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EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING METAL WHILE CONSTRUCTING A PIPE RACK.SAFETY GLASSES WERE BEING WORN AT THE TIME.
CREW WAS PULLING FENCE POSTS WITH A BACKHOE. POST STRUCK EE IN THE ABDOMEN AREA CAUSING BLUNT TRAUMA AND POSSIBLE FRACTURED RIBS.
FAILED TO UNPLUG GRINDER, HIT GRINDER WHILE WRENCH ON WHEEL
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING OFF A RUBBER TIRE ON 323 FILTER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN BOLT THE WRENCH SLIPPED & HIT EMPLOYEE ON UPPER LIP & TOOTH
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING METAL FROM #1 PRECIP. TANK.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING ON COVERALLS, AND EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
TAKING BOLTS OUT OF A FLANGE CRESENT WRENCH SLIPPED PINCHING FINGER
PREPARING SLUSH TO SLUSHER WHEN SLAB FELL FORM EAST RIB STRIKING ON R FT.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING FACE AROUND, HAD FINISHED DRILLING A BACKHOLE WHEN HE TURNED TO PULL MACHINE AND STEEL OUT OF THE HOLE AND A ROCK FELL FROM THE FACE STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON THE LEFT ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SENDING CHAINS UP PULL ROPE ABOVE BRIDGE CRANE, WHILE LOOKING UP THE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A SMALL FRAGMENT OF METAL IN RIGHT EYE.
MINER WAS USING CHIPPING HAMMER TO BREAK BOULDERS OVER GRIZZLY, THE BOULDER BROKE AND CHIPPING HAMMER STARTED TO FALL THRU GRIZZLY. EMPLOYEE TRIED TO CATCH THE HAMMER AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
WHILE PULLING HEAD OFF SPERRY PRESS HEAD SLIPPED & CAUGHT EMPL FINGER BETWEEN HEAD AND BOLT.EMPL RECD CUT ON RING FINGER REQ 7 STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS PULLING CABLE OFF OF THE #4 SLUSHER WHEN THE CABLE STOPPED DUE TO A BACKLASH.THE ABRUPT STOP CAUSED THE EMPLOYEE TO STRAION HIS ABCK.
LUNG CANCER
CONDITIONS CONTRIBUTING TO ILLNESS AND EXTENT OF ILLNESS ARE UNDETERMINED AT THIS TIME
SILICOSIS
WHILE BACKFLUSHING A MINE SOLUTION PUMP THAT WAS NOT PUMPING PROPERLY MILL RUN MUD SOLUTION BLEW OUT THE TOP OF THE TANK AND CONTACYED EMPLOYEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DR3VING BOLT OUT OF HUB USING A HAMMER.WHEN HE STRUCK THE SHAFT WITH HAMMER,APIECE OF STEEL FLEW OFF HAMMER AND LODGED IN FACE REQUIRING DOCTOR TO REMOVE AND 1 STITCH TO CLOSE WOU ND. 3
X RAY DIAGNOSIS3AS HAVING PNUEMO AFTER THIRTY FIVE YEARS UNDERGROUND MINING
EMPLOYEE WAS FR9EING SHAFT ON VACUUM PUMP USING PIPE WRNECH. WRENCH HANDLE BROKE AND HIT LEG.
EMPL REMOVING V3CTRAULIC COUPLING OFF WATER LINE.WORKING IN AWKWARD POSITION TRYING TO REMOVE NUT FROM BOLT.PUSHING AGAINST WRENCH CAUSED MUSCLE STRAIN IN UPPER BACK.DR RX MUSCLE RELAXANT.
EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NGING TIRE ON RIM USING PNEUMATIC TIRE MACHINE BEAD BREAKER SLIPPED OFF TIRE & CAUGHT WEB OF HAND BETWEEN TIRE & BEAD BREAKER CAUSING CONTUSED WOUND REQUIRING 5 SUTURES TO CLO SE 3
EMPLOYEE WAS GE7TING OUT OF FRONT END LOADER, SLIPPED ON WET STEP BRAKING LEFT HIP.
EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING A DRIFT ROUND.I NAME HAD JUST INSERTED THE PRIMER STICK IN A HOLE ABOUT EYE LEVEL AND WAS PUSHING THE PRIMER STICK INTO HOLE WITH A WOODEN LOADING STICK,AS HIS RIGHT HAND PUSHED LOADING 8TICK INTO THE ABOVE THE HOLE SLICED ACROSS THE BACK OF HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS TH5WING OUT FROZEN LINE; HE PUT PRESSURE TO LINE, THEN REMOVED HOSE.PRESSURE WAS STILL ON LINE CAUSING HIM TO FALL.
MINER WAS LOADI3G LIFTERS AND KNEE HOLES. MINER WAS BENT OVER PLACING POWDER IN HOLES, REACHED OVER TO PICK UP LOADING STICK TO TAMP POWDER AND TWISTED HIS BACK.
EMPL WALKING TH9OUGH DRIFT WHEN LOOSE ROCK FELL FROM ROOF STRIKING HIM ON SHOULDERS AND BACK CAUSING COMPRESS FX TO LUMBAR VERTEBRA #1.
EMP WAS LOOSENING LUG NUTS WITH A PNEUMATIC IMPACT WRENCH WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK HE WAS STANDING WITH IMPACT WRENCH IN HAND AND TURNED TO APPLY THE WRENCH TO THE LUG NUT
REPAIRING 1" AIR HOSE USING HOSE BANDER PUYLLED ON BAND TO T IGHTEN & HAND SLIPPED & SLID OVER BAND CUTTING HAND REQUIRING 8 SUTURES TO CLOSE.
EE WAS CUTTING METAL BRACE LOOS FROM TANK WHILE STANDING ON LADDER TENSION ON BRACE WHEN CUT LOOSE FROM TANK CAUSED LADDER TO MOVE & EE FELL APPROX 8\ TO GROUND CAUSING TRANSVERSE FRACTURE T HRU SURGICAL NECK OF LEFT HUMEROUS.
EE WAS RIPPING A 1"X12" BOARD WITH A 10" RADIAL ARM SAW. HE WAS PUSHING BOARD INTO THE SAW WHEN GLOVE FINGER CAME IN CONTACT WITH SAW BLADE PULLING HAND INTO ROTATING SAW BLADE AMPUTATING END OF 1ST 2ND 3RD FINGERS OF LEFT HAND.
EE WAS CARRYING A ROLL OF CHAIN LINK FENCE TO HIS WORKING AREA HE STEPPED OVER A SLUSHER ROPE & FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK & LEFT SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS BUILDING A VENTILATION BULKHEAD. THAX BEING USED TO DRIVE NAILS GLACED OFF THE WALL AND STRUCK FINGER CAUSING A CONTUSED WOUND TO FINGER WITH COMMUNUTED FRACTURE DISTAL PHALANX LE FT FIRST FINGER.
EMPLOYEE HAD FINISHED DUMPING ORE CARS WITH BOTTOM DUMP DOORS, BEFORE LEAVING THE DUMPING POINT HE LEANED OVER TO CHECK THE CAR DOORS FOR BEING CLOSED. AS HE LEANED OVER HE HIT HIS MOUTH ON TH E CAB OF TRAMMER MOTOR CAUSING THE LOSS OF TWO UPPER INCISORS
THE MINER WAS COLLERING A BACK HOLE WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL AND STRUCK HIM ON THE POINT OF THE CHIN.
EMPLOYEE REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP A PIECE OF METAL AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL A GASKET BETWEEN TWO FLANGES, HE WAS USING A PRY BAR TO SEPARATE THE FLANGES THE BAR SLIPPED OF THE PIPE AND CAUGHT HIS FINGERS BETWEEN THE TWO PIPES CAUSING AVULSION OF NAIL 3RD FINGER AND FRACTURE OF DISATAL PHALANX LEFT 3RD FINGER.
