THE MINER WAS RIDING AS A PASSENGER IN A TRAMMER. AS THE TRAMMER MADE A TURN, A STEERING HOSE BLEW, CAUSING A LOSS OF STEERING AND THE TRAMMER STRUCK THE RIB. THE MINER HIT HIS HEAD ON THE COR NER POST OF THE CANOPY SUPPORT OF THE TRAMMER. HE REQUIRED 4 SUTURES TO CLOSE THE WOUND.
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Showing all 49EE BUMPED HIS ELBOW ON BODY OF MANCARRIER. HE LATER NOTICED FLUID ON THE ELBOW. HE SAW THE DR. ON 11-6-00. FLUID WAS ASPIRATED FROM THE ELBOW ON THAT DATE AND HE WAS RELEASED WITH NO RESTRICTI ONS.
WHILE PULLING A LOAD OUT OF THE PIT A SMALL ROCK CAME OFF OF THE HIGHWALL AND THROUGH THE DRIVER SIDE WINDOW. THE ROCK WAS THE SIZE OF A SOFTBALL. THE ROCK BROKE THE WINDOW AND PUT A 3 CM CUT ON THE LEFT FOREARM THAT REQUIRED SUTURED.
DRIVING UNDERGROUND TRUCK, HIT BUMP IN RAOD, CAUSING BOUNCING IN SEAT. FELT PAIN IN BACK.
HAND CAUGHT IN TAKEUP PULLEY OF CONVEYOR BELT
OPERATOR GOT TO CLOSE TO THE EDGE ON THE EMBANKMENT HE WAS WATERING HE THEN LOST CONTROL IN WHICH THE WATER PULL OVER TURNED WHEN GOING OVER THE EDGE.
DRIVING A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT, EE HIT BUMP AND JARRED HIS BACK.\
EE WAS CLEANING OUT A DISCHARGE CHUTE WHEN A ROCK FELL OFF THE BELT ABOVE. IT SMASHED HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE DISTAL TO THE 1ST JOINT ON THE END. LITTLE FINGER WAS SPLINTED.
DRIVER OPERATED BULK TRUCK TOO FAST, CAUSING TRUCK TO TIP OVER ON ITS RIGHT SIDE WHILE MAKING A LEFT TURN. THE TRUCK WAS TRAVELING 25MPH (EST) MINOR BRUISES ON DRIVER. SOME DAMAGE TO TRUCK FENDER, CAB & BULK BODY.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO START HIS TRUCK WHEN IT BECGAN TO ROLL. HE JUMPED WHEN THE TRUCK HIT THE BERM SLIDING DOWN THE SLOPE. THE VEHICLE ROLLED OVER THE BERM AND THE FRONT L TIRE BOUNCED OFF HIS PELVIS AND LEGS RESULTING IN MULTIPLE FRACTURES TO THE PELVIS, TIBIA & FIBULA AND METATORSALS OF HIS R FOOT.
HE BUMPED HIS LEFT ELBOW ON THE BACK OF THE SEAT TO THE MUCKER CAUSING A CONTUSION TO THE LEFT ELBOW REQUIRED SURGICAL REMOVAL OF BLOOD BY SYRINGE.
AS THE MAN WAS SITTING IN HIS HAUL TRUCK AS IT WAS BEING LOADED HE LOOKED TO BACK TOTRUCK AS HE DID A SMALL ROCK STRUCK HIM IN THE RT EYE. MAN THEN DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT UNTIL 300 PM HE WAS GIVEN A PRESCRIPTION DROPS FOR PAIN BECAUSE EYE BALL WAS BRUISE. WE DID NOT KNOW THIS UNTIL 1-27-97.
MAN WAS TRYING TO AJUST SEAT AS 26 TONE HAUL TRUCK WAS MOVING. PINCHED MIDDLE FINGER OFLEFT HAND AS SEAT BOUNCED. FINGER TIP BETWEEN SEAT AND FRAME.
EE WAS DRIVING IN A PICK UP TRUCK HE TRUEND THE VEHICLE AND HIT A BUMP. WHEN HE HIT THE BUMP HIS HAND HIT THE AUTOMATIC WINDOW CONTROL. THE WIDNOW WENT UP PUSHING HIS LOWER LIP UP INTO HIS UPP ER TEETH.
EMPLOYEE MISSED SCHEDULED JAN 5/96(CALLED IN SICK). ON JAN 6/96 EMPLOYEE VISITED DR. COMPLAINING OF LOWER BACK PAIN. EMPLOYEE WAS BACK TO WORK NEXT SCHEDULED SHIFT ON MODIFIED DUTY. EMPLOYEE F EELS LOWER BACK PAIN WAS A RESULT OF OPERATING AN UNDERGROUND HAULAGE TRUCK ON ROUGH ROADWAYS.
