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EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING 777S ON SLIGHT INCLINE. BUCKET CIRCA 3/4 OF CAPACITY. BACKED UP TO POSITIONLOADER TO LOAD 777S. HOISTED BUCKET TO CIRCA 1/2HEIGHT. LOADER WAS ARTICULATE. LOADER TIPPED SLI GHTLY UNDER LOAD. AT THAT POINT, OPERATOR STARTED LOWERING BUCKET. BUCKET HIT THE GROUND FORCINGOPERATOR FORWARD. WHEN THE REAR TIRES CONTACTED THE GROUND, OPERATOR HIS SEAT OF LOADER.

WHILE INSTALLING A HOIST CYLINDER ON A 777C CAT HAUL TRUCK A MECHANIC'S LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE CYLINDER AND THE EYES ON THEBED OF THE HAUL TRUCK. INJURIES INCLUDED A BROKEN FINGER AND LACERATION TO THE FINGER.

WHILE REMOVING DRILL RODS TO REPAIR ROTARY HEAD A BROKEN PIECE OF CHAIN FELL FROM TOWER & HIT EEON LEFT LEG-CUTTING & BRUISING CALF AREA. THE WOUND IN HIS LEG WAS CLEANED AT AN ER A DRESSING W AS APPLIED & HE WAS RELEASED TO LIGHT DUTY. HE RETD TO WORK IN AN RWA STATUS THE NEXT SCHEDULEDSHIFT

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FREE A SEIZED LUBRICATION PUMP BY CYCLING THE ROCKER ARM BY HAND. WHEN THE PUMP CYCLED, HIS SECOND DIGIT FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PUMP ARM AND THE LUBE TANK. THE FING ER WAS LACERATED AND REQUIRED STITCHES.

EE HAD ON WET GLOVES & A WET SHIRT. HE GRABBED THE COLD DRILL PIPE. HIS GLOVES STUCK TO THE PIPE & IT WHIPPED HIM AROUND SEVERAL TIMES. IT PULLED & TORE MUSCLES IN HIS SHOULDER.

COLD AND SNOWY CONDITIONS, SERVICE PERSON WAS WALKING FROM HAUL TRUCK TO SERVICE TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED.

EE WAS FILLING GREASE BIN ON LUBRICATION TRUCK FROM A 55 GAL. DRUM. THE LID RING POPPED OFF AND THE LID CAME OFF THE DRUM. THE EE STEPPED BACK TO AVOID BEING HIT BY THE SPILLING GREASE, AND FE LL OFF OF THE BIN ONTO THE LUBE TRUCK DECK, HITTING HIS LEFT FOREARM AND LEFT KNEE.

THE EE WAS MOVING DRILL CASING WITH ANOTHER EE. THE SECOND EE DROPPED HIS END OF THE CASING, REWULTING IN THE INJURED EE S THUMB BEING PINCHED BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF DRILL CASING.

BAD WEATHER - RAIN. EE WAS CLIMBING DOWN FROM THE OPERATOR'S DECK OF A HAUL TRUCK TO THE FUEL TRANK ON THE RIGHT SIDE WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED OFF OF THE GREASER PUMP AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND.

EE WAS LIFTING A TIRE FOR HAUL TRUCK WITH A TIREHANDLER AND WAS MANEUVERING THE TIRE INTO POSITION TO PLACE IT ON THE HAUL TRUCK, WHEN THE TIRE FELL FROM THE JAWS OF THE HANDLER AND STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE

EMPLOYEE WAS CONDUCTING A PRE-OPERATIONAL INSPECTION OF HAUL TRUCK WHEN HE SLIPPED ON SOME ICE, INJURING HIS RIGHT LEG. EMPLOYEE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PENROSE MAIN E.R. AND RELEASED THE SAME NIGH T. EMPLOYEE WAS SEEN ON 4.9.98 BY DR. OF HEALTH QUEST AND RELEASED TO MODIFIED WORK.

