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EMPLOYEE WAS USING 48" WRENCH, 1-TON CABLE COME-ALONG AND AN 8 LB. SLEDGE HAMMER. SPRAINED MUSCLE IN GROIN AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS AND MISSED STEP AND FELL.
EMPLOYEE WAS OWRKING STANDIN GON LADDER. LADDER WAS IN SOFT DIRT, LADDER MOVED EMPLOYEE FELL.
A DRILLER'S PULLDOWN CHAIN WAS BROKEN. INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING RELEASE THE CHAIN WHEN HIS FINGER WAS CAUGHT.
WIND BLEW DIRT INTO EYE.
TRUCK WAS LOADED WITH ORE WHEN THE LEFT FRONT WHEEL CAME OFF.
WELDING AND GRINDING BUCKET ON LOADER-SLAG IN EYE.
EMPLOYEE HAD CLIMBED TO THE DECK OF THE TRUCK AND PLACED A LUNCH CONTAINER ON THE DECK. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE HAD STARTED UP THE LADDER AND EMPLOYEE ON DECK EITHER SLIPPED OR TRIPPED (EMPLOYEE DOES N'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED), AND FELL KNOCKING SECOND EMPLOYEE TO THE GROUND.
OPER ATOR CLIMBED ONTO CAT TRUCK STEPS WERE PUSHED BACK UNDER BUMPER HE STRAINED A MUSCLE IN THE GROIN AREA
STEPPED OFF TRUCK AND STEPPED ON FUEL HOSE. TWISTED ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING LUBE TRUCK WHEN BRAKES FAILED, JOSTLING EMPLOYEE AROUND IN TRUCK.
WHILE BLADING HAUL ROADS THE CONSOLE JUMPED BACK AND JAMMED EMPLOYEE'S ARM.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED IN THE DOOR OF HOUSE ON SHOVEL AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
STRIPPING INSULATION FROM WIRE AND KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING OFF WATER TRUCK AND STEPPED ON ICE TWISTING RIGHT ANKLE AND FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 3 LB. HAMMER TO STRAIGHTEN A PIECE OF IRON ON A WELDING TABLE. THE HAMMER BOUNCED OFF THE IRON, TWISTING HIS WRIST.
WHILE DISMOUNTING THE WA450 LOADER AT THE CRUSHER AREA, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND FROM THE SECOND STEP--LANDED ON HIS TAIL BONE.
SLIPPED ON SNOW AND TWISTED KNEE.
LOADING PIPE ONTO FLATBED TRUCK- FINGER SMASHED BETWEEN PIPE AND BED OF TRUCK.
CUTING NYLON TIE STRAPS KNIFE SLIPPED PUNCTURED WOUND TO THIRD OR RING FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
EE WAS USING BOOM TRUCK TO REMOVE LINES USING PRY BAR.
RUNNING OVER ROCKS WITH RTD.
EE WAS LEVELING THE FLOOR NEAR THE 3500 SHOVEL. WHILE RIPPING A HARD SPOT, THE ROCK BROKE LOOSE AND THE DOZER LUNGED FORWARD AND DOWN.
WHILE DRIVING ON ROUGH HAUL ROAD, EE SAID SEAT BOTTOMED OUT AND IMPACT GAVE HIM A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER OF TRUCK. STEP WAS LOOSE AND SWUNG AWAY. HE FELL AND HIT HIS HEAD ON THE GROUND INJURING HIP AND BACK.
EE WAS CLIMBING LADDER TO HIS TRUCK AND THE STEP MOVED AWAY FROM HIM AND HE FELL OFF SPRAINING BACK.
EE WAS TAPING HOLES TAPE SLIPPED AND HE DROPPED TO HIS KNEES TO GRAB TAPE JARRED HIS HEAD AND NECK.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING STEEL OUT OF HOLE STRAINED LOWER BACK.
INSTALLING PART OF THE SHEET METAL FOR THE HOOD WHEN HE PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF METAL.
EE WAS DISMOUNTING RUBBER TIRE DOZER AND STEPPED ON TIRE AND SLIPPED AND CUT HIS LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHARGING 155 FLOCK HOOPER WITH BAGS OF FLOC. WHILE LIFTING ONE OF THE BAGS, HE SAID HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK.
