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EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING 966 LOADER DOWN THE RAMP WHEN THE ENGINE DIED CAUSING THE LOADER TO RUN INTO THE BERM. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND X-RAYED. ON 12-21-94 EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO SEE DR. AND HE IS TO HAVE A MRI ON 12-22-94.
RIGHT HAND WEDGED BETWEEN CONVEYOR BELT AND ROLLER.
EE WENT TO PULL A PIECE OF METAL OFF OF CONVEYOR BELT AND CUT HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYE EWAS ATTEMPTING TO FRE EUP AN IDLER ON CONVEYOR WHILE CONVEYOR WAS STILL RUNNING. HE WAS USING A PIECE OF THREADED ROD TO STRIKE THE IDLER HWNE HT EROD GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE IDLER AN D THE BELT AND PULLED HIS HAND IN BEFORE HE COULD LET GO OF THE ROD.
EE WAS PASSENGER IN THE SHOP VAN. WHEN DRIVER APPLIED BRAKES THE SLIDING DOOR SHUT ON EE HAND.
A BARGE GOT TOO CLOSE TO THE BANK. HE WAS TURNING IT AROUND WHEN THE BARGE STEERING RUDDER HIT THE BANK MAKING THE STEERING FLY AROUND STICKING HIM ON THE ARM. LEFT ARM AND WRIST LACERATED. Y
INJURED WAS HELPING REPLACE SCREENS AT PLANT. HE WAS SENT AFTER TOOLS, INSTEAD OF USING WALK WAY, TOOK A SHORT CUT ACROSS BELT, SLIPPED AND INJURED LEFT LEG.(SHIN)
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING BELT ON PULLEY. MOTOR WAS STILL GOING AND PULLEY CAUGHT HIS FINGERS.
WHILE MOVING UP LINE ON AMMCO DREDGE THE ROPE CAUGHT AND FLIPPED UP OVER THE END OF BARGE HITTING HIM AND KNOCKING HIM BACK AGAINST WELDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS A PASSENGER IN FOREMAN'S COMPANY TRUCK. AS FOREMAN DROVE UPT HE RAMP FROM THE HOPPR, THE RIGHT FRONT TIRE STRUCK AT POT HOLE CAUSING THE TRUCK TO BOUNCE. EMPLOYEE SAID IT THREW HIM AROUND AND POSSIBLY HURT HIS NECK.
COMMING ACROSS RIVER TO WORK IN A YAWL AND WAS HIT BY A PLEASURE MOTOR BOAT. ON RIVER, NOT MSHA
EMPLOYEE STATED HE BECAME INJURED WHILE TRYING TO STEER MACK TRUCK AFTER POWER STEERING BECAME INOPERABLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING TRUCK. HE WENT INTO STOCKPILE WITH BUCKET, HE THEN PUT LOADER IN REVERE BACKING UP. HE THEN PUT LOADER IN FOWARD GEAR JERKING HIS HEAD INTO A BACKWARD MOTION CAUSING INJUR Y.
REMOVING LG STONE FROM FEEDER, LIFTING IT UP GATE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK OR HIP
EMPLS WERE CARRYING CYLINDER HEAD WHICH WEIGHTED200 LB FOR 471 DETROIT GENERATOR SET ON LUCAS DE\REDGE. DREDGE SHIFTED & THREW BOTH EMPLS INTO GUARD RAIL. INJ'S RIGHT THUMB GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN CYLINDER HEAD & GUARD RAIL SMASHING & CUTTING THUMB.
EE WAS LOADING SAND CARS AND LEFT TO LOAD A TRUCK AT THE 57 GRAVEL PILE THEN REALIZED THE TRUCK HAD LEFT TO GET AN EMPTY WEIGHT. HE WAS ABOUT TO GO BACK TO LOADING SAND. AS HE BACKED UP HIS WI FE HAD PULLED UP CLOSED BEHIND HIM TO BRING HIM LUNCH., HE COULD NOT SEE HER BECAUSE OF THE CLOSENESS AND HIS LEFT REAR LOADER TIRE BACKED ONTO THE CAR OCCUPIED BY HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER IN LA
EE WAS LOADING SAND CARS AND LEFT TO LOAD A TRUCK AT THE 57 GRAVEL PILE THEN REALIZED THE TRUCK HAD LEFT TO GET AN EMPTY WEIGHT, HE WAS ABOUT TO GO BACK TO LOADING SAND. AS HE BACKED UP HIS WI FE HAD PULLED UP CLOSED BEHIND HIM TO BRING HIM LUNCH., HE COULD NOT SEE HER BECAUSE OF THE CLOSENESS AND HIS LEFT REAR LOADER TIRE BACKED ONTO THE CAR OCCUPIED BY HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER IN LA
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING HIS LOADER, LOADING DIRT AND ROCKS INTO HAUL TRUCKS. HE DROVE THE LOADER INTO THE MATERIAL TO LOAD HIS BUCKET. THE BUCKET CONTRACTED A LARGE BOULDER THAT WAS COVERED W ITH DIRT AND UNSEEN. HEW AS THROWN FORWARD IN HIS SEAT AGAINST HIS SEATBELT, STRAINING HIS STOMACH AND OBLIQUE MUSCLES. HIS FORWARD BENDING MOTION STRAINED HIS BACK MUSCLES.
