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Employee was cleaning windows on dozer and slipped off tracks and fell to ground on left shoulder.
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A LODGED JAW PLATE AFTER REMOVING HOLDING PINS AFTER JAW COULD NOT BE REMOVED. CRIBBING HAD BEEN USED TO REMOVE PINS AND WAS REMOVED TO EXTRICATE JAW PLATE. WHEN JAW PLATE COULD NOT BE REMOVED, CRIBBING WAS NOT USED WHEN ATTEMPTING TO FREE JAW PLATE AND PLATE SHIFTED, CAUSING EE'S RIGHT FOOT TO BE TWISTED.
EE alleges to have fallen while attempting to climb onto a track hoe
EE WAS STEPPING OUT OF THE CAB OF THE FORD BOOM TRUCK WHEN SLIPPED AND FELL ON SPILLED DIESEL FUEL. EE FELL APPROX 45" TO THE GROUND. EE HAD FUELED THE BOOM TRUCK AND SPILLED THE FUEL.
EE WAS REPLACING A GUARD AT A PUG MILL WHEN EE STEPPED BACKWARDS AND STUMBLED CAUSING EE TO FALL. AS EE WAS FALLING EE REACHED OUT TO BRACE EE AND REINJURED A PREEXISTING WRIST INJURY.
MINER WAS ASCENDING THE LEFT LADDER ON A FRONT END LOADER WHEN HE FELL/ SLIPPED FROM THE 2ND STEP FROM THE BOTTOM. THE MINER'S SHOES WERE COVERED IN OIL WHICH WAS BLOWN ON THE MINER WHEN HE OPENED THE PRESSURIZED TRANSMISSION FILL PORT WHILE THE LOADER WAS RUNNING.
MINER WAS CLIMBING DOWN THE CAB ACCESS LADDER VOLVE 25 ROCK TRUCK WHEN HE STEPPED FROM THE LAST RUNG TO THE GROUND HE FELT A BURINING SENSATION IN THE CALF MUSCLE OF THE LEFT LEG.
EE HAD DISMOUNTED HIS HOE, AND WAS WALKING OVER TO CHECK HIS AREA WHERE DIGGING, & FELL AGAINST A SHARP ROCK LACERATING HIS RIGHT FOREARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A BELT ROLLER TO ITS INSTALL POINT WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL, HE FELL ACROSS A PIECE OF FLAT METAL AND HIS WRIST WAS CUT ACROSS THE EDGE OF THIS METAL. ONSTRUCTION PHASE.