A TRUCK WAS DUMPING ITS LOAD ON W-2 WASTE DUMP WHEN A HYD. LINE BROKE AND SPRAYED OIL ON THE HOT ENGINE CAUSING IT TO START A FIRE. NO INJURIES INVOLVED.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HIS BACK STARTED TO BOTHER HIM ON 6-9-92. NO SPECIFIC INCIDENT CAUSED PAIN. HE DID NOT REPORT INJURY AT THAT TIME, THINKING IT WOULD GET BETTER. HE CONTINUED TO WORK AND P AIN BECAME WORSE. AT BREAK FROM JOB HE WENT TO DOCTOR, APPEARS TO HAVE AN INJURY TO CERVICAL SPINE. WE ARE ASKING FOR INVESTIGATION INTO THIS INCIDENT TO DETERMINE IF WORK RELATED.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE HOPPE DRIVING RTD. HEADVY CONCENTRATIONS OF OVERSIZE MATERIAL. BACKED OVER LARGE ROCK, JOSTLED HIM IN DOZER.
REPAIRING SCREEN INSIDE 20' BALL MILL, STINGER HAD BAD CONNECTION CAUSING UNPLANNED ARCHING. FLASH BURN PIECE OF METAL IN LEFT EYE.
GRINDING OUT PIN BOSS WITH DIE GRINDER
EE WAS USING RTD CONTINUOUSLY TO PUSH TABLES AND BELT. USING HIS LEFT ARM CONTINUOUSLY FOR 12 HOURS. MUSCLE IN LEFT ARM TIGHTENED AND STARTED HURTING.
TWO CABLE SLINGS USED TO TWO TRIPPERS WERE DISCONNECTED ON ONE END AND AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO CLAMP THE END TOGETHER THROUGH A SHACKLE ON PREVIOUS SHIFT.BOTH LOOSE ENDS WERE LEFT STRUNG THROUG H SHACKLE APPEARING TO BE SECURE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WAHING FLOOR OF SHOP WITH WATER HOSE-FEET SLIPPED AND HE FELL INJURING LEFT HAND.
CARRYHING BREAKER SM CRACK CAUSED IT TO BREAK CUT ON R FOREARM
PULLING BELT IN PLACE WITH BOOM TRUCK ON CONV HOIST ATTACHED TO NYLON ROPE JERKING IT THE HOIST PULLED CAUSING SLACK IMPACT OT R HAND AND ELBOW FRACT TO LITTLE FINGER
INSTALLING BOLTS OBJECT FELL IN EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING SUPPLIES ON WATER TRUCK FROM MUD TRAILER HE SLIPPED LOSTS HIS FOOTING & FELL TO GROUND HURTING HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING MOVE SHOVEL CABLE AND BRUSHED UP AGAINST THE CABLE TOWER AND SCRATCHED HIS LEG ON A SLIVER OF STEEL.INJURY TO RIGHT LEG DEVELOPED INFECTION.
EE WAS BREAKING CASING OUT WITH PIPEWRENCH AND CHEATER BAR AND WRENCHED UPPER BACK CASING.
EMPLOYEE WAS UNLOADING CEMENT BAGS OFF TRUCK AND TWISTED HIS KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LYING ON HIS BACK IN A JUNCTION BOX INSTALLING WIRES ON LUGS OF OVERHEAD INSULATORS WHEN HE SPRAINED HIS BACK.
RIDING IN TRUCK, CHECKING FLIGHT SYSTEM. DRIVER OF TRUCK BACKED INTO HIGHWALL AT A SPEED OF 2-4 MPH. EMPLOYEE RIDING IN PASSENGER SEAT WAS THROWN BACK AND BOUNCED AROUND ON SEAT.
EMPLOYE EWAS PLACING 7" SUB INTO TOOL BOX. AS HE LIFTED IT UP, IT SLIPPED AND SMASHED HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE TRIPPED OVER ROCK IN THE DARK AND INJURED HIS WRIST.
PULLING ENGINE FROM TRUCK. ADJUSTING WITH BAR. BAR SLIPPED, SMASHING FINGERS BETWEEN BAR AND LIFTING BRACKET.
