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EE IS A DIESEL MECHANIC. EE WAS CLEANING A BRAKE PAD ASSEMBLY ON A 769 HAUL TRUCK. WHILE PLACING THE BRAKE PAD ASSEMBLY INTO A TANK OF SOLVENT THE PAD ASSEMBLY SLIPPED OFF GRATING. EE TRIED T O CATCH IT & IN DOING SO CUT HIS FINGER & THUMB ON THE EDGE OF TH E PAD. THIS INJURY REQUIRED SUTURING ONLY.

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO MOVE A LARGE WATER PUMP BY PULLING THE SUCTION HOSE OUT OF THE WATER. BECAUSE OF THE DEPTH OF THE WATER THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT SQUAT TO USE HIS LEGS TO LIFT THE HOSE, I NSTEAD HE USED HIS B ACK AND STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN THE LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE HAD LIFTED THE HOSE BEFORE AND IT WAS NOT VERY HEAVY BUT TIME HE DID NOT CONSIDER THE WATER IN THE HOSE.

EMPLOYEE WALKED ACROSS PIT FLOOR TO GET BACK ON LOADER AFTER LUNCH. STEPPED UP ONTO LOADER BOTTOM STEP WITH MUD ON HIS FEET. STEP SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIS FOOT. EMPLOYEE CAUGHT HIMSELF ON LA DDER AND SPRAINED HIS BACK MUSCLES. EMPLOYEE DIDNT REPORT INJURY UNTIL NEXT DAY. SPRAIN WAS TO RIGHT SIDE LOWER BACK MUSCLES

EMPLOYEE GOT OUT OF DRILL AND WALKED AROUND TO HAMMER SIDE TO CLEAN WINDOW OF CAB IT APPEARS THAT EMPLOYEE STEPPED UPON THE DRILL CHUCK TO CLEAN THE UPPER WINDOW OF THE CAB EMPLOYEE MAY HAVE L EANED BUT SOMEHOW HIS COVERALL BECAME ENTANGLED INT HE DRILL STEEL THIS PULLED HIM THROUGH THE SPACE BETWEEN THE STEEL AND THE MAST AND WRAPPED HIS RIGTH ARM AND CHEST AROUND THE STEEL

EE WAS PUTTING A HOIST CYLINDER ON A HAUL TRUCK WITH A CRANE. THE HOIST CYLINDER SLIPPED IN T HE CHAIN THAT WAS HOLDING IT & CAUGHT THE EES FINGER LACERATIONG THE INDEX FINGER OF THE RIGHT HAND. THIS INJURY REQUIRED SUTURING ONLY.

EE WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM A DISCHARGE LINE ON A THOMAS PUMP IN ORDER TO REMOVE THE PIPE FREOM THE PUMP. INSTEAD OF REMOVING THE TOP BOLT LAST HE REMOVED THE BOTTOM BOLT LAST. WHEN THE LAST BOLT WAS REMOVED THE PIPE DROPPED & CAUGHT HIS HAND CAUSING A SCRAPING INJURY & LACERATING THE WEB BETWEEN HIS THUMB & FOREFINGER. THIS INJURY REQUIRED SUTURING ONLY.

EMP PICKED UP A 5 GAL. PROPANE TANK & FELT SHARP PAIN IN THE LEFT LOWER QUADRANT OF THE ABDOMINAL AREA. WHEN EXAMINED BY THE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT IN JORDAN VALLEY HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL THE DIAGNOSIS WAS AN INCARCERATED INGUINAL HERNIA, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE IMMEDIATE SURGERY

EMP WAS DOING HIS WORK AS A MINE SHIFT SUPERVISOR, HE HAD EATEN A PORTION OF HIS LUNCH & THOUGHT IT HAD GIVEN HIM INDIGESTION. HE WAS HAVING CHEST PAIN & NUMBNESS OF THE LEFT ARM FOR ABOUT 3 H OURS PRIOR TO COMING TO WORK THAT NIGHT HE ALSO REPORTS HAVING CHEST PAINS AND NUMBNESS SEVERAL DAYS PRIOR TO THIS WHILE SPLITTING WOOD

CHECKING ON CREW,HAD TO WALK UP SLIGHT HILL AND BACK DOWN.HILL WAS SNOW COVERED AND PACKED HARD.SLIPPED ON SNOW-PACK AND BROKE LEFT FIBIA ABOVE ANKLE.

WALKING ACROSS PARKING AREA BEHIND MILL,SLIPPED ON ICE -SNOW PACK AND CAUGHT HIMSELF BEFORE HE FELL TO GROUND...TWISTED HIS BACK AND STRAINED LOWER BACK MUSCLES.UNLOADING CYANIDE .

...FINISHED REPAIRS ON TRUCK AND COMING OUT FROM UNDER TRUCK RAISED UP TOO SOON HIT HEAD ON AIR TANK OF TRUCK.FELL BACK TO GROUND AND HURT HIS BACK.DR SAID COULD HAVE BEEN MUSCLE SPASM BROUGHT ON BY COLD WEATHER.

