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INJURY WAS DUE TO LONG TERM OPERATION OF A LOADER (PULLING FORWARD AND BACKWARDS). NECK INJURY OF UNCLEAR EXTENT.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING LOADER OVER BUMPY TERRIAN WITH A WORN SEAT AND INJURED BACK.
RUPTURED DISK AS STATED BY THE PHYSICIAN EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THE OPERATION OF THE WHEELED LOADER AGGRAVATED HIS BACK.
EMPL BACK UP ON STOCKPILE WHEN IT GAVE WAY UNDER TRUCK SLIDING TRUCK DOWN STOCKPILE DRIVER INTA CT.
EMPLOYEE ALLEDGED HE HURT HIS NECK WHEN HE HIT A HOLE IN THE ROAD OFF THE DUMP HOPPER EMPLOYEE STATES MY HEAD JUST SNAPPED BACK ALL THE WAY WAS A SMALL POPPING SOUND NECK BURNED FOR FEW MINUTE S AND THEN DIDNT FEEL ANYTHING ELSE
EMPLOYEE BACKED TO CLOSE TO TOP OF HIGHWALL WHILE CONSTRUCTING BURN AND FILED TRUCK OVER BACKWARD, WHILE DUMPING. TRUCK LANDED UPSIDE DOWN, BELOW HIGHWALL.
RAIL ROAD SWITCH LEFT OPEN FOR SIDING TO YARD LOADED TRAIN CAME IN ON TRAIN WAITING TO GO OUT.
EMPL WAS BEING LOADED OUT OF MINE TKING IT TO PRIMARY. LOADER RAN UP ON ROCK & CAUSED ROCK TO SHIFT TO LEFT SIDE OF BUCKET & ON TRUCK WHICH CAUSED ROCK TO FALL ON EMPL'S ARM.
LOADING CUSTOMERS TRUCK WITH 57 MATERIAL WAS APPROACHING 57 PILE WITH BUCKET ON GROUND.BUCKET STRUCK CONCRETE THAT HAD BEEN POURED OVER CORRUGATED PILE TUNNEL CAUSING LOADER TO STOP IMMEDIATEL Y CAUSING STRAIN TO LOWER BACK AREA.
992C LOADER DUMPED BIG ROCK FROM BUCKET INTO TRUCK. TRUCK BOUNCED FROM IPACT CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO BOUNCE. THIS ACTION STRAINED EMPLOYEES NECK.
NEW RUBBERS WERE INSTALLED IN FEEDER SIDE PLATE BUT WAS STILL LEAKING MATERIAL I PUT MY FINGER UP UNDER SIDE PLATE TO FEEL IF RUBBER WAS TIGHT FEEDER WAS RUNNING I THOUGHT MY FINGER WAS AHEAD FAR ENOUGH SO THAT FEEDER FLOOR WOULD NOT REACH MY HAND I WAS WRONG AND THE FEEDER PLATE CUT MY FINGER
EMP. WAS USING A FRONT END LOADER TO CLEAN THE AREA AROUND THE PLANT. WHILE USING THE LOADER, HE MANEUVER INTO AN AWKARD POSITION. HE PUT THE LOADER INTO REVERSE TO A LEVIATE THE PROBL EM. HE SIAD THE LOADER JARRED HIM WHEN HE PUT THE MACHIE INTO REVERSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A PIT TRUCK WHEN THE STEERING LOCKED CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO HIT PILLAR.
I.NAME WAS SITTING IN A 35 TON HAUL TRUCK WITH WINDOW OPEN AND FOREARM RESTING ON WINDOW TRACK LOADER WAS PUTTING 2ND BUCKET ON TRUCK WHEN A 5 IN TO 6 IN ROCK FELL OFF THE LOADER BUCKET AND BRUISED LEFT WRIST AND TOP OF HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING HAUL TRUCKS THAT WERE STOCK PILING. BACKED UNDER CONVEYOR AS THEY REVERSED IT.
EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO SHUT LOADER ENGINE OFF USING STANDARD PROCEDURE(PULLING ACCELERATOR PEDAL UP)WHE HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF OF PEDAL THUS STRIKING THE BOTTOM OF THE DASH.THIS IN TURN RESULTED IN A LARGE "BUMP" RISING ON THE BACK OF HIS HAND OVER THE FIRST KNUCKLE-DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS-A BRUISE.
EMPLOYEE WERE BEING TRANSPORTED TO PIT AREA BY WHITCOMB LOCOMOTIVE BECAUSE HIGH WATER WAS OVER ACESS RD OPERATOR RAN INTO SOME PARTED ORE CARS CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL FORWARD HE FELL INTO A L ITTLE STARTING ENGINE CUTTING HIS UPPER LIP
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 HELPING TO INSTALL A 16" DIAMETER PIPE ON THE 16" PUMP. HE WAS PUTTING A 1" BOLT THROUGH THE FLANGE OF 16" PUMPP AND THE FLANGE OF 16" PIPE. THE PIPE WAS BEING PLACED BY A FRO NT-END LOADER. 9MPLOYEE HELD THE BOLT AGAINST THE PIPE FLANGE. THE LOADER OPERATOR MOVED THE PIPE CAUSING IT TO SHIFT BACK TOWARD THE PUMP, THEREBY PUSHING THE BOLT AGAINST THE PUMP CAUSING M
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING OUT A RETURN ROLLER. BELT CAUGHT HIS LOOSE CLOTHING AND PULLED HIS HAND OVER TOP OF OUTSIDE ROLLER.
