EXPOSURE TO SODIUM HYDROXIDE RESULTING IN 1ST DEGREE BURNS TO RIGHT KNEE AND THIGH.
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Showing all 49ALLEGED NOISE CAUSED HEARING LOSS.
WORKERS COMPENSATION AWARD OCCUPATIONAL HEARING LOSS
WHILE PRYING WITH A BAR, EMPLOYEE MASHED RIGHT THUMB.
SLIPPED FROM STEPS OF TRACK AND INJURED TAIL BONE.
EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A CHEST WALL CONTUSION BY BEING VIOLENTLY JOLTED ABOUT WHILE SITTING IN CAB WHEN LARGE ROCK ROLLED OFF HIGHWALL AND STRUCK REAR OF ROCK TRUCK HE WAS OPERATING.
WHILE DRIVING AND MAKING A TURN WITH HIS ROCK TRUCK EMPLOYEE REACHED OUT WINDOW TO CLEAN OFF MIRROR UNEXPLICABLY HE RECEIVED A MUSCLE STRAIN TO RT CHEST WALL AREA AND ALSO FRACTURED THE RT 10 TH RIB
WHILE USING A SLATE BAR TO RAISE THE HEAD OF A HIGHWALL DRILL, THE BAR SLIPPED AND THE VICTIM'S RIGHT ELBOW JERKED BACK RAPIDLY CAUSING A SPRAIN.
VICTIM ATTEMPTED TO RAISE A ROCK TRUCK DRIVE LINE BACK IN ITS PLACE BY USING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND HE SPRAINED IT.
WHILE CHECKING 7HE OIL LEVEL OF A DOZER, THE CAB DOOR CLOSED ON VICTIM STRIKING HIM ON RIGHT ELBOW CHIPPING A BONE IN HIS ELBOW. DOZER WAS PARKED ON AN ANGLE WHICH CAUSED THE DOOR TO CLOSE AS IT DID. 3
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 TURNING A PIN WITH A BAR WHILE INSTALLING A BED ON A ROCK TRUCK. THE PIN SLIPPED AND THE BAR STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE'S NOSE. THE NOSE WAS BROKEN.
WHILE REPLACING3DIESAL FUEL HOSE NOZZLE ON TO HOOK ON FUEL TANK, VICTIM SPRAINED A MUSCLE AND TENDON IN RIGHT SHOULDER.
WHILE BACKING U1 A RAMP IN HIS ROCK TRUCK TO DUMP,VICTIM STRUCK HIGHWALL WITH THE RIGHT CORNER OF TRUCK BED CAUSING A WHIPLASH ACTION THAT INJURED HIS NECK.HIS LOWER ABDOMEN AREA WAS INJURED WHERE HIS SEAT3BELT LAPPED OVER HIM.
WHILE ASSISTING3A MECHANIC WORKING ON A LIFT JACK THE HEAD OF THE JACK WAS TAPPED TO LOOSEN IT AND IT SUDDENLY BROKE LOOSE AND SLID DOWN THE JACK ROD SMASHING AND LACERATING THE VICTIMS LEFT F IFTH FINGER 3
WHILE STEPPING 2UT OF RECESS INT HE BACK DECK OF A TIRE TRUCK THE VICTIM STEPPED BACKWARDS ON TO A PIECE OF PIPE THAT TWISTED UNDER HIS FOOT CAUSING HIM TO FALL & TWIST HIS RT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STEPPE8 OFF OF THE RUNNING BOARD OF THE STEAM TRUCK HE WAS OPERATING INTO A HIGHWALL DRILL HOLE & SPRAINED HIS LEFT ANKLE
VICTIM CLAIMS H9 HURT HIS BACK WHILE LIFTING A GASOLINE TYPE WATER PUMP.
WHILE TRYING TO3FREE UP AN OVERSIZED PIECE OF SLATE THAT WAS HUNG UP ON CONVEYOR BELT VICTIM LIFTED HARD AND CAUSED STRAIN TO LEFT SHOULDER
WHILE ALIGNING 6P A U-JOINT ON DRIVE LINE OF EDLAODER, THE JOINT WAS TWISTED ANDCAUGHT VICTIM'S LEFT HAND CAUSING A LACERATION AND FRACTURE TO LEFT INDEX FINGER.