A TRUCK DRIVER HAD BCKED UNDER THE SHOVEL AND SPOTTED A BIT TOO FAR AWAY. WHEN THE SHOVEL ATTEMPTED TO LOAD THE TRUCK, THE SHOVEL ARM BANGED INTO THE SIDEBARD CAUSING THE DRIVER TO BE ROCKED F ROM SIDE TO SIDE AND STRIKING HIS LEFT SHOULDER HE WAS EXAMINED AT PENROSE ET ON 3/14 AND RELEASED TO RESTRICTED DUTY. HE WAS RECHECKED AT.

2 EE'S WERE UNLOADING HW RODS OFF OF THE TRAILER AND PUTTING THEM IN THE ROD SHOP. INJURED PUT HIS END IN AND STILL HAD HIS HAND INSIDE ROD WHEN CO-WORKER PUSHED ON THE ROD SMASHING HIS LEFT R ING FINGER.

EE WAS WALKING OUT OF DRILL SHACK CARRYING BQ RODS WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL. THE RODS HE WAS CARRYING HIT HIM IN THE CHEST.

A SAMPLE PREP TECHNICIAN COMPLAINED OF NUMB HANDS AND PAIN IN HER ARMS ON AND OFF FOR THE LAST 6 MONTHS. SHE WAS SEEN AT HEALTHQUEST AND DIAGNOSED WITH BILATERAL CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRAVELING DOWN THE HAUL ROAD WHEN HE WEN TTHROUGHA SWELL CAUSING THE SEAT TO EXTEND TO ITS UPPER LIMIT AND THEN RETURNED TO NORMAL POSITION. EMPLOYEE EXPERINCED SOME LOWER BACK PA IN AT THIS TIME. WHEN EMPLOYEE REPORTED TE INCIDENT AT 3:45 AM HE WAS TRANSPORTED TP PENROSE ER. BY AMBULANCE. X-RAYS OF LUMBAR AND CERVICAL SPINE WERE NORMAL. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A LUMBAR

EMP WAS CLIMBING THE LADDER ON A HAUL TRUCK WHEN HE LOST HIS GRIP AND FELL BACKWARD. LANDED ON ROCK AND BRUISED LOW BACK. WAS TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO PENROSE ER. XRAYS OF LUMBAR, THORACIC AND CERVICAL SPINES WERE NORMAL. WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A BRUISE TO LUMBAR SPINE. WAS SEEN BY DE NEXT DAY AND WAS REMOVED FROM WORK. HAS MISSED TWO SHIFTS. WAS SEEN 8-22. RELEASED LIGHT DUTY 8-25

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A SAFETY VALVE FROM THE HOT WATER BOILER WHEN IT FLASHED AND STEAM CAME FROM THE VALVE FITTING. EMPLOYEE WAS BURNED ON HIS RIGHT FOREARM. HE WAS EXAMINED BY THE PARAMEDIC S AT THE CRIPPLE CREEK AMBULANCE SERVICE. TREATMENT WAS AUTHORIZED AT LANGSTAFF-BROWN ER AND BY BUD HODGE, D.O. THE BURN WAS DEBRIDED AND DRESSED AT LANGSTAFF AND EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK.

EMP WAS CUTTING 4" PIPE WITH PIPE CUTTER WHEN FELT PAIN IN RT SHOULDER. WAS EXAMINED BY D.O. ANDDIAGNOSED WITH TORN ROTATOR CUFF. EMP WAS WORKING IN SUSPENDED MAN BASKET AND WAS POSITIONED AT END OF PIPE. AS RESULT, PIPE CUTTER WAS BEING TURNED WITH ARM STRENGTH. NORMAL USE OF PIPE CUTTER WOULD BE FROM SIDE OF PIPE AND UPPER BODY USEDTO TURN CUTTER. EXAMINED AND RELEASED TO WORK.

