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HE HAD BEEN OPERATING LOADER BEFORE HE HAD THE HEART ATTACK BUT AT THE TIME HE HAD IT HE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND & HAD NOT COMPLAINED OF ILLNESS.
ROADING LOADER BACKWARDS DOWN HILL & LOST CONTROL
KILBERG STACKING CONVEYOR TIPPED OVER BENDING MAIN FRAME ASSEMBLY, GUSSETING, CROSS BRACING. WHILE LOWERING CONVEYOR TO TRANSPORT POSITION THE EQUALIZER CHAIN BROKE LETTING ONE CYLINDER DROP ( LEFT). THE RIGHT CYLINDER MOVED UPWARD DUMPING THE CONVEYOR ON ITS LEFT SIDE. NO INJURY.
#24331 JOY AIR TRACK DRILL TIPPED OVER DAMAGING THE DRIFTER, MAST, HOSE. NO INJURY. PINS WHICH HOLD SPRING-LOADED PLUNGER ON LEFT TRACK DRILL LEVER SHEARED. OPERATOR RAN DRILL WITH DEFECTIVE D RIVE LEVER. WHEN OPERATOR STARTED THE COMPRESSOR THE AIR SURGE JARRED THE LEFT TRACK LEVER FROM THE NEUTRAL POSITION INTO REVERSE. THE DRILL, WHICH WAS ON SLOPE, TIPPED OVER.
DOZER OPERATOR ENTERED AN AREA WHICH HAD BEEN STRIPPED OF TOP SOIL AND DRILLED FOR BLASTING. HE CAP ROCK LAY AT A 15 DEGREE SLOPE AND WAS WET. THE DOZER SLID SIDEWAYS FOR 50 FT, HITTING A HUM P IN THE CAP ROCK AND ROLLED. THE OPERATOR WAS CRUSHED. THE DOZER WAS MANUFACTURED IN DEC. OF 1968, RECEIVED BY CATERPILLAR DEALER 1/10/69, AND PURCHASED BY SUMMIT, INC. ON 3/13/69. VICTIM WAS
OPERATOR BACKED DOZER OVER LARGE ROCK RESULTING IN WHIPLASH.