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Employee was backing a loaded Cat.777 hauler when he backed onto a berm and the truck turned over into a dry pond.
Employee was exiting a dozer and tripped on the hand grip located on the tilt jack causing him to fall approximately three feet to the ground hitting on his back.
Employee was standing on a trailer (approximatelt 18 inches high) that a 6 inch water pump was mounted on. He went to exit the trailer and his right foot got caught on a metal bracket.
HURT HIS BACK WHILE SHOVELING BELT
An I-beam fell off the forklift hitting EE in the left leg and right foot.
Rock fell from rib and hit his left hand cutting 4 fingers.
Employee was stepping off of a launch pad to the ground when he stepped on a sump cylinder and slipped and fell approximately 5 feet to the ground and in doing so he straddled a 4x8 inch piece of tubeing.
Went into shot, hit hard rock in bottom of shot, throwing him up out of his seat injuring his back.
Timber came loose and hit him on the right arm.
TWISTED HIS KNEE (WHILE WALKING).
He was scooping; scoop hit left rib and threw him forward.
WORKING ON MINER WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL & HIT EMPLOYEE ON THE SHOULDER.
Loading belt rails on mini track and rail dropped in mud splashing in his left eye and cutting his eye.
INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS WELDING OVERHEAD WHEN A FOREIGN OBJECT BECAME LODGED IN HIS EYE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.
Lifting belt structure onto mini truck forks when he had sharp pain in lower back.
Employee was welding on top of a loader bucket turned over (unattached) and the next thing he remembers is waking up lying on the ground, a fall of approximately ten feet
In # 3 entry in by spad #3804 lowering the miner up. No one was injured by the fall.
Employee and co-worker carried a bottle of oxygen approximately 25 feet and loaded it into a service truck, a lift of approximately 3 feet. During the lift he felt a burning in the lower right side of his back.
DRILL STEEL CAME LOOSE & HIT EE'S LEFT FOREARM
HE WAS LOADING BELT STRUCTURE AND MASHED HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND AGAINST THE SCOOP BUCKET.
Roof fall on intake #7 entry across from spad #1104. The fall was 20' x 20' x 10' thick.
Roof fall on the intake #6 entry in by spad #1130 the fall was 20' by 20' by 10' thick.
Trimming belt splice knife slipped and cut left palm.
PULLING ON BELT SLIPPED & FELL
Working slack back on cable and hurt lower back. Was pulling cable.
LIFTING TIMBERS AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
Employee was installing a bearing race in a 777 wheel loader using a chisel and hammer. When he struck the chisel, a piece of metal came off and lodged in lower arm.
HE WAS TRIMMING A BELT SPLICE WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED CUTTING HIS RIGHT FOREARM. HE GOT 4 OR 5 STAPLES TO CLOSE THE CUT.
Reoccurance of old back injury while shoveling belt.
CUTTING GEARS OUT OF FINAL DRIVE WITH TORCH WHEN ACEYCLENE BUILD UP IN CUTTING AREA IGNITED WHEN TORCH WAS LIT, BURNING HIS FACE, EYES, AND NECK.
REOCCURANCE OF OLD BACK INJURY (LIFTING BELT STRUCTURE).
EE CLIMBED ON TO HIS LOADER & CHECKED THE ANTI FREEZE BEFORE THE START OF HIS SHIFT. AS HE WAS COMING OFF THEL LOADER HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE STEP AND HE FELL APPROX. 3 FT TO THE GROUND
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A SET OF FORKS THAT THEY WERE GOING TO INSTALL ON A FORK LIFT WHEN THE FORKS TILTED AND THREW HIM OFF.
EE WAS EXITING A CAT. HAULER & AS HE WAS COMING DOWN THE STEPS HE MISSED THE LAST STEP.AS HE WAS FALLING HE TRIED TO TURN TO KEEP FROM FALLING ON HIS BACK AND IN DOING SO HE TWISTED HIS KNEE.