EE HAD JUST STARTED AN INGERSOLL RAND DRILL. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN OFF THE AIR DRAIN VALVE ON THE AIR RECEIVER WHEN DIRT BLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE. HE ATTEMPTED TO IRRIGATE THE EYE, BUT WITH OUT SUCESS. AT THE MEDICAL CNTR AN IMBEDDED FOREIGN BODY WAS REMOVED FROM THE CORNEA. ANTI BACTERIAL DROPS WERE APPLIED AND HE WAS RELEASED TO WORK. THE EYE WAS NOT PATCHED. SAFETY GLASSES WE

YEE WAS STEAM CLEANIGN THE FLOOR OF A HUAL TRUCK CAB. HE WA SOPERATING THE SPRAY AND WITH HIS RIGHT HAND AND HOLDING THE HIGH PRESSURE WATER SUPPLY HOSE WITH HIS LEFT HAND. WHEN HE RELEASED THE TRIGGER ON THE WAND, HIGH PRESSURE WATER WAS INJECTED INTO HIS LEFT HAND FROM A HOLE IN THE HOSE BUT FAILED TO NOTIFY HSI SUPERVISOR OR REPAIR THE HOSE.

EE WAS UNLOADING A DRILL HAMMER FROM THE BACK OF A PICKUP WITH THE SANDLINE WINCH. WHEN HE TRIED TO STEADY THE HAMMER IN PLACE, THE MOMENTUM PUSHED HIS HAND INTO THE DRILL RIG, BREAKING THE TI P OF THE LEFT HAND RING FINGER AND REQUIRING 10 STITCHES TO CLOSE.

EMP WAS RIDING TO THE PIT IN THE SCHOOL BUS WITHHIS RIGHT LEG TUCKED UNDER HIS BODY. WHEN THE BUS WENT OVER A BUMP, HIS WEIGHT CAME DOWN ON HIS ANKLE, RESULTING IN A SEVERE SPRAIN. A CAST WAS APPLIED AND HE WAS RELEASED TO FULL DUTY. PAIN IN ANKLE, HOWEVER, PREVENTED HIM FROM DRIVING TRUCK. CAST REMOVED 8-20 AND HE WAS RELEASED TO DRIVING. NO FRACTURE. WILL BE RESTRICTED DUTY CASE.

EMP WAS CUTTING NEW PLASTIC DRIPPER LINE WITH A UTILITY KNIFE, WHEN THE DRIPPER LINE BUCKLED ANDCAUSED THE KNIFE TO SLIP, CUTTING THE PALM OF LEFT HAND. WOUND SUTURED. RETURNED TO FULL DUTY

HE FELL INTO THE ANCHOR TRENCH AND LOST HIS FOOTING BECAUSE OF MUDDY GROUND, CAUSING A HAIRLINE FRACTURE TO HIS HIS FIBULA.

EMP WAS USING UTILITY KNIFE TO CUT LINER, WHICH WAS TO BE INSTALLED IN LEAK DETECTION TRENCH. WAS HOLDING LINER WITH LFT HAND, CUTTING WITH RT HAND. KNIFE CUT THROUGH LINER EASIER THAN ANTICIP ATED. CUT THROUGH LINER STRIKING LFT HAND, CAUSING LACERATION ON LATERAL SIDE LFT HAND.

EMP WAS TURNING HIS HAUL TRUCK ON TO A DUMP WHENHE CLAIMS THAT HIS SHOULDER POPPED OUT OF JOINT.HE WAS EXAMINED AT CLINIC IN CRIPPLE CREEK AND RETURNED TO RESTRICTED WORK ACTIVITY.

EE WAS WORKING OFF OF LADDER, USING TORCH TO CUT FASTENERS SO HE COULD CHANGE OUT TEFLON LINER ON GRIZZLEY SHUTE, THE LADDER SLIPPED, EE WHILE TRYING TO STABLIZE HIMSELF AND LADDER, PASSED TOR CH ACROSS LT. ARM JUST ABOVE WRIST RESULTING IN BURN INJURY. EE NEGLECTED TO TIE OFF LADDER AS REQUIRED BY SAFETY POLICIES.

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON A MUCK PILE TO LAY OUT ORE CONTROL STAKES. HE SLIPPED ON BROKEN MATERIAL AND FELL. THE INDEX FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND WAS DISLOCATED AS A RESULT.

