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EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A ROLLER CAP BOLT ON A CAT D-11 DOZER. UPON REMOVING TH ELAST BOLT, THE FALL TO THE FLOOR CAUSING A STRAP HOLD A MINER BOGIE TO COME LOOSE. WHEN THE BOGIE FELL THE RESU LTING IMPACT CAUUSED A BOLT TO BECOME AIR BORNE. THE BOLT STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE'S HEAD CAUSIGN A LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED STITCHES.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS PULLING ON A 2" X 100' SECTION OF WATER LINE AND FELT A PAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS LOWER BACK. HE CONTINUED TO WORK, KNEELING DOWN TO CONNECT THE LINES TOGETHER. WHEN HE TRIED TO GET UP HE HAD SEVERE PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK MOVING DOWN HIS LEFT LEG.

EMPLOYEE STATES: WHILE HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE CARRY A 6"X20" PLASTIC "Y" PIPE FITTING, HE FELT A BURNIGN SENSATION IN HIS GROIN AREA.

EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS LIFTING AND PULLING ON WATER PIPE AND PUMP PARTS. HE FELT A BURNING PULLING SENSATION IN HIS GROIN AREA. LATER HE FELT A KNOT IN HIS GROIN AREA.

EMPLOYEE STATES HIMSELF & ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE LIFTING & PLACING THE TRAIL CABLE O THE DRAGLINE INTO HOOKS LOCATED O THE MACHINE TUB HE SAID THAT HE LIFTED WRONG & STRAINED MUSCLES IN HIS LOW ER BACK

EE STATES HE WAS INSTALLING LEFT SIDE PLATE ON FUEL TANK. HE STARTED A BOLT INTO HOLE AND AS HE REACHED FOR HIS IMPACT WRENCH THE PLATE SLID DOWN APPROX. 6INCH AND THE BOLT HEAD MASHED HIS FIN GER TIP BETWEEN 18 FT TOP OF CHAIN CASE. LACERATION REQUIRING THREE STUTURES.

EMPLOYEE STATES: THAT DUE TO EXPOSURE TO DUST & AMMONIA NITRATE FUEL OI (ANFO) HIS RIGHT EYE WAS IRRITATED. FURTHER INVESTIGATION DETERMINED THAT SWEAT, DUST AND POSSIBLY ANFO PARTICLE GOT I NTO EMPLOYEES EYE WHILE HE WAS LOADING EXPLOSIVES INTO DRILL HOLES.

EMPLOYEE STATES: WHILE REPAIRING ON A HAUL TRUCK, SOME TIME DURING THE SHIFT, HE GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGE. ON 12/4/93 HE REPORTED TO SUPERVISOR THAT FINGER WAS SWOLEN & HU RTING.

EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING BARRELS OF GREASSE ONTO THE DRAGLINE HE LEANED A BARREL OVER TO ROLL IT OUT OF THE WAY CAUGHT HIS INDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND BETWEEN LIP OF BARREL & METAL FRAME AVULSION REQ UIRING 8 STITCHES TO PALM SIDE OF LEFT INDEX FINER

EMP. STATES: AFTER CLEANING IN SHOP WORK AREA, THAT CONSISTED OF PICKING UP RAGS, TRASH, ETC. & SWEEPING THE FLOOR HE FELT PAIN IN IN HIS LOWER BACK, DOWN HIS LEFT LEG & LATER DOWN HIS RIGHT L EG. HE ALSO STATED HE WAS NOT SURE WHAT HE DID TO CAUSE THESE PAINS.

EE STATES THAT HE WAS SITTING UP A 55 GAL. BARREL OF GREASE, THAT WEIGHED APPROX. 450 LBS. AS HE WAS LIFTING THE BARREL HIS FOOT HUNG ON A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON, PUTTING HIM IN A STRAIN. MUSCLE STRAIN TO LOWER BACK.

EMP STATES CLIMBING ON A DOZER BY PLACING BOTH FEET ON PUSH & USING THE HAND HOLD TO PULL HIMSELF UP TO CRAWLER LEVEL AS HE DID THIS HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK ON THE LEFT SIDE POSSIBLE MUSCLE STRAIN TO MUSCLE ON LEFT SIDE UNDER RIB CAGE NOT E EMP DID NOT SLIP TRIP OR FALL NO UNNORMAL MOVEMENT OR OCCURRENCE

EMP. STATES: WHILE PICKING UP SCRAP METAL FROM FLOOR OF SHOP AND PLACING ON CUTTING TABLE, EMP. LIFTED A PIECE WEIGHING APPROX. 30 LBS. HE FELT A SLIGHT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND LATER THE PA IN GOT WORSE.

