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WHILE DRIVING A HAUL TRUCK, EMPLOYEE BACKED THROUGH BERM, GOING OVER EDGE OF LEVEL.
EE REPORTS WHILE DRIVING HAUL TRUCK, LUMBAR SUPPORT IN SEAT EXPLODED CAUSING PAIN IN HER NECK AND BACK. EE RETURNED TO WORK THEN PUT ON NO WORK STATUS 8 -18-99 HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A LOADER WHEN DOOR OPENEDAND HE REACHED AND CLOSED IT. IN DOING THIS, HE CAUGHT HIS LEFT RING FINGER IN THE DOOR. THIS WAS DIAGNOSED AS A LACERATION AND A FRACTURE OF TH E DISTAL TIP OF HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS REFILLING WATER TRUCK. A MUCKER TURNED INTO MUD PRESS AND PINNED HIM BETWEEN MUCKER BUCKET AND WATER TRUCK. EMPLOYEE WAS RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL ON 6-24-99.
EE REPORTS WHILE DRIVING PERSONAL VEHICLE, SHE LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE ROLLING IT.
EMPLOYEE WAS A PASSENGER IN A BUGGY WHEN IT JERKED AHEAD CAUSING HIM PAIN AND DISCOMFORT IN HIS NECK AND UPPER BACK AREA. REFERED TO A CHIROPRACTIC DOCTOR FOR TREATMNT. X-RAYS WERE NEGATIVE AT THE COMP. DOCTORS OFFICE. THIS INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A CERVICAL STRAIN.
A MINE EQUIPMENT OPERATOR OVERTURNED CATERPILLAR HAUL TRUCK #254 WHEN HE POWERED THROUGH THE BERM AT THE EDGE OF THE PAD HE WAS DUMPING OVER. EE SUSTAINED SMALL FRACTURES IN HIS LOWER SPINE AR EA.
LABORER BENT DOWN TO CLEAN OFF BLUE TOP & LOADERRAN OVER HIS FOOT. CRUSH INJURY TO RIGHT FOOT
EE WAS PLOWING SNOW WITH LOADER AND CAUGHT A ROCK. LOADER SLAMMED SIDEWAYS. EE HIT HEAD ON SIDE OF CABL CAUSING A 2" CUT TO HEAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A PIECE OF MACHINERY ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A ROCK IMBEDDED INT HE GRIZZLY WHEN THE LIP OF HIS MACHINE HIT A PIECE OF STEEL. THIS MOTION HAD HIS SHOULDER HIT THE SHOULDER PAD. MEDICAL DETERMINATION WAS THAT HIS SHOULDER WAS ONLY BRUISED. THERE WAS NOT FRACTURE.
EE WAS DRIVING FORKLIFT OVER ROUGH GROUND. THE BOUNCING CAUSED HIS HEAD TO HIT THE TOP OF THE CAB.
EE WAS IN AN OVERHEAD BUCKET WHEN THE WELD HOLDING THE BUCKET TO THE BOOM BROKE. THE BUCKET AND THE EE BOTH FELL TO THE SURFACE BREAKING BOTH WRISTS OF THE EE. THE EE FELL APPROX. 15' TO THE G ROUND.
GEOTEMPS EMPLOYEE WORKING FOR ROSSON CONSTRUCTION ON CYPRUS SIERRITA MINE SITE WAS DRIVING A LOADER DOWNHILL. RAIN HAD WASHED OUT PART OF ROAD WAWAY. DRIVER HIT A POT HOLE AND WAS KNOCKED AROU ND IN THE LOADER. HAD HURT HIS NECK (STIFF) AND HAD MUSCLE SPASM.
