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EMPL WAS ASSITING ANOTHER EMPL ROLL DISCH BOOK OVER TO WELD ON IT. BOX ABOUT 3'X3'X1'-1 1/2 STEEL. OVERHEAD CRANE AVAIL & NOT USED. EMPL FELT CALF OF LEG POP & COULD BARELY WALK.
EMPL WAS FUELING 66E JUMPED FROM FUEL TK BACK TO 666E WHEN HE DID THIS HE SLIPPED & FELL CAUSING MAJOR HEMATOMA TO LEFT HIP & THIGH AREA.
EMPLOYEE ALLEDGES HE WENT TO CLEAN OUT CHUTE, TRIED TO STAND ON TOOL BOX MOUNTED ON TRUCK BODY, SLIPPED AND FELL TWISTING ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING 74TD EUCLID IN THE PIT. ANOTHER OPERATOR NOTICED OIL COMING OUT FROM UNDER THE EMPLOYEE'S ENGINE, AND MOTIONED TO HIM TO CHECK HIS TRUCK. EMPLOYEE STUCK HIS HEAD OUT O
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN THE MAINTENANCE SHOP USING A SLEDGE HAMMER TO LOOSEN THE END OF THE TIE ROD FROM THE TRUCK. WHEN HE HIT THE TIE ROD WITH THE SLEDGE HAMMER, A PIECE OF METAL EITHER FROM OM THE HAMMER OR THE TIE ROD, STRUCK HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE.
EMP WAS OPERATI3G A 71TD EUCLID MOVING STOCK MATERIAL TO THE SATELLITE PLANT HE NOTICED A BURNING SMELL AND SMOKE COMING FROM UNDER THE DASH GHE USED A FIRE EXTINGUISHER TO PUT OUT A SMALL ELE FIRE AFTER THE 3FIRE HAD COOLED DOWN HIS FOREMAN TOLD HIM TO CHECK OIL LEVEL ON EUCLID AS HE STARTED TO PULL HIMSELF UP ON THE FRONT BUMPER HIS FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL TO
EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NGING SCREEN PANELS ON THE DISTER SCREEN. HE WAS USING A ROPE TO HOIST THE SCREEN PANELS FROM THE GROUND TO THE CATWALK ON THE DEISTER SCREEN APPROX. 40 FT IN THE AIR. AS HE WA S PULLING ON TH9 ROPE, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA. ACCIDENT NOT REPORTED UNTIL TWO WEEKS LATER.
EMP WAS HELPING3MECHANIC REPAIR ROCK GUARDS ONA 977-L LOADER BY HOLDING THEM IN PLACE WHILE MECHANIC WELDED THE GUARDS IN PLACE
FOOT SLIPPED WHILE DESCENDING LADDER.
THERE WAS A ROCK CAUGHT AT THE PRIMARY CRUSHER, EMPLOYEE WAS USING A CHAIN HOIST TO GET THE ROCK LOOSE. HE HAD HIS HAND ON THE CHAIN TO GUIDE THE HOOK TO THE ROCK. WHEN BRINGING CHAIN UP TO LO OSEN THE ROCK HE DIDNT NOTICE HOW CLOSE HIS HAND WAS TO THE TOP OF THE CHAIN HOIST AND HIS FINGER WENT BETWEEN THE CHAIN AND THE PULLEY TEARING THE SKIN OFF OF HIS FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND
HE WAS REPLACING A BUCKET TOOTH SHANK ON UNIT #112, BEING HELPED BY GENE WEDDLE AND BEN BRANDENBURG. THIS IS A MODULAR LIP ASSEMBLY AND HAS A NUMBER OF PIECES. THE MEN HAD CLEANED ALL THE PIEC ES OF DIRT, DUST, CASTING FLAWS, ETC. TO AID IN REPLACEMENT. IN FACT, THE WEAR CAPS SLID INTO PLACE EASILY. THE TOOTH SHANK WOULD NOT SLIP INTO PLACE AND NECESSITATED JWL\S TAPPING IT INTO PL