OPERATING 980 CAT LOADER TO FAST AND TO HARD CAUSING OPERATOR TO HAVE NECK STRAIN OVER PERIOD OF TIME
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Showing all 8OPER DIS NOT ADJUST LOADER SEAT PROPERLY WHE N SLIFT STARTED OPER RAN LOADER ALL DAY IN CONDITION. OPER DID NOT SHOW FOR WORK ON SAT. 3-18-89 REASON WAS BACK SPRAIN ON 3-16-89.
STRAINED MUSCLE3IN NECK FROM RUNNING SCRAPER.
COMPLAINED OF SOME BACK AT END OF SHIFT AFTER OVOPERATING SCRAPER.
980 LOADER WAS BEING ROAD TESTED, THE LOADER DIED ON MAIN HAUL ROAD OPERATOR COULD NOT CONTROL STEERING WADER WAS HEADED FOR BERN IMBANKMENT 25 FT TO BOTTOM OPERATOR JUMPED OUT LOADER WENT OVE R BERN DOWN INBANKMENT DID NOT THROU OVER FRONT END LOADER.
I NAME WAS RUNNING SCRAPER ON NORMAL SHIFT,MUST HAVE TWISTED BACK AT SOME POINT.
I.NAME HAD SHOVEL TO CLOSE TO CONVEYOR BELT SHOVEL WAS CAUGHT HE REACHED FOR IT AND HIS GLOVES GOT CAUGHT IN RETURN ROLLER AND ROLLED HIS ARM AND SHOULDER IN IT HE RECEIVED BRUISES AND BELT BU RN ON RIGHT SHOULDER ONLY
PULLING MATERIAL OFF OF HILL WHEN HE HIT A HARD PIECE OF GROUND WHICH TURNED THE SCRAPER SIDEWAYS THEN FLIPPED IT COMPLETELY OVER.