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Crew was in process of removing counterweights from a Grove GMK6350 crane. During this process, the crane tipped over onto its side while attempting to set two counterweights onto a trailer. This resulted in the crane cab falling onto the side of the first trailer adjacent to the crane pinning the employee's legs. Employee's injury details are described in section 7.

EE was inspecting rollers on conveyor on Finish Mill 3 while it was running. There are two tracks running above and below and while inspecting the one below EE accidently placed EE's hand above and the roller caught EE's left hand and broke one finger and cut two others.

On 5/31/18, EE reported experiencing pain from previous shift. EE stated while operating a Front End Loader, EE approached a 6-8" drainage ditch to position for loading a customer truck. As EE drove slowly over the drainage ditch, the right front tire dipped causing the EE to receive a contusion to the coccyx (tailbone). EE was released to restricted duty.

Employee states that repetitive movement of pressing the diesel pedal on the 980G Cat loader he was operating, was causing his right knee to hurt.

Employee was attempting to free a bag of cement from a conveyor without proper lock out and got his arm caught between belt and roller.

Employee was cleaning spill next to a conveyor belt. He stated he got too close getting his hand caught between the troughing idler and the belt.

Employee was operating a 973 track loader to move some clay. He developed a pain in his neck. He went to the doctor and was diagnosed with 2 herniated disks and returned to work with restrictions.

As employee was driving his B30 Euclid haul unit, he hit a bump in the road, causing soreness/stiffness in his neck and right shoulder.

Employee operates a 992G loader which is operated with Joysticks. Repetitive motion of the left arm causing "tendonitis" in the left elbow.

Rock fell off shaker screen and struck individual in head.

The employee was leaving the 780 Conveyor headed toward the Storeroom, while riding in the Gator he felt something irritating his left eye. Employee's diagnosis: foreign body removed from his left eye.

While traveling to a different stock pile, the employee proceed to raise the bucket on a CAT 980H and "flick" downward to remove any excess material. The bucket struck the ground and the unit came to an immediate stop,thrusting the employee forward,causing him to strike his chest on the steering wheel. He was wearing his seat belt at the time of the incident.

Employee was at the Clay Pit and operating a Trac Loader. While backing up, the loader shifted and the movement caused pain to the employee's neck and back. He was taken for medical treatment and returned to work on light duty.

While bolting up a steel frame on ground , fork lift operator hit the frame with a outrigger while swinging around to unload trailer. The steel frame moved forward hit worker behind both ankles. He was taken to dr Xray: tiny avulsion fracture off the dorsum of left navicular the R ankle showed no evidence of fracture. He was put in a boot and given light duty restriction.

EE clocked out of work and drove his personal vehicle down to the southeast pit area. He stated that the sun blinded him for a moment and he drove his personal vehicle over a berm and into the pit. When this happened the car rolled over and EE's collar bone was broken.

Lack of altitude fatal plane crash on mine site.

Employee was driving a haul truck to the pit to get loaded and hit a bump; he stated that he felt a sharp pain in his back. The employee went to the first aid box for aspirin and then went back to the pit and hit the same bump and felt a "pop" in his back and then reported the incident to his coordinator.

I was traveling west on the haul road with a load of track pads for the dragline in the bucket of the loader. The pads fell out and I ran over them bouncing me up and into the ROP cutting my left eye brow and the back of my head. I was taken to the ER and the cut above my eye was glued shut. The one on the back of my head was ok.

Employee was holding one end of a wire rope that is used to pull belting on convyors. The other end was attached to a fork lift and as the forks were raised it pulled on his arm.

Belting broke on a stock pile conveyor while loaded. Maintenance man was examining what to do when the belt moved and allowed some rocks to fall and hit him on the left arm.

Employee was riding in the boat with co-worker operating it. Operator came upon a sandbar unexpectedly and it knocked employee against the cab. He hurt his right arm.

Employee was sitting in a Bobcat with his foot hanging out the front. He had the bucket up because he was catching dust. He hit the joystick and the bucket came down on his foot causing a laceration to the bottom of his foot.

Employee was repairing the load out chute from a manlift. He was lowering the chute to the manlift basket level, supporting it with both of his arms. He asked the manlift operator to move the manlift forward. The operator moved too far forward and caught him between the chute and the handrail of the manlift basket, straining his back.

Employee was traveling from dredge to bank in transport boat with 3 other employees. The outboard motor stalled. As he pulled the cord to try to restart the motor, the motor locked and jerked the cord back. He had forgot to take motor out of gear. He was diagnosed with a strain to his left wrist.

EE was helping Maintenance work on C-34 conveyor belting when his left hand was pulled in to pulling block between 3/8" cable and sheave. The cable tightened causing his left hand and fingers to be pulled in to block, lacerating and breaking his middle finger and parital amputation to his pointer finger. (first joint)

EE was working 12 hours on the loader & operator fatigue could have caused him to not have proper posture while running the loader. Cause of injury is unclassified because of insufficient data, but he said his right shoulder was hurting him. EE reported to supervisor and decided on 7/14/08 that he needed to go to doctor to see what was wrong with his shoulder.

Employee was operating a 992G ( LD-8 ) wheel loader in the Quarry loading haul trucks. The employee started feeling pain in his left knee and was taken off the loader and to the Doctor. The employee was placed on light duty and scheduled for a MRI.

EE was driving boat up to the pipeline to get a rope and tried to get the motor to go in neutral. The motor was hung in gear. He did not have time to kill the motor so he jumped on the pipeline as the boat kept going. He has bruises/contusion on his right side. Xray shows bruised ribs.

EE was operating fuel truck in pit. The front windshields were in the open position. As he was driving back to plant a foreign object flew into his right eye under safety glasses.

Employee was operating a small 463 bobcat near the fueling station by the quarry. He was dumping a bucket of gravel when his right front tire went up on the berm causing the bobcat to turn over. He received a laceration on the left elbow. He was taken to the Doctor and received six stitches in the left elbow. Their was no restrictions or lost time.

EE was cleaning grizzly bars off a hopper. The hopper is fed by a feeded belt. When reaching for a rock the EE's hand was pinched between the rock and the headpulley of the feeder causing lacerations to EE's right hand.

EE was standing to the south side of C-1 counterweight discussing maintenance repairs with Production Supv. when he turned around pointing out something and a 3 lb. shale chunk fell from C-1 conveyor hitting him on top of his hard hat, knocking him unconcious for several minutes. The impact knocked his hard hat off and knocked him down to the ground.

On 11-15-05 Employee was operating a 992 C pit loader in the pit. He strained his left knee using the D-clutch. The loader was shut down and repaired the next morning. Employee is working on light duty in the control room.

The employee was cleaning under a pan conveyor. He reached inside the guard and layed his hand on top of the pan rail. The pan was running and a steel roller ran over his finger.

2 Employees were driving in a gator on the quarry road and saw a tool in the road. They stopped their vehicle to pick up the tool and were hit in the rear by a pick up truck driven by another employee.

2 Employees were driving in a gator on the quarry road and saw a tool in the road. They stopped their vehicle to pick up the tool and were hit in the rear by a pick up truck driven by another employee.

A PIECE OF SHEET METAL GOT CAUGHT UNDER THE 108/102 TRANSFER POINT. HE WAS PULLING THE METAL SHEET OUT AND IT CAUGHT ON THE TRANSFER POINT HIS HAND SLIPPED AND THE SHEET METAL CUT THROUGH HIS GLOVES.

While returning to the pit area employee fell asleep. Equipment crossed over a windrow, causing the operator to be knocked around withing the cab, causing injury to the employee's right side.

Employee was driving down the haul road behind the Package Plant. His unit hit a dip in the road causing his seat back to fall back. While pulling himself up using the steering wheel, he strained his lower back.

Employee was working on shaker at sandplant installing vbelts. Shaker was unlocked to run excess material off of it to see if belts were lined up. He told co-worker to turn shaker off & he did. The counterweight was still moving as ee was proceeding to put guard back in place. The counterweight struck guard causing guard to strike him cutting his right eyebrow.