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EE WAS DRIVING A WAGNER ORE CAR UNDERGROUND WHEN HE STRUCK A ROUGH AREA IN THE ROAD AND STRUCK HIS TAILBONE ON THE SEAT. PAIN IN BCK AND LEG GETTING PROGRESSIVELY WORSE (SCIATICA). BEGAN LOSIN G TIME ON 10-14-98.
EE WAS STANDING BY SUMP WALL WITH LEFT HAND PLACED OVER WALL. BOOM SCOOP APPROACHED WALL AND FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN WALL AND BRACKET ON BOOM.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING DOWN NE 40 HAUL ROAD WITH SEAT BELT DOWN, BOUNCED ON ROAD AND HIT HEAD ON CANOPY.
RIDING IN BACK OF MANCAR WHEN THEY RAN OVER ROCK IN ROADWAY & EMPLOYEE BOUNCED OFF SEAT HITTING HEAD ON ROOF
FRONT WHEELS OF TRAM HIT DIP IN INTERSECITON THROWING EMPLOYEE UPWARD CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HEAD ON CANOPY AND WRENCHING RIGHT ARM WHICH WAS BRACING ON GRAB BAR.
EE STRUCK HOLE WITH TRAM JARRING BACK.
EMPLOYEE HOOKED CHAIN ON BUCKET OF TRAM AND THEN PROCEEDED TO HOOK UP BEAM OF TAIL PULLEY STRUCTURE. SLACK IN CHAIN WHEN HE WAS HOOKING IT UP BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW TRAM WAS MOVING BACKWARDS CAUSI NG CHAIN TO TIGHTEN UP THE SLACK. THIS CAUSED HIS FINGER TO BE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE STEEL BEAM AND CHAIN.
EMPLOYEE STATED HE BUMPED HIS HEAD ON BACK OF TRUCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN BUCKET OF POWDER SCOOP WHEN IT HIT BUMP CAUSING HIM TO BOUNCE UP AND PULL MUSCLES IN RIGHT SHOULDER AND NECK.
SITTING ON TRAM WAITING FOR STAMLER TO START UP WHEN A SECOND TRAM CAME AROUND THE CORNER AND STRUCK PARKED TRAM THAT HAD NO LIGHTS ON, CAUSING OPERATOR TO STRIKE ELBOW ON GEAR SHIFT. WENT TO DR ON 9-9 AND WAS PLACED ON RESTRICTED WORK DUTY
RAN OVER LARGE ROCK WITH TRAM CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HEAD ON CANOPY AND BREAK OF FPORTION OF LEFT BOTTOM BACK TOOTH.
LIGHTS WENT OUT ON SCOOP AND SCOOP RAN INTO RIB JARRING BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING HEAVY EQUIPMENT & COMPLAINED TO FOREMAN THAT HE HAD PAIN IN RT HIP & LEG AREA
POWDER SCOOP STOPPED, THEN ROLLED FORWARD ENOUGHT TO PINCH EMPLOYEE'S LEG BETWEEN POWDER SCOOP BASKET AND ANFO TRAILER.
EE WAS DRIVING DOWN DRIFT WHEN A SMALL LPIECE OF ROCK STRUCK LEFT WRIST. PLACED ON RESTRICTED WORK ACTIVITY.
VIBRATION FROM ENGINE RUNNING CAUSED GUARD PROP TO SLIP & GUARD TO FELL ON HAND
COMING BACK FROM STAMLER WITH TRAM WHEN HE HIT BUMP WHILE TRYING TO GO AROUND 54IN FAN & INJUREDNECK RECEIVED REPORT S FROM CHIROPRACTOR ON 07-18-94 SAW CHIROPRACTOR ON 06-10-94 16 20 23 28 30 & 7/6 8 & 14
STRUCK HEAD AGAINST BACK WHILE DRIVING ORE CAR IN LOW BACK AREA. WENT TO THE DOCTOR ON 6/8/94.
MAN CAR HE WAS RIDING IN HIT A BUMP & JARRED BACK
RIGHT ARM REST WAS UP ON TRAM AND AS HE WENT OVER BUMP IN ROADWAY, ELBOW STRUCK METAL BRACKET ATBOTTOM OF ARM REST. ON 4-19 HE WENT TO THE DR. AND WAS GIVEN AN INJECTION.
STEERING BOX IN TRUCK FAILED AND STEERING WHEEL JERKED HARD TWISTING RIGHT WRIST.
AS HE BOUNCED ON TRAM HIS SEAT BELT PULLED ON STOMACH CAUSING PAIN AND MUSCLE SPASM.
INJURED WAS PULLING A 54 INCH FAN WHEN HE RAN OVER A ROCK WITH SCOOP. SCOOP HIT GROUND JARRING NECK.
EE WAS RIDING IN THE BACK OF FLATBED TRUCK AND AGGRAVATED AN OLD BACK PROBLEM.
CANOPY HOOKED PIPE LINE, CHAINS ON PIPELINE BROKE AND PIPE STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON HEAD BEHIND LEFT EAR.
RIDING IN BASKET OF POWER SCOOP WHEN IT HIT ROCK IN FLOOR AND CAUSED BASKET TO GO STRAIGHT UP AND THEN DOWN. HE STRUCK BACK ON BASKET.
