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Electricians were changing a fuse on the pressure washer. The electrician was at the back of the truck when the wash bay tech got out of the forklift to talk to the electrician. The wash bay tech failed to set the parking brake or to put the bucket down. The forklift freewheeled, pinning the EE between the forklift and the truck.
While the employees where traveling out of the mine the floor mat wadded up in such a way that it caused the throttle to stick and maintain speed when braking was necessary. The vehicle collided with the rib and resulted in a shoulder injury.
Employee was operating a haul truck and strained his back. EE went to a specialist on 2/4/15 and was giving a light duty release for his strained back.
He had his right arm hanging out of cab smashing his arm between the truck and side of drift.
Vega employee was driving a 10 Wheel dump truck following a TIC employee up a hill at Newmont. It was slippery and the truck lost traction and slid down on its side. Vega employee was taken by Newmont ambulance to Northern Nevada Regional Hospital.
After directing powder truck into position he caught his foot under the lower stabilizing jack.
While remote mucking, the mucker got too close and pinched him between the rib and the mucker.
Ran over a piece of steel with UG haul truck and it flipped up and hit him in the mouth.
EE WAS OPERATING A LHD, AND HIT A ROCK IN THE ROAD, BOUNCING HIM INTO THE ROPS, AND HITTING HIS HEAD.
EE WAS MUCKING OUT OF A STOPE WHEN SOME MATERIAL PEELED FROM BACK, HITTING THE LOADER. EE CLIMBED OUT OF THE LOADER & WALKED TO THE INTERSECTION WHERE THE OTHER MINERS HELPED HIM.
WE WERE STARTING A NEW STOPE. SLOT WAS ALREADY OPER. A COUPLE OF TRUCKS HAD BEEN MUCKED NOW REMOTE. IT WAS TIME TO START REMOTING. THE OPERATOR OF THE NEXT TRUCK TO BE LOADED FOUND THE LHD OPE RATOR PINNED BETWEEN THE BACK CORNER OF THE LHD AND THE RIB.