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Employee jarred his back in a pothole while driving a haul truck. Employee claims inability to continue to work. Under medical review and care.
Operator of a haulage truck lost control while descending down ramp. Operator drove truck through an engineered berm in lieu of emergency braking. As a result, the truck tipped on its side and the operator banged his head resulting in eight staples.
The operator was backing up a 777 haul truck and being loaded by a 242 loader. It is not known if the top of the bucket hit the top of the bed of the truck or if the load caused a force resulting in the operator banging their head on the drivers side window. At the time of this report, a second objective medical finding had not been obtained.
While changing cutting edges on a WA500 loader bucket,Mechanic employee was installing bolts with hand underneath bucket. Loader was idling operator was sitting in cab. Operator dropped his hand held radio as he reached for it, his coat caught on the steering wheel causing the loader to turn and drop bucket onto mechanic employee hand.
At approx. 11:00pm on 7/22/10 two employees were operating the facility's TM 4305 TrackMobile. When TrackMobile connected to railcar, employee lost his balance causing him to hit his head on the cab door. Employee sustained minor cut above left eye. First Aid was administered and employee was able to complete remainder of his shift.
Mill operator cleaning ledge above rotary feeder with air chisel, when chisel slipped into operating feeder veins. Air tool struck employees left hand, middle finger, pinning it between tool and feeder housing. Injuries are fractures and lacerations to middle finger on the left hand.