EMPL STANDING O3 TRUCK CRANE OF BACK OF BED.EMPL REACHED INTO GANG BOX TO GET HIS GLASSES.THE RO DRIVER PUT VEHICLE INTO REVERSE .EMPL LOST BALANCE AND GRABBED GANG BOX TO STEADY HIMSELF.GANG BOX LID CAME D2WN ON HIS HAND.
TROLLY CARRYING3LOAD FAILED TO ROLL WHEN PUSHED. LOAD SWUNG BACK PINCHING FINGER OF EMPLOYEE. LACERATIONS TO LEFT HAND, MIDDLE FINGER. APPROX. 7 STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING EUCLID TRUCK FROM ONE SIDE OF THE SHOP BUILDING TO THE OTHER
INJ BRUISED KNE9 ON STEERING COLUMN ON A PIT TRUCK .(OR KNEELED DOWN ON ROCK TIGHTENING BOLTS ON TOP OF CRUSHER WHILE USING AIR IMPACT WRENCH).
I,NAME WAS OPR.3A FRONT END LOADER MOVING PIPELINE & STRIPPING AND HIS BACK START HURTING.
EMP WAS DRIVING3A TRUCK AND DUST FLEW INTO HIS LEFT EYE
I.NAME WAS TALK3NG TO I.NAME LEEANING UP AGAINST DOOR ON PICKUP WATER TRUCK CAME BY PINNING I.NAME AGAINST PICKUP CAUSING INJURIES TO PELVIS FEMUR & BLADDER-URETINA DRIVER MISJUDGED CLEARANCE & WIDTH OF TRUC5
EMP WAS PICKING3MUD OFF CONVEYOR BELT INSIDE OF ENCLOSED SHANTY NEXT TO CONVEYOR A HIRED TRUCK LOST POWER (STALLED) AFTER IT HAD PASED THE SHANTY AND ROLLED BACKWASRDS, STRIKING THE SHANTY. T THE EMP WAS JAR9ED AND SEVERAL DAYS LATER WAS TOLD HE HAS A POTENTIAL RUPTURE IN THE STOMACH AREA. HE HAD WORKED UNTIL 7 13 87 WHEN STOMACH STARTED HURTING
I NAME PULLED T2E WABCO TRUCK INTO THE SHOPO TO FIX THE EXHAUST MANIFOLD. HE TURNED TIRES TO THE LEFT TO PROVIDE EASIER ACCESS. AS HE GOT OUT OF THE TRUCK HE SAW THE TIRES WERE TURNED IN THE O PPOSITE DIRECTI2N. I NAME GOT BETWEEN THE RIGHT FRONT TIRE AND ROD WITHOUT HIS KNOWING HE WAS THERE. HE TURNED TIRES TO THE LEFT AND ANOTHER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TIRE AND FRAME.
I.NAME WAS IN T2E LOADER BUCKET ABOUT 12' OFF THE GROUND CHANGING A BEAR ING ON A CONVEYOR HE HAD JUST FINISHED CUTTING THE OLD BEAR ING OFF FROM THE SHAFT AND WAS COMMING DOWN OT GET A PAIL O F WATER TO COOL3THE SHAFT. WHEN THE LOADER OPR. RELEASE THE EMERGENCY BRAKE THE LOADER ROLLED FORWARD BEFORE HE COULD STOP IT AND BACK UP HE GTOT BETWEEN THE BUCKET AND PULLEY
RUNNING LOADER 5ND HIT ROUGH PLACE IN FLOOR WITH BUCKET BLADE.TURNING WHEEL AND STOPPING LOADER HE SLID OFF SEAT AND HIT RIBS AGAINST STEERING WHEEL.
EMPLOYEE WAS DR3VING EUCLID W1 AND REACHED THE TOP OF HILL TO DUMP LOAD. THE ENGINE QUIT AND VECHILE STARTED TO RUN BACKWARDS. EMPLOYEE APPLIED FOOT BRAKE AND EMERGENCY BRAKE. VEHILE DID NOT S OP, TURNED INTO3BURN. EMPLOYEE JUMPED FROM VEHICLE, LANDING ON RIGHT FOOT. FRACTURED JOINT ABOVE LITTLE TOE RIGHT FOOT.
EMPL DRIVING HAUL TRK ON GOOD ROAD WHEN FOR NO APPARENT REASON THE SIDE PASSENGER WINDOW SHATTERED.GLASS WENT INTO HIS EYE AND SCRATCHED LEFT EYEBALL.
A MAJOR SPILL HAD OCCURRED THE DAY BEFORE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS INCLINED TUNNEL IN WHICH THERE IS A CONVEYOR BELT THE BELT HAD BEEN CLEARED AND WAS RUNNING THE EMPLOYEE PUT HERSELF IN AN AWKWA RD POSITION BY LEANING OVER THE BELT AND UNDER A FEEDER TO DISLODGE A ROCK WHICH HAD STUCK IN THE BOTTOM FRAMEWORK UNDER THE FEEDER SHE LOST HER BALANCE AND HER HAND WENT IN BETWEEN THE BELT
HAD THUMB IN DOOR OF TRUCK AND WIND BLEW DOOR SHUT ON THUMB-BROKEN ON RIGHT HAND.
FALL FROM BUMPER OF END DUMP ABOUT 4\ DAVID WINBEELY SAID THAT HIS BACK & LEFT ARM STARTED HURT AFTER THE FALL.