YMAN WAS REMOTE MUCKING AT 16 X-CUT MOVED UPT O22X-CUT TO BUILD AMUCK BERM. A 40' DEEP HOL WAS TO BE BACKFILLED. HIS JOB WAS TO OPERATE LHD TO SCOOP FILL DIRT TO BUILD ABERM AT LIP OF OPEN SLOPE AREA. THEN AFTER DIRT IN PLACE PUSH IT INTO HOLE IWTH D4 DOZER. UPON PICKING UP FIRST LOAD IWT LHD HE ADVANCED FORWARD AND WENT 35' OVER EDGE.
DRIVING TRUCK
MAN WAS CLEANING UNDE RCONVEYOR AND AROCK FELL AND HIT HIM ONT HE HEAD HAT.
EMPOLOYEE WAS BACKING A 773 CAT 50 TON TRUCK UNDER A 922 CAT LOADER TO BE LOADED. WHEN FIRST BUCKET OF ROCK HIT SIDE OF TRUCK BOUNCE THREW EMPLOYEES HEAD AGAINST SIDE OF CAB RESULTING IN A 2 C M LACERATION.
WHILE OPERATING A WATER TRUCK HE HIT A BUMP IN ROAD & STRUCK HIS ELBOW ON STEERING WHEEL.
DRIVING LOADED D300 DOWN PIT ROAD DRIVER THINKS LOAD MAY HAVE SHIFTED ON CORNER CAUSING TRUCK TO TIP OVER. DRIVER HAD PAIN IN HIS HIP AND THE DR FEELS IT IS A HIP SPRAIN. DRIVER RETURNED TO WO RK AND HAS NOT MISSED WORK FROM THE INCIDENT.
EE WAS DRIVING FUEL TRUCK DOWNHILL. HE HIT A HOLE IN THE ROAD AND THE JOLT BOUNCED EE TO THE TRUCK CAB CEILING EE STRUCK HEAD ON CEILING HURTING UPPER BACK EE WAS NOT WEARING HIS SEAT BELT IN VIOLATION OF CO RULES KNOWN TO EE EE GIVEN VERBAL REPRIMAND THAT IF CAUGHT WITHOUT SEAT BELT ON WILL BE TERMINATED.
MINER WAS BACKING UP AN UNDER GROUND TRUCK AS HE STOOD HIS SELF RESCUER ACTIVATED THE EMERGENCY STOP CAUSING THE EMPLOYEES CHEST TO IMPACT THE STEERING LEVER EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEE A DOC UNTIL J AN 4 1993
WHILE DRIVING HAUL TRUCK U/G RAN OVER ROCK IN ROADWAY JARRING TRUCK AND CAUSING BACK INJURY.
HIT ROCK IN ROADWAY WHILE DRIVING AN UG TRUCK-BOUNCED UP AND JAMMED NECK.INCIDENT OCCURRED 05-31-92 WRITTEN REPORT AND DOCTOR VISIT WAS NOT DONE UNTIL 06-15-92.
DRIVER STATED HE LOST BRAKES ON UNIT WHILE COMING DOWN THE HILL WITH A LOAD OF ORE AFTER TRAVELING PAST THE SECURITY BUILDING HE LOST CONTROL & ROLLED OVER EJECTING THE DRIVER
DRIVE LINE BROKE ON TRUCK GOING DOWN HILL LOST BRAKES. TRUCK ROLLED ON SIDE AND SLIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING BACKFILL WHEN HE RAN OVER A LARGE ROCK & REINSURED AN INJURY REPORTED IN MAY 1991
WHILE CLIMBING INTO THE BUCKET TO SECURE VENTLINE WITH A CHAIN THE OPERATOR ACTUATED THE PUSH BAR ON THE LOADER PINCHING EE FINGER BETWEEN THE PUSH BAR AND THE BUCKET. SUTRES WERE REQUIRED.
EE SMD LONGHOLE DRILLER, WAS BRINGING A 6 YD 3 LHD OUT OF THE MCCOY DELLINE. WHEN ITS ENGINE DIED NEAR THE TOP. AT THIS POINT THE BRAKES DID NOT SE TAND IT ROLLED BACK DOWN THE RAMP BEFORE HIT TING A RIB AND STOPPING. THE LHD HAD FRAME DAMAGE & HH SUSTAINED CHEST/HEAD INJURIES.
EMPLOYEE WAS TASK TRAINING ON UNDERGROUND TRUCK WHEN OPERATOR ACCIDENTLY ACTIAVATED PARK BRAKE SYSTEM CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL TO THE GROUND RESULTING INJURY WAS A C RACKED RIB
EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING BACKFILL A ROCK CAME OUT OF THE FILL AND STRUCK HIS HARDHAT.NOTE THIS INJURY IS LATE AS EMPLOYEE WENT TO DOCTOR ON 03-18-91 AND RECEIVED NO DUTY.
