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Skid steer bucket struck employee's left leg

Equipment operator, hauling rock to crusher, in light rain, applied brakes and lost control of CAT 770 off road truck. Laid truck on right side. When seat belt unbuckled, operator fell through right side window, cutting head.

Installing concrete barricades at Quarry entrance. Front end Loader was lifting barricades while removing cribbing from end of barricade cribbing pinched right index finger.

The 988 was loading shot rock onto 770 haul trucks. While waiting on trucks to return to pit. Operator move a large rock from loading area the rock slipped out of his bucket causing operator's body to jerk like whiplash. Tightness in the shoulder area. Check by a physician had a slight muscle strain.

Tension on V Belts was being adjusted when employee slipped, to prevent falling he grabbed V Belts. The V Belts rolled backwards pinching his finger between the sheave and V Belts.

Driving water wagon uphill on ramp from stockpile area to truck scales. Machine lost power, started rolling backwards. Brakes failed, rolled approx 100', jacknifed on level ground. The EE unbuckled his seat belt & jumped or was thrown from cab.

Loose material sloughed causing rear tires of trailer to drop off stockpile. Trailer turned over on its side causing the road tractor to turn over on its side. The air filter, ferring, mirror, hood were damaged on the road tractor.

Employee was driving a Peterbilt Semi Tractor with a belly dump trailer. Was stockpiling material. EE drove truck through app 6" of water and struck an object which caused the truck to jump, jarring the ee and injuring his back.