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WHILE WALKING FROM SCALEHOUSE. TO PLANT AFTER LUNCH EE LOST HIS FOOTING WHILE PASSING THROUGH THE NORTHWEST GAVE HITTING HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE GATE HINGE BOLT.
EE HAD CLIMBED DOWN LADDER AFTER FILLING WATER TRUCK AFTER HE WAS ALL THE WAY ON THE GROUND HE BUMPED HIS ELBOW ON REAR FENDER RECEIVING A CUT REQURING 3 STAPLTS TO CLOSE OWUND
EMPLOYEE WAS ACCESSING A TRUCK LOADOUT BIN AND IN THE PROCESS HE GRABBED THE HAND RAIL AND IT BROKE, CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO SLIP AND HIT HIS KNEE ON THE BIN.
EE IS A QUARRY TRUCK DRIVER AND WAS HAULING ROCK OUT OF THE PIT. EE SAW WERE A ROCK APPROX 100-150LBS HAD FALLEN OUT OF A TRUCK AHEAD OF HIM. HE STOPPED OT MOVE THE ROCK TO THE SIDE OF THE R OAD. AS HE ROLLED AND LIFTED THE ROCK HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS GROIN AREA. EE RECEIVED PROPER MEDICAL CARE.
EE WAS INSTALLING BOLTS ON THE FEEDER WING. THE FEEDER WAS ALREADY IN PLACE AND WAS UP AGAINST THE HEADWALL. EE WAS WORKING VERY CLOSE TO ONE OF THE CABLES. THIS PARTICULAR CABLE HAD BEEN FRAY ED ON THE END. AS EE HAD TIGHTENED THE BOLT, HE TURNED HIS HEAD. AS HE DID THIS, THE WIRE ENTERED HIS RIGHT EAR.
EE WAS OPERATING A CAT ROAD GRADER. HE WAS GETTING ALONG FINE UNTIL A BEE LNADED ON HIS LEFT ARM & STUNG HIM. EE DID NOT THINK MUCH ABOUT THE STING UNTIL LATER WHEN HE WAS NOT FEELING WELL. EE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL TO BECHECKED OUT. EE SUFFERED A REACTION THE BEE STING. HE HAD NO PREVIOUS PROBLEMNS RELATED TO THIS. EE RETURNED TO WORK.
EE WAS CLEANING UP AROUND PLANT USING A CASE SKIDLOADER WITH A DRAG ATTACHMENT MOUNTED TO THE BUCKET. THE CONDITIONS THAT DAY WAS WARM.WIND WAS BROWING LOOSE MATERIAL ACROSS THE PLANT. AS EE W AS PULLING THE LOOSE MATERIAL WITH THE DRAG, DUST HAD GOTTEN BEHIND HIS SAFETY GLASSES AND THE SWEAT FROM HIS FORHEAD CAUSED HIS EYE TO BECOME IRRITATED.
EE WAS HELPING MEN HOOK UP A SIDE CONVEYOR BELT AN A UNIVERSAL SCREENING PLANT. EVERYTHING WENT WERE UNTIL EE WENT TO STATED UP. AS HE STOOD UP EE BUMPED HIS HEAD ON THE EDGE OF CONVEYOR. HE W AS WEARINGHIS HARD HAT BUT NOTICED SOME DISCOMFORT IN HIS NECK. HE WENT TO DOCTOR AND HAD SOMEWHAT OF A JAMMED NECK. EE WAS OFF WORK 2 DAYS.
EMPLOYEE REINJURED BACK WITHIN 8 DAYS OF LAST REPORT, LIFTING 50 LB POWDER BOXES. HAD DOCTOR'S RELEASE WITH 2 DAYS RESTRICTED WORK ACTIVITY. CAME BACK TO WORK AND ON 7/9/98, COMPLAINED BACK WA S SORE FROM LIFTING BOXES.
EE WAS HELPING LIFT APPROX 20 50 LB BOYES OF POWDER HE WAS TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH OTHER WORKERS THAT ARE ACCUSTOMER TO THIS TYPE AND WEIGHT OF LIFTING HE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN A BREAK. IT WAS NOTI CED THAT AS TIME WENT ON HE WAS BENDING OVER MORE IT WAS NOTICED THAT AS TIME WENT ON HE WAS BENDING OVER MORE AND MORE INSTEAD OF USING HIS LEGS. A REVIEW OF PROPER LIFTING IS SCHEDULED.
