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EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING THE ENGINE OIL LEVEL OF SCRAPER #974 WHILE FUELING THE FRONT ENGINE, WHEN THE DIESEL PUMP NOZZLE CAME OUT OF THE TANK FILLER NECK AND SPRAYED HIM.
65007-11-92 EMPLOYEE CALLED IN TO REPORT THAT HE INJURED HIMSELF 07-10-92 WHEN HIS RIGHT KNEE BUMPED AGAINST #1 CONVEYOR HEAD PULLEY HANDRAIL.
EMPLOYEE WAS ON LEVEL GROUND ROLLING UP A 60' SECTION USED CONVEYOR BELT,WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK PUSHING THE ROLL OF BELTING FROM THE REAR.
EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING EYE PROTECTION WHILE INSIDE #1B SCRUBBER PAN REMOVING WORN SIDE PLATES DURING HIS SHIFT FROM 2:30PMTO10:30PM ON 05-28-92HE REPORTED BEING UNAWARE HE SUSTAINED AN INJURY & HAD JNO SYMPTOMS FROM HIS LEFT EYE UNTIL HE AWOKE THE MORNING OF 05-29-92
EMPLOYEE TILTED A 1'X4'X1/4" STEEL PLATE ON END AND WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT IT OFF THE SHOP PAD CUTTING TABLE WHEN HIS RIGHT ELBOW BECAME DISLOCATED.
WHILE MAKING REPAIRS,EMPL WAS PULLING ON V-BELT DRIVE OF #1A ROCK WEMCO CLASSIFIER TOWARDS HIMSELF TO GET PROPER ALIGNMENT OF BULL & PINION GEARS.WHEN V-BELT SPUN FREE,FINGER BECAME CAUGHT IN SHEAVE PINCH POINT.
EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING A 6' LONG 2" X 12" WOODEN PLANK UNDER #1A CONVEYOR BELT TO REPAIR BROKEN LACINGS WHEN A SMALL SILVER ENTERED THE MIDDLE FINGER OF HIS RIGHT HAND.
EE REPORTED ON 7-19-91 THAT HE INJURED HIS BACK ON 7-18-91 CARRYING A COME A LONG 150 YEARDS TO 1 TOWER HE AWOKE THE MORNING OF 7-20-91 FEELING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND LEFT LEG AT WHICH POI NT HE WENT FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING DOWN FILLING #16 CONVEYOR GEAR BOX WITH OIL USING ONE GALLON CONTAINERS WHEN HE STARTED TO FEEL SOME PAIN IN H IS BACK AFTER FILLING THE GEAR BOX WITH OIL HE TOOK HIS SCHE DULED BREAK THRU OUT WHICH THE PAIN INCREASED TOTHE POINT WHERE HE WAS UNABLE TO RETURN TO WORK
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING CORNER OF RUBBER SCREEN CLOTH SECTION AND WAS ABOUT TO START DRAGGING IT ON CONCRETE SURFACE WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING TOP PULLEY SECTION OF FUEL ISLAND AIR HOSE COUNTERWEIGHT PIPE WHILE STANDING ON FORKLIFT WORK PLATFORM.PULLEY SLIPPED FROM RIGHT AHND AND TIP OF LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS CAU GHT BETWEEN RETURN CABLE WHICH WAS ATTACHED TO PULLEY AND TOP OF COUNTERWEIGHT PIPE.
EMPLOYEE SAID HIS HIS BACK FELT SORE AFTER SHOVELING #2 FEEDER AND THEN WAS LATER AGGRAVATED WHEN LIFTING GUARD FROM #P-2 CONVEYOR. INJURY NOT REPORTED UNTIL 2/26/90.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING ONE SIDE OF 50 TON FLOOR JACK WITH HELP OF CO-WORKER ON OPPOSITE END WITHOUT FIRST STRETCHING BACK MUSCLES
EMPL WAS REPOSITIONING A LIGHTING STAND FOR WORK ON THE CONVEYOR THE LIGHT STAND IS APPROX 65LBS TO REPOSITION THE STAND THE MEPL WAS DRAGGING IT WHILE DRAGGING THE STAND HE FELT SUDDEN PAIN I NLOWER BACK
EE WAS SHOVELING BUILT UP MATERIAL FROM UNDER P-3 CONVEYOR WHILE SITTING ON HIS KNEES. EE TURNED RIGHT TO THROW MATERIAL OFF SHOVEL AND STRAIN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING SAND FROM UNDER 4SA CONVEYOR NEAR 18 GATE WHEN SOME SAND STUCK TO THE END OF HIS SHOVEL BLADE AS HE WAS TRYING TO EMPTY IT CAUSING HIM TO OVER EXTEND & STRAIN HIS MIDDLE BACK
EMPL WAS KNEELING AT DISCHARGE END OF #2A SCREEN AFTER DRAINING OIL FROM SCREEN. EMPL HAD 5 GAL BUCKET ABOUT 3/4 FUL OF OIL APPROX 31 LBS. EMPL PUT ONE HAND ON WALKWAY PLATFORM & SET BUCKET OF OIL ONPLATFORM WITH OTHER HAND. HE FELT PAIN INLOWER BACK WHEN SETTING BUCKET ON PLATFORM.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING A TRACK ADJUSTMENT CYLINDER FROM THE LEFT SIDE OF A DRESSER TD-40 DOZER THE CYLINDER IS MADE WITH A SQUARE END AT THE BACK AND THE DOZER A SQUARE HOLE AT THE BOTT OM OF THE FRAME. WHEN PULLING ON THE CYLINDER OUT OF FRAME SQUARE END DROPPED INTO HOLE PINCHING EMPLOYEES INDEX FINGER BETWEEN CYLINDER AND FRAME.
