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While attempting to free a stuck roller the belt caught his sleeve pulling his arm into the belt and canue housing.
Miner was operating a 150 ton Water Truck on a surface haul road. Hydraulic system failed. Miner lost steering assist. Miner pulled a muscle in his shoulder while attempting to regain control of the vehicle.
Miner was operating haul truck, in second gear, hit a bump. The radio came loose striking miner in nose.
Miner was a passenger in a truck. Truck was parked, parking brake set, and chocked. Miner was not seat belted in as truck was parked. While vehicle was dumping, it tipped over onto the left side. Miner fell approx. 3' injuring elbow.
Operating haul truck when he hit rough road bouncing him against top of cap cut his head.
The employee was being pushed up hill with another 657E Scraper. The incident occurred when the second scraper made contact with the lead scraper, resulting in a slight jarring motion. The employee indicated he was not injured and completed the remainder of his current shift and the following days shift before compalining his back hurt.
Driving on the haulpak road going 25-30 mph. He heard a bang and the truck tipped on its left side and slid into the berm.
Operator was dumping an end dump trailer when the load apparently stuck and the truck was parked on a slight slope causing the truck and trailer to overturn.
There are several factors that contributed to the accident, it happened to be a curve next to a pond where the evaporation causes the road to become very slippery and the fact that it had rained the night before changing into snow early in the morning; the rear tires in the van should have been changed and finally the fact that even though he was driving at the speed limit.
The employee was cleaning out around the Zero Speed hose, while the belt was running. He opened up the guard and stuck his Right hand in, past bearing for the tail pulley, with a pair of Channel locks to clean. When he lost his footing, slipped and fell into the belt, the tail pulley grabbed his channel locks and pulled him into the tail pulley.
Haul Truck driver lost his brakes coming down a grade. His left rear duals caught fire. He steered the truck into the berm and went off the road and tipped his truck over on to its right side. The driver was injured and taken to the ER room and was released about 4 hours later.
Was remote mucking with loader and lost control of the loader, the loader came back and pinned him between the rib and loader.
Was putting in a pin to hook up the Cubex Drill and a Teledyne Boom truck and the Teledyne moved and pinched his fingers on his right hand and had 8-10 stiches put in it.
While being transported to worksite in Queenstake van, the van was hit by a Kirkness Drilling pick-up truck (auto accident).
Manbasket employee was in stuck on rib while lowering to floor. When basket came undone, it fell approximately 2 feet, jarring his knee.
While operating underground haultruck, hit hole in road and hit head on top of truck.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS OPERATING AN UNDERGROUND HAUL TRUCK HEADING DOWN THE MAIN & HE HIT A BUMPY AREA IN THE ROAD & HURT HIS BACK. HE DID NOT REPORT THIS ACCIDENT UNTIL THE EVENING HOURS OF 6/27/05 AS HE WAS ON HIS DAYS OFF.
EE was operating TRK #86 at the smith mine and on his way out of the mine in the main when he hit some pot holes causing him to strike the top of the cab with his hand hat.
EE WAS ASKED TO DRIVE VAN 3269 DOWN TO THE MAINT SHOP. SHE SWUNG AROUND A CURVE & LOST CONTROL OF THE VAN AFTER APPARENTLY SPOTTING A DEER IN THE HAUL ROAD. THE VAN SLID SIDEWAYS AND TIPPED OV ER ON ITS TOP AFTER HITTING THE BERM.
EMPLOYEE COMPLETED SHIFT AND WAS IN PERSOANL VEHICLE HEADING HOME DOWN MINE ROAD AND LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE BECAUSE HE HAD NO BRAKES.
FOREIGN OBJECT IN LEFT EYE SOURCE UNKNOWN.