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March 8, 1988 GA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Davidson Mineral Properties Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS SETTING UP SNATCH BLOCK ON PULLEY & CONVEYOR FRAMEWORK TO LIFT PULLEY TO REMOVE A HANG-UP EMPLOYEE PUT HIS LEFT FOOT ON PULLEY ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF HANG-UP WHILE HOOKING UP THE BLO CK PULLEY ROTATED TOWARDS HANGUPHIS FOOT BECAME CAUGHT IN ONE OF THE PULLEY CLEANING WINGS & WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT & PULLEY EMPLOYEE WAS PULLED INTO PINCH POINT TORSION BETWEEN HIS KNEE & F

January 28, 1988 GA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Davidson Mineral Properties Inc · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

EMPLOYEE STATED3HE WAS ON HIS KNEES ON CAT WALK ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN BUILD-UP UNDER RETURN ROLLER ON 36" TUNNEL SURGE FELT. ROLLER CAUGHT JACKET SLEEVE PULLING LFT ARM BETWEEN RETURN ROLLER& B ELT.. 3

June 5, 1987 GA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Davidson Mineral Properties Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE ENTERE8 JAW CRUSHER TO REMOVE ROCKS SO THAT THE JAW CRUSHER COULD BE STARTED.THE REMOTE START/STOP SWITCH SHORTED ACROSS THE SWITCH CONTACTS WHICH STARTED THE FEEDER.ROCKS THAT WERE I N THE FEEDER FE5L OVER INTO THE JAW CRUSHER STRIKING HIM ON THE ARMS,LEGS,BACK,CHEST AND HEAD CAUSING BRUISES AND ABRASIONS.

February 23, 1987 GA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Davidson Mineral Properties Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMP USED FOOT B9AKE AND RETARDER BRAKE TO STOP VEHICLE DUE TO HIS BELIEVING HE WAS GOING OVER THE JAW CRUSHER DRAMP BERM. THE SUDDEN STOPPING OF VEHICLE DUE TO HIS USING BOTH BRAKES AT SLOW SP SPEED AND HIS A5READY BEING LEANED FORWARD WHILE DOING SO CAUSED HIM TO CONTINUE HIS FORWARD MOTION RESULTING IN MINOR NOSE BLED FROM CONTACT WITH STEERING WHEEL RIM AND MUSCULAR TRAUMA FROM

February 6, 1987 GA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Davidson Mineral Properties Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE HAD MU8CLES IN THE LOWER BACK PULLED WHILE OPERATING THE KOMATSU LOADER IN THE BLAST PILE.

October 1, 1986 SC · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor POWERED HAULAGE
Davidson Mineral Properties Inc · Struck against a moving object

SERVICE TRUCK D9IVEN BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE FOLLOWING VICTIM STRUCK VICTIMS TRUCK IN REAR CAUSING VICTIM TO STRAIN NECK BACKWARDS FROM IMPACT HE WAS NOT PREPARED FOR, SERVICE TRUCK DIDNT HAVE GOO D STOPPING ABIL3TY SINCE WELDER ON R EAR OF TRUCK LESSENED THE FRONT ENDS CONTACT WITH ROAD, TRUCK VICTIM WAS OPERATING MADE TO TURN, STRIKING TRUCK WAS TOO CLOSE ALSO, LESSENED BRAKING POWER

August 26, 1986 GA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Davidson Mineral Properties Inc · Fall from machine

EMP WAS OPERATI3G A LOADER. A HYDRAULIC HOSE BROKE AND THE WINDSHIELD WAS BROKEN OUT LETTING HYDRAULIC FLUID INTO THE OPERATORS CAB HE PANICKED AND JUMPED FROM THE LOADER FALLING 12' TO THE GR OUND. STAYING I3 THE CAB WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN VERY MINOR INJURIES

March 2, 1984 GA · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman POWERED HAULAGE
Davidson Mineral Properties Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO EMPTY R/R CARS. HE ATTACHED A CHAIN TO THE BOTTOM DOOR, RAN THE CHAIN THRU A LOOP ON THE CAR BODY THEN WRAPPED THE CHAIN AROUND HIS LEFT HAND. AS THE TRAIN MOVED FORWA RD THE DOOR SWUNG OPEN PULLING HIS HAND THRU THE LOOP.

September 30, 1983 GA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Davidson Mineral Properties Inc · Struck against a moving object

WETTING DOWN DUMPING AREA.TRIED TO BACK TRUCK AND WENT OFF ROAD BANK-WATER SHIFTED AND WEIGHT CAUSED TRUCK TO SLID OVER ON ITS SIDE.

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