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EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING 777S ON SLIGHT INCLINE. BUCKET CIRCA 3/4 OF CAPACITY. BACKED UP TO POSITIONLOADER TO LOAD 777S. HOISTED BUCKET TO CIRCA 1/2HEIGHT. LOADER WAS ARTICULATE. LOADER TIPPED SLI GHTLY UNDER LOAD. AT THAT POINT, OPERATOR STARTED LOWERING BUCKET. BUCKET HIT THE GROUND FORCINGOPERATOR FORWARD. WHEN THE REAR TIRES CONTACTED THE GROUND, OPERATOR HIS SEAT OF LOADER.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAVELING DOWN THE HAUL ROAD WHEN HE WEN TTHROUGHA SWELL CAUSING THE SEAT TO EXTEND TO ITS UPPER LIMIT AND THEN RETURNED TO NORMAL POSITION. EMPLOYEE EXPERINCED SOME LOWER BACK PA IN AT THIS TIME. WHEN EMPLOYEE REPORTED TE INCIDENT AT 3:45 AM HE WAS TRANSPORTED TP PENROSE ER. BY AMBULANCE. X-RAYS OF LUMBAR AND CERVICAL SPINE WERE NORMAL. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A LUMBAR

EMP WAS RIDING TO THE PIT IN THE SCHOOL BUS WITHHIS RIGHT LEG TUCKED UNDER HIS BODY. WHEN THE BUS WENT OVER A BUMP, HIS WEIGHT CAME DOWN ON HIS ANKLE, RESULTING IN A SEVERE SPRAIN. A CAST WAS APPLIED AND HE WAS RELEASED TO FULL DUTY. PAIN IN ANKLE, HOWEVER, PREVENTED HIM FROM DRIVING TRUCK. CAST REMOVED 8-20 AND HE WAS RELEASED TO DRIVING. NO FRACTURE. WILL BE RESTRICTED DUTY CASE.

EMP WAS TURNING HIS HAUL TRUCK ON TO A DUMP WHENHE CLAIMS THAT HIS SHOULDER POPPED OUT OF JOINT.HE WAS EXAMINED AT CLINIC IN CRIPPLE CREEK AND RETURNED TO RESTRICTED WORK ACTIVITY.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A LOADER IN A HARD DIG FACE WHEN HE EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN. MEDICAL TREATMENT INCLUDED A SINGLE TRIGGER POINT INJECTION/ AND INJECTION OF TORADOL AND A SOURCE OF ORAL ORAL TORADOL.

EE WAS DESCENDING ON THE HAUL ROAD WITH A LOAD ON SHE OBSERVED A SLICK AREA IN THE ROAD EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SLOW DOWN (RETARDER APPLIED) WHEN SHE ENTERED THE SLICK AREA HER BRAKES LOCKED UP C AUSING THE TRUCK TO TURN SIDE WAYS & TURN OVER AFTER CONTACTING THE DRY GROUND ON THE OTHER SIDE THE ROADS HAD BEEN SPOT WATERED 45 MIN EARLIER

EMPLOYEE, A 44 YR. OLD HISPANIC MALE, WAS WORKING ON A 100 FT. STACKER CONVEYOR. THE CONTROL OPERATOR STARTED THE CONVEYOR AND EMPLOYEE LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT IN THE CONVEYOR. HE SUFFERED FROM A BROKEN WRIST AND A SEVERED DISTAL TIP ON HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER.

TRAINEE DRIVER WAS TRAING THE AN EXPERIENCED OPERATOR. THEY HAD GOTTEN A LOAD AND STARTED TO THE FILL WHEN THEY APPROACHED A LEFT CURVE. THE DRIVE GOT TOO FAR TO THE RIGHT OF THE HAUL ROAD AND STRADDLED THE BERM. THE TRUCK SLOW ROLLED TO ITS RIGHT SIDE LANDING ON ITS TOP. EE SUFFERED A SLIGHT NECK STRAIN.