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EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING UP TO A BERM WHEN SHE POWERED THROUGH THE BERM ON HER RIGHT REAR WHEELS ROLLING THE TRUCK DOWN THE WASTE DUMP. EMPLOYEE WAS BEING SPOTED BY A DOZER OPERATOR AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT. BERMS WERE 4' HIGH.

OPERATOR HAD JUST LEFT THE LITTLE BEN PIT WITH A LOAD OF ORE GOING DOWN HILL BY THE '87 PAD TO THE LIME TOWER AND ON TO ORE PAD '91. THE GRADE IS AT AN APPROX 10% SLOPE. FOUR TRUCKS HAD DRIV EN OVER THE ROAD AND MADE THE ROAD ICY. WHEN THE VICTIM HIT THE ICE, HIS TRUCK WENT SIDEWAYS THEN FELL ONTO THE OFF PASSENGER SIDE. THE OPERATOR WAS WEARING HIS SEATBELT, SAFETY GLASSES AND

ON 3-1-91, EE WAS EE AS A HAUL TRUCK DRIVER. THIRTY FOUR WORKING DAYS LATER EE STARTED CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT ON HIS OWN ACCORD. ON 4-21-91, EE DECIDED TO FILE FOR WORKMANS COMPENSATION. AFTER EVLAUATION OF HIS PRE EE PHYSICAL AND X RAYS ITIS OUR DETERMINATION THAT THIS MOST LIKELY IS A PREEXISTING CONDITION THAT WAS AGGRAVATED BY LENGHTY PERIODS OF SITTING WE FELL THAT THIS IS NOT

HAULING TOP SOIL, HIT ROUGH SPOT LIME DUST DISLODGED SETTLING IN R EYE

START-UP OCCURRED 1-8-90.EMPL CALLED BACK TO WORK TO RUN A CAT AS WELL AS OTHER EQUIP.EMPL DEVELOPED SORE BACK ON 19TH OF JAN.AFTER DRIVING HAUL TRUCK. EMPL COMPLAINED BACK WAS BOTHERING HIM A ND THAT HE NEEDED TO SEE A CHIROPRACTOR ON THE 26TH OF JAN 1990.FOLLOWING MONDAY,EMPL DIDNT RETURN TO WORK FOLLOWING WEEKEND ACTIVITIES.

INDIVIDUAL WAS CARGING DRY LIME TO A TANK USING A PIECE OF MOBILE EQUIPMENT WHEN THE MATERIAL BECAME BRIDGED IN THE BAG THE INDIVIDAUAL EXITED THE EQUIPMENT TO SHAKE THE MATERIAL FREE POSITION ING HIMSELF BETWEEN THE MOBILE EQUIPMENT AND IMMOVALBE TANK WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE BAG THE CLUTCH DISAGREEMENT NOT BEING SET AND UNLEVEL RAMP SURFACE THE EQUIPMENT ROLLED PINCHING THE LEFT

OPERATOR JUMPED OFF FORKLIFT WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF FORK LIFT GOING DOWN A GRADE HE BROKE HIS LOWER RIGHT LEG