THIS EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE DROVE OVER A ROCK WHICH CAUSED HIS HAUL TRUCK TO BOUNCE. HE BOUNCED IN THE AIR AND LANDED SIDEWAYS ON THE SEAT, STRIKING HIS BACK.
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Showing all 32EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HIS BACK STARTED HURTING WHILE OPERATING A HAUL TRUCK.
THE EMPLOYEE INJURED HIS BACK WHEN HE DROVE HIS LOADER OVER A ROCK. TE BACK PROBLEM WAS THOUGHT TO BE A PERSONAL ILLNESS UNTIL RECENTLY.
THIS EMPLOYEE ALLOWED HIS HAND TO BE CAUGHT BETWEEN A FORKLIFT'S MAST AND A STEEL BEAM WHILE MOVING A SCREEN PANEL.
THIS EMPLOYEE HAD DIRT BLOWN IN HIS EYES AS HE TRAMMED BY VENTILATION TUBING.
THIS EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A FORKLIFT WHEN A SPECT OF METAL ENTERED HIS EYE.
THIS EMPLOYEE'S LEFT FIFTH FINGER TIP AS SMASHED BY A TRUCK HOOD WHEN THE TRUCK BEGAN TO BOUNCE AS IT WAS DRIVEN.
THIS EE WAS OPERATING A TRACTOR WHEN IT HIT A POTHOLE IN THE ROADWAY. HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. HIS PAIN PERSISTED AND HE BECAME DISABLED ON MAY 9 1991.
OPER LOCO HIT HOW SPOT IN TRACK FELT PAIN IN BSACK
EMPLOYEE OPERATING LHD. LHD DROVE OVER ROCK CAUSING HOOD TO FLY UP. EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT HAND CAUGHT UNDER FALLING HOOD.
EE AND LHD OPERATOR HAD RERAILED DERAILED CAR. OTHER FIVE CARS HAD BEEN PUSHED OUT OF THE WAY WITH LHD. CARS WERE NOT MOVED AS FAR AS USUAL AND LHD OPERATOR DID NOT TELL EE. EE WAS TRAMMING LO COMOTIVE AND HIT ONE CAR CAUSING IT TO COUPLE THE OTHERS CARS COUPLED BEFORE EE EXPECTED. EE WAS THROWN FORWARD IN LOCMOTIVE.
EMPL OPERATING TRAIN PUSHING EMPTY CARS TOWARD CHUTE THE CAR FUTHEST FROM THE LOCOMOTIVE JUMPED THE TRACK AND WEDGED AGAINST THE RIB THIS BROUGHT THE TRAIN TO A SUDDEN STOP EMPL WAS THROWN FOR WARD IN LOCOMOTIVE CAR
DRIVING LOADER HAULTRUCK LOST CONTROL HIT PILLAR.
MINE FOREMAN WA8 TRAMMING A TRACTOR & SAW HEAD LIGHTS APPROACHING WHEN HE APPLIED BRFAKES HE FAILED TO ENGAGE BOTH BRAKES WHICH THREW FRONT OF TRACTOR INTO RIB HIS FACE STRUCK THE HOOD LACERAT ING HIS LOWER L3P WHEN THE TRACTOR ABRUPTLY STOPPED
THIS EMPLOYEE A3D FOUR OTHER MEN WERE RIDING TO THE SHAFT AT SHIFT CHANGE IN THE MAN CARRIER ON THE BACK OF A MINE TRACTOR WHEN A CO-WORKER REACHING FOR A SPOOL OF WIRE ACCIDENTALLY SET THE PA RKING BRAKE CAU8ING THIS EMPLOYEE TO BE THROWN AGAINST THE THE FRONT OF THE MAN CARRIER STRAINING MUSCLES IN HER UPPER BACK.
WHILE TRAMMING 5 LOADER (LHD) THIS MAN RAN OVER A POT HOLE IN THE ROADWAY CAUSING HIM TO BOUNCE AGAINST THE OPERATOR'S SEAT STRAINING A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.
THIS MAN WAS MU7KING A HEADING WHEN THE LOADER BUCKET STRUCK THE RIB CAUSING HIM T O STRIKE HIS LEFT KNEE AGAINST THE STEERING HOUSING. HE DID NOT REQUEST A DR S CARE UNTIL 5-18-87 WHEN HE WAS PLACED ON REST9ICTED DUTY DUE TO SWELLING IN HIS KNEE.
THIS MAN WAS RI8ING ON THE BACK PLATFORM OF A MANTRIP TRACTOR WHEN THE RIGHT FRONT WHEEL TIE ROD BROKE LOOSE CAUSING THE TRACTOR TO RUN INTO THE RIGHT RIB, THROWING THE MAN AGAINST THE HANDRA ILS. 3
TRAMMING LOADER3BACK TO FACE IN STOPING AREA STRUCK HEAD AGAINST VENT.TUBE CAUSING CHIP FX OF POSTERIOR PROCESS OF 6TH CERVICAL VERTEBRAE.
WHILE TRAMMING 5 25 TON ORE TRUCK, THE BED OF THE TRUCK RAISED STRIKING THE BACK CAUSING THE TRUCK TO ABRUPTLY STOP. THE MAN WAS THROWN AGAINST THE ENGINE HOOD AND SUSTAINED A DEPRESSED FRACTU RE OF HIS LEFT 7HEEKBONE.