EE WAS CUTTING A PATCH SECTION OF NEW RUBBER FOR VULCANIZING. KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT LEFT FOREARM.
EE WAS TUNING UP RTD ENGINE SPRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING RODS OUT OF HOLE MISJUDGED DISTANCE TO ROD TABLE GOT HAND BETWEEN ROD AND ROD TABLE AS IT WAS BEING LOWERED BY MAINLINE.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN LADDER ON DRILL MAST HE SLIPPED BUT MANAGED TO GET HIS BALANCE & CONTINUED TO CLIMB DOWN LADDER HAD BACK & RIB PAIN AFTERWARD
INJURED WAS REMOVING GLARE SCREEN FROM CRT WHICH WAS FASTENED WITH VELCRO.FOREIGN OBJECT INTO LEFT EYE FROM VELCRO.SHE WAS WEARING GLASSES.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING COVERS FOR ACCESS TO 24 V ALTERNATOR ON DOZER. STRAINED HIS BACK WHILE TRYING TO LOOSEN BOLTS ON COVER.
HE HAD CLIMBED A RETAINING WALL (3' HIGH) ONTO THE LOWER END OF THE MILL FEED HOPPER. THIS IS NECESSARY TO VIEW INSIDE FEED HOPPER. WHILE CLIMBING DOWN, SHE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HER A NKLE.
SHE WAS SETTING A LOADING TRAY ALONGSIDE ANOTHER. SHE CAUGHT HER FINGER BETWEEN THE EDGES OF BOTH TRAYS. A SLIVER OF WOOD EMBEDDED ITSELF BENEATH THE SKIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING WASTE IN HAUL TRUCK.RIGHT FRONT TIRE BLEW.SHOOK HIM UP.EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK THE NEXT SHIFT AND COMPLAINED OF INJURY.WENT TO DOCTOR FOLLOWING DAY.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING THE DOZER OUT OF THE WAY OF TRAFFIC, STEPPED OFF THE DOZER, STEPPED ON ROCK ADN TWISTED HIS KNEE.
HOSE ON PRILL TRUCK CAME LOOSE AND HIT SIDE OF HEAD.
USING PIPE WRENCH TO OPEN AND CLOST CHAIN VALAVES. VALVES NOT WORKING PROPERLY.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A HAUL TRUCK AND WAS BEING LOADED WHEN THE SHOVEL BUCKET HIT THE TRUCK AND JOSTLED HIM CAUSING A PAIN IN THE NECK.
EE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS AND THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF THE BOLT. HIS THUMB CAUGHT ON SHARP CORNER OF ELECTRICAL LUG.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING RETAINING PLATE FOR BRAKES ON RUBBER TIRE DOZER. IT FELL AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER.
EE WAS GETTING TRUCK MOUNTED CRANE UNBUCKLED FROM ITS TIE DOWN. HE HAD THE BLOCK UNHOOED AND WAS PREPARING TO RAISE THE CRANE. HE HAD HIS RIGHT HAND HOLDING THE BLOCK BY THE HOOK TO KEEP IT FR OM HITTING WELDING MACHINE. WHEN HE RAISED CRANE THE HOOK CAUGHT ON THE TRIM OF THE SIDE BOX PINCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN HOOK AND TRIM METAL SEVERING FINGER BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD KNUCKLES.
EMPLOYEE LIFTED A 20' PIECE OF 4" PIPE OFF PIPE RACK CARRIED IT,AND LOWERED IT ONTO A WORKBENCH.
EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING UP A LARGE CABLE TO A DOZER & HE STRAINED HIS BACK/NECK
EMPLOYEE WAS USING 9" GRINDER AT WELDING TABLE. METAL DEBRIS GOT INTO EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO CHANGE TRIP CABLE ON SHOVEL WHEN SOMETHING WENT IN HIS EYE. WASHED EYE OUT WITH NO RESULTS.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A BEAD OFF A DRISCO PIPE WITH A JACK KNIFE. THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT FINGER.
