EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON HAY BOLES WHILE MOVING HAY BOLES FROM BACK A TRAILER TO FRONT. BALES GAVE WAY EMPLOYEE FELL OFF TRAILER. LENDING ON SHOULDER, LEFT SHOULDER WAS DISLOCATED.
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Showing 50 of 98EMPLOYEE WAS OPENING ROLLUP GARAGE DOOR. DOOD SLIPPED OFF TRACK & CLOSED. CLOSING DOOR PULLED EMPLOYEE FORWARD TWISTING LOWER BACK.
STEPPED OFF 950 CAT LOADER ONTO ROCK COVERED WITH SNOW. TIWSTED RIGHT ANKLE.
EMPL UNLOADING TIRE FROM FLATCAR.IT SLIPPED FROM HIS GRIP AND FELL ON LEFT FOOT.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGES HE LIFTED A BOX OF DRILL CORE & SPRAINED HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING A COWL ON AN LH LOADER WHEN IT SLIPPED CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE COWL AND ENGINE FRAME.
EMPL LIFTED ENGINE COWEL ON LHD TO DO SOME MAINT. WORK, TURNED AWAY MOMENTARILY & COWEL DROPPED STRIKING HIM ON TWO FINGERS OF HIS LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM A 7 TON TRUCK,HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE STEP AND HE FELL STRIKING HIS FOREHEAD AGAINST THE RIB.
EMPLOYEE HAD JUST BOARDED A MUCK MOTOR WHEN THE VENTILATION AIR BLEW FOREIGN MATERIAL INTO HUS EYE.
EMPLOYEE STEPPED ON A BROKEN BOARD AND FELL WITH AN ENGINE PART IN HIS HAND.THE ENGINE PART LANDED ON HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT INJURY UNTIL 04-15-88 WAS SENT TO DR X-RAY DISCLOSED FRACTURE.
EMPLOYEE WAS HANGING VENTILATION TUBING FROM THE BELT OF AN UNDERGROUND HAUL TRUCK SLIPPED & AFELL APPROX 4' TO THE SILL LANDING ON HIS BACK.
ALLEGED INJURY(SMALL WIRE POKED THRU WORK BOOT DURING SHIFT 04-01-88 CAUSED MINOR INFECTION IN LEFT FOOT.
JUMPED FROM STOPPED LOCI IN THE FACE OF EMMINENT COLLISION FROM LOOSE ORE CARS
LOADED ORE CARS BECAME UNCOUPLED BROKE THE SAFETY CHAIN AND APPROX 400 FT INSIDE THE PORTAL AND ROLLED TOT HE SURFACE THE TRACK CREW HAD THROWN THE SWITCH IN PREPARATION TO ENTER THE MINE THE FREE WHEELING ORE CARS STRUCK THE LOCI THAT THE TWO MEN WERE PREPARING TO BRING IN BOTH JUMPED FROM LOCI BEING INJURED WHEN THEY FELL TO THE FRGROUND
ONE OF OUR EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING WITH A JACKLEG WHEN IT SUDDENLY QUIT PUSHING HE ATTEMPTED TO HELP HIM AND PUSHED THE MACHINE UP. THE 2ND STAGE OF THE LEG SHEARED IN HALF, THE SHEARED AND SHO T DOWN STRICKING HIM ON THE ANKLE.
EMP WAS BARRING BOULDERS IN CHUTE, BOULDERS CAME DOWN AND SLIPPED BAR UP, BAR HIT EMP ABOVE RT EYE
DRIVING ELEC LOCI,CAR DERAILED AND HUNG UP ON CMAMEL BACK.THIS STOPPED MOTOR CAUSING BATTERY BOX TO MOVE FORWARD PINCHING I.NAME HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING IN PARKING LOT AND SLIPPED ON ICE
I NAME WAS WALK3NG AWAY FROM HIS PARTNER WHEN HIS PARTNER DROPPED JACK LEG ON THE BACK OF HIS LEFT CALF AND ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS UN5OADING VALUES AND PLACING THEM OR A SHELF. HE PICKED UP AND VALVE AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED TWISTING HIS BODY.
WHILE BARRING D2WN OFF MUCK PILE A ROCK THAT MARK BARRED DOWN ROLLED DOWN MUCK PILE STRIKING MARK ON THE ANKLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING RAIL WITH RAIL TONGS THE TONGS SLIPPED CAUSING THE EMPLOYEE TO FALL ON HIS BUTTOCKS INJURING HIS TAIL BONE.
GRINDER BECAME 4AMMED BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF METAL AND THE GRINDER "KICKED-BACK" AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER. EMPLOYEE WAS TREATED AT THE MINE SITE FIRST-AID STATION AND REQUIRED NO FURTHER TREATMENT T. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS LE5NING A ROCKDRILL AGAINST THE RIB & HAD HIS FINGER INSIDE THE DRILL STEEL RETAINER-THE DRILL TWISTED AND CAUGHT HIS FINGER IN THE RETAINER & PINCHED IT AGAINST THE ROCK WALL.
