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Employee was operating a Haul truck when EE went over a mound of material at approximately 30mph. EE received friction burns and a lower back strain.
Loader operator was injured while driving loader on uneven grad the loader rocked from side to side and his right leg below the hip hit the metal bar support to the arm rest inside the loader. "This incident was just viewed as a first aid until a drain was applied to the bruise to aid in healing of the bruise."
Prior to shift, victim was walking from his personal vehicle to the office. Another employee driving personal vehicle did not see victim and struck him, shattering pelvis and breaking hip. Conditions were predawn with unprecedented fog, visibility 25-50 feet.
Employee was digging out the # 1 three inch feeder with a digging bar, a loader was digging out # 2 feeder when material on the northwest edge of feeder #1 sloughed off and caught his legs causing a right knee strain.
The employee was steadying the crusher distributor head as the crane was lowering to the crusher deck. As the crusher head leaned over, the chain slipped on the lifting eye pinching the employee's middle left finger between the lifting eye and the chain links. Laceration to finger requiring stitches, no lost time.
While transporting a manlift from the concrete batch plant to the primary rock plant the employee hit a curb. When the left front tire hit the curb the employee was thrown forward hitting his lower ribs on his left side on the manbasket handle.
Dumping fill dirt on grade, End-Dump trailer tipped over attached with Semi Tractor.
Hopper beneath S3-L had filled with rock dust when the shaker's bottom conveyor failed apparently due to the failure of the convyor's v-belts. The employee entered the hopper via the bottom or tail end to shovel out the plugged hopper. The material shifted inside causing the conveyor to move pinching the employee between spilled material and a hopper cross-brace.
ROCK STRUCK EE WHEN LOADER OPERATOR DROPPED LOAD INTO FEEDER. EXCESS ROCK WENT OVER FEED WALL WHILE EE WAS DOING DAILY GREASING. INITIAL RESULTS WERE FOR EE TO RETURN TO WORK FULL DUTY. ON 4/29/03, EE HAD NOT IMPROVED. FOLLOW-UP MEDICAL TREATMENT PRESCRIBED MEDICATION AND TIME OFF WORK.
DRIVING ROCK TRUCK, STRUCK ROCK IN THE ROAD CAUSING A JARRING TO THE NECK.
EE WAS OPERATING A FRONT-END LOADER AND FELT A STRAIN TO HIS LEFT WRIST WHEN HE SHIFTED GEARS.
WEIGHT OF MATERIAL ON BELT CAUSED CONVEYOR TO REVERSE. HEAD PULLEY & GEARBOX ROTATED IN UNISON, THE TENSION ON "COME-ALONG" INCREASED & GEARBOX ANGLE IN WHICH IT WAS ATTACHED CHANGED CAUSING HOOK OF COME-ALONG TO DISENGAGE. HOOK FLEW BACK AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE FACE.