED HAND RAIL TO KEEP FROM HITTING GROUND WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK.
HE WAS LIFTING A TRUCK BED OFF OF A CHEVY PICKUP. DURING THIS PROCESS HIS FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TRUCK BED AND THE FRAME OF THE PICKUP THEREFORE CUTTING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
EE WAS OPERATING A EUCLID R-50 ROCK TRUCK HAULING OVERBURDEN TO THE DUMP AREA THE TRUCK WENT OVER A LOW SPOT IN THE ROAD CAUSING AN UP AND DOWN MOVEMENT OF THE TRUCK RESULTING IN A PULLED MUSC LE IN HIS LOWER BACK./
1992 · 2 incidents
THE OPERATOR WAS CHANGING STEEL ON A ROBBINS DRILL WHEN BREAKER PIN ALLEGEDLY FLEW FROM THE STEEL STRIKING HIS LEFT ELBOW.
THE OPERATOR WAS LOADING SPOIL WHEN HE FELL IN HITTING THE BUCKET AND BOUNCING THE OPERATOR INTO THE ROOF OF THE LOADER.