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While attempting to free a stuck roller the belt caught his sleeve pulling his arm into the belt and canue housing.
Miner was operating a 150 ton Water Truck on a surface haul road. Hydraulic system failed. Miner lost steering assist. Miner pulled a muscle in his shoulder while attempting to regain control of the vehicle.
Miner was operating haul truck, in second gear, hit a bump. The radio came loose striking miner in nose.
Miner was a passenger in a truck. Truck was parked, parking brake set, and chocked. Miner was not seat belted in as truck was parked. While vehicle was dumping, it tipped over onto the left side. Miner fell approx. 3' injuring elbow.
Operating haul truck when he hit rough road bouncing him against top of cap cut his head.
The employee was being pushed up hill with another 657E Scraper. The incident occurred when the second scraper made contact with the lead scraper, resulting in a slight jarring motion. The employee indicated he was not injured and completed the remainder of his current shift and the following days shift before compalining his back hurt.
Driving on the haulpak road going 25-30 mph. He heard a bang and the truck tipped on its left side and slid into the berm.
Operator was dumping an end dump trailer when the load apparently stuck and the truck was parked on a slight slope causing the truck and trailer to overturn.
There are several factors that contributed to the accident, it happened to be a curve next to a pond where the evaporation causes the road to become very slippery and the fact that it had rained the night before changing into snow early in the morning; the rear tires in the van should have been changed and finally the fact that even though he was driving at the speed limit.
The employee was cleaning out around the Zero Speed hose, while the belt was running. He opened up the guard and stuck his Right hand in, past bearing for the tail pulley, with a pair of Channel locks to clean. When he lost his footing, slipped and fell into the belt, the tail pulley grabbed his channel locks and pulled him into the tail pulley.
Haul Truck driver lost his brakes coming down a grade. His left rear duals caught fire. He steered the truck into the berm and went off the road and tipped his truck over on to its right side. The driver was injured and taken to the ER room and was released about 4 hours later.