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EMPLOYEE REPORTED INJURY ON 6-22-98 AND STATED THAT SOMETIME DURING HIS SHIFT ON 6-19-98, AS HE WAS TURNING AND SITTING DOWN ON THE OPERATOR'S SEAT OF THE DOZER, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK /UPPER RIGHT HIP.
SUPERVISOR WAS HELPING AN EMPLOYEE START A CHAINSAW, AFTER MUCH EFFORT THE CAHINSAW STARTED. THEEMPLOYEE QUICKLY LIFTED THE SAW TO KEEP THE CHAIN AND BAR OUT OF THE DIRT. THE SUPERVISOR SUSTAI NED LACERATIONS TO THE END OF 2 FINGERS ON THE RIGHT HAND. THE LACERATIONS REQUIRED 3 STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE STATES: THAT HE WA SAIR ARCIN GOUT A CRACK IN A STRUCTURAL SUPPORT BEAM ON TEH DRAGLINE. A PIECE OF HOT METAL FELL INTO HIS WELDING GLOVE CUFF. AS HE PULLED THE GLOVE OFF, DUE TO C LOSE PROXIMITY TO AIR AR CELECTORDGE HE RECIEVED 2ND AND 3RD DEGREE BURNS TO LITTLE FING ERSIDE OFHIS RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE STATES: HE LIFTED A COAL HAUL TRUCK DRIVE WHEEL PLANETARY FROM FLOOR OF SHOP WITH ELECT. SHOP OVERHEAD CRANE. PLANETARY STARTED SPINNING & HE ATTMPTED TO STEADY UNIT & WAS STRUCK ON S IDE OF LEFT KNEE. LATER WHILE INSTALLING PLANETARY ON TRUCK HE WAS PUSHING ON PLANTARY USING LEFT LEG TO PUSH WITH. HE THINKS ONE OR BOTH OF THESE OCCURRANCES CAUSED INJURY TO HIS KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS DIGGING A LARGE ROCK OUT OF THE CAST AREA WITH THE LEFT CORNER BIT OF THE DOZER. WHILE DOING THIS THE RIGHT TILT CYLINDER END BROKE ON THE BALDE RAM. THE DOZER SUDDE NLY DROPPED DOWN SHAKING THE EMPLOYEE UP CAUSING PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT AS HE WAS BACKING UP HIS DOZER HE TURNED AROUND TO THE RIGHT TO LOOK BEHIND. JUST AS HE TWISTED AROUND HE RAN OVER A LARGE BOULDER. HE WAS THROWN AGAINST THE SEAT & FELT A POP IN HIS CHEST AND TIGHT SIDE. CONTUSIONS TO MUSCLES IN CHEST AND RIGHT SIDE.
INSTALLING DRIVELINE HAUL TRUCK HELD BY ROPE ATTACHED TO CRANE ON TRUCK CRANE RAISED THE DRIVELINE CAME UP CAUGHT LITTLE FINGER ON R HAND MAHSING FINGER CUT 4 STITCHES
HOLDING LOADER CROWD BRAKE ASSEMBLY,HAD TAKEN IT OFF DRUM AND IT RELEASED WITH AIR PRESSURE.OPER ASKED IT HE COULD RELEASE AIR PRESSURE AND INJ EMPL SAID YES BUT HAD THUMB & HAND IN AREA WHERE BRAKE BAND ATTACHES TO AIR CYLINDER.AS AIR WAS RELEASED,CYLINDER RETRACTED CATCHING EMPL RIGHT HAND AND THUMB.LACERATION REQ SUTURES.
WELDING SCREENS AND WEARPLATES IN AWKWARD POSITIONS PAIN IN HIP AND LEG
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS ARC AIRING WEAR PLATES OFF A D-11 DOZER BLADE HE HAD ARCED 3/4WAY AROUND THE CENTER PLATE & WAS CHECKING THE TOP WHEN THE PLATE BROKE LOOSE AT THE TOP & STRUCK HIM IN TH E HEAD KNOCKING HIM OFF THE BLADE BACKWARDS STRIKING LEFT ELBOW & ROBS ON A CRIB BLOCK LACERATION OVER LEFT EYE AN LEFT ELBOW REQUIRING STITCHES & CONTUSIONS TO LEFT RIB CAGE
EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE WELDING ON DRAGLINE BUCKET WEAR PLATES HE WAS SITTING OVER A HOLE IN THE NEXT PLATE HEAT FROM WELDING CAME THROUGH HOLE CAUSING 2ND & 3RD DEGREE BURN TO HIS LEFT HIP NOTE EMP DOES NOT HAVE FEELING IN THIS AREA OF HIP DUE TO PREVIOUS SURGERY THUS HE DID NOT KNOW HE WAS BURNED UNTIL TAKING HIS CLOTHES OFF AT HOME
OPERATING DOZER PUSHING ROCK & DIRT.BACKED UP OVER SOME LARGE ROCK WHICH JARRED DOZER CAUSING WHIPLASH INJURY TO NECK.EMPL SOUGHT MED ATTENTION 1-29-90.
EMPL STATES OPERATING A DOZER LEVELING SPOIL WAS BACKING UP AND RAN OVER SEVERAL LARGE ROCKS WHICH CREATED A JOLT TO OPERATOR HE FELT HIS NECK POP MUSCLE STRAIN TO CERVICAL AREA OF BACK
EMPL PLACED HIS HAND ON THE DRILL HEAD UNAWARE THAT HIS LITTLE FINGER ON THE L HAND WAS ON THE SPLINED SLIP SHAFT THE DRILLER ALSO UNAWARE THAT HIS FINGER WAS IN A PINCH POINT RAISED THE DRILL HEAD CATCHING EMPL FINGER BETWEEN DRILL HEAD AND SHAFT STOP BROKEN AND LACERATED LITTLE FINGER ON L HAND
EMPLOYEE STATES; WAS STANDING OBSERVING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE USE AN AIR WRENCH AND SOCKET TO REMOVE A NUT. THE SOCKET CAME OFF THE AIR WRENCH AND BOUNCED AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE CHIN. LACERATIO N APPROX. 2" LONG REQUIRING SIX SUTURES.
