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EE was changing liners and EE's harness caught on something, knocking EE off balance, EE slid down and EE's foot hit a ledge breaking EE's heal bone.
Mill operator fell causing lacerations.
While dismounting the grader, the operator lost grip and fell.
While working in a squatted position on an engine at ground level, Mechanic lost balance landing on a pipe.
Employee was walking back to work area after lunch. While crossing the roadway they slipped on the ice and broke their tibia.
While attempting to enter the cab of 460E the operator inadvertently stepped backward off the deck of the truck and fell to the ground landing on their right side.
While placing traffic cones for delineation employee slipped and fell causing the cones to strike their hand.
While attempting to move a barrel to a pallet in the back of a light duty truck the employees hands slipped cause employee to fall.
while employee was walking to their vehicle after shift the employee had a slip and fall in the employee parking lot.
Operator had a fall of the same level after stepping on a rock walking to equipment
Case began as a first-aid only case on 05/25 and was modified to reportable injury on 07/07. Laborer using a vice grip clamp attached to the liner to help guide the liner. The employee tugged on the liner and the clamp came loose. The employee lost their footing and fell backward on the slope. The employee braced themselves with their right hand and received a strain to the wrist.
While replacing swing relief valves on a hydraulic shovel, employee stepped off one level of a cat walk onto another approximately eight inches without realizing. The elevation change caught the employee off guard and they fell onto a grease tank contacting the left arm.
Person fell to ground while walking- injuring person's left ankle.
Employee was starting to slide a rod away from the grating so the rod sling (clam shell) could be removed. The employee's right foot slipped and the employee injured knee.
Employee fell to floor while accessing work area-injuring right leg.
The employee stepped out of a crew van onto the ground causing a sprained left ankle resulting in restricted days.
Crew was tripping out collars. Employee had pulled the collar sling off and set it down on the deck when his foot slipped off the 4x4 blocking. He fell and twisted his ankle.
Technician fell to the ground and broke his fall with his left arm and as a result, fractured a bone in his left wrist.
The operator fell while accessing a motor grader causing an injury to the left hip.
While walking on uneven ground, the IP had stepped on a rock that had rolled over and allowed his leg (Knee) to hyper extend, and then landed on his backside. At the time the IP felt some pain in the knee but the pain dissipated and he thought no injury had occurred until a few days later the pain returned. It was later determined the IP compressed the meniscus in his right knee.
The employee was coming off a dozer and twisted his ankle.
While performing cleanup a mill operator slipped and fell to the ground.
Replacing ripper on D-10, went to rotate ripper, my left foot lost footing and my weight followed and my R/leg didn't. Bent R/knee out to the side as I hit the ground. I rolled over to put it back in place. Went to shop to see ERT's @ Ft Knox.
Person was walking up stairs while carring a 1.5 in. by 2 ft. long piece of pipe. Person tripped on the grating of the stairs. When reaching for the handrail, two fingers were caught between the pipe and handrail.
Employee slipped on ice and braced himself on parked pickup truck, injuring his left shoulder.
Employee tripped on a communication wire causing him to sprain his left achilles tendon.
While walking, the ee slipped and fell on the snow. The ee attempted to arrest his fall with his right hand. He jammed his right index when his hand contacted ground. This is a first aid occurrence.
While fueling a shovel, fueler tripped and tryed to catch himself with his right hand. Later fueler noticed swelling and discomfort, and reported to supervisor.
Haulage Truck operator was cleaning mirrors of truck during rainy conditions. While cleaning the driver side mirrors she slipped and fell 7 ft to the ground landing on her feet. Her right foot was injured.
Employees were tripping drill steel into the hole, injured employee was in the racking board tied off by the self retracting lifeline (SRL). While lowering the drill steel, the traveling block contacted the SRL cable pulling the employee to the floor of the racking board and twisting his ankle.
Slip and fall on wet concrete causing an ankle sprain.
