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EMPLOYEE STEPPED OUT OF THE WORK VAN AND SLIPPED ON THE STAIRS. HIS RIGHT THUMB HIT THE STAIRS WHEN HE FELL AND WAS SPRAINED. THE STAIRS WERE SLICK WITH MUD AND SNOW AND THE EMPLOYEE WAS NOT USING THE HAND RAIL.
WHILE LOWERING JACKING CRADLE FROM FEED END OF MILL, THE CRADLE WAS TIPPED OUT OF BALANCE & FELL STRIKING EE ON THE RT. LOWER LEG.
WHILE LOWERING CRADLE FROM FEED END OF SAG MILL, THE CRADLE WAS TIPPED OUT OF BALANCE AND FELL CRUSHING THE VICTIM.
THE SPRING ACTIVATED VALVE WAS MANUALLY OPENED PRIOR TO INSTALLATION RESULTING IN AN UNSAFE CONDITION. THE INDIVIDUALS HAND WAS INSIDE THE VALVE WHEN THE RELEASE WAS BUMPED DURING INSTALLATIO N. THE CLOSING VALVE DAMAGED THE TIPS OF THE MIDDLE & RING FINGERS.
WASHING DOWN LIME MILL. LIME ENTERED BOOT CAUSING BURN TO SKIN ON FOOT. EE WAS NOT AWARE OF PROBLEM UNTIL THE FOLLOWING DAY. EE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION 6/7/03 & REPORTED ACCIDENT 6/9/03.
AGGRAVATED LOWER BACK. EE WAS ASSIGNED ALONG WITH A SECOND EE TO REMOVE A FUEL HOSE REEL FROM A MOUNTING POST. EE PROCEEDED WITHOUT SECOND EE PRESENT. EE UNDERESTIMATED THE WEIGHT OF THE FUEL HOSE REEL.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HYDRAULIC JACK TO STRAIGHTEN A BRACE ONA TRAILER. THE JACK SLIPPED WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS HAMMERING THE BRACE, CAUSING HAMMER TO STRIKE EMPLOYEE IN THE RIGHT CHEEK, CAUSING A LACERATION AND STITCHES WERE REQUIRED.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON ICE AND LOST HIS BALANCE. HEFELL AND CAUGHT LEG WHILE FALLING.
EE WAS RELOCATING SECTIONS OF YELLOW MINE PIPE (3" DIAMETER). EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE FOUR SECTIONS AT A TIME. EE STRAINED LEFT HIP SOCKET.
EE REPORTED THAT HIS LEFT WRIST WAS BOTHERING HIM. HIS JOB AT THE MINE SITE IS A FUEL SERVICE MECHANIC. THE EE STATED HIS WRIST HAS BEEN BOTHERING HIM FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
EE WAS HELPING TIGHTEN PULL DOWN CABLES ON DRIL 313. HE SLIPPED THEN CAUGHT HIMSELF. 10-15 MINUTES LATER HIS BACK STARTED TO SPASM.
EE WAS ARC WELDING IN A TIGHT AREA. WELDING ROD CONTACTED SIDES, SEVERAL TIMES WHILE THE EE'S HELMT WAS RAISED.
EMPLOYEE REPORTED FOR WORK COMPLAINING OF A SOREHAND, PREVIOIUSLY SHE HAD SPENT 2 FULL DAYS IN SAMPLE PREP (LAB). AFTER ORE SAMPLES WERE DRIED, EMPLOYEE INITIALLY BROKE THEM APART WITH A RUBBE R HAMMER. THIS REPETITIVE MOTION CAUSED SORENESSIN HER RIGHT HAND AND ARM.
EE WAS INSTALLING A PUMP AT TAILINGS DOWN. WATER DRIPPED OFF EE HARD HAT INTO HIS RIGHT EYE. EIGHTER THE WATER HAD SOME CONTAMINATION OR WHEN EE RUBBER HIS EYE WITH HIS RUBBER GLOVE IS WHEN IT STARTED TO BECOME IRRITATED.
EE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM A DRILL RIG. SLIPPED ANDFELL 3 FEET TO THE GROUND.
EE WAS USING AN AIRGUN TO INSTALL BITS ON A ROAD GRADER BLADE. HE THEN LIFTED A BUCKET OF BITS INTO THE CAB. THE NEXT MORNING HE STATES THAT HE COULDN'T GET OUT OF BED, BECAUSE OF HIS LOWER BA CK BEING SORE.
