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EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING THE LHD TRACTOR LOADER BACK INTO A ROOM WE ARE MINING. EE HIT A RAISED CUT IN THE FLOOR WHICH CAUSED THE TRACTOR TO BOUNCE. EE'S HARD HAT FELL OFF AND EE HIT HEAD ON THE CEILING/ROOF OF THE TRACTOR CAB.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING AN LHD LOADER TOWARDS THE FACE OF THE MINE. TRACTOR HIT A POTHOLE WHICH CAUSED THE MACHINE TO BOUNCE. EMPLOYEES HEAD BOUNCED AND STRUCK THE TOP OF THE TRACTOR CAB.
EE WAS DRIVING A GOLF CART TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SHAFT AT THE END OF SHIFT. EE HAD LEG/KNEE HANGING TO THE SIDE OF THE CART. EE WENT THROUGH A CURTAIN AND AN LHD TRACTOR WAS PARKED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CURTAIN. GOLF CART AND EE'S KNEE HIT THE PARKED LHD. HAD A SCRAPE BELOW THE KNEE AND IT SWELLED UP.
Employee was using a skid loader to clean up and move salt from the mine floor. Skid dump was lifted and a chunk of salt approximately 150 lbs rolled over the top of the bucket and entered the front left corner of the operators cab. Chunk of salt struck Employee's left hand/arm. Employee has broken bone in left hand.
Employee was driving a golf cart from the working face of the mine to the lunch room when making a turn the cart rolled and employee fell out and impacted shoulder to the rough salt floor. Employee suffered a left shoulder contusion.
Employee was driving a golf cart along the underground conveyor beltline and his leg struck an emergency stop box that protrudes out from the beltline. Employee suffered a broken left leg.
Employee was in a manbasket on a forklift painting a warehouse loading dock canopy. When the forklift operator moved the forklift, he misjudged the distance between the manbasket and and a steel girder, and momentarily pinned the employee between the girder and the back of the manbasket.
EE WAS BACKFILLING AN OLDER, NON-WORKING AREA OF THE MINE USING A 915 LHD. AFTER DUMPING A LOAD OF MUCK, EE WAS IN THE CENTER OF THE ROOM STARTING TO BACK DOWN THE ALLEYWAY WHEN HE HEARD A "SN AP" & SAW A MOVEMENT ALONG THE ROOFLINE. A PIECE OF SALT APPEARS TO HAVE STRUCK THE TRACTOR, W/SOME OF IT EITHER HITTING THE EE DIRECTLY OR DEFLECTING OFF THE TRACTOR & SUBSEQUENTLY STRIKING
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A GOLF CART WITH HIS LEFT LEG HANGING OUT THE SIDE OF THE GOLF CART. THE EMPLOYEE'S FOOT STRUCK A CHUNK OF SALT AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
EE WAS BACKING AN LHD AWAY FROM THE FEEDER BREAKER. AS HE TURNED TO OL SERVE THE BUCKET, THE LHD RAN OVER A CHUNK OF SALT. THE LHD BOUNCED, CAUSING THE EE S HEAD TO HIT THE UNDERSIDE OF THE CA NOPY OF THE LHD.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ONA GOLF CAR THAT HAD ITS FRONT AXLE ATTACHED TO A CHIN HOIST. APPARENTLY THE CONTACTS WERE STUCK AS THE GOLF CAR TOOK OFF WHEN THE EMPLOYEE CEHCKEC THE SWITCHES. AS THE EMPLOYEE CHASED THE CART TO DISENGAGE IT, IT SWUNG AROUND AND STRUCK HIM ON THE KNEE.