EE WAS HAULING ORE TO STOCKPILE. THERE WAS A LARGE ROCK IN THE DIP GOING INTO STOCKPILE WHICH HE COULD NOT SEE. THE TIRE WENT OVER THE ROCK AND WHEN IT CAME DOWN HE FELT PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN BACK OF PICKUP TRUCK FROM B SECTION TO SURFACE DURING EVACUATION DRILL OF MINE RIDE WAS ROUGH & JARRED HIS BACK ON 09-21 HE WAS DRIVING TRAM WHICH WAS WHIPPING & AGGRAVA TED INJURY SAW DOC ON 02-22 & BEGAN LOSING TIME
STANDING ON RECLAIM CRUSHER BELT TO REMOVE COVER FROM DRIVE BELTS AND WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE BELT WIPER IT GAVE WAY CAUSING INJURED TO FALL STRIKING RIBS ON LEFT SIDE ON THE ROCK CHUTE.
EE HIT TWO BUMPS WITH 25 TON ORE CAR AND FELT PAIN IN LEFT GROIN AREA. HE HAD SEAT BELT ON.
TRAMMING TO STAMLER FROM HEADING WHEN HE HIT A POT HOLE IN ROAD AND STRUCK HEAD ON CANOPY.
LOCKING BELT OUT WHEN HE LOST GRIP ON LEVER CAUSING LEVER TO STRIKE LOWER JAW.
ENGINE STALLED ON SCOOP AS HE WAS GOING UPHILL. SCOOP LOST ALL BRAKES AND FREE WHEELED IN REVERSE HITTING BELT LINE NAD STOPPED. EMPLOYEE JUMPE DOUT, LANDING ON HEAD.
WELDING SUPPORT BRACKETS ON MONORAIL IN WELDING BAY. HE AND PARTNER WERE WORKING FROM A BASKET SCOOP. UPON RAISING THE BASKET, HIS HAND BECAME PINCHED BETWEEN CONTROLS AND THE MONORAIL. HE TRI ED TO PUSH LEVER DOWN BUT BASKET CONTINUED TO RAISE. PARTNER COULDN'T LOWER IT FROM OPERATOR'S SEAT SO CUT BOLT TO DROP BASKET.
MUCKING HOSE BECAME CAUGHTON SOMETHING WHILE BEING PULLED WITH TRACTOR. SLACK WAS PULLED HOUT OF HOSE WHICH CAUSE DNOZZLE TO WHIP AROUND STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON HEAD AND EAR.
EMPLOYEE WAS PRIMING TRAM AT START OF SHIFT AT BOREHOLE & STRUCK FOREARM ON ENGINE RESULTING IN LOSS OF FEELING IN RT HAND
EE WAS BACKING OUT OF HEADING AND WHEN TURNING AT INTERSECTION THE RIGHT SIDE OF TRACTOR DROPPED INTO A LOW SPOT EE JUMPED OFF TRACTOR AND TRACTOR CLIMBED ONTO LOOSE ROCK AND THEN ROLLED OVER 3 TO 4 TIMES AND LANDED ON EE S UPPER LEGS.
EMPLOYEE WAS SCRAPING BACK IN PREPARATION FOR BOLTING WHEN HE STRUCK A BUMP, BACK END OF SCOOP WENT UP AND JARRED OEPRATOR WHEN IT CAME BACK DOWN.
EMPL TURNED AROUND TO REACH BEHIND SEAT TO PICK UP DUST MASK WHILE DRIVING SCOOP AND STRUCK ELBOW ON HAND RAIL AND ON FENDER OF SCOOP.
RAN OVER ROCK WITH TRAM. TRAM SLAMMED DOWN AND EMPL WRENCHED NECK.SAW DR 8-29-92.
39144ING IN INTERSECTION HIT BUMP HE BOUNCED STRUCK HEAD ON CANOPY
54736YEE WAS TRAMMING POWDER SCOOP TO UNIT WHEN HE HIT HOLE IN ROADWAY AND JARRED LOWER BACK.
RE INJ NECK POWDER SCOOP WENT OVER SM LEDGE AND DROPPED
EE WAS HANGING LEAD WIRE FROM BASKET. NECK AND RIGHT ARM STARTED TO HURT FROM BEING BOUNCED AROUND IN BASKET.
HIT BROW AS HE WAS TRAMMING AND BROKE BOLTS ON ACK SIDE OF CANOPY CAUSING CANOPY TO HIT OPERATOR ON HEAD.
OPERATING SCOOP WHEN HE HIT ROCK AND SEAT BOTTOMED OUT JARRING BACK.
LIGHTS ON SCOOP WENT OUT HE TURNED CORNER HIT PILLAR JARRING OPER FORWARD IN T BAR
CARRYING SPENT STEEL WITH TRACTOR AND WHEN HE HIT BUMP IN INTERSECTION STEEL JUMPED OUT OF RACK IN REAR OF TRACTOR. INJURED TRIED TO GRAB STEEL AND FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN STEEL AND FENDER O F TRACTOR.
EE WAS JARRED AROUND IN SEAT OF FUEL TRUCK AS TRUCK WENT OVER DEEP RUTS IN ROADWAY HE WENT TO THE DR AND WAS GIVEN DISABLED FOR WORK SLIP.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A PRIME MOVER, HIT A SHARP HOLE IN ROAD, BOUNCED OFF SEAT AND HIT TAIL BONE ON FENDER. ON 2-6-92 HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR.