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The employee raised the hood to check the oil. After checking the oil ee lowered the hood and climbed into the cab to fill out a pre-shift report on the excavator when ee noticed that elbow was swollen. EE then stood up to exit the cab and saw in the mirror on the cab that eye was blood shot also.

Driver said EE was empty going towards coal load out when EE hit a pot hole in the road and hurt EE's back. Went to Dr. and took X-ray and found out EE had a compressed disk. Dr. had EE off three days or light duty work. Returned to driving on 12/7/2017 with no restrictions.

Driver stated was driving and hit a hole in the haul road causing EE to jam left knee into window crank. Felt slight pain but continued to work through 2/6/16. Was off work on 2/8/16 but did not report it as work related till 2/13/16.

Employee was fueling up the fuel truck at the beginning of the shift. He slipped and fell catching himself with his right arm. The injury was to his right shoulder. He had a previous injury to this shoulder and had surgery on it less than a year ago.

Contractor was feeding brush into burn pile. Operator said he heard something pop. Swung his excavator around to pick up another log and saw fire. He trammed away from burning pile. Not sure if hose blew or a hot cinder started fire. Name of contractor - Gibson Reclamation. Fire lasted about an hour. Granille Fire Dept. assisted.

Operator was running a Volvo 330 Backhoe when MHST inspector arrived. he had operator stop his equipment to inspect. After inspection operator started hoe back up. Foreman was driving into the pit when he saw engine on fire. Tried to put out with 3 fire ext. called 911 & 800 for MSHA. Fire dept put out fire. Engine was totalled.