EE WAS RUNNING UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS WHEN HE HIT HIS HEAD ON A LOW BEAM. THE BEAM HAD BEEN INSTALLED 2 DAYS PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT AND HAD BEEN PAINTED TO WARN PERSONS USING THE STAIRS. THE S TAIRS WERE SCHEDULED OT BE LOWERED THE DAY FOLLOWING THE ACCIDENT. EE RECEIVED A TRIGGER POINT INJECTION ON 4-29-96 FOR TREATMENT OF LOW BACK MUSCLE PAIN.

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A LOADER IN A HARD DIG FACE WHEN HE EXPERIENCED LOW BACK PAIN. MEDICAL TREATMENT INCLUDED A SINGLE TRIGGER POINT INJECTION/ AND INJECTION OF TORADOL AND A SOURCE OF ORAL ORAL TORADOL.

EE WAS DUMPING 55 GALLON DRUMS OF WASTE DRILL SAMPLES WHEN HE SUFFERED A PAIN IN HIS GROIN. HE WAS EXAMINED AT THE LOCAL CLINIC ON 3-13-96 AND DIAGNOSED WITH A GROIN MUSCLE STRIAN. A SECOND

IN THE PROCESS OF FABRICATING A HYDRAULIC HOSE, EE IMPROPERLY PERFORMED THE PROCEDURES FOR INSTALLING A FITTING ON A HOSE. THE DIE CAME OUT OF THE MACHINE, STRIKING HIS HEAD ABOVE THE RIGHT EY E. FIVE STITCHES WERE REQUIRED TO CLOSE THE WOUND. HE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED BACK TO WORK.

HE WAS USING AN AIR POWERED DIE GRINDER TO PREPARE A PIECE OF METAL FOR WELDING. AIR FROM THE DIE GRINDER BLEW DUST INTO HIS FACE AND UNDER HIS SAFETY GLASSES. TWO PIECES OF FOREIGN MATERIAL W AS REMOVED FROM HIS LEFT EYE.

A PROCESS PLANT OPERATOR WAS LOOSENING THE BOLTS ON A VALVE WHEN CAUSTIC SOLUTION SPRAYED BEHIND HIS FULL FACE SHIELD AND INTO HIS EYE. HE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES UNDER THE FULL FACE SHIELD . HIS EYE WAS IRRIGATED AND TOPICAL OINTMENT INSTILLED.

EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING DOWN OFF OF A D-9N WHEN HIS FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM ON MUD CAUSING HIS RIGHT ARM TO BE JAMMED INTO HAND GRAB RAIL HE WAS HOLDING ONTO. THIS RESULTED IN A FRACTURE TO HIS RIGHT THUMB.

EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE A NUT BY STRIKLING A CRESCENT WRENCH WITH A 5 LB. SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN THE HAMMER HEAD GLANCED OFF THE WRENCH. THE TIP OF THE RT. INDEX FINGER WAS PINCHED BETWE EN THE HAMMER HANDLE AND A PIECE OF STEEL RESULTING IN A SUPERFICIAL LACERATION. 1ST AID WAS ADMINISTERED ON SITE, MEDICAL TREATMENT REFUSED. EEWENT TO ER NEXT DAY, GIVEN CODIENE & 2 DAYS OFF

INJURED WAS REMOVING A WHEEL SPINDLE FROM A PICKUP WHEN HE STRUCK HIS ELBOW ON THE FRONT FENDER OF THAT PICKUP.EARLY DIAGNOSIS WAS A STRAINED ELBOW.SINCE THEN,HE HAS INTERMITTENTLY SOUGHT MEDI CAL ADVICE AS HIS ELBOW CONTINUES TO BOTHER.AT THE LAST MEDICAL VISIT,A CORTISONE SHOT WAS ADMINISTERED TO HIS ELBOW.

EE WAS USING A UTILITY KNIFE TO CUT RUBBER MATERIAL. AS THE KNIFE CAME FREE OF THE MATERIAL, THE KNIFE CUT DEEPLY INTO HIS RT THIGH. THE LACERATION WAS SUTURED AND A TETNAS SHOT WAS ADMINISTER ED. ANTIBIOTICS WERE PROVIDED AS A PROPHYLACATIC MEASURE.

