WE WERE SPLICING #1 CROSS MAIN BELT, HAD CLAMPS AND MONKEY ON A ROPE ON BELT AND BELT APART. BELT SWITCH GOT HIT CAUSING BELT TO START UP. HE WAS BETWEEN THE CLAMPS ON BELT, WHEN ACCIDENT OCCU RRED. HE WAS ROLLED UP IN THE BELT AND THE CLAMP HIT HIM IN THE LOW PART OF HIS BACK AND HIP ON LEFT SIDE. HIS UPPER LEFT ARM WAS ALSO HURT.
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Showing all 6MAN WAS CRAWLING UNDER BRIDGE BOOM & OPERATOR DIDN'T SEE HIM & LET BRIDGE DOWN ON HIM HURT BACK.
ELKORN SCOOP HUNG IN POINT CAUSING THE OPERATOR TO LOSE CONTROL OF THE STEERING AND RUNNING INTO A EIGHT BY EIGHT CROSS COLLAR POST CAUSING THE COLLAR ON TOP TO FALL ONTO THE OPERATOR STRIKING LEFT SHOULDER AND LEFT SIDE OF THE HEAD JUST BEHIND LEFT EAR.
TRACK BROKE ON BRIDGE CARRIER AND GATHERED UNDER REAR OF BRIDGE CARRIER RAISING DECK OF BRIDGE CARRIER THROWING EMPL AGAINST ROOF.
EMPL WAS OPERATING THE MANTRIP 3 WHEELER WHEN HE HIT A HOLE OF THE MINE FLOOR BOUCING HIM UP HE CAME DOWN AND HIS BOLTING LIGHT WAS UNDER HIS BACK INJURING LOWER BACK
WAS RIDING IN BACK OF 3 WHEEL MAN TRIP WENT THROUGH SOME WATER & IT WAS COMING IN HE RAISED UP TO AVOID GETTING VOLTAGE METER WET THAT HE WAS CARRYING ON HIM & ROOF STRAP CAUGHT HIM & PULLED H IM OUT OF TRIP.