EMP STATES SHE WAS PLACING A BOX OF PRIMERS INTO THE STORAGE BOX ON THE POWDER TRUCK.AS SHE BENT OVER THE DOOR TO PLACE BOX INSIDE BOX SHE FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HER LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS ASSEBLING A D9-L RIPPER CYLINDER AT THE WORK BENCH IN THE SHOP. HE LIFTED A PISTON WEIGHING APPROX. 50 LBS. TO ALIGN IT ONTO THE ROD & FELT A PULL/PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES WAS LIFTING A PUMP HOUSING BEARING ONTO A WORK BENCH.WHEN HE PICKED UP THE HOUSING HE FELT A POP AND PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.PINCHED NERVE IN LOWER BACK.

MOVING DRAGLINE BUCKET WEDGE THROWING IT UNDER BENCH MASHED BETWEN THE WEDGE AND TIP OF BENCH

EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE LUBRICATING FITTINGS UNDER A HAUL T RUCK HE RAISED UP & BUMPED HIS HEAD ON THE RT DRIVE RADIUS ROD & JAMMED HIS NECK NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION AT C7 CERVICAL LEVEL

HE BENT DOWN TO UPRIGHT A BOX SITTING ON DECK OF DRILL CONTAINING A DRILL BIT. WHILE LIFTING ON BOX HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. EE ELECTED TO BE TREATED BY A CHIROPRACTOR INSTEAD OF A MEDICAL .

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS DISMOUNTING #041 POWDER TRUCK WHEN HE FELT A POP IN HIS LEFT HIP. HE STATES HE WAS USING THREE POINT CONTACT AND DID NOT SLIP OR FALL, WAS DISMOUNTING PROPERLY. PAIN IN LEFT HIP AND LEG.

EE STATES ATTEMPTING TO STRAIGHTEN DAMAGED CAB DOOR ON DRILL SHE GOT FINGERS OF LEFT HAND BETWEEN DOOR AND DOOR FRAME INJURING SAME CONTUSION TO INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER LACERATION REQUIRING NI NE SUTURES TO PALM SIDE OF RING FINGER ALL ON LEFT HAND.

IN LOWER CONTROL ROOM ON DRAGLINE SITTING WITH BACK TO DOOR JUST INDSIDE OF ROOM OTHER PERSON OPENED DOOR LON G FINGER ON R HAND WENT IN DOOR AM DOOR SHUT TAKING THE TIP OFF PER CO.

HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT AND DUMP A CAN OF TRASH INTO TRASH DUMPSTER. CAUGHT AND MASHED FINGER BETWEEN EDGE OF TRASH CAN AND LIP EDGE OF DUMPSTER. FRACTURED FINGER OF RIGHT HAND.

REMOVING FILTER FROM CANISTER TAB BENT CAUSED F HAND TO SLIP MIDDLE FINGER ON R HAND CUT ON SHARO EDGE OF FILTER 2 STITCHES

EMPLOYEE STATES CLIMBING DOWN OUT OF CAB OF SCRAPER AS HE PLACED HIS WEIGHT ON HIS LEFT LEG HE FELT HIS LEFT KNEE POP TWO DAYS LATER HIS KNEE STARTED HURTING & SWELLING TORN CARTILAGE IN LEFT KNEE

EMPL STATES ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE TREE LIMB FROM HOOD OF DOZER THAT HAD FALLEN ONTO DOZER WHILE CLEARING TIMBER LIMB WAS WEDGED AND APPARENTLY UNDER PRESSURE WHEN EMPL PULLED IT LOOSE LIMB STRU CK HIM ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD LACERATING SCALP REQUIRING SIX STITCHES

EMPLOYEE STATES: HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE CARRY A PIECE OF ROUND METAL 6"DX18"L,WEIGHING APPROX 112 LBS.STARTED HAVING PAIN IN UPPER PORTION OF BACK,BETWEEN SHOULDER BLADES AND MUSCLE STRAIN T O LOWER BACK.NOTE" EMPLOYEE DID NOT START MISSING TIME FROM WORK UNTIL AUGUST 16,1989.

EMPL RELOCATING MINERS 1ST AID STATION.LIFTED ONE END OF STATION OVER TAILGATE OF PICKUP TRUCK THEN PUSHED OTHER END.WHEN STATION CLEARED TAILGATE LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN LID AND TAILGATE.PARTIAL AMPUTATION OF TIP BET3WEEN TIP AND 1ST JOINT.

