EE WAS INSTALLING CONDUIT IN MINE ENTRANCE. A PIECE OF CONDUIT HIT A SIDE OF THE WALL IN THE MINE. A ROCK FELL HIT HIS ARM, CUTTING HIS RIGHT FOREARM AND REQUIRING STITCHES. EE WAS RELEASED B Y DR TO RETURN TO WORK THE NEXT DAY.
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Showing all 49MAN SERVICING UNIT #509. HE WAS CHANGE TRASMISSION FILTERS. WRENCH SLIPPED OFF BOLT CUTTING FINGER BETWEEN 2ND KNUCKLE AND PALM. WE CLEANED CUT WITH ANTISEPTIC AND BANDAGED.
WAS LIFTING ELECTRIC MOTOR WHEN CHAIN CAME LOOSE AND STRUCK HIM ON SHOULDER AND WRIST. ACCIDENT HAPPENED BECAUSE CHAIN WAS IMPROPERLY HOOKED.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPAIRING THE JAMMED, OVERHEAD DOORCHAIN WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL BACKWARDS, LANDING ON THE SHOP AIR COMPRESSOR INJURING HIS BACK.
INSTALLING A NEW METAL CHUTE AT JAW CRUSHER USING A CHAIN HOIST FOR LIFTING CHUTE. IN RAISING CHUTE CHAIN HOIST SLIPPED OFF OFF WHERE IT WAS ATTACHED. THE CHUTE FELL ON EE FOOT BEDING HIS STEEL TOE SHOES &BREAKING HIS TOES ON HIS RIGHT FOOT.
VICTIM WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN DRILL HAMMER. STRUCK DRILL WILL COMMON HAMMER AND HAMMER BROKE. AS THE HANDLE BROKE VICTIM S HAND TRAVELED BEYOND STINGER AND STRUCK SHARP EDGE OF DRILL FRAME.
ENGINE HAD BEEN REPLACED ON R-35 TRUCK & THE HOOD WAS BEING PLACED ON SAME VICTIM WAS HELPING TO LOWER HOOD ONTO TRUCK WHEN HE STEPPED ON FOREIGN OBJECT ON TOP OF FENDER & FELL ABOUT 8FT ONTO RIP-RAP PILE
VICTIM A LOADER OPERATOR, DISMOUNTED TO ASSIST MECHANICS IN LIFTING WHEEL AND HUB ONTO FRONT AXEL OF EUCLID HAUL TRK. WITH ALL THREE PERSONS HOLDING WHEEL IN VERTICAL POSITION, THE WHEEL FELL TOWARD VICTIM, STRIKING HIM IN THE CHEST AND TRAPPING BOTH LEGS UNDER THE WHEEL.
SOMETIME DURING THIS WEEKEND, THE ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER CAUGHT FIRE & BURNED PARTIALLY FROM UNDERNEATH TRANSFORMER. NO ONE WAS WORKING SINCE THIS WAS A WEEKEND.
THE ALLEDGED WITHIN CLAIMS WHILE TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED BY FRONT END LOADER A LARGES WAS DUMPED INTO THE TRUCK BED IN TURN CAUSING A WHIPLASH TO ALLEDGED VICITM HE DID NOT REPORT POSSIBLE INJU RY UNTIL 2 PM AND WAS SENT HOME IMMIDIATLY.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A FRONT END LAODER WHEN BUCKET HUNG ONTO TIGHT ROCK. THE STEERING WHEEL SPUN, CATCHING LEFT THUMB AND BENDING IT BACKWARDS.
PARTY PICKED UP A STONE AND TOSSED ITTO THE SIDE.EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN WHEN RELEASING STONE.
WHILE REMOVING LOOSE MATERIAL FROM THE MINE WALL EE HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SCALING BAR AND THE MAN LIFT BASKET.
CHANGING DRILL STEEL STRUCK BY PR OC LIMESTONE
USING BAR TO REMOVE BOOSE MATERIAL FROM LIMESTONE WALL EXPER PAIN UPPER BACK
WHILE USING A HAMMER TO STRIKE A U-JOINT CAP INTO PLACE A SMALL METAL SHARD FLEW FROM THE SHAFT YOKE AND EMBEDDED IN EMPLOYEE'S R SHOULDER.
