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While working in garage, employee turned and fell in the garage and hit the garage floor.
Employee was attemping to repair a tarp arm on a truck on the rear of a truck and while standing on the ladder he fell off and fell to the floor
Employee was picking up roll of rubber into a truck.
Exiting small boat when worker was knocked off balance causing knee to pop out of place - Spain of right knee
Working on screening plant and screen was falling to ground and went to catch it from falling. Twisted left knee causing knee sprain.
Employee was pulling on wrench to break bolt loose on dewatering screen, hurt right wrist.
Employee was cutting fastners from feeder belt. He cut back towards himself, when the knife slipped, cutting his wrist.
Pulling rock barge back, because it was full in front and when pulled back on rope, felt a burn in the right knee.
While putting brakes on a trailer, employee was using a tool & it slipped & hit his middle finger on left hand. His fingernail was torn loose. He was taken to an urgent care center. There was no medical treatment done on his finger at this time & he was referred to go to a specialist on 08/31/09. They removed the fingernail & he was released with no restrictions.
While working to clear a clogged input hood of a Hazmag crusher the side door was being opened, once the door was over center the two miners opening the door could not hold the weight of the door and material. The door then swung down crushing the first and second fingers of one of the miner's right hand between the door and body of the crusher.
While removing the guard on the tail pulley of a floating conveyor, the guard pinched the third finger, causing fracture and traumatic avulsion.
While removing a drive shaft it fell and smashed the tip of the right middle finger. The tip of the finger is fractured requiring splinting, the resulting laceration required six sutures, & a sub vascular hematoma required drilling of the nail to relieve pressure.
Hit left knee on metal structure when entering the dredge to start his shift. At time of incident the Med center told him it was only strained. On 10/22/2008 employee received surgery to repair a torn Meniscus Ligament which was a result of the incident back on 08/04/2008. Post surgery will result in lost time and modified duty.
After performing maintenance to the plant hopper the victim was climbing down off of the hopper. When he reached the ground he stepped on a piece of over sized gravel with his right leg. This caused his leg to twist and broke both of the lower bones just above his boot.
WHILE CLIMBING UP THE 2 STEPS TO ENTER HIS TRACTOR TRAILER HE SLIPPED ON THE TOP STEP AND STARTED TO FALL OFF. HE GRABBED THE HANDRAIL ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE TRUCK AND HELD ON WHILE HIS LEGS KICKED OUT FROM UNDER HIM THIS CAUSED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK TO TEAR.
While performing the task, flipping blow bars in the Hazmag crusher, the first blow bar removed pinned the employee's right hand, crushing the thumb. X-rays showed no broken bones.
During the installation of a heavy duty clutch in one of our on road delivery Dump Truck's, the clutch was picked up by hand, it slipped and the shifting weight caused the employee to strain his back.
Stepping over railing from rock barge to dredge pontoon left leg caught an electrical conduit causing leg to pop at knee. Dr. diagnosis left calf strain, released to modified duty/regular hours, follow-up check in one week.
After preforming repairs & climbing down from cat walk to track of dragline, left foot contacted between pads causing loss of balance & fall backwards to ground, landing on right arm. Took to Med center for x-ray's, no broken bones. Jammed wrist, Dr. released to full duty's.
OPERATOR DID NOT SEE THE VICTIM ON FOOT BEHIND HIM WHILE BACKING DOWN RAMP LEADING TO FEED THE HOPPER. THERE WAS ONE VICTIM INVOLVED IN THE ACCIDENT.
CONVEYOR BELT WAS STARTED TO TRACK BELT AND INSPECT NEWLY INSTALLED MOLD BOARD RUBBERS. MINER REMOVED TAIL PULLEY GUARD AND LOOSE CLOTHES (GLOVES) SUCKED ARM INTO PINCH POINT, AREA BETWEEN CON VEYOR BELT AND MOLD BOARD.
THE DRIVE BELT CAME OFF THE PULLEYS ONT HE DIESEL FUEL PUMP. AFTER REMOVING THE GUARD AND REPLACING THE BELT IT WAS SLIPPING WHEN TURNED ON. WHILE ATTEMPTIES TO TENSION THE BELT THE OPERATERS GLOVE WAS CAUGHT AND PULLED IN TO THE PULLEY. THE LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS BROKEN AND LACERATED JUST BEYOND THE NAIL.
WHILE USING A PRY BAR TO POKE TRENCH FROZEN GRAVEL IN HOPPER. WORKER RECEIVED SEVERE BACK PAIN.