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WHILE DUMPING OFF OF SPOIL PILE, THE BANK SLUFFED CAUSING THE TRUCK TO ROLL BACKWARDS AND ONTO ITS SIDE. RAIN THE NIGHT BEFORE CAUSED THE BANK TO BE UNSTABLE. THE DRIVER HAD MULTIPLE CONTUSION S BUT NO SERIOUS INJURY.
CHANGING BELT SCRAPER ON C-20 CONVEYOR SCRAPER BRACKET CAME LOOSE.HIT MOVING BELT CAUGHT HAND BETWEEN BRACKET AND HOPPER OF CONVEYOR CAUSING LACERATIONS REQ 5 STITCHES,BROKEN RING FINGER RIGHT HAND.
UNK-PREVIOUSLY RELATED TO OFF SITE BONE CHIP INJURY NON WORK RELATED.COMMENT.
ROCK FELL OFF SIDE OF LOADER BUCKET HIST TIRE & THEN HIT EMPL ON LEFT ARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS ARRIVING AT WORK SPEEDING DOWN ROAD WHEN HE STRUCK ANOTHER EMPLOYEES PICK UP TRUCK.
DRIVING WATER TRUCK HAND WAS BETWEEN STEERING WHEEL & GEAR SHIFT TRUCKS FRONT TIRE HIT HOLE CAUSING STEERING WHEEL TO TURN QUICKLY TWISTING RING FINGER OF RIGHT HAND BETWEEN STEERING WHEEL & GEAR SHIFT.
DRIVING 729 C HAUL TRUCK INJ. CROSSED DRAINAGE DITCH WHICH HAS EXISTED FOR MORE THAN 1 YR. TRUCK BOUNCED INJ. STRUCK HEAD ON CAG ROOF CAUSING INJ. TO REC. STIFF OR TWISTED NECK MUSCLES.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING TRUCK WHEN HOSE BROKE CAUSING STEERING WHEEL ON 301 EUCLID TO SPIN AROUND EMPLOYEE TRIED TO CONTROL VEHICLE CAUSING HAND TO JAM
EMPL DRIVING EUCLID STORAGE TRUCK BACK INTO CLASS II SANDPILE.WHEN HE BACKED UP TO EDGE,PILE GAVE WAY,CAUSING TRUCK TO DUMP LOAD WITHOUT RAISING BED.TRUCK SLID DOWN BANK STOPPED WITH FRONT OF FRONT OF TRUCK PERPENDICULAR TO SKY.UPON LANDING,SHUT OFF TRUCK AND CLIMBED DOWN.
WHILE DRIVING UP A GRADE LOADED, THE TRUCK STALLED, AND ROLLED BACKWARDS APPROX. 264' WHERE IT STRUCK A WATERLINE, AND ROLLED ANOTHER 129' BACKWARDS WHERE IT ROLLED OVER ON ITS LEFT SIDE. NO APPARENT INJURY TO THE DRIVER. HE WAS TAKEN TO FLOWER HOSPITAL FOR A CHECK UP, AND RELEASED. INVESTIGATION SHOWED THAT THE VEHICLE HAD RUN OUT OF FUEL, AND STALLED. WITH OUT AIR, THE VEHICL
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING CAT SCRAPER HAULING DIRT FROM TERRACE PIT TO SURGE PIT WHEN SOMETHING BLEW INTO HIS EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING UNDER A LODING HOPPER CLEANING A TAIL PULLEY WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM A LOADER BUCKET HITTING EMPLOYEE IN THE BACK BRUISED BACK AND LEG
I.NAME WAS OPERATING THE LOADER TO MANUEVER THE PUMP INTO POSITION I.NAME WAS ON THE GROUND TO DIRECT THE TRAILER MOUNTED PUMP WHILE LOWERING THE TRAILER THE RATE OF DESENT OF THE TRAILER INC REASED CAUSING I.NAME TO LOOSE HIS FOOTING HE FELL AND THE TONGUE OF THE TRAILER STRUCK HIS FOOT
EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING UP SNATCH BLOCK ON PULLEY & CONVEYOR FRAMEWORK TO LIFT PULLEY TO REMOVE A HANG-UP EMPLOYEE PUT HIS LEFT FOOT ON PULLEY ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF HANG-UP WHILE HOOKING UP THE BLO CK PULLEY ROTATED TOWARDS HANGUPHIS FOOT BECAME CAUGHT IN ONE OF THE PULLEY CLEANING WINGS & WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT & PULLEY EMPLOYEE WAS PULLED INTO PINCH POINT TORSION BETWEEN HIS KNEE & F
EMPLOYEE STATED3HE WAS ON HIS KNEES ON CAT WALK ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN BUILD-UP UNDER RETURN ROLLER ON 36" TUNNEL SURGE FELT. ROLLER CAUGHT JACKET SLEEVE PULLING LFT ARM BETWEEN RETURN ROLLER& B ELT.. 3
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT WHILE DRIVING EULID HAUL TRUCK, PIT AREA HAD LARGE POT HOLES AND THE RIDE WAS VERY ROUGH & BUMPY WHICH RESULTED IN INJURY TO MID BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING OUT GATE FOR #3 ROCK TO GO ON BELT INCIDENT HAPPENED BECAUSE A OVERSIZE ROCK WAS TOO LARGE TO GO ON BELT & UNDER GATE AS EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING T O CLEAR ROCKS HIS T HUMB JAMMED BETWEEN 6ELT & GATE A BELT WAS RUNNING IN #48 TUNNEL
EMPLOYEE WAS ST6FFING INSULATION IN A CRACK BETWEEN LOADER CAB AND CAB MOUNT BYDASH PANEL LOADER HIT A BUMP IN THE ROAD CAUSING CAB TO BOUNCE, CATCHING EMPLOYEES FINGER.
EMPLOYEE HAD RE4OVED A PARTIALLY FILLED DRUM OF EIA-TRAC-OIL FROM TAC-WAGON WITH MOBILE CRANE & SAFETY CHAIN WITH SAFETY HOOKS APPROX.100FT.FROM SHOP WHILE TGRAVELING T O SHOP TO PLACE DRUM I NSIDE HE RAN TH9U A SHALLOW RUT CAUSING ST EERING WHEEL TO RUN WILD CAUSING INJRY TO WEB OF LEFT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING EUCLID WATER TRUCK UNDERGROUND. HE PULLED INTO PATH OF 35 TON MACK HAULER. HAULER HIT LEFT SIDE OF WATER TRUCK, BENDING DOOR INTO EMPLOYEE'S LEFT ARM.
I,NAME WAS CLEANING UP AROND THE #1 SCREEN WHEN THE CHUTE FEEDING IT BECAME PARTLY PLUGED. THIS CAUSED ROCKS TO JUMP OUT OF THE CHUTE AND STRIKE HIM.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING A 966D CAT LOADER AND HIT A POT HOLE THIS CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS BODY AND INJURE HIS LOWER BACK
BRUISED GROIN A9EA EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ABOUT 15 FEET FROM WORKING 966 LOADER.LOADER RAN OVER PEIECE OF STONE AND TIRE SHOT PIECE OF STONE OUT CAUSING IT TO STRIKE EMPLOYEE.
CRUSHER OP SHOV9LING SPILLAGE FROM UNDER RUNNING CONVEYOR SHOVEL CAUGHT IN THE PULLEY FORCING HIS ELFT HAND INTO IDLER RECEIVED SMALL CUT ON LEFT FORE HAND.
I.NAME AT PUG M3LL CLEANING HEAD PULLEY.TOLE EMPL TO START CONVEYOR BLET.I.NAME HAD WIRE BRUSH IN RIGHT HAND IT WAS BEISDE FRAME OF HEAD PULLET WHEN BELT WAS TURNED ON IT JERKED WIRE BRUSH INT O HEAD PULLEY W3TH RIGHT HAND WENT BETWEEN CONVEYOR BELT AND PULLEY.IT CUT MIDDLE FINGER AND BRUISE HAND MIDDLE FINGER NEED SUTURES.
