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Employee was cutting a water with a utility knife and the knife slipped and cut his right forearm.
Strain to the left arm and neck.
Employee was using a hammer to hit the metal bucket of the dozer, he was replacing the dozers bucket tip and a piece of metal chipped off and hit his left forearm.
Employee was steaming cleaning a drill, stepped onto a ladder and slipped and fell twisting his left knee.
He was stepping out of his service truck heard pop under right foot
Coupling hose from an emulsion truck tanker was being detached, the driver did not allow time for the air to release from the hose when he uncoupled the connection thus being under pressure the coupling struck the driver in the side of the head, as a result the driver sustained a concussion.
Employee was working on a piece of equipment and a port power bolt broke and came back and hit his hand.
Employee was climbing off of a dozer and slipped on the track and grabbed a handle to keep from falling and pulled his left shoulder.
Employee had just finished setting a water pump and was walking up a hill and felt something in his knee popped.
Employee was loading and unloading water pumps and hoses and pulled the muscle in his lower back.
Employee was shoveling coal from conveyer belt and slipped hitting the crusher, resulting in a contusion to the left chest wall.
Contract Mechanic was changing the track on a D-11 dozer and the track flipped over mashing his left index finger.
While loading blasting agent onto the blast hole the blasting agent caught fire, detonated and caused the detonation of additional primers that had been placed around the blast hole area. Fire was caused by Blaster smoking near blast hole. See attached MSHA Citation #8521062.
Employee's foot slipped as he was climbing off of the loader causing him to fall, hitting his right elbow.
Employee was putting a roller on a D10R when the jack slipped letting the roller fall and smash his left ring finger.
Fire to a D10 N Bulldozer. No (person) was injured or involved in the fire to the bulldozer.
Employee was backing over a rock with the bulldozer and the dozer caught on the rock pulling, jerked the emplyee pulling his left shoulder.
Employee was pulling a pump hose and the hose slipped out of his hand pulling his right shoulder.
Employee was working on the door of a D10 dozer, he removed the door & it slipped pinching his finger, he jerked his hand out from under the door cutting his right pinky finger.
Employee was operating a rock truck when the wheel broke off the right rear axle causing the rear of the truck to hit the ground.
Employee was preparing to weld a C-clamp, he sat the clap on a table to measure it and the clamp slipped mashing his right finger.
Employee was sliding a 4x8 screen and lifted up on it and pulled a muscle in his chest wall.
The injuried was using a grinder to smooth rough edges of a shaft and several small pieces of metal came off and flew under his safety glasses and got lodged under his right eye lid.
Truck haulage accident involving two 100 ton rear dump trucks. It appears the victim did not observe the stopped truck and struck it in the rear.
He was driving an equalizer pin into an equalizer bar; a piece of the pin chipped off and went into the thumb on his left hand. He had to have the chipped piece removed from his finger.