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INJURED PUSHING OVERBURDEN ON SPOIL DUMP, MATERIAL HAD SOME TREE TRUNKS IN MATERIAL. INJURED BACKED DOZER OVER TREE TRUNK CAUSING REAR OF MACHINE TO RISE UP THEN COME DOWN SUDDENTLY AGAINST R OCK BENCH CAUSING INJURED TO SUSTAIN JARRING BLOW TO LOWER BACK WHEN MACHINE STRUCK ROCK.
INJURED PERSON PLACED HIMSELF IN DANGER AREA BY STANDING BETWEEN WHEEL ASSEMBLY AND FRAME WHILE REMOVING REAR WHEEL OF GRADER.
EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING DOZER UP A STEEP GRADE AND PLACED HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE MOTOR UNIT OF THE WIPER BLADE ASSEMBLY AND THE UNIT WAS OPERATIONAL. HIS FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE WIPER ARM A ND WIPER TRANSMISSION.
INJURED PERSON WAS ASSISTING WITH INFLATING A TIRE ON A MACK SERVICE TRUCK WHEN WEAK AREA IN WALL OF TIRE FAILED AND THE PRESSURIZED ESCAPING AIR STRUCK INJURED PERSON IN CHEST AND ABDOMEN KNO CKING HIM BACKWARD.
PUSHING OVERBURDEN W/DOZER WHEN ROCK SLIDE FROM SIDE OF BLADE. OPERAATING BACKING UP RAN OVER ROCK CAUSING THE DOZER TO COME DOWN HARD JOLTING OPERATOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON HYDROSEEDER DOING RECLAMATION WORK WHEN THE HOT SEED MIXTURE SEEPED INTO HIS RIGHT BOOT CAUSING 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS ON THE DORSAL ASPECT OF RIGHT FOOT.
EE WAS OPERATING DRILL WHEN L. LEG SLIPPED AND FELL THROUGH OBSERVATION HOLE IN CAB. LACERATION L LOWER LEG FROM METAL CORNER. LACERATION 2.5-3 CM. LONG, 1 CM DEEP./
UNDER POOR VISABILITY, THE EMPLOYEE BACKED DOZER OVER BANK AND DOZER ROLLED INTO PIT AREA. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO DOZER (ESPECIALLY ENGINE).
EMPLOYEE STATED WHILE BACKING UP ON BULLDOZER HE BACKED OVER A LARGE ROCK AND JARRED HIS BACK INJURING IT.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING HIS BULLDOZER WHEN HE HIT A ROCK AND JERKED HIM, INJURING HIS BACK.