EMPL TRAVELING 6NDER CONVEYOR BLET TO CUT WATER DOWN USE FOR DUST CONTROL.ROCK CAME OFF BELT COLLIDING WITH HARD HAT.AS ROCK HIT HAT THE BAND BROKE,HAT PUSHED DOWN ON HIS BROW CAUSING LACERATI ON TO FOREHEAD.4 STITCHES NEEDED AND ALSO TETNUS SHOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING UP ALONG CONVEYOR 67 NORTH SIDE AND RAN INTO AN OVERHANGING SPLITTER CAR. HE WAS WATCHING JUST AGEAD OF HIS FEET, AND CAR HIT HIS HARD HAT AT THE FOREHEAD.
THE EMPLOYEE ST5TES HE WAS DRIVING AN EUCLID QUARRY TRUCK,GOING DOWN TO THE PIT WHEN THE REAR AXLE DROPPED OFF THE TRUCK(ACTUALLY DRIVE LINE FELL OFF TRUCK),A ND THE BACK OF THE TRUCK HIT THE TRUCK HIT THE 1ROUND,CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO BOUNCE IN THE CAB OF THE TRUCK.
HE CLIMBED ONTO3A CONVEYOR BELT THAT WAS STOPPED SO HE COULD PULL A PIPE OFF BACK OF MAGNET HE DID NOT PULL OUT THE ROPE SWITCH OR LOCK OUT THE CONVEYOR SWITCH PLANT OPERATOR JOGGED BELT FORWA RD A LITTLE SO 5S TO CLEAR STONE FROM UNDER THE MAGNET THIS PULLED I.NAME UNDER THE MAGNET & UNDER CHUTE FEEDING THE SAME CONVEYOR
OPERATOR DROVE 5OADER OVER A HUMP ON PIT FLOOR AND INTO A HOLE BEHIND THE H UMP HOLE WAS APPROX 2X50 AS THE LOADERS LEFT FRONT WHEEL ENTERED THE H OLE, THE LOADER ROCKED FROM SIDE TO SIDE CA CAUSING THE OPE9ATOR TO SPRAIN THE MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK. SEAT BELTS WERE IN USE AT THE TIME OF ACCIDENT
CHAINS WERE HOO5ED ON TAILGATE OF TANDEM WHILE SPREADING A LOAD OFF CRUSHER RUN IN QUARRY.THE LOAD SHIFTED TO THE REAR AND BROUGHT FRONT END OFF GROUND.IN TURN STRIKING A BURM ROCK AND TURNING TANDEM OVER. 3
I.NAME STANDING3AT DUMPING SPOT AT LOADING DOCK OF RR.THE NEXT TRUCK DROVE TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE AND I.NAME HAD TO JUMP INTO THE RR CAR TO AVOID BEING HIT.A REGULAR TRUCK DRIVER WAS TEACHING NEW MAN TO DRI5E AT THE TIME.
EMPLOYEE ENTERE8 JAW CRUSHER TO REMOVE ROCKS SO THAT THE JAW CRUSHER COULD BE STARTED.THE REMOTE START/STOP SWITCH SHORTED ACROSS THE SWITCH CONTACTS WHICH STARTED THE FEEDER.ROCKS THAT WERE I N THE FEEDER FE5L OVER INTO THE JAW CRUSHER STRIKING HIM ON THE ARMS,LEGS,BACK,CHEST AND HEAD CAUSING BRUISES AND ABRASIONS.
EMPLOYEE PULLED3TRIP LEVER TO OPEN TAILGATE AND STRAINED MUSCLED IN LEFT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT IRWINDALE PIT PLANT MOVING LARGE ROCKS AWAY FROM CONVEYOR. A ROCK WEIGHING APPROX. 30# FELL THREE FEET OFF OF CONVEYOR BELT AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS SC5LING A PIECE OF ROCK HIT THE BASKET ON THE STRATO TOWER. AND THROWING EMPLOYEE OVER AGAINST THE RAIL OF THE BASKET.