CLIMBING ON DECK LEFT HAND BROKE FELL TWISTED ARM FRACT L ELBOW
EMPLOYEE'S WERE LOADING RAILROAD TIES INTO LOADER BUCKET FROM HILLSIDE. WHEN HURLING ONE TIE INTO THE BUCKET, HE STAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON HIS KNEES ALL DAY.KNEE SWELLED THE NEXT DAY.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING WORN LINER PLATES ON A TRANSFER CHUTE. HE SET THE LINE LINER PLATE DOWN ON THE CONVEYOR BELT ADN WHEN DOING SO THE SHARP WORN EDGE OF THE PLATE CONTRACTED HIS WRIST AND CAUSED INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS TORQUING MOTOR BASE BOLTS IN BACK OF TRUCK WHEN HE WENT TO GET A SOCKET AND SLIPPED HITTING HIS KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS STEMMING A BLAST HOLE WHEN THE DOWN LINE STARTED TO FALL DOWN THE HOLE.HE REACHED FOT THE DOWNLINE AND WHEN DOING SO HE TWISTED HIS BACK.
FITTING PIPE SUPPORTS FOR FILTER PRESS PIPING WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF METAL GOT IN RT EYE EMPLOYEE THOUGHT HE REMOVED THE OBJECT SUCCESSFULLY BUT IT STARTED TO BOTHER HIM THAT EVENING
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING LADDER TO TOP OF PRELL BODY HIS FEET SLIPPED BUT HE CAUGHT HIMSELF & KEPT FROM FALLING HE HURT HIS CHEST
SLIPPED ON DECK & TWSITED SHOULDER.
HE GOT OFF HIS TRUCK IN PIT TO LOOK OVER HIGHWALL. WHILE WALKING ACROSS THE ROAD HE SLIPPED ON SOME SMALL PEBBLES AND TURNED HIS ANKLE. IT HURT AND BY TWO HOURS LATER HIS ANKLE WAS SWOLLEN.
GETTING OUT OF DOZER LEFT HAND DOOR CLOSED WITH LEFT ARM & GOT FINGER STUCK IN DOOR WHEN IT CLOSED
EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING HIS HAND ON KELLY ROD. HIS THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN KELLY AND CHUCK QUILL AND SMASHED HIS THUMB.
LOADING RODS ON TRAILER, SMASHED FINGER AT END OF ROD CAUSING BROKEN TIP OF RING FINGER
HE WAS DRILLING IN THE PIT AND WAS PULLING SAMPLES FROM THE DRILL DECK. THE SAMPLER IS LOCATED ON THE DECK, FITTED THROUGH A HOLE CUT IN THE DECK OF THE DRILL. WHILE PULLING THE SAMPLE, HE HUR T HIS BACK.
REMOVING PC OF HANDRAIL IT CAME LOOSE FELL ON HIS L FOOT
EMPL TWISTING OUT RODS AND SPRAINED FOREARM.
EMPL STEPPED OFF DECK ONTO BOARD.SLIPPED & FELL BACKWARD ONTO DECK.INJURED DISCS IN HIS BACK.
DISMOUNTING TRUCK AND HIT ELBOW ON EYE JUST LEFT OF BOTTOM STEP,CAUSING SWELLING.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON 60 DEGREE DRILL,PULLING PIPE.THE CLUTCH ENGAGED AND PULLED HIM INTO THE WHIRL.HE WAS HOLDING PIPE AT THE TIME THE CLUTCH ENGAGED.
HE WAS STANDING IN PIT OBSERVING ORE AND A 85-T HAUL TRUCK PASSED BY WITH A LOAD OF MATERIAL AND BLEW A REAR TIRE CAUSING ROCK TO FLY AND HIT HIM IN THE FACE.
STRIPPING CABLES FOR BELT SPLICE WITH HOOK BLACDE RAZOR KNIFE.KNIFE SLIPPED AND BLADE CUT INTO FLESH ON TOP INSIDE RIGHT THIGH ABOVE KNEE.5 STITCHES TO CLOSE WOUND.
WHILE TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED,REACHED TO SECURE DOOR-TRUCK JAMMED-JAMMED FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING FROM WATER TRUCK AND THE END OF THE HOSE SWUNG AROUND AND HIT HIM IN THE RIB AREA.THIS CLAIM WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION AND WE WERE NOTIFIED IN NOVEMBER THAT IT WAS ACCEPTED AS VALID.THIS IS THE REASON FOR THE LATE FILINGOF THE MSHA REPORT.