WHILE ENTERING 7HE CAB OF DOZER,THE CAB DOOR CLOSED ON VICTIM STIKING HIM IN LOWER BACK AREA.DOZER WAS PARKED ON AN ANGLE WHICH CAUSED DOOR TO CLOSE AS IT DID.
AFTER AN ENDLOA8ER DUMPED A BUCKET OF DIRT IN THE VICTIM'S ROCK TRUCK, THE LOADER BACKED UP AND CAUGHT THE CORNER OF THE TRUCK BED CAUSING THE TRUCK TO SHAKE AND THE VICTIM CLAIMS HE INJURED H IS BACK. 3
VICTIM WAS GREA8ING UPPER HOIST PIN OF 992 C CAT ENDLOADER WHEN H E SLIPPED AND FELL BETWEEN THE TIRE AND BOOM INJURING HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND RIGHT LEG.
WHILE BACKING U1 AN ENDLOADER, THE VICTIM S MACHINE SUDDENLY AND WITHOUT WARNING OR REASON LURCHED TO ONE SIDE AND JURKED HIS BACK CAUSING AN ACUTE LUMBOSACRAL STRAIN.
WHILE STANDING 2N THE BUMPER TO CHECK ENGINE OIL LEVEL OF TIRE TRUCK, THE EMPLOYEE'S LEFT FOOT SLIPPED OFF BUMPER AND HE HIT HIS LEFT KNEE ON BUMPER CAUSING A HEMMORHAGIC TRAUMATIC BURSITIS OV ER LEFT TIBIAL 7UBERCLE. NO ACTUAL LOST TIME OCCURRED UNTIL 11-23-87 DUE TO SHUBSEPUENT COMPLICATIONS REGUIRING A CORRECTIVE OPERATIVE PROCEDURE.
A PORTA-POWER M5CHINE,VICTIM WAS USING TO CHANGE A TIRE,SLIPPED AND CAUSED HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS OVER A CRIB BLOCK,AND HE STRUCK HIS BACK AND LEG CAUSING A SLIPPED DISC IN LOWER BACK.
VICTIM RECEIVED3A CONTUSION AND CHIP FRACTURE OF LEFT ELBOW CAUSED WHEN IT STRUCK THE WINDSHIELD OF HIS ENDLOADER WHEN A BOULDER ROLLED OFF OF HIGHWALL AND STRUCK THE LOADER WITH GREAT FORCE.
WHILE USING A S7EAM CLEANER TO CLEAN A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT, MIST FROM SPRAY GOT INTO VICTIM'S EYES CAUSING SEVERE IRRITATION.
WHILE TRYING TO3STEP FROM HIS ROCK TRUCK ONTO AN ENDLOADER THAT WAS PARKED BESIDE HIM, VICTIM FELL AND STRAINED MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK.
VICTIM WAS GRIN8ING A PIECE OF METAL WITH AN INDUSTRIAL SIZE DISC GRINDER WHEN IT SUDDENLY "KICKED BACK" AND STRUCK THE TOP OF HIS LEFT HAND CAUSING A MODERATE LACERATION. VICTIM WAS WEARING G LOVES AT THE TI4E.
WHILE GETTING O6T OF CAB OF POWDER TRUCK, HIS FEFT KNEE JOINT SUDDENLY "LOCKED UP" AND INEXPLICABLY WOULD NOT STRAIGHTEN OUT. HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE DIDNT KNOW WHAT CAUSED THE PROBLEM WITH TH E KNEE. HE DIDN7 FALL, SLIP, STRIKE AGAINST OR WAS STRUCK BY ANYTHING
VICTIM WAS BACK3NG HIS ROCK TRUCK UNDER A RAISED ENDLOADER BUCKET THAT WAS NOT RAISED HIGH ENOUGH. VICTIMS TRUCK BED STRUCK THE BUCKET CAUSING A WHIPLASH LIKE INJURY THAT STRAINED SOME NECK MU SCLES. 3
VICTIM RECEIVED3A NECK AND BACK STRAIN WHILE HE WAS SITTING IN HIS ROCK TRUCK THAT WAS BEING LOADED BY ENDLOADER WHICH DROPPED A LARGE TREE STUMP IN ITS EMPTY BED CAUSEING THE TRUCK TO BOUNCE RADICALLY INFL3CTING THE INJURY
WHILE CHANGING 8TEEL ON HIGHWALL DRILL VICTIM ALLEGEDLY INJURED BACK WHEN HE PICKED UP A BREAKOUT WRENCH
VICTIM WAS HOLD3NG AN ELECTRIC DISC GRINDER. HE INADVERTENTLY LET IT SLIP FROM THE GRASP OF HIS LEFT HAND, STARTED IT AT SAME TIME AND CAUGHT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER CAUSING A SEVERE CUT THAT SE VERED A TENDON.3
VICTIM WAS OPER5TING A ROCK TRUCK WHEN HE WAS STRUCK IN THE LEFT EYE BY AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT THAT FLEW FROM THE ENDLOADER BUCKET THAT WAS LOADING HIM AT THE TIME.