EMP USED FOOT B9AKE AND RETARDER BRAKE TO STOP VEHICLE DUE TO HIS BELIEVING HE WAS GOING OVER THE JAW CRUSHER DRAMP BERM. THE SUDDEN STOPPING OF VEHICLE DUE TO HIS USING BOTH BRAKES AT SLOW SP SPEED AND HIS A5READY BEING LEANED FORWARD WHILE DOING SO CAUSED HIM TO CONTINUE HIS FORWARD MOTION RESULTING IN MINOR NOSE BLED FROM CONTACT WITH STEERING WHEEL RIM AND MUSCULAR TRAUMA FROM
EMPLOYEE HAD MU8CLES IN THE LOWER BACK PULLED WHILE OPERATING THE KOMATSU LOADER IN THE BLAST PILE.
EMPL RAN OVER B6MP AND STRUCK ELBOW AGAINST DOOR OF SCRAPER.
EMP WAS OPERATI3G A LOADER. A HYDRAULIC HOSE BROKE AND THE WINDSHIELD WAS BROKEN OUT LETTING HYDRAULIC FLUID INTO THE OPERATORS CAB HE PANICKED AND JUMPED FROM THE LOADER FALLING 12' TO THE GR OUND. STAYING I3 THE CAB WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN VERY MINOR INJURIES
THIS ACCIDENT W5S NOT REPORTED UNTIL 9 24 86 IT IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION EMP ALLEGES HE WAS DIRECTING THE LOADER OPERATOR WHOE WAS PLACING ROCKS AROUND THE SPRAY BAR, A ROUND ROCK R ROLLED OUT OF T2E LOADER BUCKET STRIKING THE SPRAY BAR, THE BAR HIT LOWER RT LEG
EMP WAS BACKING3PAYHAULER ONT STOCKPILE STOCKPILE GAVE WAY CAUSING PAYHAULER TO TURN ON ITS SIDE
I NAME WAS DRIV3NG WATER TRUCK IN QUARRY WHEN HE RAN OVER A LARGE ROCK CAUSING THE SEAT TO BOTTOM OUT JOLT INJURED BACK AIR PRESSURE IN SEAT HAD LEAKED OFF NEW SEAT INSTALLED
INJURED WAS ENR2UTE IN LOADER TO GARAGE AREA WHEN ONE WHEEL OF THE LOADER FELL IN A BROKEN SECTION OF ICE (ICE POT HOLE) INJURED STRUCK HIS LEFT SIDE INTO THE LEFT ARM REST IN THE CAB OF TH E LOADER 3
SEE ATTACHED-US3NG TRUCK-2 AXLE-DUMPING SAND.WHILE BACKING UP SLIGHT INCLINE,UNKNOWN TO EMPL REAR AXLE TIRE WAS FLAT.EMPL RAISED BED TO DUMP LOAD THE REMAINING PART WAS IN TAILGATE AND IT CAUS ED TRUCK TO TIL7 AND TURN OVER ONTO PASSENGERS SIDE.EMPL CLIMBING OUT OF CAB JUMPED OUT OF DRIVERS SIDE AND SUSTAINED MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS TO LOW BACK LEFT LEG AND HIP.
HEAD TURNED IN BINDING POSITION PULLED MUSCLE IN NECK.HE WAS BACKING DOWN LIME PILE AND HAD HEAD TURNED IN BINDING POSITION.
EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING ONTO STOCKPILE WHILE BACKING UP STOCKPILE GAVE WAY TURNING TRACK TO FLIP ONTO ITS TOP.
QUARRY DRIVER.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS DRIVING WATER TRUCK DOWN RAMP IN PIT & POWER STEERING BELT STARTED SLIPPING & HE COULDNT STEER HE JUMPED OUT & HIT HIS LEFT HAND HEAD & SHOULDER ON THE GROUND
EMPLOYEE STRATESS THAT HE CUT THE TRUCK TO THE RIGHT TO GET ON A DOWN RAMP AND WHEN HE TRIED TO STRAIGHTEN IT UP IT WOUL NOT RESPOND DUE TO THE LOW IDLE OF THE ENGINE. EMPLOYEE JUMPED OUT OF THE TRUCK AND THE TRUCK WENT OBRER THE BERM AND CRASHED ABOUT 50FT BELOW.