WHILE DRIVING ON MCCOY PIT RAMP NEAR THE BOTTOM A ROCK CAME THRU THE WINDOW STRIKING ON THE FACE LEFT SIDE SUTURES WERE REQUIRED.
AS EMPLOYEE WAS MUCKING OUT A HEADING HE SCRAPED THE RIB WITH THE CANOPY OF A 3 YARD LOADER CAUSING ROCKS TO FALL,STRIKING HIM ON THE HEAD AND NECK.REPORTABLE DUE TO SUTURES.
EMPL WAS REMOVING ROCK FROM APRON FEEDER HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN ROCK & APRON FEEDER.
MINER WAS PUTTING HOSES INTO SCOOP BUCKET WHEN OPERATOR ACCIDENTLY LOWERED BUCKET ONTO MINER'S FOOT.
WHILE DRIVING TRUCK HIT BUMP IN ROAD BOUNCED UP IN SET & HIT HEAD ON CEILING REMPLOYEE CLAIMED HIS SEAT BELT DAME LOOSE AT THE TIME INVESDTIGATION REVEALED NO SEAT IMPAIRMENT OR FAULTY BELT IN JURY WAS REPORTABLE DUE TO PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION GIVEN
EMPL WAS MOVING FORKS ON FORKLIFT AND PULLING ONE FORK WHILE LIFTING AND PULLING ONE FORK EMPL FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK REPORTABLE BECAUSE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ONLY
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING FORKLIFT. WAS OFF OF THE FORKLIFT ADJUSTING THE FORKS WHEN THE PARK BRAKE FAILED, ALLOWING MACHINE TO MOVE FORWARD, PINNING THE EMPLOYEE BETWEEN THE FORKLIFT AND THE TRA ILER OF THE TRUCK.
MINER WAS FINISHING MUCKING ROUND WHEN MUCKER BUCKET HIT MISSED PRIMER IN LEFT HAND LIFTER OLE. BUCKET CAUSED PRIMER TO DETONATE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING HAUL TRUCK #10 AND THE WINDOW ON THE DRIVERS SIDE WOULD NOT STAY ROLLED UP. WHILE DRIVING TO THE DUMP THE WINDOW FELL DOWN AND SHE TRIED TO ROLL IT BACK UP WHILE THE VEHIC LE WAS IN MOTION, THUS PULLING HER RIGHT SHOULDER MUSCLE.
WHILE DRIVING A HAUL TRUCK EMP HIT BUMMP ON ROAD CAUSING TRUCK SEAT TO BOTTOM OUT.
WHILE BACKING HAUL TRUCK OVER ROUGH GROUND. THE BED BOUNCED UP AND FELL AT THE SMA ETIME AS THE SEAT BOTTOMED OUT. THE ENSUING IMPACT CAUSED A WHIPLASH LIKE NECK INJURY. DRIVER WAS WEARING HER SEATBELT.
WHILE DRIVING HAUL TRUCK ACROSS WASTE DUMP. DIP CAUSED SEAT TO BOTTOM OUT THE FORCE TRANSMITTED THOROUGH THE SEAT CAUSED A NECK STRAIN.
LOADING TRUCK WITH FRONT END LOADER -SEAT BACK FELL BACK INJ HIT HEAD AND NECK ON DOOR POST IN BACK OF SEAT.
DRILL HELPER BACKED THE WATER TRUCK UP TO THE DRILLING RIG AS HE WENT TO GET OUT OF THE TRUCK HE LEFT THE TRUCK IN REVERSE AND LET UP ON THE CLUTCH THIS CAUSED THE TRUCK TO ROLL BACK PINCHING THE VICTIM AGAINST THE TURN TABLE OF THE DRILL
EMPLOYEE WAS NO7 PAYING ATTENTION TO HIS DRIVING AND WAS FATIGUED AS HE DROVE IN FRON TO OF A HAUL TRUCK AND HIT THE LEFT FRONT TIRE.
HAUL TRUCK ENTE9ED DUMPING AREA TOO FAST FOR ICY CONDITIONS TRUCK SKIDDED TIRES HIT SOFT MATERIAL AND OVERTURNED ONTO THE DRIVER SIDE THEKNEE OF THE EMPLOYEE IN THE BUDDY SEAT STRUCK THE SHIFT TOWER. MINOR D5MAGE TO THE KNEE JOINT RESULTED. HOWEVER, THE INJURED IS A VERY LARGE INDIVIDUAL AND CANT RETURN TO WORK FOR APPROX. ONE WEEK.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT7EMPTING TO DISLODGE A ROCK OUT OF CRUSHER JAWS USING A ROPE AND BUCKET TOOTH WHEN PULLING ON THE ROCK THE ROPE BROKE AND PIECE OF ROPE AND ROCK STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON HIS HEAD AND FACE AND CHEST3