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Tripping incident

Employee injured EE's heel while trying to get a crusher part.

Employee jumped from an excavator to a haul truck. Fell approx. 7' sustaining head and back pain. Employee refused assistance and medical attention.

Employee reported stepping off of a conveyor frame losing balance and striking his lower back against a hose hanger bracket mounted on the wall of # 6 tunnel. Employee was diagnosed with a low back contusion/sciatica.

Employee's loader wouldn't start so he climbed down to check the battery box and move the cables. He then decided to climb back up on the loader using only the hand rail next to the engine compartment. He lost his grip and fell on his back. The operator didn't report the incident to management until June 17th, 2011.

While stepping off the back of the excavator, the operator slipped on a rock causing him to fall onto sharp broken rocks. As a result the operator cut his left hand beginning at the wrist.

EE was cleaning mud off the skid steer tractor. He was standing on the step and was cleaning the top of machine. He slipped off and tried to catch himself; he reached and grabbed the frame. He fell between the cab and bucket of the machine. The fingers of his right hand were cut which required stitches. He also sustained an abrasion on the back of the right leg.

Employee was walking from shop area on his way to the plant when he stepped on uneven ground at the base of the scalper stairway. He felt his right knee pop. He did not fall and he was not carrying anything at the time of injury.

EE was working inside main frame of crusher to remove build up, He slipped and as he lunged forward his left hand made contact with the sharp edge of the bronze socket liner cutting his left hand requiring 9 stitches.

Employee strained his right Achilles tendon while walking up a 6' embankment to check a pond. He slipped back slightly and felt pull in his right heel. He was evaluated May 21, 2007 and the sprain to his right foot had not improved. The doctor prescribed physical therapy. No restrictions.

When EE climbed the loader ladder to enter his cab, he missed the handrail, slipped and fell to the ground onto his right hand. His right wrist broke as his hand struck the ground.

Standing on conveyor #3 knocking dust (dry) with hands and shovel, employee slipped and fell backwards on belt causing a neck/back strain injury.

He was walking on the crusher deck when he slipped on a water hose and fell, hitting his chest on the feed tube.

Aggravation of an old injury that occuried on 3/24/00. Faulty rung on ladder gave way under employee's weight, causing the employee to fall through the ladder. He received a bruise to this lower left leg.

As employee exited the cab of the Bobcat Skid Steer, he hit his head on the saftey bar that goes across the operators chest and stores up above the rear view mirror.

He stepped wrong and fell hitting conveyor frame work

Employee sustained a strain to the left ankle when stepping off office stairs.

THE EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OUT OF THE WATER TRUCK TO FILL UP THE TANK. AS HE WAS STEPPING OFF THE BOTTOM STEP, HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND.

While stepping onto the pit conveyor switchgear skid platform (6" platform) felt left knee pop.

EMPLOYEE JUMPED FROM THE SIDE OF PICK-UP TRUCK, LANDED ACKWARDLY AND JARRED HIS BACK. NOT INITIALLY BAD, BUT GOT WORSE OVER TIME.

WHILE WALKING DOWN A HILL EE TWISTED HIS KNEE. ON 4/7/03 HE REPORTED HE WAS STILL EXPERIENCING SORENESS AND WAS IMMEDIATELY SENT FOR MEDICAL.

EMPLOYEE DISMOUNTED THE CAB OF THE WATER TRUCK TO OPEN THE BACK GATE. HE DIDN'T NOTICE SMALL COBBLES, STEPPED ON A COBBLE & TWISTED HIS ANKLE & FELL ONTO HIS BACK.

EE WAS GETTING OFF THE 980 LOADER WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE GROUND AND TURNED, HE FELT A POP IN HISLT. KNEE.

WHILE CLIMBING UP STOCKPILE, EE LOST HIS BALANCE WHEN MATERIAL UNDER HIS FEET GAVE WAY. THIS CAUSED HIM TO FALL AND TWIST HIS RIGHT KNEE.

EE WAS STANDING ON LOADER BUCKET CLEANING GRIZZLY HOPPER. HE TRIPPED AND FELL INTO THE GRIZZLY.

WHILE EE GOT OFF HIS LOADER, LB0145, BOTTOM STEP BROKE & HE FELL TO THE GROUND, CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT LEG.

A EE WAS REMOVING A LARGE ROCK FROM INSIDE OF BUNKER, HE SLIPPED, CAUSING THE ROCK TO SMASH HIS THUMB AGAINST THE BUNKER WALL, RESULTING IN A BRUISED RIGHT THUMB.\\

FAULTY RUNG ON LADDER GAVE WAY UNDER EE'S WEIGHT, CAUSING THE EE TO FALL THROUGH THE LADDER. HE RECEIVED A BRUISE TO HIS LOWER LEFT LEG.