Employee was operating loader to place broken rock into haul trucks, while digging, the loader contacted unbroken rock which stopped the loader causing the employee to be jarred resulting in pain in lower back and pain radiating into left leg.
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Showing all 3WHILE OPERATING MANLIFT, TRAVELLING DOWNGRADE (~22%) MACHINE APPEARED TO OVERSPEED. MACHINE TRAVELLED OVER A DEPRESSION CAUSING A VIOLENT JERK WHICH CATAPULTED EE INTO THE AIR. HE WAS PULLED B ACK INTO THE BASKET BY THE HARNESS & LANYARD. HETHEN STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE BASKET.
PERFORMING NORMAL DUTIES WHEN EE EXPERIENCED SEVERE PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SIDE LOWER ABDOMENT