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Employee was operating a Cat 785 haul truck with the door open and the door shut on his left thumb.
Employee was driving down haul road when his truck started gaining speed and the employee was unable to gain control of the truck causing him to hit the berm and became airborne - the truck impacted the bench below causing the truck to bounce and spin to the right resting on its tires.
As the driver was traveling out of the pit and onto the south haul road, the driver did not see a pot hole and drove his truck through the hole injuring his left neck and shoulder.
Employee was operating a Cat 793 haul truck and felt discomfort in his eye. Employee cleaned his contacts and finished his shift. The following day his eye was swollen and was taken for medical evaluation where he was diagnosed with a cornea abrasion.
The truck driver said a load of material was dropped into the bed of his truck too hard by the loader operator and it jarred his neck.
The haul truck driver was pulling into the pit to be loaded and hit a pot hole. This caused the truck to rock back and forth; the rocking of the truck strained his neck.
Employee was being trained to operate a haul truck. The vent fan was turned on and dust was blown into employee's eyes which caused a cornea abrassion to right eye.
The truck's wheel struck a pot hole and the operator strained his lower back.
An accident occurred involving a 30 ton Artic truck #305. Icy road conditions caused the truck bed to slide accross the center berm of the road. The rear wheels of the truck bed caught on the berm and flipped the box of the truck over.
Employee was being loaded with material when a boulder hit the windshield jarring the employee.
HUMAN FACTOR POSSIBLE MEDICAL EPISODE
Employee was getting loaded under the P&H shovel. The first bucket that was put into the truck had some oversized rock in it. When it hit the bed it jolted the operator of the haul truck hurting her lower back. This was on employees last shift for the week. She was scheduled back on June 12th employee did not make this shift.
Employee was getting logded under p&h shovel. Operator of shovel swung around to put a bucket in back of haul truck. Shovel operator over swang and made on tact with truck bed. When contact was made it jolted the driver. Hurting truck drivers lower back and neck.
Employee was loading wood into bucket. Operator of the loader lowered the bucket down onto the foot of the employee.
Finished working on haul truck 274, doing paper work in cab of service truck. 274 honked horn pulled foward turned right and ran over service truck.
Light bulb in uncovered dome light exploaded. A fragment lodged on employee's eyeball.
A TRAILING POWER CABLE USED FOR ELECTRICAL POWERED EQUIPMENT WAS BEING PULLED BEHIND A LIGHT VEHICLE. THE CABLE SNAGGED MOMENTARILY WHILE THE EMPLOYEE WAS OBSERVING OPERATION OF THE PICK-UP. THE CABLE CAME FREE & STRUCK THE EE IN BACK OF HIS LEFT KNEE.
EE was driving a mine haulage truck. He was loading at a shovel. The shovel operator struck the edge of the truck bed while swinging to load the truck. The ee complained some time after of a soreness int he area of his shoulders.