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THE GROUND COLLAPSED NEXT TO A 18" PIPE WHICH CAUSED EMPLOYEE TO STEP INTO A 2 1/2' HOLE. THE EMPLOYEE TRIPPED, FALLING OVER PIPE. THE CONTROL OPERATOR INJURED HER HIP, BACK AND NECK.
AFTER OPENING HYD VALVE ON FRONT SIDE OF MINE PIT CAR SLED, SHE TRIPPED ON PIPING [FIXED TO SLED] AS SHE WALKED BACK TO ENTRANCE DOOR TO PIT CAR. SHE INJURED HER LEFT KNEE. HOUSEKEEPING WAS GO OD.
EE STATES THAT HE WAS REMOVING POINT SHIVE FROM BULLDOZER BOOM, HE CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE BOOM AND SHIVE POINT.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT SHE WAS CLEANING UP WITH A HOSE THE AREA AROUND THE HAMMER MILL AT THE WASHER SHE SLIPPED IN THE SLIME AND STRUCK HER LEFT KNEE AGAINST THE GRATING.
METAL WRENCH FELL ON BATTERYSHORTING IT OUT & CAUSING IT TO EXPLODE
WHILE MAKING ROUNDS THE EE NOTICED A WIRE HANGING FROM THE METER PANEL IN THE 8050 DRAGLINE MOTOR CONTROL CENTER. WHEN HE REACHED FOR THE WIRE, IT FLASHED, CAUSING BURNS 2ND DEGREE TO THE TIPS AND BACKS OF FIRST THREE FINGERS OF THE RIGHT HAND, 1ST DEGREE BURNS TO THE LEFT SIDE OF NECK, DEEP CORNEAL ABRASION TO THE LEFT EYE ALSO 2ND DEGREE BURNS FIRST TWO FINGERS OF LEFT HAND.
MUD & SAND BLEW INTO RT EYE SCRATCHING EYE
EE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS REMOVING SINK FROM WALL, THE SINK GAVE WAY SUDDENLY AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT ARM. HE RECEIVED A LACERATION REQUIRING STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE SLIPPED ON LOADOUT STAIRS CAUSING HIM TO FALL ABOUT THREE STEPS & LAND ON THE GRATING HE T RIED TO CATCH HIMSELF ON THE RAILING HE LACERATED HIS LEFT HAND BRUISED HIS ELBOW (RT) & BRUISED HIS KNEE
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES THAT HE WAS WORKING IN THE DRAG PITREPAIRING A BACKLASHED DRAG ROPE HE SLIPPED & STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW AGAINST THE SHARP EDGE OF THE DRAG DRUM
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS HOOKING PIPES HE WRAPPED A CHAIN AROUND THE PIPE PULLED THE SLACK OUT & CAUGHT HIS RT LITTLE FINGER INBETWEEN THE CHAIN & HOOK
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS CHECKING A FLOW RECORDER AND WASPS STUNG HIM ON HIS FACE.
EMPL SAID ANOTHER EMPL WRESTLED HIM TO THE GROUND CAUSING TWISTED LEG.,
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS CHANGING OUT IMPELLER ON A MATRIX PUMP, HE CAUGHT HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN IMPELLER AND SHELF OF MACHINE, CUTTING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
WALKING BY TRIPPED ON RIDGE OF LOOSE BALLAST AND TWISTED R KNEE
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS CHANGING CROSSARMS ON CONDITIONER HE SCRAPED THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE CROSSARMS CAUSING A LACERATION.
EMPL ALLEGES AS HE WAS WORKING ON FLY WHEEL IT LOWERED DOWN & CUT RING FINGER ON R HAND.
EMPL WAS USING 6# HAMMER TO DRIVE DRESSER COUPLING ON 16" PIPE & FELT PAIN IN SHOULDER.
EE ALLEGES HE WAS HELPING TO MOVE A SLED COVERED WITH A HOOD AND WAS REACHING UNDER THEHOOD FOR THE PAD EYE WHEN HE BRUSHED HIS ARM AGAINST THE HOOD AND CUT HIS ARM.
MOVING HOPPER FROM ONE HAMMER MILL TO OTHER CAUGHT R INDEX FINGER BETWEEN HOPPER AND CHUTE
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE WAS DRIVING WEST ON HWY 60 AND APPROACHING TRUCK; HE DID NOT NOTICE DUMP TRUCK BRAKE LIGHTS AND STRUCK REAR END OF TRUCK.
