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While stockpiling with a front-end loader, miner felt miner pain in lower back. Towards end of shift, pain had worsened. By next morning, pain had increased causing miner to go to ER.
Miners finger tip was mashed when caught between a drive belt and a pulley when trying to change the drive belts.
Loader operator was pulling material from a wall and part of the wall fell on the bucket lifting the back end of the loader to buck up and back down. Loader operator reported hitting their head on the headrest.
Operating loader and hit a pot hole bruising employee's sciatic nerve.
Climbed on loader to grease bearing while conveyor was moving left arm & shoulder got caught between return roller and belt.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING CHAIN ON CHAIN DRIVE OF TRAVEL UNIT FOR STACKER. AS EMPLOYEE WAS FITTING CHAIN HE PLACED HIMSELF BETWEEN DRIVE & STACKER WHEELS. RIGHT FOOT WAS UNDER WHEEL AND TRAVEL UNIT WAS ENGAGED. CO-WORKER FOUND EE TRAPPED UNDER STACKER. FRACTURED TIBIA AND RIGHT FOOT.
MOVING CONVEYORS WHEN CHAIN ON LOADER BUCKET SWUNG OUT AND STRUCK EE ABOVE RIGHT EYE CAUSING LACERATION NEEDING 4 STITCHES.
AFTER SHOVELING OUT TAIL PULLEY, EE WAS WALKING UNDER AN OVERHEAD CONVEYOR WHEN A ROCK CAME OFF THE OVERHEAD CONVEYOR & STRUCK THE EE IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD AT THE BASE OF HIS HEAD UP TO 3" ABOVE THE NAPE OF HIS NECK.
EE WAS CLEANING ROCKS FROM TAIL PULLEY USING HANDS INSTEAD OF A SHOVEL. THE BELT ROLLED BACK ONCE THE CLOG WAS CLEARED CAUSING EE TO PINCH HAND & ARM BETWEEN THE CONVEYOR AND THE HEAD PULLEY.
EE WAS OPERATING LOADER. CLAIMS "ROUGH RIDE" CAUSED BACK PAIN.