EE WAS INSTALLING MOTOR SUPPORTS ON A LOADER HE HAD TO REMOVE THE STEPS TO DO THIS JOB. HE EXITED THE LOADER AND GO A WRENCH AND AS HE RE-ENTERED THE LOADER HE HIT HIS HEAD ON ONE OF THE META L BRACKETS THAT THE STEPS BOLTED TO.
THE END OF THE AUGER HAD BROKEN OFF ON THE HIGHWALL MINER AND THE EE GOT INTO THE BASE FRAME AND LIFTED THE END OUT. THE END WEIGHED APPROXIMATELY 40 TO 50 POUNDS.
EE WAS HOLDING A ROD AGAINST A PIN WHEN ANOTHER EE HIT THE ROD THE HAMMER GLANCED AND HIT THE FIRST EE ON THE TOP OF THE LEFT HAND. EE'S WERE WORKING ON THE ROLLER FRAME OF A CAT. DOZER.
EE WAS FUELING A DOZER. HE WAS APPOXIMATELY SEVEN FEET HIGH. HE LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL TO THEGROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A LADDER CHANGING A HYDRAULIC HONE OUT ON A LOADER WHEN THE LADDER FELL. HE HIT THE STEERING VALVE AS HE FELL. HE BRUISED HIS LEFT CHEST AND RIBS.
EE WAS CHANGING A TIRE ON A CAT HAULER, HE HAD A 3/8 CHAIN LYING ON TOP OF THE TIRE. HE WAS USING A LOADER TO ASSIST HIM. THE CHAIN FELL OFF AND CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE CHAIN AND THE BACK OF THE LOADER BUCKET.
EE WAS PUTTING A SECTION OF A BELLY BACK ON A DOZER. THE SECTION WAS HANGING FROM A CHAIN. EE WAS LYING UNDER THE DOZER. THE SECTION FELL AND CAUGHT EE'S RIGHT ARM. EE JUMPED AND HIT HIS RIGHT CHEEK BONE ON THE SECTION OF BELLY PAN AND CUT HIS CHEEK.
EE WAS WORKING ON A TORQUE ON A DOZER AND WHEN HE WAS ENTERING THE BELLY PAN AREA HE HIT HIS LT. KNEE ON A METAL BRACKET.
EE ROLLED A 55 GALLON DRUM OF ANTIFREEZE INTO THE BUCKET OF A LOADER. HE ROLLED THE DRUM APPROX.3'. AT THE END OF HIS WORK SHIFT (5 PM) HE WAS COMPLAINING OF HIS BACK HURTING.
THE EE WAS TRYING TO LOOSE A LARGE ROCK THAT WAS EMBEDDED. AS HE WAS PUSHING ON IT WITH THE DOZER BLADE HE GOT ENOUGH PRESSURE ON THE ROCK TO LIFT THE REAR OF THE DOZER OFF OF THE GROUND APPRO XIMATELY 2 TO 3 FEET. THE ROCK BUSTED AS HE WAS APPLYING PRESSURE AND THE REAR OF THE DOZER FELL. HE WAS WEARING SEAT RESTRAINTS.
EE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND AND AS HE STARTED TO ENTER HIS DOZER HE STEPPED ON THE PUSH ARM AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL STRIKING THE PUSHARM WITH HIS CHEST. THE CONDITION WAS RAINY AND MUDDY AT THE TIME OF THE FALL.
A FIRE OCCURED NEAR THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT OF A HAULER TRUCK.
EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING THE ROCK TRUCK AND HE REMEMBERS STEPPING ON THE LAST STEP NEXT TO THE GROUND WHICH IS APPROX 2-3 FT FROM THE GROUND. THE NEXT THING HE REMEMBERS IS LYING ON THE GROUND.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING ON THE CABLE THAT COMES FROM THE POWER CENTER TO THE HIGHWALL MINER. AS HE WAS PULLING HE SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS BACK. THE GROUND WAS WET AND MUDDY.
EE WAS GOING TO ENTER HIS HAULAGE TRUCK AND AS HE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND AND EXTENDED HIM SELF TO REACH THE FIRST RUNG ON THE LADDER HE PULLED SOMETHING IN HIS RIGHT LOWER STOMACH.
EE JUMPED OFF THE BED OF A WATER TRUCK.