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EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING DOZER AND DURING BACK UP, TRACK STRUCK A ROCK CAUSING OPERATOR TO TWIST BODY CAUSING LOWER BACK STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE HAD HAND IN DOOR CLOSURE.
EE WAS ALIGNING TABLE BUSHING ON DRILL. BUSHING WAS LOWERED INTO PROPER PLACEMENT WHEN IT SLIPPING MASHING FINGERS OF EE'S RIGHT HAND
LOOSE MATERIAL ALONG EDGE OF LOW WALL MOVED CAUSING DOZER TO ROLL OVER/DOWN EMBANKMENT. EE'S HEAD STRUCK OR WAS STRUCK BY SOMETHING WHICH LACERATED BACK OF HIS HEAD. THE BLOW ALSO FRACTURED HI S SKULL. INJURY REQUIRED SAME DAY SURGERY AND EEWAS RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL NEXT DAY. DOZER ROLLED 11/4 TURNS.
EE WAS STARTING ENGINE ON 637 CAT SCRAPER.
LEAVES AND DEBRIS HAD COLLECTED AORUND FAN SHROUD OF DOZER. EE ATTEMPTED TO CLEAR AREA WITH ENGINE RUNNING AND LEFT RING FINGER WAS STRUCK BY FAN BLADE RESULTING IN LACERATED, BROKEN FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING PIECE OF EQUIPMENT TO ANOTHER AREA OF MINE. TRANSMISSION BECAME DISENGAGED AND ENGINE STALLED. MACHINE WENT DOWN INCLINED ROADWAY WITH HIS BRAKES AVAILABLE. EMPLOYEE STEERE D EQUIPMENT OFF ROAD AND OVER ROCKY AREA TO STOP VEHICLE. EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN ABOUT IN CAB OF VEHICLE.
USING 3/4" IMPACT DRIVE SOCKET; TIGHTENING BOLTS ON #1 TRUCK, SOCKET SLIPPED ON NUT HEAD PIECE OF STEEL GOT IN LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON DOZER, MOVING FROM A TOP THE MACHINE TO GO UNDERNEATH, FOOT SLIPPED AND EMPLOYEE JUMPED TO GROUND AND LANDED AWAKWARDLY. FELT BURNING SENSATION IN BACK.