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EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING HAUL PAK. WHEN DESCENDING ON HAUL RD. THE OEPRATOR MISJUDGED AVAILABLE ROOM ON HAUL RD. WHEN A LOADER WAS TRAVELING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION. OPERATOR ATTEMTPING TO SLOW DO WN PUT TRUCK IN REV. TO ASSIST IN DECEL. (TRCK WAS ONLY MOVING APPROX. 3 MPH THEN). ENGINE DIED AS A CONSEDUENE OPER. LOST STEERING THEN CONTROL OF TRUCK. TRUCK VIERED TO LEFT AND OVERTURNED.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING AS ORE CONTROL. CAUGHT A RIDE WITH THE HAUL PAK DRIVER TO GO TO LUNCH. EMPLOYEE WAS IN JUMP SEAT BUT DID NOT HAVE HIS SEAT BELT FASTENED. DRIVER MISJUDGED AVAILABLE ROOM O N HAUL ROAD WHEN A LOADER WAS TRAVELING ON SAME ROAD BUT OPPOSITE DIRECTION. OPERATOR ERROR CAUSED THE HAUL TRUCK DRIVER TO REACT BY PUTTING IN REV. TO ASSIST DECELERATION, TURNING OVER TRUCK
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING IN A 35 TON HAUL TRUCK WHILE IT WAS BEING LOADED BY A 988 LOADER.THE LOADER OPERATOR DROPPED A LARGE ROCK INTO THE TRUCK WHICH JARRED THE TRUCK AND TRUCK DRIVER.