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EE WAS CLIMBING UP ON A KOMATSU D355A-5 DOZER. IT WAS RAINING AND VERY MUDDY. HE SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING HIS LEFT LOWER LEG AGAINST THE DOZER.
DOZER OP WAS HIGHWALLING HE ADVISED HE NEEDED SOME TREES CUT IN FRONT OF HIM. SUBJECT GOT CHAIN SAW & WENT TO CUT TREES. SMALL TREE WAS LEANING OVER & DOZER OP WAS CUTTING IT W/HATCHET. CHAIN SAW OP SAID HE WOULD FINISH CUTTING TREE DOZER OP ADVISED HIM NOT TO STAND ON E DGE OF HIGHWALL BECAUSE IT WOULD NOT HOLD HIM BUT HE WENT ON ANYWAY. GROUND BROKE FROM UNDER HIM & HE SLID DOWN