ATTEMPTING TO HOIST DRILL CABLE ON SET OF OVERHEAD PORTABLE CABLE CROSSINGS. CABLE WAS PULLED TIGHT EMPL LIFTED CABLE TO PLACE NYLON STRAP ON CABLE. EMPL SAID SHE WAS IN HURRY & JUST DID NOT T AKE TIME TO OBTAIN SLACK IN CABLE OR HELP. STRAINED MUSCLE OR PINCHED NERVE IN LOWER BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES: HE AND ANOTHER MECHANIC WERE LOADING A TOOL BOX WEIGHING APPROX. 150 LBS. INTO THE BED OF A UTILITY TRUCK. HE SUDDENLY FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE HAS A HISTORY OF RECENT BACK TROUBLE INCLUDING TWO BACK SURGERIES.

EMPLOYEE STATES: CLIMBING DOWN OFF A FLATBED TRUCK USING HANDHOLDS AND A SWINGING CHAIN STEP. WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE CHAIN STEP IT SWUNG BACK UNDER THE TRUCK'S BUMPER CAUSING OVEREXTENSIONS OF HIS LEG. MUSCLE STRAIN TO UPPER LEFT LEG (HAMSTRING MUSCLE).

EMPLOYEE STATES: WHILE REMOVING A BRAKEN WINSHIELD FROM A PICKUP TRUCK HE CUT HIS RIGHT THUMB, REQUIRING THIRTEEN STITCHES (13).

USING 1 1/2" WATER HOSE TO WASH DOWN FLOOR OF PREPARATION PLANT. SHE PULLED ON HOSE TO MOVE TO ANOTHER AREA. HOSE HUNG ON SOMETHING SO SHE PULLED HARD & HOSE CAME LOOSE SUDDENLY CAUSING HER TO STRIKE HER HAND & WRIST ON HANDRAIL PIPE. CONTUSIONS & SWELLING TO WRIST & BACK OF LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A 5 GAL. WATER JUG FILLED WITH WATER AND ICE ONTO THE SHOE OF THE 8750 DRAGLINE.THIS LIFT WAS FRON THE GROUND TO APPROX. HEAD LEVEL, 5-6'. EMPLOYE E RECEIVED A MUSCLE STRAIN (POSSIBLE MUSCLE TEAR) TO HER LEFT SIDE.

EMPLOYEE STATES: WASHING PARTS IN A BUCKET OF SOLVENT. HE WAS WEARING RUBBER GLOVES. SOLVENT GOT INSIDE THE RIGHT GLOVE AND EMPLOYEE CONTINUED TO WASH PARTS. AFTER A WHILE EMPLOYEE TOOK THE GLOVES OFF AND CONTINUED TO WASH PARTS IN SOLVENT. THE DOCTORS DIAGNOSIS WAS CONTACT DERMATITIS TO HIS RIGHT HAND.

WHILE REPAIRING ON A D-11 DOZER, HE WAS SITTING ON THE DOZER TRACK. WHEN HE TWISTED AROUND, HE STRUCK HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON THE FRAME OF THE DOZER. OVER THE NEXT THREE DAYS HE, ON OCCASION, STRUC K HIS ELBOW WHICH CAUSED CONTINUOUS AGGRAVATION. ON 5-10-88, HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR WHO DIAGNOSED A SMALL FRACTURE ON THE RIGHT PROXIMALULNA.

EMPLOYEE STATED ON 2-28-88 HE SPRAINED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK WHEN HE STEPPED ON A 8 IN PUMP HOSE COVERED WITH FROST AND SLIPPED AND FELL ON 3-17-88 WHILE LIFTING ON ONE END OF A HAUL TRUCK FR ONT STABILIZER BAR SO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE COULD PIN IN HE INJURED HIS LOWER BACK HE WENT TO DR ON 3-18-88 AND WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING ACUTE LUMBAR SPRAIN

HE WAS HELPING 7HANGE AIR FILTERS IN THE DUST COLLECTOR SYSTEM ON A DRILL. HE HAD TO BEND OVER INTO THE DUST HOPPER TO REACH THE FILTERS. HE SAID THAT HE THOUGH BEING IN THAT POSITION HURT HIS BACK. 3

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING LOAD A 12 FT. ALUMINUM BOAT INTO THE BED OF A PICKUP. THE PICKED UP THE FRONT OF THE BOAT BY A HANDLE, WITH HIS KNUCKLES ON TOP OF THE HANDLE. TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES LIFTED T HE REAR OF THE 6OAT. THIS CAUSED THE FRONT OF THE BOAT TO PINCH/PULL HIS FINGER AND KNUCKLE, CAUSING SPRAIN TO MIDDLE FINGER AND LARGE KNUCKLE ON LEFT HAND.

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING MOVE A PUMP HOSE AND ELECTRIC CABLE.HOSE AND CABLE BECAME HUNG ON A ROC,IT PULLED HIM FORWARD WHILE HIS FOOT REMAINED LODGED BETWEEN TWO ROCKS,TWISTING LEFT ANKLE.SPRAIN A ND POSSIBLE NER5E DAMAGE TO LEFT ANKLE.