EMPL AND ANOTHER EMPL REPAIRING BUCKET RIGGING OF DRAGLINE,REPLACING HOOD ANCHOR PIN.OTHER EMPL DRIVING PIN WITH 20 LB SLEDGE HAMMER AND I.NAME STANDING 10'BACK AND TO THE LEFT,PIECE OF HEAD P ORTION OF PIN SPLINTERED & STRUCK LEFT LEG.
EMPL HAD JUST ARRIVED ON JOB & BEGAN TO ASSIST FELLOW WORKER WHO WA SPULLING 3.0 POWER CABLE. HE BEGAN TO ASSIST WITH LIFTING & PULLING CABLE WITHOUT ANY COMMUNICATION. WHEN CABLE WAS IN POSIT ION FIRST EMPL DROPPED CABLE & INJURED'S HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN POWER CABLE & 18" PIPE. RESUL.T WAS TORN NAIL ON R MIDDLE FINGER & CUT ON RING FINGER. HALF OF NAIL WAS REMOVED BY DR.
EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT HAND WAS RESTING AGAINST DOOR JAMB AND THE WIND BLEW THE DOOR SHUT PINCHING ALL FOUR FINGERS OF HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON CLEAN-UP ON DRY MILL PIT WHEN HE SLIPPED IN THE MUD & FELL STRIKING HIS RIGHT RIB CAGE AGAINST RAIL
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A GUY LINE WIRES FROM POWER POLE,HE DROPPED THE GUY WIRE INTO HOT 25 KV HIGH LINE.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING FLOOR GRATING PREPARING TO INSTALL A PUMP DISCHARGE PIPE. A JOINT OF PIPE WITH FLANGE FELL ON EMPLOYEE'S ARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING THE #2 FEEDER FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST WHEN THE LOCKING HANDLE FELL INTO THE GRATING STOPPING THE FEEDER. EMPLOYEES HAND SLIPPED OFF FEEDER CAUSING HIS WEIGHT TO COME DOWN ON LEFT ARM EXTENDED.
EMPLOYEE ENTERED THE DRAGLINE CAB AND TRIED TO CLOSE THE DOOR. IT DID NOT LATCH SO SHE TRIED AGAINS, THIS TIME BRACING HERSELF WITH HER RIGHT HAND ON THE WALL. HER RIGHT THUMB INADVERTENTLY WR APPED AROUND THE DOOR TRIM AND ONTO THE JAMP. SHE PUSHED HARD ON THE DOOR TO GET IT LATCHED AND PINCHED HER RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE JAMB.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISASSEMBLING A REUSE PUMP WHILE HE WAS HOOKING 2-PART ON SUCTION TEE OF PUMP THE HOOK AND BLOCK FELL SUDDENLY SMASHING INTO HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE WALKING DOWN STAIRWAY HER FOOT SLIPPED,SHE CAUGHT HERSELF BY THE HANDRAIL,SHE HAD BEEN HAVING BACK PAIN SINCE THIS ACCIDENT.
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT HE WAS CLOSING EAR DOORS WHEN HE FELT A SUDDEN SEVERE PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER & ELBOW
WHILE SLIDDING UNDERNEATH TRUCK ON FLOOR CREEPER A BOLD WAS DISLODGED .BOLT FELL AND STRUCK MOUTH CRACKING HIS 2 TEETH.
WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING FEEDER THE INJURED WAS STANDING ON FEEDER PLATFORM HOLDING UP OUTSIDE CHUTE LEVER SO FEEDER COULD BE MOVED BY CHUTE.HE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN CENTER CHUTE AND FEE DER AT HEAD LEVEL.HE JERKED HIS HEAD DOWN AND HEAD STRUCK CENTER CHUTE HANDLE BEHIND HIS RIGHT EAR.IN THE ACT OF GETTING FROM BETWEEN CHUTE AND FEEDER HE STRUCK HIS LEFT EAR AGAINST FEEDER ST
WHILE CHECKING IDLERS EMPLOYEE TRIED TO FREE UP AN IDLER WITH BUILD UP ON IT. THIS OCCURRED WITH BELT RUNNING. BELT CAUGHT HIS GLOVE AND PULLED HAND INTO SYSTEM BETWEEN BELT AND IDLER.
