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TRYING TO START A BELT THAT WAS SLIPPING.EMPL USED A WRENCH TO SLIP INSIDE GUARD TO HOLD DOWN V-BELTS WHICH WERE SLIPPING TO GET CONVEYOR STARTED.V-BELTS CAUGHT WRENCH AND SLAMMED FINGER INTO GUARD CUTTING END OF MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND
EMPL WAS RIDING ON THE BACK OF A BOSS BUGGY TRACTOR FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER BUGGY FIRST BUGGY STOPPED AND SECOND BUGGY RAN INTO THE BACK OF FIRST AND MASHED L ANKLE OF INJURED EMPL
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN A MULE PERSONNEL CARRIER WHEN IT RAN OVER A ROCK, BOUNCING THE EMPLOYEE AND HURTING HIS BACK. RECEIVED A PRESCRIPTION ONLY.
EMPL OPERATING UG FRONT END LOADER DRIVING TOWARD CRUSHER DRIVING PAST ANOTHER RAISE,OPERATOR ON UPPER LEVEL DUMPED LOAD AND DUST CAME OUT OF RAISE DRIFT AND GOT IN RIGHT EYE.OPERATOR WEARING SAFETY GLASSES WITH SIDESHIELDS AT TIME.
EMPL OPERATING 8COOP TRAM FRON END LOADER.STEERING WITH RIGHT HAND AND HIS ELBOW HIT THE DASH.NOT REPORTED AT THE TIME BUT ELBOW STARTED TO BOTHER HIM.RECD RX DRUG.
EMPLOYEE WAS DR3VING A FORKLIFT EMPTY WITH FORKS TOO LOW TO THE GROUND LEVEL & AS HE WAS CROSSING RAILROAD TRACKS FORKS HIT RAILS CAUSING FORKLIFT TO STOP SUDDENLY EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS HEAD AG AINST THE INT E9IOR OF THE FORKLIFT TRUCK
EE WITH OTHERS 4ERE WORKING ON CONVEYOR BELT & WHEN TEST RUNNING BELT, USED BROOM HEAD TO REACH IN & CLEAN OFF TAIL PULLEY. BELT GRABBED BRROM HEAD HAND & LEFT ARM INTO PINCH POINT FRACTURI NG LEFT FOREARM3& LACERATING BACK OF LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING SCOOPTRAM FRONT END LOADER DRIVING DOWN DRIFT LOST A BOULDER OUT OF BUCKET RAN OVER BOULDER CAUSING SCOOP TO HIT THE RIB JAMMING HIS NECK
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON TOP OF SKIP REPLACING LINER PLATES IN NORTH CHUTE, 2380 SKIP POCKET, NO. 2 SHAFT LINER HAD BEEN HOISTED OUT OF SKIP AND WAS BEING HOISTED UP IN CHUTE. EMPLOYEE CAUGHT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN LINER AND SIDE OF CHUTE.
EMP HAD SCALED LOOSE FROM OLD WIRE FENCING ON 2355 SUB LEVEL AND HAD ALSO DRIVEN BOSS BUGGY TO 2705 DOWN INCLINE AND PAST VENT FAN ON 2475 LEVEL WHICH WAS BLOWING WATER INTO AIR EMP WAS AT 231 LEVEL WHEN HIS LEFT EYE STARTED TO HURT FOREIGN BODY WAS FOUND IN MANS LEFT EYE EMP HAD BEEN WEARING SAFETY GLASSES
EE WAS SHOVELING IRON ORE UNTO CONVEYOR BELT & STRUCK FINGER BETWEEN SHOVEL HANDLE & CONVEYOR BELT. PRIOR CYST OR TUMOR ON FINGER HEMARAGED INTERNALLY.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING IN A RAILROAD CAR ACTING AS A BRAKEMAN CAR STRUCK STOPPED CARS AND MAN HIT HIS CHEST ON THE SIDE OF THE SLOWLY MOVING CAR
DRIVING BOSS BUGGY DOWN WEST END OF 2355 ACCESS.DOWN INCLINE,BUGGY SEEMED TO PICK UP SPEED.SUDDENLY SWERVED TO LEFT AND OVERTURNED THROWING EMPL OFF AND DOWN INCLINE.
HE WAS CLEANING A WATER DITCH 2275 M2 BETWEEN V14 AND X15 DRIFTS WITH A 2B SCOOPTRAM HE HAD BACKED THE SCOOP UP TO A NEW LOCATION STOPPED IT SHIFTED TO NEUTRAL AND SET THE PARK BRAKE HE PROCED ED TO GET OFF THE UNIT TO WALK TO THE BUCKET END THE SCOOP WAS PARKED PARALLEL TO THE DITCH WITH THE OPERATORS SEAT ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE AND THE PASSAGEWAY WAS QUITE CLOSE TO THE DRIFT RIB AS