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DRIVING A GOLF CART IN THE MINE. HE WAS GOING TO FAST DOWN AN INCLINE WHEN A INSTRUMENT FELL ON THE FLOOR BOARD. WHEN HE REACHED DOWN TO PICK IT UP, HE LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND CRASHED INTO CONVEYOR BELT.
WHILE DRIVING HIS JCI TRUCK UNDERGROUND, HE HIT A BUMPS IN THE ROAD. THIS JARRED HIS BACK.
WHILE SERVICING A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT, THE HOSE FOR OIL BECAME ENTANGLED WITH HOSE REEL. WHILE PULLING ON HOSE, HE STRAINED HIS SHOULDER.
EE WAS STANDING BETWEEN THE FACE AND POWERDER RIG. OPERATOR BUMPED GEAR LEVEL CAUSING MACHINE TO GO IN GEAR.
OPERATOR WAS DRIVING TOO FAST FOR ROAD CONDITIONS. HE RAN OVER A BUMPS OR LUMP IN THE ROAD.
DRIVING GOLF CART WITH FOOT HANGING OUT, STRUCK SWINGING DOOR WITH GOLF CART, THE DOOR SPRING BACK AND CAUGHT FOOT.
A SHIFT IN THE LOAD (PULLEY) PINCHED TIP OF FINGER AND CAUSED AN AVULSION.
EE WAS ABOUT TO DRIVE UNDER AN OVERHEAD DOOR WHEN THE PULL CORD CAUGHT ON HIS VEHICLE, CAUSING DOOR TO COME DOWN. EE HIT DOOR WITH HIS HEAD. FOUR SUTURES OVER HIS LEFT EYE.
AFTER OPERATING FRONT END LOADER THE OPERATOR FELT ON ABJECT IN RT EYE EMPLOYEE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION THE FOLLOWING DAYS AFTER CONTINUOUS PROBLEM WITH EYE
WHEN BOLTING TROUGHING IDLERS TO CONVEYOR, CO-WORKER RESET EMERGENCY STOP CARD. START WARNING HORN WAS IGNORED & EMPLOYEES ARM WAS DRAWN THROUGH IDLER. BOTH MECHANICS FAILED TO FOLLOW COMPANY LOCKOUT PROCEDURES. BOTH MECHANICS HAD LOCKS ON THEIR MINE BELTS.
WHILE BACKING UP A PICKUP TRUCK, EE TURNED HIS HEAD TO LOOK BEHIND HIM AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS NECK.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON FLAT BED OF TRUCK REMOVING J HOOKS FROM ROOF TRUCK MOVED FORWARD & EMPLOYEE LOST HIS BALANCE
EMPLOYEE WAS HAND STACKING 80 LB BAGS OF SALT WHEN CO-WORKER STOP BEHIND HIM WITH FORKLIFT TO PICK UP FULL PALLET BEING STACKED. FORKLIFT OPERATOR STRUCK FORWARD GEAR SHIFT LEVER WHEN DISMOUNT ING FORKLIFT AND MACHINE WENT FORWARD WITH FORK BLADE STRIKING VICTIM ON OUTSIDE OF LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING HIS LIFT TRUCK NEXT TO WAREHOUSE, WHEN SOMETHING FLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE STOPPED LOADER TO TAKE A BREAK AT THE COVERED STORAGE AREA, SET PARKING BREAK, AND SHUT OFF MACHINE. HE CLIMBED OUT OF OPERATIONS COMPARTMENT AT SAME TIME THE LOADER BEGAN TO ROLL BAC KWARDS. EMPLOYEE GOT BACK INTO MACHINE AND ATTEMPTED TO STOP IT. WHEN EFFORTS FAILED, HE JUMPED FROM MACHINE TO THE GROUND.
EE SEATED IN BACK OF MANTRIP DRIVEN TO FACE AREA PRIOR TO SHIFT EE LEANED OUT BACK OF MANTRIP TO SEE SOMETHING I THE ROADWAY AT THE SAME TIME THE MANTRIP STRUCK HOLE IN THE FLOOR CAUSING THE M ACHINE TO BOUNCE UPWARD STRIKING THE EE ON THE BRIDGE OF THE NOSE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A "GETMAN" VEHICLE WITH HIS HAND "INSIDE" THE STEERING UNIT. TIRE HIT A CHUNK OF SALT CAUSING WHEEL TO "WHIP", HITTING RIGHT WRIST.
INJURED WAS DRIVING A SCISSOR LIFT TRUCK WHEN THE CANOPY STRUCK A CONVEYOR IDLER CAUSING IT OT FALL STRIKING THE INJURED ON THE RIGHT HAND. INJURIES RECEIVED ARE SMASHED MIDDLE FINGER AND FRAC TURED RING FINGER. DOCTOR HAD TO REMOVE SURGICALLY THE END OF THE MIDDEL FINGER AT NAIL KNUCKLE BECAUSE IT COULD NOT BE SAVED.
