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ON SHOTCRETE MACHINE SPRAYING MATERIAL CAVED OUT OF BACK HITTING ON HEAD AND SHOULDERS KINKING NECK CASUING DISCOMFORT BETWEEN SHOULDER AND NECK
HE WAS DRIVING HAUL TRUCK DOWN MAIN HAULAGE WHEN TRUCK HIT RIGHT RIB GLANCING INTO BACK FILL. THE TRUCK HOOKED ON THE PIPE STOPPING HIM AND THROWING HIM FOREWARD INTO THE FRONT OF THE TRUCK B RUISING HIS RIGHT SIDE AND SHOULDER.
WHILE OPERATING3A LOADER IN THE MINE A ROCK FELL FROM OVERHEAD ONTO EMPLOYEE WAS TORN OFF THE TIP OF THE THUMB WAS BROKEN AND SEVERAL STITCHES WERE REQUIRED.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING A VIBRATOR IN A SLAB OF CEMENT AS IT WAS BEING POURED HE SLIPPED AS HE WAS BACKING OUT FROM CEMENT SLIPPED ON MUD AND FALLING ACROSS THE FORMS. HIS ELBOW STRUCK A PIECE O F STEEL PULLING MUSCHE AWAY FROM ELBOW ELBOW WAS X RAYED AND EXAMINED BUT NO TREATMENT WAS GIVEN.
BOX ON TRUCK WAS LEFT PRTLY RAISED & HIT TOP OF PORTAL AS TRUCK WAS ENTERING MINE TRUCK BOX SLIGHTLY BENT & OPERATOR SUFFERED SPLIT LIP & CONTUSED ELBOW
WAS GETTING READY TO PULL CORE TUBE, OVER SHOT FELL OUT OF RODS, STRIKING MR. JEROLAMON IN LEFT HAND AND BREAKING A BONE.