CREW USING 4X6 & FORKLIFT TO PUSH CONCRETE PIPE TOGETHER INDIVDUAL STRUCK ON HEAD BY 4X6 WHEN PRESSURE OF FORKLIFT RELEASED 4X6 FELL 1-2' & STRUCK INDIVIDUAL ON HARD HAT. DAMAGE TO HARD HAT & INDIVIDUAL APPEARED MINIMAL. CK'D BY CLINIC & ORIGINALLY RELEASED TO RETURN TO WORK 6/12/98 FAMILY HAD INDIVIDUAL CHECKED BY 2ND R= CLOSED HEAD TRAUMA
WHILE WORKING ON PAN FEEDER (PUSHING ON THE ROLLER PART WHICH WAS JAMMED) THE ROLLER SLIP AND CAUGHT FINGER IN IT.
EE WAS RIDING IN MANTRIP. MANTRIP HIT BUMP. SELF RESCURER ON EE'S MINE BELT HIT EE ON HIS SIDE.
DRIVING ON WAY BACK FROM MIAMI SOMETHING FLEW IN WINDOW INTI HIS EYE.HE RUBBED IT MAKING IT WORSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO SWITCH OUT LOCI'S ON THETRAIN WHEN HE WAS BRUSHED BY THE SNOW BLADE ON THE FRONT. THIS CAUSED LACERATION TO HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE BUMPED HIS ELBOW ON THE TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING. THIS BECAME SORE ADN RAISED A BUMP. DIAGNOSIS WAS CELLULITIS AND POSSIBLE ABSCESS.
EMPLOYEE ON A 4 WHEELER COLLIDED WITH A PICKUP TRUCK.
EE WAS OPERATING FORKLIFT & STRAINED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AS HE ATTEMPTED TO SET THE BRAKE.
EE WAS DRIVING A BUGGY WHEN THE LEFT FRONT TIRE WENT INTO THE DITCH PULLING HIM OVER TO THE SIDE. HIS REFLEX ACTION WAS TO PUT UP HIS LEFT HAND WHICH WAS PINCHED BETWEEN A PIPE AND THE FIRE EX TINGUISHER CAUSING A LACERATION. THIS REQUIRED STITICHES.
EMPLOYEE DRIVING AN UNDERGROUND VEHICLE ABRUPTLY DROPPED BUCKET.
EE WAS SITTING IN AN UNDERGROUND VEHICLE WHICH WAS RUNNING BUT PARKED. HE LEANED TO ONE SIDE AND HIS ARM INADVERTENLY HIT THE GEAR SHIFT CAUSING IT TO LURCH INTO ANOTHER PARKED VEHICLE. RESULT ING IMPACT CAUSED HAIRLINE FRACTURE OF RIGHT FIBULA.
EE WAS DRIVING A MASSEY FERGUSON BUGGY AND HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER GOT CAUGHT IN THE GEAR SHIFT CONTROL. THIS CAUSED AN AVULSION AND PARTIAL AMPUTATION TO THE TIP OF HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER. (BO NE OF FINGERTIP WAS NOT INVOLVED.)
EE DROVE THE TRUCK OVER THE OUTSIDE BERM WHICH CAUSED THE TRUCK TO ROLL OVER THE SIDE AND LAND UPSIDE DOWN.
WHILE OPERATING A HAUL TRUCK, TRUCK STRUCK BUMP IN ROAD AND EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS NECK, BACK AND RIGHT HIP.
BRAIN SWELLING/CRACK IN SKULL - ACCIDENT AFTER EE HAD SIGNED OFF HIS 12HR SHIFT [7AM/7PM]. THE PAVED ROAD IS ON MINESITE ABOUT 1/2 - 2/3 MILE FROM PARKING AREA. ROAD IS POSTED AT 35 MPH. WAITI NG FOR SHERIFF'S REPORT AT THIS TIME - WILL FORWARD. EE WENT OFF ROAD WAS THROWN FROM BIKE & WAS NOT FOUND UNTIL NEXT AM BY ANOTHER DRIVER.