WHILE BACKING TOWMOTOR TO TURN AROUND TO GET LOAD OF CEMENT TO SEND IN THE MINE.PALLET WAS LEANINF AGAINST A STACK OF USED PALLETS.WHEN INJURED SHIFTED AND WENT FORWARD,HE FELT SOMETHING STRIK E HIS MIDDLE FINGER,RIGHT HAND. SUTURES REQUIRED
HELPING FORKLIFT DRIVER UNHOOK BAND CAUGHT ON PALLET, WHILE DOING OS BOUNCED LEFT HAND ON RAIL OABOVE AND AS FORLIFT MOVED FORWARD, FRAME ON FORK LIFT PUSHED STEEL PALLET UP AND AGAINST OTHER PALLET WHERE LEFT HAND WAS LOCATED.
RIDING IN GETMAN WENT THRU CURTAIN IT CAME BACK STRUCK HIM IN EYE AND NOSE
EMPLOYEE GOT HAND CAUGHT IN TROUGHING IDLER.
EE STATED HE JARRED HIS BACK WHILE OPERATING W21 FROM NORMAL BOUNCING OF MACHINE.
THERE ARE NO WITNESSES TO ACCIDENT & WE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO SPEAK WITH INJURED EMPL. WE BELIEVE THAT HE WAS CLIMBING LADDER OF RR CAR HEN FOOT SLIPPED OFF LADDER & WAS RUN OVER BY WHEEL OF CAR . IT IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME WHETHER EMPL WILL NEED TO HAVE FOOT AMPUTATED.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A GETMAN THROUGH THE OLD WORKINGS IN 5 X E, GETMAN DROPPED THROUGH FLOOR HEAVE AND EE WAS STRUCK IN CHEST WITH STEERING WHEEL.
EMPL WAS ATTEMPTING TO TAKE HAND BRAKE TO DROP LOADED CAR INTO LOWER YARD AS HE APPLIED PRESSURE TO BRAKE WHEEL IT SUDDENLY RELEASED APPARENTLY INJURING RIGHT ARM WITH SUDDEN LOSS OF RESISTANC E.
EMPLOYEE HAD JUST SET CABLE ON LAST HOOK & WAS MANAUEVERING TO MOVE THE CABLE BASKET TOWARD THE NEXT HOOK AS HE TURNED TO BEGIN MOVING THE CABLE CAME DOWNSTRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS HARD HAT & FORCING HIM DOWN IN THE BASKET OF THE BOOM
EMPLOYEE ASSISTING IN THE MOVE OF LARGE METAL SAFE. AS SAFE WAS BEING LOADED INTO PICK-UP TRUCK BY HYSTER, SAFE STARTED TO TILT. EMPLOYEE MADE AN ATTEMPT TO STOP SAFE FROM TILTING OVER. SAFE P INNED EMPLOYEES HAND AGAINST REAR WINDOW OF TRUCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING BULK TRUCKS FROM SALT PILE. EMPLOYEE HAD PICKED UP BUCKET OF SALT AND WAS MOVING BACKWARD WHEN PILE IN FRONT OF LOADER GAVE WAY FALLING COVERING FRONT END OF LOADER PUSHIN G SALT INTO OPERATOR CAB COVERING OPERATOR FROM FEET TO SHOULDERS.
EMPLOYEE WAS RIDING ON MANTRIP TRAILOR. VEHICLE HIT A BUMP IN THE ROAD EMPLOYEE TO ROLL SIDEWAYS MUSCLE IN HIS BACK NEXT STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE STRUCK RIB WITH EMICO MACHINE. WHEN HE HIT THE RIB HIS HEAD WENT FORWARD STRICKING THE CANOPY CAUSING A LACERATION IN HIS RIGHT EYEBROW.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING SALT FLOW AT SYNTROM SHAKER (#14 BELT HEADPIECE). EMPLOYEE CAUGHT SLEEVES OFHIS JACKET BETWEEN THE BELT AND HOPPER.
HE ALLEGES THAT ON 12-13-88, HE WAS STRUCK ON THE LEFT KNEE BY A JEEP.
EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING W-9 CASE TO PUSH SHUTTLE CAR WHICH WAS STUCK IN FC WHILE PUSHING WITH BUCKET, BUCKET SLIPPED UP OVER CAR, TRACTOR TIPPED TO THE SIDE. WHEN MACHINE CAME BACK DOWN EMPLOYEE JARRED INTO SIDE.
