EMPLOYEE WAS IN A HURRY TO TURN ON FEEDER, TURNED SHARP AND HIS FEET SLIPPED AND HE FELL.
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Showing all 26EMPLOYEE'S FEET WERE WET WITH FLOCK, AS HE WALKED DOWN A FLIGHT OF STEPS HE SLIPPED AND FELL. EMPLOYEE RECIEVED A LACERATION TO THE RIGHT ELBOW, AND HAD PAIN AND SWELLING IN HIS RIGTH WRIST AN D RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WALKING ON JOB SITE SLIPPED IN MUD AND FELL, TWISTED HIS LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SPREADING 4X6 POST ON TOP OF TUNNEL WALL. EE WAS STANDING ON A PIECE ON ANGLE THAT WAS BOLTED TO THE SIDE OF THE TUNNEL WALL. EE FELL APPROX. 10-11 FEET TO THE FLOOR OF THE TUNNEL
EE WAS USING A PIPE WRENCH TO TIGHTEN A GUAGE. HE WAS STANDING ON TOP OF THE FEED PIPES TO THE RAW COAL CYCLONES. FELL BACKWARDS TO CONCRETE FLOOR.
HE SLIPPED WHILE USING A LADDER. HIS LEFT LEG BECAME ENTANGLED BETWEEN THE RUNGS OF THE LADDER AT A HEIGHT OF APPROXIMATELY 4'.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING WINDSHIELD OF TRUCK.HE WAS HOLDING TO OUTSIDE MIRROR ON DOOR WHEN DOOR FLEW OPEN AND THREW HIM TO THE GROUND.
I NAME WAS HELP3NG MOVE THE TRAILING CABLE FOR THE P&H SHOVEL. I NAMD AND I NAME HAD HOOKED THE CABLE TO THE BACK OF A PICKUP TRUCK AND WAS GOING TO PULL THE CABLE. I NAMES BOOTS WERE MUDDY AN HE SLIPPED AND 0ELL OUT OF THE BACK OF THE TRUCK LANDING ON HIS BACK AND SHOULDERS
UPON EXITING TO2L TRAILER EMPLOYEE FELL OFF STEPS APPROX. 4 FT EMPLOYEE FRACTURED LEFT WRIST. EMPLOYEE DOES NOT KNOW WHY HE FELL. DR INDICATER 2 TO 4 MONTHS FOR HEALING AND RECUPERATION.
I.NAME WAS WELD3NG ON THE GRILL OF A DOZER WHEN HE SLIPPED AND HIT HIS HEAD ON THE GRILL CUTTING HIS FOREHEAD
I.NAME WAS OPER5TING A JACK HAMMER DRILLING A HOLE IN A LARGE ROCK HE WAS GOING TO CHANGE THE DRILL BIT AND LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL LANDING ON ANOTHER ROCK
I.NAME STANDING3ON STEP LADDER TO WELD LIGHT BRACKET ON ROCK TRUCK.REACHING UP TO WELD BRACKET,LADDER TWISTED AND HE FELL TO GROUND.
ON JAN.2, I,NAM9 STATED, THAT HE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM HIS D-8 BULLDOZER WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING CAUSING HIM TO CATCH HIS WEIGHT WITH HIS RIGHT ELBOW.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN LADDER ON DRILL AND STUMBLED ON A SHOVEL. WHILE CATCHING HIMSELF HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
OPERATOR WAS CLIMBING OUT OF THE DOZER WHEN HE SLIPPED & FELL OFF THE DOZER BLADE ARM. THE BLADE HAD A THICK COATING OF FROST ON IT. WHEN THE OPERATOR FELL HE INJURED HIS BACK & RIGHT HIP.
I.NAME HAD FUELED A LOADER AND WAS DISMOUNTING THE MACHINE HE JUMPED FROM THE REAR OF THE MACHINE AND LANDED ON A ROCK WHICH BRUISES HIS FOOT
I NAME WAS GETTING DOWN OFF OF A 773 CAT TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL.
L E WILDER WAS CLIMBING THE MAST OF A DRILL WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL APPROX 20FT
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING SNOW OUT OF TRUCK BET THAT HE DRIVES AND AS HE WAS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK BED HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND FAIL TO THE GROUND HE BROKE HIS RT ARM AND HURT HIS SHOULDER
EMPL WALKING ACROSS ROCKY AREA ,TRIPPED OVER A ROCK.REACHED OUT TO CATCH HIMSELF AND HAND STRUCK A ROCK.THUMB ON LEFT HAND WAS BROKEN.
JOHN HOWARD WAS GETTING DOWN OFF OF A FUEL TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED AND LANDED ON THE HOOD LATCH
OPERATOR WAS PUSHING A SHOT AND STOPPED TRACTOR TO GET OFF HE STEPPED ONTO TRACK SLIPPED AND FELL ON THE TILT CONTROL STABLIIZING CYCLINDER
EMP WAS DISMOUNTING A DRILL WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE HIT HIS KNEE AGAINST THE FRAME
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE PALLET OF SCREENS WEIGHING APPROX 175 POUNDS FROM PARTS TRUCK TO STORE UNDER PARTS SHED WILLIAM TRIPPED APPARENTLY OVER PUMP BEARING HOUSING AND FELL STRIKING HIS CH ON THE SHARP UPPER RIM OF SCREENS
WYMER JONES WAS GETTING DOWN OFF OF THE 2400 LIMA DRAGLINE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL, HITTING HIS KNEE ON THE STEP.
EMP WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM ROCK TRUCK HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF BUMPER AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND