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EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A LOADER WHEN DOOR OPENEDAND HE REACHED AND CLOSED IT. IN DOING THIS, HE CAUGHT HIS LEFT RING FINGER IN THE DOOR. THIS WAS DIAGNOSED AS A LACERATION AND A FRACTURE OF TH E DISTAL TIP OF HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS REFILLING WATER TRUCK. A MUCKER TURNED INTO MUD PRESS AND PINNED HIM BETWEEN MUCKER BUCKET AND WATER TRUCK. EMPLOYEE WAS RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL ON 6-24-99.
EMPLOYEE WAS A PASSENGER IN A BUGGY WHEN IT JERKED AHEAD CAUSING HIM PAIN AND DISCOMFORT IN HIS NECK AND UPPER BACK AREA. REFERED TO A CHIROPRACTIC DOCTOR FOR TREATMNT. X-RAYS WERE NEGATIVE AT THE COMP. DOCTORS OFFICE. THIS INJURY WAS DIAGNOSED AS A CERVICAL STRAIN.
LABORER BENT DOWN TO CLEAN OFF BLUE TOP & LOADERRAN OVER HIS FOOT. CRUSH INJURY TO RIGHT FOOT
EE WAS PLOWING SNOW WITH LOADER AND CAUGHT A ROCK. LOADER SLAMMED SIDEWAYS. EE HIT HEAD ON SIDE OF CABL CAUSING A 2" CUT TO HEAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A PIECE OF MACHINERY ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A ROCK IMBEDDED INT HE GRIZZLY WHEN THE LIP OF HIS MACHINE HIT A PIECE OF STEEL. THIS MOTION HAD HIS SHOULDER HIT THE SHOULDER PAD. MEDICAL DETERMINATION WAS THAT HIS SHOULDER WAS ONLY BRUISED. THERE WAS NOT FRACTURE.
EE WAS DRIVING FORKLIFT OVER ROUGH GROUND. THE BOUNCING CAUSED HIS HEAD TO HIT THE TOP OF THE CAB.
EE WAS IN AN OVERHEAD BUCKET WHEN THE WELD HOLDING THE BUCKET TO THE BOOM BROKE. THE BUCKET AND THE EE BOTH FELL TO THE SURFACE BREAKING BOTH WRISTS OF THE EE. THE EE FELL APPROX. 15' TO THE G ROUND.
CREW USING 4X6 & FORKLIFT TO PUSH CONCRETE PIPE TOGETHER INDIVDUAL STRUCK ON HEAD BY 4X6 WHEN PRESSURE OF FORKLIFT RELEASED 4X6 FELL 1-2' & STRUCK INDIVIDUAL ON HARD HAT. DAMAGE TO HARD HAT & INDIVIDUAL APPEARED MINIMAL. CK'D BY CLINIC & ORIGINALLY RELEASED TO RETURN TO WORK 6/12/98 FAMILY HAD INDIVIDUAL CHECKED BY 2ND R= CLOSED HEAD TRAUMA
EE WAS RIDING IN MANTRIP. MANTRIP HIT BUMP. SELF RESCURER ON EE'S MINE BELT HIT EE ON HIS SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO SWITCH OUT LOCI'S ON THETRAIN WHEN HE WAS BRUSHED BY THE SNOW BLADE ON THE FRONT. THIS CAUSED LACERATION TO HIS RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE BUMPED HIS ELBOW ON THE TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING. THIS BECAME SORE ADN RAISED A BUMP. DIAGNOSIS WAS CELLULITIS AND POSSIBLE ABSCESS.
EE WAS DRIVING A BUGGY WHEN THE LEFT FRONT TIRE WENT INTO THE DITCH PULLING HIM OVER TO THE SIDE. HIS REFLEX ACTION WAS TO PUT UP HIS LEFT HAND WHICH WAS PINCHED BETWEEN A PIPE AND THE FIRE EX TINGUISHER CAUSING A LACERATION. THIS REQUIRED STITICHES.
EMPLOYEE DRIVING AN UNDERGROUND VEHICLE ABRUPTLY DROPPED BUCKET.
EE WAS SITTING IN AN UNDERGROUND VEHICLE WHICH WAS RUNNING BUT PARKED. HE LEANED TO ONE SIDE AND HIS ARM INADVERTENLY HIT THE GEAR SHIFT CAUSING IT TO LURCH INTO ANOTHER PARKED VEHICLE. RESULT ING IMPACT CAUSED HAIRLINE FRACTURE OF RIGHT FIBULA.
EE WAS DRIVING A MASSEY FERGUSON BUGGY AND HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER GOT CAUGHT IN THE GEAR SHIFT CONTROL. THIS CAUSED AN AVULSION AND PARTIAL AMPUTATION TO THE TIP OF HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER. (BO NE OF FINGERTIP WAS NOT INVOLVED.)
EE WAS IN A BOSS BUGGY FOLLOWING ANOTHER VEHICLE. THE FIRST VEHICLE WENT THROUGH AIR DOORS AREA AND PUSHED THE PULL ROPE AWAY FROM HIS FACE WHICH ACTIVATED THE CLOSING FUNCTION OF THE AIR DOOR S. WHEN THE DOORS CLOSED, THE ABOVE EE AND HIS VEHICLE WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO DOORS INJURYING EE.
EMPLOYEE'S ONE OEPRATOR AND HELPER WERE PICKING UP SCRAP PLASTIC PIPE WITH A 966 CAT LOADER. THE OPERATOR TRIED TO CUT THE PIPE WITH THE LOADER BUCKET AND DURIN GTHIS PROCESS A PIECE OF THE P IPE BROKE OFF FLYING THROUGH THE AIR HITTING THE HELPER IN THE FACE. THIS CAUSE THE EVULSION OF HIS NOSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN THE CAB OF AN ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE TO PERFORM DIAGNOSTIC TESTING. THE LOCOMOTIVE ENCOUNTERED ROUGH TRACK CAUSING A SIDE-TO- SIDE MOTION OF THE NECK. THIS RESULTED IN A CE RVICAL STRAIN TO THE NECK.
EMPLOYEE WAS ON BACK SEAT IN BOSS BUGGY, A FAN WAS HUNG TOO LOW TO ALLOW PASSAGE OF A VEHICLE THROUGH DRIFT. THE BUGGY CAUGHT THE FAN, THE FAN CAME LOOSE AND FELL ACROSS EMPLOYEE'S RT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS HOISTING WITH A CABLE WHEN THE SWEDGE BROKE THE CHAIN FALL CAME DOWN APPROX FOUR FT LANDING ON TOP OF HIS HEAD (WITH HIS HARD HAT ON) THE PRESSURE PUSHED HIS HEAD DOWN JAMMING INT O THE NECK CAUSING A CERVICAL/THORACIC STRAIN
EE WAS DRIVING A NIPPING VEHICLE HIT A BUMP AND PINCHED A NERVE IN HIS BACK.
EE WAS DRIVING A BOSS BUGGY WHEN HE LOST CONTROL HIT THE RIB STRIKING HIS LEFT KNEE AGAINST THE STEERING WHEEL.
EMPLOYEE HAD PROBLEMS WITH HIS LEFT SHOULDER FROM OPERATING A MUCKER CONTINUALLY. THIS IS AN OLD INJURY 9/13/88. EMPLOYEE SHOULDER HAS CONTINUOUSLY BOTHERED HIM AND HE WENT IN FOR SURGERY ON 1 1/16/90 TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM. THIS IS NOT A NEEW INCIDENT.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A 7YD LOADER, HE STRUCK AN OREPASS WITH HIS BUCKET CAUSING THE LOADER TO COME TO A SUDDEN STOP, CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO STRIKE THE WINDSHIELD WITH HIS FACE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A VEHICLE HIT A BUMP AND BOUNCED STRIKING HIS ELBOW AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE SEAT.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING LOADER BACK DRAGGING WITH IT HE HAD THE DOOR OPEN & HIS ARM EXTENDED OUTSIDE OF THE CAB TURNED HIS LOADER CAUSING THE DOOR TO CLOSE ACROSS HIS WRIST
EMPLOYEE WAS PARKING 5B LOADER IN THE SHOP FOR SERVICE. HE STRUCK A RIB WITH THE HEADACHE RACK. THE RACK BECAME LOOSE, EMPLOYEE TRIED TO HOLD UP THE RACK SO AS NOT TO HAVE IT FALL ON HIM AND I N DOING SO HE INJURED HIS RIGHT WRIST.
HOOKING EARS ON MOS2 BAGS TO FORK OF HYSTER. RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS BETWEEN LOOP OF BAG AND FORK OF HYSTER. HYSTER OPERATOR RAISED BAG WHIOE FINGER WAS CAUGHT.
