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EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING COMPANY PICK-UP TRUCK ON ROAD NEAR SETTLING AREA. IT WA RAINING HEAVILY AND THE ROAD WAS VERY SLICK AND MUDDY. WHILE GOING AROUND A CURVE, THE TRUCK STARTED SLIDING SIDEWA YS, HITTING AN EMBANKMENT AND OVERTURNING.
EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A PAYLOADER TO FILL IN A WASHED OUT ROADWAY.HE WAS TURNING PAYLOADER AROUND TO GET IN POSITION TO BACKBLADE A PILE OF DIRT.THE PAYLOADER ENGINE WENT DEAD AND THE MACHINE ROL LLED BACKWARDS 8OWN INCLINE.THE EMPLOYEE WAS UNABLE TO CONTROL THE PAYLOADER AND IT RAN INTO A HIGH CLIFF OF DIRT AND FELL ONTO ONE SIDE.THE EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT ANKLE AND FOOT WERE PINNED UNDER
EMPLOYEE AND CO4ORKERS WERE WEIGHING CARS EMPLOYEE HAD TROUBLE DISCONNECTING THE ONE WHICH HAD JUST BEEN WEIGHED THE CARS HAD ALMOST STOPPED AND EMPLOYEE STEPPED BETWEEN THEM TO COMPLETE THE DISCONNECT AS 2E DID THE HEEL OF HIS RT BOOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE RAIL AND THE CONCRETE HE GOT HIS BOOT FREE BUT BEFORE HE COULD CLEAR THE TRACK THE CAR HAD ROLLED BACK AND HIS RT FOOT WAS CAU