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employee was removing a belly pan on a dozer when the chain slipped and fell onto employee's hand and knee
Employee was mounting the ladder of the PC2000 excavator, when EE's foot slipped off the bottom rung and EE landed on EE's right foot at a bad angle causing a strain or sprain.
Employee was dismounting a dozer the employee had been working on, and while dismounting the employee had stepped onto the pusharm step and slipped off between the track and pusharm. It had some oil residue on it, but the non-skid surface and grab irons were in place.
Employee was driving a rock truck returning back to the North Pratt washer via Flat Top mine entrance road. While traveling back, on the right-hand side of the road, employee veered off to the left-hand side of the road, running the truck off into a hollow along the mine entrance.
Victim was operating front-end loader in coal pit area, when a highwall failure occurred, covering the front-end loader completely.
Employee was operating 988 loader, when one of the rock trucks was backing in to get loaded, got too close to the loader boom and caught it with the bed and turned the loader over. The loader operator radioed the rock truck driver, but no communication was received by the rock truck driver. Upon investigation, the external speaker in the rock truck had quit working.
EMPLOYEE WAS ON SPARE BOOM PART TRYING TO REMOVE A METAL TUBE WHEN THE TOOL BROKE/SLIPPED. EMPLOYEE LOST BALANCE/FOOTING AND FELL A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 4-6 FEET DOWN TO THE GROUND, LANDING ON LEFT ANKLE. ER X-RAY RESULTS OF A BROKE BONE ABOVE THE ANKLE, AND SOME SMALLER FRAGMENTS ALSO.
Hitachi EX3600 excavator was loading trucks when the engine/hydraulic compartments on the rear of machine caught fire. Operator exited the machine safely and fire departments were called to help extinguish the fire.
Employee was unclogging drain pipe at sediment pond 41E, while removing the pond floating boom from inlet of pipe, employee must have became engulfed in the draining water pulling ee into the drain pipe.
WHILE BACKED IN TO FUEL CAT EXCAVATOR, EMPLOYEE DIDN'T NOTICE BIG DRIED UP CLUMP OF DIRT ON THE GROUND OUTSIDE THE CAB OF SERVICE TRUCK, WHEN EE EXITED THE CAB EE TRIPPED OVER THE CLUMP OF MUD AND FELL ON TO EE FACE AND LEFT SHOULDER.
Employee was operating front-end loader in coal pit area when a rock became dislodged from the high wall and fell. The rock came through the right-hand door glass and struck the employee on the right hand. The results of the fall were the employee has 2 broken bones and a laceration on the palm of right hand.