The employee was walking out of the mechanical room, which is under construction, when he lost his balance due to slippery surfaces and started to fall. During the fall the employee put out his hand to gain balance & came in to contact with a steel girter. The girter had a sharp edge that lacerated the employees left forearm (10 stitches).
Employee was walking across shop yard and slipped on ice, twisting his left knee. Employee did not fall but had pain and swelling in the knee.
Employee was performing maintenance activities on a motor grader and while stepping off the machine twisted his right knee. Upon further medical evaluation the employee's injury required surgery on 2/23/2007 to repair a torn meniscus.
Employee was attempting to change a rim liner bolt on the Gyratory crusher. Employee had accessed the crusher dump pocket and slipped on loose material located on the rim liner. The Employee fell into the crusher and sustained a fracture to the Tibia Plateau. Employee was utilizing fall protection equipment to perform the task.
Operator was climbing the ladder to the cab of a haul truck when he slipped and fell. Employee had been working with the lowboy, handling the chains and binders. Operator commented that his gloves were slippery due to the lowboy chains and binders. Employee was diagnosed with a bruised tailbone.
A production employee slipped and lost his balance while positioned on the tracks of a dozer. The employee fell onto the dozer tracks hyper extending his right wrist.
Employee was performing a walk-around on a haul truck, when he slipped on the ice and fell. Employee sustained a sprain to his right shoulder and has been placed on restricted work activity.
A haul truck driver fell from a distance of 8 ft while boarding a haul truck. While climbing the ladder on the truck the employee's lunch pail, which he was carrying over his right shoulder, hung up on the housing of the air filter box. Employee lost his balance and fell away from the ladder.
Employee was operating a D10 Dozer in the Downstream Random Fill. Employee removed his seat belt and exited through the right side door of the dozer cab to signal the haul unit operator when he slipped and fell to the ground. Operator taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital for treatment. X-rays show fractured wrist.
Employee walked around the van to get in, when he stopped to open the door, he slipped and fell down. Employee did not report this until 11/21/05. His supervisor put him on modified duty at this time for 1 day.
An employee was working on SH4, he climbed up the ladder and stepped across to the timbers that are being used as dunnage. He grabbed onto a fire suppression hose thinking it was attached, it was not. He fell approximately 8', landing on the shop floor. He landed on his right hip and back.
An employees foot slipped off the front bumper of HT10, while he was climbing down to check the fuel gauge. He tried to catch himself, but his body twisted sideways and pulled his left shoulder at an unnatural angle.
Employee was leaving after end of shift and slipped and fell in employee parking lot.
Locating shot perimeter blast holes, which was covered with approx. 2 feet of snow, employee fell into a drilled hole that was not uncovered for loading, it was near another hole that was being loaded but not going to be used, employee broke through the snow and left leg went completley into hole up to hip. Employee noticed discomfort in my lower back and right knee.
An employee was walking down the slope on the lower grind floor, when his feet came out from under him. He landed on his back, on his right shoulder. On 2/10/05 we received notification that the employee was put on restricted duty.
An employee was walking removing snow and ice build-up from around the emergency exit doors slipped and hyperexteded his right knee. The injury became reportable on 3/16/05 when he started physical therapy.
WHILE DOING A PRE-TRIP INSPECTION EMPLOYEE STARTED TO CLIMB INTO HIS TRACTOR & HIS FEET SLIPPED. EE FELL & HIT HIS LEFT KNEE ON THE STEP WHILE CATCHING HIMSELF WITH THE HANDRAIL.
At around 09:00am, an employee was doing his morning inspection. He came down the stairs on the southeast side of the preleach thickner containment and went to walk around the air handler when he slipped. His right foot slipped and he caught himself with the left. He strained his left knee and jarred his back a little.
Employee went to supervisor on Sept 7,2004 and said his knee was bothering him again. He told his supervisor that he had a witness to when he got hurt and wanted to know if his supervisor had recorded anything about his incident. the employee then told supervisor that he was going to have a doctor look at it.