EE WAS PLACING A WHEEL CHOCK INTO THE HOLDER ON THE HAUL TRUCK. IT WEDGED, SHE PUSHED IT BACK UP AND IT FELL DOWN INTO THE HOLDER, PINCHING HER FINGER BETWEEN THE CHOCK AND THE HOLDER. SHE WAS TREATED AT LANGSTAFF-BROWN MEDICAL CENTER, AND RELEASED BACK TO WORK.

EE STATES WHILE INSTALLING COOLER ON RIG, HE INJURED HIS BACK. HE DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT AT THAT TIME, DETAILS UNKNOWN.

EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING NYLON TIE STRAPS THAT WERE SECURING CORRIGATED HDPE PIPE WITH A POCKET KNIFE. WHEN THE STRAP WAS CUT THROUGH THE KNIFE SLIPPED RESULTING IN A LACERATION TO THE BASE OF THE RIGHT THUMB INJURING THE EXTENSION TENDON.

VICTIM WAS ON OVER-THE-ROAD TRUCK DRIVER DELIVERING A BOOM TRUCK TO INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTORS, A CONTRACTOR BEGINNING WORK AT THE MINE SITE. HIS EMPLOYER WAS WESTRON TRUCKING OUT OF MONTANA. HE HAD COMPLETED UNLOADING A BOOM TRUCK & WAS SITTING IN HIS TRACTOR TRAILER CAB WHEN HE SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK. HE EXPIRED AT APPROX 10:30AM.

AT APPROX 1:23 PM A BLAST PREMATURELY DETONATED DURING THE NORMAL COURSE OF A BLASTING SEQUENCE.BLOCKERS HAD BEEN SET AND THE BLAST AREA WAS CLEARED. AS THE BLAST WARNING SIREN WAS BEING BROADCAST OVER THE RADIO, THE BLASTER ENTERED THE BLASTING MACHINE"ARMING" SEQUENCE INTO THE BLASTING TRANSCEIVER(5 DIGIT CODE) APPROX 10 SECAFTER THE "ARMING" CODE WAS ENTERED, THE BLAST

EMPLOYEE WAS CONNECTING THE HOSE FROM THE WATER TANK TO THE WATER TRUCK. IN HASTE TO CONNECT THE HOSE, EMPLOYEE SMASHED HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN THE HOSE CONNECTOR AND A SMALL UTILITY TR AILER THE HOSE WAS LAYING NEXT TO. THIS RESULTED IN A LACERATION REQUIRING THE REMOVAL OF THE FINGER NAIL AND 5 STITCHES.

EE WAS TRAINING ON THE DOZER; PUSHING THE LEACH PAD. AFTER FINISHING THE PROJECT, EE DISMOUNTED FROM THE DOZER. IN DOING SO, EE STEPPED DOWN ON AN UNEVEN GROUND AREA, CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

WAS LOOKING FOR PULL BOXES, TRENCH WAS DUG, SIZE 36"X48X48. BENCH GAVE WAY. EMPLOYEE FELL WITH SHOVEL IN RIGHT HAND. EMPLOYEE STRUCK FOREHEAD ON A ROCK. SMALL LACERATION ONE RIGHT SIDE OF FOREHEAD.

EE WAS REMOVING A LARGE ROCK BY HAND THAT WAS JAMMING THE GYRATORY CRUSHER WHEN EE SET THE ROCK BACK DOWN HE REALIZED HE HAD HURT HIS BACK

EE HAD MOVED A DOZER OUT OF THE BLASHING AREA. WHEN EE DISMOUNTED FROM THE DOZER, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE. THE INJURY WAS NOT REPORTED UNTIL APPROX 17 DAYS AFTER IT HAPPENED.

INJURED WAS ASCENDING A MUCK PILE AT THE CRUSHERUSING A SHOVEL AS A STAFF. WHEN INJURED ADVANCED PAST THE SHOVEL, THE ANGLE ALLOWED HIS SHOULDERTO DISLOCATE. INJURED HAD SURGERY ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER IN 1969 AND HAD REINJURED IT IN 1978.