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March 3, 1997 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck by flying object

EMPLOYEE OPENED ENGINE COMPARTMENT TO CHECK ENGINE. FAN FLEW DIRT INTO FACE, GOT PARTICAL IN EYE. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

June 4, 1996 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

BRAKE FAILURE. REASON NOT KNOWN YET REAR.

May 20, 1992 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WATERING THE PIT.A HAUL TRUCK WAS FOLLOWING HIM INTO THE PIT.HE STOPPED THE WATER TRUCK THEN BACKED UP HITTING THE HAUL TRUCK.HE WENT TO THE CLINIC AN RECEIVED A PRESCRIPTION. TION.

May 6, 1992 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

EMPL DRIVING FUEL TRUCK DOWN A 10% GRADE.GOING TOO FAST TO NEGOTIATE THE SWITCHBACK. THE TRUCK ROLLED OVER.

May 22, 1991 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

LOADER BUCKET STRUCK HEADACHE RACK OF TRUCK WHILE SPOTTING TO LOAD.DRIVER OF HAUL TRUCK WRENCHED HIS BACK.REPORTED 5-23..THERAPY PRESCRIBED NOT TAKEN BY EMPL.

February 2, 1991 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

EMPL WAS JARRED BY LOADER WHILE BEING LOADED SHE WENT TO SEE CHIROPRACTOR. DIDN'T TELL ANYONE TILL 2/6/91 AFTER COMING BACK FROM SCHEDULED DAYS OFF.

November 13, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF A SORE NECK AT THE START OF SHIFT ON 11/14/90. THE ONLY TIME SHE COULD RECALL BEING JARRED AROUND WAS ON 11/14/90 WHEN THE BUCKET OF THE LOADER HIT HER TRUCK WHILE LOADE R ON THE EXACT TIME OF THE DAY BUT THOUGHT IT WAS EARLY IN THE SHIFT.

September 23, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING FRONT END LOADER TRUCKS FROM 09-16-90 ROUGH RIDE OF LOADER APPEARS TO HAVE AGGRAVATED AN EXISTING BACK CONDITION EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT PAIN UNTIL 7 DAYS AFTER FIRST PA IN APPEARED EMPLYEE HAD BEEN OFF FOR 2 DAYS PRIOR TO REPORTING THE INJURY & CALLED IN PRIOR TO START OF SHIFT THIS MAY NOT BE A JOB RELATED INJURY INJURY IS BEING REPORTED DUE TO THERAPY TREA

July 3, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING HAUL TRUCK INTO PIT WHEN HE LOST DYNAMIC RETARDATION. EMPLOYEE STOPPED TRUCK BY DRIVING INTO A MUCK PILE AT THE BOTTOM OF PIT. EMPLOYEE CONTINUED WORKING TILL AST TWO DAYS OF SCHEDULED SHIFT (7-10-90) AT WHICH TIME HE WENT TO A DR. HE RETURNED TO NEXT SCHEDULED WORK SHIFT (7-14-90). DR. DIAGNOSIS WAS A STRAIN TO THE CERVICAL-THORACIA AREA.

March 12, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

ACCIDNET HAPPENED ON THE 5540 LEVEL IN THE SOUTH PIT. 207-1 LOADER WAS LOADING WASTE MATERIAL INTO 71-7 HAUL TRUCK AND DRIVER WAS JARRED WHEN THE FIRST LOAD OF MATERIAL WAS LOADED INTO THE TRU CK.

February 26, 1990 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

#73-7 TRUCK WAS LOADED ON 5540 BENCH 2 BUCKETS OF LOOSE MAT'L WERE LOADED, THEN A LARGE BOULDER WAS LOADED ON REAR AND PUSHED OVER REAR AXLES. TRUCK PROCEEDED UP 11-15% RAMP. FRONT END CAME OF F GROUND DRIVER EASED OFF THROTTLE. TRUCK CAME BACK DOWN DRIVER HIT THROTTLE AGAIN THROWING TRUCK TO POINT WHERE IT WAS RESTING ON REAR OF BED AND BUTT OF TRUCK (VERTICAL TO GROUND) DRIVER RE

February 23, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE ALEDGES HE HIT HIS BACK ON FIRE SUPRESSANT CONTROL BOX WHILE BEIGN TRAINED ON LOADER. SPRAINED IN THE MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK.

August 23, 1989 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

SORE BACK FROM DRIVING HIS HAUL TRUCK OVER UNEVEN ROUGH TERRAIN. DR HELD HIM OFF WORK UNTIL BACK PROBLEM CAN BE CHECKED OUT

June 28, 1989 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE ALEDGED THAT THE SEAT WAS LOOSE AND WHEN SHE HIT A BUMP SHGE STRAINED HER BACK.

February 24, 1989 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING AN 85 TON HAULAGE TRUCK WHEN A LOADER OPERATOR DUMPED SOME LARGE ROCK IN HIS TRUCK THE ROCK CAUSED THE TRUCK TO JOSTLE & THE DRIVER WAS UNPREPARED FOR THE SUDDEN MOVEMEN T THIS CAUSED HIM TO SPRAIN HIS BACK & NECK Y

December 29, 1988 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

WHILE DRIVING INTO THE LOADING AREA OF THE PIT EMPLOYEE ALLEGED HIS WHEEL STRUCK A HOSE WHICH WRENCHED HIS BACK.

October 26, 1988 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HAUL TRUCK OPER. SUFFERE D SEVERE BACK MUSCL E STRAIN WHEN HE TWISTED HIS BODY SO T HAT HE COULD LOOK OUT LEFT HAND WINDOW TO CHECK ON CORRECT POSITION AT DUMP. IMPAIRMENT TOCONSISTS OF ACKU TE PAIN IN BACK MUSCLR NAD RESTRICTED MOVEMNET.

October 20, 1988 NV · Metal/Non-Metal drill helper POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS STEMMING A DRILL HOLE BESIDE THE PRELL TRUCK THE PRELL TRUCK PULLED FORWARD & RAN OVER HIS RT.FOOT THE EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO CLINIC & XRAYS SHOWED ONLY A BRUISED FOOT

September 30, 1988 NV · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

SCRAPER OPERATOR CAME OFF OF DUMP AFTER UNLOADING HIS LOAD UNKNOWN TO THE OPERATOR THE NUT CAME OFF OF THE BELT HOLDING THE SEAT BELT IN PLACE THE OPEROR HIT A BUMP AND WAS THROWN INTO THE TO THE ROLLOVER PROTECTION

August 24, 1988 NV · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

SCRAPER PULLED INTO CUT & CAME TO A STOP AT THE SAME TIME SCRFAPER CAME TO A STOP THE PUSH DOZER MADE THE CONNECTION JARRING SCRAPER OPERATOR THERE WAS A MISSCOMMUNICATION BETWEEN OPERATORS ON THE LOADING PROCEDURES

August 20, 1988 NV · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Industrial Constructors Corp · Struck against a moving object

SEATBELT WAS NOT FASTENED SECURED PROPERLY HE HIT

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