EE WAS IN A BOSS BUGGY FOLLOWING ANOTHER VEHICLE. THE FIRST VEHICLE WENT THROUGH AIR DOORS AREA AND PUSHED THE PULL ROPE AWAY FROM HIS FACE WHICH ACTIVATED THE CLOSING FUNCTION OF THE AIR DOOR S. WHEN THE DOORS CLOSED, THE ABOVE EE AND HIS VEHICLE WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO DOORS INJURYING EE.
EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY A PICKUP TRUCK AS HE WAS WALKING TO PARKING LOT AT SHIFT END.
EE CLAIMS HIS RIGHT HAND LITTLE FINGER WAS LACERATED WHEN THE CAGE OF THE BOBCAT BENT INWARD AND SMASHED HIS LITTLE FINGER AGAINST THE CONTROL HANDLE. EE WAS OPERATING THE BOBCAT WHEN HE STRUC K A STEEL STRUCTURE.
EE REPORTS HE WAS RIDING 4 WHEELER TO CHECK ON A PUMP, GOING DOWN A HILL, HIT A BUMP AND LOST CONTROL. LANDED ON KNEE.
EMPLOYEE'S ONE OEPRATOR AND HELPER WERE PICKING UP SCRAP PLASTIC PIPE WITH A 966 CAT LOADER. THE OPERATOR TRIED TO CUT THE PIPE WITH THE LOADER BUCKET AND DURIN GTHIS PROCESS A PIECE OF THE P IPE BROKE OFF FLYING THROUGH THE AIR HITTING THE HELPER IN THE FACE. THIS CAUSE THE EVULSION OF HIS NOSE.
EMPLOYEE REPORTS A PICK UP TRUCK JUMPED OUT OF GEAR. EMPLOYEE JUMPED IN RUNAWAY TRUCK TO STOP IT, JAMMING HIS THUMB INTO THE STEERING WHEEL.
EE WAS PUTTING A CABLE CLAMP ON A CABLE TO KEEP AN ELECTRICAL CABLE FROM DROPPING. WHILE HE WAS DOING THAT THE CABLE WAS STRETCHED ACROSS THE ROAD. A TRUCK STRUCK THE CABLE, CAUSING A CABLE WI NCH TO STRIKE HIS HEAD.
EE BACKED HAUL TRUCK INTO THE SHOVEL STAGING AREA TO BE LOADED. THE SHOVEL SWUNG INTO THE TRUCK AND STRUCK THE BED WITH THE SHOVEL. THIS ACTION CAUSED THE TRUCK TO JAR AND SPRAINED THE EE S NE CK.
EE CLAIMS A FOREIGN OBJECT LODGED IN HIS RT EYE. FOREIGN OBJECT WAS LIFTED FROM EYE BY DR USING A NEEDLE TIP. GIVEN PRESCRIPTION EYE DROPS.
INJURED WAS DRIVING A CAT HAUL TRUCK ON MINE PROPERTY WHEN ANOTHER PRIVATE VEHICLE RAN A STOP SIGN.INJURED SLAMMED ON THE BRAKES CAUSING HIS SEAT RO SLIDE FORWARD,WHICH CAUSED BRUISING OF THE GROIN AREA.THERE WAS NO COLLISION,NO OTHER INJURIES.
THE OPERATOR BACKED OVER A ROCK WHILE LOADING TRUCKS. THIS RESULTED IN A JARRING OF HIS BACK.
EE WAS PULLING A PULL-TYPE WATER WAGON. A LOADED HAUL TRUCK CUT HER OFF AT THE PIT. SHE VEERED TO THE LEFT TO AVOID IT AND HEADED DOWN THE RAMP INTO THE PIT. RIGHT TIRE BLEW OUT CAUSING MACHIN E TO JACKNIFE AND SKID. LEFT TIRE CAUGHT, SENDING WAGON INTO WALL. EE SUFFERED A 4" AVULSION TO THE SCALP WITH A COMPRESSION FRACTURE TO THE L-1 LUMBAR VERTEBRAE.