EMPL TURNING ON MINE SECTION VENT.FAN. INJ STANDING ALONG LEFT FRONT SIDE OF 375 GETMAN WHEN EMPL -OTHER-STARTED BACKING IT TO FAN.EMPL LOOKING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS WHEN BACKING UP MOTION WA S STARTED.VEHICLE STEERING WHELLO TURNED SO LEFT FRONT WHEEL RAN UP OVER INJ EMPL LEFT FOOT AND ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO MOVE #735 MINE CART OUT OF THE SMALL SHED WHERE IT IS KEPT. HE APPARENTLYS TRUCK THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE VEHICLE AGAINST THE FRAME OF THE DWELLING CAUSING IT TO FALL DOWN AND THE SALT ON THE TOP FELL STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO DETERMINE IF BIN INDICATORS WERE WORIKING. HE BENT OVER THE RAIL ADJACENT TO THE SHAFT TO LOOK AT BIN INDICATOR. AS HE WAS MOVING AWAY FROM THE SHAFT , HE WAS STRUCK IN THE FACE BY THE SKIP.
EMPLOYEE WAS EXPERIENCING STOMACH CRAMPS AND ASKED TO GO TO DOCTOR.WHILE BACKING OUT OF PARKINGF SPACE HE STRUCK WALL AND ALLEGEDLY STRAINED NECK AND ABCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS PALLEBLING BAGS OF SALT. HE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE COMPLETING THE TOP ROW OF BAGS ON THE PALLET. INJURED FOOT WAS IN THE SLOT WHERE THE FORKS OF THE LIFT TRUCK FIT TO LIFT TH E PALLET. THE FORK LIFT OPERATOR SWUNG INTO PICKUP THE PALLET WITH HIS FORKS, TRAPPING INJURED FOOT AND RUNNING OVER IT WITH THE FORKS.
CHECKING FOR LE5K IN RADIATOR O #4 JEEP, RIGHT FINGER STRUCK BY BOLT ON ROTATING ENGINE PULLEY, CAUSED LACERATION TO JOINT OF RIGHT INDEX FINGER. ENGINE WAS RUNNING. SUTURES.
I.NAME POSITION3NG HIGH REACH TO CHECK SCALE.STRUCK RIB WITH BASKET HE WAS IN,TRIED TO BRING BOOM DOWN LIFTED RIGHT OUTRIGGER 6' OFF GROUND.WAS DUMPED OUT OF BASKET HANGING IN AIR BY SAFETY BE LT.RECD MULTIPL9 INJURIES.
EMPL STRUCK ACR2SS NOSE BY SNATCH BLOCK ON MOBILE CRANE HELPING CALIBRATE BELT SCALE.
WHILE PUSHING I3 A ROOM WITH A WAGNER,(ROOM HAS JUST BEEN BLASTED)BUCKET OF WAGNER HIT A HEAVE IN THE FLOOR,CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO BE TOSSED TO THE SIDE,STRIKING PIPE THAT SUPPORTS CANOPY OF WAGN ER. 3
DRIVING VEHICLE3OUT TO WORK AREA WHEN VEHICLE STRUCK A LARGE POT HOLE CAUSING DRIVER TO WRENCH HIS BODY STRIKING HIS BACK ON THE SEAT
OPERATING SHUTT5E CAR, STEERING WHEEL KICKED BACK WHEN HE WAS TURNING IT, HE TWISTED HIS BODY AND FELT PAIN IN LOW BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING SMALL FRONT END LOADER 936 AS HE WAS TRAVELING US THE ROADWAY THE RAN OVER A STEP WHICH HAD BEEN CREATED BY A CUTTER MACHINE. THIS CAUSED HIM T O BOUNCED UP OFF HIS SEAT AND WHEN HE CA4E DOWN HE STRUCK HIS TAIL BONE CAUSING SPRAIN TO LUMBAR REGION.
EMP HAD JUST WA5KED OUT OF THE LUNCHROOM ANOTHER EMP GOT INTO A CUSHMAN PARKED BEHIND AND TO THE LEFT OF INJUREDS VEHICLE THE OTHER EMP BACKED HIS CUSHMAN BACKWARD PINCHING INUREDS LEFT FOOT A AND ANKLE BETWE9N THE TWO VECHICLES
EMPLOYEE TWISTE8 HIS ANKLE WHILE WORKING ON CONVEYOR BELT.
EMP WAS ADJUSTING THE CARBURERATOR ON A FORKLIFT IN THE MAINT SHOP AS HE REACHED BACK WITH HIS OFF HAND TO MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT HIS HAND CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE RADIATOR FAN BLADES
PALLETS OF CONVEYOR IDLERS WERE BEING SENT INTO THE MINE AND AS EMPLOYEE WALKED NEAR A PALLET ONE IDLER FELL FROM THE PALLET AND STRUCK HIS LEFT FOOT