3 EMPLOYEES WERE ALTERNATELY WELDING WEAR MATERIAL ON A DOZER BLADE. ONE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A WELDING FLASH TO HIS EYES WHEN THE LIGHT REFLECTED OFF THE INSIDE OF HIS HELMET FROM ANOTHER EMPLOY EES WELDING ARC.
DRIVER DROVE ONTO WRON SECTION OF TAILINGS DAM(CLAY SECTION), REALIZED HE WAS ON WRONG SECTION. HE THEN PROCEEDED TO BACK UP. SECTION WAS ELEVATED APPROX. 4' ABOVE ROADWAY. HIS BACK DUAL GOT O FF THE SIDE OF SECTION, WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE TRUCK TIPPED ON ITS SIDE.
EMP WAS STUNG BY A BEE. HAD ALLERGIC REACTION.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A HAND GRINDER TO GRIND OFF AN OLD WELD. EMPLOYEE WENT HOME, WOKE-UP THE NEXT MORNIGN AND FELT SOEMTHING IN HIS EYE.
EMPLLOYEE WAS HELPING TO REMOVE MIL LINERS FROM SAG MILL. STRAINED BACK.
EE WAS WALKING UNDER LOWER LEVEL OF MILL. MILL SOLUTION DRIPPED ON HIS FACE. EE WIPED THE SOLUTION OFF, WITH SOME OF THE SOLUTION CONTACTING HIS EYE. EE NEGLECTED TO IMMEDINTELY WASH HIS FACE.
EE WAS DISCARDING A USED MILL LINER DOWN A CHUTE - LACERATED LEFT LITTLE FINGER WHEN SETTING LINER DOWN ON CHUTE.
EQUIPMENT LOADER BUCKET HIT INSIDE BED OF TRUCK. NOTE: THIS PERSON WAS TAKEN TO DR ON DATE LISTED ABOVE & RELEASED TO WORK AT FULL CAPACITY. ON 5-6-97 HE COMPLAINED THAT HIS NECK STILL BOTHERE D HIM. HAD NOT DISCUSSED UNTIL THEN, IN FACT, REFUSDED LAST APPOINTMENT LAST FALL.
PULLING SHRINK WRAP OFF A PALLET CONTAINING FLOCK/OUT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING PLASTIC TIE WRAPS WITH A UTILITY KNIFE. THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER. THE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED TWO(2) STITCHES.
SWING BRAKE ON THE SHOVEL FAILED CAUSING CLAM TOSTRIKE INNER FRONT OF DUMP BED OF 85 TON HAUL TRUCK. FORCE CAUSED TRUCK TO MOVE FORWARD AND DOWNWARD VERY RAPIDLY. OPERATOR WAS TURNED SIDEWAYS, WHICH CAUSED HER TO STRAIN HER NECK, BACK,SHLDRS
FRACTURED INDEX FINGER TIP WHILE REMOVING ROCK FROM CRUSHER.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING ZINC BUCKETS BY HAND OFF A PALLET TO STACK ON THE ZINC DECK. BUCKETS WEIGHT APPROX 100LBS. THE EMP STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK MUSCLE.
THE MINER HAD CAME OUTSIDE OF PORTAL FOR LUNCH. THE INJURY OCCURRED WHEN ONE OF THEM SLIPPED AND FELL DOWN ON ICY GROUND. INITIAL X-RAYS INDICATED NO NEW INJURY. HOWEVER A LATER DOCTOR'S INV ESTIGATION INDICATED THAT THE EMPLOYEE MAY HAVE FRACTURED A RIB OR TWO. THE EMPLOYEE RETURNED HOME TO UTAH BEFORE COMLICATION OF THIS PHSE OF THE WORK TO ALLOW HEALING OF THE INJURED RIBS.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING SCRAPERS ON #3 BELT LINE. HE HAD REPLACED. LOWERED ONE OF THE COUNTER BALANCE WIEGHTS TO IT'S OPERATING POSITION. WHEN A SECOND SCRAPER COUNTER BALANCE FELL AND STRUCK MIDDLE FINGER OF THE RIGHT HAND, LACERATING THE SHIN AN DCRACKING THE BONE.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE RECIEVED FLASH BURNS/SNOW BLINDNESS FROM WORKING OUTSIDE IN AN OPEN CAB. BOB CAT LOADER. WEATHER ON THE DAY OF THHE INCIDENT WAS HEAVY OVERCAST AND EMPLLOYEE WAS IN AND OU T OFTHE AREA OF CONCERN. THE #1 BELT AT THE CRUSHER BUILDING. EMPLOYEE STATES HIS EYES FELT LIEK THEY HAD SAND IN THEM LATER THAT NIGHT.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE REFINERY INVESTIGATING TH ECAUSE OF A SMALL FIRE. WHILE DOING THIS IT WAS UNKNOWN THAT A GAS LINE WAS LEAKING. WHIHLE INVESTIGATING THE FIRST FIRE THE GAS REACHED A SOURC E OF IGNITION AND FLASHED BACK TO THE SOURCE OF THE LEAK.