DRIVING TRUCK DOWN DECLINE AT START OF SHIFT OTHER TRUCK STOPPED IN FRONT TO TURN OFF WATER OPERATOR DRIVING SLOW (2ND GEAR) HIT ABRAKES TO SLOW DOWN BRAKES DIDNT SEEM TO RESPOND TURNED INTO R IB TO SLOW DOWN & HIT THE BACK OF THE OTHER TRUCXXX BENT IN & HIT SHIN OPERATOR DID NOT ENGAGE E BRAKE WITNESS THOUGHT TIRES WERE SKIDDING BRAKES LOCKED OPERATOR THOUGHT MAYBE WASNT ANYTHING
DAUGHT 1" AIR HOSE WITH SCOOP CANOPY, HOSE BROKE HIT HIM IN SIDE OF RIGHHT EYE COMPRESSED AIR BLEW DIR TINTO THE EYE. WENT TO DR, DR CLEARED DIROUT OF EYE, EYE SWELLED UP. NO EYE DAMAGE, JUST CLEANED DIRT OUT.
OPERATOR WAS WORKING THE 1750 BENCH LEVEL. CAT WENT DOWN THE SIDE OF A HILL CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO INJURE HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE REPORTS HE STEPPED OFF FORKLIFT ONTO WET CONCRETE SURFACE AND STRAINED RIGHT KNEE, CONCRETE WAS WET AND SLIPPERY.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN THE CAB OF AN ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE TO PERFORM DIAGNOSTIC TESTING. THE LOCOMOTIVE ENCOUNTERED ROUGH TRACK CAUSING A SIDE-TO- SIDE MOTION OF THE NECK. THIS RESULTED IN A CE RVICAL STRAIN TO THE NECK.
EMPLOYEE WAS ON BACK SEAT IN BOSS BUGGY, A FAN WAS HUNG TOO LOW TO ALLOW PASSAGE OF A VEHICLE THROUGH DRIFT. THE BUGGY CAUGHT THE FAN, THE FAN CAME LOOSE AND FELL ACROSS EMPLOYEE'S RT LEG.
AIR CLEANER WAS REMOVED BY ANOTHER EE AND SET ASIDE. BED MACHINE WAS RAISED AND CAUSED AIR CLEANER TO BECOME UNSTABLE. AIR CLEANER FELL FROM TOP OF MACHINE. EE WAS WORKING UNDERNEATH TRUCK AND AIR CLEANER HIT HIS ARM WHEN IT FELL.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS HE RECEIVED A LACERATION ON HIS FOREHEAD WHEN THE EMPTY HAUL TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING VEERED INTO A CENTER BERM IN THE ROAD CROSSED BACK INTO HIS LANE & THEN STRUCK THE HIGH WALL T HE FRONT WHEEL CAME OFF CAUSING THE TRUCK TO FLIP OVER UPSIDE DOWN
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THE TIPS OF HIS RIGHT FINGERS WERE CUT AS HE WAS HITTING TROUGHING IDLERS WITHA HAMMER. THE HAMMER BECAME CAUGHT BETWEEN THE CONVEYOR BOLT AND IDLER AND HIS RIGHT HAND WAS PUL LED INTO THE BELT PINCHING THE FINGER TIPS BETWEEN BELT AND ANGLE IRON BRACKET,
EMPLOYEE INVOLVED BELIEVES THAT EQUIPMENT MALFUANCTION CAUSED LOSS OF BRAKING AND DIRECTIONAL CONTROLW HILE TRYING TO NAVIGATE A DOWNWARD LEFT HAND TURN. INSUFFICIENT BERM HEIGHT FAILED TO ST OP THE FRONT END LOADER FROM DEPARTIGN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD, TRAVELING A DISTANCE BEFORE ROLLING WHERE IT CAME TO REST ON IT'S ROOF AT THE BOTTOM OF A SMALL RAVINE. EMPLOYEE TAKEN TO EM