EMPLOYEE STATES WHILE OPERATING A D-11 DOZER PUSHING OVERBURDEN HE STRUCK A LARGE BOULDER WITH THE BLADE CORNER BIT. THE DOZER TWISTED SIDEWAYS SUDDENLY JARRING HIM IN THE SEAT. UPPER BODY TWI STING MOTION. MUSCLE STRAIN AND POSSIBLE RUPTURED DISC IN LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATES: HE WAS IN THE TUB OF THE 8750 DRAGLINE. HE WAS HOLDING NUTS ON SWING SEGMENT BLOLTS WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TIGHTENED THE BOLTS FROM ABOVE USING AN AIR WRENCH. EMPLOYEE TURNED TO PICK UP ANOTHER WRENCH AS OTHER EMPLOYEE SPUN THE BOLT AND NUT WITH AIR WRENCH. A SEMI-HARDENING AGENT (DEVCON) WAS SLUNG FROM BOLT AND SOME CAME PAST EMP. SAFETY GLASSES AND GOT INTO HIS
EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A BATTERING RAM TO REMOVE BOLTS FROM A BULL GEAR ON THE DRAGLINE HOIST MACHINERY. THE RAM GLANCED OFF ONE OF THE BOLT HEADS AND PINCHED HIS SMALL FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND BE TWEEN THE RAM H5NDLE AND A BEARING CAP STUD.
EMP STATES, WHI5E AIR ARCING (WELDING ON DRAGLINE BOOM FOOT TRUSS EMP GOT SOMETHING IN HIS LEFT EYE
EMPLOYEE STATES3ATTEMPTING TO PLACE A 11/8IN SOCKET ON AN IMPACT WSRENCH SOCKET WAS NOT AN IMPACT SOCKETE IT HAD A CHROME FINISH ON OUTSIDE & HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN USED ON AN IMPACE WRENCH & CHR OME FINISH WAS 0LAKING OFF HE MISTGAKELY HIT TRIGGER ON WRENCH & SPUN SOCKET IN HIS BARE HAND CAUSING A LACERATION TO PALM OF LEFT HAND THAT REQUIRED THREE STICHES
EMPLOYEE STATES4OPERATING DOZEN PUSHING ROCK.CONTINULLY BUMPED ELBOW ON ARM REST OF DOZER SEAT BRUISE TO LEFT ELBOW AND FLUID BUILD UP ON ELBOW EMP.WORK UNTIL 14-21-87 THEN TOOK OFF AND WENT T O DOCTOR ON 4/23/87.EMP.STATED HE WAS NOT POSITIVE ON WHEN AND HOW HE INJURED HIS ELBOW.
EMP SHUTTING OF0 DIESEL PUMP IN PIT. FLASHLIGHT BEING USED FOR LIGHT SUDDENLY QUIT WORKING. EMP. CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE AIR SHUT OFF LEVER & THROTTLE LINKAGE, FRACTURING THE TIP OF MIDD LE FINGER OF LE0T HAND.
EMPLOYEE STATES: USING A CUTTING TORCH TO CUT WELDS LOOSE HOLDING A BELLY PAN ON A SCRAPER. WAS KNEELING TO ONE SIDE OF PAN. HAD CUT ALL WELDS LOOSE ON ONE SIDE OF PAN & HAD STARTED ON THE OTH ER SIDE WHICH HAD THREE WELDS HOLDING IT. CUTTHE FIRST WELD AND THE OTHER TWO BROKE ALLOWING THE PAN TO FALL & BOUNCE. STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF THE LEFT KNEE, CUTTING SAME.
PUSHING HAUL TRUCKS OUT OF PIT USING DOZER WHILE BACKING DOWN INCLINE HE BACKED OVER LRGE ROCK IN ROADWAY WHEN DOZER CAME DOWN HE WAS JARRED UP AND INJURED HIS LOWER BACK
THE 1450-W DRAGLINE SLID OFF A 80 HIGHWALL INTO THE PIT. THE OPERATOR OF THIS MACHINE WAS THROWN FROM THE OPERATOR SEAT BACK AGAINST THE BACK WALL OF THE MACHINE CAB. HE SUSTAINED A FRACTURED VERTEBRAE IN NECK, TWO BROKEN RIBS, LACERATED LIVER AND NUMBEROUS MINEOR CUTS AND CONTUSIONS TO THE TOP AND BACK OF HEAD.
WHILE CUTTING A PIECE OF STEEL PLATING, THE PIECE FELL FROM HIS WORK BENCH AND LANDED ON HIS LEFT FOOT, STRIKING HIM JUST BEHIND THE STEEL TOE CAP.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT ONE TRACK OF MACHINE OUT OF MUD. BOOM SUPPORT CALBE BROKE, CAME DOWN BOOM AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON LEFT HAND.
WHILE FUELING A PUMP,ELBOW ON OUTFLOW SIDE BLEW OFF,STRIKING GLANCING BLOW TO RIGHT SIDE OF PUMPERS FACE AND LACERATING RIGHT EAR LOBE.NIPPLE ON ELBOW NOT FULLY TIGHTENED CAUSING ELBOW TO FLY OFF UNDER PRESSURE.