THIS MAN STRAIN9D A NECK MUSCLE WHEN THE LOCOMOTIVE HE WAS OPERATING TRAVELED OVER A LOW AREA OF TRACK.
THIS MAN WAS ST5NDING ABOUT 27( FT FROM THE OPERATORS SIDE OF A LOADER WETTING DOWN THE MUCK PILE WHILE THE LOADER MUCKED. THE LOADER RAN OVER A 6-8 INCH ROCK WHICH FLEW OUT FROM UNDER THE TIR E AND STRUCK TH9 MAN ON HIS LEFT UPPER THIGH. HE WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR TREATMENT OF THE BRUISE.
THIS MOTOR MAN WAS PUSHING A LOADED RAIL HAULAGE TRIP TOWARDS THE MAIN LEVEL DUMP WHEN HE RAN INTO THE MOTOR OF AN EMPTY TRIP ON THE SAME TRACK. HE WAS NOT TRAVELING ON THE CORRECT TRACK AND H AD FAILED TO NOTIFY THE DISPATCHER. HE RECEIVED A LACERATION REQUIRING SUTURES ON THE BRIDGE OF HIS NOSE.
THIS MAN WAS INJURED DURING THE FINAL STAGES OF MUCKING OUT A HEADING WITH THE BUCKET OF A FRONT END LOADER. WHEN THE LOADER OPERATOR WAS BACK DRAGGING THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FACE, THIS MAN WALK ED PAST THE LOADER TOWARDS THE FACE WITH A SHOVEL TO FINISH CLEANING UP THE LIFTERS. HE FAILED TO MAKE THE LOADER OPERATOR AWARE OF HIS LOCATION & AS THE OPERATOR RETURNED TO THE FACE THE MAN
WHILE DRIVING A FORKLIFT TRACTOR, THIS MAN RAN OVER A PILE OF SPILLED MUCK CAUSING THE TRACTOR TO BOUNCE THE MAN IN T HE OPERATOR\S SEAT WHICH BRUISED HIS BUTTOCKS.
THIS MAN WAS BACK DRAGGING A MUCKED OUT SLAB ROUND WITH A FRONT END LOADER BUCKET IN ITS PALE DUMP POSITION. THE DUMP CYLINDER CONNECTION KNUCKLE POPPED OUT OF POSITION CAUSING THE FRONT END O F THE LOADER TO DROP SUDDENLY. THE RESULTING JOLT INJURED THE MAN\S UPPER BACK.L
MAN WAS ATTEMPTING TO ROTATE A LOADER TIRE ON A FRONT END LOADER. THE ENGINE END OF THE LOADER HAD BEEN LIFTED WITH THE BUCKET OF ANOTHER LOADER THIS MAN WAS USING A DRILL STEEL TO PRY ON THE BOTTOM OF THE TIRE WHEN HE S IGNALED THE LOADER OPERATOR TO LOWER THE BUCKET HOLDING UP THE REAR OF THE LOADER. THE OPERATOR LOWERED THE BUCKET TO LOW PUTTING EXCESSIVE WEIGHT AGAINST THE DRIL
THIS MAN WAS BACK DRAGGING A HEADING WITH HIS LOADER BUCKET IN THE FULL DUMP POSITION AND THE BUCKET HOIST CYLINDER DOWN CAUSING THE FRONT WHEELS ON THE LHD TO BE RAISED OFF OF THE ROADWAY TH E WEIGHT OF THE LHD CAUSED THE DUMP CYLINDER CONNECTION AT THE BUCKET TO SNAP OUT OF POSITION ALLOWING THE LHD TO DROP DOWN THE RESULTANT JOLTCAUSED THE MAN TO BE BOUNCED AGAINST THE BACK OF
THIS MAN WAS MUCKING OUT A HEADING WITH A ST-8 WLHD WHEN A ROCK BROKE LOOSE FROM THE BACK AND FELL STRIKING HIM ON THE HARD HAT. A PIECE OF THE ROCK STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FACE C AUSING A LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED SUTURES FOR CLOSURE.
THIS MAN WAS INJURED WHEN THE MOTOR HE WAS OPERATING WAS STRUCK BY A LOADED RAIL WHICH JUMPED THE TRACK AS THE LOADED TRAIN WAS APPROACHING THE MAIN RAIL CAR CUMP ON A PARALLEL TRACK. HE RECE IVED BRUISES BUT DID NOT REQUIEST MEDICAL ATTENTION. AFTER WORKING THE REST OF THE WEEK HE PASSED OUT WHEN HE GOT HOME ON 11-18-83. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A LA
THIS ELECTRICAL SUPERVISOR WAS RIDING ON THE BACK OF MANTRIP TRACTOR HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGING HIS HAND HOLD WHEN THE DRIVER SHIFTED GEARS CASUING HIM TO FALL OFF THE TRACTOR
WHILE DRIVING A BLASTING RIG THE BASKET OF THE RIG HUNG ON LOW BACK CAUSING A LOADING POE TO FLY OUT OF THE BASKET STRIKING THE MAN ON NOSE AND CAUSING A LACERATION