THE EMPLOYEE AL5EGES HE INJURED HIS BACK WHILE EXITING THE TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING.
WHILE STEPPING 8OWN ON RUNNING BOARDS OF DOZER, VICTIM SLIPPED ON SOME GREASE AND PULLED A TENDON IN SMALL OF BACK.
TRAMMING END LO5DER FROM PIT TO FUEL TANK AT END OF SHIFT.DROVE OVER SIDE OF 15'DEEP EXCAVATED AREA.BROKE 5 RIBS ON RIGHT SIDE AND HAD VARIOUS BRUISES AND CUTS.AREA WAS FOGGY AT TIME OF ACCID.
VICTIM WAS DRIV3NG ROCK TRUCK WITH WINDOW DOWN FOREIGN OBJECT BLEW THROUGH OPEN WINDOW & STUCK IN VICTIMS LEFT EYE
VICTIM WAS REMO5ING WHEELS FROM A TRUCK. WHILE IN PROCESS OF PULLING VICTIM FELT SHARP PAIN IN AREA OF RIGHT TESTICLE & GROIN AREA.
VICTIM WAS USIN1 A LIFTING JACK TO REPAIR A TRUCK. HE PLACED A CRIB BLOCK ON TOP OF JACK. JACK TURNED OVER AND CRIB BLOCK FELL ON RIGHT FOOT BREAKING THE 5TH METATARSAL BONE.
VICTIM WAS MOVI3G THE BLADE BRACES ON DOZER TO CHANGE BLADE ANGLE THE BRACE CAUGHT VICTIMS RT HAND IN A PINCH POINT CRUSHING THE MIDDLE FINGER AND BREAKING THE TIP OF RING FINGER BONE TOO
OPERATOR LOST CONTROL OF END LOADER AND WAS THROWN OUT OF IT BREAKING HIS RT COLLARBONE
MECHANIC FELL OFF LOADER WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE. HE HIT HIS HEAD ON A BOLT CAUISNG HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE. HE CUT A SMALL GASH IN HIS HEAD & BIT INTO HIS TONGUE.
CHAIN HOLDING TIRE BEING PUT ON 773-B CATERPILLAR ROCK TRUCK BROKE LETTING TIRE FALL ON TIRE TRUCK OPERATOR BRAKING LEFT ANKLE.
EES DUTY WAS TO TRACK IN MATERIAL ON THE MINE SLOPE WITH A D8 DOZER. THIS REGULAR JOB ACTIVITY SUPPOSEDLY CAUSED EES BACK TO BECOME STRAINED. EE WORK REMAINDER OF HIS SHIFT- 2HR 40 MIN & HIS NEEXT SCHEDULED SHIFT -9 HRS BEFORE TAKING OFF WORK DUE TO ALLEGED INJURY.
EE HIT ANKLE WITH PRY BAR WHEN H BREAKING DRILL STEEL.
FELL THRU WOODEN FLOOR OF EXPLOSIVE TRAILER. TRAILER BELONGS TO EXPLOSICE SUPPLIER.
INDIVIDUAL WAS PUTTING SAFETY PIN IN MAST OF DRILL WHEN PIN SLIPPED AND CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN FRAME OF DRILL AND PIN INDIVIDUAL HAD TO HAVE FINGER AMPUTATED