USING LADER WITH FORS TO LIFT RAIL WITH TONGGS RAIL CLEARED THE PLATES IT BOWED OUT PUSHING RAIL TONS OFF PARTS OF LOADER RAIL DROPPED ON FOOT. FRACT 3 METATAR. NON DISPLACED IN R FT.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A BOSS BUGGY WITH A JACKLEG DRILL IN THE BACK OF THE VEHICLE WHEN ONE END OF THE JACKLEG CAUGHT ON THE RIB AND THE OTHER END HIT HIM IN THE BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING AN 18" FAN FROM AIR CURTAIN FRAME AND A FORKLIFT WAS HOLDING UP PIPE. AS SHE AND PARTNER WERE TIPPING THE FAN OVER IN ORDER TO REMOVE IT FROM THE FRAME WHEN THE FAN START ED TIPPING AND HER HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE LIP OF THE FAN AND THE TIP OF THE FORK, CUTTING AND BREAKING HER LITTLE FINGER.
EMPL FELL FROM A BOSS BUGGY WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS STARTED HITTING HIS HEAD AND R SHOULDER IN THE FALL FALL
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING MANTRIP WHEN IT MADE A SUDDEN STOP, CAUSING HIM TO HIT JAW ON HIS KNEE (LEGS WERE IN ELEVATED POSITION WITH FEET RESTING ON SEAT IN FRONT OF HIM). AS A RESULT OF THIS BUM P HE BROKE A BACK MOLAR WHICH REQUIRED A ROOT CANAL.
I.NAME WAS STANDING ON DOCK AT S.L.WAREHOUSE WHILE I.NAME WAS USING A FORKLIFT TO LOAD EMPTY PALLETS INTO THE BACK OF A PICKUP TRUCK I.NAME KICKED PALLETS OFF INTO THE BACK OF THE TRUCK & I. NAME STARTED TO BRING THE FORKS BACK I.NAME GOT THE TIP OF HIS FINGER CAUGHT IN A PINCH POINT
EMPLOYEE WAS MU7KING AND THE SHOCK ABSORBER ON THE SEAT BROKE CAUSING HIM TO HIT HIS HEAD ON THE HEADACHE RACK
WHILE DRIVING E4PLOYEE BOUNCED HITTING HEAD AND GOT BACK STRAIN
DUST BLEW INTO 9IGHT EYE. INCIDENT AT TIME WAS A FIRST AID. TWO DAYS LATER A DR. REMOVED A SMALL RESIDUAL METALIC FRAGMENT AND RUST RING FROM RIGHT EYE.
EMP WAS OPERATI3G A LHD AS HE WAS MAKING A TURN THE ROPS OVERHEAD PROTECTION STRUCK THE RIB CAUSING A ROCK TO COME LOOSE THE ROCK FELL AND STRUCK EMP ON LEFT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING AT 73 CHUTE IN 97 LD WHEN SOMETHING WENT INTO HIS EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS DR3VING A BOSS BUGGY. HE REACHED UP TO PULL A ROPE ATTACHED TO THE PULL BOTTLE WHICH OPENED THE AIR DOORS. WHEN HE DID THIS HE DISLOCATED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPL OPERATING 5HD HAULING MUCK IN 263 DRIFT STARTED TO EXPERIENCE PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EMP WAS OPERATING A LHD, WHEN SHE RAN INTO ANOTHER MACHINE
EMP WAS OPERATING A HLD, WHEN SOMETHING BLEW INT
EMPLOYEE WAS DIRECTION MUCKER OPERATOR UP TO RIB WHEN MUCKER FRONT TIRE FELL INTO A HOLE AND MUCKER BUCKET STRUCK EMPLOYEE AGAINST THE RIB, CAUSING INTRA-ABDOMINAL INJURY AND LACERATION TO RIG HT HAND.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING UP A TROLLY POLE WHILE RIDING ON A MOTOR AND MINE WATER GOT IN HIS EYE (OTHR)
EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK ON THE HIP BY THE FRONT LEFT SIDE OF A FRONT-END LOADER BUCKET.
CAUGHT HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER IN A PINCH POINT
WAS PARKING A WALDEN AND HURT HIS WRIST. (HAUL)
EMP WAS DRIVING A 120 TON TRUCK IN THE OPEN PIT THE STEERING WHEEL JERKED HIS LEFT SHOULDER HAUL