EMPL OPENING METAL BIN DOOR ON SIDE OF HOPPER-TYPE PIECE OF EQUIP WHEN EXPERIENCED DISCOMFORT IN UPPER BACK.
WHILE CHANGING THE HAMMER ON A PNEUMATIC DRILL, ELMPLOYEE'S LEFT HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE FALLING STRIKING BAR AND A STANTIONARY SECTON OF THE ASSEMBLY, RESULTING IN EIGHT SUTURES AND TWO B REAKS OF THIS THIRD FINGER.
I.NAME WAS CLEANING ROCK DEBRIS OUT OF THE PUG MILL TUNNEL. AS HE MOVED OSME MATERIAL WITH HIS HAND, HE WAS BITTIN BY A RAT. AS HE WALKED OUT OF THE TUNNEL, HIS HEAD STRUCK A WASP NEST AND HE RECIEVED A BEE STING.
INJURED WAS REMOVING DRILL STEEL FROM HIS DRILL.A SECTION OF STEEL THAT HE WAS HOLDING AND THOUGHT HAD DISCONNECTED,ROTATED AND CAUGHT HIS THUMB BETWEEN THE STEEL AND MAST.
I.NAME TURNED OVER A SKID STEER LOADER WHILE CLEANING DEBRIS OUT FROM UNDER THE FEEDER AND JAW CRUSHER.
ASSISTING IN REPAIRING CHUTE ADJUSTING AND SIZING MEAL PATCH IT DROPPED ON END OF R THUMB
HE HAS A HEART ALIMENT WHICH CAUSES AN ARRHTHAMIA AND AN INCREASE IN HIS BLOOD PRESSORE. IT GENNARLY RELEIVES ITSELF AFTER A SHART REST. HE WAS MOVING BAGS OF ANFO WHEN IT CAME ON. IT DOD N OT RELEIVE ITSELF AFTER A SHRT REST.AND HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. HE WAS RELEAVE TO RETURN TO WORK THE FOLLOWING MORNING.
EMPL CUT IS LEG WITH KNIFE WHILE CUTTING PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELT.
I.NAME CLEARING SNOW FROM OFFICE PARKING LOT WITH FRONT END LOADER.SLIPPED & FELL WHILE WALKING TO LOADER.
USING PRY BAR TO MOVE LG ROCK IN JAW CRUSHER ROCK JUMPED STRUCK BAR, THREW BAR AND HAND BACK AGAINST THE GUARD RAIL
WORKING ON HAMMERHILL HAMMERS NOT PROP HAMMER ROTATED DOWN STRIKING HIM
HOSPITALIZED FOR HEART ATTACK 4-3-89.VARIOUS OTHER NON-WORK RELATED DIAGNOSES PRECEDED THIS.
DIAG SILICOSIS BY DR 5-16-89.ROCK DRILLED IS 10% INSOLUABLES,SILICA,CLAY,ETC, .
I NAME SLIPPED AND FELL ON A SCREEN WHILE CHANGING CLOTH HE HURT HIS BACK BUT DID NOT WANT TO SEE A DR ON NO 23 88 HE WAS HELPING CHANGING A TRUCK TIRE. HIS BACK BEGAIN TO HURT AFTER LIFTING T HE TIRE. HE WENT TO CHIROPRACTOR ON 11-25-88.
I.NAME WAS ASSISTING IN CHANGING A TRUCK TIRE WHEN HE FELT HIS BACK CRAMP UP
HE TRIPPED OVER A ROCK AND LANDED ON HIS RIGHT KNEE.
HE WAS ASSISTING IN WELDING REPAIRS TO HIS DRILL AND APPARENTLY CAUGHT A WELDING FLASH. HE PAIN BEGAN DURING THE NIGHT.
HE CLAIMS THAT HE INJURED HIS BACK BY PICKING UP A BIG ROCK.
I NAME WAS ASSISTING IN REPLACING A SCREEN MOTOR HE BENT OVER AND BEGAN TO LIFT AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK.
