EE was moving a large electric motor up a flight of stairs to a shaker at the main crusher and strained his lower back. The strain was enough for a doctor visit. The doctor prescribed muscle relaxants and 3 days of restrictive duty of no more than 10 pounds of lifting.
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Showing all 5While moving from water truck to welding truck, employee stepped on some loose metal pieces causing him to slip and fall to the ground, hitting his forehead.
Handing down screen to lower level storage area, screen caught glove of right hand and hung onto it forcing hand between screen & angle iron safety rail causing cut finger.
The truck was watering pit haul road, driver was going too fast and could not stop the truck. Driver turned truck into road berm and truck rolled over, scrapped truck.
Miner was using old truck seat for a chair. He started to move the seat & as he set down the seat went down pinching off the tip of his finger. His finger was caught between the seat frame and the seat bottom. Cut tip off of middle finger on left hand.