EE WAS TRIPPING RODS AND JAMMED HIS RIGHT HAND CAUSING SPRAIN.
THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED WHILE CARRYING A BAG OF CEMENT
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO STRAIGHTEN A BENT SUCTION SCREEN THE HAMMER HEAD CAME OFF & STRUCK HIS THUMBNAIL
OPERATOR WAS OPENING LATCHES TO FULE THERE WAS GREASE ON TOP OF TACK HOE SLIPPED ON GREASE.
REPAIR FLAT TIRE, WENT TO PUT STAND UNDER SUSPEN. IT FELL OVER SMASHED FINGER BETWEEN STAND AND STEERING CYLINDER FRACT DISTAL PLALANX OF INDEX FINGER LEFT ONE
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING DOWN FROM HIS TRUCK AT THE END OF SHIFT, WHEN HE STEPPED SIDEWAYS AND TWISTED ANKLE.
WIND BLOWING HARD, SM PART OF SAND BLEW IN EYE WHILE WELDING
EE WAS UNLOADING BOOSTERS FROM POWDER TRUCK TURNED TO WALK TOWARDS HOLES AND SLIPPED EE WAS STANDING IN APPROX 3 INCH OF MUD AND WATER. RIGHT ANKLE GAVE WAY CAUSING SLIP.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING AIR FILTER ON SPEED REDUCER ON THE WEST SIDE OF CONVEYOR #3. HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL BACKWARDS APPROX 4 FEET ON SANDY GROUND.
INJURED EE AND THE DRILLER WERE SWINGING THE KELLY ROD BACK TO THE SIDE, WHERE HIS HAND WAS HIT BETWEEN THE KELLY AND DRILL HEAD.
DURING SURVEY STAKING OF RAMP IN PIT, EMPLOYEE WENT TO MOVE PICKUP TO NEW LOCATION AND STEPPED OUT OF PICKUP ONTO A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE. THIS INCIDENT WAS NOT MADE KNOWN TO SAFETY SUPE RVISOR UNTIL MARCH 21, 1990. EMPLOYEE STATED HE HAD AN INJURY TO THE SAME ANKLE SOME YEARS AGO.
EMPL WAS MIXING DRILL MUD LIPPED & FELL TWISTING RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE DROVE LUBE TRUCK UP ALONG SIDE THE DRILL IN THE PIT,STEPPED OUT OF TRUCK AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE ON THE UNEVEN TERRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS STRIPPING RUBBER OFF INTERNAL CABLES OF CONVEYOR BELTS WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING A TAG LINE ON A TRUSS, WHEN THE TRUSS FELL FROM THE CRIBBING AND HIT EMPLOYEE'S FOOT BEHIND THE STEEL TOE IN HIS BOOT.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE STRAINED HIS LEG WHILE PULLING 1/2 INCH WIRE.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIGGING A CONVEYOR CABLE WITH A FOUR WAY CHOKER, WHEN HE WAS UNRIGGING THE CABLE,THE CHOKER BOUNCED UP AND HIT HIS THUMB.
EMPL LIFTING IDLER INTO PLACE,ONE END OF IDLER AND EMPL HELD ONTO HIS END STRAINING HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING WIRE LINE. HAD ON HIS SAFETY GLASSES. WIRE LINE SHOWERED EYES WITH FRAGMENTS OF RUST AND METAL BECAUSE THE CABLE ON THE WIRE LINE HAD BECOME RUSTY. FRAGMENTS WERE EMBEDDE D IN EYES.
AFTER PUTTING BYPASS HOSE IN FLOW PIPE,THE INJURED WENT TO STAND UP AND HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM ON SOME MUD AND HE FELL HURTING HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING NUTS ON TOP OF HEAD AND PISTON ROD. THE DRILLER THOUGHT THE INJURED WAS CLEAR AND RAISED HEAD CATCHING INJUREDS FINGER BETWEEN TOP OF ROD AND HEAD OPENING. HE LOST THE TIP OF HIS RIGHT MIDDEL FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS SPINNING RODS AND HIS HAND SLIPPED CAUSING IT TO BE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE KELLY AND THE ROD.