EMPLOYEE GOT DOWN FROM HAUL TRUCK TO FUEL IT AND SLIPPED ON SNOW FLOOR. EMPLOYEE CAUGHT HIMSELF BEFORE FALLING TO THE GROUND. RIBS HURT FOR A WHILE BUT THEN BACK BEGAN TO HURT. ARRANGED TOH AVE EMPLOYEE SAW NEURO FOR BACK ON 2-1-96. DR RECOMMEDED EXERCISES AND NOT HEAVY LIFTING. WE MOVED EMPLOYEE TO WAREHOUSE TO PREVENT AGGRAVATION OF RIBS.
E WAS WALKING TO HER TRUCK WHEN SHE SLIPPED AND FELL ON THE ICE, HURTING HER BACK AND NECK. EE SWENT TO HER CHIROPRACTOR FOR REPEATED TREATEMENT AFTER BEING TAKEN TO THE JORDAN VALLEY HEALTH C LINIC. EE STATED THAT SHE HAD TROUBLES BEFORE THE ACCIDENT AND THAT THIS ACCIDENT DID NOT HELP HER.
EE HAD FINISHED HIS SHIFT AND WAS LEANING THE MINE IN HIS P.O.V. ANOTHER VEHICLE COMING ONTO THE MINE, OPERATED BY A CONTRACTOR EE, DROVE INTO THE FRONT LEFT QUARTER OF EE S. P.O.V. THE INCOMI NG VEHCILE WAS A P.O.V. OWNED BY THE PASSENGER INSIDE. THIS OCCURRED APPROX. 150' BELOW THE HEAP LEACA BLDG.
EE WAS PASSENGER IN OUTBOUND P.O.V. DRIVEN BY SHIFT SUPERVISOR. AS THEY WERE LEAVING THE MINE PROPERTY ANOTHER P.O.V. OPERATED BY A CONTRACTOR EE DROVE INTO THE DRIVER SIDE FRONT QUARTER. BOTH OCCUPANTS OF THE OUTBOUND VEHICLE WERE ON THEIRWAY HOME WHILE THE OCCPANTS OF THE INCOMING VEHICLE WERE COMING ONTO THE MINE PROPERTY, BACK TO THE CRUSHER.
STRAINED ELBOW WHILE LIFTING CRATE OF ORE SAMPLES. INJURY WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY REPORTED, EE PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY.
EE STATES WHILE ROLLING PIPE ON PIPE TRUCK, RT IRING FINGER BECAME ENTRAPPED BETWEEN THE JOINTS OF THE PIPE, CAUSING FRACTURE OF FINGER AVULSION OF FINGERNAIL.
EE STATED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PULL SPRING OFF PIPE, PIPE WAS LOWERED AND STRUCK EE, TEARING OFF HIS FINGERNAIL.
EE WAS ON TOP OF PIPE TRUCK UNLOADING A BLOWOUT PREVENTER, WHICH HAS A FEW BOLTS WELDED ON IT. AS HE THROUGH IT OFF THE TRUCK THE BOLTS CAUGHT HIS COVERALLS AND PULLED HIM TO THE GROUND CAUSIN G HIS LEFT ANKLE TO BREAK.