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER TO CHECK A LEAK WHEN HE RAISED HIS HAND TO GET ANOTHER HAND HOLD HIS SHOULDER SLIPPED OUT OF JOINT THIS SHOULDER HAD BEEN DISLOCATED PREVIOUSLY WHICH WOULD MAKE DISLOCATION MUCH EASIER THIS IS AN AGGRAVATION OF AN OLD INJURY

EMPLOYEE WAS USING A WATER LANCE TO UNPLUG A PLUGGE DUP CYCLONE FEEL LINE SOME OF THE MATERIAL HAD BROKEN LOOSE EMPLOYEE BECAMNE INPATIENT TO UNPLUG THE LINE AND SHOVED THE WATER LANCE FURTHER INTO THE LINE AND STARTED TO PULL MATTER OUT WITH HIS HAND MATERIAL BROKE LOOSE FELL AGAINST HIS HAND AND SLAMMED IT INTO THE BACK SIDE OF THE PIPE BREAKING A BONE IN THE HAND

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A SACK OF PRE-COAT TO THE PRE-COAT MIX TANK, TURNED AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. THIS IS AN AGRAVATION OF AN OLD PRE-EXISTING CONDITION. EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO A DOCTOR WHO SAID T HAT THELIGAMENT DIDN\T APPEAR TO BE TOR SHORTLY AFTER SEEING THE SURGEON.

INJURED WAS DRILLING EXPLORATION HOLE DRILL HOSE KICKED PIPE WRENCH OFF RIG PIPE PIPE WRENCH FELL AND HIT EMPLOYEES HAND WRENCH BROKE BONE IN LEFT HAND PALM

EMP WAS PICKING UP TRUCK TIRE WITH OVERHEAD CARANE WHEN TIRE SLID FORWARD AND KNOCKED EMPLOYEE INTO TRUCK BUMPER. EMP DIDN\T THINK HE WAS HURT AND WAS NOT GOING TO FILL OUT A REPORT BUT DID. BACK BECAME A LITTLE SORE BVUT WAS NOT TOO SORE. A MONTH LATER THE EMP WAS INVOLVED IN A AUTO ACCIDENT IN WHICH HE WAS REAR-ENDED AT 40 MPH BACK WAS SORE AT TIME OF ACCIDENT, HE DIDN\T SEE A

DRIVING 35 TON HAUL TRUCK WENT OVER EMBANKMENT WHEN EMBANKMENT GAVE WAY.OPERATOR OF TRUCK MADE SEMI-CIRCLE TO VISUALLY CHECK PAD,BACKED UP TO EDGE 4-5\ FROM EDGE.EMPL WAS WEARING SEAT BELT AN D SUSTAINED SEVERE CONCUSSION FROM FALL.DR KEPT IN HOSPITAL FOR OBSERVATION AND TESTING.

WHILE PULLING 3 WELL CABLE ATTACHED TO THE SUBMERSIBLE PUMP WAS BEING WRAPPED ONTO A WIRE SPOOL PUMP AND APPROX 80FT OF PIPE CAME LOOSE PULLED CABLE SPOOL OFF STAND STRUCK A GLANCING BLOW TO I NJURED EMPLOYEES KNEES AND KNOCKED HIM AGAINST BUILDING AND TO THE GROUND ON TOP OF SEVERAL LARGE ROCKS INJURED WAS TAKNE TO HOSPITAL FOR XRAYS AND RELEASED FOR WORK THE NEXT DAY

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING TO SHIFT SHACK FROM PIT AREA AND TOOK A SHORT CUT OVER THE AHUL ROAD EMBANKMENT ON THE WAY DOWN THE EMBANKMENT EMPLOYEE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL ON HIS ANKLE CAUSING A SE VERE SPRAIN AND TEARING LIGAMENTS AND TENDONS EMPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY TOED SHOES NOR WERE THEY LACE TYPE BOOTS EMPLOYEE DOD NOT REPORT ACCIENT UNTIL 050483

...EMPL LIFTED TO GABLE OF BLDG WITH CRANE IN BOSUNS CHAIR.CRANE OPERATOR HEARD SNAPPING SOUND,-CRANE HAD TAKEN UP CABLE AND BROKEN IT -EMPL FELL 13\ TO GROUND.

EE WAS HOLDING A 35 TON HAUL TRUCK SHOCK ABSORBER IN PLACE WHILE CO-WORKER DROVE TOP INTO THE SLIP JOINT WITH SLEDGE HAMMER. THE HEAD OF THE SLEDGE HAMMER CAME OFF AS CO-WORKER TOOK ANOTHER W ''''' SWING AT THE SHOCK & HIT IN INJURED EE IN UPPER LEFT CORNER OF MOUTH. THIS INJURY REQUIRED SUTURING ONLY.

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A FLAT TIRE ON A HAULAGE TRUCK WAS USING A TIRE TRUCK WITH A HYDRAULIC BOOM TO RETRIEVE THE TIRE AS CO-WORKER MOVED BOOM TO REACH THE TIRE INJURED EMPLOYEE HAD HAND BETWE EN BOOM AND TIRE RIM BOOM MADE SUDDEN JERKING MOVEMENT AND CAUGHT INJURED EMPLOYEES HAND BETWEEN RIM AND BOOM MINE SHOP EMPLOYEE INJURY REQUIRED SUTURING ONLY

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING THE MILL 2ND OPERATOR CLEAR A LIME LINE WITH AN AIR HOSE 2ND OPERATOR HAND HIS END OF AIR HOSE HOOKED UP WHEN 2ND OPERATOR TURNED TO SEE IF THE OTHER END WAS CONNECTED HE TRIPPED AND FELL AGAINST THE AIR VALVE OPENING THE AIR VALVE THIS CAUSED THE AIR TO KICK LIME BACK INTO INJUREDS EYES EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING REQUIRED SAFETY EQUIPMENT

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING CARDBOARD FILE BOXES WHEN INJURY OCCURRED HE BENT OVER TO LIFT A BOX TO CARRY IT DOWN A FLIGHT OF STEPS TO THE STORAGE ROOM WHEN HE LIFTED THE BOX HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO J V HEALTH CLINIC FOR TREATMENT