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MINER WAS CUTTI3G A PIECE OF RUBBER TO PATCH LEAK IN PIPE LINE. POCKET KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HIS RIGHT THIGH.
MINER WAS MOVIN1 AN OLD SET OF STEEL SHELVES AND CUT HIS FINGER ON A SHARP EDGE.
MINER WAS STEPP3NG ACROSS A 20IN PIPE LINE HE PUT HIS LEFT FOOT OVER FIRST & AS HE WAS LIFTING HIS RT.LEG OVER HE T WISTED HIS LEFT KNEE WORKED WITH SOME DISCOMFORT UNTIL 060887 & HAD KNEE OP ERATED ON 060987
MINER WAS CUTTI3G OUT A ONE FOOT SECTION OF 8IN PIPE IN WASHER WHEN SECTION FELL OUT THE TWO END PIECE SWUNG TOGETHER BECAUSE ONE SIDE WAS LOOSE & PINCHED HIS THUMB
MINER WAS TAKIN1 ACCESS PLATE OFF TALL STORAGE TANK OF PHOSPATE ORE. TANK WAS NOT COMPLETELY EMPTY AND WHEN LAST PIN WAS KNOCKED OUT OF PLATE MINER WAS HIT WITH LARGE QUANTITY OF WATER AND ORE . 3
MINER WAS ASSIS7ING IN INSTALLION OF WATERJACK PUMP INTO FLOAT CHAMBER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LOWER PUMP INTO CHAMBER USING DOZER WINCH/A-FRAME PUMP HUNG UP ON EDGE OF HOLE EMPLOYEE PUSHED ON PU MP HOUSING IT B9OKE FREE DROPPED INTO HOLE AND CAUGHT HAND IN PINCH POINT
MINER WAS CRSOO3NG FROM ONE SIDE OF RR TRACK TO THE OTHER AFTER JUST COMPLETING DUMPING ROCK THERE WAS SOME LOOSE PHOSPHATE ROCK ON TRACK AND THE MINER SLIPPED AND FELL
I NAME WAS TAKI3G PETRIFIED STUMP OUT OF WELL WITH CHAIN AND HOIST. THE CHAIN CAUSED THE STUMP TO BREAK AND A PIECE BROKE OFF HITTING MY HAND.
MINER WAS REMOV3NG ENGINE COWLING FROM A BULLDOZER IN ATTEMPTING TO TAKE BOLTS OUT HE USED AN AIR IMPACT WRENCH ON BOLT HEAD AND HELD NUT (STEEL PLATE) WITH FINGERS STEEL PLATE TURNED AND CUT HIS FINGER 3
MINER WAS BITTE3 ON LEG BY SPIDER WHILE WORKING IN WELDING SHOP
MINER WAS OPERA7ING A LINE VREW BOOM TRUCK WHILE HAND WAS ON OPERATING CONTROLS THE BOOM WAS MOVED TOO CLOSE TO CONTROL PANEL AND PINCHED HIS FINGER
MINER WAS TAKIN1 APART A 16' PIPELINE AND HIT HIMSELF IN CHIN WITH WRENCH WHEN WRENCH SLIPPED OFF BOLT.
MINER WAS WALKI3G ON WALKWAY REACHED DOWN TO PICK UPO SAMPLE BAG STUMBLED AND FELL INJURING HAND
MINER OPENED DRAIN VALVE ON PUMP. WATER WASHED SAND OUT FROM UNDER FEET CAUSING HIM TO LOOSE BALANCE & FALL.
MINER WAS HELPING A W A TER JACK FLEXIBLE WATER HOSE, THE FLANGE WAS BEING DRIVEN INTO THE HOSE AND WITH A HAMMER THE FLANGE WAS MUDDY AND THE MINER HOLDING THE HOSE REACHED INTO WIPE MUD OFF THE FLANGE WHILE MINER WAS HAMMERING FLANGE
DRAGLINE OPERATOR RECEIVED LACERATEION WHEN HIGH PRESSURE WATER GUN IN PIT BLOW SOME KIND OF CEBRIS OUT OF PIT AND IT HIG WINDOW WITH FRONT OF OPERATOR AND GLASS SHATTERED.
MINER WAS MAINT SUPERVISOR WORKING ON DRAGLINE TURN AROUND HE CLIMBED UP 6 FT STEP LADDER TO INSPECT WORK AREA COMING DOWN LADDER LADDER SHIFTED IN SOFT DIRT MINER LOST BALANCE AND FELL TO GRO UND
MINER GOT THUMB CAUGHT IN BOTTOM DOOR OF R.R. CAR WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE COME-A-LONG THAT WAS HOLDING DOOR CLOSE BECAUSE LATCH WAS BROKEN.
MINER WAS PICKING UP AN ACTEYLIENE BOTTEL BY GRABBING CAP WITH TWO HANDS. CAP WAS NOT ON TIGHT BOTTLE FELL AND CAP CAME UP HITTING MINER IN CHIN. CAP HAD MISMATCHED THREADS.
MINER WAS MOVING PIECE OF STEEL PLATE (2\X4\X1") PLATE SLIPPED AND CAUGHT FINGER IN PINCH POINT.
MINER WAS TIGHTINING BOLTS ON TROMMEL SCREEN. RATCHET SLIPPED AND HIT HIM IN MOUTH CHIPPING A TOOTH.
MINER WAS ASSISTING CREW PUT A LARGE PUMP IMPELLAR BACK ON SHAFT TWO MINERS WERE HOLDING SHAFT WITH SPUD BARS IN COUPLING COVER WHILE IMPELLER AND BEING ROTATED FORCE AND SHAFT COUPLE COVER WA S TOO GREAT IT BROKE AND PIPE FLEW UP AND HIT MINER IN FACE.
EMP AND ANOTHER EMP WERE CHANGING WINCH CABLE ON 402 DOZER THE CABLE WAS TANGLED AND THE END WAS OUT OF THE SOCKET AND COULD NOT BE SEEN THE CABLE CAME LOOSE AND STRUCK EMP IN THE MOUTH
MINER WAS TAKING CABLE CLAMP OFFNEW SPOOL OF 2" WIRE ROPE THAT WAS MOUNTED ON RACK TO UNWIND CABLE AFTER CLAMP WAS OFF MINER TURNED HIS BACK TO SPOOL AND CABLE SLOWLY UNWOUND AND IT FLIPPED OV ER HITTING MINER ON BACK, SHOULDER, AND SIDE OF HEAD.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN A TRECCH STEP THE WRONG WAY AND CHIPPED HIS HIP BONE
MINER WAS SRATING BRUSHES ON DRAGLINE GENERATOR WITH COMMUTATOR TURNING MINER WAS HOLDING STONE ON COMUTATOR WHEN BRUSH SPRING POPPED UP AND CAUSED HIM TO MOVE HAND QUICKLY CATCHING FINGER BETWEEN COMMUTATOR AND BRUSH RIGGING
MINER CLIMBED ON TOP OF HYDROSIZER TO HOOK UP RIGGING HYDROSIZER WAS LAYING ON ITS SIDE ON SHOP FLOOR HIS WEIGHT CAUSED HYDRO TO M OVE AND HIM TO LOOSE BALANCE WHIEL ATTEMPTING T TO REGAIN BLANCE TO PREVINET FALL HE STRAINED BACK
MINER WAS TIGHTENING PACKING ON A PUMP WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND WAS THROWN OUT AND HIT HIS HAND
MINER WAS ATTEMPTING TO THROW FLATGATE ON CHUTE THAT FEEDS CONVEYOR BELT ON SHUTTLE. THE SHUTTLE WAS MOVING AT THE TIME & MINER GOT HIS FOOT CAUGHT UNDER SHUTTLE WHEEL.
PILING ROLLED ON TOP OF HIS RIGHT FOOT. SAFETY STEEL TOE SHOES WERE BEING WORN AT TIME OF ACCIDENT
EPLOYEE SLIPPED OFF A BOARD AND HAD A SLIGHT ABRASION
MINER WAS DIRECTING THE DISASSEMBLY OF AN 18" PIPELINE. THE LAST GOLT IN A FLANGE JOINT COULD NOT BE REMOVED WITH WRENCH. TRACTOR PULLED LENGTH OF PIPE 90 DEGREE TO SNAP BOLT. MINER STOOD TOO CLOSE AND WHEN BOLT SNAPPED THE PIPE SWUNG INTO MINER WHICH WAS CLOSE TO PIPE JOINT.