EMPLOYEE CALLED WORK THE NEXT MORNING AFTER HIS SHIFT HAD FINISHED HE HAD SORENESS IN HIS MID BACK THE EMPLOYEE HAD TAKEN UP A CRUSHER SHOVELED UNDER A CONVEYOR BELT AND RUN A SMALL DOZER DUR ING HIS SHIFT HE DOES NOT RECALL ANY INCIDENT HURTING HIS BACK BUT FELT THA T ONE OF THE ABOVE ACTIONS CONTRIBUTED TO THE SORENESS
EMPLOYEE WAS CA9RYING A 10 FT PIECE OF 3/4 INCH X 2 INCH STEEL BAR APPROX 51 LBS INTO 1 SCRUBBER FOR MAINTENANCE. WHILECARRYING THE PIECE OF BAR INTOT HE SCRUBBER, THE EMPLOYEE FELT PAIN IN HI S LOWER BACK. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING A CONVEYOR TROUGHING ROLLER FROM CONVEYOR. AFTER REMOVING THE ROLLER THE EMPLOYEE THREW THE ROLLER OVER THE HANDRAIL TO THE GROUND. UPON THROWING THE ROLLER THE EMPLOYE E NOTICED PAIN 3N HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING UP A WORK AREA AFTER A RECENT CRUSHER LINER CHANGE. THE USED HEAD LOCK NUT FROM CRUSHER HAD A VERY SHARP UNDERSIDE DUE TO THE NUT WEAR. WHILE MOVING THE LOCK NUT THE EM PLOYEE BUMPED T2E NUT AGAINST HIS LEFT FOOT. THE SHARP EDGE OF THE NUT CUT THROUGH THE LEFT BOOT AND INTO THE LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING A BELT CLEANER FROM A CONVEYOR EMPLOYEE WAS BENDING OVER AND LIFTING TO PULL THE CLEANER OUT FROM THE CONVEYOR TRUSS HE WA ALSO HAD HELP FROM ANOTHER EMPLOYEE ON THE OTHE END OF THE WIPE9 THE NEXT DAY HE FELT SORENESS IN HIS UPPER BACK
EMPL SITTING ON3STEEL BOX 18'' HIGH LAYING ON THE GROUND.THE BOX WAS OPEN INTHE FRONT AND HAD STEEL PLATE NOT ATTACHED SITTING ON TOP.EMPL MOVED AND PLATE FELL DOWN INTO THE BOX CAUSING ABRASI ON ON EMPL LOWE9 BACK.
EMP WAS USING L2NG HEAVY DUTY 1-INCH HIGH PRESSURE HOSE TO WASH DOWN WEMCO FROM DECK ABOVE. HOSE WAS COILED OR LAID ABOUT ON DECK. AS HE WASHED WEMCO, THE HOSE SLID DOWN FROM THE D ECK AND DOW N THE SIDE OF 7HE WEMCO, TRANCFERRING WEIGHT ON TO HIM AND PULLING AGSINST HIM
EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG SHOVEL TO REMOVE PACKED SAND & GRAVEL FROM #6 SCREEN PAN WORK AREA WAS CRAMPED HE HAD TO WORK FROM SQUATRTING TO STANDING POSITION TO MOVE MATERIAL AS HE SHOVELED HE STRUCK HIS RIGHT ELBOW3AGAINST BACK OF SCREEN PAN INFLICTING HAIRLINE CRACK IN ELBOW
EMPLOYEE WAS LA2ING ON SCREEN DECK IN VERY CRAMPED QUARTERS INSTALLING SCREEN TENSION RAILS.HE TURNED HIS HEAD AND FELT HIS NECK POP.
EMPLOYEE ATTEMP7ED TO ROLL OVER A SECTION OF CONVEYOR TRUSS BY LIFTING TOP OF ONE END THEN PUSHING IT OVER ROLLING IT.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT7EMPTING TO INSTALL A DUMBELL(A SHAFT WITH FLANGES ON EITHER END)ON TO #2 FEEDER.HE HAD INSERTED THE FAR END OF THE SHAFT INTO THE BEARING AND WAS POSITIONING THE REAR REAR END WHEN THE FAR EN8 SLIPPED OUT OF THE BEARING AND FELL, HITTING HIS RIGHT THUMB,FRACTURING IT.
INJURED EMPLOYEE & ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE LIFTING AN IMPACT TROPHING ROLLER WEIGHING APPROX 120LBS INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS ON A WEIGHT LIFT RESTRICTION OF 50LBS FOR THE PAST YEAR HE ACKNOWLEDGED T HIS LIFT WAS TOO HEAVY BUT HE TRIED IT ANYWAY