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Victim states he was loading shot rock into truck when a rock slipped and rolled back onto the loader bucket causing his back to be injured.
Victim was loading shot spoil into trucks when he struck a large rock in the spoil. The sudden stop jerked him forward into the seatbelt causing back pain and also jammed his right knee into the control box injuring his knee. Further tests are scheduled to determine extent of injury to his knee.
Employee was stepping up on the 777 truck #4012 when he slipped on step. Employee claims to have strained lower back and right leg. He reported both are sore.
Fueler/greaser was greasing a Cat 980 loader from his service truck when the pressurized grease supply line ruptured discharging a stream of grease at pressure high enough to puncture the employee's skin and inject grease into his right thumb. The grease had to be removed by a surgeon.
The truck operator had backed the truck to the toe of the berm, set the dump brake & was dumping the load when the spoil material hung against the tail gate causing the front end of the truck to be lifted into the air causing the cab to turn onto it's side. He was taken to the hospital, was examined, released & returned to work & finished working the remainder of the shift.
The loader operator was digging a rock off of the edge of the pit when the rock slipped off of the loader bucket, rolled into the pit causing the back end of the loader to bounce up and down in the pit and later he felt pain in his back and neck. EE started missing on 10/5/2012.
Employee dumping D300E articulating truck. Load stuck, raising cab off ground, allowing cab to turn onto its side.
The operator ran the loader off the right side of the road onto the bank and turned over in middle of the road.
Employee's hand and wrist began to swell and became sore. He states that climbing into and out of the cab of the articulating truck caused the swelling. He did not fall.
The mantrip buggy got stuck. The men were pushing the buggy out of the hole. The injured employee had his left foot between the buggy and rib. As the buggy came out of the hole, it got traction and the wheel turned and caught his ankle between buggy and the rib. The caused impairment to his left ankle, chipping the bone and contusion on the surface.