The employee alleges he was thrown/knocked from the tracks of the dozer, while he was relieving himself, when a 777 truck bed came into contact with the dozer blade at the dump site. The company has reason to believe that this was a staged accident and will contact the workers comp claim.
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Showing all 12Employee was using a lifting jack while working on a shuttle car and the jack handle broke, striking his arm/wrist and causing him to fall on his arm/wrist.
While dismounting the haulback truck the EE put his foot on the ground twisting his ankle causing him to fall backwards to the ground.
Slipped on low structure.
Weather conditions were snowy & icy. Employee stepped out of lube trk, slipped on ice/snow resulting in twisting his left ankle.
Terex 33-09 back-up shorted at radio and caused fire in cab, operator stopped truck and tried to extinguish in an excited state he turned wrong and twisted knee (left).
Fell off of step on drill.
Slipped on freshly painted grating w/morning dew and EE twisted knee (left).
SLIPPED AND FELL OFF HI-LIFT.
RAINING WET MUDDY-GETTING OUT OF BACK OF PICK UP TRUCK-MUD ON SHOE AND CAUSE AND HIM TO SLIP AND FALL.
EE FELL ON ICE & SNOW BREAKING RIGHT WRIST.
TWO PLANT EMPLOYEES WERE REPLACING THE REFUSE SIEVE SCREEN. THEY HAD BEEN WORKING FOR APPROX 1 HOUR WHEN A SECTION OF FLOOR SUPPORT GAVE WAY WITHOUT WARNING CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL AND RESULT ED IN AN ANKLE INJURY.