Security Officer was escorting a diesel semi-truck. Officer stopped to lower buggy whip at a RR crossing and vendor rear-ended the security truck.
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Showing all 13Employee was walking with traffic on a public road that accesses the mine site. A vehicle was traveling on the public road that accesses the mine site, a collision occurred between the vehicle and employee.
785 Caterpillar end dump truck drove into the back end of 16M Caterpillar motor grader. While the motor grader was blading the haul road the end dump had straddled the windrow. End dump driver indicated that he did not see the motor grader. Our investigation concluded the driver was distracted (distraction is unknown).
Employee was jarred in the cab when loader was dumping coal into the coal hauler that she was operating.
An operator hit a rut in the road that caused the loader to bounce. The operator hit his head against the glass that required 2 staples to close the laceration.
While returning to the pit, the operator missed the turn and hit a safety berm on the haul road while operating a coal truck. The operator stated she fell asleep after the event.
Heavy equipment operator was riding in a buddy seat all shift while task training another operator. Operator reported his back was injured. Employee did not notify his employer until 1/16/2008 at the start of shift.
Ee was tramming a Genie manlift when he drove into a small ditch. This caused a jarring motion, up and down, to his back. Ee felt pain and was determined he strained his lower back.
Foreign particle embedded in left eye. Employee's eye became irritated after reboarding his truck after the loader completed loading large rocks. The particle was found the next day and removed by medical provider. Due to continued irritation the employee did not report next scheduled shift.
Preliminary report - At approximately 12:30 p.m., Ee was backing down an incline with a mix truck loaded with ANFO. The truck took off, hit a berm, and flipped on its side. EE had scrapes on her elbows at time of incident but a couple of days later, said she had dizziness.
EE was in process of unhooking the trail cable off the tub hooks of the 8050 dragline with SE-3137 cable tractor when his right index finger got caught in between the cable tractor ROPS and the cable tie off hooks on the left front side of the machine.(rt index finger @ 2nd knuckle)
ON 5-15-01, EE REPORTED IRRITATION AND REDNESS TO HIS RIGHT EYE POSSIBLY DUE COAL DUST WHILE OPERATING TRW0334, COAL HAULER ON 5-10-01.
WHILE CONDUCTING A TA/PM ON PL07157 CONVEYOR BELT, EE WAS OPENING AN INSPECTION DOOR TO INSPECT THE BELT CLEANER WHEN THE LID TO THE DOOR FELL ONTO HIS RIGHT FOOT CAUSING A HAIRLINE FRACTURE.