I NAME WAS REPAIRING A PIT PUMP SUCTION PIPE WINCH. IN THE PROCESS OF LOWERING THE SUCTION PIPE DOWN WITH A COME ALONG THE COME ALONG SUDDENLY RELEASED ALLOWING THE CHAIN AND SUCTION PIPE TO D ROP ABOUT 3 FT WHEN THE SUCTION PIPE CAME TO A STOP IT JARRED THE PIT PUMP FRAME CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE HIS RIB CAGE AGAINST THE BRACE PIPE.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO LINE UP BOLT HOLES OF THE CELL UNIT HE GOT HIS LITTLE FINGER MASHED BETWEEN THE CRANE HOOK AND THE CELL UNIT SHAFT
EMPL STATES THAT HE WAS HAMMERING NEW SCREEN PANEL INTO PLACE & STRUCK LEFT LITTLE FINGER WITH HAMMER.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO PULL SPILLWAY BOARD WITH TOOL PROVIDED THE TOOL SLIPPED CAUSING FINGER TO PINCH BETWEEN TOOL HANDLE AND ANGLE IRON BRACE
EMPLOYEE STATES THAT WHILE SHE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS AT THE PRESSURE PUMP, SHE WAS CUTTING A PEAR IN HALF WITH A POCKET KNIFE, SHE STUMBLED THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND CUT HER RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEARING SURVEY LINE THROUGH SCRUB OAKS, MACHETE GLANCED OFF TREE LIMB AND STRUCK UPPER RIGHT KNEE ABOVE KNEE.
EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT HE WAS CLEANING UP ON DRYMILL FLOOR AND SHOVELING ROCK INTO WHEELBARROW, WHILE MOVING THE WHEELBARROW OUTSIDE HIS LEFT HAND SLIPPED OFF THE HANDLE AND HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT ARM TRYING TO 5EEP THE WHEELBARROW FROM SPILLING OVER.
EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT HE WAS WRENCHING A BOLT OUT WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND JAMMER HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE RAIL AND THE WRENCH, THE TIP OF HIS LEFT FINGER WAS MASHED.
EMPLOYEE STATES3HE W AS REMOVING A WASTE OIL DRUM FROM BENEATH A PAN WHILE REMOVING THE WASTE OIL DRUM THE SHARP EDGE OF THE DRUM CUT HIS FINGER
EMPL REPOSITION3NG PAILS OF GREASE WO WALKWAY COULD BE ROPED OFF HE LOST HIS FOOTING.SLIPPED AND PUT BODY WEIGHT ON RIGHT HAND FX BONE IN RIGHT ARM.
DURING A VERY W3NDY DAY THE EE HAD PERFORMED SERVERAL TASKS SUCH AS WELDING, CUTTING, BURNING & USING A CHIPPING HAMMER. HE NOTICED AN IRRITATION TO HIS EYE THE FOLLOWING MORNING HE REPORTED TO THE NURSE W5S SENT TO THE PHYSICIAN WHO REMOVED AM EMBEDDED FOREIGN BODY FROM HIS EYE.
EE STATES THAT 2E WAS PULLING BOARDS FROM THE OLD SPILLWA SLIME WAS TO T HE TOP OF BOARDS HE H AD REMOVED THE TOP 3 BOARDS BUT THE 4TH BOARD WAS DEEP IN SLIME & HE JERKED ON BOARD CAUSING BA CK TO HURT. 3
EE WAS CHANGING3RETURN ROLLERS ON THE BELT. THEY WERE USING A COME-ALONG TO LIFT & SUPPORT THE BELT OFF THE ROLLER BEING CHANGED. THE COME-ALONG HOOK WAS HOOKED ONT HE CHANNEL IRON THAT IS ABOUT 1 1/4" WI8E. THE ROLLER HAD TO BE FORCED INTO THE BRACKET BY MEANS OF A HAMMER. AFTER STRIKING THE ROLLER THE HOOK SLIPPED OFF CHANNEL STRIKING HIM.
EMPLOYEEWAS DIG1ING OUT AROUND LEAKING PVC PIPE TO DETERMINE CAUSE OF LEAK IN DISCHARGE LINE OF DENVER DITCH DUMP NEAR PREP EFFLUENT POND.WHILE STANDING ON WET SOFT GROUND HIS RIGHT FOOT SANK ABOVE KNEE HIGH3BOOT ALLOWING MUD TO RUN INTO BOOT.SLAKED LIME WAS PRESENT IN GROUND AND SECOND DEGREE BURN OCCURRED TO RIGHT CALF OF LEG.
INJURED AND I.N5ME WERE INSTALLING THE CONNECTING SHAFT AND PINS BETWEEN THE COUNTERWEIGHTS AT THE DRAGLINE.WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ALIGN THE SHAFT WITH THE HOLES IN THE COUNTERWEIGHTS IN ORDER TO INSTALL THE PIN8, SHE CAUGHT HER LEFT THUMB BETWEEN THE CONNECTING SHAFT AND THE COUNTERWEIGHT.