MINER CLOSING OVERHEAD WAREHOUSE DOOR CABLE BROKE LOOSE ALLOWING DOOR TO FALL AND THEN IT JUMPED OUT OF TRACK CRASHING TO FLOOR.MINER COULDNT GET OUT OF WAY AND WAS PINNED UNDER DOOR.
EMPLOYEE WASOPERATING BHM EQUIPMENT INSTALLING 2 1/2" CUTTING JET SECTIONS. HE HAD PLACED A HOLDING CLAMP AT THE TOP OF ONE OF THE SECTIONS BUT DID NOT SECURE IT. WHEN THE SECRTION WAS LIFTED THE CLAMP SLID DOWN AND HIT HIS LEFT HAND, INJURING HIS FINGER.
EMPLOYEE ACCIDENTLY STRUCK WELDING ROD ON BACKHOE BUCKET AFTER HE HAD RAISED HIS WELDING HOOD CAUSING WELDING FLASH TO EYES
MINER WAS RIDING AS BRAKEMAN (CAR DROPPER) ON ROTARY DUMP RAILROAD CAR. WHEN SCOOP CAR COUPLED THE JOLT CAUSED HIM TO LOOSE BALANCE AND HIS ARM HIT CAR. HE HAD A SAFETY BELT ON.
MINER CUT RIGHT HAND WHILE DIGGING OUT BURIED PIPE LINE TO FIX LEAK IN WATER PIPE. PIPE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN BANDED AND MINER DID NOT SEE STAINLESS STEEL BAND STRAP WHICH WAS UNDER WATER AND CU T HAND ON END OF STRAP.
MINER WAS REPLACING MAIN HOIST DRUM SHAFT. THE DRUM LAGGING SHIFTED AS THE LAST BOLT WAS BEING REMOVED AND CAUGHT HIS RIGHT HAND
MINER WAS CLIMBING DOWN OFF TROMMEL SCREEN AND SCRAPED HIS ARM AGAINST PROTRUDING SPUD BAR.
EMPLOYEE LEFT HAND WAS LOCATED ON CHAIS OF DRILL RIG. THE DRILL RIG FOOTSTAND WAS PARTIALLY RAISED TO ALLOW DRAIN PAN MOVEMENT. AFTER PAN WAS MOVED. THE FOOTSTAND AUTOMTICALLY FELL TO ITS INIT IAL POSITION AND MASHED RING FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
MINER WAS INSTALLING A GUARD ON BEARING UNIT AND GOT FINGER CAUGHT IN PINCH POINT
MINER OPENED DRAW AT BOTTOM OF GMT TANK AND WHILE MOVING QUICKLY TO STAY OUT OF WATER FLOW HE BUMPED INTO A STRUCTURAL CROSS BRACE.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING BUSH AX TO CUT SMALL BRUSH WHEN ONE SMALL TREE HIT LEFT LEG.
MINER WAS CUTTING LENGTH OF ANGLE IRON FROM A STORAGE RACK. HE AND COWORKER FAILED TO SUPPORT BOTH ENDS AND PIECE FELL OUT OF RACK ONTO INSTEP.
MINER WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN PICKUP TRUCK AROUND OUT IN MINING AREA. WHILE BACKING HE HIT A TREE CAUSING A SUDDEN STOP & HIS HEAD HIT REAR WINDOW.
MINER WAS HELPING TO LAY NEW PIPLINE IN VEGETATED AREA. WHILE WALKING THROUGH BUSHES A SMALL BRANCH STRUCK HIM IN FACE. KNOCKING OFF GLASSES AND CONTACTED EYE
MINER WAS WALKING NEAR CYCLONE SLIPPED AND FELL THE AREA WAS WET FROM SPILLAGE AND WITH UNUSUAL COLD TEMP CREATED ICE WHICH MINER WAS NOT USED TO WORKING AROUND
BULLDOZER WAS STUCK IN SLIME BANK. WHILE TOWING IT OUT CHAIN SNAPPED & A PIECE HIT MINER IN ARM..
EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING RIP RAP ROCK -HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND TWISTED HIS KNEE CAUSING LIGAMENT STRAIN OF RIGHT KNEE
MINER WAS CLOSING BOTTOM ON R/R CAR WHEN BAR SLIPPED OUT OF DOOR LOCK & HIT MINER IN FOREHEAD.