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Utility crew was pulling shovel cable from frozen mud with pick up truck when cable broke loose from ground and hit tech in EE's knee. Tech is on light duty while doing PT & should wear a brace during recovery. No surgery.
Employee was getting loaded in EE's haul truck by a loader and reached to get a water bottle from EE's lunch bag and the loader made contact with the side of the truck and caused to employee to hit EE's arm on the door resulting in a contusion.
While dumping haul truck, hoist cylinder broke and bed came down jarring employee in cab.
Backing up in haul truck to get loaded, bucket hit bed, employee strained shoulder.
Employee was turning steering wheel of haul truck and aggravated a pre-existing shoulder injury.
Employee was a passenger in a man van that hit a pot hole causing employee to strain their neck.
While traveling on haul road, haul truck operator hit a pothole jarring lower back. Initially a report only, the employee reported on 5-23-19 and did not require medical care. Employee went on days off and when returned to work on 5/28/19, went to ER for strained muscle. Began 3 days off on 5/24/19, followed up with dr, restricted duty.
Employee was operating CAT 793C haul truck and while backing under a Letourneau 1850 loader, experienced rough loading event. Employee was taken to ER and sustained a muscle strain.
While operator of HTK280 was being loaded at SHV005, the operator felt the haul truck go up and down and felt pain in the lower back.
Employee did not hear the horn while backing up and hit the shovel bucket softly.
Employee was operating a loader and shovel. Employee did not report having complications till end of shift and only filled out a C-1. On Oct 21, 2018 employee complained of lower back pain and wanted to be scene by a doctor.
Employee was in a Haul Truck being loaded by a loader. Employee was tensed up bracing for the load to be dropped. Loader jarred Haul Truck by hitting teeth on the headache rack.
Employee reported that the haul truck bed was slamming down when lowering jarring the lower back on 08/01/18. Employee was taken to ER and released to full duty on 8/01/18. On 8/11/18 employee complained about pain in the lower back and was taken back to ER. On 8/12/18 employee was put on Lost Time.
Employee was backing up in a dozer with body turned to see where they were going. Ran over a rock and jarred the lower back.
Employee was driving a Haul Truck and hit a pot hole on dump. This caused the haul truck to go side to side locking employee's seat belt up and jarring the employee's shoulder and neck.
Employee was moving stacked cathodes on a chain conveyor, using a vertical bar braced by the conveyor frame as a stop and using the conveyor in reverse to attempt to re align a skewed stack of cathodes - the top of the middle finger on left hand was caught between the bar and the stack of cathodes. The top of the finger was de-gloved, the tip of the finger was amputated.
While backing haul truck under shovel bucket, the bucket swung forward and struck headache rack of haul truck resulting in impact, jamming operator.
While loading material out on the 7000 bench of the RE3 layback, the operator, of LDR003 encountered a hard spot in the floor causing the loader to articulate hard and "jar" employee's back.
Was getting loaded by electric shovel and bucket hit dove tail of truck. Truck lunged forward. Employee received evaluation and followed recommendations for ibuprofen use. As time passed further evaluation was sought due to no change in condition. Further evaluation on 11-23-15 placed employee on restricted duty.
While driving haul truck hit a bump and back "locked up"
Truck Driver hit a high spot on pit floor causing the seat to bottom out and injuring his back. Employee sought medical attention on 3/11/15. Incident was never reported to the mine by the employee. RNMC learned about the incident when we received the workers comp paperwork via the mail on 3/13/15.
Employee was tramming loader to new work area and drove over uneven ground and caused loader to bounce injuring his back. Employee didn't seek medical attention until 1/5/15. Employee missed one scheduled shift before being released back to full duty.
Employee reported sustaining a back injury after driving the 305 water truck. Injury was not reported until 11-3-14. Employee was placed on modified duty on 11-13-14.
Employee was operating a loader and was twisted in the seat while backing up. The loader ran over a rock jarring the employee's back. The employee felt medical treatment was not needed. The employee was experiencing pain and was seen by a physician on 04/01/2014 and was placed on restricted duty.
On Feb 11, 2014 employee was climbing haul truck ladder and felt something pull in his right shoulder. EE had a first aid doctors apt on Feb 18, 2014. On follow-up visit on April 18, 2014 was placed on restricted duty.
While driving haul truck employee hit a pot hole and jarred his neck.
While operator was cleaning and scraping the pit floor with Leterno 1850, hit a pot hole, which in turn bounced him in his seat jarring his back.