EE WAS HEARING 2 OTHER MEN CLEAN OUT THE FEEDER. THE WEATHER HAS BEEN VERY WET AND A BUILD UP OF ROCK AND MUD WAS IN THE FEEDER. EE WAS TAKING TURNS REMOVING THE BUILD UP THE MATERIAL WAS HEAV EY AND THROUGH HIS MOTION PULLED THE MUSCLES IN HIS BACK AND HIP AREA. HE WAS USING A SHOVEL. HE IS EXPECTED TO BE OFF 4 TO 5 DAYS.
EE ARRIVED AT WORK AND WENT INTO SHOP. THE TEMPERATURE IN SHOP FELT A LITTLE COOLER THAN NORMAL SO HE DECIDED TO CHECK OIL FURANCE. AS HE OPENED DOOR OXYGEN RUSHED IN WHICH CAUSED A FLASHBACK. AN INVESTIGATION SOON WAS UNDERWAY AND IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT A BUIL UP OF CARBON IN BOTTOM OF PAN CAUSED THE OK TO DRIP OUTSIDE OF PAN ON FRUANCE WALLS OIL IGNITED WHEN DOOR WAS OPENED.
EE WA REPAIRING A BATTERY CABLE THAT WAS LOOSE. HE SPRAYED THE BATTERY BOLT WITH A PENETRATING OIL. SO IT COULD BE TIGHTENED UP. AS HE SET THE PENETRATING CAN DOWN ON TEH BATTERY, IT FELL OV ER AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH POSIT8IIVE POST AND SHORTED OUT. THE CAN BURST CAUSING THE BURN. ZEP 45 WAS THE PENETRATING OIL AND IT IS A TALL CAN. SPRAY CANS WILL BE KEPT CLEAR OF BATTERY.
EE OPERATES A STOCKPILE TRUCK FOR PLANT 7. THE IMPACT BREAKER HAD TO MANY ROCKS INSIDE AND HAD BECAME PLUGGED. NEXT EVERY PART OF THE PLANT WAS SHUT DOWN. EE ALONG WITH THE PLATNMAN PROCEEDED TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM. EE OPENED THE SIDE CLEANOUT DOOR AND WAS ROLLING THE ROCKS OUT. AS HE WAS REMOVING ROCK HE CAME ACROSS A LARGE ONE THAT WEIGHED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 60 LBS. HE GASPED
THEY WERE STRIPPING DIRT, ONE GOING UP HILL, ONE GOING DOWN. HIT EACH OTHER. OPERATOR ERROR. DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT EXTENSIVE. IMPAIRMENT NONE TO PERSONS.
THEY WERE STRIPING DIRT, ONE GOING UP HILL, ONE GOING DOWN. HIT EACH OTHER. OPERATOR ERROR. DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT EXTENSIVE. IMPAIRMENT TO PERSON NONE.
HE WAS WORKING ON LEDGE HELPING TO LOAD A SHOT. HE BEN TDOWN AND FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS NECK. HE WASN'T EVEN LIFTING ANYTHING.
A ROCK WAS LOEDGE ON THE PRESCREEN, WHILE TRYING TO PRY IT LOOSE IT FELL, BBOUNCED AND HIT HIS FOOT ABOVE STEEL TOE OF SHOE.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GREASE A HINGE PIN ON A DUMP TRUCK. THE FITTING WAS PLUGGED WITH LIME, AND WHEN THE EMPLOYEE PUT PRESSURE ON THE GREASE GUN, IT RUPTURED THE HOSE CAUSING THE GRE ASE TO COME OUT THE SIDE OF HOSE.
THE DRIVE LINE ON A TRUCK BROKE, SO THEY TOOK A PULL CABLE & ATTACHED TO THE DOZER, WHILE DOING THIS THE TRUCK ROLLED AHEAD & HIT EMPLOYEE.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO DISLODGE A ROCK THAT WAS STUCK IN THE THROAT OF THE IMPACT BREAKER. A SMALL ROCK CHIP FLEW OUT OF THE BREAKER, STRIKING THE LEFT EYE OF THE EMPLOYEE.
26450ROCK BECAME LODGED IN THE IMPACT BREAKER, THE DOOR WAS OPENED IN ORDER TO RELEASE THE ROCKS. WHEN HE SHUT THE DOOR HE SLAMED HIS FINGER IN THE DOOR.