THE MANCHA LOCOMOTIVE COLLIDED WITH A MUCK HAUL LOCOMOTIVE. I NAME BUMPED HIS KNEE ON THE INSIDE OF THE OPERATOR\S CAB UPON IMPACT. THE EXAMINING PHYSICIAN RELEASED HIM FOR IMMEDICATE DUTY BUT THE BRUISED KNEE REQUIRED A RETURN VISIT TO HAVE FLUID DRAINED.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING WITH JUMBO. HE RELEASED FEED MOTOR TO RETRACT STEEL AND THE FEED MOTOR PRESSED AGAINST LITTLE FINGER ON HIS RIGHT HAND CAUSING A LACERATION.
EMPTYING ORE FROM BIN INTO TRUCK ROCK HUNG IN DOOR OPENING BETWEEN DOOR AND FRAME OF BIN PRESSURE FROM DOOR CLOSING CYLINDER BROKE ROCK CAUSING PC TO FLY AND HIT EMPLOYEE UNDER CHIN CAUSING A CONTUSED WOUND REQUIRING 7 SUTURES TO CLOSE WOUND FILLING LOOSE ON ONE MOLAR
EMP WAS ATTEMPTING TO REPAIR SMALL LEAK IN AN ACID LINE AT THE NIM SIX BUILDING LINE CAME LOOSEAT THE POINT OF REPAIR LETING HYUDROCHLOIDRC ACID SPILL ONTO EMP CAUSING A SECOND DEGREE BURN UNDER THE BELT ON THE BACK
EE WAS CARRYING 8X8 TIMBER ONH IS HSOULDER WHEN HE LOSE HIS FOOTING CAUSING TIMBER TO FALL PINNING FINGER BETWEEN THE RIB & TIMBER.
EMPLOYEE WAS ASCENDING INTO CABLOF TRUCK DURING A HIGH WIND STORM DOOR OF TRUCK BLEW SHUT CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL BACKWARD ONTO GROUND FOOT HIT 2INX12IN BOARD ON EDGE CAUSING LINEAR FRACTURE OF THE 5THE METATARSAL
BARRING SLAB FROM BACK IN UNBOLTED AREA 6 FT LONG BETWEEN LAST MATS & FACE LOOSE IN BACK WAS BARRED DOWN BUT LOOSE FROM FACE NEAR BACK CAME IN AND HIT INJURED ON HEAD & RT KNEE WHILE IN AN BALANCED POSITION INJURED WAS BARRING WITH BACK TO FACE IN UNBOLTED AREA
LOADING SMALL AIR HOIST ON FORKS OF FORKLIFT.GROUND WAS COVERED WITH SNOW.FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM.HIT HEAD ON FORK CAUSING CONTUSED WOUMD TO LEFT EYE BROW REQ 5 SUTURTES TO CLOSE.
PREPARING TO MOVE DRILLING EQUIP TO ANOTHER LOCATION.REACHED TO PICK UP ROLL OF HOSE,HAND STRUCK SHARP END OF WIRE CAUSING INCISION TO RT THENAR REGION REQ 4 SUTURES TO CLOSE WOUND.
LUBER WAS CHECKING FUEL NEEDS AND RUNNING CONDITION OF A 4" WATER PUMP IN THE NORTH PITWHEN A SMALL SLIDE OCCURRED. A ROCK WAS DISLODGED AND STRUCK THE LUBER, SMASHING HIS LEG BETWEEN THE PUMP ANDTHE DISLODGED ROCK. THE LUBER WAS FACING AWAY FROM THE WALL WHEN THIS OCCURRED. THE EXTENT OF INJURY WAS AS FOLLOWS; SMASHED LIGAMENTS UNDER THE LEFT KNEE CAP. THE LEFT LEG IS IN A CAST AN
RESPITORY PROBLEMS-ALLEGED SILICOSIS
EMP WAS COUPLING ELECTRIC MOTOR TO TRAIN CAR - MOTOR ROLLED INTO CAR PINCHING INDEX FINGER OF RIGHT HAND BETWEEN COUPLERS. SMASHED AND LACERATED TIP OF INDEX FINGER