BACKING UP TO DUMP MATERIAL IT WENT OBER EDGE OF PILE FLIPPED OVER LANDING UPSIDE DOWN, 35 FT TALL PILE
I,NAME WAS MOVING MATERIAL WITH A CHERRY PICKER ON A WORK BARGE. HE WAS SWINGING THE BOOM FROM THE STERN TO THE BOW OF THE WORK BARGE WHEN MID-WAY OVER THE WATER, THE CHERRY PICKER TOPPLED OVE R-I,NAME JUMPED OFF PICKER BEFORE IT WENT OVER.
EMPL WASHING OUT UNDER NORTH SCREEN,ROCK CAME OFF BELT AND HIT HIM IN RIGHT SIDE OF FACE.
INJURED WAS CLEANING FROM UNDER APRON FEEDER AT JAW AREA AND ROCK FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING ROOTS OFF OF #7 BELT AND A ROCK JUMPED OFF OF THE SCREEN AND HIT HIM IN THE HAND.
STARTED TO HOSE BELT, PULLED HOSE UP WALKWAY HOE HAD 2 LOOPS IN IT, ONE ENT IN PULLEY STARTE D TO HET HOSE OUT OF PULLEY OTHER LOOP WNET AROUND R FT PUILLED HIM IN PULLEY
I.NAME WAS ON THE SECOND DECK OF THE DREDGE PELICAN HELPING I.NAME CHANGE THE FLOP GATES TO THE CROSS CONVEYOR BELTS I.NAME HEARD I.NAME YELL SAW THAT I.NAME HAD SOMEHOW GOTTEN ON TO THE CON VEYOR BELT THAT WAS RUNNING I.NAME GRABBED AND HELD HIM UNTIL THE BELT WAS TURNED OFF IN THE PROCESS I.NAME TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE WHICH HE HAD HURT APPROX 7 DAYS PREVIOUSLY BY WALKING INTO A D
CREW BOAT STRUCK BARGE IN EXTREME FOG.
CREW BOAT STRUCK BARGE IN EXTREME FOG.
CREW BOAT STRUCK BARGE IN EXTREME FOG.
BACKED UP TO DUMP LOAD, STALLED TRUCK, ROLLED FORWARD WITH ENGINE OFF. NO BRAKES. RAN INTO WALL. STRAINED MUSCLE IN BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING FROM THE PLANT. SAID HE HAD A HEADACHE AND HAD TAKEN HIS HARD HAT OFF. HE HIT A DITCH CROSSING ROAD A 1/4 X 0 PILE TO HARD AND THE JOLT CAUSED HIM TO STRIKE HIS HEAD ON A BOLT PROTRUDING IN CAB.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN PROCESS OF USING PRESSURE WATER HOSE TO CLEAN FROM UNDER #1 CONVEYOR WHEN A ROCK STRUCK HIM IN RT SIDE OF HEAD AND EAR CUTTING BOTH EAR AND HEAD
CO FIBERGLASS S5IFF WAS CROSSING TH RIVER TO TIE UP ALONG SIDE OF M/U CATHERINE M TO MOVE SWING WIRE EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING UP IN SKIFF TO TIE ALONG SIDE SKIFF CAME IN TO FAST AND BUMPED CATHER INE M AND EMPLO2EE FELL ON SAME LEVEL OF DECK ON CATHERINE M BROKE RT WRIST WHEN HE TRIED TO CATCH HIS FALL
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING BOOM TRUCK. HE PULLED INTO THE PATH OF FRONT-END LOADER BACKING OUT OF PILE.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING BOM TRUCK DRIVEN BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE. DRIVER PULLED INTO PATH OF A FRONT-END LOADER BACKING OUT FROM PILE. LOADER STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON LEFT FOOT CAUSING A FRACTURE.
I,NAME WENT TO THE LANDING TO PICK UP OTHER EMP,LOYEE (RELIEF CAPT.) ON RETURN TO DREDGE WITH TWO PEOPLE ABOARD THE WOODEN COMPANY SKIFF STRUCK BARGE #RG-201 RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF GARTIN A ND BROWN (CAUSE OF DEATH UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME).
EMPLOYEES TRAVELLING FROM SHORE TO DREDGE,STRCUK MOORED BARGE WITH SKIP AND SANK.
I,NAME WENT TO THE LANDING TO PICK UP OTHER EMP,LOYEE (RELIEF CAPT.) ON RETURN TO, DREDGE WITH TWO PEOPLE ABOARD THE WOODEN COMPANY SKIFF STRUCK BARGE #RG-201 RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF GARTIN AND BROWN. (CAUSE OF DEATH UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME).
EMPLOYEES TRAVELLING FROM SHORE TO DREDGE STRUCK MOORED BARGE WITH SKIP AND SUNK.