EMPLOYEE IS A MILL MAINT MECH & WAS ASSISTING TO REMOVE A ROCKFROM THE CONVEYOR TAIL PULLEY EMPLOYEE HAD BELT LOCKED OUT & GOT ONTO THE BOTTOM SIDE OF THE BELT TO USE AN AIR JACKHAMMER ON THE ROCK WHEN THE ROCK BROKETHE BELT MOVED & CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEES FOOT FURTHER MOVEMENT CAUGHT HIS ARMS & PINNED HIM EXTRICATION FROM TIME OF ONSET TO BEING FREE WAS 12 MIN.
EE WAS REMOVING A PINE FROM A LIFT CYLINDER ON A F.E.L. EE HAD PIN CRADLED IN HIS ARMS WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING "BREAK LOOSE" IN HIS LEFT ARM. EE SET PIN DOWN, FINISHED THE REST OF THE DAY WITH NORMAL WORK ACTIVITIES, AND THAT NIGHT DECIDED HE HEECED TO SEE A DR.
EE WAS HELPING CLEAN OUT THE ABSORBER TOWER AT THE AVR BY USING A SHOVEL TO HELP PUSH THE PACKING DOWN A CHUT INTO THE BUCKET OF A F.E.L. EE WAS STANDING ON A SURFACE THAT WAS NOT INTENDED FOR STANDING WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO THE UPRIGHT SUPPORT OF THE CHUTE, STRIKING HIS RIBS AND BREAKING ONE, CRACKING TWO.
EE IS A DIESEL MECHANIC, AND WAS REPLACING THE WHEEL SPINDLE ON A HAUL TRUCK. THE SHIMS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SPINDLE SHIFTED AND THE EE TRIED TO PUT THEM BACK. WHILE DOING THIS THE SPINDLE SLI PPED OFF THE ARMATURE IT WAS ON AND STRUCK THE EE'S FINGERS, PINNING THEM BETWEEN THE SPINDLE AND THE FLOOR STAND IN USE TO ASSIST THE PROJECT.
EE IS A LABORER ON THE SURFACE CREW SUPERVISED BY ENGINEERING DEPT EE WAS REMOVING A SIGN FROM A GATE AND STEPPED BACKWARDS INTO THE OPENING BETWEEN THE RAILS ON A CATTLE GUARD. THERE APPARENT LY WAS A SHARP PIECE OF METAL SOMEWHERE IN THE AREA WHICH CAUSED A PUNCTURE WOUND TO THE LEG.
EMPLOYEE IS A MECHANIC IN THE M0BILE MAINTENANCE SHOP AND WAS HELPING TO REPLACE A SWAY BAR IN THE BACK END OF A 777 HAUL TRUCK. EMPLOYEE HAD TO EXTEND HIS ARMS OVER THE REAR DIFFERENTIAL TO HOLD THE SWAY BAR IN PLACE. WHILE DOING THIS HE FELT A SLIGHT TWINGE OF PAIN BUT DID NOT THINK TOO MUCH OF IT. SEVERAL DAYS LATER NOTICED A LUMP IN THE AREA OF THE PAIN AND WAS DIAGNOSED HERN
EE WAS BREAKING SLAG OFF ASSY SAMPLE WHEN A PIECE OF THE SLAG ENTERED HIS EYE. EE USED EMER EYEWASH PROMPTLY, THEN WAS TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL FOR EXAM. AT THE HOSPITAL DR COULD FIND NO REMAIN S OF SLAG AND BURN TO EYE WAS NOT CONSIDERED MAJOR OR SERIOUS DAMAGE.
EE WAS CLOSING LID ON A METAL LOCKER CONTAINING PAINT WHEN THE LID BRACE HUNG UP ON THE LID NOT ALLOWING THE LID TO CLOSE. EE REACHED OVER TO RELEASE THE BRACE AND LOWERED THE LID. WHEN HE PUS HED THE LID DOWN HE SOMEHOW GOT THE MIDDLE FINGEER OF THE LEFT HAND IN THE LID.
EMPLOYEE IS A REFINERY WORKE.R EMPLOYEE WAS USING A TRAY FOR REMOVAL OF SLAG FROM BULLION BUTTONS. TRAY WAS FULL OF SLAG SO EMPLOYEE FLIPPED THE TRAY OVER TO EMPTY IT, THEN STARTED TO FLIP I T BACK OVER WHEN HE LOST THE EDGE AND DROPPED THE TRAY ON HIS FOOT. TRAY STRUCK BEHIND THE STEEL TOE OF THE BOTTO, AND BROKE THE TOE.