CREW HAD EMPLOYED THE CAT 998 LOADER TO ELEVATE SCREENING PLANT IN ORDER TO MOVE THE DOLLIES UNDER THE PLANT APPARENTLY SOME MUD HAD STUCK TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE LOADER BUCKET T HE EMPLOYEE WALKED UNDER THE RAISED BUCKET TO TRIP THE FIFTHWHEEL LOCK A CHUNK OF MUD FELL OFF THE BUCKET STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS HEAD CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND INJURING HIS HIP & SHOULDER EM
UPON ARRIVING AT WOR SITE EMPL GOT OUT OF TRUCK & WALKED TO SHOP BUILDING. BAT SWOOPED DOWN & BIT HIM ON UPPER ARM BELOW SHOULDER BACK SIDE OF ARM. BAT FLEW AWAY SO EMPL MUST TAKE ANTIRABIES S HOTS. THESE WERE STARTED IMMEDIATELY AT LOCAL HOSPITAL.
HE WAS ASSISTING WITH REPLACEMENT OF HEAD PULLEY BEARING ON IMPACT BREAKER. CAT 980 ENDLOADER WAS BEING USED WITH CHAIN BEARING. AFTER REPAIRS WERE COMPLETED CHAIN WAS PLACED IN LOADER BUCKET. UNKOWN TO LOADER OPERATOR EMPL WAS ALSO IN LOADER BUCKET LOADER OPERATOR BACKED AWAY FROM WORK AREA & TILTED BUCKET DOWN CAUSING EMPL TO FALL ABOUT 6'. EMPL'S LEFT ELBOW WAS FRACTURED.
HE WAS HAOLDING ONTO THE HAND RAIL ON TOP OF THE TRUCK CAB WITH HIS LEFT HAND WHEN HE HIT A BUMP.THE DUMP BOX BOUNCED,PINCHING THE INDEX FINGER AND MIDDLE FINGERS OF LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE HAND RAIL AND THE DUMP BOX.
HE WAS HELPING A CUSTOMER REMOVE EXCESS ROCK FROM TAIL-GATE OF TRUCK. CUSTOMER OPENED TAIL-GATE, HE CAUGHT THE CONTROL CHAIN, AND THE TAILGATE CAUSED A PINCH POINT WITH THE CHAIN. THE MIDDLE FINGER OF THE RIGHT HAND WS BROKE NIN 4 PLACES, INCLUDING THEKNUCKLE ONT HE TOP OF THE HAND. HE POSSIBLY WILL LOOSE THE FINGER.
HE WA HELPING PUT A BRACE ON PLANT DISCHARGE CONVEYOR. WE WERE USING THE ENDLOADER WITH A CHAIN TO LIFT THE BRACE IN PLACE. TWO MEN WERE ON THE GROUND HOLDING ONE END OF THE BRACE. HE WAS O N THE PLANT CUASED THE OTHER END TO GO UP. THE CHAIN CAME UNHOOKED AND THE BRACE FELL, STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE STOMACH.
THREE MEN WERE PUTTING A DOOR LINER GRATE IN THE HAMMERMILL WHEN ONE OF THEM SLIPPED & FELL TAKING GRATEDOWN WITH HIM GRATE HIT HIM IN THE INSIDE OF THE RT.KNEE CAUSING PAIN & IMMEDIATE SWELL ING IT HAD RAINED ON THE 2(TH BUT AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT THE GROUND WAS DRY TEMPERATURE WAS IN HIGH 60 & DID NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACCIDENT
EMPLOYEE WAS IN3A TRUCK,A WASP FLEW IN,HE SWUNG AT IT AND JAMMED HIS LEFT THUMB ON THE OVERHEAD "HEADACHE" BOARD.
2 MEN WERE WORK3NG ON THE V-BELT DRIVE OF THE CONVEYOR ONE MAN THOUGHT THE 2ND MAN WAS CLEAR OF THE CONVEYOR AND TURNED ON THE ELECTRIC POWER THE SECOND MANS RT HAND WAS DRAWN INOT THE PULLEY HIS HAND AND 0INGERS WERE BRUISED FROM THE PRESSURE OF THE PINCHPOINT NO SUTURES REQUIRED NO BROKEN BONES