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EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A TRUCK A RAN INTO A POTHOLE. LEFT ELBOW WAS EDGE OF WINDOW THAT WAS ROLLED DWON. EMPLOYEE'S ELBOW HIT GLASS.
INJURED WAS RETURNING FROM LUNCH TO TRUCK LINE WITH E.NAME MECHANIC, DRIVING SERVICE TRUCK #1063. E.NAME PULLED IN FRONT OF TEREX HAUL TRUCK #1498 TO LET INJURED OUT. TEREX TRUCK #1498 STARTED OUT FROM LINE STRIKING PICKUP #1063. TEREX HIT PICKUP ON LEFT SIDE DOOR SCOOTING IT 10 FEET. INJURED AND E.NAME WERE GETTING OUT OF TRUCK AND IN ALL THE COMMOTION INJURED RIGHT ELBOW.
CLEANUP JAW CRUSHER CONVEY BELT WHILE OPER LOADER ON 2 CORNER POSTS ON HOOD OF LOADER THERE IS CLEAVOUS. ON R SIDE GOT HUNG ON BELT FRAME. INJ SOOD UP TO PULL DO WN WHEN CAUGHT HEEL OF FT. ON ACCELERATOR CAUSING LOADER T O GO IN REVERSE. INJ FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT FRAME AND CLEAVOUS
INJURED WAS RETURNING BACK TO LOADERS FROM LAKE AREA WHEN LOST CONTROL OF TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING AND HIT BRIDGE ABUTMENT
WHILE INJURED WAS DIRECTING DUMP TRUCKS TO DUMP ROCK IN RAIL CARS CHIP OF ROCK FLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.
INJURED WAS DUM1ING ROCK OVER #2 LEDGE. HE THOUGHT TRUCK WAS GOING OVER LEDGE (IT WAS DARK AND THERE WAS A BERM) SO HE JUMPED FROM TRUCK (8 TO 10 FT) LANDED ON HIS BACK AND HIP.
INJURED WAS OPE9ATING AN ENDLOADER WHEDN HE WENT IN TOWARD SHOT ROCK PILE FOR ABUCKET OF STONE.THE BUCKET HIT SOLID ROCK.THIS JARRED THE ENDLOADER CAUSING THE INJURED LOW BACK STRAIN.
WHILE INJ WAS D9IVING HAUL TRUCK FROM PIT TO MAIN JAW CRUSHER, THE SCREWS IN THE TRUCK SEAT BACK OUT. WHEN THE TRUCK SHIFTED DOWN ON THE HILL, THE SEAT WENT BACK JERKING INJ LOWER BACK
INJURED WAS INS7ALLING R REAR WHEEL ON EUCLID DUMP TRUCK. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WORKING WITH INJURED GOT OFF A FORK LIFT TRUCK ANDPLACED THE FORKLIFT IN NEUTRAL AND LEAVING THE FORKS RAISED. INJURE D HAD HIS BACK 7O THE FORKLIFT AND IT ROLLED FORWARD PINNING INJURED BETWEEN TIRRE AND FORKS
INJURED PULLED 2IS DUMP TRUCK HEAD TO HEAD WITH DUMP TRUCK WHICH WAS BEING LOADED, HE SET BRAKES AND GOT OUT ON CATWALK TO TELL DRIVER OF DUMP TRUCK THAT HE WAS GOING TO SWAP TRUCKS FOR LUBE R OOM, WHEN HIS D6MP TRUCK ROLLED INTO TRUCK PINNING HIM BETWEEN CATWALK AND CAB.
INJURED WAS MOV3NG BARGES AS HE WAS PUTTING THE BARGE LINE ON THE TIMBER HEAD HE GOT HIS LEFT HAND IN BETWEEN THE LINE AND TIMBER HEAD SMASHING HIS RING MIDDLE AND POINTER FINGERS
INJURED WAS STOCKPILING. AS HE WAS GOING UP A RAMP THE TRUCK MOTOR STOPPED. THE TRUCK WENT OUT OF CONTROL AND ROLLED DOWN THE RAMP INTO A STOCKPILE, WHICH TURNED THE TRUCK ONTO ITS SIDE.
INJURED WAS TESTING ROCK BREAKER FOR JAW CRUSHER WHEN A BOULDER FELL FROM THE FEEDER INTO THE JAW CRUSHER. TWO PIECES OF ROCK APPROX 2\ X 3\ BROKE OFF OF THE BOULDER ONE WITH A SHARP EDGE LAN DED BESIDE INJURED. THE OTHER HIT HIS RIGHT LEG, KNOCKED HIM DOWN AND HIR RIGHT ARM, BETWEEN WRIST AND ELBOW HIT THE SHARP EDGE OF THE OTHER ROCK
INJ WAS USING TIRE TRUCK AND BOOM TO MOVE SOME 35 TON EUCLID TIRES WHEN HE HOOKED ONTO ONE ON TOP OF PILE AND ATTEMPTED TO LIFT IT WITH TIRE BOOM HOOK SLIPPED OUT AND LET TIRE FALL TIRE HIT G GROUND THEN STRUCK INJ ABOUT MIDDLE ABDOMEN AND PINNED HIM BETWEEN TRUCK AND THE TIRE ITSELF
THE INJURED WAS DRIVING A 40 TON TEREX HAUL TRUCK. UPON RETURNING FROM DUMPING HIS LOAD OF BOULDERS ON A BARGE, HIS LEFT FRONT TIRE STRUCK A BOULDER THAT HAD FALLEN OFF OF A TRUCK PREVIOUSLY L ANDED IN THE HAUL ROAD. HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS TRUCK & LEFT THE ROAD ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE & STRUCK A TREE. HE SUSTAINED A FX RT KNEE & LACERATION ON LOWER RT LEG.