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July 25, 1991 ID · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE STATED THAT WHEN SHE WAS BEING SHUTTLED TO HER HAUL TRUCK IN THE PIT IN A SUBURBAN, THE VEHICLE HIT A BUMP WHICH CAUSED HER TO BOUNCE SOMEWHAT VIOLENTLY IN THE REAR SEAT WHERE SHE WAS RIDING. ABOUT THIRTY MINUTES LATER, SHE FELT PAIN BACK OF NECK AND UPPER MIDDLE SPINE. EMPLOYEE STATED THE SEAT WAS BROKEN AND SHE WAS NOT USING HER SEAT BELT AT THIS TIME.

November 8, 1988 ID · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

I.NAME PULLED HIS TRUCK AWAY FROM SHOVEL AND RAN INTO ANOTHER TRUCK WHICH WAS WAITING TO BACK INTO THE SHOVEL

September 7, 1988 ID · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

I.NAME WAS OPERATING T-60 WHICH WAS BEING LOADED BY S-1 LOST POWER WHILE THE BUCKET WAS SWINGING TOWARDS THE TRUCK & THE BUCKETE HIT THE BACK OF THE TRUCK BED

April 29, 1985 ID · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent POWERED HAULAGE
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

I NAME SUSTAINED A 1\DIAMETER LACERATION TO HER RIGHT UPPER FOREARM WHILE DISCONNECTING JUMPER CABLE FROM THE BATTERY ON A CLARK 731\BOBCAT\LOADER(L-20).HER LOOSE FITTING SWEATER WAS CAUGHT IN THE LATERNATOR AND PULLED HER RIGHT ARM INTO THE ALTERNATOR COOLING FINS.

May 24, 1984 ID · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler POWERED HAULAGE
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TWISTED LEFT WRIST DURING OPERATING OF LOADER L15, AS STEERING WHEEL SPUN AROUND WHILE HAND WAS RESTING WITH THUMB OVER CROSS MEMBER, INJURY CONSISTED OF TENDON DMAGE TO LEFT WRIST AND ARM.

June 7, 1983 ID · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

INJURED WAS OPERATING A HAUL TRUCK. SHOVEL DEPOSITED A LARGE ROCK VIA BACK OF BED. ROCK ROLLED FORWARTD & STRUCK FRONT OF DUMP BED, JOSTLING THE OPERATOR.

May 3, 1983 ID · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against stationary object

GLASS TO WINDSHIELD IMPLODED AS FLOYD MENSING AND NANCIE LATHAM WERE DRIVING ACROSS PIT FLOOR.

February 14, 1983 ID · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Cyprus Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

SCRAPERS OPERATING ON PATTERN IN SRD LARGE ROCK ROLLED IN FRONT OF FIRST SCRAPER 1ST SCRAPER LOCKED UP AND 2ND SCRAPER BUMPED REAR OF 1ST SCRAPER

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