EMPLOYEE STATES3HEWAS MOVING HIS TOOL BOX ACROSS THE SHOP WHEN ONE WHEEL OF TOOL BOX DROPPED INTO A HOLE BESIDE THE METAL RAIL IN SHOP FLOOR. THE TOOL BOX TIPPED OVER ONTO EMPLOYEE AND CUT THE TOP OF HIS LEF7 INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING CHANGE A DEFECTIVE AIR QUICK COUPLER LOCATED ON THE AIR SYSTEM AT PREPARATION PLANT,IN THE RUN-OF-MINE TUNNEL.THE LINE PRESSURE HAD NOT BEEN SHUT OFF,EMPLOYEE WAS AWARE OF THIS BUT LOOSE3ED THE FITTING WITH A WRENCH THEN WITH HIS LEFT HAND HE REACHED TO WIGGLE THE COUPLER.IT SUDDENLY CAME OFF AND AIR PRESSURE BLEW RUST PARTICLES AND DIRT OUT OF AIR LINE UNDER

EE STATES PRIMI3G WATER PUMP BY LEANING OVER HANDRAIL AROUND EDGE OF PUMP FLOAT & FILLING A PLASTIC 5 GAL BUCKET WITH WATER, LIFTING UP OVER HANDRAIL & POURING WATER INTO PUMP BOWL. APPROX WE IGHT OF BUCKET 3S 43#. EE HAD PREVIOUS BACK INJURY DR DIAGNOSED THIS AS REINJURY OF HIS BACK MUSCLE STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE STATED4HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CARRYING METAL PLATES VARYING IN WEIGHT FROM 75 TO 109 LBS.INTO COMPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE 3270 DRAGLINE TUB.IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THIS HE HAD TO CL IMB THROUGH BUL5 HEAD OPENINGS BETWEEN COMPARTMENTS.DUE TO THE SMALL SIDE OF THESE OPENINGS HE HAD TO GET IN AWKWARD POSITIONS TO GET THROUGH THESE OPENINGS.THIS PROCESS CAUSEDD A MUSCLE STRA

EMPLOYEE STATES4HE LIFTED HIS TOOL BOX FROM THE BACK OF A WELDING TRUCK.HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK AS HE LOWERED THE BOX TO THE GROUND.EMPLOYEE SAID THE BOX WAS NOT TOO HEAVY FOR HIM.POSSIBLY ON UNLEVEL GRON8 WHEN LIFTING.MUSCLE STRAIN TO MIDDLE PORTION OF BACK.

EMPLOYEE STATES4WAS PULLING 25KV 35OMCM POWER CABLE OUT OF ELECTRICAL SWITCH BOX.HE HAD A HOLD OF I NAME GRIP ON CABLE & WHEN CABLE CAME OUT OF BOX IT FLIPPED & HIS GLOVE CAUGHT ON THE I NAM E GRIP & PULLED3MUSCLE IN HIS RIGHT FOREARM.

EMPLOYEE STATES4LIFTING A SECTION OF PIPE HANDRAIL WITH THE HELP OF ANOTHER EMPLOYEE.AS THEY WERE LIFTING THE HANDRAIL,HE TWISTED HIS UPPER BODY AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS RIGHT LOWER BACK A REA.SECTION OF 9AIL WEIGHED APPROXIMATELY 35 LBS.

EMPLOYEE STATES4USING HIS KNEE TO HELP ALIGN AND HOLD HEAVY PUMP PART DURING AN OVERHAUL OF A RECIRCULATING PUMP.EMPLOYEE STATED THAT AREA AROUND KNEE WAS SORE AND BRUISED WHEN HE GOT HOME TH AT NIGHT.ON 2/15/87 EMP.KNEE WAS SWOLLEN AND AREA WAS KNUMB.DOCTOR TOLD EMP. TO TAKE OFF WORK BUT EMP. DID NOT THINK IT WAS NECESSARY,BUT COMPLIED WITH DOCTORS ORDERS.

EMPLOYEE STATES4 CLIMBING INTO SUPPLY TRUCK. WHEN HE SHUT THE DOOR IT STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW. CONTUSION, SWELLING REQUIRING REMOVAL OF FLUID ACCUMULATION FROM ELBOW.

EMPLOYEE STATES3HE WAS ASSISTING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE IN PLACING CRIBBING TIRES UNDER THE OUTRIGGER OF A 300 TON CRANE. HE WAS DOWN ON HIS KNEES PICKING UP ONE END OF TIES AND PITCHING THEM INTO POISITION. TIE8 WIEGH APPROX. 100 POUNDS TOTAL WEIGHT. EMPLOYEE INURED HIS LOWER BACK.