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WORKING ON 992C LOADER. CHECKING ACCESS TO RUN WIRE FROM CAB TO ENGINE. COMMING FROM UNDER CAB HE GRABBED HAND RAIN AND CAB, THEN RAISED UP AND SLIPPED, CAUSING HIM TO HIT MIRROR ARM AND THEN FALLING FORWARD TO THE DECK.
MAN WAS GREASING CONVEYOR WHEN IT STARTED TO RAIN. HE SLIPPED ON WET BELT AND FELL TO GROUND ABOUT 6 FEET. HE BRUISED HIS THIGH.
EE WAS CHECKING OIL AND TURNED ON MASTER SWITCH ON WATER TRUCK WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE. HE STRUCK THE BUMPER ON WATER TRUCK AS HE FELL TO THE GROUND AND HE BROKE SEVERAL RIBS AND CRACKED A VE RTEBRAE. HE FELL APPROX. 4'.
WHILE DOING WALK AROUND AT BEGINNING OF SHIFT EENOTICED A BELT WAS JUMPING AT A ROOLER. HE GRABBED A SHOVEL TO CLEAN ROLLER AND THE SHOVEL CAUGHT BETWEEN ROLLER AND BELT. HE TRIED TO PULL SHOV EL OUT. AND THAT PULLED HIS THUMB INTO THE ROLLER AND BELT THE TIP OF THE THUMB WAS CUT OFF.
EE WAS INSPECTING S.B.M (CRUSHER)ROT0R. HE HAD HIS HAND PUSHING THE ON A BLOW BAR TO ROLL THE ROTOR. WHENTHE ROTOR ROLLED BACK TO WHERE THE BLOW BAR WAS ONTOP, THE BLOW BAR FELL INO ITS SEAT IN THE ROTOR, WHEN IT MOVED TO ITS SEAT, HIS FINGER WAS CRUSHED AND HE IMMEDIATELY UPLLED IT OUT.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING MATERIAL OFF TOP OF JAW STOCKPILE WITH D8K DOZER. A LARGE ROCK ROLLED DOWN INTO CUT WHILE HE WAS BACKING UP. THE DOZER TRACK BOUNCED OVER ROCK. BACK WAS INJURED.
EE WAS MOVING SOME PCV PIPE, THE PIPE SWUNG BACKAND THE EE PUT HIS HAND OUT TO STOP THE PIPE AND THE PIPE JAMMED HIS FINGER-RESULTING IN HIS FINGER BEING BROKEN
MAN WAS IN JAW CRUSHER REPLACING WEAR PARTS WHENWEAR PART THAT WAS SET IN PLACE AND HELD BY A BLOCK OF WOOD SHIFTED AND CAUGHT FOOT BETWEEN WEARPART AND SIDE OF JAW.
OPERATING A BACKHOE , ROCK FLEW INTO LEFT EYE WHILE WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.
HELPING ANOTHER EE WORK ON DRIVE LINE ON PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AND WOOD SUPPORT POPPED OUT AND HIT HIM ON RIGHT EYEBROW.
AFTER PLAN SHUT DOWN CLIMBING A LADDER MISSED RUNG & FELL BACKWARDS APPROX 5FT LANDING ON BUTTOX
AFTER PLANT SHUT DOWN, CLIMBING A LADDER WITH TOOLS IN LEFT HAND TO REPLACE BOLTS IN PRIMARY SCREEN. MISSED A LADDER RUNG WITH RIGHT HAND AND FELL BACKWARDS APPROX. 12 FEET AND LANDED ON RIGHT LEG.
EE SPRAINED HIS WRIST WHILE HAMMERING ON A PIECE OF STEEL.
85049D NOT KNOW HOW INJURY OCCURRED. HE WAS IN HIS HAUL TRUCK ALL MORNING, DID NOT LIFT ANYTHING AND WAS SITTING IN SEAT ALL MORNING. BACK PROBLEM.
85061S CLIMBING DOWN FROM TRUCK, SLIPPED AND HIT THE DECK WHERE STEPS GO DOWN.
INJURED WAS USING PRYBAR,ATTEMPTING TO PRY OVER A BARMAC ROCK CRUSHER,TO LINE UP BOLT HOLES TO PUT BOLTS IN.THE PRYBAR SLIPPED OFF THE BARMAC FRAME AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND.HE LANDED ON HIS F EET,BUT ONE LEG HIT A PIPE AND THE OTHER LEG HITABOUT A FOOT LOWER THAN THE OTHER LEG ON THE GROUND.INJURY WAS TO HIS LEFT FOOT,LEFT LEG,MIDDLE OF BACK,AND RIGHT SIDE OF NECK.
WELDING ON IMPACTOR, STOPPED WELDING RAISED HOOD, STILL HAD SAFTEY GLASSES ON, WAS CHIPPING WELDING SLAG AND PIECE OF SLAG WENT INTO HIS EYE FROM AN OPENING AROUND THE NOSE PIECE OF THE GLASSE S.