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EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE FELT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE WHEN HE WAS DRIVING INTO THE PIT AREA. EMPLOYEE WAS UNSURE WHAT CAUSED THE IRRITATION OR HOW IT GOT THERE.
EMPL WAS STANDING WITH ONE FOOT ON LOADING RAMP & ONE FOOT ON CAR DOOR LOCK BLOWING UP CAR BULKHEAD BAG. WHEN LAST PALLET OF LOAD WAS BEING PUT INTO RAIL CAR FORKLIFT BUMPTED RAMP CAUSING EMPL TO LOSE FOOTING HE FELL ONTO RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF STIFFNESS IN BOTH OF HIS ELBOWS NOT REPORTED AT FIRST BECAUSE WE DID NOT KNOW IT WAS AN OCCUPATIONAL INJURY UNTIL HE RECEIVED SURGERY
EMPL LOADING TRUCK WHEN SHOVEL HIT TRUCK JARRING AND MAKING HOLE IN BED OF TRUCK.AFTER HAULING 2 MORE LOADS,COMPLAINED OF NECK PAIN.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE OPERATING 16 TON HAUL TRUCK, HE TRYED GEARING DOWN BUT WAS UNABLE TO GET INTO LOWER GEAR, CAUSING THE TRUCK TO TURN OVER ON ITS SIDE.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHILE DIGGING WITH A LOADER SHE HIT A HARD SPOT. THE LOADER CAME TO A STOP, JAMMING HER WRIST ON THE STEERING WHEEL AND HER KNEE ON THE STEERING COLUMN.
(CONTUSIONS OF RIGHT ARM WHILE USING MOVING BELT-BAG FLATTENER)
IN TRYING TO MOVE AN 8X8 BOO INTO PLACE IN THE C-10 HEADING EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING ONE END OF THE BOOM ON HIS SHOULDER AND THE OTHER END WAS ON THE BUCKET OF THE LOADER ONE END OF THE BOOM ON H IS HOULDER AND THE OTHER END WAS ON A BUCKET OF THE LOADER AS THE LOADER WAS MOVING THE BOOM INTO THE LIP OF THE BUCKET PINNED EMPLOYEE S LEFT FOOT AGAINST THE MUCK PILE.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT THE BED ON THE TRUCK SHE WAS DUMPING,CAME DOWN SO HARD IT SHOOK HER UP BADLY.
EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT A SLAB OF GRANITE FELL OFF A CONVEYOR AND STRUCK HIS RIGHT FOOT. EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING ROCKS ON THE FLOOR UNDERNEATH THE GUARDED CONVEYOR.
EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT THE LEVER HOSE TO THE SCRAPERS PAN BURST THUS DROPPING THE PAN SUDDENLY CAUSING THE SCRAPERS TO STOP SUDDENLY
WHILE I.NAME WA8 GETTING OUT THE LHD, THE PARKING BRAKE MALFUNCTIONED AND DUE TO THE LHD NOT PROPERLY TURNED INTO THE RIB, THE LHD ROLLED FORWARD ROLLING OVER HIS R FOOT WITH THE LEFT REAR WHE EL. HAD PARKED 7HE LHD IN THE DECLINE WHILE PERFORMING CLEAN UP OPERATIONS
EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT HE WAS HIT FROM BEHIND BY A FORKLIFT WHOSE OPERATOR DID NOT SEE HIM EMPLOYEE WAS KNOCKED TO FLOOR
EMPL REACHED FO9 BAG GLOVE WENT BETWEEN ROLLER AND BELT OF PALLETIZER AND PULLED LITTLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND IN.SEVERLY PINCHED FINGER.EMPL RETRUNED TO WORK FOLLOWING DAY AND CONTINUED TO WORK AS SCHEDULED U3ITL 4-4.SENT BACK TO DR ON 4-70-86 & HASNT RETURNED TO WORK AS OF 4-10-86 PER DR ORDERS.
POWDERMAN I.NAME AND 2 PASSENGERS BACKING POWDER TRUCK TOWARD FAR END OF BLASTING PATTERN.BENCH NARROWED TOWARD FAR END AND DAYLIGHTED OUT.AFTER BACKING 165\,TRUCK REACHED POINT NEAR THE CREST GROUND UNDER RIGHT REAR WHEEL CAVED AND TRUCK FELL DOWN BENCH ROLLING OVER ONCE LANDING ON ITS WHEELS.
POWDERMAN AND HIS TWO PASSENGERS WAS BACKING THE POWDER TRUCK TOWARD THE FAR END OF THE BLASTING PATTERN. THE BENCH NARROWED TOWARD THE FAR END AND DAYLIGHTED OUT AFTER BACKING 165 FT, THE TRU CK REACHED A POINT WHERE IT WAS VERY NEAR THE CREST. THE GROUND UNDER THE RIGHT REAR WHEEL CAVED AND THE TRUCK FELL DOWN THE BENCH, ROLLING OVER ONCE, LANDING ON ITS WHEELS.
EMPL LOOKING IN ANOTHER DIRECTION AS HE REACHED ONTO CONVEYOR BELT TO REMOVE BAG OF MATERIAL.HESAND MASHED FINGER.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS MOVING RAILROAD CARS WITH SWITCHMASTER-BRAKES FAILED ON THE CARS CAUSING THE IMPACT CAUSING A CERVICAL SPINE STRAIN.
A PIECE OF TALC ROCK FELL OFF THE SORTING BELT, HIT THE RUBBER MAT ON THE FLOOR AND BOUNCED UP ANDHIT I.NAME ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN THE ANKLE AND KNEE ON HER LEFT LEG, CAUSING A BRUISE
LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS CUT WHEN THE EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A BROKEN BAG FROM CONVEYOR BELT WHILE BELT WAS RUNNING CAUSE BELT TO CUT FINGER.
EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE FELT THE TRUCK OVERTURNING WHEN THE DUMP BEGAN TO SLIDE SO HE JUMPED TO THE GROUND
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS SITTING ON BELT. BELT STARTED, THROWING HIM OFF BACKWARDS STRIKING HIS HEAD ON ANOTHER EMPLOYEES FOOT.
SORTER WAS CLEANING UP SPILLAGE OF ROCK ALONG THE BELTS WHILE MAINTENANCE WAS BEING DONE ON MODULER 1 IN DOING SO A ROCK BOUNCED OFF THE BELT AT THE TRANSFER POINT AND STRUCK HIM IN THE LOWER BACK CAUSING PAIN AND DISCOMFORT
HAD MOVED THE PAYLOADER FROM THE CRUSHER AREA, HE HAD BRAKES AT T HIS TIME. HE WAS THEN MOVING DOWN THE RAMP LEADING TO THE CRUDE YARD, HIS BRAKES DID NOT HOLD. HE USED THE SHOVEL TO STOP PICK ING UP HALF A SCOOP, HE THEN WENT IN REVERSE UP THE RAMP WITH THE SHOVEL UP IN T HE DIRECTION OF THE CRUSHER AS HE WENT TO HIT THE BRAKES NOTHING HAPPEN, HE WENT OVER THE EDGE 4FT DOWN THE
TIMOTHY COFER WAS STANDING ON RAMP TO HOLD IT DOWN WHICH WAS HIT BY FORKTRUCL CAISOMG TO, TP FA FAMILY MED CENTER FOR AVULSION COMPRESSION INJURY L FINGER WOUND CLEANED