EMPLOYEE WAS DI8MOUNTING MANTRIP(MUCK TRAIN) SLIPPED AND STRUCK HIS BACK AGAINST THE COUPLERS(PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION).
EMPL WALKING DO4N DECLINE RAMP EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS KNEE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING HOIST & SUDDENLY EXPERIENCED PAIN IN THE NECK AS WELL AS TINGLING SENSATION IN HIS RT ARM.
EMPLOYEE ALLEGE8 WHEN CHANGING DRILL STEEL IN A JACKLEG DRILL HIS PARTNER CLOSED THE CHUCK STEEL RETAINER ON HIS FINGER.
WAS LIFTING ON 7ONCRETE MACHINE TO PUT CONVEYOR IN PLACE AND IT SLIPPED HITTING LIP.
DRILLING OVER H5ND STEEL CAME OUT O F AMCHINE, FELL OUT OF DRILL HOLE HITTING EMPLOYEE ON THE FAST.
LIFTING MOTOR O6T OF TRUCK
STANDING ON DRI5L SLIPPED & FELL LANDING ON RIGHT LEG
STOOD A 6X8 AGA3NST THE RIB AND A CABLE EMPLOYEE THAN THREW A WATER HOSE OVER THE CABLE CAUSING THE CABLE TO KNOCK OVER THE 6X8, HITTING EMPLOYEE ON HEAD.
OPERATOR DROVE 4UCKER TO CLOSE TO A ROUND
DRILLING FACE S7EEL HUNG COMING OUT OF HOLE PULLING BACK ON DRILL IT RELEASED I.NAME FELL BACKWARDS AND MACHINE LANDED ON TOP OF HIM
WHILE COUPLING 5OCI. TO A STRING OF CARS, HE PINCHED RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE DRAW BAR AND LOCI.
MUCKING WITH LH8, RAN OVER A ROCK AND HAD A SHARP PAIN IN LEFT SIDE.
EMPL MOVING DES5 AND DROPPED IT ON HIS FOOT.
EMPL CLEANING B9OKEN MUCK FROM DRIFT FACE WHEN ROCK FELL FROM THE BACK AND STRUCK EMPL NEAR RIGHT HIP.
EMPL FILLING LI4E HOPPER,LIME DUST GOT UP UNDE%R GOGGLES INTO HIS EYE.
WRENCH SLIPPED 2FF BOLT AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE MOUTH.
EMPLOYEE AS ATT9MPTING T O SIGNAL BOBCAT OPERATOR TO COME FORWARD SO HE COULD LOAD SCRAP INTO THE BUCKET-T HE BOBCAT BUCKET STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE ON THE RT HEEL OF THE BOOT CAUSING A BRUISE ON H IS FOOT 3
UNKNOWN BY EMPL2YEE,STARTED TO HURT AT END OF SHIFT.(EMPLOYEE FIRST ALLEGED INJURY OCCURRED OFF THE JOB-THEN SAID DID NOT KNOW WHEN INJURY OCCURRED-THEN SAID INJURY OCCURRED ON THE JOB-CASE US UNDER INVESTIG5TION.
OP WAS DRIVING 5 CAT 910 LOADER UP AN ACESS ROAD. THE OLOADER STALLED OUT & ROLLED BACK 19' THE LEFT REBAR WHEEL ROLLED 4' UP AN EMBANKMENT CAUSING THE LOADER TO TIP OVER ON ITS RT SIDE CAU SING A MINOR CO4PACTION FRACTURE OF THE LOWER BACK FROM BEING TOSTLED IN T HE CAB OF THE LOADER. THE LOADER WAS EQUIPPED WITH ROPS & A SEATBELT.
CLAMP OR DRILL 1RESS CAME LOSS AND ALLOWED BAR TO SWING AND PINCHED LEFT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN PRESS TABLE AND STOCK BAR.
EE WAS TRIMMING3TAPE FROM A TOOL HANDLE & CUT HIS LEFT THUMB.
EE WAS OPERATIN1 A DEISEL LOCI & REACHED FOR A PULL BOTTLE CONTROL JAMMING HIS MIDDLE FINGER.
EMPLOYEE HAD FI3ISHED CUTTING A PIECE OF FLOOR GRATING AND ATTEMPTED TO BEND OVER TO DRAG IT INTO PLACE.WHEN HE BENT OVER HE SUFFERED A BACK SPRAIN.REQUIRING TREATMENTS AND PRECRIPTION MEDICAT ION. 3
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 BACKING A LOCOMOTIVE WITH STRING OF MUCK CARS UNDER AN ONE CHUTE-HE TURNED TO LOOK THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AND THE CHUTE HIP STRUCK HIS HARD HAT CAUSING HIS NOSE TO STRIKE THE MOTOR COWL. 3
SLIPPED WHILE G9TTING OFF LOADER AND BUMPED LOWER LEFT LEG BEHIND THE KNEE.