I NAME HAD JUST3EXITED MANLIFT BASKET AFTER LOADING A HEADER SHOT WHEN HE W AS STRUCK BY SEVERAL FALLING ROCKS. IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER THE ROCK BURST OR WAS JUST FALLING. I NAME DID NOT SEE I NOR DID A COWOR5ER. COWORKER OBSERVED PART OF INCIDENT (FURTHER INVESTIGATION - ROCK FALL
AFTER PARTIALLY3OBSERVING THE 2 NAME ACCIDENT, I NAME WENT TO I NAMES ASISTANCE. WHEN HE ARRIVED I NAME WAS LEAVING. AFTER EXITING THE MINE AND CALMING DOWN, HE NOTICED RT SIDE STINGING AND DI DISCOVERED A BR6ISE SEE ATTACHED REPORTS AND STATMENT
AFTER ATTEMPTIN1 TO START A STACKING CONVEYOR AND REPLACING TWO BLOWN FUSES BLOW IN SUCESSION I NAME AND II NAME SHOVELED OUT THE FEED BOX TO RELIEVE THE BELT. II NAME REATTEMPTED TO START THE BELT 3 TIMES. O3 FILING, HE RETURNED TO FIND HIM UNCONSCIOUS NEAR THE BASE TAILPULLEY OF THE BELT HE IS BELIEVE TO HAVE BEEN ELECTROCHTED DUE TO A BLOWN TO GROUND MOTOR.
I.NAME BEGAN TO3HAVE SOME SORENESS IN HIS BACK AFTER RETURNING HOME FORM WROK. HIS JOB AS A STOCKPILER REQUIRES HIM TO REPEATEDLY PULL TOCK BINS. ONE OF WHICH WAS A NEWLY INSTALLED DOOR WHICH WASN'T SLIDING3RIGHT MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO OPEN. THE LEVER IS PULLED UP & OUT
I.NAME WAS ASSI8TING IN THE REMOVAL OF A CONE CRUSHERS ROCK BOX. AFTER THE BOX WAS SET ON THE GROUND HE REMOVED THE CHAINS USED TO ATTACH IT TO THE LIFT BOOM. THE ROCK BOX THEN FELL ON HIS LEF T FOOT-REASON U3KNOWN AS THE BOX WAS FIRMLY ON THE GROUND.
HE WAS SCALING 5OOSE GROUND FROM THE MINE CEILING WITH A HEAVEY STEEL BAR. WHEN THE GROUND CAME DOWN, HE LOST HIS GRIP WITH HIS LEFT HAND, CATCHING THE WEIGHT OF THE BAR WITH RIGHT THE FALLIN G SWINGING MOTI2N OF THE BAR JAMMED HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
I NAME WAS USING A COME A LONG TO LIFT A JAW CRUSHER TOGGLE PLATE THE CAME A LONG HANDLE BROKE CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE THE BACK OF THE CRUSHER WITH HIS RIGHT HAND WHILE HOLDING THE HANDLE OFF 10 -8-85 TO SEE DR AND HAVE X RAY.
9-30-85 - REMOVING R-22 EUC HUB - RELT TIGHTNESS IN BACK.
I.NAME WAS CHEC5ING WATER LEVEL IN HIS LOADERS RADIATOR HE RELEASED PRESSURE PRIOR TO OPENING CAP BUT STEAM WAS RELEASED WHEN HE REMOVED THE CAP BURNING HIS FACE & RT ARM SHOULD RETURN TO WORK 093085-OFF BECA6SE MEDICATION MAY CAUSE DROWSINESS & SWELLING AROUND EYE
I NAME WAS PREPARING TO REPAIR A CONVEYOR BELT HE HAD MUD ON HIS BOOTS AND SLIPPED ON THE BELT AND FELL 15-20 FEET HIS FEET THEN FALLING TO THE GROUND.
I.NAME WAS GREASING THE PRIMARY PLANT. THE PLACED HIS HAND ON THE JAW CRUSHER MOTOR V-BELT PULLEY, THE PULLEY MOVED CATCHING HIS HAND IN THE PINCH POINT
I NAME WAS WALKING THROUGH THE YARD WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL MUST WEAR AN ELASTIC FOR 6 MONTHS.
I NAME WAS HELPING THE MECHANIC REBUILD A HOIST CYCLINDER THE TOP OF THE CYLINDER CAME OFF FELL AND STRUCK HIS LEFT HAND.
MR. IVERS WAS STINGING ELECTRIC CABLE FOM THE BUCKET OF A MAN LIFT. THE CABLE WAS TIED OFF WITH A ROPE THE ROPE BROKE AND MR. GRABBED THE CABLE TO PREVENT IT FROM DROPPING TO THE GROUND.