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HAD RIGHT UPPER FRONT TOOTH BROKE HALF OFF WHILE FINHOEING. MINERS HELPER WAS FINHOEING MUCK DOWN AN ORE PASS SLIDE AND A ROCK CAME ROLLING DOWN THE MUCKPILE AND HIT HIM IN THE FACE AND BROKE A FRONT TOOTH. HE WENT TO A DENTIST FOR EXAM.
HE WAS BREAKING BOULDERS ON A GRIZZLEY BELOW A CHUTE HE HEARD A ROCK FALL AND WAS ROLLING DOWN THE CHUTE HE LOOKED UP AND A ROCK STRUCK HIM IN THE FOREHEAD.
DRIVING TAILINGS TRUCK DRIVER WAS UNABLE TO CONTROL SPEED OF TRUCK WHICH BACKED ONTO A RAMP-LIKE PILE OF TAILINGS ON RIGHT SIDE CAUSING TRUCK TO OVERTURN ONTO THE DRIVERS SIDE.THE DRIVER RECEI VED PULLED MUSCLES IN LOWER BACK.
STARTED TO CLEAN BUCKETS (OF BUCKET ELEVATOR) WITH POWER OFF AND LOCKED OUT. TURNED POWER BACK ON TO JOG BUCKETS- FOUND A LOOSE BUCKET AND ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE IT WITH THE POWER STILL ON. TOPLA NDER STARTED THE ELEVATOR BY MISTAKE. THE SKIN ON THE TOP OF HIS HAND WAS SCALPED BACK.
I.NAME PERFORMED AN UNSAFE ACT TRYING TO JOCKEY THE DERAILED TRAMMER BACK UP ON THE RAIL HE SHOULDE HAVE LIFTED THE TRAMMER BACK UP ON THE RAIL WITH A TRACK JACK HE ALSO POSITIONED HIS HAND O UTSIDE OF THE OPERATORS SEATING AREA EXPOSING HIS HAND TO A PINCH POINT HIS TOP 1 INCH OF HIS LEFT HAND THIRD FINGER (RING FINGER) WAS CRUSHED THE CRUSHED AREA HAD TO BE AMPUTATED