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April 29, 1998 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Gill Quarries Inc · Fall from machine

DRIVER WAS DRIVING HIS INTERNATIONAL 350 PAYHAULER UP THE RAMP, SAID HE HEARD A BANG NOISE AND HE JUMPED OUT OF HIS VEHICLE.

October 21, 1997 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Gill Quarries Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS DRIVING HIS LOADED INT'L 180 PAYHAULER WEST ON THE RAMP TO THE CRUSHER AND OTHER EE WAS DRIVING HIS EMPTY INT'L PAYHAULER EAST ON THE RAMP TO BE RELOADED WITH MATERIAL. AS THEY PASSED E ACH OTHER ON THE THIRD LEVEL OF THE RAMP, THEIR CABS STRUCK EACH OTHER.

October 21, 1997 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Gill Quarries Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS DRIVING HIS EMPTY INT'L 180 PAYHAULER DOWN THE RAMP TO BE LOADED ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE RAMP. ANOTHER EE WAS DRIVING HIS LOADED INT'L 180 PAYHAULER WEST UP THE RAMP TO UNLOAD AT THE CR USHER. AS HE CAME TO THE THIRD LEVEL WAS PASSINGOTHER EE, THEIR CABS STRUCK EACH OTHER.

November 4, 1996 PA · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger POWERED HAULAGE
Gill Quarries Inc · Struck against a moving object

DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR OF THE TRUCK OPENED. POLICE SAID AS EE WAS DRIVING DOWN THE RAMP. AS HE REACHED TO SHUT THE DOOR, HE UNKNOWINGLY STEERED TOWARDS THE EDGE OF THE ROAD. AFTER REALIZING WHAT H E DONW, EE JUMPED FROM THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE STRUCKA BOULDER AND TURNED OVER AND LANDED ON EE.

June 9, 1995 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Gill Quarries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE THINKS THE PROBLEM WAS CAUSED BY REPETITIVE MOTION WHLE OPERATING HIS LOADER. SAID HE HAD PAIN IN THE AREA OF HIS SHOULDERS.

September 6, 1994 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Gill Quarries Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS DRIVING HIS 180 INTERNATIONAL PAYHAULER REAR DUMP TRUCK FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE QUARRY TO THE CRUSHER AT THE TOP, ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF THE WAY UP THE RAMP, THE 180 LOST POWER AND EE T RIED TO STEER THE VEHICLE INTO THE WALL TO STOP IT. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THE 180 TURNED OVER ON ITS SIDE.

February 6, 1987 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Gill Quarries Inc · Fall from machine

I,NAME WAS PREPARING TO DUMP HIS INT'L 180 PAYHAULER REAR DUMP, WHEN IT STARTED TO ROLL FOWARD, I,NAME ADVISED US THE TRUCK WAS IN REVERESE, AND HE GAVE IT GAS, BUT THE ENGINE STALLED AND HE L OST CONTROL, SO HE JUMPED OUT.

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