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EE WAS CATCHING MUDBALLS FROM THE OVERSIZE BELT WHEN A PIECE OF METAL CAME DOWN THE BELT. HE TRIED TO REMOVE IT WHEN THE END RESTING ON THE BELTCAUSED THE MOVING BELT TO PUSHHIS LEFT HAND INTO SIDE OF WALL CAUSING INURY TO 2ND FINGER OF LEFTHAND.
EMPLOYE EWAS ATTEMPTING TO FRE EUP AN IDLER ON CONVEYOR WHILE CONVEYOR WAS STILL RUNNING. HE WAS USING A PIECE OF THREADED ROD TO STRIKE THE IDLER HWNE HT EROD GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE IDLER AN D THE BELT AND PULLED HIS HAND IN BEFORE HE COULD LET GO OF THE ROD.
EE WAS LOADING SAND CARS AND LEFT TO LOAD A TRUCK AT THE 57 GRAVEL PILE THEN REALIZED THE TRUCK HAD LEFT TO GET AN EMPTY WEIGHT, HE WAS ABOUT TO GO BACK TO LOADING SAND. AS HE BACKED UP HIS WI FE HAD PULLED UP CLOSED BEHIND HIM TO BRING HIM LUNCH., HE COULD NOT SEE HER BECAUSE OF THE CLOSENESS AND HIS LEFT REAR LOADER TIRE BACKED ONTO THE CAR OCCUPIED BY HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER IN LA
EE WAS LOADING SAND CARS AND LEFT TO LOAD A TRUCK AT THE 57 GRAVEL PILE THEN REALIZED THE TRUCK HAD LEFT TO GET AN EMPTY WEIGHT. HE WAS ABOUT TO GO BACK TO LOADING SAND. AS HE BACKED UP HIS WI FE HAD PULLED UP CLOSED BEHIND HIM TO BRING HIM LUNCH., HE COULD NOT SEE HER BECAUSE OF THE CLOSENESS AND HIS LEFT REAR LOADER TIRE BACKED ONTO THE CAR OCCUPIED BY HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER IN LA
DRIVING TRUCK ON HAUL ROAD, GOT ON LEFT SIDE AND HIT ONCOMING TRUCK. BRUISED CHEST.
DRIVING TRUCK ON HAUL ROAD AND ANOTHER TRUCK TRAVELING ON WRONG SIDE HIT HIM HEAD ON. LACERATIONS OF HEAD AND FRACTURED HIP.
TOUCHED HOT EXHAUST PIPE ON HAUL TRUCK TREATED AS FIRT AID LATER BECAME INFECTED AND WAS TREATED AT HOSPITAL ON 9-19-88
ROLLER WASN'T -EMPLOYEE WAS TAPPING ROLLER WITH A PIECE OF METAL TO GET IT GOING-ROLLER STARTED UP; THROWING METAL AWAY & PULLED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE ROLLER AND THE CONVEYOR BELT.
EMPLOYEE WAS UP IN BOOM OF TRUCK WHEN A LEVER WENT BAD IN THE TRUCK AND OTHER EMPLOYEE COULDNT CONTROL BOOM CAUSING BOOM TO PUSH HIS ARM AGAINST LIGTH POLE SCRAPED ARM AND BRUISED CHEST
EMPLOYEE WAS TA5ING OFF OF GAURD, HE DROPPED A BOLT AND REACHED BEHIND THE GAURD TO GET THE BOLT, CAUGHT HIS HAND IN THE PULLEY AND CUT HIS LITTLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
WORKING NEAR CO3VEYOR BELT WITH A BAR WHILE PUSHING IT BAR HIT BELT SWUNG AROUND AND HIT HIS SIDE
BODY WAS CAUGHT3BETWEEN A FORK LIFT A TRAILER WHEN FORKLIFT ROLLED & SQUEEZED HIS ABDOMINAL AREA.
CONDITION OF HA6L ROAD BEING VERY DUSTY. DUSTY ALSO HAUL ROAD NARROW. THE 350 RDT MEET ONCOMING PICKUP AT NARROW PART OF ROAD. THE PICK SLOWED TO A STOP AND WENT TO FAR RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD GIVI NG 350 RIGHT OF3WAY. THE 350 OPERATOR USED HIS BRAKES TO SLOW HIS MACHINE DOWN CAUSING THE ENGINE TO LOSE POWER, RESULTING IN LOSS OF STEERING. THE 350 VERRED BACK TO LEFT ACROSS THE ROAD, OV
CONDITION OF HA6L ROAD BEING VERY DUSTY. ALSO HAUL ROAD NARROW. THE 350 RDT MEET ONCOMING PICKUP AT NARROW PART OF ROAD. THE PICK SLOWED TO A STOP AND WNET TO FAR RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD GIVING 350 RIGHT OF WAY. 7HE 350 OPERATO USED HIS BRAKES TO SLOW HIS MACHINE DOWN CAUSING THE ENGINE TO LOSE POWER, RESULTING IN LOSS OF STEERING. THE 350 VERRED BACK TO LEFT ACROSS THE ROAD, OVER THE B
EMPL OPERATING 3W6.BRAKES HARD TO MASH.AFTER CONTINUOUSLY MASHING BRAKE HE SPRANG HIS BACK.
I NAME WAS HAUL3NG CROSSTIES ON THE LOWBOY. A CROSSTIE LODGED BETWEEN THE TRAILER AND THE TIRE. I NAME AND LOADER OPERATOR ATTEMPTED TO FREE THE TIRE BY RAISING THE TRAILER WITH THE LOADER BUC KET. THE LOADER3BUCKET SLIPPED DROPPING THE TRAILER, WHICH BOUNCED, MASHING I NAME RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN THE LOADER BUCKET AND THE TRAILER.
WHILE EMPLOYEE 4AS OPERATING LOADER MACHINE, THE LOADER BEGAN TO TURN OVER. LOADER WAS BEING USED TO LOAD DRAGLINE ON LOWBOY AND DRAGLINE BEGAN TO TEETER AND EMPLOYEE LEAPED FROM THE LOADER FR ACTURING HIS RI1HT FIBULAR.